After the second year of junior high school, Wang took the old man Wang to the village chief's house and several elders in the village to worship for a year, and then rested at home.

Zhao Yunlan heard that Qingshui Temple held a temple fair, so she invited Wang and Li Mingmei to go shopping together, and the brothers in the family knew that they would also follow, and now it became a one-day trip to the temple fair for the whole family.

Qingshui Temple is not big, and there are few activities held by the temple fair, but there are a lot of people who come, Zhao Yunlan's family has just entered this territory, there are many small merchants and hawkers who set up stalls, selling snacks, selling toys, or some small stalls selling some lucky bags and bags, wearing them on their bodies to drive away evil spirits and pray for blessings, a good omen.

Zhao Yunlan looked at these snacks and was greedy, those small toys also attracted Xiaobao, Zhao Yunlan took Xiaobao and Li Mingmei to walk in front and kept spending money, several brothers of the Li family helped to get things in the back, and the family was full of these snacks just after Zhao Yunlan's feeding.

When they entered the Qingshui Temple, the brothers of the Li family couldn't let go of their hands. The Wang family took Old Man Li to pray for blessings, and Zhao Yunlan took Li Mingmei to worship the God of Wealth.

After the family prayed and left the temple, Zhao Yunlan looked at her father-in-law and said: "Just now we should come out to buy things again, and we can save some effort, I see that there are some different stalls outside!" ”

Li Mingren felt that the lady was feeling sorry for himself in the last sentence, and in the next sentence, he felt that things were not good, only to see Zhao Yunlan pulling Li Mingmei to go shopping again.

The family returned to Lijia Village, it was already evening, Zhao Yunlan walked around for a day and her legs were sore, the family was tired, she bought some steamed buns before coming back, Zhao Yunlan didn't cook, and after heating up the buns, she would eat them at night.

The next day, Zhao Yunlan planned to go to the old lady Liu and Mrs. Wang to pay New Year's greetings, but the old lady Liu's family returned to the old house of the main family for the New Year, and Zhao Yunlan handed over the New Year's gift to the steward who stayed to guard the courtyard and left.

Li Mingren has begun to resume Zhao Yunlan's devilish learning mode, seeing that the New Year is getting closer and closer to the exam, Li Mingren gets up early every day to exercise and run, and conducts mock examination training every seven days.

Time passed, the weather became warmer and warmer, the day of the Lantern Festival arrived, Zhao Yunlan sent Li Mingren to Zhao's house to pick up the Zhao family, and the two families had a lively Lantern Festival together.

Zhao Yunlan has been busy for a day, after the Lantern Festival, the shops in the town will start to open, and those who should study at home will go to study. The work in the field is about to start drying, and Zhao Yunlan took Wang Hanchun and Li Mingli to carry out pepper selection and germination. Wang Hanchun recorded Zhao Yunlan's steps one by one, from how to select seeds to the precautions for germination later, all of them were clearly recorded, and Zhao Yunlan also asked Li Mingli to record a separate one.

Zhao Yunlan took advantage of the germination to take the two of them to the cultivated land to fertilize the land a few days ago, Zhao Yunlan was worried that the fertilizer would be too much and the pepper sprouts would be burned to death, so she watered the farmhouse fertilizer mixed with water in advance. Zhao Yunlan also allocated a small plot of land to plant these freshly sprouted pepper sprouts.

Zhao Yunlan divided several batches of seeds to promote germination, the first batch of germination rate was not too good, barely more than half, Zhao Yunlan planted these buds into that piece of land, and continued to urge the second batch of sprouts. When the second batch of buds is promoted, the buds of the previous batch will also grow into seedlings. The germination rate of the second batch was somewhat higher than that of the first batch.

Zhao Yunlan transplanted the second batch of buds, and continued to transplant the first batch of pepper seedlings into the leveled ground. In this way, twelve batches of pepper sprouts were repeated, and the two mountains were planted together, and Zhao Yunlan took Li Mingli and Wang Hanchun to close their eyes every day, and they had to come and see this pepper sprout at any time. Deng Yong finished the work of those fruit trees on the mountain, and he would come down to help Zhao Yunlan. Even Old Man Li came to help with the work several times.

After Zhao Yunlan transplanted the last batch of pepper seedlings into the ground, Li Mingren also ushered in the annual county test.

Zhao Yunlan planned to let Mingli accompany Li Mingren to the county. Li Mingren still went to the county a few days earlier as in previous years, and the two brothers found an inn closer to the examination room, and the inn in the county was a little more expensive these days, but Zhao Yunlan instructed the two brothers to find an inn that was closer and had a good environment.

Zhao Yunlan rushed to the town the day before Li Mingren's exam, thinking of sending Li Mingren to the examination room. Li Mingren had an indescribable feeling in his heart, and secretly swore that he would not disappoint the lady this time. Zhao Yunlan also has an indescribable feeling, she is like an old mother who sends her son into the examination room.

After Li Mingren entered the examination room, Zhao Yunlan was ready to go back to Lijia Village, and before leaving, Zhao Yunlan stuffed ten taels of silver to Li Mingli, telling the brothers not to save money when they ate out.

Zhao Yunlan went home and continued to take care of the pepper, watching the pepper seedlings grow up little by little, Zhao Yunlan's heart became more and more stable.

Ten days later, Li Mingren and Li Mingli rushed back from the county, and both of them had happy faces on their faces. Zhao Yunlan had already seen from the faces of the two that this time should have passed, Li Mingli excitedly watched dancing at home, and said that Li Mingren won the second place in the county exam this time.

When Zhao Yunlan heard it, she instructed: "It's nothing to pass the county test, this second place is nothing to be proud of, don't make a show in the village for the time being, and we'll talk about it when the government has tried it later." ”

Li Mingren nodded and said, "Well, lady." I will continue to work hard, there is a hospital exam this year, and I will definitely prepare well for the government exam in April, so that I can catch up with this year's college exam. ”

Old man Li: "Then don't waste time, hurry up"

Li Mingli also echoed: "Yes, big brother hurry up and go to study." ”

Zhao Yunlan said: "You repeat the exam questions, and I'll take them to Mr. for approval." Zhao Yunlan thought about being cheeky and begging Old Man Liu again.

Li Mingren responded, returned to the house and began to write silently.

Zhao Yunlan took Li Mingmei to the kitchen, planning to make something delicious to treat Li Mingren and Li Mingli.

Li Mingli has been worried about the situation of peppers in the county for the past few days, and when he saw that everything he had said was almost done, he hurriedly went to the field on the other side of the mountain to see the peppers.

The next day, Zhao Yunlan took Li Mingrenmo's test paper and went to the town.

In the small courtyard of the Liu family, Old Lady Liu frowned at Li Mingren's test papers, and shook his head from time to time. Zhao Yunlan looked at Old Lady Liu's expression, and was anxious about what level Li Mingren was now.

Mrs. Wang looked at Mrs. Liu's appearance and couldn't help urging: "Hurry up and tell me, how is this Zhao Niangzi's father-in-law doing?" ”

Old lady Liu said slowly: "Hey, I can only say that there is progress compared to last time!" This can be ranked second in Xihe County, which shows that the learning level of students in Xihe County is worrying! ”

When Zhao Yunlan heard this, she was worried that Li Mingren's later government would not be able to try, let alone the hospital test.

I only heard Mrs. Wang say: "Don't secretly compare the students in the capital, you only say that you can be sure of mastering the next government exam?" ”

Old lady Liu pursed her mouth: "It's no problem for this Li family kid to pass the house test, but he still has to work hard in the later hospital test." ”

Zhao Yunlan nodded: "Thank you for the old lady's advice." ”

Old lady Liu handed over the corrected test paper to Zhao Yunlan, and Zhao Yunlan didn't stay long before going back.