Rise From the Humble

Even though he is at the bottom of the list, even though he is in last place, he is still a high school candidate, and his status is very different.

No matter whether the students in the inn are jealous, envious, or look at Zhu Ping'an with colored glasses, if he wins, he wins. The students came over in twos and threes to thank Zhu Pingan, and Zhu Pingan also stood up and returned the greeting one by one.

The good news came one after another, whizzing past the door, allowing the waiting staff in the inn to see through the autumn water.

However, everyone didn't have to wait long, as two guards came into the inn again to announce the good news.

"Good news in the provincial examination, congratulations to Zhu Shiming, Mr. Zhu High School of Suzhou Prefecture, for ranking 89th in the provincial examination."

There was another student in the inn who passed the exam. He still had the same surname as Zhu Pingan, but his ranking was much better than Zhu Pingan, number 89. Of course, he is much older than Zhu Pingan, at least in his forties.

The wind direction in the inn changed completely. Except for the fat man, the students who were originally around Zhu Pingan all rushed to Zhu Shiming's side with congratulations and relatives.

"Brother Zhu, this is not luck."

"That's right, Sima Xiangru and Lin Xiangru are not the same in name and in reality."

Some of the students surrounding Zhu Shiming did not hesitate to secretly belittle Zhu Pingan in order to praise Zhu Shiming, alluding to the fact that Zhu Pingan's talent was obtained by luck, and Zhu Shiming's talent was genuine.

"What the hell!" The fat man said dissatisfiedly, looking at the people surrounding Zhu Shiming with contempt with his small eyes.

"Why bother, let's go and congratulate him together." Zhu Ping'an didn't care, raised the corners of his lips slightly, half-smiling, stood up and said to the fat man calmly.

When Zhu Ping'an led the fat man to congratulate Zhu Shiming, he could see arrogance and a touch of disdain in Zhu Shiming's eyes. Although Zhu Shiming was very humble in return, his eyes could not lie.

"What are you so proud of? You were half buried in the ground before you won the election. What's there to be proud of? You're not even worthy of carrying our brothers' shoes."

After returning to his seat, the fat man looked at the proud Zhu Shiming and curled his lips.

Zhu Ping'an looked at Zhu Shiming who was proud of himself, raised the corners of his lips slightly, and shook his head slightly. If the container is full, the amount of it will be limited to this.

It's just a provincial examination, and the road to becoming an official is a long one.

"The results are released, the results are released."

Not long after, excited shouts came from outside the inn, and then the health workers inside the inn became hopeful again. Not all the good news from the guards might be delivered in time. Maybe mine hadn't arrived in time, so the health workers were rushing to get there. Crowd outside the inn.

"Come on, let's take a look too." The fat man also took Zhu Ping'an with him to see the results in front of Jiangnan Gongyuan.

Zhu Ping'an didn't want to miss this historic moment, so he followed the fat man all the way to Jiangnan Gongyuan.

Jiangnan Gongyuan was crowded with people, and it was very lively with lanterns and colorful decorations. When Zhu Ping'an passed by, he happened to see the crowd under the Guibang, howling and screaming as if they had been scalded by boiling water.

"Hurry, hurry, someone is trying to catch your son-in-law."

At this time, a loud shout cleared up Zhu Pingan's confusion. It turned out that someone was trying to capture his son-in-law. So, Zhu Ping'an found a stone with great interest and stood on it, looking down at the lively crowd.

I saw a young man in the uniform of a student in the crowd being pulled and pulled by seven or eight uniformly dressed servants. On the other side, there was an elder about fifty years old, stroking his beard and watching this scene, occasionally saying to the servants back and forth. One sentence: "This virtuous son-in-law, please come to my home and reward me with ten taels of silver."

With the generous reward, the servants quickly pulled the young student member into the sedan chair as if they were given blood.

The elder, who was about fifty years old, smiled and handed over to the crowd. Another servant sprinkled copper coins to the crowd, which meant that he was happy with the money. Then the elder got into the other side to teach his son, and was carried back home by the servant.

"Did you see that the son-in-law who was captured is our Yingtian Cao Yang Cao Jieyuan? I really envy us. Do you know that the old man is our fifth-rank fellow in Yingtian Mansion, Mr. Zhao? I heard that he has three as beautiful as jade in his family. Where’s my daughter, tut tut tut.”

"Today I will be named on the gold medal list, and tomorrow I will have flowers and candles in the bridal chamber. I really envy you. I will definitely have my butt stabbed when I go back."

"Oh, why didn't I wait?"

Listening to the voices of envy and hatred from the people around him, Zhu Ping'an knew that the person whose son-in-law was captured was Cao Yang and Cao Jieyuan this time. He was caught under the banner. However, although Cao Yang looked young, he was at least twenty-three or four years old. Come on, people at this age should have gotten married in ancient times. I don’t know how Cao Jieyuan would deal with catching my son-in-law, catching my son-in-law.

In a high-rise private room of a restaurant not far from here, two examiners in casual clothes were drinking and watching from a distance through the window the scene of Jiangnan Gongyuan releasing the results.

"Haha, then Cao Yang must thank Brother Zhang." Examiner Wang looked at the scene of catching his son-in-law under the list and couldn't help but smile at Examiner Zhang.

Examiner Zhang shook his head, smiled bitterly, and was speechless.

"You picked up Jieyuan for nothing." Examiner Wang said meaningfully while stroking his beard.

"Brother Wang, be careful what you say." Chief Zhang shook his head and said with a bitter smile.

"There are only two of you and me here. Everyone else has gone to look at the rankings, so there is no need to be cautious. Let me tell you, Brother Zhang's idea is very good, but his approach is biased. A good Jieyuan is supposed to be, But you were forced to put him at the bottom of the list." Examiner Wang looked at Examiner Zhang and shook his head.

"If he can understand my hard work, he will be very grateful to me in the future." Examiner Zhang stroked his beard with a calm expression, "There are countless examples of hurting Zhongyong, and I don't want such a young talent to become a posthumous A counterexample to human education.”

"How does Brother Zhang know that this young man is not a determined and diligent person?" Examiner Wang asked again.

"I had no choice but to do it. These young talents are the pillars of the country. I did this to be sure." Examiner Zhang said calmly.

While the two examiners were talking nonsense, more and more people were looking at the results in front of Jiangnan Gongyuan. Zhu Pingan and the fat man finally managed to get to the bottom of the list.

The first place was Cao Yang, the second place was Xu Tianshou, the third place was Liu Rucheng, the fourth place was Yang Daozong, the fifth place was Jiang Yuyou, the sixth place was Li Yuze

Zhu Pingan looked up at the list. There were unfamiliar names in front of him. He didn't see the familiar name until he reached the twentieth place, Wang Jin. Then he saw Liu Qian and Guo Ziyu at the sixty-third and seventy-ninth places, and then There are no familiar names anymore.

As for Feng Shanshui, Xia Luoming and the people who usually stayed with them, they were all not on the list. They either failed to take the exam or failed the exam after taking the exam.

"Mr. Zhou, it's really you."

Hearing a sound of joy, Zhu Pingan turned his head and saw two familiar girls, one was a girl with a ponytail, and the other was a girl a few years older.

"Mr. Zhou, don't be sad. You didn't pass the exam this time, but you can definitely do it next time." The girl with a ponytail blinked her big sympathetic eyes, pinched the corner of her clothes, and consoled her with sympathy.

The other girl looked similar.

"Master Zhou, hahaha"

When the fat man heard this, he pointed at Zhu Ping'an and couldn't help laughing.

"Hey, do you have any sympathy? You, how can you make fun of Mr. Zhou like this? You don't know how hard Mr. Zhou works but it doesn't matter if he fails. Mr. Zhou will definitely be able to go to high school next time." The girl pouted and was very dissatisfied with the fat man.

"Congratulations, Brother Zhu."

At this time, another voice came over. Xia Luoming, Feng Shanshui and others came over with Liu Qian and Guo Ziyu. Xia Luoming expressed congratulations to Zhu Pingan with a complicated look.

"You're lucky. Although you're at the bottom of the list, you're still at the top, aren't you? I want to give more incense sticks to the ancestors of your Zhu family when I go back."

Guo Ziyu also expressed his congratulations to Zhu Pingan, but his strange voice and arrogant look clearly showed his disdain.

"Zhu? Isn't Mr. Zhou's surname Zhou?" The young girl with a ponytail was stunned.

Another older girl also glanced at Zhu Pingan with a faint expression, but when she saw Xia Luoming and others coming, the older girl took her and left in a hurry before the girl with the ponytail had time to ask Zhu Pingan for confirmation. . Just now they could take advantage of the crowd to look at the rankings, but now the people coming to Zhu Ping'an's side are either candidates or scholars, which is obviously not a place for the two brothel girls to stay.