Despite the hangers-on, despite finishing last, it’s still a high school lifer with a much different status.
Regardless of whether the students in the inn were jealous or envious, or whether they viewed Zhu Pingan through tinted glasses, if you win, you win. The students came over in twos and threes to thank Zhu Ping An, and Zhu Ping An also got up and bowed his hands one by one.
Wave after wave of joyful reports whistled past the door, making the waiting students in the inn look through the autumn water.
However, there was no need for everyone to wait for a long time, as the inn was once again filled with two happy clerks.
“Countryside Examination Jiepao, congratulations to Master Zhu Shiming Zhu of Suzhou Prefecture for placing eighty-ninth in the countryside examination.”
Inside the inn there was another student who had been successful in the examination, still with the same surname as Zhu Pingan, but the ranking was much better than Zhu Pingan’s, 89th place. Of course he was also much older than Zhu Pingan, at least in his forties.
The wind direction in the inn changed, except for the fat man, the students who were originally around Zhu Pingan, they all flocked to the side of Zhu Shiming, congratulating and climbing relatives.
“Brother Zhu this Lifted Man is not luck.”
“That’s right, Sima Xiangru Lin Xiangru’s name is like the truth but not like the truth.”
Surrounding Zhu Shiming’s side of the students there are people who do not hesitate to secretly disparage Zhu Pingan to lift Zhu Shiming, implying that Zhu Pingan that lifer luck to get, Zhu Shiming this lifer is the real thing.
“What the hell!” Fatty was not even, his small eyes looked at those people surrounding Zhu Shiming with contempt.
“There is no need to be concerned, let’s go, let’s go together to congratulate each other.” Zhu Pingan was not concerned, slightly hooking up the corners of his lips like a smile. Getting up, he faintly said to the fat man.
When Zhu Pingan led the fat man to congratulate Zhu Shiming, he could see the arrogance and faint disdain in Zhu Shiming’s eyes, even though Zhu Shiming was very modest in his return, but his eyes don’t lie.
“What’s so proud about, you’re half in the ground before you’re successful in the imperial examination, what’s there to be proud of, you’re not even worthy of lifting our brother’s shoes.”
After returning to his seat, Fatty looked at the smug Zhu Shiming. Skimmed up his mouth.
Zhu Pingan looked at the smug Zhu Shiming and also slightly hooked his lips. Slightly shaking his head, the amount of vessel fullness is also limited to this.
But a countryside examination is only, reading into the civil service road is long, this is where to where.
“The list is issued, the list is issued.”
It didn’t take long. Outside the inn came a sound of excitement shouting, and then the students inside the inn and hope to rise, the officer to report the good news is not necessarily all in time to send ah, may be mine is not yet in time, so the students scrambled to the inn outside the influx.
“Let’s go, let’s take a look too.” Fatty is also full of interest and pulls Zhu Pingan together to go to Jiangnan Tribute Academy to see the list.
Zhu Pingan did not want to miss this historic moment, so he followed Fatty all the way to the Jiangnan Tribute Academy.
Jiangnan Tribute Court is a sea of people. The lights and colours are very lively, Zhu Pingan went over, just to see Gui list under the crowd seems to be boiling water hot like, wailing.
“Quickly, quickly, someone under the list is catching a son-in-law.”
At this time, a narrow-minded shout gave Zhu Pingan a solution to his confusion. It turned out to be someone’s son-in-law under the list. So, Zhu Pingan was full of interest and found a stone to stand on. He looked down at the crowd of people.
Only to see a young man in the crowd wearing a student uniform being pulled and tugged by seven or eight uniformed servants, on the other side there is an elder about half a hundred years old stroking his beard and watching the scene. Occasionally rushing back and forth to the servants, he said, “This virtuous son-in-law is also here, please go to your home. Reward him with ten taels of silver.”
Under the generous reward, those servants, like chicken blood, quickly pulled the young student into the sedan chair.
The elder, who was about half a hundred years old, smiled and arched his hand to the crowd, and another servant sprinkled copper coins to the crowd, meaning happy money, and then the elder got into the other side of the palanquin, and was carried by the servants to return to his home.
“See, the son-in-law is our Yingtian’s Cao Yang Cao Xie Yuan, really envious of us, do you know, that old man is our Yingtian’s fifth grade Tong Zhi Zhao, I heard that his family has three daughters like flowers, tsk tsk tsk.”
“Today’s gold list, tomorrow’s wedding candles, really envious of us, go back to hang a beam to prick the femur.”
“Alas, why not us.”
Listening to the envious and jealous voices of the people around, Zhu Pingan also knew that the son-in-law that was caught was the Cao Yang Cao Xieyuan of this time, catching the son-in-law under the list, however, that Cao Yang, although he looked young, but at least there are twenty-three-four, this kind of age in ancient times should have already been married, right, catching the son-in-law, catching the son-in-law, I don’t know how to Cao Xieyuan deal with it.
Not far from here in a restaurant high-level elegant room, two wearing civilian clothes of the examiner is drinking wine while looking through the window far away from the Jiangnan Tribute Court under the release of the list of scenes.
“Hehe, then Cao Yang must thank Brother Zhang.” Examiner Wang looked at the scene of catching a son-in-law under the list and couldn’t help but laugh at Examiner Zhang.
Examiner Zhang shook his head and smiled bitterly, unable to speak.
“What about picking up a solved yuan for nothing.” Examiner Wang stroked his beard and said meaningfully.
“Brother Wang, be careful with your words.” Chief Examiner Zhang shook his head and smiled bitterly.
“You and I are the only ones here, everyone else has gone to read the list, so why should we be careful with our words. If you ask me, brother Zhang’s idea is good, but his approach is biased. A person who should have been a good scholar, but you put him at the end of the list,” Examiner Wang said, shaking his head as he looked at Examiner Zhang.
“If he can understand my hard work, he will be grateful to me in the future.” Examiner Zhang stroked his beard with a frank face, “There are countless examples of injuries to Zhongyong, I don’t want such a talented young man to be reduced to a counterexample for the education of future generations.”
“And how does Brother Zhang know that this young man is not a resolute and diligent person?” Examiner Wang asked again.
“I also had no choice but to do so, such juvenile talent can be considered a pillar of the nation, and I did so for the sake of infallibility.” Examiner Zhang said with a frank face.
While the two examiners were bullsh*tting, the number of people looking at the list in front of the Jiangnan Tribute Academy was getting bigger and bigger, Zhu Pingan and Fatty managed to squeeze under the list with great difficulty.
First place Cao Yang, second place Xu Tianshou, third place Liu Rucheng, fourth place Yang asked, fifth place Jiang Yuyue, sixth place Li Yuzhe
Zhu Pingan tilted his head to look at the list, in front of him were unfamiliar names, until he saw the twentieth place he saw a familiar name, Wang Jin, then the sixty-third and seventy-ninth place he saw Liu Qian and Guo Zi Oracle, and then there were no more familiar names.
As for Feng Shanshui, Xia Luoming, and the people who were habitually with them, all of them were not on the list, either they were not able to come to the exam, or they took the exam but failed.
“Sir Zhou, it’s really you.”
Hearing a chirpy voice, Zhu Pingan turned his head and saw two familiar girls, a young girl with a falling horse bun and a young girl a few years older.
“Zhou Gongzi, you, don’t be sad, you didn’t pass this time, you’ll definitely be able to do it next time.” The young girl with the falling horse bun blinked her big sympathetic eyes and pinched the corner of her coat, comforting her with sympathy.
The other girl looked similar.
“Sir Zhou, hahaha.”
The fat man sniffed and pointed at Zhu Pingan and couldn’t help but laugh.
“Hey, do you have any sympathy ah, you, how can you make fun of Zhou Gongzi like this, you don’t know how hard Zhou Gongzi has worked so what if he has failed to get on the list, Zhou Gongzi will definitely be able to get to high school next time” The young girl with the falling horse bun bet beamed her mouth and was very dissatisfied with Fatty.
“Brother Zhu congratulations.”
At this time another voice came over, Xia Luoming, Feng Shanshui and the others walked over along with Liu Qian and Guo Zi Oracle, Xia Luoming looked a bit complicated as he expressed his congratulations to Zhu Pingan.
“Luck is good, even though it’s the bottom of the list, but at least it’s on it isn’t it. Go back and you can give your Zhu family’s ancestors a few more incense sticks.”
Guo Zi Oracle also expressed his congratulations to Zhu Pingan, but with that conspiratorial voice and a look of arrogance, it was clear to see this person’s disdain.
“Zhu? Isn’t Duke Zhou’s surname Zhou?” The girl with the falling horse bun froze.
The other older girl also looked at Zhu Pingan with a haunted expression, but when she saw Xia Luoming and the others coming over, the older girl pulled the young lady with her to leave in a hurry before the young lady with the bun had a chance to ask for confirmation from Zhu Pingan. Just now, they could still take advantage of the large number of people to see the list, but now the people coming over to Zhu Pingan’s side were either lifers or Xiucai, so it was obvious that it was not a place for them to stay as two girls from a green house.
