After seeing off Zhang Zhaizhang and his family, Ryan Cui also returned to the small building where the judges were staying to eat. The students had eaten earlier than him, and they didn't have much time to think about this. After eating, they continued to select and evaluate poems. From time to time, someone would pick out the good ones, or read out the ones that were too bad to cheer up their classmates.
The big names who voted for the lottery were rigging votes, and these scholars who wrote poems were also rigging votes: someone voted for more than ten pieces of Zhen Mi paper, all with the same poem; someone voted for all five beauties, but only wrote a poem praising a beauty, which was not even close to the five beauties; and there were also people who voted for Empress Dowager He and Empress Fu who were not on the list...
After all the invalid votes are removed, the official scoring will not be done here, but ten of the most talented "mentors" will be invited to the stage in the garden to score and count the votes on the spot.
In this way, as long as the tutor is selected, the rest of the people can go out and play freely. The seven candidates were invited to be "tutors", and the remaining three tutors were recommended by the 27 students. They were Ning Ju, Wang Chen, and Li Zongshang, who liked poetry and were well-known for their talents. Originally, Ryan Cui was half the master and should have been among the candidates, but his poetry was still in the initial stage and he could not comment on it, so he gave up and was willing to be a spectator.
Those students who did not have to serve as judges extended their hands to him in friendship: "Hezhong, come with us to stroll around the garden. It will be more fun if we walk together."
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