Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

The three-day examination passed by in a flash, except for a few applicants who applied here and there, as well as those who passed out due to the unbearable high temperature and heatstroke, it was almost without incident.

Naturally, the bully being beaten up that Lu Ci was secretly expecting did not happen.

After listening to the reports of other tribute officials, Lu Ci nodded, showing no intention of relaxing.

After all, from the moment the examinees leave the tribute courtyard with a sense of relief, they have entered the busiest stage of marking and grading papers for the invigilators and examiners.

However, he said that among the crowd, listening to the people around him exchanging and comparing their answers in excitement or annoyance, although Li Jun felt very out of place, he was still sincerely relieved.

He fell into a deep pit for a while, but now, he should be considered to have climbed out completely, right?

The calm and calm these three days made Li Jun, who was still nervous, gradually feel relieved.

After he regained his composure, he couldn't help feeling sad that he had painstakingly prepared for this tribute ceremony for three full years.

Because Shengsheng was busy cleaning up the mess before the exam, it was inevitable that he would be restless during the exam, so he was absent-minded throughout the whole answer, and he didn't perform at a normal level at all. He was afraid that he would fail the exam.

"Brother Li," a classmate who was usually good friends with Li Jun saw that he seemed to be wandering away and didn't participate in their discussions, so he enthusiastically embraced one of his shoulders and asked proactively: "You have always been good at strategizing and discussing, what did you do yesterday? The three current affairs policies are especially difficult, and I haven't got a clue for a long time. How did you write them?"

Only then did Li Jun come back to his senses, and forced a smile: "But it's just a nonsense answer, I almost forgot."

"Brother Li is too modest." The man smiled in disbelief, and said firmly, "Looking at your expression, I'm afraid you have a plan in mind!"

Li Jun was in a state of distress, so he could only perfunctorily smile.

After finally surviving these miserable three days, those wealthy officials and eunuchs who were studying in the same academy as Li Jun were not in a hurry to go home, but on someone’s suggestion, they went to the song hall instead. go.

Get together to listen to ditties, talk about the world, have a drink, and relax before the release of the rankings.

Li Jun knew that he failed the exam this time, but in fact he had no intention of celebrating his achievements, but his companions were in high spirits. If he left rashly, it would be too unsocial and disappointing, and it would easily arouse the suspicion of the supervisor. You agreed to come down and go with them.

So a group of people went to a song hall in a noisy manner, ordered food and drinks, and called a group of singers to accompany them.

There are thousands of lights outside, and warbler songs are heard from afar, and the sweet smell of wine is lingering in the house, there are charming laughter nestled in their arms, and there are also leisurely singing while holding a pipa and half covering their faces.

Seeing his companions enjoying the joy after the tribute exam one by one, it was still difficult for Li Jun to blend in.

And his absent-mindedness also made the singing girl in his arms lose interest in continuing to curry favor with him, and found an excuse to withdraw, preferring to hold the pipa and sing softly with the singing girl singing behind the curtain.

It has to be said that the female pipa singing behind the curtain was melodious and graceful, even though Li Jun lacked interest, his mind was quickly attracted to it.

He listened carefully to the words she sang.

"Qing song under the curtain and banquet outside the curtain. Although I love Xinsheng, I don't see Ruhuamian..."

Although Li Jun's poems and fus are very ordinary, they are not bad at basic appreciation.

After listening intently for a while, he couldn't help thinking, where did this geisha get her lyrics, and it is absolutely impossible for an unknown person to have such a literary talent.

"...Wine is a song, and strong music is still tasteless. The belt is getting wider and I will not regret it. I will be haggard because of Yixiao."

Suddenly, the singing girl had finished singing the second lyric.

When she was resting for a while, Li Jun couldn't help asking: "I don't know how to call this beautiful woman behind the curtain?"

The woman was slightly taken aback, smiled coquettishly, and replied politely: "You can't be a beautiful woman, but your husband can call your concubine Chongniang."

Li Jun was really curious about who wrote these two lyrics, so he asked: "Then can I ask a few more words-what is the name of the person who wrote the lyrics in the lyrics and music you sang just now?"

But Chongniang didn't answer immediately, but after being silent for a while, before Li Jun was about to get impatient, she gritted her teeth and replied faintly: "The words were written by Liu Sancheng's best friend."

"Brother Li, why do you ask these questions? Do you still want to see the other side?"

Li Jun's movement had already attracted the attention of his companions.

It's just that at first they thought that Li Jun was asking the lyricist's name to be false, and it was true that he wanted to flirt with Chongniang, and they were happy to watch the fun.

But I didn't expect Li Jun to be so puzzled, but he really just asked the ins and outs of the word, so he couldn't help but looked at each other, very surprised, and couldn't help asking such a sentence.

"Liu Sanbian?"

After Li Jun got the answer, he felt that the name and surname seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Chong Niang didn't know when, her face was frosty, and she added resentfully: "If Mr. Lang wants to see him, I'm afraid I have to try to go to Lu Zuo Yude's house. Most of the manuscripts he published in recent years are related to Lu Zuo Yude, and the two When people live together, the friendship is extraordinary."

Although Lu Ci is a handsome, handsome and handsome gentleman, he refused her request to write lyrics at Wang Zeng's family banquet, and treated her honestly.

And most of it is because of Lu Ci, Liu Qi has never been involved in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion again, and lives like a sage with no desires. Most of his lyrics are related to his friends, and he no longer writes lyrics for them.

If he didn't sell some manuscripts of poems through the bookstore every now and then, they would have no way of getting his new words to sing.

This time too.

If it wasn't for something useful to her, I'm afraid I wouldn't have taken the initiative to write to her...

Thinking of this, Chong Niang was full of anger.

After hearing her supplement, everyone was in an uproar.

"Lu Zuoyude, isn't he the examiner of our exam this time!"

After whoever yelled this sentence, there was a heated discussion in an instant, and he completely forgot about Li Jun, and heatedly discussed Lu Ci, a legendary figure who is deeply envied by scholars all over the world.

"I'm in another test room, and I can't see him. Are there any seats closer to you?"

"I'm closer, but I can't see through the bead curtain."

"It's a pity, I've heard that Lu Zuo Yude is not only famous, but also looks like Pan An reborn. Otherwise, on the day when the list was announced, how could the government personally award more than a dozen Jinwu guards, just for Prevent someone with a daughter in the city from arresting him as a son-in-law?"

"It was not the same at the wedding banquet. I heard from my cousin who was on duty that day that when he fell into the water, most of the servants of the city's dignitaries also jumped into the water..."

Regarding Lu Ci's anecdotes, each of them can tell a few things, and now they are even more interested in talking about it when they are a little drunk.

Unlike most of the courtiers who were hostile to Lu Ci, who was too young and promoted too quickly, in the eyes of Juzi, Lu Ci was a role model that they all dreamed of becoming.

Leaving aside the appearance given by his parents, who wouldn't want to have Lu Ci's talent and fortune, and a scene that won't be seen for a few years?

For Li Jun, it was a bolt from the blue.

No wonder he felt quite familiar with Liu Sanbian's name, it turned out that he was a friend of the Lord who was plagiarized by him.

When he learned that these lyrics that he admired and loved were all written by Liu Sanbian and Lu Ci, when Li Jun listened to Chongniang singing again, he became uncomfortable all over his body and felt mixed feelings in his heart.

He was originally the one in the group who admired Lu Ci's talents the most, otherwise, it would be bad to copy anyone else, but Lu Ci?

Now things are different.

Because he couldn't listen to the music and couldn't stop it, it was better to resign too early, so Li Jun could only drink with his head down, trying to relieve his worries with wine.

Before he knew it, he drank a large jar of spirits.

The ferocious alcohol gradually surged up, Li Jun's limbs became weak, his mind was no longer clear, and his speech became somewhat incoherent.

When the consciousness gradually became blurred, I suddenly heard Chong Niang approaching, asking him warmly if he would write a song for her.

Li Jun wanted to refuse, but someone stuffed a pen into his hand, the ink was grinded, and the paper was thrown onto the small desk happily.

Riding a tiger was hard to get off, so Li Jun could only compose "Youth Tour" in a daze, then put away the pen and fell asleep.

But when he woke up again, he suddenly found that the wine and the beauty had become a dream, and he himself was thrown into a prison for some reason...

While Lu Ci was working overtime leading the examiners to mark the test papers, Zhao Zhen in the palace was not idle at all.

With a slightly wrinkled face, he was concentrating on comparing the two manuscripts spread out on the desk, word by word.

These two manuscripts are not someone else's. They are Li Jun's manuscripts that Liu Qilian sent someone to submit tonight in the song hall after drinking, and the official papers of "Li Jun" sent by the supervisor who blatantly plagiarized Lu Ci's old works.

After a long time, Zhao Zhen straightened up, nodded resolutely, and said calmly: "No mistake. Put it away and hand it over to Dali Temple."

When the servant took the manuscript away, he was inexplicably oppressed by the momentum, and he dared not even vent his breath.

Zhao Zhen fell into deep thought, leaning motionless on the back of the chair, his childish face was covered with frost.

If it wasn't for his little master's keen mind and keen observation, and the other party's unlucky luck, whoever stole it would be bad, and it happened that he stole it on Lu Ci, who became the proctor because of his persistence...

Then, wouldn't this fraud case, which should have been well-documented, be concealed?

Zhao Zhen took a deep breath, holding back his anger.

This was the first tribute ceremony held by imperial edict since he was in charge of the country, and it can be said that the court did not pay attention to it.

Moreover, even in the Kaifeng mansion at the foot of the imperial city, there are people who dare to do such tricks, so it will be easier for the supervising army in the farther Zhulu prefectures to deceive the upper and lower, and they can also do it without knowing it. Unknowingly?

In previous years' tribute examinations, how many similar cases have been fooled?

Zhao Zhen's face was gloomy, and the servants on the side didn't dare to say anything.

Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has supervised the country, although he is still a gentle person on weekdays, when dealing with government affairs, the sense of oppression and momentum of the emperor has become stronger and stronger...

Zhao Zhen suddenly said: "Go and invite Mr. Kou to come."

I thought it was just a one-shot crime of stealing, but now it seems that it is not simple, reflecting the great mystery inside.

This matter must be thoroughly investigated.

Even the vines and roots have to be pulled out one by one; even if there are thousands of threads, they have to be sorted out.

Li Jun's father was only from the fourth rank, and he did not hold any position, but only sent him an official position.

Who is it that backs up his influence and makes him so bold that he not only fakes his handwriting temporarily, but also successfully hires a scapegoat to conspire to do such deception and fraud?

The author has something to say: The little prince has listened too much to the sequelae of Lu Ci's version of "Today's Statement"——Fan Da made a conspiracy theory in advance.