Ch3 - Ah, the disobedient pet has disturbed the general (1/2)
1.3 – Ah, the disobedient pet has disturbed the general
translator: xiin
The time for the imperial examination soon arrived, and numerous students gathered at the entrance of the examination hall. Xue Ling’s inn was not far from the examination point, he leaned against the window and was pulled by Xiao Qing to look at a young man clad in green clothes.
The buildings were not high, and Xue ling had good eyesight, so he clearly saw the young man’s face.
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If we really want to talk about appearance, Duan Xuyang can only be regarded as pretty and delicate, but as he stands there proudly erect like a bamboo, slightly raised mouth with a smile, it is easy to make people feel good looking at him. He was surrounded by a group of people, laughing and boisterous, it seems that this period of painstaking management networking has paid off, he is mixing in very well.
This is a person who does not reveal his inner thoughts, and very good at life on the surface. Or, because he is the protagonist, he can always be better than others with the same amount of effort and luck.
Xiao Qing’s face is full of anxiety, wanting to go down and argue with him, but was held back by Xue Ling. “Gongzi?!” Xiao Qing could not understand: “He was so well dressed, and there were so many people around him! Those were all supposed to be Gongzi’s!”
Xue Ling smiled and said, “Who it belongs to, it’s enough that we know, and he knows. What are you in a hurry to do now?”
Xiao Qing looked at Xue Ling puzzled. He could understand his gongzi a little before, but since he became seriously ill, he seems to understand him less and less.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t matter, the gongzi is still the gongzi, as long as he is the same person, no matter what he becomes, he can accept it. And this version of gongzi is much better than the frail and gloomy due to disease gongzi from before.
It’s just that temperament seems to be worse… Always wanting to play tricks on him or something…
Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.
“Does gongzi want to wait?”
“Discussing with him won’t prove anything, and now the exam is about to start, what is there to discuss? All we have to do is find the general.” Xue Ling straightened out his clothes, turned around and sat down, took a leisurely sip of tea before adding, “It’s starting. We’ll go down after he goes in.”
Xiao Qing nodded and looked down at Duan Xuyang. His eyes were filled with disgust.
Returning kindness with ingratitude, using gongzi’s identity, really shameless.
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Xue ling slowly drinks his tea, occasionally having some snacks, not bothering to look at the leading character downstairs at all.
In order to get enough energy to retrieve his tail, Xue Ling did not actually plan to go slowly according to the plot. Making it so that the protagonist has no room to run as early as possible, is his true style of doing things..
The time of imperial examination is fixed. Only when the entrance time is about to end, does Xue Ling unhurriedly make his way downstairs, causing the assistant shopkeeper looks at him strangely. After all, the students in the shop have all rushed to enter, and this one is the most leisurely.
Compared with the previous students who had books in their hands every day, this one seemed really relaxed.
This fictional world’s imperial examination should refer to the ancient imperial examination system of State Z. All the people are in a closed space, staying there for three days until they have finished their papers.
Xiao Qing prepared a lot of food for Xue Ling, which were inspected one by one when hhe entered the examination hall. Xue Ling was searched all over in order to confirm that there was no suspicion of cheating before he was let into the examination hall.
Xue Ling knew the examination topic as early as when he checked the plot, and there were already some article ideas in his mind. The original owner was a young genius. He took the test for talent at a young age, with the ability to continue rising up. If his body hadn’t been really bad, he would already been moving up in the world.
The protagonist’s articles were all written by him, but because he was not satisfied, were ultimately burned. The young man’s character was also strange, burning any of his works that he did not like, so the amount of writings left behind was pitiful, and because he does not like to publicize, the people who know his poems and articles are very few.
Thinking to here, it should be the result of the world’s way of automatically dealing with the plot to complete it.
The protagonist was his companion and fellow scholar, his study partner, a few years older than him, and has already become an adult. He takes the exam two years later than the young master. His literary talent is not bad, and he has a close relationship with the young master. In fact, at the beginning, he did not mean to replace the young master. He came to Beijing under the name of the young master to protect his own safety, and also because he did not want the friends on the road to despise him.
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The moment he really took the place of the young master, was when the general mistook him for the young master. He hesitated, but found that the general did not know the young master at all, nor had he ever seen the young master’s face, so he put himself in the young master’s place.
After all, he’s gay and had a lot of intentions towards the general.
There are many bugs in this plot. For example, when the general was young, he was rescued by the Duan family and gave Duan family his token. But when he got the token back, he did not ask people to check Duan family’s affairs. Instead, he took in Duan Xuyang directly. Duan Qian’s parents died with grievances, but that was only a factor to highlight Duan Xuyang’s kindness in the original story. In order to overthrow the prime minister, Duan Xuyang mentioned Duan Qian’s parents in the later stage of the plot. Duan Xuyang said that he had suffered humiliation and was almost made into a study companion, and in order to wash away his parents’ grievances, the general willingly lent a hand, thus emerging as a key figure to topple the prime minister, preventing a rebellion, and gaining the trust of the emperor, finally leading to the two’s beautiful, charmed life.
It can be seen that Duan family’s issues is a foreshadowing of the plot in the author’s writing, and it is also paving way for the plot. The young master ultimately died without understanding at all, not having gained anything, yet still not having any grievances, it’s really amazing.