The queen must start from the head

Chapter 60
In the Gong Yuan in Zhennan City, the first exam had already gone into the night, and lights were lit all around the dormitory to illuminate the students who were answering the papers.

A small official in charge of patrolling the night examination, followed by two small officials carrying lanterns in front of him and behind him, a group of five people began to patrol the examination room.

After an unknown amount of time, the five of them came to the examination seat where Mu Lian was, only to see that the rolled paper on the table had been turned over, revealing a blank side.But the examinee himself was leaning against the wall behind him, closing his eyes and fast asleep.

The little official suddenly showed contempt, shook his head and recited, "You can't carve a rotten wood, and you can't smash a wall of dung! The ancients never deceived me. It's the first time I've seen a candidate like her today. Pull back."

After the little official left, in the dormitory directly opposite to Mu Lian's dormitory, an examinee who was a bit of a rat-headed candidate was still looking at the test questions in his hand, feeling that he had nowhere to write.

He carefully observed the surroundings, and found that only Mu Lian had fallen asleep.

Could it be that this woman has already completed the examination paper?
Thinking that the other party might have finished answering the questions, the more he looked at the test paper on the other party's desk, the more he felt that someone was tickling him, and he wished he could pick up the other party's paper to have a look.

The night is getting darker.

Hearing the snoring sound coming from the dormitory next to him, and seeing the person diagonally opposite was already asleep lying on the board, the scholar finally made up his mind.

It just so happened that a large cloud drifted past at the right time, covering the moon, and the lights in the entire examination room became more and more dim.

This person made a decisive decision, drilled out from under the number board, rushed to Mu Lian's desk, took out the answer sheet filled with words, and hurried back the same way.After doing all this, he only felt his heart jumping in his throat.

It's really scary to do this kind of thing in the examination room!He swore that there would never be a next time!

At this time, Yun Duo seemed to be giving him face, revealing the bright moon that had been covered just now.

Under the moonlight, with the faint light, this person slowly opened the test paper that he had just stolen from Mu Lian with excitement and anticipation.

This exam is mainly about the Four Books and Five Classics. Among them, there will be three questions in the Four Books. In addition, one five-character eight-rhyme poem and four classics and meanings will be written. The materials for the questions are also from the Four Books and Five Classics.

After this person opened Mu Lian's examination paper, the first thing he saw was the handwriting of everyone's calligraphy, and then he looked at the four-book questions and scripture questions written by the other party.There was also the five-character and eight-rhyme poem, which was so written that he couldn't help but want to beat the table with praise.

Holding these few examination papers that he would definitely pass, he was in a fierce struggle. Should he copy all of them or half of them?
There is not much time left for him. After midnight, the lights will be turned off here, and he will leave the examination room tomorrow, and then come in on the tenth day of the lunar new year.

For this reason, he raised his head and glanced at Mu Lian again, and thought to himself, "As the saying goes, a dead fellow is not a poor one! Anyway, you are a woman, so what's the use of being promoted in the exam? In the future, you will be a cheap man. I will copy it today. For your paper, I will thank you when he submits it in mid-day."

Thinking of this, he felt much more at ease in his heart, and started copying Mu Lian's exam papers as they were.

The candlelight danced gently in the lamp, flickering orange-red light flickering on and off.

When the person just copied the last word, suddenly the moonlight in front of the house was blocked by something.

He couldn't help raising his head, and he almost lost his mind when he saw it!It's over, it's over now!

I saw the two examiners with ashen complexions standing side by side in front of him, seeing him holding other people's examination papers with one hand and copying them with the other.

The examiner's surname is Xu, and he is currently a cabinet scholar. He is known as "Xu Gong", and he is upright and upright.The deputy examiner's surname is Lin, and he is also the Imperial Academy sent by the imperial court to invigilate the examination here.

Mr. Xu saw that this man was a rogue-headed rat, and he was even more audacious to steal other people's test papers to plagiarize. He is simply lawless!He immediately ordered this person to be taken down, and seized a pile of examination papers on the other's desk.

After careful comparison, Mr. Xu found that the content of this person's examination paper was exactly the same as that of another examination paper with Wang Xizhi's handwriting.

"Lin Hanlin, if you hadn't reminded me to come and have a look in the examination room before turning off the lights, I'm afraid I would have missed this thief today and made him do such nasty things!"

Lin Hanlin nodded when he heard the words, "That's right, I didn't expect that such a sacred place like the examination room would actually happen such a thing that I hate..."

Before Xu Gong could speak, the Hanlin Lin turned his head to look at the scholar who had been taken down, and said sternly, "Tell me, who gave you the exam paper you copied?"

The man who plagiarized Mu Lian's exam paper, although he is not very good at reading, he is indeed very shrewd in life.

He originally thought that the other party would ask him where he got this test paper, but he didn't expect the other party to ask him directly who gave it to him.

Stealing and plagiarizing the test papers is much more serious than the consequences of two people cheating together. With the belief that if he dies, he must drag others into the water, he stretches out his right hand without hesitation and points directly at Mu, who is still lying down and sleeping in the dormitory opposite. lotus.

"It was her, she gave me the test paper! I originally wanted to finish the test paper by myself, but the woman on the other side sneaked up and took advantage of the inspector's unsuspecting, and forced me to copy her paper. Hers. She also said that she did this because she admired me and wanted to marry me..." As the man spoke, his face covered with freckles and moles turned red .

When Lin Hanlin heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched, and the foot under the large official robe kicked this person indistinctly. It is okay to splash dirty water, but don't splash it too obviously.As far as what you said just now, not to mention Mr. Xu who is old and still has a sharp eye, even the group of small officials behind me may not believe it!

Sure enough, Xu Gong glanced at Mu Lian, who seemed to be sleeping soundly across the way, and then at the rogue-headed scholar in front of him, shook his head and said to the latter, "If you don't tell the truth again, I'll send someone to take you away. Send off the official, the governor of this city should be living in the government office now."

"Don't stop! Can't I just tell the truth? I bought the test paper from her! I bought the test paper from her!" The scholar immediately shouted.

Many scholars in the surrounding area were attracted by the commotion here, but because no noise was allowed in the examination room, they all held their breaths to listen to what happened. It sounded like someone had been arrested for cheating.

Xu Gong's face tightened, he immediately took a test paper that this person used to plagiarize, and walked to Mu Lian's dormitory.

On Mu Lian's number board, there are several examination papers covered with white paper facing up.

Mr. Xu did not wake up Mu Lian, but turned over her test paper himself, and compared it with the test paper in his hand.

When he saw that the examination paper on the number board was written in a completely different style of font, Mr. Xu's face turned extremely ugly in an instant, but the darkness of the backlight covered his expression.

When he put back Mu Lian's examination paper and turned back, his face was full of anger, he kneaded the fake paper in his hand into a ball, and slammed it on the face of the ugly examinee.

"Come here, cover this person's mouth and drag him out, don't let him disturb anyone!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Several small officials from the rear immediately stepped forward, took down the rat-headed man, stuffed his mouth with crumpled examination papers, and tied him down.

But Lin Hanlin, who realized that the situation was somewhat unexpected, followed Xu Gong without saying a word, and the two of them returned to the place where the outer curtain officer was staying by the same route one after the other.

Seeing that there was no one else around, Lin Hanlin thought about it and asked the question.

"My lord, what happened in the examination room just now?"

Mr. Xu raised his hand to take off the black gauze cap on his head, sighed, "You and I have underestimated this girl, Mu Lian. She is very scheming, she can write two completely different calligraphy, and both of them are like everyone else. Not only In this way, she also prepared two exam papers with completely different answers. Just based on the contents of the answer papers I just saw, I am afraid that both of her exam papers can be ranked!"

"Then what should we do?" Lin Hanlin was anxious.

He was from the Lin family in the imperial city. The reason why he was willing to come to Zhennancheng to be an invigilator this time was also to nip the path of Mu Lian's imperial examination in the cradle.

He was far from the only one who wanted to deal with Mu Lian.

However, these people gathered together, racking their brains and plotting against Mu Lian along the way. They have been there both in the open and in the dark, but this woman is still sitting in the dormitory safe and sound at this time.

"What are you panicking about?" Mr. Xu picked up the cool tea on the table in a calm manner, took a sip, and said, "I have written down who wrote her two handwritings, and I will write them down on the paper later." What you have to do is to find a way to pass it to the hands of Neilian officials. Not only must guard against these two kinds of calligraphy handwriting, but also teach them to be vigilant in other similar calligraphy styles of masters. Don't let that little miscellaneous fish slip into the pond!"

Lin Hanlin kept saying yes on the surface, but he cursed in his heart, you old bastard, you are so easy to say with two mouths!You know, since the examiners entered the quarters on the sixth day of the lunar new year, after the horse banquet was held in the curtain, the inner curtain officials all entered the inner curtain of the back hall, and the supervisors closed the door, and the inner and outer curtain officials did not communicate with each other. You can't talk to him outside the test paper.The person surnamed Xu asked him to do the subpoena, which made it clear that he was asked to do the job.

However, the matter ultimately involves whether Mu Lian will win the election in the end.

If the other party wins the exam, they can go to the imperial city to participate in the tribute test again. Given the monarch's preference for her, it is a certainty that this woman will pass the test.

In this way, as the first person in this dynasty to take part in the imperial examination as a woman and pass it successfully, Lin Tang could guess with his toes how far the other party's reputation in the country would rise.

No, this must not happen!He must bear in mind the Patriarch's instructions, and must completely destroy this woman's dream of the country test!

(End of this chapter)