After Ye Huai finished eating the noodles, Jiang Hao took out a cloth bag from his arms. He carefully lifted off the gauze on the outside and a layer of oil paper to reveal two delicate pastries inside.
"This is the plum blossom cake from that time-honored shop on the street, come and try it," Jiang Hao said.
"Brother Jiang, isn't this plum cake very expensive?" Didn't it mean that both of them are poor scholars? Where did the money come from
"No money, this is a gift from the shopkeeper's lady." Jiang Hao said, "It was raining a few days ago, and I happened to meet her without an umbrella, so I lent her mine. She said she gave it to me as a token of gratitude."
Ye Huai said nothing, this Jiang Hao is honest and honest, probably he didn't see that the girl was interested in him.
"Cheng Qi, shall we go to the Zhuangyuan Building in the north of the city tomorrow?" Jiang Hao bit a plum cake and said, "I heard that every year there are gongshi betting on the test, let's go and listen, maybe we will gain something."
"I won't go." Ye Huai took a bite of the plum cake, still with the sad face after being dumped, "Brother Jiang, go by yourself."
"If you don't go, I won't go, I have to see that you can't do stupid things anymore." Jiang Hao said seriously.
Ye Huai couldn't laugh or cry, brother looked like he would seek death and life for women? However, he stared at Jiang Hao seriously, nodded slightly, "Trust me, I won't do stupid things, okay?"
Jiang Hao nodded unconsciously and said, "Okay, okay, I believe you."
Before Jiang Hao left the next day, he worriedly asked a lot, and then he took some dry food and went to the Zhuangyuan Building in the north of the city.
As soon as Jiang Hao left, Ye Huai immediately felt unparalleled freedom like a husky being released. 520 finally pulled out his dream muscle-building and grooming kit.
520: "Hey, the host exchanged for a muscle shaping and beauty set, totaling 5,000 hero points, and 4,900 points left."
Ye Huai glanced at the contents of the suit, and was shocked, "Isn't this an elliptical machine and a mask?"
520: "This is not an ordinary elliptical machine and mask, they can help you quickly become handsome and good-looking."
Ye Huai: "Really?"
520: "Of course, if you don't believe me, try it!"
Ye was pregnant with the elliptical machine, and after ten minutes of exercising, he found that Gu Chengqi, who was as weak as a chicken, had faint muscles! It turns out that the system props are sometimes reliable, Ye Huai is not very pleased.
After more than a month, Jiang Hao took dry food to the Zhuangyuan Building in the north to learn Buddhist scriptures almost every day, while Ye Huai hid in the inn every day, put on a mask and used his elliptical machine to exercise.
A month later, Jiang Hao patted Ye Huai on the shoulder, "Cheng Qi, tomorrow is the imperial examination, are you nervous?"
Ye Huai shook his head, my body and appearance are so perfect, why should I be nervous
520: "..." It's hopeless, this guy is not going to take the imperial examination, but a beauty pageant.
After more than a month of hard work, Ye Huai finally made Gu Chengqi's rough skin smooth and soft, and also developed smooth muscle lines. Gu Chengqi's original facial features were pretty good, but with Ye Huai's maintenance, he looked like a handsome boy, but it's a pity... the handsome boy has a fatal injury.
One day, Ye Huai suddenly asked 520 a question, "Xiao Lingling, how tall is Jiang Hao? Why do I always feel that I am much shorter than him?"
520: "He, he is less than 1.8 meters!"
Ye Huai had a bad premonition, "What about me?" Every time he saw Jiang Hao, he would look up. How much worse is this
520: "You, you are 1.68 meters."
Ye Huai: "Excuse me?"
520: "168, third-class disabled, and don't speak English, thank you!"
Ye Huai: "..." It really is menopause.
The next day, Ye Huai took dry food and went to the examination room with Jiang Hao early in the morning. Although it was called the Palace Examination, it was not held in the main hall, but on the square outside the main hall inside the palace gate, thousands of people stood mightily.
Ye Huai glanced at it, feeling a little bit like taking the college entrance examination back then.
The reason why the palace examination is called the palace examination is that the emperor directly invigilates the examination. Zhao Changyu went directly to the examination room when he was in court, and after the examinees shouted long live, he took the position of chief examiner.
Ye Huai: "That's the emperor? I can't see clearly, does he look good?"
520: "I don't know, concentrate on the exam."
Ye Huai: "...do you think I can pass the exam?"
520: "Can't you? You're not nervous at all!"
Ye Huai: "Why are you nervous if you can't pass the exam?"
520: "What you said is really reasonable, I can't even refute it."
At this time, the gong sounded and the exam began. All the candidates opened the test papers in front of them at the same time and saw the exam questions.
Very simple five words: on disaster relief and poverty relief.
Ye Huaixi raised his eyebrows, he picked up the brush and said to 520, "I thought I would not be able to understand the test papers, so it's so simple? It's not for nothing that I went to the disaster-stricken areas so many times to be a volunteer!"
Ye Huai picked up the brush and started to write like flying. In less than half a day, he wrote two pages of rice paper profusely.
When I was a child, Ye Huai's handwriting was so ugly that his mother wanted to do a DNA test to see if it was her own. Later, when Ye Huai was in the third grade of elementary school, his mother, who couldn't bear it, sent him to the Children's Palace to learn brushwork.
Thanks to the blessing of practicing calligraphy in the past, Ye Huai never complained about the pain of copying medical records after studying medicine. Compared with the fucking obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is so much better!
Ye Huai stopped writing, blew on the rice paper that was unfolded horizontally, and looked at his beautiful cursive with satisfaction. It does have a bit of a doctor's charm - most people can't understand it.
Zhao Changyu stayed for a while at the beginning and then went to the back to deal with government affairs. He just finished his lunch and wanted to come over and do some work, but he saw a group of Gongsheng students who were either thinking hard or writing hard. Examine your answer sheet with satisfaction.
So fast? Zhao Changyu took a second look at this Gongsheng.
"What's that man's name?" Zhao Changyu turned his head and asked Chen Yan, the eunuch beside him.
Chen Yan caught sight of the person the emperor was asking, so he immediately ran to the ceremonial officials who were accompanying him to ask around, and finally found his name after searching through the list of candidates.
"Return to the emperor, this person's name is Gu Chengqi, and he is a Gongsheng from Donghu County, Luzhou." Chen Yan whispered back in Zhao Changyu's ear.
"Let the Ministry of Rites submit his answer sheet tomorrow, and I want to see it." Zhao Changyu said, he was quite curious what this little boy who didn't seem to grow up could say about this topic.
Ye Huai didn't notice Zhao Changyu's movements at all, he was always the one who couldn't stay in the examination room after answering the papers, and now he was looking around and thinking about how to leave.
"Look at your paper, don't look left and right!" Immediately, someone from the etiquette department came over to stop Ye Huai's behavior.
Ye Huai seemed to see a savior, "My lord, the student has finished writing, can I go?"
The man was taken aback, apparently he had never seen an examinee who answered the questions so quickly, he turned around and whispered to his superior for a long time before coming over to collect Ye Huai's paper and letting him go.
Ye Huai walked through the rows of candidates who were writing vigorously from the aisle in the middle, and the comfort in his heart was unparalleled. It's been a long time since I felt the ease of handing in the exam while others are still taking the exam!
Today's streets are a bit more empty than before. The students wandering around the capital, playing or preparing for exams have all gone to the palace examination, and even the bustling Zhuangyuan Building is quite deserted.
Ye Huai walked around and suddenly heard a sound of fighting. When he turned his head, a woman was hugged by another girl disguised as a man, and she was crying pitifully, while a few big men on the other side were beaten to death. He was scattered and was about to get up and continue fighting.
"Come on, grandma is not afraid of you!" The girl disguised as a man handed the man in her arms to the servant behind, and went forward to continue beating him.
Ye Huai's curiosity arose, and he joined the crowd of onlookers anyway when he was idle and bored. The people next to him were discussing fiercely, and Ye Huai also understood it. In fact, this crying woman was bought by her father and went to a brothel. When she escaped, she was rescued by another girl. This girl wanted to save her. He also beat up these big guys who came to chase him.
"This girl is from a foreign country, Shaoyao Pavilion is not easy to get along with, maybe one day it will be bad luck."
"That's right, I heard that there are people behind Shaoyao Pavilion."
"Who is it?"
"I can't say this, I can't say it, he is an incredible big man!"
Could it still be Zhao Changyu? Ye Huai slandered.
520: "It's not Zhao Changyu, it's his younger brother Zhao Changlin."
Ye Huai: "King Qin?"
520: "Hmm."
At this moment, the girl was fighting with the big man opposite, suddenly someone flashed a sword and stabbed at the girl's shoulder and neck, Ye Huai rushed into the battle circle, pulled the girl away, narrowly dodging the sharp sword.
"Thank you." The girl said, but when she turned her head to see Ye Huai's face clearly, she was stunned.
"Girl?" Ye Huai didn't have time to remind, the sword that pierced the sky had already turned its direction, Ye Huai couldn't dodge in time, and when he was about to stab, someone flew obliquely from the air and kicked away the leader of the big man, followed by officers and soldiers At last, all the troublemakers were restrained.
"The last general's rescue came late, please forgive me, princess." It was the leading general who saved Ye Huai, he knelt down on one knee in front of the girl disguised as a man, and apologized.
Princess? Ye Huai's mind quickly turned around, Zhao Changyu only had one daughter, and this could only be Princess Yurong.
"What are you doing here?" Zhao Yurong shook her face in displeasure, and when she saw Ye Huai was still at the side, her expression immediately turned better, "Little brother, thank you for saving me just now, were you injured?"
"No, I'm fine." Ye Huai smiled, this girl is quite cute, she doesn't have the airs of a princess at all.
"You must have been frightened, follow me back to the princess mansion." Zhao Yurong ordered, and Ye Huai was immediately stuffed into the carriage to the princess mansion.
That night, Ye Huai became a celebrity in Jiu'an City, and everyone knew that there was a poor gongshi who probably had no hope of fame, but the princess fell in love with him.
The listeners had to lament how lucky they were! But why do you say that there is no hope for his fame
Of course, it's because those who hang around outside before the palace test is over must be useless people who can't write and hand in the papers early!
The author has something to say:
The world of the second story is also superficial. In terms of official positions, military officers mainly borrow from the Tang Dynasty, and civil officials borrow from the Ming Dynasty. All from Baidu Encyclopedia and know.
Country names, place names, dynasties, etc. are all made up, please don't take it seriously.
Other reference materials: "Common Sense of Ancient Chinese Culture" Illustration Revised 4th Edition Wang Li Editor-in-Chief; "Relief, Loan and Relief in the Famine Relief in the Song Dynasty" Journal of Northwest Normal University (Social Science Edition), Volume 51, Issue 1.
Xiaoshou said that he has tried his best, the story is only for your enjoyment, please pat on the imperfections!