Your tears
Weak and wounded
The girl's dependence, helpless tears, and soft and trembling words "My benefactor, please be careful, I'm afraid" seemed to give these dozen students a boost.
"Don't be so arrogant, criminals!"
The students shouted loudly, rolled up their sleeves and rushed forward, especially the wealthy student whose clothes were grabbed by the girl behind him. He took the lead, like a god descending from heaven, and seemed to radiate the light of justice.
There is strength in numbers, justice is inviolable
The criminals were so scared that they ran away, leaving only one sentence: The mountains and rivers remain unchanged and the water flows forever. You are too powerful this time. We will see what happens next time.
Justice defeated evil, the girl was saved, and more than a dozen students successfully completed the feat of being a hero saving a beauty.
"Thank you, benefactor. Thank you for your help..."
The girl's eyes were filled with tears of gratitude. She placed her slender hands on her waist, lowered her head slightly, squatted lightly, loosened her clothes and let her sleeves flutter. She bowed and thanked more than a dozen benefactors one after another.
When the girl gathered her clothes and squatted, her originally messy clothes slipped down, revealing her snow-white shoulders.
The benefactors couldn't help but swallow their saliva with their Adam's apples welling up.
"It is our duty to punish evil and promote good. How dare we accept such a great gift from the lady." More than a dozen benefactors helped up the grateful girl. Each of them was righteous and when their hands touched the girl's delicate hands, they squeezed them unconsciously and then narrowed their eyes in a lustful manner.
The girl kept expressing her gratitude, seemingly not noticing the benefactors' little actions at all.
In order to calm the girl's fear and prevent the criminals from coming back, more than a dozen benefactors warmly invited the girl to rest for a while in front of the wine and food they had just been sitting with, and then sent the girl back home.
Surrounded by a dozen students, the delicate girl glanced at Zhu Ping'an, who was sitting in the corner eating melon and cake as if no one was around, and then was surrounded by a dozen students and brought to the wine, meat and delicious food.
A wealthy student donated his cushion and enthusiastically invited the girl to sit down.
Just as the girl was about to sit down, a black spider crawled under her feet, scaring her so much that she screamed and almost fell to the ground.
The wealthy students who were quick-witted and quick-handed quickly supported the girl, while the other students who did not get the chance to perform stepped on the flower spider countless times in anger, crushing it to ashes.
"Thank you all for your help. My father is the owner of Zhang's Tea Shop in the county. Today, my family and I went to Dajue Temple to burn incense. On the way, we encountered some bad guys. I got separated from my family in a panic. Fortunately, I met all of you. Otherwise, I would have had no choice but to bite my tongue and commit suicide to keep my innocence..."
With everyone's comfort, the girl calmed down her frightened emotions and slowly told the whole story. However, as she spoke, she became so scared that she burst into tears in front of everyone.
The girl's tears broke everyone's hearts, and they all spoke to comfort her.
Going to Beijing to take the imperial examination, saving a young lady in distress, and finally bringing both fame and beauty home, this is the ultimate dream of every scholar.
At this moment, it was about to be realized, and more than a dozen students showed their skills, hoping to leave a good impression in front of the girl and win her heart. Of course, uncle Zhu Shouren was also unwilling to lag behind, and was as diligent as an 18-year-old handsome boy.
Zhu Ping'an just sat in the corner with a smile on his face, quietly eating his cake.
"I have nothing, so I can only offer you a glass of wine to express my gratitude. When we get to the county, I will ask my father to prepare a banquet for you and give you generous gifts to welcome you."
In order to show her gratitude, the girl offered a glass of wine to everyone to express her thanks first, and then when she arrived at the county town, she would let her father who ran a tea shop thank everyone.
A group of students said that it was their duty to punish evil and promote good and that they didn't need to be thanked.
But when this girl with bright eyes, white teeth and a pretty face, with rosy cheeks and starry eyes, poured wine for everyone one by one with a look of pity and shyness in her eyes, everyone stopped talking, took the wine glass, stared at the shy girl, and drank it all in one gulp.
The girl toasted every student present, watched them drink, then stood up with the wine jug and walked to the corner of the mountain temple.
"Who are these people?" The girl asked, holding a wine jug in her hand, pointing at several servants sitting together in the corner.
Several masters of the servants said that it was their servant.
"Oh, so you are my benefactor's servant. I am grateful to you for saving me today. I will also pour you a glass of wine. I hope you will serve me well. When I am on the list of successful candidates, you will definitely benefit from my contribution."
As the girl spoke, she poured a glass of wine for each of the servants.
She just poured wine but didn't toast them. She treated them differently from the dozen students. This made the dozen students feel that they had a different status and were proud of themselves. Especially when the masters of these servants heard the girl comforting the servants to serve them well and talking about the top scores in the imperial examinations, they were even more satisfied.
After every servant boy drank the wine, the girl then held the wine jug and came to the last person in the mountain temple, Zhu Ping'an.
"Who is this young master?" The girl asked with charming eyes as she stood in front of Zhu Ping'an.
When the girl asked Zhu Ping'an, more than a dozen students showed disdainful looks and spoke in unison to slander Zhu Ping'an:
What? He is here to make up the numbers and take the boy's exam
Some people even read out the poem Zhu Ping'an wrote at the Ten-Li Pavilion, and commented on it: Once bitten by a snake, birds are heard everywhere. Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, a line of egrets fly into the sky. What is this? It's all pieced together, and it doesn't make any sense. ... ... blah blah, a bunch of bad words.
Of course, the students did not forget to mention that when the criminals attacked just now, Zhu Ping'an sat in the corner and did not dare to go out. They said that Zhu Ping'an was unmanly, unmanly, timid, cowardly... ... there were a lot of bad words again.
"It's quite interesting." The girl's eyes flickered slightly, and her voice was weak and inaudible.
After everyone finished talking, the girl looked dignified and gentle, without any contempt. She walked up to Zhu Ping'an, poured a glass of wine, handed it to Zhu Ping'an, and said softly:
"This young master is still young, so he is naturally not as courageous as you benefactors, but I believe that under your guidance, this young master can definitely become a great hero like you benefactors."
The girl's words not only satisfied the students, but also helped Zhu Ping'an to speak without any mistakes. Under the guidance of the girl, who called him a great hero, and praised him as a great hero, more than a dozen students felt that they were great people.
Zhu Ping'an looked at the pretty girl standing in front of him, as if he was stunned. There was an embarrassed smile on his silly face, and he put down the omelet in his hand at a loss.
"Young Master, don't be embarrassed. Drink this glass of wine for now. I believe you will become a great hero in the future."
The girl's slender hands, with skin as white as jade, handed the wine glass to Zhu Ping'an. Her eyes sparkled like stars, and the corners of her mouth were slightly curved upwards, full of encouragement.
It seemed as if he had never seen such a pretty girl before, it seemed as if such a pretty girl had never spoken to him, it seemed as if such a pretty girl had never been so close to him. Zhu Ping'an smiled awkwardly, his face flushed, and tried to take the wine glass handed over by the girl with trembling hands, but unexpectedly a clod of earth under his feet tripped him, and he staggered and almost fell to the ground, and bumped into the girl.
Zhu Ping'an's incompetent appearance made the onlookers laugh at him. He was too incompetent, not presentable, and unworthy of being in a formal place. It was really a disgrace to the civilized world and a shame for our generation...
The girl was bumped and her body tilted slightly, but the wine glass in her slender hand did not spill.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”
Amid the laughter of the crowd, Zhu Ping'an steadied himself with a red face, awkwardly took the girl's wine glass with one hand, and drank it all in one gulp.
The girl watched Zhu Ping'an drink the wine, then turned and left with a smile on her lips, returning to sit down next to a dozen or so students.
The moment the girl turned around, Zhu Ping'an unnoticeably reached out his sleeve to wipe his lips.
My sleeves were wet.
(Thank you very much for your collection and recommendation. I will add another chapter to show my gratitude.)