The Prime Minister's Boastful Little Husband

Chapter 103

At nine o'clock, the tribute ministers lined up, led by the Minister of Rites, came to the Chengtian Gate and conducted a routine search on them. Then the Ministry of Rites taught them some basic palace etiquette to prevent them from offending the emperor without using etiquette.

The lack of etiquette in front of the palace can be a big or small matter. At the least, the palace examination will be invalidated, at worst, it will be banned for life. It may also involve the Ministry of Rites. How to deal with it depends on the emperor's mood.

After completing these preparations, they can officially enter the palace. It was getting bright at this time, and they were divided into two rows. After passing through the Noon Gate, everyone stopped in front of the Taihe Gate to wait for the arrival of Chen Shi.

As the drum music sounded, the red door several feet high slowly opened. The candidates passed the Gate of Supreme Harmony in an orderly manner and arrived at their final destination, the square in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Hundreds of desks were displayed in the square, which was where they held the imperial examination.

The candidates knelt down quietly, waiting for the cabinet minister to read out the examination rules. The emperor arrived belatedly. After the candidates kowtowed to the emperor, they began to formally answer their papers.

The old emperor stayed in the examination room for less than a quarter of an hour and then left. The candidates secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the old emperor leaving from the corner of their eyes. After all, answering questions seriously in front of the emperor still requires a strong heart.

If the emperor were present throughout the whole process, I am afraid that candidates with poor psychological quality would easily fail the test.

At sunset, all the answer sheets were collected by the eunuch one by one. Yingchu put down his pen and rubbed his sore wrist. He looked up at the stack of papers fluttering in the breeze in the eunuch's hand, feeling sad in his heart. His long road to the imperial examination The ending is finally coming.

After not eating for a whole day, I didn't feel hungry when I was supposed to be answering the first question. As soon as I left the palace, I felt hungry instantly. He and Luo Ping each bought a piece of big cake on the street. They had something to eat first and sat in the car eating and chatting.

"Brother Luo, there shouldn't be any more accidents in this imperial examination, right?" Ying Chu said vaguely while chewing dry cakes.

"I don't know either. Just wait and we'll find out in two days," Luo Ping said.

After their answer sheets were collected, they were first reviewed by the cabinet ministers, and then the top ten were selected from the more than 300 answer sheets and handed over to the emperor for decision. If nothing goes wrong, the top three in the imperial examination will be selected from these ten answer sheets.

"It's not too difficult for us to wait for two days, but it's going to be a headache for those pavilion elders."

Ying Chu said with a smile that he could imagine the group of pavilion elders sitting in the Wenhua Hall reading at night, especially someone as controversial as Luo Ping. He didn't know if they would be in the hall. There was a quarrel because of Luo Ping's answer sheet?

He found it very interesting just thinking about it.

Luo Ping finished the cake in his hand in two or three mouthfuls, and sighed with unfinished content: "The cakes from Nanning are better, and the cake shop next to your house tastes the best."

"That's natural. That shop is a century-old shop. How can the craftsmanship passed down from generation to generation be bad?" Ying Chu recalled the past and said: "When I first met you, you had eaten enough of me. That’s five big cakes!”