Chapter 1626: Essay Selection Contest

Lu Li frowned, "Isn't the literary competition at noon? There's no need to be so anxious, right?"

Tian Wanxi said unhappily, "The competition is at noon, but you need to register in advance! I tell you, I just went to see that there are many people going today. You'd better go quickly, otherwise it will be troublesome if something unexpected happens."

"Okay, wait for me for a while."

Lu Li looked at Tian Wanxi strangely, then turned back to the room to pack up. After a while, he walked out of the inn with Tian Wanxi and headed towards the city lord's mansion.

While walking, Lu Li suddenly asked, "By the way, is there any news about Tong Bao, who I asked you to help me find last time?"

Tian Wanxi shook her head, "There is no such person in our Tian family. I have asked someone to go out and inquire, but no news has been sent back yet."

"Okay."

Lu Li sighed helplessly and fell silent.

Although this is just an adventure mission, even if it fails, it will not have any impact, but the reward is the "speed" talent, Lu Li really doesn't want to give up.

I don't know if Tong Bao is in Andu City.

The City Lord's Mansion in this world is similar to the government office of the secular dynasty in the outside world. It is responsible for the security and law of a city, and the most powerful one is the City Lord.

The City Lord usually has a guest under him, who is like a think tank, helping the City Lord to make plans and has some special powers.

The same level as the guest is the commander.

There are three commanders in Andu City.

The first commander is Ying Xun, who is responsible for the internal security of the City Lord's Mansion, including prisons.

The second commander is Wu Changzheng, who is responsible for the security of the city and the collection of taxes from shops.

The third commander is Lu Qingchu, who is responsible for the city defense dispatch and the guarding of the city gates.

The three commanders have their own duties, and they are divided into deputy commanders, captains, and squad leaders... In short, the power of the City Lord's Mansion is quite good, and it has absolute control over a city.

The City Lord of Andu City is called Pang Zheng.

This person is very powerful and loves to write, so the number of guests under him exceeds the normal number of one, reaching as many as three.

However, half a year ago, one of the three guests suddenly died of illness, which left another guest position vacant.

So, Pang Zheng carefully prepared this "literary selection competition" in order to pick a new guest to accompany him for entertainment.

At this time, it was still early.

But in front of the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, there were already two long queues. On the left and right of the gate, there was a long table, and soldiers sat behind the table, constantly busy.

The two teams also slowly crawled forward like earthworms.

Lu Li and Tian Wanxi were in a queue on the right. Lu Li suddenly turned around and asked: "Didn't you say that the City Lord's Mansion knows your family well? Why are you still queuing?"

Tian Wanxi said: "I'm not going in, I'm just monitoring you."

Monitoring?

Lu Li's face twitched, "Okay, you're a very rude person."

"Hmph! I paid you. If you run away secretly, even if my Tian family is powerful, I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort to catch you."

Tian Wanxi said, looking at several Tian family guards not far away, "Look carefully, those are all my people. If you dare to play tricks, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

Lu Li was immediately annoyed and said, "Not only do you speak rudely, but your behavior is even more irritating!"

He didn't expect that Tian Wanxi would even bring guards. He thought, is there no basic trust between people?

"Whatever you say."

Tian Wanxi folded her arms with an indifferent expression.

Lu Li suddenly turned around and raised his eyelids and said, "I say, you are not really a woman, are you?"

Tian Wanxi frowned, "Stop talking nonsense! It's none of your business whether it's true or not!"

"Okay."

Lu Li touched his chin and smiled awkwardly, "By the way, are you sure that the literary selection competition is really just about couplets? If it's about the humanities and geography of this place, I'm really not sure?"

Tian Wanxi had said before that all previous literary selection competitions were about couplets, so Lu Li had the confidence to sign up, because his father, who was a teacher, had asked him to work hard on this when he was a child.

But if it was about the humanities knowledge of this world, then he really had no hope at all. He was an outsider, and he had no background inheritance, so how could he compare with these locals.

Tian Wanxi said, "Don't worry, I've already inquired about it, and it won't be wrong."

Hearing this, Lu Li didn't say anything more, and could only pray that Tian Wanxi was right.

After all, in addition to helping Tian Wanxi get rid of Ying Xun, he also came with the mission of saving Sun Buer. If he couldn't enter the City Lord's Mansion this time, it would not be so easy to find another opportunity.

The team moved very slowly.

It took more than half an hour to finally get Lu Li's turn.

At this time, Tian Wanxi had already left the team and stood in the distance with several Tian family guards, staring at Lu Li from afar.

Lu Li stood in front of the table. After the soldier looked up, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Tsk tsk, what the hell! There are so many people registering, and you look the most like a poor and pedantic scholar! Tell me your name!"

Lu Li's face twitched wildly when he heard it, "Ji Changping."

"Ji Changping? What a good name, you can tell that you are knowledgeable, haha...!"

The soldier was stunned at first, then he laughed and registered. After a while, he handed over a bamboo stick with a number and name engraved on it, "Okay, good luck!"

"Thank you."

Lu Li clasped his fists slightly and stepped into the gate of the City Lord's Mansion without haste.

"This guy is really good-looking. He won't really become a guest of the court, will he? It's over. What did I say just now..." Seeing Lu Li's indifferent look, the soldier who was registering couldn't help but shudder.

If Lu Li became a guest of the court, he would be the person above him, with the power to directly command and command the people below him. If he was given a hard time...

Thinking of this, the man suddenly changed his attitude and became friendly to the person who was registering behind him, "Please welcome the next gentleman!"

The City Lord's Mansion and the government office where the case was detained and judged were not in the same place.

The City Lord's Mansion was the private territory of the City Lord.

However, the government office and the City Lord's Mansion were not far apart. There was a high wall between the two, which was the layout of the front mansion and the back mansion. Lu Li's current location was the front mansion square.

The City Lord's Mansion Square was not small, and there were exquisite garden landscapes built around it. At the end of the square was a magnificent hall with three gilded characters "Zhenhong Hall" written on it.

At this time, a row of long tables had been set up in the square in front of the Zhenhong Hall. There were exactly thirty tables.

Hundreds of people gathered in the square, pointing in the direction of the Zhenhong Hall, but no one came forward to sit down.

Lu Li roughly listened to the discussion of the crowd. It seemed that they had to go through a round of preliminary selection, and the last thirty people were qualified to sit in those positions and participate in the finals.

But the content of the preliminary selection was unknown.

Lu Li waited for a long time, but no one in charge came out, so he walked to the flower bed on the side and sat down directly.

At the beginning, it also attracted some self-righteous people to shake their heads.

But after waiting for two hours, when everyone was standing with their feet shaking, no one cared about their face anymore, and they all rushed to sit on the flower bed.

Some people saw that Lu Li looked "empty" and wanted to force Lu Li to give up his seat. Lu Li didn't say anything, raised his leg and kicked him several feet away! Suddenly, no one dared to mess with him anymore.

Finally, at noon, the main door of Zhenhong Hall opened.

An old man in white clothes and white beard walked out, holding a scroll in his hand, standing at the top of the steps in front of the hall. His palm loosened slightly, and the scroll unfolded downward, revealing a few large characters in a flamboyant style:

"Standing alone on the stone bridge, the shadow of a person does not follow the flowing water."

The old man looked at the crowd and smiled calmly: "Everyone! This is the first question of the preliminary selection. After one stick of incense, I will come down to check. Those who fail will be eliminated."

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