At night, Gu Jingyun and Zhao Ning had a fever at the same time. Li Baolu had already prepared for it. She picked out the medicine and asked the heart to cook it. A bowl of medicine was poured down, and then covered with a quilt, plus the medicinal bath in the afternoon, the two of them would soon put the medicine in their bodies. The cold air came out, and the body temperature also dropped.

The two fell into a coma for two days, during which time they woke up to be given empowerment soup and porridge.

On the morning of the third day, Zhao Ning got up refreshed and stretched vigorously in the yard, but Gu Jingyun was still wearing a coat and lazily leaning against the window looking at the yard, his face still a little pale.

Li Baolu knew that he was congenitally deficient, and he had been taking care of him for more than ten years. Now that he is damaged, it is slower than ordinary people to recover, so he still boiled a medicinal diet to feed him.

He ran to the flower market and bought a lot of flowers and came back to give him a reward. He said enthusiastically: "When we buy another yard, we will make a garden for you after we get through."

Zhao Ning heard that his intuition was wrong, and said in a daze: "Sister and brother, shouldn't Brother Gu tell you this?"

"Aren't you happy that I dote on my elder brother Jingyun?"

"Oh, my eyes are really hot." Zheng Xu covered his eyes with his fingers, "Auntie, take it easy, my nephew is still young."

Shi Wei followed behind him and kept laughing.

Seeing Baolu blushing, Gu Jingyun glanced at them indifferently, "Are you here to ask questions?"

Zheng Xu and Shi Wei touched their noses and smiled, "Actually, we came to see Uncle Gu Shi. Didn't I hear that you were sick and worried?"

"Let Brother Zhao talk to you," Gu Jingyun hugged Da Hui and said, "I want to rest for a while."

Seeing that he was depressed, the three of them immediately restrained their smiles and slowly receded, Zhao Ning was a little puzzled, and whispered: "Brother Gu's condition in the numbered room is better than mine, why hasn't he recovered after two days out? "

Zheng Xu and Shi Wei looked at each other, pulled him and said in a low voice, "When Brother Gu entered the examination room, the Gu family had already assigned him..."

Hongtao also pulled Qingling back down, leaving only the couple in the yard.

Sitting beside him, Li Baolu turned her head and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

Gu Jingyun reached out to hold her hand, "I just feel a little tired and want to rest quietly for a while."

"I lend you my shoulder."

Gu Jingyun turned his head to look at his wife's small shoulder for a while, and finally leaned on it.

Gu Jingyun looked at the trees in the yard that had begun to sprout green shoots, and said in a low voice: "Spring is here, and the weather in Qiongzhou is just right at this time. I don't know if Niuniu has put on the jacket and skirt we sent. Children grow fast, and she If I didn’t wear it last year, I might not be able to wear it in winter.”

"Skirts are still the most comfortable to wear in spring and autumn. We send them more beautiful fabrics, and give them two albums of pictures that are fashionable in the capital, so that my aunt and mother can make them."

"Reorganize the property in your hand, rent a small yard in the south of the city, and let your second uncle live in it when they arrive."

Gu Jingyun's topic jumped so fast that Li Baolu didn't understand why he suddenly brought up this point, but she still nodded and said, "Okay, I'm just going to tell you that the property allocated to us is either a loss or a balance, and there is almost no surplus. , so I want to call all the stewards to rectify."

"No need," Gu Jingyun said lightly: "Whether it is a loss or a balance, they will all be dismissed, and we will re-appoint them. Whether it is a shop or a villa, we need funds to operate, and we have no money, so we have to get them from them first." Take it, so I can know who is loyal and who is traitor."

"Do you want to hire thugs?"

"No, just borrow it from the senior brother, he is good at this."

Li Baolu wrinkled her nose and said, "Will Uncle be angry when he returns to Beijing? We accepted him as a senior disciple for nothing."

"This is already Wei Cong's obsession. I have accepted this apprentice for my uncle."

Li Baolu twitched the corner of her mouth, the big apprentice can mess up too?

"Then do you think brother can pass the exam this time?"

"Yes, but the ranking won't be very good," Gu Jingyun said firmly, "The emperor is small-minded, so he won't give him a good ranking."

"What about you?" Li Baolu asked worriedly, Gu Jingyun is Qin Xinfang's nephew.

Gu Jingyun was silent for a while before saying: "I don't know, it all depends on the emperor's mood. If he is in a good mood, my grades should be as much as I should. If he is in a bad mood..."

If he is in a bad mood, his ranking may fall to the second best.

After all, his test paper results are there, and the emperor is not good at belittling him too much.

At this time, the emperor's grandson was observing the emperor carefully, and saw that he was in a good mood, especially when Mr. Peng Ge was recalling the past with him just now, Li An immediately came out and laughed: "Grandfather, it has been three days since the end of the spring, the test paper should be The reviews are almost done, do you want to go and have a look?"

The emperor glanced at Li An who was eager to try, and said with a light smile, "I'm afraid you want to see it?"

Li An bowed his head in embarrassment, "My grandson hasn't seen it yet, but I just want to learn more from my grandfather."

The emperor bowed his head and thought for a while. He felt much better today. He might as well go to the Gongyuan to have a look. After all, selecting a scholar is a major national event. Anyway, every time the people under him have to show him the best test papers.

"Then you all come along together," the emperor looked around, and said to his sons and Peng Ge, "Come with me to see what outstanding students there are this year."

The fourth prince immediately took the lead in answering "Yes".

Everyone went to the Gongyuan in a mighty manner. The Gongyuan was busy, and the invigilators were marking the test papers in full swing, while many clerks were sitting in the other side of the room copying the test papers.

The test papers sent out in the examination room are pasted with the birthplace, name and other things that can know personal information. These test papers will be randomly distributed to the clerks, who will copy them in block letters, write the labels, and then hand them over to the invigilator review.

Each test paper needs to be graded by two invigilators. If the scores given are too different, then the other two invigilators will review it again, and then the chief examiner will review it again. If it is confirmed that there is no problem, then the highest score will be removed. , a minimum score, and take the average score of the middle two as the result.

And at the end of the scoring, there is a test paper score, which is to find out the original test paper when the final score is counted, and record the score while scoring.

Because the paper score is something that is clear at a glance, the two examiners will rarely find differences, so there is no need to guard against this point.

The clerk has to copy every test paper that is collected, and now they are copying the last batch, which is also a poem post, and the score is not important.

And the examiners have almost finished evaluating the test papers, and the best few test papers are put aside separately, and the top three will be selected from these test papers.

When the emperor came, he was looking at these test papers. He picked up the policy theory of the last test paper, and couldn't help applauding: "Okay, I, Da Chu, is indeed full of talents. Find out the original paper of this person. I want to Look who it is."

This is not in compliance with the regulations, but any regulations are invalid in front of the emperor, and he himself is the regulation, so the examiners did not struggle, and immediately took the clerk to find the original document and handed it to the emperor.

The emperor first admired the font on the paper, stroked his beard and said with satisfaction: "The pen is strong enough to penetrate the paper, the muscles are strong and the bones are strong, and it is a rare good handwriting. They all speak words like their own. It seems that my student is still open-minded and proud. people accept."

After saying "hiss", the seal was torn off, and the emperor was slightly silent after reading the name and place of origin on the test paper.

The chief examiner, that is, the head of the Hanlin Academy, stood beside the emperor. He saw the name on the seal as soon as the seal was lifted. That's the kind of insight."

The emperor took the test paper and threw it away, and it didn't matter if he didn't throw it away. After a while, he sneered and said: "Find out all the original papers of Gu Jingyun, I want to see for myself."

Li An Zao stepped aside to pack the quail, and did not move.

Gu Jingyun's test papers were quickly found, and the emperor looked through them one by one. He was indeed very good.

The emperor thought to himself, this test paper is not as good as Qin Xinfang's back then.

The emperor looked at the test paper with complicated eyes. He didn't know whether to let it go or suppress it.

He felt that he was magnanimous, and there was really no need to target a child, and he had said enough just now.

The emperor was really distressed. When he looked up, he saw Li An standing there with his head lowered in boredom. What Gu Jingyun said when he faced the saint back then flooded into his heart.

He wanted to find a backer, and he wanted to be Taisun's teacher.

The emperor rolled his eyes, coughed and said, "That's right, it really is awesome for young people, and the other test papers are also good, find them all and show them to me."

So the clerks went to find the original papers of several other examination papers.

The emperor tore off the seal with a smile, and finally his face sank when he saw a test paper. He dropped Gu Jingyun's test paper, picked it up, and waited for the examiner to ask: "Can this test paper also get among the top few?" ?”

The chief examiner glanced at it, understood clearly, and explained: "Return to Your Majesty, we selected fifty test papers in total, and then selected fifteen out of the fifty. It is not bad in the first test paper, so it can barely be shortlisted in the top fifteen."

"But I remember that Wei Cong is insane, are you sure he is qualified for an official position?"

The chief examiner twitched his lips and said: "Your Majesty, I only judge the test papers, not the people. Since Wei Cong can be named, it means that it is just a rumor and it is not credible."

The emperor curled his lips. He still couldn't forget Wei Cong yelling at his palace back then. Hmph, at that time he turned a blind eye and let him go because he was afraid of the official historian's writing and because of the special situation. , Now that there is finally a chance for revenge, why is the emperor willing to give up?

He was about to eliminate the test paper when the eunuch behind him came up and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this Wei Cong is not stingy. If he is a juren, you can neither beat him nor scold him, but if he is a official……"

The emperor's heart moved, if Wei Cong was an official, why not let him decide?

The emperor immediately changed his mind, threw down his test paper and said arrogantly: "But I don't think his test paper is very good. It would be good if he can get two or three hundred at most."

The examiner's face turned blue, wouldn't he become a fellow Jinshi?

The emperor coughed uncomfortably, stepped back and said: "The test papers of the others are pretty good, so you can choose the best three from them, and I will give you some rewards."

The chief examiner's face was a little better, and when he looked at Gu Jingyun's test paper, he was a little complicated. He didn't expect that Gu Jingyun could do so well in the test, let alone that the emperor would let his test paper go, but that's okay...

The chief examiner discussed with all the examiners, and sent the three best test papers to the emperor, and Gu Jingyun's was among them.

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