Du Changqing sneered, "Offering incense to Wen Quxing... It would be more useful for them to send a couple of silver notes to the chief examiner."
As soon as these words came out, the surroundings fell silent.
Lu Tong looked at Du Changqing while Official Hu was stunned for a moment before coming back to his senses, tremblingly pointing at Du Changqing, "What did you say?"
"Ah, those weren't my words; I heard them from someone else," Du Changqing leaned closer, lowering his voice, "I used to have a friend whose cousin was an even bigger fool than me, illiterate, yet he somehow passed the imperial exams with honors. After getting drunk one day, he let slip that he had bribed the grading examiner."
