Traveled through Daming, but was punished by the old Zhu Shizu

In the small vertical house, there are two horizontal boards, one for sitting and the other for a table. Under the board is a chamber pot for toileting. If you are sleepy, you can lean against the wooden walls on both sides to sleep.

Liu Xiu put the lunch box brought by her mother under the table, and kicked the chamber pot to the other side,

"Master Liu!"

As soon as Liu Xiu turned his head, he saw a young man who was similar to him looking at him excitedly. This person was sitting on Liu Xiu's left, and he was also an examinee.

"Tonghe?" Liu Xiu asked tentatively.

The man immediately rejoiced, "It really is Mr. Liu! I looked just like you just now, but I'm not sure!"

This examinee is one of the three wealthy businessmen, Yu Tonghe, the eldest son of the head of the Yu family.

However, what Liu Xiu didn't know was that this man was Yu Qianyu Shaobao's biological father.

Yu Tonghe looked at Liu Xiu with narrowed eyes, and Liu Xiu sighed, "Tonghe, you are too inattentive with your eyes."

Yu Tonghe scratched his head shyly, "Master Liu, my eyes have been like this all my life. Even if I look at people far away, I can't see clearly, but people nearby can still see clearly."

"Master Liu, thanks to your lordship, you don't forget the villain's faults, and gave us a way to survive for the Yu family! Now my father sells salt for you in Hangzhou, which can earn a lot more than before! My father reminded and told Yu The family must repay the favor to the master!"

It's no wonder that Yu Tonghe was grateful to Liu Xiu, the other two rich merchant families were directly evaporated by King Yan, and Liu Xiu's stay in the Yu family was no different from the grace of rebuilding.

Liu Xiu waved her hand casually, but she didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Let's not mention Yu Shaobao's face. After the Yu family went to business with the uncle, he also helped the Liu family a lot with the old fifth.

The members of the Yu family are very clever and easy to use. They all get what they need. Liu Xiu didn't think about showing much kindness to them.

"I can fix your eyes. After the list is published, you can come to my house and find me. I'll give you glasses."

Yu Tonghe was overjoyed when he heard the words. He simply doubted whether Liu Xiu could really cure his eyes. Anyway, he believed what Master Liu said.

"Thank you, Master Liu!"

Dong Naihe didn't know where he went, now that he could chat with Yu Tonghe, Liu Xiu was naturally willing, Liu Xiu smiled and said,

"Why didn't you go into business with your old man and came here for the imperial examination?"

Yu Tonghe was shocked when he heard the words, and said anxiously, "Master, it's not that I don't want to make money for you. I usually like to study, so I want to give it a try..."

Liu Xiu waved her hand, "You're thinking too much, I don't mean anything else, I just think it's a good thing. Being an official is definitely more comfortable than doing business."

Hearing that Liu Xiu approved of his imperial examination, Yu Tonghe breathed a sigh of relief, "Master, whether I am in business or an official, I am your man!"

"Hehe, you already want to be an official? It seems that you are quite confident!"

Yu Tonghe hurriedly said embarrassedly, "I made the master laugh."

Liu Xiu smiled, and casually glanced around, he always felt that there were a few eyes sneaking at him,

Sure enough, as Liu Xiu felt, there were several people sneaking at him from all directions, and when he saw his eyes, they quickly avoided their eyes.

Liu Xiu moved her body, and whispered in Yu Tonghe's ear, "Who are those unfamiliar faces? Why do you keep looking at me?"

Yu Tonghe glanced over inadvertently, and said, "Master, these are not from Shuntian Prefecture, but from other prefectures and counties. Some of them are engaged in business, and the business of the master has a little overlap, and some of them are owned by Lao Tzu. Official, this group of people are either rich or noble. It seems that they don't look very friendly at the master..."

Liu Xiu nodded and said casually, "Try to check after the exam."

"Yes, sir."

While the two were chatting, another group of people walked into the examination room. Dong Naihe followed the seat number written on the admission document and sat down behind Liu Xiu.

As soon as he saw Liu Xiu, Dong Naihe immediately started talking again,

"Liu Xiu, do you know what that soldier did to me?! I feel like I've been insulted! He has seen my whole body! There are some places I haven't seen myself, and they have seen everything!"

Liu Xiu joked, "They're all big men, just look at them."

Chapter 146

"On my body, what I have seen, they have seen! I have not seen the place, they have seen it too!" Dong Naihe gritted his teeth and complained, "And, and also!"

Yu Tonghe continued, "Nahe, I understand how you feel. They even put their hands in to check to make sure there is nothing cheating in our body!"

"Don't! Don't say it!" Dong Naihe closed his eyes, and Liu Xiu clearly saw a tear falling from the corner of his eye, "Just let this pass..."

Liu Xiu let out a long sigh of relief. Fortunately, she didn't go through a body search, so her integrity was saved!

The three of them chatted for a while, and many people sat in the exam seats one after another.

"quiet!"

Zhang Yu, who had just checked the admission documents at the gate of White Horse Academy, came into the examination room from outside the gate, "All candidates are already seated!"

Surprised, Liu Xiu turned around and scanned the examination room. About one-tenth of the seats were vacant, that is to say, these people were eliminated during the body search!

Liu Xiu suddenly felt that most of the candidates who wanted to cheat were caught by that Zhao Feng!

The fourth child was sitting solemnly in the most important seat, with two people sitting on the left and right sides of his hand. Liu Xiu had never seen these people before. Seeing that these four people were dressed in civil servants' court uniforms, they should be the grandmasters of the various government guards. official.

In this township examination, all the scholars from the Fuwei in Yandi were present.

Four Houses and Two Guards,

Shuntian Mansion, Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion, Datong Mansion, Tianjin Wei, Kaiping Wei,

Counting the scattered counties and villages around, and the seeds of reading in a feudal kingdom, that's all.

To put it bluntly, these scholars in Yandi are not as good as those in Hangzhou Prefecture, which shows how scarce the seeds of reading in the north are!

The fourth child stood up and looked at the candidates, "I am very satisfied to see you all encouraging you to study hard."

As soon as the word "Ben Wang" came out, all the candidates quickly said in unison,

"See His Royal Highness King Yan!"

And everyone's face is full of radiance, with a light of longing, to see the Yandi feudal king in person, that is something that you can't even imagine on weekdays!

And the charm of the imperial examination lies in this, as long as you are talented, you can pass the exam all the way, not to mention being a vassal king, even your majesty can see it!

"Well," the fourth child looked towards Liu Xiu intentionally or unintentionally, and said with a smile, "I wish you the title on the gold list!"

Before the voice of the fourth child finished speaking, the examinees were very excited, thinking that King Yan was encouraging themselves, there was a commotion in the examination room,

"I will definitely live up to His Royal Highness King Yan's trust!"

"Reviving the glory of the North is our duty!"

"As expected of King Yan, you discovered my genius!"

"It seems that this time I have to show some strength."

Liu Xiu nodded subtly towards the fourth child, and the fourth child grinned, "Come on!"

The soldiers on both sides made a promise, and handed out the sealed test papers one by one. Liu Xiu took the test papers and thanked them.

"Hmph! Second Patriarch!"

Hearing the soldier who handed out the scroll to her cursed in a low voice, Liu Xiu raised her head and glanced at it. It was Zhao Feng who had been demoted from a partial general to a small soldier. Liu Xiu smiled, but didn't care much.

Seeing that Liu Xiu didn't say anything to him, Zhao Feng frowned instead,

"Exam!"

When King Yan gave an order, there was a sound of unpacking the test papers in the examination room, and Liu Xiu couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement in his heart. He untied the test papers with both hands and spread them out.

I saw that there were only four Liao Liao questions on the test paper,

first question

Mr. Song Lian once wrote "Preface to Sending Dongyang Horse to Life". Reading is a poor and hard-working person. Knowledge is important, but character is even more important. Please use this as the title to write a seven-character poem

Second question

"On the Ultimate Reward of Loyalty"

Third question

Jin, Wu, Ping Wu conquered by arbitrariness, Fu Jian conquered Jin and died by arbitrariness;

Fourth question

Please focus on current affairs and discuss policy!

There was a gasp in the arena!

Exam questions are difficult!

The fourth child looked at the person beside him and laughed softly, "Mr. Song, it seems that the question you asked is very difficult."

The person next to the fourth Zhu Di is the eldest son of the great Confucian Song Lian, Song Zan.

This time I was able to invite him to produce the paper, but the fourth brother was selling a big face. Liu Xiu said to the fourth child that making money is important, but talents are the primary productive force, and the fourth child kept this in mind.

Concerned about the imperial examination, on the one hand, for Liu Xiu, and on the other hand, for himself.

Song Zan nodded to the fourth child neither humble nor overbearing, "This question is enough to be used as a test question. The first question tests morality, the second question tests knowledge, the third question tests knowledge, and the fourth question tests talent. No answer If you can answer these four questions, you will be eligible to be on the list."

Beside Song Zan, the magistrate of Datong Prefecture sitting on the far right, Qiu Heyi smiled apologetically,

"Mr. Song, after such a difficult test, how many people are left?"

Song Zan looked towards the examination room, and said calmly, "Last year, there were a hundred candidates in the provincial examination. This year, only thirty will be left."

"This!" Qiu Heyi, the magistrate of Datong Prefecture, was anxious when he heard the words, and said with a wry smile, "Sir, Yandi has few seeds for studying, and if it loses so much all of a sudden, what's the deal?"

Song Zan looked at the magistrate Qiu Heyi, twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "In the past, you were the examiner of Landlord Yan, and it was your muddled attitude that prevented Yandi from producing the real seeds of reading! What are you going to do with mediocrity? Is it ashamed to go to Yingtian Mansion?"

Song Zan's tone was neither high nor low, but his words were indeed extremely blatant. The magistrate of this prefecture, wherever he was placed, would be a famous official, a local feudal official!But in Song Zan's mouth, he was dismissed as worthless.

Seeing a flash of anger in Qiu Heyi's eyes, the fourth child smiled and laughed, "Okay, what this king wants is elites, let's wait and see!"

Seeing that King Yan had opened his mouth, Qiu Heyi could only suppress his anger, smiled apologetically, and unconsciously looked at the other two people beside King Yan.

The two prefects of Zhending and Baoding,

But these two are also old foxes, and they didn't even glance at Qiu Heyi from the corner of their eyes.

Liu Xiu naturally didn't know that there was an undercurrent surging on the examiner's platform, he had already devoted himself to the test questions,

The first question is also simple to say, it is nothing more than writing a poem chanting ambitions, but the problem is that it is now the Hongwu period, and the poems of those great poets and talented people have all come out.

If you traveled to the Tang Dynasty and copied Li Taibai's poems casually, you would be able to do it at your fingertips, but in Daming, you don't even have to copy.

Liu Xiu scratched her head, her brain was working fast, activated her long-lost high school memory, desperately recalling, what famous articles after Hong Wunian were there in her Chinese textbooks.

But after thinking about it, she didn't catch a clue. Liu Xiu thought for a while, let's do the second question first, glanced away from the corner of her eye, and suddenly saw Yu Tonghe writing quickly,