After making Bai Yingxuan's doll, Gu Wen made one for Cang Yuan.

This second doll looks even more refined than the first one, and has better attentiveness.

Bai Yingxuan saw the doll and smiled and said, "Young Master Chang, it seems that the old man likes you very much."

Although Cang Yuan's intelligence was reduced by love, he was also a smart and clever person after all. Hearing this, he looked at the two dolls and said, "Maybe it's Love House and Wu."

These words made Bai Yingxuan laugh, and Pan Long nodded secretly.

(This guy is still very good at talking!)

Of course he understood why the Cangyuan doll made by Gu Wen was more exquisite than the Bai Yingxuan doll. Gu Wen was a member of the Mo family, and the Mo family always focused on protecting civilians and fighting against the powerful. The reforms of Cangyuan and Emperor Luonan damaged the interests of the powerful and made civilians benefit, and naturally gained his appreciation.

But Gu Wen's explanation was: "I'm just familiar with my skills... I've never made a few such fine worker dolls. They were made for my brother and two nephews before. Being a man's doll is more skillful than a woman."

Cang Yuan smiled and asked, "Then your nephew didn't learn craftsmanship with you? I think your craftsmanship is not bad. After learning your ability to be a doll, you will never starve to death in your life."

Gu Wen lowered his head: "I am from Baixi County, Jingnan. Twenty years ago, I learned craftsmanship outside... Later, every year on their death anniversary, I made dolls for my brother and two nephews and paid tribute to the dolls."

He skipped a lot of things in the middle, but anyone who knew about the bloody storm twenty years ago understood what he meant.

Cang Yuan couldn't speak immediately, his face full of embarrassment.

The bloody white stream was one of the most famous things in Di Luonan's life. As Di Luonan's friend, of course, he knew a lot about it.

When he met Baixi Jieli, he felt a little uncomfortable.

Bai Yingxuan sighed and asked, "Old man, you are old, don't consider finding an apprentice, can you settle down?"

"Still...I can't settle down." Gu Wen sighed, "I tried to settle down a few years ago, but after living in the same place for more than a year, I started to have nightmares constantly. Only by walking around and seeing all kinds of people can I feel more comfortable... I think, maybe it was the time when I went back to pay tribute, and they were always following me."

Bai Yingxuan frowned and said, "There are various reasons for having nightmares, and the possibility of hitting evil is actually the smallest. I am also a doctor. Are you willing to let me take my pulse?"

Of course Gu Wen was willing, so Bai Yingxuan took his pulse for him, then pondered for a long time, and said, "You are accumulating depression, which has damaged your heart and brain, not a collision. I prescribe a prescription, you take medicine according to the prescription, drink it once a few days... It will take about three months to drink it, and you should have some effect. However, the so-called 'heart disease needs to be treated with the heart', the key is that you have to let go of the past in your heart - twenty years, and people cannot always live in the past."

Gu Wen smiled bitterly: "I am in my early forties this year and have not been in good health these years. I guess it's not a few years. That's it. Let go of the past or something... A monk told me about this back then, but I can't do it."

This is his situation, and Bai Yingxuan had no choice but to sigh.

Cang Yuan felt even more uncomfortable, thought for a while, and said, "I know many locals. Maybe I can go around in a circle and ask a certain imperial physician if there is any unique secret recipe to relieve depression. Old man, how long will you stay here?"

"I'll probably live after this fun."

"That's fine. Today is July 30th and August 15th. I will definitely find you a secret recipe for relieving depression!"

Cang Yuan patted his chest and said confidently.

Then, he and Bai Yingxuan went to the teahouse next to him, drank a cup of tea, chatted for a few words, and saw that the sky was approaching the end of Si (after 10 o'clock), so he apologized and agreed to see each other again on the seventh day of the lunar month and leave in a hurry.

After Bai Yingxuan also left, Pan Long smiled slightly, walked out of the corner of the teahouse, and walked out leisurely.

Of course he didn't believe what Gu Wen said.

This Mohist master is probably almost 200 years old this year. Even if he has, his brother and nephew have died for more than a hundred years.

As the top master of the Mo family's Tianji lineage, he is one of the most powerful masters in the world. It is naturally easy to deceive Bai Yingxuan and Cang Yuan, two people who have not even achieved the cultivation of returning to nature.

But... Looking at Gu Wen's somewhat melancholy expression from afar, Pan Long suddenly felt that perhaps the words Gu Wen said were not all lying.

There must be some sad past events in his heart.

"Oh! The young children are old in the world, who are old in the world, who are not sad about the past!" He couldn't help but sigh.

He thought of his grandfather Pan Shou again.

Pan Shou is usually an optimistic person, often giggling with joy, looking heartless and completely sad [Biquge www.baquku.com].

But who knows that he is carrying the huge secret that "successor of Shanhai Jing" is enough to confiscate the family and exterminate the clan?

Even his son and grandson did not know until not long ago that he had actually been disappointed in life and had the idea of ​​abandoning the world after his wife passed away.

Every old world has many sighs and tears hidden in its heart.

Even if it is not an old world, who will not be sad when you are old? Are there any sad things you are unwilling to tell others about?

Pan Long sighed and thought of himself again.

It is certainly excellent to travel through time to this world and live a new life, and be able to live more exciting than the previous life. But if he could exchange it, he hoped that he would not travel through time, but be reborn.

Go back to the world of your previous life, go back to your teenage years, to avoid some mistakes and save some people or things...

"Oh! Stop dreaming, there is no such good thing in the world!"

He sighed again, feeling that he had no interest in walking, and returned to Cang Mansion in a heavy mood.

He was in a bad mood all day long.

The next day, on the first day of August, one of the most important things in the Daxia court, the "Beijing Examination" officially began.

The imperial examinations of the Daxia court had three levels: the primary level was in the county government, the intermediate level was in the prefecture, and the advanced level was in the capital.

Passing the primary assessment and being a scholar, you can act as an official technician in the corresponding project, similar to the treatment of civil servants in previous lives.

A scholar who passes the intermediate assessment and is a juren can apply for low-level officials, such as officials of the ninth rank or even the eighth rank. A large part of them are directly selected from the juren.

Juren passed the advanced assessment and became a Jinshi, and officially joined the imperial official sequence. If he was directly awarded an official position, he would usually be at least a seventh rank. After further study in the Hanlin Academy, many people would come out as sixth or even fifth rank officials.

The Daxia imperial examination system is divided into ten subjects, including the famous cultural "Poetry and Literature" in the previous life, and the "Medical and Witch Zhu Youke" that he had never heard of in his previous life.

From the first day of August to the tenth day of August, I passed the ten subjects one after another and were awarded the rankings in turn.

The first test was the "Poetry, Literature and Fu" and the last test was the "Military and Arts and Martial Arts".

As for the practice of the Daxia court, the military arts and martial arts department, as the first of all subjects, is also known as the "superior subject", has a transcendent status. The recruitment of this subject is the most stringent. Once you pass the examination, you will be directly assigned to an official position. Most of the senior officials in the court, especially military officers, are from this subject.

Under the martial arts department, there are the "Arithmetic Department", the "Legal Litigation Department" and the "Essence and Proficiency in the Ancient and Modern Department". Each of these three subjects has its own specialties and are easily reused, also known as "Chinese Science and Technology".

As for the remaining six subjects, we cannot say that we are not bad - if we can pass the Jinshi, there is nothing wrong.

If you have the conditions, it is better to get into the subject or get a Chinese subject. If you take the "lower subject", it is not a good starting point in the court.

Of course, many people choose to apply for several subjects, the most common of which are arithmetic, law, ancient and modern times, craftsmanship, astronomy, poetry and essays... among these, ones that choose to practice both.

The most awesome person is naturally the ten subjects who have passed the ten subjects. This kind of all-rounder has appeared several times in history, and each of them is an important and capable minister who has been famous in history.

In addition, there is a famous story, saying that the imperial examination was first established in the Xia Dynasty and the imperial examination was first opened. The talented man Wen Chaogong once took the imperial examination incognito. Although he passed the ten subjects, he failed to get a single top scorer. He felt a little embarrassed and wrote a series of jokes with the imperial examination as the theme.

Those jokes were later compiled into a storybook called "Dengke Xiaolin Guangji". They were quite popular in Daxia, and the jokes in them were widely circulated. Among the more cultural groups, they were almost everyone and everyone knew them.

Pan Long naturally read that book, and the stories in it were indeed funny, but... it would be even better if it was not matched with many of the jokes he had in his previous life.

Wen Chao, who is plagiarized, is really not at all!

No wonder his real name is Wen Xiaoxian, but he wants to give himself a pen name "Wen Chaogong" - to put it bluntly, he is just mocking himself!

Pan Long got up early to see the juren take the exam. He saw that it was dim and among the four cities in the southeast, southwest and northwest, one by one, a celestial boat was rushing forward to the capital.

As the name suggests, the Beijing Examination was taken in Shendu. The juren usually lives in various satellite cities on the ground. That morning, he took a boat to Shendu and went to the examination room.

For many juren from civilian origins, this may be their only chance to climb to that sky city.

If you cannot pass the Jinshi exam, even if you become an official as a Juren, you will generally be at most the sixth rank in the future.

When officials retire and return home, only officials above the fifth rank can get the opportunity to go to the God of God to tell their lives and even to pay homage to the emperor.

During the ten days of early August, the first wave of Tianzhou is for the juren who are taking the exam. No one can compete for seats with them, and naturally Pan Long can't.

But Pan Long was not interested in going to Shendu - he had been to it once before. The sky city looked wonderful from a distance, but after entering the city, it was actually no different from an ordinary city.

It’s just that the road is wider, there are almost no shops on the roadside, and there are all kinds of mansions and yamen. It’s just that many officials on the road come and go, and it seems that they can kill one or two officials of the court when they pick up a stone on the roadside and throw it out.

That's it.

If we talk about the city in the sky, can it be more magnificent than the permanent space settlement built on the Lachronos?

In his previous life, Pan Long also visited a space settlement called "Tianshiyuan". There is a famous attraction in Tianshiyuan called "Space Walk". It is a relatively far away from the main body of Tianshiyuan, without artificial gravity. It is surrounded by specially made transparent walls, which looks like floating in space.

Floating in space, looking at the earth and man-made space settlements, huge cities, and distant blue parent star... That scene is much awesome than any mere god!

Pan Long watched the wave of sky boats leave, smiled, and walked straight to Nanxia City.

Seeing this wave of scenery and thinking of the magnificent scenery he had seen back then, his mood was much brighter.

Those melancholy thoughts before had been thrown away by him.

Life cannot be started over again, the important thing is to grasp the present.

In the afternoon of Shenshichu (after 3 o'clock), a huge wave of sky boats returned and sent the juren who had completed the imperial examination back to the ground.

After landing, these sirens came out of the sky boat with different expressions.

If you do well in the exam, you will naturally be full of energy and energetic. If you do poorly in the exam, your face will be depressed and listless.

If you are preparing to take the next exam, you will hurry back and rest and keep your energy waiting for tomorrow.

Anyway, it looks a bit messy.

Pan Long didn't care about these juren. He sat in the teahouse and looked at Gu Wen from a distance.

Bai Yingxuan came again today. She paid the money and asked Gu Wen to make another doll for her.

"I like those laughing dolls you do," she said. "Please help me be someone like that."

"Is the doll the previous one good?" Gu Wen asked in confusion.

Bai Yingxuan shook his head: "The doll before was very delicate, and you can even tell at a glance that it was me - it is too delicate and too much like me. Seeing it always reminds me of some unhappy things."

She sighed: "Seeing this doll hanging on the head of the bed always makes me feel like I have become a doll myself."

Gu Wen was silent for a moment and said, "In fact, people live in the world, sometimes they look like dolls."

"Well, people will inevitably live like a doll in this world." Bai Yingxuan whispered, "But even if they look like a doll, I hope they can be like a doll who laughs loudly, and don't always be frowning."

Her smile was a little reluctant: "So, please be a doll of laughter for me. I like that feeling of sadness, just a simple feeling of laughing."

Gu Wen looked at her, and after a while, he nodded and said, "I understand, Doctor Bai, I will make you a doll with a smile, so that you can be satisfied!"

Bai Yingxuan nodded and watched the doll finish slowly.

Although it looks a bit silly, it is even difficult to recognize Bai Yingxuan from the doll if it is not for her, but she smiles happily with this doll.
Chapter completed!