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On the first day of November in the first year of Qin, it was a good day.

Just after the fourth watch, tens of thousands of scholars rushed from all corners of Jinling City to the Jiangnan Gongyuan on the bank of the Qinhuai River with lanterns and boxes to participate in the first imperial examination of Daqin.

On this special day, the restaurants, tea shops, and shops along the street also open their doors in the middle of the night, light up red lanterns, and illuminate the city as bright as day.

This time, Enke's chief examiner was unexpected, his name was Fu Shan, and the word Qingzhu.

A few days ago, Fu Qingzhu, who "cried for the country's book and fled according to his own orders", wore a Taoist robe and called himself "Shidaoren". He quietly entered Jinling City with his mother, and before anyone knew his face, he was invited into the palace by Qin Mu Han Zanzhou.

After a whole night of talking, Qin Mu resolutely decided to take Fu Qing as a scholar of Hanlin University and serve as the chief examiner of the first imperial examination of Great Qin, and Fu Shan also gladly accepted.

This was something that everyone hadn't thought of beforehand, even Qin Mu himself. It was Fu Shan's profound knowledge that convinced him and made him make this decision temporarily.

With Fu Shan's character, he was willing to serve as the chief examiner, which was also impressed by Qin Mu's open-mindedness. Qin Mu's knowledge is not as fine and profound as theirs, but in terms of insight and vision, it makes Fu Shan sigh to himself.

Coupled with his humble mind, he was regarded by Fu Shan as a rare master, and he was willing to bend his waist to serve.

As soon as the candidates for the chief examiner were announced, the scholars who were preparing to take the imperial examination were in an uproar. Before, countless people have speculated about the selection of the examiner.

Everyone thinks that it is most likely to be Yang Tinglin, the secretary of the ministry, and Yang Tinglin is upright. With Zodiac Zhou, Ni Hongbao and the article section of the world, known as the "Three Hanlin". Everyone was convinced that he was the chief examiner.

The second is the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Du Yinxi, Ai Nanying, and Luo Wanzao, who also feel that they are qualified enough to serve as the chief examiner.

Some people even speculate that Gu Yanwu, a thirty-four-year-old Hanlin scholar, may also be a candidate for the chief examiner, although he is younger, he is very knowledgeable, and he is always surprised at the Bagu Forum. Convincing.

The scholars repeatedly considered the personalities and preferences of these popular candidates, so that they could cater to the preferences of the examiner when answering the papers.

These people's homes receive countless messages every day. There was a long queue of people waiting to be seen in front of the door.

Among them, Yang Tinglin and Gu Yanwu were so disturbed that they simply didn't even go home, so they simply rolled up the cover and moved to the yamen to live.

Who would have thought. When the exam was approaching, a Fu Shan suddenly appeared. Let everyone's previous speculations be in vain.

It's just that Fu Shan and Fu Qing have a very good reputation, philosophy, medicine, Confucianism, Buddhism, poetry, calligraphy, painting, gold and stone, martial arts, research, etc., and they are all refined, and their integrity is high.

Not to mention ordinary scholars, even people like Gu Yanwu also admired Master Fu Qing very much, Qin Mu used him as the main exam, and everyone couldn't say anything.

Kaike is a joy, for Qin Mu. There is also a joy, that is, the concubine.

However, he deliberately kept a low profile about the concubine. There was no hype, just some gifts were given to the minister.

This time, the so-called concubine, there is only one person who is really canonized as a concubine, and that is the little girl Yun Qiaoer.

Qiao'er is thirteen years old, and she is fourteen years old if she is a fictitious age, so she lives in the palace for no reason, and her face is always not good-looking.

Thinking of this, Qin Mu simply took this opportunity to canonize her as Concubine Xiang together.

The other two, one is Bian Yujing, the daughter of Bian Di in Bian Lang;

A native of Songjiang Mansion, surnamed Gu, his maiden name is smoky, and he is twenty-eight years old.

The Gu family is a scholarly family, the ancestor had been an official during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, when the Qing army went to the south of the Yangtze River, her father Gu Yuan organized the local people to resist the Qing Dynasty, and the army was defeated and died heroically. Gu Hanyan, his mother and six-year-old brother escaped by hiding in a small nunnery in the mountains.

Han Zanzhou carefully selected ten show girls this time, Gu Hanyan was picked by Qin Mu at a glance and stayed, and the remaining nine were still sent back to their hometowns after being given gold and silver.

The two, like Li Xiangjun, only sealed the "beauty" for the time being.

On the small building near the water, the pink mantle reveals a festive style, there are Tang Yin's landscape paintings on the wall, and two white jade auspicious clouds are stretched out from the Jingde porcelain vase on the sandalwood dressing table. The quilts are all new and exude a faint floral fragrance.

Gu Hanyan, who had just entered the mansion, sat in front of the dressing table, wearing a rose red silk sprinkled with gold and colorful phoenix palace clothes, with his hair combed in a concentric bun, and the red gold ruby swayed.

She has a small melon seed face, two beautiful eyebrows like a slender crescent moon, a pair of bright eyes with light smoke and thin dew, a small sandalwood mouth like a cherry, between the light opening, the teeth are as white as jade, this has a somewhat melancholy temperament, but because of the shallow pear vortex on the cheeks and bright and moving.

Slender as the ten fingers of spring onion white, the muscles and bones are smooth, the body is graceful and colorful, and the waist of the sixteenth daughter is just like the willow in the next household. The body is full of the unique beauty and grace of Jiangnan women.

Her first impression is that she is kind, clean, and elegant. That kind of beauty is like clear water out of hibiscus, naturally carved and decorated. This is also the reason why Qin Mu fell in love with her at a glance.

There were two maids standing by the door, and she sat alone in front of the dressing table, looking a little worried, like a frightened little white rabbit.

She also dreamed of her marriage and fantasized about the personable groom riding a horse and picking her up in a sedan chair. I look forward to the life of husband and wife, husband and wife, husband and wife, husband and child.

But I didn't expect to be elected to the palace and become a concubine.

When it comes to the palace, her first thought is cold. There are thousands of women in the palace, and most of them can only spend their lives in the cold. Even if you are not careful, you will die in Huangquan.

In short, the feeling of the palace for her is cold.

It's just that when I was just brought in, I didn't see the countless warblers and swallows I imagined, and I didn't have that cold feeling, and the whole garden was very quiet.

Gu Hanyan was thinking about his thoughts nervously, when suddenly the two maids by the door squatted down together, "King Qin's holy peace is blessed." ”

Gu Hanyan's heart trembled, and he hurriedly got up, but he saw a man in his twenties, wearing a black cross-collared Confucian shirt, with a slender and straight figure, and a handsome appearance, at first glance, he looked like a scholar who entered Beijing to take the exam.

She didn't dare to look at it more, so she hurriedly bowed down: "Meet King Qin." ”

"Are you sure I'm the King of Qin?" Qin Muha smiled and asked the maid to fetch a fire fox light coat.

Gu Hanyan didn't dare to get up, and he didn't know how to answer, looking very embarrassed.

Qin Mu put the fire fox's light coat on her, tightened it, and then took her hand and walked out.

"King Qin Qin"

"If you're shy, don't talk, just follow me."

Gu Hanyan didn't dare to struggle, so he let Qin Mu take his hand downstairs, walked through the corridor, bypassed the pond, and walked along the path between the flowers, and when he came to the small door in the backyard, Gu Hanyan felt wrong.

Is this going out of the house? She became more and more uneasy in her heart, it stands to reason that she had just entered the mansion, even if she did not perform the worship ceremony like ordinary people, and then sent her into the cave room, but as soon as she entered the mansion, she was led out of the back door, didn't she dare to think down, her feet were so soft that she could barely walk.

Qin Mu felt her little hands trembling slightly, turned around and smiled and comforted: "Don't be afraid, I won't sell you, even if this king wants to sell, someone has to dare to buy it, halu ha."

"That"

"What then?" Qin Mu turned around and helped her button her coat, the first time she was so close to a man, her palms were full of sweat.

Qin Mu was a little funny, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, just follow your husband to the street, the sky is falling, and your husband is on top of it, look, I brought a lot of money, wait for what you like, just say, buy it all for you." ”

Qin Mu said and took out a bundle of banknotes, and shook it with a proud face.

Gu Hanyan's small mouth as thin as a cherry opened slightly, and the surprise in his heart had overshadowed the fear.

She lowered her head and whispered, "King Qin, the slave doesn't want to buy anything." ”

"That's not good, our task today is to spend all this money, haluha"

Qin Mu smiled and took her hand out of the small door, outside the door, a four-person sedan chair was waiting by the door, Niu Wanshan, Li Shi and others all changed into civilian clothes and guarded around the sedan chair.

"Relax, it's not to go to the battlefield, let them all stay away, and be so tight that I'm afraid that others won't know the identity of the king, right?" Qin Mu was very dissatisfied with Niu Wanshan and the others looking like they were facing a great enemy, and after speaking, he took Gu Meiren's hand and left the sedan chair.

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PS: It's been so hot these days, and I've been sitting in front of the computer for a long time, and I feel a pain in my eyebrows. Well, remind all brothers to pay attention to heatstroke prevention and cooling, and take care of the dragon body.

I still ask for a monthly pass, and the ranking is being pulled farther and farther away, and the situation is not good! Brothers have a monthly pass in hand, please support it, and bow down!.

(To be continued......)