Chapter 37

So close! So close!

Having luckily passed the first round, the heart Zhang Xingyu had been hanging finally settled halfway.

For this entrance exam, the spiritual root test was the one he was most worried about. Fortunately, although there were some twists and turns, he finally passed smoothly.

As soon as he walked out of the exam venue gate, he saw the little fatty and Hu Siping standing at the entrance waiting for him anxiously.

"Xingyu, how was it, did you pass?" Seeing Zhang Xingyu come out, Hu Siping immediately asked.

Zhang Xingyu nodded. "Luckily passed. So close, almost fell on this first exam subject."

"What happened?" The little fatty didn't understand.

"The situation is like this...". Zhang Xingyu gave a brief explanation of his test situation to the two.

"That was really close! Brother Xingyu, thanks to your persistence, otherwise you wouldn't have passed." The little fatty laughed.

Hu Siping also looked at Zhang Xingyu approvingly: "Dafu is right, Xingyu, no matter what difficulties we encounter, we cannot give up. As long as we don't give up, there is still hope for success. Once you give up, it means failure."

Zhang Xingyu nodded: "Fourth Brother is right. In my dictionary, there are no such two words as 'give up'."

"Worthy of being my idol!" The little fatty gave a thumbs up.

He paused, then said: "Brother Xingyu, Fourth Brother Hu, let's go to a restaurant to celebrate!"

Hu Siping shook his head: "No. We have to rush back and prepare for tomorrow's exam. For the literacy subject, both Xingyu and I still need to cram."

After finishing two bowls of fragrant noodles on the street, Zhang Xingyu wiped his mouth and said: "The taste is not bad. It's been a long time since I've eaten such authentic noodles. Honestly, I miss the beef noodles made by Uncle Fu, that's what you call fragrant!"

Hu Siping nodded upon hearing this: "Yeah. I also miss Shenying Town a bit. This time we left too hurriedly and didn't even tell my parents. It's been so long since we went back, they must be very worried."

"Fourth Brother, after the exam, you can ask someone to send a message home. There are many cattle and horse agencies in the city, and there should be many people engaged in this business." Zhang Xingyu suggested.

Opposite the two, the little fatty was still fighting.

In front of him, the large bowls were stacked into two high towers. Zhang Xingyu teased: "Little Fatty Zhu, you kid can eat so much, aren't you afraid of eating your parents poor?"

The little fatty just buried his head in eating noodles.

After drinking the last drop of soup into his mouth, he lifted his head and waved his hand: "Brother Xingyu, my family has plenty of money. A few bowls of noodle money is nothing, just a drizzle. However, the noodles cooked at this noodle stall are really good, we should come often in the future."

The seventh day of the sixth month, catch a turtle.

Today, two subjects are to be tested, literacy in the morning and meditation in the afternoon.

Zhang Xingyu entered the recruitment center from the side door on the right and lined up for the literacy exam.

In the center of the exam venue stood a screen, on which hung a huge piece of white paper, with many fist-sized characters written on it.

Sitting under the screen were two examiners, one in green and one in yellow.

The examiner in green pointed randomly with a small wooden stick in his hand, and a circle of red light would appear around a certain large character on the white paper.

This thing was a bit like a laser pointer. It's just that the laser pointer shines a small red dot, while this wooden stick shines a large circle of light.

This second round was indeed very simple.

That candidate was only asked to recognize three or four common characters, and the examiner in green announced that he had passed the exam.

Simple characters.

Simple exam.

Zhang Xingyu thought to himself.

For this subject, he was very confident.

Because he recognized all the characters on the paper.

After all, he had attended school for a few years. After all, he had also done some cramming before the exam.

"Next!" After the previous candidate finished the exam, the examiner in red shouted loudly.

Zhang Xingyu walked forward and stood in the designated position.

"Candidate's name?" The examiner in green asked routinely.

"Student Zhang Xingyu." Zhang Xingyu answered respectfully.

"Zhang Xingyu?" The examiner in green's expression changed, and his gaze turned cold.

He looked at the examiner in yellow, but the examiner in yellow blinked at him without changing his expression.

"Wait a moment." The examiner in green nodded and suddenly stood up.

He walked quickly to the side of the screen, reached out to take down the white paper, and then took out another piece of white paper from the side and hung it up again.

Looking up at the newly hung white paper, Zhang Xingyu was immediately dumbfounded.

The characters written on this paper were all strange and bizarre, and he didn't recognize a single one.

Damn!

Obscure characters!

When it's my turn to take the exam, why change it to obscure characters?

Damn it, it's clearly meant to set me up!

What to do?

"Qiong qiong jie li, hang xie yi qi, ju ju du xing, ti hu guan ding, mian mian gua die, feng wei gui nie..."

Remembering that popular song "Obscure Characters," and then looking at the obscure characters written on the white paper, Zhang Xingyu secretly gave these two examiners a middle finger in his heart.

"Start the exam." The examiner in green shouted loudly.

He pointed the small stick in his hand at the paper, and the obscure character composed of three "shell" characters shone brightly under the red light.

What to do?

It was definitely too late to look up a dictionary. Besides, he didn't bring a Xinhua dictionary.

Right, if you have a problem, find the system. We have the system god.

"Examiner, I recognize this character, but I need to think about it." Zhang Xingyu said to the examiner in red.

"Recognize it quickly, if you can't, don't waste time." The examiner in red urged impatiently.

Zhang Xingyu closed his eyes and contacted the system.

"System, system, please answer if received." Zhang Xingyu called.

The system was muted.

"System, system, save me quickly." Zhang Xingyu begged.

The system was on strike.

"System, system, if you don't answer, you won't get any more God Yuan Value." Zhang Xingyu threatened.

"Ding dong, love connects, service forever, the God Realm System is dedicated to serving you. Host, what are you screaming about all day long? Do you know that opening the system consumes quite a bit of God Yuan Value?" The system's voice finally sounded.

"Thank God, you finally woke up. System, I'm taking an exam, please help me recognize some characters!" Zhang Xingyu let out a long breath, finally waking up this evil system.

"Ding dong, love connects, service forever, the God Realm System is dedicated to serving you. Recognizing each character consumes one point of God Yuan Value. Host, do you want to spend one point of God Yuan Value to recognize this character?" The system prompted.

"Spend." Zhang Xingyu gritted his teeth and responded to the system.

"Ding dong, love connects, service forever, the God Realm System is dedicated to serving you. The character with three 'shell' characters is pronounced 'biang'. This service deducts one point of God Soul Value, your current God Yuan Value balance is nine points." The system prompted.

"System God, we agreed not to recite advertising slogans." Zhang Xingyu reminded politely.

"Uh. I haven't recited this slogan for a long time, almost forgot."

Zhang Xingyu was speechless. This damn broken system.

While Zhang Xingyu was communicating with the system, the examiner in green suddenly said: "Exam countdown starts now. Ten, nine, eight..."

"Four, three, two..." Seeing that the timing was about to end, the two examiners were secretly happy. The two looked at each other and showed knowing smiles on their faces.

"Two, I announce..."

Before the examiner in red could say the word "failed," Zhang Xingyu had already opened his eyes: "Wait, I recognize this character. This character is pronounced 'biang'."

"You actually recognize this character?" The examiner in green looked surprised.

"Of course I recognize it. Recognizing characters is just a piece of cake for me." Zhang Xingyu answered loudly.

"Hmph, you just happened to be a blind cat bumping into a dead mouse." The examiner in yellow was full of sourness.

"Exactly. Besides, your exam time has passed, even if you recognized it, so what? Now, I announce the exam..." The examiner in green couldn't wait to announce that Zhang Xingyu had failed the exam.

"Announce your sister! May I ask the examiner, when did I go overtime?" Zhang Xingyu asked back.

"Just now, I already counted to..." The examiner in green answered.

"Counted your sister. In the exam rules, which rule says you only have ten seconds to recognize? Let me tell you, this young master also has people above me. If you want to set me up, be careful I go and report you." Zhang Xingyu glared fiercely at the examiner in green.

Hearing this, the examiner in green's face changed like a dye vat, green then white.

He really wanted to get angry, but he was also really afraid that this kid would go and report him.

Even if this kid didn't have any big figures above him, if he went out and talked nonsense, he would probably be severely punished himself.

Just for a word from Long Xiaotian's lackey, is it worth paying such a price?

After hesitating for a long time, the examiner in green finally said: "That character just now, let's count it as you recognizing it. But according to the rules, we still have to test you on a few more characters, if you recognize them all, you pass. If there is one you don't recognize, don't blame us for being ruthless."

"Test then! Who's afraid of who!"

Seeing him soften, Zhang Xingyu immediately stood up.

Now that he has the omnipotent system, he really isn't afraid of the trouble from these two old ghosts.

Want to judge me as failed, you have no chance.

The exam continues.

"Three 'dragon' characters, this is a 'da' character."

"Three 'you' characters, this character is pronounced 'ruo'."

"Three 'xiang' characters, this character is pronounced 'xing'."

"This, this is impossible."

Watching Zhang Xingyu recognize the characters he pointed to one by one, the examiner in green's old face was covered in sweat, and the surface of his eyes, which were staring like cow eyes, was covered with red threads.

"Everything is possible. How about it, two examiners, I have recognized all the characters you pointed to, this literacy exam, I should have passed, right?" Zhang Xingyu asked loudly, regardless of how the two examiners felt.

The examiner in green and the examiner in yellow looked at each other, and both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

"Zhang Xingyu, literacy exam, passed." The examiner in green announced in a low voice.

"Yeah!" Zhang Xingyu shouted happily.

In his joy, he couldn't help but ask: "Two examiners, why were the characters for others' exams very simple, but the characters for my exam were so obscure?"

"What simple, what obscure. It just happened to be your turn to be tested on these characters. Didn't you recognize them all?" The examiner in green's old face was red, and he argued loudly.

"Young man, since you have already passed the exam, why don't you leave quickly, do you want to take it again?" The examiner in yellow advised from the side.

Leave then.

Zhang Xingyu glared at these two old goods and walked straight out.