Maybe he was really tired, but the next day, Xie Yanqing got up late for the first time.

When he got up, he found that the family had finished breakfast, and the men in the family had gone to the fields to loosen the soil.

It's already February, and it's time to plant crops soon, and this loosening of soil is a necessary preparation before planting things, so now the Xie family is busy.

"Stone, I was tired yesterday, I got up so late, breakfast is warm for you in the pot on the stove, go and eat." The eldest sister was sweeping the floor in the yard, and said after seeing Xie Yanqing come out.

In fact, it is not too late, it is only seven or eight o'clock, but rural people generally get up early because they have to do farm work. And Xie Yanqing usually gets up at 6 o'clock, so it seems that he got up very late today.

The eldest sister is 14 years old this year, and she is almost going to see others, so she usually doesn't go out easily without anything major, just stays at home.

Xie Yanqing has a very good impression of this sister, she has been very good to his younger brother since she was a child, and she thinks of him for any good things, although he is very favored at home, she has never shown jealousy of him.

Xie Yanqing wanted to take the test so early, but in fact, he also wanted to make his family's court a little higher, so that the eldest sister could find a good family.

In modern times, even if women can hold up half the sky, marrying a good man is still the most important thing for them, not to mention in this ancient era when men were inferior to women?

As the saying goes, marrying someone is equivalent to reincarnation, this sentence is not a simple saying, this is a lesson of countless people's blood and tears.

It's really not that he said, his sister is really outstanding, he thinks that a rural person who can only dig in the field and can't read a single word is really not worthy of her.

The girls of the Xie family are all literate with Xie Yanqing, and every time they have a monthly vacation or when Xie Yanqing is free, he will take the girls in the family to read and write.

Now some simple and common words are recognized by the eldest sister.,Anyway, you don't have to find someone else to read the contract or anything in the future.。

And after Xie Yanqing and his third aunt Wang Fengniang got married, the girls in the family followed her to learn embroidery, so the eldest sister of the Xie family is not worried about getting married, but it is more difficult to find a good family.

Because the Xie family is still just a Zhuang family, but because the Xie family is still a rich family, their family with poor conditions can't look down on them, and those with good conditions can't look down on their family.

In general, even the eldest sister now says that the relatives are high or low, so Xie Yanqing also hopes that after he takes the exam, he can make some people with good conditions consider the eldest sister.

Life in the countryside is too hard, and in the real farm life, women also have to work in the fields, even all year round, without stopping, and it is harder than men.

Like Xie Yanqing's mother Chen, who is only 29 years old this year, she looks like she is thirty-five or sixteen years old, this is because she has been working outside in the wind and sun, and when she comes home, she has to cook and watch her children worry about various things, so she naturally ages faster than ordinary people.

Xie Yanqing didn't want the eldest sister to work so hard in the future, in fact, the girls of the Xie family were all doing better, but they were just allowed to work at home and didn't let them go to the fields.

Xie Yanqing stayed at home quietly, waiting for the exam results to come out, I don't know if he figured it out, he was not restless at all, but the Xie family has been cautious in the past few days.

Those of them who took the exam didn't have to go to Liu Fuzi to study before the results of the exam came out.

If you pass the prefectural exam, you will have to take the prefectural exam, which is held in April, and students are generally prepared at home, and they are not required to go to a private school, and those who do not pass the prefectural exam will continue to study in a private school.

On this day, Xie Yanqing was thinking about the new book he was going to open in his study, and this year, in order to prepare for the exam, he didn't write a novel anymore.

Now after the county examination, he found that the questions were not as difficult as he imagined, and he felt that he should be able to relax himself appropriately, so now he wants to write a new novel to make money, you must know that he has to go to the prefecture to take the government exam, to the provincial city to take the exam, which can cost a lot of money.

The court examination is held once every 2 years, the examination starts in August of the lunar calendar, and this year is the year of the college examination, Xie Yanqing wants to be admitted to Xiucai at one time.

However, before Xie Yanqing could figure out what kind of novel he wanted to write, he heard someone outside beating gongs and drums.

"Is Brother Xie at home? What a joy. Li Tie's voice at the head of the village reached the Xie family's compound, and today Xie Mancang happened to be at home sorting out farm tools and didn't go out to loosen the soil, so he came out of the utility room when he heard the shouting.

The rest of the men of the Xie family were working outside, and Xiao Li and Wang went out to wash clothes, but Li and Chen were still at home, and they all came out as soon as they heard the sound.

Children like the little sister and the eldest girl also ran out to see the excitement when they heard the shouting, Xie Yanqing thought in his heart whether it was the good news coming, so he also planned to go out to see.

However, the Xie family was stunned as soon as they left the room, their yard was full of people, and there were officials and errands.

"This is Xie Yanqing, Xie Gongzi's house?" A kind-faced official asked Xie Mancang.

Xie Mancang is not stupid, as soon as he saw this formation, he thought that his grandson must have done well in the exam, and he came to report the good news.

So he said happily, "Official, yes, Xie Yanqing is my grandson, what are you doing here today?" ”

"This old man, I am very happy, your grandson won the first place in this year's county test, which is the first place, it is really amazing." The official said with a smile.