That year, Chen Hou was seven years old, and Ayu had just transformed into a shape, and his appearance was the same size as Chen Hou.

There is one more person in the family, there is an extra pair of dishes and chopsticks, Chen Hou is young, the burden on his shoulders is heavier, but he also has more smiles.

Chen Hou was seventeen years old.

For the first time, he went out to the capital thousands of miles away to take the exam.

Ayu sent a hundred miles, said goodbye, and cried into tears.

The rice in the jar is gradually decreasing, and Grandma is not in good health. Ayu learned to weave in exchange for some money and food.

Three months later.

Chen Hou returned home in a hurry.

He fell off the list, sullen.

Ayu said that after she became conscious, she tried to transform every year, and it was not until a hundred years later that she succeeded.

Spring is blooming, it is another year, and Chen Hou is full of confidence to go to the capital again. Before leaving, Ayu held back tears and cheered him up.

During this time, Ayu learned to fish.

It was another three months, and Chen Hou came back dejectedly.

Once again, he fell off the list.

Ayu said, it's okay, it doesn't work once, it doesn't work twice, then do it again. She failed to transform ninety-nine times, and she didn't even think about giving up.

It is another year for the warbler to fly and the grass grows.

Chen Hou carried the hope of a family of three and once again embarked on the road to the capital.

This year, Ayu learned to grow vegetables.

Three months later, Chen Hou dragged his tired figure back.

Year 4......

Year 5......

The ninth year.

Chen Hou rushed to the exam nine times and failed the list nine times.

How easy is it to be a noble son from a poor family? Although Chen Hou has read a lot of books, he has lost something after all. Read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles. The road is lined, but the scenery on the side of the road can be appreciated?

Grandma's illness is getting worse every year. In addition, Chen Hou's entanglement used every time he rushed to take the exam made his family situation even more difficult.

Ayu was still cheering up Chen Hou.

She said that this time you will definitely pass the test.

Chen Hou asked, why? In fact, he had lost his courage and was ready to give up.

Ayu told him that because she was a demon, she had an intuition, and her intuition told her that she would definitely do it this time.

Chen Hou also grew up and realized that Ayu was a demon. But what does it matter.

In the tenth year, Chen Hou set off for the tenth time.

Ayu was reluctant to let Chen Hou go, but when she accompanied Chen Hou to study, she saw a sentence in the book, called "A good man is ambitious in all directions".

When Chen Hou was twenty-seven years old, he took the exam for the tenth time.

For the tenth time, there was no name on the list.

That year, Chen Hou burned all the thousands of books he had collected over the past 27 years.

His dreams, along with the books he thought he had so much love, were shattered.

Ash with the wind.

He is sad, nine out of ten people are white-eyed, and none of them are scholars. (Don't dwell on the time of the poem)

Ten times to catch the exam, ten times to fall off the list, not because of the entanglement again and again to increase the burden of the family, and grandma is old and sick He also went out ten times, Chen was questioned by the neighbors and villagers, and scolded him for not being filial.

Same.

The king is the crown prince.

The second prince, known as benevolent and virtuous, was made the crown prince.

The crown prince was enthroned and granted amnesty to the world.

By chance, I heard that Chen Hou had failed to make the list ten times, and I felt his perseverance and respected his perseverance. He was specially given the title of "Wenhua Bachelor" and invited him to enter the prince's mansion and be the prince's staff.

"When I become a Venerable Master, I will return to my hometown in fine clothes and marry you in a sedan chair. ”

Chen Hou went out again, this time not to catch the exam.

This time, three years apart.

Grandma was critically ill, and Chen Hou rushed back to see Grandma for the last time. Grandma is blind and not blind, and everything Ayu has paid for this family, she remembers it in her heart. Before dying, Grandma only confessed that Chen Hou could not live up to Ayu.

Ayu just burst into tears.

Chen Hou and Grandma didn't know that Grandma's health was not good, in fact, as early as when Chen Hou left for the third time, Grandma's body couldn't support it.

It was Ayu who gave the demon yuan she had cultivated with great difficulty to Grandma again and again to renew her life.

She renewed her life for Grandma for ten years, but Grandma ran out of oil and lamps after all, and the medicine stone was weak. Ayu extracted her own demon yuan again and again, so the shape was broken, so she hurt the foundation, if there is no accident, in her life, at most, she can only cultivate to the Jindan realm, and stop at Jindan.

After Grandma left, Chen Hou took Ayu to the capital.

Ayu could see that Chen Hou was not doing well in the capital. Although his clothes were brightly dressed and he had a place to stay, the gloom between his eyebrows grew thicker and thicker.

The prince did not treat him badly, but he did not use him for anything.

The kingdom promotes literature and respects literati.

Chen Hou was in his fifth year as the prince's staff. In order to encourage people from all over the world to study, the crown prince dressed up in disguise and participated in the examination as a flat identity, and won the high school championship in one fell swoop, which became a good story.

After the list is released, the next day.

The prince feasted 10,000 candidates and tasted delicious food. During the period, Chen Hou was used as an example to encourage them not to be discouraged and take the exam again next year. And paid out of his own pocket to distribute them one by one to return to their hometowns.

Day 10.

The prince and the prince's mansion held a banquet, invited the top ten in the big examination to celebrate their achievements, and one hundred and eight staff members of the prince's mansion attended.