Lamp Flower Smile

Miao Liangfang left worriedly.

Yin Zheng poked her head out of the small kitchen and saw Lu Zhu putting the flannel in the medical box. She leaned over and whispered: "Girl, what Doctor Miao said can't be true..."

She had just figured it out, and happened to hear Miao Liangfang's words, and couldn't help but worry about Lu Zhuo.

Not to mention that the Hanlin Medical Academy is a dragon's nest and a tiger's den, just because of Cui Min's dislike and prejudice against ordinary people, Lu Yun's spring examination is also full of difficulties.

"You'll know if it's true or not." Lu Zhuo picked up the medical box, got up and walked towards the house.

I slept very deeply that night.

Early in the morning of the second day, when it was just dawn, Lu Zhu finished dressing up.

Fang opened the door and saw Yin Zheng sitting at the stone table in the courtyard, yawning.

Hearing the commotion, Yin Zheng turned her head, stood up and walked over, putting two pieces of hot white cake into Lu Zhuo's hands: "Girl, please put your belly on, let's eat on the way."

Lu Chen was stunned.

The spring examination location of the Imperial Medical Bureau is the same as that of Qiuwei, both in Gongyuan. However, there were not as many candidates who took part in Qiuwei. After all, medical officers, although they had the word "official", were not as dignified as real "officials".

The exam started at 4 o'clock, and Lu got up at midnight. The two hours in between were enough to be on the road. Besides, she wanted to go to Gongyuan alone and didn't want Du Changqing and Miao Liangfang to see her off.

She was used to being alone.

Seeing her stunned look, Yin Zheng smiled proudly, came over to hold Lu Zhuo's arm, and said with a smile: "Young lady, don't even think about leaving me and going alone, let me see you off, I haven't seen you yet." What is it like to go to the spring exam in the capital! Let me open my eyes too!"

His slender fingers grasped her arm tightly, as if he was afraid that she would run away in the blink of an eye. The small patch of skin covering his arm quickly warmed up, seeming to dispel the cold air in the early spring morning.

Lu Tong stared blankly at the hand on his arm. After a while, he lowered his head and said, "Let's go."

"okay!"

The carriage had been found in advance yesterday and was waiting at the entrance of the alley.

From West Street to Gongyuan, it was neither close nor far, and it took less than half an hour. Lu Zhuo and Yin Zheng ate two pieces of white cake and drank some water in the carriage. Not long after, they heard the driver in front say: "You two ladies, we're here."

The carriage stopped.

Lu Tong and Yin Zheng jumped out of the carriage.

After coming to Shengjing for a year, this was the first time Lu Zhuo came to Gongyuan. Miao Liangfang had told her about the Spring Examination before coming. He had also learned about the layout of Gongyuan from Wu Xiucai before, but when he was actually inside, the feeling was different.

It is early spring, and the snow on Wanen Temple Mountain has not yet melted, but the spring willows in Shengjing are already showing swaying shadows.

Thin willows were planted around the Gongyuan, and green stubble appeared, a patch of tender green. Because the Qiu Wei incident last year caused a big fuss, the Gongyuan was renovated. Among the flying blue clouds, two huge vermilion pillars stood at the door, which were particularly eye-catching. One side was engraved with ink characters: The sword moves with stars, and the golden pillars stand out. Don't saddle and the horse cries.

On the other side is engraved: Hold the general's five-color pen to win the championship title.

The writing is vigorous and high-spirited.

This is the gate of Gongyuan.

There were patrolling examiners guarding the door. Lu Huo walked over and showed the document for the spring exam to the other party. The other party picked up the booklet, looked through it twice, looked at Lu Huo up and down, and then waved to Lu Huo, gesturing for her to come in.

Yin Zheng couldn't follow and could only wait outside the hospital, holding Lu Zhuo's hand a little hard.

Lu Zhuo patted the back of her hand comfortingly and walked in with the medical kit on his back.

…

At the gate of Gongyuan, there were some students waiting for the exam.

Because it was still early, the door to the dormitory had not yet opened. There is a large open space in front of the dormitory, with a long shed set up with a cloth curtain, and many bamboo benches placed under the long shed for early candidates to rest.

There were many students who had arrived early sitting under the bamboo canopy. Some of them were sitting to review the textbooks on Chinese medicine, intending to take a few more glances before the exam started. Most of them gathered together and chatted about recent anecdotes.

The young man at the head was wearing a blue cloth shirt unique to the students of the Imperial Medical Bureau, and he was talking happily about the gossip he had heard recently.

"I heard that in the spring examination today, there was an ordinary medical worker, a woman. Have you heard about it?"

The man sitting on the other side who was opening the medical book smiled and raised his head: "I also heard that the woman had an affair with Dong Lin, the minister of Taifu Temple, and Dong Lin had a falling out with his mother! "

"Cao Huai, are you telling the truth?"

As soon as these words came out, the people around him were immediately amazed.

The young master of Taifu Temple has been timid since he was a child and has taken his mother's words as his guide. Everyone in Shengjing knows this. Now he is having a falling out with his family over a woman, which is really curious.

"How beautiful it is to be able to make Dong Lin resist his mother?"

Someone else replied arrogantly: "It's just a village girl who wants to climb a high tree. In order to make Dong Lin wholeheartedly take the spring examination, where will the spring examination be placed? You and I should be ashamed to be in the same company as this woman when we enter the imperial medical bureau." !”

The students of the Imperial Medical Bureau always think highly of themselves and look down on ordinary medical workers. Now that I heard that I took part in the spring exam just because of men, I can't help but feel contempt.

Just as he was talking, someone suddenly pointed out in front of him: "Look... is that the ordinary medical woman?"

Everyone followed his gaze.

A young woman walked from the front of the dormitory, wearing a half-worn dark blue skirt and carrying a wooden medical box on her back. Her black hair was half pulled up, with only a simple flower hairpin in her hair.

In early spring, the spring cold has not faded, and the light sunlight shines on her face, like the golden sun shining slightly on the icebergs. However, she has a beautiful face, does not speak or smile, walks calmly and leisurely, and her color is better than the spring willows in March.

The young people who had just laughed at Thorn were speechless for a moment.

There are many women in Shengjing who are tall, slender and beautiful. This woman's slender figure is more like Jiangnan beauty, but not as gentle and graceful as Jiangnan beauty. She is like the cold spring snow and the melting autumn moon. Her eyebrows and eyes are a bit cold and self-admiring.

There is no hint of flattery in her.

Very different from the frivolous person that everyone thinks of.

Lu Chen walked to the long shed and seemed to have just noticed the many people around him. He stopped and looked up in front of him.

This group of people all looked young, with only one or two older ones. They all wore round-necked blue gowns, and even the medical boxes they carried were boxes with the same yellow wood carvings and silk patterns. They seemed to know each other and were familiar with each other.

She was confused for a moment, but soon she understood.

This is probably a student from the Imperial Medical Bureau.

The ordinary medical workers recommended by the medical office and the students from the Imperial Medical Bureau could be easily distinguished by their clothes, but there were no other people like him around.

I think she is the only "outsider" among the candidates this year.

Just as I was thinking about it, a voice suddenly came from in front of me: "Girl?"

She raised her eyes and saw a young man in a green shirt standing in front of her.

This young man was born in a decent manner, but his eyes kept wandering when he looked at people, and he seemed to have some evil intentions. He looked Lu Rong up and down, his smile was too intimate, and he said with a smile: "Young lady is here to take part in the spring exam too?"

Lu Yan glanced at him and passed him, showing no intention of talking to him.

The crowd watching the excitement suddenly burst into laughter: "Cao Huai has hit a wall!"

"Haha, his father is the supervisor of the Judge's Office, how can he be compared to the Minister of the Taifu Temple!"

The young man named "Cao Huai" also heard the teasing around him, his smile froze and his face became ugly.

"I'm talking to you!" He put away his smile and took a step forward fiercely, intending to grab the hand of the person in front of him.

The next moment, someone passed by and knocked off his restless hand, followed by a yell: "What are you doing, want to fight?"

The voice was clear and clear, and it was a woman.

Lu Zhuo tilted his head.

The speaker was a girl in a green shirt, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with deep and bright facial features, and a pair of lively and smart eyes, which made people fall in love with her at the first glance. She didn't wear a bun, and only tied up her long hair with a hairband of the same color, which made her bright and beautiful face look particularly energetic.

Looking around, there were not many women taking part in the spring exam today, including Lu Zhuo, there were only a few in total. The girl stood in front of Lu Yan with her arms folded, as if she were a protector.

"Lin Danqing!" Cao Huai was furious.

"Why are you shouting so loudly?" The girl named Lin Danqing blinked and showed an innocent smile, "The Spring Examination is about to happen, and you, a grown man, are still here to embarrass the girl's family. Do you understand what it means to cherish the beauty and cherish the jade?"

"There is a god in your head. Be careful that Mr. Wenchang sees you and thinks you are rude, so you will fail the exam."

"You!" Cao Huai's expression changed several times. He didn't know whether he was afraid of the girl's identity or the curse of tabooing her words. He gave Lu Zhu a hard look, turned around and walked away angrily.

Some of the people watching the excitement dispersed.

Lu Chen withdrew his gaze and looked at the girl in front of him: "Thank you very much."

"You're welcome," the girl in green shirt looked at her with a smile, "My name is Lin Danqing. I might as well enter the Hanlin Medical Officers' Hospital in the future and work together as medical officers."

The smiling face looked bright and friendly in the sunlight.

After a pause, Lu Zhu nodded, "Thank you for your kind words."

"Believe me, sister," Lin Danqing said with a serious face, "I've had my mouth opened and it's very effective!"

At this moment, the long bell outside rang several times.

"The spring exam is about to start," Lin Danqing looked back, "Let's go there too."

Lu Zhuo nodded, stood up, and walked with her to the front of the dormitory.

In front of the dormitory, there was an examiner who was looking at the document and calling out names. Everyone found the dormitory they were assigned to by name one by one. The dormitory Lu Zhuo was assigned to was in the middle, neither far nor near. She put the medical kit outside the door, took only pen and ink, and went straight into the dormitory.

Due to the fraud in the autumn of last year, this year's spring examination was also much more stringent. The inside and outside of the dormitory walls seemed to have been reorganized and repaired, making them appear tighter. At first glance, they looked like small cells.

The examiner distributed a large pile of questions for the second paper. The Spring Examination of the Imperial Medical Bureau was like the Qiu Wei of Shengjing, but the content of the examination was different. I don't know if it was Lu Chen's misunderstanding, but he always felt that the examiner who handed out the test questions looked at her with pity when he passed by her dormitory.

It seems very sympathetic.

She didn't pay attention, she picked up the exam papers in front of her and sorted them out one by one.

one two three……

There are nine subjects examined in the spring examination, namely Dafangmai, Xiaofangmai, Typhoid Department, Gynecology, Sores and Ulcers, Acupuncture, Ophthalmology, Throatology, and Orthopedics.

Miao Liangfang also taught her this.

However……

...eight, nine, ten.

Lu Zhuo's movement of flipping through the examination papers suddenly stopped.

Ten portions.

There are currently ten exam papers.

She frowned slightly, picked up the exam paper and counted again.

Still ten copies.

I counted correctly, there is one more subject.

Lu Zhen stared at the extra test questions in front of him, and his heart sank slightly as he remembered the weird look the examiner had given her just now.

Why is there suddenly an extra subject?

…

At the same time, standing under the long shed, the examiner who had just distributed the test papers to Lu Yan sighed: "I'm afraid not many people will pass the spring exam this year."

"That's natural." Another examiner came over and looked at the dormitory not far away, sighing a little: "The questions asked by Master Ji Xunji may not even be able to be answered by the medical officers of Hanlin Medical Academy, let alone Are they those stupid boys?"

This year's Spring Examination of the Imperial Medical Bureau was conducted by Ji Xun, a medical officer in the Hanlin Academy, who personally set the questions. Ji Xun was proficient in medicine and pharmacology, but he was a strict man. He had gone to the Imperial Medical Bureau several times to teach students, but the students who came back complained that the medical principles he taught were too profound and difficult to overcome. He set the questions himself this time. When the examination papers were distributed today, several examiners took one look at them and were all speechless. They threw away the lessons they had learned from the Imperial Medical Bureau, and there were quite a few difficult questions.

"More than that." The examiner said, "This year there is an additional forensic department. It's really crazy. The yamen has a special office, so why should we, the medical officer's hospital, join in the fun?"

This year's spring examination has one more subject, from nine subjects to ten subjects, and one more subject is the physical examination, which mainly examines the condition of the corpse.

The Shengjing government office has a special official office, which logically has nothing to do with the Imperial Medical Bureau Medical Officials Hospital. However, due to the low status of widowers, most of them came from families where coffins were slaughtered and corpses were buried, and their descendants were not allowed to participate in the imperial examinations. Everyone was unwilling to enter the profession. Therefore, there were fewer and fewer outstanding widowers in Shengjing government offices in recent years.

At the beginning of last year, the imperial court intended to add a new group of wuzuo officials to improve the status of wuzuo in the government office, so it added a new forensic department to the Imperial Medical Bureau. But because of this, the department needs to deal with dead bodies. Although the students in the Imperial Medical Bureau do not come from high-ranking and powerful families, they are born to be pampered and have never suffered much, let alone bother to study dead bodies. In the test subject, almost all of them had poor results.

Unexpectedly, this year the Medical Academy would also include the “examination test” in the spring examination.

"The students in our Imperial Medical Bureau are okay. Even if they are not good, they have learned more or less. The ordinary medical workers are miserable. They have never studied before. If such a subject is suddenly added, I am afraid that I will not be able to answer a sentence."

The examiner couldn't help but feel a little sympathy when he thought of the young medical woman sitting in the dormitory just now. The people in the Medical Officials Academy have heard a little bit about the affairs of the Taifu Temple Minister. He himself was born as an ordinary person and had worked hard for many years to secure his position in the Medical Academy. Seeing that it was so easy for an ordinary person to take part in the spring examination this year, it was a pity that he had to miss out on the Medical Academy due to the sudden reform of the spring examination.

"I sympathize with her. It's okay, and I'm not afraid to tell you that the Dong family has already come to the Medical Academy to say hello." The colleague beside him lowered his voice, "Don't say she failed the exam. Even if she passed the exam, she wouldn't be able to enter the Hanlin Medical Academy. "

The examiner was stunned: "Why?"

"Don't even think about it. If she were to be admitted to the Imperial Medical College, where would the Dong family's face be? Let's just do what we should do, and don't pry about the thoughts of the superiors." A colleague patted him on the shoulder. I went on inspection with my kettle in hand.

The examiner stayed for a long time, sighed sadly, and then walked towards the dormitory.