Yu Jun

Chapter 57
Mo Lingfeng ate a basket of tangerines, a pot of sugar water, a plate of moon cakes, and a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes with his well-tied aunts, and went back to the Changsui residence with a bulging stomach, not knowing how to spend the remaining eight days of the exam.

The next day, she went to Xiongshi Gorge to look at red stones. On the cliff, she picked up a cracked red stone, which looked like a turtle's back. Yin Nan carried it all the way back to the mansion with a serious face, and placed it in a yellow sand tank. And three golden crucian carp as companions.

On the third day, she went to Yuxi with a fishing rod, and was caught in a group of fishermen to fish. Suddenly, a big white goose attacked aggressively.

The fishermen suddenly went into a panic, yelling "Wow", and ran away one after another. Mo Lingfeng only caught a grass carp with the length of a thumb. Seeing that the single seedling was eaten by a big goose, he was furious. Go forward and throw the big white goose over and over again.

That night, the Mo family ate a big goose meal.

On the fourth day, Mo Lingfeng went to the temple in Kuanzhou City to worship Buddha. There were as many people as crucian carp crossing the river who came to pray for the Buddha to bless the students. They flocked to the Buddha from all directions. The buns were messy, one hair became two big, and I went home exhausted.

On the fifth day, Mo Qianlan and his younger sister went to a banquet in Yuhua Street. Mo Lingfeng cheered up, went to see Malong, listened to Xiqin, and ate two bowls of dry rice. Mo Qianlan and Wang Yunsheng talked every word. After deliberation, I was exhausted physically and mentally, and I drank a few more glasses, and I got a headache at night.

The aunts are getting stronger and stronger, making him look like a white chicken. He doesn't want to greet the aunts, so he can only hang around in the middle hall.

Before finishing a bowl of hangover soup, his belly was full of water, he hurriedly got up and rushed into the official room, grabbed the servant's arm, bent over and vomited.

He didn't eat anything, he only vomited a little water, but he was sweating coldly, soaking his underwear, and his temples throbbed with pain.

Reluctantly changed into a suit of clothes, and returned to the house, he curled up on the couch with Mo Lingfeng in his arms, in a daze, and called Ah Yao.

Ah Yao stayed with him for half the night, and in the middle of the night, after Mo Qianlan was sound asleep, he returned to Changsui's house in a daze.

On the sixth day, Cheng's family held a chrysanthemum banquet, and Mo Lingfeng was invited to go. Shi Qing was also among them. When she saw Mo Lingfeng, she thanked her for the gift of beads.

Another girl teased Mo Lingfeng and Cheng San, Mo Lingfeng responded with a cold face, and finally several wives surrounded her, inquiring about Mo Qianlan's sequel.

Mo Lefeng replied seriously: "Brother likes white and fat ones."

The plump wives scattered like birds and beasts in an instant.

On the seventh day, Mo’s kitchen bought a crate of fresh crabs, and put the crate and crabs in the tank for cooking on the second day. Mo Lingfeng played with the crabs, causing the crabs to pinch his hands, and went back to Changsui residence weakly. .

On the eighth day, the [-]th day of the eighth month, the brothers and sisters of the Mo family and Zhao Shiheng went up to the high platform to enjoy the moon, ate moon cakes, drank new wine, opened crabs, looked at the full moon, and it was hard to describe autumn thoughts.

Zhao Shiheng got drunk, cried a lot, and dreamed a lot.

On the ninth day, it still did not rain.

If there is no rain in the test, it is the beauty of God, otherwise the paper will be damaged, and the hard work of the students will be ruined in one go.

The time of the unitary is approaching, and the students in Haoshe are showing their heads and showing their feet, each with their own mood.

Dumb boy, nine days like a dream, not knowing what he wrote, a middle-of-the-road man, full of sorrow, hesitation, not sure if his answer is what the examiner wants, he wants to answer the whole book again, but he realizes that nine days have passed Pass.

Only those who think with wisdom and ingenuity can write a pen and write it with confidence, and sit peacefully, just waiting for the bell to ring.

Wu Jin sat in her own dormitory, the examination papers were placed flat on the examination table, and the pens, inks, and inkstones had all been put into the examination basket, so as not to be in a hurry when collecting the examination papers and soil the examination papers.

In nine days and three sessions, he had already answered all the questions and was just waiting for the papers to be collected.

All of a sudden, the westerly wind blew up the examination papers, rattling, and there was a solitary cry of autumn geese in the sky, and the ground suddenly felt cold and damp.

There were sneezing sounds one after another in the dormitory, and there were more rustling sounds of exam papers.

The autumn rain followed the trend, pattering and rustling, and drifted into the dormitory at two or three o'clock, Wu Jin immediately covered the paper with her sleeve to prevent the rain from staining the paper.

The invigilating soldiers patrolled back and forth with umbrellas, and the outer curtain officials fulfilled their duties and took turns patrolling. From time to time, they stood on the Mingyuan Building and looked down. Nothing changed.

Some people wept softly to the sound of the rain, and some people came out of the official room, saw it was raining, and didn't bring an umbrella, so they could only raise their hands above their heads, cover their heads with their sleeves, and hurried past the dormitory, splashing countless water.

The rain was getting heavier, and some buildings began to leak. Just as everyone was trying their best to protect their examination papers, the external transfer officer rang the bell on Mingyuan Building.

The bell broke the sky and resounded throughout Kuanzhou City.

The external transfer officer took a long breath and shouted: "Your time is here, close the paper!"

The external examiner stood in front of each row of dormitories, and the supervision, surveillance, and inspections all started to move around, holding umbrellas and walking back and forth to prevent candidates from causing trouble at this critical moment.

The eyes of the patrolling soldiers became more serious, they wanted to see the deepest part of a person, and if any examinee lost his composure, they would immediately suppress them.

Someone held up an umbrella, lit a lantern, and shone in front of the outside scroller, who began to roll the scrolls from beginning to end.

When Wu Jin watched her exam papers being taken away, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

ended.

The gate of the Tribute Court opened, and the examinees packed up their test baskets and walked out in a muddy manner.

There were a lot of people outside the tribute courtyard, and the carriages and sedan chairs were even more crowded. As the students came out, the crowded crowd immediately became commotion and kept shouting. It took a quarter of an hour before Wu Jin walked from the entrance of the tribute courtyard to the street.

Wu Yi held an umbrella and waited for him outside, her eyes searched for a long time, and when she saw him, she ran over, put away her umbrella, stood under Wu Jin's umbrella, and carried the test basket for him: "Brother!"

He stuffed a sugar cake into Wu Jin's hands: "Mother said I want you to put some cushion first."

Wu Jin took the sugar cake, smelled the sweet aroma, took a bite, and swallowed it, only to realize that her hungry chest was sticking to her back, and the remaining half of the cake was swallowed in just three or two bites.

Still hungry, burning with hunger, body aches, curled up in the three-foot-square dormitory, bones all over the body are bent, fingers are curled up like chicken feet, and the mind is especially tired, as if the brain was full of energy Everything was dry and sunken, leaving only a piece of gray.

It was only then that he realized that he had been tightening a string, which was stretched too tightly and with too much force, so that he ignored the hunger and pain in his body.

Now the string was slowly loosened, and the feelings around him also came back.

He didn't speak—he didn't have the energy to speak, and walked home with Wu Yi, the sky was getting dark quickly, the closer he got to Shishi Street, the fewer people took the exam, there were no students, no carriages and sedan chairs, only various peddlers, Carrying a burden to hide from the rain under the eaves.

Wu Yi's voice gradually became clearer: "Brother, I heard that the well in the Gongyuan was not used for three years and was not clean. In the first scene, someone was lazy and didn't use the stove to boil water, and died of illness. Is it true?"

"Ah."

"Brother, I also heard that a tribute courtyard in a state caught fire and killed more than 90 people. The government wants to build a student grave."

"Ah."

"Fortunately, I don't have to take the exam."

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)