Chapter 613 - 611: You Have Me From Now On
Moreover, she was focused on another matter, "How old were you when you became a Scholar?"
Song Chongjin replied awkwardly, "Eighteen years old!"
"Eighteen years old?" Wang Yongzhu widened her eyes as she looked at Song Chongjin. Although he was a year older than Wang Yongan when he passed the scholarly exam, before he was ten years old, Song Chongjin had no one to teach him and he struggled even to get enough to eat.
By this calculation, Song Chongjin’s natural gift for learning might be even higher than Wang Yongan’s.
"Then why didn’t you continue your studies afterwards? Why did you go back to the countryside to hunt?" Wang Yongzhu was curious. Normally, shouldn’t one continue to study and then take the imperial examinations, and after passing, participate in the higher-level exams?
Song Chongjin didn’t expect that Wang Yongzhu would be so concerned about such an odd point, showing not the slightest hint of anger, of course, he wasn’t so foolish as to ask why Wang Yongzhu was not angry.
Hearing Wang Yongzhu ask this question, his body stiffened.
After a long while, he murmured, "After I started learning martial arts and literacy, my surroundings became somewhat unsafe, and accidents would frequently occur. My mentor discovered this and arranged for someone to covertly protect me, also assigning a group of people for me to develop, tracing back through the various accidents that happened to me."
"At first, they were just minor incidents, but after I passed the Scholar exam, the methods became more intense. Several times, if it hadn’t been for my going home to buy medicine or grains for my mother, narrowly missing these incidents by chance, I probably would have lost my life! And because of this, even my classmates were implicated."
"During that period, I was always anxious about whether I would fall victim to a hidden plot and couldn’t concentrate on reviewing my studies. My Teacher also persuaded me, saying that my becoming a Scholar was just good fortune, and indeed, there was some luck involved when I passed. Before the exam, my Teacher had given me a few topics to write essays on. My essays were critiqued and corrected by my Teacher. Later, during the exam, by chance one of the topics from my Teacher appeared."
"My Teacher said since I couldn’t study in peace and concentrate on learning, it would be better to resolve the issues before continuing."