sbdcsierra Chapter 258 Two Female Scholars
Chapter 258 Two Female Scholars
"Ugh!" Yu Jiuer dodged by turning her face to the side and attacked his lower body directly with her leg raised.
This attack finally made Jun Mo regain some sanity. He gritted his teeth and said, "It is three parts poison, I won't take medicine! I have you, it is enough for me!"
Yu Jiuer stuffed an antidote into his mouth without thinking!
Jun Mo looked aggrieved and held it in his mouth, refusing to swallow it.
Yu Jiuer pointed at his handsome face with a serious face and ordered: "Swallow it!"
Jun Mo didn't dare to disobey his wife. His Adam's apple rolled and he swallowed the antidote!
He turned over and sat up, took a deep breath, and ordered the butler Feng who was standing beside him: "Send Concubine Rong and the others to the manor. From now on, they are not allowed to enter the mansion without my order!"
"Slow down!" Prime Minister Rong's instructions just now rang in Yu Jiuer's mind. She rubbed her forehead and sighed.
"Have you forgotten what your grandfather said just now? Don't send it yet! I don't want to be known as a jealous person!
What's more, when I was collecting signatures for the petition, I promised everyone that if the emperor agreed to open a special examination for women, I would open a girls' school in the capital.
If this matter is not done and I already have a bad reputation, how will women in the world view me?"
"They teamed up to plot against me and drugged me!" Jun Mo wiped the sweat from his forehead, still feeling hot all over, and said irritably,
"First, the silent Song Wanqing came over to apologize and toast on behalf of her father, then the tearful Lin Siyu came to serve tea insincerely, and finally, Rong Wan'er came straight to the point and brought the sobering soup.
"Each of them is just like you said, the evil heart is not dead! I punished them only because they committed the seven crimes, what does it have to do with you?"
Yu Jiuer pouted and said, "You think so, do people outside think so too? They must think that I was jealous and drove them out of the house.
If some ignorant person complains and your political opponents take advantage of it, I will probably have to go to jail for investigation.
What if I miss the imperial examination? I can’t afford the risk! "
The most important thing now is the imperial examination, and everything else has to take a back seat.
Let’s put this kind of petty jealousy aside for now!
Jun Mo glanced at Rong Wan'er who was lying not far away. His eyes were no longer filled with the doting look they once had. He said without questioning, "Send this spoiled one away first! Imprison the others in the courtyard!"
After saying that, he stood up, bent down and picked up Yu Jiuer who was sitting on the grass, flew up, stepped lightly on the treetops, and flew towards his room over the eaves and walls.
"Hasn't your Hehuan Powder already been dissolved? Why are you in such a hurry?" Yu Jiuer exclaimed!
Jun Mo said confidently: "Who said it's solved? I feel very uncomfortable all over, thank you for your hard work, my lady!"
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The college entrance examination was approaching, and Yu Jiuer wanted to wait until it was over and the results were announced before posting a notice to open a girls' academy in the capital.
An academy run by two female scholars is definitely more attractive than one run by Princess Jing.
So, in recent days, Yu Jiuer has been tutoring Yu Tao in her studies.
As long as the two of them pass the college entrance examination together and become female scholars, they will be the perfect role models!
Are you still worried that there will be no women coming to the academy to sign up for study?
Soon, the children's examination began.
For ordinary people to take the imperial examinations, they needed five people who were at least scholars and had good reputations to guarantee them before each exam. However, Yu Jiuer and Yu Tao had strong backing, so they didn't have to worry about these problems at all.
Jun Mo waved his hand and went straight through the back door and got it done without even blinking an eye.
They just need to concentrate on the exam.
Even when entering the examination room, they can walk sideways.
After Yu Tao entered the examination room, she whispered in Yu Jiuer's ear: "Back then, when you came to the capital to take part in the palace examination, in order to prevent your identity from being exposed, I went around asking for favors and almost spent all my savings to get you into the examination room.
Now, the invigilators have to bow and nod when they see us. This is a huge change!"
"This is power! It's something that some people cannot get in their entire life. Fortunately, we are lucky enough!" After saying this, Yu Jiuer glanced around and walked towards the best position that the invigilator had specially prepared for them.
She and Yutao were seated next to each other, and there were screens placed around them to separate them from the male students!
The exam begins.
For Yu Jiuer, taking this kind of exam was an insult to her intelligence.
Even easier than primary school exams.
She wrote quickly and without even thinking.
The invigilator was so shocked that he stood beside her with eyes wide open, staring at her as she put pen to paper, but he could only see the shadow of her pen moving quickly.
It was Yutao's first time taking the imperial examination and she was so nervous that her hands and feet were shaking.
She never dreamed that there would be a day in her life when she would take the imperial examination?
When she studied with the eldest son, she just wanted to read more books so that she could help him organize books and materials. Later, she didn't expect that the books really contained "beauties as beautiful as jade and golden houses". She plunged into them and learned more and more from the eldest son.
Now this knowledge will become something for her to prove her strength.
With an extremely pious heart, she carefully wrote down every stroke of the answer.
Yu Jiuer finished the three-day exam in just one day, slammed the paper on the table, and walked out of the exam room arrogantly.
The many invigilators were left behind her in a mess, bowing to her again and again.
Yutao actually took three days to finish writing it.
After the exam, Yu Jiuer was busy selecting a site and preparing to open a girls' college.
Finally, she was lucky enough to choose Lishan Academy in Dongcheng.
This is an academy located by the mountains and rivers with beautiful scenery. The academy has been built for more than ten years and is antique and spacious.
Logically, such an academy should have generous tuition fees and be crowded with people.
But the fact is just the opposite!
Because its owner is the Confucian scholar who is currently teaching in Yinshan County. He was exiled to the frontier to build the Great Wall because of a literary inquisition. Later, this academy was owned by the imperial court and has been vacant ever since.
There were only a few people in the empty academy, and they were poor students from nearby areas who could not afford the tuition and came here to study together. The other students thought it was an ominous place and did not dare to come in.
After Yu Jiuer went back and asked Jun Mo to approve the application for the academy, she immediately asked people to decorate and clean the academy so that they could start recruiting students as soon as the academy entrance examination was over.
Three days later, the list of candidates for the Tongshi exam came out. Yu Jiuer and Yu Tao lived up to everyone's expectations and became Tongsheng.
Tongsheng can take part in the entrance examination the next day.
During the three days when Yutao was taking the examination, Wei Zheng could not wait to go home and ask his mother to fulfill her promise and bring Yutao into the mansion in a sedan chair carried by eight people.
"How could she, the daughter of a county magistrate, possibly pass the examination to become a student? Many ladies from wealthy families dare not take the examination, but she actually passed? I don't believe she is so lucky!" Madam Wei looked incredulous.
"You guys aren't doing anything behind my back, are you?"
Wei Zheng said with a stern face: "Mom, please don't be unreasonable! Yutao passed the exam based on her own strength. How dare I tamper with the emperor's imperial examination?
Don't deny her ability just because you don't want her to enter your house. She is a very knowledgeable and capable woman, and you just don't understand her!
Also, there were so many people at the palace gate as witnesses! Don’t regret it! If you bring disgrace upon the reputation of General Wei’s Mansion, your father will not forgive you!”
Madam Wei rolled her eyes at him and said harshly, "You ungrateful bastard! You forgot your mother after you got a wife! I didn't say I wouldn't bring her into the mansion? Why are you in such a hurry? Can she still run away?"
Only then did Wei Zheng grin!
What he wants most is a harmonious family and for his mother to accept the person he loves!
Three days later, the college entrance examination was over, and what followed was three days of agony, waiting for the results to be announced.
During the college entrance examination, Yu Jiuer finished three days' worth of examination papers in just two days.
After leaving the examination room, she ran straight to Lishan Academy, not worrying at all about the results which would be announced three days later.
Yutao, on the other hand, had been waiting anxiously. Even when Wei Zheng told her the good news that his mother was willing to carry her into the mansion, she still had no interest.
He just said lightly: "I want to continue living in the backyard of Dongsheng Restaurant. It's quiet and comfortable here, without so many red tape and rules. I like it very much!"
Wei Zheng knew that she was worried that she would not be able to adapt to the life of a wealthy family after entering the general's mansion, so he did not persuade her much, but only comforted her: "Wait until the results of the college entrance examination come out, then we will return to the mansion to get married again, get to know the relatives at home, kowtow to the ancestors, and then come back to live here!"
Yutao smiled and agreed: "Yes!"
As long as she doesn’t have to go back to serve her parents-in-law and deal with those arrogant relatives who look down on them, the people from Yinshan, anything is fine!
Soon, the college entrance examination results came out, and Yu Jiuer was indeed very good, firmly ranking first.
Even though Yu Tao ranked 85th, she finally passed the exam and became a scholar, together with Yu Jiuer, becoming the "freshly-minted" female scholars of the Dadong Dynasty.
Tonight, Jun Mo and Wei Zheng are holding a banquet at Dongsheng Restaurant to congratulate Yu Jiuer and Yu Tao for becoming female scholars.
Yu Jiuer's friends, Jun Mo's colleagues and others were all toasting to celebrate at Dongsheng Restaurant!
Everyone was immersed in joy and no one noticed that a woman wearing a cap was standing in a dark place outside the Dongsheng Restaurant.
The masked man beside her cupped his hands and said to her, "Princess, she looks very happy!"
The woman gnashed her teeth and said, "She schemed against my son and caused him to be demoted to a prince by the emperor, and yet she still dares to be so proud?
It took us mother and I several years to become kings, why is it all gone just because she comes and messes things up?
She made life difficult for us, so we can't make life difficult for her!
Doesn't she want to continue taking the imperial examination? How can she do what she wants?"
The masked man cupped his hands and said, "At the princess' command!"