Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

The candidates and the common people pushed and shoved each other, crowding towards the list of successful candidates.

Those who saw their names on the list couldn’t hide the smiles on their faces.

Those who are not on the list will move to other places.

The Xingbang list has not been posted yet, so they can’t say for sure whether they will be among the top this time!

*

Li Yu and a few others followed the crowd and looked from the back to the front. A total of 251 people were admitted to the Spring Examination, and the last few sheets of paper showed people ranked in the top 200.

Li Yu looked carefully, and soon saw Lu Sheng's name. He was on the fifth to last piece of paper.

Just then, Lu Sheng came over here. Li Yu saw him and shouted, "Mr. Lu has won."

Lu Sheng froze in place, a look of disbelief on his face.

The other students from the White Crane Academy who followed him came forward to look. When they saw Lu Sheng's name, they shouted, "It's your name, Brother Lu. Congratulations!"

Lu Sheng found his own rhythm amid the congratulations. He walked forward slowly and looked in the direction that others were pointing.

He read the words "No. 217 Lu Sheng, student of Nanzhou County, Nanzhou Prefecture" carefully and silently several times, and blinked to wipe away the moisture in his eyes.

He had been in school since he was six years old, and now it had been more than ten years. He finally made it to the final. Although he was only ranked in the top 200, he was content.

*

Everyone continued to look forward, and soon they saw Qi Wangnian's name. He was ranked 86th.

Congratulations again.

Next, it’s up to Han Zheng and several other students.

Li Yu looked through the cards one by one, and when there was only one card left, he couldn't help but feel nervous.

If this last one is not available yet, Han Zheng will have to wait another three years.

Thinking of this, her eyes fell on the last piece of paper.

"Eighth place, Cheng Lin, a student from Qingshan County, Qingzhou Prefecture. Seventh place, Huang Zhuting, a student from Dongping Prefecture in the capital. Sixth place... Second place, Han Zheng, a student from Jiangyang County, Nanzhou Prefecture."

The crowd was noisy, but at this moment, Li Yu felt that he could hear nothing.

Han Zheng is the second.

Han Xiaomei also saw Han Zheng's name. She was not as calm as Li Yu and screamed loudly.

"Third brother, you are the second place, you won!"

Han Zhengmu stared at his name in a daze for a long time.

At this moment, someone suddenly pulled him.

Han Zheng looked and saw that the people pulling him were two men dressed as servants, whom he didn't recognize at all.

"Mr. Han, our young lady is only 28 years old, just right for you. Please come home with us now!"

Lu Sheng and his friends never thought that there would really be a son-in-law being caught under the list, so they quickly stepped forward to pull Han Zheng back, "What are you doing?"

The servant was grinning. Behind the two stood a fat middle-aged man, who smiled and bowed to Han Zheng: "Mr. Han, my surname is Li, and I am the owner of the largest Li's cloth shop in Beijing. I have a little girl at home, who is as beautiful as a flower and a perfect match for you. You..."

"I don't want to!" Han Zheng said bluntly: "Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Li, but I don't need it."

The businessman surnamed Li: “…”

He wanted to say something else, but another wave of students came and pushed them aside.

Li Yu took the opportunity to ask everyone to leave.

*

After finding the carriage, everyone smiled happily.

Among the students who came to take the exam at Baihe Academy, Han Zheng, Qi Wangnian, and Lu Sheng all passed. The three who passed were happy, and the others who didn't pass were not too sad.

Their answers were not very good in the first place, so it was normal that they didn't win.

Han Zheng, on the other hand, got second place right from the start, which was really amazing.

They were not jealous because their teacher had told them in the academy that Han Zheng was born to take the imperial examinations, unlike them.

They racked their brains to recite a long article eight or ten times but still couldn't remember it completely, but Han Zheng only needed to read it two or three times.

As for policy essays, Han Zheng always writes them faster and better than them.

When a person's qualifications are similar to yours, and he passes the exam while you don't, you may feel jealous and sad, but when the difference in qualifications is so great, you can only envy him and can't even feel jealous. After all, talent is innate and cannot be envied.

*

Thinking that someone might come home to announce the good news later, Li Yu didn't stay any longer and prepared to go home and wait.

At this time, several people dressed as scholars came up to them.

"You are Han Zheng, right?" A young man in a royal blue satin robe nodded at Han Zheng.

Han Zheng looked at the other person and nodded.

The young man looked him up and down, and after a while, he snorted, "Before the imperial examination, everyone in the capital said you were a prodigy. Now it seems that you are not that good. You are only second, not as good as Brother Ji. Brother Ji was the champion of our Beizhou Prefecture's provincial examination last year, and now he is the first in the imperial examination. Your Nanzhou Prefecture is really not as good as our Beizhou Prefecture."

These words were really arrogant. Lu Sheng, who had a bad temper, was about to step forward to argue, but was quickly stopped by Qi Wangnian.

"Brother, who are you?" Qi Wangnian asked.

The man's expression changed.

"Could it be that you didn't win, sir?" Li Yu interrupted.

The man was so angry that he said, "So what if I didn't make the list? We only accepted over 200 people this year. If there were 100 more... no, 50 more, I would definitely be on the list!"

Li Yu chuckled, "If you were the first, you would laugh at Han Zheng, but you didn't win, where do you get the confidence from?"

The man opened and closed his mouth, and finally pointed at a plainly dressed man standing next to him, "I made this for Brother Ji, who got first place in this examination."

Li Yu turned to the first candidate named Ji Shuo.

"So this is Ji Shuo Ji Huiyuan, congratulations."

No one responded to her.

Li Yu was not annoyed and continued, "In the future, Ji Huiyuan may serve in the same court as our Han Zheng. Please take good care of him then."

Ji Shuo glanced at Li Yu and said, "I don't talk to the defeated generals in my family's business."

Li Yu: “…”

"The scientific expedition has not yet ended." Han Zheng suddenly said.

He looked straight at Ji Shuo, "The palace examination has not yet been held. Brother Ji, are you sure that you will still be the first in the palace examination?"

Ji Shuo's face changed, not knowing what he was thinking of.

Han Zheng said: "Scholars should be modest. When I saw Brother Ji's name just now, I thought you were a modest gentleman."

The result is an arrogant one.

In this case, there is no need to talk to this person any more in the future.

*

The two groups of people broke up unhappy.

Not far away, Yang Qingquan, the former chief academic officer of the Imperial College, who saw the whole process, frowned.

Hearing that the first place in this year's imperial examination was chosen by Emperor Tianyuan himself, he thought that the candidate must be a person as cool and graceful as the wind and the moon. However, it turned out that he was nothing like that.

Literary quality is not equal to personal character.

Sighing, Yang Qingquan shook his head and walked away.

*

Li Yu and his friends went home first.

As expected, there were people who reported the good news. The neighbors stood outside the door and whispered to each other towards Li Yu's door.

Madam Yan was standing at the door greeting the person who brought the good news. She used to be the wife of the Censor, so she was very good at dealing with people.

Seeing Li Yu, she laughed out loud, "You guys are finally back. Look, the messenger who brought the good news is waiting anxiously."

Li Yu hurried forward and led the person into the house to talk.

*

After giving a red envelope to the person who announced the good news, Li Yu sat at home for a while, dealing with a few neighbors who were trying to get close to her by sending gifts on this happy occasion, and then called Han Zheng and Si'er to go with her to meet Mr. Su.