Lucky husband

Compared with the commotion caused by the release of the rankings in this general examination, Bai Zhiwen's rural examination was like a small farce made by children.

Because when I was in Fucheng, only a few students jumped vigorously under the hint of caring people, and here besides the "victimized" students, there are other students who did not participate in the examination, as well as ordinary people, who are actively discussing, Make eye contact.

On the basis of this news, my mind was spinning quickly, and I began to think that the XX and XX I heard before would definitely be on the list, and did it mean that the fraud was real.

There are also some slow-witted minds, listening to the words outside and thinking about why oil was found in the examination shed of the Gongyuan, and some people are sure that there will be something tricky in the test this time.

Li Mingde looked at the backs of those students in the market, and said with complicated emotions: "Regardless of whether this matter is true or not, the names of those who made the list in this session's exam are notorious."

No matter what the truth behind it is, the news of cheating in this session of the exam will soon spread to everyone. This year will try out and be biased.

Li Mingde thought, Bai Zhiwen encountered an accident in the examination room and failed to finish the answer sheet, so he missed the list. Although he and Wan Rongtong did not encounter an accident and finished the answer sheet, if they were on the list, it is very likely It will damage your reputation, which is not a good thing.

This time, it was Bai Zhiwen who comforted them: "The results have not been announced, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice has not given a definite answer. How can we conclude that there is a problem with this session of the exam? Don't scare yourself."

Before Bai Zhiwen had an accident himself, he could think about it, the big deal would be another three years, but now that Li Mingde and Wan Rongtong have encountered such a bad thing, he is really worried for them. Obstacles will affect a lifetime.

Wan Rongtong also thought of the associated impact of the cheating incident, and he suddenly hoped that he would fail the exam this time, anyway, he was only [-]% sure of passing the exam.

The people in the private room fell silent. Looking at the students making trouble in the middle of the market, they felt a heavy weight hanging in their hearts.

The students who went to the capital to take part in the examination were all from juren background, and they were not as easy to dismiss as scholars. The servants in the market looked at them in embarrassment, and dared not do anything casually.

Therefore, the scene fell into a stalemate, and the officials who released the list could not properly read the list of the apricot list under the disturbance of the students.

About a quarter of an hour later, without warning, a student fell to the ground with his head back and hit a student behind him.

Because he fell backwards, his movements were more obvious, and many people saw it, and the crowd exclaimed.

He saw blood on his forehead the moment he fell down, a wound as long as an ordinary person's index finger was lying on his forehead, and blood was continuously oozing out, and half of his face was almost instantly covered with a few words. stained red.

Suddenly someone in the crowd yelled: "The officer has killed someone!"

This scream seemed to open a door that isolated the outside world, and the outside voice instantly entered the quiet room.

Immediately afterwards, the market was even more chaotic than before: "I saw blood, I killed someone!"

"If the fraud in the imperial examinations is not investigated, and innocent students are implicated and killed, is there any law in this world?"

"Does it take ten days to check if there is oil on the roof of the test shed? Could it be that the Ministry of Criminal Affairs is so procrastinating because it is waiting for the dust to settle after the announcement?"

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These words from the crowd may be popular or elegant, and they are no longer silent.

I don't know if it was deliberately arranged, but the person standing next to the apricot list took advantage of the chaos and took a few steps forward to see clearly the list on the apricot list.

Some of these people on the list are students that most people in the capital know. Their talents and learning amaze everyone, and no one doubts that they can be on the list.

But more people on the list are unknown to everyone, which is normal, after all, a small number of foreign students come to the capital to participate in the examination every year.

In the next step, after seeing the names on the apricot list clearly, several people stepped back and muttered, one by one, they were not sure whether the names on the list had come out of it.

The teahouse where Li Mingjin and the others are located has also heard some of them. If these names are true, then the guest who spoke on the first floor just now is not making up.

Being on the list means that you have the status of a tribute, whether you are No.1 or the last one, you can enter the last examination of the imperial examination-the palace examination.

If you perform exceptionally well in the palace examination, you may be able to go from the last place in the tribute to the top two in one fell swoop. Of course, the probability of this is very small.

After hearing more and more names on the Xingbang from inside, Bai Zhiwen and Li Mingde looked at each other, as if they had discovered a little secret that might happen to many people.

In the end, the farce of the market was that Yin of the Jingzhao Prefecture brought the respected academicians here sweating profusely, and then took away the group of troubled students, because the academicians used their reputation to promise to investigate the truth .

With the endorsement of the bachelor, the troubled students put away their things unwillingly, and helped the fallen student to leave to find a doctor.

No one was making trouble from students, and the release of the rankings could finally proceed smoothly, and each name was yelled out in the deliberately drawn-out voice of the loud and clear officials.

As soon as the officer opened his voice, everyone gradually quieted down in order to listen carefully. Although some people had read the apricot list and announced the list just now, few people heard clearly, and everyone was a little skeptical.

However, as the officials pronounced more and more names, some people soon discovered something was wrong. Why did the name in the official's mouth look so similar to what they had heard before?

Not only did it coincide with the gossip they heard this morning, but they had heard of some of the names before the exam, and some said that they got along very closely with the Liu family.

The people who came to watch the rankings were not only the students who took the exam and the students who didn't, but also men who could read and pay attention to the imperial examination. Men were worse at chatting than women or brothers.

When the officer finished reading the list on the apricot list, he found that the people onlookers were much quieter than in previous years, and they would look at them with strange eyes when they were quiet.

When the singing was over, those officials and servants slid quickly with oil on the soles of their feet under the strange eyes of the common people, and they could not see their usual domineering appearance at all.

After the release of the rankings was over, Li Mingjin and the others waited until the people in the market had dispersed before leaving the teahouse.

Li Mingde was included in the list read by the officer just now, but Bai Zhiwen and Wan Rongtong were not.

When it was said that he would try to cheat, Wan Rongtong thought that he would not be on the list, but at this moment, he actually hoped that he could be on the list. After all, even if someone cheated, it didn't mean that everyone on the list would be Cheating, he didn't make the list with so many fewer people, and he was a bit frustrated to be honest.

Li Mingjin was on the apricot list, but his mood was not too different from Wan Rongtong's.

Therefore, none of them had a smile on their faces when they left, and the waiter in the teahouse who greeted them couldn't figure out whether any of them had passed the exam.

At home, Bai Zhiwen, Li Mingde and Wan Rongtong closed the door and chatted for a while in their temporary study, discussing what happened just now.

Bai Zhiwen struggled for a while, but he still didn't tell them what he saw or did that night. He only said that he thought there might be something really wrong with the test this time, and they should learn more about outside news.

Among the three of them, Bai Zhiwen was an embarrassing student who was implicated in the fire, and Li Mingde was on the list. Neither of them was suitable to come forward to inquire about news, but Wan Rongtong was the only one who had nothing that would not attract attention. It is most suitable for him to go out.

After discussing with Li and Bai Shi brothers and came up with a direction, Wan Rongtong took the boy to the teahouse they didn't often go to before the test that afternoon.

After arriving at the teahouse, Wan Rongtong ordered a cup of tea, gave the waiter a dime, and successfully learned what he wanted to know from the waiter: what happened in the previous ten days.

When Wan Rongtong was out to inquire about news, a letter was delivered to Bai Zhiwen's door by an unremarkable man.

Neither Bai Zhiwen nor Li Mingjin knew the person who sent the letter, but they guessed the person who wrote the letter from an inconspicuous stroke on the envelope, their teacher Zhang Anhao.

This letter is very short and the content is very simple. It is to ask them to stay at home honestly and not to go out to do anything with certain people. Students from other places are fine.

The letter was very cryptic, thanks to Bai Zhiwen and the two of them communicating with the teacher through letters for a long time, they could understand the meaning of the letter.

Obviously, Zhang Anhao also felt that this matter was not simple, and someone was manipulating it behind the scenes. He even suspected that if the evidence of cheating in the exam was convincing, he might retake the exam according to the temper of the current emperor. Therefore, he reminded the two disciples, never Don't be fooled into making trouble.

When Wan Rongtong came back, the three of them went into the small study again and chatted for a long time, and finally decided to close the door tightly and stay at home and not go out.

Fortunately, they are not the students who came to the capital later and can only live in the inn to be easily found. It is also fortunate that they did not say where they lived when they made friends with other students outside.

Wan Rongtong thought that since he failed the ranking, he would take his wife back to the original Han province ahead of schedule, but Li Mingde and Bai Zhiwen stopped him as soon as he proposed, saying that it would be better to wait for this period of time before returning home. Rong Tong agreed.

On the third day after the release of the rankings, more than 20 students who failed the rankings ran to the outside of the Criminal Department to block the door, blocking the officials of the Criminal Department from coming out, and wrote small articles to distribute to passers-by, telling passers-by that they did this only to seek justice .

At the same time, more than 30 other students ran outside the Tribute Court, arguing to disclose the clues that the Ministry of Punishment had found in the Tribute Court.

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