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Chapter 184 Famous in the South of the Yangtze River

On August 18th, Jiangnan Gongyuan.

The provincial examination will be held at the beginning of Mao hour, that is, at five o'clock in the morning, so Lei Kesheng got up early. Wei Zhu had prepared two test utensils, one for his son and one for his uncle Wei Cheng, and also had a portion of amber walnut for breakfast, which was the last to replenish his brain. After Wei Changsheng had breakfast, he took the initiative to pick up his uncle Wei Cheng. Seeing his son wearing a single clothes, Wei Zhu said worriedly: "It's been a long time since he entered the venue, and it's autumn again, so he has to wear a cotton one."

Rickson stopped the wife who was looking for clothes: "Dedede, you old lady, you have to pull it off. There are rules in the examination room. You can wear a cotton one. When you arrive at the door, you have to disassemble and check it. Who will sew it for him? Don't worry, I asked him to wear two single clothes, and the examination room also gave it to the stove, so it's not cold."

"I've really suffered, I've suffered." Wei Zhu murmured to himself.

Two moments when it was ugly, Wei Cheng also came tremblingly. It was already a little late, and Leksheng did not let the old master get out of the carriage and walked out of the two doors. At this time, the counselor hired by Leksheng for his son also got up and went to the door to give him a gift. He told him about the word "avoidance". Wei Cheng was actually more careful than Wei Changsheng. Leksheng did not alarm the others anymore. The two carriages and seven or eight Changsui went there.

It was the Yin hour when we arrived at the Gongyuan, and there was still one hour before the exam was started, but the two streets were already brightly lit and crowded. I think they were all the families of students who were sent to the exam. Because of the same purpose, people who were not familiar with each other also said that they were famous on the list. The families who sent the scholars could only go outside the gate. Lei Kesheng personally checked the basket for Wei Cheng and Wei Changsheng again, so that the two of them could enter the gate.

Wei Changsheng personally helped his uncle into the gate. He passed by his family and scholars who were sent to the exam along the way, which made him amazed. Some people recognized Wei Cheng, an "old comrade-in-arms" who was taking the exam on the same day, and went up to say hello. When he arrived at the gate, Leksheng stared at his son: "Do you remember what he told you yesterday?"

Wei Changsheng focused on the key points, but in fact there was nothing wrong. He had three exams in the provincial examination, three days of one exam, and three days of grinding one eight-part essay. Everyone thought about words and sentences, and was very cautious. However, Lei Kesheng told Wei Changsheng that the first two games were in accordance with the rules, and the last game must be written between noon on the first day. It would be okay to write the article a little worse, but it must be written.

Wei Cheng asked: "Did the niece have told me?"

Leksheng smiled and said, "Uncle has experienced many battles and has been tempered. I am a big and rude man, where can I explain to you? Our Wei family depends entirely on you in this exam."

This is true. In fact, in Rickson's plan, whether his son can be on the list is really a good name, but he is not his article.

Several inspectors checked the men in line, including those who were jammed and kept privately, and they were arrested. The fierce look made people dare not speak. The grandparents and grandchildren of the Wei family were treated like this. They checked everything in the bamboo basket one by one, searched them all, took off their shoes, and checked them inch by inch to avoid interlayers. However, both of them had no other intentions, so they checked them.

When entering the venue, in addition to checking, Wei Changsheng also received two candles and searched for the examination room according to his own number. The only way was a servant locked the door. The examination room of the grandparents and grandchildren was in a row, but there were several rooms. Wei Changsheng first helped his uncle enter the venue, entered the examination room, put down the toilet and other things prepared for Wei Cheng, and then spread the pen, ink, paper and ink, so he went to his examination room.

The houses were all on the east and west sides of Mingyuan Building. During the exam, they had to eat, drink, defecate and sensation inside. This was just a small room three feet wide and four feet deep. The left and right walls were made of bricks, two feet above and below, and there were two upper and lower brick support. Two layers of wooden boards were placed, with writing on them and chairs below. The sky was still in the city. The environment inside the houses was wet and dark. Wei Changsheng put everything in his place and sat down to wait for the bell to start the exam.

Wei Changsheng didn't know that everything he did was seen by the officials on the Mingyuan Tower. The Jiangnan Provincial Examination, the supervision, the promotion and the supervision were all here, and there were examiners. People had already found Wei Cheng, whose hair was gray and unsteady, and some people familiar with Jiangnan knew that this person had been taking the exam for more than 60 years. This year, he saw a young man helping him enter the venue. After asking about it, he found out that he was his uncle's relationship. He couldn't help but praise Wei Changsheng for his filial piety. Seeing that he first placed his uncle first, he was also safe and he praised him for his carefulness and stability.

As the bell of Mingyuan Tower rang, after a team of soldiers inspected, the supervisor began to issue test questions according to the platoon. The test questions were still in the Analects of Confucius. Wei Changsheng took out the water bag, poured it into the inkstone, and started grinding the ink. Anyway, there was no need to panic in the first two games.

The surveillance officer was patrolling the field. He had a list of more than 30 numbers on it, nine of which were the Nine Sons of Jiangnan, and the other twenty were more than twenty guys who bribed the main and deputy examiners. The surveillance officer had received the secret order from Langhamzo and quietly watched these three people, so that they could make trouble, especially the so-called Nine Sons of Jiangnan.

Xu Wei, the leader of the nine sons of Jiangnan, attached more importance to it. Whenever the invigilator passes his house, he will either close his eyes and contemplate, or brush his face easily, eat, and behave in a very ordinary way, but he doesn't look like he makes trouble at all, but the invigilator can't always stare at him. Whenever there is no one in front of the invigilator, Xu Wei and others will start to write quickly, but they use their left hand, with a total of 550 words of eight essays, and nine people think more and less, and they will finish their answers soon.

It was normal to have two consecutive exams. In the third session, Wei Changsheng had already ground the ink and waited. As soon as the question came, he began to think hard and raise the text after reading it. After half an hour, he had already started writing, thinking while writing. Before noon, he finally finished writing. Wei Changsheng put down the paper and pen and started waiting for "anthought".

At noon, as usual, water was added to each house. When it was added to the 92nd house, the chef's little finger accidentally inserted into the water. The white powder hidden in his fingernails quickly melted and mixed with the water.

Not long after, a sudden shout came from a shock: "Oh, the candidate from the No. 92nd House is fainted, go to Mingyuan Building to report."

A group of candidates poked their heads out of the account house. Wei Changsheng was as motionless as a mountain, but heard the chaos outside. He was wondering, is this the chaos his father said?

On the way upstairs, Langzezo and others could not hear the sound of the row of voyages, but they had already seen a group of people surrounding them. Langzezo cursed inwardly, and it was not good to have an accident in the last game? Soon, someone reported that only one of the candidates fainted, but Langzezo did not dare to let it go right. While going to see it in person, he ordered the officials and soldiers to guard against major events to avoid major events.

Langham came down from Mingyuan Tower and asked, "What is the number of candidates he is? What is his name?"

"No. 92, named Wei Cheng." The supervisor reported.

Langzezow walked to the front of the hut and saw Wei Cheng, who was gray-haired and haggard, lying on the ground, spitting out white foam and twitching. Langzezow asked, "Is this dead?"

The promotion also followed and said, "It's still possible that I can't stand it when I'm old. The Jiangnan Provincial Examination is famous all over the world. If there are not many people who can't enjoy wealth in any year, don't worry, Governor."

"Yes, this is a common thing." Several examiners also said.

Wei Changsheng, who was originally sitting in the vocabulary, heard the number and name clearly. He was shocked and ignored his father's arrangements. He leaned out and shouted: "What's wrong with my uncle? Sir, what's wrong with my uncle?"

"Shut up, the exam room is noisy anymore, I will give you a flip!" someone warned.

Wei Changsheng was a filial child. During this period, he studied eight-legged essays with Wei Cheng and was also close to this stubborn uncle. How could he be safe at this time? He beg for mercy loudly: "Sir, let me go, I will take care of my uncle."

At this time, Langtze also heard Wei Changsheng's words. After asking, he realized that it was the two uncles who entered the venue that day. It was impossible to let Wei Changsheng come out. Not to mention Wei Changsheng, even Wei Cheng was ill and could not go out before the exam was over. However, Langtze was afraid that this was the trick of Donglin's evil deeds. He thought that if the family of the candidate was by his side, even if the candidate died, he could still be a witness. If someone was interested in the work, he could still deal with it calmly. Thinking of this, he walked to Wei Changsheng's No. 97 house.

"Are you Wei Cheng's nephew?" Langzenzo asked.

After Wei Changsheng bowed, he replied, "That's right, sir, please let me take care of my uncle. I won't take the exam in this subject, and the students are still young. There is still a chance in the future, but my uncle is only one."

After hearing this heartfelt words, several examiners praised him repeatedly. Before Langze could speak, he saw that he had already picked up Wei Changsheng's paper and praised: "It's really a good hand! The candidate has finished the third session. Why not seal his paper first and then let him take care of his uncle, killing two birds with one stone."

The surveillance also said: "Yes, sir, this candidate is filial piety and brotherhood. If his uncle has lost his grades due to illness, it is really a pity. Fortunately, he has finished the papers long ago and is not considered a bad rule. My Emperor of Qing ruled the world with filial piety, which is also a demonstration of the emperor's benevolence."

Langze nodded and thought to himself, if someone is interested in making a fuss about this, it would be better to gamble. He ordered someone to seal the paper and release Wei Changsheng. At this time, the doctor in the examination room had arrived. He just took a look and said, "This student is too old and has a good illness. It is better to take it out and take care of it."

Langhamo glanced at Wei Cheng's paper, but it was empty, and he said, "I haven't answered the paper yet. If I wake up with care, I have talked to Wei Changsheng. Wei Cheng should be disqualified!"

"Yes, that should be the case." Several examiners spoke in unison.

Langze nodded: "Since that's the case, I'll take Wei Cheng to the garage and let Wei Changsheng take care of him."

Wei Cheng had been incontinent for a while, and had already had incontinence. Several soldiers were unwilling to interfere. However, Wei Changsheng ignored the dirty smell and picked up Wei Cheng and went to the garrison room to take care of him carefully. Lang Tsun asked someone several times, but he heard from someone that Wei Changsheng was serving him and fed the medicine in person. He couldn't untied his clothes. However, Wei Cheng always woke up and fainted, and he didn't get better. The doctors in the field could not see the reason, so they had to go next to each other.

Langtze was worried after all, and when he came to the queue room, Wei Changsheng was exhausted and knelt down to thank him. At this time, he had already understood that this was Rickson's arrangement. Wei Chengshi was dizzy when he woke up, and someone handed the medicine to Wei Changsheng and asked him to drug him. Although Wei Changsheng was a little unwilling, he had to do it now. Langtze asked, "Have your uncle improved?"

"Life is not serious, but the dizziness is serious." Wei Changsheng returned with a hoarse voice.

Langzenzo coughed lightly: "The doctor said it was caused by heatstroke, or it might be because of unclean food, what do you think?"

Wei Changsheng knew that Langzezow suspected that someone had poisoned him. He knew that the poison was his father Reksheng. Now he had been slapped twice. How dare he lead him to this. He immediately said: "The student's uncle is seventy-seven, weak, and he often gets sick at home. I think he is not used to living in the house, which causes the disease and has nothing to do with the diet of the Gongyuan."

"Isn't it poison?" Langze simply pointed out.

Wei Changsheng looked surprised: "Who will poison my uncle?"

Langze smirked twice, feeling that he had lost his word. Yes, who would make a fuss about an old man in his seventies? He would not pass the exam, and he would not be unexpected. Even if he died in the tribute school, what if he died in that year?

"Okay, you can take care of your uncle here. Your paper has been sealed and you will not delay this score. You are a filial and good child. What the Qing Dynasty needs is talents like you, so don't worry." Lang Tsai said a few words and left.

More than a day later, the provincial examination finally ended. Xu Wei calmly left the tribute court, but saw that there were traffic here, and the nine sons of Jiangnan were already here. They were all sure of their victory when they asked each other. Xu Wei smiled slightly, knowing that this was a code word, and everyone had already followed the plan. Soon, there were a lot of people around them.

"Brother Xu is so handsome, he must be a brilliant writer. This provincial examination is very famous."

"Yes, Brother Xu is already in mind, and the nine sons of Jiangnan are not sure who can get more slaughtering the Yuan Dynasty."

One person smiled and said, "I don't know who Jie Yuan is, but this year, there is one person who is the limelight that must have overshadowed Brother Xu."

"Is it because Brother Tai is talking about the filial student Wei Changsheng?" someone asked.

Xu Wei's house was far away from the location where the accident happened, so he didn't know, so he quickly asked, and those people didn't hide their own personalities and told them out. Xu Wei said, "Do you have any achievements after you leave the house in advance?"

The versions that those who know heard were all stories about Wei Changsheng taking care of his sick uncle who was not untied. Everyone is not sure whether he has any achievements. But at this time, after hearing such a story of filial piety and brotherhood, the students wanted to see what the Wei family looked like, and gathered in front of the Gongyuan gate. Lang Tsai, who heard the news, thought they stayed to cheer for Wei Changsheng, and hurriedly sent someone to inform the situation. Tens of thousands of students in the Gongyuan learned about Wei Changsheng's filial piety and brotherhood, and they were even more unwilling to leave and wanted to pay attention to his style.
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