If you don't count, you will die

The palace examination is the most important assessment in a country. In the past, important ministers in the court were responsible for such matters. Unexpectedly, this year, the emperor handed over the matter to a young boy who was only a dozen years old. He kept silent in private. It can be regarded as quite a bit of criticism, and the one thing about his ecstasy was concealed by the emperor, except for Wen Pu and Su Yuanhuan, no one knew about it.

Therefore, at such a young age, Mo Mo, who has become the current national teacher without much merit, is unsmiling, and does not communicate with the ministers, has been excluded from the very beginning.

However, Silence himself doesn't care about these, or he doesn't know about them, but those who know clearly don't say anything.

So Silence still cared about me, when I was in charge, with Wen Pu by my side, who would be disobedient?

Therefore, it is not difficult to do the palace examination. Generally speaking, it is just a matter of arranging time, invigilation, and ostentation. For Shen Mo, who has experienced various examinations in modern times, it is not difficult at all.

A total of 36 students participated in the palace examination this time. In previous years, there were only [-] candidates for the palace examination in Zhantianguo. It means that they gradually stood out from the examination halls all over the country. Only these [-] students could really enter the eyes of the emperor. And among these [-] candidates, all of them are talents who have been praised by everyone in their local area, and this year there are six additional places, which shows that Zhantian Kingdom is developing prosperously and talents are coming out in large numbers.

At this time, Mo Mo was holding a file provided by a subordinate official, which contained the information of each candidate and all the articles and strategies since the exam. The data backgrounds of the 36 people are mostly 22-year-olds, the oldest of them is no more than 15, and the youngest is only... [-] years old.

15 years old, one year younger than the 16-year-old Shen Mo.

Shen Mo opened the candidate's file in surprise, Chen Hengzhi, a person from Zhan Tian Guan Quan, Guan Quan, with Mo Mo understanding, is a very rich place, can be ranked among the top few in Zhan Tian Kingdom, Zhan Tian has no soldiers The ranks of agriculture, industry and commerce, and this Chen Hengzhi, is the son of a jade merchant, and he is considered a son of a rich family.

Silence's attention stayed on this for a while, but he didn't read Chen Hengzhi's previous exam articles, mainly because he couldn't understand after reading them. After briefly reading the 36 student files, Silence shuffled them and rearranged them. Allocate seats for the palace test.

During the palace examination, these 36 students will be divided into four rows and nine rows, each of them will be separated by a long distance, and will be accompanied by the emperor throughout the process. Plagiarism will definitely not exist, and students who can stand out from all over the Zhantian Kingdom may not even bother to plagiarize. .

With the intensive planning, there are still three days before the palace examination will officially begin.

And a few days ago, these 36 students from all over the world came to the school hall set up by Jiuzhong one after another, and the reception of students has long been left to the subordinate officials, and the 15 students he noticed a few days ago He had already forgotten about the matter of Sui Palace's examination of students.

In the past few days, apart from being busy with the palace examination, Shen Mo also misses Lin Mu. Ever since Kun Xiao's incident ended, Shen Mo has never seen Lin Mu again. Lin Mu seemed to be busy, but Silence didn't know what he was busy with.

This caused Shen Mo to feel inexplicably panicked, but because the imperial examination was about to come and he was busy with affairs, he couldn't take the time to come and see Lin Mu on his own initiative.

The busy time always passes quickly, and the much-anticipated palace exam finally arrives.

Mo Mo, as the invigilator of the home examination, waited early at the entrance of the main hall, watching thirty-odd students saluting and walking past him one by one in high spirits. From the time when the sky exploded to the day when the sun was getting brighter, the hall was already full of people. In the time of a stick of incense, the palace examination will begin, but only 36 of the 35 students have arrived, and one person has not yet arrived.

The hall was very quiet. The emperor had arrived half a quarter ago, and was sitting on the throne. He stood silently at the door of the hall and looked at it.

Mo Mo asked the attendants around him, "Who else is not here?"

The man flipped through the register at hand, and said in a moment: "It's from Guan Quan, Chen Hengzhi."

Chen Hengzhi?

Mo Mo thought for a while and remembered that this person was the 15-year-old student. He turned his head and ordered, "Send someone to the Xuezitang."

The man responded immediately, turned around and walked away.

Until the time for a stick of incense was about to end, and the examination questions had already begun to be distributed in the hall, Mo Mo saw a young man in white walking over with the support of two palace servants. His face was pale, his forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and his legs were limp. The two palace servants almost dragged him to the gate of the palace.

Seeing the silence, the young man struggled a little as if he wanted to salute, "My lord..."

Silently waved his hands, signaling the two palace servants to drag this person directly to the seat in the hall, and then entered the hall.

At this time, the time was just right, the examination questions had been distributed, and the palace examination officially began.

And the emperor was not very curious about the student who was dragged in by the palace servants. He looked at His Highness quietly from the beginning to the end. A mask cut off all parties from prying eyes, making people unable to tell what the emperor was thinking. Those exposed eyes were neither sad nor happy, and Shan Xing was dull and dull.

The boy who was dragged in inevitably attracted the attention of most people, including all the students here.

Different from Silence, these students pay attention to each other and compete secretly. There is a candidate who is only fifteen years old in this palace examination. Except for the silence of the imperial examination, all the students know that even some officials, I understood it early on, after all, after the palace examination, they had already made some moves on who should be wooed and who should be suppressed.

And Chen Hengzhi's vain and miserable appearance today is likely to be at the hands of a certain minister here, or in other words, what a certain student did. If it wasn't for being silent and ignorant of the rules, someone would drag this person Come here, I am afraid that this person will miss the palace examination today.

It is not a trivial matter not to refer to the imperial examination held by the emperor. If it is done properly, it can lead to the ruin of the young candidate's future.

Standing silently at the side of the hall, he glanced at Chen Hengzhi.

I saw cold sweat dripping from the corners of this person's forehead on the table, pressing tightly on his abdomen with one hand, and opening the exam questions with the other hand tremblingly, while other students had already started to write quickly at this time.

Seeing this scene, some courtiers curled their lips slightly, and then disappeared in an instant. Even if they came to the palace examination, so what, how could they pass the palace examination normally with such appearance.

Silence watched the young man pick up the pen, took a deep breath, frowned, and began to answer the question, but there was no disturbance in his heart. The final outcome of this palace test was up to him.

Immediately, Silence stopped paying attention to Chen Hengzhi, but casually glanced at the hall, and then paused, seeing a pair of eyes quietly looking at him in the hall, on the throne. how long.

It's the emperor, fight.

In the past, when Shen Mo got along with Dijun Zhan, he never seemed to care about the existence of Mo Mo, either ignoring it, or bringing some coldness that seemed to be deliberately done, but it is rare to be as calm as he is now.

Soon, Shen Mo took the first step to look away to observe the situation in the hall.

However, the feeling of knowing that someone is watching him was extremely strong, and he couldn't hold back his silence. When he turned his head again, the emperor was still looking at him, but he had changed his posture at this time, with his hands on the armrest of the throne, and the cane carved with dragons and gold inscriptions was covered. Put aside, it seems very relaxed.

Dijun Zhan rarely appeared in front of everyone with such a relaxed attitude, most of the time he was calm and dangerous.

Wen Pu, who was standing at the gate of the hall, glanced sideways, and then quickly looked away.

The day before, traces of descendants of the Yao tribe were discovered in Zhuozhou, Huihui.

The Yao people represent the possibility of life and death Gu.

And life and death Gu can bring the dead back to life.

Dijun's good mood at this time is probably related to this, and the silence that frequently peeked at Dijun and turned his head to pretend not to see, Wen Pu frowned slightly, and let out an inaudible sigh, not knowing what Dijun was doing Thoughts, but no matter what, they cannot be controlled by his little bodyguards. All he has to do is to be loyal.

The palace examination lasted for two hours, which was not a short period of time. As the sun gradually rose to the sky above the head, there was not much time left for the examination.

At noon, with the sound of the bell, the palace examination officially ended, and the examination questions and files were collected one after another. Chen Hengzhi, who had been pale all the time, let out a big breath, as if he could finally relax, and saw him immediately In front of everyone, he stood up tremblingly first, then knelt down facing the emperor, said that he was kneeling, and almost fell to the ground, "I... report to the emperor, Xiaosheng Chen Hengzhi, I implore the emperor for permission , leave first..."

Only then did the emperor stop the gaze that had been looking at the silence, and waved his hand, then Chen Hengzhi wanted to get up thankfully, and then fell down again, so weak that he could still persist in completing the entire two exams. Shi Chen's palace test can be regarded as a god.

Shen Mo turned his head to give instructions, and then the two previous palace servants went to hold up Chen Hengzhi again, and walked out.

Chen Hengzhi was dragged by two palace servants. Before he passed by Shen Mo, he wanted to salute, but was waved away by Shen Mo, so Chen Hengzhi whispered eagerly to the palace man who was dragging him: "Please, please take me with you." I'm going to the latrine, hurry up...thank you."

Mo Mo sneered slightly, thinking it was a stomachache or something, but unexpectedly it was such a low-handed trick.

The 15-year-old young candidate who was full of glory, but had to be dragged to the palace examination, and then dragged away in a hurry, can be deeply remembered by people.

At the end of the palace examination, the ministers will cooperate with the emperor to review the papers. It is said that it is a collaboration. In fact, the emperor did not participate very much in the past, but he will focus on the top three strategies at the end.

However, I heard silently that the emperor seemed to have plans to mark the examination papers himself.

But this has nothing to do with silence, he can be regarded as formally engaged in the palace examination, and all he can think about at this moment is that after all these people leave, he can go to the Palace of Thousand Chances and look for the long-lost Ling Mu.