Xia Yingying chased Zhan Ning'er and was gone forever, and was invited by his old friend "Hulu" to reminisce about the past in winter, but her own life still had to live, so Ye Xiaotian led Mao Wenzhi and Hua Yunfei, and took Yaoyao and Hengha returned to their residence.
Although Xia Yingying has not come back yet, Ye Xiaotian is not too worried. He is still very confident in his status as a scholar. I believe that this fame is quite attractive to the old Xia family. Have confidence.
As long as he uses his three-inch tongue to do a little trick, he believes that he can coax that cute girl Yingying to want to die. Of course, Ye Xiaotian thought this way because he was really wronged! He didn't have two legs, and he only knew that Ning'er liked him.
After knowing this news, Ye Xiaotian couldn't help being flattered, but it was limited to being flattered. In this era, the concept of being a good family is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. His family status and Zhan's family are on the same level. Even if he is a cowherd, it is impossible to seduce this Weaver Girl.
In comparison, the relationship with Yingying is more realistic. Although the brothers-in-law of the old Xia's family would be a headache, but after marrying Yingying and flying back to the capital, there is not much contact with them.
Of course, this matter is not urgent right now, the most urgent thing is to clear up Yingying's misunderstanding. But this matter should be resolved easily. Xiaotian believes in Ning'er's character. Ning'er can't talk nonsense to Yingying. As long as Yingying finds out what happened from Ning'er, she will definitely not blame him, but Shui Wu who was just exposed It took him a lot of words to make Yingying understand the incident and the Yaoyao incident.
Because he was going to take the examination at the Gongyuan early the next morning, it was already dusk when Ye Xiaotian rushed back to Guiyang City. Trial tomorrow.
Ye Xiaotian rushed to the examination room early in the morning on the second day. After yesterday's meeting in Huaxi, Ye Xiaotian really didn't want to bring his whole family to show off. The more reliable Hua Yunfei accompanied him to the test.
The tribute examination is much stricter than the rules of the rural examination. As the saying goes, "No one asks you for ten years, and you become famous all over the world in one fell swoop." Destiny, naturally goes all out. For the imperial court, this is also a key step in the selection of scholars. After all, once you become a juren, you are qualified to be an official. How can the imperial court ignore it.
To enter the Gongyuan, the first pass is search and inspection. Where there is an exam, there must be cheating, and among the methods of cheating, cheating is the cheapest and least risky method. You must know that if you bribe the examiner, not only will it cost a lot of money, many families of the examinee cannot afford it, and if found out, they will be beheaded. The risk is too great.
As for making a cheat sheet, once it is discovered that it is nothing more than a permanent disqualification from the exam, and it will be displayed to the public for a month. For candidates who think that their normal performance has no hope of admission, this risk is worth taking, so... Kneeling in front of the gate of the Gongyuan There are still a lot of candidates who have "learned the teacher before they have passed the school", and the number is still increasing.
On the left side of the gate of the Gongyuan, a row of candidates whose cheat sheets were found is handcuffed, and on the right side of the gate is a row of desks and cases, on which are displayed the found cheat sheets: notes in sesame cakes, cheat sheets rolled up in candles, and miniature carvings under inkstones. Four Books and Five Classics...
There is also a candidate kneeling there with bare arms. His underwear has been stripped off and hung on the other side of the gate. There are fine "patterns" on the underwear. When you walk in and look carefully, you can see that the patterns are as fine as mosquitoes. In small print, "The Analects of Confucius" is copied on the chest, "Mencius" is copied on the back, and "University" is copied on the sleeve...
Ye Xiaotian was standing in the line of examinees, and saw a candidate in front of him look at the cheaters wearing shackles, and took out a cornbread from the basket with a "swish", and stuffed it into his mouth in twos, choking him so much that he hiccupped, Ye Xiaotian Seeing this, he took out a can of water from his basket and handed it over.
There is only one tribute exam, but it takes three days to take the exam. During these three days, all the food, drink, and food are in the small exam room of the tribute courtyard, so the examinees bring all kinds of items very well, and some people even brought pots. Bowls and pans, firewood, rice, oil and salt, those who didn’t know it thought they were here to test the cook.
The examinee smiled gratefully at Ye Xiaotian, hiccupped again, quickly waved his hand to Ye Xiaotian, took out a water bag and poured it up, and waited for him to calm down, then said to Ye Xiaotian: "Thank you, brother!" After finishing speaking, he hurriedly took out a cornbread and stuffed it into his mouth in twos and threes, as if a starved ghost was reincarnated.
Ye Xiaotian shook his head and sighed: "Brother, you are working too hard, you must have missed breakfast, right?"
While hiccupping, the man grinned at him and said, "Uh... yes! I didn't care, I didn't care..."
When he opened his mouth, Ye Xiaotian suddenly found that there was a piece of paper in his mouth that hadn't been chewed, and it was full of petty small letters. After chewing, the ink was smudged, and the inside of his mouth was pitch black. Ye Xiaotian couldn't help being stunned.
The man ate five corn buns in a row, drank a stomach full of cold water, made his stomach round, looked back at Ye Xiaotian's serene demeanor, and said enviously: "Seeing that you are so calm, my dear brother, you must be full of knowledge, and you are sure to pass the exam! I admire you!"
Ye Xiaotian said with a dry smile: "Brother, you have won the prize. I don't dare to be full of knowledge. I just don't care about the tribute exam. It's good if I can pass the exam. If I don't pass the exam, I don't care too much, so it doesn't matter."
After hearing this, the man looked Ye Xiaotian up and down again, and suddenly said: "Then brother must have a good father, and his family is very rich, which is enviable, enviable."
Ye Xiaotian: "..."
After an extremely complicated inspection, one fifth of the candidates fell into the sand. Before entering the first gate, they put on the shackles and knelt aside to show the public. The surviving candidates were envious and envious of them Under the eyes of the police, they filed in one after another, received their number plates, and entered their own rooms one by one, preparing to face three consecutive days of "imprisonment".
Ye Xiaotian looked at his number room, it was a small room, the front door was completely open, and he could see everything in sight. In the number room, there was only one bed that could only be slept on when curled up, and the door was blocked by a foot away. A desk is only one foot wide in the middle. There is a toilet in the corner on the right hand side, but nothing else.
Ye Xiaotian threw his scattered packages inspected by the yamen servants on the couch, sat down on the edge of the bed, and thought: "Three days, such a long time, it's really hard!"
At this time, there was an endless stream of patrolling soldiers in the tribute courtyard, and bamboo buildings were built around the courtyard. There were soldiers standing on high places to monitor the inside and outside, and there were also patrolling officials who swayed every step, staring at each examinee as if they were thieves. In such an atmosphere, many people became nervous. Some candidates who were not psychologically qualified and had stage fright after the exam just sat down for a while, their faces turned pale and their heads were sweating. As soon as he was put on the shoulder, he was sent to seek medical advice.
But there are also some academic masters who are getting more and more excited every time they take an exam. They sit there with blood boiling and their faces are flushed, as if they are generals who are about to rush to the battlefield to make contributions, or they are about to lift their hijabs, blow out candles, and take off their clothes. Undressing the bridegroom who fought fiercely all night, such as Xu Boyi...
After a while, there was a drum sound in the distance, and the test questions began to be distributed to each dormitory, and the palace suddenly fell silent. Ye Xiaotian picked up the test questions and unfolded them, but there were ten ink meanings, five sparseness, and five annotations. Although the things he learned were mixed and disorganized, he could answer them well, but if he wanted to say it was wonderful, it might not be so.
But now that he has come here, no matter whether he passes the exam or not, he has to go all out, so Ye Xiaotian is very attentive. Three days and ten scriptures are enough time, so Ye Xiaotian is not in a hurry to start writing. While studying the ink, he is seriously thinking about the exam questions...
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The candle went out with a snap.
Shui Wu opened her eyes in a daze, and found that she, Xia Yingying, and Zhan Ning'er had collapsed on the big bed indiscriminately, Zhan Ning'er was still sound asleep, and Miss Yingying was like an octopus, with her legs twisted like Zhan Ning'er She was holding her son's body, with her head arched in her arms, but her hands were stretched out between the cracks in the bed rails. I really don't know how she managed to pose in such a weird shape.
Shui Wu was numb from Xia Yingying's pressure, so she twitched her body. Xia Yingying was woken up by her, rubbed her eyes, sat up in a daze, opened her eyes, and suddenly exclaimed: "Ah! It's bright! Xiaolu, Xiaowei, why don't you two dead girls call me..."
She made such a loud noise, which woke up Zhan Ning'er. Zhan Ning'er sat up, and the two looked at each other. Xia Yingying said in surprise, "Ah! Second Sister, when did you come to sleep at my house..."
Zhan Ning'er felt her headache was about to split, she rubbed her forehead and groaned weakly, fell down again, covered her eyes to block the bright sunlight, and said, "Silly girl, this is my house, okay..."
"Your house? Ah! When did I come to your house?"
Xia Yingying looked around, turned her head and saw Shui Wu sleeping on the bed again, she was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smirked: "Ha! I remembered, yes yes, this is your house..."
Shui Wu looked at Xia Yingying in astonishment, and thought, "How does this girl's head grow?"
Zhan Ning'er slightly moved away her hand covering her eyes, just when she saw Shui Wu's strange eyes, she tapped her forehead, and said helplessly: "Don't be surprised, Yingying has always been like this. She... lacks a string. "
The three women got up in a hurry to wash and dress up, and the Anfu maid who had been waiting outside for a long time heard the sound and came in to help the three girls. Finally, they got rid of their decadent image of drunkards.
At this time, another servant came to report that several brothers from the Xia family had come to An Mansion early in the morning to pick up Miss Yingying. Xia Yingying immediately said to Zhan Ning'er: "Second sister, then I gone."
Zhan Ning'er said: "Don't you have to have breakfast before leaving?"
Xia Yingying said: "No, I drank too much wine last night, and now my head is still groggy, and I have no appetite at all."
Zhan Ning'er said: "Oh! Then... you... where are you going?"
Xia Yingying said without hesitation: "Of course I'm going home! I'm going back to Hongfeng Lake, I don't want to stay here anymore."
After finishing speaking, she sneaked a glance at Zhan Ning'er, and asked, "Second sister, how about you?"
Zhan Ning'er immediately replied: "I'm going hunting. I've made an appointment a long time ago, who knows... Hehe, forget it! I'll go hunting in the mountains to relax."
Xia Yingying nodded and said: "Well, it's good for the second sister to go to relax. But I don't like to drill into the forest, and besides, I don't have the kung fu of your second sister. I will go back to Hongfeng Lake, and when the second sister comes back from hunting, you can go to Hongfeng Lake Come and play with me."
"good!"
The two sisters bid farewell, Zhan Ning'er and Shui Wu kept sending Xia Yingying out of the gate. This morning, ten brothers came to Xia's family. When they saw Xia Yingying walking out gracefully, they were relieved. A cousin said: "Yingying , you left without saying a word, the grandpas are very worried about you, come back with us."
Xia Yingying said impatiently: "I know, I treat him like a prisoner all day long!"
She turned around and said to Zhan Ning'er and Xue Shuiwu: "Second Sister, Miss Shuiwu, I'm leaving, please stay."
After saying goodbye to Zhan Ning'er and Shui Wu again, Xia Yingying turned around and stepped down the steps. As soon as she turned around, she secretly stuck out the tip of her tongue: "Brother Xiaotian is going to take the exam today, and the second sister is going to go hunting in the mountains. No one will argue with me!"
Zhan Ning'er watched Xia Yingying go away accompanied by ten brothers, and was about to turn around and go back home when her personal bodyguards Jiu Dang and Jiu Gao came over and quietly told her what happened in Huaxi after she left yesterday, Zhan Ning Er'er's eyes lit up when she heard this, she immediately called Shui Wu, and told her about Xue's mother appearing in Huaxi yesterday and Mrs. Yang testifying for Ye Xiaotian.
Shui Wu was overjoyed when she heard that Ye Xiaotian was freed from murder charges, but when she thought of Mrs. Yang testifying for Ye Xiaotian, she couldn't help but wondered: "Strange! Why did Mrs. Yang help him? My mother was always afraid of Mrs. Yang, so why did she tell her gone?"
Zhan Ning'er shook her head and said, "This is beyond what I can know. In short, your benefactor is safe and sound now, what are your plans?"
Shui Wu said worriedly: "Mrs. Yang must have no good intentions, I have to find my mother immediately."
Zhan Ning'er said: "Okay! Then I'll send someone to take you there. Jiudang, prepare the car and take Miss Shuiwu to Yang's Mansion."
Shui Wu gave Zhan Ning'er a blessing, and said gratefully: "Duo has been taken care of by the girl these days. I can't thank you enough for her kindness. Please accept Shui Wu's bow."
Zhan Ning'er quickly helped her up, and the two talked again, then a family member from An's House came to a light car, Zhan Ning'er asked Shui Wu to board the car, and asked Jiu Dang to escort her to Yang Yinglong's house.
Watching Shui Wu's car go away, Zhan Ning'er happily thought: "Three girls have returned to Hongfeng Lake, and Shui Wu has gone to Yang's Mansion again, Ye Xiaotian, you stinky bastard, wait for this girl to ask you to blame me!"
At this time, the innocent Ye Xiaotian was biting his pen, pondering the exam questions word by word.