After marrying sick Yangzi, I made my whole family rich

Chapter 278
In late March, officials from various places received the news and sent their people to organize local cooking competitions one after another.

The best cooks will be selected and sent to the south of the Yangtze River for the final competition. In the end, they may appear in front of Emperor Daxing and personally cook for him to taste!
People all over Daxing soon learned about this grand event, and they all rushed to tell each other, looking forward to it, excited and worried.

Many ordinary people who are unable to participate in the imperial examination and cross social strata, but want their whole family to ascend to heaven, are looking forward to this rare opportunity to leap over the dragon's gate.

However, the threshold for this competition is extremely high. Even if you participate in an individual's name, you must be a well-known chef, and you must have five local village elders as guarantees.

After all, they are cooking for the emperor. Even if they may not be able to walk in front of him, those who participate must be clean and their immediate family members must not have any history of committing adultery.

Otherwise, if something goes wrong, not only the Nine Clans will be punished, but even those who provided guarantees will be punished with death!
To participate in the name of a restaurant, the restaurant must have a considerable influence in the local area to be eligible. Otherwise, other pheasant restaurants will participate, and there will be many people and a short time, which will be too busy.

Besides, why is the Pheasant Restaurant a Pheasant Restaurant? If the cook is good, can it still be a Pheasant Restaurant?

From this point, most restaurants can be screened out.

After a lot of selection, only a few people were able to participate in the end.

As far as Xu Mengxiao knew, there were only ten well-known restaurants and about 50 people in the entire Luo City, and a total of more than [-] people were qualified to participate.

However, there are 38 provinces in Daxing. If there are about fifty people in each city, there are thousands of people.

Therefore, the government screening and competition are in full swing, and Xu Mengxiao is not worried that his restaurant will not even pass the initial hurdle.

So he focused on the next Zihan imperial examination.

On the third day of the fourth lunar month, the Suxian County Examination of the Guisi Year was held on time.

No one in Xu Mengxiao's family was absent. Even Lu Lizheng, who was busy working on his workshop in Yaoyu Village, all came together to take the exam for Xu Zihan.

Xu Zihan was not nervous, but felt that he had a heavy responsibility. He must get good grades in order to be worthy of his family's efforts and expectations.

"Mom, Uncle Lu, eldest sister, second sister, brother-in-law and Brother Hai, I'm going in."

"Go in, don't be afraid, no matter what the outcome is, it doesn't matter." Lu He patted his shoulder gently.

Xu Zihan immediately pursed his lips and looked at the others. Everyone nodded and agreed with Lu He's statement.

For a moment, the boy's eyes were so sore that he almost shed tears, "Well, I'm not afraid!"

Xu Mengxiao looked at his upright body resolutely walking into the examination room. In a trance, he seemed to see Zihan in the previous life, and felt sad and relieved.

Zihan, have you seen that you are living a good life in this life?

She was still so responsible and childish, and she was probably wiping her tears quietly again behind our backs.

There are five tests in the county examination, and each test has different content. It involves the Four Books and Five Classics, which are very basic things. Xu Zihan has already memorized them by heart.

He has a good memory and a good mind. He has already mastered the knowledge that others took several years to digest in half a year. Even Lu He and Master Sun praised him for his intelligence. He was not under any pressure in this county examination.

With this belief, I went through the search, checked my identity, found my seat, and saw that the examiner was Song Gao, the magistrate who had been to Lujia before.

At this time, Song Gao nodded slightly towards him.

Xu Zihan's spine straightened immediately. One day, he hoped that he could become an official like him and support his family...

With this in mind, he sharpened his ink and began to answer on the paper.

Coincidentally, this time Xu Shengjie's seat was diagonally across from him. As long as Xu Shengjie raised his eyes, he could see him immersed in writing and writing with a relaxed expression, as if the questions he encountered were nothing special.

But Xu Shengjie felt awkward as he wrote. What's going on? Xu Zihan knows all these?

No, he must be pretending. He has only studied for a long time and dares to compare with himself. Isn't it true that only people who don't know how to do it can't realize how difficult the question is?Or maybe he just didn't see it when he frowned and sighed.

"Yes, that must be the case!" Xu Shengjie cheered himself up, but couldn't help but look at the reactions of others.

Seeing many people sighing and looking bitter, he immediately felt relieved.

From this point of view, it is not his own problem, but Xu Zihan's problem.

Xu Shengjie gritted his teeth and felt a little proud, Xu Zihan, just wait until you are finished!
After one day of exams, there is another day, and I have to get up early every morning. The search takes a lot of time.

Fortunately, the county examination only requires qualified scholars from a county to participate. There are no more than a hundred people in total, and the process goes very quickly.

The next day, Lu Lizheng followed Lu Hai back to Yaoyu Village. There were too many things at home that he couldn't leave. Seeing that Zihan didn't need to worry about it, he left with peace of mind.

The others stayed with Xu Zihan in the nearest inn, and quickly booked several rooms as early as a month ago.

The innkeeper recognized Xu Mengxiao as the Santong family from Taoyuan Township. Not to mention how attentive he was, he kept the place spotless every day and brought the best food and water first.

Xu Mengxiao's family lived comfortably and received many rewards.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye, and the results were announced quickly.

The county test list uses seat numbers. The list is presented in a circle, divided into two layers, the outer layer is thirty people, the inner layer is twenty people, and a big "中" is written in the middle.

The closer it is to the inner layer, the better the performance will naturally be, and the head of No. 1 is located in the middle of the outer layer, with the word "improvement", which is very conspicuous.

Others write their seat numbers in a rotating manner. To find your own seat number, you have to twist your head and look back and forth. You don't need to do that at the desk. The seat number at the desk is written large and straight, in a vertical format. way to present.

Before dawn, Xu Shengjie ran over excitedly and waited for the results to be released. Although this county test was a bit difficult, it couldn't be a problem for him at all.

So as soon as the official posted the red list, he opened his eyes wide and quickly looked for his seat number on the inner floor.

The rankings decrease from left to right. Xu Shengjie predicts that he will be in the top five.

As a result, when he saw his seat number in No. 3, he immediately screamed with excitement!

"I got it, I got it, I got No. 3!"

Those who failed secretly curled their lips, "No. 1 in the county exam is nothing, let alone No. 3. But is there such a thing as No. 3 in the county exam?"

"No, it doesn't matter if you pass the county exam, it doesn't matter what your ranking is." said a candidate whose seat number was on the outermost level.

Xu Shengjie sneered, "Don't say grapes are sour when you can't eat them!"

"Haha, we didn't win this time, but at least there will be a next time, and we can still continue taking the exam. Unlike someone, it was in vain if he won, and the government won't recognize him at all!"

Xu Shengjie's heart sank, and his face was filled with gloom.

He was unwilling to give in. Why did he end up like this despite not doing anything? It was all because of that damn Xu Mengxiao and Xu Zihan!

By the way, Xu Zihan!

Xu Shengjie quickly found his seat number from the outermost position.

Many people had heard about the bet between him and Xu Zihan, so when they saw it, they immediately started whispering to each other and asked what Xu Zihan's seat number was.

(End of this chapter)