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Chapter 140 Palace Examination
Ye Ximing and Wei Yan didn't go, but Cao Bingwen did.

For a period of time after that, Cao Bingwen often went out to participate in various poetry gatherings and banquets, and visited several adults in the court on the recommendation of others. The whole person exudes an aura of triumphant spring breeze.

In a blink of an eye, it was time for the palace examination.

According to the time in previous years, the palace examination should be held in early April, but this year because of a re-examination, the palace examination was already in May.

There is only one exam in the palace examination, and the emperor personally takes the exam in the palace.

This imperial examination was the first after Emperor Hongsheng came to power. He originally wanted to use this imperial examination to select talents who could be used by himself, so he chose Weng Jingshan as the examiner against all objections. Who would have thought that something like that would happen.

In fact, although Weng Jingshan was at fault in this leak, the calculations of the Queen Mother Xuan's party were indispensable behind it.

Weng Jingshan's business test question caused problems with the identity of the beautiful concubine who was exiled to Weng Jingshan's family. Unfortunately, Weng Jingshan was seduced by beauty and ultimately betrayed Emperor Hongsheng's trust, harming his career and his family.

At this point, Emperor Hongsheng could only hope for the palace examination.

Emperor Hongsheng thought about the policy topic for the imperial examination for a long time before settling on it.

When it came time for the palace examination, Emperor Hongsheng did not just sit high on the dragon throne, but walked around the entire hall, checking the candidates' answers everywhere, especially those who ranked higher during the examination. Several people.

When Ye Ximing answered the question, Emperor Hongsheng stayed behind him for a long time.

Fortunately, Ye Ximing was quite courageous and quite confident in his article. Except for noticing that he was a little nervous when Emperor Hongsheng was standing next to him at first, he quickly adjusted his mood and continued to answer the questions.

Although Ye Ximing was not influenced by Emperor Hongsheng, it did not mean that others were not affected by Emperor Hongsheng. Some people were sweating profusely because Emperor Hongsheng was standing behind him, their minds were blank, and they did not even know how to write.

Emperor Hongsheng lost interest in such candidates after seeing them. He now needs people who dare to confront Empress Dowager Xuan's party and help him purge the court. Such timid people are embarrassing and useless.

After walking around the hall for a few times, Emperor Hongsheng returned to his dragon throne and began to recall the identities and backgrounds of several people he liked.

Ye Ximing and the other candidates didn't know that Emperor Hongsheng had already made a choice in his mind about the rankings of the candidates after walking around the hall a few times.

They still answered the questions quietly, and the only sound in the entire hall could be heard as the pen fell on the paper.

At the end of the palace examination, the papers of all the candidates were collected.

There is no need for the candidates to leave, they can just wait for the results in the palace.

When the official in charge of grading selected the ten best papers from all the candidates and presented them to Emperor Hongsheng, Emperor Hongsheng had already known about them and quickly decided on the top three.

After the results of the palace examination were filled in, Emperor Hongsheng held a passing ceremony in the Hall of Supreme Harmony to announce the results of the palace examination.

Ye Ximing was selected as the number one scholar by Emperor Hongsheng, and was awarded the sixth rank of Hanlin Academy as editor and editor.

Except for the top three in the first class and the top two in the second class, which were personally decided by Emperor Hongsheng, the rest of the rankings were all decided upon by other examiners.

Cao Bingwen's ranking is still not high, but he has not fallen into the top three.

Not surprisingly, Wei Yan was born with the same Jinshi background. Wei Yan himself didn't care about this. He was also a Jinshi from the same background. He didn't have high expectations for himself. He was very satisfied to get such results.

At this time, Zhou Ran and others who were waiting for the results in the small courtyard also received the good news.

Rewards were given to those who came to announce the good news, and Da Niu and others congratulated Zhou Ran one after another. Zhou Ran still felt a little unreal, because she had won the first prize, and she actually became the first prize lady.

Da Niu had been asking about the imperial examination a lot during this period. After happily congratulating Zhou Ran, she said to Zhou Ran: "Master, let's pack up quickly and go watch the excitement on the street."

They have never seen anything like the champion scholar parading through the streets.

Zhou Ran also didn't want to miss Ye Ximing riding a horse and riding a horse through the streets. After cleaning up, he took the girl and the others out the door.

Arriving on the busiest street in the capital, Zhou Ran glanced around and found a restaurant with a good view, but it didn't look very high-end.

Fortunately, Zhou Ran and the others arrived early, so there was only one private room near the window in this restaurant.

Zhou Ran made the decision immediately, ordered tea and snacks, sat in the box, ate snacks and talked while waiting for the top pick to parade through the streets.

Nearly half an hour later, they heard the sound of gongs and drums coming from afar. Zhou Ran, Da Niu and the others hurriedly got up and walked to the window to take a look.

At this time, both sides of the street were lined with people watching the excitement, and the private rooms of various restaurants were full of people who stuck their heads in the direction of the sound.

After a while, three people wearing red robes and riding tall horses appeared in everyone's eyes.

This year's Yijia and the other three are not very old, and all three of them are very handsome. Naturally, the ladies who are watching are excited. All kinds of handkerchiefs, sachets and flowers are thrown at the three of them. go.

This was the first time Zhou Ran saw Ye Ximing wearing red clothes. She originally thought that white clothes would be most suitable for Ye Ximing's handsome appearance, but today she discovered that Ye Ximing also looked very good-looking in red clothes.

Maybe she could consider preparing more red robes for Ye Ximing in the future.

While Zhou Ran was thinking about it, the big girl suddenly said in annoyance: "Oh, we forgot to prepare flowers, what should we do?"

Zhou Ran turned around and looked around the box, but didn't find anything suitable.

Zhou Ran lowered her head and looked at the still old purse around her waist. She took it off, poured out the silver inside, and shouted when Ye Ximing and the others were about to pass by the window: "Ye Ximing."

When Ye Ximing heard a familiar voice, he raised his head and glanced upstairs. A faint smile suddenly appeared in his calm eyes, which was particularly charming.

Zhou Ran looked at the dazzling smile on his face, let go and threw her purse at him.

Ye Ximing raised his hand to catch the purse and put it in his arms.

Gao Rongyue, who was in front of the window on the second floor of the restaurant diagonally opposite, lost her mind the moment she saw Ye Ximing smiling. After seeing Ye Ximing take the purse thrown by Zhou Ran and put it away, Gao Rongyue's face turned ugly again. Get up,

After thinking about it, she threw aside the sachet she was going to throw to Ye Ximing, took off the jade pendant she had been wearing from her waist, and prepared to throw it to Ye Ximing.

The maid next to her saw her behavior and hurriedly advised: "Miss, you can't throw this jade pendant away."