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It also reveals a kind of kindness, as if the elders are looking at the juniors, and their cloudy eyes are full of gratification, which makes Wu Chang jealous, but there is a comfortable sense of weirdness in his heart.

"My descendants, my blood......"

Another vicissitudes of life resounded, at this moment Wu Chang couldn't resist at all, between the old man's beckoning, his whole body seemed to be controlled by a terrible force, and he actually strode towards the old man.

And even more watching, watching the thin hand press on his head, prompting an instant, the explosion suddenly broke out in Wu Chang's mind, and the pictures suddenly occupied all his mind.

He is no longer Wu Chang, but has another name.

He was no longer a monk, but a scholar carrying a basket of books in the wind and rain.

His name is Wu Nian, and he is a talent who has taken on all the expectations of his family, and now he is walking in the mud, braving the heavy rain and looking embarrassed, but his eyes have become very determined, and he has not stopped at all.

Even if he saw the shelter from the rain, his footsteps did not stop, after all, it was not far from this scientific expedition, if he didn't hurry up, then he would not be able to feel the magnificent capital a hundred miles away tomorrow.

"The teacher once said that it is better to read a thousand books than to travel thousands of miles, so that you can truly experience ...... There's no limit to learning!"

The oil-paper umbrella couldn't withstand such a big wind and rain at all, so Wu Nian was not only wet with his shoes, but also half of his body was already wet, but he was still holding a book in his hand, and when he looked up at the wind and rain, he couldn't help but say a word of emotion.

Ten years of hard study, if Wu Nian hadn't come out of that small county, he wouldn't have realized that this world would be so vast.

Of course, the burden on his shoulders is not light, after all, he has been raised by his mother since he was a child, and it is also in order to support his father, who has long disappeared in his mind, so he has his current name.

Wu Nian, no thought is even more don't think, of course, his mother is the most important person in his life, although she is as strict as her father, but she has a mother's love that ordinary people can't match, not to mention that he embarked on this road, and his mother's support for many years, so this time he went to Beijing to catch the exam, not only for himself, but also didn't want to disappoint the old mother at home.

Misty and rainy.

On that road, there was a horse-drawn carriage speeding away, and the sound of reading aloud came from the car, which was obviously a scholar who had entered Beijing to take the exam like Wu Nian.

This made Wu Nian, who was walking in it, couldn't help but have a look of envy in his eyes, but he returned to normal in an instant, after all, his conditions did not allow him to take that kind of carriage.

Otherwise, he would not have set off a year in advance, and he had already walked thousands of miles, and the dangers he encountered were countless, but fortunately, his brain was not completely enslaved by books, and he wittily solved many emergencies on the way.

Of course, the closer to the capital, not all of them were carriage scholars on the way, and there were also scholars from poor families like Wu Nian, but they had never been in contact with each other, perhaps because the literati were contemptuous, even if they knew that each other was in Beijing to take the exam, they still chose to treat each other silently.

It was another rotation of day and night, and the rain was still falling, as if it was about to overturn the entire Qin State, but it did not affect Wu Nian's thoughts, and when the dawn came again, he saw the city in the distance in the haze.

It is a vast ancient city that has been baptized for thousands of years, with a plaque of the word Luoyang hanging on the city gate, and ironclad guards on both sides, who stared indifferently at the crowd coming in and out, but at this moment most of them were released, because at this time, it was the day when the students rushed to take the exam.

They don't dare to be too embarrassed, and no one can guarantee that there will be big names among these students who will give them small shoes in the future.

The scholar with the book basket on his back has become a unique scenery in Luoyang City at this time, Wu Nian is in it, and he can't help but sigh at the grand occasion of Luoyang, and at the same time he is proud of the strength of the empire, after all, such a prosperous scene, which he can't experience in a small county town at all.

He didn't have time to rest, and the imperial examinations soon began, with an influx of mysteries, each one of which was cut off.

These are the proud sons of each other's counties, after all, only Xiucai is qualified to enter Beijing to take the exam, and Xiucai's qualifications, in a county seat that accommodates millions of people, only a dozen are selected, such a degree of difficulty also proves that Wu Nian's talent is indeed very good.

Today's quadrennial imperial examination is a dragon gate for these students.

Once it crosses the past, then it is a real dragon that jumps up in the dust, and the marquis is just around the corner, and the worst can also be mixed with a small county official and become the real person.

So every student is treated wholeheartedly, and he has fallen into madness, Wu Nian is no exception, when he came out of the examination room, he had no strength in his body, and after returning to the restaurant, he slept directly for three days and three nights.

He fell seriously ill afterwards, but he insisted on drinking ginger soup without silver every day, and read books hard late at night to relieve his illness.

This effect is indeed very effective, at least for Wu Nian, this is indeed the most costly local method, fortunately, his physique is not bad, and when the red list is issued, his illness is strangely and completely improved.

However, in the red list, he is not the champion, nor the eye, not even Tanhua, but just Xie Jia, who is below these three places.

If this is the case, Wu Nian will not be too uncomfortable, but the names of those three people make him resentful, because those three people are well-known scum in Daqin, and their talents are not as good as those three places, maybe they are not as good as Xiucai.

"Great Qin is so corrupt, what am I doing here anyway!"

At that moment, not only did he have this mentality, many backbone scholars chose to leave Beijing angrily at that moment, and Wu Nian was no exception, after all, only the top three were qualified to enter the palace to face the saint, and he, the inconspicuous Xie Jia, did not have this qualification at all.

Fortunately, when he left, the reward for the imperial examination also came down, prompting Wu Chang to have enough silver taels to rent the carriage and horses, and when he left, he also straightened out, after all, he was the fourth Xie Jia, although he was resentful of the corruption of the Great Qin examiners, Wu Nian didn't want to return to his birthplace so shabby and disappoint the old mother who was waiting for him.