[Red House] Ban'er's Road to Imperial Examination

The manor offered by that rich businessman as the venue for the Luming Banquet was not big, after all, it was at the foot of the capital, and that rich businessman was only rich, after all, he didn't have the guts to occupy such a big place.

So when the three of Wang Yue rushed to the hall, they could clearly hear the noise outside, and most of the candidates had already gathered in the hall, and several examiners stood at the head, their faces were very ugly, because they knew very well, These candidates gathered together to protest, regardless of whether their goals can be achieved in the end, it will be a big stain on their political career for these examiners. Even if this matter subsides, their original smooth road will become Many ups and downs.

Originally going out to be an examiner was a good way for the officials of the Imperial Academy and the proctor to accumulate qualifications. Now it seems that their busy work this time is in vain.

As for the candidates waiting below, they are naturally very anxious. After all, if they really succeeded in forcing the court to agree to the re-examination, wouldn't they have to take the re-examination again?

Any candidate would not be willing to agree to retake the exam when he got good grades in the exam.

Now in the entire arena, only the previous Juren who were invited to participate in this year's Luming Banquet look better. After all, no matter how they are involved, they cannot be involved, but it is really unlucky to encounter such a thing, and they originally wanted to Make good friends with a few potential juniors, but now their plans are in vain.

"How's the situation outside?" Xia Zizhou asked with a gloomy face, the trembling and panic-stricken butler standing beside him. This place was originally just a private manor of a wealthy businessman, although it was borrowed for this year's Luming Banquet location, but in the entire manor there are only the servants of the wealthy businessman and some guards he invited over. There are no government servants or soldiers. Only relying on those guards and servants will definitely not be able to stop the candidates outside the door.

And Xia Zizhou also knew that these examinees came all the way here, but no one came forward to stop them. The patrolling yamen might not be able to come here in time today.

When the butler heard the question, many beads of sweat dripped down his face, he secretly groaned in his heart, he thought it was a good job to curry favor with others, but who would have imagined that such a mistake would be really fatal.

"My lord, I've asked someone to stop it, but we have too few people here, I'm afraid we can't stop it!"

"If you can't stop it, you have to stop it," Xia Zizhou snorted coldly, but he didn't make things too difficult for the housekeeper, but turned to his attendant and said, "Go and watch outside, and report back to me if there is anything. "

"Yes, my lord."

The man responded and ran out quickly. Xia Zizhou turned his head and found that the housekeeper was looking at him expectantly. He felt a little impatient, but he waved to him and said, "Go and watch outside, too!"

The housekeeper quickly saluted him as if he was receiving an amnesty, and ran out without stopping.

Seeing that he was gone, and there was no one else around the two of them, Jiao Wanjiang said coldly: "It turns out that Master Xia is also afraid of death, so why don't you take other people's lives seriously? "

"I'm afraid of death, but I won't hesitate when my uncle needs to die."

"Whenever you want to die, no one will stop you, but you shouldn't use other people's lives as bargaining chips!"

It's not the first time Xia Zizhou heard him say this. At this time, Jiao Wanjiang is still saying this, which makes him feel extremely impatient. What's the use of saying this at this time?Can they still have a way out?

Rather than arguing about this issue here, it is better to think about how to deal with the aftermath, so as to save some innocent people, so he hates these guys who only talk about it.

"I'm afraid it's useless to argue about this issue at this time?" No matter how impatient Xia Zizhou was in his heart, he still had patience after all, and persuaded him with kind words: "How could there be no sacrifice in the matter of reform? For His Majesty's century-old plan , Man said that these scholars, even if they want my life, I am not stingy at all."

Speaking of His Majesty's grand plan, no matter how reluctant Jiao Wanjiang was, he had nothing to say, but he still couldn't help asking: "If you can slow down..."

It's a pity that Xia Zizhou was not interested in listening any more. Before Jiao Wanjiang finished speaking, he stood up directly and said to the people in the hall: "I'm afraid today's matter cannot be taken lightly, but those students outside They are here for this official, and I will go outside to confront them, so as to attract their attention. You are all innocent, but there is no guarantee that they will get carried away for a while and turn their anger on you. Let them go through the back door without paying attention."

After Xia Zizhou said this, the students who had complained about him were moved immediately, and at the same time felt a little guilty. It is impossible to say that they did not notice the undercurrent in the underground, but everyone understands the wise and safe The truth is that if you guess one or two, you must act as if nothing happened.

As long as some of them are willing to speak up and remind, things will not change to where they are today.

In fact, at the beginning, it was not that no one wanted to inform the examiner in order to please the chief examiner. If there was no chance, even if they left the examination room, the examiner would still have to stay in the examination room to grade the papers and make a ranking. Well, the next day is the Lu Ming Banquet, it's too late to remind at this time, it's better to pretend not to know, don't say anything.

It's just that no matter how moved these students are, no matter how guilty they are, they definitely don't want to stay with Xia Zizhou, but they don't want to take the lead to leave by themselves, which seems to be too heartless and ungrateful.

Everyone has this scruple, Xia Zizhou finished his words for a while but no one moved, it seemed that they rejected Xia Zizhou's proposal and wanted to stay and share the risk.

Of course Xia Zizhou will not let them go easily, these people are the best witnesses, of course they have to be present, so Xia Zizhou pretended to show a gratified smile, and said with a smile: "In this critical situation, you don't want to Abandoning this official and leaving, it is really affectionate and righteous, this feeling, this official, I will remember it in my heart!"

Wait, we didn't say no to leaving! ! !

Without waiting for the students to repent, Xia Zizhou expressed his feelings of being moved by the students' willingness to share weal and woe with him, and now these students could not leave even if they wanted to.

And let alone wanting to leave, they couldn't even reveal half of their reluctance.

This made them extremely regretful, why couldn't they just walk away cheekily!

It's just that it's useless to think about it now, I can only hope that the students outside are still rational, and only focus their anger on the examiners, and don't implicate them.

And if they were willing to stay, at least they could gain a good reputation. If Master Xia could get away safely this time, they would be considered favored by a senior.Thinking about it this way, they finally felt a lot more comfortable.

The three of Wang Yuejun and Bowen stood at the back, with their heads down, not conspicuous at all. This is because the three of them did not believe that the chief examiner did not see the reluctance of the crowd, and they probably opened their eyes and told nonsense.

If he insisted on facing the complaints of so many promising students and risked their enmity to keep them, I'm afraid the plan would be too big.

Just don't know what he is going to do?

"I don't know if you are willing to go out with me to confront them face-to-face. I have not violated the imperial court's laws in this imperial examination. I have never accepted bribes or cheated in the examination room. I can say that there is nothing wrong with me. They This is slandering this official, I am willing to make it clear to them face to face, and you are willing to drink them away together with this official!"

"Students are willing!"

"Students are also willing, adults are innocent, how can we allow others to pour dirty water on adults at will, we students should be the pioneers of adults, and clear the stigma for adults!"

I don't know who said this impassioned words, but it caused most of the students to secretly roll their eyes, but they couldn't refute his words at all, so they could only agree with them with stiff smiles, and went out with Xia Zizhou.

However, many people gradually fell behind the crowd like Wang Yue and the others.

"Eh? Isn't this Brother Wang?" A loud voice suddenly sounded beside Wang Yue, as if he was afraid that others would not hear him. His heart sank, knowing that he might not be kind this time, but he could only greet him in the eyes of everyone: "How is Brother Wen?"

"Okay, you are too!"

Seeing that it was an acquaintance meeting to say hello, everyone lost interest at the moment, but that person definitely didn't want to see everyone's attention diverted like this, so he smiled and said to Wang Yue: "Brother Wang, as Jie Yuan in this township examination, the list The first place in the class is highly valued by the teacher, and he should share the same hatred with the teacher, and follow the teacher's side, why did he fall behind?"

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