The news that Zhongshu Ling was pressed on the head by Princess Yongchang to review the imperial examination knowledge soon spread throughout the Taiji Palace.

In the middle of the afternoon, the entire Zhongshu Province was filled with the laughter of little children and the howling of tigers.

Other government offices located in the imperial city secretly added two more locks to their doors.

When he was about to go on duty, Zhang Anan came with someone to take the little guy away.

Erhuang had long since fled to nowhere. Fang Xuanling watched the imperial guards leave with a troubled look on her face, shedding a few lines of tears in her heart.

If it's a little later, he, Zhongshu Ling, will be resigning.

***

The time soon came to the tenth day of February, the day of the scientific examination.

Early in the morning, in the examination room of the Children's Department of the Imperial College, a dozen children recommended from various places sat in a row according to their examination numbers.

There is one chief examiner and two assistant examiners in the examination room. Each primary examinee is assigned a bookboy and an invigilator.

Li Shimin, as Yuan Yuan's school boy, sat with her wearing inconspicuous regular clothes.

The candidates came from different regions and did not know each other. The examiners knew in advance that the emperor would come, and the order in the examination room was quite strict.

The first item of the exam mainly tests children's memory.

The examiner is required to read an article, and the examinee writes down the sentence number and content. The examiner starts to recite the sentence sequence according to the examination number, and the content is written down by the book boy and retained.

The person who memorizes it incorrectly or cannot memorize it will be counted out, and the person who memorizes it last will be ranked first.

After explaining the rules, all the book boys began to study ink.

Yuan Yuan stretched her neck and looked around. Suddenly, she saw an examinee behind her telling the invigilator that he wanted to change clothes. The invigilator next to him immediately took him out, followed by the imperial guards.

Yuan Yuan patted the table excitedly: "I want to change too!!!"

Li Shimin grabbed her by the back collar: "You didn't bring any spare clothes today."

The little kid rolled his eyes, twisted his little body and struggled: "I want to pee!!!"

More than a dozen examiners in the examination room all looked over.

Li Shimin said calmly: "I just went there half a quarter of an hour ago, and I didn't even take a sip of water."

Yuan Yuan scratched his chin and said angrily: "I'm hungry! I want to eat biscuits!!!"

Li Shimin put down the ink stick and glanced at her: "You have already eaten two biscuits this morning."

Yuan Yuan: "..."

She huffed angrily and sat cross-legged, holding her arms together and pouting her little lips.

Li Shimin touched her little head: "How did you promise that Bachelor Yu would do well in the exam? Who said that none of us who are high-ranking officials lie to others, and whoever lies is the stinker?"

Yuan Yuan felt a little guilty and straightened her back to look serious.

When everyone is here, the first exam officially begins.

The older children around them all picked up their pens, and Yuan Yuan also held the small brush on her side in her hand.

Her eyes widened and she looked nervously at the examiner in front of her.

The examiner was the Minister of Rites. He stroked his beard and began to read the article in a clear and concise tone.

While he was reading, the candidates around him began to write down the keywords on their manuscript paper.

Yuan Yuanke was anxious, and he also wrote and drew on the manuscript paper.

Li Shimin next to her and the invigilator on the other side couldn't help but look away.

I found that the little kid drew a lot of circles, wavy lines, and black dots.

After the examiner finished reading, the little guy looked at his masterpiece and nodded confidently: "Yes, yes, yes, yes."

The candidates around me hadn't finished memorizing it at all, and they were a little panicked when they heard that someone was so confident.

After the assessment officially started, the candidates began to take turns reciting, while the book boy on the side quickly wrote down what the candidates had memorized.

It's a bit difficult to carry it in the third round.

Yuan Yuan carried her little hands behind her back, and when it was her turn, she recited it loudly like everyone else.

At the end, everyone else was out, and Yuan Xiaopang'er got up proudly and ran around in the examination room.

I memorized the rest of the content while running.

The chamberlain chased behind her to protect her, not daring to stop or touch her.

The examination articles for children's subjects were written by all the examiners on the day before the examination. In order to avoid suspicion, even His Majesty had never read them. There was no case of memorizing them in advance.

The examiners in the examination room all looked shocked, and the children looked frustrated.

Li Shimin wrote the answer sheet with a normal expression, handed it to the proctor beside him along with the manuscript paper, and then went to arrest the child himself.

The three examiners quickly took the messy manuscript paper and began to study it seriously.

Li Shimin carried the little kid who was hiding behind the pillar back to the examination seat.

He whispered: "There is another arithmetic test today. After the test, I will take you to the Li Zheng Palace to eat fish meat."

Yuan Yuan looked serious for a second: "Yeah, yeah, I can do arithmetic!!!"

But when the arithmetic test started, the little kid answered the first question correctly and climbed up to the exam table happily.

Li Shimin sighed.

He understood why Academician Yu had to resign every now and then.

This naughty kid can't hold it down any longer.

The Minister of Rites hurriedly patted the table: "This is an important place in the examination room, be quiet!"

Yuan Yuan climbed down from the table again and sat down obediently.

After a while, he stretched out his two long legs in front of him and dangled them.

When I finished answering the next question, I ran around happily in the examination room.

The scholar of the Ministry of Rites looked at Li Shimin helplessly and found that the emperor was more lifeless and helpless than him.

Both of them were thinking about whether it was necessary to open a children's department.

But seeing that the other children were both frustrated and admired, their eyes soon filled with fighting spirit, and they felt as if their goal had been achieved.

Yuan Yuan played for a long time and won the first two places. She lay on Li Shimin's back and swayed her calves, and walked out of the Imperial Academy proudly.

Yu Shinan outside already knew that she disrupted the order of the examination room. When he saw the little guy, he glared at her.

"I'll take the etiquette test tomorrow, let's see how you do it!"

Yuan Yuan hid behind Li Shimin, stuck out her little head and made a face at him: "Just a little bit, I can even take the etiquette test!"

Xuexue Yu was so angry that he puffed his beard and stared.

Li Shimin smiled, said a few words to Yu Shinan, and then fulfilled his promise and took the little boy back to the palace to eat fish and shrimps.

The boy passed the exam quickly. By the time the prince and brothers came back from taking the other exams, Yuan Yuan had already eaten and slept.

She was holding half a piece of mung bean cake in her little hands, and there were crumbs of butterfly cake around her mouth.

Li Tai bared his big white teeth and watched the waiter wipe the little boy's face, but he couldn't take away the mung bean cake in his hand.

"He's really a food protector."

He glanced at Li Chengqian who was standing aside and sighed: "Brother, in order to save face, we spent all our time preparing for the scientific examination. Look at this kid, he won the first place while having fun, and he didn't delay eating and drinking."

"It really makes me angry to death."

Li Chengqian stretched out his hand and pinched Yuan Yuan's nose. The little kid let go with a cry of "Hmm," and the waiter quickly took away the cakes in her hands and cleaned her hands.

"If you are like her and are the best in the world like Aye and Aweng, you don't need to take the scientific examination."

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