When Xiaoyu heard that Ling Yun agreed to write a letter for her, she raised her head and said cautiously, "Is what you said true? Don't lie to me?"
"Really, you get up first." Ling Yun spread his hands helplessly.
"Hey, I knew you would definitely promise me." He stood up neatly, showing no sign of sobbing.
Ling Yun looked at her again at this time, and she still looked as if she was dying just now.
"Are you okay?" Ling Yun looked at her in surprise.
"It's okay!" Xiaoyu nodded.
Ling Yun: "..."
"Let's go, I'll take you out first, and then you can write the letter for me." Xiaoyu jumped ahead of him, looking extremely happy, as if Ling Yun helping her write the letter was a great joy!
"What a little girl who can't figure things out." Ling Yun shook his head and said to himself.
"Ling Yun, where have you been?" As soon as he walked back to the yard where he lived, the fat man ran up to him.
Looking at the maid next to Ling Yun, she looked at him in confusion, "Where have you gone? Why are you with her?"
"Do you know each other?" Ling Yun glanced at the two of them.
"Master Zhou, Xiaoyu wishes to greet you!"
Ling Yun: "..."
Children, do you have a lot of greetings?
"Well, you go down first!" The fat man had an expressionless face and waved his hand, gesturing for Xiaoyu to go down.
"Then Xiaoyu will leave first." After saying this, he took three steps back. Just as he was about to turn around, he seemed to remember something. He walked very close to Ling Yun and whispered softly into his ear.
What were the two talking about? The fat man was confused and couldn't hear anything clearly.
After Xiaoyu finished talking to Ling Yun, she bowed to the fat man and left in a hurry.
"Ling Yun, are you really recruiting me?" As soon as Xiaoyu got down, the fat man couldn't wait to torture him.
"What to recruit?" Ling Yun was asked with a confused look on his face.
"Don't you know what I'm going to do? I'll be lenient if you confess. Don't let me torture you to extract a confession." Fatty didn't forget to rub his hands at the side, as if he would suffer Fatty's punishment if he didn't say something.
"It's really nothing. I just got lost and happened to meet her, so I asked her to send me back." Ling Yun shrugged and pouted helplessly, as if he had been wronged and could not get comfort.
"Really?" Fatty didn't believe it and continued to question him.
"Really." Ling Yun looked at him seriously and said.
"Then why did Xiaoyu whisper in your ear before leaving? Do you two have some shady purpose?" Who knew that the fat man couldn't believe him, and even brought up the story of Xiaoyu whispering in his ear.
"On the way she brought me back, she learned that I could write and asked me to help her write a family letter." Ling Yun had no choice but to tell the story.
"Is this really it? Nothing else happened?" Fatty stared closely into Ling Yun's eyes. As long as she made the slightest move, Fatty would expose his mask of disguise.
Unexpectedly, Ling Yun was not affected at all. He was calm and calm, and said sincerely, "Really, what relationship do we have? Can I still lie to you?"
As if he was afraid that the fat man wouldn't believe him, he took the opportunity to talk about their friendship.
"Yes." The fat man nodded, agreeing with what he said.
Good guy, Fatty, you believe him so easily?
You regard him as a brother, but he just went to spy on your cousin!
"It's so dangerous." Seeing that the fat man stopped asking questions, Ling Yun breathed out involuntarily.
"By the way, Ling Yun, I just saw my cousin and I'm looking for you again." The fat man suddenly said again.
"Oh? Why does Brother Wang want to see me?" Ling Yun looked at him, wanting to know what Wang Jinghui wanted to see him for.
"I saw he was holding a book in his hand, and I wanted to ask him something. But as soon as I heard you weren't there, he left and refused to tell me."
"..."
Book in hand?
Are you asking him to solve arithmetic again?
Since meeting Wang Jinghui that day, the fat man said that he was very good at arithmetic. Wang Jinghui didn't believe it, but he couldn't explain it clearly. He went back to his room, took some math problems that he couldn't solve, and asked Ling Yun to solve them.
Although Ling Yun didn't like to show off his knowledge in front of others, the fat man's reputation had already been blown away.
If he doesn't understand, not only the fat man will be embarrassed, but Wang Jinghui will also despise him, thinking that he only talks about rhetoric and has no real material.
Ling Yun had no choice but to read the questions he took out and wrote down the answers directly.
So Wang Jinghui glanced at Ling Yun's answer, then looked at the answer in his hand, and found that it was exactly the same.
Wang Jinghui was so shocked that he was speechless, and it took him a while to recover.
From then on, Wang Jinghui was impressed by Ling Yun's arithmetic. He failed in his previous college entrance exams on this arithmetic.
Even after three years of review and practice, I still feel that this is an insurmountable subject.
Even his tutor had no good solution. He just warned him to practice diligently, and there was no other way.
Until Ling Yun's appearance gave him hope again.
So he did nothing every day and just followed Ling Yun to ask questions. Ling Yun was so obsessed with him that he had to sneak away and got lost.
...
Besides, the imperial examination was the lowest level of the formal imperial examination in ancient times. The county examination and prefecture examination that Lingyun took before were equivalent to two preparatory examinations.
After two preparatory screenings, the number of people was gradually reduced, and by the time they arrived at the hospital for the examination, there were not even one person left in the dozens.
Even if there are only dozens of people in this class, the number will only be much higher if you add in the children from previous classes.
The examination room of the college examination was also held in Anzhou Prefecture, but the examiner was no longer the prefect, but the academic administration, and the prefect was only an assistant.
It must be mentioned here that academic administration was appointed by the emperor, the supreme ruler of the dynasty.
This academic administration is not something that anyone can do if they want to. Even the emperor has to appoint someone and only those who meet the conditions can hold the position.
That is to say, the imperial court has expressly stipulated that academic administration is generally carried out by the supervisory censor or the minister of various ministries, and only those who have a Jinshi background can hold the position.
The college examination is divided into two sessions. In the first main examination, two essays and one poem will be tried. In the second re-examination, one essay and one poem will be tried.
Because the college examination is in June, the time is only one and a half months.
Originally, Ling Yun was going to leave home after the third day after taking the government examination, but Fatty and Wang Jinghui were unwilling to let him leave no matter what.
But Ling Yun, who cares about his family, still wants to leave, no matter how they try to persuade him to stay.
But the fat man told him that it would take at least seven days from Anzhou Prefecture to Lingshan County, and the people who came along with him had already gone back.
If he went back alone at this time, the travel expenses would probably be doubled several times. It was still one thing whether anyone would be willing to pick him up. After all, the fat man knew something about Ling Yun's family background.
Fatty had wanted to help him before, but he understood that Ling Yun was a very proud man and never liked to accept other people's things, let alone support him.
If the fat man expresses his inner thoughts, the relationship between the two may gradually drift apart.
After hearing what the fat man said, Ling Yun thought carefully and realized that he really couldn't go back.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to go back, even if he can go back, he is so cash-strapped that it would be difficult to come back!
Ling Yun had no choice but to agree to the two's offer to stay and stay here until the hospital trial was over.