Who Said I Was a Coquettish Bitch

After the first snowfall, the world is bright white and brilliant.

Today is the day for Bai Chen to take the exam.

Early in the morning, he followed King Kang's carriage to the palace.

Kang Wang is an elder with a strong aura, so Bai Chen and him in the same car can't help but feel a little cautious.

"Chen'er, don't be nervous." Kang Wang said suddenly, "You are much stronger than most of them, normal performance is enough."

Bai Chen replied politely, "Yes, father."

... With this encouraging tone, it can only be said that Xiao Lin really resembles him.

However, Kang Wang looked like a filial and good husband in front of the princess. Could it be that Xiao Lin will look like that in front of his real wife in the future?

The picture is so beautiful, he said that he still doesn't want to think about it.

The carriage returned to silence.

The sound of the wheels accompanied by the rhythmic shaking made Bai Chen drowsy.

He cheered up and began to think about the exam.

Internal recruitment is much easier than the imperial examination. It only needs to take one day of the exam, and the place of the exam is much more comfortable. To put it bluntly, this is the back door opened by the emperor for the children of nobles, so naturally there are many preferential treatment.

The civil service exam is divided into two sessions. The morning exam covers comprehensive basic knowledge such as poetry, law, national conditions, history, and political opinions. After lunch, they are arranged to participate in interviews. The interviews are divided into several types. They are more flexible in arranging their different interview projects.

In the past, internal recruitment was just a formality. No matter how poor your test scores or interview performance, you will be admitted in the end, and you will enter the imperial court and be an idle official for a lifetime.

Year after year, the internal selection has become more and more watery, and the candidates have become less and less serious.

Such a situation is obviously abnormal and extremely detrimental to the country. Under the appeal of Luo Lanye's clean and honest officials, this year finally changed.

According to the news brought back by King Kang, Luo Lanye and the others originally planned to eliminate all the children of the rich and powerful who were pretending to be numbers, but the emperor cared about the face of the rich and powerful and opposed their radical approach. After haggling over the price, they finally decided on a compromise—reducing the elimination rate to about [-] to [-] percent.

The ones who were eliminated this time really couldn't be supported by mud, the dignitaries had nothing to say, and Luo Lanye and the others barely took care of their emotions.

It has to be said that even if one achieves the position of emperor, one still has to consider balancing the forces of all parties and appease the emotions of all parties, and one cannot really do whatever one wants.

……

The internal recruitment was held in the conference hall of the Ministry of Officials, King Kang sent Bai Chen to the door and hurried to the court.

Bai Chen came quite late, the candidates had already entered the examination room, there were two guards standing at the door, and an official from the Ministry of Officials who was in charge of invigilating the examination papers.

"Young master, please show your test certificate." The invigilator looked young and had a polite attitude.

Bai Chen took out the ancient "examination admission ticket" from his sleeve and handed it over with both hands, "Excuse me, my lord."

The official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs opened the voucher, looked at it, stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Bai, please come in. Your seat is the last one on the rightmost column."

"Thank you sir."

After Bai Chen thanked him, he stepped into the examination room.

This hall is quite spacious. The tables and chairs that were originally used for the meeting were removed, and rows of tables and chairs were placed, with a total of 32 seats in all directions.

In order to prevent cheating such as peeking, the distance between each table and chair is quite large.

Bai Chen took a quick glance, and found that [-]% of the candidates had already come, all of them rich and expensively dressed, except for He Wenguang, he didn't know any of them.

——But many people know him, not to mention his bad reputation in the past, just because of the fact that he married the disabled Xiao Lin, he has gained a lot of popularity.

He felt many curious, surprised or disdainful eyes looking at him, Bai Chen just pretended not to know, found his seat and sat down without looking aside.

As soon as he sat down, He Wenguang, who was sitting obliquely in front, turned his head to look at him, his eyes were sticky as always, and he grinned at him, not knowing what he was up to.

... Bai Chen silently turned his head, unable to bear to look directly.

He knew that He Wenguang was going to take this exam. His father confines him to the house for three months. Not only was he ordered to quit drinking, even his concubines and concubines were not allowed to touch him. He was also allowed to live alone in a remote small In the hospital, he reads books and drinks medicine every day, living a monk-like health.Life.

Under Cheng Enbo's strict discipline, He Wenguang's complexion did look much better, and his whole body was no longer sallow. His father wanted him to find something to do, so he forced him to take the exam.

When Bai Chen asked Binger to leave the house to bring a gift to the original owner's mother, she told Binger that the second elder brother Bai Chen from the Hou family also wanted to take the exam, but he didn't see him today, probably because Bai Zhanyuan prevented him from reporting. name.

Candidates entered the arena one after another, and the time for the exam was getting closer and closer, but the candidate sitting next to Bai Chen across the aisle hadn't arrived yet. Only the admission ticket number was posted on the table, but there was no name, and he didn't know who it was. The son has not arrived yet.

The bell rang, and officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs entered the door with a stack of test papers.

He looked around the examination room carefully, and frowned slightly when he saw that there was still an empty seat, as if he sighed.

"My lords, the exam is about to start, please put away your books and notes." The official from the official department was still polite, but his expression was quite serious.

Half of the candidates came to the scene without bringing any materials, and the other half brought materials and books and put them away as soon as they heard this.

There is almost no time to read the materials that Bai Chen brought—this seems to be a common problem for every examinee, who always feels that he happens to see a question that will be tested in the exam 10 minutes before the exam.

Just as the invigilator was about to hand out the examination papers, a young man in white came to the door. He looked gentle and handsome, his face was flushed, and he was out of breath.

"Master Zhang, I'm late, I'm really sorry."

The invigilator surnamed Zhang obviously knew him, put down the test paper and walked over to ask concerned, "Young Master Jiang, you came here in a hurry, can you take it well?"

Mr. Jiang?Is it the youngest son of the very talented but not in good health Luo Lanye mentioned?It does look like a man full of knowledge, but it is also obvious that he is not in good health.

"I'm fine." Mr. Jiang wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and asked politely, "Master Zhang, can I still go in now?"

"Come in." Mr. Zhang said, "The test papers are about to be handed out. If you are half a minute late, you will not be able to take the exam."

Mr. Jiang bowed: "Yes."

Looking at the entire examination room, only the seat next to Bai Chen was still vacant, so Mr. Jiang didn't need to look for it anymore, and went straight to the seat.

Maybe it was because he was walking too fast. When he was approaching, Mr. Jiang suddenly staggered and lost his balance. He was about to fall down.

"Thank you, brother." Mr. Jiang hurriedly thanked him, raising his hands in a serious manner, with a bit of a nerd, "May I ask your name, brother?"

"Your surname is Bai, you're welcome." Bai Chen smiled, "Sit down quickly, the exam is coming soon."

After Bai Chen sat back in his seat, he realized that he had inadvertently become the focus of the audience just now, including Mr. Zhang, who were all looking at him.

It's just that Mr. Zhang's eyes showed a look of approval, while the others were much more complicated.

Especially He Wenguang, his eyes looked as if Bai Chen had done something shameful.

Bai Chen cursed secretly in his heart, he had x in his heart, everything he saw was x.

……

After this little episode, Master Zhang, the invigilator, began to hand out the test papers.

Bai Chen took a look at the test paper. The first half of the test paper was multiple-choice questions on basic knowledge, and the second half was to freely express his views on the recent tension between the new dynasty and the sudden exhaustion.

—— Xiao Lin was actually right in his prediction!

He said that this year there might be an exposition question for candidates to write a short essay, and the most likely topic would be foreign relations.

Bai Chen didn't really believe in Xiao Lin's prediction before. After all, the comprehensive knowledge exams in the past for so many years only had objective questions, and the difficulty was very low.Unexpectedly, this year is really a big change.

Looking at the candidates around, almost all of them were holding the test papers and frowning, only Mr. Jiang next door looked calm and had been reading the questions seriously.

"Begin answering the questions, please keep quiet and don't do anything that violates the regulations of the examination room." Master Zhang solemnly emphasized, "Anyone who violates the rules will be disqualified from the examination, and no one is exempt."

As soon as his warning came out, a small number of people put away their thoughts and answered the questions honestly.

Bai Chen hadn't felt the atmosphere of the exam for a long time, and he missed it a little.

He took two deep breaths and quickly concentrated on answering the questions.

……

By the time he finished writing the last word of the article and stopped writing, Bai Chen's palms were already covered with sweat, his face was also slightly hot, and his expression was a little dazed.

——That was the feeling of the college entrance examination at the beginning, but I didn't expect to experience it again now.

Breathing out a foul breath, Bai Chen raised his eyes and saw that only one-third of the people were left in the examination room, and He Wenguang was nowhere to be seen.

Wei Wei was taken aback for a moment, then figured it out again, the internal examination is different from the imperial examination, you can hand in the papers in advance.

It seems that those people couldn't answer the last question and simply handed in the paper.

Bai Chen couldn't control them either, and checked the exam paper again, just as the exam time was up.

The canteen of the Ministry of Officials will provide lunch for candidates. When Bai Chen walked out of the examination room and was about to inquire about the exact location of the canteen, he heard someone calling him.

"Mr. Bai, please stay."

Bai Chen turned his head, it was Mr. Jiang.

"Master Jiang?"

Mr. Jiang stepped forward quickly, and cupped his hands to Bai Chen, "Mr. Bai, thank you just now."

Bai Chen replied, "It's a little effort, Mr. Jiang, you don't have to be polite."

"If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to take this test." Mr. Jiang said, "I should really thank you."

"Why can't I take the exam?" Bai Chen didn't quite understand what he meant.

Mr. Jiang smiled wryly, "When I fall, I will faint. I don't know why."

……

Bai Chen was stunned, still have such a disease?

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The author has something to say: It is a misunderstanding. This multiple-choice question is not abcd. It just lists a few answers and circles the correct answer...

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