The students gathered below were utterly numb. Having encountered such an unreliable County Magistrate, what could they do? Most of them wore bitter expressions. Lin Zezu glanced at the bows and arrows, inwardly cursing Wang Baikui for being such a piece of work.
These were the military’s standard ten-strength infantry bows. Among the twenty people present, he suspected that besides himself, no one could even draw these bows to their full capacity, let alone hit the target three times out of three from thirty paces away. Wasn't this just deliberately humiliating the scholars?
Lin Zezu had guessed Wang Baikui’s petty motives correctly. This so-called martial arts examination was a whim of the Magistrate, intended to dampen the arrogance of these scholars in front of him.
Chapter 266