Chapter 59: Iron Fist Method
Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
But, confusion was confusion. Fang Zhengzhi still managed to react quickly.
Regarding things like "God of doors blocking the way", he was rather familiar. In a flash, he played along and prepared to unleash his ‘iron fist method".
Then, Fang Zhengzhi pretended to search about his body, until the other party started to become annoyed, then flashed a smile he believed was very bright at the registration official.
"Lord official, I seem to have forgotten, I was rushing to register, please accommodate me this time!"
"If you don’t have the Hall of Dao token and recommendation letter, you cannot register!" The registration official shook his head without a second thought.
"I really forgot to bring, and my village is far away, I can’t make it in time!" Fang Zhengzhi’s eyes darted, and out of the blue, a piece of broken silver dropped out from within his sleeves.
This was the essence of his iron fist method!
Expectedly, the registration official’s eyes lit up and his gaze swept across his surroundings. Then, very quickly, he picked up the piece of broken silver.
"Without the Hall of Dao token and recommendation later, I have no way to enter your name into the list. You really cannot register, go back and take it!" The registration official helplessly shook his head, then placed the piece of broken silver back into Fang Zhengzhi’s hands.
Having such a tedious job, yet not even being able to keep the silver on his hands, who would be able to understand the pain in his heart?
Fang Zhengzhi was slightly speechless, what happened to the iron fist method? What was wrong here?
Even silver couldn’t be used, that meant he couldn’t fool around leisurely anymore. He can’t register? After waiting eight years, he waited to be told that he couldn’t register?! This is completely illogical!
…
What to do if I can’t register?
The Fang Zhengzhi who initially walked along the streets of the Huai An County brimming with confidence instantly felt a sense of misery after such an incident.
He had to think of an idea…
Hall of Dao token, recommendation letter? Isn’t this a little too difficult? Don’t tell me they can’t even give people the responsibility and space for self-studying? They indeed had to attend the Hall of Dao?
Fang Zhengzhi detested this unreasonable rule.
Up until now, he had more or less understood why Village Chief Meng Bai would make such a decision eight years ago. In this world, if one couldn’t even enter the Hall of Dao, how could they even have a chance to pass the Law of Dao examinations?
But, when I left the village, why did nobody tell me this?
Fang Zhengzhi gazed towards the direction of the Northern Mountain Village and quickly shook his head. The Northern Mountain Village didn’t even have a Hall of Dao, naturally, nobody had ever participated in the Law of Dao examinations. This regulation for registering, who would even know it?
What to do?
If he really wasn’t able to register, he definitely couldn’t just gloomily return back to the village?
No!
This kind of problems…
"I can’t do this!"
Fang Zhengzhi gritted his teeth. He had already completed, with great difficulty, the job of "convincing" Zhang Yangping, no matter what he couldn’t go back. He had to think of a method to participate.
If that really wasn’t possible...
Then make a fake one!
But what did the Hall of Dao token and recommendation letter look like? This wasn’t very easy to fake. I believe that when I finish making one, the registration area would probably have closed?
Wait a minute, since it is already counterfeiting, why don’t I directly make a ‘examination card’?
Fang Zhengzhi’s eyes lit up, and instantly saw a ray of light in the pitch-black darkness. His future was bright.
Then...
Let me find a real examination card to refer to now!
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Finding a target was simply no challenge at all to Fang Zhengzhi, no challenge at all! Currently, the Huai An County was filled with scholars coming from all over to participate in the Law of Dao examinations
And the biggest assembly areas, were naturally restaurants and inns.
If he struck at the restaurants…
It seemed like a good idea, they were messy and crowded and one bit of negligence could get him a card. But, it would be too hard to return after obtaining it.
Ruining people’s future after studying painstakingly for so many years was something Fang Zhengzhi would never do. Hence, he decided to strike at the inns, finding a few luggage at random, no matter what he should be able to obtain a few examination cards?
Coming and going as he pleases, just like the wind!
Then...
After Fang Zhengzhi casually assessed a few inns, an examination card was found.
"Turns out the examination card in this world is simple as such?" Fang Zhengzhi stared at the small squarish paper card on his hands and wanted to swear. Weren’t the officials being a little stingy?
Things such as photographs naturally didn’t exist in this world, even the name was directly written on the card. The only difficulty was the official stamp and the examination number.
The official stamp was simple, and was instantly settled within a matter of minutes. Carving out a few exquisite flowers was indeed difficult, but carving out a few words wasn’t too much of a problem.
As for examination number…
Fang Zhengzhi felt that he could fill in a large number, ensuring that there wouldn’t be any repeats and conflicts.
Within the time of less than half an hour, everything was settled.
Fang Zhengzhi had even spiritedly made a few extras. Staring at the faked examination cards in his hand, Fang Zhengzhi sighed silently to himself. Turned out that creating false documents in this world wasn’t hard at all!
Little did he imagine that for things such as participating in the Law of Dao examinations, who else would even falsify anything?
...
The second day, a cool breeze swept across the surface of the earth, and the sun shone brightly in the sky. It was a good weather.
In the early morning, like ants, the scholars participating in the Law of Dao examinations filled up the "Qingfeng Academy".
As the largest academy in the Huai An County, the Qingfeng Academy couldn’t be compared to the standard village Hall of Dao. It was a place where students in the county studied the Law of Dao and investigated the Dao of All Creations.
Built with red bricks and glazed tiles, it was wide, spacious and glittering with light.
And today, it was used as the theory examination venue for the Law of Dao examination.
Two rows of armoured county guards stood guard at the entrance of the Qingfeng Academy, while the scholars waited at the door painstakingly.
Within the crowd, Li Huer looked around to find a familiar figure. After a round of searching, he couldn’t find any.
"Ha ha ha, he indeed didn’t come!" Li Huer laughed happily.
But, not too long later, his laughter froze. Because, in the distance, a youth dressed in a coarse blue robe strolled towards his location, humming a little tune.
"Fang Zhengzhi, why… are you here?" Li Huer was slightly unable to believe this. Could it be that the registration counter didn’t inform him that he couldn’t register without the Hall of Dao token and recommendation letter?
Li Zhuangshi and Meng Jiangshan also noticed Fang Zhengzhi at this moment, each of them revealing a similarly shocked expression.
This didn’t make sense?
At this moment, shouldn’t Fang Zhengzhi be gloomily returning back to the village?
"I am here to participate in the examinations!" Fang Zhengzhi said in a matter-of-fact tone. Obviously, he was here to participate in the examinations, else could it be that he was here to admire the scenery?
"Examinations?! Can you even enter?" Li Huer’s expression turned into one of despise. He obviously didn’t believe that Fang Zhengzhi really had some way to register successfully.
When Fang Zhengzhi heard this, he instantly understood that Li Huer and the rest should had known that he wasn’t qualified to register. But, with the documents in his hand, everything was possible. He didn’t bother with such details.
"I think… I can!" Fang Zhengzhi was frank, without a single bit of diffidence.