The Otherworldly Journey of a Quick Transmigrator

Su Yuanyuan rolled her eyes in annoyance, quickly tidied herself up, and stood up.

"I don't need them, so why bother understanding their meaning?"

"Have you thought about what you'll do during the exam?"

Zhu Yingtai walked ahead and bowed to the passing scholar.

Su Yuanyuan bowed in greeting, and only spoke after the teacher had walked away, "I have a brilliant plan."

It's just an exam; we can just let the system cheat.

Are you still going to bring food for Ma Wencai?

Zhu Yingtai glanced at her sideways, "Look what you've done! He can't even leave his dorm room now. Do you really want to bring him food?"

"He's dreaming. Doesn't he have a pageboy? Why didn't he send his pageboy to deliver it?"

Su Yuanyuan pouted, wanting her to bring food, but only Ma Wencai dared to eat it.

Then he remembered that he hadn't seen Ma Wencai's pageboy all day, and wondered why he hadn't seen him bringing him food.

“Ma Wencai said he was sent down the mountain last night and hasn’t been back for the next few days. I guess something’s happened.”

Su Yuanyuan hummed softly. What a coincidence! He was injured and his page was away. But she didn't say anything more, seeing that Zhu Yingtai seemed quite willing.

Zhu Yingtai went back after getting her food, and Su Yuanyuan took her food and sat down in a corner.

“Brother Jingxian.” Gou Jubo immediately came over and sat down next to her.

Su Yuanyuan nodded as a greeting, then lowered her head to start eating, ignoring his hesitant words.

Seeing that she didn't want to talk, Gou Jubo put away his expression and started eating his rice, thinking that it wouldn't be too late to talk after he finished eating.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

Su Yuanyuan led Gou Jubo to a pavilion to sit down, and Gou Jubo excitedly sat down opposite her.

"Brother Jingxian, are you going to join the army?"

“I have no intention of joining the army. The bet that day was just something I said offhand. Why did you take it seriously?”

Su Yuanyuan shook her head. She had indeed had this idea before, but after seeing Zhu Yingtai's strong reaction, she made a special effort to find out more about it.

If one's identity is discovered, it constitutes deceiving the emperor, and there is a high probability that one's family and relatives will also be implicated.

In milder cases, the woman would be forced to become a nun, or she would be randomly assigned a soldier to marry.

In severe cases, the perpetrators may execute nine generations of their family, and there are also several other forms of punishment such as finger-crushing, caning, and confinement.

It wasn't just her who suffered; everyone involved would be punished, so she gave up the idea of ​​joining the army.

With so many women in the Zhu family, it's impossible for her to bring them unnecessary disaster just because of her own momentary whim.

Gou Jubo opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He cupped his hands in a salute.

"I'll grant Brother Jingxian one request: you can come to me anytime."

Su Yuanyuan nodded, and that was the end of it. She could tell that Gou Jubo wanted to join the army.

In the original story, he seems to have joined the army at the end, and his position should have been quite high, because she remembered that Gou Jubo had helped Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo out of a predicament.

It wasn't until afternoon classes that Su Yuanyuan saw Zhu Yingtai. She kept staring at Zhu Yingtai, making Zhu Yingtai's eyes constantly dart away.

Su Yuanyuan glanced at the teacher who had just entered and decided to let her off the hook for the time being. The teacher had them copy Wang Xizhi's calligraphy for this lesson.

Copying calligraphy models is easy, but the teacher said he couldn't leave until he was satisfied.

Su Yuanyuan received the Seventeen Letters, a representative work of Wang Xizhi's cursive script, with a total of 943 characters. The Master only gave her half of it.

Even so, Su Yuanyuan's hands were already starting to hurt. She glanced at Zhu Yingtai's "Quick Snow After Clearing" letter, which only had twenty-eight characters.

"unfair!"

Su Yuanyuan's face was contorted in pain, while Zhu Yingtai chuckled and hid the calligraphy copybook behind her back.

"Hurry up and write, there's plenty of time in the afternoon."

Looking around, I noticed that the calligraphy practice books that everyone else had received didn't seem to have many characters.

Su Yuanyuan began grinding the ink fiercely, muttering curses under her breath, while offering a friendly greeting to the master's family.

She didn't want to write it a second time, so this was the most serious she had ever written in her more than ten years of life.

Zhu Yingtai had finished writing long ago and was sitting there reading. Seeing that it was getting dark, she started packing her things.

"Take your time writing, Xiao Shi. I'll get your food and take you back to the dorm. Once you're done, just go back and eat."

Without even looking at her, she walked straight out the door. Su Yuanyuan glared at her retreating figure through gritted teeth; she must have gone to find Ma Wencai.

Ma Wencai got punched, but he also found a chance to get close to Zhu Yingtai. He should have beaten him so badly he couldn't get out of bed.

The teacher tapped the table to bring her back to her senses, "Write carefully, don't let other things distract you."

"Yes, teacher." Su Yuanyuan responded like a quail, shrinking her neck, as if her fear of her teacher was ingrained in her very being.

Everyone else had gradually left, leaving only Su Yuanyuan still writing. The teacher simply stood behind her and watched.

Su Yuanyuan started to get nervous and her whole body stiffened. She heard the teacher sigh, and her heart jumped.

What's wrong? Is her writing really that bad?

The teacher took the calligraphy copybook from her hand, then picked up the one she had written earlier, compared the two, and shook his head.

"It looks similar but doesn't capture the spirit. Okay, that's enough for today. You'll need to practice more in the future."

"I understand, Master."

Su Yuanyuan only started packing after watching the teacher leave, deliberately slowing down her pace, feeling that the teacher should be far away before she went out.

When I returned to the dormitory, I didn't see Zhu Yingtai. There was a meal on the table.

She went next door and found Zhu Yingtai inside. She and Ma Wencai were chatting about something, both with smiles on their faces.

Su Yuanyuan stood at the door and knocked. At least the door was open, which made Su Yuanyuan feel relieved.

"Ninth Brother, I have something to ask you."

Zhu Yingtai glanced back and said to Ma Wencai, "Brother Wencai, I'll head back now. I'll come back tomorrow."

"Ok."

Ma Wencai stood up with a smile and escorted Zhu Yingtai to the door.

Su Yuanyuan's teeth ached from looking at it. What? Are you worried she'll fall on such a short distance?

"Brother Wencai, if you're injured, take good rest and avoid bumping or hitting yourself again."

After Su Yuanyuan finished speaking, word by word, she pulled Zhu Yingtai back to their room.

She pressed Zhu Yingtai down into a chair. "What's going on between you two? When did you become so close?"

"What are you saying? Brother Wencai is a very good person. Although he is the son of the prefect, he has compassion for the people and is also very talented in literature. Isn't it normal for me to become friends with him?"

Zhu Yingtai spoke as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, but Su Yuanyuan got goosebumps listening to it and rubbed her arms.

"Putting all that aside, does she know who you are?"

"Of course I don't know. Do I look like a woman in any way?"

Zhu Yingtai patted her on the shoulder and said confidently.

Su Yuanyuan really wanted to believe what she said, but there was definitely something wrong with the way Ma Wencai looked at her. Even if she hadn't eaten pork, hadn't she seen pigs run?

The reason Ma Wencai was so hostile towards her was simply because he only recognized that Zhu Yingtai was a woman, but failed to recognize that she was also a woman.

When a man gets jealous, he doesn't care if you're siblings or not; as long as you're together, he'll hold a grudge, let alone if they live together.