I, my father-in-law, set off a frenzy of public examinations in ancient times

"If you keep talking in your sleep, get five palms first!——"

"It's true! Your sister Xiaoyue is on the list!—"

"What?!" Lu Xiucai turned pale with shock, and dropped the "Analects of Confucius" that she couldn't let go of, and which Zhen Zhi loved.

It wasn't until Lu Xiucai rushed to the east wall where the rankings were posted in the South Court of the Ministry of Rites that he woke up from a dream.

I saw that on the golden list, all the rankings of the top three were directly announced without passing the palace test.

Lu Xiucai found Lu Xiaoyue's name without much effort!Because she is:

The second best, Chuanlu——No.1!
I saw the word "female" marked on the back of her name, and she also explained her exam ranking in detail:

The fourth in Jinshi, the eighth in Mingjing, and the first in Mingshu! ——

Lu Xiucai was so excited that his hands were shaking, and he desperately wiped his eyes with his trembling hands:

"I, I'm not dreaming, I, my Xiaoyue, was born as a second-class Jinshi... When did she go to participate in Enke? My father was kept in the dark..."

Li San grinned his greasy mouth. Even though he was illiterate, he watched the excitement:
"That's not it, Lu Xiucai! Your Xiaoyue is 'the phoenix is ​​in the sky', and she is much better than you, an old man who is not a man! But since you are all a family, you must be ashamed." It’s very shiny! Hahahahaha!—”

Li San's words of admiration and sarcasm made everyone on the list burst into laughter, and Lu Xiucai even blushed, not knowing how to respond to Li San's malicious questioning.

Mrs. Lu and Lu Xiaoyue watched from a distance in the outer circle. They couldn't squeeze around like men, but they still had a panoramic view of what happened just now.

Mrs. Lu looked at her younger sister with some distress: she didn't know that all the storms started from now...

Lu Xiucai calmed down his violently heaving chest, and for the first time pointed his finger at someone impolitely: "Li San, I tell you to be respectful! My daughter is a Jinshi, so I naturally have a bright face!

From now on, my Lu family can be regarded as a glorious family!Not to mention other high-ranking daughters, even those who have studied hard for many years are not as good as my youngest daughter!

I failed repeatedly because of my limited ability, but it does not prevent me from raising an extremely intelligent daughter!I, I am proud of her all my life! -"

After he said this, the audience could hear the needle drop.

Lu Xiucai exhausted what seemed to be his entire life to finish saying this, his legs were so weak that he almost fell to the ground, but he told himself that he had to hold on, otherwise others would look down on Xiaoyue...

"Okay!" Suddenly, there was a burst of applause from nowhere, followed by thunderous applause.

All the people under the list were ashamed, but they sincerely admired Lu Xiucai's mind and paternal love, and applauded him non-stop; Li San was so ashamed that he didn't know where to hide.

Who gave the first applause? ——

Lu Xiaoyue looked around, but found that on the second floor of the restaurant opposite the Jinbang, little Guan Gonggong was clapping vigorously in a scarlet uniform.

Little Eunuch Guan realized that he was looking at him, so he smiled more heartily, winked at himself, raised both arms to his head, and clapped even more exaggeratedly.

And lying beside him was a young man wearing a bamboo-blue round-neck gown, and his hair crown was also made of bamboo, which made his temples thicker and darker, and his nose was hanging like a gall.Sitting only facing others sideways puts pressure on people for no reason.

The young man was drinking tea on his own, looking helplessly at the little Eunuch Guan who was happier than the people on the list, he curled his lips into a smile, dispelling a lot of hostility.

Xia Xing School's ranking is also good, she just lowered Jinshi Kela's grades, but at least she was among the top three, and she didn't embarrass them.

She quietly glanced at the face of her brother beside her after listening to the servants come to sign up, and she no longer showed any joyful expression.

My brother once vowed to his family that he would definitely be on the list of "Ming Suan Ke".

Because Ming Suan is not like Jinshi, if you spend a lot of effort in a short period of time, you can see the results...

Xia Xingxiao saw that Xia Risen winked at the servant with a sullen look on his face, and the servant also showed a desperate look.

Xia Xingxiao felt bad for a while, frowned and asked, "Brother, what are you going to do?..."

"Xia Xingxiao, are you satisfied! You finally beat me on a track that you can't get your hands on. Now everyone knows that you are the most outstanding descendant of the Xia family in the Duke's Mansion!"

Xia Risen tightly grasped Xia Xingxiao's wrist, his eyes were red as if he had an illness.

"Xia Risen, are you crazy?——" Xia Xingxiao resisted the pain in his wrist, and couldn't help twitching his hands back.

"I'll let you know how 'sliding the world's ridiculous' thing is for women to take part in the imperial examination!..."

As if to verify what he said, a noisy voice came from outside:

"...Why can women directly participate in Enke without passing the county examination and government examination? And almost everyone who participates is on the list?! I think it is obviously tricky!..."

"That's right, I heard that the exam questions were not issued by the Ministry of Rites, but by that little Mr. Guan who is neither male nor female; now that he is so eager for a woman to become an official, it is likely that he is acting as a 'rooster in the morning' to shake him. What about Guoben!..."

"You, you!..." Lu Xiucai blushed with anger, wanted to refute one by one but didn't know which one to start with, the crowd seemed to overwhelm him.

But even so, he didn't take a step back, let alone run away.

"Let me tell you, maybe the ranking is determined by that little Guan Gonggong! I heard that he flatters the master very much, maybe it's..."

"That's right, I wrote the exam questions; but the papers are all read by the Ministry of Rites." Guan Yujun leaned on the railing of the teahouse, leaning out almost half of his body, tilting his head on it, and said leisurely.

Her nonchalant explanation was like pouring a ladle of water into a boiling soup pot, turning those wicked and slanderous words into steam, which disappeared in a short while.

Under the golden list, which was comparable to the pond full of toads after the heavy rain, there was a moment of silence, and everyone looked at the young man in red on the second floor in bewilderment:
His skin was white and transparent under the sunlight, he didn't care about the slightest bit of malicious slander, instead he was smiling happily; his pink and jade-carved appearance was like the lotus boy under the seat of Guanyin.

The people below who took the money and wanted to splash dirty water had their throats blocked, as if their tongues had been taken out, and they never said a word in front of the Lord.

"About the Tongsheng examination and the scholar examination... Well, everyone's suggestions are very good. Wouldn't it be more fair and reasonable for women to follow the same path as men? Sure enough, the idea that Ji Minzhi came up with is different... "