Lord Zeng is a disciple of Zhang Guojiu. One of his daughters will be sent to the Prince's Mansion next month. The prince and Zhang Guojiu can't explain clearly when he had an accident. The emperor was furious. Although he didn't believe that the two of them would do such a thing, he still sent someone to check carefully and ordered someone to organize a re-examination. This time he was still a chief examiner and three deputy examiners. Ping Wang was one of them. Everyone except him was new faces. He had to help them get familiar with the affairs and do a good job of re-examination.

The day of re-examination is set on the first day of March. The test questions are brand new, and a total of ten were issued. Yang Chengjian personally picked one. After the question was drawn, the person who set the questions was taken care of by heavy troops until the exam began. This was not released before. Even after the candidates finished the exam, the candidates who passed the exam would go to Jinluan Palace to take another exam. Yang Chengjian would personally invigilate the exam, which is what later generations called the palace examination.

When the candidates heard this arrangement, their original dissatisfaction disappeared. They all went back to the house to study hard, and they wanted to pass the exam and see Tianyan at first sight. Several handsome faces were even teased about whether they would be elected as the princess. The emperor loved Princess Pen the most and is now thirteen years old, and he was also the age to start discussing marriage.

Just as everyone was looking forward to it, the first day of March was here. The search for the tribute court this time was much stricter than before. The person in charge of the search even asked everyone to untie their hair because someone hid the cheat sheet in the hair room last time and took it in. After this struggle, the inspection speed was slow. It was still rainy and it was particularly cold outside. Many candidates had their lips purple after taking off their clothes and checking.

Even after the examination, the candidates may not be very warm when they enter the examination room. Fortunately, everyone learned to bring a warm stove this time. Some of them were afraid of the cold and brought a brazier directly. However, some people were the first time to get a brazier by themselves. They added too much charcoal to themselves. Not only did they smoke it, they also lit the examination room. The outside examination was not over yet, but the fire caught inside. Fortunately, they found it in time that it was raining again, and the fire was quickly extinguished. The candidates suffered a little injury and changed to the examination room to continue taking the exam. Anyway, there was a free examination room.

However, this incident was spread to the outside world, which made the onlookers mutter for a while. Sure enough, something would happen if the exam that King Ping took.

Except for the fire that was not serious at the beginning, there were no other things happening in the re-examination, but many candidates fell ill on the way. Frightened by the fire, many candidates did not dare to use the stove. If it was a small matter, it would be a big deal. They didn't use the stove in the last exam, but they thought they would have endured it, but Chang'an on rainy days was much colder than Chang'an on sunny days. When the second exam came, it snowed in the middle of the night, and many candidates were frozen.

Xu Mu has been using the stove but has not caught a cold. As a farmer, it is very simple to use the stove and charcoal prepared by Cheng’s family for them than the ones used in their hometown. The charcoal has no smoke when it is lit, and it can still burn a lot. Zhang Liang used these things and sighed that in addition to thanking Cheng’s family for their help, he hoped that he could have high school and let his family live a real good life.

The snow stopped overnight, and it was sunny afterwards, but the temperature did not warm. The north wind was blowing, making people unable to calm down and also making people feel troubled. The candidates didn't know how they persisted and finished the paper. After the exam, someone cried after leaving the exam room. The candidates next to him burst into tears when they heard that they had never advised him. This exam was really hard.

Just as there were crying, Xu Mu and Zhang Liang found their own letter boy and got back into the carriage of Cheng's mansion.

"It would be great if I could win this time." On the way, Xu Mu said with lingering fear, and the candidate's cry seemed to be still surrounding his ears.

"Yes." Zhang Liang replied weakly. He is not young anymore. If he takes the exam a few more times, his body will not be able to hold on.

I was afraid that something would happen again in this exam. The candidates stayed in their residence after the exam, and only talked with people they knew each other and did not dare to show off. It was not until they were sure that they were about to make the list that everyone was hanging down. After a moment, their hearts became hung again. It was hard to say whether they could pass the exam under such circumstances.

Xu Mu always felt that he would not win, but after two exams, many candidates were beaten due to physical reasons, and he had a small hope in his heart. Maybe he would win? What if he failed? He thought nervously, walked out of the yard without knowing it and arrived at the entrance of the garden.

"What do you think?"

A voice rang out not far from him. When he came to his senses, he found that he had stepped over the garden. When he looked up, he saw Yinhua standing by the plum tree with a smile. He was stunned for a moment, thinking that he was dreaming.

"The results will be released tomorrow, are you sure?"

Xu Mu shook his head, with a slightly embarrassed face and said, "My knowledge is still shallow, and I will probably not win this time."

"Don't worry, it's already amazing that you can pass the imperial examination at such a young age. You will have a long life in the future. In three years, you will be only eighteen years old, and you haven't even reached the age of twenty."

"But I'm afraid it's too late..."

"How come this is too late? I heard that all the people who took the scientific test have gray beards."

"You're nineteen by then..."

"I'm nineteenth and nothing to do with you!" Yinhua finished speaking, but her ears couldn't help but turn red. In fact, when she opened her mouth, she thought of what he meant, but she didn't stop it. She looked away and looked at the side. She pulled a handkerchief and said, "I won't listen to you."

"A Yin..."

Xu Mu was anxious to call her, but he still stopped and left the garden with a loss.

From afar, Zhuhua stood by the rockery and watched the scene and couldn't help but tickled her mouth. Although she was thinking that the man should rush up to hold the woman's little hand at this time, she still didn't like the couple. Of course, this was her subjective likes and dislikes. If Yinhua liked it, she would not object. After thinking about it, she still went to the main courtyard.

"Mom, I have an immature little opinion. Do you want to listen?"

"don't want."

Sun was changing clothes for his intestines that were covered in mud, and he taught him a lesson. He didn't care about anything else. He was five years old and stayed in the mansion every day to play crazy with Zhong Qiao and Zhongmai. Sun had made a cruel beating him a few times, but the child didn't remember the pain, which made Sun a headache.

Zhuhua was stunned for a moment and asked again: "Don't you think about it?"

“Not considering.”

So willful, Zhuhua complained in her heart, and saw her intestines laughing at her, she couldn't help but stare at him with a stern face.

"Have you done bad things again? You are so unbearable, have you remembered the words you taught you yesterday? You know you play like a monkey all day long. Did I say last time that if you are not obedient, you will throw away all your toys?"

"No." Intestines shook their heads, tears rolled in their eyes with grievance.

"Then why not be good?"

"Well..." He sobbed a few times and looked at Sun with help, but unfortunately Sun deliberately refused to look at him with a stern face.

"If you dare to cry, I won't let Diandian play with you in the future."

"Diandian belongs to my house."

"Who said that Diandian is mine. In the future, I will become someone else's home, and it will follow me to someone else's home."

"My third sister is also from my family."

"Who said that my brother is very well-behaved, but he is not as disobedient and crying as you."

"I don't cry." My intestine wiped tears and stopped half of the tears.

Seeing that his clothes had been changed, Zhuhua nodded at him, "I'm not practicing calligraphy yet."

"Sister will accompany me."

"I'll tell my mother that I'll go with you later in the business."

"Oh, sister, please remember~"

"I must remember."

After getting the guarantee of Zhuhua, Chanzi turned around and practiced calligraphy three times. Seeing his appearance, Sun sighed.

"Why did he listen to you?"

"I have mastered all his toys and his favorite little bits, so of course he has to listen to me." Zhuhua said with a stern voice.

Why doesn’t it sound like a good person? Sun thought to herself and glanced at her, "What are you just saying? What is immature? You have something to say if you want to say."

"It's nothing, it's all right. I just thought, I'm not living in Xumu, my family is one year younger than his second sister. He is already a juren now, and he probably has a good future in the future."

"Do you want to marry into the Xu family?" Sun asked seriously.

Zhuhua was stunned and quickly denied, "No, I don't like literati. It's just my second sister... Is that okay... But just this question, I don't like Xu Mu's grandmother and his sister very much."

After breathing a sigh of relief, Sun couldn't help but smile and asked, "They have offended you. I remember when you were a child, you really loved to go to Xu Mu's house with Yinhua?"

"I went with my second sister, all for learning calligraphy. Mom, if the Xu family really came to propose marriage one day, would you agree?"

"I agree, as long as Yinhua is willing."

"You're so sloppy?"

"What's the hell out there? Xu Mu's child is good, and it matches Yinhua. As for their family, there is nothing to be scary. Even if the daughter-in-law can't beat the mother-in-law, her mother-in-law can come to beat the mother-in-law. And I know Xu Mu's father. When I was a child, I also played an immature little joke with him."

He is quite good at learning and applying it. Zhuhua thought to himself and asked curiously: "Is he scared?"

Sun nodded slightly, "I heard that I have been sick for half a month and asked someone to dance to the gods. My father even went to see him."

Zhuhua silently gave her a thumbs up, and was embarrassed by Sun's glaring at her.

"That's good. You have mom, you can protect me. I don't have to be afraid of anyone who I marry. Mom, the results will be released tomorrow. Do you want Xu Muzhong?"

"Of course it's good to win, but it's nothing if you can't win. He's still young. It depends on your sister's intention, otherwise you can go and vent your mouth."

"I asked me to take a look at the other way. My sister was also the one I asked. Mom, if I say hi in the future, will you still let me take a look at the other way?"

"What stupid things are you saying? You are crazy about marrying. When you are, your mother will naturally ask you personally. Anyway, you child is not shy." Sun pinched her face, not knowing where the child's temper was learned, so why did she dare to say anything? She didn't seem to be so neat back then.

"That's what..." Zhuhua sighed and covered her chest, "I'm sad, I'm going to see my intestines write."

"Don't forget to take a look." Sun told lightly.

"Yes." Zhuhua responded with aggrieved face, and only then put on a serious face next to her.

When Chanzi was three years old, Zhuhua taught him to read and read pictures, and this year he started to teach him to write with a pen. Zhuhua heard that a child could not practice too hard when he was a child, which would hurt his hands. She didn't let him practice too much, so her intestines couldn't sit still. When Zhuhua walked to the desk for Intestine, he had already finished writing ten big words. It's only been a long time since he wrote too fast. Zhuhua looked at the few big words he wrote randomly, showing a helpless look.

Chanzi chuckled a few times and said proudly: "Sister, I've finished writing."

"Well. I hold your hand and let's write it again." Zhuhua said lightly.

"Ten pieces a day." Chan complained.

"I wrote with your hand, but it's not what you wrote." Zhuhua said, then stood beside him and held his hand and wrote with his hand. She deliberately wrote very slowly, and her words were smaller than what she wrote by intestines herself. It had been half an hour since she finished writing.

"It looks OK. If your handwriting is still not good, I will hold your handwriting from now on and keep writing. Even if your butt is broken, we will continue to write."

"No." Chan said quickly, covering his butt.

"Depending on whether the words you write next time are good enough."

"It must be good."

"You are so stinky, you are pretty good at talking big." Zhuhua pinched his fat face, reached out to pick him up and weighed it, "You are fat again, you little fat."

"The intestines are not fat, the intestines are thinner, and I want to eat snacks."

"Oh, I've recognized my name as Chanzi again now. Didn't I say that I was called Abao or Chanzi yesterday?"

"The intestines are Abao, and Abao is the intestines."

"You little clever guy."

Since someone deliberately clamped a piece of intestine and signaled that this was him, he refused to call it the nickname "Canzi". Some people in the family called him Abao, and he insisted that others call him the same. Zhuhua likes to make trouble with him and told him that if he called Abao, he would not recognize him as his younger brother, and the dim sum she made would not be his share in the future. After hearing this, he seemed to hesitate for a long time, and finally he would compromise when he wanted to eat the dim sum and let Zhuhua call him intestine, but after eating it, he refused.

When the results were released, the genius was dawn, and there were people in the dark at the entrance of the Gongyuan. The people sent by Cheng's mansion to look at the list thought they went out early, but when they got there, they couldn't even see the door of the Gongyuan, so they could only look around behind and do something anxious. It was almost time to release the results, and a team of servants came to maintain order and clear a way for the people who released the results. After a while, the door of the Gongyuan opened, and several people walked out with a roll of red paper.

"The ranking on this list is the ranking of this conference examination, and the third-level ranking must go through the palace examination." said an official in charge of posting the list.

The servants in Cheng's family stood behind the back and couldn't hear clearly from the distance, so they had to ask the people in front. Everyone was still talking, and the list had been posted, and they were busy looking at the names on the list. The long list contained the names and hometowns of the five hundred candidates. Some of them knew the level of their candidates either started to look at them in the past, from the middle or from the end.

Soon, someone in the crowd shouted in surprise, "I've won, my young master has won."
To be continued...