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He wasn’t clear exactly who decided to put this question up. Was it the Hanlin Academy or His Majesty? If it was His Majesty, then what was His Majesty"s intention?
Was he dissatisfied with the Crown Prince? Or was he hitting the Zhuang Family who wanted to bring the Crown Prince down?
After all, the present Crown Prince was a Di son and was established as the heir to the throne based on status. But if it would be based on age, then it should be the eldest prince born to Imperial Consort Zhuang.
An Junw.a.n.g soon laughed.
Interesting.
This topic was really interesting!
Feng Lin and Lin Chengye basically knelt down in surrender in this round. They belonged to those with few brain cells for politics, and they couldn’t understand the profound meaning behind this topic, only its literal concept.
Feng Lin was the only son in the family. What heir? Everything belonged to him!
Although Lin Chengye was a concubine-born son in the family, his father said that it was not promising to inherit the family business, so all his brothers did not want to inherit the family business at all, and instead wanted to become officials.
If he couldn’t become a Jinshi in this imperial exam, he would have to go back and inherit the family property like his brothers, and become a little tyc.o.o.n of a wealthy family in that one region.
Alas, he didn’t want to. He started feeling concerned.
When Xiao Liulang read the topic for this exam, his expression didn"t change much, but he also clearly felt that the difficulty this time was greater than the previous exams.
He closed his eyes and made a mental ma.n.u.script for a while. Afterwards, he didn"t rush to write, but sat for another half an hour, overturning his previous ideas.
……
The examinees in the examination compound were so exhausted that they couldn"t wait to drop their brushes. Outside the examination compound, on the quiet and cold bluestone path, a thin figure stared at the wall of the examination compound.
The examination questions were pa.s.sed outside half an hour after the start of the exam, and now it had spread to all the tea houses and restaurants, it was just that no one could send the answers in.
A young man stood under the towering wall, holding a piece of paper in his hand, on which written the topic for the political exam.
His eyes shone with excitement.
He could answer it.
He could do it!
He wasn’t ignorant in composing literary works, and more than ten ideas had already flashed through his mind!
He squeezed the paper into a ball in his hand and trembled uncontrollably.
"Who’s there?"
An imperial guard on patrol found him.
He quickly fled!
In order not to disturb the examinees while taking the exam, horse riding was prohibited in the nearby surroundings. Thus, the imperial guards were patrolling on foot, but it was enough to catch this physically weak young man.
"It’s you?" After the imperial guard pressed the young man to the ground, he recognized the ident.i.ty of the other party immediately.
Liu Yisheng.
The guard was not surprised. Every year, both major and minor exams were held in the examination compound of the capital, and every time, they would catch this madman outside.
The guard said coldly, "You can"t get in anyways, why bother to come here every time?"
"I’m just pa.s.sing by." Liu Yisheng expressed that he felt a little uncomfortable being pressed on the ground with his hands behind his back.
"What happened?" Another imperial guard came over.
"It"s Liu Yisheng." The first imperial guard answered. In fact, he intended to just drive Liu Yisheng away, but obviously his companion didn"t want to let Liu Yisheng go easily.
His companion crouched down and pulled out a note from Liu Yisheng"s fist, where today"s exam topic was written.
He smiled contemptuously at once, "What do you want to do by stealing the examination questions of the metropolitan exam? Are you helping some people inside cheat?"
This examination question had been spread early, and the imperial guard knew this, but he just didn"t like this guy, so he felt like accusing him of a shameful crime.
Liu Yisheng was dragged into a side alley.
Fists greeted him like the falling of snowflakes. He was beaten till his face was b.l.o.o.d.y and he was twitching.
"Alright, alright! Isn’t the metropolitan exam still ongoing? Don"t beat someone to their death!" The first imperial guard couldn"t stand it, persuaded his companion and took him back to their patrol area.
The snowflakes swirled down steadily.
Liu Yisheng lay sprawled on the cold ground, looking at the gray sky.
He couldn’t see any hope.
He wanted to die.
But he also knew that those people wouldn’t let him die.
They wanted him to live and bear the sin of the abolished Crown Prince and the Liu Family.
Cold snowflakes fell on his wound.
If only he could freeze to death like this——
He closed his eyes and sneered.
Suddenly, the light on top of his head dimmed, and the snowflakes falling on his body disappeared. He opened his eyes slowly.
Someone held up an oil-paper umbrella for him. Flowers and chickens were painted on the umbrella in a very clumsy way, but the handle of the umbrella was exquisitely engraved with words.
Under the umbrella, the girl"s temperament was like a jade.
There was a big red mark on her left face, but it was as charming as plum and peaches in the snow.
Gu Jiao crouched down and put the umbrella aside.
He raised his hand to stop Gu Jiao.
"Don"t move." Gu Jiao said.
Liu Yisheng... obediently stop moving.
Gu Jiao put her back basket on the ground and pulled out the small medicine chest from it. Then she took some tongue depressor and put them sideways in his mouth, "Go bite, it may hurt a little.”
Liu Yisheng bit the tongue depressor.
Gu Jiao grabbed his right arm and snapped it back into place.
His thighs too.
This would hurt quite a bit.
Gu Jiao gently put her hands on his left leg and lifted it up, "I"ll count to three and then reset it for you. If you’re ready, nod your head."
Liu Yisheng nodded, cold sweat dripping on his forehead.
This position actually made him shy.
Gu Jiao: "One..."
Snap!
It was fixed.
Liu Yisheng didn’t even have time to welcome the pain.
Of course, the pain at that moment was so severe that his tears came out.
But he put up with it.
Gu Jiao listened to his breathing with a stethoscope. When he touched one of his ribs, he grunted in pain.
Gu Jiao took back the stethoscope, untied his outer clothing and put her hand in.
Liu Yisheng immediately panicked, "What are you doing?"
"Shh, don"t move." Gu Jiao felt his ribs attentively, her movements very careful. “A fractured rib; the dislocation is not particularly evident, and it can recover on its own."
Gu Jiao retracted her hand.
This hand, which had just wandered over his chest, made Liu Yisheng somewhat embarra.s.sed, "You medical women are so..."
"Female physician." Gu Jiao corrected him.
Liu Yisheng stopped talking.
Gu Jiao stood up, "You wait for me here, I"ll call a carriage for you."
"No need." Liu Yisheng stopped her.
"Hm?" Gu Jiao looked at him strangely.
Liu Yisheng suddenly couldn"t look directly into her eyes. He lowered his line of sight and said, "I said, there’s no need."
After a brief pause, he pinched his fingers together, and looked at her coldly, "I’ll still say the same thing. If your reason for saving me is because you’re expecting that I can repay you someday, then you’re wrong. You should put your chips on those examinees, not me, a person detested by all!"
Gu Jiao sighed, "You still don"t believe in yourself."
Liu Yisheng let out a self-mocking laugh, "You make an error of judgment. I"m just a loser who doesn"t even have the qualification to take part in the imperial examinations!"
Gu Jiao went ‘oh’ and said, "You want to partic.i.p.ate in the imperial exam?"
Liu Yisheng turned his face sideways, "I don"t want to, and it"s impossible."
Gu Jiao said earnestly, "Nothing is impossible in this world."
"Is that so?" Liu Yisheng sneered. Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew, causing Gu Jiao"s oil-paper umbrella to roll over, and the drawing of a chicken wearing a small flower on its head broke into his line of sight without warning.
All of a sudden, he laughed and said with a hint of ridicule, "Have you ever heard of Jinshi’s flower hairpin? Every year, His Majesty selects three first-cla.s.s Jinshi to give these flower hairpins to. If you can get their flower hairpins, I will believe your remark that nothing is impossible in this world. Remember, not just one, but all three."
"Don"t blame me for not reminding you, even the present Crown Princess only managed to get two."Raz P."s Thoughts
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