After Xiao Liulang entered the examination room, Gu Jiao left with the basket on her back.

She was going to the market to sell the wild mushrooms in the basket and the dried fungus, and then do something else.

Tianxiang Academy has a wide reputation, and there are many people who come to the exam, some are local, and some are from other places like Xiao Liulang.

Each person who refers to them holds a letter of recommendation from a village, county, or prefectural school and enters the corresponding examination room separately.

Because of their different levels, Xiao Liulang and Gu Dashun were assigned to different examination rooms.

Xiao Liulang is in the last row.

The steps of Tianxiang Academy are very high, and generally those who come to study are at least Xiucai, and it is not easy to take the Xiucai exam these years, like Gu Dashun who was admitted before he was twenty.

Xiao Liulang is only seventeen, and he is the youngest of all the candidates.

It's also the most handsome one.

It's a pity, it's a cripple.

All the candidates cast strange eyes, but it didn't last long, and they began to bury their heads in the exam papers.

In the morning, the poems are tested, and in the afternoon, the scriptures are tested.

Most of the candidates who can come here have ink in their stomachs, and it is not difficult for them to write some poems on the spot, but the difficult thing is the scriptures in the afternoon.

The questions of the scriptures are all from the original texts of the Four Books and the Five Classics, and candidates must strictly use the eight-strand text.

The eight-strand text is composed of eight parts: breaking the question, undertaking the topic, starting to speak, starting, starting shares, middle shares, back shares, and bundle shares, and no metaphors are allowed, and the tone of a sage must be used, and the annotations can only come from the Cheng Zhu school, which is very restrictive for candidates.

In addition, the questions this time were very difficult, and after the test in one day, almost all the candidates' faces turned green.

When Xiao Liulang came out, his classmates had been waiting outside the examination room for half an hour.

"Rokuro! Over here! He waved at Xiao Liulang.

Xiao Liulang walked over with a cane.

The classmate said: "I just heard a lot of people complaining about the tricky topic of Jingyi, alas, it is also your bad luck, this time the topic is the dean himself." If you hadn't had an accident and took the exam with me, it wouldn't have been so difficult...... Blame that wicked woman! ”

Xiao Liulang glanced at him, his eyebrows frowning.

The classmate continued: "By the way, she hasn't bullied you these days, has she?" I'm so worried that you won't be able to come again today. ”

Truly...... Almost didn't come.

Xiao Liulang paused.

Suddenly, without knowing what he felt, he raised his head and looked ahead.

At this time, the exam had just ended, and the street at the entrance of the academy was full of people coming and going.

A slender little figure, carrying a small basket on his back, holding his hands in his arms, stood against the wall, a little careless.

Someone walked by from time to time, because her face threw all kinds of glances at her, but she didn't care at all, not angry, not annoyed, not ashamed, not embarrassed.

Soon, the classmate also saw Gu Jiao, and his brows were furrowed: "Ah! How did she get here? It's not going to be a trouble for you! Honestly, did you run away from home today? ”

In fact, Xiao Liulang wasn't sure if Gu Jiao was coming to him, but she was leaning there, obviously looking like someone else......

It was probably because there were many candidates who came out, and finally attracted Gu Jiao's attention.

Gu Jiao turned her head to look this way, and in the crowd of people, she saw the young man with outstanding posture at a glance.

She smiled slightly and walked towards Xiao Liulang.

"It's over." She said.

"Hmm." Xiao Liulang nodded, "Waited for a long time?" ”

"Not either." Gu Jiao pulled her little ear and said.

"Didn't you go to the bazaar? Why didn't you go home? Xiao Liulang saw that her back basket was filled with fungus and wild mountain mushrooms, and knew that she would go to the market. But the bazaar closes at noon at most.

"There's just something going on nearby." Gu Jiao said.

"What can you do?" The classmate rolled his eyes.

However, Gu Jiao's words reminded him.

He got out of class early today, went to the hospital, and found that Dr. Zhang came again, and saved a dying man.

"Are you sure it's Dr. Zhang?" Xiao Liulang was slightly stunned.

Last time the doctor made a fuss, Dr. Zhang also suffered some skin trauma. In fact, it was not Dr. Zhang who killed the murderer's family, he was completely implicated, but in the end, he provoked him, and he put down his cruel words and never came in this life.

The classmate said firmly: "Of course! I saw with my own eyes that the man was carried in, covered in blood, his neck was crooked, and his breath was gone, except for Dr. Zhang from the capital, who else could save him? ”

Gu Jiao looked at the little ant on the ground silently and did not speak.

The classmate continued: "Dr. Zhang can save even that kind of life, and he will definitely be able to cure your leg." You don't have to worry about these, I'll ask when Dr. Zhang is on call. ”

"When are you going?" Gu Jiao suddenly spoke.

The classmate looked at her with disdain: "Why should I tell you?" ”

Gu Jiao: "......"

Dinner was eaten in the town, and the classmate insisted on taking Xiao Liulang to taste the Yangchun noodles near the academy, saying that it had the taste of hometown.

After eating, Xiao Liulang and Gu Jiao took a mule cart back to the village. This time, Xiao Liulang asked for a car with a carriage.

Night fell completely, and there were no oil lamps in the carriage, but there was bright moonlight taking advantage of the gap.

Gu Jiao sat opposite Xiao Liulang, straightened a pair of small long legs, and stretched her toes one by one.

She bought new shoes.

It's not an embroidered shoe worn by a big daughter, just a pair of low-cost small cloth shoes, a pure black upper, no extra color, but it unexpectedly looks good on her feet.

She looked very well-behaved when she played with her shoes, and her eyes looked like broken starlight.

The mule cart is still parked at the entrance of the village.

After the two got out of the car, Gu Jiao still walked not far behind him.

Gu Jiao's story of Xiao Liulang and Gu Dashun's turning their faces had spread all over the village, and Xue Ningxiang specially guarded the door, only to see the two of them coming from the night one after the other.

Wasn't she dazzled last time?

Are these two really getting better?

"Gu fool!"

A voice broke the silence around her, and Xue Ningxiang turned around and went back to the house.

Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang stopped outside their door, turned their heads to look at the young man who was walking towards them, it was Gu Ershun in the second room of the Gu family.

Gu Ershun and Gu Xiaoshun are both from the Liu family, but compared to his younger brother, Gu Ershun has always been closer to Gu Dashun, a cousin.

Gu Jiao only glanced at it lightly and then looked away, unlocked the lock, and entered the house with Xiao Liulang.

Gu Ershun strode over, stood at the door with his waist crossed, and said angrily: "Gu fool, I think you have turned the sky upside down, dare to treat the eldest brother like this!" Do you know that you almost delayed your big brother's exam! also made the eldest brother shameless in front of the whole village! ”

Don't listen or don't listen, Wang Ba recites the scriptures.

Gu Jiao crossed the threshold and was about to close the door.

Gu Ershun saw that she ignored herself, she was angry, stepped into the house with one foot, and supported the door panel with one hand: "You dare?" Grandpa asked me to come to you! Hurry up and kowtow to your eldest brother and admit your mistake! Or I'll kill you!" ”

Gu Jiao pulled her little ears impatiently.

Bother.

"Do you hear that? If you don't get this out of the way today, don't you think about it......"

He was halfway through his sentence.

Gu Jiao raised her foot and flew him out with one kick!