There is an unwritten rule in the Academy Challenge.

[Only on the opening day of the challenge will the current judge be revealed]

The meaning behind this is to prevent the occurrence of the disgraceful phenomenon of bribing judges.

Gu Yanran's appointment as a judge also complies with this regulation, which is still a confidential matter.

Except for the gentlemen of Shangheng Academy and a few people in Yingyue Mansion, wine was only known to a small number of people in the Hanlin Academy.

For so many days, she has been pestered by the students and gentlemen in Shangheng Academy who are going to participate in the challenge to ask about the knowledge of the four arts.

Whether it's a free time between classes or private time after a class......

Not to mention taking the time to meet and chat with others, and even every day, she can't leave the school until the sun sets.

Because of this, she didn't have the opportunity to tell Gu Haoran and Lin Shangshu about becoming the judge of the Academy Challenge.

And Gu Haoran and Lin Shangshu were suddenly petrified when they heard Gu Yanran's sincere confession.

“！！！” Lin Shangshu's eyes widened.

Gu Haoran opened his lips slightly, slightly distracted. “……”

"Hehehe." Gu Yanran pursed her lips and smiled, turned around and left the window, returning to where she was originally sitting.

Gu Qiqiao stepped forward and poured Gu Yanran a cup of hot tea. "This is the first-grade Pu'er just brought by the shopkeeper, you can drink and see."

Gu Yanran picked up the teacup in front of her, first put it in front of her nose and smelled it, and then took a sip of tea through her throat. "The tea fragrance is light and elegant on a sunny day, the taste is slightly bitter but not astringent, well, it is a good tea."

Gu Haoran and Lin Shangshu, who were pestle by the window, came back to their senses, and were even more shocked when they saw Gu Yanran sitting there leisurely drinking tea as if she was nothing.

Lin Shangshu stepped to the table in three or two steps, sat next to Gu Yanran, and stared at her directly.

"Cousin, you're not joking, are you?" Lin Shangshu didn't dare to believe Gu Yanran's words easily, so he had to think that she was joking.

Being able to serve as a judge of the Academy Challenge means that his knowledge has been recognized and affirmed by the Hallym Academy, which is the dream of many scholars of the four arts?

In the past, almost all of the judges selected by the Hanlin Academy were Hanlin academicians and Hanlin bachelors with high attainments in the four arts of Yeyu Guoqin, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Or, by hiring external bachelors, recruiting other scholars with outstanding talents in the four arts to sit on the judging bench, Gu Yanran is in this category.

But to be honest, none of the scholars of the four arts who were selected as judges were not old men who were over the age of six.

At such a young age, if Gu Yanran was really elected as the judge of the Academy Challenge, how could she still be so calm?

Look at her not only did she not look half excited and happy, but she was calm as if nothing had happened.

This...... Something is obviously wrong, right?

Lin Shangshu thought that Gu Yanran was joking, but Gu Haoran didn't think so.

I saw that Gu Haoran also sat down after Lin Shangshu took a seat, and sat back where he was sitting.

"Yan'er." Gu Haoran looked at Gu Yanran's gaze, and his expression was quite solemn. "Why didn't you say such an important thing until now?"

Gu Haoran's solemnity undoubtedly believed Gu Yanran's words.

"Oh my God." Lin Shangshu couldn't help but shake his head. "Cousin, she's just joking, do you really believe it?"

"Faith." Gu Haoran nodded without hesitation and replied. "I believe everything Yan'er says."

Lin Shangshu was speechless. "You call blind listening and blind obedience."

Gu Yanran was trusted by Gu Haoran, and her heart couldn't help but be full of warmth.

Immediately after, she looked at Lin Shangshu and asked with a smile on her face. "Sure enough, the difference between my brother and my cousin is still obvious, cousin, do you say it?"

She wasn't accusing Lin Shangshu of distrusting her, nor did she mean anything to blame him.

I just think that Lin Shangshu's words and deeds are quite interesting, and I want to ridicule him out of fun.

And Lin Shangshu heard the meaning from Gu Yanran's words, and couldn't help but exclaim. "Is it true that you said that you were a judge of the School Challenge?"

"Guess?" Gu Yanran winked playfully at Lin Shangshu and sold Guanzi.

Gu Yanran didn't answer positively, only gave this ambiguous answer, but it made Lin Shangshu more sure of his inner thoughts.

"......" Lin Shangshu subconsciously burst into foul language, and was scorched by this incident, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

Gu Haoran turned his eyes and glared at Lin Shangshu beside him. "Lin Shangshu, you can't say that you can't keep your mouth open in front of Yan'er!"

## #学府挑战赛第一日

On this day, before dawn, near the venue where the challenge was held, the spectators who came one after another were bored and idle.

The spectators came earlier than the other, scrambling for fear that they would not be able to occupy a good position if they came one step late.

The morning light is faint.

The opening ceremony at the beginning of each edition of the Academy Challenge is less than two sticks of incense.

The challenge venue was surrounded by countless spectators on all sides, forming an almost airtight protective shield.

The distance between people can be said to be not even a gap for flies to live in.

If it weren't for the fact that the organizers had learned the lessons of previous editions......

Speaking of the previous editions of the University Challenge, it was also as crowded as today.

However, due to the poor planning of the Hanlin Academy in some aspects, and the underestimation of the speed of the fame of the University Challenge, some uncontrollable situations occurred frequently.

The so-called uncontrollable situation is that during the previous editions of the Academy Challenge, there was an event that happened every day before the start of the competition, without exception.

That's ...... The contestants and judges were blocked by the crowd of people who came to watch the competition, and they couldn't cross the crowd on their own, let alone reach the ring.

Therefore, in order not to prevent such things from happening, the Hanlin Academy has specially reserved a passage for contestants and judges to enter the venue.

At this moment, the participants in this challenge have entered from the passage one after another, and under the guidance of the leader, they are going to their respective positions.

After all the contestants entered, a middle-aged man appeared on the judges' bench, which was temporarily empty.

With the appearance of the middle-aged man, everyone present instantly quieted down as if they had reached some kind of consensus, and did not make a sound.

The man's identity is not a secret, but anyone who has participated in or watched the Academy Challenge knows it.

"Ladies and elders of the Imperial City, fellow Yeyu." Wei Zheng first raised his voice to attract everyone's attention before he said. "Thank you for your appreciation, Wei Zheng, an academician of the Hanlin Academy, is the regular manager of the Academy of Learning.

The 8th Academy Challenge is about to kick off, and in order not to delay the time process of the challenge, I would like to invite the judges of this year to come to the stage.

Next, I would like to invite Academician Fang Wenzhou, Academician Zhuang Fei, Academician Zhang Fan, Bachelor Ji Zhong, Bachelor Han Fu, and Bachelor Qin Huaisheng of Hanlin Academy! ”