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Chapter 110 Next work
"You are really shameless. How can a mere woman dare to take the imperial examination? How ridiculous."
"Humph," a man yelled, "You women, why don't you go home and cook for your fathers and brothers? Standing here seducing others is simply bringing shame to the family."
……
The queen sat in the carriage, listening to these words and getting so angry that she was choking on her chest. "What nonsense? Seducing what? How did you seduce me?"
"Don't be angry, mother," Dahua lowered the carriage curtain, "How can it be seduction? It's those men who are vulgar and dirty."
"She was just a girl participating in the scientific expedition. She rolled up her sleeves to make it easier to move around, exposing a small section of her arm."
"How is this seduction?"
"Besides," Dahua was not angry at first, but now she was really angry when she heard the noisy scolding outside the carriage, "the girl who exposed her arms is still young, she looks less than ten years old."
The queen leaned forward and tried to get out of the carriage, but Emperor Mingde stopped her with his hand, "Qianyue, listen again. If the men of my Great Xia are so unbearable, then... Sigh."
Emperor Mingde sighed deeply and felt ashamed.
Outside the carriage in front of the examination room, the noise continued.
"She has lost all sense of shame and has learned the skills of a foxy woman at such a young age."
"That's right, since you're a clown, come and smile for me."
"Ha ha ha ha,"
"Hahaha……"
The men's unscrupulous laughter made the girls who accidentally exposed their arms blush.
They looked around cautiously, silently rolled up their sleeves, their eyes reddened and they wished they could just bang their heads against the wall and die.
"You men are so ignorant of etiquette and shameless that you flirt with others in broad daylight. What kind of skills do you have?"
A clear female voice interrupted the men's wanton laughter.
"I think," the woman, dressed elegantly, stepped down from the carriage, "you are the ones pretending to be gentlemen but doing the things of gangsters. I want to ask, which school and which teacher taught you to be so dirty and despicable?"
Mo Shiyin's belly was bulging, and she held Li Lian's hand tightly. Her almond-shaped eyes swept mockingly towards the men who had just loudly humiliated the female students.
There were three or four men in blue shirts, all wearing student uniforms.
Hu Peng stared at the woman's clothes, then at the carriage she was riding in, and then looked at Li Lian.
With a turn of his eyes, he saluted to Li Lian with a smile, "Student Hu Peng."
He paused, pointed at the girls who had just exposed their arms, "Those girls who just exposed their skin to seduce others are not worthy of participating in the imperial examinations. They are dirty."
"you shut up."
A roar of anger came from the crowd. Mo Shiyin and Li Lian looked at each other and headed towards the source of the voice.
Tong Zhiwen rolled up his sleeves, took a few quick steps, and punched Hu Peng in the face. "If all the men in Daxia were like you, it would be simply, simply..."
[Tongzi,] Qianqian had been carried down from the carriage by his father at this time, [The scholar who beat people up looks so familiar.]
[That's Tong Zhiwen. He did well in the imperial examination last year and is now in the Hanlin Academy.]
[Oh,] Qian Qian looked at the people who were beaten again, [Which ones? Those who were talking nonsense, they were not being ordered by someone, right?]
[Wow, little princess, you are super smart,] the system sincerely praised, [the one who was beaten by Tong Zhiwen is called Hu Peng.]
【Hu Peng? 】
Qian Qian tilted his head and said, "That sounds so familiar."
Emperor Mingde looked around and saw several people in the crowd moving quietly towards them.
With some guesses in mind, he hugged Qian Qian tightly and frowned. How could this child hide his thoughts?
[Hmm,] The system helped Qianqian recall, [Remember the melon with three dead girls in the Hu family's back garden that we ate?]
Qian Qian nodded.
The system continued, [That Hu Peng is a distant relative of Hu Tian. This time he was instructed to come here to cause trouble.]
[There is also Zhang Zhaoyu who just joined in. Last year, he abused his wife and was sued by his wife’s family.]
【Not only did they divorce, but they were also sentenced to one year in prison. 】
[Look, he was just released from prison, and he was also instructed by someone. ]
[There is another one named Qian Han, who is a local thug. ]
[Who is the person behind this? ] Qian Qian asked.
[The people behind them are all great scholars in seclusion, er,] the system is somewhat disdainful, [the so-called great scholars in seclusion.]
[The purpose of those people is to make the women's imperial examination a joke. ]
The queen narrowed her eyes and gave a wink to Zhu Jia in the crowd, and the troublemakers were immediately taken away by the officers.
She exchanged a glance with Emperor Mingde and said in a very light voice, "A great scholar in seclusion, huh? You've forgotten about those old guys."
Emperor Mingde patted her shoulder and said, "Leave the matters of those people to me. Qianyue, rest assured that none of them will escape."
Tong Zhiwen was still upset and angry when he saw the troublemakers being taken away.
At this time, Mo Shiyin spoke loudly, "Although I am already six months pregnant, I will also participate in this women's imperial examination."
Before she finished speaking, the girls who had lowered their heads because of Hu Peng and the others looked up in shock.
Mo Shiyin smiled at them and continued, "People in the world are very harsh on women. Did you also see that just now?"
Many of the girls who were queuing up to enter the examination room had red eyes due to grievance.
Mo Shiyin touched her belly and said, "What happened today has nothing to do with you. It's because those men had dirty minds and were mean and filthy."
"You have all seen that a man can convict an innocent woman with just one word. I want to ask, on what basis?"
Her eyes were gentle but firm as she looked at the ordinary-dressed female students queuing up to enter the examination room, "I hope you will think about today's matter for yourselves."
"Why did they do this today? What is the purpose of those people? If all the men of Daxia behave like that, what will Daxia be like?"
After a few questions were asked, not only the female students waiting to enter the examination room, but even Tong Zhiwen lowered his head.
At this moment, he was filled with ashamed.
After saying that, Mo Shiyin, supported by Li Lian, slowly walked to the end of the line and waited in line obediently to enter the examination room.
The emperor and empress looked at each other, and when they saw that the turmoil outside the examination room was over, they got on the carriage.
【Tongzi,】 Qianqian was a little worried, 【Is our Huijun Wang okay?】
[It’s okay,] the system explained patiently, [Although Mo Shiyin will suffer a little this time, her ranking is still good.]
[Alas, she is pregnant, why must she take the imperial examination? ]
[Nothing can be done about it,] the system voice was slightly low, [None of the women from noble families who could be ranked high came.]
[In this scientific expedition, there are many girls from lower-class backgrounds. ]
[Many of those girls came from orphanages.]
[On the one hand, they hope to get a government position through the imperial examinations, so that their families can live a better life.]
[On the other hand, it is my gratitude to your mother. ]
[After all, if there were no orphanage, they would have trouble even getting enough to eat, let alone studying.]
[As for the women from the aristocratic and noble families, it seems that except for some poor small families, only the Shen family and the Yue family had a few girls who participated in the imperial examination.]