After hearing her gossip, all the civil and military officials went crazy.

Chapter 112 Disgraceful to politeness
Fan Jiayi was taken aback by Fang Lingchu's question and was momentarily speechless.

All I could say helplessly was, "This is uncivilized, uncivilized. Women really do love to be unreasonable."

Fan Jiayi's words were like dancing on Fang Lingchu's sore spots!
Fang Lingchu sneered and asked, "Unreasonable? May I ask which of my statements is unreasonable? You tell me, if you can't explain yourself, you accuse others of being unreasonable. What are you doing now, a scoundrel?"
You even study the teachings of Confucius and Mencius. If Confucius and Mencius knew they had such a disciple, they would be so angry they would rise up and beat you to death.

Confucius said, "Among three people walking together, there must be one who can teach me." But you say, "Only when three men walk together can they be qualified to be my teacher."

Confucius advocated benevolence, righteousness, and propriety, which applies to everyone, not just men. Now only women are participating in the imperial examinations, so what is there for you to feel resentful about?

Look at you all, you're too incompetent to go to His Majesty's doorstep, so you come here to cause trouble for a young girl like me. What right do you have to come here and call yourselves students? Is this how your teachers taught you? Unable to get His Majesty to retract his decree, you come here to make things difficult for me.

Besides, if you're so capable, why don't you pass the imperial examination with flying colors? Come and confront me in court, you useless piece of trash, all you know how to do is bully the weak. If I were a man, I'd feel ashamed—no, I should say, as a fellow human being, I despise having someone like you."

Fang Lingchu got more and more excited as she spoke, her eyes and tone filled with disdain.

Citizen 1: This is the first time I've ever heard of someone being sworn at like that!
Commoner 2: But I feel that what Lord Fang said is right. Look at these students, they don't study properly. Tsk tsk tsk, they are not as good as us commoners!

Citizen 3: So what? At least they are students, they are definitely different from us.

Commoner 4: Our Lord Fang is so kind! He even took us to eat melons and reported those officials who bullied us. I heard that Lord Fang's fiefdom gives the people a lot of good benefits, and they all want to go. But Lord Fang said that it will be available all over the country in the future, and everyone is waiting.

Commoner 5: That's right. If it weren't for Lord Fang, what would happen to us commoners who were bullied by that corrupt official? I also heard that Lord Fang saved His Majesty and His Highness the Crown Prince, and even General Gu was saved by Lord Fang. So what if women take the imperial examination? It's not a problem to let women be self-reliant.

Citizen 6: That's right, women are also people of our Dragon Kingdom. Besides, those women are all capable people! They are all working for us ordinary people. Like that Miss Su, after she went to the Dali Temple, many wrongful cases were handled fairly.

Citizen 7: That's right, as long as it's for us ordinary people, what does it matter if it's a man or a woman!

Citizen N: Tch, all he knows is bullying the weak. If someone like this becomes an official, it's definitely us ordinary people who will suffer. I support Lord Fang and don't let someone like this take the exam.

After he said this, many people said: "We support Lord Fang in not letting these people take the exam. We support him!"

The voices of the people rose and fell, making the students present realize that Fang Lingchu had a different kind of faith in the people of the Dragon Kingdom.

The man was so angry at Fang Lingchu's retort that he fainted. Fang Lingchu rolled her eyes and had him taken away.

Hearing what the people said, the others swallowed hard, and the elephant ran away.

Unfortunately, they were already surrounded by the Gu family generals, and none of them could escape.

Fang Lingchu withdrew her gaze and looked gently at the others, asking, "Is there anyone else you want to ask? I'll answer to the best of my ability."

Crowd: Who would dare to do that! Look at those common people, and then look at those fierce-looking Gu family generals.

Students: Waaah! They shouldn't have been instigated to come to the Fang residence to cause trouble for Young Master Fang. They were wrong.

The Crown Prince watched for a while, and when he saw that Fang Lingchu had almost finished dealing with the situation, he came out and said, "Write down the names of these people. The ringleader will never be allowed to participate in the imperial examinations, and his next three generations will also be barred from taking the exams. The others will be barred from taking the exams for the next three years."

After hearing this, the others were so frightened that they almost fainted.

Some people directly cried out that they were wronged!

"Your Highness, we're innocent! We didn't mean to cause trouble for Lord Fang; we were just here to watch the fun!" "Your Highness, we didn't! Your Highness, please, my family has sacrificed so much for my education!"

Everyone sighed repeatedly, but it was no use. His Highness the Crown Prince did not kill them all because Fang Lingchu said that innocent people should not be killed indiscriminately, for the sake of the country's fortune.

Fang Lingchu watched as everyone was taken away and said to the people, "Thank you all for your trust in me. I will definitely serve as an official well. Also, His Majesty is a very good person. Everyone must trust His Majesty and follow him no matter what decision he makes."

Everyone nodded in agreement upon hearing Fang Lingchu's words.

Then Fang Lingchu went back.

After all, everyone has an exam tomorrow.

Fang Lingchu had to prepare for her older brother, sister, and Lin Wanrou's exams, so she didn't have time to play with them.

The rest was to be handled by the Crown Prince and the officials of the capital.

After Fang Lingchu went inside, the Fang family immediately closed the door.

Those students were taken away, and some common people wanted to see if the Crown Prince would really punish them.

So I went along with them.

When Fang Lingchu returned, she saw her mother and maternal grandparents staring at her blankly, as if they had seen a ghost.

Especially Fang Lingchu's maternal grandparents, it's really unbelievable.

Fang Lingchu's aunt's eyes were full of tears, tears of gratitude for being recognized.

She herself was a capable person who had no choice but to get married.

She was a young lady from a general's family. Her mother died early, and her father remarried and stayed at the border, leaving her alone. She was often bullied by her stepmother. If it weren't for the people her mother left her and her own strong martial arts skills, she would have died in that family long ago.

To spite her, her stepmother married her off to a merchant family, but little did she know that it would be the best choice her stepmother had ever made for her.

Because Fang Lingchu's uncle is a very good person. Although he likes romance and poetry, he always knows his limits and never has any ambiguous relationships with others, nor does he have any concubines.

He treated her very well, and later, when he learned that she liked martial arts, he even spent a lot of money to hire a teacher for her.

At first, she was afraid of being scolded by her parents-in-law, but she didn't expect them to be such good people. They not only supported her but also encouraged the other women to exercise as well.

She was really happy. She had never had a mother's love since she was a child, but she received it after coming to the Qi family.

Once the news spread that women could take the imperial examinations, she waited and waited for the day when women could also participate in the martial arts examinations.

Does that mean her daughter also has a chance?

Fang Lingchu smiled at her family and said, "Mother, what kind of looks are those? Don't you recognize me? I'm your most beloved daughter!"

(End of this chapter)