Chapter 21: The Imperial Examination Release! Failed?
Chapter 21: The imperial examination results are released! Failed?
Imperial Examination Result Release Day!
An unexpected guest came to Li Xingyun's home.
In the main hall, Li Xingyun and Qin Keqing were sitting on the main seats respectively, while Zhou Zhong, an eighth-grade scholar, was just standing in front of the hall.
In the past, it was absolutely impossible for Li Xingyun to suppress an eighth-grade scholar based on his status alone, and he would unconsciously feel an invisible pressure.
But now, even though he has just been promoted to the rank of Tongsheng, he is also a practitioner of Confucianism and Taoism. There is a watershed before and after the imperial examination. The difference between the rank of Tongsheng and the scholar is not very big.
Zhou Zhong had found out a few days ago that the Mingzhou poem in Chang'an was really written by Li Xingyun!
That means that Li Xingyun is a former saint. Even if he is an eighth-grade scholar, it is impossible for him to attack Li Xingyun. He is destined to be unable to escape the eyes and ears of the saint.
This is the only good thing about the Confucian lineage. Killing each other will not happen easily. Generally, if there is any grudge, it is normal to ask the Holy Judge, unless the consequences are ignored.
Zhou Zhong was sent by the prince, and he only received some hush money from the eldest lady, so he would not lose his life because of it.
The imperial examination results were released today, and he was just here for a formality and a routine inspection.
But...it seems like Li Xingyun and Qin Keqing looked at him a little unkindly?
Zhou Zhong looked suspicious, and muttered in his heart: "Since he is not dead, he doesn't know the truth about why the white-clothed warlock killed him, right?"
He didn't follow the white-clothed warlock at the time, and he didn't know what exactly happened.
I came here this time just because I didn't participate. If you want to remove it completely, you can do it.
After regaining his composure, Zhou Zhong coughed and opened the conversation: "Your Majesty, I heard that a poem Mingzhou published in Chang'an a few days ago was written by you. Congratulations on becoming a child before the saint, so that you have the opportunity to return to the palace, and you can also be with you
Mother met."
Li Xingyun put one hand on the table next to him and said with a smile: "Why is Zhou Xiucai the only one here today? I remember that there were two people visiting from the palace that day."
Zhou Zhong's heart skipped a beat, secretly thinking that the other party did indeed know something.
But he did not take action. Even when faced with the Confucian method of "being honest" with the great scholar, he dared to say that he did not participate in the killing of Li Xingyun.
Turning a blind eye to something is morally untenable at best, so how can he be said to be an accomplice?
Therefore, he pretended not to know and responded: "He said he had important matters to go back to. I shouldered the prince's instructions and stayed in Chang'an to wait for the imperial examination to be over before going back with the prince."
"Really?" Li Xingyun didn't have the slightest kindness, and his tone was cold.
Regardless of whether Zhou Zhong was involved or not, he had to keep an eye on it.
Zhou Zhong couldn't explain it for a while, and the corners of his mouth twitched in apology.
At the same time, a Confucian scholar walked into the main courtyard of the Li family.
The Confucian scholar shouted: "Ziqing! The Academy of Liberal Arts has released the results! Do you want to go and take a look together?"
When Gu Qinghui walked from the courtyard to the main hall, he suddenly felt that the atmosphere in the main hall was a bit subtle.
Isn't this person someone sent by Ye Mansion? Gu Qinghui met Zhou Zhong once when he first came here, and his memory is still fresh.
"Ziqing, you have guests here."
"Don't worry, I also came to see the prince to see the imperial examination list." Zhou Zhong said with a smile.
Li Xingyun saw that his mind was extremely active, and it was hard to tell whether the other party was involved behind the scenes.
So he stood up from the chair, glanced at the charming woman beside him, and invited her, "Sister Qing, would you like to go and see her together?"
"Okay." Qin Keqing stood up happily with a smile on her pink cheeks.
"Tsk tsk..." Seeing this, Gu Qinghui kept shaking his head and making jokes.
"Stop looking at me with that leering look, let's go." Li Xingyun responded with an annoyed glare.
"Hey! How come you, a former saint, use words so randomly!" Gu Qinghui was speechless and stopped smiling.
The three of them walked together. Zhou Zhong followed behind silently.
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Literary Academy!
On the day when the imperial examination results are released, it is destined to be crowded, far more people than on the day of the imperial examination in Chunwei!!
Because this is a new batch of young students! After setting foot on Confucianism and Taoism, their future achievements will be limitless.
Many people come here to meet new friends, and some people like to invest in new students, such as the head of this imperial examination!
Being able to get the first rank in the imperial examination means that one is an extremely outstanding person among this group of Confucian scholars and can stand out.
The first childbirth case in the past years was at least awarded a humanities title.
"Hurry! The Academy of Liberal Arts is ready to release the results!"
"Don't panic. Anyway, the Literary Academy will read out the list in public, and the entire Holy Mountain can hear it."
"It's safest to wait until the list is posted and compare it in person."
"I don't know who will win the first prize this year. In the past, only the most outstanding people can stand out. There are tens of thousands of students in Wannian County, and only one can win the first prize. You can imagine how difficult it is."
"How about Li Xingyun, who wrote the poem "Clear water brings out hibiscus, and nature removes the carvings" a few days ago? Can he win the case?
"I know him and studied with him at Jixian Academy. Putting aside his poems, judging from his past performance, being on the list is already a saint's blessing. Unless he can have another epiphany, at least one of his poems will be released from the county.
Only with top-notch poems can we compete for the position at the head of the case."
"It's a pity. It's rare to be able to compose a Mingzhou poem, but he chose to use it on his maid. This guy doesn't live up to expectations."
"How about Xue Li'an from Zhongtang Academy? I remember that he is very good at writing about lovesickness. This year's topic selection is a big hit for him. He should be able to get the first grade, right?"
"Poetry may be able to compete for the A-level, but this year's policy questions are extremely difficult, so we still have to look at other people."
When Li Xingyun and others arrived at the outskirts of the Academy, they found that the mountains here were full of dark figures.
One-tenth of the population of Wannian County has gathered here, more than 100,000 people, which is a spectacular sight! The stone steps leading up the mountain are completely crowded.
"It's like this every year. A group of people who didn't take part in the imperial examination are more excited than those of us who took part." Gu Qinghui looked at the people on the mountain and couldn't help but sigh.
"Normal scholars don't come as late as you. Other scholars get up early just to get to the first row." Zhou Zhong chuckled and seemed to recall: "I think back when I took the imperial examination and the results were announced,
Before dawn, I went to the entrance of the liberal arts college and waited."
"There are only a hundred places for children to be born. If we give him a place just because he arrives early, then why do we need to take the imperial examination!" Gu Qinghui said sarcastically.
Zhou Zhong was dumbfounded. All the scholars he had met in the past had strict self-requirements for Confucianism and Taoism, but he had never seen anyone with Gu Qinghui's personality.
When I looked at Li Xingyun, who was quietly standing side by side with Qin Keqing, he was also a monster.
Saint Qian Tongsheng, in his Qin Dynasty where martial arts and Confucianism coexisted, it was rare to see one in ten years.
It was also extremely rare in the Tang Dynasty, and it was rare to see a former saint in three years.
Although his cultivation talent is not as good as that of Ye Lingyun, who has the appearance of a martial god, it shouldn't be too far behind.
"Look at the front." Qin Keqing said softly with a blushing face: "If there is movement in the crowd, the announcement should be made."
Li Xingyun looked away from her face with a knowing smile and turned to look into the distance.
Tong Sheng's eyes could see very far. Even if he was on the periphery of the crowd, he could vaguely see movement at the gate of the Academy of Literature.
"They are the three examiners." He told the origin of the people who released the results.
"Tongsheng's God-given ability can greatly improve his eyesight. I'm envious." Even if Gu Qinghui stood on tiptoes, he couldn't clearly see the movement at the entrance of the liberal arts college. There was only a black undulation of human heads.
Soon, the huge crowd began to become commotion.
Because the emperor of the academy, Lu Huan, was already holding the name list, he wanted to untie the seals in public and read out the names of those who were promoted to Tongsheng.
At this most exciting moment, although the crowd was in a commotion, they also lowered their voices a lot, for fear that they would not be able to hear their names.
"In this spring imperial examination, Wannian County selects hundreds of Confucian scholars, who will have the opportunity to enter the holy temple, receive talent initiation opportunities, and be promoted to the title of Tongsheng!"
When Lord Lu Huan spoke, his voice came down like spring thunder, exploding in everyone's ears.
Tongue bursts with spring thunder!
As long as you reach Juren Realm, you can obtain the God-given ability. Lu Huan only uses the basic ability of spring thunder with his tongue. Those with strong strength can spit thunder from their mouth, which is extremely destructive.
"Holy Lord, please listen!"
"Top 100 in the Tongsheng Examination! The examination room of 'Autumn No. 5'! Yang Cheng!! Results of the Tongsheng Examination: B in Mo Yi, B in Tie Jing, B in Policy Questions, B in Poems!"
Lu Huan reported the first name and the results of his child examination.
When Yang Cheng heard the correspondence between his name and the examination room in the crowd, his heart almost jumped out of his chest.
Her eyes were even more excited, wanting to see who could hug whom.
"Mom and Dad, my child has passed the exam!! I am a child student!!" Yang Cheng's cheers spread around, and his excitement infected a large number of people around him.
Some people came forward and took the initiative to make friends, while others showed envious eyes.
Some people even felt a chill in their hearts.
"It's over, it's over. The 100th-placed boy has two B-level scores. With my level of writing and copying scriptures, I'm afraid it's hard to reach this level. This year is considered over."
"I just hope that there are not so many outstanding students from other counties and the places can be postponed."
"I didn't expect that the 100th child had two grades of B-level. The students in this class in your county are considered to be extremely outstanding." After hearing the results, Zhou Zhong commented.
In the children's examination, as long as you get a C or D in any of the four categories, it will not be counted as a pass.
Therefore, among the two hundred test papers, the judging standard is to eliminate those with grades C and D, and the remaining ones will be sorted from high to low, and the top 100 will be selected.
If there are people with Grade C among the top 100, it means that this class of students is really not good, and they can't even make up for the 100 students who have seen it in the past.
In that case, the quota will be deferred to other counties.
At least now it seems that the students in this class of Wannian County are pretty good. The 100th-ranked children all have two grades from B Middle School. If we look at this in previous years, at least the 100th-ranked children will have two grades.
Among the twenty or thirty students, there is not a single student with grades from B Middle School.
Li Xingyun was already a former saint, so his emotions were not affected by that person much.
There’s quite a sense of “that’s it?”
Although Gu Qinghui had acted casually before, when the critical moment came, he still yearned for it.
Several people continued to look at the front of the Academy of Arts, where the Lord of the Academy was continuing to read.
"Ninety-ninth place in the Tongsheng Examination! The 'Xing Zi No. 3' examination room! Cheng Congratulations! Tongsheng Examination results: B in Moyi, B in Tie Jing, B in Policy Questions, B in Poems!"
"The eighty-seventh place in the Tongsheng Examination! The examination room of 'Chen Zi No. 4'! Tong Xiu!! The results of the Tongsheng Examination: B in Mo Yi, B in Tie Jing, B in Policy Questions, B in Poems!"
It wasn't until the 87th place that everyone noticed the slight difference in results.
The eighty-seventh place's results are already B-level, which means that the results further down the list must have at least three B-level results before they can surpass them.
"The 62nd place in the Tongsheng Examination! The examination room of 'Fazi No. 5'! Cheng Wenjie!! The results of the Tongsheng Examination: B in Mo Yi, B in Tie Jing, B in Policy Questions, B in Poems!"
"No. 51 in the Tongsheng Examination! The 'Bing Zi No. 6' examination room! Jinghao!! Tongsheng Examination results: B in Mo Yi, B in Tie Jing, B in Policy Questions, B in Poems!"
Jing Hao was a little unbelievable when his name was read out.
When he took the exam, he felt that his poems had been developed beyond the ordinary and that he had some sudden enlightenment in his poetry. He originally thought that he would be able to get a top grade and be ranked in the top 30, but he never thought that he would only be ranked 51st.
However, as long as you become a child student, there is no difference between being ranked fifty-first and being ranked thirty. The only difference is who is the winner of the crime.
"There's still half left..." Gu Qinghui clenched his fists with both hands on his back. He was not weak in his life, but the results the other party read were somewhat different from what he expected.
"My understanding of my Mo Yi and Sutras is that I am in the B-level in two categories. If I am not in the top fifty, then at least one of my policy questions and poetry must be in the B-level.
Or hit the B mark in both items.”
"This... I am not very good at poetry, but I am just a question-and-answer..."
Gu Qinghui brainstormed for a while.
"Don't worry yet, there are still fifty people left." Li Xingyun noticed Gu Qinghui's strangeness, patted him on the shoulder and said loudly.
"Thirty-eighth place in the Tongsheng Examination! The 'Dizi No. 4' examination room! Cheng Yangyong!! Results of the Tongsheng Examination: B in Mo Yi, B in Tie Jing, B in Policy Questions, B in Poems!"
“Seventeenth place in the Tongsheng Examination! ‘Zhenzi No. 5’ examination room! Shu Lin!! Tongsheng Examination results: B in Mo Yi, B in Tie Jing, B in Policy Questions, B in Poems!”
The more the president of the hospital, Lu Huan, reported, the more complicated Gu Qinghui's mood became.
When he was not in the top 30, he was slightly excited, thinking that he could enter the top 30.
When he was no longer in the dozen, he started to panic a little, thinking that his ability to be in the dozen must be considered a saint's favor.
It wasn't until he reached the top three that he became numb.
Third place!
Being able to get a top grade in poetry talent is enough to make the surrounding students extremely envious.
There are only two people left, Li Xingyun and Gu Qinghui, whose names have not appeared yet.
At this time, Gu Qinghui was a little panicked: "Is it true that my advice is not well-received? Did I fail the exam?"
Li Xingyun was also a little weird: "I should be able to get an A for my poems and poems, but it's hard to say for the rest. Ce Wen doesn't know if the examiners are optimistic about it. The other two scores should be a decent B. If so.
Among the four results, if you get an A in poetry and a C in policy questions, how do you choose? Whether you will be in the top two or fail, it depends on what happens next."