35 Chapter 35
◎Lucky guy◎
Time flies, and the college entrance examination is here in a blink of an eye.
The academy examination was presided over by the Superintendent of Education, with two sessions in total, one per day.
Before entering the examination hall, in order to prevent candidates from bringing in copied papers, the officials had to search the candidates' bodies and belongings. So just after the hour of Yin, when a few people arrived at the entrance of the examination hall, there was already a crowd of people under the dim paper-pasted signboards, all of whom were candidates waiting in line to enter.
Xiao Muyan handed the exam basket to Jiang Jingyun, touched his slightly cool fingertips, and asked with concern: "Nervous?"
Jiang Jingyun shook his head. It was just an exam, there was nothing to be nervous about.
If you pass the exam, everyone will be happy and get the title of scholar. If you fail, it doesn’t matter. At most, you can go back and continue to be a businessman and still have no worries about food and drink.
"Yeah." Xiao Muyan didn't say much, and touched his head gently, as if Jiang Jingyun just got up early to go to school.
"Why are you touching my head again!" Jiang Jingyun glared at him, "Don't touch it. If you do, I'll charge you!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Muyan did not stop, but immediately took out a silver ingot from his pocket and asked, "Can I pay for the whole year?"
After Jiangyanlou opened, business was booming, especially the private rooms were often full. Some customers often complained about not being able to reserve a seat. Jiang Jingyun took the opportunity to launch monthly, quarterly and annual VIP cards, which not only allowed priority reservations but also provided delivery services when spending over a certain amount. Xiao Muyan was also very familiar with this marketing method.
But he never expected that this method would be used on himself one day. Jiang Jingyun looked at Xiao Muyan in disbelief. He was always quick-witted and it took him a while to utter, "You wish!" After that, he snatched the exam basket and turned around to walk to the end of the team with Su Yuheng who was watching the fun.
The closer he got to the examination room, the more nervous Su Yuheng seemed to become. He looked around tensely, unable to calm down for a moment.
Jiang Jingyun saw it and joked, "What are you doing? Your head is spinning like a whirlwind. Are you trying to find out the enemy's situation? Tell me if you have found out anything."
Su Yuheng rolled his eyes inelegantly. He was so nervous that he didn't even try to comfort himself, but laughed at him. He muttered in dissatisfaction: "What do you know? Your family holds you in their hands and says that it doesn't matter if you don't do well in the exam... What about me?! My dad said that if I fail the exam again, he will break my legs and lock me up in the room, and then hire ten or eight old-fashioned teachers to take turns to teach me... Wow, it's so vicious! Which lackey gave my dad such a bad idea? I'll find him when I go back and skin him first!"
"Pfft..." Jiang Jingyun laughed unkindly. This idea was indeed quite mean to someone who was usually playful and playful.
"You're still laughing!" Su Yuheng yelled in displeasure, "I'm seriously worried, okay? Can you please have some friendship with me?"
“Pfft… Hahahahahaha…” He couldn’t help laughing when he thought of the scene where Su Yuheng was surrounded by ten old teachers and had a class with a hopeless look on his face. After a while, he stopped laughing when he saw the other party’s gazes gradually looking like they were about to beat him up. He pulled up his sleeves and casually wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. The words that came out of his mouth were still without any conscience, “But it’s too late for you to worry now. Why don’t you just accept it? It should be quite interesting if the ten teachers take turns to come every day… Hahahahaha…”
Su Yuheng couldn't hold back any longer and pretended to pounce on him, "This is so interesting, how about I break your legs today, and you can study with me tomorrow!"
"Hey, hey, hey... why are you still angry and embarrassed!" Jiang Jingyun dodged with a smile and quickly begged for mercy, "I was wrong, Master Su, spare my life!"
"Hmph, it's too late to beg for mercy now!" He was no longer nervous and only wanted to teach the person in front of him a lesson.
The two were fighting when suddenly a man with disheveled hair and messy clothes appeared from nowhere and rushed towards them. Fortunately, Jiang Jingyun was quick to pull Su Yuheng and avoid being knocked to the side. The man missed and fell to the ground. After a while, he got up and ran away screaming, like a madman.
Su Yuheng patted his chest in shock and cursed, "Where did this lunatic come from... If I accidentally get knocked down and hurt my hand, today's exam will be in jeopardy."
Jiang Jingyun stared at the direction where the man was running away, frowning and not speaking for a long time.
"What's wrong with you? Are you scared by such a small thing?" Su Yuheng looked at him worriedly.
"There's something wrong with that person." Jiang Jingyun was certain.
"Ah, he's just a lunatic, what's the problem?" Su Yuheng was a little confused for a moment.
Time was urgent, so Jiang Jingyun didn't explain in detail and went straight to look through their exam baskets: "Hurry up and check your body and the exam basket to see if anyone has added anything."
Seeing his serious expression, Su Yuheng immediately reacted and started searching with him.
After a while, Jiang Jingyun found something in the gap under the examination basket. It was a small piece of paper with words written on it. He didn't even read the contents, but put the paper into his sleeve, quietly tore it into pieces, put it in his mouth and swallowed it raw.
Fortunately, it was dark at this time, and they were just playing around, so no one noticed the short episode. People just thought it was just people who were hungry and stuffing some food into their mouths because they were waiting. Otherwise, if someone were to expose their involvement in cheating, the consequences would be disastrous.
Su Yuheng's face turned pale and he gritted his teeth as he said, "Who wants to harm us?" Although the note was found in Jiang Jingyun's examination basket, the five people's names were linked together. If anything happened to Jiang Jingyun, he would not be able to escape.
"Hush, keep your voice down, don't make any noise." Jiang Jingyun motioned him to look over there, because the commotion here had attracted the attention of the government officers and soldiers. He quickly said in a low voice, "Let's put this matter off for later. Don't let it mess you up. Let's finish the test first."
"Yeah." Su Yuheng responded, slowly calming himself down.
At three quarters past the hour of Yin, the names of the two candidates were finally called. After checking that they were all correct, they entered the examination room one by one.
The candidates took their seats according to their numbers. The two candidates were not seated near each other, so they found their seats separately, sat down and waited for the exam to begin.
The examination is divided into two parts. The first part is the main test, which requires two essays from the Four Books and one "five-character six-rhyme test poem"; the second part is the re-examination, which requires one essay from the Four Books or the Five Classics and one "five-character six-rhyme test poem".
After waiting for a long time, all the candidates finally entered the venue. The inspectors distributed the test papers and plain paper for drafting, and then the yamen runners held up the test questions board and patrolled the examination hall while maintaining order. 【1】
After getting the test paper and observing it carefully, Jiang Jingyun found that there were only the title and the heading on the paper. He first filled in his information as required, followed his previous experience in preparing for modern exams, roughly browsed the three questions on the paper, and then answered them in order of difficulty.
Jiang Jingyun sat there quietly, without writing for a long time, just thinking about the ideas for the article in his mind. The exam required the paper to be neat and without any corrections, so he carefully sorted out the entire outline before starting to write on the rough paper. After he finished writing the entire article and checked it three times to make sure there were no problems, he carefully copied it onto the test paper.
He was writing furiously when suddenly, there was a commotion a few spaces away from him!
Jiang Jingyun quietly leaned out out of curiosity. It turned out that a candidate was too nervous when answering questions under the watchful eyes of the examiner, and his test paper was accidentally stained with ink. This college examination was undoubtedly a direct death sentence. Under the high temperature, his mind was not clear for a moment and he wanted to rush out to argue with others. However, before he could utter a word, the yamen runners who came following the sound covered his mouth and dragged him away.
"Quiet!" Hearing the noise, the examiner glanced around and warned, "Hurry up and sit down. If you look around, you will be treated as cheating!"
For fear of being innocently implicated, the onlookers immediately lowered their heads and pretended to be quails. Jiang Jingyun also retracted his head and couldn't help sighing in his heart: Tsk tsk tsk, it's obvious that his mental quality is not up to standard. In ancient times, if there were no mock exams to experience the examination room in advance, one would suffer a loss. Unlike the modern old-fashioned people who have experienced thousands of "papers" and can remain as steady as a rock even with the principal standing behind them. But it was not very comfortable to have someone hanging around all the time, luckily he was not targeted.
Just as he was feeling lucky that he was a lucky man, he felt the light in front of his eyes dim. He quietly raised his eyes to take a look and found that the examiner was standing next to him, staring at him while he was writing.
"......" Speak of the devil, Jiang Jingyun silently complained, "In addition to catching those who cheat for personal gain, do the examiners have a KPI of randomly scaring a few timid candidates to death in each exam?"
The examiner had no idea of Jiang Jingyun's jumping psychology, he just stopped as usual to check the situation.
In order to prevent collusion between officials and the public to cheat, the examination hall stipulates that examiners are not allowed to mark the papers.
But a quick look at the black and square official script on the paper showed that the candidate had put in a lot of effort. Then, he was completely unaffected by the outside world and calmly wrote the second article on the rough paper. After taking a few glances to make sure there was no problem, he quietly left.
He is not shaken by external factors, nor swayed by things. He has a calm and steady personality.
Time passed quickly. By the afternoon, Jiang Jingyun had completed two essays on the Four Books and one examination poem. After copying them neatly on the paper, he sat quietly with his eyes closed, waiting for the papers to be collected.
Each exam paper must be submitted on the same day. Candles will not be provided, and candidates are not allowed to submit their papers early or leave the exam room without permission. Candidates will rest on the spot after the exam. The exam will be opened in batches after all papers have been submitted on the last day.
After collecting the papers, Jiang Jingyun went to the toilet under the supervision of a special person. After coming back, he ate a piece of bread with clean water provided by the examination room without much appetite, then lay down in the cubicle with his clothes on and quickly closed his eyes to the sound of mosquitoes.
The next day, there was another exam of similar intensity.
At dusk, when Jiang Jingyun walked out of the examination room, he was already a little dazed.
Xiao Muyan had been waiting outside. When he saw Jiang Jingyun coming out, he immediately stepped forward to take the exam basket from him. Seeing that he looked pale and shaky, he asked worriedly, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Jiang Jingyun nodded weakly: "I feel dizzy and a little nauseous." The weather was too hot, and he was stuck in a small cubicle where he couldn't even stretch his legs for two days in a row. He almost didn't eat, drink or sleep, and he had to stay tense all the time. It was really tiring.
Seeing this, Xiao Muyan helped him walk to the carriage and said, "Go back first. I'll ask a doctor to take a look later."
"It's not that exaggerated. I'll be fine after two days of rest." Jiang Jingyun shook his head and refused. He didn't want to drink the extremely bitter Chinese medicine. Seeing that the carriage had started to go back, he hurriedly stopped it and said, "Wait, Su Yuheng hasn't come out yet..." If he didn't wait for the person to come out, he might make trouble for him again later.
Xiao Muyan's mind and eyes were filled with only him, so he didn't care about anyone else. He only remembered this person when he was asked: "I just saw that his entourage has picked up the person. I guess you will be home soon." This is the truth.
"Oh, that's fine." Hearing that someone had come to pick him up, Jiang Jingyun closed his eyes and fell asleep with peace of mind.
【Author’s words】
【1】The content refers to Baidu's county examination and academy examination
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