At the end of the afternoon, Ye Zhengli pulled the cart into the house and listened to the faint voices of people coming from the main house.

He raised his eyebrows in surprise, at this time in the past, the house has always been quite quiet, what is wrong with it now?

Shaking his head and not thinking much about it, he turned around and went into his house.

"you, I'm back, business in the town is good today, I made ......"

After a few breaths, on the side of the kang in the inner room, Ye Zhengli listened to his wife's words, and his face was full of disbelief: "What did you say?" Big brother, did he pass the exam? How is this possible? ”

"The eldest brother is able to Mengniang and father, when I don't know, his mind has not been in books all these years."

"Not to mention that he was admitted to the Xiucai, now he is asked to retake the county exam, he may not be able to pass, how can he be admitted to the Xiucai?"

Li's brows furrowed: "I don't want to believe it, but the person who came here today said it very definitely, and he even said your eldest brother's ranking in the exam, so it can be seen that he really saw it!" ”

"Ranking? How many places did he get in, big brother? Ye Zhengli's expression moved slightly, and he hurriedly asked.

Li Shi was angry when he mentioned this: "Tenth! I heard the man say that the top ten will still be able to receive grain and silver taels from the county next year. ”

"Tell me, how did such a good thing fall on your eldest brother?"

Ye Zhengli shook his head in disbelief: "How is this possible?" If he barely got into the last place, I can still believe it, but the tenth place.... When pigs fly! ”

"There are so many people in the world who read hard, they study hard in the cold window, and they have spent so much effort to fail to pass the exam, why can he pass the exam, big brother?"

Li Shi rolled his eyes depressedly: "How can I know this?" ”

Ye Zhengli stood up from the kang and paced back and forth in the house, and after a few breaths, he confirmed to his wife again: "You really heard clearly, is it really the eldest brother who passed the exam?" Not someone else? ”

"Yes, yes, I'm sure I heard you!" Lee replied.

Ye Zhengli pursed his lips, and after a long time, a sentence suddenly popped out: "Is this god blind?" actually let such a thing pass the Xiucai! ”

This was strongly agreed by Li, and she "snapped! A slapped on the thigh: "Isn't that what you say!" ”

"Your eldest brother's heart is black, he passed the Xiucai exam, and he may not know what will happen to this family after that!"

Xu is slap was too loud, the milk doll who was sleeping soundly on the kang moved her little eyebrows, and suddenly opened her mouth and cried: "Wow.... Wow..."

At this moment, neither of them cared about talking about it, and hurriedly coaxed the child.

A quarter of an hour later, the two finally coaxed their son, Li wiped the sweat from his forehead, remembered something, and said to his husband: "You watch the child first, and I'll go and talk to the second sister-in-law about it." ”

.............

In the main house of the new house, the Xing family and several people listened to the Li family's words, and their faces showed a trace of surprise, and their reactions were almost exactly the same as Ye Zhengli's.

"What are you talking about, eldest brother, he passed the Xiucai exam, or is he tenth?"

Seeing the reactions of several people, Li nodded and said, "I know you don't believe it, but I heard this with my own ears, and it is indeed true!" ”

Ye Hao frowned slightly, if anyone else was admitted to Xiucai, she would not have this reaction, but it was the eldest uncle who passed the exam.

How did he pass the exam? How can I get in?

His mind has never been put in the books, and outsiders may be deceived by his serious look.

But how can they not know the people who live in the same yard with him every day?

Unless..... There's a cat here.

Is it just possible?

In the past few years, the Great Chu Dynasty has already had a fairly complete system for scientific research, although it is not as good as the Qing Dynasty in the previous life, but it is not far behind.

Normally, fraud is basically non-existent and can be ..... If this is the case, could it be that the eldest uncle was really admitted by his own ability?

Seeing Xing's slightly uneasy look, Li patted her hand and said, "Second sister-in-law, you also know that eldest brother, he can rush for the exam this time." ”

"Ruthlessly selling his own niece into those other people's homes, it's hard to guarantee that he won't do more excessive things in the future, you have to take precautions early!"

"I understand!" Xing pursed her lips and replied, how could she not know?

Although she was weak before, her heart was not blind, after all these years, she had already seen the eldest brother and his family clearly, and she didn't say it before, because she still had expectations in her heart.

Looking forward to when they will wake up, after the separation, she gradually understood that these two people ..... It can be said that there is no salvation a long time ago.

Li nodded: "It's good that you know, Shiro at home is still waiting for me to go back to breastfeed, so I'll leave first." ”

When Xing heard this, he turned his head and instructed his daughter: "Zhen'er, take some of the dough rolling for your third aunt and give it to your third aunt." ”

When Li Shi heard this, he immediately grinned: "Hehe, how embarrassing is this." ”

Although she said so, her body was very honest, and she immediately followed Ye Hao into the stove room, filled three bowls full of rolling dough, and left in a suitcase.

After sending off the third aunt, Ye Hao stood by the door and thought about it, turned around and found the eldest girl, whispered a few words to her, and saw the other party nodding, and then left.

..............

Although the Xing family learned the bad news, they still had to live their lives, and in the blink of an eye, they were busy with their own affairs again.

On the morning of the second day, Ye Hao saw Tian Le in the inner courtyard and went out with her sister.

In the apricot orchard, the two stood under the apricot tree, their eyes swept over the full of golden orange apricots hanging on the branches, and smelled the fruity fragrance wafting in the wind.

Ye Hao showed a smile on her face: "The apricots can be picked, apricots, you go and call your mother, remember to bring more back baskets, let's pick apricots together!" ”

"Okay!" Ye Xing responded excitedly, turned around and trotted home.

It didn't take long for Xing to come with Ye Xing, and she looked at the apricot orchard, full of apricots hanging on the branches.

There was a hint of surprise in her eyes: "Zhen'er, how did you raise it, it's weird to raise it, there are a lot of fruits on these apricot trees?" ”

These apricot trees have been taken care of by my daughter since they were bought and planted, and I haven't seen them for a few months, but I didn't expect my daughter to raise them so well.

Ye Hao smiled: "It's just watering them or something, and there's nothing else, maybe this place is very suitable for them to grow." ”

Xing Shi nodded and didn't ask again.

However, she swept her eyes over the garden, and there were more than a hundred apricot trees that bore fruit, and said, "These fruits depend on a few of us, and we can't finish picking them in a few days." ”

"The family still needs someone to take care of it, you wait, my mother will call your aunt Wang and them."

After the words fell, Xing turned around and left, and two quarters of an hour later, he saw Wang and her son Zhang Zhiyuan, and two other women coming here together.

A few people rolled up their sleeves and began to pick the fruit.

With so many people, it took more than a day to finally pick all the apricots in the apricot orchard.