Chapter 45: Leaping from the Dragon Gate
Xia Yingying chased Zhan Ning'er forever, and in winter, he was invited by his old friend "Hulu" to reminisce about the past, but his life still had to be passed. Ye Xiaotian led Mao Wenzhi, Hua Yunfei, and took Yaoyao and the other generals of Hengha back to his residence.
Although Xia Yingying has not come back yet, Ye Xiaotian is not too worried. He is still very confident in his identity as a scholar. He believes that this fame and fortune will be quite attractive to the Lao Xia family. The most important thing is that he has confidence in Yingying.
As long as he uses his three-inch tongue to use his tricks, he believes that he can coax that cute girl Yingying to death. Of course, Ye Xiaotian thinks this because he is really wronged! He does not step on two boats, and Ning'er likes him, so he knows it.
After learning the news, Ye Xiaotian was a little flattered, but he was only flattered. In this era, the concept of equality was deeply rooted in people's hearts. His family background and identity were from the Zhan family, and even if he was a Cowherd, he would not be able to attract the Weaver Girl.
In comparison, the relationship with Yingying is more realistic. Although the brothers-in-law of the old Xia family are more troublesome, after getting married with Yingying, they flew away and returned to the capital, so they didn't have much contact with them.
Of course, this matter is not urgent at the moment, and the most urgent task is to resolve Yingying's misunderstanding. However, this matter should be solved easily. Xiaotian believes in Ning'er's character. Ning'er cannot talk nonsense to Yingying. As long as Yingying finds out the past from Ning'er, she will definitely not blame him. However, it took him a lot of words to understand the Shuiwu incident and Yaoyao incident just exposed.
Because he was going to the Gongyuan to take the exam early the next morning, when Ye Xiaotian rushed back to Guiyang City, it was already dark and he had no time to go to Anfu to visit Ning'er and find Yingying. He could only go home first to have a good rest in preparation for tomorrow's tribute test.
Early the next morning, Ye Xiaotian ran to the examination room. After yesterday's Huaxi meeting, Ye Xiaotian really didn't want to bring the whole family to show off. He finally left Mao Wenzhi, Yaoyao and the big man, Fuwaer at home, and only brought the more reliable Hua Yunfei to the test.
The tribute examination is much more severe than the rules during the provincial examination. As the saying goes, "No one has ever asked about it for ten years, and he will become famous in one fell swoop." This is a key step for the mermaid to jump over the dragon gate. If you can leap over to the past, you can change his and his family's destiny, so you will naturally do your best. For the court, this is also a key step in selecting scholars. After all, once you become a juren, you are qualified to be an official. How can the court not pay attention to it?
You have to enter the tribute school. The first level is search and inspection. There must be fraud when there is an exam. Among the fraud methods, the lowest cost and the least risk is to cheat. You should know that if you bribe the examiner, it will not only cost a lot of money, but many candidate families cannot afford it at all, but once you find out, you will be beheaded, and the risk is too great.
Once the cheating was discovered, the examination qualification was permanently cancelled, and the test was displayed for one month. For candidates who thought they had no hope of admission, this was still worth taking. So..., there were a series of candidates who knelt in front of the Gongyuan gate. Moreover, the number of candidates was still increasing.
There were a row of candidates who were found for cheats on the left side of the gate of the Gongyuan, and a row of tables were placed on the right side of the gate, and the searched cheats were displayed on the top: the notes contained in the cakes, the cheats rolled in the candle, the Four Books and Five Classics slightly carved under the inkstone...
There was another candidate kneeling there shirtlessly, his underwear had been stripped down and hung on the other side of the gate. There were fine "patterns" on the underwear. After walking in and looking carefully, he realized that the patterns were all small characters as thin as mosquitoes and flies. The one who copied the Analects of Confucius on his chest, the one who copied the Mencius behind him, and the one who copied the Great Learning on his sleeve...
Ye Xiaotian stood in the team of candidates and saw a candidate in front of him looking at the cheaters wearing shackles. He took out a steamed bun from the basket and stuffed it into his mouth in two mouths. He choked and burped. Seeing this, Ye Xiaotian took out a can of water from his basket and handed it over.
There is only one tribute test, but it takes three days to take the exam. All the food, drink, defecation and sensation are all in the small examination room in the tribute court, so the candidates are brought with them all, and some people actually brought pots, pans, firewood, rice, oil and salt. Those who don’t know thought they were here to take the exam for the chef.
The candidate smiled at Ye Xiaotian gratefully, burped again, quickly waved his hand to Ye Xiaotian, took out a water bag and poured it into it. When he was relieved, he said to Ye Xiaotian: "Thank you, brother!" After that, he hurriedly took out a steamed bun and stuffed it into his mouth in three mouths, as if a starving ghost was reincarnated.
Ye Xiaotian shook his head and sighed, "Brother, you are too hardworking. I guess you didn't even have breakfast?"
While burping, the man grinned at him and said, "Uh...yes! I didn't care about it, I didn't care about it..."
When he opened his mouth, Ye Xiaotian suddenly found that there was a ball of unchewed paper in the food in his mouth, and it was covered with small fly-headed calligraphy. When he chewed, the ink stained open, and the mouth was pitch black. Ye Xiaotian couldn't help but be stunned.
The man ate five steamed buns in a row, poured a lot of cold water, and stretched his belly. He looked back at Ye Xiaotian's peaceful expression and said enviously: "Look at your calmness, you must be full of knowledge and are sure to pass the exam! I admire you, admire you!"
Ye Xiaotian smiled and said, "Brother, you have been too awarded. I dare not take it as a tribute test. I just take it lightly. If you can pass the imperial examination, it is good if you can pass the imperial examination, but if you fail, you don't care much, so it doesn't matter."
After hearing this, the man looked up and down at Ye Xiaotian's eyes and suddenly said, "Then brother must have a good father, and his family is very wealthy, which is enviable and enviable."
Ye Xiaotian: “…”
After extremely complicated inspections, one-fifth of the candidates failed and fell into the sand. Before the first door could enter, they knelt on the side and showed up. The surviving candidates entered in one after another under their jealous and envious eyes, received their license plates, entered their number rooms one by one, preparing to welcome three consecutive days of "incarceration".
Ye Xiaotian looked at his room. It was a small room with a completely open front door, and it was completely open. There was only a bed in the room that could only sleep with curled up. A foot away was a desk blocking the door, and it was only one foot wide in the middle. There was a toilet in the corner of the wall on the right, and there was nothing except that.
Ye Xiaotian threw the scattered bags and small bags he had been inspected by the yamen runners on the couch, sat down on the edge of the bed, and thought to himself: "Three days, it's so hard to bear for such a long time!"
At this time, there were endless soldiers patrolling the court, and bamboo buildings were built around the courtyard. Some soldiers stood at a high place to monitor the inside and outside. There were also inspectors shaking step by step, staring at each candidate like a thief. Many people became nervous and had some psychological qualities. The candidates who were stage-frightened as soon as the exam sat down for a while, their faces were pale and sweating. The inspectors found out that they called the yamen runners to come over and supported one, put him on their shoulders, and sent him to seek medical treatment.
But there are other top-notch people who are more excited when taking the exam. They sit there with their blood boiling and their faces are red, as if they are about to rush to the battlefield to make achievements, or they are about to lift the veil, blow out the candles, and untied their clothes and wear them all night long. For example, Xu Boyi...
After a while, a sound of drums sounded from afar, and the test questions began to be sent to the sacrificial halls. The Gongyuan suddenly calmed down. Ye Xiaotian picked up the test questions and opened them. However, there were ten meanings, five spurs, and five notes. Although what he learned was mixed and disorganized, he could answer them. It was not necessarily true that he could say it was exciting.
But since he has arrived here, no matter whether he can pass the exam or not, he must do his best. Ye Xiaotian is very attentive. Three days, ten merits of the classics are actually very sufficient, so Ye Xiaotian is not in a hurry to write. While grinding ink, he thought about the test questions seriously...
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The candle flower slammed and went out.
Shui Wu opened her eyes in a daze and found that she and Xia Yingying were lying on the big bed. Zhan Ning'er was still sleeping soundly. The girl Yingying was like an octopus, her legs were squinted against Zhan Ning'er's body, her head was arched in her arms, but her hands were stretched into the gaps in the bed railing. I really don't know how she made such a strange look.
Shui Wu's body was a little numb by Xia Yingying, so she pulled her body away. Xia Yingying was woken up by her, rubbed her eyes, sat up in a daze, and opened her eyes, and exclaimed: "Ah! It's bright! Xiaolu, Xiaowei, why don't you two dead girls call me..."
She woke Zhan Ning'er up with such a loud noise. Zhan Ning'er sat up and looked at each other. Xia Yingying said in surprise: "Ah! Second sister, when did you come to my house..."
Zhan Ning'er felt a split headache. She stroked her forehead and moaned weakly and fell down again, covering her eyes with bright sunlight, and said, "Silly girl, is this my family good..."
"Your house? Ah! When did I come to your house?"
Xia Yingying looked around, turned her head and saw Shui Wu sleeping in the bed again. She was stunned for a moment and suddenly smirked: "Ha! I remembered it, yes, yes, this is your home..."
Shui Wu looked at Xia Yingying in shock and thought to herself: "How exactly does this girl's head grow?"
Zhan Ning'er slightly moved his hands that blocked his eyes. When he saw Shui Wu's strange eyes, he knocked on his forehead and said helplessly: "You don't have to be surprised, Yingying has always been like this. She... is missing the genxian'er."
The three women hurriedly got up and dressed up. The maids of Anfu who had been waiting outside had heard the sound and came in to help the three girls get busy. Finally, they got rid of their decadent image as an alcoholic female.
At this time, another servant came to report that several brothers from the Xia family came to An Mansion early in the morning and wanted to pick up the girl Yingying back. When Xia Yingying heard this, she immediately said to Zhan Ning'er: "Second sister, then I'll leave."
Zhan Ning'er said: "Don't you have to go for breakfast?"
Xia Yingying said: "No, I drank too much wine last night. Now my head is still groggy and I have no appetite at all."
Zhan Ning'er said, "Oh! Then...whether are you...whether are you going?"
Xia Yingying said without hesitation: "Of course I'm going home! I'm going back to Hongfeng Lake and don't want to stay here."
After saying that, she secretly glanced at Zhan Ning'er and asked, "Where are you, second sister?"
Zhan Ning'er immediately replied: "I'm going to hunt. I've made an appointment with someone long ago, but who knows..., haha, forget it! I'll go hunting in the mountains and relax."
Xia Yingying nodded and said, "Well, it's better for my second sister to relax. But I don't like to dig into the forest. Besides, I don't have the skill of my second sister. I will go back to Hongfeng Lake and wait for my second sister to come back from hunting. You can come to Hongfeng Lake to play with me."
"good!"
The two sisters said goodbye, Zhan Ning'er and Shui Wu kept sending Xia Yingying out of the door. Ten brothers came to the Xia family this morning. When they saw Xia Yingying coming out with good luck, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief. A cousin said, "Yingying, you left without a sound. All the grandpas are so worried about you, hurry up and go back with us."
Xia Yingying said impatiently: "I know, I'll watch people as prisoners 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 walked down the steps. As soon as she turned around, she secretly stuck out her tongue: "Brother Xiaotian is going to take the Juren exam today. My second sister is going to hunt in the mountains. No one is competing with me now!"
Zhan Ning'er watched Xia Yingying go away with her ten brothers. Just as she was about to turn back home, her personal bodyguards Jiudang and Jiugao came over and told her about what happened in Huaxi after she left yesterday. Zhan Ning'er's eyes lit up when she heard this. She immediately called Shui Wu and told her that Xue's mother appeared in Huaxi yesterday. Mrs. Yang testified for Ye Xiaotian.
When Shui Wu heard that Ye Xiaotian had been lifted out of murder, she was very happy. However, when she thought of Mrs. Yang's testimony for Ye Xiaotian, she couldn't help but wonder: "Strange! Why did Mrs. Yang help him? My mother has always been afraid of Mrs. Yang, so why did she follow her?"
Zhan Ning'er shook her head and said, "This is not something I can know. In short, your great benefactor is safe and sound now. What are your plans?"
Shui Wu said worriedly: "Mrs. Yang must not be kind, I have to go and find my mother right away."
Zhan Ning'er said, "Okay! Then I'll send someone to send you there. Jiudang, prepare a car and take Miss Shuiwu to Yang's Mansion."
Shui Wu bowed to Zhan Ning'er and said gratefully: "I have been taken care of by Miss Doru these days, and I have no choice but to thank you for your kindness. Please accept Shui Wu's greeting."
Zhan Ning'er quickly helped her up, and the two of them spoke again, and then the Anfu family rushed to a light car. Zhan Ning'er asked Shui Wu to board the car and asked Jiudang to protect her and go up to Yang Yinglong's mansion.
Watching Shui Wu's car go away, Zhan Ning'er thought happily: "The third girl has returned to Hongfeng Lake, Shui Wu has gone to Yang's mansion again. Ye Xiaotian, you stinky guy, wait for this girl to ask you for a crime!"
At this moment, the innocent Ye Xiaotian was biting the pen, thinking about the test questions word by word.
:This chapter is four thousand, I sincerely ask for monthly tickets!
Today, the country is outside the fog, and the second generation of fishman is in Shen. Last night, I stayed until three o'clock in the morning. I am urgently finished the coupon and I have to go to accompany me in the afternoon. I will vote for a monthly ticket and recommend a ticket to comfort the hard-working Xiaoguanguan~.
Chapter completed!