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Ji Yunxi said calmly: "Really."
Ji Mingshuang looked at his sister.
His sister's expression was as calm as ever, as if this was nothing to worry about.
Ji Mingshuang sighed: "Okay, then I will prepare for the palace examination."
Ji Yunxi nodded: "Come on, Seventh Brother."
Ji Mingshuang smiled bitterly and immediately strode out of the study.
Ji Yunxi was the only one left in the study. She lowered her head and continued to study the gambling business.
Half an hour later, Baofu walked in, his steps hurried and his expression strange: "Miss, Master Wu is here."
Ji Yunxi looked up, startled for a moment, then frowned: "What is he doing here?"
There was only one hour left before the palace examination began. Why was he coming to her place instead of packing up and going back to the palace?
Baofu shook his head. "I don't know either. Oh, there's something I need to tell you, young lady. When Xiaoying was packing up the carriage today, she found the cosmetics compartment empty. Even your favorite hand mirror with the feathered figure pattern was missing. But before she left this morning, they were all there. But after the carriage dropped off Master Wu, they were gone."
Ji Yunxi: “…”
Ji Yunxi: "I understand, you can go down."
Baofu responded and walked out of the study, just in time to meet Wu Weian who had hurried over.
Baofu moved aside and bowed perfunctorily, but with a look of disdain on his face.
This man is so shameless that he even took the lady's makeup mirror!
Wu Weian came carrying the small bamboo basket that Ji Yunxi had prepared during the Spring Examination.
Time was indeed very tight, so he closed the study door and no longer concealed it. He just tiptoed in front of Ji Yunxi and threw a ball of paper at her without saying a word.
Ji Yunxi took it subconsciously: "?"
Wu Wei'an said to her, "Time is tighter than I thought. I might be a little late. I wrote this on the way here. When the time comes, give it to my manager and ask him to find someone to spread the contents of the paper among the scholar circle. He knows who to find, so just give it to him."
"???" Ji Yunxi was even more confused, "You can just manage your family directly."
Why would he bother rushing to Ji's house and asking her to hand it over to him?
Ji Yunxi even began to wonder if something went wrong with this guy's brain while he was acting.
Wu Wei'an grinned at her and said, "It costs money to spread rumors. It's about ten taels per person, so we need to find at least a hundred people. You should give a thousand taels to my manager. Well, it's too late. I won't say any more to you. I'm leaving now."
As soon as he finished speaking, he floated to the door of the study, opened it and rushed out.
Ji Yunxi: “…”
So, he came here just to make her pay?
And just for a mere one thousand taels? ?
Ji Yunxi had an awkward look on her face, and opened the piece of paper with some disgust.
The paper was filled with densely packed arguments. Ji Yunxi summarized them for him, and the core idea was:
First, Wu Wei'an worked very hard preparing for the imperial examination, sleeping only an hour a day at most, and even writing on New Year's Eve when his hands were frozen.
Second, hard work will definitely pay off, just like Wu Wei'an, who ranked third in the Spring Examination;
3. Wu Weian loves Ji Yunxi terribly, and love gives people strength;
Ji Yunxi pinched the paper back expressionlessly.
I thought, this is what modern people call toxic chicken soup.
After all, it is money that gives him power.
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When Wu Weian arrived at the palace gate, the candidates had already walked in.
He was panting and at the end of the line, he followed the crowd and moved in little by little.
At the door, guards were checking the belongings of the candidates one by one.
In just half a day, Wu Weian had become a famous scholar.
When the people around saw that it was him, they all greeted him spontaneously.
Wu Weian's face still looked very bad. He tried hard to force a smile. He was a little scared but he mustered up the courage to respond to everyone.
This palace examination was so sudden that all the candidates were talking about it.
Many people guessed that this matter must have something to do with Wu Weian. After all, after the results were announced, many people were saying that Wu Weian cheated and that the Minister of Personnel leaked the questions.
But Wu Weian was right next to them after all, and his weeping and words in the morning had left such a deep impression on everyone that they all tacitly agreed not to mention the matter in front of him.
"It suddenly happened so much earlier. I was really panicking."
"Me too. After the Spring Examination, I took a month off. I had planned to prepare for the Palace Examination after the results were announced, but it's too late now! I haven't read for a month and I can't remember some of the content. What should I do?"
"Brother Wu, you should have been preparing for the palace examination this month, right?"
Wu Wei'an, carrying his small bamboo basket with some difficulty, nodded, a little embarrassed, "Yes, I didn't want to disappoint Yunniang, so I never slacked off. I've been studying from morning till night every day for the past month, and haven't gotten much sleep. As soon as I got home this morning, I started reading."
The scholars around were all amazed.
"Oh my god, Brother Wu, you really work so hard! I'm ashamed of myself!"
"No wonder you look so bad!"
Wu Weian said weakly, "No, no, I was just too lazy. On the way here, I took the time to see Yun Niang. Otherwise, I could have watched for a while longer."
"Uh-huh-huh! Uh-huh-huh!"
Immediately, bursts of "Oh my God" were heard from the crowd.
There were a total of 288 people taking part in the palace examination, but only 231 of them arrived on time.
Some of them found out too late and arrived after a certain time. The guards would not let them in and they could only cry bitterly in front of the palace gate.
Some of them knew they were on the list, and were in a good mood, so they went out to drink and have fun, and are still drunk in the arms of pleasure.
Mr. Chiang and several old gentlemen have also been invited to the palace.
Several gentlemen were quite old, and were summoned to the palace by imperial decree very suddenly. However, they had experienced many ups and downs, and they all remained calm and composed, and quickly began to prepare for the palace examination.
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