Chapter 106: Imperial Examination Results Announced
Lu Lingyun sent someone to look for Huang Yue's uncle's family.
The next day, she was still busy with chores at home when Wang Qiluo came to look for her excitedly.
"Lingyun, it's out! It's out!"
"What happened?"
"The exam results are out!"
Wang Qiluo excitedly dragged Lu Lingyun out of the house to see the list.
Seeing how happy she was, Lu Lingyun said nothing more. He asked the wet nurse, Shuanghong and the maids to take good care of little Bing'an, and then he followed Wang Qiluo in a carriage to the outside of the tribute courtyard to watch the announcement of the results.
Outside the Dahuang list, there is a lot of movement.
Lu Lingyun and Wang Qiluo found a place and went up to take a look.
As expected, the top scorer was a man named Tong Zhengjian, just as Lu Lingyun remembered.
Tong Zhengjian was a Jiangxi scholar who was almost 40 years old. He was very good at taking examinations and had prepared for the imperial examination in a local academy for ten years. He had beautiful calligraphy.
It takes ten years to sharpen a sword, and with one stroke he won the first place in this competition.
Of course, before this, he had participated in several imperial examinations but had never made it onto the list.
He was like a dark horse, surging out of the competition in this spring examination.
Suddenly there was a loud shout from the crowd.
"Lao Tong! You got it!"
"You even won the first prize!"
"You are amazing!"
The noisy crowd immediately looked towards the place where the sound came from, and saw a short, middle-aged man with a long beard and wearing a coarse cloth gown surrounded by a group of people.
"So this is our association's leader!"
"Congratulations, Master Tong!"
"Master Tong is about to soar to the sky!"
"I wonder if Master Tong has gotten married yet! I have a little girl at home, she's sixteen years old and she's still unmarried!"
"Master Tong, please come to our restaurant and have a seat. We have prepared delicious wine and food!"
"Master Tong is visiting our inn. We have prepared a top-notch room for Master Huiyuan."
"All of you, get out of here, Master Tong. My master is the head of the Household Registration Department in the capital, and we are from the same hometown. My master invites you to rest in our house and chat about family matters!"
Amidst the crowd of admirers and supporters, the short middle-aged man paid no attention to anything else but the excitement and joy of seeing himself top the list.
Hahahaha laughter.
He was laughing when he suddenly heard a click, closed his eyes, and passed out.
When everyone saw Tong Zhengjian fainting from laughter, they all rushed over to grab him without caring what he looked like.
In the end, the servant of the head official of the Household Registration Department was ordered to bring a group of people to carry the man away.
When Lu Lingjun saw this scene, he couldn't help but smile faintly.
It was really amazing to pass the imperial examination. More than a thousand candidates from all over the country took the exam, but only two hundred were finally selected.
Huiyuan is the leader among them.
When it comes to the palace examination, the emperor will definitely ask you one or two more questions.
However, the winner of the Huiyuan exam may not necessarily become the top scorer.
The selection for the palace examination was decided by the emperor himself. In his previous life, Lu Lingyun remembered that Tong Zhengjian, who ranked first in the joint examination, failed the palace examination and only got the third place in the list.
Because his performance in the palace examination was so poor, his psychological quality was not good enough, and his family background was also not good, he was so frightened and panicked when the emperor asked a few questions, and he couldn't even speak a complete sentence. In the end, the emperor had to wave his hand and throw him out of the third place.
Fortunately, as long as you are on the list, you will not be eliminated from the palace examination. The worst case scenario is that you are one of the three lists and you will be promoted to the position. Tong Zhengjian also waited for a vacancy for a local minor official after a lot of hardships and became an official.
"Lingyun! Got it!"
At this time, Wang Qiluo's voice came to Lu Lingyun's ears.
Wang Qiluo pointed excitedly at a name in the front row.
"Look there, look there!"
Lu Lingjun followed the direction she pointed and saw Liu Shuhui's name a few seats behind Tong Zhengjian.
Seeing him perform steadily, just like he was on the list in his previous life, Lu Lingyun's brows relaxed a little.
Not bad, very good.
Liu Shuhui did not perform particularly well in the provincial examination, but he was a real dark horse in the palace examination, making it into the top three among a group of students who relied on their background, family background, and various kinds of help.
Of the top three on the list in the previous life, the number one scholar was the one that Lu Lingyun had worked hard to support.
The second place is also a child of a big family with a prominent family background and countless supporters behind him.
Only Liu Shuhui relies on his own real strength.
"I knew that Mr. Liu would definitely pass the exam!" Wang Qiluo looked at the name above excitedly. Even though this was not the first place in the exam, it made her very happy.
"You are a loser," Lu Lingyun poked her head, "your father is at least a fourth-rank military general. Why are you so excited about seeing a newly shortlisted scholar?"
"Don't say that. How can someone who is busy with fighting and killing be so powerful as to be able to achieve eternal power?"
Lu Lingyun: "......"
There is no hope. There is no hope.
These are some people who look like cunning cunning people, impetuous and impetuous, but their brains are not as they appear at all.
"Then you should just wait patiently, there is still the palace examination to come!"
"Lingyun, no matter what the result of the palace examination is, you will help me." Wang Qiluo took Lu Lingyun's arm.
Lu Lingyun looked at her expectant expression and poked her forehead lovingly, "Yes, yes, my little aunt."
Just then, a familiar carriage came by.
Coincidentally, I met Lu Hanyi and Li Wenxun again.
But this time, neither of them saw Lu Lingyun.
Lu Hanyi, with her bulging belly, pulled Li Wenxun and walked straight to the big yellow list with the servants clearing the way.
The first person she looked at was the first person on the list.
Not Li Wenxun.
Neither is the second one.
The third column is not there either.
The fourth column...
Lu Hanyi's face became increasingly ugly. She only saw half of the list before she started to shout, "Impossible! Impossible!"
Clearly, in his previous life, Li Wenxun passed the imperial examination with ease. She heard from her mother, Liu, that he ranked quite high.
As soon as the results were announced, Lu Lingyun was very proud.
There is also a group of people who have high hopes for Li Wenxun.
But how come...it's gone!
"Why didn't you pass the exam!" Lu Hanyi yelled.
"Don't be impatient, you haven't finished reading yet." Li Wenxun frowned and continued reading.
The list was very long, and more than two hundred people were admitted.
"No, no! You just didn't win!"
Lu Hanyi started making a big fuss. She pushed Li Wenxun beside her and was about to call him a liar when her stomach started to hurt.
"Ah, my belly!"
At this moment, Li Wenxun didn't care to see how Lu Hanyi was doing and continued to look at the list above.
When Lu Hanyi grabbed Li Wenxun's arm in pain, he pushed her away.
He doesn't have any extra love for this wife.
At the beginning, the two of them were very sweet for a while. Lu Hanyi was gentle and considerate to him, and looked at him with admiration all the time, saying that he would definitely pass the exam and let her live a good life.
At that time he just thought that if he couldn't marry someone who could help him, it would be fine to marry a young and beautiful wife who adored him wholeheartedly.