Chapter 80: Ah! It’s so hot! (2 / 2)
The Crown Grandson had been passionately shouting, “Then have Xu Yanmiao write something right now! We’ll know immediately! If he can replicate the same handwriting, then it’s clear I made a false accusation! I’ve also collected samples of his recent handwriting with his right hand, and it matches the writing on the note!”
“And!” the Crown Grandson’s voice grew even more impassioned. “He can’t even recite ‘When friends come from afar, is it not a joy?’ correctly! He recited it as ‘When friends come from afar, they must be annihilated!’ How could someone like that pass the imperial exams, the provincial exams, or the metropolitan exams? He must have used a substitute to take the exams!”
—This information had been inadvertently discovered by the Crown Grandson through a conversation between Quan Yizhang and another person about Xu Yanmiao. After all, there were no cameras in the imperial examination halls, so as far as he was concerned, claiming it was a case of substitution was as good as fact.
[I’m done for.]
Xu Yanmiao thought bleakly.
The Four Books and Five Classics? He genuinely couldn’t recite them. And ever since becoming a clerk, his work didn’t require such knowledge. Otherwise, he would have already tackled it with the same determination he once had for his university entrance exams.
[There’s no way to explain this; looks like I’m dead meat.]
No!!!
The old emperor and the court officials collectively gasped in shock.