The rise of the poor

Chapter 354

In the early morning, the red sun slowly rises, slowly revealing the horizon, just like a bride wearing a red hijab at night with candles in a bridal chamber, slowly lifts off her hijab, revealing a blushing pretty face, shyly looking down at the earth.

"This damn sun, what are you doing up so early, the young master has to get up early too!"

In the courtyard of Zhu Ping'an's guest room in the Marquis of Linhuai, the bear boy looked at the eastern sky with bitterness and hatred, and stretched out his chubby hand to draw it in the air. Take it as a pancake and pull it down!

Zhu Pingan couldn't help but smile as he looked at the bitter boy holding the book.

Ever since the palace examination was over, Marquis Linhuai urged him to send the bear boy to him early.

Zhu Pingan likes to get up early to practice calligraphy. Although he is fully able to practice calligraphy with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone now, he is used to dipping a brush in water to practice calligraphy on a wooden board, so he practiced calligraphy early in the morning according to the old habit.

While Zhu Pingan practiced calligraphy, he also fulfilled his duties as a teacher, urging the poor boy to read in the morning, even if the bear child had a thousand reasons, all of them failed in Zhu Pingan's case, and he had to hold the book. read.

In the yard besides the bear child, there is also a little loli, the little loli who claims to be Niu'er.This little loli also likes to run to Zhu Ping'an these days, because Zhu Ping'an will tell stories every time when she is tired from reading and practicing calligraphy.Whether it's a fairy tale or the story of the little monkey that jumped out of the rock, little Lori couldn't move her feet.So every time the little Lolita used the excuse of accompanying Brother Rui to study, and refused to leave.

Of course, the same is true for a certain bear child. Although he is not happy with Zhu Pingan, whenever Zhu Pingan tells stories, the bear child always looks like "my brother-in-law abused me thousands of times, and I treat my brother-in-law like first love", With a fat face horizontally, he listened with gusto.

After practicing calligraphy in the morning, the servants of the Marquis of Linhuai also brought breakfast for the three of them.Lean meat porridge, hors d'oeuvres, three hot dishes of meat and vegetables, and some steamed buns and eggs.

It looks very appetizing.

Bear boy was very upset because Zhu Pingan supervised his studies. When he was eating breakfast, his fat face was full of provocations. No matter what Zhu Pingan said, he would answer.

Looking at the provocative fat face of the bear boy, Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but smiled, and then mysteriously picked up an egg from the table, held it in his hand, looked at the sun, and then touched it left and right with his fingers, He put it under his nose and sniffed, and finally pinched his fingers to make the final calculation, and said solemnly:

"It's an egg laid by a hen."

Hearing the words, the bear child was full of doubts, and immediately retorted provocatively with a fat face, "How do you know? I don't believe it!"

Little Lolita, who was sipping porridge by the table, couldn't help but roll her eyes when she heard what the bear said, "Brother Rui, you idiot, it must be a hen that lays eggs, because roosters don't lay eggs!"

Damn, I got fooled again!
The porridge in Xiongzi's mouth choked instantly, and his face turned black.
Zhu Ping'an had just finished his breakfast, and before he had time to clear the table, he heard the sound of chickens and dogs jumping outside the yard, and the sound of footsteps came over in a hurry.

"Young Master Zhu, Young Master Zhu, hurry up, hurry up, an imperial edict has arrived."

Just when Zhu Ping'an raised his head, he saw a steward leading several servants trotting into the yard as if they were being chased by dogs, talking in a hurry out of breath.

Holy decree?

Are you kidding me, this is the second day, isn't it three days before the palace exam is announced?In other words, there is no need for an imperial decree to be sent home to release the list, right?
Although Zhu Ping'an felt weird, he still followed the steward and went out. In the feudal era, the word "imperial decree" was worth more than a thousand gold, and he dared not disrespect anyone with the word "holy" if he was disrespectful.

When he got to the front hall, Zhu Ping'an didn't know what was going on, what imperial decree, it was just a little eunuch from the palace to tell Zhu Ping'an to go to the palace to meet the emperor.

According to the little eunuch's biography and his explanation, the matter is probably like this, according to the usual practice, after the minister of examination papers has finished marking the papers, he will present the ten best papers in the palace examination papers to the imperial examination, and present them in front of the emperor , unsealed the ten test papers, and revealed the personal information of the examinees. The emperor ranked the ten test papers, and selected the champion, second place, Tanhua, and the top seven of the second best.

In addition, the emperor will summon the owners of these ten test papers into the palace and meet them alone. This is what is known in history as "Xiao Zhuan Lu".

The rankings in the final palace examination, including champion, second place, top seven, etc., were all formally determined after the emperor summoned, and then the big and small gold lists were filled in, and the rankings were officially released three days after the palace examination.The release of the list in the palace examination is called "Da Chuan Lu" or "Chuan Lu Grand Ceremony".

This time the emperor's summoning was called "Xiao Chuan Lu", but the little eunuch said that the emperor personally read twenty test papers for the palace examination.

How does it feel like the modern civil service exam? The palace exam is a written exam, and the written exam score is in the top ten. No, this time it is in the top twenty. It means that you have passed the written exam and have the qualifications for an interview, that is, "Xiao Chuanlu".The emperor is the interviewer, and the position is finally determined after the interview. Three out of twenty are selected, No.1 champion, No.2 second place, and No.3 candidate.

Zhu Pingan followed the little eunuch, and rushed to Xiyuan in the carriage of the Houfu. On the way, Zhu Pingan gave the little eunuch a red envelope without any trace. There are a lot of precautions for face saints, which are very detailed.

After entering Xiyuan, Zhu Pingan was led by the little eunuch to praise the Marquis in a palace in Xiyuan. After about an hour or so, another little eunuch came in and looked at Zhu Pingan and said:

"Zhu Ping'an, Mr. Zhu, right? Your Majesty announces your audience."

"Thank you, father-in-law." Zhu Ping'an cupped his hands to thank the visitor.

"Your Majesty Zhu is polite, this way please." The little eunuch smiled and stretched out his hand to lead the way.

Following the little eunuch, Zhu Pingan walked step by step to the palace where Emperor Jiajing lived, and rushed to the appointment of Emperor Jiajing.By the way, this is meeting Jiajing alone, and I am still a little excited, and of course nervousness is inevitable.

Zhu Pingan walked with the little eunuch for about 10 minutes, and came to a magnificent palace. The palace is covered with golden glazed tiles, brackets and cornices. The stone carvings are also exquisite and gorgeous.The main colors of the entire palace are golden and red. There are two rows of stone steps outside the palace that can lead directly to the inside of the palace. In the middle of the two rows of stone steps, there is a jade carving that looks like a whole piece. It is very huge and stretches for several meters. A dragon rolling among the clouds.Under the sunshine in the morning, the sculpture of Shenlong seems to come alive, shaking its head and tail, with a magnificent style.

The royal demeanor made Zhu Pingan click his tongue.

"Master Zhu, please wait a moment, I will report." The little eunuch said after leading Zhu Pingan to the door.

"I'm sorry." Zhu Pingan slightly arched his hands.

(End of this chapter)