The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 198 End (one more)

On February 15th, the third exam also came to an end. The candidates spent an exciting and difficult night in Gongyuan. On the 16th, they were released from the exam room one by one after another round of strict body searches.

There are many people outside Gongyuan.

Gu Jiao came early and grabbed a good spot.

The gate of Gongyuan opened, and candidates came out one after another.

Except for the county exam, where Gu Jiao took Xiao Liulang, the rest of the prefectural, academy, and township exams were all missed by Gu Jiao because she was rushing out of town.

This was the first time that Gu Jiao waited for him to come out of the examination room in a crowd of people, like a family member outside the college entrance examination room in a previous life.

Fortunately, it didn't take too long to see Xiao Liulang come out with a bag.

You can see him at a glance in the crowd.

It's not because he's on crutches, but because of his bearing and appearance, it's really one in a thousand.

Gu Jiao curved the corners of her lips, and a smile appeared in her eyes unconsciously.

Xiao Liulang also saw her at a glance and walked towards her through the crowd. Her eyes seemed to have broken stars, brighter than the stars of the Milky Way.

"How's it going? Are you okay?" Gu Jiao took the bag from his hand. The bag was not heavy, so she put it directly into her small backpack.

Xiao Liulang nodded: "Well, it's going well."

The first two exams were too cold, but in the third exam, Tiangong Zuomei actually cleared up.

"Why are you here?" Xiao Liulang looked at the little dumpling beside Gu Jiao.

Xiao Jingkong put his hands on his chest, raised his chin and hummed: "Do you think I want to come? It's hard to take a day off. If I hadn't accompanied Jiaojiao, I wouldn't have come!"

Little things, Xiao Liulang moved his small head, and the hair piles began to tie his hands.

The group turned to go to the alley at the other end, and Liu Quan waited early.

The family of three got into the carriage.

Xiao Jingkong sat opposite Xiao Liulang, still clasping his hands on his chest, looking at him with a serious face.

Xiao Liulang was inexplicably looked at by him, and asked him, "What's wrong? Are you always looking at me like this?"

Xiao Jingkong said solemnly, "I want to see how you did in the test and whether you did well in the test."

Among the candidates he had just observed while waiting outside, some were disheartened, some were downcast, some were insensitive, but none of them were elated.

He was observing what kind of bad brother-in-law belonged to.

Xiao Liulang gave Xiao Jingkong a strange look.

Gu Jiao came over and whispered in his ear: "He has a good friend now. He said that if you don't do well in the exam, you will make him unable to raise his head in front of his classmates."

Xiao Liulang: "..."

Gu Jiao said as if nothing had happened: "The exam has been completed, the grades don't matter!"

Xiao Liulang breathed a sigh of relief, as his daughter-in-law was considerate.

Wait, daughter-in-law?

Why does he think like this!

Before he could finish being shocked, Xiao Jingkong threw another heavy blow: "Jiaojiao bet you for the first place in the exam, and bet a thousand taels!"

Xiao Liulang's body was shocked: "...!!"

Gu Jiao looked up at the sky, she couldn't see or couldn't see, she didn't.

The hospital is still at the stage of investing money. Because of mass production of drugs, it has built a small pharmaceutical factory. Xiao Liulang is very curious about where the thousand taels came from.

Gu Jiao: It all depends on searching for Gu Chengfeng.

Xiao Liulang helped his forehead, and he took the exam for nine days. It was not like the childhood exam and the rural exam took two months. Why did he still feel that his family had been turned upside down?

"So did you take the test well?" Xiao Jingkong asked seriously.

Xiao Liulang took a deep breath: "Yes."

I did pass the test well, and fortunately I did it well, otherwise the thousand taels would have been lost.

But then again, the imperial examination is not like arithmetic and astronomy, there are standard answers, right is right, wrong is wrong, it is very arbitrary, so it is really not foolproof to be the first.

Fortunately, it was only 1,000 taels. In case, he meant that if he didn't get the first place, he would recruit a few more students like Lin Chengye. After a year and a half of hard work, he could almost fill it in.

It turned out that he was still too happy too soon.

Xiao Jingkong nodded solemnly: "You'd better take the test well, the neighbors also put you first in the test."

Xiao Liulang was startled again: "How much did you bet, how much did you bet?"

The small local tyrant chartered the public and said calmly: "It's not much, it will add up to seven or eight thousand taels."

That's--seven--eight--thousand--two--

Xiao Liulang covered his heart: "..."

Back at Bishui Hutong, the old sacrificial wine called Xiao Liulang over.

The old sacrificial wine has already known the test questions. Although it is forbidden to leak the questions in the court, as long as the test starts, the test questions will be sent out in various ways within an hour, so candidates are not allowed to enter the test room after the start of the test. of.

In the first session, the old sacrificial wine was not worried. Xiao Liulang recited the Four Books and Five Classics like a fluent, and the questions of the Four Books were not difficult for him. In addition, the candidates also needed to write one poem with five characters and eight rhymes and four classics and meanings.

Xiao Liulang recited the five-character eight-rhyme poem and the scriptures that he had written.

The old sacrificial wine nodded.

No problem.

The old sacrificial wine asked Xiao Liulang's eight-part essay and policy questions again.

There is some objection in the heart of Baguwen's old sacrifice wine, too much emphasis on form, on the contrary, it limits the performance of the candidates, but he said it doesn't count, the emperor said it doesn't count, the rules handed down by the ancestors are not so easy to ban of.

Xiao Liulang's eight-part essay is also very good.

However, Ce asked about this, making Lao Jijiu break into a cold sweat.

The eldest son has always been a sensitive topic. Today, His Majesty is neither heir nor long, and strictly speaking, he is not a sage.

He hid relatively deep, at least at the time, it seemed a little out of place.

Of course, the series of methods and ingenuity he displayed after he ascended the throne was amazing, even the elders of the two dynasties like the old sacrificial wine did not dare to say that His Majesty did not deserve to sit on this dragon chair.

Compared with the late emperor, he was more than a little bit more ruthless in his methods.

At least the late emperor did not fight Empress Dowager Zhuang, but he sent Empress Dowager Zhuang into the palace.

In Zhao Kingdom, each year the Spring Festival examination questions are drawn up by the Imperial Academy and sent to the imperial study for His Majesty to choose. His Majesty will select one set of main examination questions and five sets of spare questions.

The old sacrificial wine dared to conclude that the Hanlin Academy would not send the question of the eldest son of the eldest son, and it must have been added by His Majesty himself.

"This majesty is really hard to fathom." Old Sacrificial Jiu had the same thoughts as Anjun Wang in his heart. Is your majesty dissatisfied with the prince, or with the first prince who coveted the crown prince? Or is it a warning to those princes who do not occupy the seat of the firstborn or the eldest son, but think that they can be matched and can replicate his path to the throne?

The candidates' answers are nothing more than revolving around which kind of successor is more beneficial to the country, or citing the classics and pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of the three.

No matter which one is within the scope of hereditary system, Xiao Liulang jumped out of this scope.

Isn't this telling the emperor that if your son is not good, then replace it with someone else's son?

Such remarks can be directly punished in the previous dynasty.

But even in this dynasty, where speech is relatively free, it is still too bold.

Lao Jijiu had no idea how this apprentice's head grew, how dare he write such an article?

Fortunately, his last line of flattery was good.

Connotation The reason why His Majesty can inherit the throne today is because he is the most talented person in the world, and it has nothing to do with his origin or blood.

The old sacrifice wine broke into a cold sweat halfway, and it turned into a hot sweat.

No, who did this kid learn his skills at flattering? Is it so shameless?

Why does it feel like this kid suddenly has some kind of amazing skill lit up?

Must not learn from him!

He didn't teach such a little sycophant!

The old sacrificial wine felt that Xiao Liulang's own strength was no problem, and the rest could only be left to God's will.

On the ninth day of spring, many candidates fell ill, and the business of the hospital was booming again.

At the same time, Gu Changqing's order for a batch of gold sore medicines a year ago was also completed. Gu Jiao randomly checked the efficacy of the medicines, and only sent them to the military camp after passing the test.

Years ago, she sent a letter to Xue Ningxiang, saying that everything was fine on Tuesday, and Xue Ningxiang wrote back to her, telling her about the village and the progress of the medicine field, and gave her something.

There are for her, and there are for Tuesday Zhuang.

Gu Changqing often came to the medical center to see Gu Chenglin. Gu Jiao gave him the things that Xue Ningxiang sent to Zhou Zhuang, and asked him to send it to Zhou Zhuang. If there was a reply from Tuesday Zhuang, please also ask him to bring it, and she would send it back to the village.

When replying to Xue Ningxiang, Gu Jiao suddenly found something very sad.

That is, Xue Ningxiang's calligraphy is actually better than her own!

Gu Jiao: "Well, is this girl learning to write with someone? It's made such a big progress?"

Xiao Liulang, who was passing by the door of the house, glanced at her, went back to the house silently, and doubled the copybook that Gu Jiao practiced every day!

There are thousands of test papers in Chunwei, which are copied and sent to the Neizheng Hall for review. There are 20 reviewers in total, each in groups of four, which means that each test paper must be reviewed by four reviewers. If two of the examiners fail to pass the exam, there is no need to send the exam paper up.

However, the unqualified graders are not given blindly. Later, there will be special personnel to review the bad grades, and the graders who maliciously make corrections will be severely punished.

Each group of examiners will select the top 50 from the 500 examination papers and hand them over to the two chief executive officers. This is basically the candidate who can become a tribute.

Of course, the two presidents and vice-presidents will carefully review them, and put aside those who have objections. The exam papers that are eliminated will also be ranked according to their grades. How many tributes are missing, the president and vice-presidents will be screened from the first few who have been eliminated.

There are also ten special places.

This is what His Majesty and the ministers have stuffed inside.

The names of these people are reported directly, and it doesn't matter if they are not among the two hundred test papers.

If it happened to be there, then the number of tributes this year would be 200. If not, it would only be a few more.

As for the ranking of these people in the subsequent palace exams, it is not a matter for the examiners to worry about.

Transcription, marking, preliminary review, review, ranking, a series of operations, will be released next month.

Xiao Liulang is very calm, and he takes a small clearance to school every day, no different from the days before the exam.

Gu Jiao was also very calm, she couldn't see that she had bet all her net worth.

Gu Jinyu's life has not been very good recently. Since Zhuang Mengdie's life experience was exposed, her popularity in the women's school has plummeted, and several daughters who were rushing to curry favor with her in the past have gradually alienated her.

In a fit of rage, she took sick leave at home.

On this day, she was recuperating at home, when Qi Momo suddenly came to the door.

Madam Qi is the old mama next to Concubine Shu, who is highly regarded by Concubine Shu.

Gu Jinyu warmly received her: "What kind of wind blows Mama Qi here?"

Madam Qi patted Gu Jinyu's hand and said with a big smile, "You, it's not the mother-in-law who asked Hou Ye, I didn't even know you were sick. You don't talk to the mother-in-law when you're sick. Don't you know that the mother-in-law loves you?"

Gu Jinyu was moved and said softly, "It's not a serious illness, it's not good to bother aunt."

Madam Qi glanced at her angrily: "Is it out of sight?"

Gu Jinyu lowered her eyes and smiled.

Madam Qi asked the little palace maid to put a few brocade boxes on the table: "These are all given to you by the empress. There are snow lotus and ginseng. They are the best things. You must remember to eat them."

Gu Jinyu said movingly, "Thank you auntie."

Madam Qi took her hand and said, "The family doesn't talk about the two families, and the mother has no daughter under her knees. She always treats you as her own daughter. You must take care of yourself and stop worrying about the mother."

"Yes, Jinyu wrote it down." Gu Jinyu said obediently.

Madam Qi cut to the point: "Ah, by the way, I'm here today, and there's one more thing, the niece wants to see you."

Gu Jinyu followed Qi Qi into the palace.

Concubine Shu is the head of the first palace, she has her own independent palace, and she does not have to let other little masters live in her side palace like the second rank concubine. She lives in Changchun Palace with the fifth prince, not to mention too much leisure.

The weather was fine today, and Concubine Shu was looking at the fifth prince's homework in the small pavilion of Changchun Palace.

Gu Jinyu stepped forward and asked her to be safe: "Auntie."

Concubine Shu beckoned to her: "Just in time, Xiao Wu just wrote an article, you can take a look."

"Yes." Gu Jinyu sat down beside Concubine Shu, Concubine Shu handed her the fifth prince's article.

The fifth prince was the same age as Gu Chenglin. Every day, he went to the study with several older brothers to study, and was taught by a prestigious scholar in the court.

To be honest, the Fifth Prince's talents are not very good.

Most of his homework was done by Gu Jinyu.

After seeing it, Gu Jinyu smiled and praised it: "His Royal Highness has made progress."

"I think so too!" Concubine Shu was very happy with this answer, she asked the maid to put away the article, then looked at Gu Jinyu, and said dotingly, "You child, you have done such a big thing in the county town, why don't you say anything? Say something?"

"Huh?" Gu Jinyu was taken aback.

The topic turned unexpectedly.

Concubine Shu glanced at her angrily, took her hand and said, "You are still trying to hide it, I didn't just deliver snacks to His Majesty, I didn't even know you did such a big thing behind your back! Why are you doing this? Not showing the mountains but not the water?"

Gu Jinyu was even more puzzled, what did she do?

Concubine Shu held her hand tightly, her eyes full of excitement: "Bellicle!"

Can I ask for a monthly pass?