Bao Zheng is panicked now.
He thinks liars are really powerful.
Because they may not be liars.
Bao Zheng couldn't describe his current mood, in short, it was mixed.
There was confusion, tension, fear, and a trace of joy, and more of it was worry.
Who is he
Just an ordinary scholar.
Those scholars who asked for a meeting at the entrance of Kou's Mansion House, if they were drawn out randomly, they were probably better than him.
Although he has a bit of wealth in his family, it is not very rich.
He is not from a family of officials.
His father was just a small rich man in Hefei, Luzhou.
Throw it into the city of Bianjing, it can only be regarded as an ordinary wealthy household.
(When Bao Zheng was admitted to Jinshi, his parents were built. It was not as stated in the Romance and Xiwen. They were raised by his brothers and sisters. After Bao Zheng passed the Jinshi examination, he was awarded the judge of Dali and served as the magistrate of Jianchang County. , But because his parents were old, he asked to take a post in Luzhou nearby.
When Emperor Renzong saw his filial piety, he made an exception to let him return to his place of origin to serve as an official, take up a post and supervise taxes in the state.
Bao Zheng's parents were unwilling to leave Bao Zheng. Bao Zheng simply resigned from the official rank and went home to support his parents. He waited until his parents died and served them as filial piety for three years before returning to officialdom. )
He did not have the reputation of Yan Shu and Liu Yong, nor did he have noble classmates to support him. He had never expected that before the literary examination, he would sit in the Kou's mansion.
When the old curator of the Luzhou Guild Hall mentioned that he was going to the Kou Mansion, he gave a special explanation.
I need to find one or two people who can enter Kou Mansion to bring it.
Bao Zheng didn't think he could make friends with one or two people who could enter the Kou Mansion.
So when everyone else thought of a way to vote, he quietly set up a stall in the city of Bianjing.
When Bao Zheng went to Beijing, his parents gave some money.
The local county government sealed up some money for him.
It's just that those entanglements are not enough for him to live in Bianjing.
Prices in Bianjing are far more expensive than those in Luzhou.
The entanglements he brought with him were not enough for him to live from now to the beginning of spring next year.
If you write a letter to ask your parents to bring in some money, they are afraid of their parents' thinking.
That's why he went to the market to quietly set up a stall to make money, to earn a little living expenses.
He is such an ordinary person.
Among the many scholars in Bianjing City, they belonged to the very ordinary kind.
If there is one characteristic that must be mentioned, it is that he is a little dark, but not too dark.
According to the official selection criteria of the imperial court, his skin color was qualified, and he was not excluded from the selection of officials because it was too dark.
So he never thought that before the opening of the course, he would meet the two examiners Kou and Fan.
But good luck tricks people, he went out on the first day of the day, and installed the two examiners Kou and Fan, and regarded the two examiners as liars.
I can't blame him for this.
He had never seen Kou and Fan before.
Among the folks, there is a portrait of Kou Shumi, but the portrait has been processed without knowing how much it looks like Kou Shumi.
Kou Shumi in front of him, soft and weak, looked like a scholar.
But in the folk portraits, Kou Shumi definitely belongs to the kind of big waist and round waist.
When the common people painted portraits of Kou Shumi, they probably felt that only Kou Shumi with a big waist and round shape could fight Hexi and Xixia, open up the territory for the Song Dynasty, and frighten Xiaoxiao in the world.
There are a few serious portraits of Kou Shimi in the city of Bianjing.
It's just that Kou Shumi is now becoming popular, and his serious portrait has long been fired at a sky-high price.
Today there are only a few serious portraits left in the largest bazaar in Bianjing, in the Vientiane Building. It is said that one pair costs 10,000 guan.
With such a high price, Bao Zheng could only sigh with excitement.
When Bao Zheng first contacted Kou Shumi and Fan Zhongyan, some of the words the two revealed revealed their identities.
But Bao Zheng did not dare to believe it, nor did he dare to think about it.
I, Bao Zheng, ran into two people casually in Bianjing. One looked like a rich man, but didn't even have an entourage. The other looked like an old farmer in the field, holding a donkey cart.
You tell me that the two of them are the main and assistant exams of this subject. How do you make me believe
Just when Bao Zheng was shocked and thinking wildly.
Fan Zhongyan had already met with Kou Mansion's steward, and handed his donkey cart to Kou Mansion's steward.
Kou Ji confessed a few words to the steward, and led Fan Zhongyan to the door. After walking for a few steps, he saw that Bao Zheng hadn't followed, and when he turned around he saw Bao Zheng standing in place with a look of surprise.
Fan Zhongyan said to Kou Ji amusedly: "You scared him..."
Kou Ji laughed and said to Bao Zheng: "Boy, what dare you still do not follow me into the mansion. Don't forget, you took my money."
Bao Zheng recovered after Kou Ji shouted, and suddenly felt that the gold in his hand was very hot. He resisted the idea of sending the gold back on the spot, and bowed and saluted Kou Ji and Fan Zhongyan in a panic.
"Student Luzhou scholar Bao Zheng, I have seen..."
Bao Zheng was only halfway talking, and he was interrupted by Kou Ji, "Outside the mansion, you are a scholar of Luzhou. When you enter the mansion, you are the transcript from my mansion, and everything needs to follow my orders."
"Hey..."
Bao Zheng didn't dare to say any more, and he answered with his hands.
Fan Zhongyan smiled and said, "Even if he is outside Kou's mansion, he has to listen to you."
Kou Ji was taken aback for a while, and laughed: "That's also..."
"Go into the house..."
Kou Ji did not continue to say anything to Bao Zheng, but said with a smile, and brought Fan Zhongyan into the mansion.
Bao Zheng followed a little cautiously.
Into the house.
Kou Ji asked Bao Zheng to wait outside the study first, and he took Fan Zhongyan to wash.
Under the guidance of the servants of the Kou Mansion, Bao Zheng went outside the study of the Kou Mansion.
The servant ordered Bao Zheng.
Bao Zheng stood outside the study in a proper manner.
Not long after Bao Zheng stood there, he heard a sweet voice.
"Hey, that dumb black charcoal head..."
Bao Zheng heard the soft voice, without a word, still standing upright.
"Well, you black head, you dare not answer my words."
Zhao Xu walked out of the study angrily, staring at Bao Zheng fiercely.
Bao Zheng looked at Zhao Xu, slightly lost.
Without a doubt, Zhao Xu is definitely the most beautiful girl he has ever seen.
Zhao Xu was staring straight at Bao Zheng, slightly uncomfortable, and snorted, "You are not allowed to stare at me..."
Bao Zheng regained his senses, and hurriedly said: "In Xia Luzhou, the scholar Bao Zheng, I have seen a girl..."
"Science?"
Zhao Xu whispered slightly in surprise.
Bao Zheng didn't know what Zhao Xu was thinking, but he nodded.
Zhao Xu's eyes lit up slightly, looking up and down Bao Zheng, and said, "That's a scholar..."
Bao Zheng bowed his hands: "It's just..."
"Have you read "The Female Commandment"?"
"what?"
"It doesn’t matter if you haven’t read it, you can write. My husband punished me to copy the "Jingshen" in "The Commandments of Women" for more than fifty times. It will be delivered tomorrow. I only wrote it when the sun was already slanting to the west. Less than ten times.
Tomorrow, I’m afraid your husband will hit me again..."
When Zhao Xu said this, he made a pitiful gesture and stared at Bao Zheng with a pleading look.
Bao Zheng looked confused and didn't know how to deal with it.
Seeing Zhao Xu showing an expression that was about to cry, Bao Zheng didn't know what was going on, so the ghost said, "I will help you..."
An expression of joy immediately appeared on Zhao Xu's face.
"Great… "
Zhao Xu yelled happily, took Bao Zheng and walked to the study.
Bao Zheng wanted to tell Zhao Xu about whether a man or a woman was giving or receiving a relationship, but he didn't know what happened, but he didn't say it.
It wasn't until Zhao Xu threw him to the study and ran out cheering, that he slightly recovered.
Bao Zheng stood in the study in a daze, muttering in a low voice, "What's wrong with me..."
A series of things happened to him, he was a little overwhelmed, and he didn't have time to think about it.
When he had time to think carefully, he was pushed to the table, and there were a bunch of chaotically written "Jingshen" chapters on the table.
Bao Zheng stood at the desk for a long time hesitating, but after all he held the pen, tried to imitate Zhao Xu's handwriting, and began to write "Jingshen".
Zhao Xu's handwriting is not difficult for Bao Zheng to imitate.
Because Zhao Xu wrote Fei Bai.
In order to take the test, Bao Zheng also wrote Feibai style.
After the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, Emperor Taizong was good at Feibai, Emperor Zhenzong was good at Feibai, and today's officials also wrote beautiful Feibai.
In order to do what they like, scholars also write Feibai.
Feibai style almost became a compulsory calligraphy in the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, it was much easier for fellow practitioners to Feibai, and Bao Zheng imitated Zhao Xu's handwriting.
Bao Zheng was dragged by Zhao Xu to copy books in the study.
Kou Ji collected the dust for Fan Zhongyan in the side hall of the mansion.
Partial hall.
After Fan Zhongyan washed, he put on a silk brocade gown, the old farmer's breath was gone, and he was replaced by a wealth of wealth.
It's just a crack on his hand, and two purple prints blown out from the wind on his face, it is difficult to hide it.
Fan Zhongyan served as the chief official of a prefecture in Hexi, but he did not sit in the yamen to enjoy wealth. Instead, he often ran around in the fields and pastures to help the people to work and settle the changes in Hexi.
After a long time, cracks naturally appeared on his hands, and some purple prints blown out by the wind and sand naturally appeared on his face.
After Kou Ji asked Fan Zhongyan to sit down, he said with emotion: "Xiwen, I put you in Hexi to suffer, can you blame me?"
Before going to Hexi, Fan Zhongyan had already gained a reputation in the court of Bianjing City. If he stayed in Bianjing City, he would naturally enjoy wealth and honor and be promoted easily.
Kou Ji left him in Hexi to eat sand, so it was naturally not as comfortable as being an official in Bianjing.
Fan Zhongyan heard what the Kou family said and said with a laugh: "Mr. joked. The students were in Bianjing City before. Although they had a small reputation, they were all the help of the husband.
In the future, students only have some vague ideas on how to be officials.
After going to Hexi, although the students suffered a little bit, the vague thoughts in their hearts gradually became clear.
Now students already know how to be an official.
If you haven't been to Hexi, the students probably don't know how to be the parents of the people.
Now the students are clear, and most of the doubts in their hearts have gone.
All this is due to your husband. How dare students complain about you. "
Hearing this, Kou Ji nodded slowly, "You don’t blame me. This time the court opened Enke to take the sergeant, the official ordered me to be the chief of the Enke Wen test, and I recommended you to the official to be the deputy of Enke. test.
It just so happened that there was a lack of a servant in the Ministry of Rites, and the officials promoted you to be a servant of the Ministry of Rites to fill this gap. "
Fan Zhongyan arched his hands in the direction of the imperial palace and said, "The officials love it, and the students will remember it in their hearts."
Kou Ji nodded and continued: "This Enke is different from the previous Enke. The Manchurian civil and military are staring at us, so we have to deal with it carefully and cautiously.
The reason why you are invited to live in our mansion is because on the one hand, your mansion is not popular, and on the other hand, it is to prevent the scholars from various state capitals from running to your mansion to throw papers.
It is not a big event for the scholars to vote, but if a fraud case arises because of this, it is a big event.
As a privy envoy, I was already on the cusp of the essay test. If there were any fraud cases, it would cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Therefore, in this scientific examination, we have to act in a low-key manner. "
Fan Zhongyan nodded thoughtfully.
Kou Ji served as the chief examiner of the civil and martial arts test as a clerk, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the civil servants of the Manchu dynasty. Before this, Lu Yijian and others had made a lot of trouble for the three yas.
Fan Zhongyan also heard such rumors after he entered the boundary of Kaifeng Mansion.
Kou Ji was just the chief examiner of the civil and martial arts examination, and the Manchu civil servants started to quarrel. If there is another fraud case, the Manchu civil servants will not take advantage of the questions and will completely shake the world.
With Kou Ji's position, as long as the officials do not hate him and oust him, even if the civil servants of the Manchu dynasty continue to make trouble, it will not help.
However, once the civil servants of the Manchu dynasty started to make trouble, and led the scholars and common people to make trouble together, it would be a trouble for Kou Ji after all.
Fan Zhongyan said to Kou Ji: "Students listen to Mr.'s instructions..."
Kou Ji smiled and said, "Then you can live in the house steadily."
Fan Zhongyan smiled and nodded, as if thinking of something, he smiled to Kou Ji: "When the students were in Hexi, they found a few talents. They also want to participate in this Enke, originally thinking of introducing one or two to Mr.
Now it seems that we can only recommend to Mr. after Chunwei. "
Kou Ji almost instantly guessed who Fan Zhongyan's talent was, but he didn't say anything, but smiled and said: "Since he is a talent, he will definitely stand out from the crowd.
When it comes to the palace examination, we will naturally be able to see it. "
Kou Ji's letter to Hexi, except for the letter addressed to Fan Zhongyan was his own name, the other letters were all sent in the name of Wenchang Academy.
Therefore, Fan Zhongyan did not know that Kou Ji knew the talents in his mouth, and it was normal.
When Ouyang Xiu, Han Qi and others were delegated to practice, they all lost their identities, but were dispatched to the place to practice as ordinary scholars.
The purpose is to prevent local officials from knowing that they came from the Wenchang Academy, and then taking care of them secretly in Kou Zhun's face, thus losing the effectiveness of their experience.
Kou Ji accompanied Fan Zhongyan to the dust washing feast. It was late afternoon and after sending Fan Zhongyan down to rest, he remembered that Bao Zheng was still at the house.
Kou Ji hurried to the study immediately.
After arriving at the study room, I saw Bao Zheng standing outside the study room neatly, and Zhao Xu running around cheering in the study room.
Seeing this, Kou Ji stepped forward and asked Bao Zheng, "You just stood here all afternoon?"
Bao Zheng hesitated a little, then nodded.
Kou Ji sighed slightly: "I was negligent. You should go down and rest first. I will ask the people in the house to help you prepare a place to live, and then send a table of wine and food to your room."
Bao Zheng raised his head slightly and said, "Students still go back to Luzhou Guild Hall..."
Before Bao Zheng could finish speaking, Zhao Xu's head stretched out from the study and shouted: "Mr. asked you to stay, and you stay. Mr. is the examiner of Coenke, and you are the scholar who took the test. If you offend your husband, your husband will definitely dismiss you.
Seeing that you have black heads and black brains, you can be considered a bit clever, so why don't you know anything about this kind of thing? "
Kou Ji glared at Zhao Xu, Zhao Xu stuck out his tongue and hid in the study.
Kou Ji said to Bao Zheng: "I think it's too late. You are now back to Bianjing city. When you reach the gate of Bianjing city, the city gates should have been closed. If you leave Kou Mansion, you will most likely be sleeping on the street. .
This matter was my negligence, so I left you overnight at the house, do you understand? "
Bao Zheng hesitated for a moment, and finally bowed and agreed.
After Bao Zheng agreed, Zhao Xu stuck his head out of the study.
"You're still smart..."
Kou Ji was too lazy to talk to Zhao Xu, and after ordering people to take Bao Zheng down to rest, he stared into the study.
Seeing Zhao Xu, he asked with a black face, "How did you see that people are smart through their black heads and black brains?"
Zhao Xu's eyes rolled around and hurriedly said, "How can someone who can be taken back to the mansion by you, Mr., be a stupid person?"
Kou Ji did not believe Zhao Xu's words credulously, but said suspiciously: "Did you lie to help you copy books again?"
Zhao Xu shook his head decisively without blushing or heartbeat, "No..."
Kou Ji snorted.
Zhao Xu still looked calm.
The reason why Kou Ji believes that Zhao Xu deceived Bao Zheng to help her copy the text is because Zhao Xu did this kind of thing, not once or twice.
Most of the scholars who worked in the mansion had been tempted by his coercion.
After Kou Ji found out about this, he specifically told the people in the house.
Now that Zhao Xu could not find a helper in the house, he naturally went back to seek other helpers.
For example, Bao Zheng, who just entered the mansion and didn't understand anything.
Kou Ji stared at Zhao Xu and said, "Bring the penalties over and let me take a look."
Zhao Xu hurried back to the table, took out the "Jingshen" that Bao Zheng had helped her copy, and handed it to Kou Ji.
Not only did she not feel panicked, but she said as if she had done her work: "Sir, I have finished copying everything you asked me to copy. Will we be able to play with Tiancier tomorrow?"
The reason why Zhao Xu didn't panic was because Bao Zheng imitated her handwriting in eights.
It is difficult for ordinary people to tell.
Kou Ji was famous for his lack of learning and skill in Bianjing, and Zhao Xu believed that Kou Ji couldn't see it.
Kou Ji took a glance at "Jingshen" and was taken aback for a moment. After a closer look, he looked at Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu stared at Kou Ji earnestly, without panic at all.
Kou Ji looked at Zhao Xu and said, "You were smarter once..."
Zhao Xu was taken aback for a moment, not understanding what Kou Ji meant.
Kou Ji continued: "I found a smart person to help you, and he imitated your handwriting. But do you think this little trick can hide from me?"
Zhao Xu's face changed slightly, and he defended: "I didn't find someone to help me..."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Really? He is clever, imitating your handwriting to be eighth similar. But when you write the hook, it is slightly pointed, and when he writes the hook, he is slightly rounded.
This is a habit and cannot be changed for a while.
Throughout this article, the characters that represent the tick mark are all rounded.
Did you tell me this was written by you? "
Zhao Xu's face changed completely, "You... how could you tell that you sent someone to watch me? You must have sent someone to watch me, so you knew about it."
Kou Jishi smiled and said, "There are still three similar loopholes, do you need me to point them out to you?"
Zhao Xu looked at Kou Ji in disbelief.
Kou Ji glanced at Zhao Xu and said, "Do you think that people in Bianjing have rumored that Kou Ji is not knowledgeable, and I Kou Ji is really not knowledgeable?"
Zhao Xu stared at Kou Ji without speaking.
But her gaze had already told Kou Ji that she thought so.
Kou Ji said faintly: "I don't understand the scriptures. This is a fact. If you embarrass me with the knowledge in the scriptures, you will be able to stump me. But if you find someone to help you fake it, you're doing it at the door of the class.
It should be noted that I made the Jiaozi template and Jiaozimo, which have been circulating in the Song Dynasty for several years, and no one can imitate it. "
Kou Ji said that he had already handed the article "Jingshen" into Zhao Xu's hands, and when Zhao Xu was stunned, he said: "Copy it a hundred times tomorrow..."
Zhao Xu's face turned pale.
Kou Ji stopped paying attention to her and left the study.
It was a long time after Kou Ji left that Zhao Xu recovered. She bit her teeth and said viciously: "It must be the black charcoal head who told you quietly..."
Zhao Xu has believed Kou Ji's words.
But she still blamed Bao Zheng for the mistake.
She probably felt that sharing half of the pain on Bao Zheng's head would make her feel better in her heart.
Zhao Xu was thinking about the time when Bao Zheng was on the scene.
Bao Zheng had just washed under the guidance of the servants of the Kou Mansion and was resting in the wing.
Sitting on the seat in the wing of Kou's Mansion, Bao Zheng was a little dazed.
Inexplicably, they installed Kou Ji and Fan Zhongyan, two people that no one else wanted to see.
Inexplicably, he entered the courtyard of the Kou Mansion that no one else wanted to enter.
Inexplicably, she was dragged by a woman who called Mr. Kou Jiwei to help her copy the "Female Commandments".
More inexplicably, Kou Ji stayed in the mansion.
Bao Zheng really didn't know how to evaluate his own experience.
In short, in addition to trance or trance.
When the servant of Kou's Mansion delivered the dinner to Bao Zheng's room, Bao Zheng was still in a trance.
The servant was a little bold. After putting down the dinner at random, he got close to Bao Zheng, raised his hand to the edge of Bao Zheng's ear, and picked Bao Zheng's ear.
"You black charcoal head, you actually hurt me!"
Bao Zheng was awakened by a burst of tingling, looking at the beautiful face in front of him, full of anger, and he didn't know how to deal with it.