The hero is broken again

As soon as the invigilator's voice fell, the two scholars immediately turned pale, hurriedly got up from the ground trembling slightly to salute, and confessed their mistake with tears running down their cheeks.

The invigilator took a deep look at the two of them, and didn't do anything to punish them. He just shook his sleeves and said calmly: "The time for the exam is approaching, all students hurry up to check and enter the courtyard."

The invigilator who came from the capital this time was an adult from the Ministry of Rites, and his reputation of loving revenge had already spread throughout the capital.Chen Xiucai and Li Xiucai, who didn't know it, thought they had escaped a catastrophe, and they both breathed a sigh of relief. While wiping the sweat from their foreheads, they lined up with the crowd gratefully.

The students lined up in two long queues, and the relatives who came to take the exam gathered on the other side, and Yu Wei and Qi Fei came to a corner.

Yu Wei looked Qi Fei up and down, raised his eyebrows at him, and said with a strange expression: "I don't know that you can swallow your anger. They said that your ranking as a scholar is tricky, so they are saying that you are not Relying on my outstanding reading talent, but relying on the back door of our Yu family to get the ranking? How have people in our Yu family been slandered and humiliated like this, it's time for them to have a taste of this young master's shadowless feet!"

Qi Fei looked down at his swollen cheeks, and suddenly felt a tickle in his heart, as if he had been gently scratched by something, and the tickle was transmitted directly to the palm of his hand.

He gently kneaded the palm of his hand, and suddenly laughed twice in his throat.

"You're still laughing?" Yu Wei opened his eyes wide in surprise, he couldn't believe that what happened just now didn't affect him at all.

"Ayu don't have to worry, someone will take care of the two of them, we just need to wait for the result." Qi Fei struggled a little emotionally in his eyes, but finally couldn't help stretching out his hand, and looked at Ayu's white jade-like skin. He rubbed his cheeks lightly twice.

Seeing that the young man was startled by his actions, his body quickly retreated, his startled appearance was like a little squirrel with its tail hair blown out, Qi Fei pursed the corners of his slightly curved mouth, but the curvature of the corners of his mouth became more and more bigger and bigger.

"If Ah Yu hadn't brought me back to the Yu Mansion back then, my uncle would not have transferred my household registration to the Yu family. Otherwise, if I wanted to continue taking the imperial examination, I would have to go back to my hometown to take the exam. As they said In other words, I did go through Ayu's back door."

Yu Weizhi frowned upon hearing Qi Fei's strange words, no matter what he heard, he felt that his words were not right, he thought hard, but couldn't figure out what was wrong.

At this time, the number of people queuing up for inspection at the gate of the Gongyuan has gradually decreased, and the people in the same courtyard as Qi Fei saw that he was still standing there talking, so they couldn't help saying hello.

Qi Fei nodded to the man to express his thanks, then turned his head back and told Yu Wei: "Ah Yu don't have to worry about this anymore, I'm going to take the exam now."

"Who's worried about you?" Yu Wei raised his eyebrows, showing disgust on his face.

Qi Fei didn't smile, but said softly with his eyes: "I'm happy that Ayu can come to take the exam, but I can't bear to let Ayu wait for me at the gate of the Gongyuan."

Yu Wei pursed his lips, "You have to stay in the Gongyuan for a full nine days, how can I have so much free time to wait for you here when you come out?"

"And—" He glanced at Qi Fei, raised his chin at him and said, "I'm not here to take the exam for you."

Qi Fei just smiled and nodded, "There are a lot of people here, so Ayu should go back to the mansion first to have a rest, then I'll queue up to enter the hospital first."

Yu Wei waved his hands pretending to be impatient, "Okay, okay, let's go in quickly."

The students queuing up to be inspected by the soldiers entered the tribute courtyard very quickly, and almost no students who cheated appeared. Qi Fei's identity document and the test basket had been checked, and the soldiers ordered him to go to the courtyard. It is to go to the hospital to undress and check whether there is a cheat sheet.

Yu Wei, like the people around him who came to send him off for the exam, leaned forward to look inside, and when he couldn't see the familiar figure from behind, he turned around and quickly slipped away to a lively wine shop across the street.

As soon as he arrived at the restaurant, he called Xiao Er to prepare a good room, and after throwing Xiao Er's 20-day hotel fee, he came to a lively place in the lobby.

Everyone sitting here is holding a flower name book, and there is a piece of betting paper on several square tables, with Jieyuan, No.2, and No.3 written on it.

Upon Yu Wei's arrival, everyone greeted him enthusiastically. Yu Wei waved his hand indifferently, and just took out the freshly obtained silver coins from Qi Fei from his chest, and put them all in the area of ​​Jieyuan.

With a smile on his face, he looked at the owner of the restaurant where the event was held, and said in a calm and unhurried manner: "I bet on Qi Fei to win Zhongjieyuan." Then he threw the prepared name book over there In the arms of the stunned boss, he found a place and sat down.

Everyone looked at the large stack of banknotes on the table, and they all opened their mouths wide. Knowing that Yu Wei's family is the richest man in Jiangnan, they can't spend money like this. The stack of banknotes must be at least several 10 taels.

It also overwhelmed Qi Fei for the first place, which depends on how much confidence he has in Qi Fei's ability.

The people who were still hesitating on who to bet became confused for a moment, wondering who to bet to get the big chip, Yu Wei sat straddling the bench with a teacup in his hand, sipping the foggy tea in his cup.

People who are familiar with the plot are so confident.

He didn't care who was the first bet among all the bets, no matter what, he would get the biggest bet in the end.

But he didn't want to, suddenly two people walked into the wine shop at the same time and placed a big bet at the same time.

"Boss, I bet that Li Wenxiu, among the students in the imperial examination, will win the first place."

"Boss, give me a roster. I want to bet that Qi Fei and Qi Xiucai among the students in this competition will win the Zhongjieyuan ranking in one fell swoop."

Hearing two familiar voices, Yu Wei couldn't help raising his eyes to look at the two people standing at the door of the restaurant, but he was choked by the tea in his mouth, and coughed because of the unbearable pain.

The person who came was actually the woman who competed with him for the flower fairy that day, and Lijia Yu San'er who helped him buy the flower fairy's spring snack with money.

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Fortunately, the temperature was not low at this time, and the people didn't feel cold after taking off their clothes and shoes. They were all naked and waited for the soldiers to check their clothes and shoes.

"Take off all foreign objects on your body and stand there."

Qi Fei, who narrowed his eyes and frowned slightly, took off his shoes and socks, and took off the blue headband that tied his hair. After the inspection, he quickly put on his clothes and shoes. .

As if the soldiers had been trained thousands of times, they searched only those places where cheat sheets were easy to carry, and they moved very quickly, and within a short while they found the tapes with articles written on them.

Everyone watched the student who had been found was escorted by two soldiers and thrown out of the gate of the Gongyuan. For a while, the students waiting to get the number plate in the courtyard couldn't help but fell silent.

The layout of the Jiangnan Gongyuan is square, with houses built on all sides, but in the middle is a very tall Ming building, where the chief examiners sit. Sitting on a high place, they have a very good view, and they can observe it from time to time. Go to the situation in the four-week house.

The dormitories are all arranged according to A, B, C, and D. They are all divided into small lattice rooms with three thin wooden boards, leaving only a little room for people to turn around.

It can neither block the wind and rain nor the sound and taste.

Therefore, what number plates the students can get are all blind, and it all depends on the mood of the examiner who distributes the number plates.

In this rural examination, all the students have to stay in this small dormitory for nine days, and all eating, drinking and laxity will naturally be settled in the tribute courtyard, so it is really unlucky for those who get the last dormitory on the four sides of the tribute courtyard but.

Because the dormitories at the end of the fourth row are all next to a latrine pit, and it is hot summer now, the stench is naturally self-evident, so such dormitories are popular among the students. He gave it a title, "shit house".

It is admirable to be able to survive here for nine days.

Qi Fei took a look at the number plate in his hand, "A character Er Shi Lu Fang", he was in the relatively front number house, after the inspection was completed and the gong sounded heavily, he followed everyone into the number room he belonged to Abandon.

The table and stools in the dormitory are made of two seemingly weak boards, and a few charcoal fires and two candles have been placed inside.There was also a piece of tarpaulin on the table, which they used to keep out the wind and rain, in case someone caught cold and fell ill at night.

Qi Fei, who is already a teenager, is tall and straight like an adult, and after entering this small dormitory, he can't even let go of his hands and feet.

He sat in the dormitory with a calm face, closed his eyes and thought deeply about the content of the scriptures he had learned, and after an unknown period of time, he heard nine gongs.

This was the sound of the gong for the start of the exam, and not long after, a line of soldiers distributed the test papers, pens, ink, paper and inkstones to the students.

The township examination is divided into three sessions. The first session is Jingyi, that is, to write the article silently according to the topic, and then write down your own understanding.The second test was for the students' ability in poetry and prose. The questions were all cut from the books they had studied and asked them to fill in.The third session is about policy discussions involving current politics, commonly known as writing articles.

Students who take part in the imperial examinations are generally able to handle the first two rounds, but the writing of the last round, which needs to express current political arguments, makes them scratch their heads. After all, they are mixed with today's political concepts. How could there be such a deep way to be an official.

On the contrary, Qi Fei seemed to be born to be an official. He could easily pass the three exams, especially the third round of policy essays, which had several pages of draft paper.

His quick writing naturally attracted the attention of the examiners.

Qi Fei felt several gazes on his body, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his drooping face, but the articles under his hand still kept coming out stroke by stroke.

He finished typing the draft of the theory, and was about to close his eyes and rest for a while before writing on the test paper, when he heard a commotion in the test room.

It was the first time for the students who had been in the examination room for nearly four days to hear someone making trouble. Those who were drowsy in the dormitory were awakened by the noise. Before the soldiers had patrolled the place, They all looked towards the place of the sound, wanting to catch a glimpse of the excitement.

Qi Fei naturally opened his eyes and looked around, because the person who made the noise was someone he knew well, it was Li Xiucai who spread rumors to slander him in front of the tribute courtyard a few days ago.

It turned out that Li Xiucai, who was weak and bookish, was assigned to the last dormitory.Because he accidentally offended the chief examiner in front of the Gong Yuan, and the number plate was handed out to him by the chief examiner himself.He didn't dare not to take it, so he had to endure the stinky environment and write the article silently.

But as the weather got hotter, the students added a lot of fresh 'fertilizer' to it, and the lingering smell could no longer be described with simple bad words.

Some students from several dormitories couldn't help calling the soldiers to complain, but they couldn't get any solution.After so many days, Li Xiucai, who lived in the last dormitory, couldn't help but make a fuss.

Probably dazzled by the fumes, he actually cursed out loud. The neighboring students tried to persuade him, but Li Xiucai didn't care what someone said.

"The invigilator gave me and brother Chen the last number plate because of the offending incident a few days ago, and why did he give Qi Fei the first number plate? Isn't it because he is from the Yu family— —”

The commotion in this place didn't last long, when the soldier rushed over to check the situation, without any explanation, he put a pair of heavy shackles on Li Xiucai, and soon escorted him to the tribute courtyard.

When Li Xiucai, who was being escorted, passed by Qi Fei's row of dormitories, he saw Qi Fei writing an article quietly with a pen, and shouted like crazy: "My future brother-in-law is also from the Yu family. How dare you take me out—"

The expression on Qi Fei's face was not in a hurry, but when he heard his words, he raised his head instantly, and when Li Xiucai, whose clothes and hair were disheveled, looked up to meet his sharp eyes, he felt a chill in his heart. Trembling, the clamoring words in his mouth could not help but pause.

His pause made the escorting soldiers relieved, and quickly pulled them out of the gate of the Gongyuan.

Qi Fei tightly held the brush in his hand, completely stopped thinking about writing articles, and kept thinking about who the future brother-in-law Li Xiucai said was in his heart.

Chen Xiucai, who was in the other row at the end of the dormitory, kept his head down and silently wrote articles with trembling wrists, as if he had been immersed in the imperial examination questions and hadn't heard what happened outside.

******

In the wine shop on Chengbei Street, after a few days, it was still extremely lively.

As the end of the township examination approached, the betting activities in the wine shop had also been suspended, and everyone could only wait for the day when the results were released to withdraw money.

Yu Wei lived in this restaurant for several days, but he was still not used to the noisy atmosphere here at night. If he hadn't thought that this was the only place where he lived closer to the Gong Yuan, he would have gone back to Yu Mansion a long time ago.

After he went downstairs, he went straight to a table with a good view. The crowd who had been sitting there hurriedly dispersed to make room for him. Er carried a birdcage into the restaurant, and surrounded him mysteriously.

"Young Master Yu, have you heard what happened in the Gong Yuan this morning?"

Not long after he got up from the bed, he didn't know whether it was breakfast or lunch, so how could he know what happened outside?Yu Wei was speechless because of his first restraint and then uplifting question.

He rested his elbows on the wooden table, his eyelids were still drooping due to sleepiness, and he only lifted his chin slightly for him to continue talking.

The man glanced at the person at the other table, quickly lowered his voice and explained: "I heard that Li Xiucai, who was under your third cousin's charge, was kicked out of the Tribute Academy by the examiner because of making trouble in the examination room."

Yu Wei opened his half-closed eyes in an instant, and the sleepiness in his eyes disappeared a lot, and he raised his eyebrows interested in this matter.

He still remembered that on the day of the provincial examination, Yu San'er took a lot of money to bet that Li Xiucai won the first place and caused him to choke his throat once with tea, but he didn't want Yu San'er's money to be put here It was about to fall into his pocket.

Yu Wei thought happily in his heart, and couldn't help but put on a bright smile on his face.

The people in the wine shop obviously didn't know what happened in the Gongyuan. Yu San'er at the other table was still being complimented by everyone. He was very unhappy for a while, and Yu Wei, who looked at him and smiled at him, couldn't help but jump his eyelids.

"Cousin Yu, you are finally willing to leave your room. By the way, didn't Second Uncle restrict your feet when you entered the boating place a few days ago because of your young age? Why did you sneak out?"

Yu Wei pointed at the table, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Then I really don't need my cousin to worry about this matter. I will explain to my father when I come back. It's the thing about going to the boat that you said about the third cousin... ..”

There was just a trace of doubt on his face, "Didn't you insist on dragging me there? You insisted on bidding me a beauty."

Yu San'er's eyelids twitched fiercely, but he also thought that all the money he spent was wasted, and the plan in his heart was not completed, not to mention that his father beat him several times to offset the money spent. money.

Thinking of the plank hitting her body, hatred flashed across Yu San'er's lowered eyes, but she hid it when she lifted it up, "If you let my second uncle know that you live in such a place these days, I don't know why What a pain."

His eyes flickered, "I happened to buy a yard on the Hutong in the north of the city. The environment is quiet. If you like it, why don't you live there."

There was a smile on Yu Wei's face, but he refused with some words: "No, it's better to leave it to third cousin. I'm used to living here for a few days now."

Quiet environment?Yu Wei sneered in his heart, did Yu San'er think he was that brat who didn't know anything?

The families living in this alley in the north of the city seem to outsiders to be good families, but for him who has been in the romantic and happy place for a long time, he knows that the people living in the alley in the north of the city are all prostitutes and singers. living people.

Thinking about Yu San'er's actions these days, Yu Wei went through it twice in his heart, and finally figured out what Yu San'er wanted to do.

He was thinking of ways to destroy his image in Father Yu's heart, but Father Yu was not the kind of father who would easily believe other people's words.

Yu Wei secretly sneered in his heart.

It's a pity that Yu San'er's plan still doesn't work out!

After being rejected, Yu San'er couldn't bear it anymore, and her face darkened for a moment, but she still restrained herself from speaking because of Yu Wei's identity.

But let everyone see the scene where he was humiliated by Yu Wei, Yu San'er still didn't want to stay here for a long time, so he simply got up and planned to go back to the north alley of the city.

There are many gentle villages waiting for him there.

He couldn't help saying goodbye to his friends with a smile on his face. The friends at the same table winked for a while when they heard him say that he was going back to the alley, and then hurriedly followed him to the outside of the restaurant.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the group of people reached the door of the store, the young man next to Yu San'er hurried over.

Without waiting for Yu San'er to reprimand him, the young servant wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hands, panting heavily, "Young master is not good, Li Xiucai was kicked out of the Tribute Academy by the chief examiner in the examination room, and now he is going to They are going to be paraded through the streets!"

Hearing the boy's words, Yu San'er's face trembled in shock, and his eyes almost popped out.

All the money he borrowed was bet on that Li Xiucai! !

At this time, he couldn't help but feel regretful, he shouldn't have listened to the woman in the alley, saying that his younger brother is very talented in reading, and has been praised by the county magistrate, so he will definitely win the Jiangnan provincial examination. It's all pillow wind for him!

Yu Wei, who already knew about this, looked at each other at the table and laughed without saying a word.

August [-]th is the day when the students staying in the Gongyuan leave the examination room. Today is the day when the sweet-scented osmanthus blooms on the street, and the fragrance of osmanthus flowers floating around seems to be welcoming the students who are leaving the examination room.

Early in the morning, Yu Wei stood at the gate of the Gongyuan with the rest of the people who came to pick them up, and sometimes looked forward like the giraffe.

There was another sound of gongs, but it represented the sound of the end of the exam. The gate of the Jiangnan Gongyuan was opened from the inside, and the guards outside silenced their voices, looking at the crowd coming out with implicit expectation.

To say that the ancient imperial examinations are difficult for people to take the exam, they spent nine days in a small dormitory, not only listening to the snoring and grinding of the friends next door, but also enduring the friends with stinky feet, really unbearable place.

Yu Wei saw several of the scholars who were carried out from the inside, and some of the scholars who came out were shaking, and they could all hit the nearby trees.

Even the slightly stronger scholar's face was yellow, Yu Wei frowned, thinking of Qi Fei's thin body that seemed to have little flesh, he couldn't help feeling worried.

When Qi Fei came out slowly, there were almost no students at the gate of the Gongyuan, only a few pedestrians here and there.

He moved his eyes and looked around, but he couldn't see the figure he had missed for a few days, and the light in his eyes seemed to dim a little.

He tightened his hands holding the test basket, but his pace became even slower. He lowered his eyes and thought about what Ayu was doing now, but he came to the Gongyuan to pick him up while he was still asleep.

I made many excuses in my heart, but I couldn't stop the sentence that came to my mind: Ayu really did as he said, and didn't come here to pick him up...

"Hey--"

Hearing the sound, Qi Fei paused in his steps, loosened his grip on the test basket, and instantly raised a pair of red eyes to look to his left.

What came into view was Ayu who was sitting on the wall of a certain family's courtyard, and a osmanthus tree growing outside the courtyard wall.Osmanthus osmanthus is like a flower that bloomed overnight, the light yellow flower buds are attached to Ayu's white and jade-like smiling face, and Qi Fei's eyes are not moved at all.

Before hearing Qi Fei's answer, Yu Wei thought he hadn't noticed him, so he reached out and pushed the osmanthus branch in front of him, and called out again in a low voice: "Qi Fei, I'm here."

"Ayu."

This time Qi Fei responded, the joy in his eyes seemed to overflow.

Yu Wei lowered his head and looked down, looking at Qi Fei who was standing below the path and looking up a little, his face could not help showing an awkward expression.

The words in his heart turned around and became: "Father asked me to pick you up."

Qi Fei was silent for a while, then whispered back with a smile: "Okay."

After half an hour.

Yu Wei led Qi Fei to the restaurant where he was staying, pretending not to see the doubt in his eyes, and directly asked Xiao Er to lead them into the room he had booked.

Instead, he himself waited in the lobby, only saying: "Come down for dinner when you're done."

After pushing open the door of the room, Qi Fei saw clearly a bucket of hot water and a clean clothes he usually wore at home.

He didn't want Ayu to wait for him alone in his heart, so he immediately closed the door and washed his body quickly.

When the two were eating, Yu Wei couldn't help but look up at Qi Fei who was always smiling.

It's just eating, I don't know why he is so happy.

After Qi Fei put down the bowl and chopsticks, he sighed with satisfaction and joy in his heart.

The first meal after the exam was eaten with Ayu, it was so good.

******

In the days when everyone in the Yu Mansion was eagerly waiting for the release of the rankings, Father Yu and Mrs. Yu, who had gone out to do business, first welcomed back. The two not only completed the business outside, but also brought back many strange things that Hu merchants had. thing.

Madam Yu found out that her youngest son, who had always loved this item, didn't happily come to pick it up this time. Instead, he smiled and asked them when they would go to other cities to do business.

"Our business outside has been quite good recently, and you don't need me and your father to check it out." Looking at the disappointment in her younger son's eyes, Mrs. Yu raised her eyebrows and asked dumbfoundedly: "Is it ok?" Why are you still hoping that our business will not succeed?"

Yu Wei hurriedly stepped forward to grab Mrs. Yu's wrist, and said with a smile to the two of them, "Mother, you and your father have been out for so many days, and my son really misses you so much, so I think that when you go out next time, I will take care of you." I can go with you."

No matter how disbelieving Father Yu, who knew his son's habits well, still laughed out loud on his face because of what he said.

Taking advantage of Yu's father's joy, Yu Wei rolled his eyes and hurriedly asked, "Father, the provincial examination is over, can I leave our house now?"

Father Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "During the days when you were restrained, I haven't seen you lose much."

Yu Wei rubbed his nose, thinking to himself that Father Yu would have watched him every night when he climbed over the wall after practicing martial arts and went out to find someone to fight.

On his side, he was still thinking about the fact that Father Yu didn't know about the fight with others, but he didn't want to just listen to Father Yu and hummed: "If it weren't for the fact that you are looking for those local hooligans who like to provoke trouble, I would have I'll catch you now!"

A smile appeared on Yu Wei's face, and he laughed dryly two or three times.

"I don't even think about what your father and I used to make a fortune."

Yu Wei deliberately guessed: "The night watchman?"

Yu Dashang, who was about to brag about his achievements again: "..."

Madam Yu covered her mouth and smiled straight at the father and son who were fighting each other.

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