Allure of a Country Maiden

When Shangguan Xuanyi walked back to the room, Xiaoer already knew the conversation between the two from Yang Liu.

In fact, cheating in imperial examinations will happen in every imperial examination. It just depends on whether the cheater is clever or not and whether he will be caught.

This kind of thing cannot be prevented. If you have a good plan, those people have wall ladders. There will always be a wall that others can climb over with ladders.

However, in recent years, most of the examiners who have invigilated the exams have chosen people who are honest and highly respected, and the results obtained in the imperial examination are no longer that high.

"Is there anything wrong with Jing Hao?" Xiaoer asked again.

"No, someone probably put some medicine on the food that affects the work and rest. I have already asked someone to check it." That medicine is not considered poison, and the silver needle cannot detect it. It just makes people sleep when they shouldn't. I feel very sleepy sometimes, but I feel extra energetic when it’s time to sleep.

Once the effect of the medicine wears off, nothing will happen to the person.

"The cheating method this time is clever again! It's not about leaking questions or carrying notes, but by affecting the mental state of knowledgeable people and making them perform abnormally to improve their rankings.

Most people think that when you go to a place like Gongyuan, you won't get used to it for a while and your work and rest will be chaotic. This is normal. After all, you can't adapt to the new environment. Some candidates from other places may even feel acclimatized when they come to the imperial capital, suffering from vomiting and diarrhea. Many people have these problems. If you encounter them, you can only blame yourself for your bad luck!

Cheating in this way is much smarter than using slips of paper, and even the students themselves may not be suspicious. "Xiao'er sighed.

"Could it be that the person who bribed the examiner was very knowledgeable, but he was just worried about not getting a higher ranking, so he took the risk?" Yang Mei asked after hearing this.

"It's also possible. We have to see who is the biggest beneficiary." Xiaoer replied.

Fortunately, Jing Hao is real gold and is not afraid of fire, so he can withstand the test. But even if he can't, she has prepared pills for him to remind him to wake up. There is no way he can escape from the Yuan position!

This matter was soon found out. Jing Hao's intuition was right. It was indeed Mr. Lin who did it.

But he was not bribed by anyone, he just couldn't bear the huge temptation of getting rich overnight.

Therefore, he did some tricks on Jing Hao's food, just hoping to affect his performance and prevent him from taking first place.

The reason is also very simple. His wife is a addicted gambler. The odds of Jing Hao not getting Huiyuan this time when the Imperial Examination Gambling House is opened are one thousand to one.

But no one is willing to buy it at such high odds.

Master Lin's wife became interested when she saw this. She secretly put all her family's savings into betting that Jing Hao would not win the first place this time.

Then she went home and told Mr. Lin about this, and asked him to put some of the sedative medicine her mother-in-law had taken into Jing Hao's food during the invigilation of the exam, disrupting his routine and causing him to perform abnormally.

When Mr. Lin first heard the news, he was almost furious!

There is an old mother in his family who needs medicine every day. Those savings are life-saving money for his mother!

Mrs. Lin then said: "I knew those silver taels were my mother's life-saving money, so I used them for gambling. The odds of losing one thousand taels are one thousand. If the second son of the Shengping Hou Mansion did not win the prize, we would have more than two hundred thousand taels." Ah! Mother, do you still need to worry about not having money to save your life?"

"More than two hundred thousand taels, you will never earn so much money as an official in your lifetime!"

"We have more than two hundred thousand taels, so don't be an official if you don't want to! We can also use this little money to open shops in other places and do some business! How many people are opening workshops now and making a lot of money? ! One of my sisters has a tofu workshop at home, and the dried tofu is sold to other states and counties. Now she wears gold and silver and eats delicacies from all over the world. Her life was much better than ours!"

"As an official, your monthly salary is just enough to cover your expenses, and my mother needs to take medicine. Life is so tight these days. If you didn't have a shop at home and at least some income, we would have suffered from the northwest wind! "

"Besides, didn't you say before that in the examination room, students often fainted or suffered from vomiting and diarrhea due to acclimatization? You just gave him some soothing medicine to mess up his work and rest time. This would be seen by outsiders. It’s normal to come here! No one will notice!”

Mr. Lin was influenced by Mrs. Lin's words. He thought about it before doing such a thing.

One thousand in compensation! His wife spent more than 200 taels of cash at home to buy Jing Hao. If Jing Hao really failed to win, they would have 250,000 taels. This can be said to be a sudden fortune!

With these two hundred thousand taels, why worry about my mother's illness being a bottomless pit that cannot be cured no matter how hard I treat her?

The temptation is too great!

Moreover, Mrs. Lin was right in saying that if he held this official position, he would not earn more than 200,000 taels in his lifetime. With these more than 200,000 taels, it would not matter if he held this official position improperly.

In the examination room that day, he saw the test paper. This time the test paper was very difficult. He saw many people frowning. Many people may not have read such a biased unofficial history, but when he saw the second son of Shengping Hou, He looked confident, thinking he must have read them all! This time he will try, he will definitely win the first place!

In this case, the family's savings of more than two hundred taels will be wiped out in an instant! Now that my mother is sick, she needs to take good medicine every day. The family has a lot of expenses. It will take several years to save it back!

He thought that even if he gave him some soothing medicine, with his confident look, he would definitely be able to pass the Gongshi exam, but he wouldn't be ranked first. As long as he could pass the Gongshi exam, he would still be able to do it. The palace examination will not affect his success in getting the top prize.

Jing Hao will still be the number one scholar in the future, and his life will not change much. But if he fails to win the first prize this time, his life will undergo huge changes. Thinking of this, Mr. Lin couldn't help but tell Jing Rui I took some of the tranquilizing medicine that the doctor prescribed to my mother.

He just didn't expect that even though those medicines had an impact on Jing Hao's work and rest, they certainly didn't affect his answers. He was able to complete the test paper well in only half a day every day!

What he didn't even know was that Jing Hao was suspicious of this matter! And noticed that he might have done it!

When Shangguan Xuanyi summoned him, he had a bad premonition in his heart. However, he comforted himself that the examination papers had not been reviewed yet and the results had not come out. It was impossible for King Rui to find out that it was him so quickly. made.

It was just that he had never done such a thing because of his guilty conscience. Shangguan Xuanyi told him to do it with a cold face. He was so frightened that he immediately explained everything clearly.

So Mr. Lin lost his money and lost his official position this time!

It's not good to offend anyone, but to offend such a shrewd person, isn't this just shooting yourself in the foot!

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