It was early morning, and the sky had just begun to lighten.
Outside the examination venue in Yejun, there was already a sea of people.
It wasn’t that there were particularly many examinees, but rather that the number of people who had come to see their family members into the examination site was indeed quite large. Many came as whole families to send off a single member to the examination — whether by horse carriage, ox cart, or on foot, it was simply very crowded.
"Why wouldn’t you listen to reason and insist on coming here?"
Having alighted from the horse carriage, Lin Changfeng was still endlessly nagging his sister.
It would have been better to rest at home under the blankets for a while longer rather than coming to the examination site to see him off. Why bother?
"I won’t be at ease unless I see you enter," Lin Caisang also mumbled in response.
Of course, seeing Lin Changfeng enter the examination site was only secondary. The most important thing had yet to be done. She still needed to wait here for a certain person to appear. This time, she intended to completely ruin that person!
"What’s there to worry about? Haven’t you prepared everything I need?" Lin Changfeng said gruffly.
Oh, his Sangsang, he really didn’t know what to say about her. Ink, paper, writing brushes, inkstones — she had meticulously prepared everything that could be prepared, even duplicating the preparations, fearing some accident might befall him during the examination.
"Brother Changfeng, just stop it. Look at the others, and then look at me. You should know that our family is already at ease," Lin Caisang said.
Hearing this, Lin Changfeng finally took notice of the bustling entrance to the examination venue. Indeed, there were no small number of people sending off their relatives. It was so crowded it looked as if the entrance could burst.
Fortunately, there were guards at the examination venue. Inside the area where the guards stood, no one but examinees could enter. Of course, even examinees had to go through a rigorous check before they could gain admittance.
"It’s not time yet, right? The doors of the examination hall aren’t even open," Lin Changfeng remarked.
"It is still early," Sangsang agreed.
Lin Changfeng nodded as well.
"Why don’t you go back first?" he suggested.
"Brother Changfeng, you know perfectly well why I’m here, so why are you telling me to go back?" Lin Caisang frowned, questioning him.
"It’s precisely because I know why you’re here that I’m asking you to go back. The Zhou family isn’t easy to deal with. If because of today, you end up provoking that bunch of villains from the Zhou family again, Grandpa and Grandma will blame me for not taking good care of my sister," Lin Changfeng sighed.
Whether Zhou Liang passed the imperial examination or not, he couldn’t care less. Even if Zhou Liang passed, so what?
But then again, taking into account Zhou Liang’s character, someone who was indulged in romantic affairs and a reckless libertine, could he really pass the imperial examination? Lin Changfeng was completely skeptical.
"Technically, I came to take care of you, okay?" Lin Caisang pouted.
"Fine, you came to take care of me," Changfeng conceded.
He shook his head and raised his hand to lightly tap Lin Caisang’s nose.
"Rest assured, I’ll handle everything here. I’ll come up with an excuse for Grandpa and Grandma. They’ll understand your situation. But, Sangsang, when you go to see Brother Molian, be very careful. Whatever you do is not important, just don’t let yourself suffer any grievances," Changfeng counseled.
Previously, his sister had already told him that Ya Molian had sent a message asking her to come to his house and that someone would come to receive her.
Although he felt that casually visiting a man’s house seemed a tad improper, and Sangsang shouldn’t have agreed to such a request,...
But... in the end, she was his sister, and she had her own reasons for everything she did. And he believed that Brother Molian wasn’t likely to make such a request to Sangsang without a significant reason.