Fortunate Young Gentleman

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After finally coaxing Xiaoru to be happy, Tangning helped Xiaoru up, and Zhongyi, Qing'er and Tang Yaoyao walked in from outside.

Zhong Yi looked at Xiao Ru, whose face was full of tears, and hurriedly came over and asked, "What's wrong? He bullied you?"

Su Ru shook her head hastily: "No, no..."

"At this time, you are still protecting him..." Zhong Yi frowned and glanced at Tangning, and said with some sadness: "Xiaoru is so good to you, you..."

Tang Yaoyao looked at him with contempt.

Even Qing'er stuck out her tongue at him to show her contempt.

"Sister Zhong, it's not like that..." Su Ru showed a trace of panic on her face and hurriedly explained: "Just now, I just remembered something..."

Tang Yaoyao said: "Miss Xiaoru, don't always protect her, or I'll beat him to vent your anger!"

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It was hard for them to believe that they had not bullied Xiaoru. The servants of the Zhong family came in carrying several large boxes.

Tangning asked in surprise: "What is this?"

Zhong Yi pointed to one of the boxes and said, "This is the gift my mother and I picked for Xiao Ru."

Tangning pointed to a few others, "What about these?"

Zhong Yi said: "These are gifts from Yaoyao."

Tangning opened it and took a look. One box contained various precious tonics, one box contained precious silk, and another box contained dazzling jewelry...

This gift from Fairy Tang is really big enough.

Su Ru waved her hands repeatedly: "No, I can't have these..."

Tang Ning looked at Tang Yaoyao and said, "Keep these medicinal materials and take the rest back."

The value of her box can already buy several such houses.

Tang Yaoyao pouted and said, "I gave these to Xiaoru, not to you..."

Having said this, she still took the other boxes away obediently.

The box Zhong Yi brought was not that expensive. It contained some cloth, rouge, gouache, and other things that girls could use. Su Ru refused at first, but then she had no choice but to accept it after Tang Ning's suggestion.

After accepting the gift, Zhong Yi and Tang Yaoyao took her to the cloth store to measure the clothes, leaving him alone here.

The friendship that Su Ru and Zhong Yi could establish was something that even Tangning didn't expect.

According to the normal routine, they should fight.

He quickly figured out that it was because both of them were cute.

The word "ke" means "worthy" in ancient proverbs.

Tang Yaojing is also very cute, with a true nature and no pretense. It would be even more cute if she didn't have to pay back the thousand taels of silver she owed him.

If she had persisted, he wouldn't have had to write that IOU.

We had dinner together at Zhong Mansion.

The two women who were supposed to be enemies talked and laughed all day long. Zhong Yi said that he would teach Su Ru to read, and Su Ru said that she would teach Zhong Yi to embroider...

For some reason, Tang Ning always felt a chill on her back.

Zhong Mingli seemed to have something on his mind. Halfway through the meal, he suddenly put down his bowl and chopsticks, looked at Tang Ning, and said, "There is something about this state examination that I just learned today."

Everyone around the table looked at Zhong Mingli.

"The news coming from Kyoto is that the imperial court seems to have made some changes to the scientific examination system. There are rumors that starting from this year, those who are absent from the Fanzhou examination and above without any reason will be regarded as contempt for the imperial examination and will not be allowed to take the examination for three consecutive years. Reference again.”

The reasons for being allowed to miss the exam definitely do not include amnesia.

Three consecutive terms, that is three years and three years and three years.

After not being able to take the state examination for almost ten years, both Su Ru and Zhong Yi looked a little pale.

"Although it's just a rumor, I'm not afraid of ten thousand, just in case..." Zhong Mingli looked at him and said, "So, you still have to take part in the state exam this time. Even if you fail, it is better than not being able to take the exam for ten years." ”

He looked at Tangning seriously and said, "Just give it a try."

The state examination is the first step in the formal imperial examination. Those who fail will need to pass several examinations in the next two years before they can regain the qualifications for the state examination.

It’s okay not to take the state exam once, but if you don’t take it four times in a row, Xiaoru will be very sad, Zhongyi will be disappointed, Tang Yaoyao will blame herself, her father-in-law, mother-in-law, everyone will be disappointed...

Moreover, it will also reveal that he does not want to participate in the imperial examination, is self-destructive, self-degenerate, ashamed of himself, and cannot extricate himself... and exposes the fact that he is a salty fish...

There was no way to avoid it. Tangning thought for a moment and said, "Then let's try..."

"It's just an exam, Ning'er, don't worry too much." Chen Yuxian looked at him and comforted: "Your father-in-law took the state exam three times in a row before entering the provincial exam."

Zhong Mingli put down his chopsticks, his face looked a little unnatural, and said, "Why are you talking about this..."

Chen Yuxian ignored him, looked at Tang Ning, and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter. Even if we fail, we will prepare well so that we can start all over again in three years."

Tangning smiled and nodded.

He had some understanding of the imperial examinations of this dynasty. On a large scale, the rules of the Tang and Song Dynasties were still followed, but there were too many changes in the details, including examination time, content, focus... There were too many changes.

The state examination is roughly equivalent to the interpretation examination in the Tang Dynasty, and the time is pushed back one month, probably from early September to mid-September.

Only those who pass the state examination are eligible to participate in the provincial examination to be held in the capital next spring. If they can pass the provincial examination, they will definitely win the title of Jinshi.

The final palace examination was just to rank the Jinshi who passed the provincial examination, and divide them into the top three.

This is similar to the rules of the Song Dynasty.

Although the three Jinshi were all Jinshi, their treatment was very different.

The first and third Jinshi had unlimited prospects. The second Jinshi was like his father-in-law, who was a county magistrate sent out to work. His future career path depended entirely on luck.

As for the third Jinshi, he was not even qualified to be a county magistrate sent out to work.

But even this third Jinshi was selected from the best students in the world. Ninety-nine percent of them failed in the previous exams...

The exam that Tang Ning was about to face was the first step to officially embark on the road of the imperial examination.

Every step forward was extremely difficult.

He was like a salted fish that was unwilling to turn over. Under the expectant gaze of everyone, he jumped onto the chopping block.

Zhong Mingli looked at him and said, "From now on, you can come and go in my study at will. If you see anything you don't understand, feel free to ask me."

Tang Ning nodded and said, "Thank you, father-in-law."

"We are a family, you are welcome." Zhong Mingli said, and then stood up and left.

"Hey, you haven't even finished your meal, and you are going out again..." Chen Yuxian looked at his back as he walked out, sighed, and looked at Tang Ning and said, "Ning'er, if you pass the exam and become an official in the future, don't learn from him."

Taking the exam is a helpless move, but if you want to pass, the probability is smaller than the probability of being admitted to Harvard or Oxford in the future. This is a question of whether you can, not whether Tang Ning wants to.

"Dad must have something important again..." Zhong Yi spoke up, easing some of Tang Ning's embarrassment.

Chen Yuxian shook his head and said with some concern: "The villagers of two villages in the county make a living by growing vegetables. If the vegetables and fruits produced by the vegetable farmers cannot be sold, their work this year will be in vain, and their families will lose their livelihoods... This morning, two vegetable farmers were overwhelmed and jumped into the river. The people were rescued, but if the vegetables and fruits cannot be sold again, I am afraid they will..."

Tang Ning knew that there was a very important reason for the unsalable fruits and vegetables, following the trend.

If everyone knew that cucumbers can whiten and nourish the skin, replenish water and prevent wrinkles this year, they would rush to buy them, causing the price of cucumbers to rise. Driven by profit, more people will grow cucumbers next year.

In the second year, there will be too many cucumbers planted, the market will be saturated, and the goods will not be sold, resulting in unsalable goods.

Or maybe the women in Lingzhou City have abandoned cucumbers in the second year and used La Mer and Clé de Peau Beauté, and the large group of vegetable farmers who grow cucumbers will have to starve...

Tang Ning shook his head and asked casually: "What fruits and vegetables are unsalable?"

Chen Yuxian thought for a while and said: "It seems to be cucumbers..."