Chapter 863 Announcing the Top Scholar (1)
April 26th, the day the spring imperial examination results were to be posted. Early that morning, the Examination Institute’s gates had not yet opened, but a throng had already gathered, bustling and jostling at the entrance.
There were also many examinees who had traveled from all directions, struggling through the crowd towards the entrance, hoping to secure a good spot, so they could be among the first to learn the results of the examination.
"Father, there are simply too many people," Mo Yan turned to her father, who was resting with his eyes closed, and suggested, "I think we should park the carriage across from the tea house at the corner. You can wait inside there while I come over by myself to keep an eye out."
Upon hearing this, Mo Qingze opened his eyes and raised his hand to lift the curtain of the carriage window to look outside. Seeing the crowd so dense that even the main gate of the Examination Institute was obscured, he pressed his temples, which were slightly swollen from staying up late reading the night before, and said softly, "The list isn’t going to run away. There’s no need to keep a constant watch. We’ll all go to the tea house, and it won’t be too late to look after the crowd dissipates."
As Mo Yan thought about it, wasn’t that the case? The list would hang for three days; it wouldn’t be too late to go see it the next day or the day after. Why endure the crush of the crowd and invite misery? With this in mind, she decisively had Da HongZao turn around and head for the most spacious tea house on the street.
There were quite a few people with the same idea as the Mo Family, and all the tea and wine shops along the street were packed to the brim. Keep in mind that there were nearly ten thousand candidates who participated in the examination, and it was said that this session had the highest number of candidates in the history of the spring imperial examinations, making the competition much tougher than in previous sessions. This had shaken the confidence of some previously confident examinees.