The next day was the examination and release of the rankings. After the meeting with the prince, Shen Chenyu was not nervous anymore. The posting of the rankings in the general examination is different from that in the rural examinations. Generally, after the good news is announced in the morning, the rankings will not be posted until the afternoon.
The next day Zhang Cui and others got up early in the morning and booked seats in a Zhuangyuan Building next to the Gongyuan. Although Shen Chenyu and Zhang Chu had a rift before, Zhang Chu still called Shen Chenyu together.
Originally, Shen Chenyu didn't want to be with them, but everyone was classmates before anyway. Seeing that their attitude has always been very good, Shen Chenyu could only drag Mu Linting to the champion building.
Seeing the little couple singing in harmony, everyone couldn't help being envious and feeling sour. What they envied was the good relationship between the two of them, and what made them sad was that they found that Mu Linting was very good-looking.
Mu Linting had been wearing a veiled hat before, and they thought Mu Linting was an ugly husband, so they felt sorry for Shen Chenyu secretly.
Recently, Mu Linting didn't wear veiled hats very much, and they realized that the other party was actually very good-looking. Although Mu Linting's good looks are not like a brother's, but more like a handsome man's type, but they also have to admit that each other is outstanding.
When the group arrived at the restaurant, the restaurant was already full of guests. Fortunately, they had reserved seats in advance, otherwise there would be no seats today.
Before they sat down on their seats, firecrackers sounded outside the Gongyuan, and the streets outside also started to make noise. Because the good news is from the back to the front, so the first one should be the last one in the test.
Among the classmates with Shen Chen, except for Zhang Thui who has a little strength, the others all looked very disturbed. Probably because they don't have much confidence in this test, and everyone's emotions are not very high.
Compared to their uneasy appearance, Shen Chenyu and Zhang Thui looked much calmer. Shen Chenyu did very well in the first test. He knew that the first test this time was very important, so he was very confident that he would be on the list.
As for Zhang Chu, although this person's character is not very good, it has to be said that he is indeed talented. But it's not enough for a person to be talented, at least Shen Chenyu dare not have any deep friendship with such a person.
This time, a total of 400 candidates were admitted for the examination, and the 400 applicants reported in batches from the back to the front, and the entire outer city of the capital was very lively for a while. Because the general examination is more important than the provincial examination, winning the list in the general examination is equivalent to becoming a Jinshi, and the status is very different from the previous Juren.
So this time the good news is very grand. After the palace examination is over, the good news will be spread to the various state capitals below, and the people in the state capital will also report the good news to the Jinshi's hometown. This is a major event for the glory of the lintel, and some relatively prosperous families will erect Jinshi monuments.
About the time they registered for the top 100, several of Shen Chenyu's classmates turned pale. They still know how much they have, if they don't have it later, it is equivalent to failing the ranking.
One of the students with a bad attitude left when he registered for the 90th place. Not long after this classmate left, the eighty-ninth, eighty-eighth, and eighty-seventh students were all born in the restaurant next door to them.
The shopkeeper of the restaurant next door was overjoyed, and asked the staff to set off several strings of firecrackers in succession to celebrate. Let the already bustling streets appear more lively than before.
Among them, there was a student who was on the list, who seemed to be from a very good family background, and even asked the servants to spread happy money in the street. Seeing this, a group of scholars stepped forward one after another, each of them wanting to be happy.
Shen Chenyu had already drank his second cup of tea. Hearing the occasional noise outside, he couldn't help pulling Mu Linting to the window.
Their location is on the third floor, so the viewing angle is very good, and they can see far away. Shen Chenyu silently watched the commotion outside, feeling a little mixed in her heart for a moment.
It's been several years since he crossed over to this place. He didn't expect to come here step by step from a worthless scholar. No one knows the hardships during this period, only the people around him have been silently supporting him. Shen Chenyu sighed in her heart, and then she was about to pull Mu Linting back to sit back.
He didn't know that he hadn't been to the window before, but standing at the window now felt that it was quite dangerous. Especially now that there are people coming and going upstairs, and the window of this restaurant is so short, Shen Chenyu feels a little palpitation inexplicably.
However, before Shen Chenyu and Mu Linting could walk away, when a scholar with a jug passed by them, probably because he was drunk and didn't stand still, the other party suddenly stretched out his hand and pushed Mu Linting. .
Mu Linting also seemed to be taken aback. When he subconsciously protected his stomach, he fell out of the window. Shen Chenyu's pupils shrank immediately, and immediately hugged Mu Linting without thinking too much.
Just when everyone thought they were going to fall and couldn't help but exclaimed one by one, Shen Chenyu grabbed the window sill on the left with one hand. With Shen Chenyu's buffer this time, Mu Linting stretched out his long legs and hooked the window guardrail, and brought Shen Chenyu over the window again and fell back upstairs.
Everyone was stunned, not only because they were frightened by the accident just now, but also because they were amazed at Mu Linting's skill.
The waiter in the restaurant was the first to react. He couldn't help looking at Mu Linting and said, "My God, he...does he know martial arts? This skill is too powerful?"
The others came back to their senses after hearing the words. Just as everyone surrounded the two of them to express their concern, the drunken scholar who had pushed him was about to run away when Mu Linting blocked his way with a chopstick.
The chopsticks were inserted straight into the ground, only a little bit inserted into the opponent's feet, and the drunken scholar suddenly turned pale with fright.
Shen Chenyu also recovered now. To be honest, he was really scared just now. Fortunately, Mu Linting's martial arts are really strong, otherwise they would definitely be seriously injured if they fell.
After Shen Chenyu came back to her senses, she walked towards the scholar angrily. Before, everyone probably thought that the other party did it unintentionally because he was drunk. But now seeing the other party's posture of wanting to run, he vaguely understood that the other party probably did it on purpose.
The drunken scholar was obviously instructed by someone, but for some unknown reason, no matter how Shen Chenyu interrogated him, he dared not say anything, and just kept crying that he would be sent to the court.
Seeing each other like this, Shen Chenyu and Mu Linting looked at each other, and couldn't guess who it was for a while.
Mu Linting threatened the prince like that yesterday, and the prince's narrow mind would definitely turn into anger from embarrassment. But the matter in front of him is not like what the prince did, because the prince has always been high-profile and cruel in revenge, so he would not make such a small fight.
So this person, who will instruct it? It stands to reason that they are not familiar with the place of life in the capital, who would want to make Mu Linting have an accident?
And just when Shen Chenyu was thinking like this, a voice full of concern suddenly sounded. "Yuro, are you alright?"
Shen Chenyu suddenly raised her head when she heard the words, and Zhang Chu, who was standing in front of him, took a step back in fright, her delicate face was full of puzzlement and surprise.
Shen Chenyu looked at the surprised face of the other party, and suppressed a conjecture that was about to come out in her heart, then stood up and said lightly to Zhang Chu: "Please help me to apply for an official, this person almost killed my husband. If we can't find out the mastermind behind the scenes, I, Chen Chenyu, will never end with him."
Shen Chenyu said so, her dark eyes fixed on Zhang Chu, trying to see something from the other's face. However, other than his pale face, the other party didn't show any strange expression because of his words.
Zhang Chu said: "Yulang don't worry, I will find someone to send him to the official."
Zhang Chu said so, and together with a classmate, they caught the drunken scholar, intending to wrestle him to the government together. Whether it's the drunken scholar or Zhang Chu, the two of them really don't seem to know each other. Shen Chenyu couldn't help but frowned slightly, but she still didn't put away her doubts about Zhang Chu.
It wasn't that Shen Chenyu deliberately targeted Zhang Chu, the main reason was that he and Mu Linting had not offended any special people at all not long after they first entered the capital. Although Mu Linting had many enemies before, those enemies did not know that he was back.
And even if they knew, there was the Eighth Prince behind Shen Chenyu and the others, and they didn't have the guts to go beyond the Eighth Prince and attack the two of them.
In addition, the drunk scholar was too targeted, and when the other party pushed, he also targeted Mu Linting's stomach. Now there are not many people who know that Mu Linting is pregnant, and there are only a few people who are traveling with Shen Chenyu.
Therefore, based on this inference, the person who will target Mu Linting and the child, in Shen Chenyu's view, Zhang Chu is very likely.
But now there is no evidence, Shen Chenyu can't just rely on inferences, and quarreled with Zhang Chui.
What's more, if the deduction is wrong, Shen Chenyu will be completely entangled with the other party if he hurts him.
But after experiencing today's farce, Shen Chenyu had to be more on guard against Zhang Chu, he didn't want such a similar thing to happen again.
Before Zhang Chui and his classmates sent him to the government, they happened to encounter an official patrolling the street, and the scholar was taken away by the government.
There is nothing good about this case, because the other party has committed all the crimes in one go, even if the government knows that there is a mastermind behind the scenes, there is nothing they can do.
However, since the other party is willing to take the blame, because the victim is pregnant, the other party's crime is very serious, and it is estimated that he will not come out again in seven or eight years.
This accident was quickly covered up, because Zhang Chu and Shen Chenyu received good news immediately after. Zhang Chu took the ninth place in the test this time, and Shen Chenyu directly took the third place in the test.
It is well known that candidates who pass the Gongshi examination will not easily fail the subsequent palace examination. Although the ranking in the general examination is not very important, but because the difficulty of the two examination questions is the same, there will be no major changes in the ranking of the palace examination.
Shen Chenyu took the third place in the exam this time, and the other party's appearance is very outstanding, many people couldn't help but discuss it.
"He's the third one, with such outstanding looks, I guess Tan Hualang is him."
"Yes, yes, only his appearance can be worthy of Tanhua."
"Ah? Then I saw some of them crossing the street today, and it will probably be very lively then."
The year before last, there was a jade face Tanhua. At that time, the two princesses made a lot of jokes because of him. I don't know if this person was born so well, will the Highness directly give him a marriage at that time?
I heard that this man already has a husband, and if he is really favored by the royal family, he doesn't know whether he will abandon the chaotic husband, or refuse the royal marriage for the sake of the chaotic husband?
Today's emperor has quite a lot of heirs, but there are many princesses and princes who are suitable for marriage, and there will probably be another good show at that time.
Amidst the congratulations from a group of people, Shen Chenyu was not in a very good mood, because what happened just now made him brood, even if he got the third place in the exam, he still didn't feel happy.
After Shen Chenyu gave the happy money, she didn't go to celebrate with everyone, but took Mu Linting directly to the government. He still wanted to ask the scholar again, but he always felt that he seemed to have missed something.