Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

On September [-]nd, a scholar in the tribute courtyard drank a few cups of tea soup with his new friends before, so that he couldn't fall asleep all night, and kept running to the toilet.

When he returned to his room from the latrine for the third time, he saw a few figures flashing past the entrance of the Gongyuan, and he couldn't help but move over curiously.

Looking at it this way, it's incredible.

After recognizing the words on the top line, all his drowsiness was swept away immediately, and he woke up completely.

In order to avoid causing too much commotion, Master Yang ordered the officials to post the list before dawn, and then unlock the Gongyuan.

He was apparently the first to spot the list.

After the whole person was almost lying on the yellow list, he opened and closed his mouth again, and was even so excited that he couldn't concentrate on finding his name at all.

He took a deep breath, and then screamed tremblingly: "The list is released!!!"

When the voice was called out, the sound broke immediately, and the scholars in the nearby houses were awakened from their sleep in an instant.

They sat up in a panic, and after a while, they digested the content of the shout in their chaotic minds. Immediately, they couldn't put on their clothes in time, and they didn't care about their shoes. They rolled out of bed in a hurry and stumbled out. rush away.

These uproarious voices and excited running around told each other, of course, Lu Ci and them were not missed.

Lu Ci yawned lazily. While slowly getting dressed, fetching water to wash his hands, he looked at the troubled Zhu with a funny face and said, "Brother Zhu, why rush to see the list? The list will last for several days. , even if you go to see it later, you won’t tell it to run long legs, and it won’t change the order, so you won’t suffer from crowding.”

Zhu said that he sat down again in embarrassment: "What brother Yu Yu said is very true."

Lu Ci smiled, and was about to tease him a few more words, when Teng Zongliang slammed the door open, and Yi Shu blushed and said, "The list has been published, Brother Yu, Brother Zhu, go and see!" ', I couldn't wait to join Teng Zongliang and squeezed to the already crowded list.

Zhong Yuan, who looked sleepy, was still not in the situation, but out of the instinct to join in the fun, he still followed behind the two.

Still a bunch of kids.

Lu Ci sighed helplessly, shook his head, and suggested to Zhu with great interest: "While they are still crowded inside, why don't we sneak out and visit the morning market, and buy a share while we finish our breakfast?" Try the sorbet."

The list has been released, and the Tribute House has also been unlocked. Lu Ci is not in a hurry to move his luggage home, but is more concerned about the ice cream that he has not been able to eat.

Zhu said that he couldn't laugh or cry: "...everything depends on brother Yu Yu."

It's a pity that Lu Ci failed to fulfill his wish after all.

With a smile on his face, he led Zhu Shuo, who had agreed to his proposal of 'sneaking out to buy ice cream first', out of the room and towards the gate of the Gong Yuan.

When he passed by a large group of people gathered in front of the list, he even took a short detour outside, only to notice something was wrong.

The crowd that had been clamoring just now suddenly became silent as soon as he approached.

Everyone looked at him very strangely, as if he suddenly had three heads and six arms, full of surprise.

What's going on here?

Lu Ci raised his eyebrows. Although he didn't know the situation, and didn't know whether the reason was on him, he immediately looked back frankly.

But when they meet his gaze, those who don't know him quickly look away uncomfortably, pretending that nothing happened; while those who have recently become acquainted with him through poetry and tea, She nodded slightly stiffly, forced a smile from the corner of her mouth, and arched her hands at him.

Lu Ci was even more puzzled.

The three of Teng Yizhong, who had successfully squeezed into the innermost place, saw the largest and most eye-catching name listed at the top at a glance, and burst into joyful cries in an instant.

Yi Shu, who is the shortest among the five, jumped higher than anyone else at the moment.

He didn't even care about his ranking, and didn't even think about looking for it, so he turned around and rushed out, wishing to tell his brother Yu Yu the most wonderful news immediately: "Where is Brother Yu Yu! Brother Yu Yu! Congratulations to Yu Yu!" bro—”

Lu Ci's heart warmed up, and he took a step forward, among the crowd who agreed to give way to him, stopped Yi Shu, who was jumping around like a lunatic and speaking incoherently: "Even if I get lucky, you will You don't have to be so happy, do you?"

Lu Ci has done research, so he naturally knows that Mizhou's quota is usually three-tenths of the reference rate, and it will never be less than one-tenth.

That is to say, among the more than 200 people, there should be six NO.70 people who can successfully solve it.

The really difficult ones are the provincial and imperial examinations, and the solution to the examination is nothing more than a small test.

Lu Ci is quite confident about his performance in the exam this time.

Given the right time, place and people, even though it was her first time to take the exam, it wouldn't be too surprising if she passed.

If he can fail the exam in this way, he will have to re-evaluate the difficulty of solving the test and carefully review his overly proud mentality.

Facing Lu Ci who was still calm and self-sufficient, Yi Shu just shook his head vigorously, his face was as red as if it had been burned. It was Zhu who noticed something from his unusually excited attitude, his eyes lit up suddenly, and asked: "Could it be? Brother Yu ranks among the top three?"

Yi Shu didn't have time to answer Zhu's words, so he took a deep breath, and loudly said proudly: "Congratulations, brother Yu Yu, for your honor and for winning Xie Yuan!"

"..."

The warm smile on Lu Ci's face froze instantly.

After hearing this unexpected answer, his first reaction after being dazed was not ecstasy, but suspicion.

He stared at the flushed Yi Shu for a while, and after confirming that the other party was not joking, he felt even more puzzled.

It's not that he belittled himself, but that with Fan Zhongyan, Teng Zijing and other famous bigwigs in the history books, even if it was just to explain the test, it was impossible for those who were emotional and reasonable to get him.

He was full of doubts, and there was still a calm and reserved smile on his face. In the eyes of other scholars who looked at him quietly, they couldn't help admiring him even more for the calmness of a general despite his young age.

If it were them who won this honor, let alone the youngest and vigorous fifteen or sixteen years old, even if they are close to sixty years old, they will inevitably feel proud of themselves.

Seeing Lu Ci approaching and wanting to check the list in person, everyone involuntarily took a step back in tacit understanding, just like Moses dividing the sea, for this talented man who had easily taken off the title of Xie Yuan when he applied for the first time opened a way.

Lu Ci raised his head slightly, and looked at the impressively placed "Lu Ci Lu Yu, Nanyang Academy" at the top, and the word "Jie Yuan" clearly written next to it, and gradually felt a little more realistic.

The corner of Lu Ci's mouth twitched slightly, reluctantly responding to Teng Zongliang and others who sincerely congratulated him, always feeling guilty in his heart.

I am afraid that I accidentally squandered all the character that I have accumulated for several years.

Yi Shu felt that he was full of joy and had nowhere to vent, and wanted to hug Lu Ci and scream, but he didn't have the courage, so he simply retreated and hugged Zhu Shuo, who had been like an enemy or a friend for a while, and his eyes were shining with excitement at the moment, The two jumped up and down regardless of their image.

What Lu Ci didn't know was that he was not the only one who doubted life in this class, but also those few examiners who had an unprecedented understanding.

Especially the director Yang Lu, before posting the list, couldn't resist asking the people below to be unanimously listed by them as Xie Yuan's family information of this talented and beautiful jade, all of which can be called out for him to have a look.

Before reading it, he thought from the bottom of his heart that to be able to carry out a steady style of writing to the end, to be able to carry out poems and prose with ease, and to make such brilliant and amazing moves, at least decades of experience and knowledge must be accumulated. It is possible to behave like this by supporting yourself behind the scenes.

Therefore, when I saw the word "fifteen" written in black and white next to the age...

The tea soup that he hadn't swallowed for a long time in his mouth was all contributed to this piece of paper with a 'poof'.

"how can that be?!"

Yang Lu shouted loudly.

He subconsciously thought that either the subordinates took bribes for selfishness and had the audacity to replace them with a person with the same name and surname, or the person in charge of obtaining the information was confused and mistook the name on the paper.

With a sullen face and full of displeasure, he called Zhao Xun in, slapped the tea-stained paper on the table, held back his anger and said, "How could you make such an outrageous mistake? Don’t let me look carefully, check it again!”

How could it be possible that the person who could write the paper that made them all applaud the case and unanimously judged the 'last time' willingly was only 15 years old!

If the mistake this time hadn't been too absurd and outrageous, he wouldn't have discovered this person's negligence immediately.

Zhao xin believed it was true, and didn't dare to vent his anger. After admitting his mistake, he tiptoed out.

Yang Lu didn't just sit and wait, but simply rummaged through the hill-like public files by himself.

There was no need to seal the public file, and it only took him half a stick of incense to dig out the one that belonged to 'Lu Ci'.

After hastily flipping through a few pages, just as he had vaguely remembered, what caught his eye was the extremely neat and pleasing handwriting.

It can be regarded as finding the right owner.

Yang Lu exhaled, turned back to the front of the scroll, and looked at the family status...

The whole person was dumbfounded again.

He stared at the word 'fifteen' for a long time, then shook his head resignedly, took out the public paper and put it on the table, dumbfounded.

"This is really..."

He was silent for a long time, but after digesting this fact, he couldn't help but sighed with a smile: "Young people are awesome!"

In Yang Lu's eyes, Lu Ci, a very 'frightening' junior, only felt that he had five points of strength, and it was good luck to add five points.

If it weren't for good luck, he wouldn't be able to bet on some of the topics; it wouldn't be possible for him to be in line with the director's preferences; it would be even more impossible for him to go smoothly all the time, without any troubles out of his control on the way, so that he could perform supernormally...

In any case, he only had the mentality of trying it out, but the result was that he had to explain it directly, and he had to understand the surprise of Yuan, which can be said to be unprecedentedly complete.

Since Lu Ci was let in, he was not in a hurry to get out. Instead, he searched carefully on the list until he suddenly found the names of these co-guarantees, and then he was really relieved.

No.2 doesn’t know each other, No.3 is Zhu Shuo, Teng Zongliang is seventh, Yi Shu is No.20, and even Zhong Yuan, who is the weakest, is dangerously placed in the last position.

Lu Ci has a clear goal and knows that the difficult test is yet to come, so he can take this honor with a normal heart.

But these friends of his were a hundred times more excited than him.

If anyone else got this title, they would have to compare it secretly in their hearts, and if they were not convinced, only Brother Lu would be 'well-deserved' and 'worthy of the name'.

Even Zhong Yuan, who usually gets along with Lu Ci the most casually, after personally experiencing the difficulty of solving the test, and thanking God for being able to get a final solution, he was able to overcome the crowd in such a difficult test. Lu Ci, who won the first prize, couldn't help being a little more awed and revered.

He carried Lu Ci's luggage tremblingly, for fear of bumping and missing some talent.

Zhu Shuo and Yi Shu, who were overjoyed, even called out "Lu Jieyuan" and "Lu Jieyuan" proudly all the way, deliberately attracting countless passers-by who looked curiously, admired, or shocked, and it was endless.

In particular, Zhu said that when he passed the market all the way, when he saw the ice cream that Lu Ci had been thinking about but couldn't eat, he turned around and asked without thinking: "Lu Jieyuan, do you want to try this?"

Lu Ci's eyebrows twitched, and he politely declined: "Thank you Brother Zhu, I don't need it for now, let's go back and talk about it first."

Not to be outdone, Yi Shu snorted, "It's just nonsense. How can I eat ice cream in the morning? I'm not afraid of spoiling Lu Jieyuan's stomach. Let's eat some hot food that is easy to digest first..."

Zhu said that his face was expressionless, and he did not make any excuses.

Anyway, he knows it, and Brother Lu knows it too... Brother Lu himself is the one who wants to taste the ice cream in the morning.

Teng Zongliang sounded interesting, so he also came to join in the fun: "Why is Lu Jieyuan in a hurry to go back? There are always people who want to ask for a reward one step ahead of us, and go back to Lu's house to congratulate your mother."

Lu Ci glanced at him coldly, and suddenly smiled faintly: "The solution test is over, Brother Zijing should go back to his hometown, one is congratulations, the other is to prepare for the coming spring, right?"

Before Teng Zongliang could answer, Lu Ci pretended to call for a carriage: "It just so happens that the packed luggage is ready-made, so don't delay here any longer, I will hire a carriage to take you to the pier now, so you can take it a day earlier. Let the boat go home."

Teng Zongliang held down Lu Ci's hand begging for mercy, and smiled apologetically, "Brother Yu knows his mistake, so please ask Lu Jieyuan—cough, brother Yu Yu."

Lu Ci cast a cold glance at him, who was steering the rudder, and was about to speak when he heard a burst of melodious silk bamboo from upstairs.

Everyone couldn't help but pause and look up.

The snow-white veil was gently blown by the breeze, sending out a charming and graceful female voice, singing the new lyrics "Youth Tour" leisurely.

"The sound of the Gongyuan in the ancient city is silent..."

Although half of the fragrant face was not exposed, and only a short sentence was heard, the five people knew who the instigator was in an instant.

Lu Ci made a decisive decision: "Let's go!"

The author has something to say: Notes:

Solved: Passed the solution test

From the second year of Dazhong Xiangfu to the second year of Jiayou, the total number of military inspectors in each prefecture was about 7000 ("General History of the Chinese Imperial Examination System·Song Dynasty Volume 152" p[-]), and later the changes became less and less, and finally decided About three tenths.