P. 111
Li Shu is also one of the tributes who have passed thousands of army and beheaded ten thousand generals and have the honor to enter the palace exam.
He looked around the garden for them to rest temporarily, and a little doubt flashed in his mind.
When they entered the palace, it was the end of the dynasty. It was when the night was over. When the sky was about to dawn, a tribute team of 132 people followed the leading palacemen into the palace gate and looked straight ahead, half way. Don't dare to watch more. Even so, just the sight of the front is enough to make these Gongshi who enter the palace for the first time look straight.
They followed the palace people around in this majestic palace. They didn’t know how long they walked. They walked until the hour or four, but they didn’t enter the Mingde Hall where the palace examination was held in the legend, but were taken into this piece of sight. In the garden at the end.
At this time, it was already sunrise, and a large tract of sky light shone, shining brilliantly on the pavilions and water pavilions in this garden. Li Shu even saw a clear little Tan in a short distance. A goldfish jumped out of the water, and its scales glittered in the sun. It caught everyone's attention and jumped back into the pool with a thump.
All the tributes speculated about what this place was. A scholar next to Li Shu asked in a daze: "Ji Shen, are we going to the heavenly palace?"
Li Shu shook his head and said to the scholar: "Brother Zhao, if I guess right, this should be the Royal Garden."
Standing next to Li Shu, Zhao Yongsheng was pale and thin, and there were still two groups of black and blue. He looked at the thin bamboo poles that looked like a gown, which looked a little scary at first glance.
This Zhao Yong and Li Shu are classmates, but unlike Li Shu’s first time in the scientific examination, Zhao Yong has already failed the list once, so this time he was extremely nervous and couldn’t sleep the night before taking the palace examination. Today, he walked into the palace. On this road inside, the whole person was in a trance, if it were not for Li Shu to pull two in the middle, it would be embarrassing that Zhao Yong would fall several times on the road.
The palace servants who led the way brought them here and left. Just as everyone was standing in the garden at a loss, two beautiful palace ladies suddenly opened the weeping willows and appeared in front of the people, saying, "You tribute, please follow me." Let's."
The crowd was then led to a spacious pavilion, which was already filled with delicacies, and there were two women playing the piano beside them.
The crowd heard the two palace ladies say: "Your Majesty sympathizes with the hard work of the tributes all the way to obtain fame, and hereby prepares delicious wine and delicacies. Please go to the Mingde Hall to take the test after you have enough wine and good spirits."
In order to rush into the palace to participate in the palace exam, and to avoid making indecent deeds in the middle of the palace exam, most of the people only drank two sips of water before entering the palace, and did not even dare to eat the cakes. Although it is early morning, it is summer after all. The middle and great, everyone came along this way, tired, tired, thirsty and hungry. At this moment, they heard such a good thing, and after they couldn't believe it, they all showed surprises.
The maid said: "Please take your seats."
After hearing the words, everyone gave in to each other, and they all took their seats in the water pavilion.
This waterside pavilion was a place where the emperor took his concubine to cool off and enjoy the heat in summer, and often called singing and dancing to add to the fun. Therefore, the place was huge. Even if there were countless tables and chairs to entertain the hundreds of tributes, it did not seem cramped at all.
After the tributes took their seats, they raised their chopsticks and started to eat. The dishes on each table were the same, but the taste was excellent. These tributes who had never tasted the craftsmanship of the royal kitchen were praised again and again. There were also a few court ladies holding fruit points and shuttled among them, adding food and vegetables for them. Everyone was waited on and they almost forgot that they were here to participate in the palace examination today, and some even wrote a few poems arty.
There are also a few people who regret not being able to write poems on pillars or desks.
However, not all of these people are immersed in food. Many of them stopped their chopsticks reservedly after eating a few bites.
This includes Li Shu and Zhao Yong. Li Shu was not overly appetite, and didn't want to compose poems with the people around him. After a few mouthfuls, his attention was attracted by the bookshelf beside him, and he got up to take out the book and read it out.
As for Zhao Yong, he was so nervous, too nervous to eat, so nervous that he immediately got up after seeing Li Shu going to the side to read a book. Xindao: Anyway, it's all books. I read two more books now, maybe I can pass the hall exam later!
Many of them did the same thing.
Zhao Yong took out a book and turned two pages. Suddenly, his eyes flashed by a golden light. He looked carefully and saw that there was a thin piece of gold in the book, which was about the size of a palm and carved into a house. shape.
Zhao Yong murmured: "The ancestors sincerely don't deceive me, there is really a golden house in the book..."
Li Shu also turned to the "Golden Room" in the book. He closed the book and put it back on the shelf. He heard Zhao Yong mutter to the book, and whispered to remind: "The things in this palace can't be messed up. move."
Zhao Yong replied and knew that he had touched the "Golden House" after the addiction, and then stuffed the book back.
Li Shu knew that Zhao Yong's family was poor, so he didn't despise his actions, but because of this real reaction, he had a better impression of Zhao Yong.
He stopped reading and planned to return to the table, but Yu Guang caught a glimpse of an examinee secretly stuffing a "golden house" into his sleeve. He wanted to remind him a few words, and saw that the man opened two more books and hid two "golden houses". Li Shu's complexion changed slightly, and he swallowed back the admonition he was about to blurt out.
After everyone had eaten their meals, several dancers in peach-sleeved peach shirts passed through the Jiuqu Corridor and came to the waterside pavilion. These dancers have beautiful faces, especially the bright and charming face of the leading dancer. They watched everyone lost their senses. Some even lost their minds on the spot, even if the cup in their hands fell on the ground without knowing it. .
Li Shu just raised his head and glanced at it. With only one glance, he met the leading dancer and touched the other's charming face with a smile. He turned red and hurriedly retracted his gaze, turning his head and dared not look again...
These tributes did not know that when they drank and ate food, the "court ladies" who shuttled around them had different faces each time. When they relaxed their guards, these "court ladies" who had gone through a round would treat them all. Everything he saw was reported to the emperor sitting on a tall building not far away and the important officials present.
"Your Majesty, the No. 7 candidate for T-shaped number 7 sneaked on his concubine's hand while adding vegetables to his concubine."
"Your Majesty, the No. 16 candidate for the letter A stole three pieces of gold."
"Your Majesty, the No.19 candidate Bingzi ate too much and is looking for a latrine!"
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Hearing what these concubines pretending to be court ladies uttered, Prime Minister Lin, Feng Yuan and others looked different.
Prime Minister Lin’s complexion is the most complicated. In order to prevent cheating, these candidates have their number plates on them when they enter the palace. After entering the Mingde Hall, they will be seated according to the disturbed seats, and the examiner who approved the papers can only see the number. The name of the candidate cannot be seen.
At the beginning, Prime Minister Lin and the people in the Hanlin Academy heard that His Majesty would send candidates to the Imperial Garden for a test, but they disagreed. Since ancient times, where has there been such a precedent? What's more, letting the concubine pretend to be a court lady to investigate the conduct of those candidates is simply nonsense. No loyal official can allow such behavior.
When Prime Minister Lin and the people in the Hanlin Academy vehemently opposed, Feng Yuan and others looked like "Your Majesty said yes", but Lin Jai was almost as popular as he did. Where is there such a courtier? Obviously it's a renchen!
It's a pity that the emperor insisted on going his own way, and the people of the Hanlin Academy had to follow it, and Prime Minister Lin stated that he would never go with others. After arguing with your Majesty in the court hall, Prime Minister Lin was declared into the imperial study room after he came to court early.
He originally thought that he had angered his majesty, and the emperor was impulsive when he was young, and he might not be able to dismiss him from office. Prime Minister Lin has decided that if his Majesty insists on not listening to the advice, he will hang himself in the imperial study room. Even if he fights this old fate, he will force the emperor to withdraw this absurd decision, but he did not expect that after entering the imperial study room , His Majesty was deeply arrogant at him, and Prime Minister Lin's rage was immediately extinguished by this action.
Then, his Majesty began to talk about his childhood experience, and every time he heard his majesty talk about his birth mother being bullied in the harem, how miserable and miserable he was in childhood, Prime Minister Lin felt suffocated, and felt sorry for the young man in front of him. The anger also disappeared.
Immediately, His Majesty talked about his unwillingness to repeat the tragedy of his birth mother, and he did not want to see the tragic situation of the princes fighting for the throne. Therefore, he decided to only dote on the imperial concubine in his life, and would only make the imperial concubine's son the prince and the harem He won’t spoil the other women in the movie, let alone let other women conceive heirs, but these women are so innocent, he can’t send them out of the palace at will, and let these women live in gossip for the rest of their lives. The woman finds a good home.
Therefore, he decided to let the concubine pretend to be a court lady, first, to test the character of the tribute, and second, to let the concubine look at each other.
"I am only a mortal, I am not a god, and I have never separated the children of the world. I only provide for one person. The principle of happiness, these women should live upright, and never stay in the palace to become my vassal... The rules are also set by people. Yes, from today, I will change those rules!"
Prime Minister Lin didn't expect the emperor to say such a thing. Looking at the emperor's sincere appearance, he was finally moved and agreed to his majesty's decision to test the Gongshi in the imperial garden. But even though he agreed, Lin Jae was not optimistic about the effectiveness of this move relative to His Majesty.
In his eyes, all those who have passed the test are truly talented, and most literati are proud of themselves. How can they be easily deceived by foreign objects? What's more... Prime Minister Lin felt that these Gongshi were not stupid enough to fall into such a simple trap.
However, Prime Minister Lin did not expect that not only did these tributes fall in, some of them also exposed their ugliness in public, making people just listen to them, and they felt that their ears were pickled.
His Majesty the Emperor glanced at Prime Minister Lin's face suddenly blue and white, knowing that Prime Minister Lin used his talent to learn, but he was beaten in the face. He was angry at this moment!
He pursed his lips and suppressed the thought of wanting to laugh out loud.
Alas, it's a pity that this is not the Feiluan Palace of Ai Concubine!
The tributes in the water pavilion did not know that some of them were destined to fail the rankings. After the dancer jumped a lap, the palace officials took them to the Mingde Hall. Some of them had forgotten about drinking and eating. , Drunk fell on the table and couldn't walk. After the ugly attitude, the candidates who were still familiar with him went to Mingde Hall.
Since going to the Mingde Hall is still a normal exam, many people did not expect that the one in the Imperial Garden was actually a test, so some people are behind in rankings, but they don't understand why they are behind.
When the Gongshi took part in the palace examination, Zhou Xiuyi, dressed in a peach-sleeved shirt and a dancer, hurried to Feiluan Palace.
The author has something to say:
Well, talent does not mean good character. Your Majesty thinks that it doesn't matter if you are stupid. You can be able to withstand the beauty of wealth and beauty, so you can be a good official!
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