Chapter 10: Taking the Exam
The next day, Ye Chunqiu still got up early to go to school. He was too lazy to pay attention to Master Zhou, but he still wanted to go to school.
What's more, today is the day for joint guarantee.
It is the Ye family’s business that the candidates have no responsibility for the insurance, so they will naturally ask the county’s students to come forward.
However, joint insurance requires five candidates to sign insurance policies and send them to the county to prevent cheating. One person cheats, all of them will be disqualified from taking the exam for a lifetime.
Master Zhou did not teach today. Of course, as usual, he did not look at Ye Chunqiu in person. He just took out a list and sang his name: "Ye Chenliang, Ye Xin...Ye Zichen..."
He called the names of five people, and then the five teenagers stepped forward, signed their own names on the insurance policy, and then wrote a note.
Master Zhou started singing again.
Until the end, he recited: "Ye Chunqiu, Ye Juncai, Ye Wen, Ye Wu, Ye Junjie..."
Two of these five people are from three bedrooms, and two are distant relatives of the Ye family. Of course, like Ye Chunqiu, they are the most bearish children in school and have never been loved by Master Zhou. Basically, their lives have been planned and they exist as waste from the Ye family.
Just now, when everyone was protecting their furniture, Master Zhou almost pointed and told everyone where to sign his name and where to write it. However, Ye Chunqiu and others came up, but he just looked cold and turned his face aside, too lazy to pay attention.
Ye Chunqiu was funny for no reason. By the way, I am the child. Is Master a little bit worse than his early 10-year-old child this week.
However, Ye Chunqiu didn't say much about such obvious discrimination. After all, for Ye Chunqiu, exams are the most important.
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The day for the county exam finally came. On this day, Ye Jing got up very early and prepared the exam basket and clothes for Ye Chunqiu with Ye San. He had to nag a few words and tell Ye Chunqiu some exam matters.
Ye Chunqiu sharpened his knife and was not afraid of a tiger. He smiled and said to Ye Jing: "Dad, I'll come back from the first exam."
Ye Jing smiled and said, "Of course, after taking the exam, he will shine on his family's lintel."
Although he said this, there was obviously more comfort. After Ye Jing said that, he seemed to think of something, and his expression was a little sad.
Ye Chunqiu stuck out his tongue. This father had too many worries and could not communicate.
When we arrived outside the mansion, more than a dozen people from the Ye family who went to the county to take the exam had been around for a long time.
The leader was a distant uncle, who was of the same age as the old lady. When Ye Jing saw him, he would call him uncle. At this time, his uncle had already looked tall and old, and he stroked his gray goatee, directed the juniors to gather their luggage in a big cart, then leaned on the shaft and ordered people to set off.
Ye Chunqiu was sitting at the rear of the car. The only advantage of this open ox cart was that it could see the scenery along the way, but the car was very bumpy and after a while, his butt became sore and numb. Ye Jun was busy sitting next to him with a saddle and behind his horse. As for Ye Chenliang, he did not say hello to Ye Chunqiu today, and was on another big cart.
As he walked along the way, Uncle Ye actually came to Ye Chunqiu very enthusiastically, stroked his beard and shook his head, and said intimately: "Are you Chunqiu in the big house? Your father is back? Is it okay to be back, fallen leaves will always return to their roots."
Ye Chunqiu bowed and said, "Hello, uncle."
Uncle Ye nodded happily to Ye Chunqiu and said, "Be good, your father and I are old acquaintances, hey...ah... Now, when I think about it, the past is as old as before, I think your father went to the county examination with me. At first, he was as old as you. Tsk, your father is good, I am very close to him, but... He is Wenquxing, and he was once a child of Tongsheng, I...haha... I have been year after year, and more than twenty years have passed..." Speaking of this, Uncle Ye tried to cough desperately, and it took me a long time to recover: "Why, if this person is exhausted, my life will be over. I am now 63 years old and have been in the exam for more than fifty years. I am still an old horse in the stable, with ambitions that have not diminished back then..." After he said that, he sighed to the sky.
Ye Chunqiu was also drunk. His uncle had been taking the exam for more than 50 years, but he actually felt superior.
But after all, he was an elder. Ye Chunqiu hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, what my uncle taught me." He felt a little uncomfortable for no reason. Why did you feel like a negative textbook? After taking the exam for a lifetime, your hair turned white, your teeth lost, and your back was hunched. Will I be like you in the future?
Ye Chunqiu subconsciously shivered. Not to mention how smart he is, doesn’t he still have a brain? He won’t be like this as an old uncle!
But then again, Ye Chunqiu is not very sure how useful the light brain is.
"Yes, what did you say?" Ye Song was a little embarrassed and couldn't hear it clearly, so he bent his body and his ears came to Ye Chunqiu's mouth.
Ye Chunqiu was stunned, I'll go, uncle, do you want to do this? You still insist on the front line of the imperial examination.
He had no choice but to shout at Uncle Ye’s ear in a loud voice: “Uncle taught me a lesson! Chunqiu has memorized.” Remember… I remember… I remember… The last three words are filled with lingering sounds.
Ye Song seemed to have understood, straightened up, stroked his gray beard, and said in surprise: "Prostitute...what is a prostitute? Oh, it's a prostitute, what! Your father actually went to a prostitute for fun? This... this is really confusing, insulting, absurd, absurd..." He couldn't help but cry and looked at Ye Chunqiu: "After ten years of separation, your father has learned bad things. He is sincere, cultivates his own heart and manages his family, governs the country and pacifies the world. His mind is not right. How can he manage his family? Bad, terrible. If he meets him next time, I have to teach him a lesson on behalf of the ancestors of the Ye family."
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Ye Chunqiu was stunned. This...can't communicate. Ye Juncai beside him laughed out loud, and laughed: "Chunqiu, uncle is a deaf man, haha...haha..."
Who knew this sentence? Ye Song understood it and was furious and directly trembled Ye Juncai: "Dogs, no big or small, look at the other person. Although his father is a prostitute, Chunqiu can be considered a mud without being stained. You are such a rude bastard!"
Ye Juncai was beaten up by his uncle and screamed. Ye Chunqiu also laughed at first, but then he carefully savored, "Hey, is this praising me or scolding me?" My father is so unfair and didn't visit a prostitute."
The Ye family's village was not far from the county town, and it was only more than an hour before he arrived in the county. Ye Chunqiu looked at this small town similar to a market and did not find it rare.
Uncle Ye and his old horse knew the way, and he familiarly took everyone to the inn closest to the county school. The inn was very familiar with his uncle and laughed: "Mr. Ye is here to take the exam again. Oh, your Ye family is in a big way this year."
Uncle Ye didn't talk to the vulgar people, but just stroked his beard and smiled implicitly. The old rules were used to open seven rooms, one for two. Ye Juncai came to the same room as Ye Chunqiu, and then the crowd went downstairs to have dinner.
The first floor is very lively because the exam is about to start. Most of the inns are people taking the exam. The Ye family and the people in the county are involved. Uncle Ye quickly hooked up with an old "Mr." and discussed this year's county exam.
Ye Chenliang had a bruised nose and swollen face, and the bruises on his face had not yet dissipated. However, he knew many people in the county and was very glorious. Many people had heard of his name, and said, "Are you sure about this time?"
Ye Chenliang said modestly and appropriately: "If the results are not released, how can we talk about it?"
"Others dare not say that Brother Ye will win this time."
Chapter completed!