In Mudu Town, the banner of Fan's Medical Center hunted and flew in the wind.

Fan Tiezhou had just sent away an old man who had come from Kunshan to seek medical treatment.

Fan's Medical Center is also famous even in Pingjiang Mansion, especially in bruises, and even Dong Zhifu sent a boat to pick up Fan Tiezhou because he accidentally sprained his hand, which made him even more famous in bone treatment.

One of the advantages of Pingjiang Mansion is that the waterway is developed, and the patient does not need to take an ox cart all the way to see a doctor, but lying on the boat, he can come easily, and he doesn't even need to get off the boat, Fan Tiezhou directly gets on the boat to heal his injuries.

For this reason, Fan Tiezhou opened his Fan's Medical Center directly opposite the pier and rented a two-story shop at a price of 15 yuan per month, and the banner of 'Fan's Medical Center' fluttered high in front of the medical center.

The first floor treats bruises, the second floor sees internal medicine, and you can get the lowest preferential price in the pharmacy with the prescription prescribed by Fan's Medical Center to grab medicine.

Fan Tiezhou is not only a famous doctor, but also a famous squire in Mudu Town, his family has hundreds of acres of fertile land, and he has served as the deputy patriarch of the Fan family, and has been the chief priest of the family for two consecutive years.

However, he is still at the rank of Fan Yuan, and he is far from the level of Fan Daguan, which requires him to at least obtain the rank of Captain from the Fifth Rank Cavalry.

There is only Zhu Yuanfu who can be called a big official in Mudu Town, and he has the title of county duke.

In the past two days, Fan Tiezhou was really a little uneasy, he was worried about his son's situation.

It has been four days since the provincial examination ended, but he has no way of knowing how his son did in the examination.

Although his wife was more concerned about her son's safety and chattered several times a day, Fan Tiezhou didn't care much about this aspect, and the second brother came back from the capital and told him about his son's recent situation, so that he could be completely reassured.

Now he is more concerned about his son's provincial examination, since his son can be admitted to the first place in Pingjiang Mansion, it is not hopeless to be admitted to the provincial examination.

It is this mentality of suffering from gains and losses that makes Fan Tiezhou restless and restless in the past few days, and he has not been on the clinic for three days.

"Brother Tiezhou!"

Someone called him behind him, Fan Tiezhou turned around, and saw that it was Liu Yansi, the master of Yanying Academy, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Why is Master Liu here?" ”

Since Zhu Yuanfu moved back to Wujiang, the boss of Mudu Town is this Liu Yuan Master, he is the largest landlord in Mudu Town, with 50 hectares of fertile land, and many industries, such as the three pharmacies in the town are his industries, which are closely related to Fan Tiezhou.

Courtyard Master Liu stepped forward and asked with concern, "Is there any news of A-Ning?" ”

Since Fan Ning was admitted to the first place in the Pingjiang Mansion Boys' Examination, the Yanying School in Mudu Town has surpassed the Yuqing School and the county-affiliated government-run school and become the first school in Wu County.

In December last year, nearly 3,000 young students from all over Pingjiang Prefecture rushed to Kaoyanying School in Mudu Township.

Of course, the master of the Liu Academy is more concerned about Fan Ning, if Fan Ning can be admitted to the Tongzi Science and Technology Academy, then Yanying Academy will be on the same level as the famous Academy of Literature in Pingjiang Mansion.

The impact of being admitted to the adult jinshi on the school is not great, mainly because the county school benefits, but being admitted to the children's science and technology, that is the credit of the school.

Although Fanning did not stay in Yanying Academy for a long time, no one can deny that Fanning was born in Yanying Academy.

Fan Tiezhou shook his head, "I'm worried too!" ”

After a pause, he said, "I heard that there is another palace examination, is it not of great significance to take the provincial examination?" ”

"Nope! No! No! ”

Courtyard Master Liu hurriedly shook his head, "As long as you are admitted to the provincial examination, you will at least be able to obtain the same Jinshi background, and the palace examination is only the second ranking." ”

"Master Liu, let's go have a cup of tea!" Fan Tiezhou pointed to the Tongxing Teahouse not far away and said with a smile.

Courtyard Master Liu nodded happily, "Then please!" ”

As soon as the two of them walked to the door of the teahouse, they saw Aqing panting and running, "Master, there is a fast letter delivered in the capital!" ”

Fan Tiezhou was in good spirits, turned around and ran towards the medical hall, and Liu Hospital Master also followed closely.

Ran to the door of the medical hall, only to see a messenger waiting aside, the messenger stepped forward and said, "May I ask if the staff is Fan Tiezhou?" ”

"I am!"

The sender took out a letter, "This is a signed express letter from Beijing, and it needs to be signed by the outsider in person!" ”

Fan Tiezhou hurriedly took a private seal from the medical hall and stamped it on the receipt letter.

Fan Tiezhou read the letter at this time, and sure enough, it was written by his son.

He hurriedly tore open the letter cover, and the head of the Liu courtyard also stretched his neck to read the letter on the side.

After only looking at two lines, Fan Tiezhou covered his face and squatted down, tears of excitement welling up from between his fingers.

Courtyard Master Liu didn't see it clearly, and asked anxiously, "Tie Zhou, what's the situation?" ”

Fan Tiezhou said in a trembling voice: "As you wish, he passed the exam!" ”

"Ahh

Courtyard Master Liu's face suddenly bloomed, and he hurriedly clenched his fists, "Congratulations to Tie Zhou!" ”

The news of Fanning's entrance examination for the boy to try to enter the school soon spread throughout the town, and for a while, the entire Mudu town was boiling, gongs and drums were beating, firecrackers were loud, and hundreds of people poured into Fan's medical hall to congratulate Fan Tiezhou.

Fan Tiezhou specially took out 1,000 yuan of money, and each family in Mudu Town and Jiangwan Village sent a consistent amount of money to express his gratitude to his father and fellow villagers.

At the same time, Sutai Town, Wu County was also boiling, and the news of Su Liang's entrance examination for the boy Jinshi spread all over his hometown, and Su Liang's grandfather was so excited that he specially set up a hundred tables of wine banquets to invite the elders of his hometown.

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According to the schedule of the admission notice, on March 15, all scholars will be concentrated in the Chongwen Hall and will not be allowed to go out.

This is actually for the sake of the scholars, and the triennial marriage tide has already begun before the list is released.

The wealthy and powerful and wealthy businessmen drove around in horse-drawn carriages looking for the Jinshi who made the list.

Married Jinshi hid in their father-in-law's house, and unmarried Jinshi also hid in the homes of relatives and friends in the capital, not because they didn't want to be caught in marriage, but because they wanted to take the initiative into their own hands.

Sell themselves at a price, choose a wife they are satisfied with, and obtain the greatest benefits, they don't want to be caught in the house so easily to get married.

As for the scholars who tested the boys, they were not taken too seriously, after all, they were young, they were all under the age of fifteen, and the imperial court also had clear regulations that it was not allowed to try the children of the boys to get married.

On March 17, three days before the palace examination, the Ministry of Rites summoned 596 scholars who had passed the provincial examination to study etiquette at the Ministry of Rites.

Since the Son of Heaven personally presided over the examination, the examination room was set up in the Daqing Palace, which required the scholars to learn the necessary etiquette of going to the court, bathing and changing clothes, speech and behavior when going to the temple, how to salute the Son of Heaven and so on.

Many details were taught to the scholars one by one, and they had to be simulated three more times until they would not make any mistakes, and the meticulous officials of the Ministry of Etiquette ended the day's training.

By the time I left the Ministry of Rites, it was already dark.

"Fanning, do you think we will be robbed?"

Su Liang got on the ox cart and looked around a little worriedly, he lowered his voice and said, "I heard that Meng Tong was robbed into the mansion by the Yan family and married Yan Shu's seventh granddaughter. ”

Fan Ning said with a smile: "Meng Tong is Ouyang Xiu's disciple, and Ouyang Xiu is Yan Shu's protégé, do you think the Yan family still needs to rob Meng Tong when they see it?" ”

"You mean, it's been booked for a long time?"

"It should be!"

At this moment, a carriage suddenly stopped in front of the ox cart in which they were riding. There was a stop, and only the people shouted, "This ox cart is also coming out of the Ministry of Rites!" ”

Four or five sturdy women rushed out of the carriage, rolled up their sleeves, and rushed straight to the ox cart, they were the main force of the robbery.

There are two kinds of women, one is the healthy woman, they are the main force of the start, they snatch the Jinshi into the carriage, and there are two beautiful women sitting in the carriage, and they are responsible for appeasing the emotions of the Jinshi.

The two women hugged Jinshi's arm on the left and right to prevent him from jumping out of the car and escaping, and at the same time comforted him and persuaded him that it would not hurt to let Jinshi eat some tofu, as long as they could send Jinshi into the mansion, they would all be rewarded.

Seeing a group of tiger-wolf-like women rushing towards him, Su Liang was frightened and said urgently: "What should I do?" We're going to be robbed! ”

Fan Ning's expression was normal, he was not worried, they were children and scholars, it is said that many women waiting for marriage are in their twenties, do you want him, a thirteen-year-old boy, to marry a wife in her twenties?

When the time comes, just make it clear.

But he didn't seem to have to worry about it, only to see a woman's scream, four or five healthy women who were about to get on the ox cart to rob people fell to the ground one after another, and a black shadow protected the gate of the ox cart.

"Who is this man?" Su Liang asked in surprise.

"You know!" Fanning smiled and walked out of the ox cart.

Su Liang suddenly came to his senses, and he said a little sourly: "I knew that Ju Pei would protect you!" ”

Fanning jumped out of the oxcart and smiled at Xu Qing, "Let me reason with them!" ”

Fanning clenched his fists and said to the butler sitting in front of the carriage, "May I ask which family's marriage envoy?" ”

When the housekeeper saw a young man, his face was suddenly a little embarrassed, "We belong to Mrs. Yang's family." ”

Taiwei Yang is the brother of Empress Yang, Fan Ning nodded, "In Xia Fanning, he is a boy test student, thank you Taiwei Yang for looking up, forgive me for not obeying my fate!" ”

When the housekeeper heard that it was the one who made the boy's test, he immediately screamed unlucky, so he had to let everyone get into the carriage and apologize to Fanning: "A misunderstanding, sorry!" ”

The carriage turned around and galloped away in the direction of the Ministry of Rites.