Counterattack of the Cannon Fodder Chambermaid

Qiao's steamed stuffed bun stand reopened, but Ruan Siyi's letter writing stand was closed. Qiao's asked him to study hard and strive to be admitted as a scholar next year. This year's food, drink and spending, the money from selling the house can be used for a long time.

Yes, that is why they returned to their country of origin. The Ruan family's title was taken away, so they were not included in the imperial examination queue.

Ruan Siyi devoted himself to learning, and when Qiao went out to set up a stall, he would study and occasionally help Chen's mother take care of her daughter. Seeing that Qiao's was about to close the stall, he went to pick her up.

The next year, Ruan Siyi entered the examination room full of confidence, but failed.

After the results came out, Ruan Siyi was extremely depressed.

Before the age of eighteen, he was a good seed in the mouth of his husband, and his poems, songs, and articles were not bad. Afterwards, he was discouraged and left his studies for many years, but now he seems to be unable to pick them up.

He didn't want to take the exam again, and was going to continue to set up a stall to support his family, but Qiao Shi scolded him, saying, is it possible that your dream of more than ten years will finally be put in front of you one day, but you have given up?

Yes, that was what he longed for the most in his heart a long time ago. This desire has existed since he started to pick up a pen, but due to the limitation of his status, he can only suppress it in his heart.

Yes, how could he admit cowardice?

He can abandon his decency, face, and the honor of more than 20 years, and become a down-and-out scholar who writes letters. All his self-esteem and integrity have been lost, so what can he afford to lose now?

But it's all over again! The previous few years had already crushed the flamboyant Fourth Master Ruan, he can put himself together bit by bit, so why not be afraid to start all over again now!

After one year, two years, and in the third year, Ruan Siyi was finally admitted as a scholar.

The next year, he took part in the provincial examination and failed.

At this time, Ruan Siyi was completely able to face failure calmly, and his character had been honed extremely well by the world. He found a private school, while being a teacher and teaching others, he helped Qiao's take care of the steamed stuffed bun stall in his spare time.

In the past three years, Qiao Shi became pregnant again and gave birth to a son named Ruan Zhiyuan.

After three years of accumulation, Ruan Siyi failed again, and this time he won the provincial examination in one fell swoop.

The whole of southern Shaanxi was shaken, but Ruan Siyi quietly returned to the capital with his wife and children.

After going back and forth for seven years, he returned to the familiar yet unfamiliar capital city again.

Ruan Siyi bought a house in the slum area where he used to live. Although it was not the one he sold back then, it was very close to it. Many neighbors don't know this family who just moved in. Only the old neighbors still remember the scholar who set up a stall on the street, and the steamed bun proprietress sitting next to the scholar.

No one knows that the scholar of the past is no longer the scholar today, but Xie Yuan Ruan Siyi who caused a sensation in the whole of southern Shaanxi during this autumn.

Southern Shaanxi is too far away from the capital, and Xie Yuan is too small in this capital where a few small officials can be smashed by dropping a signboard.

The capital city began to become lively, and more and more people gathered together in the capital, preparing to be among the emperor's disciples in the spring of the next year.

At the same time, Ruan Siyi went to set up a stall on the street again. Qiao's steamed stuffed bun stall has not been reopened, and she has two children to take care of, so she really has no free time.

In the spring and February of the fourteenth year of Jingtai, Chun Wei started the test as scheduled.

Ruan Siyi entered the examination institute on the ninth day of junior high school, and was discharged in the evening of the seventeenth day. Qiao Shi had already hired a carriage to wait at the entrance of the examination institute. Ruan Siyi plunged into the carriage and fainted, Qiao Shi wiped tears in distress.

Ruan Siyi slept for three days and three nights before waking up. The high-intensity exams for nine consecutive days exhausted his physical strength and energy, and then it was time to wait for the release day.

At the end of February, when the ranking day came, Ruan Siyi ranked twelfth among the tribute scholars.