Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 94 exam starts

   "Students must live up to their mentor." Although the mentor is very unreliable, the three of Ouyang Zhi, deep down in their hearts, are still grateful to Fang Jifan.

  This is Shien.

   "I passed the exam..." Fang Jifan said with a smile: "You must have a conscience."

   "..." The three of Ouyang Zhi still bowed to each other obediently: "I would like to follow the instruction."

   "And..." Fang Jifan said: "We must work hard!"

   "Yes..." The three of Ouyang Zhi couldn't help but burst into tears.

   "The prince bet 50,000 taels, betting that you will win; he asked his teacher to give you a sentence, if none of you three can reach Tang Yin in time, your legs will be broken."

   "..." The gratitude on the faces of Ouyang Zhi and the three of them instantly turned into bitterness and hatred.

  Fang Jifan sighed: "Don't worry, the teacher will not give His Royal Highness a chance.

   "..." Huh... Ouyang Zhi and Liu Wenshan breathed a sigh of relief.

Fang Jifan gritted his teeth and continued: "Because I also bet 200,000 taels of silver for my teacher, the odds are very high, one pays three, and I bet you to be among the best. If you lose, my teacher will not give His Royal Highness the chance to break your legs , your legs, the teacher will come and break them in person."

   "..."

  …

  Tang Yin's legs and feet were still a little limp, he limped out of the inn, feeling like he saw the sun again.

  But when he came out of the inn, Tang Yin was stunned.

  There were huge crowds of people outside, and when they saw Tang Yin coming out, they burst into cheers.

   "Take a good exam."

"must work hard."

   "We must not let the Northerners take advantage of us."

   "Get out of the way, get out of the way..."

Dozens of strong servants drove them away, and there was still a sedan chair behind them. A person in charge stepped forward excitedly: "The two masters of my family have admired Tang Jieyuan for a long time. Tang Jieyuan is going to take the test today. The masters specially ordered Tang Jieyuan to take the sedan chair. .”

   Tang Yin's eyes were moist.

  I'm touched, I never imagined that there are so many warm-hearted people in the world, this is the dog thief Fang Jifan who is going to die, otherwise, how could there be thousands of people so passionate.

  Looking at the dark crowd, Tang Yin felt a warm current rising up in his heart. There is true love in the world, and it is advisable to repay the spring with one's heart. He raised his head and chest, just about to say a few words.

  But I heard people chattering: "Shouning Hou and Jianchang Bo are so generous, they sold one hundred thousand taels of silver, and the land at home was mortgaged, betting that Tang Jieyuan will win."

"Yeah, yeah, Tang Jieyuan is Yingtianfu Jieyuan, what is Ouyang Zhi and other Shuntianfu's candidates? I also bet ten taels. Although Tang Jieyuan is sure to win big and the odds are not high, it is equivalent to picking up for nothing. money."

   "Tang Jieyuan, I stole my mother-in-law's dowry money, and I hope to put it all on you. Take the test hard."

   "Tang Jieyuan will win."

   "..." Tang Yin's face was as pale as a pig's liver, and he was speechless for a while.

  …

  The Gongyuan has three floors inside and three floors outside, all of which are surrounded by troops from Shuntian Mansion and Wucheng Bingma Division.

  Countless candidates entered the examination room one by one.

  In the twelfth year of Hongzhi, the test that determined the fate of countless people finally kicked off.

  Ouyang Zhi has entered his examination room.

  He felt a little emotional in his heart. He consciously felt that he should be grateful to his mentor. Without his mentor, Ouyang Zhi would not be where he is today.

  But...sometimes my mentor really makes me dumbfounded.

   What can be done? Parents cannot choose, and who is the king is not up to oneself. Even if it is a mentor, once worshiped into the gate wall, it cannot be changed.

  Take a deep breath and get rid of distracting thoughts.

  Although it is spring, the wind is still chilly. Looking at the weather, I am afraid that it will snow in a few days. This weird weather is really unpredictable.

  Ouyang Zhi rubbed his hands together, then took out the pen and ink from his kaolan.

   When the auspicious time came, an officer shouted: "The great master has ordered us to open the topic."

   "Opening the topic..."

   "Opening the topic..."

  Many servants set off from Minglun Hall, holding tall signs in their hands, and began to walk to various examination rooms.

  The sign with the question on it moved to Ouyang Zhi.

  Ouyang Zhi looked at the sign that said: "There is beautiful jade here."

  There are...beauty...jade...in...Si...

  Ouyang Zhi's body shook.

   Actually this question...

  He really couldn't be more familiar with this question.

Among the few questions that the teacher asked them to practice, there was this "beautiful jade in this place", and he did not know how many times he had done this question. When the teacher came up with this question, Ouyang Zhi still thought that this question It must be useless.

Because ordinary examiners don’t ask such questions at all, they prefer to ask questions such as “learning and learning”, “a gentleman grows into a man”, “government with virtue”, and “those who want to govern their country first organize their families” and so on. .

  After all... No matter how tricky the question is, or how to cut the question, it is still stable.

   What's more, at the beginning, everyone guessed that Wang Ao, who was stable and stable, was the examiner. The questions given by the prince must be upright and contain great principles.

  But who would have thought that this time the chief examiner was actually Li Dongyang.

   Not only that, but there is also a question called "There are beautiful jades in this place".

   Is this a blind cat meeting a dead mouse?

  Or, the mentor knew the exam questions in advance?

   No, it is absolutely impossible. The temperament of the teacher is not to be tolerated in the Qingliu. Li Gong is a cabinet scholar, why should he leak the question to him? As for other examiners, such as Cheng Minzheng, it is even more impossible to have any dealings with their mentors.

  The only explanation is that the teacher is fooled by this.

  I passed the provincial examination once, and this time I passed the general examination.

  The outside world said that the teacher Nai Wenqu came down to earth, and the ancestral grave was buried well... This... Ouyang Zhi actually believed it a little bit.

  Taking a deep breath, Ouyang Zhi was smug and full of confidence all of a sudden. He quickly rubbed the ink, and then calmly wrote to solve the problem: "If a beautiful jade is used to make a statement, if you can't underestimate its existence..."

  …

   There were three exams in a row, until February 15th, and finally finished the exam.

  Tired candidates came out of the Zigong Academy like flowing water.

   Outside the Gongyuan, there are even more people.

  Countless people are waiting anxiously.

   Waiting until Tang Yin came out of the examination room, there was thunderous cheers.

   "Tang Jieyuan, how did you do in the exam?" Some people had already surrounded him.

  Tang Yin was silent for a moment, then smiled: "Not bad."

  The word "good" made the anxious person's expression ease a lot.

  The ancients were modest, and modesty means that when a person says something is good, in the context of later generations, it means that I am not humble either. In this case, I say the second, and no one dares to say the first. If it is not modest to say, the other candidates are rubbish.

  Tang Xieyuan is a man of great talent and full of knowledge, who dares not believe him if he dares to boast about Haikou?

  So, countless people cheered, and some people's eyes turned red with excitement: "I bet three hundred taels of silver, I bet three hundred taels..."

Although Tang Yin hates these guys betting on himself, but... after these three exams, he performed super-level, especially before the exam, he studied hard behind closed doors. This time, he consciously improved his level of doing the questions by himself. , so he was in a pretty good mood.

   Limping forward a few steps, someone behind him said: "Bohu."

   This was a very familiar voice. Tang Yin looked back, smiled immediately, and quickly bowed to the young man: "Brother Xu."

This person is Xu Jing, a very close friend of Tang Bohu. During this test, the two came to Beijing together. Xu Jing said: "Are you feeling better? Hey, Brother Yu heard that you were beaten, so he went to visit you overnight, but I was stopped by someone, saying that you were seriously injured and needed medical treatment, and I refused to let Brother Yu go to see you, and after many twists and turns, I asked about your condition, God is sorry to see you, as long as you are fine."

Tang Yin smiled wryly, he didn't know that all the residents in the inn were driven away by the tyrannical Fang Jifan, but many of the Fang family's henchmen stayed here. In the name of healing, no one was allowed to visit, he was ashamed He said: "Brother Xu is worried, I will die."

  …

   It will be on the shelves in the next few days. In the new week, I suddenly want everyone to express something.

  (end of this chapter)