Chapter 49: Posting the List

  "The results are out! The results are out!"

  A loud shout echoed through the entire wine house, and the music and dance suddenly had a slight pause. Afterwards, everyone looked towards the source of the shouting sound, only to see a small child holding a colorful flag in his hand.

  Seeing everyone's gaze drawn to himself, the child lightly waved the colored flag in his hand: "The list has been posted, the academy's list has been posted."

  This time everyone was certain that the list had really been posted, and one by one the scholars who were drinking and having fun put down their wine cups, without even having time to pay: "Shopkeeper, put it on our tab, we'll settle up together next time."

  Chen Jiu stood on the third floor, while his classmate Yi Xiao Xiao was holding an apple and crunching away.

  Looking at the crowd surging and dispersing below, he turned his head to look at Yi Xiao: "Aren't you worried that you won't be on the list?"

  "What's there to worry about? I have 80% confidence in myself," Yi Xiao said vaguely.

  "What about the remaining 20%?"

  "You're so nagging, it's not a big deal if I take the exam again next year, anyway I have plenty of time. This wine house is really comfortable to live in, no big deal if I stay for another year." Yi Xiao said with a carefree tone.

  Chen Jiu shook his head: "Your daily expenses are now three hundred taels of gold, and in a year, even if you sell yourself, you won't be able to pay it back."

  Xiao Xiao's eyebrows furrowed: "Didn't we agree it was free?"

  "Is that so? Did I say that?"

  Xiao Xiao shook her head: "Regardless of whether you said it or not, I've heard it anyway. I love eating white food the most, especially when it's expensive and delicious."

  "Don't you think this is a bit decadent?" Chen Jiuyi said with a pained expression.

  "Has it fallen? I don't think so, this is great, very comfortable, it's a paradise on earth. It's just a pity that those girls only sell their art and not their bodies, otherwise the water town would have gone out of business."

  "I don't want those filthy things on my own turf. Don't you think it's inhumane to let those girls entertain guests?"

  "Inhumane, what is benevolence?" Yi Xiao Xiao asked back.

  Chen Jiou shook his head, turned around and said: "I'm too lazy to argue with you, you're eating my food, using my things, sleeping in my bed, and now you're even talking about humanity? Be careful or I'll make you pay me back."

  Xiao Xiao immediately threw away the pit and muttered unclearly: "Petty, really petty".

  "Let's go and take a look at the ranking list of the Academy." Chen Jiuhai said as he closed the window.

  "This guy has even startled the dean, writing an article with a holy aura, he will definitely be a great saint in the future. What's there to worry about? Even if no one else is admitted, you'll still be the one who can't escape."

  "It's been three days, I should go get that manuscript back, otherwise, who knows when the dean will find an excuse to reject it and I'll be left with nothing."

  Xiao Xiao wiped his lips: "You, the principal is a famous Confucian in the world, how could he cheat you out of your things? Besides, you will be a first-class figure in the Holy Way in the future, why are you still concerned about this manuscript?"

  Chen Jiu stroked his chin: "This manuscript is mine, with the power of heaven and earth on it. If I don't use it, I can leave it to my son. My son isn't a saintly figure after all."

  "Your son, cursed you with a nest of daughters," Yi Xiao said sarcastically.

  Chen Jiulazy didn't bother to argue with this unreasonable guy, and directly stretched out his hand to pull Yi Xiao's arm: "Let's go, let's go, go with me to find Dean".

  "What's the point? I'm too lazy to move. Is there any benefit?" Yi Xiao Xiao grasped the door frame and refused to leave.

  Chen Jiou's eyelid twitched: "Benefits? You sleep with me, eat mine, drink mine, and now you're asking me for benefits? You're dreaming!"

  All the way, Chen Jiu and Yi Xiaoqiao, two big men, attracted a lot of curious glances by pulling and tugging each other. Chen Jiu was a worldly person who had seen everything in his life, what hadn't he seen? Transgender surgery, homosexuality, rabbits, and Bao Bei Shan, nothing could intimidate him with just a few onlookers' glances.

  Yi Xiao's face was not as thick as Chen Jiu's, and it wasn't until he had finally gotten rid of Chen Jiu that he tidied up his clothes. He then sneaked a peek at the front of Chen Jiu before carelessly following behind him.

  The gate of the academy was crowded with a group of people, all of whom were looking at their own family's results. One of them casually bumped into a student next to him and asked, "Brother, who is this first place winner?"

  That scholar was slightly chubby and looked at Chen Jiu's luxurious clothes before saying, "Do you know the true sage?"

  Chen Ji shook his head: "A quasi-sage? That's a secondary sage. Are there still secondary sages in this world now?"

  Looking at Chen Jiu's slightly dazed eyes, the scholar patted his chest: "Do you know that when we took the exam, there was a heavenly phenomenon, and the purple air of the saint came from the east?"

  Chen nodded, this he indeed knew.

  "That strange phenomenon was actually created by a guy named Chen Jiu, and Li Hui Da Ru as well as many other masters said that he has the appearance of a saint, if what they say is true then he will become the first saint since modern times."

  Yi Xiao looked at Chen Jiu with a glance, and Chen Jiu gave him a complacent look after feeling Yi Xiao's gaze. Yi Xiao's face was slightly stagnant: "That Chen Jiu is not that great either, who knows where he came from, it's not necessary to pay too much attention to him, having the appearance of a saint doesn't mean he'll really attain the position of a saint, maybe halfway through he'll run out of steam."

  After Yi Xiao's words fell, Chen Jiu didn't have time to refute, but the fat man stopped: "You can't get grapes and say they're sour, I disdain to be with you, spit".

  After finishing speaking, Fatso spat a mouthful of saliva and then swaggered away.

  Xiao Xiao's face turned ugly, as if he had eaten feces, his fists clenched tightly, and his veins bulged: "Damn fat pig, actually looked down on your grandfather, looking at your fat head and big ears, you must be an unlearned and useless good-for-nothing".

  Yi Xiao's words had just fallen when the chubby boy who was walking away stopped in his tracks, then looked at Yi Xiao with disdain: "Sorry, I'm this year's second place winner. The first place winner is that Chen Jiu with the talent of a saint. As for you, brother, what ranking did you get?"

  Yi Xiao and Chen Jiu's eyes widened as they watched the fat man walk away, Chen Jiu whispered: "That guy's hearing is really good, he can even hear from that far".

  Yi Xiao said discontentedly: "This kid won't be that brainless fan you told me about last time, will he?"

  Chen Ji rubbed his nose: "However you say it, he's been taking care of me, I don't want to speak ill of him, but what ranking are you exactly?"

  "There are a lot of people now, let's come back and look later. Didn't you say you wanted to go find the principal? Let's hurry up, this damn crowd."

  After exerting a great deal of effort, the two of them made their way through the crowd and arrived at an exquisite bamboo hut. Looking around at the lush green bamboo, Chen Jiu casually plucked a bamboo leaf: "Director, you truly know how to enjoy life, this place with its small bridges, flowing water, and poetic scenery is indeed a wonderful destination."

  Yi Xiao looked around and nodded: "Not bad, not bad, this is where the great Confucian scholars live in seclusion. Look at these bamboos, they have been nourished by the majestic energy for a long time and have different auras."

  "You two little rascals, hurry up and come in! You've been talking about this small broken house of mine as if it's a paradise, and if you keep going on like that, I'll have no place to put my old face!" A familiar voice came from inside the house, it was Li Hui's.

  Chen Jiu looked at Yi Xiao Xiao: "It's all because of you, always being so sour. Even if you want to curry favor with the Dean, you don't have to be like this. I'm looking at it and it's just a broken-down little shack."

  After finishing speaking, he pushed open the wattle fence surrounding the wall and walked in.

  A low fence that doesn't even reach the waist, a yard with an old well, the house looks like it hasn't been renovated for years, and a rustic door is full of marks left by time.

  "Dean, have you finished reading that book of the student?" Chen asked respectfully.

  The principal gently put down the pen in his hand and looked at the book post next to him: "Alas, one layer of realm is a threshold, how can it be crossed so easily? Although there is this sacred way post as a reference, but this is your own way, others cannot imitate it, nor can I, only by analogy".

  On one side, Yi Xiao Xiao looked at the dean's post and Chen Jiu's original post, shaking his head: "The meaning implied in this is vastly different".