The Legend of the Farm Girl

Four years later, Yunfang accompanied Li Muwen and Yunfeng to Beijing to take the imperial examination. Because it was their first time to Beijing and the journey was long, Li Guangan and Li Muxing also accompanied them.

Also going with them was Liu Zhanpeng and his servant.

There were seven of them, most of them were strong men, and Yunfang also had means of self-defense, so it could be said that they were relatively safe.

For the past four years, Yunfang and Li Muwen have been renting the house that Tong Yingying helped find. For various reasons, they did not apply for student housing.

In the second year after arriving at the Fucheng Academy, there was an imperial examination, but Li Muwen's essay was definitely not acceptable in the eyes of the academy's teacher.

Even with Yunfang's help, the teacher at the Fucheng Academy just said that he was not ready yet and if he continued to study at this pace for another three years, he should be able to pass the exam.

Yunfeng passed the examination and became a scholar in the second year after they came to Fucheng Academy. He could have chosen to stay in Fucheng Academy to study, but Yunfang's mother resolutely sent Yunfeng to Yunfang.

Yunfang's mother believed that with Yunfang's ability, she would be able to train her younger brother to become a juren.

As expected, Yun Fang's mother lived up to her expectations. Last autumn, Yun Feng, at the age of seventeen, became the youngest juren in the entire Yiqing County.

Even in the entire Jiangliao Province, there were very few juren as important as Yunfeng.

When Yun Feng passed the imperial examination, the number of guests coming and going almost overwhelmed the Yun family. Fortunately, with the help of the Li family, the banquet was successfully completed.

Yun Feng has not been engaged in the past few years. After the news of his success in the imperial examination came, matchmakers almost filled the Yun family yard, but they were all rejected by Yun Fangniang one by one. Yun Feng is still young, and if he has a chance to pass the next two imperial examinations, he may have a better marriage.

Even if I fail the exam, it's still not too late to get engaged to Yunfeng in four years. He will only be twenty-one.

Yunfeng also didn't want to get engaged. He wanted to find a woman as outstanding as his sister. He once secretly looked at the women introduced to him by the matchmaker and found that they were far inferior to his sister, so he didn't want to get engaged to any of these women.

On the first day of October last year, Yunfeng also entered the Fucheng Academy to study, and Yunfang then tutored Yunfeng and Li Muwen together.

Yun Fang was not the only one who taught Yun Feng. Li Muwen also often taught him. It can be said that Li Muwen lived in dire straits this year.

He had to go to the academy to study during the day, and when he came back at night, his sister and brother-in-law took turns to teach him. However, in just one year, Yunfeng made rapid progress, which surprised the teacher.

At the beginning of the year, the teacher said that Li Muwen's writing skills were ready and he could go to the capital to try for the imperial examination.

But for Yunfeng, the Master did not recommend Yunfeng to go. He was not as calm as Li Muwen, nor did he have as much experience as Li Muwen. He was also young and full of energy. The Master was afraid that if he failed, he would lose his spirit and fail, so he did not recommend him to go.

Yun Feng was unwilling to do so. Even if he failed the imperial examination this time, he still wanted to experience it. If he was lucky enough to pass, at his age, he would surely be famous all over the world.

Which young man could resist such temptation? So at the beginning of the year, Yunfeng and Li Muwen submitted their documents together to participate in this imperial examination.

This was not the first time that Liu Zhanpeng went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, but he failed to pass the exam last time. Li Muwen and Liu Zhanpeng had interacted a lot over the years. After Liu Zhanpeng failed the imperial examination, Li Muwen often comforted Liu Zhanpeng.

Later, he often accompanied Liu Zhanpeng to study, and the two families visited each other frequently, and their friendship grew deeper and deeper.

Yunfang and Tong Yingying's interactions increased, and she later found out that Tong Yingying's father was actually a fourth-rank minister of the Ministry of Rites, a real Beijing official. When Yunfang was originally confused about the mismatch between Liu Zhanpeng and Tong Yingying, Tong Yingying cleared up her confusion.

It turned out that Tong Yingying's father and Liu Zhanpeng's father studied in the same academy when they were young. Later, they went to Beijing together to take the imperial examination. The two discussed that if both of them could pass the examination, they would become in-laws and help each other in their future careers.

As expected, both of them passed the imperial examination and became Jinshi at the same time, but Tong's father ranked second and Liu's father ranked third. However, they still kept their promise and arranged a marriage for Tong Yingying and Liu Zhanpeng.

This time, Tong Yingying did not accompany Liu Zhanpeng to the capital because she was pregnant again and was only two months pregnant, so she could not travel. Liu Zhanpeng arranged for her to stay at home to take care of the pregnancy and only let his servant go to Beijing with him to take the exam.

In the past four years, Yunfang and Li Muwen had seen countless doctors because she had never been able to get pregnant. However, the doctors always said that there was nothing wrong with her and Li Muwen's health.

Both the elders of the Li family and Yun Fang's mother were very anxious, but no one urged her, and Li Muwen often comforted her.

But how could Yunfang not be anxious? Especially every time she returned to Yiqing County, she saw Tian Changrui from Tian Tian's family growing up slowly. The desire to have a child became stronger and stronger in her heart. This time she went to Beijing with Li Muwen to take the exam, and she also wanted to go to Beijing to see a doctor.

The seven people drove two horse-drawn carriages and took seven days of bumpy journey before reaching the capital.

The capital city was obviously much colder than Jiangliao Province, and there was still unmelted snow in February.

Fortunately, the teacher reminded them before they set off, so they prepared a lot of thick clothes.

When they arrived in the capital, there was still nearly half a month before the imperial examination began. If they stayed in the inn the whole time, not only would they not be able to rest well due to the constant coming and going of people, but the cost would also be very high.

Li Muwen and Yunfang discussed renting a yard, and if they couldn't rent one they would continue to live in the inn.

Liu Zhanpeng has already arrived.

As soon as Liu Zhanpeng arrived in Beijing, he went to visit his father-in-law's house and was arranged by his father-in-law to live in a courtyard with three entrances. The reason why he was not arranged at home was not because his father-in-law did not value Liu Zhanpeng, but because he wanted him to study better.

The house is too noisy and I’m afraid it will affect his exam preparations.

This three-courtyard compound is only two miles away from the Imperial Examination Hall. After coming here with his father-in-law, Liu Zhanpeng obtained his father-in-law's consent and allowed Li Muwen and his family to live here with him.

After his father-in-law left, he went straight to find Li Muwen's family.

Neither Li Muwen nor Yun Fang was the type to take advantage of others, so they finally agreed to give Liu Zhanpeng twenty taels of silver for living there. Liu Zhanpeng agreed, and then they decided to live with him.

Because of Liu Zhanpeng, Tong Yingying's father, Tong Renchu, the Minister of Rites, often came to this house to guide Liu Zhanpeng.

As a result, he often tested Li Muwen and Yun Feng.

The two of them made him repeatedly affirm, and he was confident in his son-in-law's vision in making friends. In his opinion, Li Yun and the other two were both very talented people, and even if they failed this subject, they would surely pass it after taking the exam twice more.

As the imperial examination was getting closer, Tong Renchu ​​had more and more social engagements. An imperial edict he wrote recently was praised by the emperor, and all the candidates who got the news came to ask him for advice.

He didn't expect that even the biggest mountain on his head, the Minister of Rites, would invite him to be a guest.