Chapter 6 Another Transmigrator
When Su Mu saw Xie Yi kneeling at her feet eating, Su Mu almost pulled her feet back.
She put down the porridge spoon in her hand and pulled his arm: "Get up." Xie Yi almost didn't hold the porridge in his hand steady, nearly spilling it.
Su Mu pulled him to sit next to her: "From now on, you sit down to eat." Afraid Xie Yi wouldn't understand, she even patted the stool and table, her tone firm: "Sit, understand? You're a person, not an animal, why kneel on the ground to eat? I don't allow that nonsense of men not being allowed to eat at the table here." Seeing Su Mu's suddenly raised volume and somewhat serious expression, Xie Yi not only didn't feel scared, but suddenly smiled.
He couldn't understand what Su Mu was saying, but this feeling of sitting solidly on a stool, this feeling of being treated as a person was so good.
Since his parents died in the war, his brothers separated, and he was forcibly sold to the Central Plains, it had been a long time since anyone made Xie Yi feel this cherished.
After eating, Su Mu prepared to go out to register for the student exam.
The female-dominated world also had imperial examinations, but there were some differences from what Su Mu remembered.
Firstly, the imperial examinations were open to all people of clean birth except merchants and clergy, and one could take the student exam without having attended school.
Passing the student exam would allow one to be called a scholar, and there was a certain quota for admission each year, reportedly two this year.
After becoming a scholar, one could take the provincial exam, then the imperial exam after passing, and then smoothly become an official. But in this small county town of Juancheng, as long as one passed the provincial exam, it was basically one foot in the door of the prefectural government. Becoming a county magistrate might depend on luck, but becoming an education official was entirely possible.
Because the prefectural exam was presided over by the county magistrate, the registration place was in the ceremonial office of the county government.
As soon as Su Mu arrived at the entrance, she saw a long queue outside. Su Mu consciously lined up at the end.
Seeing Su Mu's appearance, the originally calm queue immediately burst into discussion.
Su Mu lowered her eyes pretending not to hear anything, she was already used to such days of being criticized by people.
"Oh, isn't this Su Mu? Why aren't you being an obedient uxorilocal wife in the Yan family, but coming to the ceremonial office?" A woman in a red robe with a plump figure walked out from the queue, her voice carrying a mocking laugh, immediately attracting everyone's attention.
She was Yan Jiyue's cousin Yan Ruyu, also one of the many parasites of the Yan family. In her previous life, she had been severely bullied by her, and since then didn't dare to even fart in her presence when seeing her.
But now she had already divorced Yan Jiyue, whether she was a parasite or not was no longer her concern.
"Oh my, you're not here to take the scholar exam, are you?" Yan Ruyu said in feigned surprise, covering her mouth.
Su Mu smiled faintly: "The ceremonial office is where students register, what else could I be here for if not to take the scholar exam?"
Students refers to those who haven't passed the scholar exam, regardless of age they are all called students.
Seeing Su Mu speak so directly, Yan Ruyu said: "Truly shameless, don't you know what you're like? You probably can't even recognize a few characters."
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter, looking at Su Mu with mocking eyes.
"The ceremonial office is not a place for an uxorilocal wife like this."
"That's right, lowering the integrity of us scholars."
Su Mu remained impassive: "Not recognizing before doesn't mean never recognizing, people always need to improve. If I didn't have some knowledge in my belly, I wouldn't have come here."
"Your belly has knowledge? I'm afraid it's all filled with rice." Yan Ruyu laughed loudly: "Go back, this is not a place for an uxorilocal wife like you. We have all been studying in schools for many years since childhood."
Su Mu's lips curled slightly: "That's true, Ruyu has been in school since she was six, and now you're 26, right? One can imagine that you must know the Four Books and Five Classics by heart, but unfortunately you're still just a student."
"You—" Yan Ruyu exploded like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, saying hatefully: "Aren't you also just a student like me? What are you so proud of! I can't pass the scholar exam, but you think you can? Keep dreaming."
Su Mu chuckled lightly: "Why don't we have a competition?"
Yan Ruyu was amused by her inexplicable confidence and laughed loudly: "Did you see that? This uxorilocal wife, who hasn't studied for a few days, dares to compete with me?"
The crowd laughed loudly, wanting to see a clown.
"What do you want to compete in?"
"Let's see who passes the scholar exam first, with a bet of 10 taels of silver," Su Mu said.
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