It's the New Year in a blink of an eye.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Jia Rui went to Ningguo Mansion to participate in the ancestor worship ceremony, or those programs, and returned to the steamed bun workshop after a passing scene.

In the afternoon, when the workshop was on holiday, he and Miaoyu, as the proprietors, attended the dinner of all the staff, distributed bounties and gifts, and said a lot of New Year's words of thanks and blessings.

Then everyone ate and drank together and had a good time.

The next day, Qingwen stayed in the workshop, and Jia Rui went home for the New Year.

On the first day of the new year, I went to kowtow to my ancestors early in the morning to say goodbye, and then went to Jia Yu, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen and the elders of the clan for a walk.

In the second year of junior high school, after returning to the steamed bun workshop and sending Qingwen home, Qingwen went to his brother's house in the third year of junior high school and stayed for one night.

Originally, her brother and sister-in-law were relatively cold to Qingwen, but now that Qingwen is mixed up and has money in her hands, her attitude is naturally very different from before.

In the fourth year of junior high school, Qingwen went to all parts of the house to meet her friends.

The clothes that Jia Rui bought for her years ago, this time she brought them all back. Qingwen changes her set every day and shows off everywhere.

I have to go to Baoyu's place once a day, deliberately looking for the attacker to chat with Musk Yue.

Now she has self-confidence, she doesn't get angry when she sees an attacker, and she speaks calmly, like a sister.

As for Musk Moon and Autumn Pattern, Qingwen can now look down on each other and don't regard them as opponents at all.

While talking, intentionally or unintentionally, I mentioned my old man and Uncle Rui from time to time.

What I thought in my heart was that you would be an aunt in the future, and I would also be an aunt.

Raider and the others are also smart people, so they naturally understand her intentions.

But people always laugh and don't say anything else, and they don't say anything.

can only wait for Qingwen to leave, and secretly scold her a few words of fox spirit, which is stinky.

Jia Rui does not have such leisure as Qingwen, and he is now faced with a choice, that is, whether to participate in this year's Spring Festival exam.

The spring is relative to the autumn of the township test, in fact, it is the test.

Because it is held in the spring, it is called Chunku.

This is a national exam that is held in the capital. All the people from all over the country have to go to the capital to take the exam.

Those who pass the examination are called tributes. Then he participated in the palace examination presided over by the emperor.

After the ranking of the palace examination, the top three are Jinshi.

Although the ancestor has already agreed, after the construction of the provincial villa, he will get him an official. But Jia Rui still decided to take the exam.

If you don't participate this time, you'll have to wait until the next one in three years.

What will happen three years later, Jia Rui actually has no idea in his heart.

Besides, even if he didn't win this time, he wouldn't delay the ancestor to run for him, so Jia Rui decided to try his luck.

In case you are lucky and get a jinshi, with this education, you will also have a great advantage when you run for an official in the future.

Even if you don't hit, there's nothing to lose.

As for whether the failure will have any impact on his reputation, Jia Rui does not care.

There are many people in the exam, and only 100 or so people are selected in total, and it is normal to fall off the list.

After deciding on the exam, Jia Rui went to the steamed bun workshop to review with peace of mind.

At present, the ground has not yet frozen, and the project cannot be grounded, but some preliminary preparations are being made.

If there is anything, Shan Ziye and Lin Zhixiao will go to Jia Rui for instructions, and he will also go to the West Flower Hall from time to time to solve any problems.

On the first day of February, Jia Rui was studying in the steamed bun workshop when he heard a commotion outside.

When I went out, I saw a few acquaintances. It was during the Jinling Township Examination that I got acquainted with Hu Xingshan, Ma Fushan and Chen Wenxiang, who were fellow examiners.

"Ah, three of you, what a rare guest, please come in."

"Hahaha, Tianxiang, we are going to participate in the examination, and we are here for you."

"Okay, when you get here, you're looking for me. In the future, I will live here, it will be convenient for me to eat and live here, and you don't need to go to the inn to live. ”

"If you don't think it's good here, you can go to the house or live in my house. I don't need you to pay anything, I have to eat anyway, it's just a matter of adding a few pairs of chopsticks. ”

"We've already done it, and I'm staying here with you, I think it's a very good place, it's clean, and it's just right for preparing for the exam."

Hu Xingshan said.

"We'll go to the inn in a moment and bring our luggage. I'm sorry for the bother. ”

Ma Fushan said.

"Brother Ma, what are these words, it's also my honor that you, Xie Yuan, can live here. Mr. Chen is 98 years old. Being able to get here is also auspicious, and I can't ask for it. ”

Ninety-eight years old?

Chen Wenxiang was stunned for a moment, only to realize that he was talking about himself, and then laughed.

"It's also my honor to bring some good luck to Tianxiang."

A few people entered the house, Qingwen poured tea, and went to Sister-in-law Liu to arrange accommodation and food for the three of them.

After chatting with a group, Ma Fushan took Wang San and drove the carriage to the inn to pick up the luggage for the three of them, and went to the city to buy wine and vegetables by the way.

Chen Wenxiang went to the steamed bun workshop and Shuiyue Temple to hang out, leaving Hu Xingshan to chat with Jia Rui.

"This is a letter from Jia Yun to you, asking me to bring it to you by the way."

Jia Yun, who stayed in the Wangjiang County Shipyard, did not come back for the Chinese New Year, so she asked Hu Xingshan to bring a letter.

Jia Yun's letter is mainly to report the situation at the shipyard.

The first is the progress of shipbuilding.

At present, shipbuilding work has begun, and the keel has been laid. One hundred and twenty craftsmen have been recruited, and under the leadership of Feng Minglu, they are stepping up their work.

The recruitment of shipwrights and sailors is also underway.

I heard that the shipyard had started to build big ships here, and two people had already come to negotiate the purchase of a ship, and each of them would order a big ship.

Another work carried out by the brothers Jia Yun and Jia Qi is to reclaim the land abandoned by Jia Jiawei.

At present, thirty rogue people have been recruited and the land has been opened.

"Jia Yun asked me to tell you that although you didn't let him reclaim those abandoned lands at the beginning, he and Jia Yun felt that the displaced people couldn't spend a few dollars, and after reclamation, they could supply the shipyard with grain, so they made a private order."

"At that time, they used to ask me for accounting, and I thought it was a good thing, so I supported them."

"Nowadays, there are frequent disasters in various places, there is often a shortage of food, and food prices are constantly rising. If you fetch grain in your own field, you don't have to go outside to buy it. With food in their hands and no panic in their hearts, I think they are right. ”

"Brother Hu is right, you are doing a good job. Originally, I also planned to reclaim the land, but I didn't have the manpower. Now that we can recruit people, we can naturally start this matter. ”

"There are actually people everywhere, and now there are displaced people everywhere, especially in the northwest, and there are more displaced people."

"The homeless people are in turmoil, one after another, endlessly. The officers and soldiers were exhausted. I'm afraid it's hard to be peaceful in this world. In a few years, it will be this imperial examination, and I don't know if it will be held normally in the future. ”

"That's why we're going to go down this year. If the world is really in turmoil, it will be difficult to calm down for a while, and I am afraid that I will not have a chance to take the exam. ”

"It's really a mess in the world, I'm afraid it's useless to get in."

Not necessarily, it depends on whom.

It's not useful to you, but it's useful to me.

Passed the examination and the palace examination, ranked among the top three, a Jinshi signboard, and had a high gold content.