Chapter 139 Changes before the exam
"What is love in the world? It's just about letting you agree with life and death!"
On the other hand, Ji Yu's fiancée Murong Xuehen murmured the first sentence of "Yanqiu Ci" and couldn't help but bow slightly to Su Lin, admiringly: "Young Master Su is really a genius for being able to write such a lovely poem. The little girl underestimated the young master just now."
"Miss Murong is polite. However, I think the holy power breath on the girl's body seems to be a scholar's literary position, right?"
Su Lin didn't pay much attention to the distance before, but when he got closer, he was surprised to find that Murong Xuehen was actually a scholar.
"Young Master Su has a lot of eyesight, but my position was enhanced by my grandfather with the power of the semi-saint, not the power of the imperial examination in the temple. Alas! Why can't women take the imperial examination?"
Murong Xuehen sighed and then politely returned the "Sacred Text" and rubbing paper in his hand to Yuan Mu, but a hint of sadness crawled on his face.
"Xuehen, why are you still struggling with this issue? Since ancient times, men have participated in the imperial examinations, so where is the reason for women to participate?"
Ji Yu waved his hand and then explained to Su Lin, "Brother Su laughed. Xuehen has been smart and strong since childhood. What often lingers in his mouth is why women are not as good as men, why women cannot participate in the imperial examinations. Murong Bansheng had no choice but to send her to the wilderness outside the pass to practice. This time, Xuehen heard that I was going to come back to participate in the mansion examination, so he also came back with me..."
"Brother Ji, you have revealed my old secrets in front of outsiders again. If you do this again, I will not marry you!"
After Ji Yu said this, Murong Xuehen quietly reached out to Ji Yu's waist and pinched him hard.
"Si..." Ji Yu grinned in pain, then quickly shut up, changed the topic and said to Su Lin with a smile. "Brother Su, although I can't match your poetry talent, the palace examination also included Posting scriptures and Mo Yi. My two years in the wilderness outside the pass were not in vain. I, Ji Yu, will definitely win Maocai in this palace examination."
"Haha...Brother Ji. Since that's the case, let's have a gentleman's fight!"
"Okay! See who of us can win the first place in Maocai!"
Su Lin was not pretentious either, so he stretched out his hand and sweared to Ji Yu.
When they heard the dispute between the gentleman who had made a few words, the other Tong Sheng who were coming to participate in the mansion examination were speechless. Su Lin and Ji Yu obviously thought they did not exist anymore. It seemed that the mansion examination was only conducted among the two of them.
However, these children are indeed not qualified to argue. Strictly speaking, Su Lin and Ji Yu both come from the semi-saint family. Moreover, Ji Yu was a genius who was the first to be a child at the age of thirteen. He also practiced in the wilderness outside the pass for two years, and his thoughts were comparable to ordinary scholars and juren. Su Lin was even a demon genius who wrote three poems in the country in January. This time, he encountered these two people. The children present could only make them think they were unlucky in their hearts.
"Look, it seems that Mr. Ji and Mr. Su are exhausted in this mansion test! I don't know who can win the first place in Maocai!"
"Haha! There is really a good show in this mansion test. Mr. Ji has been known as a genius for a long time. Although Mr. Su's talent has only been revealed recently, it is even more unprecedented."
"Yes! What's the good thing about the showdown between geniuses and mediocre people? Only the collision between geniuses and geniuses can make people excited and excited!"
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The people watching the fun around were holding a thought that was afraid that the world would not be in chaos. Some of them had even left the gambling house at the corner to make bets.
"It's strange, Brother Yuan, you can enter the examination room in two quarters of an hour. Why haven't you seen Brother Li Yu yet? Could it be that you overslept at home, right?"
He formed a gentleman's battle with a genius of the semi-saint family like Ji Yu. Although it was not as powerful as the county trial against Zhao Shuang in the last county trial, this simple competitive spirit was enough to make people excited. However, Su Lin was thinking about Hong Liyu in his heart, and the mansion trial began immediately, but he looked around and did not see any shadow of Hong Liyu at all.
"I'm also surprised, Brother Su, logic is, Brother Hong has always been the most punctual! If we wait, Brother Hong will not be stage frightened. Maybe he was delayed by something..." Yuan Mu also looked around, and there was indeed no Hong Liyu's figure.
There are still two quarters of an hour before entering the palace examination. Basically, the candidates who took the exam have lined up in front of the government office. When the waiting time comes, they enter the venue in order. Su Lin has not seen Hong Liyu yet, but he has seen several other acquaintances among the crowd, namely Ran Shichang, Liu Shimin and Lu Tong.
"Ran Shichang? Still with Liu Shimin and Lu Tong? These three people will definitely not have any good things together."
Seeing these three people, Su Lin frowned slightly, and the three thinkings in Zhihai began to calculate the purpose and bad ideas of the three people coming.
And Ran Shichang seemed to be staring at Su Lin all the time. Seeing that Su Lin was also looking at him, he smiled proudly, then turned around and said something to Liu Shimin and Lu Tong beside him. They left the crowd with a smirk.
"These three must have had some bad ideas..." Seeing this, Su Lin had a more bad premonition. Before he could think about how the three of them were going to be unfavorable to him, he heard a sudden burst of gongs and drums coming from outside the crowd. Two white flags were carried upright. One pole had eight blood-colored words "Genius Su Lin, lost all his conscience" and the other pole had eight blood-colored words "Turn away my brother and force my stepmother to death."
At the same time, with the sound of a gong, seven or eight men and women in mourning clothes staggered towards each other. Especially the old man who was leading the way, scattering yellow paper while crying and shouting loudly: "Beast Su Lin, please give my daughter back!"
This happened suddenly in front of the government office that was waiting for the examination to begin. All the people who were watching the examination were in full swing and turned around to see what was going on.
When they saw the blood words on the two big flags and heard the old man's crying, everyone present understood that these people were all here to collect debts in Sulin, and it seemed that they were still bloody debts.
"Su Lin, this... isn't this from the Su Liu family's mother's family? The one who took the lead was Liu Shuncai, the father of Su Liu! Their small Liu family actually had the courage to make trouble in the palace?"
Seeing this, Yuan Mu hurried forward to his uncle, the prefect Yuan Tianzhang, and said, "Uncle, send the runners of the government office to drive these people away! Don't disrupt the order of the government examination!"
"Yuan Mu, I'm afraid this won't work. Look, the emotions of the people seem to be incited. If I force the yamen runners to drive them away, I will do what they wish and make the people think that Su Lin is guilty..."
Yuan Tianzhang frowned and shook his head, and said embarrassedly.
"Su Lin, who is despicable, in order to monopolize the property in the mansion, you not only have the will to drive your ten-year-old brother out of the mansion, but also force your lonely stepmother to death... With such an unfilial son, what qualifications are you to come to participate in the mansion examination! Villagers, please give me a review! I want Su Lin to pay my daughter's life..."
The leader Liu Shuncai had the ability to make trouble and distort the facts, which was comparable to his daughter Su Liu. He seemed to feel that he had something to rely on behind him, and stopped his back. He spoke so loudly that he burst into tears, as if he was really as he said, Su Lin was an unfilial and unkind person who drove away his younger brother and forced his stepmother to death.
"I really didn't expect that Su Censor would be such a person. I still admire his poetry..."
"We are so cruel and cruel to our younger brother and stepmother. If such a person becomes our parents' official in the future, wouldn't he harm the party? We must never let such a person participate in the imperial examination!"
"Yes! Our Wu Kingdom established the country with filial piety. So what if Su Lin is talented? The more talented a person is, the greater the harm he will cause in the future..."
"Isn't the magistrate here? We ask the magistrate to come forward and give the Liu family an explanation..."
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Liu Shuncai's performance was half true and half false, but it won the sympathy of most onlookers. Even many of the students who participated in the imperial examinations sneered at Su Lin, and a few of them were even angry and stood up, pointed at Su Lin's nose and cursed: "Su Lin, you are so unfilial, and there is a big problem with moral integrity. I am ashamed of taking the exam together for the same examination as you..."
"Please PM ban Su Lin's examination qualification, otherwise we, Tong Sheng, would rather give up the exam!"
"It's a shame for me to take the exam with such a person!"
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"Brother Su, what's going on?" Ji Yu, who had originally admired Su Lin very much, also frowned and looked at Su Lin suspiciously, and asked cautiously, "I see the thoughts in Brother Su's poems, and I think Brother Su is not such an unfilial person. I hope Brother Su can give me an explanation."
"Brother Ji, do you really believe what that person said is the truth?"
Faced with many doubts and insults, Su Lin calmed down and replied calmly, "Someone wanted to insult my literary name, trying to use such despicable tricks to prevent me from participating in the examination in the office, and even being disqualified from the examination in the office."
Sweeping towards the crowd, Su Lin found that Ran Shichang and the other two were watching the excitement with a smile on their faces. Su Lin's heart was even more certain that the three of them found the Liu family and acted like this.
"Haha! Brother Ran, your move is really great! We found out that Su Lin was in Fengle County and had a grudge with his stepmother Su Liu. Later, Su Liu hanged himself in prison, and the Liu family must have hated Su Lin from the bottom of his bones. So we brought the Liu family and told Old Man Liu that as long as they made such a fuss during the mansion examination, Su Lin could not be in the imperial examination for the rest of his life..."
Lu Tong laughed happily and praised Ran Shichang, "In this way, Old Man Liu will do his best to perform this drama. Do you see that the people around you believe him? For a while, see how Su Lin argued clearly. There will be more than a quarter of an hour before the entrance examination will be entered. Even if he can enter the examination room, he will not be able to answer the questions with a normal attitude..."
PS: Second update!
Chapter completed!