As Ouyang Xiu said, not long after Ouyang Xiu took Huanniang to Yanfu, the horse's hooves were obtained, and three fast horses galloped over, which was the tolerance of the Ministry of Rites.

"Lu Suiyuan, a member of the Ministry of Rites, congratulates the first place in the examination on Jingxi Road of your old man Su Jin High School, and the Beijing Daily has been on the Huangjia!" As soon as the chubby official in the lead entered the courtyard, he shouted loudly.

The two attendants of the Ministry of Rites had already raised their hands and walked forward slowly.

Su Jin hurriedly came out to greet him, and stepped forward to receive the good news, Nalu Suiyuan coughed seemingly inadvertently, Su Jin immediately understood, and the outstretched hands quickly put together into a gesture, and said loudly: "Thank you, my lord, you have worked hard, please sit in the hall and come to see the tea!" ”

After saying that, he blinked at Xiao Sui'er, Xiao Sui'er understood, and hurriedly went to the inner hall to take fifty taels of silver, divided it into thirty taels and divided it into thirty taels and took it out in a small floral cloth.

Su Jin took the three packages, handed them over with both hands, and said: "Lord Lu is working hard in the next place, a little meaning, the three of you buy some tea on the way to eat." ”

Lu Suiyuan didn't shirk either, and said with a haha: "I don't want the hard-working money, but the happy money rewarded by Xie Yuangong must be wanted, and we are also happy, maybe there will be a Xie Yuangong in the house." ”

Su Jin laughed and said, "That's a certainty." ”

Lu Suiyuan weighed the burden, stuffed the big one into his arms, threw the two small packages one by one into the hands of the two handlers and said, "Then, this is the happy money of Xie Yuan's reward." ”

The two tolerances smiled, stretched out their hands to take it, and pinched it outside to know that it was silver taels instead of copper coins, and they were happy in their hearts and thanked them. Immediately, without Lu Suiyuan's orders, he picked up the good news and commanded Wang Chao and others to hang it high above the main hall in the hall.

Lu Suiyuan looked up at the good news, and said with a smile: "Su Xie Yuan is worthy of being a virtuous person recommended by Yan Sansi, and with a little finger, he trampled on the eight thousand lifters on East and West East Road; In fact, this imperial examination is purely redundant for Xie Yuangong, as soon as Xie Yuangong participates, it must be even three yuan, and the lower officials wait for the Ministry of Rites to take the test and then come to Xie Yuangong's mansion to report the good news. ”

Su Jin laughed and said: "Lu Yuanwai praised falsely, and somehow hit by mistake, thanks to the emperor's blessing, the ancestors blessed." ”

Lu Suiyuan smiled and said: "Don't be humble, yes is yes, no is no, the exam is not good, our Ministry of Rites has predicted who will be the winner of the Jingdong Road Xie Yuan this year, they all say that Han Jiang of Kaifeng Mansion is the most promising, but I am the only one who is determined to be the leader of Lord Su, and now it seems that it is really for me, haha...... My old Lu still has a vision. ”

Su Jin knew that this kid was bragging badly, and said with a smile: "It seems that he also borrowed the three-point strength of Lu Yuanwai's auspicious words; Han Jiang that Lu Yuanwai said just now, but at the age of twenty-seven or eighteen, he looks beautiful and calm, and he was the Han Jiang of Taimiao Zhailang? ”

Lu Suiyuan smiled: "Huh? Do you know him? ”

Su Jin said: "He and I were both taking the exam in shed 88 when they took the exam, I was house 6, and he was house 8, which happened to be next to each other. ”

Lu Suiyuan smiled and said: "Sure enough, the number of the shed is auspicious, and he is also in high school." ”

Su Jin said: "But I don't know how many of them are?" ”

Lu Suiyuan said: "Third, now the old master of his family is going to be angry, Han Jiang swore to win Xie Yuan before the exam, this is good, not only Su Xie Yuan is above him, but there is also a person from Yingtian Academy who is one place higher than him, hahaha." ”

Su Jin was shocked and said, "Students from Yingtian Academy? But the surname is Anshi? ”

Lu Suiyuan was shocked again: "Hey, how do you know? ”

Su Jin smiled and said, "Which of the students of Ying Tianfu Academy is more talented than Wang Anshi?" Who else is not him? ”

Lu Suiyuan shook his head and said, "That's wrong, there is someone who is much smarter than him." ”

Su Jindao: "Who is it?" ”

Lu Suiyuan said with a smile: "How did you forget yourself, aren't you also a student from Yingtian Academy?" You are the first Xie Yuan, he is the second, aren't you better than him? ”

Su Jin suddenly laughed and said, "I forgot about myself, so I'm a little smarter than him." ”

Lu Suiyuan twisted his beard and smiled: "It's not just a little smarter, the world will only remember who the first place is, and after the second place, it will be much inferior." ”

Su Jin said in his heart, but this is also the case; The first place is the most eye-catching, the second place, the third place and the subsequent rankings people must not care too much, but fortunately, Wang Anshi is in the middle, I don't know if the others have been hit, Wei Songhe also has the strength to win, Wu Hengxin doesn't dare to say it, this guy who likes to eat chicken butts, his knowledge is really not good.

The two chatted for a few words, and they heard another noise outside the door, but it was Fu Bi who came to congratulate him with the officials who were usually good friends; Seeing this, Lu Suiyuan got up to say goodbye, Su Jin stayed again and again, Lu Suiyuan said that he was going to the second and third places where to send the good news, and went in a hurry.

Fu Bi looked at his back and scolded: "This old thing, he is here to please money, and he makes a lot of money in every imperial examination." ”

Su Jin smiled silently and let seven or eight officials into the house for tea; In the time of about an hour from morning to noon, more than ten groups of people came to congratulate them, all of whom were officials in the DPRK and China, of course, the level was very low, Fu Bi was the highest, and the oldest was Su Jin's top boss, Zhang Fangping, the editor of the History Museum.

It was noisy until noon, Ouyang Xiu did not disgrace his mission, the matchmaker went smoothly, and came back with a smile, Su Jin hurriedly ordered someone to go to Fanlou to book a banquet, and ordered the dynasty to take care of the neighbors who generally drank wine, and he took the officials to Fanlou for a banquet.

On the way back after the banquet, Su Jinfang had the opportunity to ask Ouyang Xiu about going to Yanfu to propose marriage.

Ouyang Xiu said with a smile: "Count your luck, save a few formalities, originally you had to do Nacai, ask the name, Najib and other six ceremonies, but you and Miss Yan are familiar, this Nacai asked the name Najib three gifts are exempted, today is the gift of the levy, the dowry has been handed over to the three masters, Miss Yan also came out in person to thank you, tomorrow the Yan Mansion will return the gift, this gift will be completed." ”

Su Jinxi said, "Can Miss Yan get up?" ”

Ouyang Xiu said: "Aren't you up?" It seems to be a little haggard when it looks like it's improving. ”

Su Jin said: "She was still sick in bed yesterday. ”

Ouyang Xiu laughed and said, "If you have this good son-in-law, can you not get better?" Besides, you understand the matter of Yuan, Lord Sansi suddenly felt that his face was bright, and he praised you repeatedly; I am also very happy to see Miss Yan, there is nothing to do in the afternoon, your new son-in-law can come to the door to take a look, the official has drunk a lot, and he is also very worried about going to Yan's mansion to propose relatives, this will be dizzy, and he will go back to rest; After bringing the Yan Mansion to return the gift tomorrow, I, the matchmaker, will help you come forward to ask the gift, and the good thing is coming, haha. ”

Su Jin thanked him and instructed Xiaozhu to send Ouyang Xiu back to the mansion in a carriage to consume alcohol, and he took Ma Han Zhang Long to Yan Mansion; I understand the yuan myself, who will I share this joy with Yan Biyun if I don't share it?

……

In the following days, there were many guests in Su Jin's house; Su Jin won Xie Yuan in one fell swoop, and the whole court also exploded, and even Zhao Zhen was extremely surprised, not to mention Lu Yijian, Du Yan, Xia Zhu and others.

"Definitely cheating!" Du Yan shouted in the courtroom.

Lu Yijian frowned and said: "Don't be blindly suspicious, today's scientific examination is not only a single number and is heavily guarded, but also the test papers are all named, and then transcribed by a special person before being handed over to the chief judge, and it is not until after the judgment that I know who corresponds to the test paper and how to cheat?" ”

Du Yan spread his hands and said: "This kid is obviously a person who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, how can he understand Yuan?" There is no one in the eight thousand lifts of Jingxi Road who writes better articles than him? I don't believe it. ”

Xia Zhu pondered: "Believe it or not, you can know it at a glance. ”

Du Yan said: "Lao Xia, what do you mean." ”

Xia Zhu said: "Let's take a look at Su Jin and the top ten answers, compare the advantages and disadvantages, can't we judge the superiority?" ”

Du Yan said: "Yes, I want to see why this Su Jin won the first place." ”

Lu Yijian was silent, so he didn't want to get involved in this matter, although he also expressed doubts about Su Jinzhong's understanding of Yuan, but as the prime minister, he had to be cautious in his words and deeds, how could he easily say something casual.

Du Yan had some skills, and soon transferred Su Jin and other top ten test papers from the Ministry of Rites, Lu Yijian opened the book first, and when he saw Su Jin's "Nian Nu Jiao. Chibi Nostalgia", Lu Yi jumped up and shouted: "Whose volume is this, who wrote this poem?" ”

Everyone hurriedly checked their names, and when they saw the word Su Jin, Lu Yijian sat down in a daze.

"But with this poem, you can sit firmly at the top of the seat, and the old man below doesn't need to look at it."

The crowd rushed forward and read through the poem, all stunned.

Xia Zhu and Du Yan are not straw bales, both of them were born in the imperial examination, and there is some ink in their stomachs.

Within a few days, the words of Lu Xiang in the court room spread all over the capital, and this heroic style of 'Da Jiangdong Go' quickly became popular in all corners of the Beijing Division, and some people compared Su Jin with the deceased lyricist Liu Yong, and commented: "Liu Ci is a good seventeen or eighteen girl, red mouth and white teeth, Qin Se has a sound, singing Yang Liu'an, Xiaofeng Wanyue, Su Jieyuan's words, Kansai Han, holding an iron plate, drumming and singing Dajiangdong." ”

The literary world thinks that the evaluation is very appropriate.

Su Jin's 'Da Jiangdong Go' was sung for a while, and Zhao Zhen had already taken Su Jin's test paper into the palace to read through it several times, but Zhao Zhen liked Su Jin's strategy more, and Zhao Zhen thought that this strategy was the main reason why Su Jin finally became the first to solve the test.

The three examiners who came to judge the examination paper were called to ask, and sure enough, this was the case; The comment on the rolling paper of Pan Guangqi, the chief examiner who supported the Jingxi Road test this time, was written like this: This article gets rid of the superficial and difficult wind of the past strategy, and uses plain and rigorous arguments to explain the difficult reason, and reads it like drinking ice in summer, hearty and dripping; Loyal and generous, the use of the canon is conclusive, and its "benevolence can be passed, righteousness can not be passed" argument is deafening, and it is really a rare good article.

Zhao Zhen continued to be mink, and added a sentence after this comment in a chic manner: deserves this comment, and it deserves to be rated as the first.

Su Jin was evaluated twice by Zhao Zhen, the first time was that Zhao Zhen, who was rumored outside, privately said that Su Jin was 'a champion talent, a hero and courage, and a face with thick city walls.' Now there is the saying "the first is well deserved".

So far, Su Jin's name has spread all over the Beijing and all states, this person is young but the article is old and spicy, talented but it is said to be lazy and thick-skinned, and I heard that he actually entered into a marriage contract with the daughter of the Yan family who remarried, which is even more sensational, and public opinion is mixed for a while.