After their minds were read, the entire court trembled with fear.

Chapter 81 The Right Vice Minister of Rites soiled his trouser pocket while taking the imperial exam

The Minister of Rites participated in setting the questions, and he was very satisfied with them.

"Your Majesty, I find Shen Lang's suggestions regarding the questions to be excellent."

"Things that you memorize by rote don't need to be directly shown in your answers; they can actually be revealed in the essay questions themselves."

The old emperor, after reviewing the answers, couldn't help but praise, "The questions this time were comprehensive and ingenious, but the number of people admitted may not be many."

"That is indeed the case."

After the exams started, Shen Zhiyi couldn't stay idle.

The other examiners were completely bewildered as they watched Shen Zhiyi get up and leave.

The old man was supposed to take the test right under your nose, so why did you leave?

The Right Vice Minister of Rites couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "What on earth is she trying to do?"

"Hush, be careful what you say."

After the examiner, who had urged the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites to be cautious in his speech, finished speaking, he turned his head and rolled his eyes.

—It's none of your business what Shen Lang is up to.

Shen Zhiyi turned around towards Su Ziruo's cell and couldn't help but gloat at the sight of her suffering face.

When she first saw Su Ziruo, she subconsciously checked the surveillance footage.

Good heavens, that kid's unlucky enough to be assigned to the latrine.

Upon seeing Shen Zhiyi, Su Ziruo burst into tears.

What was he pretending for yesterday? He should have brought spices.

Even though it's winter now and the toilet doesn't smell as bad as it does in the summer, it's still pretty smelly, okay?

Seeing Su Ziruo's regretful expression, Shen Zhiyi left satisfied.

[When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a person, it first tests their resolve, strains their muscles and bones... uh, I can't remember the rest, anyway, this kid Su Ziruo first encountered me, a time traveler, and then was assigned a terrible account number. It all seems like a sign that he's destined to be the top scholar in an imperial examination novel!!!]

These words made the old emperor laugh.

"This Shen Zhiyi is quite vain."

The first exam was followed by its second night in the blink of an eye.

Shen Zhiyi yawned, and couldn't help but mutter to herself.

[As expected of those who can participate in the imperial examinations, they are all incredibly good at holding it in. Very few of them went to the toilet; some even soiled their pants but didn't go. I'm truly impressed.]

[Haha, back when the Right Vice Minister of Rites took the imperial examination, he pooped in his pants pocket.]

The other examiners suddenly turned their attention to the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, who had a stern face.

Chen, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, sneered without any politeness.

The Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites' face immediately turned ugly.

Hmph, he doesn't believe he's the only one like this.

You should know that if you go to the outhouse, the proctor will stamp your exam paper with excrement. Generally, if your answer sheet has excrement stamped on it, you're basically out of luck for the imperial examination.

Even if you soil your pants, you absolutely cannot go to the outhouse for the triennial imperial examination!

[So many test takers are asleep! Those old guys next to me are really energetic, they don't seem sleepy at all.]

Shen Zhiyi couldn't help but yawn again, but she stopped herself halfway through.

What was that thing that just flew by?

Shen Zhiyi turned on the monitor and rewound the video.

【Hey hey hey, we've got some work to do!】

Before the other examiners could react, Shen Zhiyi had vanished.

Chen, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, hurriedly got up and followed, only to find that Shen Zhiyi had come to the side of a bugle.

He leaned closer to listen.

Do you have a bow and arrows?

"Bow and arrow?" Hao Jun was bewildered: "Reporting to President Shen, I only have a knife."

Shen Zhiyi asked them one by one, and in the end, it was the Dragon Scale Guard An Jiu who came with a bow and arrows.

"Thanks brother."

An Jiu cried, "The greatest distance in the world is that I know you, but you don't know me."

How I miss the days when I could just enjoy the gossip with Shen Lang!

"Shen Lang, what are you doing?" asked Chen, the Assistant Minister of Rites, puzzled.

Shen Zhiyi smiled, drew her bow and arrow, and replied, "Of course, it's to give you an extra meal."

Oh dear, I'm so nervous! The last time I played with this was back in my freshman year of college when I was in a club.

[Wow, this thing is so much heavier than the bows and arrows in the club.]

Shen Zhiyi used all her strength, and finally let go weakly, returning the hand to An Jiu.

"I can't take it anymore, brother. Do you see that white bird? Shoot it down, I'm hungry."

Chen, Assistant Minister of Rites, and An Jiu: ...

An Jiu swiftly and decisively shot down the white bird, and even took the initiative to bring it to Shen Zhiyi's eyes.

Chen, the Assistant Minister of Rites, stepped forward and asked, "Is it a pigeon? Or a carrier pigeon?"

He understood instantly.

He unfolded the letter on the white dove's leg; the densely packed words made one's head spin.

Wow, he's really learned a lot from proctoring exams this year.

First, I encountered someone wearing a human skin mask to take the exam for me, and then I encountered someone using a carrier pigeon to find someone to answer the questions for them.

"Walk."

Shen Zhiyi grabbed the carrier pigeon and went directly to a cell, where she started heating oil in a wok right in front of the person holding the pigeon.

Examinee: ? ? ? What is the examiner doing?

Meanwhile, the examinee opposite Shen Zhiyi was so frightened that he wet his pants.

"I was wrong, I was wrong, I'll never do it again, President, have mercy, President, have mercy!"

Shen Zhiyi: ? ? ?

[This kid is way too calm.]

The officer stepped forward, and Shen Zhiyi handed over the answers and the pigeon from the carrier pigeon. The examinee was then dragged out of the examination hall along with the carrier pigeon.

[He still lacks willpower. Actually, if he had insisted on denying it, there was nothing I could do. So I just thought I'd scare him, and I didn't expect it to actually work.]

Chen, the Assistant Minister of Rites, said in a low voice, "The pigeons, aren't we going to eat them?"

“That’s evidence. You can eat it if you dare, but I’m not going to.”

[Tsk tsk tsk, that examinee who just used a carrier pigeon to deliver his answers, his father is a prefect.]

[What kind of clever tricks are you trying to pull? Not only will your son fail the exam, but you'll also lose your official position.]

Back at the hotel, Shen Zhiyi saw the old man Cui Yuanzhe, who seemed to be filling out a test paper, appear out from behind him like a ghost.

"Oh, you've finished answering?"

The old man was startled and almost made a mark on the answer sheet.

"You've finished answering, that's great! We've been waiting for you to finish."

Shen Zhiyi put the exam paper away and placed it on her desk.

Then, huffing and puffing like a busy little bee, they arrived at a cell.

As luck would have it, the examinee in that cell was also preparing to hand in his paper.

Shen Zhiyi took the other person's answer sheet and placed it on her own table, along with the old man's.

To prevent officials from assisting candidates in cheating, the old emperor did not collect the answer sheets according to the order of their assigned numbers. However, this made it easier for another method of cheating to emerge.

[For example, in these two cases, Cui Yuanzhe wrote down the name and exam number of the person he was supposed to take the exam for, while the person he was supposed to take the exam for wrote down Cui Yuanzhe's name and exam number. If the answers were collected according to the exam number order, both of them would definitely be exposed. However, by not collecting them in order, they could successfully deceive each other.]

[Tsk tsk tsk, they gave Cui Yuanzhe a whole thousand taels of gold! No wonder Cui Yuanzhe didn't want to pass the exam.]