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Chapter 229 Imperial Examination Records

This time, Wang Xifeng, who was pregnant with twins, did not come. Baochai took Li Wan's hand and said, "Sister-in-law, please be considerate of Sister Feng. She has two children in her belly. Now the belly circumference is getting bigger and bigger every day. She doesn't go out for anything. My son just went to see her, and she asked me to convey to my sister-in-law. She already knew what the sister-in-law said, and she had already told her brother-in-law Yin, who also said that if my brother could It's easy to talk about being admitted to Wu Juren."

Baochai said so, and Shui Yan also said: "We are all our own people. We only need to say something about this matter. Why do you need to invite us to a banquet? On the contrary, we are heretics. Our master said, this Once your younger brother happened to be in the same school as him for the martial arts exam. If your younger brother has time, you can also come to our house to sit. Anyway, there are still ten and a half days before the exam period, and they are good to each other Get to know."

Li Wan heard that everyone took what she said to her heart, especially Shui Yan invited Li Shaoyou to visit the mansion, which made Li Wan very grateful. A lot of anti-fetal and nourishing medicinal materials were sent to Wang Xifeng.

And Li Shaoyou went to Feng Ziying's house the next day to make friends with him.To Feng Ziying's surprise, although Li Shaoyou was two or three years younger than him, his bow, horse, riding and shooting were all superior to his own. Not only did he have no problems with the writing of military tactics, but he also wrote more profoundly.

After understanding, I realized that Li Shaoyou himself was going to take the liberal arts examination to become an official. Although his family was not as prosperous as Li Wan's natal family, it was also a family of poetry and books. How could it shorten the education of his children and grandchildren?

It's just that Li Shaoyou loves martial arts by nature, and he wants to fight for the country, so he changed to martial arts exams.On the contrary, they coincided with Feng Ziying, and the two hit it off very well.

The strange way is that Li Wan went around to help him find connections, so it turned out that he had a well-thought-out plan for the Wu Juren exam.

Regardless of whether it is liberal arts or martial arts, the re-examinations are all rural examinations, and they are all arranged in August when the osmanthus is fragrant, so the rural examinations are called Qiu Wei or Gui Wei.

On the day of the exam, the second room of Jia's mansion got up early and sent Jia Zhu to the exam room. Feng Ziying and Li Shaoyou also took their servants to ride to the school grounds.

There was nothing to talk about in the literary examination room, and all the candidates answered the questions quietly after entering the examination room.Just talking about this martial arts, it is really lively.Competing with bow and horse, dancing with broadsword, and lifting stone lock, only these three items, but all kinds of candidates can see it.

Li Shaoyou's bow and horse skills are extremely handsome. He passed the provincial examination and passed the stipulation of nine out of nine, and he passed six out of the nine, ranking first in the bow and horse.Feng Ziying had extraordinary supernatural powers, originally he only needed to lift up the pattern on the bottom of the stone lock to show it, but he danced and danced, and both of them passed the outer test as if they were showing off their skills.

Most of the candidates in Jingzhong recognized Feng Ziying, and many applauded her outstanding performance.As for Li Shaoyou, this was the first time for many of the candidates to see him. However, since ancient times, no one is the best in literature and no one is second in martial arts. A martial artist is capable if he can, and he is good if he can do it. There are few people who would not admit that others are better than themselves. .If you are not convinced, go ahead and compare yourself with others if you are capable, right?
And because Li Shaoyou showed acquaintance with Feng Ziying, some people with winks also praised Li Shaoyou.

The competition was going on one by one, and few of the rest could match the skills of Feng and Li, and most of the qualified ones barely passed.

Because the Wuxiang Examination was conducted according to the order in which the children were ranked during the examination, the further the competition went, the more ridiculous scenes there were.Those who couldn't draw the bow or pick up the sword were embarrassed enough. There was also an examinee from the south who lost his strength halfway through lifting the stone lock and hit his foot. He left with serious injuries, which made everyone sigh.

It was so easy to be patient until dusk, and all the candidates in the province of Gyeonggi had finished the exam.

Feng Ziying and Li Shaoyou returned together and repaired separately, because the literary test in the infield the next day was not a difficult task for these two people. None of them were nervous, and they performed their best the next day. , just waiting for the final release.

On the Liberal Examination side, Jia Zhu took the exam for three days in a row. When she returned, she was out of shape, fell asleep and fell seriously ill.

Seeing his son like this, Jia Zheng didn't feel sorry for him at all, but stayed by his bedside to ask the test questions and how he answered them.After asking for a long time, Jia Zhu's high fever, which had subsided, returned again. Jia Zheng visited Li Wan's natal family and several great Confucian families in Beijing with the test questions, and the responses he got were all smiles and no words. , I was already disappointed with Jia Zhu's performance this time.

On the day when the rankings were released, both Feng Ziying and Li Zong were selected. Although they did not rank among the top three, they were both ranked relatively low.And Jia Zhu... the servants he sent to look at the list almost saw through the list, but they couldn't find his name.

Jia Zhu was so shocked by this that she even refused to eat.Jia Zheng had expected this outcome long ago. Now that he and his eldest son, who had great hopes for him, were getting tired of seeing each other, he simply didn't even go to visit the sick. Only Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang came to visit him every day. Persuading him to eat, my heart aches.

Li Wan stayed by Jia Zhu's bed, wearing his clothes all day long, Liu Yun took care of Li Wan, and Su Yun was in charge of some things in Li Wan's hands.Fortunately, Li Wan didn't have any important things in his daily life, and now that Jia Zhu was ill, he never messed up his rules.

However, Jia Zhu's condition has been refusing to get better. The Anshen Pills sent by Xue's family is almost full, and he has not cheered up, so he has been lingering on the sick bed for more than a month.It wasn't until Liuyun heard the news that she was pregnant that Jia Zhu regained her composure a little bit, and her body barely became vigorous.

Mrs. Wang also begged many times to ask Ye Siyang to come into the mansion to feel Jia Zhu's pulse.Ye Siyang couldn't stand it, and he had seen it, but he could only say, "Heart disease needs a doctor from the heart." Jia Zhu's thoughts were too heavy.It's not that the doctors who walk around often are not skilled, but that Jia Zhu competes with herself and refuses to look away.

Compared with Jia Zhu, Li Shaoyou seemed much more pleased with himself.

This time in the martial arts exam, Li Shaoyou can be said to have become famous in the first battle, and many people in Beijing have heard of this name.He also said that he was Li Jijiu's nephew, and everyone wondered: Isn't their family a family of poems and books Zhongding for generations?When did a general come out?
However, the voice of praise did overwhelm the voice of doubt. Li Shouzhong, Li Wan's father, also felt that there was such a child in his family, and he also followed his face.Li Shouzhong gave Li Shaoyou and his parents a three-in-one small courtyard not far from their home, and gave their family some high-quality fields to cultivate.Li Shaoyou himself was officially included in the reunion of the princes of the capital.

(End of this chapter)