The Mid-Autumn Festival is also a very important festival in modern times. Not to mention in ancient times, the celebrations were only slightly worse than during the New Year holidays.
Before the festival, Zheng asked her daughter-in-law Li to help pass on a message, wanting Chen Cui to bring Mu Erpang to the city for a reunion on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Since the completion of the academy, Li has not come to Shuiyun Village for a long time.
She left home early in the morning and met Mu Erpang at the city gate.
Mu Erpang is thinner and taller than before, but his round figure still stands out in the crowd.
He was not alone either, there was a middle-aged man beside him.
Li went forward and stopped him, and after asking him about his affairs, she found out that he had come to the city to seek medical advice.
The day before, Shen Cuixue felt dizzy and didn't want to do anything except sleeping. She skipped dinner and didn't get up to do morning exercises this morning. This scared Mu Erpang so much that he ran to the city to ask for a doctor early this morning.
This healthy person was as idle as before, but suddenly he became thin for no reason, couldn't even eat, and couldn't get up in the morning. Isn't this a sign of a serious illness?
It’s no wonder that Mu Erpang thought so much. After hearing his description, the doctor took it very seriously and immediately came over to examine him.
Li also took it seriously immediately and stopped asking any more questions. The three of them rushed to Shuiyun Village.
By the time they arrived, Shen Cui had already managed to stand up.
She knew she was not sick. After all, she could see her physical fitness value. It was just 2 points lower than usual, and her status was shown as fatigue. She was no different from other people in the academy. But since the child was concerned about her, she let the doctor take a look.
After examining her, the doctor said, "Madam is fine, but she seems to be suffering from a deficiency of Qi and blood. I'm a little worried. Pay more attention to rest. If you are worried, I'll prescribe some tonic medicine for her to take."
Tonics are not cheap, and Shen Cui knew that she was really just tired. Just as she was about to refuse, Mu Erpang said, "You open it."
He was now more opinionated and no longer a child who knew nothing. So Chen Cui did not refute him in front of others and asked the doctor to prescribe a prescription.
As for the matter of getting the medicine later, Li would not let Mu Erpang, a half-grown boy, run back and forth, and she would be responsible for it.
Seeing the unstoppable worry on his chubby face, his thin lips, which were usually carefree and curved upward, were now tightly pursed into a line.
Shen Cui quickly comforted him, "I'm really fine... Well, I've been thinking too much recently and I'm a little tired, but I'll be careful in the future. Just take one or two doses of tonic, any more... it's a waste."
If she really wants to replenish her body, she can just spend shopping points to buy some modern health products in the system mall. There is really no need to spend money in reality.
Mu Erpang naturally couldn't understand what this meant, so he said, "Mom, don't be stingy with the money. I'll give it to you. Just consider it as my filial piety."
Shen Cui asked with a smile: "Where are you coming from?"
"Of course it's my New Year's lucky money..." At this point, the mature expression on Mu Erpang's face could no longer be stabilized.
He had spent all his previous money on making clothes for his elder brother, so he had no money left for the New Year.
He scratched his red face, and Shen Cui patted him with a smile, "It's still cuter this way!"
Later, Chen Cui was afraid that they would worry, so she waited for Li to bring the medicine over and Zhou to help boil it. She drank the tonic first, then turned around to eat, and took a little more on purpose.
Finally, everyone was put at ease.
Since she was not feeling well, she certainly could not go to the city to celebrate the festival. Li went home that day and told her family about it.
Old Master Shen and his two brothers Shen Cui could no longer sit still, because everyone in the Shen family, including Zheng, was very strong and they had never heard of anyone being sick.
During the Chinese New Year last year, they heard Zheng mention that their daughter seemed like a different person since she had been ill.
They only realized it after the illness was over, and now that they knew she was sick again, how could they sit still?
One by one, they all said they wanted to go see her, but Zheng stopped them from going, saying, "She has been in good health since she was young. The second son's wife also said that the doctor found out that there was nothing wrong with her. She was just worried and tired. What else could she do in the village? She is still worried about the academy competition..."
Having said this, Zheng looked at her eldest daughter-in-law Chen with displeasure.
If she had known that her daughter would get sick from working herself to death, she should not have responded to the Chen family's old woman's words, and she should not have mentioned this matter to her daughter.
Chen looked away guiltily. Just as Zheng thought, her mother felt that Shen Cui was too arrogant for setting up a makeshift academy and not allowing her nephew to study there, so she wanted to use this incident to suppress Shen Cui's arrogance.
Unexpectedly, he actually signed up for Cuiwei Academy, and the mother and daughter were waiting to see the joke.
"There are too many people here, and she won't have to worry about entertaining us. I'll go and take a look alone."
Zheng is the head of the family, and since she has spoken, naturally no one will raise any objections.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zheng went to Shuiyun Village carrying a lot of moon cakes and eggs.
At that time, in order to reassure the other family members, Chen Cui took a day to rest and ate a bowl of tonic. There was no sign of anything wrong with her face.
Zheng was relieved.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the academy competition began as scheduled in late August.
A few days before the competition began, people from all over the county gathered in the town, not just those from various academies. Many of them just come to join in the fun.
At this time, Shen Cui could no longer stay in the academy. She had to find an identity for herself in disguise, right?
Lao Buyu and the others trusted him, so they never urged her to seek external help.
There are many new faces in the city now, so it is a convenient time to do things.
She left the academy to Lao Buyu to take care of, and said she would go out to find someone who was proficient in mathematics.
It would definitely not work to just ask around, so she asked Lao Buyu to come up with a few questions that he thought were the most difficult, and told him to take a small test with them.
After going out early and coming back late for a few days, Chen Cui came back and told them that she had found someone.
In order to rationalize the matter, she racked her brains to come up with an explanation, saying that when she went to the city, she happened to meet an out-of-town student who was suffering from acclimatization and fainted on the side of the road.
She fed the other person a bowl of water, chatted for a few words, and then settled down.
Although it sounds like nonsense, she has done all kinds of unexpected things in the past, so this little twist and turn is nothing to her.
Lao Buyu didn't think she was lying, he just thought she was cheated. Later he asked her privately whether she had given anyone money.
Shen Cui hurriedly said no, "The young man looked quite honest and said he would pay after the competition."
Lao Buyu finally calmed down, and later Chen Cui showed him the test paper he had given.
Of course, she did the test herself and checked it over and over again, with a 100% accuracy rate.
Lao Buyu no longer doubted the non-existent boy's math ability, and only asked: "What's wrong with his handwriting?"
Chen Cui had never practiced calligraphy seriously. She was an orphan in her previous life and didn't even have the money to attend interest classes when she was a child. She didn't practice calligraphy in front of others at the academy every day. She only practiced secretly in the room before going to bed every day, and had to destroy the calligraphy immediately after practicing. I'm just afraid that my handwriting will be recognized by others.
So the handwriting she wrote... to put it nicely, it's a scribble, to put it bluntly, when Mu Erpang was just learning to write, he could compare her to mud under the ground.
Chen Cui asked hesitantly: "In math, does it also depend on how well you write?" If she really wanted to, she would have to practice writing for a few more days.
Lao Buyu said, “That’s not to say I don’t watch it, it just makes people feel weird.”
It really feels weird that such words would come from the hand of a student who is proficient in mathematics.
Shen Cui felt relieved.
On the day of the competition, Mu Erpang and Wei Xi changed into school uniforms.
Because they had been preparing for many days and were verifying the results today, everyone's expressions were extremely serious.
No one spoke on the way to the city.
And Chen Cui was still studying hard until the day before, but when it was time to set off, she started to pinch her face in her mind. As she was pinching, the system couldn't help but start to complain: [Host, there is definitely something wrong with your aesthetic sense. Even if you don't pinch it according to Mu Yunchuan's elegant appearance, it should not be worse than the two training targets. What you made... is too ordinary! 】
[I'm not playing an online game, so why would I want to look good? I'm someone who will only appear once, so I don't want to draw too much attention. Of course, the more popular the better. 】
After shaping a most ordinary passerby face, Shen Cui also set the height and weight, and bought the most ordinary scholar's robe in the system, making sure that her new face would blend in with the crowd.
Finally, she thought of Lao Buyu’s previous doubts, and pinched the new image’s right hand into a strange shape.
With a disabled hand, it is normal that he cannot even write well despite his talent.
Moreover, officials at that time also paid attention to their appearance. Not to mention being disabled, even if they were too ugly, they would easily be eliminated in such an important examination as the palace examination.
In this way, no matter how outstanding he is, no one will think of recruiting or training him, or go to inquire about various news about him.
The academy competition was hosted by Qingzhu Academy, so the venue was naturally here.
They arrived half an hour early, but even so early, the academy was already crowded with people.
As for a literary gathering, it is definitely not just the students from the academies who are taking part in the competition who can participate. Most people come to watch the fun and broaden their horizons.
Chen Cui and Lao Buyu each protected a child and finally handed in their entry certificates and entered the inner field.
Although the process of entering the academy is arduous, having more people has its advantages. When she looks back, Chen Cui can create another self without making any noise.
There were a lot of people taking the preliminary exam, so the venue was not inside the academy, but on the open space outside the academy, with a circle of stands built around it.
One after another, many local and foreign academy principals came with their students.
These people may not be very familiar with each other personally, but they have all heard of the reputation of each other's academies, so they can at least exchange a few words with each other.
As for the most sought-after person, apart from the principals of several established academies, of course the organizer of this event, Ling Qingming, the principal of Qingzhu Academy, which has just trained the "Little Three Yuan".
No matter whether people from other academies are dissatisfied or jealous, they have to admit the strength of Qingzhu Academy.
Seeing that his senior brother was surrounded by a huge crowd, while no one was interested in his own side, Lao Buyu felt somewhat sour, and turned to ask Chen Cui: "Where is the young student that the headmaster mentioned? Why hasn't he shown up yet?"
Chen Cui said, "Don't worry, don't worry. He is a loner. Maybe he doesn't want to come forward because there are so many people. I have described his appearance to the monk who is responsible for maintaining order. When the competition is over, as long as he comes, the monk will let him in."
After two quarters of an hour of lively greetings, when it was bright outside, the monk from Qingzhu Academy brought out a wooden stand tied with red silk and hanging a large gong.
The headmaster Ling Qingming walked up the steps and struck the gong.
"The first round is a calligraphy contest! Students from each academy, please step out in turn!"
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