How to break into Liaozhai

Let Wang Rui judge by himself, he should have won the first battle, and the stereotyped essays performed exceptionally well. To describe it in two words, it is perfect.

But in the imperial examination, it is not enough to beat yourself, you have to beat others.

After being locked up in the test shed for three days, when they got out of the test shed, everyone looked at the blue sky as if they were born again.

Everyone discussed the difficulty of this topic with each other, and even asked the students with good grades whether they had written a wrong topic.

But most of these are useless, who can say that your writing is off topic, and besides, the tastes of examiners from the capital are uncertain, and the imperial examination depends on luck.

When Wang Rui left the examination room, he saw He Yunyi from a distance, waved to him, and ran to him.

It's been three days since Wang Rui kicked him out, and I haven't seen him for nine years, and I miss him so much.

The weather was hot, Wang Rui's cheeks were slightly flushed, and He Yun put his face on it as soon as he went up: "It's really hot."

Wang Rui pushed him away: "It's getting hotter after you posted it." Then he talked about the old ghost. If you meet a ghost, look for me instead of others."

"You have really grown up. The days when you were scared by monsters and ghosts and jumped over the wall and jumped into the yard are gone forever."

"Who hasn't made any progress yet." Wang Rui said: "Anyone who encounters so many monsters and ghosts will calm down." If these monsters are exercises, he has done so many, and he should become a master.

He Yun snorted and said, "You have to drive me away. If I follow you, I won't be able to jump around like this old ghost. I'll accompany you in the next exam."

"Don't!" Wang Rui refused, "If you were here, I really wouldn't be in the mood to answer the test, so I should find another way."

He Yunyi reluctantly said: "...well, if you don't read it, you don't read it."

In order to prevent the old ghost from happening again, before the next exam, He Yunyi condensed his spiritual energy and drew a talisman on Wang Rui's palm, telling him that if he encounters these troublesome ghosts again, he should show them and kill one of them.

Three days after the second exam, the weather changed suddenly. During the first exam, it was clearly sunny, and He Yunyi even came to deliver the brazier. In the second exam, it was raining lightly, and the wind was blowing. It's bone-chilling.

He just opened the paper, and with a bang, a drop of rain fell on the table. Wang Rui was stunned, it was raining?

As soon as I looked up, didn't I see a light shining through the tiles above my head, and the rainwater dripped down along the cracks, making a loud noise.

Wang Rui patted the door panel and called the invigilator: "This room is leaking!"

"Maybe it was blown away by the strong wind the night before yesterday, and this tribute courtyard has not been repaired for several years." The invigilator muttered: "Be patient, there is no way, even if it is repaired, it cannot be done now." After finishing speaking, he closed the small window , walked away with hands behind his back.

Wang Rui looked up at the sky, didn't he intentionally cause trouble for him, the test room is only so big, there is no way to avoid it.

Wang Rui prayed for the rain to stop soon, but the rain was obviously against him, and it was getting bigger and bigger.

He also hoped that He Yunyi would come to see him quickly so that he could help him repair a tile.

But before entering the examination room this morning, he vowed to "warn" him countless times that he would not come to see him unless there was a fire or an earthquake. He Yunyi also made it clear that he would not break in casually. realistic.

Wang Rui choked speechlessly. From this point of view, the old ghost was a little "cuter".

I had no choice but to use a pen to wash the rainwater that leaked from the roof of the shed, and it was filled up quickly.

When he was worrying, he only heard the sound of tiles on the roof, and when he looked again, the tiles on the roof had been mended.

He didn't feel that he stood up with his head up, observed carefully, and made sure that the incomplete gap had been repaired.

who?He Yunyi?

Suddenly, a familiar figure appeared in front of him, wearing the big red robe he wore when he first met.

Meeting the old man again, Wang Rui smiled and called his name: "Huang Jiulang?" Considering that he was taking the exam, he kept his voice extremely low.

Huang Jiulang smiled and nodded, his voice was as soft as ever: "It's me."

"Did you fix the roof for me?" Asked knowingly, who else could it be but him.

Huang Jiulang smiled again.

Wang Rui expressed his sincere gratitude: "Thank you."

He shook his head: "All along, I should be the one to thank you...For example, I always wanted to thank you for saving my cousin, but you understand that it's not convenient."

The main reason for the inconvenience was He Yunyi. The two of them were tired of being together all day long and were inseparable. Huang Jiulang really couldn't find a chance to get close to Wang Rui.

"It's just a little effort." Wang Rui said with a smile: "Didn't you help me today, otherwise the raindrops will really affect my performance."

Huang Jiulang smiled bitterly and said, "I finally helped you a little, and I feel better."

"What's the point, we are all friends, why are you so clear?" Wang Rui said sincerely.

"..." Huang Jiulang lowered his eyes and said in a low voice: "I will remember your kindness to me, and if I can't repay you, I will repay it to your family. It's just that it's impossible to complete the repayment in a short time." , I'm going to... to practice."

"Cultivation? Very good. You see, I am also taking the imperial examination, which is also a kind of practice. Let's work hard together!" They all mean the same thing.

Seeing him encouraging himself enthusiastically, Huang Jiulang froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "You really haven't changed, you're still so cheerful."

A miserable farewell is not Wang Rui's style, he has always been so free and easy.

Wang Rui chuckled: "I haven't always been like this."

Huang Jiulang stretched out his palm: "I will work hard to practice and strive to be canonized by the heavenly court, and you also want to be named on the gold list! Then, the future will last forever, and we will always be friends. See you again!"

It's a high-five swear, Wang Rui gave it to him.

Wang Rui was stunned for a moment, then slapped him loudly, and said with a smile, "See you again!"

Huang Jiulang nodded with a smile, and his figure gradually disappeared from Wang Rui, leaving behind a touch of red, but soon, the red was gone.

The smile on the corner of Wang Rui's mouth also gradually faded, and he sighed, anyway, it's a bit sad to say goodbye to a friend.

It took a long time to sit down, spread out the paper, and start answering the questions.

Without the trouble of raindrops, Wang Rui answered the questions smoothly and successfully completed the second exam.

In view of He Yunyi's attributes, he didn't tell him that he had met Huang Jiulang, and bid farewell gracefully, there was no need to make the city stormy.

In the third exam, Wang Ruiyue got better and better in the exam, and he answered smoothly, drawing a successful conclusion to the township exam.

Then a question mark came one after another, that is, whether he could pass the exam.

Because I prepared seriously this time, I felt that I passed the exam, and I didn't run away like last time. I didn't even read the results, and fled home. Instead, I lived in the provincial capital, waiting for the final result.

The examiners were officials from the Imperial Academy and the Ministry of Rites sent by the capital. There was no doubt about their level.

Candidates waited for the day when the rankings were released, and they were too busy to spend all their energy on "making friendships".

In a province, whether it is participating in the examination or becoming an official in the future, there is mutual support.

For a time, the turnover of the Provincial City Hotel soared.

However, those with families like Wang Rui are not so comfortable. The bachelor Huo Ke ran out with Ma Xiao and did not take him with him.

Except for Wang Rui, Huo Huan and Wei Xingxian both had people in their hearts, they didn't go out to play except for simple socializing, and even continued to study, preparing for the imperial examination and palace examination in the capital next year.

Wang Rui praised the two of them, they are amazing, the life of a top student is really scary, and they don't take holidays.

After returning to the inn, wandering around behind He Yunyi's body: "It's still many days before the announcement of the list, it's really boring."

When He Yun saw Wang Rui fidgeting, he said, "Why don't I take you to the place where the examiners mark the papers, and see how your papers were graded and whether they were right or not." To him, this was a simple matter. It can't be a simple matter, just go for a stroll with the invisibility method.

Wang Rui didn't dare, and went to see the examiner's marking scene, it was too torturous, why not wait for the results to be announced, and shook his head hurriedly.

"Look at your courage, I'll show you, just wait." After speaking, before Wang Rui grabbed him, he disappeared in a flash.

Wang Rui waited anxiously, and after a quarter of an hour, He Yunyi came back: "You haven't yet approved your paper, so I will go again at this time tomorrow."

"Don't go!" Wang Rui said: "Let's go out to play, and come back on the day when the rankings are released. It's better to be stabbed if you don't hit that day, than to be 'ling' every day now."

He Yun couldn't get what he wanted, so he hugged him: "Where do you want to go?"

"Hmm... the beach... hey, are you leaving now?" As soon as the words fell, the man disappeared from the inn room.

Huo Ke was knocking on the door outside at this time: "The candidates in Taicheng invited us to have a drink together, are you coming?" After knocking for a long time but there was no answer, he said to Ma Xiao behind him: "Maybe I went out to play, leave a note for them .”

He Yunyi is not an ordinary person, he is "absent and haunted", so he may have taken Wang Rui out to play.He left a note and stuffed it in the door, and then dragged his younger brother and Wei Xingxian who insisted on studying hard, and followed him to the party.

Candidates invite each other to drink to build relationships, and they are idle anyway.

After dark, a private room facing the street was booked in the hotel, and candidates from the two places gathered together.

While drinking and chatting, chatting and chatting, I thought about the "beautiful life" after high school. Some said that they would go back to repair their ancestral graves, and some said that they would comfort their parents. They asked Huo Huan. Huo Huan wanted to say that he would go back and marry Wang Qingyuan, but he was afraid that people would laugh at him. He is worthless, and says to serve the court against his will.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone lying on the railing laughing, "Look, there is a beauty."

A group of bored examinees, let alone beauties, wanted to take a look at any beautiful donkeys. When they heard this, they all laughed and gathered at the railing.

Downstairs on the stone street, a woman wearing a gauze hat was sitting sideways on a donkey, followed by a maidservant. Although the woman's face could not be seen, her figure and back could already attract people's imagination.

Their chatting and laughing attracted the woman's attention. She lifted her gauze hat, looked up, and saw a group of scholars standing on the second floor looking at her laughing, and couldn't help frowning.

"Wow—a beautiful girl—" Everyone seemed to have found a treasure, and some of them wished their eyes would fall on her and stick to her: "It's just that the expression is so fierce, who can make her laugh?"

When encountering this kind of thing before, Wei Xingxian, who was able to spy on Nie Xiaoqian, must have taken the lead, but it is strange, since he met Luo Huiqing, he didn't feel much about it, and now he just shook his head slightly, letting others make trouble, He turned around and went back to the table.

Huo Huan was also not interested in teasing women, so he tugged at his brother: "Don't look at it."

"She took off the veil herself, why didn't she look at it?" Huo Ke stayed behind, Huo Huan had no choice but to return to the table by himself.

The woman downstairs just looked at them, her expression was as cold as ice, and she could see that she was dissatisfied, but she didn't leave.

At this moment, Ma Xiao bent down, resting his neck on the railing, and said with a smile: "I don't know whose lady is so beautiful when she is so cold." After finishing speaking, he pretended to be intoxicated and said: "Hey, look at her eyes, I'm going to die."

At this time, the woman downstairs seemed to hear it, and even smiled.

The scholars upstairs laughed and said, "I just smiled."

The woman put down her gauze hat, patted the little donkey, and left with her maid. The maid walked a few steps, raised her head and smiled and said, "This is Rongcheng Qilang's bride coming home, how can you be so frivolous."

The scholars thought it was funny, and they were all done teasing, so what's the point of saying such things.

At this time Wei Xingxian felt bored, decided to go back to the inn, and called Ma Xiao at the railing: "Let's go, it's getting late."

This touch didn't matter, Ma Xiao's body didn't move, Wei Xingxian looked up, his face was already livid, his neck rested on the railing, and he was out of breath.

"Ma Xiao! Ma Xiao!" Wei Xingxian wanted to help him up, but his neck seemed to be glued to the railing, and no matter how he pulled it, he would not move. Others came to help when they saw it, but seven or eight Young man, he just can't move Ma Xiao's body.

It wasn't until Huo Huan came to help that Ma Xiao was moved away, but as soon as he swore his nose, he had already lost his breath, and he had already lost his breath, and he was dead.

Wei Xingxian and the others were dumbfounded. The friend who was talking and laughing just now was stuck on the railing to death.

Huo Ke hesitated for a moment, and said: "He, He Yunyi must have a solution!" After speaking, he went downstairs in a hurry and ran to the inn.

But he slammed on the door hard, but there was no answer in Wang Rui's room, and he searched inside and outside the building, but there was no one there, so he had to insert another note, telling them to go to the restaurant if they came back.

When he returned to the restaurant, all the doctors he called had arrived, but they were useless except to announce Ma Xiao's death.

Everyone was dumbfounded, hired a car, and carried Ma Xiao to Yizhuang first, and then returned to their respective residences in a daze and without a sense of reality.

All right, how could people die?

It was almost dawn at this time, and everyone didn't close their eyes all night, and returned to the inn, anyway, they fell asleep to catch up.

When Huo Ke got up, his first thought was to find He Yunyi and Wang Rui again, but when he opened his eyes, he was stunned.

Why are the eyes covered with a film?Seeing things as if separated by a layer of paper, objects can only be seen as black blocks.

He yelled at Huo Huan. Huo Huan woke up and saw that the pupils of both his brother's eyes were covered with white film, and his whole eyes looked white.

At this time, someone knocked on the door of the guest room and said, "Are you there? I am the child of Master Sun from Taicheng. Our master asked you if there is anything wrong with your eyes."

Huo Huan opened the door and let the little boy in: "Why, is there something wrong with your eyes?"

"When you get up in the morning, one counts as one. The eyes of those who drank yesterday..." Seeing Huo Ke sitting at the table, the boy grinned and said, "They are all the same as this young master."

No matter how dull you are, you will know that the weirdness is due to the woman last night, Huo Ke said: "That is a witch!"

Huo Huan was puzzled: "Why am I okay?" After speaking, he thought of Wei Xingxian, ran to his room to wake him up, and found that Wei Xingxian's eyes were fine, dark and bright, not at all like his brother.

It can be deduced from this that only the people watching and laughing at the woman last night were recruited. Huo Huan and Wei Xingxian were drinking in the house, and they were fine if they didn't laugh at the railing.

Now one is dead and a bunch of them are blind, which is really causing trouble.

Huo Ke was very calm: "He Yunyi and Wang Rui must have a solution." Although he couldn't see his eyes, he had a heart that firmly believed in the coming of the light.

Wei Xingxian said: "It doesn't matter to you, but Ma Xiao is still lying in Yizhuang. They don't know where to play now. When they come back, maybe Ma Xiao will rot."

As soon as the words fell, Huo Ke suddenly heard a voice in his right eye saying: "It's so crowded and dark, open the window."

Another voice in the left eye said: "No, the person who opened the window will see it. You can't open it. Let's talk like this. I said, do you miss me?"

"think."

"Think about it."

"I really want to."

"Me too, hee hee. Although we can't see each other, our hearts are connected. I want to kiss you."

"I think so too. But I can't make it through. I kiss my arm and make a noise. You can feel it yourself, chirp~"

"That's great, let me kiss you too."

Huo Ke was dumbfounded: "What are you?" He rubbed his eyes vigorously, but the two voices did not stop, but became more and more enthusiastic.

The most terrible thing is that Wei Xingxian and Huo Huan could also vaguely hear it, with disgusted expressions on their faces: "What is this thing? Is it stuck in your eyes?"

Huo Ke wanted to pull his hair: "Shut up!"

"Hmph, you are so noisy. Since you dislike us, let's open a window to meet each other and live together." The humanity in the pupils said.

Huo Ke felt a pinprick-like pain in both eyes, as if something was going to break through the eyeballs, and the eyeballs were about to burst. He immediately covered his eyes and begged for mercy: "Don't come out, you will be the same as before."

The pain stopped, and the two voices in the pupils, one said with a smile: "Then let's not meet each other, let's just stay like this, then what, I'm actually not ready to see you, let's wait a little longer. "

The other said: "Well, I'm also a little nervous. I don't know if you are as tall and mighty as I imagined."

"Hee hee, you will know sooner or later."

The people in the two pupils continued to talk about love, no matter what, it finally stopped.

Huo Ke was about to cry: "When will He Yunyi and the others come back? If they don't come back, these two guys in my eyes will meet and have a litter of children sooner or later."

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Ma Xiao looked at his own body lying on the cold wooden bed in Yizhuang, without any sense of reality, is he dead?

But how did he die?The last memory is of the neck resting on the railing, and then there is no memory.

He tried several times to return to his physical body, but was unsuccessful.

"Hey, don't struggle, young man, if you die, you're dead." At this time, an old man squatting on the ground in the corner laughed.

Ma Xiao saw that the old man's physical body was lying on another bed, knowing that he was a ghost, he couldn't help crying: "I'm still young, I haven't lived enough."

"You have to think this way, reincarnated, younger." The old man glanced at the sun: "Don't worry, I asked before I was alive, and it is said that every day at this time, people from the underworld come to lock people up."

Just after finishing speaking, he heard the sound of chains, Ma Xiao knew that it was a ghost messenger, turned his head back in fear, and was stunned: "Zhu Erdan?"

Zhu Erdan was also surprised: "Ma, Ma Xiao?" He was transferred from the small Yangxin County to the provincial capital because of his good job as a ghost. He didn't expect to meet his former classmate, and he died.

Ma Xiao looked at his official attire: "For the sake of my classmates, please forgive me, don't lock me up, I don't want to die yet."

Zhu Erdan looked him up and down: "You have been selected to be a candidate, and you have an official status, and you died strangely, so you can wait a few more days."

Ma Xiao laughed: "Really? I won the exam?" Suddenly he forgot that he was dead.

"The news from the nether world is faster than the news from the sun world. You, Wang Rui, Wei Xingxian and Huo Huan are all on the list, and Huo Huan won the No. 1 Jie Yuan." Zhu Erdan said sincerely: "I don't blame you for making fun of me. It is true that the article is better than mine."

Ma Xiao said: "What about Huo Ke?"

"He really can't do it, he didn't pass the exam." Zhu Erdan said.

Ma Xiao is now a happy ghost: "I've hit it, I've hit it! That's great! Then how can I return the sun?"

"Don't worry, He Yunyi will help you." Zhu Erdan said: "However, if he hasn't revived your soul before your body rots, I have to lock your soul away. When he comes back, he can't go to the Yin Division to ask for help." Man, you are completely dead."

Ma Xiao's face turned bitter: "When will he come back?"

The old man next to him also called: "I want to wait too."

Zhu Erdan shook his head: "Your lifespan is over, let's go." After speaking, he set up the chains and took them away.

Ma Xiao played with his fingers impatiently: "Wang Rui, when are you coming back? We won the exam! We won!"