After being reborn as a man, the woman improved her family's fortunes through education.

Jiang Lan'er didn't bother to ask if the person was being cheated by spending five hundred taels to buy someone. As long as her younger brother wasn't the one being taken advantage of, she was fine with it. Let whoever wanted to be the victim be the victim.

If Jiang Lian'er were here, she would definitely want to continue watching the spectacle and see how this wealthy young master would treat her after buying her.

However, Jiang Lan'er had no interest in things that didn't concern her family. Getting to the capital sooner would give her grandfather and father more time to prepare for the exams.

In reality, when she got off the bus, all she cared about was whether her younger brother would be bullied and when the road would be open.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the road to open up. Their own carriage was at the very front, so of course they were the first to pass, since there was no place to turn around.

Closely following behind their own caravan was the wealthy man who had just bought the delicate little white flower. That caravan had more than a dozen carriages, and although the carriages looked ordinary, they were made of the finest wood.

There were clearly twenty or thirty people riding horses before, but now it seems that all the riders have climbed into the carriage. What is the purpose of this?

Jiang Xiaoqi found the other party strange, but the other party was quite calm. After passing through the traffic jam, he continued to lag behind the Jiang family's convoy at a leisurely pace.

I had no intention of overtaking him; I was only a dozen meters away, and I was willing to follow behind his carriage and get my ass in.

Not only Jiang Xiaoqi, but Li Haisheng also noticed something was wrong with the people behind them: "Junior brother, should we speed up?"

"Forget it, senior brother, you can't shake them off. Did you see the horses harnessed to their carriage?"

"Hmm, using warhorses to pull chariots is... a real waste!"

"Yes, even if they aren't warhorses, they are still extremely precious steeds, and there are so many of them. You can't buy them just because you have money."

"Even our best horse can't compare to their worst. It seems we really can't shake them off. Shall we slow down and let them pass?"

Jiang Xiaoqi shook her head again.

"What does junior brother mean?"

"Hey~ I didn't mean anything by it~ I was just envious of their wealth~"

Li Haisheng, with a look that said "Do you believe me or not?", pursed his lips and climbed back into his carriage. He needed to hurry up and look at the examination materials his junior brother had prepared.

There's no way around it; the future grandfather and future father-in-law are working too hard, making him, the future grandson-in-law/son-in-law, seem like a burden.

These past two days, the two elders have been looking through almost half a box of documents, which has greatly increased the pressure on him and Dong Jin!

"This is so interesting! How did my brother come up with such a fun game? He's amazing!"

"It's really fun. I didn't even feel hungry while playing." Jiang Lan'er touched the thin bamboo strips and felt that this might be a business opportunity.

"Haha, me too, but are we really not going to invite our older sister to play together?"

"This game can only be played by three people. You called her 'Big Sister' because you wanted to take a break?" Jiang Xiyue teased Jiang Lian'er on purpose.

"No, no, no, I'm not tired, not tired at all~"

Jiang Lian'er waved her hand while protecting the cards in her hand, so that her opponent wouldn't see her cards.

She didn't think being good at studying was anything special, after all, her family had two members who had passed the imperial examinations, and there were also two other members who had marriage ties with her family.

She felt that her seventh brother was the smartest of all, not only good at studying, but also good at making fun things for them.

Seventh Brother must have put in a lot of effort to come up with this "Battle of the Top Scholars" game. The name is good too; the game itself has a scholarly feel to it.

Playing games always makes time fly by. During the ten-plus days on the road, the three sisters played "Battle of the Champions" with great enthusiasm.

The scholars who passed the imperial examinations also spent five or six hours a day studying the examination guides and the complete collection of past examination questions. Apart from eating and sleeping, they spent all their time reading materials and practicing questions.

Jiang Xiaoqi is now very adept at using the "sea of ​​questions" strategy. You can tell by looking at the dark circles under the eyes and the bags under their eyes that are almost drooping to their chins. Everyone is really working hard.

On one side, there was laughter and joy; on the other, there was tireless writing. It's hard to imagine that these are the same team.

The carriage convoy that had been following behind finally left when they entered Tongzhou territory. Jiang Xiaoqi guessed that they might have changed their route to water, but he didn't know where they went.

But that wasn't his concern. Along the way, there were more than a dozen carriages, and not to mention, he hadn't encountered a single petty thief.

A convoy stretching for hundreds of meters would be too much for most petty thieves to handle, and those who dared to were easily dealt with by the two brothers.

To their surprise, the elegantly dressed young man sent his men to help. Although they remained silent like gourds with their mouths sawed off, they did provide some assistance.

Entering Tongzhou City is like having one foot in the capital, since everyone who enters the capital rests in Tongzhou, which is the first stop after arriving in the capital.

They set off in September, and now it's October, with the air already thick with the scent of early winter.

The dividing line between autumn and winter seems to be just waiting for the first snowfall.

The group found a large inn to rest at and booked more than a dozen superior rooms. The inn was only a few scattered guests besides them, and it only became lively after they checked in.

In contrast, the area outside the inn was much more lively, with vendors hawking their wares incessantly.

Jiang Xiaoqi stood at the window on the second floor of the inn, where she could overlook the entire street scene and even see a river in the distance. The view was quite nice.

However, he also noticed something intriguing: the pedestrians on the street seemed to be avoiding the entrance of the inn.

It's clearly closer to walk from the inn's entrance, but everyone goes the long way around to the next street.

Is there something wrong with the largest inn in Tongzhou Prefecture?

Just then, Jiang Lian'er pulled her second and third sisters over, their eyes sparkling as they looked at the trinkets on the street.

"Seventh Brother, let's go for a walk." Jiang Lian'er was thinking about the street food. She had just seen the bright red candied hawthorns, which were huge, much bigger than those in their Xinghe Prefecture!

Jiang Xiaoqi smiled and nodded. It would be good to go out for a walk; he also wanted to figure out what he had just discovered.

Jiang Lian'er successfully ate the extra-large candied hawthorn and squinted her eyes happily.

A few hundred meters from the inn, we heard the sound of a gong.

"Is it a juggling act?! Let's go check it out!"

The crowd surged in one direction, where a burly man, shirtless and seemingly unfazed by the cold, tossed several longswords into the air and caught them with remarkable accuracy.

Toss it up, catch it, toss it up again, catch it again.

The longswords formed a circle as they were repeatedly tossed up, making it seem as if a few swords had multiplied into dozens.

"Wow! So awesome!"

"That's real skill!"

Inside the door to see the door, the layman to watch the fun.

Even though Jiang Xiyue and Jiang Xiaoqi were experts, they could tell that the man wielding the sword was a true expert.

The Jiang sisters, Lan'er and Lian'er, simply admired the performance; they even started taking out their silver coins to tip the girls.

It seems these two sisters are the "top contributors," considering that other onlookers only throw a few coins at a time.

All the longswords obediently fell back into the big man's hands, as if they were alive.

The Jiang sisters, Lan'er and Lian'er, clapped until their palms were red, and couldn't wait to throw the silver ingots, each weighing one tael, into the overturned gong.

The clanging sound of silver striking a gong was hard to miss.