Chapter 29: Stinky Xiao Mo, I don’t recognize you
The form and content of Qi's Tongshi examination were similar to those of the Ming Dynasty in ancient China, but there were also many differences.
The first round of exams was relatively simple, requiring students to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics and annotate some fragments. Finally, students were asked to write a complete eight-part essay based on a topic from the Four Books. The eight-part essay consisted of eight parts: introduction, continuation of the topic, and introduction to the lecture.
The second round of exams was not difficult either. It required you to copy longer passages from classics and still test eight-part essays. However, the questions were more difficult and were based on the Four Books and Five Classics. At the end, there were several excerpts from the Four Books and Five Classics, and you were asked about your understanding of these passages from ancient books. There were no format restrictions.
Xiao Mo passed the first two exams successfully and became a student.
The third round of exams will be held fifteen days later, so candidates can take a break.
Xiao Mo thought about it and decided not to go back to the village.
I am reviewing in Qingshan County and preparing for the third round.
At the same time, Sheshan, north of Shiqiao Village.
In the cave, a white snake slowly opened its eyes.
She felt her vision blurry and the thing sticking to her body was uncomfortable.
The white snake rubbed hard against the stone next to it.
After spending a lot of effort and even rubbing off some of its new scales, the white snake finally crawled out of its slough.
“I’m so long.”
Bai Ruxue looked at her body and estimated that it should be seven feet long and much thicker than before.
He transformed into a human form.
The girl ran out of the cave and came to a pool.
The pool is like a mirror, reflecting the girl's slender and graceful figure.
"Wow, I'm so tall and beautiful."
She turned around the pool twice, her white skirt fluttering in the wind, and she was very satisfied with her current appearance.
"Am I taller than him now?"
"Next time he sees me, he'll be scared by me."
Bai Ruxue felt a faint joy in her heart, and she was already imagining Xiao Mo's surprised look when he saw her.
She skipped back to the cave and found Xiaoqing still sleeping.
"Xiaoqing will also grow taller after she wakes up~"
Bai Ruxue patted Xiaoqing's head gently, then jumped out of the cave again.
The girl came to the path he must take to go up the mountain, and still sat on the stone beside the path.
She supported her chin, looked into the distance, and waited for him to return.
one day.
Two days.
Three or four days
Bai Ruxue waited and waited, throwing stones again and again.
I don’t know how many stones I have thrown around me.
I don’t know how many blades of grass around me were pulled out.
I don’t know how many of them were eaten by the passing mice.
But I never waited for him to come back.
"He won't forget me, will he?"
"Will he come back?"
"He will come back!" Bai Ruxue shook her head vigorously, clenched her fists, and encouraged herself, "He said he would come back to play with me."
Another ten days passed and Bai Ruxue still didn't see him.
"Smelly Xiao Mo, if you don't come to see me again, I'll be angry!"
That day, the girl said this.
But Xiao Mo still didn't come back.
The twentieth day of waiting for Xiao Mo, at sunset
Bai Ruxue stood on the rock, her fair little hands spread out to her mouth, and shouted towards the path below the mountain: "Damn Xiao Mo! I'll give you one more chance! If you don't come again! I'm really going to be mad!"
On the twenty-first day, the sun set and the night gradually filled the entire sky.
The girl still stood on the stone and shouted: "Xiao Mo, I will give you one last chance. If you don't show up tomorrow, I will really be angry."
Day 22.
"Xiao Mo, I'm really, really angry. You can't coax me!"
The girl's voice echoed in the mountains and forests.
Day 23.
"Xiao Mo! I will never talk to you again!"
Day 24, Day 25
Every day, Bai Rushue would sit on that stone and wait.
When she left in the evening, she would definitely curse Xiao Mo loudly, and her shouts would echo in the mountains and forests.
"Xiao Mo, where are you?"
On the night of the twenty-sixth day, the night fell over the entire sky. The girl sat on a rock, hugged her knees with her hands, and buried her head in her thighs.
"Why haven't you come back yet?"
The girl's crystal tears slowly wet her dress.
The night sky is dotted with stars, as if the Creator has sprinkled the entire sky with grains of glowing sand.
The bright moonlight floated down from the sky, outlining a faint halo for the girl.
The girl didn't know when she fell asleep.
The girl didn't know how many times she cursed "stinky Xiao Mo" in her heart.
But she still waited there, not going anywhere.
He said he would be back.
“Chirp, chirp.”
On the morning of the twenty-seventh day, the sky was once again dyed white.
The birds in the forest were chirping.
A lizard crawled to the girl's feet, raised its head to look, but it seemed to sense something and quickly slipped away.
On that small path, a man appeared.
Xiao Mo walked forward step by step.
He should have returned earlier for this exam, but the newly appointed county magistrate insisted on having dinner with the newly-appointed scholars and even held various banquets.
How could Xiao Mo dare not give this face.
The result was that after the exam results were announced, Xiao Mo stayed in Qingshan County for six more days.
"I don't know if she's getting impatient."
Thinking of the little white snake, Xiao Mo couldn't help but quicken his pace.
When they reached halfway up the mountain, Xiao Mo looked up and saw a young girl sitting on a rock with her knees hugged and her face buried between her thighs.
The girl seemed to be asleep.
Xiao Mo wasn't sure if it was Ruxue.
Because judging from her figure, this girl is a grown-up woman, not a little girl in her teens.
Xiao Mo walked forward and called softly, "Girl?"
Hearing the sound, the girl's shoulders trembled slightly and she seemed to wake up.
As soon as she raised her eyes, Xiao Mo couldn't help but be dazed.
The girl looked to be about 28 years old. Her eyes were like a spring breeze blowing across the branches, opening up a tree. The tail of her eyes naturally had a slightly upturned arc, like the most delicate curve at the tip of a peach petal.
The pupils were a clear, dark color, yet deep within them seemed to hold a pool of water.
Her long and thick eyelashes are like butterfly wings, and when they flutter, they cast a small soft shadow under her eyes, which makes her eyes more sparkling and full of the clarity and innocence unique to girls.
When her eyes move, she inadvertently reveals a hint of natural charm, but it is firmly locked by the clear background, leaving only the heart-stirring agility and gentleness.
She looked at the man in front of her in a daze.
As the girl saw the man's appearance clearly, her eyes became brighter.
There were only faint traces of tears on the girl's fair face, and a hint of redness at the corners of her eyes.
"Ruxue?" Xiao Mo asked.
Bai Rushue's throat rolled, wanting to respond.
But in the end, the girl turned her head away as if in a huff, pouting and saying resentfully:
"I'm not white as snow."
"Damn Xiao Mo, I don't recognize you."
(End of this chapter)
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