Jing Xingzhi’s Daily Life in Ancient Times - Chapter 96

This one was the last one.

Jing Xingzhi suddenly realized that he had finished eating Liu Fang’s buns!

He raised his hand with a smile and offered the last steamed bun to Liu Fang. “The last one is for you to eat.”

Wow! The last one was exclusive. Everyone would be happy to receive.

Not to mention, it was given by the person he liked.

Liu Fang felt a sweetness in his heart. He lowered his head and took a bite of the bun from Jing Xingzhi’s hand. It felt like taking two bites of honey, sweet in every sense.

Then Liu Fang chewed a few times, took some of the remaining bun in his mouth, and was about to continue eating the other half that belonged to him.

But that half a bun… was no more.

Jing Xingzhi had eaten it deliberately to tease Liu Fang, and after finishing, he said, “It smells so good!”

Liu Fang was so amused and irritated that he almost burst out laughing. “You’re being ridiculous. Don’t tease me like that; it’ll make your stomach hurt.”

Then new buns arrived, and they both ate from the same bun. One half for the husband and one half for the wife, sharing the joy together.

After they finished eating the buns, evening fell.

Night was the best time for topics to ferment.

The legend of “the first person to hand in the exam” began to spread in the brothels that night.

Many young men, eager to bolster their reputations, shamelessly hinted that the legendary person was them!

As a result, so many people got involved that the true identity of the one who submitted the first paper remained unknown, existing only as a whisper in the hearts of the examiners in the Gongyuan.

Emperor Li Yunxi also knew the truth. Su Mingyuan sent him a message, reporting on the day’s events.

[According to the news, everything went well, except that there was an examinee named Jing Xingzhi who was anxious that his wife was about to give birth, so he handed in his paper in one day. I discussed it with my colleagues and decided to let him go early. Reasons one, two, three—I hope the Holy One will not blame us.]

Li Yunxi had been stunned for a moment and then laughed, pointing at the informal memorial and scolding, “That naughty one ran out after taking the exam for only one day and making such a mess. He will make the teacher ashamed!”

Zhang Tong had smiled, saying, “Your Majesty, Young Master Jing was worried about his wife. The two of them had been dependent on each other since they were young, and they had a deep relationship. I had also heard that this little shuanger is a good person. It wasn’t easy for him to work and pay the school tuition. Now that his husband paid so much attention to him, it is his blessing.”

Li Yunxi had thought about it and admired this little shuanger he had never met before.

However, Li Yunxi was not familiar with Liu Fang after all, and he had been thinking more about Jing Xingzhi, so after saying a few words, he smiled and said, “I just want to see how he did in the exam. If that didn’t work, I would get him to accompany the third and fourth prince in class. Anyway, he was very good at taking care of children.”

Zhang Tong continued to brag about the Holy Master: “Young Master Jing is the Holy Master’s junior brother, and Chief Fang is very knowledgeable. Young Master Jing would definitely be among the best! A truly smart person would not be too bad even if he rushed the test.”

Zhang Tong, who had no idea about the difficulty of the test paper, made some nonsense, which made Li Yunxi feel very comfortable.

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On the eleventh day.

As soon as the bell in the Gongyuan had rung, all the candidates had rushed out, and everything they saw was dark and filled with human heads.

Wu Mingrui had been squeezed out by the crowd with blank eyes and looked around helplessly, trying to find if his friend was nearby.

But before Wu Mingrui could see the person, Wang Zhuang had spotted his future master and reached out to fish the person out of the crowd.

Wu Mingrui breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was Wang Zhuang and shouted, “Brother Zhuang.”

Then, when he saw Wang Zhuang leading him out without looking back, Wu Mingrui asked, “Brother Zhuang, have you found Xingzhi?”

Wang Zhuang turned back to look at his future master, feeling like he was looking at a newbie, and said, “Young Master Jing had gone back on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year. Now he is at home with Liu Fang.”

“Wait, wait!” Wu Mingrui frowned. “The ninth day of the Lunar New Year?! Brother Zhuang, did you tell me the wrong date? This time the test questions were very difficult but he went out on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year… the same day…”

As he said that, Wu Mingrui shook his head, blindly trusting his friend.

“Xingzhi is different from me. Maybe Xingzhi thought the test questions were easy, so he left after finishing them. I am still not good, so I have to keep working hard!”

The candidate who happened to be walking next to Wu Mingrui were confused: “…”

Which fool was he talking about?! He left the exam in the same day it started… even thinking the questions were easy? Was he kidding me?

Did that person really think he was the descendant of the Deity of Literature, Wen Xuqing?!

The question this time were so difficult that he almost wanted to cry…

“Let’s go back.” Wang Zhuang had felt that something was wrong with the candidate next to his future master, so he quickly pulled him away.

After squeezing out of the crowd, Wang Zhuang took the test box from Wu Mingrui’s back and stuffed the person into the carriage.

Wu Mingrui fell down and fell asleep immediately.