"I really didn't expect that the candidate for the prince's escort would be the eighth prince."

"The Eighth Prince Hongrun? This Highness is not yet fifteen years old, right? Doesn't it mean that the prince who has not left the cabinet is not allowed to participate in any affairs between the court and China?"

"Why is it the Eighth Prince? Doesn't it mean that this stubborn Eighth Emperor has always been unvalued by His Majesty in the palace? Why did Your Majesty promise this Highness to accompany the superintendent to the examination?'

Sixteen invigilators looked at each other.

It is no wonder that, after all, the news in the palace is very tightly controlled, and without a special way, it is absolutely impossible for the government and the opposition to know about the recent events in the palace, which is a means to maintain the mystery and majesty of imperial power.

Therefore, not only Luo Wenzhong, but even the sixteen officials had no way of knowing that the status of the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun in the heart of the emperor of Great Wei had risen greatly in the past month, and he had repeatedly praised him as a thousand-mile horse, otherwise, Luo Wenzhong would never dare to do anything to frame this prince.

What made the sixteen officials even more shocked was that when they saw this Eighth Highness, Luo Wenzhong's face gradually became ugly.

"What the hell is this...... What's going on? Could it be that Lord Luo has a grudge with this Eighth Highness?"

The sixteen invigilators of the Ministry of Officials were completely incomprehensible.

At Zhao Hongrun's signal, everyone sat down in the front hall.

Originally, the main seat should be sat by Luo Wenzhong, who served as the chief invigilator this time, but Zhao Hongrun didn't mention it, and sat on the main seat in a grand manner.

This made the invigilators a little uncomfortable, but after thinking about it, the other party is the prince after all, and it is not inappropriate to sit on the main seat.

Around the end of the day, the Confucius Temple began to let the scholars enter the temple for exams, so Zhao Hongrun got up and went to inspect with the seventeen invigilators.

After all, while the students were being allowed in one after another, the principals, officers, and miscellaneous servants had to search one by one to see if the scholars were carrying "entrainment" with them, and in layman's terms, whether they were carrying cheat sheets or something.

During the inspection, Zhao Hongrun put on that funny mask again, after all, the invigilation of the scientific examination is a more offensive errand, and for future consideration, he felt that he should try to avoid showing up in front of the public.

Moreover, there are some sons and brothers from rich backgrounds among the students, and they may also be frequent visitors to the Water Pavilion, if these people see their true appearances, wouldn't it be more troublesome for him Zhao Hongrun to have a private meeting with Miss Su in the Water Pavilion in the future?

Because of this, Zhao Hongrun asked Mu Qing to get a mask casually, it is not a valuable thing, the more than ten pennies in the market in Nancheng are purely children's play.

"It's strange, the intensity of this search is still quite strict, why are there so many incidents of fraud in previous years? Could it be that there are officials involved?'

During the inspection, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but feel a little surprised, because he found that those people at the gate of the Confucius Temple would conduct a rather rigorous search before putting them into the scholars.

How rigorous? It was so strict that even the food that the scholars carried with them had to be checked.

No, Zhao Hongrun saw with his own eyes that a handyman broke all the dried steamed buns brought by a scholar to see if there was any entrainment in them.

"How else can people eat this?" Zhao Hongrun muttered in a low voice, anyway, he didn't want to eat the kind of steamed buns that were pinched and pinched.

"Let's take a look at Room No. 1."

Zhao Hongrun said to the invigilators beside him.

When the prince spoke, how dare the invigilators disobey, even if there is an invigilator to guide the way.

The so-called "No. room", also known as the examination shed, refers to the examination center where the scholars participate in the examination, which is an independent and very small single room, five feet long, four feet wide, and eight feet high, with walls on three sides and an entrance and exit on one side.

When the examiners arrived, they had to go through a body search before they were allowed to enter the room.

In addition, when a student enters the corresponding room, the principal in charge of the place will lock the half door panel with a lock, which means that during the examination, the scholar can only be in this room, whether it is for exams, rest, or eating, drinking, and Lazar.

"I've heard for a long time that the environment in the examination room is extremely simple and harsh, but I didn't expect it to be so simple......

Zhao Hongrun took a few peeks into a room.

I saw that there was only one in the whole room, which made people couldn't even stretch their feet, like a bed but not a bed at all, a platform made of bricks, on which was laid a simple straw mat, and on the straw mat, a thin futon was thrown indiscriminately.

Zhao Hongrun was very skeptical about how much cotton wool could be in this futon.

In addition to this, there are two wooden barrels in the room, one filled with clean water and the other empty.

Zhao Hongrun thought about it for a while, and he didn't want to investigate why there was an empty bucket here.

In addition to the above, there is only a wooden board at the empty door in the whole room, which is probably the table for the scholars' exams, and there is a bench at the bottom.

"That's too basic, isn't it? It's like a toilet...... It's really hard to imagine that a national scholar like Lin Yuyang and Yu Ziqi took the first step towards their careers here......

Zhao Hongrun shook his head with emotion, because he knew that Lin Yuyang and Yu Ziqi, who were now in the Vertical Arch Palace, were both from poor families, in other words, they had also experienced this kind of cruel scientific examination.

In fact, at this moment, there was already a scholar in that room, and when Zhao Hongrun probed his brain, he was also looking at Zhao Hongrun.

After all, Zhao Hongrun was not wearing a three-clawed python robe representing the prince today, he was just wearing a more fancy Zhu Ziwen embroidered brocade dress, and he also wore a ridiculous mask on his face that didn't match his luxurious clothes at all.

Therefore, the scholar was also wondering about Zhao Hongrun's identity.

It's no wonder that Zhao Hongrun is only fourteen years old, and his height is far inferior to that of an adult man, but at this moment, he is surrounded by ten Zongwei and seventeen invigilators for this round of exams.

It's a fool to guess his identity.

"How do you solve the food of the scholars these days?" Zhao Hongrun asked for the first time.

An invigilator stood up and replied, "Back to Your Highness, the students will bring their own food." ”

"Your Highness?"

The student's eyes widened in surprise, of course he knew what His Highness was referring to.

At this time, Zhao Hongrun pointed at the student and asked, "Have you prepared food?" ”

"Yes, yes......"

The student stammered back.

Zhao Hongrun glanced at the package that the student had placed on the table, as well as the scattered dry steamed buns in the package, which had been broken, and couldn't help frowning.

"The hall will test, and the facility environment is so simple and bad!"

Frowning, Zhao Hongrun turned his head and asked, "In this year's examination, how much did your officials report to the household department?" ”

『……』

The invigilator's face suddenly became a little unnatural.

"Huh!" Zhao Hongrun snorted coldly noncommittally, and said lightly: "Before dusk today, list the silver taels spent on this scientific examination so far in detail and hand them over to me." I'll go to the household department to check. ”

The invigilators looked at each other, and at this time, Luo Wenzhong said in a deep voice: "Your Highness's move is not in accordance with the rules. …… As far as His Majesty knows, His Highness is only a jueter, and has no right to interfere with our officials. ”

"......" Zhao Hongrun glanced at Luo Wenzhong coldly, suddenly laughed, and walked forward by himself.

"It turns out that these eight highnesses are just paper tigers?"

Luo Wenzhong breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, you must know that he refused Zhao Hongrun's words just now, after all, what Zhao Hongrun said involved a lot.

The rest of the officials were relieved.

And at this moment, Zhao Hongrun, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, turned around and said, "As far as His Highness knows, the son of the chief examiner, Lord Luo, also participated in the examination this time, right?" ”

Luo Wenzhong chuckled in his heart, and said stubbornly: "Back to Your Highness, the dog did participate in this examination. ”

"Lead the way!" Zhao Hongrun said lightly: "This highness will go down and take a look." ”

Luo Wenzhong had no choice but to lead Zhao Hongrun to his son Luo Rong's room.

At this time, Luo Rong was resting against the wall on the stone couch in the room with a futon, and suddenly saw his father and his party coming, and quickly stood up.

"Dad, why are you here?"

Luo Wenzhong's face sank a little, and he said in a deep voice: "In the examination room, there are only supervisors, no fathers and sons, and they are called officials." ”

Luo Rong didn't know what was going on, so he had to obediently give up his hand and praise: "Scholar Luo Rong, I've seen Lord Luo." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a burst of applause not far away.

"Hehehe, Lord Luo is really iron-faced and selfless. Good, good, worthy of being an invigilator, lead by example. …… Think about it, if Lord Luo, who is the chief examiner, can't distinguish between public and private, wouldn't the people below be all messed up? ”

"Who is this man?" Why does it sound so familiar?'

Luo Rong was stunned, and was about to ask, when he suddenly found that three people were glaring at him viciously, and after taking a closer look, his face suddenly changed greatly.

It turned out that the three who glared at him viciously were Zong Wei Shen Yu, Lu Mu, and Mu Qing.

Today's three people are no longer dressed as ordinary people a few days ago, all wearing armor and carrying knives at their waists, full of heroic spirit, bluffing Luo Rong's face suddenly pale.

"He'...... He...... Is he ......?"

Luo Rong looked at the gorgeously dressed but masked guy beside him in horror.

"Your Highness's words are serious, and as the chief invigilator, the subordinate official naturally has to be strict with himself."

"Well said!" Zhao Hongrun stroked his palms and praised two sentences, and suddenly the words changed, and he said with a smile: "In this case, presumably Lord Luo will not introduce His Royal Highness to invigilate Ling Gongzi more rigorously, right?" As he spoke, he pointed at Luo Rong and said unceremoniously: "You, come out!" Your Highness wants to search you! ”

As soon as the words fell, Zong Wei Shen Yu had already asked for the key from the nearby principal, opened the lock of the number room, and pulled Luo Rong out.

"You...... What are you going to do? Luo Rong suddenly panicked.

After all, he is not a fool, so he naturally guessed that Zhao Hongrun was trying to take revenge on him.

At this time, Luo Wenzhong stood in front of Luo Rong and said with a calm face, "Your Highness, my son has already searched his body." ”

"Oh? Really? But His Highness didn't see it...... Didn't Lord Luo still say that he should be strict with himself? Why did you stop His Highness from searching for the prince? Could it be that Ling Gongzi really has an entrainment hidden in him? Tsk, that's not good...... The chief examiner of the hall examination ......"

"......" Luo Wenzhong was speechless, knowing that Zhao Hongrun was deliberately targeting him, but it was difficult to refute, after all, if it was confirmed that his son was hiding entrainment, then not only his son Luo Rong would be in trouble, but even he would probably have to be stripped of his official uniform.

"Okay, Your Highness will search for it."

As soon as the words fell, Shen Yu and the others searched for Luo Ronglai roughly, and they didn't even let go of the number room.

But it's a pity that neither Luo Rong nor the room has any entrainment.

"Your Highness is satisfied?" Luo Wenzhong asked with a straight face.

"Humph!" Zhao Hongrun chuckled, slowly walked to Luo Rong's side, and whispered in his ear: "On that day, you ordered someone to pick up His Highness's clothes, and His Highness will find you to come back first." ”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at Luo Rong, and chuckled: "Pick up his clothes for me!" …… God knows if Ling Gongzi copied the four scriptures in his clothes. ”

"In ...... Here?'

Glancing at the nearby scholars who came in one after another, Luo Rong's face suddenly turned pale.