Over the years, the provincial examinations have always been released in the golden autumn, but because this year's test-taking period has been advanced, the days when the provincial examinations have been released are much higher than in previous years.

On the day of the announcement, I was calm and read in my room. In fact, I was already a little nervous. Although I was very confident in my articles and had been recognized by Mr. Li before, I couldn't help but feel uneasy if I didn't know the result for a day.

There was no news all morning. After dinner with the Li family, who could also feel nervous, I returned to the study room. As soon as I sat down and wanted to pick up the book again, I suddenly heard a "clang clang" gong sound from outside, and then I heard someone shouting: "Is Mr. Zhu at home? Congratulations to Mr. Zhu for his first name in the high school entrance examination, Jie Yuan!"

"Ah!" I trembled when I heard this, and finally couldn't help but stand up suddenly. My heart was so excited that I shouted in secret: "I've been beaten, I've been beaten, I've been beaten!"

After a while, I slowly calmed down my mind. I sat back on my seat, picked up the previous book and started reading, learning from the style of the sages who used to "stay safely when the Taishan collapsed."

After a while, I heard someone running towards my room, and then I saw the little maid next to Li Jiru pushing the door in with a happy look on her face, and shouting hurriedly: "You...you, why do you still have the leisure to read here? Do you know that you have passed the imperial examination? Everyone who reported the good news was at the door!"

I put down the book calmly and said with a smile: "This is not a big deal, what's the matter? Let's go and take a look!" After that, I took it out of the door first.

When I walked out the door, I vaguely heard the little maid muttering to myself behind me: "It seems that the lady is really right. He is not an ordinary person."

When I arrived at the main hall of the house, I just walked in when a man in the uniform of a yamen runer came forward and shouted, "This must be Mr. Zhu. Congratulations to Mr. Zhu, you are in high school and are the top name in the Yuhang Provincial Examination!"

I had heard his shouts before, and when I heard him say this again, although I had been prepared, I couldn't help but laugh out loud. I really didn't know how to express the joy in my heart. Li Xiaokong walked to me, took out a string of copper coins from his arms, handed them to the servant, and said, "You go and buy some wine!" After the servant took the money, he thanked him happily, and then went out to report his life.

I didn't know that I was going to pay the money. After being stunned, I quickly thanked Li Xiaokong and said, "Master, I really want to thank you for your success if you can have today!"

Li Xiaokong helped him and said, "Hey, what's the point? You need to have talent in your heart to pass the exam, not to mention that you are still the first place. This is not something I can help you."

While I was happy, I secretly noticed Li Jiru and Li Yueru on the side. Seeing that they were all looking at me with their eyes, I didn’t know what they were thinking, my heart moved and walked to them and saluted: “Seventeen thanked the two ladies for their fulfillment here.”

Seeing me like this, Li Jiru and Li Yueru hurriedly avoided me. Li Jiru said lightly: "You are now a juren, so you can't salute us women casually, let alone I didn't help you." Li Yueru also said a little embarrassedly: "You don't have to thank me."

I don’t know if it was because of the joy in my heart or because of something else, when I looked at the beautiful faces of the two cousins ​​in front of me, a dirty thought suddenly appeared in my heart: “If I could let them enjoy the joy of men and women together, what a perfect thing would it be.”

But after thinking about it, I quickly turned my head again because Li Xiaokong told me about the future test: "Seventeen, after the provincial examination, we will be in the final half a year. This time, you will accompany Xiang Ru, Ji Ru and Yue Ru to Yingtian. I will write a letter for you to recommend you to Yingtian Academy. As long as you can study in it for half a year, I am afraid that you will benefit Feiqian in the future in the final test." After a slight pause, he said: "Seventeen, you have extraordinary talents. You must take care of yourself when you go to Yingtian Queen. I believe that your future achievements will definitely be limitless."

I was really moved when I heard Li Xiaokong's words. He was willing to lend a helping hand without hesitation, but at the same time, because he had no ambition to the officialdom, even if I made any achievements in the future, it would have a very little impact on him. This made me admire his sincere treatment and no utilitarianism.

After two days of cleaning up, I followed the three sisters and sisters of the Li family toward Yingtian. Along the way, although Qinshan Town was not too far from Yingtian, I was still afraid that people would recognize him, so I used the excuse to avoid the sun and deliberately wore a relatively low felt hat.

Because we carried women and young men on the carriage, we didn't walk fast. After passing Yuhang, we came to Yixing on this day. Yixing is located on the west bank of Taihu Lake. It is a very famous place for making pottery in the south of the Yangtze River and is known as the capital of pottery.

We found a small restaurant located on the side of the official road not far outside Yixing City. We just thought about rushing to continue our journey after dinner, and stopped entering the city. Fortunately, we arrived at Liyang Dusu in the evening.

Li Xiangru and I, as well as Li Jiru and Li Yueru who were covering our faces with a hat, just walked into the restaurant when we heard more than ten fast horses galloping from the north, at an astonishing speed. Hearing such fast sounds of horse hooves, I couldn't help but look up at the other side. In a blink of an eye, the horses galloped to the restaurant and stopped.

They were all burly men, all of whom were fierce and fierce. They had big swords hanging around their waists. When they jumped off the horse, they were extremely neighed, as if they had been practicing for a long time. Moreover, the horses did not neigh from beginning to end, which was really surprising.

The leader was dressed in brocade clothes and a bearded face. When he saw his appearance and expression, he felt that he should be a top-notch figure in the leader group. When he walked into the restaurant with his subordinates, he just glanced at the only table of ours, and said to everyone behind him, "Sit down," and then found a seat close to the official road alone to sit down.

I was surprised to pay great attention to the man's every move. Seeing that he kept looking to the north of the official road, as if waiting for something, I also looked at it and thought: "Once upon a time, my master once said that the thieves in the world like to ambush the road, and then when the idea appears, they will rob. I wonder if they are going to do these unsupported transactions?"

When I thought about it, I looked at Li Jiru and Li Yueru and the others, and then thought: "You have to take them away quickly, otherwise I will be afraid that I will not be able to leave later."

Just as I was about to leave, I suddenly heard a pleasant bell sound from the official road in the south, and then I heard a woman's crisp voice singing: "The far-reaching Altar Star, the bright river and Han girl. She stretched her slender hands and worked hard to relieve her. She was so sad all day long, and she cried like rain. The river and Han were clear and shallow, how many times were there! The water was filled with water, and she could not speak..."

"It's hard for her to sing the charm." I listened carefully for a while and immediately heard that the woman was singing "The Great Star", a very famous folk song in the Han and Wei Yuefu. At this time, I suddenly heard someone sing it so loudly, which made me feel refreshed.

The singing gradually approached with the ringtone. I found that the bearded man who had arrived had frowned, as if he was thinking of something extremely troubled, and in a blink of an eye he looked at the other side where the singing was made.

After a while, the singing stopped, and only the ringing was still ringing. Everyone in the restaurant soon saw a little donkey walking on the official road to the south. There was a string of bells hanging on the donkey's body. The ringing ringing sounds were made from then on.

A woman dressed in a charming dress sat on the donkey, about twenty years old. Her appearance was not much more beautiful than Li Jiru, but her face looked like spring. When she looked around, she showed that kind of charm, which really made people unconsciously think of things about men and women, and her heart sprinted with a wave of a sudden.

She got off the donkey and walked into the restaurant. She glanced at the men first, and then quickly turned her eyes on me. I was about to turn my face by her unscrupulous and searching eyes, but she suddenly flew at me with a charming look. This situation fell into the eyes of others, and I was immediately embarrassed.

"How could she be such a person?" As the saying goes, the joy is born from the heart. He had heard her singing and the meaning of the song before, and he should be a woman with a pure temperament, but it is better to meet him than to "hear the sound". Unexpectedly, he found that she had a different style at the moment. This really made me doubt that the vocal music matters that Master told me at the beginning, and it did not necessarily make all the sense.

Since the woman calmed down at the seductive charm of the woman, I suddenly realized that "there is a fire in the backyard". Not to mention that Li Yueru, who has always been interested in me, stared at me directly, just saying that Li Jiru, who was cold and cold, gave me one or two cold gazes to me from time to time, could make me secretly scream terrible.

"Miss Water, we have never had any holidays with your fox nest in Feiyang Ranch. Please don't interfere in this matter." Fortunately, at this time, the bearded man relieved me of the siege, and his thick voice suddenly attracted all our attention.
Chapter completed!