Chapter 215 New mission: High school champion (10)
On the eighth day of August, Yan Lizhou entered the examination room and began several days of rural examination life.
Chen Xun stayed at home and watched Su Shi study various delicacies. She provided Su Shi with recipes, and then Su Shi studied how to make them.
Yan Sanlang and his three sons are also busy doing carpentry. Of course, Yan Sanlang, Yan Daqiang, and Yan Erqiang don't have much talent. They can help occasionally, but they can't do fine work.
However, Yan Sanlang and his eldest son and second son are quite eloquent. After a year of experience, they also have some experience in doing business.
While Su was researching various delicacies, the father and son continued to walk around the streets selling the things Su made.
In this Yong Dynasty, there was no rule that merchants could not take the imperial examination, so the Yan family's business would not affect Yan Lizhou's imperial examination.
This is also the reason why Chen Yun and Yan Lizhou let the Yan family do business and make money. Otherwise, they can only make a fortune silently and will not do business openly.
During Yan Lizhou's exam period, Yan Sanlang and others started doing business, and gradually made Su's reputation for various snacks and delicacies.
Later, when other members of the Yan family arrived in Fucheng, they began to help make moon cakes and other snacks as they had sufficient manpower.
This time, the Yan family almost moved their whole family to Fucheng, and the business in their hometown and Lin County was handed over to the same clansmen in the village.
Everyone is from the same clan, and the clan is better off, and they are also benefiting from it, so the Yan family is not stingy.
What's more, all of them want to come to Fucheng. Who wants to stay in the village for the rest of their lives?
The results of the provincial examination came out after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Yan Lizhou still passed the exam this time, and his ranking remained third.
"It's good to be able to maintain the third place. This is the scholar examination in Quanzhou Prefecture. It's very good that Jiulang can get the third place." Yan's father was very happy when he knew that his son had won the exam.
Third place!
You must know that the provincial examination was taken by many scholars together. Among so many people, his son stood out and ranked third. Why was he unhappy?
Originally, they were already in despair. They felt that their son, who was already in his twenties, had not yet passed the examination to become a scholar, and that their son would end up being a child in this life.
Who would have thought?
Their Jiulang was able to pass the exam, which was really surprising.
Yan Lizhou won the exam, and the Yan family was very happy.
After the results of the provincial examination are released, Yan Lizhou will attend some banquets, such as the deer singing banquet held by the prefect, and some gatherings of literati.
Yan Lizhou will attend official banquets, but he will not attend some private banquets. After all, spring will be in a few months, and he has no plans to participate in the examination in three years.
He still remembered that his mission here was to be the top pick in high school. He couldn't continue to waste time here. He found that he still had some energy left.
"You weren't so anxious before." Chen Xun looked at Yan Lizhou curiously.
You must know that Yan Lizhou was leisurely and leisurely before. He felt that it would not be long after he wasted a few years here and returned to his original world, so he was not in a hurry.
Why are you anxious now?
"I don't know why, but I feel a sense of urgency." Yan Lizhou frowned, "I have to study in seclusion during this period and work hard to sprint."
Chen Xun frowned, "Okay, come on."
After Yan Lizhou attended several official banquets, he stopped going. Instead, he packed up his gifts early and prepared to go to the capital.
After going to the capital, he could study with peace of mind, otherwise he was afraid that he would miss the time for the examination while studying in seclusion.
This time Chen Yun still followed Yan Lizhou to Beijing, which puzzled those in the capital who felt that Chen Yun, the daughter of an ordinary restaurant owner, was not worthy of Yan Lizhou, a promising candidate.
Does Yan Jiulang actually love his wife so much?
There are many powerful people in Fucheng who value Yan Lizhou, and those powerful ladies also value Yan Lizhou. Who makes him have such an outstanding face?
So handsome, so young and talented, why wouldn't your lady like her?
They looked down upon Chen Yu, Yan Lizhou's wife. She was from a poor family background and did not look dignified enough. They were eager to replace her.
In the end, who knew that Yan Lizhou would actually take her to Beijing? He loved his wife so much that he took her with him wherever he went, which really made all the noble ladies very reluctant.
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Yan Xiu traveled through time.
He looked helplessly at his little hands and feet. He didn't expect that he would become a child again?
Before Yan Xiu traveled through time, he was just an ordinary scholar. In modern times, he was a professor of literature, studying ancient literature, history, and ancient culture and folk customs.
Because he was really addicted to literature, he didn't know much about many things. After time travel, he thought that for a person like him who knew nothing but reading, the only way he could take was the imperial examination.
He thought he was taking the imperial examination route for a peasant family, but after learning about his current physical condition, he discovered that his family was actually not poor?
Yan Xiu discovered that his family had really become prosperous in the past one or two years. Yes, it had become prosperous in just one or two years.
It is said that the Yan family is engaged in various gourmet businesses, as well as various carpentry and carving businesses.
He also has a ninth uncle, who was originally a man who had studied for many years without getting any grades, but after getting married, he actually learned how to work hard and strive for success.
After his uncle Jiu got married, he actually took part in the college examination and the provincial examination the next year, and then took part in this year's joint examination and the palace examination, and successfully won the top prize in high school.
I heard that His Majesty originally wanted to select him as the third-highest beauty because of his handsome face and young age.
But I have to admit that his uncle Jiu's articles are really very good, and others can't compare to them, so I reluctantly selected his uncle Jiu as the top pick.
I heard that after Uncle Ninth came to Beijing, he and Aunt Ninth attracted countless people to covet them because of their outstanding looks.
I heard that the noble ladies in the capital wanted Uncle Jiu to demote their wives as concubines and then marry them. In the end, Uncle Jiu only wanted his Aunt Jiu, and the relationship between the couple was stronger than ever.
Of course, Yan Xiu also knows that his Aunt Ninth is very smart, and most of the recipes for the Yan family's gourmet business are provided by Aunt Ninth.
Yan Xiu now suspects that his Ninth Uncle and Ninth Aunt may have traveled through time like him.
Otherwise, how can we explain that his uncle Ninth had been ordinary for so many years, but after getting married, he became determined to become stronger and became the top scorer in high school in just two years?
And his Aunt Ninth, he knew the recipes that he brought out. Some of them were only available in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, or even in the Republic of China, and in modern times.
So, did his Ninth Uncle and Ninth Aunt also travel through time?
Yan Xiu was very curious, but it was a pity that his ninth uncle, the number one scholar in high school, left after returning to his hometown to pay homage to his ancestors, and he has not been back here for a long time.
I heard that his Ninth Uncle was released and took Aunt Ninth to a not very remote but somewhat poor county to serve as the county magistrate.
Yan Xiu, who is studying in the school, really wants to meet his ninth uncle and nine aunts, and wants to see if they have traveled through time like him.
However, what Yan Xiu didn't know was that his two uncles and aunts, who were suspected of being time travellers, had already left. They had completed their mission and left.