Chapter 610: Delivering a Food Box
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Old Madam w.a.n.g and the others brought Ah Yu out. Xiao Feng was frightened and didn’t react for a moment.
Seeing that Little Feng did not follow, Zao’er heaved a sigh of relief.
He didn’t want to follow, but Little Feng and his fiancee caused a scene on the street and shouted that they wanted to jump down from this restaurant.
After coming to Duke An Manor for so many years, he knew his cousin’s temper. He happened to meet him on the way, so he followed.
There were not many people in Duke An Manor, and there were very few grandchildren. Including him, an adopted grandson, Little Feng, and two other Young Masters, there was not a single sister.
After he returned to Duke An Manor, he was especially uneasy at first. However, his family had just encountered a disaster and he was ignorant. After a while, he forgot about the past.
He only remembered that he had originally lived in the countryside. After his parents died, he was brought back to his mother’s family to be raised.
There were very few people in Duke An Manor. The old Duke treated him indifferently, but the d.u.c.h.ess doted on him especially. She even doted on him a little more than the other children who were raised under her.
Therefore, Little Feng disliked him in all kinds of ways.
Fortunately, he couldn’t do anything to him, so Zao’er never took it to heart.
“Young Master Zao’er, Young Master Little Feng, what do you think?” The restaurant manager’s expression was bitter.
Zao’er originally wanted to take off the pouch from his waist, but Little Feng came back to his senses and rolled his eyes at him. “It’s all your fault, jinx. You caused me to lose my wife! You should be the one paying for this money. If you spout nonsense when we go back, 1’11 teach you a lesson!”
With that, he went straight downstairs and picked up the golden collar that Ah Yu had thrown on the table before she left. He also kicked over the stool beside him.
Then, he heard the servant say, “Young Master, the people from the Grand Marshal’s Mansion invited you over.”
Little Feng’s impatient voice sounded. “Ugly people cause trouble. I’m not going! Go and find out which family my wife belongs to!”
Zao’er sighed silently in his heart.
When Ah Yu and the others walked out of the door, Old man w.a.n.g even glanced at Old Madam w.a.n.g a few times.
“Why? Do you have something to say?” Old Madam w.a.n.g seemed to have eyes on the back of her head and snorted.
Old man w.a.n.g shook his head. Thinking that his wife couldn’t see, he continued, “It’s fine, it’s fine. We’ll go back first and prepare something for the children. Tomorrow morning, we’ll have to buy new things for them.”
On the morning of the fourth day of the Imperial Examination, if the family was in a position to do so, they would send food in.
If the weather was cold, they could add more silver and get the invigilator to send over a special charcoal fire stove.
Clothes were not allowed. They were afraid that they would smuggle something they should not.
Old Madam w.a.n.g snorted in response and held Ah Yu’s hand to buy some ingredients. She planned to find a restaurant to cook them before sending them to the two children.
Along the way, Old man w.a.n.g was puzzled.
Something was wrong. There was something very wrong with his wife.
She had actually displayed her martial arts in front of Ah Yu. Although Ah Yu didn’t notice it at that time, she might become suspicious after thinking about it.
Over the years, his wife had only revealed her martial arts a few times.
Even the children didn’t know that their mother had martial arts attainments.
If she was 20 years younger, she would be ranked on the martial arts rankings.
But now, it was not covered up properly.
This clearly meant that his old wife was very angry just now. According to his old wife’s personality, how could she let go of the offense in that kid’s words so easily?
Moreover, his words were dirty. And it was directed right at their Ah Yu!
The reason why Old man w.a.n.g didn’t attack was to prevent his wife from making too big a move and causing trouble.
In the end, nothing happened.
Something was very wrong.
Could it be that she was thinking of playing dirty?
Thinking of Zao’er, Old man w.a.n.g pondered. “It must be because of Duke An Manor.”
That so-called Young Master Zao’er was 30% similar to the young Old Madam w.a.n.g. If he lost weight, he would look 50% similar.
The rash and impolite Xiao Feng was definitely a descendent of Duke An Manor. His wife probably didn’t want to be targeted by Duke An Manor, so she endured it.
According to her personality, it was probably not good for her to endure like this.
As he was thinking, Old man w.a.n.g suddenly felt a pain on his ear.
He realized that Old Madam w.a.n.g had grabbed his ear.
He woke up in pain and rubbed his face. “What’s the matter this time!”
Old Madam w.a.n.g smiled faintly. “Looks like you’re very dissatisfied that I disturbed your fun?”
Old man w.a.n.g looked up and saw that he had unknowingly walked to the entrance of a deserted shop. When he looked up, the words “Tianxiang Pavilion” made his body tremble.
Ah Yu also shook her head in disapproval. “Grandpa, the teacher said that such a place is a place for scholars and Big Sisters to recite poems. It’s not convenient for the old and young to enter.”
Old man w.a.n.g blushed.”…”
How embarra.s.sing.
He didn’t notice that he had taken the wrong path.
The few of them bought some things and quickly returned home.
The next morning, many people came to the entrance of the Gong Academy. They were all the families of the exam candidates.
Ah Yu was also among them.
This morning, the examinees could receive the things sent by their families, but the two sides were not allowed to meet.
Ah Yu quickly handed the things over and took out a small food box. She handed it to the invigilator who helped deliver the things and said with a smile, “Sir, please hand this large food box to examinee A7. This small food box is for you. It’s the culinary skills of the chef of Feng Restaurant. You can try it.”
Delivering food to the invigilator was a token of appreciation from the families. They didn’t expect the examiners to be sympathetic, but only hoped that this small token would encourage them to pa.s.s the food to the examinees without anything missing.
The invigilator took the food box and didn’t say if he wanted it or not. He didn’t even look up and pasted a note with the word “A7” on it.
Soon, someone carried the food box to the side and rummaged through it carefully with a pair of chopsticks, including the inside and outside of the food box.
After investigating, they still had to bring it in for further investigation.
Only after it was verified that there were no hidden notes would it be handed over to the examinees inside.
After these procedures, there would usually be much less food in the food box.
In order for the examinees to not be hungry, they would often prepare a small portion for the invigilator as well.
Ah Yu took the opportunity to quickly ask, “Sir, how long will it take for the examinees to come out?”
The invigilator saw that he’d received a good portion and replied happily, “The exam is over long ago. But before all the examinees come out, they have to wait inside.”
Actually, on the first day, w.a.n.g Chuangui had already completed his paper.
Coincidentally, the questions this time were about the management of snow disasters and reconstruction after the disasters. Hu Family Village was an excellent example. If not for the fact that he had chosen the question from the 20 alternative questions himself, it was very difficult for him not to suspect that someone had helped him with the questions.
However, after he finished writing on the first day, he still had to sit in the exam hall for the remaining five days.
It was difficult not to suspect that the higher-ups were deliberately punishing him.
Hearing the expectant mutterings of the surrounding examinees, w.a.n.g Chuangui muttered, “Father and Mother should’ve prepared one for me too, right?”
Coincidentally, at this moment, Old man w.a.n.g walked over from behind. He walked around Ah Yu and placed a large food box on it. “Examiner No. 1, sorry to trouble you.”
The invigilator carried the food box up and the person behind him opened it to take a look.
Whoa, three layers of hard cornbread.
If they wanted to check, they had to break open the cornbread to take a look.
In the end, a food box of mush was placed in front of w.a.n.g Chuangui.
At the bottom was a gourd filled with water.
There was a burning word “Endure” on the gourd.
w.a.n.g Chuangui:”…”
It was really difficult for him not to doubt his ident.i.ty..