Chapter 172: Going to the Exam
For the next half a month, Su Shen would review his homework with Qi Yu'an, Li Zhengshan, Chen Jiabao, and Shen Feng every day.
Although Shen Feng lived in his grandfather's house, he would not be able to move every day, and came to Su's house to eat under the banner of reviewing his homework with Su Shen and others.
Although Su Shen was a little speechless about the careful thinking of this goods, but the autumn was imminent, and Su Shen did not sweep this goods out of the house directly.
So these five people lived a luxurious life of stretching out their hands and opening their mouths every day, Meng Zhen would not only carefully prepare three meals a day for them, but also prepare snacks, snacks and various soups and water with nourishing effects for them in the morning, afternoon and evening.
After eating like this for more than half a month, Su Shen and the others not only did not lose weight day by day because of reviewing their homework, but everyone also became mellow to varying degrees.
It was the first time for Li Zhengshan to enjoy such a "corrupt" life, and before going to the examination room, he pinched the little extra autumn fat on his stomach, and silently thought about whether he should also improve the living conditions at home after the autumn season was over.
On the surface, he is just a poor widow who lives with his widowed mother, but in fact, Li Zhengshan's life experience is something else.
Of course, Li Zhengshan will not think that there is anything wrong with his mother's hard and cautious way of living all these years, after all, it is more important to be able to live together safely and smoothly than to enjoy it for a while.
But now Li Zhengshan is going to participate in the Autumn Festival, if there is no accident, he will be able to upgrade to become a master this year.
Li Zhengshan felt that it was time for him to let his mother enjoy the blessings.
Of course, Su Shen and Meng Hao didn't know anything about his careful thoughts.
Seeing that several people were about to rush to the examination room, Meng Hao began to prepare thick clothes and thin blankets for them, as well as the four treasures of the study and various foods suitable for bringing into the examination room.
This time she came to Fucheng, Meng Hao not only brought five silver bills with a denomination of 100 taels from all over the country, but also brought about 50 taels of loose silver to meet daily expenses.
This is because Meng Zhen has already bought a house in Fucheng in advance, otherwise they will be dragged with their families, and the cost of staying in the hotel alone will be a lot of expenses.
After all, during the autumn season, the houses and inns in Fucheng are all rising exponentially.
Not to mention those independent small courtyards that cost more than a dozen taels or dozens of taels of silver a night, even those ordinary rooms with the size of the sky, the earth, and the person, and now the room fee has also doubled.
Even the Chase Shop of the inn, if you want to stay for one night at this time, you have to pay the store seventy or eighty copper plates.
These days, Meng Zhen went to the street to buy, and more than once saw that some students could only choose to live in temples or ordinary houses because the housing prices were too expensive or they came too late.
Those who live in the temple are really shy of money, and they don't even have the money to rent in the more remote ordinary houses.
Compared with them, Li Zhengshan, who is known for his "poor family" in their small circle, can already be regarded as a wealthy person.
Meng Hao is very sympathetic to these poor students who are desperately trying to change their fate even if they are poor, and she even has the idea of helping these people, but there are too many such students, and Meng Hao can't help them at all.
She could only silently watch them struggle in their own way, and then prayed in her heart that the country would be rich and the people would be strong, and that the lives of the little people, including themselves, would be better and better.
"Everything is ready, right? Do you want to check the exam basket again? ”
On the first day of the autumn exam, Meng Zhen got up early, and together with Yan Zhenwu, sent Su Shen and others outside the Tribute Academy.
Su's house was very close to the Gongyuan, and at this time, the outside of the Gongyuan was already crowded with talents from various counties who came to take the exam, so Su Shen and the others chose to walk together.
Meng Zhen relied on her good skills, and followed Su Shen and them to the outside of the Gongyuan with Yan Zhenwu.
She even prepared two other exam baskets, and the things in them were exactly the same as Su Shen's exam basket.
Meng Zhen was afraid that if someone squeezed and bumped into each other, they would break Su Shen's exam basket.
At this time, Meng Hao didn't know that the two test baskets she prepared would really come in handy soon after.
It's just that where they come in handy is a little different from Meng Hao's imagination.
Several people were escorted by Yan Zhenwu, Xuesong, Shunzi, Qi Yu'an, and Chen Jiabao's small servants, and slowly walked through the flow of people to the gate of the Gongyuan.
Shen Feng saw them from a distance, and immediately squeezed over accompanied by Tuomo and his eldest cousin.
"You're a little late! I've been waiting for you for a quarter of an hour. As soon as they met, Shen Feng had already complained casually.
Su Shen smiled at him, "Aren't we living close?" ”
Shen Feng was suddenly pierced.
No, people live much closer to him than he does.
"By the way, this is my eldest cousin, surnamed Wang Minzhong."
Shen Feng said as he pulled his cousin over, and then introduced Su Shen and others to Wang Minzhong.
Everyone greeted each other, and then the "bodyguards" who did not take the exam surrounded Su Shen and the others and went to the other students of Bailu Academy.
When they walked over, Zhao Mo, the gentleman who led the team from Bailu Academy, was walking back and forth with an anxious face.
Next to him, a thin man in a coarse cloth robe was biting his lower lip and staring anxiously in the direction of the crowded street.
Shen Feng was a self-acquaintance, and when he saw that the other party was someone he knew, after meeting Mr., he immediately stepped forward and asked, "Brother Fang, what are you looking at?" ”
The thin man he called "Brother Fang" saw that he was about to cry, and he hurriedly arched his hand towards Shen Feng and the others, "I, my pen is broken, and the ink is lost." ”
Compared with Li Zhengshan, who has excellent grades, this student surnamed Fang is actually not conspicuous at all in the academy.
He, like the vast majority of people in this world, was neither extraordinarily intelligent nor extraordinarily stupid.
He spent nearly ten years studying hard, but his grades have always been in the middle of the White Deer Academy.
Finally, he got the master's approval this year and got the quota to come to Fucheng to participate in the autumn festival, and the student surnamed Fang was so happy that he almost cried directly in front of his husband.
His family is poor, and in order to provide for his education, his parents and elder brother have been tightening their belts and working hard to save money.
Even his two little nephews and little niece are already doing what they can for their family at a young age.
He is the only one who stays in Bailu Academy all the year round, and he will only reach out to ask his parents for money.
Seeing that his eldest nephew had reached the age when he should go to school, and the family couldn't come up with any extra money, this student surnamed Fang couldn't help but start thinking about whether he should continue to drag down the family.