When Chen Cui and Mu Erpang returned to Shusheng Lane, Lao Buyu had already led the teenagers to dinner.
"Just now they were trying to hold on and say they were waiting for Hanshan to come back, but I saw them dozing off while holding their chopsticks at the table, so I sent them to sleep." Lao Buyu said as he stopped Chen Cui who was about to go to the kitchen to serve food, "The headmaster has been in and out all day, so take a rest with Hanshan. I'll bring you food."
After a while, the food that had been prepared on the stove was served on the table.
Mu Erpang didn't feel very hungry at first, but when he smelled the fragrance of the food and his stomach started to growl, he remembered that he had been thinking about the theme of the poem almost the entire day and had forgotten to eat some dry food.
Chen Cui had also been busy all day. The mother and son finished the meal in no time. After the meal, Lao Buyu took over the job of washing the dishes and wiping the table, allowing them to rest quickly.
The mother and son each drew some hot water, washed up briefly, and then went to bed immediately.
Chen Cui was just tired after all, so she slept until the next morning and finally recovered.
The young men were not so lucky. Each of them slept more soundly than the other. Occasionally, one of them got up to go to the toilet. Chen Cui would ask if he needed anything else.
They all said they were not hungry and just wanted to sleep.
Chen Cui didn't care about the others and let them do as they pleased.
It's just that Wei Xi's physical condition has deteriorated a lot, so she boiled some rice soup and fed it to Wei Xi alone. Later, while they were sleeping, she found a doctor to take the pulse of each of them.
Just like the problem reflected by the system's numerical values, the doctor said that everyone else was tired, and only Wei Xi was depleted of vitality.
After asking the reason, the doctor learned that they were all scholars taking the provincial examination. He sighed and said, "The weather this year is really bad. How can it be so hot in August? There are too many scholars who come to our clinic for consultation these days. Compared with others, the loss of vitality of this scholar is not serious."
After the doctor finished speaking, he wrote out a prescription. Shen Cui accompanied him back to get the medicine, and then went into the kitchen to boil it.
While boiling the medicine, Chen Cui asked the system a question, [The weather this year is indeed abnormal. Even in our time, when the greenhouse effect was serious and the temperature generally rose, it was not so hot in the eighth month of the lunar calendar. 】
The system said, "After testing, the current weather is indeed adjusted by the laws." 】
Chen Cui was speechless for a moment, [To build our own academy? 】
The system said: [That’s not the case. With the current development of our academy, it is unlikely that we can produce anything like ‘Six Yuan’ to overshadow Mu Yunchuan. And I am not a pushover. If it dares to target me like this and wants to catch all the certified training objects in the system, the worst that can happen is that I will die together with it... The rule is to use the weather to pave the way for Mu Yunchuan. 】
Chen Cui thought about it carefully in connection with the plot of the original book, and suddenly said: [There seems to be such a plot in the original book. It says that the weather is bad, and the harvest in autumn is much worse. There is also famine in some remote areas. The emperor appointed him to provide disaster relief, and he also accumulated a lot of reputation, paving the way for future promotion... But why do I remember that this part doesn’t seem to be the plot at this time? 】
[Maybe it’s a sense of crisis?] After all, after today's scientific examination, there are so many training subjects. Although separating them individually may not necessarily have an impact on Mu Yunchuan, there are too many people... It is also a preventive measure. 】
Chen Cui held her chin in front of the medicine furnace and said, "He keeps saying it and it, I almost think of him as a person." What exactly is this 'law'? 】
[It’s hard for me to explain this, but its responsibility is to maintain the order of this world, which is the plot of the original book. 】
Chen Cui stared at the medicine stove in a daze for a while, [I asked you earlier whether the purpose of the system was to let me train a control group to fight against Mu Yunchuan, the son of the plane. You didn't answer at that time, but now I have figured it out. It was never him we were fighting against. He is actually no different from the other children in our family. He is also a puppet manipulated and driven by the rules. The only difference is probably that the path the rules have arranged for him is easier than that for others. 】
The system detected her brain waves and found that her brain waves were abnormally active while she was talking. [Host, what is this time you are thinking about? 】
As they were talking, Wei Xi smelled the medicine and knew that Chen Cui was boiling it for him. He came over and said, "Let the servants do the boiling work. Shanzhang has been working hard for us these days. You should take a rest."
Shen Cui smiled and said, "It's just sitting and watching the fire. It's not a hard job." At the same time, she answered the system in her mind: [You will know later. 】
Later, Wei Xi drank replenishing medicine for three days in a row. He breathed a sigh of relief, and the others had almost recovered as well.
The daily life of the academy began to be released as usual. Shen Cui got the shopping points and hurried to buy medicine for Wei Xi.
At this time, Lao Buyu led them to start reciting the three papers of each exam. After all, the results of the autumn examination would not be announced until mid-to-early September, which was still more than half a month away.
During such a long period of time, not all young people can concentrate on their studies, so we always have to find something to keep them busy.
After checking the papers, Lao Buyu asked everyone to take a good rest, or walk around Linnan Prefecture, or go to Zhuangyuan Teahouse to chat with fellow candidates. In short, let them have fun.
After they were all "driven" out of the house, the smile on Lao Buyu's face faded a little.
Shen Cui noticed the change in his expression and looked at him inquiringly.
Lao Buyu sighed softly, "Although Ruochu was unlucky, Xiaoxi was in poor health, and Hanshan was hesitant in the last round and almost missed the time... there were many problems, but the level of their answers was not affected."
"That means one of Ao Shuang, Ashu, or A Fei didn't perform well?"
Lao Buyu didn't beat around the bush and directly named him, "It's A Fei. The poem titled 'Bian Juan' was written based on the 'Ode to Mountain Dwelling'."
Because Shen Cuiguang couldn't tell whether a poem was good or bad, Lao Buyu didn't read his poem, but just summarized it: "His poem laments the impermanence of life. Although his circumstances were rough, he had never experienced any big storms, so he was a little... In short, ordinary examiners might not be surprised, but for someone like Shangshu Wang who has great poetic talent and rich experience, it is inevitable that he will not get a good review. And his answers to other questions were just standard, so most of them are..."
Shen Cui nodded in understanding and also sighed.
In fact, after all, Cui Fei had wasted too much time in the past. Although he had worked hard in the past few years, time waits for no one. Compared with other people in the academy, his qualifications were not particularly outstanding and were about the same as Wei Shu's. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so difficult just to pass the examination.
"Don't mention it to Ah Fei, Principal. Just pretend you don't know. I think he already knew the answer when we were discussing the papers just now."
Shen Cui nodded again, and turned around to think about calming Cui Fei down.
Later, the young men came back from outside. Cui Fei collected a lot of delicious food and fun things that were not available in Qingzhou Prefecture. Not only did everyone in the academy have a share, but some of them were also to be taken back to Cui's family and Sun Ruowei.
Seeing that everyone would look at him from time to time, Cui Fei said, "I'm really fine. I failed the exam last time, so this time I performed better than last time, which is also an improvement. Brother Wei said earlier, 'If you keep the green mountains, you will never worry about lack of firewood.' Most of the candidates in this provincial exam are middle-aged and elderly. If I fail twice and become devastated, how will they cope? Of course, I will definitely feel uncomfortable. By then, everyone will go to the capital, and I'm afraid we will have to separate..."
He used to be like a child, and he has grown up in the past few years, but his innocent side has not been lost.
Shen Aoshuang was the last one to come back, and when she heard this she said, “It hasn’t come to that yet.”
Although he became much more cheerful after arriving in Cuiwei, his previous circumstances had made him develop a habit of not speaking if possible, so he was usually taciturn.
Suddenly he started talking, and everyone looked towards him.
Chen Aoshuang continued calmly, "I just went to all the clinics near the Imperial Examination Hall, and the doctors in almost every clinic were too busy to spare time. The patients they were seeing were all those who were unwell during the provincial examination. Brother Cui was able to finish three examinations, which means he has surpassed half of them. Of course, most of these unwell people are older and have failed the examinations many times, but Brother Cui is not competing for a good ranking at the top, so I said that the current situation has not reached that stage yet."
"It turned out that you were not with us just now because you were paying special attention to these things." Cui Fei looked at him, his eyes became red.
Chen Aoshuang turned her face away, "Not on purpose, just walking around casually, on the way... yes, just strolling around."
His five senses were still weaker than those of ordinary people, so he didn't realize that the uppers of his shoes were covered with mud - who would walk that long distance to visit a clinic in one go? But because he felt embarrassed, no one exposed him.
In mid-to-early September, the results of the provincial examination were announced.
Today, all the people in the house, including the servants of the Wei and Cui families, went out to see the list together, to avoid the incident of "catching a son-in-law under the list" that Lao Buyu had worried about earlier.
This time the announcement of the results was even more grand and lavish than the previous ones.
There were not only clerks, soldiers, scholars and common people responsible for announcing the results, but also many people from the government offices. After reading the list, they would immediately go out to announce the good news with drums and gongs and earn money.
The young men did not let Chen Cui and Lao Buyu go forward to be squeezed, only they and their servants squeezed in.
And because they were most concerned about whether Cui Fei would pass the exam, they started from the bottom of the list.
As soon as they squeezed in, everyone saw Cui Fei's name sitting on the 'red chair'.
"I got it, I got it! Brother Afei got it!"
"A Fei was worried about being separated from us before, but now he doesn't worry about it anymore."
"I seemed to hear someone sniffling in the middle of last night. Could it be that someone was crying secretly?"
Several young men excitedly surrounded Cui Fei, laughing and shouting.
Someone on the side couldn't help but say sarcastically, "He was just the last one sitting on the 'red chair' and almost dropped to the B list. Is it worth making such a fuss?"
Seeing that Mu Erpang and the others all had the same emblem on their accessories, but they didn't look exactly alike, the person next to him guessed, "It must be some unknown small academy that finally produced a successful candidate, and they're so happy they don't know what to do!"
They were still discussing among themselves when suddenly someone at the top of the list shouted in disbelief, "How come these consecutive top three winners, second place winner, and top three winner are all from Qingzhou Prefecture?!"
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