Chapter 15 - Cheating in the Examination?

“He’s an idiot.”

Everyone was thinking this.

How were Li Muyang’s studies? The cruelest answer had already been shown in countless big and small examinations.

He was always last in both the class and the grade.

He never passed any of his lessons, even the simplest Xifeng Quotations. Obviously, even the Goddess of Fate was unwilling to stand on his side so she wouldn’t be affected by his bad luck.

However, such a guy had actually thrown out a textbook and asked someone to give him a test. If he was not an idiot, what was he?

Otherwise, how could a normal person do such a thing?

Zhang Chen was thinking the same thing. He stared at Li Muyang with big eyes and was surprised that he would do such a stupid thing. Then he laughed out loud, rocking backward and forward.

Zhang Chen’s friends also laughed, as did the whole class.

Cui Xiaoxin smiled as well, but her smile was even fainter and more meaningful.

Zhang Chen pointed at Li Muyang and said, “Li Muyang, I heard that you were sick these days. Was your head roasted? If your brain was not cooked, why did you do such a crazy thing? Asking me to test you? How do I do that? What do you know? Why do you do such a self-humiliated thing?”

“Brother Chen, since Li Muyang asked you to test him, you’d better do so. Let’s have fun together. Don’t be so disrespectful.”

“That’s right. We should help each other and improve together. Brother Chen, you can give Li Muyang several simple questions. Maybe he can have some lucky guesses?”

…

Zhang Chen’s friends also followed him to make fun of Li Muyang.

Li Muyang sneered in his heart. He planned to surprise them with his profound knowledge and wonderful answers later.

Zhang Chen picked up a textbook, looked at Li Muyang suspiciously, and asked, “Do you really want me to test you?”

“Yes,” Li Muyang said seriously, looking as though he was very confident.

Although it seemed that Li Muyang had thrown out the book casually, it was the book “The History of the Xifeng Empire”, which he knew the best. Cui Xiaoxin had taught him in the hospital recently, and some important points had been explained and confirmed to him repeatedly.

Li Muyang felt that he was no longer stupid!

Zhang Chen opened the book and read it for a while. Then he asked, “Which page and chapter does the name of the first emperor appear in the textbook?”

Li Muyang’s expression was slightly stiff, and he protested, “Is this also a problem?”

“Of course. Didn’t you tell me to ask any questions I like?” Zhang Chen smiled wickedly and then asked, “When was Song Annan, known as the ‘Sage of Light’, born? When did he die?”

“That kind of question will never appear on the exam, okay?”

“Who knows? What if the teacher puts this question on the test paper this year? You are not a teacher, how do you know whether it will be tested or not?” Zhang Chen said with a scornful face, “How many people did Feiyang General of the empire, Bai Youwei, kill in the ‘Qinghe War’? What are the names of those people who had been slaughtered respectively?”

Li Muyang was so angry that his black face twitched and his whole body trembled. He pointed at Zhang Chen and shouted, “You deliberately made things difficult for me! You don’t have the right attitude to study. How can you be such a villain? Shame on you.”

Zhang Chen was gloating. He looked around and said as he laughed, “Everyone, take a look. He asked me to test him. But when I really asked him to answer the questions, he couldn’t answer any of them…”

The crowd laughed even more cheerfully.

Zhang Chen threw the textbook on the table, looked at Li Muyang, and said, “Li Muyang, enjoy being yourself. Everyone should do what they are good at. Since you enjoy sleeping and are good at sleeping, you should sleep. It’s only a few days before the Liberal Arts Exam, but you suddenly act like you are fond of studying. Everyone is not used to it, right?”

“You…” Li Muyang’s black face turned purple and red. “You are pushing too far.”

The smile on Zhang Chen’s face froze. He leaned over, stared at Li Muyang, and said, “Li Muyang, I’m bullying you. What can you do? Do you think you still have any hope of being saved? There is still one month left. After that, everyone will go to their ideal academy. What about you? You can only go back to make dough for your mother, right? But that’s good. The young master of the pastry shop should live a comfortable life, right?”

“Zhang Chen, I will get a better score than you…”

“Dream-talking.” Zhang Chen rudely interrupted Li Muyang’s words and said, “Enjoy the final time. This is the last period of time for you to be a classmate with us. In a month, you will be nothing.”

Zhao Mingzhu came in with a pile of papers in her arms. When she saw Li Muyang and Zhang Chen arguing in the classroom, she shouted, “What’s wrong? What happened? Zhang Chen, Li Muyang, what are you two doing?”

Zhang Chen turned to look at Zhao Mingzhu and explained with a smile, “Ms. Zhao, Li Muyang said that he wanted me to test him. I did, but he couldn’t answer any of my questions. He was so angry that he is looking for trouble with me.”

The corners of Zhao Mingzhu’s mouth twitched and she said sternly, “Zhang Chen, there are only a few days before the Liberal Arts Exam. Don’t you know that you should take the time to study hard? Why are you wasting your time on some boring thing? Do you still want to go to Xifeng University?”

“Ms. Zhao, I’m sorry.” Zhang Chen quickly apologized and looked at Li Muyang, saying, “I thought that we are classmates, and although Li Muyang doesn’t study well, we can’t let him give up on himself. He wants to study hard to make a spurt. As a class monitor, I naturally have to take care of the students in the class.”

“Hmph, some people are just pigs that can’t buck up. It’s a waste of time to say one more word to him. It’s a waste of vision to look at him,” Zhao Mingzhu said bluntly. Because last time, Cui Xiaoxin left with Li Muyang and didn’t come to class for a few days. She didn’t want to have a conflict with the special-treatment student in the class at this time. If it affected Cui Xiaoxin’s mood and her performance in the Liberal Arts Exam, it would affect the rate of promotion in her class and the good bonus she could receive.

However, although she did not call Li Muyang’s name this time, everyone in the class knew who the target she was talking about was.

“Didn’t some people want to take the exam? I happen to have a test today and I prepared the paper last night. It is very simple, and there are many questions that you should have seen before.” Zhao Mingzhu threw the test paper on the table and stared at Li Muyang with cold eyes. She said, “This is the last test for this semester. I hope that a certain person can do his best, trying not to be last in the whole class. Can you give others a little chance?”

Li Muyang was ashamed to death.

Listening to Zhao Mingzhu’s words, he also felt that he had occupied that last position for too long. He was always in last place and no one was qualified to compete with him.

The bell rang and the test paper was handed out.

After Li Muyang picked up his mood, he began to answer the questions seriously.

The words on the paper that used to make him sleepy in the past were extremely cordial to him this time.

“It’s strange. I know the answer to this question.

“Shit. This one looks familiar to me.

“Weird. I seem to have seen this question somewhere before…”

…

Although there were two hours to complete the test, Li Muyang only took an hour to finish all of the problems.

Except for two questions that he couldn’t work out the answer to, the rest of the paper was full of answers.

After finishing the test paper, Li Muyang began to carefully check it.

Many of these questions made him feel that they were very simple, as if the answer had been imprinted in his mind a long time ago.

However, there were some questions that he was not confident of. He felt that he had seen them, but he couldn’t be 100% sure that if they were the right answers.

The two completely unfamiliar questions gave him a sense of urgency in his heart. There was only one month before the Liberal Arts Exam. No matter how hard he tried and how good his learning talent was during this period, after all, he could only finish a limited number of questions.

If all the questions in the Liberal Arts Exam were like this, then was there any hope for him?

Li Muyang made up his mind that he had to work harder in the following days.

Harder than at any time before!

Zhao Mingzhu sat upright on the platform. Seemingly, she was checking the homework of the students, but in fact, her eyes scanned the class like radar. She had many years of teaching experience and knew every move of the students. If someone dared to do something in her examination, it would be a suicidal act.

When her eyes shifted to the student she most didn’t want to see, she couldn’t help being stunned.

The student was not answering the questions like the other students. Instead, he was thinking about something seriously.

“Just putting on a show,” Zhao Mingzhu thought scornfully. Since the first time they met when she had broken a ruler because of him, they held a strong grudge against each other. She had given up on this student completely, just like the rest of his teachers.

Recalling that he had asked Zhang Chen to take a test, Zhao Mingzhu decided to give him a little “surprise”.

“Li Muyang…” Zhao Mingzhu shouted. “Have you finished answering your test paper?”

“Yes, I’ve finished,” Li Muyang looked up and replied.

“…”

Zhao Mingzhu was furious.

She had thought that Li Muyang would be as panicked as before and then hand over a blank paper that was smeared with saliva or other substances with a red face.

Then she would criticize him severely and write a big X on his paper in front of all the students in the class.

She didn’t expect that Li Muyang, who didn’t respond as she expected, would strangely tell her that he had finished answering the questions.

“Have you really finished your answers?”

“In fact, I haven’t.” Li Muyang felt embarrassed and said, “There are two questions that I don’t know the answers to.”

Zhao Mingzhu scoffed at this statement. “There are not only two of them, are there?”

“Bring me the paper and let me have a look,” Zhao Mingzhu said.

Li Muyang put down the brush and handed in the test paper under the surprised gaze of his classmates.

Zhao Mingzhu took over the test paper, and the smile on her face froze instantly.

It was really finished. The paper was full of words.

“Let’s check the answers first,” she thought in her heart.

“This is the right answer. Well, it must be a lucky guess…

“This question is also right. Well, Li Muyang got lucky once again.”

…

After she finished reading all the answers, Zhao Mingzhu’s face became livid.

“Smack!”

She slapped on the table and shouted, “Li Muyang, how dare you cheat on the exam?”