Under the tall city gates, there were bustling crowds of people coming in and out, and the soldiers on duty at the gate, even though their armor was bright, they raised their heads and chests, stood straight, and tried their best to make a mighty gesture, but they couldn't help but betray their tofu scum essence with their bulging bellies with a full face of oil.

There was a gorgeous carriage parked under the awning at the city gate, and on the table next to it sat a twenty or thirty-year-old elegant boy in blue clothes, occasionally looking up at the official road in the distance, he couldn't help but sigh softly, took a sip of the herbal tea on the table, and looked at the old city gate captain who was accompanying him a little bored,

"Lao Li, there are so many people coming and going every day at the gate of the Jingshi City, you have a lot of oil and water, right?"

The fifty-year-old captain of the city gate looks dignified, dressed in iron leaf armor, with an embroidered spring knife on his waist, and looks mighty, but at this time he licks his face and laughs, "My lord said and laughed, it is not so easy to get oil and water at will here, not to mention those high-ranking officials and nobles who dare to collect city taxes, even if those vendors, most of them are also hanging the sign of the mansion of a certain Yamen in Beijing, and it is not easy to stretch out their hands, even if the remaining ordinary people are willing to pay taxes obediently, but they really don't have much money..."

The blue-clothed boy sneered, and slapped the folding fan in his hand gently, "Lao Li, who are you blinding?" Everyone knows the doorway here, you look at the big-headed soldiers under you, all of them are full of oil, but they are not full of food..."

"Adult insight, adult insight, "Lao Li was speechless.

Seeing that Lao Li was old and only submissive, the boy in blue was really boring, and looked up at the official road in the distance again, and couldn't help but sigh softly, "Lao Li, take a look, that carriage is from Guanzhong?"

Lao Li hurriedly got up and looked at it for a while before turning around, "Judging from the more than 30 years of experience in guarding the door, the material and style of the carriage are indeed produced in Guanzhong, and it should be from Guanzhong, there is no doubt that it is from Guanzhong..."

The man in blue snapped the folding fan, quite confident, "It must be the person the official is waiting for..."

Then the man in blue turned his head to look at the person who was still sitting at another table resting, and shouted, "Hurry up...

Suddenly, the carriage in the distance gradually approached along the official road, and before the blue-clothed man who was catching up could speak, a malicious laughter came from the carriage, "Xiao Gao, you are so enthusiastic, I don't have the bones to reward you..."

"Phew!" the man in blue rolled his eyes, "I have good meat and bones, wait for you to gnaw slowly, don't roll down..."

Yue Buqun lifted the curtain, jumped out of the carriage gently, and patted Gao Shibo on the shoulder, "Are you very idle, do you still have time to wait for me, didn't you go to the Qinglou to practice that double cultivation skill?"

Gao Shibo slapped Yue Buqun's hand away and waved the folding fan, "Go every day, I'm bored to death... It just so happens that you came to Jingshi, I'll take you for a good walk tomorrow, and then introduce some friends to you..."

Yue Buqun didn't ask and knew what kind of so-called friends Gao Shibo was, and he didn't bother to know them, so he interrupted Gao Shibo's tirade, "Okay, where do I live?

Gao Shibo scratched his head, "I would like you to live in our house, but no matter how powerful Shoufu is, he has to avoid suspicion!

In the following days, Yue Buqun stayed in the house arranged by Gao Shibo, waiting for the Ministry of Rites exam a few days later, practicing martial arts and reading every day, just like when he was in Huashan. After all, the meeting test is different from the local government test, township test, etc., the Beijing division is mixed, and it is too risky to try to cheat in the relationship, on the contrary, as long as it is not deliberately targeted by officials in the system, basic fairness and justice can be guaranteed.

But he didn't want to, Yue Buqun honestly prepared for the exam at home, but he was still troubled that night.

"Master Yue, please calm the envoy!"

Looking at the two brocade guards wearing flying fish suits who were quietly invited at the door, Yue Buqun knew that unless he escaped from the capital division, he would not be able to avoid this meeting no matter what, so he tidied up his appearance, ordered Wu Quanli to wait at home, and followed the two out of the door.

The soldiers who patrolled the night at the curfew saw Jinyi Wei taking Yue Buqun through the streets and alleys, and Gu Du was like avoiding snakes and scorpions, and he didn't dare to inquire at all.

After a short time, Yue Buqun was led by the two to an extraordinary official mansion, but it was not the Jinyi Wei Zhenfu Division, and the two Jinyi Guards introduced that this was the Zhao Mansion, the family residence of the Zhao Zhen Fu Envoy.

The three of them went straight into the lobby and saw a middle-aged official in a python robe who was on the main seat in the hall.

Yue Buqun's heart couldn't help but tighten, the python robe is not something anyone can wear, if the commander of the Jinyi Guard is wearing a python robe, Yue Buqun is not surprised, but a pacification envoy can actually wear a python robe, I am afraid that this Zhao Zhenfu envoy is a royal relative, and he can be regarded as the emperor's real confidant.

What's more, Yue Buqun quietly bowed his head and saluted, the purple light in his eyes flashed, and he had already heard the faint breathing of at least five or six masters hidden behind the screen in the hall and on the beams of the room, and the precautions were very strict!

"The student Hua Shanyue is not a group, and he has seen the Lord of the Pacification Envoy!"

"Master Yue, please sit down! Come on, serve tea..."

Zhao Zhenfu saw that Yue Buqun was sitting upright, his eyes were not squinting, and his every move was enough to meet the norms of the scientific examination scholars, and he couldn't find the slightest mistake, so he couldn't help but smile lightly, "This official called you here today, it's not a big deal, it's just a formality, and the routine inquiry of the scholars with high-level martial arts is considered an unwritten rule of the imperial examination, and it is also for your good." You may not have heard of this kind of investigation, but this is true, even the Mind Sect Master Wang Yangming a few years ago was routinely questioned by our Jinyi Wei before the scientific examination, it's not a big deal..."

"Oh, Mr. Wang Yangming is also a superior martial artist? Yue is lonely and unheard..." Yue Buqun raised his eyebrows, and then he was righteous and awe-inspiring, with a straight face, "Since it is a routine matter, please ask the pacification envoy to inquire about it, Yue will definitely answer truthfully, and he will never dare to deceive in the slightest!"

Zhao Zhenfu envoy saw that Yue Buqun was so knowledgeable, and couldn't help but smile slightly, it happened that a maid came to serve tea at this time, Zhao Zhenfu envoy raised his hand slightly, "Master Yue doesn't have to be formal, taste the tribute tea given by this official..."

Yue Buqun didn't want to offend this brocade guard boss in vain, so he obediently picked up the teacup and waited for his inquiry.

"Ahem..." Zhao Zhenfu gestured slightly, and then got to the point, "Huashan is a famous martial arts family, and the head of Yue is not in Huashan, and he traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination, why is this? Do you really want to be a civil official?"

Yue Buqun put down the teacup, bowed his hand as a salute, and replied, "As the saying goes, people go to high places, and water flows to low places! I serve the imperial court in the martial arts, and there are many people who get ahead, not many Yue is a certain one! It is also worth this peaceful and prosperous era, the holy Hongzhi, the martial arts in the field are declining, if I Huashan does not want to die out, I have to find another way out, the best thing is to directly serve the imperial court, enter the phase, and glorify the ancestors! Yue Mou, as the head of the family, must be able to lead by example, this time to participate in the imperial examination, but also to explore the way for the younger disciples..."

Zhao Zhenfu nodded in agreement, "Master Yue's words are sincere, the imperial court is heavy on literature and light on military force at this time, no wonder Master Yue is unwilling to enter the military office, but to participate in the imperial examination...

Yue Buqun didn't expect this person to ask so bluntly, almost torturing his own scheme, and couldn't help frowning, "My lord misunderstood, the court is treacherous, it's not something that Yue Moujie can play with, I just want to try my best to get a name for a jinshi, and I don't want to really become an official..."

Zhao Zhenfu's brows furrowed, "Master Yue's words made the official confused... I don't want to be an official, so why did you still come to take the Jinshi exam?"

Yue Buqun couldn't help but smile lightly, "My lord, isn't Jinshi an official!... With the status of Jinshi, Yue is not a simple person from the rivers and lakes, but can become an official of the imperial court at any time...

Zhao Zhenfu suddenly realized when he heard this, and then picked up the tea cup, "Master Yue has a good abacus, one stone and several carvings, the identity of Jinshi is really a rare talisman, the government and the opposition are universal...

That's it?

Yue Buqun hurriedly got up and bowed his hand, "Yue Mou said goodbye!"

Seeing Yue Buqun's back out of the hall, Zhao Zhenfu couldn't help but shake his head lightly, and said to himself, "This head of Huashan has a lot of ambitions, and he still wants to restore the prestige of the Quanzhen Sect as the number one sect in the world back then, does he think that he can succeed with the identity of a Jinshi?"

Compared with Zhao Zhenfu's casual assertion of Yue Buqun, Yue Buqun also had some guesses about Zhao Zhenfu's summons and questioning, I am afraid that the main thing for Jinyiwei is to confirm whether the martial arts people who participated in the imperial examination have bad intentions, and even suspect that someone may take the opportunity of the palace examination to assassinate the emperor...

In the midst of his thoughts, Yue Buqun was sent back to the mansion in the west of the city by the two brocade guards.

A few days have passed in the blink of an eye, and with the mentality of luck, Yue Buqun also followed the trend of the imperial examination, and saw the spectacle of the eighty-year-old man and the ten-year-old Huangkou child, bustling into the scientific field, and couldn't help but feel the charm of power again!

After one dull exam after another, even though Yue Buqun had an extraordinary mind and a firm will, he couldn't help but feel dizzy and bored and nauseated.

Just when Yue Buqun entered and exited the field like an ordinary scholar, and was about to forget the Jinyi guard Zhao Zhenfu's envoy, he heard that familiar voice again on the second night after the end of the exam, "Master Yue, the envoy is invited!"

With a wry smile and following behind the two Jinyi guards, Yue Buqun faintly felt in his heart that compared to the routine last time, this time Jin Yiwei would never ask him as simple as last time, and he might have to be involved with Jinyi Wei in the future!

I don't know if this is good for Huashan and for myself?