It is said that Li You was in charge of the brothel beauty examination, and hundreds of flowers bloomed for a while, and there were many beauties waiting to be chosen. The date of the beauty examination was chosen two days before the college examination, April 23rd.
When the news reached Shi Shenzheng's ears, he just smiled contemptuously and said: "This generation indulges in sensuality and seeking comfort, so there is nothing to worry about."
Why didn't Mr. Shi take advantage of the victory and impeach Mr. Li on the charge of immorality? Once Li You joined forces with so many young men from local wealthy families, it was a bit overwhelming.
Secondly, Mr. Shi did not believe that Li Tuiguan was unprepared. He must have prepared his rhetoric about teaching without distinction, demonstrating enlightenment, and persuading people to do good.
Thirdly, Mr. Li has been greatly sympathized by public opinion recently, which has led to Mr. Shi having a reputation of being unreasonable. He doesn't care about this, but he still cares about it in his heart. If he continues to add insult to injury, he will use this kind of thing that the people like to hear and see as an excuse.
Punishing Li Tuiguan for crimes would further solidify the rumor of being narrow-minded among the people.
However, it was said that Li You insisted on setting up the Flower Examination Institute near the Gongyuan of Suzhou Prefecture. Everyone thought that Mr. Li was out of anger and used this method to increase his presence. After all, there were hundreds of idle scholars wandering around.
At noon that day, business was booming in a nearby restaurant. Ten-tenths of the guests sitting on the seats were all literati, and most of them were children who were here to take exams. There were many people chatting and exchanging information.
Six people were sitting around the Eight Immortals table in the back of the lobby. The youngest among them held a piece of paper and lowered his head to read. Suddenly he slapped the table and shouted: "I missed a question!"
What a shocking sentence. Don't forget that the time for the hospital exam is not far away. It is so sensitive to miss the word "question". The whole restaurant was silent, and everyone looked at it. Some were angry, some were hopeful, some were flattering, and some were fawning.
Contemptuous, disbelieving...
The young man realized something was wrong, raised his head, looked around, and said with a smile: "Brother, I'm talking about the flower test. I saw the post about the flower test and I was so excited that I became speechless. I disturbed everyone. I'm sorry."
It turned out that it was the flower test arranged by Mr. Li, not the college test. I was so nervous for a while... everyone laughed and passed.
"In my generation, the imperial examination involves fame and fortune, and people's hearts are corrupted. The powerful can cheat and pass. Now this is just a game in the brothel examination area, and there are scandals like missing questions. It's really embarrassing!" The young man shook his head and said,
It sparked a lot of discussion.
"How could I miss the question? These bosses are not short of money."
"It's really my humble opinion. If a beautiful candidate can promise her with her body and seduce others with her sex, it's not worth talking about."
"We are both candidates, but we are very different. If I want to commit myself, who will accept me?"
"Seniors, tell me, are those principals working together to hold the exam for this purpose? It's really enviable."
If you know someone passing by, you will definitely find that the aphasic young man is none other than Li Zheng, a boy student in Xujiang. He got a sponsorship from Li You and used Meng Chang's style to make literary friends among the boys who were rushing to take the exam.
Li Zheng didn't lie. The questions for this flower test really leaked out early. It was passed around and it almost became an open secret, and even the examiner didn't come forward to deny it.
Every candidate who got the news first cursed the dead examiner whose belt was like paper. He would collapse on someone's bedside sooner or later! After that, they all found gunmen to do the work for them. Anyway, there were many scholars at this time, and some even paid as much as one hundred taels.
Asking for a big deal.
"What's going on!" Zhao Liangli asked Li You: "Why did the question get exposed? The test papers have been printed! Now everyone knows that the flower test has seven rhymes and five poems with the title of Chungui, right?"
Li You replied nonchalantly: "That's the question."
Zhao Liangli was very surprised, "You are the examiner, and only you know the questions you asked. Which capable girl can charm you and trick you into taking the questions?"
"I spread it on purpose."
"Why?!"
"You also said that most of the talented girls in brothels are actually unable to compose poems. Leaving out the questions will help them prepare in advance, so that they will not make a fool of themselves in the examination room, and it will also save you and me from hosting a bad performance. Besides, those beauties will have to find a gunman to write for them.
Wouldn’t it expand the influence of this flower test? Besides, the more outstanding the beauty, the better the gunman will naturally find, so it’s almost inevitable. This is not a national talent promotion ceremony, so why should we be so serious.”
"That makes sense!" Zhao Liangli applauded and praised, "But Chen Mengxiang, Zhang Lenglan, Qi Xiaoxia and other girls who are recognized as talented in the government will suffer a loss. I'm afraid they won't be able to convince the public."
Li You deceived and said: "It's easy to say, these people will go to the front first. The rankings at the back will be determined according to the situation."
Official Zhao was persuaded by Li You and returned home satisfied. He could also explain to his friends when he went back.
There is a saying that celebrities and beauties love each other. A celebrity should be surrounded by beauties, and a beauty should be supported by celebrities. It can be seen that prostitutes and literati really complement each other and make use of each other. Well, this does not exclude the natural world.
There is a phenomenon of true love.
Nowadays, after the flower test became popular, the question was missed again. As soon as the beauties put their efforts into it, they read a large number of incompetent astronomy and Luo Caizi's masterpieces. Those who were well prepared already had dozens of songs to choose from. The beauties competed, and the literati also followed suit.
After exhausting one's brains, the open competition became even fiercer, reaching a fever pitch.
The ones in Fucheng were fine. Those who came from various counties set their sights on the scholars who came to Fucheng to take the exam and were famous for their poetic talents, and fully exploited the resources. Under the dual temptation of money and beauty, for a time, the candidates were constantly reciting poems and composing sentences.
, many want to become famous with a poem, and to be the guest of that beautiful lady who will show off in front of others.
In the end, everyone discovered that Chief Li's move was too cruel. But the situation had reached such a level that everyone on the pirate ship could not get off, so they had no choice but to stop and feel like dying.
What’s more deceiving is that these days, no matter what kind of exam, you have to study the taste and preferences of the examiner, but judging from Examiner Li’s works, the styles are varied and there are all kinds of styles. Who knows what type he admires the most, called
More than sixty beautiful candidates were extremely confused when choosing their answers.
If the above is still an open competition, the intensity of the secret competition is no less intense.
On this day, official Zhao came to Li You again. He became angry and slapped the poster printed that day in front of Li You. "You need to explain! Is this what the craftsmen were hired to do?"
Li You glanced at it and wrote on it: "Today's news reports let you know that the flower test is about to happen, and there was an endless stream of things to do yesterday. Yao Xing'er, a famous flower in Xujiang, and Lou Xinyue visited his old friend Li Tuiguan one after another with a green lantern and a candle.
After a long talk, Chen Mengxiang, a talented girl from Fucheng, met Xiaoxia and fell in love with Mr. Zhao, who stayed out all night in the dark. And..."
Zhao Daguan of Game Life is not angry about the fabricated scandal, but it is difficult to understand Li You's behavior. Doesn't writing like this clearly say that there may be fraud in the flower test, and it is purely exposing his own ugliness.
"I asked them to write it like this. Anyway, it was just a show to make everyone laugh. How could anyone regard this as a real imperial examination?" Li You said calmly.
"Then what do you mean by writing randomly like this?" Zhao Liangli could not understand Li You's thoughts more and more.
Scandals and sex scandals are the only magic weapon to attract attention in any era... Li Youdao: "Do others like to see it? Since they do, I will write this on the post. If you write it, others will like to see it more. The more noisy, the more people will pay attention to the flower exam."
Do you want others to be indifferent?"
Zhao Liangli didn't quite understand Li You's theory, so he finally had to say: "No matter what, don't write about my private interactions with the beauties participating in the flower test! I am an innocent person."
"Okay, then I won't write about you anymore." Li You agreed.
So the next day's seal read: "Today's Newspaper and everyone knows that Mr. Zhao San has suddenly become an unpopular figure and has been treated coldly by all the prostitutes. No one cares about him all day long. The inside story needs to be investigated, and it is guessed as follows
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As expected, as Li You had expected, as soon as the daily notices written and printed by him came out, people all over the city rushed to see them and use them as talking points. It had the effect of being expensive in Luoyang. During this period, even the storyteller started talking about it as soon as he opened his mouth.
: "Today's news is for you all to know..."
"This news reports that everyone knows that Gu Xiaotong, the flower of Huqiu, denounced prostitutes in various counties and said: Countryside peasant women!"
"Today's news reports that I would like to inform you that Kunshan Tan Suqing scolded Gu Xiaotong and said: You are no better than a native chicken outside the city!"
"This news reports that everyone knows that Yao Xing'er of Xujiang has vowed to win the first prize, and those who fail will become a monk. Cui Liyun, who is in the city of Hao, ridiculed him and called him a frog at the bottom of the well."
"This news report tells you that Xujianglou Xinyue and Changshu Du Shuangting lived in the same store, and they had a quarrel with each other, and the attendants yelled and cursed each other for half a day."
"I would like to inform everyone that the fight between dozens of children from Changshu County and Xujiang County had nothing to do with Huakao.
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It is no exaggeration to say that this flower test has attracted much attention and people's concern.
It seems that there is an invisible big hand full of magic that is secretly arranging everything. Unfortunately, people these days have not experienced the various ravages of the information age. Their resistance and immunity are really not high, and the enthusiasm of people is easily provoked by novel situations.
stand up.
When the exam started on April 23, crowds of people watching the entrance of the beautiful candidates filled the streets for miles. Twelve directors urgently mobilized hundreds of servants to maintain order at the entrance.
When the examiner Li You saw this scene, he actually remembered the bizarre red carpet ceremony at the film festival in his previous life.
The roll call, inspection, entry and other procedures were completed, and those role-playing game players did not fully get what they wanted... There were thousands of pairs of irritated eyes staring at them, and there was no atmosphere to tease the beautiful candidates. I couldn't help but complain in my heart.
Li You hyped things up too much.
There is no need to go into details about the examination process, nor about Chief Li’s examination paper rankings. The flower list was released on the 24th.
There are ten people on the list, and the top three are Xujiang Yao Xing'er, Xujiang Lou Xinyue, and Xiatang Lu Qiyu.
There are twenty people on the second list and thirty people on the third list. Among them, Chen Mengxiang, Zhang Lenglan, Qi Xiaoxia and other famous and talented women all fell into the third list.
After reading the list, public opinion was in an uproar, and cries of injustice could not be heard.
I have seen black people, but I have never seen such black people so shocking that the ghosts and gods will weep. Two of the top three on the flower list are the examiner's old friends from the same hometown, and one is the examiner's new benefactor. However, a recognized talented woman was knocked down to the third list.
…No real imperial examination would dare to blatantly cheat to such an extent!
Looking back again, this flower test has been full of scandals and shady stories from the beginning!
