After finally coaxing Xiaoru, Tang Ning helped Xiaoru up, and Zhong Yi, Qing'er and Tang Yaoyao walked in from outside.

Zhong Yi looked at Xiaoru with tears on his face, hurried over and asked, "What's wrong, he bullied you?"

Su Ru hurriedly shook her head: "No, no..."

"It's this time, you are still protecting him..." Zhong Yi frowned and looked at Tang Ning, and said with some pain: "Xiaoru is so nice to you, you..."

Tang Yaoyao looked at him with contempt.

Even Qing'er stuck out her tongue at him to show her despise.

"Sister Zhong, this is not like this..." Su Ru's face showed a hurried explanation: "Just now, I remembered some things..."

Tang Yaoyao said, "Miss Xiaoru, don't always protect her, or I will beat him to vent my anger for you!"

...

They finally believed that they were not bullying Xiaoru, and some servants of the Zhong family carried a few large boxes in.

Tang Ning said in surprise: "What is this?"

Zhong Yi pointed to one of the boxes and said, "This is the gift that my mother and I chose for Xiaoru."

Tang Ning pointed at the other few more, "What about these?"

Zhong Yi said: "These were given to Yaoyao."

Tang Ning opened it and looked. One box contained various precious tonics, one box contained precious silk, and the other was dazzling jewelry...

Tang Yaojing gave this gift so big.

Su Ru waved her hands repeatedly: "No, I can't ask for these..."

Tang Ning looked at Tang Yaoyao and said, "Leave these medicinal herbs and take the others back."

The value of her box is that she can already buy several such houses.

Tang Yaoyao curled her lips and said, "These are what I gave to Xiaoru, not for you..."

She still obediently withdrew the other boxes.

The boxes brought by Zhong Yi were not that expensive, they were some cloths, some things that girls could use for rouge and water. Su Ru initially refused, but later at Tang Ning's instructions, she could only accept them.

After accepting the gift, Zhong Yi and Tang Yaoyao took her to the cloth shop to measure the size of their clothes, leaving him alone here.

It was something that Tang Ning could not have expected from Su Ru and Zhong Yi to establish a friendship.

According to the routine, they should fight.

He quickly figured it out because both of them were cute.

The word "ke" means "worth" in ancient words.

Tang Xiangjing is also very cute, she is really not artificial, and she will be even more cute if she owes him the 1,000 taels of silver.

If she had persisted at that time, he would not have to write that IOU.

Dinner was eaten together in Zhong Mansion.

Two women who should have been hostile talk and laugh all day long. Zhong Yi said he wanted to teach Su Ru to read, and Su Ru said he wanted to teach Zhong Yi embroidery...

For some reason, Tang Ning always felt a chill on his back.

Zhong Mingli seemed to have always been worried. When he was halfway through the meal, he suddenly put down his bowls and chopsticks, looked at Tang Ning, and said, "I just learned about this state trial."

Everyone at the table looked at Zhong Mingli.

"The news from Kyoto is that the court seems to have reformed the scientific examinations again. There are rumors that from this year, those who have no reason for the examinations will be deemed to be despised by the imperial examinations and will not be referred to for three consecutive sessions."

The reason why you can be allowed to miss the exam is definitely not included in your memory.

Three consecutive sessions, that is three years, three years and three years.

Su Ru and Zhong Yi's expression was a little pale after almost ten years of not being able to participate in the state examination.

"Although it's just a rumor, I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of it..." Zhong Mingli looked at him and said, "So, you have to participate in this state exam. Even if you fail, it's better than not being able to participate in the exam for ten years."

He looked at Tang Ning seriously and said, "Just try it."

The state examination is the first level of the official imperial examination. Those who fail the exam will need to go through several exams within the next two years before they can re-qualify for the state examination.

It would be fine if I didn’t participate in the state exam once. If I didn’t participate in four consecutive times, Xiaoru would be very sad, I would be disappointed, Tang Yaoyao would blame herself, and father-in-law and mother-in-law would be disappointed...

It will also reveal that he does not want to participate in the imperial examination, gives up on himself, is willing to fall into depravity, feels inferior to himself, and cannot extricate himself..., exposing the fact that he is a salted fish...

Even the left and right could not avoid it. Tang Ning thought for a while and said, "Then try it..."

"It's just an exam, Ning'er, you don't have to care too much." Chen Yuxian looked at him and comforted him: "Your father-in-law had participated in the state exam three times in a row before entering the provincial exam."

Zhong Mingli put down the chopsticks, his face was a little unnatural, and said, "What did you say about this matter..."

Chen Yuxian ignored him, looked at Tang Ning, and smiled and said, "It's okay. Even if we fail the exam, we are well prepared and we can start over in three years."

Tang Ning nodded with a smile.

He had some understanding of the imperial examinations in this dynasty. In the general framework, he still followed the rules of the Tang and Song dynasties, but the changes in details, including the exam time, content, focus... were too many changes.

The state test is roughly equivalent to the answer test during the Tang Dynasty, and the time is delayed by one month, probably from early September to mid-September.

Only those who pass the state examination are eligible to participate in the provincial examination held in Beijing next spring. If they can pass the provincial examination, they will definitely win the fame of a Jinshi.

The final palace examination is just a ranking of the Jinshi who passed the provincial examination and divided it into the top three.

This is similar to the rules of the Song Dynasty.

Although the three-level Jinshi are both Jinshi, the treatment varies greatly.

The future of a Jinshi and a third person is unlimited. If you are born as a Jinshi, you will be like your father-in-law and become a county magistrate. Your future career will depend entirely on luck.

As for the third-class Jinshi, he is not even qualified to be a county magistrate.

But even this third-class student is also the best selected from all the students in the world. Ninety-nine percent of the people failed in the previous exams...

The answer that Tang Ning is about to face is the first step to officially embark on the road to imperial examinations.

Every step ahead is particularly difficult.

He was like a salted fish that was unwilling to turn over. He jumped to the chopping board under the expectation of everyone's eyes.

Zhong Mingli looked at him and said, "From the future, you can enter and exit my study as you like. If you see anything you don't understand, ask me any time."

Tang Ning nodded and said, "Thank you, Mr. Father-in-law."

"Family, you're welcome." Zhong Mingli said, then stood up and left.

"Oh, I haven't finished my meal, I'm going out again..." Chen Yuxian looked at his back as he walked out, sighed, and looked at Tang Ning again and said, "Ninger, if you pass the exam, don't imitate him."

Taking the exam is a helpless move, but if you want to pass the exam, the probability is smaller than the chance of getting into Harvard and Oxford in later generations. This is whether it can be done, not a question of whether Tang Ning wants to.

"Dad should have something important..." Zhong Yi spoke, alleviating some embarrassment for Tang Ning.

Chen Yuxian shook his head and said with some concern: "The villagers in the two villages in the county make a living by growing vegetables. The fruits and vegetables produced by the vegetable farmers cannot be sold. They have done useless work this year, and the family and the young have cut off their livelihoods... This morning, two vegetable farmers were overwhelmed and threw themselves into the river. The man was rescued, but if the fruits and vegetables cannot be sold, they may still..."

Tangning knew that there was a very important reason why fruits and vegetables were unsalable and followed the trend.

If everyone knows this year that cucumbers can whiten and nourish their skin, replenish hydration and anti-wrinkle, and rush to buy them, resulting in an increase in the price of cucumbers and driven by interests, more people will grow cucumbers next year.

In the second year, too many cucumbers are planted and the market is saturated, and the goods will not be sold and the sales will occur.

Or maybe the women in Lingzhou City had abandoned cucumbers the next year and used the mystery of the sea blue and the key to skin. The large group of vegetable farmers who grow cucumbers were going to drink the northwest wind...

Tang Ning shook his head and asked casually: "What are the unsold fruits and vegetables?"
Chapter completed!