The troubles of the big men in the court had nothing to do with Xia Wen, the little people who came to the imperial capital to prepare for the spring examination. This year, Xia Wen and others were having a very lively life. The men were having a seat outside. Zhao Changqing accompanied Mr. Su to sit in the inner room and called two singers to sing music to cheer them up.

At midnight, the men set off fireworks and firecrackers representing "Gaosheng", chatted and laughed a few times and went back to their rooms to rest.

The maid in front was carrying a lantern from Mingwa to shine on the road. Xia Wen held Zhao Changqing's hand with a slight smell of alcohol on her body, and said, "I don't know what my parents are doing at this time?"

Zhao Changqing said, "It must be like this, and we are talking about us."

Xia Wen smiled, "That's right."

After the Chinese New Year, the spring exam seemed to be coming in an instant. Zhao Changqing and Mr. Su had already prepared all the applications for the spring exam. On the day of the big exam, they were still preparing to take the exam. Xia Wen rinsed and said, "I will not throw you away with Brother Ning and others. You and Mr. Don't give it away. You and Mr. stay at home very well. Now the fourth update has just passed, and it's cold outside. Mr. is old, don't be on the verge of wind."

"It's just a few more clothes." Zhao Changqing handed him a hand towel and said, "If you don't walk well, you can't feel at ease if you don't send it to you. Okay, maybe this opportunity will be the only one in your life, so you can ask me to experience it."

Xia Wen laughed, "Who said that there is only one chance in a lifetime? Xia Wu, Changyu and the others will definitely want the imperial examination in the future."

Zhao Changqing smiled and laid the collar for Xia Wen, "I'll give you this opportunity."

Xia Wen laughed, "The pressure is a bit too high."

"What is the pressure for those who have been doctors?" Zhao Changqing said, "When prescribing and applying medicine, if you mistakenly, you may lose your life, that's the pressure."

Xia Wen wanted to say a few more words, but when he heard Zhao Changning calling him in the yard, he responded and took Zhao Changqing out. Zhao Changning urged, "Brother-in-law, hurry up! Let's go earlier and take a good seat."

Xia Wen laughed, "Your sister sends us there."

Zhao Changning slandered, "Don't bring me with me, I'm just going to give you a big shot, and I'll do it by the way."

Xia Wen laughed and didn't delay, "Let's go now."

The first day, they had to queue up to check and separate examination rooms, so the group got up one after another at the fourth day of the morning. After breakfast, they took the exam box and drove to the tribute court in a carriage and horse. In order to avoid cheating, the imperial examinations were not allowed to wear clips or cotton, and they had to wear single clothes. Now in February, the spring was cold, and the students all had three layers of single clothes inside and three layers of outer clothes, one by one, putting them up one by one. When they were queuing, they could only carry the exam boxes themselves, and they shrank in the morning breeze. Zhao Changqing looked in the car and wanted to laugh, saying, "This dragon gate is really not easy to jump."

Mr. Su was holding a copper hand stove in his hand, surrounded by a big wool cloak, and he didn't even look outside. The glass tassel light hanging on the wall of the car reflected Mr. Su's smile, "If you are good at leaping, it's not a gantry."

There were people in front of him. Mr. Zhao Changqing and Su came early, and the carriage occupied a good seat. As the number of students came more and more, the only people were seen through the car window. Zhao Changqing sat back into the car and said, "No one can see it."

Mr. Su laughed, "If these people don't see each other one day, what's the good thing about it? I'll wait a while before there will be a good show."

"What a good show?"

Mr. Su kept it a secret, "I'll know in a while."

Zhao Changqing stopped asking.

For a moment, the chief examiner and the invigilator came in a mighty manner. Zhao Changqing couldn't help but lift the curtain and glanced out. Those who could be examiner invigilator were basically some officials of some grades in the court, and they were relatively young. Lin Sui sat on the back of a horse in a dark dress, with a faint solemn face on his handsome face. He was really outstanding and very grand. Not only did Zhao Changqing see Lin Sui at first glance, but most people were holding their heads. The first time they saw Lin Sui was also Lin Sui, which was so dazzling.

Zhao Changqing said, "This is the director of the Supervision Department."

Mr. Su also leaned over and took a look, nodded, "That's it."

Zhao Changqing suddenly felt curious and asked, "Mr. I often say that when he was young, Mr. Song was called the 'jade man'. From Mr. Sutra, is it handsome, or is this handsome, Lord Lin?"

Mr. Su said, "Mr. Lin is beautiful, but it is too feminine. I want to say that it is not as good as when Mr. Song was young."

Zhao Changqing smiled, "I really don't know what the description of Mr. Song was born?"

Mr. Su thought for a while and said, "I want me to say that it is a bit similar to Xiaoji's account, but if you compare it carefully, Xiaoji's account is still much worse than that of the Marquis of Song."

The master and apprentice discussed the handsome men in the imperial capital in the car, and Zhao Changqing felt funny again. In her previous life, she didn't dare to look at men more when she went out to see them. She was so timid that she was disgusting. Now she is talking about the handsome men in the imperial capital openly.

The chief examiner presided over the sacrifices of all kinds of ghosts and gods, and worshipped Confucius, and opened the gate of the tribute court. At this time, the originally chaotic queue became much quieter. The staff of the brigade's supervisory department first entered the tribute court, and the inspectors at the door were all from the supervisory department.

Zhao Changqing could not see the situation in front of her, but it did not prevent her from being frightened. No matter how often she would lock up a juren who cheated and brought her. Once she was caught, she would not only be able to guarantee her reputation, but also her lifetime qualification for the imperial examination was gone. Therefore, all the arrested people cried out, or complained about their wrongdoing. All such people were stuffed with walnuts in their mouths and directly shackled on the side of the road for public display. Zhao Changqing sighed, "It would be better not to pass the exam, but at least she had a juren. Once she was arrested, she would have nothing."

"How can you know men's ambitions for power?" Mr. Su said without any sympathy, "Once you are not caught, your life's future will be perfect."

At this level, dozens of people were arrested. When the morning light of the east was rising, the long juren team finally entered. There were a row of cheaters standing outside the Gongyuan, and the rest of the people who were sent to the exam disperse with tiredness. Zhao Changqing said, "Sir, let's go back too."

"Wait a little longer."

The master and apprentice waited for more than half an hour outside, and then more than a dozen people were locked out in disheveled clothes. Mr. Su said, "They are all written on their bodies."

Zhao Changqing was amazed. Later, Xia Wen came out of the self-examination room and found out that entering the door was just the first check. After entering, he had to take off all his clothes and checked them again... All kinds of tricks were speechless.

Mr. Su said in this way, "Let's go back."

Mr. Su and Zhao Changqing lived a leisurely and comfortable life, not as much as other people who were sent to the exam, but they also sent Ping An out to guard the gate of the Gongyuan to listen to some new things to have fun.

Ping'an said it was amazing, "Now, even birds are not allowed to fly into the tribute courtyard."

Zhao Changqing asked, "Why is this?"

Ping An said, "Now the question is out, I'm afraid that someone will use a carrier pigeon to send a letter to the inside to cheat."

"Will there be such a thing?"

"I have all shot several times."

Zhao Changqing opened his eyes and asked Mr. Su, "Sir, is the same in the past spring examination?"

Mr. Su asked back, "What do you think?"

Zhao Changqing was originally a smart person. After thinking for a while, he said, "I just don't know if there were many cheating candidates like this in previous years."

Mr. Su laughed, "Do you think this is the case?"

Zhao Changqing said, "I knew it when the early autumn exam is held. Even Aning took the scholar to take the exam, and his father also took him to visit the prefect. Who would not go to the road during the autumn exam? I just don't know so many cheating people."

Mr. Su said, "That's because they didn't meet the Supervisory Department."

Zhao Changqing pondered, "Since September last year, the Supervision Department arrested those lieutenants, and did not release any of them before the Spring Examination. I don't listen to the words outside. Now, the Supervision Department is so iron-faced, it is obvious that it is going to slap the civil servant in the face."

Mr. Su laughed, "Those who were found were only candidates, but they could not be said to be officials."

Zhao Changqing said, "Even if you can use this method of flying pigeons in the middle of the night, there may be something incredible and strange. I don't believe it. The invigilators in the examination room are all selfless. If there is any handle in the hands of the Supervision Department, will the Supervision Department follow their escorts?" Zhao Changqing sighed, "I understand that the affairs in the court are no different from those in the family. You may say that His Majesty wants the Supervision Department to separate the civil servants from the Supervision Department."

"This is a bit meaningful, but it shouldn't be said like that." Mr. Su corrected Zhao Changqing and said, "The emperor gave the Supervisory Department the status and power independent of the six ministries and nine ministers. As long as the Supervisory Department has His Majesty in his heart, he can deserve His Majesty's trust and love. The imperial examination was originally a ceremony for the court to scrutinize talents. Those who are capable will be superior and those who are mediocre. If they become tools for individuals to engage in private fraud and cultivate their followers, where will His Majesty be placed?"

Mr. Su smiled, "If you want to speak like this in the future, you will be open, righteous, and upright."

Zhao Changqing was convinced and said seriously, "Sir, I admired you very much before, but now I admire you even more."

Mr. Su said calmly, "I have lived for decades more than you. Even if I don't give you guidance, you will understand at my age."

"That's not necessarily, sir told me, I can understand. Otherwise, it would be like a layer of window paper, and if it can't be broken, it will always be vague." Zhao Changqing could understand that it was not that she was born smart or something, mainly because she had done business and now she hosted Zhongfu. Over the years, she has also understood some worldly principles and people's hearts. The truths of the world are actually similar. When she had never been exposed to politics, she only felt that she was above the mountains and was truly analyzed and realized that the power struggle in the court was no different from the two ordinary shrews' cursings. The only difference is that those who can stand out in the court are extremely smart guys, and their fights are naturally hundreds of times more complicated.

Under the guidance of Mr. Su, Zhao Changqing had some understanding of politics. At this time, she deeply believed that people sometimes really need some luck. Just like all the juren who had no background this time, due to the opposition between the Supervision Department and the civil service system, they had unprecedented luck: because they would face a relatively fair spring examination.

In February of spring, the flowers and trees in the courtyard began to dye green and sprout. The weather became warmer, and the daffodils in the house bloomed until spring and withered. The forsythia outside was as brilliant as this vigorous spring examination.

After taking the exam at the Gongyuan for nine days, I don’t know how the article was yet to be known, but everyone got a bad smell. After Xia Wen and others were taken home, the first thing was to take a shower, and the second thing was to eat, eat and drink and sleep cover. Xia Wen slept the least, and he slept for twelve hours in one sleep, like Zhao Changning, who slept until the morning of the third day.

Zhao Changqing laughed, "It's a blessing that our family does not lack doctors, and there is no sleeping disease in this world. What do you think?"

Zhao Changning said, "I'm hungry, Yongshou still wants me to eat enough."

"After sleeping for so long, you can't eat too much. Drink some rice porridge first to let the stomach and intestines adapt. Eat light for two days to get into meat." Zhao Changqing asked him, "Is the question difficult?"

Zhao Changning passed the Juren exam after all, and said, "It's not too difficult, I've written it all anyway."

Zhao Changqing laughed, "That's good."

Zhao Changning put his hands together, "The Bodhisattva blessed me to pass once, but I don't want to get the second place in the exam even if I die."

Zhao Changqing:...

He still asked her brother, "What's wrong? I've been so painful in the exam these nine days?" Her family came from an ordinary family, and Zhao Changning was not a spoiled person, so he wouldn't be able to bear this little bit of pain.

Zhao Changning is young and has been in the spring exam for the first time, but it is nothing. In addition, his straightforward temperament and good quality in his heart. Zhao Changning sighed repeatedly and said to his sister quietly, "There is nothing to take the exam? It's just a matter of making an article. Even if I'm bored in the exam for nine days, I'm bored. I'm just going to check in. It's really not a human being." His sister only knew that she had to take off her clothes and check it out after entering the tribute court. Oh my God, Zhao Changning has gained knowledge. It's normal to write on her arm and chest, and also wrote on her thighs. Moreover, some people hid the cheat sheet in an indecent place and found it.

Here, Zhao Changning never wants to recall the hard-working search process in his life. Of course, he has never been searched like that. If he really wanted to search like that, I believe that most juren would rather hit him and die in front of the spiritual card of Saint Kong. It would be too insulting to be taken off and check it out. Zhao Changning is glad that he was born well and practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his body was considered heroic. Even if he met a group of juren naked, he could see people. But he didn't know how the eyes of those guys in the Supervision Department were trained. Anyone with any problems could be found when they took off.

Zhao Changning is old and doesn’t seem to say anything to his sister when he was a child. He said in a disgrace, “This is the most severe spring examination in our term.”

Zhao Changqing said, "The search and inspection will be more serious, and it will be fair to you."

Zhao Changning also knew this truth, but he was still very untenable and said, "I heard that the Bodhisattva in Xishan Temple is the most powerful. I have to go to worship tomorrow and ask the Bodhisattva to bless me to win the exam." Zhao Changning ran out and asked someone to worship the Bodhisattva.

Zhao Changning originally wanted to find Li Guo to go with him. Last year, Li Guo worshiped all the Bodhisattvas in the imperial capital. He had a relatively familiar relationship with the Bodhisattvas. Is it easy to talk to acquaintances when they meet? Li Guo was about to wait for his brother these days, but he had no intention of worshiping the Bodhisattvas. Zhao Changning said, "Brother Li Zi is so wise. Can he still lose it?"

Li Guo is sure, "I will be here this day or two."

Zhao Changning and Liguo grew up together and said, "When I left last year, didn't Brother Lizi say that he would come before the exam? He must be busy with business and has been delayed for a few days. Don't worry."

Li Guo said slowly, "It's not necessarily because of the busy business, he came late on purpose."

Zhao Changning didn't understand, "What did you say?"

Lizi knew his brother's scrupulousness and sighed, "He must feel that if I don't come before the spring exam, I will be more stressed and I will be able to do better in the exam."

Zhao Changning asked speechlessly, "Is there any relationship?"

Li Guo took the book and slowly opened a page. She was helpless towards his brother's strange little care, "My brother thinks it is."

Li Guo, the child, was naturally slow, but his heart was very clear. His understanding of his brother was so small that he could not bear it. The next day, Li Zi was covered in a beautiful body and had a spring breeze on his face. The day came.

First, he divided the letters from each family, exchanged greetings with everyone, and went to the house to rest. Lizi's house had been cleaned up long ago, right next to Liguo. Lizi didn't go to his house, so he went to his brother's house and sat in the old Yumu Grand Master's chair in front of his brother's desk in front of the window, and asked his brother with a smile, "How is the article done?"

Li Guo looked honest and sighed, "Brother, you clearly said that I came before the exam last year, but I was thinking about you before the exam. You never came. I was worried about you if something happened on the way. When I arrived at the Gongyuan, I was thinking about your business, and I don't know what articles I did."

When Lizi heard this, she almost fainted and patted her thighs and screamed, "You stupid! What can happen to me, a living person? What do you think about me? I always think about these useless things, how can I do well in the exam!"

Li Guo looked at his brother with her eyes squinted and said, "Then don't you come earlier."

Lizi wanted to put some pressure on his brother to make his brother do better in the exam, but she never wanted to tell him what he was. Lizi was heart-wrenching and said angrily, "I want to know that you have no excitement and you have to fly!"
To be continued...