In order to celebrate his uncle's passing the Jinshi examination, Song Ziling took out the last bit of beef fried sauce at noon and mixed the rice with Lin Chen and Lin Buyu.
Mei Zhu Girls' School
When Song Ziyu entered the girls' school today, she found many noble girls greeting her with a smile.
Wei Lanzhi, the second daughter of Wei Guogong's Mansion in Meiban, invited her to have tea at Wei Guogong's Mansion after school. Naturally, Song Ziyu did not refuse and went happily. The tea had not even started yet! Wei Lanzhi asked about her uncle.
After drinking tea for an hour at Duke Wei's mansion, Song Ziling also understood that Wei Lanzhi wanted to be her aunt.
There are also those noble ladies who usually don't even look at her when they see her, but today they greet her enthusiastically. They greet her because of their uncle, and they all want to be her aunt.
She just wants to be friends, sisters, and besties with them, but they just want to be her aunt.
This feeling makes Song Ziyu very uncomfortable, because the ladies who are friends with her are either because of her uncle or her mother, or they use her as a scapegoat. No one really wants to be with Song Ziyu.
People make friends.
Song Ziyu and the other girls were taking a break from school that day. Mrs. Liu also heard that Shen Ming was promising. Not only was he a Jinshi, but he was also ranked first, so he asked Song Ziyu to visit her uncle.
"I'm not going." Song Ziyu, who was still giving Liu a shoulder, pouted and turned away.
"Why don't you go? That's your biological uncle, and you don't want to see your mother?" Although Ms. Liu was quite dissatisfied with Shen Wan and Li, she thought that it was the Song family that was sorry for her, so why not?
Dissatisfaction can be ignored.
Song Ziyu thought about what she had said to her uncle before. Now that he had won the Jinshi, she naturally had no shame to see him. Moreover, if she went now, she would still have the feeling of currying favor with her uncle because of his future prospects.
, she doesn’t want to go!
Besides, her mother was the one who was moving out of the General's Mansion, so why did she want to see her? Although she also asked her to go with her, why should she let the eldest lady of the General's Mansion not follow her!
Song Ziyu bit her lip and said, "I just won't go anyway."
Mrs. Liu shook her head and said: "Forget it, if you don't want to go, then don't go!"
After saying that, Mrs. Liu looked out the window and said, "Why hasn't your father come back yet?"
On the day of the palace examination, Shen Ming got up early. After burning incense and bathing, he ate some breakfast and took a carriage to the palace.
In the Jinluan Hall, Xuanyuan Yu was sitting on a high seat, looking at the Jinshi below who were writing strategies.
After scanning a circle, his eyes fell on a young man in Tsing Yi sitting in the middle. The young man's back was straight and he was holding a brush in his hand. He was writing the decree calmly and calmly,
Those eyebrows and eyebrows look a bit familiar.
He waved to the prince standing aside and motioned for him to come forward.
"Your Majesty," the prince called in a low voice.
Xuanyuan Yu pointed at Shen Ming but did not speak.
The prince leaned over and whispered softly: "That is Chunwei's number one Shen Ming."
Xuanyuan Yu nodded and waved his hand to the prince, who stepped aside again.
It turned out to be Shen Wan's younger brother. He said that his features looked familiar! He also knew that Chunwei's number one was Shen Wan's younger brother, but he didn't know what Shen Ming looked like.
This palace examination requires these students who have won the Jinshi to write a policy essay within the time of two sticks of incense. Writing a policy essay in front of the emperor not only tests the true talents and learning of these Jinshi, but also their psychological quality.
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There were a few Jinshi who were not mentally well-educated, and their hand holding the pen was shaking. Although they managed to write an article, the words were so crooked that even they did not dare to look directly at them.
There was also a timid one who just burned one stick of incense and passed away.
With a look of disgust on his face, Xuanyuan Yu had people drag him down and revoked his title of Jinshi. Such a cowardly person had no qualifications to serve as an official in the court.
After the two sticks of incense were burned, the father-in-law in the palace collected the strategies written by the Jinshi. They distributed them to the Hanlin Academy academicians and several cabinet ministers to read. The ministers exchanged and read them, and then kept the good ones. Let the emperor see it.
During this period of time, the Jinshi were sitting in their seats waiting.
The Hanlin scholars and cabinet ministers compiled the ten policy papers they thought were best in order and presented them to the emperor.
Xuanyuan Yu smiled when he saw the strategy at the top, with the word "Shen Ming" written on it. Then, he read it very attentively.
After reading all ten policy papers, Xuanyuan Yu had already made a decision in his mind. Except for the second place which was slightly different from the ministers', the rest remained basically unchanged.
Two hours later, Shen Ming, wearing the No. 1 Scholar uniform and No. 1 Scholar hat, appeared on the street riding a tall horse with a bouquet on its head, and the No. 3 overall pick and No. 2 pick, both appointed by the emperor.
This is the tradition of the Dongchen Kingdom. The top pick, the second top pick, and the top pick are all paraded through the streets.