Chapter 172: The Fifth Musketeer in the Third Row of the Right Wing, Raise Your Musket an Inch Higher! (1 / 2)
The next day, as soon as Xu Yanmiao entered the officials’ waiting room, he immediately felt a number of eyes on him.
“?”
Xu Yanmiao resisted the urge to sniff himself.
[Could it be that I didn’t wash properly and still smell like cured meat?]
It wouldn’t have been a big deal, but as soon as he thought about this, several officials’ faces visibly filled with regret.
They had originally thought they were the only clever ones. However, upon realizing that everyone else had also thought to act cleverly, the result was a traffic jam of “clever people” all arriving on the same day.
How could Xu Yanmiao possibly have a good impression of them now?
This shared unease lingered until it was time for the morning court session.
“Your Majesty! I impeach Grand Scholar Dong Guo Nanyang for errors in his readings of official texts…”