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Chapter 902 The Ultimate Scholar's Wife 14
"Old sister-in-law, congratulations! Your fourth child is promising!"

"Auntie, you guys are going to pay off your hardships, congratulations!"

"Siblings and sisters, I have already seen that your fourth child is a promising child, won't he pass the exam?"

"........."

"Thank you everyone, we are all happy together." Mrs. Li said with a blushing face.

An Ran listened to the compliments of the villagers on Li Silang, smiled on her face, but thought in her heart, what she said was not a bad thing, the old lady may not know, but she has practiced martial arts and has good hearing, she has often listened to the village People joked that Li Silang was worthless, and the old lady Li regarded a piece of mud that could not support the wall as a treasure. She was eccentric and stupid. Now everyone praised Li Silang, as if they had never said it before Those words are like, are you embarrassed?

——In fact, the country people don’t know what it means to pass the imperial examination at the county level. They have only heard of the scholar. You may have heard of it, but it is difficult to get a Jinshi. Generally speaking, such a person will not appear in a radius of tens of miles. If there is no such person in the locality, and the news is blocked, then ordinary people will not know this identity. I don't understand it at all, so naturally I don't know what it means to raise a person to be a Jinshi. At most, I know what it means to be a champion, and I know it from the drama.

So at this moment, everyone came to Li's house to congratulate. In fact, they just joined in the fun, so they came to congratulate.

Not only some people congratulated Mrs. Li, but also some congratulated An Ran.

"His niece and daughter-in-law, congratulations, she will be a talented lady tomorrow."

"Sister and sister, you are pregnant, and Shiro passed the county test again. This is a double blessing, congratulations."

"........."

No matter what these people said about her and Li Silang before, but now they are congratulating them face to face, she naturally can't drive them away just because they know they are talking about them behind their backs, so she also smiled and thanked them one by one.

Not only the villagers came, but Li Sansao and others who heard that Li Silang had passed the county examination also came.

They whispered to each other all the way.

"Fourth, this is a lucky moment? Can he pass the county test?" Mrs. Li said.

"Isn't that right? I have been taking exams since I was twelve or thirteen years old. I haven't passed it once, but I can pass this time. Is it burning incense?" Second Aunt Li said.

"I heard that the county exam is easy, and you can pass it after just two years of study. The fourth child failed to pass the exam for so many years. It was shameful. It is normal to pass now." Li Sansao's family conditions are good, and the brothers in the family are educated. Yes, I know something about the imperial examination, so I said this.

"The fourth child passed the county examination. Although it is a happy event, I am afraid it is also a worrying thing." Second Aunt Li was silent for a while, then suddenly said.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Li looked at each other, and couldn't help feeling worried.

They understood what Mrs. Li meant by the troublesome things. It was nothing more than that the old lady saw hope. If the money in their hands wasted by then, and the fourth child still wanted to take a higher level exam, they would probably come to them. The three brothers asked for money. The fourth brother hadn't even passed the county test before, so there was no hope. So the old couple would have no money, and they might be embarrassed to ask them for it. But now, the fourth child passed the county test. A little bit of hope, I'm afraid that the old couple will keep letting him pass the exam, and if they don't have money, they want him to take the exam. If they don't have money and want to take the exam, then they will ask them for money. This is not a troublesome thing .

After thinking about this point clearly, the happiness in the hearts of the sisters-in-law became more and more dilute, and Li Sansao even said: "It would be great if the fourth child didn't pass the county examination."

But of course, this can only be said by their sisters-in-law in private, but they dare not say it out, or they will be torn apart by Mrs. Li.

Because Mrs. Li was happy today, seeing Mrs. Li and the others came, she didn't show her face because they insisted on arguing about the separation of the family before. On the contrary, she said kindly: "Let's have a reunion dinner tonight, congratulations to you My brother passed the county test."

The messenger said that Li Silang would be back soon, so Mrs. Li said so.

For such a big happy event, it is natural for the whole family to sit together, chat and share the joy, otherwise it would be too embarrassing.

Mrs. Li Sansao and the others couldn't help but look at each other when they heard Mrs. Li's words, and they were not very happy, because they all knew that they would come here tonight and bring things again. After all, it is impossible to invite them to dinner for nothing. Living, the food is good, the things they bring are not good, the old lady wants to talk, but how can they be willing to buy such a good thing-even if they buy it, they are not willing to give it to the fourth child, so thinking about it this way, It's not that they are not very happy in their hearts, they would rather not eat the meal of the fourth family, and they don't want to give things to the fourth family.

But the old lady gave the order, and it was indeed a big deal. If they didn't come, someone would talk about it, so the few people could only nod their heads and agree.

Sure enough, late at night, Li Silang came back in high spirits.

As soon as he entered the door, he was stupefied, boasting about his brilliant achievements.

"There are hundreds of people in the county taking the exam, and only the top 30 are taken. You say how difficult it is!... The rankings are more than [-], but if I didn't sit near the door and blow the cold wind, or I would You can do better in the exam.”

Well, anyway, there are reasons why he didn't do well in the exam, but it certainly wasn't his own reason.

In fact, he didn't do very well in the exam at all. After all, An Ran hasn't tutored him for a long time, so it's impossible for him to improve so much.

However, it is true that the ancient imperial examinations were difficult, because the admission rate was too low.

Just like a scholar, the scholar examination is held twice every three years, with thirty or forty places for admission in large counties, twenty or thirty for middle counties, and more than ten for small counties.

Although the population of this era is much smaller than that of modern times, as far as she knows, it is only about one tenth of modern times, so the number of people in large counties, middle counties and small counties is also one tenth of modern times. Too few. It is reasonable to say that the test should be easy, but it is different from the modern test. In modern times, you generally only have to compete with people of the same age. At most, some people repeat it for one or two years. The old ones, so although there are few people who study, but everyone can take the exam, the accumulated number is also very considerable, so Li Silang said that there are hundreds of people in the county who took the exam, which is also true.

After bragging for a while, Li Silang came to An Ran again to claim credit, saying: "Daughter-in-law, do you think I can do it?"

An Ran smiled and said, "Able!"

Then he gave him a penny and said, "This is for me as a daughter-in-law to reward my capable husband-in-law. When you pass the government examination and become a child, then I will give you two pennies!"

(End of this chapter)