Hidden in the court

The father and son went into another room and locked the door.

"Xiao An, come, sit down and talk."

Suo Wanjin spoke in a gentle tone, looking at the young man he had brought up, his eyes full of emotion and doting.

After a long while, he asked, "Xiao An, are you willing to marry into my family?"

Xie An was still sitting there, obediently "awaiting his fate", but he didn't know how to respond to this sentence.

"what!"

"I'm asking you, are you willing to be a son-in-law and marry Wei'er?"

Suo Wanjin's tone was friendly, and even contained some guilt.

But it was this guilt that made Xie An even more distressed.

"Boss, it's...I...I'm not worthy of the young lady..."

Hearing him say this, Suo Wanjin breathed a sigh of relief, and then said seriously: "I raised you since you were a child. I know your abilities, virtues, and character better than you do. But I only have her as my daughter, so I have to make you a son-in-law.

But don't worry, if Wei'er dares to bully you in the future, I won't let her go. I'm just asking, are you willing to marry her?"

With a plop, Xie An fell heavily to his knees.

"I am willing. You treated me like your own child, and I have no way to repay you. If I were to marry into your family, I would be marrying up..."

Suo Wanjin didn't wait for him to finish, as long as he was willing.

She hurriedly helped him up: "Good boy, in the eyes of Wei'er and me, you have never been a servant. You are all my children, always have been. From now on, you will be Wei'er's husband."

The two looked at each other, and the next second they couldn't help crying...

Suo Wei heard the noise and came to the door, trying to hold back the urge to laugh.

"Come out for dinner."

After a long while, Suo Wanjin wiped Xie An's tears with his sleeve. "Let's go, eat, don't let Wei'er laugh at us..."

Half a month later

Imperial Examination

After Su Mengyang handed in his paper and walked out of the examination room, the sunlight, which had not been seen for a long time, seemed particularly dazzling.

As soon as I came out, I saw two soldiers escorting a candidate, who was shirtless and looked particularly embarrassed. At this time, his clothes were held in the hands of a soldier.

Su Mengyang went forward to investigate and saw that the clothes were covered with dense words. The words were written in very small letters. If Su Mengyang did not have good eyesight, he would not be able to make out what was written.

"Sir, I am innocent. These articles have nothing to do with the test questions!"

The noise here attracted the students who were still taking the exam. They all leaned over to see what was going on, but were scolded back by the officers and soldiers invigilating the exam.

The guards rolled their eyes, and another one with a bad temper slapped him in the face.

"Shut up, I'm standing guard today just to relax, you're looking for trouble, right?!"

After saying that, the two of them dragged the candidate away.

Su Mengyang was also secretly amazed as he watched from the side. These words might not have been written with rat whiskers. The man must have been very determined to write so many of them.

Another candidate standing nearby saw Su Mengyang walking past him and noticed a group of migrating geese flying over his head, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

"Got it, two roast ducks going north."

……

The test is over

Examiner presides over marking papers

The three examiners with white beards kept nodding as they looked at the test papers in their hands.

"What a pity! The article is good, but a little old-fashioned. I'm afraid the author is only a few years younger than you and me, right?"

"I'm afraid this guy won't have the energy to serve the country for many days, alas..."

"Forget it, just give him the first place."

No matter how hard these three people racked their brains, they would never know that this old-fashioned article was written by a young man.