Chapter 83 83 Scientific Expedition Tension, Not Existing
An Xin didn't know that two young men, who had heard a scholar from her own academy say a lot of bad things about her, were planning to come to her Wanhua Academy to challenge her.
However, he was impressed by her knowledge and chose to stay in her small academy to study for a year.
Later, when he was admitted to the capital as an official, he also regarded himself as her student and treated her with great respect.
These two are the grandson of the dean of Hanchen Academy and the youngest son of the dean of Tiande Academy. These two guys have known each other since childhood.
After hearing about how An Xin performed with his students at the Baichuan Academy's literary meeting, he felt dissatisfied and sneaked into the Wanhua Academy when it was recruiting students.
He wanted to prove that An Xin, a female headmaster, had no real skills and knowledge, and make the facts public so that she could no longer deceive the world and steal fame.
Unexpectedly, after listening to a few lectures of An Xin, they felt that it was comparable to what they had heard from great scholars under the guidance of their elders.
The depth of the knowledge he talked about was even greater than that of the great scholars.
The two of them admired him sincerely.
The provincial urban and rural examination hall.
Li Ziyu looked at the examination basket in his hand, which was larger than others, and a hint of tenderness flashed in his eyes. In addition to the examination tools they needed, there were also a few things prepared by their family members for them.
The rest was filled with items that the headmaster had ordered people to pack in, which were very useful in the examination room.
Even if they were unlucky enough to draw a bad number, they would be provided with a bottle of strong-smelling cooling oil to prevent them from staying there for a long time and getting dizzy from the stench.
After Li Ziyu and the other six were strictly checked and searched, they looked at each other while carrying the same examination baskets, then dispersed and went to find their own examination rooms.
The students taking the exam looked miserably at the examination room that looked like a pigeon cage, and walked in silently.
There were still many mosquitoes in the southern part of August. When the six people entered their own examination room, they took out the insect repellent incense developed by An Xin and Doctor Su and lit it.
I saw several paper bags nearby, which contained pills specially made for them by their headmaster at the request of Dr. Su.
There are some for treating diarrhea, and some for preventing colds. Of course, they did not forget to bring the large oilcloth paper to prevent rain this time. It didn’t matter if these students got wet, but they were afraid that their test papers would get wet, which would waste all their years of hard work and they would have to wait another three years.
During these nine days and six nights, the six people expressed their gratitude to their own chieftain countless times in their hearts.
During every break, I saw other candidates looking at the jerky and beef jerky that I brought with envy and desire in their eyes.
Liu Boxing, An Rui, Jiang Zhou and others all had proud looks in their eyes and chewed the dried meat in their mouths even harder.
They looked like they deserved a beating, and the candidates around them were so angry that they wanted to go over and beat them up.
Three exams in nine days, after the exams.
One by one, the candidates staggered out of the examination room with pale faces.
There were only six people including Li Ziyu and Leng Xiangbai. Their bodies had been greatly strengthened by An Xin's training in the past few years, and they had prepared enough things before taking the exam.
Although they had consumed a lot of energy in the exam, they still walked out of the exam room upright normally.
Uncle An and the servants arranged by the other four families to follow saw six people walking out of the crowd.
He quickly squeezed into the crowd to support his son, but found that his son didn't seem to need it, so he had to silently take the exam basket from their hands.
Looking at the candidates walking out from the surroundings, most of them were their relatives or servants, some supporting them or carrying them on their backs.
The four servants sent by the Li, Zhu, Liu, and Jiang families turned around and looked at the six people with steady steps and sighed that they were not even given a chance to perform.
Zhao Kui and Liu Mingjie, who were helped by their followers as they staggered out of the crowd, looked at the six people getting on the carriage from afar.
They recalled that they had instigated Zhang County Magistrate's arrogant brother-in-law Kun Guangcai to send beautiful prostitutes to Jiang Zhou and An Rui.
He wanted to make them fall into the arms of comfort, neglect their studies, and then slowly drag the others into it.
They didn't expect that Kun Guangcai, that idiot, would be so impulsive that he actually stabbed someone at the very beginning of their plan.
This made their plan fail, and also made those scholars who knew that they sent prostitutes to An Rui and Jiang Zhou feel ashamed and unwilling to associate with him and Liu Mingjie and others anymore.
The reputation of the two men gradually became bad among the scholars in Lin'an County.
*An Rui and Liu Boxing came here to take a break after their exams. Without An Xin to take them around, they all felt bored.
The six people wanted to pack up and go home.
They were stopped by Uncle An, who said that if any of them passed the imperial examination, they would need to attend the Lu Ming Banquet hosted by the governor. Seeing the six people who had no interest in the lively conversations among students in the lobby of the inn, Uncle An shook his head helplessly.
Even the brat in his own family has a problem with him leading the team.
The shadow in Uncle An's heart expanded infinitely, and he felt that he was hurt.
In the days that followed, all the candidates were waiting for the results to be announced, waiting until they were almost going crazy.
The tenth day of September has finally arrived.
In the early morning, when the sky was just getting light, there was a noise in the inn.
The Dragon and Tiger Wall on the west wall of the Imperial Examination Hall in the provincial capital, where the results of each provincial examination were announced, was gradually surrounded by people.
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Uncle An and several servants who were arranged to come here tried their best to squeeze to the front, trying their best to see the list earlier.
Uncle An straightened his crooked hair bun, pretended not to notice the contemptuous looks coming from all around him, and waited seriously for the results to be announced.
It seems like as if as long as I don't look at you, the person who pushed you aside just now was not me.
The sun shone through the windows of the inn's room. Like An Xin, the six people who never paid much attention to the results every time they took an exam had basically no intention of going to see the list in person.
An Rui and Liu Boxing walked out of the room, panting, and went downstairs. They saw Li Ziyu, Leng Xiangbai, Zhu Shijing and Jiang Zhou sitting together having breakfast and greeted them.
"You guys are up so early."
The other candidates who came to take the provincial examination would have rolled their eyes at him if they hadn't considered their image as scholars.
Have these two forgotten that today is the day the results are announced? How can they still sleep?
The sun is already so high, but they still think it's too early.
How could he have the nerve to say such vicious words in front of them who had gotten up before dawn to wait for the announcement of the results?
What follows is something that leaves them even more speechless.
"Well, it's quite early, but it's too noisy downstairs." Li Ziyu took a sip of porridge and said in a light tone.
Leng Xiangbai, Zhu Shijing and Jiang Zhou were eating breakfast leisurely. Although they didn't say anything, they nodded in agreement.
Seeing the calm expressions of the six people at the table, no one seemed nervous or anxious about the announcement of the results.
When I said it was too noisy, I was referring to those people who were so excited and nervous that they couldn't sleep and had to get up early.
“???” Yes, right!
The candidates who were anxiously waiting in the lobby for their relatives, followers, servants, and those who had come back from checking the list suddenly felt that they were not so anxious anymore.
When firecrackers blasted in the distance announcing the good news of students passing the exam, the lobby, where groups of people were originally chatting, suddenly became quiet.
The students, who had just been influenced by the calmness of Li Ziyu and the others, became nervous again.
"How come we heard the sound of firecrackers announcing good news from several places, but only our inn had no students pass the exam?"
The fat shopkeeper standing at the counter, when he heard the student say such words, his face turned darker than the ink he used to keep accounts.
“……”You answered the test yourselves. Our inn is not responsible for this.
(End of this chapter)