Chapter 129

The parents of the three parties in front of the screen were overjoyed and in tears.

“That’s great, the kids can finally come back.”

“They’ve been gone for so long, they must miss the food at home. We should prepare well these next few days. We must let them eat hot meals as soon as they return.”

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Yan Xiang watched her family members discussing enthusiastically and couldn’t help but feel a sense of confusion: her sister and Yu Shu were still lying in the hospital, so how could they return?

Two flowers blooming, each displaying a branch.

After the Golden Hall announcement ended, the scholars outside the first rank would go to Bieyu to participate in the Qionglin Banquet. While the top three of the first rank were preparing to parade on horseback.

During the parade, the streets were crowded with people waving their sleeves and sweating.

Yu Shu and the friends he made in the capital sat in the restaurant and looked down, suspecting that the entire capital’s population had surged over.

Hairpin flowers parade was a tradition from the previous dynasty, which An Kingdom preserved. The flowers presented to the top three scholars were all fresh and charming.

Yan Jin looked at the flowers on the tray and reluctantly chose a slightly lighter peony.

But when Yan Jin’s hand reached halfway, she was stopped by the eunuch, “You are the top scholar, you have to wear this big red peony.”

Big red peony, Yan Jin’s face remained calm, but she sighed heavily in her heart.

Wearing a flower was fine, but why did it have to be a big red peony?

But what made Yan Jin collapse was not just the flower.

Because in this imperial examination, the first six yuan in the history of the country emerged.

So the emperor specially ordered to add a small team of gong and drum players to the parade procession. Every ten steps, they would beat the gong once and shout “Six Yuan Graduates”.

During the ten-mile parade, it was particularly eye-catching.

When Yan Jin heard the first “Six Yuan Graduates”, she especially wanted to take off the court attire, turn around and drag Yuanyuan to flee to Mars overnight.

But thinking that in three days, she and Yuanyuan could go home, and the people of An Kingdom would never see her again, no one would know that she had been so socially dead.

Only then did Yan Jin slightly suppress her embarrassed heart.

The top three scholars, dressed in court attire, began the parade. The governor of Jingzhao feared accidents and sent troops early to maintain order.

On both sides of the road, many people had already gathered, all coming to take a look at the top scholars of this examination.

The restaurants on both sides were filled with unmarried young men.

An Kingdom’s restrictions on men were not too harsh. The capital at the foot of the emperor was even more open.

Every time the top scholars paraded, the young men would gather together, point and laugh at the three riding on horseback. This time was no exception.

When the parade procession arrived, as soon as Yan Jin on the horse appeared, Yu Shu clearly heard the gasps and exclamations from the surrounding young men.

“The top scholar of this examination is actually so good-looking!”

“I wonder if the top scholar is married. If I could grow old with the top scholar, I would laugh myself awake even in my dreams.”

With a “whoosh”, a scented sachet was thrown towards Yan Jin and the others.

This sachet seemed to be a switch, immediately prompting other young men to also throw sachets at the three.

Yan Jin was trying hard to overcome herself from curling her toes in her shoes when she saw people throwing sachets at her. She mercilessly swept away those “uninvited guests”.

Yu Shu watched Yan Jin sweep away those sachets one by one without any reluctance, causing the young men who admired her to grit their teeth and curse her for being “insensitive to romance”. The corners of his lips couldn’t help but curl up.

Humph, his Xiaoxiao wasn’t insensitive to romance, she just only had him in her heart and couldn’t see other common powders.

Yan Jin knew that Yu Shu must have been waiting early in a restaurant, but now she was too embarrassed to even lift her head to look for Yu Shu.

She was afraid that when she met Yu Shu’s teasing gaze, she would blush with embarrassment due to the “Six Yuan Graduates” being shouted every ten steps.

She absolutely wouldn’t allow a shy blush to appear on her face.

You know, except for critical moments in front of her, she had never blushed.

Suddenly, a bellflower was accurately thrown into Yan Jin’s arms.

Yan Jin subconsciously looked up and saw Yu Shu standing on the second floor of a restaurant next to her, smiling and making a big heart above his head with his arms, shouting loudly, “Yan Jin, you are the best in the world! I love you!”