Qianfeng County, Xudong Town.

Xudong Town is not very big, there are only more than 100 families in the town, most of the people in the town are merchants for a living, and there are really few people who have land at home to make a living from farming, but in the southernmost part of the town, there is a family with a family surnamed Wen.

The Wen family has more than a dozen acres of land, all of which are vegetable fields, and the Wen family makes a living by growing vegetables, and the vegetables grown are mainly for the people in Xudong Town.

Because Xudong Town is next to the official road, mainly to do pedestrian business, so there are more than a dozen restaurants in the town, and the fresh vegetables needed every day are a big number, and the vegetables grown by the Wen family are not worried about sales, so although it is hard to make a living from farming, the life of the Wen family can be regarded as well-off.

Of course, the well-off life of the Wen family is compared to the people here in Xudong Town, and if it is in other places, then the Wen family is still a poor family.

There are three members of the Wen family, Wen Laohan and Aunt Wen also have a son who has just turned eighteen, and the Wen family only has such a precious son, whose name is Wen Dengke.

Although Vindenko is a child of a peasant family, he has never done any farm work since he was a child, his father and mother have taken care of all the work in the family, and he only needs to concentrate on studying.

Wen Dengke has been studying in a private school with several children in the town since he was a child, and his grades are the best, although the level of teachers in the private school is not very high, but the level of Wen Dengke's reading is not low, in the words of the private school teacher, that is, Wen Dengke will have a future career, and he will definitely surpass him as a teacher.

Of course, if you only surpass the private school teacher, this is not a particularly glorious thing, after all, the private school teacher himself is not a good person.

However, the private school teacher's praise for Wen Dengke gave the Wen family a lot of hope, making them feel that their son Wen Dengke, if he studied hard, might be able to be admitted to the imperial examination and become a person who eats official food.

Whether Wen Dengke can become a big official or not, the Wen family does not expect it, but they also hope that Wen Dengke's life can be better than them, if it is to be able to wear official robes, then it is also a human being, and this life is not to live much better than them!

Parents are basically these ideas, and for Wen Dengke himself, he feels that his reading level is not low, in the whole Xudong Town, he reads the best, and the few little classmates who studied with him before are now inferior to him, if it is necessary to compare, then those little classmates are not as good as him when added together.

This made Wendenko very confident, he felt that it was possible to read, and he could really read a future.

Some time ago, the county ordered Li Rizhi to select talents in the county, but Li Rizhi selected the sons and nephews of rich and wealthy families, while Wen Dengke belonged to the children of poor families, so he was not among the selections.

Later, Li Rizhi expanded the scope of selection, but Wen Dengke did not sign up, he thought that he could achieve a better future through the scientific examination, and not become a small official first, if he became a small official, he was afraid that he would lose his motivation to study, so he could only waste his life in the position of a small official, so he would be too sorry for his hard work for so many years.

However, he thinks that he reads well, but he only thinks that he thinks that the scope of his comparison can only be in Xudong Town, compared with his former little classmates, and those little classmates are now what they should do, they don't study anymore, they have already made their own living, and now those who want to study and want to participate in the imperial examination, in the entire Xudong Town, there is only Wen Dengke left.

Therefore, what level Wendenko has read his books and whether he can pass the exam, even Wendenko himself is not clear!

This morning, the Wen family woke up Wen Dengke, and they said to Wen Dengke: "Son, the food is in the pot, you can go eat it after washing, we are working in the fields, and in the evening, we will still go into the city to deliver food, you can eat dinner by yourself, you don't have to wait for us!" ”

Wendenko agreed, and he said, "Dad, mother, I don't want to sit at home all day and study, I can also work in the fields."

Working also allows me to sober my mind, read in the morning when my brain is good, and after noon I go down to the field to work, so I read for half a day, do half a day's work, I think it's still very good, I don't need to sit at home all day to read.

I'm at this age, and I can't share the worries of my father and mother, I'm really ashamed, I feel that reading now will make me stupid, and now I only eat, don't work, and it doesn't match what is written in the book of the saints, and it is not in line with the way of reading! ”

Although Wen Dengke studied all day long, but he was not a person who did not know the hardships of the people, his father and mother worked hard in farming, and the conditions at home were not very superior, which he naturally knew, he had reached the age of eighteen, and at this time he was still eating dry rice at home, and his parents were old, but they still had to work hard outside, which was really unbearable for him, and even had some self-blame.

The Wen family can be regarded as old children, and when Wen Laohan was almost forty years old, he had such a precious son, and he was the only seedling of the Wen family, so he naturally loved him very much.

Like today's words, Wen Dengke has proposed several times, but Wen Laohan never agreed, he felt that he had grown vegetables all his life, and it was enough to be unproductive, and now his son is finally studying, and he is studying well, so this is the time to go to the next level, how can he continue to grow vegetables like him!

If it's just to share their hardships, it's completely unnecessary, for the Wen family, their health is pretty good, at least for a few years, they don't need Wen Dengke's help.

Before Wen Laohan refused, Aunt Wen said: "Son, you study hard at home, as long as you can be admitted to the imperial examination, you can get a half-official position, and live in a big house in the future, so that the slave calls the maid, then the father and mother will be satisfied." You don't need to worry about such a trivial thing as growing vegetables and harvesting vegetables at home, this is not a heavy job, your father and I can cope with it completely, you study hard, as long as you are admitted, we can also enjoy happiness! ”

After speaking, the Wen family went out to work together.

Wen Dengke went to the kitchen, and saw that a lot of meals were prepared in the pot, in fact, when the Wen family was leaving, they not only prepared breakfast for him, but also prepared dinner for him, so if he wanted to eat at night, he could eat as long as the meal was hot.

Wen Dengke sighed, and thought to himself: "If you want to take the imperial examination, it is not easy, and I don't know how well I read this book, if I want to take the exam, can I be admitted?" If I can't pass the exam, then won't I eat all these years of idle food in vain, not only sorry for my parents, but also sorry for myself! ”

He was thinking about his thoughts in front of the rice pot, when suddenly someone outside shouted: "Wendenko, where are you at home, have you gone into the city?" A notice has been posted in the prefecture, saying that the prefectural order is going to hold an exam, and everyone can participate, and it was a notice posted yesterday! ”