Chapter 6 Another Transmigrator

When Su Mu saw Xie Yi kneeling at her feet eating, Su Mu almost pulled her feet back.

She put down the porridge spoon in her hand and pulled his arm: “Get up.” Xie Yi almost didn’t hold the porridge in his hand steady, nearly spilling it.

Su Mu pulled him to sit next to her: “From now on, you sit down to eat.” Afraid Xie Yi wouldn’t understand, she even patted the stool and table, her tone firm: “Sit, understand? You’re a person, not an animal, why kneel on the ground to eat? I don’t allow that nonsense of men not being allowed to eat at the table here.” Seeing Su Mu’s suddenly raised volume and somewhat serious expression, Xie Yi not only didn’t feel scared, but suddenly smiled.

He couldn’t understand what Su Mu was saying, but this feeling of sitting solidly on a stool, this feeling of being treated as a person was so good.

Since his parents died in the war, his brothers separated, and he was forcibly sold to the Central Plains, it had been a long time since anyone made Xie Yi feel this cherished.

After eating, Su Mu prepared to go out to register for the student exam.

The female-dominated world also had imperial examinations, but there were some differences from what Su Mu remembered.

Firstly, the imperial examinations were open to all people of clean birth except merchants and clergy, and one could take the student exam without having attended school.

Passing the student exam would allow one to be called a scholar, and there was a certain quota for admission each year, reportedly two this year.

After becoming a scholar, one could take the provincial exam, then the imperial exam after passing, and then smoothly become an official. But in this small county town of Juancheng, as long as one passed the provincial exam, it was basically one foot in the door of the prefectural government. Becoming a county magistrate might depend on luck, but becoming an education official was entirely possible.

Because the prefectural exam was presided over by the county magistrate, the registration place was in the ceremonial office of the county government.

As soon as Su Mu arrived at the entrance, she saw a long queue outside. Su Mu consciously lined up at the end.

Seeing Su Mu’s appearance, the originally calm queue immediately burst into discussion.

Su Mu lowered her eyes pretending not to hear anything, she was already used to such days of being criticized by people.

“Oh, isn’t this Su Mu? Why aren’t you being an obedient uxorilocal wife in the Yan family, but coming to the ceremonial office?” A woman in a red robe with a plump figure walked out from the queue, her voice carrying a mocking laugh, immediately attracting everyone’s attention.

She was Yan Jiyue’s cousin Yan Ruyu, also one of the many parasites of the Yan family. In her previous life, she had been severely bullied by her, and since then didn’t dare to even fart in her presence when seeing her.

But now she had already divorced Yan Jiyue, whether she was a parasite or not was no longer her concern.

“Oh my, you’re not here to take the scholar exam, are you?” Yan Ruyu said in feigned surprise, covering her mouth.

Su Mu smiled faintly: “The ceremonial office is where students register, what else could I be here for if not to take the scholar exam?”

Students refers to those who haven’t passed the scholar exam, regardless of age they are all called students.

Seeing Su Mu speak so directly, Yan Ruyu said: “Truly shameless, don’t you know what you’re like? You probably can’t even recognize a few characters.”

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter, looking at Su Mu with mocking eyes.

“The ceremonial office is not a place for an uxorilocal wife like this.”

“That’s right, lowering the integrity of us scholars.”

Su Mu remained impassive: “Not recognizing before doesn’t mean never recognizing, people always need to improve. If I didn’t have some knowledge in my belly, I wouldn’t have come here.”

“Your belly has knowledge? I’m afraid it’s all filled with rice.” Yan Ruyu laughed loudly: “Go back, this is not a place for an uxorilocal wife like you. We have all been studying in schools for many years since childhood.”

Su Mu’s lips curled slightly: “That’s true, Ruyu has been in school since she was six, and now you’re 26, right? One can imagine that you must know the Four Books and Five Classics by heart, but unfortunately you’re still just a student.”

“You—” Yan Ruyu exploded like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, saying hatefully: “Aren’t you also just a student like me? What are you so proud of! I can’t pass the scholar exam, but you think you can? Keep dreaming.”

Su Mu chuckled lightly: “Why don’t we have a competition?”

Yan Ruyu was amused by her inexplicable confidence and laughed loudly: “Did you see that? This uxorilocal wife, who hasn’t studied for a few days, dares to compete with me?”

The crowd laughed loudly, wanting to see a clown.

“What do you want to compete in?”

“Let’s see who passes the scholar exam first, with a bet of 10 taels of silver,” Su Mu said.

Yan Ruyu was almost crying with laughter: “Pass the scholar exam? Haha, if you can pass the scholar exam, forget 10 taels of silver, I’ll give you 100 taels.”

Su Mu’s eyes curved: “It’s a deal, please everyone be my witness.”

The surrounding crowd just laughed, but no one responded to her. One can imagine that no one would take an uxorilocal wife seriously.

Yan Ruyu was still laughing when suddenly she saw a carriage coming from not far away. The corner of her mouth twisted into a smile: “No wonder someone who can barely recognize a few characters is rushing to take the exam, presumably it’s because of the stimulation from my cousin. After all, the person my cousin likes is the second Miss Shen.”

The person coming from afar was none other than the second Miss Shen, Shen Yuxue, who had written “Water Melody”.

Su Mu smiled faintly: “I’m taking the exam for myself, it has nothing to do with Yan Jiyue.”

Yan Ruyu sneered: “Stop pretending, who doesn’t know that you, Su Mu, are wearing a green hat? My cousin doesn’t like you at all, you’re the one who shamelessly offered yourself. But don’t worry, a sparrow is just a sparrow, no matter how hard you try you can’t become a phoenix by passing the scholar exam.”

It was well known throughout the city that Yan Jiyue liked Shen Yuxue, so Yan Ruyu’s mockery of her wearing a green hat was also a fact.

In her previous life, she had worn this green hat for a full ten years, unable to take it off even if she wanted to.

But now it was different, she had already divorced Yan Jiyue and was a free person. She was about to tell Yan Ruyu.

But after mocking her, Yan Ruyu ran non-stop towards her back.

Su Mu turned around, and coincidentally the person coming was Shen Yuxue.

Because Shen Yuxue had recently written a “Water Melody” and become famous, as soon as she appeared, she immediately attracted everyone’s attention.

“I heard that Shen Yuxue used to be a prodigal, I didn’t expect that after falling into the water recently, she could write such an immortal masterpiece.”

“Indeed, ‘May we all be blessed with longevity. Though far apart, we are still able to share the beauty of the moon together.’ It’s written so beautifully.”

Shen Yuxue was surrounded by people and began to queue, only Shen Yuxue herself knew that this was like pushing a duck onto a perch.

If she had known she would be forced to take the imperial exams, Shen Yuxue wouldn’t have pretended.

Her father too, even though she had explained that the poem was written by someone else, he wouldn’t listen and insisted it was hers.

Now it’s good, so many pairs of eyes in the city are staring at her.

She was just an ordinary office worker, memorizing a couple of poems was fine, but to really take the imperial exams and write eight-legged essays, just kill her.

“This way please, Miss Shen.” Shen Yuxue forced a smile and was pulled to the end of the queue to start lining up.

And the person standing in front of her happened to be Su Mu.

“I heard that the husband of that uxorilocal wife, the talented woman he admires is Shen Yuxue… This is going to be interesting.” Some people’s gazes turned towards Su Mu, with undisguised mockery in their eyes.

Shen Yuxue also vaguely heard the teasing voices of others. Uxorilocal wife? Isn’t that similar to a modern-day pretty boy, a rice bowl husband?

She curiously looked Su Mu up and down, and let out a sigh in her heart.

Damn, she’s so beautiful.

The beauties described with the most gorgeous words in ancient poetry were probably no more than this. Dressed in white, her waist bound by a red sash, her waist so slender it could be grasped with one hand, her eyes cold and clear, a living embodiment of a cold and seductive beauty.

Shen Yuxue swallowed imperceptibly.

Who is her husband? This rice bowl is worth eating, so worth it.

If she were a man, she would marry Su Mu too.

After coming to the female-dominated world, Shen Yuxue felt everything was good, except that the women in the female-dominated world all considered ruggedness beautiful, even the body Shen Yuxue herself possessed was the heroic type.

Suddenly seeing a cold southern beauty like Su Mu, and one that completely hit her preferences, Shen Yuxue’s heart was trembling.

With this beauty, what’s wrong with eating some rice?

She wished she could put the rice bowl in front of her, eat, let her eat with all her might.

Su Mu felt the gaze of the person behind her constantly lingering on her, feeling somewhat uncomfortable and itchy.

She knew the person staring at her was Shen Yuxue. In her previous life, Su Mu didn’t have much interaction with Shen Yuxue, only hearing that Shen Yuxue later went elsewhere.

Even knowing Shen Yuxue was also a transmigrator, Su Mu still didn’t dare to reveal herself, because there was no need.

If she wasn’t the only transmigrator in the world, wouldn’t there be a third or fourth?

Casually using famous poems is the easiest way to be identified. Rather than exposing herself like Shen Yuxue, Su Mu preferred to hide in the shadows.

Finally it was Su Mu’s turn to fill in the candidate information. After filling in her name, age, and place of origin, she left.

Unexpectedly, she hadn’t walked two steps when she was called by the person behind her.

“Miss!” Shen Yuxue was calling her.

Everyone’s eyes secretly glanced at the two of them, one was Yan Jiyue’s uxorilocal wife, the other was the talented woman Yan Jiyue admired, one was the moon in the clouds, the other was the mud under the feet.

Fight, fight.

“Does Miss Shen have something?” Su Mu turned around, her expression calm.

Shen Yuxue was somewhat surprised: “Miss knows me?”

Su Mu lowered her head and smiled faintly: “Of course I know, Miss Shen’s ‘Water Melody’ is already known to everyone.”

Shen Yuxue was a bit embarrassed: “I’m ashamed, ashamed.”

“So what does Miss Shen want with me?” Su Mu smiled slightly and asked again.

Seeing Su Mu smile, Shen Yuxue felt her heart was about to melt. Beautiful sister, please stick close to me.

“Actually it’s nothing, I just wanted to tell you that the rumors outside are not true. Young Master Yan and I have only met once or twice before, it’s not the kind of relationship that the outside world rumors about. Miss, please don’t mind.” Shen Yuxue didn’t want Su Mu to misunderstand, nor did she want the innocent Su Mu to wear an inexplicable green hat.

Su Mu’s expression showed a faint surprise, then she smiled softly: “It’s alright.”

The crowd waiting to see Su Mu make a fool of herself: “…”

Shouldn’t they be fighting?

Why aren’t they fighting?