The same embarrassing situation made Wen Qi and Jie Zilu seem to have become close friends who have known each other for decades all of a sudden, so much so that on the way to the examination room with the exam card, the two talked quietly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"That's the ...... Could it be the brother of Brother Jiezi? Wen Qi gestured with both hands, vaguely trying to express meanings such as "sao bao", "publicity", and "showing off wealth".

"Life is forced, life is forced." Jie Zi Yu smiled a little awkwardly.

In fact, he knew in his heart that the reason why his brother-in-law Wen Shaobo was dressed like that was not to show off his wealth or publicity, but to make people pay attention.

Thinking that when their brother dressed ordinary to visit a trading partner, the other party was dressed luxuriously and saw that their brother was wearing shabby, and the deal that could have been negotiated ended up with twists and turns.

Since then, Wen Shaobo has changed his dress, and even let more than a dozen Hu guards crowd around the front and back, and they all show the meaning of "I am very rich" and "I am very rich", so that the other party of the transaction he visited later saw Wen Shaobo's dress, and his face was full of enthusiasm, including those tribal patriarchs under the name of the Sichuan Alliance.

At that time, Wen Shaobo also strongly asked Jie Ziyu to change into rich and luxurious clothes, but Jie Ziyu was not used to it, so he simply pretended to be Wen Shaobo's doorman, anyway, trading with others, a bookkeeper is indispensable.

"Forced by life?"

Wen Qi glanced at Jie Zi Ou, how could he, who had no business experience, understand Jie Zi Ou's words.

At this time, seeing that Wen Qi did not speak, Jie Ziyu also asked in a low voice, "Who is the one just now...... Brother Zhao's wife? ”

Hearing this, Wen Qi's face suddenly darkened, and even showed a little 'don't hurt me' panic on his face.

After thinking about it, Wen Qi explained in a low voice: "In the next ...... Well, a family borrows food, and the woman is the family order of the house. …… Moreover, he is not surnamed Zhao, but surnamed Wen...... Well, that's pretty much it. ”

"This Brother Zhao...... No, this Brother Wen, it seems that there are a lot of unspeakable secrets."

Jie Ziyu looked at Wen Qi in surprise, as a scholar, he also knew what "borrowed food" meant, that is, the family was poor and couldn't survive, and he didn't want to let go of the face of the scholar and sell his labor to make money, so he temporarily invested in the rich family, and did something within his power for that family, such as teaching the children of that family to study, or making a cameo appearance as a settler in the account room, working and studying, and when the imperial court held the examination again, he would leave the family and go to Daliang to take the exam.

Such things are especially common in Daliang.

As for why this senior brother surnamed Wen pretended to be surnamed Zhao, Jie Ziyu didn't ask in detail, after all, he could see that Wen Qi didn't want to talk about it in detail, so he didn't ask.

So, he smiled and said, "That young woman is not Brother Zhao's wife, I see that she takes a lot of care of Brother Zhao." ”

As soon as he heard this, Wen Qi couldn't help but feel a little entangled.

It is undeniable that Lu'er takes good care of him, but this girl - well, now the other party can no longer be called a girl, her temper is particularly domineering and domineering, although it meets the "Su Wangfu Family Order", but it does not meet Wen Qi's mate selection standards.

He is a gentleman and a man, and he will definitely marry a gentle and lovely lady in the future, how can he be like that fierce woman?

"Brother Jie Zi laughed." After a haha, Wen Qi revealed the matter.

While chatting and walking, the two came to the venue of the first round of the examination - the open space in front of the main temple in the Confucius Temple.

I saw that the open space was full of desks, and a rough count of them was that there were nearly a thousand.

And those cases are also engraved with numbers, so that students can follow the numbers on the exam cards to find them.

“……”

A look of surprise flashed in Wen Qi's eyes.

Unlike Jie Zi Ou, this place Wen Qi has been to twice times, and in his memory, the open space in the Confucius Temple was once a flat mud field, and the real examination venue should be in a whole row of rooms in the shape of the word "Hui" around it, not in the open air like this.

"It's ...... Cement? ”

At this time, the meson beside him stepped on the hard stone-like cement floor under his feet and said in surprise.

Hearing this, Wen Qi also glanced at this friend who had just met in surprise.

Yes, the mud floor in the Confucius Temple was replaced by a concrete floor, which he had just discovered.

Wen Qi is no stranger to cement, after all, some time ago, when he managed Shangshuiyi for Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, many civil and water conservancy projects in Shangshuiyi were made of cement, of course, the people of Shangshuiyi called it "plaster", and may add "incredible" as a prefix, because the natural color of cement is gray.

However, the new friend next to him was able to call the real name of cement in one mouth, which made Wen Qi immediately refresh his understanding of Jie Zi Ou: this person is by no means an ordinary examiner.

However, as soon as he thought of Jie Ziyu's righteous brother Wen Shaobo who was wearing a bag, Wen Qi was immediately relieved.

After all, Wen Shaobo's dress is more elaborate and luxurious than a certain Su King, as this person's brother, how can Jie Ziyu be an ordinary scholar?

Thinking of this, Wen Qi was relieved, so he smiled and said to Jie Ziyu: "Brother Jie Zi, you and I will also enter?" ”

"Okay." Jie Zilu nodded.

At first, the two of them had some regrets, regretting that the friends they had just met were about to separate, but what they didn't expect was that it might be a coincidence, Wen Qi's seat was in the fourth place in the first row on the east side, and Jie Ziyu was behind him.

This made both of them very happy, after all, the examinees had not yet entered the room, and the seats on the west side were almost empty, so they still had time to chat a few more words.

"Brother Zhao has heard that the chief examiner this time is said to be His Royal Highness King Su."

In his words, Jie Ziyu revealed his respect for Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su.

However, Wen Qi had already known about this, and even more than Wen Shaobo had heard, such as "King Su Zhao Run will not appear in this first round of exams", and "Some of the subject questions in the official exam were personally drafted by King Su himself" and so on.

At this time, Wen Qi was looking at his location and neighbors, looking for a suitable target.

He knew that the reason why King Su Zhao Run and the Ministry of Rites set up this preliminary examination was to consider that after the number of places in the examination was expanded, it was inevitable that there would be some indiscriminate guys among them. It is undeniable that the Ministry of Rites is still quite strict in reviewing the examination papers, but the examiners don't know about it, so it is inevitable that there will be some guys who try their luck, and these people are Wen Qi's target.

How to send those straw bags with no ink on their chests to the official exam, and then help them get on the gold list, this is the only purpose of Wen Qi's visit this time - relying on fame and fame? After offending the Ministry of Rites, he had already given up this heart.

To put it bluntly, he's here to stir things up!

I remember that at the beginning, he also considered his new acquaintance friend Jie Zi Ou, but Wen Qi took a closer look, and he found that Jie Zi Ou was calm and calm, without any lack of heart, it was obvious that this was a student who had read poetry and books.

Even Wen Qi faintly had a feeling that Jie Ziyu's talent was even better than him.

So, he set his sights on the seat on the left.

Unexpectedly, after hearing Jie Ziyu's words, the examiner on the left actually took the initiative to turn his head and talk to them: "I heard that His Royal Highness King Su also participated in the drafting of this year's exam questions." …… Two virtuous brothers, under He Xinxian. ”

『……』

Wen Qi's eyelids jumped slightly, and he secretly said in his heart: Okay, I got a big talent!

He Xinxian's reputation, how could Wen Qi not know that the eldest son of He Yu, the waiter of the dignified ceremonial department, the grandson of He Xiangxu, the original Chinese secretary, and a veritable son of a wealthy family of Liang.

Of course, these are just He Xinxian's background, and talent, He Xinxian is not far behind, he is the third place on the gold list of Hong De's sixteen years, and the fourth place in the gold list of Hong De's nineteen years.

Cheating for such talents? This is to be laughed at.

The corners of his mouth twitched, and Wen Qi hurriedly returned the salute: "Under Zhao Qi." ”

After saying that, he avoided He Xinxian, after all, He Xinxian was the son of He Yu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and he Wen Qi had a grudge with the Ministry of Rites.

Compared with Wen Qi's coldness, Jie Ziyu was very afraid to feel He Xinxian's words, and asked in surprise: "His Royal Highness King Su personally drafted the exam questions?" ”

He Xinxian hurriedly made a small gesture and quietly told Jie Ziyu: "It's not this one, it's the one for the official entrance examination." ”

Jie Zilu nodded excitedly.

And when He Xinxian was chatting with Jie Ziyu, Wen Qi was looking at the examiner sitting in front of him.

Suddenly, he reached out and gently tapped the back of the examiner, and greeted the other party: "What do you call Brother Xian?" ”

Kaozi, who was sitting in front of Wen Qi, glanced back at Wen Qi and said with a smile, "Huayang Tang is depressed." ”

"In the lower Zhaoqi." Wen Qi only felt a twitch in the corners of his eyes.

Wen Qi remembered this person, wasn't that the examiner who fainted halfway in the exam three years ago, it is said that he fainted because of lack of qi and blood, to put it simply, this person fainted from hunger in the middle of the examination room.

Of course, if this is the case, it is not worth Wen Qi to remember this person's name, the key is that Du You, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, personally visited this person at that time, and then after some conversation, Du You, the secretary of the Shangshu, admired this "Huayang Tang Fu", so he took Tang Fu to become a scribe in the Ministry of Rites.

The students who can be valued by Du You, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, think about it and know that they must be well-educated.

"Kuya!"

Wen Qi wailed in his heart - the front seat is Huayang Tang Fu, the back seat is Shangshui Jie Zi Yuan, and the left seat is Liang He Xinxian, all of whom are well-educated people who can get on the gold list without his cheating help, do you want this? !

Just when Wen Qi was secretly wailing, Du You, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, led several officials of the Ministry of Rites to come here, and seeing this, Wen Qi hurriedly bowed his head.

It's not that he is afraid of Du You, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the problem is that his "big plan" has not yet been completely won, if Du You sees it at this time and asks someone to drive him out, wouldn't it make His Royal Highness King Su who made an appointment with him to laugh off his big teeth?

"It seems that the first test is out of play...... Let's try it.'"

Wen Qi sighed secretly in his heart.