The hero is broken again

Pingxi Fucheng is located in the prosperous center of the south of the Yangtze River, so the Jiangnan Gongyuan was built in Pingxi City. It is located in the north of the city, and across the street is the Beihuai River, which is brightly lit at night.

At the end of July, students from other prefectures came to Pingxi City with their bags and relatives or schoolchildren, and the restaurants and inns in the city ran out of accommodation early on.Some of the students who failed to catch up with the good rooms lived in private houses, and some had to stay overnight in the place where they were looking for flowers and willows, so as to take a rest and prepare for the exam.

For a while, people dressed as scholars could be seen everywhere in Pingxi City.

On the eighth day of August, it was still dark outside, but there were faint sounds of people walking on the street.

Although the servant girls in Yu's mansion had Qi Fei's order not to disturb the young master's clear dream today, but this time Yu Wei, who was sleeping lightly, woke up early, and when he looked outside, he couldn't see the sky turning white. I can't help but mutter in my heart that the exams of the ancients are really harder than the college entrance exams of later generations.

At least the sky was already bright during the college entrance examination for later generations, and judging by the sky outside, it was estimated that it would not even arrive at five o'clock in the morning.

A few days ago, at the request of Yu's father, the two had to stay in the study room to study together all the time, so these two lived in the same courtyard again, and Qi Fei tidied up the east wing where they used to live. stand up.

In the early morning of summer, it was still a bit warm. Yu Wei was lying on the bed wrapped in a thin sheet, listening to the movements in the courtyard with his ears open. The courtyard was almost so quiet that a needle could be heard.

Fortunately, he developed a pair of spiritual ears when he was learning martial arts, and soon he could distinguish the rustling noises outside and the voice of Qi Fei speaking in a low voice.

He heard the little maid asking: "It's already this hour, do you want to wake up the young master?"

There was the sound of splashing water outside, it was obvious that Qi Fei who hadn't answered was washing his face, Yu Wei waited for a while with his head up, and then he heard his answer.

"You don't need to wake up, just let Ayu continue to sleep."

Yu Wei was delighted to hear that, but frowned again after hearing the little maid's next words.

"Then only you, Young Master Qi, are going to take the exam today."

Yu Wei heard the silence outside for a while, and then heard Qi Fei's low and deep "hmm" in response.

Unfortunately, something happened to the rest of the Yu family's property in Fucheng a few days ago. Father Yu and Mrs. Yu left the Fucheng by boat a few days ago, and it will take a few days before they come back.

Now the masters of the Yu Mansion are only Su Ying'er who doesn't leave the door, Yu Wei, the young master of the Yu family, and Qi Fei who is going to take the exam today.

When the familiar sound of footsteps came, Yu Wei was startled for a moment, and immediately lay down on his back and lifted the thin sheet to cover his whole body, but even covered his face without noticing it for a while.

For a while, the breathing became a little short, and at this time the door was pushed open, and Yu Wei didn't have time to do other actions, so he could only ease his breathing, and at the same time put his fist against the sheet next to his face and made a slit to make a move. Where the breath comes from.

Qi Fei intended to take a look from a distance before rushing to take the exam. When he saw A Yu who was covered in a sheet on the bed, his face showed the first smile of the day.

Stepping forward to help him pull out the list, revealing Yu Wei's flushed face due to dyspnea, Qi Fei looked down for a while, his scorching gaze never moving away from the trembling eyelids.

After a long time, Yu Wei finally heard him chuckle next to his ear, and said something in an extremely soft tone.

"Ayu, I'm going to take the exam now."

After the person left, Yu Wei got up immediately, rubbed his red ears, and looked at the closed doors and windows, a look of awkwardness quickly flashed across his face.

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When Qi Fei came with the test basket, the sky had gradually turned pale, and two long queues had already lined up in front of the Jiangnan Tribute Court, all holding the same test basket, waiting for the gate of the Tribute Court to open.

The examination time of the township examination is fixed, and the Gongyuan, where the examination room is located, is also opened at a fixed time. Through the crack of the red gate, you can vaguely see soldiers walking around with weapons inside.

Before the door was opened, the serious atmosphere allowed the students outside to maintain their minds and treat them with serious faces. They didn't even dare to discuss loudly with fellow villagers, and they all spoke in a low voice.

After the matter was over, a few loud words suddenly came out from among the crowd, causing everyone to look in the direction of the sound.

"Brother Chen, you can recite more than half of "Zhou Li" at once, you are really a talent with a photographic memory!"

"Where is that? Brother Li is the rare scholar talent in my Great Yan Dynasty. I can't compare to you. You are extremely good at writing. Last time, Brother Li's writing was praised by the magistrate of Pingxi County."

The first thing everyone saw was not the two scholars who were proudly bowing their heads, but a handsome young man standing sideways beside the scholar.

In the twilight of the morning, the young man standing upright was handsome and thin, with regular features, not a trace of a scholarly temperament in his body, but a trace of youthful childishness mixed with his straight and handsome face.

The Great Yan Dynasty has always been "a man who is fourteen is an adult, twenty is the age of a weak crown, and a woman is sixteen and a hairpin, and there is no such thing as an adult." For hundreds of years, Dayan has been famous for participating in the rural examination in history. The number of child prodigies under the age of 15 can be counted on two palms.

A student from Pingxi City recognized him and revealed his identity in a low voice. The people next to him asked curiously who this young man who was about to become an adult and able to take the township examination was.

He only heard the man continue to praise: "His name is Qi Fei, he is a student of our Pingxi Academy, and he won the first place in the government and college exams a few years ago. Our college instructors often praise him, I heard that he He came from the north and settled in our Pingxi City, otherwise he was the top case in the county examination in the north a few years ago, so it can be said that he has won a small three yuan."

Hearing his popular science remarks, everyone looked at Qi Fei who was standing tall in amazement, and stared at him with open eyes, as if he had some knack for the exam.

Because of his personality, he has never had any good classmates. Qi Fei just stood quietly alone with his eyes closed, his face was not moved when he heard the voices around him, and he didn't think about saying anything to deal with him modestly.

I don't think so, he didn't respond modestly, but other people began to help him identify his identity, speaking in a sour tone, but it was the two scholars surnamed Chen and Li who stood in front of him just now.

"Hey, isn't this from the Yu family, the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River? Brother Li, I know him. I have seen him discuss business with others in the place of Rouge Winery." She was a little crazy, dressed in exquisite silk and satin, she didn't look like a scholar who came to take the imperial examination.

Li Xiucai looks weak and bookish, but his words are extremely sour and mean: "Isn't that a businessman who smells like copper? When did our Great Yan Dynasty have a law that merchants can also participate in the imperial examination?"

Qi Fei glanced at them with an unchanged expression, but didn't pay attention to them, but only adjusted the wrinkled hem of the clothes.

There are also people who recognize these two scholars, but they are from another academy whose ranking in the college examination is lower than that of Qi Fei, and their usual knowledge is also above-average, and one of them has even been praised by the magistrate of Pingxi County for a well-written article. .

But no one knew that the articles written by Li Xiucai at that time were all flattery for the county magistrate who had served in Pingxi County for more than ten years and had not made any achievements. It is no wonder that the county magistrate was not happy after reading it.

Seeing that no one followed suit from the crowd around them, the two couldn't help but glance at each other, and Chen Xiucai rolled his eyes.

"Brother Li, don't say that. The Yu Mansion is the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River after all. It can't be compared with ordinary businessmen. I heard that this Qi Fei is the foster husband of the young master of the Yu family. I heard that the young master is the most protective. If you let him hear anything, don't let us taste the taste of prison."

Li Xiucai's face turned angry, and he turned to glance at Qi Fei, who was suppressing his emotions, "So what if the young master of the Yu family is here, isn't it because a young lady of the Yu family entered the palace and they got some status with the official family, We are students under the jurisdiction of the government, so he can arrest us without any reason!"

"That's not necessarily true. Who knows if the Yu family will give money to the powerful person to be arrested," Chen Xiucai said heavily, "Besides, he has always been unknown in Pingxi City, but he can be found in the courtyard." The one who won the first place in the test, who knows if there is something tricky in this matter."

Among the people watching were students from the same academy who studied with Qi Fei, and they couldn't help explaining, but the two scholars didn't listen, and snorted coldly and said strangely.

"I'm afraid that this time the provincial examination has not yet started, and some people have already obtained the examination questions early. Maybe someone can also get the Jieyuan of this local examination."

Of course, it is unnecessary to say who this so-and-so is referring to. This matter affects one of the places in the township examination, and it is also related to the whereabouts of Xie Yuan in the township examination. Qi Fei's answer.

Those two people falsely accused the perfect person and did not evacuate yet, they just continued to speak sourly at the same place, just trying to hit Qi Fei into an angry fight, and use words to affect his mood of the exam.

Even though Qi Fei didn't answer, the two of them felt complacent that he must have had an influence, and a few hints of joy appeared on their faces, and they were about to open their mouths to add more fire.

Unexpectedly, before these words were uttered, the two of them felt that someone had kicked hard at the crook of their legs, and their bodies staggered back two steps. Sit on the ground.

Two piles of poop passed by someone's dog on the ground passed by at night, and the two of them sat on it.

Seeing the "shit luck" of the two scholars each touching their hands, the crowd of onlookers burst into laughter.

Qi Fei raised his eyes and looked somewhere in the crowd, the corners of his mouth slightly curved.

The scholar sitting on the ground turned blue and red, his anger welling up, he turned his upper body and looked around without even bothering to stand up, yelling in a voice that it was some villain who dared not show his face to kick someone!full of curses again

Yu Wei, who quietly withdrew his foot from the crowd, heard their foul language again, stepped forward and kicked the two of them again, this time with so much force, that the knees of the two were so painful that they couldn't help shouting.

Yu Wei sneered and said, "This young master is the one who protects the weak in your mouth, why? I can't bear the pain before I taste the prison in your mouth."

The faces of the two scholars turned from pale to paler. After looking at each other, they just pretended to be angry, covered their painful knees with one hand and pointed at him with the other, shouting, "We are taking part in the imperial examination. Student, I have been praised by the county magistrate, and I will be an official in the future, how dare you treat us like this!"

Yu Wei sneered and said "Oh", "The township examination has not yet started, you say you can be an official in the future, and you use the Pingxi county magistrate as an excuse. If there is no trick in it, I really don't believe it!"

The faces of the two of them became even paler, and the people watching the bustle began to think deeply about them, and they all regretted the words they blurted out.

The noise they made at the entrance of the Gongyuan has already been delivered by the guards to the Gongyuan. Under the shadows of the people, Qi Fei has already seen the red door being quietly opened.

It's just that everyone turned their backs to the gate, and no one except Qi Fei noticed it.

Qi Fei stepped forward and grabbed Ayu's wrist, pulled him behind him, squinted his eyes and asked: "You two just said such slander, but are you questioning the current emperor?"

"What slander to question the emperor?" Chen Xiucai was taken aback for a moment, then immediately replied: "What we are talking about is the truth, the Yu family you belong to is the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, which examiner would not give you instructions for the sake of the Yu family Xie Yuan's ranking!"

"If you say so, as the young master of the Yu Mansion, why don't I go directly to take the imperial examination and win the first prize?" Yu Wei replied with a sneer.

If it wasn't for Qi Fei's tight grip on the wrist, he would really be able to step forward and kick the two of them again, guaranteeing that they would be kicked directly to the west.

Li Xiucai, who had been silent all this time, immediately replied: "That's not because you have no knowledge at all. I'm afraid you can't even write your own name."

Yu Wei didn't study with Qi Fei since Qi Fei entered the academy from the school, and usually wandered the streets with some cronies in Pingxi City.

So much so that he didn't know that in the past five years, his reputation in Pingxi City had been spread to such an extent that he was an illiterate young master, and Yu Wei laughed angrily at his words.

Qi Fei suppressed the tumbling emotions in his eyes, caught a glimpse of the corner of the brown official uniform from the corner of his eye, clenched his fists and asked in a low voice: "The chief examiners who come to invigilate the examination every year are personally selected by the current Holy Majesty. How can you be dissatisfied with today's saint if you speak out so easily about the incorruptible slander of the chief examiner?"

After all, the two of them were scholars who got a scholar, and they still knew the truth that disasters come from their mouths. Hearing Qi Fei's meaningful words, they couldn't help but shudder and wanted to refute them.

Unexpectedly, a serious question suddenly came from behind everyone, followed by the voice of everyone saluting and saying hello.

"Which student dares to be dissatisfied with the Holy One?"

"I've seen adults."

The body temperature of the two people who were still sitting on the ground dropped immediately, their lips and faces were as pale as the whitewashed walls of the Gongyuan.

A voice of despair sounded in the hearts of both of them: This time it's over...

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