Perhaps it was because of the wind that picked up last night, but the next day, the originally crisp autumn weather was now covered with dark clouds.
Thick black clouds pressed down on the sky like a huge mountain, making the candidates in the Gongyuan somewhat breathless, and there was a depressing atmosphere in the air.
It looks like it's going to rain heavily.
"This feeling is indeed very uncomfortable."
In the examination room, Li Xiuyuan meditated for an hour and regained his energy and strength. He looked up at the sky and couldn't help but murmur.
He felt that the weather seemed a bit abnormal, and staying in such a depressing environment, it was not easy to sit down quietly, let alone answer the exam.
I feel this way myself, but other scholars feel even worse.
Some noises began to emerge from the Gongyuan.
"Damn weather, why has it suddenly become so hot and muggy? It's so hot that I can't even survive. It was obviously fine last night."
Some candidates were upset and couldn't help complaining.
"Damn it, it's going to rain heavily. It really comes at the wrong time. It's not going to rain any time, but it's at this time."
Even the patrolling policemen were cursing.
And in another examination room in Gongyuan.
Ye Huaian, the scholar who shouted "Thirty Years in Hedong and Thirty Years in Hexi", was sweating on his forehead at this moment, but he still wrote straight and straight, writing on the examination paper and mumbling to himself.
"I will definitely pass the examination as a scholar. I will definitely pass the examination as a scholar. Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. Don't bully young people into poverty...I must make other people look good."
It was okay at first, but later on, his eyes gradually turned red, and his swiping speed became faster and faster, and his force became stronger and stronger.
"Wow~!"
The examination paper was torn apart because he used too much force.
But Ye Huaian kept breathing heavily, his eyes were still red, and he was swiping ink on the broken examination paper. What he wrote was not an article at all, it was the essence, all things that were incomprehensible like ghost drawings.
"Haha, I passed the exam to be a scholar, I passed the exam to be a scholar..."
Suddenly, Ye Huaian dropped the brush in his hand, grabbed the test paper on the table, and then shouted excitedly while tearing the test paper into pieces.
He looked crazy, like a madman.
"Who, who is shouting in the tribute courtyard?"
The officer heard the sound and rushed over soon. When he saw Ye Huaian tearing up the examination papers in the examination room, his expression changed immediately.
"This candidate is hysterical and crazy. Take him down." A class leader said.
When the officer responded, he helped Ye Huaian and sent him out of the examination room.
Ye Huaian, who was going crazy before, was now twitching all over again. It didn't look like he was suffering from hysteria, but he seemed to have contracted some disease.
"Class leader, you see, the examinee's hand seems to have been bitten by a dog. He is going crazy." A guard saw the wound on Ye Huaian's hand and said hurriedly.
The class leader cursed: "This unlucky guy has a strange disease and still dares to take the college examination. Throw this guy out of the Gongyuan through the back door. Don't let him go crazy in the Gongyuan, otherwise the examiner will scold me again when he sees it."
waited."
"Yes, squad leader." The officer nodded and hurriedly took Ye Huaian away.
When passing by, Li Xiuyuan looked at the crazy Ye Huaian and couldn't help but be stunned: "No way, are you really suffering from rabies?"
During the last trip, the Chu family's hounds went riot. Everyone else was fine, but Ye Huaian was bitten.
This disease doesn't happen early or late, but it happens at this time.
Now let alone thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. Whether you can survive is still a question. Even if you survive, you will never have a chance to take the imperial examination for the rest of your life.
I would like to ask which examiner would dare to admit a scholar with rabies?
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but shook his head slightly.
Maybe this is fate.
And if nothing else goes wrong, after today's farewell, I'm afraid I won't be able to see this guy who makes my thoughts unclear in the future.
"This makes me worry less." Li Xiuyuan was in a good mood.
This Ye Huaian is not a good person. He will retaliate for his anger. He even tried to molest Qingmei when he was at Lanruo Temple that day. If such a person becomes a scholar, he will only become a corrupt official and a bad official if he is elected as an official in the future.
, it is absolutely impossible to be a good official.
However, Ye Huaian's case does not seem to be a special case.
Zhu Yu didn't know what was going on at the moment. He thought of some dirty things between himself and the male ghost a few days ago, and maybe the weather was sultry. At the moment, his head was empty and he couldn't think of anything. He suddenly felt nauseated and couldn't bear it.
I couldn't help but vomited.
"Ugh~!" The filth instantly covered the exam paper in front of him.
"It's over, it's over."
After vomiting, Zhu Yu was dumbfounded and couldn't help but drop the brush in his hand to the ground.
All the test papers are dirty. I'm afraid I'll fail this exam.
In the examination room not far away, a friend who was traveling with me was even more miserable. Thinking that he had been in love with a dog for several days, he felt that there was nothing more tragic in the world.
He was so angry that he wrote hard and stopped answering the test paper. He wrote three words in succession on the examination paper: miserable, miserable, miserable.
After finishing writing, he threw away the pen, lay on the table and burst into tears.
But Li Xiuyuan had no time to take into account the various situations in the examination room at the moment. Although the weather was sultry, he was still calm and composed and finished answering the last examination paper before it got dark today.
"call."
After the last stroke was finished, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
After checking that everything was correct, he pulled a small bell hanging next to the examination room.
"No, someone has finished writing the exam paper so quickly?" Some other candidates raised their heads in surprise when they heard the ringing.
Someone handed in the paper on the second day, which was really fast. Strictly speaking, this was just the first day. The exam started very late yesterday. Almost at night, few exams would answer questions at night to avoid many mistakes.
, most of them were trying to answer the questions on scratch paper and waiting to copy them today, but after all this time, most of the scholars had just finished writing the first exam paper, so how could they be so fast?
"I'm afraid he is a scholar who gives up on himself." Some people couldn't help but guess.
The officers came immediately when they heard the bell.
They bowed first and then said, "Does this scholar want to hand in papers?"
"Exactly." Li Xiuyuan nodded.
He had already done everything he was supposed to do, and it was the same whether he handed in his papers early or late.
"Please wait a moment."
After a servant finished speaking, he left immediately, and when he came back, he brought a clerk with him.
The clerk came to Li Xiuyuan and asked him again if he had handed in his answer sheet. After receiving confirmation, he used tools to organize Li Xiuyuan's answer sheet, then anonymously put it in a wooden box and took it away.
"Even if you hand in your papers in advance, you won't be able to leave the examination room. You have to wait until the college examination is over before you can leave," said a guard.
Li Xiuyuan nodded and sat in the examination room.
At this moment, thinking back, he felt a little hungry in his belly, so he took out the food box that Du Chunhua had prepared before. After opening it, it contained exquisite braised pork, noodles, various cold dishes, and two bottles of wine. Some fresh fruits.
I have to say that with Du Chunhua at his side taking care of these trivial matters, Li Xiuyuan felt particularly at ease.
Xiaodie can only act cute and warm the bed, but can't do these things.
After eating and drinking, he felt a little tired, so Li Xiuyuan held his head and took a nap.
But in the evening, under the dark sky, there was no wind or thunder, and suddenly heavy rain poured down.
The sultry weather has finally eased, but there is a fishy smell in the rain.
The appearance of this peculiar smell made many people in Guo Beicheng suspicious.
"Wow~!"
By late at night, the heavy rain had not stopped.
In the Gongyuan, there was already water in some places, and in some dilapidated examination rooms, there were scholars who were cursing God in anger because the rain suddenly fell and wet the examination papers.
"This rain is a little unusual..." Li Xiuyuan's eyes moved slightly.
He saw that there was a trace of black air in the rain. This black air seemed to be a wave of resentment that lingered for a long time. At this moment, it poured down with the rain, covering the entire Guo Beicheng.
"Hey, what is that?"
Suddenly, Li Xiuyuan's eyes moved and he saw a figure walking out of a dilapidated and deserted examination room in Gongyuan. He quickly got into a nearby examination room, but came out again after a while.
This black figure is a man wearing a long gown. This man has dark skin and a jet-black face. He is striding along the aisle at this moment, letting the rain from the sky wash away, and the rain falls on him, and after flowing down, It turned into pitch black ink.
"No, there are still ghosts in the Gongyuan?" Li Xiu was stunned for a moment when he was far away.
He immediately saw the dark figure walking into an examination room opposite, and let out a strange laugh. He stretched out his hand to smear the scholar's examination paper, but saw that the ink characters on the examination paper melted away immediately. , it became a blur and could no longer be seen clearly.
The candidate was still sleeping and didn't know all this.
After finishing this matter, the dark figure went back to the examination room where he was being examined.
"The resentment in the rain gave this ghost the ability to cause trouble. Otherwise, if there are scholars everywhere in the Gongyuan, there will inevitably be a few people with noble fates. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a ghost to cause trouble here." Li Xiuyuan said secretly. .
This dark shadow is neither confusing nor harmful. It just walks into the examination room like a prank and confuses the dozing scholar's test paper.
Obviously this ghost is ruining the candidates' future.
"We can't let this ghost continue to mess around." Li Xiuyuan frowned.
He didn't say much, he just took out the inkstone again, took water to grind the ink, and put a drop of blood in it.
At this moment, the black figure swooped into Li Xiuyuan's examination room with a roar, stretched out his wet palms, and tried to touch his examination papers.
Li Xiuyuan suddenly stared at the black figure and said: "You are just a little kid, relying on the heavy rain tonight to ruin other people's futures at will. It seems like you really don't want to live."
The black shadow was frightened and wanted to run away.
"Want to leave now?"
Li Xiuyuan took the pen and dyed it with ink, and with a wave of his hand, the ink splashed and fell on the black figure like boiling oil. It was so hot that he screamed and almost collapsed.
"Spare your life, spare your life, I used to be an examinee here, but I died in the Gongyuan due to illness. Because the examination paper was not finished, my obsession was still attached, and my soul was attached to a writing brush. It just appeared today, please."
This young man thinks that I am ignorant, please spare me once."
The black figure screamed and begged for mercy.
"I can't spare you. I don't know how many scholars have lost their honors tonight because of your affairs. Who is to blame for your illness and death in the Gongyuan? How can you vent your resentment to other candidates? And just now I saw that you fooled other people's examination papers.
Your movements are extremely skillful, but I don't think you are ignorant and are telling nonsense. Not a word of it is believable. You should be destroyed." Li Xiuyuan waved his brush again.
Thick ink splashed, the black shadow screamed, and its body exploded, only to see a rancid brush fall to the ground, broken into several sections.
"It's really an evil ghost possessing the brush."
Li Xiuyuan frowned and swept the disgusting things out of the examination room.
He didn't feel any regret for killing this kid. Everything this kid did was more serious than killing a person.
If it is not removed today and wanders around in this tribute courtyard in the future, I don’t know how many scholars’ reputations will be harmed.
When the time comes, if the talented scholars are buried and some scholars with bad moral character pass the exam, won't it bring chaos to the imperial court and endanger the whole place?
"However, the appearance of this little devil is not an accident."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the heavy rain in the tribute courtyard with a heavy heart. There was resentment in the rain. It definitely didn't appear out of nowhere in the plain. Something must have happened.
But now that I am sitting in the Gongyuan, I don't know what happened in Guo Beicheng recently.