In the Song Dynasty, there was no law or order.

On August 17, the third year of Jingyou's reign, Zhao Jun got up early in the morning.

Although there were only scholars from Jingji Road in Bianliang City who came to take the exam, because Bianliang had a large population, thousands of people took the exam, and the exams were held in two Gongyuan in the north and south.

He had already registered before, and now he needed to bring three days of food, clothes, bedding, and the Four Treasures of the Study to the examination room.

Yan Shu also came here early. The nursing staff of the Zhao Mansion knew him and did not need to inform him. After entering, they went straight to the backyard.

The backyard is actually a small courtyard, with a towering tree planted in it. Leaves fell everywhere on the ground, and the bluestone tiles were almost covered with a small floor.

Zhao Jun is brushing his teeth.

He didn't even dare to use toothpaste anymore and could only squeeze a little bit at a time.

I really need to use less of things like shampoo, soap, and toothpaste, so I used to brush my teeth in the morning and evening, but now I can only squeeze out the tiniest bit of toothpaste in the morning.

After all, he didn't expect to come to the Song Dynasty. He thought he could go to the county town to buy more in the future. If he had known better, he would have brought more toiletries.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!~~~"

Zhao Jun stood on the porch in the backyard with a cup and toothbrush, rinsed his mouth and sprayed the mouthwash on the flower bed.

Yan Shu sat on the stone board in the yard and waited patiently for him to finish brushing his teeth.

After wiping his face with a towel, Zhao Jun carefully washed the towel, hung it on the clothes drying pole in the corridor, and then hid the toothpaste and toothbrush cup back in the suitcase like a treasure.

After he washed up, came out and walked to Yan Shu, Yan Shu took the official document and said: "This is your official certificate. I forgot to ask you before, what is your word?"

It seems that they haven't asked Zhao Jun's calligraphy until now. The main reason is that compared to asking Zhao Jun's calligraphy, other things he said are more important.

"I have no words."

Zhao Jun said speechlessly: "In our future generations, it will no longer be popular to use Chinese characters."

"this"

Yan Shu scratched his head. He didn't expect that later generations would abandon such an important traditional culture. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Why don't I get one for you? I'll be in charge of the household registration and just fill it out for you."

"All right."

Zhao Jun responded. His knowledge of ancient literature was definitely not as good as that of Yan Shu, so it would be good to let him take it.

After Yan Shu thought about it, he said: "Jun, a horse. You are not an ordinary horse, but the divine horse of the Zhao family. It is called a divine dragon, and it is a sign of auspiciousness, so you might as well call it Ruilong."

"Ruilong?"

Zhao Jun touched his chin, it sounded good.

In ancient times, it was not taboo to use dragon as a surname, given name, or character. The surname dragon has existed since ancient times, and there are many people named after dragon, such as Zhang Long, Feng Menglong, and Mao Wenlong.

As for dragons, there are more characters with dragon characters, such as Zilong, Yuanlong, Fulong, Xiulong, Youlong, and even dragon friends and dragon matchmakers.

As Zhao Jun is more auspicious than auspicious in the Song Dynasty, it is normal to choose an auspicious dragon.

The only problem is.

Zhao Ruilong?

Good guy, does Song Dynasty allow me to be so awesome?

Zhao Jun came back to his senses and said: "The name Ruilong still doesn't mean something. Since I agreed to come out to save the world so that the Han people would not be enslaved, let's call it Hanlong."

"Yeah, that's fine."

Yan Shu nodded: "Do you have a pen here?"

"Fill it out now?"

Zhao Jun glanced at the official examination and saw that the column with the words above was indeed empty.

Yan Shu smiled and said: "There is an official seal on it. Don't say fill it out now. Even if it says you are eighty years old, it is all true."

"Outrageous."

Zhao Jun took him to the study and wrote the word "Hanlong" in the column with the pen and ink in the study.

Then he looked at his watch. His parents gave him the watch for his eighteenth birthday. It only cost a few hundred yuan. It wasn’t a big brand, but the battery was quite durable. He just got a new battery last year, so it should last longer. Three or four years.

It was already seven o'clock in the morning. Although we were admitted to the hospital today, it was not an examination. Instead, we were admitted to Gongyuan first. Thousands of scholars were searched and inspected, and even their clothes were stripped off, which naturally consumed time.

Seeing that it was almost time to go to Gongyuan to open the door, Zhao Jun said: "Let's go to Gongyuan."

"How are you feeling?"

Yan Shu walked out of the study with him.

Zhao Jun told Di Qing and the others to bring their things with them and said, "I'm quite nervous. I have taken the college entrance examination but not the imperial examination. It's mainly because of the novelty."

"hehe."

Yan Shu smiled and said: "After participating once, you won't want to participate a second time in the future. Being locked up in it is very torturous."

"Um."

Zhao Jun smiled and said that he really didn't want to participate again, not even next spring.

The two of them walked out together as they spoke.

Di Qing and others followed behind them with their things, and there were many police officers around them. They came out of Qingtai Street and headed south towards Taichang Temple.

In the early Song Dynasty, tribute examinations did not have a fixed location. They usually built simple temporary houses or borrowed some Buddhist and Taoist temples.

However, due to the increase in the number of people taking imperial examinations, doing so was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and caused congestion in Buddhist and Taoist temples. Therefore, during the Zhenzong period of the Song Dynasty, the Ministry of Rites requisitioned Taichang Temple, Imperial College, and Imperial College as temporary examination venues.

During this period, students from the Imperial College and Imperial College will be on vacation, leaving space in the examination room.

Because Taichang Temple is at the intersection of Yujie and Hengjie in the north, and the Imperial College and Imperial College are juxtaposed on Wuxue Street, it is divided into the north and south courtyards. Zhao Jun was assigned to Taichang Temple in the north courtyard.

Taichang Temple is not far from Qingtai Street. Go south along Qishengyuan Road to Hengjie Street, and then walk a few roads eastward to the intersection.

Yan Shu sent Zhao Jun to the intersection of Qishengyuan Road and Hengjie Street, stopped and said to him: "Although I am not the examiner of this year's exam, but next spring the provincial examiner will appoint me as the examiner. It’s not good for outsiders to see me sending you to Gongyuan, so just stay here.”

"Thank you, uncle Tong."

Zhao Jun took the public inspection handed over by Yan Shu.

Yan Shu smiled and said, "I still like to hear you call me Uncle Lari."

"Okay, Uncle Lari."

Zhao Jun responded and was about to leave.

Yan Shu asked again: "In recent days, I have only seen you writing strategies and scripture meanings. How are you preparing your poems?"

"Do you still need to prepare this thing? Whatever topic he asks, I will definitely have corresponding poems."

Zhao Jun smiled.

Yan Shu thought for a while and said: "The examiner for this year's exam is Sun Xun. He prefers to write lyrics. Although his writing is not very good, I think there must be more lyrics this year. Then I will test you and write a poem. How about "Linjiang Fairy"?

The imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty included poems and poems, which accounted for a large proportion of the test points. They were one test poem (ci), one song (fu), and one essay each. Generally speaking, the Song Dynasty wrote test poems in accordance with the requirements of the Tang Dynasty imperial examination, but after all, the interpretation of the test The difficulty is not as high as that of the provincial examination. In addition, people in the Song Dynasty like poetry, so there are indeed times when there are limited examination questions.

Among the more than a thousand Ci brand names, each Ci brand name has its corresponding number of characters, meter, rhythm and rhyme, so this kind of test poem is very difficult.

After all, there are many types of poems, and you are given very little time to take the exam. To write poems with prescribed meter, rhyme, and rhyme in such a short period of time is a test of your quick thinking ability, which is comparable to Cao Zhi's seven-step poem.

After Zhao Jun heard Yan Shu's words, after thinking for a moment, he suddenly had something in mind and said with a bad smile: "After the dream, the tower is high and locked, and the curtain is low when drunk. When spring regret came last year, the fallen flower man was independent, Wei Yuyan Flying together. I remember when Xiao Ping first met, the two words of love on the string of the pipa were said, and the bright moon was shining on the colorful clouds. "

"The bright moon was there at that time, and did it illuminate the colorful clouds?"

Yan Shu opened his eyes wide and thought about it carefully. He himself was a master of lyric writing. He suddenly felt that it was extremely exquisite and said in surprise: "Is this the lyrics of a later master who copied it?"

Zhao Jun was unhappy and said, "Can't I write it myself?"

Yan Shu glanced at him with disdain: "This poem is about the past when I was with a woman named Xiao Ping. How long have you been in the Song Dynasty, and you can get to know a woman named Xiao Ping? What's more, I also I don’t believe you are so talented!”

"All right."

Zhao Jun had no choice but to admit: "You wrote this word."

"I write?"

Yan Shu almost peed at that time. He was so angry that he wanted to fight: "You really copied my poems?"

Zhao Jun was almost scared to death. It was the first time he saw Yan Shu really angry. He hurriedly ran away with his head in his arms. While running, he looked back and saw that Yan Shu was chasing after him angrily. He knew that for these people who love words as much as their lives, this would really cost him his life. , but said in panic: "I'm just kidding, how could it be written by you? Do you know that woman named Xiao Ping?"

"Ah this."

Yan Shu stopped and hesitated, because there was indeed no woman named Xiaoping in his memory.

But what if it happens in the future?

Thinking of this, he shouted: "Then who do you think wrote it?"

Seeing him stop, Zhao Jun laughed twice and ran away, leaving only one sentence in the wind: "It was written by your son Yan Jidao."

"My son Yan Jidao?"

Yan Shu was puzzled.

Zhao Jun said before that Renzong had many masters of writing lyrics in his dynasty, which caused harm to later middle school students, such as "Yan Shu, Su Shi, Liu Yong, Ouyang Xiu, Yan Jidao, Fan Zhongyan" and so on.

At that time, I thought that Yan Jidao just had the same surname, or was called Yan Jidao, but I didn't expect that this man was actually his son.

The problem is that none of my sons are named Yan Jidao!

Yan Shu was confused.

Just as he was about to ask, he looked up and saw that Zhao Jun had already run away, and he couldn't help but jump to his feet angrily.

But the other party was going to participate in the tribute examination, and Yan Shu had no choice but to go back.

Along the way, Yan Shu was thinking about the song "Linjiang Immortal".

When they arrived at the mansion, a servant suddenly came over and said with a happy face: "My lord, my lord, Madam Zhang is pregnant. During this period, she often vomits and her belly is getting bigger and bigger. After seeing the doctor, it turned out that she is pregnant." pregnant."

"Are you happy?"

Yan Shu suddenly became excited when he heard the news.

He lived in the palace for a long time and seldom went home. In May, because Mrs. Meng fell seriously ill, he asked for leave and went back to live for a period of time. During that time, he slept with his concubine.

Unexpectedly, it was during that intercourse that the concubine became pregnant, adding another child to the Yan family. It was really something worth celebrating.

Yan Shu hurriedly went to the backyard to visit his concubine, and after telling her to take a good rest and raise the baby with peace of mind, he returned to his study with excitement.

At this time, he was so overwhelmed with joy that he forgot about "Linjiang Immortal" and Yan Jidao. He only thought about the old Yan family having another child.

He sat back at his desk, ready to read a book to calm down his excitement.

It happened that there was still a copy of the "Tao Te Ching" that I had read yesterday on the desk. The breeze blew slowly outside the window, and the wind turned the page with the paper, revealing the eighth chapter of the "Tao Te Ching".

"The greatest good is like water. Water is good for all things and does not compete with it. It is what everyone dislikes, so it is almost in line with the Tao!"

Yan Shu lowered his head and saw the four characters "Gu Yu Dao".

Therefore, how close is it to the Tao?

I read these words silently.

Then Yan Shu suddenly jumped up from his chair, and became even more excited.

Oh my goodness.

Could this child be Yan Jidao?

Damn Zhao Jun!

Yan Shu was so angry that his soul left his body and smoke rose from his seven orifices. He pointed out the window and cursed: "Zhao Jun, you little bastard, you even copied an unborn child, are you still a human being?"