Female Supremacy and Rise to Power: Lin Shu's Imperial Examination Adventures

Lin Shu turned around and saw the young man in front of her staring at her with his mouth agape, looking like a timid, submissive wife. The young man behind him was her husband, Su Mu, who also looked incredulous. Lin Shu was puzzled.

What she didn't know was that Lin's father had watched her grow up and naturally knew that she was beautiful. When her two husbands married into the family, Lin Shu always covered her face with a large tuft of hair, so he couldn't imagine how much of an impact her appearance would have on them.

At this moment, she was also sizing up her two husbands. Su Mu was 20 years old and dressed in a plain white robe. Although it was a little thin from washing, it was very clean.

His hair was half-tied up with a wooden hairpin. He had almond-shaped eyes, thin lips, and a somewhat aloof demeanor. He exuded a scholarly air. He was tall and slender, about 180 cm, two centimeters taller than his own body. In this world, he would be considered an ugly man, but Lin Shu found him surprisingly pleasing to the eye.

Song Yun is 17 years old, wearing a tan long robe. Because of her young age, her hair is tied up with a hairband. She has big eyes, a high nose, and two dimples when she speaks. She has a lively personality and is only about 172 cm tall, but she will probably grow taller...

As she sized them up, a storm raged within them. Looking at the graceful young woman standing in the courtyard,

Su Mu: Is this that woman? How could it be? How could she have such an aura? But who else could it be but her?

Song Yun: My wife is so beautiful! If only she would stop gambling, stop hitting people, and stop selling me! Then I would have her child. The child would definitely be very beautiful.

(At this moment, the boy completely forgot that he had been praying in his heart yesterday that his wife would never do it.)

"Cough...cough..."

The three women's sizing each other up was interrupted by Lin's father, Xue Wen's, cough, and Lin Shu then noticed their attire. It was already winter, yet the three were still wearing light summer clothes.

She frowned as she helped Lin's father, Xue Wen, and said briefly, "Go back inside and rest!"

Then he looked at his two husbands.

"Su Mu, Song Yun, help Father to the house to rest!"

"Yes, my wife."

"Yes, Mistress."

Su Mu didn't know what Lin Shu was up to again, but he knew her nature, so he said nothing more. He stepped out of the kitchen and reached out to help Lin's father. His fingers touched Lin Shu's knuckles, and the touch was icy cold, making his fingertips recoil, but he quickly regained his balance.

Seeing Lin Shu's furrowed brows, Song Yun shrank back and followed Su Mu closely into Lin's father's room.

Seeing that they had all gone inside, Lin Shu turned and went into the kitchen. Looking at the empty rice and flour bins, her brows furrowed even more.

"What are you looking at, my wife? We're really out of food."

Su Mu was standing behind her without her noticing. Seeing her frowning and staring at the rice jar, he assumed she was up to no good again. A hint of disgust flashed in his eyes, and he couldn't help but speak coldly.

"It's nothing!" Lin Shu could tell what he was thinking just by looking at his expression, so she didn't pay it any mind, turned around and left, leaving only the words:

"Don't worry about food, I have a plan. Let's eat quickly, I need to go to town after we finish!"

Upon hearing this, Su Mu immediately wore an expression of "I knew it," and then began to scoop out the corn porridge without saying a word.

At the dinner table, everyone silently drank their corn porridge. To be honest, it wasn't very tasty, but in the Lin family these days, it was considered a rare delicacy.

Fortunately, Lin Shu had eaten a lot of even more unpalatable food in the apocalypse, so she found this food quite delicious and ate it with relish, leaving the other three people at the table dumbfounded.

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Dongshan Town

After finishing her meal, Lin Shu left home and headed towards the town. Once there, she avoided the crowds and took out a pair of gold bracelets she had collected in her previous life from her spatial storage. Following the original owner's memories, she went to the town's only pawnshop.

"Clang~" Lin Shu placed the gold bracelet on the pawnshop counter.

The slightly plump female shopkeeper, dressed in red silk, was working on an abacus behind the counter when she was interrupted. She looked up unhappily and met Lin Shu's cold, beautiful eyes.

He paused for a moment, then sighed inwardly, "What a stunningly beautiful young lady!" He then flashed a professional smile and said:

"Oh, young lady, are you here to buy or sell something?"

"Pawn it!" The female shopkeeper was so engrossed in looking at Lin Shu that she didn't notice the gold bracelet on the counter. Lin Shu didn't mind either, and raised her chin to indicate the gold bracelet on the counter.

The shopkeeper then noticed the gold bracelet, and his eyes lit up immediately. Holding it in his hand, he realized how extraordinary it was. The craftsmanship and patterns were extremely exquisite, and the purity was also high. Ancient gold ornaments were all mixed with copper.

"To pawn alive or to pawn dead? Pawn alive for 80 taels, pawn dead for 120 taels."

After speaking, the female shopkeeper glanced at Lin Shu's clothes. Although they were clean, she didn't look like a wealthy person. So, she hesitated and asked, "Young lady, where did you get these things? If... if..."

Seeing the shopkeeper's hesitation, Lin Shu knew that her inconspicuous attire meant the shopkeeper was afraid of getting into trouble and didn't care.

“Don’t worry! It’s an heirloom and won’t cause you any trouble. Oh, and this too.” He then took out a jade bracelet from his purse.

"That's good, that's good! Young lady, would you like silver notes or silver?"

As the shopkeeper replied, he looked up at the jade bracelet in Lin Shu's hand, his eyes practically glued to it. "If young lady really wants to pawn it, our shop can offer two thousand taels of silver!"

Lin Shu hadn't expected the jade bracelet to be so valuable, and didn't reply for a moment. The shopkeeper, thinking he hadn't offered enough, gritted his teeth and raised the price:

"Two thousand one hundred taels of silver, young lady. This is the most sincere offer our shop can make. To be honest, this bracelet would be worth a fortune in the capital, but in this small town, it's only worth this much!"

"Hmm. Desperately."

Seeing that Lin Shu was so easy to talk to, the shopkeeper didn't dawdle. After asking Lin Shu's opinion, he immediately exchanged the money for her.

"Four five-hundred-tael silver notes, one one-hundred-tael silver note, one fifty-tael silver note, five ten-tael silver ingots, two five-tael silver ingots, and the rest in one-tael loose silver. Take these and have a safe trip!"

Lin Shu took the money and turned to leave when she suddenly remembered that the original owner had previously served as the white jade hairpin for the Grand Master Su Mu here.

It was given to him by his father. Although Su Mu's reputation was ruined and he had no choice but to marry her, he initially wanted to live a respectful life with her. When he learned that she had pawned the hairpin, Su Mu's eyes turned icy.

Fine! Since I've already taken her body, I might as well do her a good deed! He then turned and walked back to the counter.

"Shopkeeper, I pawned a white jade hairpin here a few months ago. I wonder if it's still available?"

Hearing her say this, the female shopkeeper examined her eyes more closely, then asked as if suddenly remembering but incredulously, "It's you? You're that hoodlum? You don't seem like it..."

"That is indeed me, but I have now reformed and am no longer involved in this business," Lin Shu interrupted before the shopkeeper could finish speaking.

"I don't know what this hairpin is?"

"Yes, yes, it's here." The female shopkeeper couldn't quite believe it, but business was business, and she couldn't pass up the opportunity. "It's just that you pawned it without a contract, so now we have to buy it back. What do you think..."

"how much is it?"

"Although this white jade hairpin isn't of particularly high quality, its novel design makes it worthwhile..."

"Just tell me how much it is?" Lin Shu knew the shopkeeper wanted to raise the price, so she didn't want to argue any further.

"Ten taels of silver."

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