Zhou Linsu sneezed secretly and pinched his nose. Fortunately, his nose didn't start to run.

Although he had taken a hot bath yesterday, the cold air still somewhat infected his body. Although these scholars also often learned the six arts of a gentleman, they still spent more time sitting at their desks reading, and their bodies were not as weak as others.

"Young master, are you sick?" the young eunuch sitting opposite asked hurriedly, looking at him anxiously.

"It's okay, it's okay, just continue." Zhou Linsu waved his hand and picked up the pen again.

Hearing him say this, the young eunuch opposite couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He also knew that he shouldn't force it, but it was a rare opportunity and he couldn't write. If he missed it, he didn't know if he could live to see the next one.

Zhou Linsu couldn't see what he was thinking. He just picked up his pen and wrote a letter as quickly as possible. The young eunuch held the letter paper with wet ink on it, tears in his eyes about to burst out.

Although he could not understand what was written on it, fortunately this was also an opportunity to comfort his mother at home. If the current situation did not allow him to delay any longer, he would have to kneel down and kowtow three times before he would give up.

After seeing off the young eunuch, Zhou Linsu soon met the next person. He wrote and stopped from time to time, and the morning passed quickly.

In the past few days, he was mostly thinking and had not spent much time writing. But today, he broke the norm and wrote the letter concisely and clearly. In this way, he used the time for thinking to write, and his efficiency was significantly improved.

In addition, he usually copied a lot of books, so his writing speed was faster than others. Therefore, he was far ahead of others in the morning, and among the several rows of students, he was the only one who changed positions the fastest.

Even so, it is still far behind what others have achieved in the past few days.

Xiao Heng counted the days and saw that today was the last day so he got up early. However, he was so busy with official duties that he couldn't leave the Tai Chi Hall the whole morning.

After finally finishing the work at hand, he wanted to come and see if these new recruits were serious, but when he came out it was almost lunchtime.

Because it was the last day, most students were hoping for a lucky break and the overall progress was much slower in the morning. Although there were still many palace servants queuing, most of them had managed to take time out of their free time, but the line lasted the entire morning and it was still not their turn.

Even though these people were anxious, they did not dare to act recklessly. After all, the people on the other side were the future key ministers, and they were just servants who would not dare to offend these adults.

Seeing that the sun was almost overhead, the students put down their pens in groups of two or three and stood up to stretch their bodies, but Zhou Linsu was still writing furiously, and he soon attracted the attention of others.

Sun Boxian walked up to him with his arms folded, and someone behind him threw a thick stack of letters onto his desk. Zhou Linsu couldn't help but frowned as he looked at the words he had almost written crookedly.

"What are you doing?"

"Oh, Young Master Zhou wrote all this in this morning?" Sun Boxian fiddled with the stack of envelopes on the table with disdain. Although the stack was already high, it was indeed dwarfed by what Sun Boxian brought.

Zhou Linsu looked at him tossing and turning with dissatisfaction, stood up and held down the hand that was causing the trouble, raised his eyes and looked straight at him, "Brother Sun, why are you so anxious when it's not the last minute?"

Sun Boxian pulled his hand free and looked back, "Okay, then I'll wait for Brother Zhou to give me a surprise."

"As long as Brother Zhou doesn't come up with any other excuses to fool us when the time comes, that'll be fine!" After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and left. The people around him hurriedly took away the letters, not wanting to leave any behind, for fear that Zhou Linsu would take them and pass them off as his own.

"Aren't you afraid that he will embarrass you?" a student at the side asked worriedly, "There is no need to wait until the afternoon. You will never be able to catch up with him."

"If you say that now, there's no guarantee that he won't take advantage of the situation this afternoon." They were all too familiar with what people like Sun Boxian would do.

"It doesn't matter. I'll just deal with it as it happens." Zhou Linsu still looked unconcerned. "There's not much time left. There are still so many people who haven't finished writing. How can I have time to play with him?"

"Alas, I'm afraid that even if we work all day long, we still won't be able to finish it!" The student raised his eyes and glanced at the crowd coming and going, and sighed in despair.

"If I can write one, then write one." Zhou Linsu exuded a strong passion from head to toe. Without having to look back, he felt that he had been wasting his time before. Now that he could try his best to make up for it, he naturally redoubled his efforts.

The people standing by were infected by his passion and started writing furiously.

This was the scene that Xiao Heng saw when he walked over. However, the efforts of these people could not outweigh the majority of empty seats. Xiao Heng frowned when he saw this scene.

“Why are there only these few people?”

Hearing the emperor's voice suddenly, the eunuch in charge was about to shout "Long live the emperor" in panic, but Xiao Xizi covered his mouth with his hand and said, "Don't be so loud. Just answer the emperor's question!"

Only when he saw the eunuch nodded did Xiao Xizi let go of his hand.

"Your Majesty!" The eunuch in charge said tremblingly, his legs weakened instantly, "Most of the students have gone to have lunch."

"So early?" Xiao Heng forgot about the weather. Xiao Xizi beside him said hurriedly, "Your Majesty, it's almost the end of the Si hour. It's not time for lunch yet."

"Hmph! Passive resistance!" Xiao Heng's expression instantly turned cold.

The eunuch beside him was afraid that he would be implicated, so he hurriedly said: "Today, today is the last day after all. The students have been in the palace for many days and most of them miss the life outside."

"What about you? You've lived in the palace all your life, so you don't have to do anything, right?" Hearing him say this, Xiao Heng's anger was not calmed at all, but made his anger burn even more fiercely.

"Make a list right now. I want to see who's on it!" He said coldly, and then looked at the people who were writing furiously. "And those few, bring them to me after you finish. I want to reward them personally!"

"Yes!" The eunuch in charge responded hastily when he saw that he had no intention of blaming him. After sending Xiao Heng away, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to put up screens and fans to block the sunlight for these students.

After all, any discerning person can see that these students have left their names in front of His Majesty today, and their future prospects in official careers are likely to be limitless.

Zhou Linsu and his companions were completely unaware of what was happening here. They smiled gratefully at the palace maids who were blocking the sunlight for them, then turned around and buried themselves in their letters again.

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