Lu Liangsheng had long noticed the action of the toad running into Wang Shuhua's study to get the pen and ink.

"What does Master do with these things? Isn't I going to be bored and draw a map?"

Lu Liangsheng put down the book, stood in the light spot and stretched his waist again. The side yard was quiet, with only an old sycamore tree swaying its branches and leaves, rustling and rustling.

My mentor, Shu Hua, went out to visit friends a day ago and had not come back yet. At this time, there was only Lu Liangsheng in this side courtyard. He looked up and looked like a big tree like a canopy. The morning sun was shining, and the breeze was stroking the branches and leaves, mottled and shining.

The light spots hit on the face and felt the warmth of spring.

After a while, I brought the breakfast and half a bowl of porridge on the table. Lu Liangsheng pushed open the door. At the edge of the desk beside the window, the toad Taoist climbed on top with two webbed webs, hung his legs outside for a few strokes, but didn't go up. When the breakfast was placed on the table, the scholar reached out and pushed it behind the toad before he could barely climbed onto it.

"What did Master have to do in the morning?" Lu Liangsheng smiled and handed over the pastry.

The panting toad sat down, leaned against the edge of the bowl, held the red bean paste and took a small bite, swallowed it slowly, and looked at his apprentice calmly.

"Well... I like climbing mountains and finding my feelings."

Well…

I clearly saw you running around against the wall.

Lu Liangsheng twitched the corners of his mouth, squeezed out a smile, and said, "Master is so intriguing." When Nie Honglian leaned out half of his head lightly in the scroll on the wall of the bed, his figure was a little erratic. It was the day when Zhu Ziyi was forced to take a sword energy outside Liyang City, which damaged a lot of Yin energy.

Her cheeks were still noticeable and she chuckled.

"Master Toad brought back Shuhua's pen and ink."

The toad glared over and turned in a direction with Hongdou Su.

"Is that called taking? I call it...borrow it, but the master's family is not here."

As he was talking nonsense in the room, Lu Liangsheng looked helplessly at the argument between his master and Hong Lian, and suddenly his eyebrows spread out and walked to the door.

"Someone is here."

Sure enough, two footsteps came over the Crescent Gate. Min Changwen, who had just gotten off the morning court, came in from outside with his mentor. The two whispered something. When the old man saw the scholar standing under the eaves, he smiled:

"Haha, I'm the teacher and the minister talked about you, and I happened to come and sit together."

When the Minister of State was appointed to the prefecture of the small people, he was a very large official. Even Lu Liangsheng, who had fame and fortune, he still needed to pay attention to him. However, when he was in Fushui County, the two of them were already familiar with each other. At present, the other party's official reinstated his position and did not have much airs.

The three of them sat under the paulownia tree. Usually their mentors, Shushu Hua and Shangshu Min, were talking. Lu Liangsheng was listening, mostly about the affairs of the government. During this period, he also mentioned the law of protecting the country, which made Lu Liangsheng deliberately pay attention.

"In the Liangzhou incident, Your Majesty listened to the slander of the demon monk and sent a batch of food for several months, which almost caused a civil rebellion!"

"Well... the demon monk bewitched the king, saying that the drought is not long and it has stopped for a whole year. How many victims are hungry for feeding. In the end, it finally rained, and the credit is all on the demon monk."

"Those who harm the country and the people, damn it!!"

"But it is said that the heavy rain was a monk in white clothes and white robe forcibly casting spells, causing it to rain, and it was a thunderstorm for this."

"Yes... I have been to many practitioners over there, and I don't know who they are." Min Changwen reached out to pat the sycamore tree twice, and turned around to look at the quiet scholar beside him.

"Liangsheng, who is also a practitioner, happened to go to Heliangzhou during that time. Can you tell who that person is?"

The severe drought in Liangzhou was also the minister of the dynasty who wanted to criticize the law of protecting the country and warn the emperor to control the government. Unfortunately, it was useless. His friend and aide Wang Shuhua also ran around to prepare food to deliver it there. Later, he heard about the whole situation and learned that it was a master who risked the risk of the heavenly disaster and forced rain. It was difficult for Min Changwen to express this complicated feeling in his heart.

Unfortunately, after the thunder disaster, the master did not know his life or death, and the prefect of Liyang City, who was treating the other party, did not disclose it... He could only wait for the other party to come back to Beijing to report his work, and then find an opportunity to ask clearly.

The scholar who was asked was aroused by the words of his mentor and Min Changwen, and calmed down when he heard the words of the question.

...Say or not?

But it is said that it would be too terrifying to not die due to the thunder tribulation?

After thinking for a moment, Lu Liangsheng replied respectfully:

"I don't know this."

"There are so many people who practice Taoism, and it is common sense that good students don't know each other." Shuhua Gong looked at his expression and turned his words back to the court's affairs and people's livelihood in various places.

Occasionally, we will mention the spring exam a few days later, and both the old man and Min Changwen encourage each other.

The sun is so bright and harmonious, and gradually becomes warm.

The two of them were busy with official duties. After seeing them off, Lu Liangsheng returned to the yard, set up an easel, looked at the old sycamore tree in front of him, and while falling from the green ink, Taoist Toad took out the pen and ink he took out and spread the paper.

Recalling the mountains and rivers that once overlooked, the ink stains slowly fell to outline the vast land.

Soon, he stood up straight, supported the pen holder with a webbed, and flipped it around his waist. He looked at the black piece of paper, closed the toad eyes, gave up and threw the brush away, and sat down at the edge of the table.

"What kind of shit is this guy who painted?"

Outside the window, the sycamore tree painted with ease had already taken shape, and the last two strokes of the green ink fell, showing a scroll of lush branches and leaves and full of vitality.

In the breeze, the sycamore tree waving its branches and leaves gently danced, giving it a lot of vitality.

"Maybe, I can tell His Majesty the miserable situation in He Liangzhou in the Golden Palace... I hope it will be useful."

Lu Liangsheng thought to himself.

*******

Boom...

Spring thunder rolled in the sky, and when the clouds floated, the drizzle fell in the city.

On the second day of the second month, the dragon raised its head.

The Ministry of Rites' Spring Examination arrived. Lu Liangsheng tidied up his clothes, brought only pens and ink, and certificates. He washed up briefly, greeted Taoist Toad and Hong Lian, and took a paper umbrella and walked out of the side yard. He did not let the servants of Min's mansion see it off. He opened the paper umbrella and walked onto the street.

Slap...

The raindrops were hit by the oil-paper umbrella printed with colors, splashing water. Lu Liangsheng, wearing a green robe and long-sleeved shirt, walked through the wet streets, and his shoes and socks were not dripping. Originally, he didn't have to hold an umbrella, but that would be too eye-catching.

At this time, the long street was a little more lively than before. You could see the juren who went to Beijing to take the exam by his family and servants sent to the tribute court. When Lu Liangsheng came over, there were already many people who were hard to see on weekdays.

"I don't know which juren the top scorer or the second scorer this time, Tanhua will fall on."

"The exam questions of the Gongyuan Academy were given by Your Majesty himself. Our Majesty is proficient in literature and it is probably a bit difficult."

"…Who can tell it clearly? There will always be one or two juren who will be the first."

"That's right, that's right."

Buzzing... In the whispering sound, Lu Liangsheng held a paper umbrella and squeezed through the crowd. While smiling, he politely said to the onlookers: "Please let me go."

When the people around him saw the scholars, they could probably see that they were juren taking the exam, and consciously shouted at the people behind him, "Why are you rushing? There is a juren in front. Do you want to get close to take a look?"

"Please give it up..."

"Oh, I'm stepping on my feet."

"Oh... This guy is so young, I'm afraid he hasn't passed Double Ten, so he can't be watching the fun."

…

After passing through the water curtain hanging from the eaves, Lu Liangsheng put away the oil paper umbrella, shook the water stains on his shoulders, took out the test certificate, handed the identity document to the guardian, and then released it after verification, allowing him to go in.

It is similar to the provincial examination. Most of the rooms for the examination are small compartments. When entering, Lu Liangsheng took the candles handed over and was locked inside by the invigilator. On the one hand, he was also strictly prevented from being disturbed, and on the other hand, he also prevented someone from secretly passing the answers.

Lu Liangsheng waved his robe sleeve and brushed away the dust from the couch. He waved the bucket not far away from him in the corner. Soon, the test paper was handed in.

The first exam "The Lord's Saint, the Minister's Virtuous"

Seeing this question, Lu Liangsheng closed his eyes and gently polished the ink.

"If the Lord Saint is, He Liangzhou will not have such a tragedy."

After a long time, he had a little idea. He stood up a candle at the corner of the table, touched his fingertips, which led to a flame as big as a bean, illuminating the compartment.

The tip of the pen was dipped ink, the edge of the inkstone was scraped, and then it fell to the test paper.

"The mountains and fields are poor and the border villages are also known to be wise and virtuous, which is a sign of prosperity, but the country is full of trees..."

When Lu Liangsheng wrote the word "min" behind, he stopped and looked at the word "at the beginning" and was a little stunning, as if the brown and yellow land, and the mountain bags like grave appeared in his sight again.

The desolate disaster victims were ragged and slowly surging. The helpless old man sat on the side of the road waiting for death; the child who had lost his parents stood in the crowd and cried helplessly; the man with his wife and children urged anxiously, and the woman behind him sobbed quietly...

"civil…"

Lu Liangsheng thought lightly, and then wrote down the pen.

"…. People are rhizomes. Although the rhizomes are weak, they have a stake to grasp the ground. Only when the roots are solid can the wood grow. Just like a man who is virtuous, he can be safe in the country."

Before I knew it, the sky was dark, and the candlelight was swaying in the compartment, shining on the paper, sprinkling hundreds of words.

"......... The master of the sage will live in a wide area based on the magical artifacts and treat the people with benevolence, virtue and law. All officials will be ruling and frugal, and will serve the people with all their hearts and be loyal to them. Only then will the master of the sage and the ministers and wise..."

There were three spring exams, each with three days. Lu Liangsheng spent all his accumulated experience over the past four years and wrote them with his own opinions, which also meant to advise the emperor. After all, he knew that there were such a great monster like Pudu Cihang in the palace.

If an individual deals with it privately, it will be difficult, but if the emperor is enlightened and upright, he will naturally drive away the other party.

After the exam, Lu Liangsheng walked out of the tribute school. Compared with the other candidates, he was still energetic. The only thing that made him lacked was food.

"The food in the Gongyuan tastes... tsk, go back and have a good meal."

Throw the pen and ink into the package, walk to the corner where there are few people, use a trick to trick it, and walk by quickly.

...

That night, the palace was brightly lit, and above the lane columns, there were stacks of dragon tables to test the test papers.

Behind the Dragon Case, Chen Shubao had already reviewed some of them and threw them away the basket next to him.

Um?

He took out a set of seals and saw the name on it, the emperor frowned.

"Lu Liangsheng..."

Looking at the corner of the dragon case, Pisces with pearls soaked in the lights, Chen Shubao picked up the imperial pen and looked at the answer inside, and directly drew a circle on the cover.

Then, throw away the basket on the other side.

"I want to see what the person praised by the imperial concubine and the prince look like."
Chapter completed!