Chapter 142: The test

In the cold winter, heavy snow fell down. The Wansui Mountain in the snow seemed to condense a layer of silver. The strange trees and stones seemed to be covered with a layer of frost. Looking around, there was a white area in the distance.

Zhao Ji was wearing a straw raincoat and stood outside the pavilion, looking at the snow scene with his hands behind his back. The eunuch handed over the hot tea. Zhao Ji returned to the pavilion and drank a sip of tea, but seemed to remember something, and then unfolded a scroll to observe on the table.

This painting is the picture of the crane he created by himself. But when you look closely, it doesn’t look like the picture of the crane painted by Zhao Ji. It has a unique and thin posture, but this picture of the crane is different. The unique style is greatly reduced, and it has a bit of ingenious and exquisite style.

Zhao Ji was a person who knew the goods, so he could see the value of this painting. He shook the snow on the straw raincoat and said to himself: "It is both a crane picture, but it has the style of Li Zhaodao. Only Li Zhaodao is the most respectable person in the world who is good at painting flowers and birds."

He closed his eyes and fell into deep thought. Throughout history, painters who are good at painting flowers and birds can count with one finger. Zhao Ji's flower and bird paintings are also second to none. However, in terms of painting style alone, people in the world admire Li Zhaodao even more.

Li Zhaodao was the son of Li Sixun, the former royal family of the Tang Dynasty, and the great-grandson of Li Shuliang, the King of Changping. He was good at writing and painting green landscapes, and was known as General Li in the world. He was also good at flowers, birds, towers, figures, etc. Zhao Ji highly praised Li Zhaodao, and even sometimes expressed his feelings that he could not live with Li Zhaodao. When he saw Li Zhaodao's painting style, the painter of the crane painting showed his style without any hesitation, which made Zhao Ji feel a lot for a while.

"It's really amazing to see this person's painting!" Zhao Ji sighed. This painting was delivered by the little princess a few days ago. When it was delivered, Zi Heng seemed a little unhappy, but after reading the painting, Zhao Ji threw away these trivial matters!

These days, they were taken out to observe the pictures of the cranes. The styles of paintings are very different, and the difference is thousands of miles away. However, Zhao Ji loved the style of Li Zhaodao of this mysterious painter and couldn't help but sigh for a moment.

Zhao Ji also copied Li Zhaodao's paintings, but no matter what, he could not express the clever and exquisite pen tip. The more he tried his best to imitate, the less he could not express that charm.

However, the mysterious painter fully expressed Li Zhaodao's style of painting. Although there were occasional flaws and the background was slightly biased, it was also considered the most outstanding skillful painting method since Li Zhaodao.

Zhao Ji knew very well that the painting skills required to copy to make fakes come true, and even he would never be able to achieve this level. This mysterious painter first imitated his own style, and then imitated Li Zhaodao. No one with such a painting skill can find a second in the world.

It's really amazing!

Zhao Ji was silent for a moment and said to Yang Jian behind him: "Framed this painting and hang it to my bedroom."

Yang Jianhe nodded, holding the painting carefully, and was about to follow Zhao Ji's will; but Zhao Ji remembered something and said, "Come back, I have something to ask you."

Yang Jian smiled and said, "Your Majesty's order is right."

Zhao Ji closed his eyes and said, "The year is coming. Have the Imperial College and the Imperial College have begun to prepare for the pilot?"

Yang Jianhe nodded and said, "We have started to do it. The Ministry of Rites is discussing the exam questions. The two priests have made great efforts to celebrate a good New Year. According to the news from the Ministry of Rites, many sacrificial students in the Imperial Academy want to issue military orders and will not give up until they get the first place in this test."

Zhao Ji smiled and said, "Young people should think that this is the case. Only with this determination can you work hard." Then he said, "Why didn't that student named Chen Ao hear about him? I wonder if he can still stay first in the trial this time."

When Zhao Ji returned to the palace, he just said that Chen Ao was quite interesting. When this sentence came to Yang Jian's ears, he immediately became interested, so he was particularly concerned about Chen Ao's movements.

Thinking of Chen Ao, Yang Jian smiled and said, "Your Majesty, Chen Ao participated in the Flower Court Competition a few days ago. He actually won the first place with the name of Sui Ya Mountain House. Later, he bought a shop and opened a tea shop called Sui Ya Mountain House. The name is homophonic with the mountain house, but the management is different. The ridiculous thing is that this person actually deceived everyone in the world. He brought out a girl named Pin'er. There are rumors everywhere in Bianjing City that Pin'er is beautiful and unparalleled. Later, the servant asked someone to secretly investigate and found out that Pin'er'er girl, it turned out... it turned out...haha..." He couldn't help laughing. Yang Jian was usually very disciplined, and it was rare to be so presumptuous.

Zhao Ji asked afterwards: "So what?"

Yang Jian said: "Later I realized that this girl Pin'er is far worse than any red-card girl in the brothel. Chen Ao's methods are very slippery and he fooled everyone in the world."

Zhao Ji smiled. When he remembered the incident of making trouble with Chen Ao in Jingzhao Mansion that day, he knew that Yang Jian had no false words. If it were someone else, he might not believe it, but if Chen Ao, he had to believe that this person has always liked to win by surprise.

After taking a sip of tea slowly, Zhao Ji smiled and said, "Let him do whatever he wants, but if he delays his studies and fails the exam, I will deal with him well."

Yang Jian said seriously: "But although Mr. Chen likes to be fooled, he is very hard at studying in the Imperial College. Several doctors who taught him praised him. It was Tang Jijiu who studied his classics. Although he was a little awkward, he often made a big move."

Zhao Jihe nodded, showing some relief, "This is just like that. If you just mess around, how can you take on important tasks in the future?"

Yang Jian captured some deep meaning from Zhao Ji's words, thinking to himself, the proud and holy favor is not as gentle as this person in the future, but he smiled and said, "Your Majesty is right, should that slave vent his silence to Lord Tang and make him live a good life..."

Zhao Ji interrupted him, shook his head and said, "No need to make a big fuss, I'll just watch it on the wall."

It was snowing heavily. At the gate of Jixian of the Imperial College, many people stood waiting with food boxes and oil umbrellas. The archway in front of the door was already covered with the gentle snowflakes. Each snowflake gently circled and fell down, sprinkled down, and fluttered one after another.

Stepping on the snow and muddy, many prison students came out of the prison and gathered with the people waiting under Jixian.

Tomorrow is the entrance examination, and after the entrance examination, the holiday will be available. The wives of each mansion may be wearing fur and fox clothes in person, or sending trustworthy close-fitting accompanying him, carrying food boxes and fruits to visit.

Chen Ao and Zhou Heng were both wearing straw raincoats and looking at Jixian's disciples, feeling a little disappointed. Zhou Heng was obviously very dissatisfied with the strawcoat. Look at the other prison students, most of them were holding oil umbrellas, and they were indescribable. They were wrapped in strawcoats, and they seemed to have turned into a rice dumpling, which was very uncomfortable.

After the Courtesan Competition, the cousins ​​became the bosses and handed over the other things to Wu Saner. They joined the Imperial College, studied hard and were chaotic, but they did not interfere with each other. They thought that they would take the test tomorrow, and the two of them had different moods.

Chen Ao read books and forgot to eat and sleep during these times. He listened to the doctoral lectures during the day. At night, he studied Chen Ji's notes. Now he has finally mastered the meaning of the scriptures, so he has a little expectation for the pilot.

But Zhou Heng seemed to be frowning. After staying with him for so long, he would naturally be beaten up and scolded when he returned to the mansion after taking the exam tomorrow.

"Cousin, here we come!" Zhou Heng's voice was quite surprised.

Chen Ao raised his eyes and looked into the distance. He saw a carriage on the corner of the street, crushing two snowy ripples of snow at the wheels of Duke Qi's mansion. It was Liu Wen who was the leader to catch the car!

Chen Ao smiled and said, "I'm afraid the wife is here. If someone is sent, why should Chief Liu personally drive the car?"

Zhou Heng said in disappointment: "As long as my father doesn't come, the rest is okay."

Chen Ao knew that he was very afraid of me, so he just laughed. He wanted Zhou Zheng to come and scared him.

The two of them met, the carriage was barely stopped, and the bead curtain rolled up, Zhou Heng's face suddenly changed. The person who came was his father Zhou Zheng.

"Father!" "Uncle!" The two of them bowed in a hurry.

Zhou Zheng came out of the carriage, and Liu Wen hurriedly put on an oil umbrella for Zhou Zheng, laughing and said, "Young Master, my wife is not in good health today, she didn't come, but she taught me to bring me a lot of pastries, fruits and vegetables. You can eat more and have a good exam tomorrow."

Chen Ao smiled at Liu Wen, then looked at Zhou Zheng. Zhou Zheng was very busy on weekdays, but he didn't expect that he would have such free time today. He secretly went to see Zhou Heng. Seeing that he was pale and looked like he was out of possession, he smiled secretly in his heart.

Zhou Zheng pointed his finger, pointed to an eaves not far away, and said, "Let's go there and have a walk!"

The three of them stepped on the snow and mud with their boots. When they reached the eaves, Zhou Zheng asked them about their homework. The two naturally answered. Zhou Zheng saw Zhou Heng's words flashing, but he was not angry today. He just sighed and said, "You are not as good as martial arts. Do you really have to rely on the protection of your father for your life? Alas, you are so old, you are still so unaware of things."

Somehow, Zhou Zheng seemed to have changed his temperament today, and did not blame Zhou Heng. His eyes fell on Shen Ao and said, "Chen Ao, I don't need to ask about your studies. You are more sensible than Henger and know the importance. I have something to say to you this time."

Chen Ao said: "Please give me advice from my uncle."

Zhou Zheng smiled slightly: "What are you doing instructing me? It's just a chat. Yesterday I went to court, but the official kept me and asked about your studies."

Chen Ao was slightly stunned: "How could the official family know me?"

Zhou Zheng just smiled and did not answer Chen Ao's questions.

Chen Ao couldn't help but think, could it be that he had first place in the first exam last time and asked him to write the words again, "This emperor is holding a grudge against him?"
Chapter completed!