Chapter 55 Can the Lu Family Still Prosper?
The other two classmates around him laughed and agreed: "Brother Xu, you don't know, classmate Lu may have mistaken the person. The chief examiner is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. What does he have to do with the Second Prince? If he had been smarter and had established a good relationship with the Crown Prince, why would he take the exam now?"
"That's right!"
It would have been fine if they had just mocked him, but they also deliberately pushed Lu Zhili in the crowd, causing him to fall on the steps and be stepped on by other students.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Xu Lin squatted in front of him, picked up his bag with a smile, and the next second pretended to slip and threw the bag on the ground, stepping on it several times.
When Lu Zhili saw the clothes given by Liu fall out, he hurried forward to push Xu Lin away, picked up the clothes and held them in front of him, staring at him with a vicious look.
Xu Lin stepped forward and raised his voice to ask, "What do you want to do?" Lu Zhili
stared at him, clenched his fists, and there seemed to be a fire in his chest that was about to burst out, but fortunately he held it back in time.
"Alright, alright! We have the support of the second prince behind us. If we are punished, we can't bear it!"
"Go, go, go!"
Lu Zhili watched the few people leave, with resentment in his eyes.
In the evening, the spring rain continued, and it didn't stop all night.
Su He stood under the eaves listening to the rain. The spring tide was coming, making people shiver.
There were several heavy knocks on the door of the Su residence, and Lu Yanxiu's roar came from outside. Pei Xia really didn't want to see that guy, but it was no use for him to keep roaring outside the door, so she let him in.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Lu Yanxiu entered the house, he went straight to the small courtyard where Su He was, and threw the familiar purse heavily in front of her, splashing water everywhere.
"Did you prepare the things in here for Lu Zhili?" There
was a layer of cloud on his face, and his eyes looked at Su He with a hint of resentment, and his anger was rising.
Pei Xia saw that Lu Yanxiu was irritable and had a bad temper, so he immediately stood in front of Su He, hid her behind him, and faced Lu Yanxiu with hostility.
"What is Master Lu doing?"
Although he has always been in a bad mood towards Su He, he at least said a few words to her calmly the last time he came. But today he is like a mad dog, biting anyone he catches.
Su He slightly bent down to pick up the purse that fell on the muddy ground, wiped the rain stains with his sleeves, opened the pocket of the purse and asked, "Have you discovered the beauty of the purse?"
"The beauty? Did you deliberately put the cheating content in the pocket just to frame Lu Zhili?"
Lu Yanxiu's mouth showed coldness, and his eyes were even colder.
After Lu Zhili entered the Gongyuan, he carefully checked the purse that was left behind. There was nothing wrong with the signature, and there shouldn't be any problem with the small purse. However, Lu Yanxiu found that the stitching of the purse was wrong. The inside felt a bit thick, and it felt like there was something inside.
Lu Yanxiu immediately used scissors to cut the purse in half, and sure enough, he found the cheating note hidden in the interlayer!
The purse was given by Su He, and who else could have this note sewn together with the fabric except her?
But Lu Yanxiu could not have thought that she was so vicious and came up with such a way to frame Lu Zhili!
"Zhili's going to the examination hall is a big deal, and it is also related to the survival of the Lu family. You are planning this to cut off the Lu family's retreat?" Lu Yanxiu pointed at her and continued to laugh: "Fortunately Zhili listened to me and did not bring this thing, otherwise it would be discovered by the examiner, and the consequences would be disastrous!"
"Really?"
The sound of rain was very low, and the wind blew from time to time, lifting the slightly wet hem of Su He's skirt.
She played with the purse in her hand, and the next second she threw the purse lightly into the puddle in the yard.
"Do you think the Lu family can still prosper?"
"What do you mean?"
Lu Yanxiu's eyes flashed with a trace of confusion.
Su He curled his lips coolly, leaned against the railing and sat down slowly, looking at Lu Yanxiu through the hazy rain curtain, his voice was a little cold.
"What you can see is the purse, what can't be seen?"
Although Lu Yanxiu didn't know why Su He designed it this way, her words made Lu Yanxiu realize that she must have kept a trick up her sleeve!
"What else did you do?" He asked tremblingly.
Su He smiled faintly: "You will know soon."
In the tribute courtyard, the examination was carried out tensely.
Lu Zhili was skilled in writing and his movements were natural.
Suddenly, an examiner found that the student was cheating, and immediately confiscated all his things and sent him away. Listening to the cheater's heart-wrenching cry of injustice, Lu Zhili only felt that it was noisy, and he made a mistake when writing, and the ink dripped onto the paper.
The chief examiner Su Ronghai and the prince Bailijun took turns to calm the students present, and they were all terrified and did not dare to make any other moves.
After waiting for a long time until the incense as thick as an arm burned out, a few bells rang, and the round of examinations ended.
Lu Zhili smoothed the paper and was about to leave the examination room. A team of examiners hurriedly came to the examination room. After a brief communication with Bailijun, the examiner gave an order: "No candidate can leave the examination room before being searched!"
Body search?
The sudden inspection made the candidates present murmur and complain. One of the candidates raised his hand and said, "Excuse me, our examiner, we have been inspected every day since we came to Gongyuan, no less than ten times. What happened in such a hasty inspection?"
Baili Jun came to him and explained patiently, "Other examination rooms found that candidates cheated and sewed the answers on clothes with needle and thread. For the fairness of all candidates, a surprise inspection was conducted."
The candidates murmured again.
Cheating on clothes? Who is so brave?
Not to mention that the font is sewn on like this, even if it can be sewn on smoothly, how many words would it take? How much effort would it take?
Lu Zhili thought it was ridiculous. A chilly spring breeze blew by, and he couldn't help but tighten his cuffs. When his fingers touched a thick and dense patch of stitches, his body froze.
He leaned sideways and looked down, only to see that the cuffs and the inside of the chest were all sewn with lines of content with precise stitches.
Those contents had nothing to do with the exam, but they were brought into the exam room, and it was destined to be a wrong ending!
This piece of clothing was handed to him by Liu herself. He would never refuse something given by his grandmother.
But thinking back carefully, there would never be such fine fabrics in the mansion. Lu Zhili had already recognized that it was Su He's needlework, and she had embroidered it!
"You! Take off your clothes!"
The examiner had already brought people to the desk, and the two officials following behind him were also ready to step forward to start the inspection.
Lu Zhili's face was pale, his movements were stiff, and he took off his clothes slowly.
Su Ronghai saw that the inspection here had not made any progress, so he walked in to check.
After meeting Lu Zhili's eyes, he noticed that he was different.
"Uncle, I..."
In the past, Su He would bring Lu Zhili to Su Ronghai from time to time. Because of Su He's relationship, Lu Zhili also called Su Ronghai uncle in private. But now he was in the examination room, in front of everyone, and he might make people suspicious if he called him that.
Su Ronghai said seriously: "Lu Zhili, this is the examination room, please pay attention to the rules!"