I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl - Chapter 378 All on the List

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“I got it! I got it! Hahahaha——”

Bai Yaoheng was very self-aware. He started looking for his name from the bottom of the list and saw three words in the third from the bottom that he had written countless times - Bai Yaoheng.

Overwhelmed by great joy, he, who usually appeared calm and composed, was now dancing with joy, and shouting "I won" frequently, causing strangers to look at him with envy and jealousy.

Following him, Bai Jingzhou, Su Yunzhan and Jiang Yuheng found their names in the upper half of the list almost at the same time.

Then there are Li Fan, Bai Jingshan, Gu Wenhai and Tao Chang. These four names, like Bai Yaoheng, are in the lower half of the list.

Of course, in terms of ranking, they are still much higher than Bai Yaoheng. If they perform well in the palace examination, they still have a good chance of getting out of the top three and entering the second place.

Everyone who came together was on the list, so naturally there was no need for anyone to suppress their joy or put on a forced smile. All of them could feel freely happy about having stood out from the crowd.

Yes, even though Bai Yaoheng was at the bottom of the list, he was definitely a powerful figure. After all, the number of people admitted in the imperial examinations those days was really pitifully small.

That is to say, the population base in those days was very small, otherwise the difficulty of this examination could not be described by the phrase "thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge".

After finding their own names, everyone was about to look for the names of people they knew, such as Mu Jingzhi, and the few scholars they had made friends with before.

However, before they could make any move, several middle-aged men who looked like managers, accompanied by a group of servants, surrounded them.

Gu Wenxuan exclaimed “Oh my!” She had not expected that they came down so late and would actually encounter this “catching a son-in-law under the list” in person, and turned from a bystander into an eyewitness.

Bai Jingzhou was reminded by Gu Wenxuan's "Oh wow", and he immediately saw the servants who came over to "catch a son-in-law from the list".

He didn't wait for those people to speak before he said, "We all have wives and children."

The servants from unknown mansions couldn't help but show regret when they heard this. In fact, Bai Jingzhou and his group all looked only in their twenties, which was already the younger age among the people on the list. In addition, they all looked good, so they were definitely suitable candidates.

Now that all the suitable candidates are not suitable, they have to turn around and look for other people on the list.

However, they had been lurking around here for a long time before. They had run over to talk to any young talents they had their eyes on, but those people were either already engaged or married like Bai Jingzhou and his friends, or were captured by other families who were interested in finding a son-in-law for them.

The fact that they are stuck here until now also shows that their respective hosts do not actually have much competitive advantage.

It is not so easy for them to find someone else now.

Although the group of people knew that there was little hope, they still continued to work diligently.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Bai Jingzhou and the others.

After sending that group of people away, Bai Jingzhou and his friends quickly browsed through the list from beginning to end, and then went home together.

This time they no longer just glanced at their own surnames and given names, but read them carefully from beginning to end, and they actually found three names that were familiar to them, and one of them was Mu Jingzhi's.

Therefore, after returning to their residence, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan began to prepare a gift for Mu Jingzhi.

When the gifts were half prepared, a messenger arrived outside the gate to deliver the good news.

Bai Jingzhou and his companions had been keeping a low profile since arriving in Beijing. Unlike most of the other candidates, they did not live in crowded inns or private houses. After the New Year's Eve, they stayed indoors for a long time to avoid trouble. This resulted in the low-level servants who made extra money by delivering good news taking a lot of effort to find out the temporary residence of Bai Jingzhou and his companions in the capital.

The more they inquired, the more frightened the officers became. On the one hand, the house they lived in was granted by the emperor and was located in a great location. On the other hand, the passing rate of the students taking the exams living in this house was really outrageous.

If they had not inquired around and found out that these servants, who had originally gone their separate ways, inexplicably ended up at the same place and arrived at this house at about the same time to report the good news, they would not have believed that all the students taking the exam in this house had been admitted in this exam.

Everyone took the generous wedding money and left, looking at each other outside the house as they digested the miracle they had just learned about.

Yes, it was a miracle to them.

After all, it’s not enough for a group of good people to come and take part in the imperial examination, but they also form a group to be on the list together?

The officers shouted in their hearts - this is outrageous. His mother opened the door for something outrageous. It was outrageous to the extreme.

Gu Wenxuan and the others had no idea what the officers were thinking. They were just trying to cheer themselves up and politely entertain the neighbors who came to congratulate them.

Before they moved in, Gu Wenxuan had given local offerings, snacks and other things to the neighbors, as a way for the new residents to say hello to the neighbors and show their friendship.

Perhaps because they knew that their house was a reward from His Majesty, the neighbors were very polite and gave gifts in return.

But apart from that time, they had no more contact with Gu Wenxuan and others.

It was not until Bai Jingzhou and others passed the imperial examination that the officials came with gongs and drums to announce the good news, and there were eight of them at once, that the neighbors of this house were finally willing to take the initiative to talk to Bai Jingzhou and others.

Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan were not surprised at all by everyone's reaction.

Although Bai Jingzhou had won the emperor's favor before, the rewards he received were books, houses, gold and silver. These things were precious to ordinary people, but they were just that to officials and their families.

They started to look at Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan differently since the palace banquet during the Chinese New Year. However, because of the assassination at that palace banquet, a large-scale purge against rebels was triggered in the capital and even in the local areas. Not to mention that Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan closed their doors to visitors, even if they did not do so, ordinary officials would not dare to approach them and try to establish a relationship with them at that time.

After finally getting through that period of unrest in the capital, the imperial examination began again. Officials and their families who wanted to make friends with Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan naturally did not want to disturb them at this time.

Now that Bai Jingzhou and his group were on the list, it gave those officials and their families the opportunity to come and congratulate them as neighbors with legitimate reasons.

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