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Gu Chenglin suddenly rolled over on the bed.
Gu Chengfeng's roar was stuck in his throat, and he could only give Gu Jiao a gnashing stare, "Then why didn't you make a sound sooner? You, you, you..."
You actually waited until I’m taking off my pants before you talk!
Gu Jiao stood up, walked past him and went out of the door, "I’m going."
This, obviously, was not her saying goodbye to him. She was never polite to him. Then, she was asking him to go with her?
Going where?
Gu Chengfeng's watchful eyes fell on her little back, "What are you planning to do?"
"Are you coming or not?" Gu Jiao turned around and pointed to Gu Chenglin on the bed. "If not, I’m going to kick him out tomorrow."
Gu Chengfeng gritted his teeth. So cruel!
Gu Jiao walked ahead, waving behind her back, "Don't worry, there is a remuneration, you won’t be treated unfairly.”
Tomorrow was the day of the publication of the list. She must find An Junwang's exam paper before the publication, and put it in the last pile of unreviewed exam papers.
Thanks to the rules of the examination compound, all the examiners in the inner hall were not allowed to step past the inner hall curtain before the examination results were released. Therefore, although the transcribe official had successfully withheld An Junwang's exam paper early, he never got a chance to take it out and get rid of it.
"What did you bring me here for?" Gu Chengfeng stood under the courtyard wall of the examination compound and asked.
Gu Jiao raised an eyebrow, sized him up, and then looked at him with a little expression as though asking, ‘You’re not so stupid to not think of the reason, are you?’
Gu Chengfeng trembled with anger, clenched his fists and squeezed a few words through his clenched teeth, "What do you want to steal?"
……
A quarter of an hour later, Gu Chengfeng successfully sneaked into the inner hall.
All the officials were fast asleep, only the imperial guards on patrol kept a watchful eye around outside the inner hall.
Gu Chengfeng went from room to room.
The transcribe officials were all men of about the same age. As for their appearance, in this pitch darkness, what else aside from having two eyes and one nose could one make out?
However, being able to become the number one thief in the capital, Fei Shuang naturally had his own identification technique.
He soon locked on to a transcribe official whose appearance and body shape were consistent with Gu Jiao's description.
Where was he hiding the exam paper at the moment? Gu Jiao didn't tell him. This detail was after all not in her dream.
Gu Chengfeng rummaged up and down and finally found An Junwang's exam paper in his shoes.
No wonder it hadn't been found, it was actually hidden in the shoes.
Gu Chengfeng had his mask on.
Still, that smell...
Gu Chengfeng resisted the urge to retch on the spot and pulled out An Junwang's exam paper with two fingers.
There were two exam papers in total, one was the original with An Junwang’s own handwriting, and the other was the vermillion exam paper copied by a transcribe official.
Gu Chengfeng first archived the original copy, and then put the vermillion exam papers in the last stack of papers waiting to be reviewed.
Of course, it was impossible to just put them in, because the last stack of papers was the outstanding exam papers selected by the first few examiners, all with their grades on them.
An Junwang's vermillion exam paper was hidden from the beginning, so it hadn't been marked yet.
Gu Chengfeng had to imitate the handwriting of the rest of the marking officials, and randomly put in several A's. This was nothing that impressive.
These days, you couldn’t be a thief without talent.
After that, Gu Chengfeng snuck out of the examination compound.
Gu Jiao covered her nose and looked at him in disgust, "You stink."
Gu Chengfeng: Yes, yes, yes, I stink. Who the hell do I stink for?
"What about the remuneration?" Gu Chengfeng coldly held out his hand.
With a flick of Gu Jiao's fingertip, a copper coin flew out and landed impartially in Gu Chengfeng's palm.
Gu Chengfeng looked at the lonely copper coin on the palm of his hand and almost swore!
He broke into the examination compound at the risk of being beheaded, tampered with the exam paper, only to get a single copper coin?
A-single-copper-coin!
Gu Jiao turned around and walked away with her hands behind her back, leaving a few words, "You're welcome, see you later."
Gu Chengfeng who wanted to cough up blood: "…"
……
The next morning, the transcribe official woke up to find that the exam papers in his shoes were missing. He was terrified and worried that one of his colleagues or the imperial guards had found it.
He waited nervously for someone to arrest him, only to find that the morning had passed, as though everyone had no clue about it.
Instead, when people went to start marking and reviewing the exam papers again, the hall was filled with an indescribable stench, which they could tell was coming from a certain exam paper after careful scrutiny.
Why didn't they find this exam paper so stinky yesterday?
In order not to affect his judgment on the exam paper, the Chief Examiner handed the exam paper to a transcribe official, "Take this and copy it again."
"...Yes!"
It was another transcribe official who was appointed to the task, and he copied the exam paper in a proper manner.
At noon, all the exam papers were reviewed.
In the afternoon, the inner hall curtain was drawn open, and the list of names of successful examinees was delivered to the Emperor's hand under the escort of the Ministry of Rites’ official as well as the imperial guards.
The Emperor read it and handed it over to the cabinet for sealing.
The next morning, the examination compound finally released the list of successful examinees all over the country.
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