The Marquis' Wife
Finished the Fu-Shih exam

The second session test was an arithmetic test that made the examinees complain but not for Lu Xiang.

The man answered the question carefully and made sure what he wrote was correct before handing over the answer paper and draft paper to the security guard.

The atmosphere of the second session exam was the same as two days ago, he had to struggle with the unpleasant smell of urine and the smell of socks when answering questions or while sleeping. But the struggle bore good results, he and his 9 group mates passed to the final exam session including Chen Xirang, Miao Sheng, Shao Yunan and Zhang Yunlei, only two people from their group did not pass because they did not understand the question and were wrong in answering.

The question of the final exam session was about ideology and morals in applying it to government policy. They should write advice for new policies that can benefit the community.

Lu Xiang thought until the afternoon before writing on the draft paper about levees and irrigation that were beneficial to farmers and could also cope with the flood because it was not drained to a more useful place than just building dams only to hold water.

He was also a farmer and knew of the difficulties of a farmer who did not harvest their crops to the maximum due to lack of water. If the field is not far from the river then it can be completed but for the field land that is far from the water source will be difficult because it has to carry its own water to the field from the well.

Lu Xiang read back one by one the words he wrote before copying into the answer sheet then breathed a sigh of relief and began to rest. He did not know if Prefect Zhong would agree with what answer he wrote but he could not think of any other policy advice.

Lu Xiang imagined Adelia's sweet-smiling face before entering into dreamland.he really missed his wife who was far away from him.

The next day Lu Xiang walked out of the examination hall feeling relieved, he finally finished the exam well and was able to go home tomorrow. He decided to return home by sea because he could not wait to see his wife, whether he got the title Xie Fu or not.

"Lu Xiang's. Finally the exam was over as well, I didn't know if the policy advice I wrote was useful or not". Chen Xirang was able to walk properly this time around, this test almost traumatized him from having to battle with the foul smell.

"Believe in yourself, perhaps with confidence the gods will help you". Lu Xiang joked.

"You're not helping at all, where are Yunan and Yunlei? Ah, there they are". Just now Chen Xirang wanted to search for the whereabouts of his two friends, both of them had already appeared.

"Miao Sheng?" Ask Lu Xiang.

"Hehe, you're so close to your sister-in-law right now".

Lu Xiang rolled his eyeballs, ignoring the words of his friend and looked for his sister-in-law's whereabouts in the crowd before raising his hands high for Miao Sheng to find her.

"You've been waiting for Lu Xiang a long time?".

"Yet. Let's go back".

The five returned to the inn and cleaned up before going to bed in place of their bedtime last night as usual. In the afternoon Lu Xiang met Zhao Fan and told his teacher about the first day of the exam.

"Why are you telling me this now?!" Zhao Fan asked in surprise. His heart was beating strongly at the words of his disciple, Lu Xiang was the most competent disciple who had the ability to advance until the royal examination. But did not expect that there was an incident that almost trapped his proud disciple.

"From the first time you're out of the inn to the entrance queue, is there anyone who bumped into you or someone who wants to ask you something to distract you?"

Lu Xiang thought and shook his head. "Nothing, maybe when I wanted to queue up someone put that paper in my basket, I was a little off guard because I saw the exam number".

Zhao Fan let out a sigh of resignation, he would not be able to find the perpetrator of the incident and was worried that the same thing would happen.

"Thankfully you can handle it well this time, make this a warning to be more careful. We didn't find the culprit and it's likely that the person you want to fail the exam will set the same trap".

Lu Xiang nodded seriously. After meeting his teacher, he went to the dock to book a departure boat ticket during the day after knowing the results of the exam after asking Zhao Fan for permission which of course was allowed because the potential of his student getting the Xie title was huge.

Lu Xiang told Lu Cai to go home with Miao Shen.

Later that night, Chen Xirang with the others went to the baimei house without taking Lu Xiang because they knew the principles of his friend, they had fun in the brothel together with the girl who accompanied them until midnight.

In the prefect's office, by, the exam answer examiners began to assess the answers of the participants carefully as it was about policy advice that might be applicable and making a major contribution in the kingdom and handing out the examinees that passed into being the two parts were class A and class B before handing the classified paper to prefect Zhong.

Class A is certainly better than class B and will make people reflect thinking class B is no better than class A.

One of the exam examiners was flabbergasted by the answers he read and reflexively wanted to throw away the answers because they had great potential, he wanted to take that answer to be his but the other answer examiners and Prefect Zhong were also there so he was unable to carry out the action. Lastly he decided to lay down the answer paper from section A to the very bottom of section B before handing it over to Prefect Zhong.

At first he only wanted to make Lu Xiang, the owner of the paper answer so as not to become the head champion because he wanted his future son-in-law who got the title Xie but after reading Lu Xiang's policy advice, the examiner of the answer increasingly did not want to make Lu Xiang famous for wanting to take the man's idea.

Prefect Zhong would naturally assess the answer papers in A class first with caution and focus. One paper after another he read until his eyes became tired.

On the class B answer paper, Prefect Zhong no longer read carefully, especially if the paper owner's calligraphy writing was not good, Prefect Zhong would pass through the answer paper after a quick read.

When Prefect Zhong read the final answer paper, the examinee who wanted to cheat became nervous and clenched his hands under the table.

Don't get her wrong, blame Lu Xiang for having a brilliant idea that makes her greedy. Although he initially cheated on his daughter to marry a proud Xie Fu scholar, he now does it for himself.

Prefect Zhong read the neat and beautiful calligraphy with widened eyes and saw the name of the owner of the paper and his gaze became within a few degrees. He calmly put the paper back on the table.

The examinee who saw that lowered his face, hiding a triumphant smile as if Lu Xiang's idea already belonged to him.