An arrogant voice rang out from the carriage: "Hey~ This is the young master who is going to take the imperial examination! I won't make it difficult for you. I'll let you go after you pay me back. Whether you want to spend money to avoid disaster or continue to spend money, I believe you can make a wise choice."
The wise young master readily took out his money, handed his purse to the young man, sat in the front to catch the car, and quickly fled from this place of trouble.
The young man weighed the money bag and jumped off the carriage with satisfaction. He ignored the fleeing young master and walked straight to the driver. He stepped on his shoulder and said proudly, "Young master is young master. He knows better than you, a dog slave. If you had just paid the money quickly, you wouldn't have to take this beating."
The driver remained silent. Seeing the eldest young master's reaction, he must have tacitly acknowledged that this man was not to be messed with. As a servant, he could only blame himself for his bad luck.
After receiving the compensation, the young man walked up to the donkey, which was standing there like a fool. He bent down and pulled out the little girl who had been frightened silly from under the donkey's belly.
"Don't you have eyes? Can't you see the carriage and the donkey? Where are your parents? Are they dead? You can't even take care of a child!"
The arrogant young man looked around, but no one answered. He sneered, "Look at how skinny you are. Did your family deliberately throw you out here to try to scam you? You have the ability to push a little girl out here. What's wrong with you? You abused the child yourself and still want to extort money from me. You're really giving me face!"
Even after being scolded like this, no one came forward to claim the little girl.
The little girl was so frightened that she didn't dare to cry out loud. She could only sob quietly. It was obvious that she was often bullied at home.
The arrogant young man impatiently left the little girl behind and scolded her, "You useless thing, why are you crying? If anyone abuses you, just kill them with rat poison. If you don't have the guts, sell yourself to a brothel. If you become a prostitute, all the male members of your family will suffer. Even if you don't want to live, hang yourself by her bedside and keep her awake at night."
The young man pouted, "There are so many ways to solve this problem. Crying is useless!"
Leaving these words behind, the arrogant young man rode away on his donkey.
After he left, everyone dared to point and criticize him from behind. Was he the reincarnation of the King of Hell? What kind of awful advice was he giving to a child?
Not only did they instigate others to become murderers and prostitutes, but they also held the other members of the family responsible responsible. How innocent are they?
Everyone was discussing heatedly, but they didn't notice that some people fell silent after hearing such shocking remarks, including the thin girl.
The little girl picked up the cloth tiger on the ground, dusted it off, walked straight to her cousin and returned the cloth tiger to him.
She looked up at her always partial grandmother. She didn't say anything, just stared at her straight, making the old lady's hair stand on end. She stammered, "Why are you looking at me?"
The little girl tilted her head and asked in confusion, "Grandma, where can I buy rat poison? And where is that blue yard?"
Hearing this, the old lady almost fainted. She said sternly, "Don't listen to that lunatic's nonsense. Go home and have dinner."
The little girl said "oh" and followed her grandmother obediently, thinking to herself that she could have breakfast too!
After the crowd dispersed, the driver got up and stretched his arms and legs. He found that he had no broken bones, but was in great pain. The boy had been too cruel.
The coachman hesitated for a moment, but still went towards the examination hall. The carriage was still there. The job was not going well, and he couldn't afford to lose the carriage again.
The examination hall for the provincial examination was set up in an open area in the county town, with several rows of simple examination rooms built, which served as the county's imperial examination hall.
The environment of the examination room is very simple, but fortunately the climate here is relatively comfortable, so it has little impact on the candidates.
Su Shien passed the inspection smoothly and entered his own cell.
He tidied up the messed-up bundle, which Yuger had thrown into the window when the carriage was hit. Inside was a brand new inkstone and a bag of fragrant oil tea noodles.
The eldest lady's plans were ruined by Yu Ge'er. His little lucky star was really amazing. Yu Ge'er successfully sent him to the examination room. Now it was his turn to work hard. At least he had to exempt the Yue family's land from taxes.
After arriving at the examination venue, Su Shien did not meet up with Su Yunsong, but parked the Su family's carriage next to the Han family who were packing up their stall.
Han Zeyu quickly caught up and immediately slipped into the carriage to check it carefully. He hadn't found any problems when he checked in the morning, but just a short while later, problems arose in the carriage. It must have been the driver's doing.
Han Zeyu quickly took out two sachets from the secret compartment of the carriage, one under the seat and one hanging on the top of the carriage.
Bring the sachet close to your nose and smell it carefully. The smell is not pungent, but after inhaling it, you will have an urge to vomit.
These symptoms are similar to motion sickness. Han Zeyu sneered, thinking that they were really some petty tricks that were not worthy of being shown on the public.
Han Zeyu asked his second cousin to take the sachet to Huimintang to get medicine. He wanted the same medicinal ingredients as in the sachet. Some deviations were fine as long as the smell was similar.
By the time the coachman arrived, Han Zeyu had already changed his clothes and was leaning leisurely against the carriage eating a sugar cake. This was specially baked for him by his aunt-in-law. It was filled with plenty of ingredients and was fragrant and sweet when he took a bite. He liked it very much.
Han Zeyu finished his sugar cake and drank half a bowl of soy milk. Seeing the late driver, he said sarcastically, "If you didn't know me, you'd think you were the eldest young master! The people who send you to take the exam are even later than the ones taking the exam. This is really the opposite of the rules!"
The driver lowered his head and said nothing. He was really unlucky today and didn't check the almanac before going out.
The young master who had abandoned him and fled on his own, the lunatic who attacked people at the slightest disagreement, the young mistress who was sarcastic and harsh in her words—what kind of monsters and demons were these? He had encountered them all. Did he not deserve to earn that unscrupulous money? Was this retribution in this life?
The eldest young lady occupied the carriage, preventing the coachman from retrieving the sachet in the carriage in time, but he did not dare to leave the vicinity of the carriage for fear that the eldest young lady would discover the clue.
Back at Huimin Hall, Su Shinian asked the young man, what is this sachet used for?
Han Ze'an said that if someone has indigestion, smelling this sachet can help them vomit out the accumulated food.
One of these two people dared to make up the story, while the other dared to believe it. Su Shinian had no doubts about it and actually helped the person to prescribe medicine.
Han Ze'an went to the needlework shop again and went back to report to his cousin after nearly an hour.
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