The horse's hooves announcing the good news passed by the inn, and then headed elsewhere without stopping. Some people sighed, as if they were lamenting.
There were also people who slapped their thighs heavily and said sadly, "This...how can this still be over?"
"Yeah, now I'm about to stop, how can I still turn?"
The person who had just spoken out whispered again, "Are you really just passing by?"
I was already sad when I saw the horse gone, but now I heard the man muttering something like that. You can imagine the anger in my heart, and I was afraid I wanted to tear his mouth open.
The man's opening of his mouth had already aroused everyone's dissatisfaction. Seeing the horse passing by the inn, he said this slowly, which made people even more angry.
The person closest to him looked at him gnashing his teeth and said viciously, "Yang Ju, you'd better shut your stinky mouth, or else...or I'll kick you out of here."
Obviously this person can call out the name Yang Ju, so I think he is an acquaintance.
It's just that at this critical moment, that person doesn't care whether Yang Ju is his friend or not. If Yang Ju makes a noise and gets angry, he might really be able to kick Yang Ju out.
When they saw someone scolding him, the people around him quickly echoed, "If he opens his mouth, we will throw him out."
"That's right, this damn mouth, crow's mouth..."
Seeing this, Yang Ju felt aggrieved and had to slowly move to the other side, because he knew what he would face if he was not careful and couldn't help but speak out again.
Although Yang Ju stayed away from those people, he was still unconvinced in his heart. What he said was obviously the truth, but he didn't know that they would not be on the list, so he transferred his anger to himself.
He hid in a corner and secretly spat at the people who scolded him, and secretly said, "These people are so big-hearted, it's strange that they are on the list."
...
Not long after, the sound of horse hoofbeats sounded again, and everyone's disappointed hearts tightened again, and they looked at the man on the horse with their mouths open.
Someone muttered to themselves, "Are you here again?"
Yang Ju in the corner couldn't help but muttered again, "If you want to come here this time, you won't be passing by again, right?"
"Ah ah ah, shut your crow mouth quickly..."
"Dong dong dong", the bronze drum sounded three times in a row.
Before the horse stopped, there were two people immediately. One of them beat the gong, and the other said, "Congratulations to Mr. Fan Fu, high school student, for ranking 56th in the provincial examination in the 15th year of Qianxi's reign..."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone looked at you and me, wanting to know who was Fan Fu.
I just looked around and no one came forward, so the officer repeated it again.
Everyone was stunned and no one spoke.
Just for a moment, a voice rang out from the crowd in the inn, "Hey! I've been hit, I've been hit, I, Fan Fu, have been hit, I've been hit..."
Before he finished speaking, the person who spoke fell down in the crowd.
The inn had already given way to a small path, but at this moment people gathered around it.
Everyone gathered around the man who fell on the ground, at a loss.
Someone whispered, "He...what's wrong with him?"
"Could it be that you were overjoyed and fainted because you won the ranking?"
"I think so. Let's wake him up quickly and wake him up. The official is still waiting outside!"
The most nervous person was the innkeeper. At this time, he saw the master of Juren fainted in his inn. He was so anxious that he didn't know what to do.
"Go find a basin and fill it with water."
Hearing someone talking, the innkeeper immediately went to the backyard and brought a basin of water and a hand towel.
After leaving and returning, the innkeeper immediately shouted loudly, "The water has arrived. The water has arrived. What should we do next?"
Someone said, "Wet the handkerchief and put it on his face."
I heard someone asking to wet a handkerchief and put it on the fainted person's face, but the innkeeper didn't move and just stood there and watched.
The person who just spoke saw that the innkeeper was motionless and asked, "Didn't I ask you to put the wet towel on his face? Why are you not moving?"
The innkeeper was frightened and hesitantly said, "This scholar, I don't dare! The one who fainted is the Master of Juren! How dare I do anything rough to him?"
After saying that, the innkeeper looked at the crowd around him expectantly, hoping that they could help him.
But even he didn't dare to do it himself. Who would dare to step forward to help now?
After all, the person who fainted was the Juren master, and they were just scholars. In other words, if something happened, how could they afford it?
So what happened was that two officials were waiting at the door, and then a group of people in the inn surrounded the fainted Master Juren.
Upon seeing this, Ling Yun immediately stood up from his seat.
He pushed through the crowd, walked in, looked at the fainted person carefully, then squatted half-crouched, and gently patted the fainted person's face with his right hand, but there was no reaction.
Ling Yun had no choice but to pinch his man, and sure enough, there was a reaction this time.
Seeing the man's eyes open, Ling Yun's right hand passed over his eyes and whispered, "Can you understand me now?"
The man who fainted on the ground was a little confused, but he still nodded thoughtfully when he heard Lin Yun speak.
Ling Yun approached and took a cup of tea from the table and asked him to drink it. The man obediently drank the herbal tea.
After he was almost recovered, Ling Yun slowly helped him up.
The man woke up, looked at Ling Yun and bowed. Ling Yun waved his hand, and then pointed at the door of the inn, indicating that he wanted to go out and reward the official.
So Fan Fu walked out slowly, and after rewarding the official, he returned to the inn.
When he walked back to the inn, he just wanted to find Ling Yun to express his gratitude. Unfortunately, the people in the inn surrounded him and came up to celebrate and talk to him.
Unable to get rid of the crowd, he had no choice but to give up.
After the official reported the good news to Fan Fu, he took the reward and left in a hurry to go to the next house.
But after leaving, two people came back not long after, shouting loudly from a distance, "Congratulations to Mr. Xu Qiusheng for ranking 36th in the provincial examination in the 15th year of Qianxi's high school..."
"coax!"
As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the inn, and everyone turned to Xu Qiusheng.
Because Xu Qiusheng made a bet with Ling Yun, everyone had an impression of him, so in just an instant, all the eyes in the inn were focused on Xu Qiusheng.
At this moment, he was stunned. In disbelief, his mouth was wide enough to put down a goose egg.
Everyone in the inn quickly made way for him to pass through. Xu Qiusheng trembled all over and walked towards the door.