Way Of Choices Chapter 194 - The Scholar Entering The Capital For His Imperial Examinations (1/2)

Chapter 194 – The Scholar Entering the Capital for His Imperial Examinations

‘Since I was young, my family was poor I had a quiet and sincere but slow personality I did not have any friends or faetables, but I never ate , there was stillI lived without any serious a to the capital, I really only wanted to enter the Heavenly Dao Academy to study Afterwards, I h she didn’t have any interest in reading at all’

This was the first part of the opening paragraph in wang Zhice’s diary While reading this section, all of a sudden a fa, just like when he had learnt about Gou Hanshi+’s experiences before the Ivy Festival Although he knew they were opponents, Chen Changsheng still carried a sense of fa books

‘On the way to the capital, I met the Grand Guard at that ti County Palace Afterwards, I ain in Luoyang There was also Elder Brother, yes, and I alsowith filth, So, I stayed behind’

‘The paper in Luoyang was expensive Everything was expensive, and even the sesame seed cakes were more expensive than those frohting day in and day out After Chen’er used up all of our money, she wanted to return to her previous occupation However, I always felt that killing people wasn’t good, so she asked ain that I still needed to enter the capital Even if I could not enter the Heavenly Dao Academy, I could still cas of inscriptions I had always believed I was a useless scholar and could only write so/wiki/Stone_rubbing

‘She came with me to the capital and was always by my side Even if she wanted to leave, she couldn’t, as Emperor Taizu’s army had already surrounded the capital It was also at that time when I learnt that Elder Brother had never prepared to co On the day when the capital finally fell, Chen’er and I sat on a boat, separated fro Prince of Qi riding in on a white rhinoceros, and we knew that our lives would take a turn for the better’

‘As the Emperor ascended the throne in front of the Mausoleureat Demon army had already arrived After two years, the Deain The Prince of Qi would occasionally travel to the inn to search us out for idle gossip, and I could tell his mood worsened over time I did not knohether it was because his favourite rhinoceros had died at the Fallen Willow Plains or that the Emperor had not decided as the crown prince One day, when he drank a little too much wine, he stared into , he had alanted me to help him I did not really understand this, as how could I, a physically weak scholar, help hi? Also, when I came to the capital… all I wanted to do was enter the Heavenly Dao Academy to read’

‘After I entered the Heavenly Dao Acade, I lived the life I looked forward to living Still, Chen’er did not like such a plain life I took her to see the green vines of Li Palace and the Banyan Trees inside the Orthodox Academy She did not like any of that and said that the forest in the Garden of Daas too dense and the great banyan trees were too tall Thewas, the River Qu and the lake within the Orthodox Acadehts, I would watch the acrobatics in Luoyang and laugh, but she would only s the scenery were boring, and only so life I understood what she wanted to say, but I did not want to follow up So, I could only stay silent’

‘Afterwards, she still ended up leaving the capital I did not knohether she went to Xuelao City or to find Elder Brother However, in short, when she left hts, confir I continued to read, and while resting in-between, I began thinking of ht that I did not have the potential to cultivate, much less any talent

However, for so after the age of forty, did not meet any problele night to roughly ht was a tad too marvelous since I scared a lot of people As a result, I became a famous person in the capital for some odd reason, and the Prince of Qi took the iovernment position

Many people believed I was proud because of the coht Yet, the real reason I was pleased with an to spread throughout the capital and even the whole continent In short, I beca connections with various well known people, officials, and several princes including the Prince of Qi They were on friendly terms with me, and my life seemed to become much more cheerful, other than the fact that she never returned’

‘Peaceful, happy days do not last forever I understood this logic, but I just never thought that this lovely period would actually end so suddenly On a certain day, late at night, two people came to uests, and they wantedfor a et in the Prince of Qi’s way I understood his te a step forwards

On thecorpses outside of the city, and I stood atop the building, looking in the direction towards the Hundred Herb Garden I watched the white smoke slowly rise up and silently prayed that not too many people would die, at least those princes whom I knew Pity, it did not end up as I had wished Those princes still died in the end, including their wives, sons, and daughters’

‘I sat at home in boredom for three days I did not leave the house, nor did I look for any related news I looked silently at the two guests fro the matters outside, the Prince of Qi came to me personally In such a nervous hour, he actually took the time, especially, to come and see me I did not knohether I should have felt honored or suspicious

The Prince of Qi said that he did not mind my silence the past few days, but he needed me to show my own opinion towards this matter for the capital’s populace to see I could only stay silent He stared into s about this ht a little and said that I had no opinion As a result, it was he who had beco That was the last time he and I spoke to each other as friends Since only afterwards, did I learn that he had already for the Zhou Dynasty’s emperor’