Fate of the Stupid Son Chapter 144

There are three autumn examinations, each lasting three days, and candidates have to stay in the examination huts for these nine days.

Grandma Song and Xu made Song Si a full set of new bedding, new clothes and hankies.

The first session was on the 9th of August, so Song Wangyue decided to leave on the 3rd of August, considering that she had to go to the capital early to sell mint oil.

Liu Cui Lan and Song Shu also stayed home to see Song Si off, as they did not have to leave their stall today.

The village headman also came, the first person from Song’s village to take the exam for the imperial examination in many years, and he was holding a handkerchief with several cooked eggs wrapped in it, handing it to Song Si, “Take it, eat it on the way.”

Song Si didn’t push back and took them and put them away.

The village chief didn’t know how the examiners felt, but he had heard a few years ago that an old showman from a village a dozen miles away had gone to the capital to take the exam and had fainted in the examination hut halfway through the exam, and was said to be nervous.

He deliberately admonished, “Song Si ah, your learning is one of the best in the academy, this subject examination is naturally no longer a topic of discussion, you remember, don’t be nervous.”

“I’ll remember.”

The village chief was still unsure and wanted to say something else, but after thinking for a while he couldn’t think of anything else to say, he patted him on the shoulder, “Do well in the exams and try to shine for your old Song family.”

When he saw the village chief coming, he turned around and went into the house and brought out a cigarette bag, “Village chief, have a puff.”

The two went to one side, and before they could take two puffs, the sound of a horse-drawn carriage came from outside the main gate.

The village chief was surprised, “Song Gui, you have hired a carriage?”

The Qingping County to the capital is not close, hiring a carriage requires a lot of silver, but on second thought, the Song family must have made a lot of money selling cold skin these days, so hiring a carriage is not a sin for Song Si Shang.

The old man didn’t hide it, mainly because when Gu Yi came in later, he couldn’t hide it even if he wanted to: “We don’t have that much silver at home, it’s young master Gu’s carriage, he happened to go to the capital to visit his relatives, and gave Si’er a lift.”

The village headman believed it, “That’s really great.”

Song Lin and Song Shu had already greeted them.

Two carriages were parked outside the door, the front one much larger than the one Gu Yi usually sat in, and the back one similar to the one that usually transported them.

Behind the carriages, there stood six young men, who looked nothing special except that they were a little older than Xiao Si.

“Uncle, second uncle, have you packed Brother’s things? It’s getting late, we should set off.” Gu Yi came to urge.

“It’s packed, you wait a moment, we’ll go and move it out.”

Song Shu turned around and went back to the courtyard.

Song Lin, on the other hand, looked behind the carriage several times, and saw no one particularly dressed apart from these few servants, he frowned slightly, “Young Master Gu, just a few people following you?”

If something happened on the road, these few people would not be enough for someone to beat them up.

“A few of them are enough, you don’t look at them as inconspicuous, one can top three in a fight.”

Song Lin was half convinced.

Bedding, clothes, baskets of books, all were carried to the wagon, and finally only peppermint oil remained.

For fear of spilling the oil on the road, Song Lin had wrapped the porcelain bottle with grass at home over the past few days.

The Song family made such a big noise that they naturally alerted the neighbours to come and inquire. When they found out that Song Si was going to the capital to take the exam today, they all told each other. In a short while, half of the village gathered in front of the Song family’s door and gathered around Song Si, saying their good wishes.

The village chief came out of the courtyard and knocked his cigarette on the door frame, “It’s getting late, it’s time for them to leave, let’s get out of the way.”

The crowd backed up quickly and made way.

Gu Yi got on the carriage first, then Song Wan Yue, and finally Song Si went up.

The village people were surprised to see the two carriages just now, and they were even more surprised to see Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue following them – they hadn’t heard that the Song girl was engaged to the Gu young master, so why were the two families so close?

The carriage started slowly and headed for the village entrance.

The Song family followed behind them, stopping only when they reached the entrance of the village, watching the carriage go further and further away, disappearing into the distance.

Inside the carriage, a large table was set up with various pastries and fruits on it, and a small table with a chess board next to it.

Gu Yi got on the carriage and sat directly next to the small table, “Brother, play a game?”

The corners of Song Wan Yue’s mouth twitched as she watched him play a cautious game, Song Si had loved learning since he was young, if we talk about reading no one could beat him, but he knew nothing about playing chess, not because he didn’t love learning, but because he had no one to teach him.

Song Si gave Gu Yi a cool look and moved to sit over, “How do you play?”

“Big brother doesn’t know how?”

Gu Yi was “surprised”.

Song Wangyue skimmed her eyes, picked up a piece of watermelon and took a slow bite.

“Should I be?”

Song Si asked rhetorically, not gently.

Gu Yi was choked.

Song Wangyue laughed as the watermelon seeds in her mouth almost spurted out, giving Song Si a thumbs up in her heart, he was the only one who could choke Gu Yi speechless.

“How does it go down?”

Song Si asked again.

This time Gu Yi did not dare to “make a move” and honestly explained the rules of chess to him.

Song Si understood immediately and took the white piece, gesturing to Gu Yi to play first.

Gu Yi was intent on killing his spirit, and he came up with a lot of momentum and pressed on.

One game, two games, three games ……

I don’t know how many games had been played, but Song Si was still in high spirits, but Gu Yi couldn’t hold on any longer and threw the pieces in his hand into the chess box, “No more, I won’t play anymore even if it kills me.”

The majority of the morning, sitting and not moving, exhausted him.

Song Si gave him a light glance, ignored him, withdrew her eyes and pondered the game in front of her.

Gu Yi climbed up with a start and moved to Song Wan Yue’s side, saying aggressively, “Little girl, I’m going to die of exhaustion.”

“Serves you right!”

Gu Yi took it, drank it all in one gulp, and moved to Song Wangyue’s side again while he was putting the cup away, whispering, “Big brother is simply not human, where is the one who sits still for so long?”

He originally thought that after Song Si had lost a few games in a row, he would be so devastated that he would throw away his chess pieces and stop playing, and then he would be able to “taunt” him, but he didn’t expect him to persevere after losing a few games.

“When my elder brother was taking the exam, he only slept for two hours a day, not to mention most of the morning, even if he had to play the whole day, he would not give up first.”

Dang!

Gu Yi knocked his head on the table in a lifeless manner, he was wrong, he was really wrong, he would never dare to have the thought of mocking Song in the future.