"I, a student, pay my respects to our mentor, Confucius!"
Outside the examination hall, led by the officials, thousands of candidates knelt before the memorial tablet of Confucius standing beside Li Banghua. Not only the students, but even the onlooking commoners blindly followed suit and knelt down as well.
The cacophonous area outside the examination hall fell into a brief, heavy silence.
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