The happy little days of the Ye family

In a blink of an eye, the three brothers have been studying in Qingsong Academy for eight years, and have grown from naive children into vigorous and elegant young men.

The three of them were promoted from Class C when they first entered school to Class A now, and will soon take part in the county examination together.

The three brothers started to go to school when they were four or five years old, and including the two years of enlightenment, this year marks exactly ten years.

After ten years of hard study, they are about to face the test. The three of them are excited and a little uneasy.

The students in Class A are all taking the county examination. In the classroom, the teacher is explaining how to register and make a guarantee, as well as the various matters and procedures that need to be paid attention to in the county and prefectural examinations.

Normally, to become a student, one must first pass both the county examination and the prefectural examination.

Passing the county exam was equivalent to obtaining the qualification to take the examination for a Tongsheng, and passing the prefectural exam was equivalent to officially becoming a Tongsheng.

In addition, after passing the examination for a tongsheng, one will take the academy examination. Those who rank in the top 50 in the academy examination will become a xiucai.

Each of these three exams will eliminate the vast majority of people, just like thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge.

The young men in the school had excited and passionate looks in their eyes, but they also felt a little nervous and had complicated emotions.

In fact, most of the people here have participated in the county examination or even the provincial examination once or twice.

Two years ago, in order to hone the three brothers and also to make them understand the specific process of the examination, the teacher specially asked them to try to take part in a county examination.

All three of them passed the county examination, but unfortunately they were eliminated in the first round of the prefectural examination.

Although the results were not ideal, at least the experience was sufficient, as I had at least experienced both the county and prefectural examinations.

Looking at the childish faces below, the teacher raised the corners of his mouth slightly and encouraged everyone calmly:

"You are all my most promising students. I hope you will do your best and live up to the expectations of the world and yourself."

Hearing the Master's words, the young men below were very enthusiastic and responded to the Master with a salute in unison:

"Master, I will definitely do my best to live up to the expectations of the world and myself."

Finally, the Master gave a long and earnest admonition:

"During the days before the exam, everyone must get enough rest. Only when you have a healthy body can you perform to your full potential."

"Okay, let's go home."

Seeing that everyone had listened carefully, the teacher nodded with satisfaction, then picked up a few books in the classroom and turned to leave.

As soon as the teacher turned around, Xiao Qi quickly put away the books, brushes, papers and other things on the table.

He moved quickly, but Chenchen and Xiao Shitou in front of him were slow. After waiting for a long time, the three of them walked out talking and laughing.

That night, everyone knew that the three brothers would take the county exam together in mid-February.

My son is about to take part in the county exam. The elders in each family tell their children not to be nervous, but they are actually much more nervous than their children.

That night, Ye Qingqing and Wang Chunyu both suffered from insomnia. In order to take care of little Shitou, Ye Qingmei even moved directly to the Ye family.

Three days later, Tang Xiaojing took his three children to the county government to register.

With the experience from last time, the three brothers remained quite calm and filled in their information in an orderly manner.

There are quite a lot of things that need to be filled in when registering. Not only do you need to write down your own information, but you also need to fill in the specific information of the three generations above you.

Finally, the other four candidates who guarantee each other and the student on government stipend who serves as guarantor should be listed.

If one of the five people who have guaranteed each other cheats, all five will be held responsible, which is a very high risk.

Therefore, the three brothers carefully considered the candidate for guarantor.

In addition to the three brothers, there is also Yang Shu, who has known each other for many years, and Li Rui, a classmate he met at Qingsong Academy.

As for the student who guaranteed the scholarship, it was naturally their own teacher. After all, the three of them didn't know the other students.

After Chenchen came back with the registration, Ye Qingqing became even more nervous and suffered from insomnia for several days.

At night, he either dreamed that his son failed the exam, or that his son passed the exam and became a scholar, and the whole family returned to the village in glory and held a banquet.

In her dream, she was sometimes extremely sad and sometimes extremely happy, which made her heart beat fast. After waking up, she couldn't fall asleep again.

However, no matter how worried they were, she and Tang Xiaojing did not show any of it in front of their child, and tried their best to keep their son in a comfortable environment.

In order to stop herself from having wild thoughts, she and Wang Chunyu often got together to discuss how to make meals more delicious and how to provide nourishment for the children.

Although the Tang family and the Ye family both have houses in the county, they are not close to the examination site.

In order to save trouble and avoid unnecessary accidents, the three families spent a lot of money and booked rooms in a nearby inn in advance for the children to rest.

At this time, the inn is like a money-grabbing place.

An ordinary medium-sized room usually costs only 120 wen a day, but now they dare to charge 600 wen a day.

However, some money still needs to be spent. In order to have a better rest, the three brothers each lived in a spacious room.

In order not to occupy the accommodation of these candidates, Tang Xiaojing and the other two only booked one house and planned to squeeze in for a few days.

After a day's rest in the inn, the county examination finally began amid the eager anticipation of countless students.

Before daybreak, the area around the examination room was already brightly lit, and filled with people in three layers inside and outside.

The students who needed to take the exam lined up in four rows to enter the examination room. The brothers arrived early and were right at the front of the line.

Inadvertently, Chenchen looked back and saw the crowd behind him.

There are young boys with childish faces, young men full of vigor and vitality, middle-aged students with uneasy faces, and old students with gray hair.

People of all kinds have different facial expressions and moods.

With just this one glance, he seemed to see the lives of many frustrated students.

After being searched, the brothers successfully entered the examination room.

Watching their children enter the examination room, Ye Donglin, Tang Xiaojing and his second cousin at the door all had the same nervous look on their faces.

Although it was still a bit chilly in spring, big drops of sweat were streaming down my forehead and my palms were already wet with sweat.

After an unknown amount of time, all the students had entered the examination room and the door slowly closed.

At this time, a large number of parents at the door became even more nervous, and many of them were walking around outside like blind flies.

People with business acumen opened small teahouses nearby early on, or picked some snacks such as peanuts and melon seeds to sell.

It’s no wonder that business is pretty good. Both tea stalls are full of people, and there is a long line at the stall selling melon seeds.

After Ye Donglin and the other two walked back and forth for a few times, they had nothing to do, so they went to the stall next to them and bought some melon seeds.

After eating melon seeds for a while, the three of them slowly calmed down and began to chat and laugh.

"These stalls seem to be doing pretty good business. I'm going to set up a stall here next time before the county exam." Ye Donglin looked enviously at the stalls with queues nearby.

The second cousin didn't even think about it and said with a smile:

"Then I'll come over and sell cakes. These people will definitely need to eat at noon."

Tang Xiaojing thought about it, but couldn't find anything he could use to set up a stall. Finally, he said domineeringly:

"I'll collect your money!"

It was bustling outside, but the examination room was quiet and all the students were looking down and answering questions seriously.