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She dreamed that Xiao Liulang lived up to expectations and became the top scorer, which was the biggest upset in the history of the metropolitan exam.
No one expected an unknown poor boy from the countryside to beat An Junw.a.n.g and become the Huiyuan. Those who spent a lot of money betting on An Junw.a.n.g to get the first place in the metropolitan exam all wailed to death without exception. On the other hand, Gu Jiao made a fortune; her one thousand taels became eleven thousand taels in one fell swoop.
Their neighbors in the alley also made a fortune.
Gu Jiao felt strange when her dream got to this point. Huh? Her husband didn’t seem unlucky this time?
It turned out that she had rejoiced too soon.
Xiao Liulang did become the top scorer this time, but An Junw.a.n.g’s name didn"t even appear in the bottom of the list, which was the biggest surprise this year.
With An Junw.a.n.g"s intelligence, it was inconceivable that he didn"t even get to pa.s.s the exam to become a Gongshi.
An Junw.a.n.g himself didn’t believe it, so he made a trip to the Ministry of Rites to check the exam papers. As a result, he found that his exam paper was nowhere; it had gone missing!
The Emperor ordered a thorough investigation of this matter, and finally found out that it was a transcribe official who took An Junw.a.n.g"s exam paper.
As for who ordered him to do so, Gu Jiao didn"t see it in her dream.
If it was other people who encountered such a thing, they could only sigh at their own misfortune. But with the influence of the Zhuang Family, An Junw.a.n.g would naturally not be allowed to suffer such injustice. Apart from him, many more examinees went to the examination compound to question their results. After some considerations, the Emperor decided to restart the metropolitan exam.
The metropolitan exam was restarted.
The betting game in the Brisk Wind Tower also reopened.
This time, there were many people betting on Xiao Liulang. This dark horse finally made into everyone’s eyes. Although the majority still didn’t bet on him to win the first place, the ones who bet on him to get into the top three reached an unbelievable amount.
In order to swallow this huge sum of money, the Brisk Wind Tower did not hesitate to find Xiao Liulang to bribe him into losing, but they were rejected by Xiao Liulang.
Seeing that soft methods didn’t work, Brisk Wind Tower began employing hard tactics, but they were all resolved by Xiao Liulang one by one.
In a battle of wits, Xiao Liulang would never lose.
Of course, when it came to luck, he never seemed to win.
On the day when Xiao Liulang was to enter the examination compound, the carriage he was in collided with the carriage of another examinee. He was seriously injured and failed to enter the examination compound.
As for An Junw.a.n.g, his situation was not much better than Xiao Liulang"s. Something went wrong in the examination hall on the day of the exam. As a result, the exam did not begin until close to noon, and was held till evening.
But An Junw.a.n.g was suffering from night blindness. His sight would be disabled at night. Thus, he wasn’t able to finish the exam, and ended with bad results.
After waking up, Gu Jiao sat on the bed in a daze.
"How unlucky can one get?"
To prevent the tragedy from happening, the safest way was to help Xiao Liulang avoid the carriage accident on the day of retaking the exam. This wasn’t difficult. Gu Jiao knew where and when it would happen.
It was the safest because An Junw.a.n.g wouldn"t be able to finish the exam due to darkness. With An Junw.a.n.g out of the picture, Gu Jiao was confident that Xiao Liulang could easily win the first place again.
Another way was to directly prevent An Junw.a.n.g’s exam paper from being taken away. As long as An Junw.a.n.g"s exam paper was marked successfully, the subsequent exam retake would not happen no matter what the result was.
It was just that this method had certain risks—— one must know that the first metropolitan exam was done during the daytime, and An Junw.a.n.g was able to take the exam without any problems. What if he became the top scorer?
After mulling it over for a while, Gu Jiao decided to leave the decision in the hands of Xiao Liulang.
Gu Jiao put on her outer robes and opened the door of her room.
With a creak, the door of the opposite west room also opened.
The two people looked at each other in surprise.
"You’re still up?"
"You’re still up?"
The two people spoke in unison.
"You first." Xiao Liulang said.
"Oh." Gu Jiao said, "I woke up in the middle of sleep."
Xiao Liulang came out with an oil lamp, "Me too." After a pause, he added, "Let’s have a drink of water."
The water was on the table near Gu Jiao. Gu Jiao conveniently poured him a bowl of water and handed it to him, saying, "If your opponent fell into the water before the exam, will you save him?"
"I won’t." Xiao Liulang said without thinking, holding the tea bowl.
"Why?" Gu Jiao blinked her eyes at him.
Xiao Liulang lightly put down the tea bowl and replied, "Because I have no opponent."
The corner of Gu Jiao’s mouth twitched, "..."
So arrogant?
After Xiao Liulang had a drink of water, the two of them went back to their respective rooms.
However, Gu Jiao didn"t go back to sleep. Instead, she put on her black attire and sneaked out of the alley.
She went to the medical hall and entered her small courtyard through the back door.
Nowadays, Gu Chenglin was staying in her small courtyard.
Gu Chengfeng, who had finished his job for the night, climbed over the wall into Gu Jiao’s small courtyard, and then went into Gu Chenglin"s room.
He began to take off his night clothes.
Halfway through, when he had barely untied his waistband, an indifferent little voice suddenly came from the darkness, "Don"t take it off, put it back on."
Gu Chengfeng was so scared that he staggered forward and nearly crashed into the pillar and met his death!
He quickly tightened his waistband and turned around, his horrified eyes landing at the small figure sitting in a chair, then he flew into a rage, "What are you doing here?!”
“Looking for you." Gu Jiao answered.Raz P."s Thoughts
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