"Brother Li."
"Sunrise."
"Da Lang."
Li Ang strode towards the eagerly awaited classmates from Zhenzhou. Chai Cuiqiao ran down from the pavilion and asked nervously: "How is it?"
"That's right, it's okay."
Li Ang smiled and waved his hand, "I have passed the exam."
The cheers of the students from Zhenzhou attracted the attention of the surrounding crowd.
A young scholar from out of town who was over the age of admission to the academy and came to watch the ceremony said in a sour voice to his friend next to him: "Who is this? We are celebrating so happily now, but we don't want to hand in the paper in advance and leave the venue if we can't answer the questions." .”
"We have reached the final level of the academy's final exam. How could anyone voluntarily withdraw from the exam?"
The friend beside him said helplessly: "And that person came second in the academy's first exam and first in the retest. This time he is the first to come out. It seems that this year's top pick will fall in Zhenzhou."
Discussions spread among the crowd. Li Ang ignored the noise and looked helpless as he was surrounded by his classmates from Zhenzhou and mounted his horse, heading south.
Li Ang slipped away quickly, and the eyes of everyone watching the ceremony fell on He Fanshuang.
Parents whose children were still in the examination room, as well as people who came to watch the ceremony, all hurriedly asked He Fanshuang about the content and difficulty of the exam, and whether they had seen their children.
"Everyone, let me borrow it for a moment."
A gentle male voice sounded, and the crowd was naturally separated by the invisible and gentle force.
"Brother, Aye, Aniang."
He Fanshuang smiled and greeted her parents, who were honest and simple like an old farmer, or an old farmer, and her handsome brother in a white robe, and the family got on the carriage and left.
"Who is this again?"
The young scholar from out of town subconsciously asked, but his friend beside him was shocked and said: "What... He Siping?!"
"Who? Is he famous?"
"Prince's East Palace, Zuo Chunfang Zhongyun of the fifth rank, a high-level Xunyun realm who is only one step away from the Zhuxiao realm."
The friend next to him took a breath and said: "He was also the top scorer in the third examination of the academy eight years ago."
"A son and a daughter are all admitted to the Academy. How did their parents teach them?"
"I heard that their parents used to be sharecroppers working outside Chang'an City..."
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Li Ang, who was riding a horse, walked around Chang'an City surrounded by his companions with a look of helplessness on his face.
After hearing the news, the Jinshi group, which specially organized celebrations for new Jinshi, came over on their own initiative. They played gongs, drums, strings and bamboos in front, and shouted to clear the way. They also brought apricot blossoms, peonies and other famous flowers from unknown places and scattered them all over the sky along the way.
The custom of apricot blossom being the official flower of the Jinshi of Yu State, and peony being the national flower, can be traced back to the Queen's fascination with it.
Xiangguo Temple, Qujiang Pool, Furong Garden.
When you revisit an old place, your mood will naturally be different. The Jinshi Group and Zhenzhou classmates made plans to prepare a banquet for Li Ang in Furong Garden, but Li Ang politely refused on the grounds of "physical and mental fatigue."
Everyone expressed their understanding that the final exams in the academy were exhausting and they had to go to the imperial city to meet the saint at night, so they should have a good rest.
So everyone gathered around Li Ang and returned to Huaidefang Hotel.
The owner of the hotel, a wealthy businessman from the West City who had never shown up before, heard the news and hurried over. While congratulating Li Ang, he asked his men to seize the time to tidy up the courtyard.
Weeding the yard, planting rare flowers, brushing the coat of the bay horse, and paving the courtyard with bluestones, it was a busy day.
He also insisted on refunding the rent money of a group of students from Zhenzhou during this period.
He also said something like, "This house was once lived by the top scholar in the academy, and it has the aura of Wen Quxing. It will be used by his own children in the future and cannot be rented out to others." This made Li Ang dumbfounded.
A group of people gathered in Huaidefang to celebrate the news of winning the top prize in the academy. They spread the news to ten, and soon Li Ang saw the enthusiasm of the people in Chang'an.
The crowds of people gathered around Huaide Square to see what the number one scholar in the academy looked like.
The outermost citizens of Chang'an have begun to spread the rumor that Li Ang "looks like Pan An, is as affectionate as Song Yu, and is more talented than Zijian."
Rich merchants from all over the world sent a dazzling array of gifts.
The housekeepers of each government sent greeting cards to the families of nobles and ministers.
The fellow villagers from Zhenzhou in Chang'an City enthusiastically surrounded Li Ang and kept congratulating him in Zhenzhou dialect.
People are almost numb.
Li Ang, who was the focus of the crowd, managed to squeeze into the courtyard with great effort and left the job of receiving guests to the Jinshi group who had recommended themselves.
And asked Zhai Yiming and others to go back to Zhuque Gate and wait for Ji Linglang, Yang Yu and others who had not come out yet - lest they come out without anyone celebrating.
The Chang'an Jinshi Group has rich experience in receiving guests, but the leading man still reminded Li Ang in a low voice that some of the noble ministers who came to deliver greeting cards in the afternoon were here to build relationships, and some were here to recruit a son-in-law.
It is not news that the nobles of Chang'an will look for a husband for their daughter from among the newly promoted Jinshi.
The status and future of the disciples who pass the Academy are even higher than those of Jinshi. So much so that there is a custom in Chang'an of "catching a son-in-law under the ranking list". Every time the ranking list is released in the academy, a wealthy family will snatch someone to be their son-in-law.
What's more, Li Ang didn't become unable to practice for the rest of his life like Xi Yangyu said. He directly won the top prize in the academy and had a bright future.
As long as the engagement is made now, even if the emperor wants to get married at night, it will not be that easy.
A greeting from a wealthy businessman is easy to pass away.
But invitations from ministers, ministers, ministers, doctors, ministers, generals, and princes...
Not so easy.
"As soon as I come to get a high rank, I will serve as an official in the East Palace Army. I will welcome my wife to the prime minister's house and praise the talented people."
Song Shaoyuan laughed in a low voice and said: "Risheng, you are lucky. Have you chosen which prime minister, prince or prince's daughter you want to marry?"
"Brother Song, please stop making fun of me."
Li Ang rolled his eyes at Song Shaoyuan who was standing next to Qianjiao Baimei Youduzhi.
Although the academy does not prohibit disciples from getting engaged,
But at first he had no intention of getting married now and letting strangers intervene in his life.
Secondly... aristocratic families respect family status, and the etiquette is complicated. It is definitely not a good thing to live together.
For example, there was a scholar who became the prime minister's son-in-law. Because he had never seen the market, he took the bath beans offered by his maid for bathing as food and ate them with hot water. It was passed down as a joke.
As for the princess and princess of the clan...that's even worse.
Everyone knows that the princesses of the Li family are many arrogant, extravagant and extravagant, and some even have quite...corrupted lives.
But don't.
Li Ang shook his head, and while he was thinking hard about how to deal with the invitation, the people from the Yan Mansion finally arrived.
The Yan Mansion knew that Li Ang was going to take part in the final exam today. Before he came, he knew that Li Ang had no spiritual talent. If he didn't pass the exam, both parties would be embarrassed. Moreover, the Yan Mansion had already prepared a path for Li Ang to enter the Ministry of War Zhongsi Academy.
Now that I have passed the exam, I no longer have any worries.
Yan Lin's eldest son and second son acted as groomsmen for Li Ang, welcoming guests, and they were able to cope with the invitations sent by the nobles.
Li Ang also took advantage of this opportunity and entered the room with Chai Cuiqiao. He breathed a long sigh of relief and fell on the bed, holding his painful eyebrows.
