Xiaoru, who was finally coaxed, was happy, Tang Ning helped Xiaoru up, and Zhongyi and Qing'er and Tang Xiaoxiao walked in from outside.

Zhongyi looked at Xiao Ru, whose face was full of tears, hurriedly walked over and asked, "What's wrong, he bullied you?" ”

Su Ru hurriedly shook his head: "No, there is no ......"

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

Tang Yaoyao looked at him with a look of disdain.

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

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

Tang Yaoyao said: "Xiaoru girl, don't always protect her, or I'll beat him up and be angry for you!" ”

……

It was not easy for them to believe that they had not bullied Xiao Ru, and some of the Zhong family members brought in a few large boxes.

Tang Ning was surprised: "What is this?" ”

Zhong Yi pointed to one of the boxes and said, "This is a gift from my mother and I to Xiaoru." ”

Tangning pointed to the others, "What about these?" ”

Zhong Yi said: "These are sent unexpectedly. ”

Tang Ning opened it and looked at it, one box contained all kinds of precious tonics, one box contained precious silk, and the other contained dazzling jewelry and jewelry......

Tang Fairy's gift is really big enough.

Su Ru waved his hand again and again: "No, I can't ask for these ......"

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

The value of her one box is enough to buy several such houses.

Tang Yaoyao pouted and said, "These are the ones I gave to Xiaoru, not to you......"

Saying so, she obediently withdrew the other boxes.

The box that Zhong Yi brought was not so valuable, it was some cloth, rouge gouache, and some things that girls could use, Su Ru refused at first, and then under Tang Ning's instructions, he could only accept it.

After accepting the gift, Zhongyi and Tang Yaoyao took her to Buzhuang to measure the size of the clothes, leaving him here alone.

Su Ru and Zhong Yi were able to establish a friendship, which was something that Tang Ning did not expect.

According to the usual routine, they should fight.

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

The word "but" means "worthy" in ancient sayings.

Tang Fairy is also very cute, his true temperament is not pretentious, and it would be even more cute if he owed him the 1,000 taels of silver if he didn't have to pay it back.

If she had insisted on it at the time, he wouldn't have had to write that IOU.

Dinner was eaten together at the Chung Mansion.

The two women who were supposed to be hostile talked and laughed all day, Zhong Yi said that he wanted to teach Su Ru to read, and Su Ru said that he wanted to teach Zhong Yi embroidery......

For some reason, Tang Ning always felt cold in his back.

Zhong Mingli seemed to have something on his mind all along, and when he was halfway through the meal, he suddenly put down the dishes and chopsticks, looked at Tang Ning, and said, "Regarding this state exam, there is something I just learned today. ”

The eyes of everyone at the table were on Zhong Mingli.

"The news from Kyoto that the imperial court seems to have reformed the system for the scientific examination, and it is rumored that since this year, those who have missed the state examination or above without reason will be regarded as contempt for the imperial examination, and they will not be referred to for three consecutive sessions."

The reason for being allowed to miss the exam certainly does not include amnesia.

Three in a row, that's three years, three years, three years, and three years.

Unable to participate in the state exam for almost ten years, Su Ru and Zhongyi's faces were a little pale.

"Although it's just a rumor, I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of ......" Zhong Mingli looked at him and said: "So, this time you still have to take the state exam, even if you fail, it's better than not being able to take the exam for ten years." ”

He looked at Tang Ning seriously and said, "Just try it." ”

The state examination is the first level of the official imperial examination, and those who fail the list need to go through several examinations in the next two years before they can regain their qualification 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 Xiaoyao will blame himself, father-in-law and mother-in-law, everyone will be disappointed......

And it will also expose the ......fact that he does not want to participate in the imperial examination, gives up on himself, is willing to degenerate, is ashamed of himself, and cannot extricate himself, and exposes the fact that he is a salted fish......

Unable to avoid left and right, Tang Ning thought for a while and said, "Then try it......"

"It's just an exam, Ning'er, you don't have to worry too much about it." 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 was a little unnatural, and said, "What do you say about this......

Chen Yuxian ignored him, looked at Tang Ning, and said with a smile: "It's okay, even if we fall off the list, we will prepare well, and we can start all over again in three years." ”

Downing smiled and nodded.

He has an understanding of the imperial examinations of this dynasty, and in terms of the general framework, he still follows the rules of the Tang and Song dynasties, but the changes in details, including the time, content, and focus ......of the examination, are too many.

The state test is roughly equivalent to the solution test in the Tang Dynasty, and the time has been pushed back by a 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, and if they can pass the provincial examination, they will definitely be able to win the fame of a jinshi.

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

This is similar to the rules of the Song Dynasty.

The top three jinshi, although they are both jinshi, are very different in treatment.

The first class jinshi and the third person, the future is limitless, the second class jinshi was born, just like his father-in-law, to do an outgoing county order, the future career road, all rely on luck.

As for the third class of Jinshi, he is not even qualified to release the county order.

But it is the third class, and it is also the best selected from all the students in the world, and 99% of them have failed in the previous exams......

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

Every step from then on was extremely difficult.

He was like a salted fish that was unwilling to turn over, and jumped onto the chopping board under the expectant gaze of everyone.

Zhong Mingli looked at him and said, "In the future, you can go in and out of my study at will, and if you see anything you don't understand, feel free to ask me." ”

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

"Family, you're welcome." After Zhong Mingli said a word, he got up and left.

"Hey, I haven't finished eating, and I'm going out again......" Chen Yuxian looked at his back as he walked out, sighed, and then looked at Tang Ning and said, "Ning'er, if you become an official in the future, don't follow him." ”

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

"Daddy, there should be something important...... Zhong Yi said, relieving some embarrassment for Tang Ning.

Chen Yuxian shook his head, and said with some concern: "The villagers of the two villages in the county make a living by growing vegetables, and the vegetables and fruits produced by the vegetable farmers cannot be sold, they have done useless work this year, and the family has cut off their livelihood ...... this morning, two vegetable farmers were overwhelmed and threw themselves into the river, and the people were rescued, but if the vegetables and fruits cannot be sold, I am afraid that they will ......."

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

If everyone knows that cucumbers can whiten and nourish the skin, hydrate and resist wrinkles this year, and rush to buy them, resulting in higher prices of cucumbers and driven by profits, more people will grow cucumbers next year.

In the second year, too many cucumbers are planted and the market is saturated, and the goods will not be sold, and the goods will be unsalable.

Or maybe the women of Lingzhou City have abandoned the cucumbers in the second year and used the Mystery of the Sea Blue and the Key of the Skin, and the large group of vegetable farmers who grow cucumbers will go to drink the northwest wind......

Tang Ning shook his head and asked casually, "What kind of vegetables and fruits are unsalable?" ”

Chen Yuxian thought for a while and said, "It seems to be a cucumber......