Ignoring the wound on his forehead, Mu Qing knelt on the ground and explained:
"Sir, calm down. I didn't go out fooling around."
"Not fooling around? Then why can't I see you when I come back?" Guo Gan was in a very bad mood at the moment. Once the results of this round of palace examination came out, he would become a laughing stock in the whole Kyoto. He now wanted to kill someone.
Mu Qing remained silent, just lowered his head. The blood on his forehead had already flowed into his clothes, staining it red.
Guo Gan never had any pity for him, nor did he treat him as someone he grew up with. He was a heartless man who only used Mu Qing for his own benefit.
He smashed things for a long time, making quite a noise, which attracted his grandmother and mother.
He is the only precious baby in the family and everyone treats him as dearly as their own eye.
As soon as I came over, I saw this scene. Mu Qing's face was covered with blood, which had almost solidified. It looked scary, but he was still kneeling there straight.
Upon seeing this, the old lady quickly asked someone to help him up and send him for bandaging.
After all, he had helped his grandson do a lot of things. After he came back, he had heard from his grandfather about today's palace examination. It was truly unexpected and had no control over it.
"It's okay, kid. If it doesn't work this time, we can always come back next time. People make mistakes, horses stumble, it's no big deal."
Women don't take these things too seriously, but men are different.
No matter how well Guo Gan portrayed himself in front of others, he has been slapped in the face now.
Once the results come out, he will really have no face to stay in Kyoto.
"Grandma, you don't understand. Those people are waiting to see their grandson make a fool of himself. I did terribly in the palace exam this time. I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to even get into the top ten. How can you ask me not to care?"
As Guo Gan spoke, his eyes turned red and he looked like he was about to cry, which made his family members very heartbroken.
"My dear grandson, it's really nothing. At most, grandma will take you back to your hometown in Youyang. We can stay there for a few months to relax. When we return to Kyoto, they won't remember anything. Don't you think so?"
The woman in the deep house still thought these things were too simple.
They don't know the seriousness of the matter. If they laugh, they will probably have to laugh for at least three years unless he can prove himself next time.
Even though his family had advised him otherwise, he still couldn't hold back his anger and went to Prince Chu's mansion that night.
At that time, Helian Heng was sitting in the yard drinking. He still loved crimson robes, and even his pajamas at home were made of gauze. He sat there with his arms and legs spread wide, his clothes loose, and his hair loose too, only half of it tied up with a sandalwood hairpin.
Holding a delicate wine bottle in his hand, his hand rested on one knee, and his fingers tapped the bottle rhythmically.
He closed his eyes, thinking of someone in his heart, missing her to the extreme.
Why hasn’t this damn imperial examination ended yet? He couldn't even leave Kyoto.
Guo Gan couldn't figure it out, so he came to the Prince of Chu's mansion to get some clarification.
"Your Highness, King Chu, didn't you tell me with all your heart that the essay topic for the palace examination was about taxation? How did it become about the earthquake in Jeju?"
He and Helian Heng are cousins, and he has always been used to being disrespectful in front of him, but Helian Heng doesn't mind.
He came in without any greeting and spoke directly in a questioning tone, which made Helian Heng a little unhappy.
However, hearing him say this, his brows frowned slightly.
"The questions for the palace examination have changed?"
"Isn't it? Once the topic changed, all my preparations went to waste. I'm afraid I'm going to fail the palace examination this time." Guo Gan also sat down in front of him, snatched the bottle of wine from his hand, and gulped it down.
However, Helian Heng did not take it seriously. He did not think it was a big deal.
"With your qualifications, even if the questions are changed, you won't do too badly on the test!"
After hearing this, Guo Gan felt a little guilty.
Helian Heng didn't know that he cheated because Mu Qing helped him. In fact, he was just a pretty face who was only good at creating a persona.
Helian Heng was indeed reborn, but in this life he had given up and no longer wanted to fight for fame and fortune. He just wanted his loved ones around him to be safe and live comfortably.
In his previous life, he didn't know that Guo Gan cheated. He only knew that during the palace examination, because it took too long, his father had been busy with government affairs for many years and had a hidden back problem. Halfway through the exam, he had to get up and go out for a walk. In order to show his filial piety, he accompanied him.
It was also during this period that the Minister of Rites took advantage of the gap and took the answer sheet written by Mu Qing and replaced it with Guo Gan's answer sheet. He was very good at concealing the truth.
In this life, Helian Jing was very careful. Because of Xiao Hechuan's advice, he never stepped out of the hall for fear of being taken advantage of.
However, the sudden change of the examination questions caught them off guard. Without any advance preparation, they could only face failure.
In his previous life, Helian Heng always thought that those were Guo Gan's real abilities. After all, he was willing to support him because he saw his talent, and helped him frame Xiao Hechuan to enter the Hanlin Academy so that he could better help himself in the future.
As a result, after he entered the Hanlin Academy, his talents were not apparent. He thought he had bet on the wrong horse and believed that Guo Gan only had literary talent but no practical work.
But he is his own cousin, what can he do?
Later, he was imprisoned, and he knew nothing about what happened to the Guo family afterwards, so he did not know in this life that Guo Gan cheated because of Mu Qing's help.
At the beginning of the year, Guo Gan came to ask him if he knew what questions the emperor would give in the palace examination. He originally wanted to ask him to practice with the questions. At that time, Helian Heng thought it would be okay to tell him, as he could handle it anyway. Maybe if he knew it in advance, he could do better in the exam.
Who knew that the questions in the palace examination suddenly changed? Can he be blamed for this? The person in charge of the imperial examinations now is Helian Jing, so it is normal for changes to occur.
Now he doesn't want to fight for fame and fortune, he just wants to live a leisurely life with his beloved.
"You killed me, did you know that?" Guo Gan became angrier and angrier as he thought about it, and he started to speak without thinking.
Helian Heng originally didn't want to argue with him, but his words became more and more excessive, and he couldn't tolerate it anymore.
"I'm going to harm you? You'd better think it over before you talk to me like this. You wanted to ask me, and I told you, and you believed it. Now that you didn't do well in the exam, you blame me instead?
Besides, don’t you think you are too presumptuous in front of me? ”
Helian Heng had lived through blood and gore in his previous life, and he was ruthless and decisive in doing things. The hostility in him was still there, and when he got angry now, he couldn't help feeling oppressed.
Guo Gan then realized that he was indeed a little presumptuous, and quickly stood up and bowed to apologize:
"Your Highness, please calm down. I have overstepped my authority!"
Helian Heng narrowed his eyes and was too lazy to talk nonsense with him. He just waved his hand and told him to go back first.
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