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Chapter 46 The hero is a scholar

Gu Wenjing looked in other rooms, then turned around to fetch water with a bucket.

As soon as he entered the house with a bucket, Gu’s father quickly said: “Didn’t you say that you should rest? The exam is about to be done, you have to recharge!”

Father Gu took the bucket from Gu Wenjing and put the dirty rags in to scrub.

Of course, it is impossible for Gu Wenjing to stand by and watch Father Gu’s work. While helping him, he said, “It’s nothing to do little things. How can there be any reason for a son who is a father to work and rest instead?”

There was a warm current in Father Gu’s heart, and he didn’t say anything. The father and son cleaned the house together.

What Gu Wenjing didn’t expect was that sharing a rent with someone would save trouble, but after sharing a rent, all sorts of trivial things appeared in an endless stream, which was simply annoying.

A few scholars are at least superficially careless for the sake of face, but the family of scholars and the book boy may not be negligent.

Gu Wenjing, who has been reading books in the house, was because of a time when Zhang Xiucai’s wife and He Zhengming’s book boy quarreled about the position of the clothes for drying clothes, and the trouble was so big that he knew about the storm under the calm surface. In order not to affect his Wenshu, Gu’s father never mentioned it to him.

Fortunately, before Gu Wenjing’s patience ran out, it was time for the township examination to begin.

Gu Wenjing took the test basket prepared by Gu’s father for him, and walked towards the Gongyuan with a few other talents.

They live close, so they are not very anxious. I did not expect to go outside the Gongyuan but found that there were many candidates waiting in line early in the morning. These people are likely to come in line early in the morning.

They quickly walked to the back of the line to line up.

Gu Wenjing stood in the last of the six, and He Zhengming stood in front of him.

There were two teams in line to enter the Gongyuan, and Gu Wenjing subconsciously looked at the other candidates.

The candidates standing in line here are all talents, but there are also differences between talents. There are young and strong talents around the age of 20; there are young talents who are only twelve or thirteen years old, and they have white hair on their temples. Fifty-year-old talent.

Gu Wenjing’s gaze swept around, and suddenly his eyes were certain. From the corner of his eye, he just caught a glimpse of a young talent in a blue brocade from another team throwing something into the basket of another young talent in plain clothes.

Although he didn’t see what it was, at this point in time, one person throws something into the other person’s test basket. Think about it and know that it won’t be a good thing.

Gu Wenjing subconsciously searched and checked his test basket, but found nothing extra that shouldn’t be there, and then whispered to He Zhengming, who was standing in front of him, “You check your test basket to see if there is anything extra in it. Something that shouldn’t be there.”

With Gu Wenjing’s reminder, He Zhengming immediately understood what he meant, and quickly lowered his head to check his basket.

Seeing He Zhengming checking the test basket, Gu Wenjing glanced at the plainly dressed young talent, and then looked over there with surprise: “Hey, isn’t that Brother Li?”

He pretended to meet an old friend and walked from his team to the next team, and accidentally bumped him when passing by the young talent. He smiled and apologized: “I’m sorry! I didn’t pay attention!” But who Did not notice that he said a few words to the young talent very quickly: “Check the basket!”

After speaking, Gu Wenjing walked forward in a hurry, and found a talented person in Tsing Yi who was familiar and shouted: “Brother Li, you also come to participate in this year’s test? I heard you…”

The Tsing Yi scholar turned his head to look at Gu Wenjing, with a look of doubt: “Excuse me, are you…”

An embarrassment appeared on Gu Wenjing’s face: “I’m sorry, I confessed to the wrong person. I once knew a friend who was like Xiongtai and Yushu Linfeng. I think your back is very similar to my friend. I didn’t expect to admit the wrong person.”

Tsing Yi Xiucai was disturbed by people for no reason, but when he heard Gu Wenjing’s words, his face unconsciously smiled: “It’s okay, it’s just confession. It just so happens that my surname is Li, and my name is Li Cheng. This is really fate. !”

Gu Wenjing didn’t expect that he was just making up a reason for admitting the wrong person, and he actually found a ‘Brother Li’. He just wanted to take this opportunity to pass by the young talent to remind him.

Gu Wenjing smiled and said to Li Cheng: “My name is Gu Wenjing! This oolong can let me meet a man like Brother Li, it is also an honor!”

The smile on Li Cheng’s face deepened, and he pulled Gu Wenjing and said, “Brother Gu stand in front of me! Let’s line up together.”

Li Chengtang arrogantly asked him to jump in the line, and Gu Wenjing quickly declined: “Brother Li is polite, I came with my fellow villagers, so it’s hard to leave alone. When the test is over, I will have a good drink with Brother Li!”

Li Cheng regretfully let go: “Well, it’s good to see Brother Gu today. After the rural test is over, I will invite you to drink in Yanyunlou.”

Gu Wenjing returned to his team. When passing by the young scholar who was reminded by him, he heard the young man’s low “Thank you!”

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Gu Wenjing returned to his previous position. He Zhengming turned his head curiously and asked, “How did you meet that talent?”

He Zhengming didn’t know that Gu Wenjing was a false acquaintance, nor did he hear the dialogue between Gu Wenjing and Li Cheng, he really thought that Gu Wenjing knew Li Cheng. It’s just that He Zhengming thinks he is a classmate and friend of Gu Wenjing, and their circle of friends basically overlaps, so he is curious about when Gu Wenjing has a stranger he doesn’t know.

Gu Wenjing glanced at the blue-clothed talent who threw something into the juvenile talent test basket. He saw that the other party’s clothes were extremely luxurious, and he must be of extraordinary origin. He had no intention of having troubles, so he just said vaguely: “It’s just a friend who sees it at first sight. I’ve seen two sides! Just to say hello.”

He Zhengming didn’t think too much, and soon the topic shifted to other aspects. He chatted with Gu Wenjing about who was the hottest candidate for the Xieyuan Examination this time.

He Zhengming often ran out to fight teeth during the exam preparation period. After spending a long time in the restaurant, he heard a lot of news, such as which scholar won the junior three yuan, which scholar has worshipped the great Confucian teacher, and his background is also extraordinary.

Then Gu Wenjing heard Li Cheng’s name from He Zhengming’s mouth.

It turned out that this Li Cheng was still a candidate for the Xieyuan Seed, with a great talent. Li Cheng’s father was also a Juren, with a well-earned family. It is said that there are distant relatives serving as officials in the capital.

Gu Wenjing’s gaze fell on Li Cheng again. Today, he showed kindness to help others. He deliberately made an oolong and actually harvested a ‘Brother Li’. The world is really wonderful.

During the chat, the gate of Gongyuan opened.

Candidates can enter the examination room after being searched by officers and soldiers one after another.

Search the candidates for any entrainment. In the modern era when reading is not the only way out, people cheated in the exams, not to mention the ancient times when they were officials in the imperial examination.

Even if the consequences of cheating are extremely serious, there are always people who are lucky.

Gu Wenjing saw that the officers and soldiers found papers in the clothes of some talents and pies or buns with notes in the examination baskets. Then these talents who tried to cheat were dragged away by the officers and soldiers crying. The end will definitely be bleak.

Cheating in the modern college entrance examination will be severely punished, not to mention cheating in the ancient imperial examination system. In the ancient imperial examination system, the country is related, and the imperial examination cheating often involves countless people.

These talents who dared to cheat must be sentenced to wearing a song for three months, beating a hundred sticks, and being assigned to the frontiers, and no imperial examinations within three generations.

It is a pity that no matter how severe the punishment is, there will be some people who are lucky enough to take risks. Because once it succeeds, the benefits are too great.

Although scholars can not kneel before officials and their social status is improved, scholars and Juren are two completely different classes.

There is also the saying that there are talented talents who are poor, and those who do not mix well are really poor. However, if you are successful, you will be exempted from taxation and military labor. There are countless people who have come with fertile fields. Juren is absolutely not exhaustive, and Juren already has the qualifications to serve as officials.

It can be said that Zhongju is one step to the sky for ordinary people, so every time the village examination always catches a group of talents who take risks.

Seeing the captured talents, among the talents still waiting in line for the body search, a few people couldn’t help turning pale and quietly turned and left the team.

The young talent who had been reminded by Gu Wenjing, saw the scene of the cheaters being ruthlessly taken away by the officers and soldiers, he couldn’t help feeling scared, and couldn’t help but look at Gu Wenjing gratefully.

If it hadn’t been for Gu Wenjing to remind him, he would have let the officers and soldiers search his test basket without realizing it, and the extra piece of paper in the test basket filled with tiny lower letters that appeared at some time would be enough to kill him.

He had a chill in his heart, and he didn’t know who was so vicious that he used this method to frame him.

As more and more candidates entered the Gongyuan, fewer and fewer people lined up in front of the teenager, and it was his turn soon.

The officers and soldiers in charge of the body search and the officers and soldiers inspecting the basket searched the boy again, and found no abnormalities, so he was allowed in.

Before entering, the young man looked back at the candidates behind him, and then his eyes fell on the blue-clothed scholar who had not had time to condense the look of surprise and surprise on his face.

This young talent and the blue-clothed talent obviously know each other. Seeing the expression on the blue-clothed talent’s face, what else does the young talented person do not understand?

He sneered, turned and stepped into the Gongyuan.

Gu Wenjing, who has not yet his turn to capture all the expressions of these two people, has already made up various dramas in his mind.

#The grievances and hatred between classmates, is it a moral loss or a distortion of human nature? #

When Gu Wenjing saw the blue-clothed scholar throwing something into the young talent’s test basket, he would think of checking his own test basket immediately, even if he was worried that Zhang Xiucai, who was jealous and hated towards him, would also secretly play tricks like the blue-clothed talented person.

Although this small method is simple, it is really effective.

Once officers and soldiers find something cheating in the exam basket of candidates, whether you are framed or not, just drag it off.

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When it was Gu Wenjing and others’ turn, he successfully searched and entered the Gongyuan.

The rooms of the Gongyuan are randomly selected, and whether the location is good or not depends on their luck.

Gu Wenjing’s luck was not bad, and he won a room far away from the toilet without any rain or air leaks. It was the exam conditions of the Great Qi court that were much worse than those of his first world, and the room number was dirty and dark and cramped.

Gu Wenjing took out a rag from the test basket and wiped the wooden boards that served as the desk and bed little by little. The dark blue rag was wiped dark black. He didn’t waste water to clean it and threw it aside.

He cleared his own room, and when he looked up at the opposite room, through the small window that had not yet been closed, he saw a familiar face from the diagonally opposite room.

It’s just that he has seen each other, but the other party doesn’t know him.

The examinee in the room diagonally across from him was the blue-clothed talent who had framed the young talent that Gu Wenjing saw.

At this time, the blue-clothed talented person was full of disgust and scrambled to clean up the dirty room.

Gu Wenjing looked back for a while.

At the end of the day, the test papers were handed out by a few officers and soldiers, and the chief examiner led a group of people slowly walking past the examination room.

Gu Wenjing only took a look, noted the chief examiner and the deputy examiner who was next to the chief examiner, and then lowered his head to continue answering the question.

Compared with those candidates who have to write the draft on the draft paper, Gu Wenjing is much more relaxed. He directly writes the draft in his mind and then writes on the answer sheet. If there is a godly help, the next word is correct.

He is very efficient in answering questions, but the weather in August is sultry. In the cramped room, sweat is falling drop by drop. He is afraid that the test paper will get wet with sweat. When answering questions, he always wipes the sweat on his arms and forehead. .

When it was time for dinner, Gu Wenjing didn’t cook charcoal in the stove, but picked up the pancakes and porridge that Gu’s father had bought for him early this morning in the test basket.

Gu Wenjing, who had experience in the imperial examination, knew that when entering the examination room, the pancakes and other things would be smashed by the officers and soldiers who were responsible for checking the entrainment. The messy pancakes had no appetite at all, so he asked Gu’s father to ask someone to help bake the pancakes, a pancake. It was so light that you could tell at a glance whether there was something entrained, so the officers and soldiers didn’t make it difficult for him. All the dozen or so pancakes were returned to him.

Moreover, the crackers are crisp and delicious, and are easy to store in hot weather. Gu Wenjing didn’t want to cook on the fire in this room like a sauna. He just took cold white porridge and ate pancakes, and he felt full after eating only five sheets.

Gu Wenjing looked at the test paper he had covered with oilcloth. The feeling of fullness in his abdomen made him sleepy, so he lay on the wooden bed with a robe on his stomach, closed his eyes and fell asleep. .

If you don’t take a nap, you will be sluggish in the afternoon, so even if the weather is so hot that he can’t sleep, the board is too short to stretch his legs and feet, and he sleeps uncomfortably, he also forces himself to sleep peacefully.

After sleeping for about an hour, Gu Wenjing woke up. He poured out a small can of clear water he had brought in and threw a little bit on his face. The cold water stimulated him to wake up completely.

Gu Wenjing removed the tarp, took out the examination paper below, and continued to answer the questions.

After writing, taking a break, it will be dark.

A few candles were given to each examinee when the examination papers were issued. These candles are for the examinees who have not yet finished the test to continue to do the test in the evening.

After Gu Wenjing finished answering the papers before the sun set, he put the papers by the window so that the officers and soldiers who came to collect the papers could collect them, and he curled up on the wooden bed to sleep.

The next day, Gu Wenjing was released from the gate along with the other examinees who handed in the papers.

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Father Gu, who had been waiting outside, quickly came up to support Gu Wenjing: “Wenjing, how do you feel? Is there any physical discomfort?”

Father Gu regarded Gu Wenjing, who had just finished an exam, as a fragile porcelain doll, and was extremely nervous. It’s not that he has no confidence in Gu Wenjing’s physical condition, but that he has lingering fears that he had almost died in the rural examination room, for fear that his son who he regarded as hope would also be damaged by illness.

Gu Wenjing calmed down and said, “Father, I’m fine, I’m just staying in room number one or two for a day or two.”

There are three township examinations, but now it is only the first. The second test will be roll-in on the 11th tomorrow, and the paper will be handed in on the 13th. The third exam is from the 14th to the 16th.

You can leave the room for a day’s rest between the three exams. This is relatively comfortable for the candidates. Gu Wenjing’s first world imperial examination is not allowed to leave the hospital in the middle. The three consecutive exams must be in Staying in room number for nine consecutive days is deadly!

Gu Wenjing did not see any acquaintances at the gate of the Gongyuan, nor did he wait any longer. After talking to He Zhengming and other scholars or family members who were waiting outside the Gongyuan, he returned to the rented house with Gu’s father.

After returning home, Gu Wenjing wanted to take a shower, but he didn’t tell Father Gu that he went to the kitchen to prepare himself to boil water for a bath, but he did not expect that Father Gu had already prepared bath water for him.

The smile on Father Gu’s face was a bit of complacency: “When I came out of the examination room, the first thing I wanted to do was to take a bath, so I prepared bath water for you early. Go and wash!”

After Gu Wenjing took a shower, Gu’s father took out the food he bought from the food box and arranged it. Although the prices here are high, Gu’s father has always been willing to spend money on Gu Wenjing. The food is bought from a nearby restaurant for cleanliness and hygiene. What if Gu Wenjing eats food at a street stall if he is greedy for petty pets? do?

As soon as Gu Wenjing and Gu’s father finished eating together, He Zhengming and others also returned.

They were not as confident as Gu Wenjing, and when they were able to hand in the paper, they handed in the paper directly, and came out of the gate with the first batch of people who handed in the paper. They handed in the papers after being delayed until the final time, and followed the large troops out of the Gongyuan.

He Zhengming and the others looked tired, hurriedly greeted Gu Wenjing, and went back to the room to rest.

On the next day and the eleventh, I went to the gate of Gongyuan long ago to wait in line for the roll call.

After the third test of the second test, Gu Wenjing came out of the Gongyuan on the 16th, only feeling that the whole person was liberated, and looking at the sky with some dark clouds, he felt that it was blue and clear.

Because this was the last exam, Gu Wenjing and Gu’s father waited for He Zhengming’s five people outside the Gongyuan.

After waiting for a long while, He Zhengming didn’t wait for He Zhengming, but Li Cheng, a talented scholar who hit him off right away.

Li Cheng also saw Gu Wenjing at a glance, and he walked to Gu Wenjing with the help of the young man: “Brother Gu! I just finished the exam today, and I am exhausted. I can’t talk with Brother Gu. I’m really sorry. Tomorrow noon, I will be there. Yanyunlou is waiting for Brother Gu!”

Gu Wenjing thought that Li Cheng had said that he was invited to Yanyunlou for dinner and wine to be a polite remark, but he didn’t expect that he really wanted to invite him.

He is also not polite: “Brother Li is polite, he will be there on time next day.”

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Li Cheng was supported on the Li’s carriage by his own young man, and Gu Wenjing watched the carriage slowly leave before taking back his gaze.

Gu’s father stood aside and watched his son chatting with other talented friends, and he was very pleased.

Gu Wenjing waited for a while, not waiting for He Zhengming, but waiting for the young talent he had helped before.

After the exam, the young talent was even more energetic than Li Cheng, and it seemed that he had not suffered anything.

After seeing Gu Wenjing, he walked towards him with joy, and when he walked in front of Gu Wenjing, he respectfully bowed down.

Gu Wenjing hurriedly stopped him: “Little brother, this gift is not feasible!”

The young talent didn’t insist on saluting, after all, there were so many people here, and the grand movements would attract strange eyes.

He solemnly thanked Gu Wenjing and said: “You can succeed in Xia’an. If you didn’t help me this time, I’m afraid I would have been exiled and assigned. The kindness of the benevolence has been remembered forever! The great grace is not to be thanked, and the benevolence. In the future, if it is a useful place, just say it clearly.”

Gu Wenjing’s helping An Jingcheng didn’t want him to repay him, but he liked An Jingcheng’s attitude very much.

He smiled and said, “Brother Ann doesn’t have to be like this. I just don’t see some villains use such vicious methods to injure others in the imperial examination.”

An Jingcheng expressed his gratitude to Gu Wenjing several times, and then said, “Don’t worry, An Jingming is narrow-minded, and he will hate him. Jingcheng will never reveal any news about his benefactor. He only said that it was Jingcheng. I accidentally discovered his frame when I checked the basket.”

Gu Wenjing was very satisfied with An Jingcheng’s thoughtful consideration. He also wanted to hint to remind him, but it didn’t help him to remind him. An Jingcheng thought about it in advance.

It’s just that An Jingcheng and An Jingming are two brothers.

Gu Wenjing had already made up for the three hundred and sixty episodes of the fight between the half-brothers, but he was not the slightest strange on the surface, let alone inquiring about An Jingcheng’s grievance between him and An Jingming.

After An Jingcheng left, Gu’s father couldn’t help but ask in a low voice, “Why did that young man thank you just now?”

When An Jingcheng spoke, he was worried about being heard by others, so he was vague. People who don’t know the inside story would never understand what he was talking about.

Gu Wenjing lowered his voice and explained to Father Gu, “On the day when I entered the venue on the eighth day, I saw a candidate throw something into his test basket…”

Gu Wen’s scenic spots ended, Gu’s father immediately understood.

This simple and rude method of framing was not the first thing An Jingming did. In fact, this kind of nasty thing was indispensable in every imperial examination.

Those framed candidates cannot show evidence to prove their innocence, so they can only admit that they are unlucky. Others took the lesson and checked their clothes and test supplies more strictly, so as not to avoid the villain’s way.