Chapter 49: Poverty Limits My Imagination
The time came to the beginning of April in a peaceful and comfortable atmosphere.
In April, Hongshan City is already full of spring, although the craze brought by the entrance examination has gradually subsided, but the rest of the rhyme lingers for a long time, like a spring breeze. After tea and dinner, Hongshan people still talk about the topic of entrance exams from time to time.
Although the entrance exam of Hongshan College is a routine work every year, and Hongshan people have long been immune to all kinds of news, but this year's situation is really special, and the topicality can be called the most in a century: the number of applicants has reached a record high, and many wealthy families have sent their family heirs to take the exam, the love story of the demon princess Qingyue and the snow-capped mountain hunter Bai Xiao, as well as the results of the exam that scared countless peripheral gambling money to abscond, and people can't help but climax.
And the focus of this is naturally Bai Xiao, and the topic is even several times higher than Qingyue. After all, the so-called Demon Dao princess is very common in places like Hongshan City, almost every ten or twenty years, there will be this kind of genius who far surpasses his peers, and his life history is also different, although most of them are from proud families, but the prodigies from civilian backgrounds, Hongshan people have also seen a lot. Great Grandmaster Zhu Junshen is one of them, and the sensational effect back then was much higher than that of Qingyueke.
But Bai Xiao's kind of extraordinary wonder is really a precedent in the thousand-year-old history of Hongshan Academy, before him, no one has ever been able to win the chief position with a score of nearly half that surpasses the second place, and no one has ever scored 0 points in the first ring...... He almost single-handedly monopolized all legendary-level topics!
The people of Hongshan love this kind of legend, even if he was born in the snow-capped mountains and is incompatible with many places in the civilized world. But from the day it was founded, the city was like a melting pot of people from different cultures and backgrounds. Hongshan College shouted the slogan of education without class 1,800 years ago, which is unique. In such a cultural atmosphere, although Bai Xiao has not fully accepted Hongshan City, Hongshan City has completely accepted Bai Xiao.
Theoretically, as long as Bai Xiao does not take the initiative to cause trouble, his reputation among the people will only increase day by day.
But reality and theory are very different.
In the afternoon, in a teahouse in the south of Hongshan, a few idle middle-aged and elderly people have been chatting from the morning to the present with a pot of coarse tea, and they are still unsatisfied.
"If you want me to say, this Bai Xiao is probably just a disguise to push it out! The big guys use it to hide their true tricks......"
"Eh, what's the handiwork?"
"If I knew, I would be a big man, and I could still drink this rotten tea with you here?"
Before the words fell, the owner of the teahouse said angrily: "Don't drink it if you are too bad!
Several tea guests also ignored it, chatting to pass the time, and one of them said: "I think so, you think, this thing is strange from the beginning, people from the snow mountain? I haven't seen anyone in that ghost place for more than 2,000 years, and suddenly killed a Bai Xiao, do you think it's credible? And there are too many topics on this person, it's like someone is deliberately creating a person......
This is reasonable, just one or two topics, and the topics on him are too concentrated, it does seem that some people are deliberately adding fuel to the fire. ”
"Speaking of which, have you read the newspaper this morning? Some people are already questioning the fairness of the entrance examination of the college, a person who scored 0 points in the first ring and only scored more than 50 points in the second ring, and suddenly scored more than 200 points in the third ring, is this normal? No one has ever scored such an outrageous score in the third ring test since it was designed! So normally, the first thing that should be questioned is the rationality of this score. ”
"Isn't that the scoring formula designed by the Grand Master? there is also someone supervising the whole process, so it's impossible to cheat, right?"
"You can't cheat if someone supervises, then you are too underestimated, of course, don't ask me how to cheat, if I knew, I wouldn't be here to drink tea with a few old brothers now, I would have gone to Hongshan Academy to be a tutor a long time ago." But the basic logic we have to sort out, the formula of this test is designed by the Great Grandmaster, so how to brush the score to break the limit, the Great Grandmaster must know better than anyone else. And judging from the subsequent reports, it was also the Great Grandmaster who personally participated in the test at that time, in other words, Bai Xiao's exceptional score is fundamentally inseparable from the relationship between the Great Grandmaster! And think about it again, what is the relationship between this Bai Xiao and Qingyue, and what is the relationship between Qingyue and the Great Grandmaster?"
“...... You mean, that kid relied on Qingyue's face to beg the great grandmaster to release water in the dark box? This is unlikely!"
"Do you think it's a high probability of releasing water in the dark, or is there a high probability that someone can really score 200 points in the third ring?"
That seems to make sense...... But for the sake of his own apprentices, the Great Grandmaster doesn't even want the fairness and impartiality of the academy's entrance exam?"
"Of course, it's impossible to just want Qingyue, in the final analysis, he is a talented student, and he is not his own daughter. But don't forget that Bai Xiao is not only able to please Qing Yue, he is also very rich!And what is the most well-known question of the Great Grandmaster, you won't forget, right?"
"Damn, lack of money!? Are you saying that Bai Xiao bought off the Great Grandmaster?"
"I didn't say that, it was all said in the newspapers, but what people said really makes sense, not long after the end of this exam, the great master suddenly lifted the financial crisis, where did this windfall come from? Don't you think this timing is too coincidental?"
“...... Damn, if you say that, it seems like there was a problem with this from the beginning. ”
"Hehe, there are more problems, read more newspapers, what is revealed now is the tip of the iceberg. ”
The middle-aged tea guest said that a few fox friends were stunned for a while, and they suddenly felt very comfortable, and even the coarse tea in the teapot showed a bit of refreshing fragrance.
The same dialogue is being staged in all corners of Hongshan City, whether it is the homeless people in the southern city or the powerful people in the northern city, a large net of public opinion is aiming at Bai Xiao and shrouded it.
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At the same time, in the old rain building of Hongshan College, Yuan Shi casually pushed open the door of the study and threw a stack of newspapers in front of Bai Xiao.
"Well, the new issue of Bai Xiao's scandal collection is here again, and the focus of this issue is still around the entrance exam, but there are already pioneers who have begun to dig deep into your black material and write about your blatant murder on the Nancheng commercial street. “
Behind the desk, Bai Xiao raised his head from the pile of books and said in surprise: "There is still such a thing?"
"I should ask, although these recent reports are purely unfounded smears and we can ignore them, but if you have actually killed people in the street, it is still a bit troublesome to deal with......
Bai Xiao recalled for a long time, but he was still confused: "Xiaoqing is more familiar with the affairs of Nancheng, I'll ask her when the time comes." ”
"In short, congratulations on your recent collapse in reputation, and you are about to become the public enemy of Red Mountain. ”
Bai Xiao thought for a while: "So I should throw money? Someone taught me that if I encounter a problem with word of mouth, I will hold a super large red envelope grabbing activity, and prepare hundreds of thousands of small red envelopes of varying amounts in the whole city, so that people can call me Dad." ”
“...... I didn't expect this trick to come by, and sure enough, poverty limited my imagination. The original poem gritted his teeth.