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The palace dinner was more troublesome than imagined. A group of scholars who passed the final examination first took a carriage in the palace, entered Suzaku Gate, passed Chengtianmen Street, got off the carriage and walked on foot in Chengtianmen, passed Taijimen, Zuoyanmingmen, Zhuquemen, etc. The Ming Gate and the Liangyi Gate finally arrived in front of the Liangyi Hall and waited in line in front of the Liangyi Hall.

The scale of the palace is really big.

Standing in the cold wind with other students, Li Ang looked left and right out of the corner of his eyes. The palace buildings are magnificent and magnificent. Standing in the empty and lonely square in front of the palace, looking at the lights of tall buildings in the distance, a sense of absurdity rose belatedly in his heart.

A few months ago, I was still worrying about family bankruptcy and a hundred dollars.

Now he has to be the number one scholar in the academy, waiting to meet the monarch of Yu Kingdom with the most secular power in the world, and be encouraged and rewarded.

Inexplicably unreal.

Li Ang shook his head and stopped thinking about these messy things.

There was a slight sound of conversation around, and the prospective students in the academy were whispering, full of anticipation and longing.

The scholar wearing the Futou couldn't hide the excited expression on his face, wishing to engrave the poem report to the emperor on the golden platform, and carry the jade dragon to die for the emperor on his face.

The tall and burly student recommended by the Ministry of Military Affairs clenched his fists tightly, his face turned pale, his lips trembled slightly, and he could not see the bravery of beating the wooden box so hard that his hands were bleeding during the day.

Even Yong Hongzhong, Ji Linglang, etc., who were the children of the prefect's family, looked up at the sky, rehearsing their own words and deeds when they went to the palace in their minds, so as to prevent themselves from being careless and disrespectful and embarrassing the family.

And those barbarians, barbarians, and desolate students whose hair, pupil color, and skin color are different from those of the Zhongyuan disciples whispered something—presumably flattering words and poems prepared in advance.

They not only represent themselves and their families, but also represent an entire tribe and country.

I was afraid that I would disgrace myself in front of the palace and make Emperor Yu dissatisfied.

Don't be too nervous. The Liangyi Palace dinner after the final exam results have been held for three hundred years, and accidents rarely happen.

Pei Jing, who was standing on the right side of Li Ang, turned her head to look at the future classmates, and said with a smile: Even if His Majesty asks something, such as future ambitions,

It doesn't matter if you can't answer for a while, there will be a palace official who will say that you are too strong to drink and help you deal with it.

Da Dang is the eunuch,

Although the Liangyi Hall dinner to celebrate the announcement of the Academy's rankings was mainly to show the harmony between Emperor Yu and the Academy, and the atmosphere was not so serious, there were still some proper etiquettes.

The students will sit in the five rows on the left and the five rows on the right, surrounded by palace attendants, who remind them softly to prevent loss of manners.

The problem is that Pei Jing is the son of Shang Shu Zuo Pu She's family, and she has definitely entered the palace quite a few times, and Mian Sheng has probably met several times. His words did not relax the other commoner students at all, but they all became more nervous. I'm afraid that the emperor will let me talk about my feelings and testimonials when I was admitted to the academy on a whim.

Thank you Your Majesty, thank you to the school, thank you to the head of the mountain, and thank you to your parents

Some students have already started talking to themselves and repeating in a low voice.

Wasn't he very literary during the exam before, but he became tongue-tied when he got to the hall.

Li Ang glanced helplessly at his nervous classmates, heaved a sigh of relief, and silently recalled the dozen or so poems he borrowed from Yan Dalang.

The imperial banquet in Liangyi Hall did not make the students in front of the hall wait for too long. After everyone blew the wind for a while, they heard the Haotian bell ringing. The eunuch in yellow standing on the steps drew his voice and shouted, Xuan, Zaiqian for three years, the number one scholar in the academy, Li Ang of Weizhou entered the palace—

Sunrise.

Ji Linglang poked in the back, Li Ang took a deep breath, and strode up the white stone steps.

Not only because of Yu people's fear of lowliness, but also to show the authority of the emperor, the steps in front of Liangyi Hall are built extremely high,

Li Ang climbed the steps like climbing a mountain, and came to the side of the eunuch in yellow.

Mr. Li Xiaolang, please come in.

At first glance, the eunuch in yellow, who was in high position in the palace, smiled at Li Ang with an unusually friendly attitude, which surprised the little eunuchs behind him.

Um.

Li Ang stepped into the hall, and saw the emperor and his wife on the first seat, and a tall, white-haired old man sitting on the left.

Emperor Yu Li Shun, Empress Xue, and Shan Zhang.

Your Majesty, Li Ang, pays homage to His Majesty.

Li Ang prepared to salute according to what the eunuch in the carriage had said when he came, but he was excused from Emperor Yu Li Shun, and Shi Shiran stood up.

Your Majesty, please sit down.

The students admitted to the Academy naturally became the courtiers of the Yu Dynasty. Li Ang saluted and thanked them, but doubts arose in his heart for no reason.

Why are these three feeling happy? You still have a smile on your lips when you look at me?

Hmm. Couldn't it be that the news about Duke Yan being healed was spread to the palace?

Li Ang didn't know why, so he had no choice but to follow the etiquette and the guidance of the palace staff, and came to the second position in the first row on the left——

In the first position, there is a young man, wearing a light yellow uniform, embroidered with a dragon with one claw missing, and wearing a gold and jade belt around his waist, with thirteen horns (similar to a thin belt, with many small gold and jade decorations on it) .

Li Ang's eyelids twitched, the only person who could dress like this in the palace could only be the prince of Yu Kingdom - Li Si.

At this moment, the eunuch in yellow clothes outside the Liangyi Hall called out the names of He Fanshuang of Youzhou, Pei Jing of Chang'an and others.

Li Ang took advantage of the opportunity and sat down in his seat. Since there were more than 700 candidates in the academy, the subsequent eunuchs in yellow would report several names at once.

It took two quarters of an hour for Guang and others to sit down, and then the emperor and empress gave speeches, encouraged the candidates, and selected more than ten people including He Fanshuang, Pei Jing, and Yong Hongzhong to inquire cordially.

The emperor and empress had obviously read some of the examinees' materials, and when they asked about He Fanshuang, they first praised his brother's achievements (it wasn't until then that some examinees knew that He Fanshuang's elder brother was the number one scholar in the academy eight years ago and now Prince Zuo Chunfang Zhongyun, He Siping),

Then I asked her about the situation in her hometown in Youzhou.

When asked about the student recommended by the Ministry of War, he not only called out his name, but also said the names of his father and brother, the order of the frontier army where his father and brother were, and the achievements of his father and brother on the battlefield. Yu Guo was grateful to his family for their contributions. etc.

The student recommended by the Ministry of War was so grateful that he wished he could kowtow dozens or hundreds of times in front of the hall.

And the disciples of the Hu people who were questioned - after expressing their emotion, they performed a live dance in the middle of the two respecting Jishou ceremonies.

This is also the custom of the courtiers of the Hu people in Yu State, who express their submission and love to the Khan of Heaven through Hu dance.

'Don't say it, it's kind of like that. '

Li Ang silently gave Hu Ren a high evaluation of the dance, and the emperor and empress who sat in the first seat also laughed heartily after being slightly stunned, officially announcing the beginning of the banquet.

Palace dancers entered the arena, silk and bamboo music sounded, and the palace people served delicious food and wine.

Finally able to relax, Li Ang silently breathed a sigh of relief, took a sip of the wine in the jasper glass, and smacked his lips.

'I don't think the wine in the palace is very good. It only tastes sweet and has no taste of alcohol—I guess I specially picked wine with a low alcohol content, so as not to make some jokes if I get drunk on these underage students who haven't drunk much. . '

Li Ang pondered the various arrangements in the palace,

The emperor and queen on the first seat called the candidates who hadn't been called before, chatting casually, with an easy-going attitude, which made all the students who had never seen the world feel like a spring breeze, and each of them vowed to die for the state of Yu - including those Students of foreign origin.

And Shanchang. Shanchang Lian Xuanxiao closed his eyes, followed the music of silk and bamboo music with his head, nodding his head little by little, seemingly sleeping.

Uh. Is this the most powerful cultivator in the Yu Kingdom, the headmaster of the Academy?

Li Ang didn't know how to feel, he sipped his wine and ate vinegar parsley and mutton.

Mr. Li Xiaolang is a Taoist from Jiangnan?

The young man sitting on the left asked a question abruptly, Li Ang almost choked, put down his wine glass, and looked at Li Si, the Prince of Yu, Reporting to the Prince, I am from Weizhou.

Hizhou is good, when the water on the Weishui Bridge rises in autumn, we eat fish sashimi.

When the fish is caught, hang them in water for a month to ensure that the meat is clean; the bloodletting process must be careful, so that the fish fillets will be as white as snow; the ingredients must be in the right proportion and in the correct order to highlight the sweetness of the fish.

Under Li Ang's surprised gaze, Li Si said in Weizhou dialect: Haha, when I was in the academy, I stayed in Weizhou with my teacher for a while.

Li Ang said: Prince Yunzhou speaks very well.

Just call me Dalang.

Li Si smiled slightly, and suddenly patted his head, Hey, I almost forgot, Li Ang, you are also the elder of the family, right? Then you can't call me Dalang—you and I are both Li Dalang.

Prince, why don't you tell a bad joke?

Fortunately, our surname is not Wu.

I don't know if the prince is friendly and talkative, or if he intends to solicit. He sat on the seat and chatted with Li Ang. He didn't talk about the affairs of the palace, but the knowledge of the palace.

For example, the horses in the Xuegong racecourse are all specially bred, have a thin lineage of monsters, and are generally bad and arrogant. A few horses especially like to bite the clothes of passing students.

Xuegong Stadium is different from Chang'an's Cuju field, it is more spacious, students can use talisman flying sword to assist in it, kick a ball that will never be damaged, and even use talisman to attack opponents - due to the presence of restrictions on the stadium, Talismans and other spells will not easily hurt classmates.

In addition, the Academy also has an observatory, a foundry, and a greenhouse farmland.

There are a few large glass greenhouses whose tops are painted red, which are particularly dangerous. They are filled with all kinds of [demon] plants collected by doctors of herbal medicine such as Sun Pu. It is strictly forbidden to touch and move randomly.

In addition, there is the Dongjun Building - where there are countless taboo alienated objects, any of which will cause great harm,

Even the outstanding disciples of the academy who are about to graduate are not allowed to go up to the third floor.

...Only under special circumstances, or with the permission of doctors and ministers, can the students of the academy enter the Dongjun Building and apply for the use of alienated objects.

Prince Li Si said with a smile: In comparison, Zangshu Pavilion doesn't have so many restrictions.

Except for some banned books, you can read them casually. If you want to borrow it, you have to establish a good relationship with Yao Jiaoxi in Cangshu Pavilion - she likes to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake and bean paste-flavored lingsha in Shifangzhai, East City, Chang'an City.

When I go to Zangshu Pavilion, I can buy some for her, so it may be much more convenient to borrow books.

Thank you, Prince.

Li Ang thanked him sincerely. Although he didn't know what, the prince's attitude seemed to be pretty good.

By the way, Risheng,

Li Si called him by the name of Li Ang's friends: You haven't married this year, have you?

Um?

Li Ang's vigilance was instantly full, and he pretended to cough: Well, cough cough, not yet.

Li Si asked with a smile: What type is your favorite sweetheart?

Well

Li Ang really hadn't seriously considered this issue before. Ever since he awakened his memory from another world, his mind was full of medical knowledge and being admitted to a school.

As for the sweetheart.

In Li Ang's mind, Chai Cuiqiao, who was wriggling under the quilt in winter and wondering whether she should go to the toilet, scratched her head.

In his memory, he had known Chai Cuiqiao for so long that he never thought about the situation after the two separated or their relationship changed.

Not ready yet?

Li Si grinned, glanced at the side hall of Liangyi Hall, and said in a low voice: Actually, according to the usual practice, behind the light gauze curtain of the side hall, there are sisters from my clan who are observing this year's school disciples. .

Do you want to consider it?

Anyway, they are all surnamed Li, which can be regarded as a close relationship.

ah?

Li Ang subconsciously looked at the side hall of the Liangyi Hall behind him, and he saw the light veil curtain and the shadowy figures of girls behind the curtain.

Regardless of whether it is a prince, minister or royal family, they are all willing to marry a disciple of the academy, not to mention that Li Ang is the number one scholar in the academy.

However, Princess Princess.

The faces of Gan Xiaoer's family in Shatao Village, Weizhou subconsciously appeared in Li Ang's mind, and his mind, affected by Mimizhile, suddenly became sober and calm.

He was admitted to the academy not for the sake of glory and wealth, nor for the sake of being married to the royal family, as a son-in-law with a bright future, bound by the royal etiquette.

It is to protect more people and let more ordinary people who are willing to live a down-to-earth life live a good life.

Thank you, Prince, but I don't have any plans to get married yet.

Li Ang bowed his hands to the prince sincerely, and the other party nodded, and said helplessly, Well, okay.

It is quite common for outstanding young people to be reluctant to marry the royal family.

One is because after becoming a son-in-law, he can no longer engage in politics,

The second reason is that the princesses and princesses of the Li family's clan are indeed generally bad-tempered, and there are many anecdotes spread among the people.

For example, in the period of the first emperor, there was a concubine Deng who was a concubine (the elder sister of the current emperor Li Shun), and his younger brother was critically ill. The first emperor asked where the princess was now, and the messenger said that the princess was watching a play at the Temple of Mercy.

The first emperor was furious, and after smashing the study, he sighed on his seat, no wonder the scholar-bureaucrats were unwilling to marry the Li family.

As for the disciples of the academy, becoming a son-in-law or imperial concubine would do more harm than good.

If the other party is good enough to be admitted to the academy by himself, or if the head of the mountain nods, both of them are disciples of the academy, then there is still some common language.

If the other party is not a student of the academy, and you want to travel all over the world, life and marriage can basically be judged as a tragedy.

Not even a divorce.

Li Si shook his head regretfully, and waved to the sisters who were watching behind the curtain.