Chapter 276: The Test is Over

Chapter 276

The large gate of the small courtyard opened and closed again, and the originally bustling street regained tranquility. Only the moonlight slowly crawled onto the branches, illuminating the entire city.

If someone looked down from above, they would find that usually the crowded and narrow courtyard was noisy, while the spacious and bright places were exceptionally calm instead.

The Jiang family, Old Lady Jiang's courtyard.

Tan Yue respectfully reported, "The Third Young Lady is awake now. She is very depressed and rarely speaks, ignoring Old Lady's comforts without saying a word."

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Old Lady Jiang closed her eyes without any movement.

Tan Yue hesitated several times, "Old Lady, are we really not taking the young lady back?"

It was hard enough to find her in the vast sea of ??people without a clue. Now that she was finally found, could we really bear to see her suffering outside, unseen and unfelt, only able to wipe her own tears?

Although there was a prior promise, human emotions were uncontrollable and promises could not be made.

Tan Yue knew that she was a little agitated and that she had overstepped, but she just didn't understand.

"This servant is wrong. Please punish this servant, Old Lady. But this servant really doesn't understand." The head maid knelt down with both knees and lowered her head to apologize.

She had expected a storm to come, but a pair of hands reached out before she realized that Old Lady Jiang was already standing up, kindly and approvingly helping her up.

"Good Tan Yue, the fact that you can think so much shows that you really care about the young lady. Seeing the key points at the tribute academy entrance proves that you have grown rapidly over the years. In the future, if I’m gone, I’m afraid I’ll have to bother you to take good care of the young lady more, resolve worries and difficulties for her..."

Women in the Dayu Dynasty usually married and had children at the age of sixteen or seventeen. At the age of thirty, they could become grandmothers. Jiang Chengyuan was seventeen years old this year, and Old Lady Jiang had also reached the age of knowing the mandate of heaven.

It didn’t sound very old, but under the current average life expectancy of fifty, she really didn’t have many good years left.

Tan Yue’s nose soured as she choked and said, "Old Lady, don't say these things. You will live to a hundred years old."

"Living to a hundred is nonsense. Your grandfather has been gone for so many years, and I should also go find him." Old Lady Jiang patted Tan Yue's hand and took out a handkerchief for her. "As for the young lady coming home, it's only a matter of time."

"Eldest brother." Jiang Sheng waved to him from afar.

Xu Mo turned his head with a faint smile.

"Eldest brother, how was the exam?" Wen Zhiyun and Chang Yan stretched out their little heads behind him at the same time.

Before Xu Mo could answer, the haggard Qi Huai behind him complained, "In these nine days, the food and rest were bad. My performance was at most half as good as usual."

"That's because you didn't build a good enough foundation," Qi Yue, who had also squeezed over, said. "Brother Xu is not like you. He was the top scholar of Anshui Prefecture."

Looking through history, nine out of ten top scholars were guaranteed to be tribute students, and the remaining one could pass the exam with at most two attempts.

Qi Huai admitted inferiority and could only look to the equally miserable An Jun, "Brother An, how do you feel now?"

"Not bad, not bad," An Jun weighed it carefully. "In general, it wasn’t too difficult. I should have a seventy to eighty percent chance."

Qi Huai was dumbfounded. Usually when we play together, I’m the only one who really struggles with exams.

I feel like I have been betrayed by two good friends.

Beside them, the Jiang Sheng siblings were already chirping around Xu Mo. They were all words of concern.

Looking at Qi Yue in front of him who was only capable of cold ridicule and sarcasm, Qi Huai felt heartbroken. "What sin did I commit to have a little sister...brother like you?"

"Oh Lord, I also want an obedient, considerate little brother and sister like Brother Xu’s."

Qi Yue glanced at Xu Mo's siblings. For the first time, there was no envy, but instead pity. He pulled Qi Huai over, whispered a bunch of the most complicated things using the most concise language.

"What? You said the Jiang family and Sister Xu Mo..." Qi Huai was shocked.

"Keep your voice down." Qi Yue glared.

Qi Huai quickly shut his mouth, but Xu Mo had already noticed.

He asked his younger siblings to take the bamboo basket and get on the carriage first, then strode over calmly, leaving no room for objections, "What about my sister?"