Starting from a thatched cottage, the farmer embarked on the road to wealth through imperial examina

This Spring Festival, Ye Changyan truly experienced what it means to have students and old friends all over the world.

Starting from the first day of the Lunar New Year and continuing until after the tenth day, there was an endless stream of people coming to pay New Year's greetings to Mr. Cai every day.

At first, Ye Changyan planned to go to the Shengjing temple fair with Mr. Cai and Liang Jingcheng. However, from the first day to the fifteenth day, Mr. Cai did not have a single free day.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng, as representatives of the teacher and the master's wife, went to the master's wife's hometown. When the relatives of the Xiao family learned that these were the two disciples of the youngest aunt of the Xiao family, and seeing that they were very good-looking, they all came forward to inquire about their family background and marital status, intending to arrange a marriage for them. As a result, the two received a lot of New Year's red envelopes at the Xiao family.

Starting from the third year of junior high school, Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng took Xing Wang to visit several senior brothers' homes to wish them a happy new year.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, I went to the home of my eldest brother Zhu Yuchun. Since Zhu Yuchun was an orphan brought to Shengjing by the old couple Cai from Zhangzhou, the people I met at Zhu's home, apart from Zhu Yuchun's colleagues and friends, were mostly relatives from my sister-in-law Ma's family.

On the fourth day of the New Year, he went to his second senior brother Zhao Mubai's house. The Zhao family was a large and powerful family with deep roots in Shengjing. Many friends and relatives came to the Zhao family that day. Zhao Mubai introduced some important relatives and friends to Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng. Ye Changyan got along well with some of them.

On the fourth day of the New Year, we went to the home of our fifth senior brother, Lu Ge'ang. The head of the Lu family is Lu Ge'ang's grandfather, and the several branches of the Lu family have not yet separated.

The Lu family is really a big family. Mr. Lu has seventeen or eighteen grandchildren. If you add the grandchildren who came back today, there are more than twenty in total, and there are twelve grandchildren under the age of fourteen.

Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng were chatting with several relatives and friends introduced by Lu Ge'ang, while Xing Wang was standing aside with nothing to do. Seeing that Lu Ge'ang's younger brothers and sisters were playing the game of pitching pots in the yard, Ye Changyan asked Xing Wang to play the game with these children as well.

Fortunately, I was about the same age as these kids and soon became friends with them.

But not long after, a lot of crying sounds were heard coming from the yard. Lu Ge'ang and his relatively younger brothers and sisters were all crying loudly in the yard.

When the adults heard so many children crying, they ran over to ask what was going on. Ye Changyan also came out to check the situation.

After asking, they found out that Xing Wang seemed to have disturbed a hornet's nest. It turned out that these children had prizes when playing the game of pitching pots. Xing Wang actually won all the New Year's money of these children. Seeing that their pockets were empty, the younger children were so anxious that they started crying.

Once one child started crying, the others seemed to be infected and they all felt very wronged and started crying loudly.

After learning the reason, Ye Changyan tried to persuade Xingwang to return the New Year's money to these children, but Xingwang was unwilling to do so.

"I won this by pitching pots."

Seeing that Xingwang was unwilling, the adults didn't know what to say, after all, it was the children who lost by playing the pot-to-pot game.

The adults then suggested that the children should be given back the New Year's money they had given away. However, except for two children who were a little more sensible, the other children refused to do so and kept crying and asking for their original New Year's money.

At this time, a young man about fifteen or sixteen years old walked out of the crowd.

This is Lu Gewei, the second son of Lu Geang's uncle. He is one of the few children in the Lu family who practices martial arts.

Lu Gewei stood up and challenged Xing Wang.

When the elders of the Lu family saw Lu Gewei standing up to challenge a child of eleven or twelve years old, they felt that something was wrong and were about to step out to stop him, but were stopped by Lu Geang.

Although Lu Ge'ang was not very clear about Xing Wang's specific origins, when he saw that Ye Changyan did not step forward to stop him, he knew that Ye Changyan knew something about it, so he reached out and grabbed the elder of the clan, and Lu Ge'ang also moved to the front row to watch the fun.

Lu Gewei challenged Xingwang, and the prize was a sword. If Xingwang won, the sword would belong to Xingwang. Of course, if Xingwang lost, he would have to return all the New Year's money he had won to the original children.

Xing Wang looked at Ye Changyan, and seeing that Ye Changyan had no objection, he readily agreed.

Lu Gewei thought that the previous game of pitching pots was too easy and wanted to increase the difficulty. He suggested that the two of them each put forward a request for increasing the difficulty. Fortunately, Wang had no objection.

So Lu Gewei proposed to change the distance of tossing arrows from the original ten feet to three feet. Xing Wang thought about it and then proposed that each hand should hold three feather arrows and toss the pot at the same time. After three rounds, whoever has more feather arrows in the copper pot will win.

When everyone at the scene heard about the difficulty of the game, they became very interested, and the guests of the Lu family all came forward to watch.

Lu Ge'ang, who was not afraid of getting into trouble, volunteered to be the starting officer. The two of them had to wait until the starting officer gave the order and then start tossing the pot at the same time.

Two men were seen standing outside the three-meter line, each holding three feather arrows in their hands, and their eyes were fixed on Lu Geang who was about to give the order.

"Ready...release!"

At Lu Ge'ang's command, Xing Wang and Lu Gewei threw twelve feather arrows into the air with both hands.

"Dangdangdang..."

There was a crisp sound coming from the copper pot. There were four feather arrows stuck in the copper pot belonging to Lugwei, while there were six feather arrows stuck in the copper pot belonging to Xingwang.

"it is good…!"

There was an immediate burst of applause from the audience.

No one expected it to be so difficult. The child, who was obviously only about ten years old, actually hit all six shots. Lu Gewei on the side was also a little surprised.

Lu Gewei used to be the best pitcher in the Lu family. After he started practicing martial arts, his control over strength, direction, and ability to predict external interference had clearly improved by several levels.

But the kid in front of him actually hit all six shots, which made Lu Gewei feel some pressure.

"Ready...release!"

Lu Geang gave another order, and twelve feather arrows were thrown into the air again.

Along with the crisp sound of feather arrows thrown into the copper pot, the results of the second round came out. This time, Lugwei hit five feather arrows, and Xing Wang continued to perform steadily and hit all six again.

Lu Gewei felt obvious pressure, and in this cold weather, sweat began to appear on his palms and back.

The sword that was used as a prize was a gift from his master to him as an entrance gift. If he lost the game of throwing pots, he didn't know how to face his master.

Just when Lu Gewei was a little distracted, he heard the voice of the starting officer Lu Geang again, and Lu Geang hurriedly came back to his senses.

"Ready...release!"

Xing Wang performed as steady as an old dog and hit all six arrows again. There were exactly eighteen feather arrows stuck in the copper pot belonging to Xing Wang.

Lugewei, who was a little distracted just now, was only hit by three arrows this time. There were a total of twelve feather arrows in the bronze pot.

Accompanied by a burst of cheers, Xing Wang walked forward, took the prize in his hand, weighed it without saying a word, and a bright smile appeared on his face.

At this time, a young man with a stern face in the crowd was staring at Xing Wang who was holding the sword, and was very interested in Xing Wang's performance just now.