Chapter 75: Enemies are narrow in the road

It’s great to be a gentleman. Folding a fan, shaking a horse, leaning on a bridge, reading poetry and books at night under the moon, and savoring poetry and books in the wind, flowers, snow and moon, and savoring life. Everything is so calm, elegant, calm, not fighting, no quarrel or quarrel, no people are not angry without knowing it, no fuss and disgrace, watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the courtyard, no intention to stay or leave, watch the sky roll and unwind...

Xiao Fan always wanted to be a genius. Even if he pretended, he had to try to act like a genius. Sage represents cultivation and culture. In this era when scholars and officials were the ruling class, genius was the most popular.

But someone insisted on forcing Xiao Fan to show his hideous true nature. The heavens are humble, and there is no way for others to be humble, so they cannot live.

Maybe Xiao Fan misreaded the scholars of this era. Not all of them were gentle and elegant, but they also had the hob-stealing flesh that was foolish. Maybe the scholars of this era misread the scholars of this era. The gentle appearance does not mean that he has a gentle personality...

Anyway... Xiao Fan took action and beat him up as soon as he said he was beaten without any mercy.

Amid the scholar's screams, Xiao Fan's fists and feet fell on the scholar like raindrops, making the scholar unable to fight back. After a while, he was beaten up, and he was so refreshing that Xiao Fan himself was sweating all over.

Yuan Zhong quickly stepped forward and stopped him and said, "Young master, stop fighting, you will die if you hit again..."

"Don't stop me, let me beat him up! It's so annoying. A tiger doesn't show off its power. Do you think I'm a sick cat? Bullying honest people is not like you. It's too much!" Xiao Fan shouted while beating, with a very sad and angry expression.

The scholar screamed and shouted without admitting his defeat: "Good beating, just beat me! If you beat me to death, I will go into the coffin. If you go to the vegetable market, you will be killed. Both of you will be free from trouble..."

Xiao Fan had no choice but to stop.

This piece of hob meat is very difficult to deal with. He seemed to be deliberately making trouble and he tended to be self-abuse, as if to avoid something. Xiao Fan had done this in his previous life. In order not to want to go to school, he deliberately took a cold shower in the middle of winter and went to the hospital to open a sick leave note. This is what the scholar in front of him did.

No matter what his purpose is, Xiao Fan can no longer be entangled with him, and the account room will not wait for him. If the candidate is late, he is not allowed to enter at all. He does not have to compete with this scholar, and his future and life are of great importance.

The scholar lay on the ground and still hummed: "You are waiting... You beat the scholar, this matter is not over with you. I will go to Yingtian Prefecture's Office to beat the drum and sue you..."

Xiao Fan squatted in front of him and smiled and said, "You sue me? I ask you, do you know who I am?"

The scholar snorted angrily: "I care who you are, I'll sue you anyway..."

Xiao Fan chuckled twice, stood up, kicked the scholar hard and said coldly: "You don't know me, where can I sue me? Isn't you stupid enough to read books?"

After saying that, Xiao Fan winked at Yuan Zhong, and Yuan Zhong nodded understandingly.

He waved his sleeves casually, and two personal guards led the way, led Xiao Fan quickly into the crowd, and walked towards the Gongyuan.

After the matter, I left with my clothes and hid my name.

Beating someone is that simple.

The scholar was still lying on the ground and humming. He was beaten by Xiao Fan to the point of his nose and face. His white long gown was covered with footprints, and his ink basket was knocked over. His standard victim appearance attracted countless people to sympathize.

Yuan Zhong waved his hand, and the remaining seven or eight personal guards shouted and drove away the onlookers.

Yuan Zhong squatted in front of the scholar and said coldly: "Stop howling, the wise man doesn't say secret words. We all know what's going on. You are deliberately trying to find fault, and you won't betray you."

The scholar rolled his eyes miserably, looking like he was in a near future: "My life is over. I can't live a life as a result of this guy beating a scholar. I can't help him. I want to sue him, and you, you help the evildoer..."

Yuan Zhong took out his waist card impatiently, and the golden waist card was engraved with "The Ming Dynasty's Jinyi Personal Army Commander Si Baihu."

"Did you see the waist card? If you have the habit, just sue it. How many courage do you have to afford to provoke our Jinyi personal army?" Yuan Zhong had to take out the waist card to scare him. Xiao Fan just shook his eyes, meaning that he wanted him to help settle the matter.

Although the Jinyiwei was abolished, the reputation of Jinyi's personal army still has a great deterrence among the people. Under normal circumstances, ordinary people or scholars, as long as they see this waist card, they will be extremely injustice and hatred, and they will not dare to say anything anymore. Offending Jinyi's personal army is not a joke, and the ending is not ordinary miserable.

Unexpectedly, the scholar did not buy it. After seeing Yuan Zhong's waist card, he became more and more furious: "So what about your personal army in Jinyi? I am a Hanlin bachelor. If you dare to arrest me, we will go to the emperor to judge!"

Yuan Zhong was shocked and said in a lost voice: "Bachelor of Hanlin? Are you a bachelor of Hanlin? Bachelor of Hanlin... a scholar exam? Are you not sick?"

The scholar said angrily: "Do you think I am willing? It's not that His Royal Highness the Grand Prince forced me..."

Speaking of this, the scholar was shocked and hurriedly stopped.

But when Yuan Zhong heard this half of the sentence, he immediately understood what was going on. - This really caused the Dragon King Temple to rush into trouble. It turned out that this was the great talent who had worked so hard to help Xiao Fan do the papers...

The test-taker beat the test-taker, and this matter is a mess...

Yuan Zhong had a cold sweat. He knew how much His Royal Highness valued Xiao Fan. He also knew that the emperor issued an order. If Xiao Fan failed to pass the scholar this time, he would be punished. Before the exam started, he was beaten up by Xiao Fan...

"This... this adult, I offended you so much just now. Haha, haha, the so-called adults don't remember the villain's past. What happened just now is a misunderstanding... My master, Chen Shishi is coming soon, and the number room is about to enter. Why don't you let us send you to the tribute court?" Yuan Zhong put on a flattering smile. For the sake of Your Highness and the Xiao Fan who made him like him, he had to help him.

The scholar naturally didn't understand why the Jinyi personal army, who had always been domineering, suddenly became arrogant and respectful, and became polite to him. After being stunned for a moment, he still shouted loudly: "No! I won't take the exam anymore! I was seriously injured, how could I get the college entrance examination? I didn't take the exam or not, and I said I wouldn't take the exam anymore..."

Yuan Zhong's face suddenly became extremely bitter.

He is a warrior, and he is not afraid of swords and swords, but is afraid of comparing with scholars. How can he convince this talented man who had just been beaten to participate in the college entrance examination and help Xiao Fan do the test?

Yuan Zhong was worried. If he were this scholar, he wouldn't go again. If he was beaten up, he would have to go to help others do the papers. Even if people are so mean these days, they wouldn't be so mean.

With great effort and persuasion, Yuan Zhong was exhausted, but the scholar still said: Don’t go!

Yuan Zhong finally exhausted his patience, and stood up and said coldly: "Sir, whether to go or not, Yuan won't persuade him, but Yuan said again, you should be honest in life. You agreed to His Royal Highness the Grand Prince, but now you are looking for an opportunity to regret it. This is not what you do in life. If you don't want to, why should you agree to His Royal Highness the Grand Prince? You are a scholar like you, hum! Even my martial artist looks down on you!"

The scholar was stunned by Yuan Zhong's words, and then a look of shame appeared on his face. After thinking about it carefully, he finally cried and stamped his feet and said, "Forget it, today I will punish His Royal Highness the Grand His Majesty and go back to argue with that guy!"

Yuan Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand, and said to his personal guards: "Brothers, let's lead the way forward and send this lord to the tribute court immediately, hurry up! Quick!"

Two personal guards clamped the scholar on the left and right, as if he was afraid that he would repent again, so he immediately set up the scholar and walked as fast as flying. The group left in the blink of an eye.

When they arrived at the gate of the Gongyuan, the personal guards couldn't wait to throw the scholar into the door, then threw the scholar's ink basket one by one, clapped their hands, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The scholar was confused and did not get married or have any old friends. This group of people sent him to the tribute court with such kindness. It was almost like the family was on fire along the way. Are the Jinyi Private Army so enthusiastic these days?

It was not until he was searched and entered the number room that the scholar slapped his head suddenly and said to himself: "How did they know that I promised His Royal Highness the Grand His Majesty? Who are these people?"

Yuan Zhong kept staring at the scholar's figure and disappeared inside the gate of the Gongyuan, and then he felt relieved.

A personal guard hesitated to Yuan Zhong and said, "Mr. Baihu, what if this scholar enters the number room and recognizes Mr. Xiao, and is unwilling to do the papers for him?"

Yuan Zhong sighed and said, "The only thing we can do is this. The rest depends on Mr. Xiao himself. This is the business of their scholars, and we can't control that much."

Jiangnan Gongyuan.

Located on the southern bank of Qinhuai River, in the center of Confucius Temple, Gongyuan was built during the Southern Song Dynasty. It was first founded by Shi Zhengzhi, the prefect of the then prefect, and was originally a place for the county government examination. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it was a unified examination location for the college examination, provincial examination and imperial examination.

There are two walls around the Gongyuan, and the walls are covered with thorns to prevent the examiner from cheating. There are five built-in gates, commonly known as "Dragon Gate", which means that carp jumps over the dragon gate. There is a horizontal plaque hanging above the three gates in the middle, with the middle gate titled "The Heaven opens the Wenyun" and the East and West gates titled "Ming Jing Jushi" and "Seeking Talents for the Country". On the left and right sides after entering the door are two rows of low-level rooms, also known as sheds, and the scholars taking the exam each room, seeking fame here.

The scholars who attend the tribute school must check the identity of Tongsheng, so that Tongsheng is qualified to take the college entrance examination. Then Tongsheng must be searched by soldiers to prevent someone from cheating. After searching, each person received a small sign with their own room name written on the sign. The number of the room should not be confused.

Xiao Fan admired it for a while. After receiving the sign, he followed the number on the sign and looked directly over, found his place, and then went in and sat down.

After entering the number room, he felt something was wrong.

The number rooms were all in one lane with two rows of lane. There was an invigilator standing in each lane, and there were several soldiers patrolling back and forth. Strangely, the number rooms he was assigned were on the southmost side of the Gongyuan, and the two rows of rooms were empty, except for him, and what was even more outrageous was that the invigilator and the patrolling soldiers were missing, just as if he, the Tongsheng, had been completely forgotten, and no one paid attention to him at all.

Thinking that after he reported his name at the gate of the Gongyuan, an official wearing a fourth-rank official robe looked at him with a smile, Xiao Fan suddenly realized that it was probably because Zhu Yunwen had greeted these officials, and the officials simply ignored him and were too lazy to even supervise the invigilator.

This is blatant favoritism and fraud! This behavior is simply... so gratifying!

It is really a pleasant thing to have a crown prince protecting him.

At this time, I heard a loud voice in front of Mingyuan Tower. It turned out that the academic and political education master in Yingtian Prefecture was talking to the candidates. The content of the speech was very boring. It was nothing more than praising the wise men of Confucius and Mencius, and then praising merits to the son of today, and finally announcing the discipline of the examination room, warning not to cheat, etc.

Generally, the college entrance examination requires four or five exams. The first one is called "main game", and the next few are called first resumption, resumption, etc. As the name suggests, first resumption and resumption are equivalent to the make-up exam mentioned in the previous life. Those who fail the first match still have a chance to get a make-up exam. If they can pass the first match, there is no need to take the next one.

It was not until the exam started that Xiao Fan stopped looking around curiously and sat in the room with peace of mind.

After a while, a clerk came over and sent a question paper to the table in the room where he was. Then he smiled at him in a mysterious way, turned around and left.

The answer sheet contains the name, hometown, number of the room where the test taker is located, and even the appearance of the test taker is simply described in two sentences. - There are no photos these days, so you can only use words to simply describe the appearance of a person to prevent the situation of taking the exam instead.

But what surprised Xiao Fan was that the answer sheet sent to him by the clerk clearly stated that it was someone else's name and other people's hometown.

Could it be that the clerk made the wrong statement?

Before he could call someone, he heard a familiar voice coming from the next room.

"Xiao Fan? Humph! The vulgar name is so vulgar. No wonder even a scholar can't take the exam. I still want me to help, bah!"

Xiao Fan was stunned for a moment, and then he understood.

The person next to him was probably the one who Zhu Yunwen asked to help him do the papers? Since he said hello to the person, he would just send the papers with his name to the person, and he would finish them and hand them over them. The whole process of taking the exams on behalf of others will be smooth.

The people next to him were still sighing and murmuring, with deep guilt: "I think I am also a disciple of Confucius. The wise men once said: A gentleman is a powerful person who does not appease him, a strong person does not obey him, a poor person does not lose his righteousness, and a sense of enlightenment is not separated from the Tao... Alas! I have read the books of sages, but today I am afraid of power and have to do such dirty things as villains. I am a sinner of Confucius..."

The bitterness in the words made people sympathize, and Xiao Fan couldn't bear it anymore. If the person wasn't helping him with the test paper, he really wanted to run to the side to persuade him to stick to his principles of being a human being and not to lower his eyebrows and serve the powerful...

Unfortunately, Xiao Fan was also under pressure. He was under Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial edict, so...

In fact, it is not good to be too principled. Didn’t the saint say that it’s easy to break even? Why didn’t he listen to this?

Xiao Fan decided to let him continue to struggle. When he helped him finish the paper and hand it over, he would comfort him a few more words.

But why is his voice so familiar?

The gong beat three times, and the clerk came again, and this time he was posting the topic.

The title is the article at the time, and the title says: A gentleman will only seek others if he has something to do with himself, but he will only seek others if he has nothing to do with himself. The Book of Songs says: "Joy is only a gentleman, the parents of the people."

Xiao Fan looked at the unknown topic in a daze, looking confused and didn't understand what the topic meant.

The person next to him had no words. I think he had already recognized the reality. Since he had already sat in, he had to do bad things even if he didn't do them.

So the person next to him sighed while answering the questions. Xiao Fan sat blankly in the number room, playing with his fingers bored...

After waiting for about two hours in boredom, Xiao Fan heard the person next to him sigh. Xiao Fan couldn't help but feel happy. It seemed that the guy had finished the test.

Xiao Fan couldn't help but stick his head out first, and found that there was no one invigilating the alley of the number room, and there was no one invigilating the person. So he tiptoed out of the number room and looked around sneakily. After confirming that no one saw him, he turned around and walked two steps to the right, and came to the next room, and came to the next room, with a heavy burden of conscience to help him cheat. As a polite Ming Dynasty scholar, Xiao Fan felt it was necessary to express his gratitude to him personally.

In the room next door, a young man dressed in a scholar was holding the answer sheet, shaking his head and singing with a smug look on his face. It seemed that he was very satisfied with the article he answered.

Since he was satisfied, Xiao Fan was of course even more satisfied.

After walking to the front of the room in two steps, Xiao Fan bowed his hand and lowered his voice and said, "Thank you, brother Tai, for your generous help. Xiao Fan thanks you. His Royal Highness the Grand Prince will also give you a kind reward to Brother Tai..."
To be continued...