Chapter 317: Needle tip to wheat awn
Chapter 317 Needle Point to Wheat Awn
Another compartment.
A group of candidates left the examination room and walked towards the palace gate.
Someone commented in a sour voice: "Pei Yi is Tanhualang, is that possible?"
He spoke the feelings of some people, and soon some people echoed him: "Isn't it because the water is too deep? In the past, Pei Yi's grades were always at the bottom, so it would not be possible to take a trip to Linhe County, and her grades improved by leaps and bounds." Bar?"
Someone taunted bitterly: "Cheating in the palace exam is worthy of being Pei Xiangguo's son. It's really covering the sky with one hand, who can compare?"
Pei Yi was walking leisurely behind.
Hearing this, she frowned slightly, and became angry slowly.
It's fine to slander her, but to drag her father into the water, I really don't know what to say!
Pei Yi was about to slander someone when she heard a person beside her choke, "Isn't it ridiculous to say bad things when you are not as good as a person?"
Pei Yi was very surprised.
In Linhe County in the past, a group of scholars slandered and ridiculed her overwhelmingly, but now someone took the initiative to stand up and speak for her.
"Host, do you really think that the B-level charm value is just for fun?" The system joked rather embarrassingly.
When a person's charm level is too low, no matter what he does, he will easily attract a group of people's slander.
But if one’s charm level is good, the reactions of people around him will be completely different.
Pei Yi was really pleasantly surprised, and couldn't help boasting: "Your little system is really good." At that time, she always felt that the system cheated her points, which made her heart hurt for a long time, but now it seems that it is too worthwhile.
"That's not true" the system puffed up its virtual chest, "Did the host just find out now?"
Pei Yi was amused by the small system.
But she didn't have time to play tricks with her own small system anymore, because the examinee who spoke for her was ridiculed.
"Oh, who am I supposed to be? It turns out to be our No. 1 scholar." A noble candidate sneered, "Is the No. 1 scholar afraid that his future road will be unstable, so he is starting to curry favor with Pei Xiangguo now?"
The person who spoke for Pei Yi just now was the number one scholar Xue Zhongda.
He was born in a poor family, with no power or influence.
Some noble candidates looked down on him from the bottom of their hearts. When they heard him speak for Pei Yi, they liked him even more. They immediately felt that he was trying to curry favor with Prime Minister Pei Shu through Pei Yi.
Xue Zhongda couldn't help but look coldly when he heard the sarcasm.
He couldn't understand the behavior of this group of noble candidates, and sneered with a straight face: "Masters don't work **** learning, but gossip about their peers all day long, what is the difference between such a style and mind... and that gossip woman? "
As soon as he finished speaking, a noble candidate immediately sneered and said: "The mastery of human feelings is writing. The number one scholar Lang Guang knows how to learn, but he doesn't learn to be a man. Can he do a good job in the long run?"
"Furthermore, how can you and us be called 'travelers' today? Although we all have been on the list and won Jinshi, we still have to pass the official examination."
"If you fail the test, you will have no official position; but even if you pass the test, you may not be able to arrange an official position immediately."
"Zhuangyuan Lang is now saying that we are "peers" who are officials together. I'm afraid it's too early?"
These words are too harsh.
Xue Zhongda was angry and ashamed, his cheeks flushed.
Pei Yi snorted coldly, turned to face Xue Zhongda, frowned and said with distaste: "Brother Xue, why are you so ignorant of common sense? It is an unwritten rule that there have always been top three officials in the list. But other Whether Jinshi can be an official is really uncertain. Brother Xue, you can at most say that I am a "traveler" with you, but whether other people are "travelers" with you is another matter."
The first list is the first rank among candidates in the palace examination, and it only includes the top three candidates, the second place in the list, and the top three.
The top three in the first list are unanimously evaluated by the examiners and finally determined by the emperor, which means that the emperor's vision is in it.
If there is no official position in the top three rankings, it would be a slap in the face of the emperor.
Therefore, it has always been an unwritten rule that one of the top three can be an official, and everyone knows this.
Pei Yi is clearly saying that Xue Zhongda has no common sense, but secretly she is mocking the noble candidate just now for having no common sense and being overconfident.
The translation of these words is: Xiongtai, you are not sure if you have an official job. Where did you come from, the number one scholar who is forced to be an official?
The noble candidate blushed with anger, gritted his teeth and said: "Pei Yi, do you mean that the candidates in the second and third rankings like me are not worthy to be officials in the same court as the top three in the first ranking?"
These words were really sinister, directly pitting Pei Yi and the other top three candidates against other candidates.
Ji Shujun, the second in the list who has been watching from the sidelines, saw that the fire was burning on himself, and finally said very displeasedly: "Whether you are noble or poor, as long as you are virtuous and capable, you can work for me."
"If you make things difficult for your colleagues in the future because they come from a poor family, wouldn't the lords humiliate this noble skin?"
"Furthermore, the scholars should treat each other with admiration for three days. You are just narrow-minded and short-sighted and self-righteous if you deny Pei Langjun's achievements in his studies just because he was unsatisfactory in his studies?"
There are three meanings in this sentence, and the translation can be more straightforward:
First, regardless of whether you are a candidate for the first, second or third rank, as long as you have the ability, you can be an official in the same court.
Second, just because you are jealous of the number one scholar who did well in the exam, you attack someone from his family background, do you still deserve to be called a nobleman?
Third, you are here to slander Pei Yi because of her poor grades and walked out of the back door today. Are you too big to lose? Shame on you? Is it still worthy of being called a nobleman?
These words are really watertight, fully uniting those who can be united, and isolating those who should be isolated.
The more important point is that Ji Shujun is originally a nobleman, to be precise, a nobleman.
His family's grandfather was the well-known Taifu Ji at that time, and he is the teacher of the current emperor.
Although Taifu Ji has not officially held an official position because of his old age, he is still very influential, and he is upright and clean, and is very respected.
With such a good role model, everyone has a good impression of Ji's family.
Now that Ji Shujun has stood up to speak for Pei Yi and Xue Zhongda, those who originally disagreed with the slander of Pei Yi have stood up one after another, and you have spoken in solidarity with me.
"Today, the examination papers of each of us have been personally reviewed by the Holy Majesty. You are doubting Pei Sanlang's ranking here. Could it be that you are doubting His Majesty's vision?" A candidate asked sharply.
As soon as he finished speaking, another candidate said sarcastically: "If you are considered to be flattering someone just because you express some opinions, then you don't know what justice is? At that time, no one dares to express their true opinions. It is really collusion and hypocrisy."
(end of this chapter)