Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 10 Framed
  On Jia Qiang's side, Lao Shun Tou brought his old wife with him the next day. Her cooking taste was good enough for Jia Qiang, so she was kept by Jade Cui.

Two rough girls followed him, and they became popular in the courtyard.

But these have nothing to do with Jia Qiang. He seems to have returned to the days before the college entrance examination, getting up before dawn every day and not going to bed until midnight.

Jade advised him to take care of himself from time to time, but he knew in his heart that this college examination was extremely important.

In this era, his status as a scholar allowed him to live with more dignity.

Otherwise, even if he changes places and takes out all the silver in the inventory, he will not be able to keep it.

Under the joint management of Lao Shuntou and Jade, the operation of Erjin Courtyard is on the right track.

Time passed quickly, a month passed like this, and it was the day of the college examination.

At the third watch, Feicui took out the jacket that he had worked on these days. In order to facilitate the search, the jacket was more convenient.

Jade has been trained to be the maid of the young master in the mansion since she was a child, and she has already learned how to prepare for the exam.

She also inquired about how to prepare for the college exam.

The cakes and meat in the test basket were cut into small pieces to prevent the food from being cut by the yamen during the search. Prepare small pieces of food yourself to avoid this trouble.

When it was still dark, I heard the faint sound of drums coming from outside. It was the sound of the head drum.

Students taking the college examination need to be prepared. Jia Qiang had breakfast under Jade's service.

When the second drumbeat came, he walked out of the door. Lao Shuntou's carriage was already waiting at the door.

The carriage was walking on the quiet street, and from time to time it would meet students who were also rushing to the examination room. Some were riding carriages like him, and some were walking. This could tell how well their families were doing.

Jia Qiang was sitting in the carriage. He was very confident about this college examination.

His confidence comes not only from this month of hard study and the memory of his previous life, but also from the books and materials in his inventory.

Yes, he collected all the useful books and materials on the bookshelf into the inventory. There were no 999 books in total, so not even a single space in the inventory was occupied.

If he really encounters any unusual questions, he doesn't have to worry.

Although the college examination is much more difficult than the children's examination, the questions cannot go beyond the scope of these books.

At the gate of the examination room, a line of students lined up.

Jia Qiang also joined the queue. At this time, the door to the examination room had not yet opened, and only a few government officials were there.

As soon as he joined the queue, another group of students came behind him.

At the age of twelve, he did not stand out among the team. There were teenagers as old as him to gray-haired old scholars.

Everyone knows that studying can change your destiny. Here, everyone is a student regardless of age.

Jia Qiang curiously checked and found that she didn't meet any student she knew.

Judging from the actions of the government officials, it should be time for the entrance door to the examination room to open. Not a single student from the Jia family private school has arrived.

This is not surprising. In the next ten years, the Jia family has not produced a few students who want to study, and the entire Jia family private school will become more and more unbearable.

The third drum sounded, the door of the examination room opened, and each student presented his or her identity certificate and was checked and searched.

The search is very careful and requires stripping completely.

As the soul of future generations, Jia Qiang is not embarrassed, just treat it as a bathhouse.

Entering his examination booth, he put away his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, put the food aside, and waited for the examination questions to be handed out.

Not long after, the test questions were handed out, including one eight-legged essay, one poem, and one silent essay.

Although the eight-part question was tricky, it was something Jia Qiang had studied before, so there was no need for him to cheat.

Poetry cannot be mastered in just one month of study. This time it was about peach blossom. He found a seven-character poem by a poet from the Qing Dynasty in his memory of his previous life.

Dictation is the simplest. With his memory, he can't make mistakes as long as he has read it.

By the time he finished rewriting the test paper, it was not yet noon.

The college examinations could not be submitted in advance. He put the three papers into his inventory, leaving only the previous draft on the table. He was worried that he would accidentally soil the test paper while eating, something like this happened every year.

If there is any stain on the test paper, the test paper will be cancelled, and there will be no results for the year.

He had an inventory, so he did it in the safest way. No one would check the test paper before handing it in anyway.

Besides, even if someone suddenly comes to check the test paper, taking out the test paper is just a matter of thought.

The meat and cakes were a little cold, but it would not be a problem to fill up the stomach with tea. It would be good to be able to do this in the examination room.

At this time, the rest of the candidates also started to eat. The exam lasted a day, and it would be difficult to persist until the end without eating something at noon to replenish energy.

Jia Qiang was eating when he heard footsteps approaching, but he didn't pay attention. During the exam, there would be constant patrols by government officials to prevent anyone from cheating.

But soon he felt something was wrong, and the footsteps stopped outside his examination room.

Then he saw an arm swinging in front of him, knocking over the inkstone on the table, causing ink to cover the entire table.

At the same time, the person's other hand threw a stack of papers into the examination room, and the whole action was done very quickly.

Jia Qiang stretched out her hand and grabbed the man's arm. Only then did she realize that the man was wearing a seventh-grade official uniform and was one of the invigilators for the college examination.

It's just that he doesn't understand why the other party wants to harm him like this. This is going to kill him.

If you are caught cheating on the hospital exam, you will be sent to the border area at the least, and you may be executed at the worst.

"You dare to cheat!" The seventh-grade officer shouted, intending to attract other examiners.

Jia Qiang let go of the seventh-rank officer. When the seventh-rank officer turned around and shouted, her hand lightly touched the paper that the seventh-rank officer threw in, and the paper disappeared.

He stood there coldly, watching the performance of the seventh-rank officer.

The commotion here caused a commotion among the students in the surrounding examination booths. The yamen officers who rushed over shouted loudly to maintain order in the examination room.

"Master Yin!" Jia Qiang heard a yamen servant saying hello and knew it was the examiner arriving.

Although Jia Qiang didn't know much about the invigilator, she also knew that the examiner this time was Mr. Yin Kewei, the sixth-rank editor of Hanlin Academy.

Yin Kewei was angry. He actually cheated during the exam this time. Even if the cheater was discovered, his political performance would be affected.

The editor of Hanlin Academy is an extremely noble official. Even though he is only from the sixth rank, his potential is huge.

"Teacher Wen, what did you find?" Yin Kewei came to the examination booth. He glanced at Jia Qiang and then asked the seventh-rank officer.

"Sir, I found that this student brought a cheat sheet!" Officer Wen pointed at Jia Qiang with a proud look on his face.

Yin Kewei waved to the soldiers on the side, and the two soldiers entered the examination booth and began to rummage.

The soldiers rummaged through the examination room several times and even checked Jia Qiang's body repeatedly, but did not find the cheat sheet that Official Wen had mentioned.

"Sir, there is no cheat sheet!" Two soldiers walked up to Yin Kewei, and one of them shook his head and reported.

"Impossible, I saw it with my own eyes, how could it not be possible!" Officer Wen was startled and shouted in disbelief.

He rushed into the examination room and started rummaging again.

There was a look of dissatisfaction on Yin Kewei's face. He had brought the two soldiers just now. Officer Wen said this because he didn't believe him as the examiner.

Official Wen pulled Jia Qiang's clothes again, but Jia Qiang's clothes were very simple. She was wearing single clothes under her jacket.

"You must have hidden it, hand it over quickly!" He rummaged through everything but didn't find the cheat sheet he had just thrown in. He yelled at Jia Qiang.

As if doing so would make Jia Qiang take the initiative to take out the cheat sheet, but Jia Qiang just sneered.

Yin Kewei also had a headache. In such matters, one must always use the thief to get the stolen goods. He would doubt a student without evidence and make the matter so big that it would be impossible for him to be lenient.

"I met Mr. Yin. Student Jia Qiang reported that Officer Wen used his status as an invigilator to destroy my test papers and failed, so he took away the test papers and maliciously wronged the students!" Jia Qiang bowed to Yin Kewei and said in a deep voice.

His voice was so loud that all the students in the examination room could hear it.

There was a reason for him to do this. Even if Master Yin Kewei wanted to protect Official Wen Tui, he would not be able to do so under such influence.

(End of this chapter)