[Comprehensive martial arts] I fall into the city

Not only is it not cold, but the whole body is about to burn up.

Li Ning just looked at him and smiled, her eyebrows and eyes were curved, and the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, looking like she was in a good mood.

After a while, Wang Shouren finally believed Li Ning's words "wouldn't do anything again", and moved back to the desk. Li Ning took two steps back and sat on a chair not far away. It was very cold in the house except near the charcoal basin.

Wang Shouren turned off the charcoal basin, wrapped himself in thick clothes, and closed the window with difficulty.

The sound of wind and snow outside was immediately separated by a layer, and the room became quiet.

When two people who don't know each other stay together, it's awkward to say anything, but when Li Ning and Wang Shouren are together, even if they don't say a word, the atmosphere is just right.

Li Ning sat and read for a while, when Wang Shouren suddenly said, "After the exam is over, I want to go out and have a look."

He spoke abruptly, Li Ning also raised her head, and said strangely: "Are you going to go for a long time?"

Wang Shouren was startled, shook his head, and said, "The longest is half a year, and the shortest is two or three months. I just want to go out to relax, walk around, and see the scenery beyond Daming."

Li Ning thought for a while and said, "If I can come back before June, I will be with you. Traveling is not fun, and it is more difficult to catch up with the hot weather than this ice and snow."

Wang Shouren didn't expect to get such an answer, so he couldn't help asking: "Don't you think I'm ridiculous?"

A person who has followed the rules since he was a child, suddenly proposes a long-distance travel without any reason, without making any preparations. When he said this, he didn't even think about whether his parents would agree.

Li Ning felt even more strange, and said, "What's so ridiculous about people wanting to go out for a walk?"

Wang Shouren's heart shook.

Li Ning said again: "If a person stays in one place all his life, the square inch in front of him is the whole life square inch, and he never knows how big the outside world is, that is the most absurd thing in the world."

Wang Shouren's heart skipped a beat.

He only felt that these words did not come out of Ah Ning's soft and gentle voice, but came out word by word from his heart.

The so-called bosom friend.

I mean high mountains, you say high mountains, I mean flowing water, you say flowing water.

Wang Shouren let out a long breath, and seemed to have thousands of words on his lips, but finally he could only say, "We will go together when the time comes."

Chenghua's 23rd year's general examination was a little bit more smokey than previous years. Jiangxi Xieyuan Fei Hong was eliminated before, and later prodigy Wang Shouren was a reference. Fei Hong himself was only [-] years old, handsome and talented, and Wen Yuan was the first Later, he got Jieyuan, if he played well, he might be able to get a three-yuan grade, and Wang Shouren would be even more amazing. If he can get the first place in this subject, he can be the same as Li Shilang's [-]th grade in the same year. They were tied, and before the exam, someone even opened a market in private, betting on the success of these two young talents.

But neither Fei Hong nor Wang Shouren, who had been in retreat for a long time, made no statement, and they did not have the unique vigor and sharpness unique to young people.

Wang Shouren didn't even know about Fei Hong until the day before the exam.

However, the sharpness of the two young talents was really compared all the way from the general examination to the palace examination.

The examiner of the general examination carefully compared the papers of the two, and after a long time of deliberation, they could not make a decision. Finally, they only found a mistake and omission in Wang Shouren's paper to criticize Zhu Zi's holy words, and reluctantly put him in the second place.

The imperial examination was arranged according to the names of the general examinations. Fei Hong, who was in front of him, wrote the pen and wrote the words in one go, but Wang Shouren caught cold in the examination room during the general examination, and wrote the paper tremblingly while covering his handkerchief and coughing.

The 15-year-old boy looks more than handsome, but his bearing is not enough. He can't see calmness, only a lively youthful aura.

When Emperor Chenghua saw the description of the two, he felt better.

However, the crown prince Zhu Youtang looked at Wang Shouren curiously, and asked Chenghua Emperor in a low voice, "Father, can I mark the papers?"

The same youthful spirit rushed towards his face, and Chenghua Tianzi suddenly felt a little bit in a trance. In the past year, he has been in a trance more and more times. Sometimes, he is a little afraid of the shadows, and always feels that there is something hidden in the corners that are covered by people. What kind of terrifying monster would devour him to the bone in the next moment.

Emperor Chenghua was stunned for a while, then nodded.

After the examinee handed in the examination papers, the transcription officer sealed the original volume, and the transcribed examination papers were scrambled and assembled. The next day, the examination papers were all read. The difference from the past was that Zhu Youtang, the Prince of Jinke, participated in the examination papers.

It is still very simple to pick a dozen or so articles with a good atmosphere from a hundred or so papers. Many examiners have experience. There were two equally wonderful papers placed side by side, and several paper readers gathered around to watch them.

The purpose of copying and sealing the original volume is to prevent favoritism and fraud. However, a paper that is excellent to a certain extent can be seen by the owner. Fei Hong's paper is full of talent, respect for the emperor and patriotism, and full of orthodox champion atmosphere. In previous years, he did not even need to give it to From the perspective of the emperor Chenghua, anyone with a discerning eye would know that it was the No. [-] article. However, this year, Wang Shouren was stunned.

In addition to being amazing, there is also a little evil.

The examiners are also divided into two factions. The younger ones support the selection of Wang Shouren as the first name. After all, the most important thing in an article is talent. But who doesn't love amazing articles?

The other faction strongly supported Fei Hong. No. [-] essays are rare. Although Wang Shouren's writing is good, he is a bit deviant, and he does not have the "champion spirit".

The two sent you to come and I went back and forth for a while, but saw the prince Zhu Youtang carefully reading the two articles in a dull manner, and suddenly asked: "What do you think, Mr. Li?"

There was silence in the hall.

The Mr. Li that Zhu Youtang was talking about was naturally not Li Che, but Li Dongyang, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy.

Two years ago when Li Dongyang was in charge of Donggong, the crown prince respected his character and knowledge and treated him with the courtesy of a gentleman. Now that the crown prince has asked him about it, he naturally handed over the final choice to this Mr. Li.

Li Dongyang put down the hot tea in his hand, smiled, and said: "It can be seen that these two people are really difficult to argue for so long, so I shouldn't open my mouth, but since Your Highness asked, I will Say a few words."

He got up, and everyone quickly moved out of the way. Li Dongyang walked to the two papers, glanced at Fei Hong's paper first, and praised: "It's a good article. If it was in previous years, it would not have so many twists and turns."

Zhu Youtang nodded and said, "Mr. is right."

Li Dongyang took Wang Shouren's paper in his hand again, read it carefully for a while, and then slowly said: "But when this article comes out, even if you think the previous one is the number one scholar, you can't deny the excellence of this article. "

Then someone sighed: "Literary talent is still second, this article is really famous."

Li Dongyang can also see that Fei Hong's article is too upright. The so-called uprightness must be the Confucian classics passed down from generation to generation. Every word is an annotation of the words of the sages. The first thing to confront is the orthodox classics of Confucianism for thousands of years.

However, Wang Shouren's article has his own thoughts. His thoughts are born out of Confucian sacred words, and he has never deviated from Confucian holy ways. Ordinary elderly people will feel deviant when they read it, but in Li Dongyang's view, this article has no champion Qi, but has the air of a saint.

What is saintliness?

The sky does not give birth to Zhongni, and eternity is like a long night. The sage's thoughts surpassed the times, like a bright lamp illuminating the ignorant long night. At the beginning of the sage's way, his thoughts were difficult to be accepted by the world, but after hundreds of thousands of years However, the sage's thoughts will shine like pearls in the torrent of the times. Confucianism has developed to the present, and it is difficult to produce another sub-sage, because the words of the sage are unshakable, and the Confucian classics are annotated word by word, and students only need to recite them.

Numerous sages and sages have promoted Confucianism to the world, but anyone who contradicts the sages' words is a deviant.

Li Dongyang rarely saw a student like Wang Shouren who looked at the words of the sage from the perspective of a bystander. There was one in the past, but his heart was not in learning. At first he was focused on power, but later he was addicted to making trouble.

Li Dongyang read it again, then put down Wang Shouren's paper, and said: "The number one scholar's article comes out every year. Have you ever seen such an article that can make people argue until midnight?"

Only then did everyone notice that it was already dark outside.

It was only past noon when the debate on the No. [-] pick was obviously just started.

Li Dongyang sighed: "What's more, when you close your eyes at this time, you still remember a few sentences of the number one scholar article? Who has not seen this article, whether it is praise or criticism, only this article is left in their minds."

Everyone couldn't refute for a moment.

Prince Zhu Youtang was reminded by his husband's words, and hurriedly read the two articles back and forth carefully. He really found that although Fei Hong's article had the most obvious champion appearance, Wang Shouren's article was the most impressive.

Even now that he closed his eyes, he was able to recite Wang Shouren's article aloud.

The battle for the number one scholar did not come to an end until midnight. Originally, Emperor Chenghua already had a candidate for the number one scholar, but after comparing the two articles, he still chose to respect the opinion of the examiner.

On the gold list, Wang Shouren took the top spot.

The former high school was proud of horseshoe disease, and Wang Shouren high school drank ginger soup at home for half a month. He didn't even go to the banquet due to illness.

It was also because of this encounter that the Wang family and his wife believed that it was because of the months of retreat. Not only did they not stop him from leaving the capital, but they also made preparations for him back and forth.

According to science, officials would be sent after the science examination, but Wang Shouren was too young to be sent to the Imperial Academy to take up idle duties, and with Wang Hua's favor, he was allowed to travel far away with his post, and he could return to Beijing before September.

Riding out of the city gate on horseback, this time was different from rushing for the exam this time. Wang Shouren was stunned for a while, and looked up at the sky. Obviously his eyes were full of the vast blue sky, but he suddenly felt like the clouds were opening and the moon was shining.

This is... freedom?