Traveling through Dayong, Zhou Quan became a dead person on the list.
The vassal king was buried in heaven, and the untouchables filled the coffin. As soon as the autumn comes, he will be stuffed into King Su's mausoleum and buried with him.
At this time, there were still thirty days before the county examination; less than half a year before his death.
The family was poor, and his mother pawned the dowry silver hairpin for two taels of silver. With no books to read, Zhou Quan had no choice but to use the photographic memory in his mind as his only library.
Faced with the ridicule of the wealthy gentleman that "a man with mud legs is worthy of studying," Zhou Quan only replied: "Thirty days from now, I will either be a child or a dead person."
After memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics, he became scheming and placed a bet on the gambling table that he would be the one responsible for the crime.
When the magistrate of Wei County took pictures of the case and exclaimed that he was "a man of extraordinary talent," the once arrogant Li family and his son did not know -
What Zhou Quan wanted was never fame, but tearing the burial list to pieces with his own hands.
[The main themes of this book: Decisive killing, counterattack in the imperial examination, no holy mother, no cruel master]
