"He probably could..." Emperor Xia nodded hesitantly.
To prevent the examiners from leaking the questions, he had written them himself.
The problem was, when he'd written them, he hadn't thought he'd have to answer them too.
Still, he'd become emperor on the strength of his own abilities. His education was among the finest of any Emperor Xia in history, so of course he could answer the questions.
"If you can, then hurry up and write!" Jiang Ping'an glared at him. Of the three of them, he was the only one with any education. What was he waiting for? For Jiang Ping'an to write it for him?
The Undying Fairy felt her governing philosophy was absolutely right.
As a ruler of a nation, why did she have to know how to do everything? Her job was to set policies and steer things in the right direction, like defeating that girl Yun and all that.
As for little matters like the imperial examinations, she could leave them to her subordinates.
"Oh, right. You have to imitate this handwriting."
The Undying Fairy took out some notes Man Gu had written and told Emperor Xia to copy the handwriting. She was meticulous and left no loose ends.
Man Gu might have been built like a bear, as though he could eat three Emperor Xias in one sitting, but as a Confucian cultivator, he had beautiful handwriting. His neat characters carried a sense of grandeur.
Emperor Xia: "..."
Faced with his ancestor and his immediate superior, Emperor Xia had no choice but to set aside his memorials for the moment and answer the questions for Man Gu.
When he'd written the questions, Emperor Xia had already formed a rough idea of the answers. With just a little thought, he was able to write them out