Family Has a Concubine

Most of the hour has passed since the palace test.

In the Jinyu Lou, the guests were drinking and chatting lively, mostly during the hall examination.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a big belly in his 40s, in a cocoon robe, walked from the stairs and walked into the lobby on the second floor.

Seeing him, Xiao Er quickly greeted him respectfully and led him inside.

Another Xiaoer was carrying a tray, but walked to Ye Tangcai's table and put down a plate of dim sum.

There are steamed biscuits with sugar, sweet-scented osmanthus and chestnut powder cake, Ruyi cake, and auspicious fruit.

Ye Tangcai turned her head from the window and quickly said with a smile: "Thank you for the shopkeeper. We can't finish it, so we don't have to give so much."

Xiao Er smiled and said: "The shopkeeper said that his son will be off the court after three years. It is his blessing to be able to entertain you, and he can also take good care of you. Three years later, the shopkeeper's son will have a good result. "

Uncle Chu listened, laughing cheerfully.

Wen's eyebrows dyed a smile with joy.

Ye Chengde's table felt uncomfortable for a while, and Zhang Boyuan's face turned pale even more.

He shouldn't have come! Why does he come here to make himself feel uncomfortable? But if he leaves now, he will definitely be mocked by Ye Tangcai and the others.

At this moment, there was a haha ​​ridicule not far away: "Let your shopkeeper save your time. Don't let this kind of bad luck come in. If you don't get it, you will end up like a counter-attack."

His voice was loud, and his laughter was louder again, so that the lobby on the second floor was quiet, and he looked back at him.

Ye Tangcai, Wen, Uncle Chu and others also looked back at him. It was the man who had just come in, dressed in expensive clothes, and had a big belly.

"Why, isn't this Lord Wu?" Several of the guests in the lobby recognized him.

"Yes, Lord Wu, did you just come out of the palace? Is there any gossip?"

Ye Chengde, Zhang Boyuan, and Xu Rui's mother and son heard that Wu Ye's words meant to derogate Chu Yunpan, and they all shocked their spirits.

Ye Tang squinted his eyes. Uncle Chu and Wen's heart burst upon hearing them, frowning.

"Who is this Lord Wu?" Ye Weicai whispered while pulling Ye Tangcai's sleeves.

"I don't know either." Ye Tangcai raised an eyebrow.

Miao said in a low voice, "This is the elder brother of Concubine Wu. Your grandfather gave gifts to the Wu family several times before, and I have also been to the little birthday banquet of the mother of the Wu family, but they were not in touch with us anymore. ."

The guests in the lobby came here to watch a jinshi parade. They were naturally concerned about the situation of the palace examination inside. Hearing what Wu Ye said, they made a lot of noise.

Master Wu was very pleased to see all of him coaxing him, he laughed and said: "This is a palace exam today, this is a grand event for us. Not only the emperor personally invigilates the exam, but also the accompaniment of hundreds of officials, even the harem also participates in such a grand event. ."

The harem is naturally attended, but it is separated by a screen, and the location is very clever. People in the palace cannot see behind the screen, but those behind the screen can see the situation in the palace.

"I'm a vulgar person who doesn't look interesting in the hall exams. But my girl said that my little girl is about to be in time, and I should choose a good husband. It just so happens that there are so many talents in the hall exams this year. Young talent. She asked me to see if there is any suitable. If so, she will be arty, and learn from the list to find a son-in-law."

As Wu Ye said, there was a burst of laughter in the lobby, and everyone teased him about which one did he fancy?

"I watched halfway and looked dazzled. Shouldn't this kind of son-in-law be a woman's business? It's really tight, so I will come out!" Wu Ye said.

Seeing everyone, Zhang Boyuan focused his attention on the funny thing about Master Wu looking for a son-in-law, and hurriedly said: "Master Wu, you just talked about the palace test... Some people are anticlimactic, what's the matter?"

Master Wu sighed: "The best-looking young man is a member, right? I saw the palace maid who reported to my sister, whose surname was Chu. My sister was sitting behind the screen and caught him in a glance. If you grow up like this, if you get better grades later, it would be nice to be my son-in-law."

Ye Tangcai choked as she listened.

Wen's face was even greener, and he sighed with anger, and said in a low voice: "Who will be his son-in-law! That's my son-in-law!"

Master Wu continued: "Later, after hearing the report from the palace mother, I realized that he was a juvenile Huiyuan, but he became a relative." He shook his head and said, "Since the beginning, we also pay attention to him. After the palace examination began, This Gongsheng is talented, swiftly writing, and writing as if there is a god, but the young Huiyuan is grinding ink and ink. It has been half an hour, and he is still grinding ink! Are we trying to study ink?"

As soon as this remark came out, the hall roared with laughter.

"What nonsense, my Saburo will not be like this." Uncle Chu was so angry that his face was blue, and he wanted to shoot the crime, but he saw that Master Wu had a face and he was the elder brother of Concubine Wu. Dare, just sit there.

"Why am I doing well?" Master Wu coldly snorted a little displeased. "This year's topic is still long. There are various strategies and political discussions. It is about thinking about the topic and writing. One hour is not enough."

He considers himself a rough person, but he has some knowledge.

"What happened then?" Zhang Boyuan asked urgently.

"What's the matter? Anyway, I am really boring, so I will come out! Otherwise, how can I come here to gossip with you." As Wu Ye said, he poured himself a glass of wine and drank happily.

But everyone in the lobby was provoked by him and talked about what he said in a low voice.

Zhang Boyuan even sneered: "I really don't know what to say. I really agreed with the words of Master Wu. I don't know how to win Huiyuan. For nine days and seven nights, I can get a good ranking when there is no one. Now I am the emperor. In the face of the ministers, they couldn't answer a word."

The insinuation that Chu Yunpan is suspected of cheating.

Uncle Chu was trembling with anger, and Wen said in a breath: "What do you mean? If you fail the exam, do you destroy others? If you are not convinced, if you feel that there is something tricky and there is evidence, you can report it! Why did you go? Now a month later, I fell off the list, only then did Haw say something like this or that. It's not even this magnanimous."

When Zhang Boyuan saw her open her mouth and shut her mouth, she failed the ranking, and said that he was inhumane, making his face pale and blue with anger.

"No matter what, Master Huiyuan can't answer the question now!" Xu Rui chuckled slightly, holding a white porcelain cup in his hand, laughing sarcastically. "Tsk tusk, do you know you can get into the top two?"

The people in the lobby also started talking.

One said: "How can I get into the second-class by handing in a blank paper? Giving a third-class scholar with the same Jinshi is already considered as a face."

"This is Huiyuan, how can it be the same Jinshi?"

A well-dressed old man said: "It's not like that. At a session of the Yuan more than ten years ago, it seems that the surname is Liu or Liu. As a result, he was tested by a fellow Jinshi and became the last one. He was sent to the local to do it. Nine Grade Officer."

"Hey, I also remembered, there really is something like that." Another old man at the table with him said and shook his head. He was dressed in a master's uniform, with a feather fan in his hand, and he knew at a glance that he was the master of a certain school. "There was such a result back then. The examiners who would test the papers at that time were criticized by today, saying how they judged Huiyuan."

As the crowd listened, they asked the two old men about the situation back then, and then they talked about the palace examination before them: "Will this be so unlucky, right?"

He laughed out loud as he said it, as if it had really become such a thing.

Zhang Boyuan's eyebrows fluttered and his heart throbbed. He was so happy that he could not say: "We can see the Yuan row at the end of this session, but it is once in ten years. Fortunately for Sansheng!"

Xu Rui also gave a chuckle, raised his eyebrows and almost laughed out, and drank the wine in his hand.

He had already forced himself to accept the facts of Chu Yunpan's high school, but now after this series of things, his heart has become active again, and he is very excited!

"It used to be beautiful, but now it has become a joke. If so, it would be better to fail!" Zhang Boyuan quickly laughed and screamed.

How much he was resentful at first, but now he is so happy. Not in! Not in! Really missed! Ha ha ha, shameless scum, deserve it! Call you crazy! Shame now!

Ye Chengde and Yin Tingniang also passed ridicule in their eyes.

Hearing these words, Uncle Chu turned pale, sitting there, his whole body wilted. Saburo, actually want to hand in a blank paper? Oh my! Why is this happening!

Wen's and Miao's were trembling with anger.

"Those bastards..." Wen said in a temperament, but he couldn't make a sound. Worried all over his face.

"Mother, don't worry." Ye Tangcai said with a smile, "This is one of the strange problems of my third master."

Wen choked at hearing, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "One of the strange problems? What is the other problem? Oh, I see, I can't sleep on the same bed as someone else."

Ye Tangcai poked her finger and grinned awkwardly.

"It's useless to be anxious anyway." Miao Shi sighed slightly.

Wen gritted his teeth and nodded. My daughter managed to get out of her head, but now... the son-in-law is too nervous! After all, he is only eighteen years old!

If I had known this, it would be better to take the exam a few more years. Even if you missed the opportunity and couldn't get the Huiyuan, as long as you calm down and play well in the palace exam, it is good to get a second place or the top three.

Now it is, Huiyuan is too high, but the palace exam fails to answer the question, and I handed in a blank paper... As the saying goes, the higher the praise, the more painful it will be to fall! The uglier the fall!

The more I think about it, the worse Wen's heart becomes. She didn't want to believe what Zhang Boyuan and the others said, but Master Wu saw that Chu Yunpan couldn't answer the question. This is really not to deceive oneself.

"It seems that the time has passed!" Ye Weicai whispered.

Wen and Uncle Chu were startled, Wen's expression was not good: "It's just... after such a while, it's past time?"

When the chat is focused, the time will pass quickly. Wen felt that time was too fast. He just heard that his son-in-law didn't even have a word. There was a whistling sound at this time, and it was really going to be a waste of paper!

Wen and others became more and more uneasy, and after half an hour passed, the people below suddenly rioted and shouted: "The champion is out!"

Ye Tang was happy, and hurried to the window.

Zhang Boyuan, Xu Rui, Ye Chengde and Yin Tingniang came to the window for the first time and looked down excitedly. The people in the lobby roared and squeezed toward the window: "Look, look!"

Everyone looked down, and saw the big yellow flag below open the way, and the drums shook the sky. A group of three people walked out in a hug.

The headed man wears a golden flower black gauze hat, a big red robe, and a red mane horse with a golden saddle across his feet. He is the champion. After coming out, he turned his head for the first time and looked over here. From a distance, he saw his gorgeous appearance and sloppy eyebrows.

Ye Tangcai looked at it with joy: "San Ye!"

Chu Yunpan knew that they had booked a seat here, and he looked over as soon as he came out, and saw a bright little face smiling at him in the crowded row of windows.

He was so happy, he waved to her.

Then Luogu opened the road below. The champion, the runner-up and Tanhua were guarded by guards. They moved forward slowly. The people rushed to watch. The children ran and screamed and laughed, saying that they will also parade the champion in the future, piece by piece. A lively and extraordinary.

"Ah! Saburo won! Saburo won the top prize!" Uncle Chu flushed with excitement, his old face was hot, and he wanted to faint.

"This... it's true!" Wen smiled, turning around to see his daughter's bright little face, and for a while, for some unknown reason, he actually cried.

"Oh, this is the Junior Club Scholar! It's actually the champion!" The people in the lobby also exclaimed.

Ye Chengde and Yin Tingniang's face changed drastically.

Xu Rui and Zhang Boyuan stayed there, only feeling their heads buzzing.

What happened? How did it happen? Didn’t we say it’s not good enough? How could it be hit?

Just now they were able to bury others vigorously, saying that they would be as unlucky as a certain Huiyuan ten years ago, and ended up with the same Jinshi. How did they think that they are not only the same Jinshi, but also get the first prize, the champion and the first prize. !

What they feel now is that their faces seem to be jabbed! Hit it! There was pain and heat, and he was ashamed and angry.

"How can it be like this..." Wu Ye's face was also embarrassed, his face turned blue and white.

"Master." At this time, a small servant ran into the stairs, "I found you! Watch the palace exam, why did you slip away?" This is the servant of Wu Ye.

Master Wu couldn't even bother to explain, he only frowned and said, "That young man Huiyuan, hasn't he been grinding ink all the time, how come he has won the first prize?"

When everyone listened, their ears were erected.

As the young man said, his expressions were a little bright: "Originally, everyone thought he was going to pass the paper in vain."

After all, it was Juvenile Huiyuan. Every official present knew him and recognized him. It was very surprised to see him rubbing his ink for half of the time.

Emperor Zhengxuan was also quite disappointed sitting on the dragon chair, and then stopped looking at him and cast his eyes on other candidates.

Who knows, when the last two quarters of an hour were left, he put down Songyanmo and picked up his pen

Emperor Zhengxuan and the officials saw that the young Huiyuan who had spent more than half an hour with his ink finally moved, and thought he saw that the time was up, and couldn't think of it, so they just wrote something to attach.

When I looked up, I saw that he was sitting upright, with a face that was as bright as a bright moon, and there was no trace of panic and anxiety, as if he should have been.

Everyone dared not be surprised.

I saw him mentioning pens and writings, and did not stop during the period.

Everyone saw him look like this, and they knew that he was actually doing a belly draft for most of the hour!

But this is not the way to play belly-up drafts. Most of the people present here are civil servants, and they are all people with a solid background. Most of them are from scientific research backgrounds.

With so many opinions and arguments in these test questions, if you don’t write them out, you won’t be able to straighten your thinking.

But the boy in front of him wrote two big pages in one breath.

Writing is fast.

This is the test paper, so two papers are required. If you are not careful, it may be stained with ink or smudged.

But he didn't, his movements were generally smooth.

He was handsome and gorgeous, and when he sat there, he was as solemn as a green pine, bright as a bright moon, and handsome, as if everyone present had become his background.

Just watching him pick up a pen to write makes people feel that it is a kind of visual enjoyment and makes people look at him.

When he finished writing, he sighed slightly, and as soon as he put down the pen, a loud drum sounded outside.

Cai Jie, who was standing next to the dragon chair on the steps, took a step forward and shouted: "The palace test is over!"

The little **** went down, collected all the candidates' examination papers one by one, and then presented them to the Long Case.

Emperor Zhengxuan picked up the test papers, flipped through them one by one, nodding for a moment, and his eyes lit up for a moment. When I saw Chu Yunpan in the middle, his eyes lit up, and I felt that his problem-solving to countermeasures were normal. The current maladies of Bianstone, hit the nail on the head.

The most surprising thing is that the paper he wrote in one go, there is no jerky obstruction between the words, like the clouds and flowing water of the same person. I can't say how gorgeous his sentence or rhetoric is. On the contrary, his succinct writing gives people a sense of fluency and understanding. It seems like a kind of enjoyment.

Not to mention that it is hard to write two pages without stopping, it is hard to think carefully and carefully.

Emperor Zhengxuan was surprised at his talent, and even more surprised at his talent.

He immediately circled him.

Finally, the top three were pointed out. Chu Yunpan, Chen Zhiheng and Zhao Fanxu.

Then Emperor Zhengxuan hesitated again between the champion, the second prize and Tanhua.

In general, the top three in the palace exams, all of them are talented, and it is difficult to distinguish each other. The emperor will call the youngest and handsome one as Tanhua Lang.

But Chu Yunpan is both outstanding and talented too obvious. Chen Zhiheng is also a handsome guy in his twenties, and Zhao Fanxu is a middle-aged man in his forties. If he considers his appearance and age like this, he would be too wronged. NS.

So according to his strength, he ordered Chu Yunpan as the champion and so on, followed by Zhao Fanxu and Chen Zhiheng as Tanhua Lang.

Then I ordered the second and third tops, decided on the ranking, and let the top one go to change clothes and parade.

In the Jinyu Lou, the young man of Lord Wu spoke out the process of the palace salvation, and everyone was shocked.

Master Wu was startled, then he laughed and touched his beard and said, "I thought it was a passer-in, but I didn't want to, but he was talented and amazing, but I was short-sighted and talking nonsense. "

"Master, you have to change your impatience." Xiao Si laughed.

"Yes!" Wu Ye laughed. On the contrary, he was a broad-minded person, and when he said that, he bowed to Ye Tangcai, which was regarded as an apology.

But Ye Tangcai and others had no time to pay attention to him at this time, just beckoning to Chu Yunpan below.

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Zhang Boyuan: Say good to be a dog together!

Xu Rui: You secretly got ahead!

Chu San: Get out!