Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 521 Counterattack
These people waited at the entrance of the Gongyuan and had nothing to do. They were already very bored, and when they were bored, they started chatting about their children, young masters, and masters.Now almost three days have passed, everything that can be said has been said, and everyone is not sure what to say. It took only two quarters of an hour for these four people who spread rumors to melt into the crowd, and Du Jinning's reputation was as fast as riding a rocket. Go up.

There is only one Jie Yuan, and not everyone daydreams that they can get Jie Yuan based on the level of their own children or masters.Everyone is satisfied if they can successfully pass the Juren examination.Therefore, many people are not disgusted with the remarks about how powerful Du Jinning is, but have the psychology of revering the strong.

Some people are quick-witted and intend to make friends with the Du family. When they found out that Yao Shuqi and Wang Fulai were servants of the Du family, they came here and praised Du Jinning to their faces: "Your young master is amazing. I heard that not only When I was in Lishui County, I was the one who studied best in Boyue Academy, and it was the same when I went to Fuxue Academy and Nanlu Academy. Not everyone can get the small three yuan. I think it is your young master who came to Jieyuan this time. gone."

It's fine for one person to come and say that, but after two or three people came one after another, Yao Shuqi and Wang Fulai felt something was wrong.

Yao Shuqi asked: "How do you know about my young master?"

"Everyone is talking about it." These people saw Yao Shuqi's serious face, although they were puzzled, they still told how they heard these words under his questioning.

"Go around and see who is deliberately spreading these words." Yao Shuqi instructed Wang Fulai.

Wang Fulai hurried away, came back after a while and shook his head: "I didn't see anyone spreading the word, but everyone was talking about it."

Even if Wang Fulai didn't think as far as Yao Shuqi, he also knew that something was wrong with the situation in front of him.

This is obviously someone deliberately spreading public opinion in order to flatter and kill Du Jinning—the more famous she is now, the more people praise her. Overreaching.The ancients have always regarded humility as a virtue, and they are especially disgusted with publicity and arrogance.It is conceivable how bad such a bad reputation has affected Du Jinning.

Wasn't that how Qi Siyu was laughed at during the college exam?

Thinking of Qi Siyu, Yao Shuqi and Wang Fulai's eyes fell on Steward Qi at the same time.

No need to think about it anymore, both of them firmly believe that apart from the Qi family, there will be no second person to do such a detrimental thing.It's just that those who spread the rumors have long since disappeared. There is no evidence, and Yao Shuqi and Wang Fulai believe that it was the Qi family who did it, so there is nothing they can do.

Besides, although these people are flattering their young master, they are really telling the truth.Even if they find evidence that the Qi family is spreading rumors, they cannot say that they are spreading rumors.

"What should I do?" Wang Fulai was very anxious.

Yao Shuqi thought and thought, squinting his eyes slightly and said: "The public's talk is full of gold, and it will be destroyed. Now that the speech has started, we can't stop it if we want to stop it, so we can only sparse it."

Wang Fulai was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Sparse? Why?"

"Naturally, release new remarks and suppress the ones about our young master." Yao Shuqi stroked his beard, the anxiety in his expression had long since disappeared, replaced by a sly smile on the corner of his mouth.

He didn't delay after saying that, and asked Wang Fulai to guard here. Instead of driving Wang Fulai's carriage, he went to the open space and hired a mule cart, and hurried to the bookstore closest to the Gongyuan, and took the The guys all called, ordered them to change their clothes and disguise themselves, and then led them back to the Gongyuan in a mule cart.

The clerk in the bookstore welcomes and sends people all day long, and is easy to be recognized.But time was running out, and Yao Shuqi couldn't take care of these anymore.But the guys are all smart, and they will definitely check whether the other person is familiar before going up to talk to them. In addition, they have disguised themselves, so the chance of being recognized is not high.

Sure enough, these guys usually rely on one mouth to eat, and they are very familiar with the work of chatting with people and spreading rumors.In addition, the servants of the Qi family praised Du Jinning, and it was difficult to gain the approval of others, and it took a lot of time and energy; but everyone was interested in the gossip of the Qi family, and it didn't take much effort for them to spread the rumors. out.In particular, many of the waiting people were family members of Fuxue and Nanlu Academy students. They all knew that Qi Yuandao was refuted by Du Jinning during his lecture.Seeing everyone talking about this matter, these people suddenly became excited and told others what they knew with great interest.

So the rumors released by the Du family were like lighting a fire on dry grass. After igniting a small area, other places also quickly burned, forming a prairie fire.The clerk from the bookstore came over for a while, then got into the carriage and left quickly, completing the task without anyone noticing.

Steward Qi blackmailed Du Jinning. Seeing that no candidates had come out of the tribute courtyard, standing there bored, he planned to take a walk in the crowd to see the effect of his move.But I didn't expect to hear others praising Du Jinning, but I heard people talking about his old man's disgraced face when he was giving lectures.

His face turned black all of a sudden.

what happened?Didn't you gossip about Du Jinning?How did it come to his old man?Moreover, these words are not pleasant.

Butler Qi is in his sixties, and he is very mature and prudent in his daily affairs, and he never gets angry easily, but he heard a middle-aged man next to him talking eloquently about the situation of his lecture that day, how his old man was in a mess, how he was angry He had to vomit blood, he couldn't help it, he rushed up and argued with that person, trying to intimidate the Qi family's status, so that everyone nearby who heard his voice would shut up.

But he didn't expect that person to be the father of a student from Nanlu Academy.His son had a good friendship with Fang Shaohua, and he also got help from Du Jinning and his group in the academy. He knew what happened on the day of the lecture.Although his family is rich, they are also somewhat powerful. Based on the principle of life that more things are worse than less things, they usually don't chew such tongues outside when they have nothing to do.But today everyone was talking about Qi Yuandao's embarrassment, and he took out the news he got from his son to share with everyone on a whim, but he was unlucky to be heard by Steward Qi.

It would be fine if Steward Qi spoke more politely, he just apologized and shut up.But he didn't want Steward Qi to use him to frighten everyone and speak very rudely.

The man couldn't bear it, and he immediately retorted: "This is a fact, and it's not a rumor I made. Everyone is saying, you still want to silence everyone? Du Xianggong is just capable. The old man refuted it, so why can’t we say it? If we can’t say this, then let’s talk about your young master’s release of poisonous snakes in the government school, driving Du Xianggong out of the government school, and he had to go to Nanlu Academy to study It's all right."

(End of this chapter)