Since Zhao Ji ascended the throne, Wansui Mountain has been built repeatedly, and has now formed a huge scale, covering an area of ​​1,000 acres, with garden rockery and small bridges and flowing water.

When Zhao Ji was in a good mood, he would teach people to set up tables on the mountainside, looking at the garden scenery at the foot of the mountain to pick up his pen and paint. Ordinary people’s paintings mean the word “quiet” and the mind is focused. However, Zhao Ji was different. He liked to be in the garden and listen to the birds and insects.

Today, he was wearing an ordinary Confucian shirt, wearing a lumber scarf, dressed up casually, holding the sleeve of his right hand, holding his pen and looking at the mountains in the distance in a daze.

He maintained the movement just now for a while before shook his head and said, "The country is like a painting, why can't I draw thousands of miles?" This thought reduced a lot, and I put down my pen and sighed.

Since seeing the paintings of the painter of the Duke Qi Mansion, Zhao Ji's painting time has increased a lot recently. Without it, it has only aroused Zhao Ji's competitive spirit.

But in recent days, I have not been very good, and I always feel empty.

"Have the painter sent the painting yet? It's amazing. Half a month has passed. Could it be that the painter has disappeared from now on?"

Zhao Ji sighed, held his hands, looked at the clouds in the sky, and pursed his lips without saying a word.

Just then, an eunuch walked over with careful steps and whispered: "The official family, Wen Tao, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, received a message."

Zhao Ji shook his head: "I am in a bad mood today, so I'll tell him to come tomorrow."

The eunuch did not leave and said, "Mr. Wen is here to ask for the first test questions, please ask the official to ask the questions."

Zhao Ji said oh, then walked and thought, murmured: "The skill of oneself is diligent and one's play, and the success of one's actions is destructive and one's thoughts are ruined. The Imperial College has been increasingly disappointed recently, and I just lost the word diligent. Go back and tell Wen Tao, just take the topic of diligence as the topic. This first trial must be very lively, and I can't stand by and watch and pass the message, just say that if the first score of this first trial is one, I personally wrote an inscription for him to encourage him."

The eunuch responded and left.

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The first exam period is getting closer and closer, and the sound of reading in the Imperial College has been rising one after another. When the month is at the end of the month, the day of the first exam has finally come.

Shen Ao got up early and saw that, he was lying on the desk and fell asleep. It seemed that he was working too hard, and he was just hanging his head. He was so tired that he was sleeping on the table. Oh, his back was sore, he felt very uncomfortable, and he was so tired.

He picked up a book called "The Legend of Wu Meiniang" on the table and cursed in his heart: "Zhou Heng is really not a thing. I am studying hard. What are you doing with a erotic novel? It's so shameless."

I don’t know which author wrote this novel, but it was very pleasant anyway. Shen Ao didn’t expect that there was such a novel in the Song Dynasty, which was so interesting. The words were also very exquisite. Taking off clothes was not called taking off, but Luo, kissing them was not called kissing, but stealing candied fruits. XXOO was not called XXOO, but OOXX. After reading this book, Shen Ao benefited a lot and was very moved. This conscientious people’s artist is so great. He doesn’t seek fame and fortune or money. He just wrote hundreds of thousands of words just to make people happy.

After stretching, the clerk sent breakfast. Today's breakfast was particularly rich. After all, today's first exam was related to the future of the Imperial College, so we had to be careful.

Zhou Heng came over and knocked on the door. As soon as Shen Ao opened the door, Zhou Heng smiled and said, "Cousin, have you finished reading the book? Wow, your eyes are so heavy. It seems that you worked very hard last night. Get the book back to me, I still have the last few volumes to read."

Chen Ao said with a stern face: "I have read this book, it is unbearable. It is simply too bad! I decided to confiscate it. My cousin, you are the prince of the country and have high hopes. You will serve the court in the future and govern the country and maintain peace. How can you read this book? You are not allowed to read it again in the future, so I confiscate it, that's it."

Zhou Heng opened his eyes and said whisperingly: "Confiscate? Wow, cousin, you are too shameless, haven't you seen it yourself?"

Chen Ao said calmly: "I saw it, but we are different. You are looking at obscene content, but I am looking at the meaning that the author wants to express, expressing the author's dissatisfaction with the life of the Tang Dynasty's palace and his sympathy for the lower classes. This is called a glimpse of the leopard, not the whole picture of the leopard, only its subtle thoughts."

Zhou Heng was speechless and said, "I will never send you a book again."

Chen Ao put his hips on his hips with confidence and said, "Wow, do you actually have such books? Hand over them all. If you don't hand them over, I will complain to my uncle."

Zhou Heng hurriedly said, "No more, no more. I feel uncomfortable reading one of these books and I feel deeply guilty. How could I read the second one?"

The two of them were fighting each other, and there was a chief Xu and assistant teacher downstairs calling people. It turned out that Tang Yan was afraid that the supervisors would sleep late and delay the exam, so he sent people.

Chen Ao quickly changed his clothes, used breakfast, and went to the examination room with Zhou Heng. On the way, he met Cai Lun, who regained his confidence, shook his fan and greeted them all the time, and said to Chen Ao: "Are you sure about Brother Chen this time?"

Chen Ao pretended to be pitiful and shook his head, saying, "I was sure that I was sure. Last night, my cousin sent me a mischievous book. I saw it in the middle of the night. Today I woke up and my mind was still confused. I was afraid that the results would not be ideal this time."

Cai Lun smiled proudly and thought to himself: "This is just your excuse. If you can't write poetry and articles, you can't write anything. What else can you say about pornographic books?" He looked down on Chen Ao even more, but said: "Brother Chen has a good eye and is well-versed in the past and the present. I believe he will definitely get a good ranking."

As he said that, he invited Chen Ao and Zhou Heng to the exam room together.

The examination room looks very formal and uses the imperial examination venue. Looking around, the sheds are arranged in an orderly manner, and they are so continuous that they cannot see the end.

Each person gave him pen, ink, paper and inkstone, went to the examination room, and gave him test questions. The so-called test questions were only a few words, with the words "study hard" written on it.

Needless to say, this is to teach people to write a poem. What Chen Ao is most afraid of is to quote the meaning of the scriptures, but he is not afraid of the poems. Fortunately, this is just a first test, mainly to find out the foundation of the new supervisor, and it has not yet involved that complicated content.

"Study hard?" Chen Ao lifted his pen and walked away, and saw an assistant teacher passing by the examination room with a lantern.

As soon as Chen Ao's thoughts were broken, he felt in his heart: "Why are you holding a lantern in broad daylight?" Looking at the words "Taixue" written on the lantern, it became strange again. It was obviously an Imperial College invigilator, but the students who came from were doctoral students and assistant teachers.

In fact, there are also names here, including the Imperial Academy and the Imperial College. Every time they take the exam, they will exchange for invigilators to prevent each other's students from cheating. These two major official schools have tried their best to win the world's number one.

It is said that early this morning, the Minister of Rites brought many subordinate officials as the chief examiners. In this way, this first examination was not simple, and involved open and secret struggles between the two major officials-run Central University of the Imperial College and the Imperial College, so that first-rank officials like the Minister of Rites had to come to mediate in person.

Chen Ao naturally didn't want to think too much about these academic struggles. He held his pen and fell into deep thoughts.

"Study hard, study hard" think about it carefully. This is the first exam. You can't fail the exam. If you want to do it, you can do your best.

After pondering for a long time, I finally got the draft, my face calmed down. I smiled slightly, and was about to start writing, but I stopped.

These days I have been used to writing in thin gold style. If I use the thin gold style of the official in the examination room, will there be a misunderstanding? If it doesn’t work, what should I use to change to running script? Throughout the dynasties, only Dong Qichang’s calligraphy collection is the directors of each school, so just use Dong Qichang’s. After thinking about it, I laughed again. As soon as my eyes fell, the layout of running script was already curated. I put it on ink and finished it in one go.

After finishing the poem, Chen Ao relaxed. After putting down his pen, he looked at the situation of other candidates. Many of the supervisors in the examination room were still frowning. Chen Ao smiled slightly, then sat on a chair, rested his head on his head, waiting for the papers to be collected.

After a while, a noisy sound came out, and someone shouted: "Princess, this is the first place to try, you can't get in."

"Get out of the way, I want to find Chen Ao, Chen Ao... Chen Ao, come out quickly."

Wow, it was the little princess' voice. Chen Ao couldn't sit still, but he was unwilling to go out. The little princess must have come to provoke the army and must not be delivered to her door automatically.

Then the princess shouted outside: "Chen Ao, if you don't come out again, I'm going to scream."

"You call, it's useless to call you to break your throat." Chen Ao thought to himself.

Many supervisors in the examination room were in high spirits, and they were excited to listen with their ears and listen with their heads and watch with their heads. They were very excited. When they were writing poems, they were not so energetic.

A doctor came over with his hands and said sternly: "Everyone is quiet, don't look around, take a good exam." Only then did he maintain the situation.

After a while, the little princess really called out, and the decibels were very large, so she could clearly hear her shouting: "Chen Ao is so shameless, go and Zhan Chun'er..." I won't say anything later.

Chen Ao's face changed. Wow, where did she hear it? Needless to say, it must be Ms. Zhou who told her that Ms. Zhou was too bad, no, she had to block the little princess' mouth. This crazy girl might really be able to talk nonsense. She quickly picked up the test paper and walked out of the test studio. A teacher assistant came over and stopped him, saying, "What are you doing?"

Chen Ao said, "Submit the paper." He handed the test paper in his hand to the assistant teacher and hurriedly left. Many whistles came from the examination room, and some people applauded and encouraged Chen Ao. It seems that Chen Ao's behavior is very much for the appetite of these yamen.

The assistant teacher was holding the paper, his face turned pale. He only took two incense sticks to the exam room to hand in the paper? Is he Cao Zhi? Can he make a poem in seven steps? He returned to the invigilator angrily, where there were two doctors sitting, one was Dr. Zhang from the Imperial College, and the other was Dr. Qin from the Imperial College. Dr. Qin saw the movement here from afar. He saw that the person who handed in the paper in advance was a student. It was very embarrassing. Unexpectedly, this important first-time exam was a student, and he met a foolish student.

Dr. Zhang stroked his beard and smiled, thinking to himself: "There is such a scholarship in the Imperial College? He dares to compete with the Taixue, hehe." He mocked in his heart, but he looked very steady on his face, and slowly said: "Dr. Qin, it is common for students to be ruthless. As young people, they are full of energy, and they will inevitably have voluntary actions."

The more Dr. Zhang said this, the more Dr. Qin felt that he didn't know where to put his old face. If it were a Taixue, how could such a thing happen? The exam was good, suddenly a female family came in and shouted a few times, and she didn't even take the exam. It was really outrageous. He was a literati and had good skills in cultivating energy, but he still couldn't help saying, "Who is this candidate is so bold. I must check it and punish it severely. No matter who it is, you must find it out and rectify the academic style." He turned around and went to see Dr. Zhang, but saw that Dr. Zhang was actually holding the test paper. Then he said, "Dr. Zhang, come over with the test paper, and I will check it out."

But Dr. Zhang took a deep breath and said nothing. Dr. Qin was very surprised. What happened to Dr. Zhang today, so he didn't care about being gentle and took a look. This made him startled.

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Chapter completed!