Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 520 Someone is in trouble
"Steward Yao, do you think the young master will come out early?" Wang Fulai stood at the gate of the tribute courtyard, stretched his neck and looked in, as if he could see the people in the tribute courtyard through the officers and soldiers guarding the gate and the high wall. Like a young master.

Yao Shuqi shook his head and said firmly, "No."

"Why?" Wang Fulai finally turned his neck and gave Yao Shuqi a look.

Yao Shuqi smiled and said nothing.

He is Du Jinning's housekeeper, the number one confidant.Whatever information Du Jinning needed, he was ordered to collect it.He naturally knew that the two chief examiners and the four fellow examiners belonged to different camps, and he also knew that although his young master had always said that the possibility of her winning the Jie Yuan was extremely slim, and he had no obsession with not winning the Jie Yuan, according to his opinion of the young master Even if there is a slight chance to win the Yuan, my young master will not let it go.

Handing in the papers in advance is equivalent to entering the examiner's eyes in advance.Although the test paper was not directly handed over to the chief examiner, but was collected by the test paper officer, sealed by the sealing officer, and then copied by the transcription officer.But the first or the first few people to hand in the papers always attract much attention.As long as these test paper officers and seal officials are members of several major camps, it is possible to convey the information of those who submitted the papers in advance to the examiner.If the examiner finds that there is no one he wants to support among these people, he may exclude them from the list of Jieyuan.

In fact, just excluding Jieyuan from the list is not a big deal. After all, Jieyuan is one. Du Jinning himself does not have the confidence that the articles he writes are better than everyone else. It cannot be copied, and there is only a one in ten thousand chance to get Xie Yuanzhen.

I'm afraid that these people will read Du Jinning's article too well, and worry that if she is selected, it will affect their own superiors in the end, so they deliberately depose her from the beginning and prevent her test papers from appearing in other papers. In front of the examiner's eyes, that would be really bad.If you fail the ranking, you have nowhere to seek justice, so you can only pinch your nose and admit it, and come back three years later.

But it is different after handing in the papers with the big troops.At that time, there were a lot of people, and dozens or hundreds of test papers were handed in. The examiner and the seal officer had no time to associate the submitter with the content of the test papers and memorize them. Du Jinning was able to fish in troubled waters.At that time, even if someone sees that this test paper is well done, because they don't know who it is, they dare not dismiss it at will, worrying that it is the test paper of the person they are optimistic about.In this way, no matter whether you can win Jieyuan in the end, at least you can ensure that the township examination can be passed smoothly.

However, it is impossible for Yao Shuqi to tell Wang Fu about the twists and turns.Firstly, the occasion was not right, and there were many relatives or servants of the examinees standing nearby; secondly, it was difficult to talk about such things. Wang Fulai himself realized that it was his fault, and Yao Shuqi brought it out to him and told him that it was The mouth is open.

"If the ruler is not secret, he will lose his ministers, if his ministers are not secret, he will lose his body, and if his secrets are not secret, he will be harmed. Therefore, a gentleman will not come out if he is careful." Yao Shuqi was also a scholar, and he is well versed in this truth.He wanted to continue his promising career as a butler of the Du family, so he kept his mouth shut, knowing what to say and what not to say was the top priority.

Wang Fulai has made progress in being Du Jinning's coachman these years. He knows that there are some things that he can't inquire about. Seeing that Yao Shuqi didn't speak, he didn't ask. .

People standing not far from Yao Shuqi and Wang Fulai were also discussing: "This year is really strange. In previous years, no matter what, there are always candidates who put the top card. This year, at this hour, there are no top candidates. Could it be that this year's exam questions Particularly difficult?"

"Very likely." The man beside him said, pointing to two people not far away, "See? That's a servant of Mr. Qi's family. Young Master Qi participated in the rural examination this year, and he is the best in the city. Excellent student. Master Qi didn't come out early, which shows how difficult this year's exam questions are."

"The most outstanding student in Fucheng? Brother, are you too ignorant? The most outstanding student in Fucheng is no longer Qi Siyu, but Du Jinning from Nanlu Academy. Du Xianggong not only won the first case in the last court examination, but also became a junior. , I heard that when Mr. Qi was giving lectures, he became a blockbuster and refuted all of Mr. Qi's theories."

That person obviously knew Du Jinning, and he might be a family member of a student from Nanlu Academy. He pointed to Yao Shuqi and Wang Fulai and said, "Did you see that? That's Du Xianggong's servant. They are still waiting, It can be seen how difficult this year's topic is." After saying this, he looked very proud.

This man's voice was a bit loud, even though he lowered his voice, the housekeeper of Qi's mansion and Liu Yun, Qi Siyu's servant, still heard these words.

Liu Yun was so angry that he rolled up his sleeves and wanted to talk to that person, but was stopped by Steward Qi: "Wait."

Liu Yun turned his head and looked at Steward Qi with dissatisfaction: "Should we just let people criticize our old master and young master like this? Then Du Jinning made the old master vomit blood in anger, and now he still wants to step on our family's position, it's shameless. However, these people still yell about this matter so that everyone knows, maybe he is a member of the Du family, and he came to promote the reputation of his young master."

Steward Qi looked at him and hated iron for being weak: "Can you do things with your brain? Few people know about this matter, but if you go up and argue with him like this, within a quarter of an hour everyone at the gate of the Gongyuan will know about it.

Liu Yun looked at the dark crowd sitting or standing waiting at the entrance of the Gongyuan, and silently closed his mouth.

In previous years, some examinees would be carried out of the tribute courtyard due to illness, so even if they knew that the scientific examination would take three days, people from each family would guard the gate of the tribute courtyard during these three days, not daring to leave for a moment, lest their own candidates would suffer from For some reason, he left the examination room early, but no one responded.So as long as the family can find manpower, they will wait at the gate of the Gongyuan.

Waiting for a long time, it would be boring for these people to wait here, if he quarreled with that person, a large group of people would gather around in a short while, and by then everyone would know about Du Jinning and the Qi family.

"Could it be that we just let these people say nothing?" Liu Yun said reluctantly.

Butler Qi rolled his eyes: "I have a good idea."

Liu Yun's eyes lit up: "What idea? Tell me."

Butler Qi leaned close to his ear and whispered a few words.

Liu Yun was very happy when he heard that, and said excitedly: "Don't worry, Steward Qi, I'll make him famous all over the world." As he spoke, he squeezed out the crowd, found the driver waiting outside, got into the car and returned to Qi Mansion.

After a cup of tea, he came back again, and brought back four ordinary men with different clothes, some dressed like scholars, some were honest middle-aged uncles, some were clever servants, and one It was an old man in a satin shirt.

The four people got off the car in an alley some distance away from the Gongyuan, walked to the entrance of the Gongyuan, and quickly dispersed to find someone to chat with.

(End of this chapter)