He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he swallowed it back. He just said: "I wonder how well Miss Wei's articles are written, and whether they can match her calligraphy."

Xiao Ge knew that Eunuch Xie was suggesting that he review the article first before speaking. So he nodded, picked up the test paper and started reading.

Eunuch Xie took a few steps back and quietly returned to where he originally stood.

After a while, he saw Xiao Ge slapping the table again: "Good article, good article."

After taking the photo, Xiao Ge dipped his pen in red ink and began to mark the words on the test paper. Judging from the speed and strength of his writing, Eunuch Xie knew that the emperor was very excited at this time. His pen was full of dragons and phoenixes, and he wrote almost a hundred words.

Then he stopped and breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing this scene, Eunuch Xie couldn't help but sigh.

Xiao Ge spent half an hour reviewing these papers.

Some articles have new ideas, and the suggestions given are refreshing and profound. He will taste them carefully and consider the meaning of the articles; although some articles are well-written and well-written, they have nothing new. Such articles Xiao Ge

I put it down after just one glance.

After finishing the review, he took a sip of tea, let out a long breath when he put down the tea cup, and said with a wry smile: "The time for trouble has come. According to my preferences, whether it is articles or calligraphy, Zhao Zhiwei is naturally the best. This champion

She is well-deserved and is better than all other tributes. But if I choose her to be the number one scholar, I don’t know how many people will be dissatisfied. It’s just dissatisfaction. I am not an emperor who is afraid of the dissatisfaction of his subordinates. It’s just..."

He shook his head, full of sighs: "If I choose her to be the number one scholar, she will have to become an official, and she must continue to serve as an official well. She cannot give up halfway. Otherwise, she will be criticized by the scholar-bureaucrats."

He raised his eyes and looked at Eunuch Xie: "Zhao Zhiwei, it's time to talk about marriage, right?"

"Yes." Mr. Xie said, "Miss Zhiwei is still a few months away from turning sixteen, which is the right age to talk about marriage."

Xiao Ge curiously asked: "Is she engaged?"

Because Zhao Zhiwei was outstanding in talent and learning, the emperor paid great attention to her, so Eunuch Xie also did his homework on this.

He shook his head and said: "No. Many people in Beijing came to propose marriage, but Suiping's house rejected them all."

Xiao Ge was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "Zhao Zhiwei is so amazing and talented, there are really not many men in the world who can match her. And such a woman, let her be confined to the back house to have children, so

This is a loss to our Dajin. Her marriage should not be agreed casually."

Eunuch Xie suddenly stepped forward, knelt down and gave a big salute to Xiao Ge: "Mr. Kumu entered the palace once before the palace examination. When he left, the old slave went to see him off. The old man asked the old slave to bring a few words to the emperor. The old man specially told the old slave.

, it must be said after the imperial examination, after the emperor has reviewed the examination papers, and before he wants to appoint a first-class Jinshi."

"Oh?" Xiao Ge sat up straight, "What are you talking about? Tell me."

"Mr. Kumu said that Miss Zhiwei's greatest wish in this life is to serve as an official in another place, see the great mountains and rivers of Jin Dynasty, understand and experience the people's livelihood and disease, and do something for the ordinary people below. Mr. Kumu said,

If Miss Zhiwei's articles are not in the eyes of the emperor and she has no chance of becoming a first-class Jinshi, there is no need to tell the emperor this."

Xiao Ge looked stunned for a moment.

After a long time, he finally said: "Just be flat."

He lowered his head and looked at Zhao Ruxi's test paper at the top. For some reason, he suddenly felt his nose was a little sore. It was because of Zhao Zhiwei's ambition, and also because of his cousin and junior sister's thoughts.

My cousin said this because Zhao Zhiwei wanted to go out and realize his ambitions, but more importantly, he didn't want to embarrass him, so he used this as an excuse to thank his father-in-law for saying this, right?

He looked at the test paper in silence for a long time, then took out the test paper below and looked at it.

Seeing this, Eunuch Xie moved his lips, but finally lowered his head and said no more.

…

After finishing the palace examination, Zhao Ruxi felt relaxed. She originally wanted to sleep in, but she still woke up on time at six o'clock.

These days, without mobile phones or computers, it is difficult to be lazy and decadent. Zhao Ruxi had to get up, go to the yard to practice boxing twice, take a bath, eat breakfast and practice a few words, earning two or three dollars.

Hundreds of points, and now it's nine points.

She changed her clothes, led Qing Feng, lit Jiang and went out. As soon as she walked to the hanging flower door, she met the concierge who came in to deliver the post.

"Girl, early this morning, more than a dozen people sent greetings and invitations. They said that the master is a tribute and participated in the palace examination with the girl." The porter said and handed the post to Dian Jiang.

If they were all invitations, Zhao Ruxi would have simply told her to leave them alone and let Qing Feng handle them after they came back.

But if you have a greeting card, you can't do this.

She frowned and sat on the corridor. She took the posts and looked through them one by one. She found that there were more than ten invitations, all of which invited her to participate in the literary party. And this literary party was in more than one place, and the date started the day after tomorrow.

, it won’t wait until a few days later.

There are two greeting cards, one is from Huiyuan Duan Chen, and the other is from a tribute named Lu Shanchu. The time when Lu Shanchu came to visit was the day after tomorrow, after the results of the palace examination came out; and the time when Duan Chen came to visit

It's this afternoon.

The list for the joint examination is basically the final list of Jinshi admissions. After the imperial examination, only minor adjustments will be made. So Zhao Ruxi once asked Xiaole to copy a copy of the admission list for the joint examination to understand the situation of this Jinshi.

She remembered that this Gongshi from Lushan was ranked fifth and was also a competitor for the first-class Jinshi.

As for what this man looked like, she didn't pay attention at all during the palace examination yesterday. If Duan Chen hadn't lined up alone in front of her and specifically turned his head to look at her, she wouldn't have had any impression of Duan Chen.

The concierge didn't get the girl's orders and didn't dare to leave. Instead, he watched from the side.

Seeing the girl looking through the two greeting cards, he explained: "The greeting card for Xianggong Duan came personally, and his attitude was very humble and polite; the greeting card for Xianggong Lu came from him.

The butler came to vote, and he said that his master would come to the door in person in two days to confirm whether the girl is willing to receive her, and whether he would mind if he brought his friends to the door."

The Suiping Mansion was very worried about Zhao Ruxi's marriage, even if the concierge was an old man in his fifties.

So he added at the end: "The two young masters are both seventeen or eight years old, and they are very handsome. Especially Mr. Duan, he is no worse than Mr. Wu from Dali Temple."

Wu Zong had been to Suiping Bo's Mansion several times, and the concierge knew him.
Chapter completed!