Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang first sent their three younger brothers to Tianxiang Academy and private school, and then the two went to the county office together.
Guozijian's admissions documents were indeed issued, but they were not from Xiao Liulang.
"How could this be?" Gu Jiao asked.
"This..." The county magistrate looked embarrassed and looked at Xiao Liulang and Gu Jiao in embarrassment, "I don't know if I should say it."
"It doesn't matter what you say." Xiao Liulang said.
The county magistrate sighed.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see the inside story. Since the children's test was held in this county, there has never been a better student than Xiao Liulang. Even if Xiao Liulang fails in the college test, his total score is still ranked in this book. County first.
Besides, he is still a student of Tianxiang Academy, a direct disciple announced by Dean Li unilaterally, and he is clean and has no blemish on his reputation.
The county magistrate is also worried.
He was the first to write Xiao Liulang's name, but who asked—
"I really can't say, you two just let me go. I'm just a small county magistrate, and I can't afford to offend those nobles!"
"Who did you give the quota to?" Gu Jiao asked.
The county magistrate hesitated for a while, but said, "A candidate named Feng is called Feng Lin."
Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang's expressions froze.
"Which Feng Lin?" Gu Jiao frowned, "Is that Feng Lin from Tianxiang Academy?"
The county magistrate was startled, looked at the two and said, "Ah, yes! Do you know him?"
Gu Jiao turned to Xiao Liulang who was beside her and said, "How many Feng Lin are there in your academy?"
"There is only one." Xiao Liulang said.
Gu Jiao murmured, "This is strange, how could Feng Lin's grades be higher than you? No, it's not a question of grades."
Xiao Liulang said to the county magistrate: "He is not local at all. He is from Songxian County. How can he get a local quota?"
"That's what I said too, but..." The county magistrate was halfway through speaking, realizing that he had almost missed the mark, and hurriedly changed his words, "Anyway, there is nothing I can do! Xiao Xiucai, Mrs. Xiao, please go back first."
The county magistrate really feels sorry for Xiao Liulang, such a good seedling, it is a pity that he did not devote himself to a good family, otherwise his future can be estimated
"This matter should have nothing to do with Feng Lin." Xiao Liulang explained to Gu Jiao as he walked out.
"Well, I know." Gu Jiao nodded.
The two of them are not people who easily lose their senses. Perhaps when others heard the news, their first reaction was to doubt Feng Lin, but both of them knew Feng Lin's character, and he would not stab Xiao Liulang in the back.
And he can't do it either, he doesn't have any background in power.
This matter is clearly aimed at Xiao Liulang. The other party wants to use Feng Lin to suppress Xiao Liulang, and his heart can be punished!
Gu Jiao said, "Why don't we go to Fucheng and ask?"
"Oh, don't go! The documents are issued from the city!" The county magistrate heard that they were going to appeal, and was very worried that he would not be able to keep his black shawl cap, so he rushed out and said, "To tell you the truth, that is the noble man in the capital, you have gone. There is no Fucheng either!"
"What noble person in the capital?" Gu Jiao knew of only one noble person in the capital who could not get along with Xiao Liulang.
"A Marquis." The county magistrate said that the person who came to deliver the documents accidentally leaked his mouth and let him know that it was Marquis, but he couldn't tell which Marquis he really killed. !
"Master Hou?" Gu Jiao murmured.
As soon as the words fell, a carriage stopped at the entrance of the county government office.
Lord Gu swaggered down, straightened the front of his clothes, and then his eyes fell on Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang, the cripple: "Yo? Is it you? It's such a coincidence? It's not like I heard about the admissions of the National Children's Supervisor. Well, come here specially to see if there is any place of your own? Oops, let Ben Hou guess, the place is gone? Hahaha! Hahahaha!"
Lord Gu akimbo laughed.
"I need to communicate with him." After Gu Jiao finished speaking to Xiao Liulang, she dragged Lord Gu into the carriage.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
boom! boom! boom!
"what-"
"what-"
"what-"
After a riot of soldiers and horses, Lord Gu was paralyzed in the corner of the carriage with a face ashen.
Gu Jiao grabbed his collar and said coldly, "Change the quota for me!"
The county magistrate hurried back to the county office as soon as he saw Gu Houye, and pulled out the golden box that Gu Houye had sent earlier. Not anymore.
He didn't want to ask Gu Houye to lift the curtain directly, and respectfully said from the side: "Master Hou, I'm afraid that you will not be able to let your subordinates do things. You are a step late. The number of students in Guozijian has already been set by others. Now, take your things back."
Lord Gu has no strength to speak anymore...
Gu Jiao paused, looked at Lord Gu who was beaten into a sandbag by herself, and asked, "Isn't it your fault for the quota?"
Lord Gu was dying: "Uh... uh uh uh uh?"
What the hell am I doing
Gu Jiao: Uh, I beat him wrong.
Gu Jiao clapped her hands and got off the carriage seriously.
Lord Gu originally planned to play tricks, but it wasn't that Xiao Liulang was not allowed to go to Guozijian, on the contrary, he was allowed to go. Because only Xiao Liulang went, it was possible for Gu Jiao to follow him to the capital.
He asked Huang Zhong to issue an order to the county magistrate overnight, and sent a generous hush fee to let the county magistrate leave the place to him.
He just laughed at Xiao Liulang for not having a quota, but he is confident that the quota is already in his hands. Although it is for Xiao Liulang, it is not bad for that girl to ask him a few words!
What he did not expect was that not long after Huang Zhong left, another nobleman's order arrived, and that Marquis's power was even higher than that of the Marquis of Ding'an.
The county magistrate can only live up to the Marquis of Ding'an.
Of course, he wouldn't say it, but said that the Marquis of Ding'an was late.
Gu Houye was wronged to Wangtian, was he beaten up for Mao again today
On the way back, Gu Jiao didn't ask Xiao Liulang why the prince of the capital was staring at him? Is it because of that Hou Ye that he didn't go to the capital
If he wanted to say it, she didn't need to ask her.
If he doesn't want to say it, he will ask for nothing.
Gu Jiao sent Xiao Liulang to Tianxiang Academy. As soon as she left, Xiao Liulang was stopped by someone.
Xiao Liulang turned around lightly: "It's you again?"
The middle-aged man bowed to Xiao Liulang. With a smile on his face, he said, "Long time no see, Young Master still remembers Liu."
Xiao Liulang said with a cold expression: "The matter of the quota is your hands and feet?"
The middle-aged man smiled: "Young master refuses to obediently go back to the house with us, so we have to do this. The fat water doesn't flow to outsiders' fields, that Mr. Feng is the young master's friend. The young master promised to go back to the manor with me, and I can change the quota now."
Xiao Liulang didn't bother to pay attention to him, so he turned around and left.
The middle-aged man said meaningfully: "You really don't want to go to the Imperial College to study? That's where all the scholars in the world want to go. And tomorrow, the application documents will be handed over to the court, so the young master has only one night to consider. The documents are sent from the post station, and even if the Hou Ye personally goes out, there is no way to get the documents back."
Xiao Liulang paused: "I said, I'm not from the Xiao family, and I don't know you either. I won't go back to the Xiao family with you. You want to die as soon as possible."
The middle-aged man sighed: "Oh, why bother? If you don't go to the good Kangzhuang Avenue, you have to go to the single-plank bridge, young master, this is not wise."
Xiao Liulang said: "Let me go back and write the names of me and Feng Lin together!"
"Young master is joking, I have tried my best to get this one spot." If the Imperial College was so easy to enter, there would not be so many candidates crowding their heads.
Xiao Liulang looked back at him: "Isn't there still a township exam? Since you guys are so good, why don't you just change my grades to the first. I know Yuan, so I don't need a local recommendation to get into the Imperial College."
Xie Yuan from all over the country can be directly admitted to the Imperial College, which is the rule of Zhao Kingdom all the time.
The middle-aged man smiled: "We can't take part in the township test. There is only one place available. I advise the young master not to waste his time. I finally remind the young master that after tomorrow morning, there will be no room for improvement."
"That being said, you can't put your hands into the township test." Xiao Liulang curled the corners of his lips coldly and walked away in disdain.
Manager Liu was a little confused. He touched his chin and gasped. Did he miss something
In September, the results of the township examination came out, and the post station rushed to send the newly released B list to various places.
The county magistrate woke up before dawn. He didn't wait at the yamen, but went directly to the inn. The moment he got the second list, his hands trembled.
He couldn't wait to open it, and saw the first column on the far right had five words written in striking big characters - Jie Yuan, Xiao Liulang!
The county magistrate cried on the spot, sitting on the ground hugging his head and crying: "woo woo woo... woo woo woo..."
The catchers on the side were frightened: "Master County, you, you, you... What's the matter with you?"
The county magistrate burst into tears: "I'm so happy... The county town under my rule... finally has a solution!"
The first place in the rural examination is not so easy to get, and there are many solutions from the provincial capital. After all, the family background and teachers of the provincial capital are all there.
The reason why so many people come to Tianxiang Academy to study is because Tianxiang Academy is the academy with the most powerful teachers outside the provincial capital academies.
There are 50 candidates on the second list, and 10 of them are candidates from Tianxiang Academy. This is an extremely frightening ratio.
It's just that these ten Juren are not necessarily all local students.
Feng Lin and Lin Chengye were also cited.
Feng Lin ranked seventeenth, he was a student of Songxian County.
Lin Chengye ranked forty-five, and he was a member of the provincial capital.
The county magistrate counted, and there was only one student in the local middle class, Xiao Liulang.
One is only one, others are Jie Yuan, and one is worth ten!
Rebuttals are not accepted!
Hu Kuai scratched his head and said, "Actually, Xiao Xiucai... uh no, it should be called Jie Yuan now. Xiao Jieyuan got his household registration in our county town because he married a girl from the Gu family."
Otherwise, he is still a foreigner!
County magistrate: "..."
The county magistrate: "I don't care, I don't care! His household registration is here! He is the first Jie Yuan out of this official term!"
The county magistrate personally came to the door to announce the good news to Xiao Liulang, and the whole village knew that Xiao Liulang had become the master of Juren, and he was also the number one Jie Yuan.
"Has my family Dashun High School finished?" Zhou Shi excitedly ran to Gu Jiao's house and asked the county magistrate.
The county magistrate glanced at her lightly: "I don't have Gu Dashun's name."
"Why not?" Zhou Shi didn't believe it, "Xiao Liulang has passed the exam, why did my Dashun fail?"
The county magistrate said: "I don't like to hear what you say. Xiao Jieyuan has a bigger surplus than your family?"
In Zhou's impression, Gu Dashun has always been the best, and Xiao Liulang is lame and poor. Even if he was admitted to the academy, he was ranked last several times.
"Did you make a mistake?" Zhou Shi turned his head and saw Xiao Liulang coming back from the academy, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Liulang! You told the aunt that Da Shun was also selected!"
Xiao Liulang said to the Zhou family, "I didn't see Gu Dashun during my hometown exam."
a bolt from the blue-
The family sold the dowries of the three mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and collected a total of twenty taels of silver. They asked Gu Changhai to take Gu Dashun to the village for a test. Who would have guessed that they would be deceived halfway through the money.
Zhou passed out on the spot and was carried back home by the villagers.
Xiao Jingkong came out of the private school and heard Gu Xiaoshun say that the bad brother-in-law was the first in the exam. He expressed his disbelief and firmly believed that someone else was wrong!
"That's right." Gu Xiaoshun scratched his head, "The whole academy has been a sensation."
Little Headroom insists that seeing is believing.
Gu Xiaoshun had to take him and Gu Yan to the county office.
He was very small and the list was very high. He raised his head and looked at it for a long time, then said, "I want to see the official document of the yamen!"
The catchers were dumbfounded: Little baby, do you still know the official document
Knowing that he was Xiao Jieyuan's younger brother, the yamen master really showed him the official document.
Xiao Jingkong carefully read it three times, and was sure it wasn't a forgery, and that it wasn't wrong, before nodding with a serious face: "It's true that I got the first place in the test.
(End of this chapter)