"Actually, I've long taken a fancy to that land!"

On the way back to the city, Li Daqi couldn't hold back the joy in his heart, and whispered to his son: "When we were in the grain business before, we found that there was an empty piece of land here, and the old proprietor wanted to rent it at that time, but the rice shop refused to sublease, which made us regret it for a long time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"It turns out that the land was rented by a rice shop?" Li Yanqing said with a smile.

"It has always been the warehouse of the rice shop, and I heard that the owner of the rice shop also bought a piece of land in the west, so the lease expired in October last year and was not renewed. As a result, Li Gouer heard that the landlord wanted to buy the land, so I couldn't help but not rent, and I really bought it. ”

"What about the rice shop?" Li Yanqing asked again: "If we take the land, it will be inconvenient to transport goods, does he also plan to turn it off?" ”

"They have this plan, I will discuss with the owner of the rice shop again, and you can sublease the shop of the rice shop to me, so that we can open another Baoyan Zhai outside the city."

"No!"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "The grade of the surrounding shops is too low, and it will lower the brand of Baoyanzhai, I think it is better to open Li Ji Rouge." ”

"This ..... Let me think again. Li Daqi obviously didn't want to tie the headquarters of Baoyan Zhai with Li Ji Rouge Shop.

Li Yanqing no longer persuaded his father, he was just talking on paper, and his father, after so many years of training, was no longer Wuxia Ameng, and was more pragmatic in business, and there was also the right-hand man of Wu's shopkeeper, so he didn't need to worry about these small things.

As soon as the father and son entered the city gate, they saw Yang Xin riding a donkey in the distance and rushing to this side, Li Yanqing's eyesight was very good, and he saw Yang Xin who was sweating profusely from afar, but Yang Xin didn't see them, and he still kept urging the donkey to run fast.

"Why is Second Uncle Yang here?"

Li Yanqing pointed to Yang Xin, Li Daqi also saw his brother-in-law, his heart moved, and he hurriedly greeted him, "Erlang, what's wrong?" ”

Yang Xin finally saw Li Daqi's father and son, and hurriedly shouted: "Brother-in-law, go back, my sister is about to give birth!" ”

Li Daqi: 'Ah! He shouted and said to his son urgently: "Yanqing, I want to go back first!" ”

"Daddy, go ahead! I'll come later. ”

Li Daqi hit the horse and ran, turned around and ran in the direction of Baokangmen.

Looking at his father's distant back, Li Yanqing can fully understand his father's state of mind at this time, his father is getting farther and farther away from the misfortunes of the past, and the birth of a new life means that his father will also be completely reborn.

Li Yanqing rushed to the mansion on Freezer Street, only to see only his father and Yang Xin in the courtyard, Yang Xin was stretching his neck to wait for news, while his father was pacing back and forth restlessly with his hands behind his back.

Li Yanqing handed over the horse to the little servant, and he stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Are you born?" ”

Yang Xin shook his head lightly, "Not yet, the two midwives are busy." ”

He whispered to Li Yanqing again: "I just knew, it's only eight months, and it's a bit premature!" ”

Li Yanqing was also a little nervous in his heart, although it was not a big problem to be born prematurely for a month, but this was the Song Dynasty, there was no nursery room, oxygen inhalation, etc., and it was generally difficult for premature babies to survive.

At this moment, a faint cry suddenly came from inside, and there was a cheer from inside, and Li Daqi's heart also fell.

"Deliver hot water!" A midwife ran out and shouted.

The hot water had already been prepared, and the two servant women carried two large buckets of hot water to send it in, at this time, Li Daqi asked urgently: "How are the people?" ”

The midwife wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead and smiled: "It's okay, mother and daughter are safe!" ”

"Ahh It's a little girl. ”

"It's a little lady, she looks like a master, and she looks very delicate."

Li Daqi was so excited that tears welled up, he actually had another daughter, he was so anxious that he couldn't wait to rush in to see his daughter immediately.

Not long after, a midwife cautiously came out with a swaddling baby, and Li Daqi hurriedly went up, "It's windy here, come into the house quickly!" ”

The midwife carried the child into the next room, and Li Yanqing hesitated and walked in.

I saw my father holding the swaddling clothes, smiling so much that he couldn't close his mouth.

"Daddy, give me a hug too!"

"Be careful, hold your head!"

Li Yanqing carefully hugged the swaddling clothes, and a little pink baby appeared in front of him, with a slender nose and a well-behaved little mouth, his eyes had not yet opened, and his little hands were in his mouth and sucking hard.

This is his sister, a string in the depths of Li Yanqing's heart was quietly plucked, and an indescribable emotion suddenly poured into his chest.

.........

The gate of the Gongyuan is still closed, the imperial examination has ended for five days, and the progress of marking the papers has gradually entered the most tense moment, in the examination courtyard, the wooden boxes in the two large rooms are piled up, and each wooden box is a complete volume, and 80,000 wooden box test papers are piled up.

There are a total of 57 examiners, in addition to the chief examiner and two deputy examiners, as well as 10 second-level examiners and 44 junior examiners.

The 44 examiners were divided into 22 groups, with two people in each group, to cross-examine and mark the files, and each file must have the signatures of two people.

The rules are exactly the same as the release test, if the two examiners have different opinions, then it must be handed over to the examiner at the next level to decide whether to adopt, if the second-level examiner still has different opinions, then it has to be submitted to the deputy chief examiner for decision, but this situation rarely happens, all the examiners are from Taixue and the four major academies, all of them are well-educated, they have enough talent and qualifications, as long as they are not biased, they can basically do fair judgment.

The vast majority of the 80,000 test papers have to be eliminated by the junior examiners, and the conditions are very harsh, first of all, the first round of primary selection, the questions are not completed, the paper is altered, and the calligraphy is not good, they will be sentenced to death without hesitation, and half of the candidates will be eliminated in the first round of primary selection alone.

This is the iron law of the imperial examination, a bit of a candidate is talented, that is, because of a little negligence in the examination, writing a wrong word, you can't help but ink, and then write the correct word on it, this is a normal modification, but in the eyes of the examiner, this is a suspicion of leaving a mark.

Experienced candidates do not alter when they find that they have written wrong, but make mistakes, so that there is no stain on the surface of the paper, at least the first round will not be eliminated, although according to the marking standards, if there are typos in the paper, it belongs to the second paper and will also be eliminated.

However, many candidates still have a fluke mentality, in case the examiner does not find out, maybe they still have a glimmer of life, but in fact, this kind of vitality is extremely slim, even if they escape the strict marking of the two preliminary examiners, they cannot escape the marking of the second-level examiners.

After five days of intense marking, the three rounds of preliminary examination of the junior examiner have ended, 80,000 test papers have been eliminated ninety, and the remaining 8,000 papers have been sent to the hands of the secondary examiner, according to the process, 8,000 papers will be eliminated for the most part, about 1,200 papers will be sent to the hands of the two deputy examiners, and the two of them will select 586 test papers to the chief examiner, and the chief examiner will then draw the test papers from them, if there is no objection, then sign the 586 test papers, and they will become the last lucky ones and be admitted to the provincial examination. Even if he failed in the palace test, at least he kept his Jinshi background.

Of course, if the examiner is not satisfied with some of the papers, he will return them, and the two deputy examiners will supplement them from the second examination papers.

One of the two deputy examiners was Zhang Wenxuan, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and the other was Liu Ling, a university scholar.

At this time, Liu Ling, the deputy chief examiner, saw a group of examiners arguing about something, so he stepped forward and asked, "Do you have any objections?" ”

Several examiners hurriedly got up, and one of them handed a copy of the paper to Liu Ling, "Please take a look at this paper!" ”

Liu Ling looked at the head of the volume, there were already three seals on it, indicating that the three rounds of the preliminary examination had been passed, and now he was in the state of the second trial, he looked at the volume, and an extremely beautiful line jumped into his eyes, the calligraphy was excellent, quite everyone's style, so that Liu Ling was amazed, "Good words!" ”

"Qi Qi Liu, this candidate not only has first-class calligraphy, but also has no mistakes in the scriptures, and his strategy is also extremely profound, which is the best test paper so far, and has been recognized by everyone."

"So what's there to argue about?"

"The key is his poem, and everyone has different opinions."

Liu Ling looked at the poems on this test paper:

Guan Shanyue

It has been a hundred years since the edict of Herong, and the general is on the border without a fight.

Zhu Men sang and danced heavily, and the stables were fattened and the bow was broken.

The tower is fighting to urge the moon to fall, and the thirty soldiers are now gray-haired.

Who knows the heart of a strong man in the flute, and the sand head is empty and the human bones are recruited.

Youyan has also heard of ancient times, how can there be descendants of rebellion.

The remnants endured death and hoped to recover, and a few tears were shed tonight!