Manbao's fiefdom was not very wealthy, so the land was not expensive, especially the wasteland.
Zhou Lijun found a piece of land close to the roadside and bought it. Now that the workshops and houses have been built, everyone came to see it.
The reason why it is so fast is that it is built according to the farmhouse courtyard. It is not as detailed as the village courtyard built in Pucun before, and the masonry and wood used are also good.
The workshops built are rows of yards and houses, and inside are the grinding pharmacies, boiling pharmacies, and oil refining rooms planned by Lu and others based on their experience...
Anyway, it's quite detailed.
At that time, a lot of people would be invited, so Zhou Lijun decided to invite the people from my sister-in-law's place.
Man Bao carried a vase to Mrs. Zheng.
Mrs. Zheng placed it on a shelf in the outer room. After looking at it, she felt it was not coordinated enough, so she took it to her own study room, found a shelf and put it on it, and then she felt comfortable.
"Cut it in the garden?"
Man Bao nodded and said with a smile: "Cut it a little."
It was only when Ms. Zheng walked over for a walk in the evening that she realized that it was more than just a small cut. Several of the flowers she was proud of had been cut off. She felt distressed for a while, and then protected the remaining buds and would not allow Zhou Man to cut them again.
Already.
She said: "There is also a process for cutting flowers. There must be at least one blooming flower left on the flower branch, so that it won't look bare and unsightly."
Man Bao nodded repeatedly and said, "Aunt Zheng, next time I go out to buy flowers and come back and put a vase for you."
Mrs. Zheng immediately said: "I want a big one."
This is not difficult at all for Man Bao.
She smiled and agreed, then turned around and went to the mall to place an order for a lot of flowers. When she went to work after the holiday, she walked around the street and came back holding the flowers.
Mrs. Zheng was very happy when she knew that Manbao could always buy a lot of beautiful flowers. She put the vase with her, kept one bottle for herself, and gave the rest to Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Bai and Xiao Qian, who were close friends with her.
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Just a few days after I went to work, it was the Double Ninth Festival holiday again.
However, this time Manbao and the others did not go out to play. Instead, they stayed at home to study with Bai Erlang and the other three.
When Guan Yong came to the capital this time and saw Bai Shan's notes, he was amazed. Sure enough, the teachers at the county school and the Imperial College were very different, let alone compared with the teachers at Chongwen Hall.
He can basically learn new knowledge every day, and then he knows that this time he is really here to accumulate experience for the Jinshi exam. After reading Bai Shan's article, he knows that he may not be able to pass the Jinshi exam in three years.
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Bai Dalang and Bai Erlang's articles were not bad either, but he felt he couldn't catch up.
Guan Yong quietly said to his wife: "We should stay here until the Ming Jing exam next year, but I won't be able to pass the Jinshi exam."
Zhou Lixin had already expected that it would be so easy to pass the Jinshi exam, so he nodded and said: "Don't be afraid, we just live here, you can still study with Mr. Zhou. I also studied with Mr. Zhou for two years before, so counting,
We are still classmates."
Zhou Lixin couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and said: "If I had known that Mr. Zhuang was so good, he should have gone to Qili Village to study."
It's just that Mr. Zhuang was not well-known back then. Compared to Mr. Zhuang, who could only accept Master Bai's invitation to teach a group of urchins in the village, the two famous gentlemen in the county were naturally better, so Guan Yong was sent to the county to study early.
, he has always been the most promising child in the three nearby villages besides Bai Dalang.
Unfortunately, Bai Shan came along later, and Bai Erlang, who had never been good at studying, surpassed him and went to Yizhou to study...
Guan Yong coughed lightly, brought his thoughts back from his thoughts, and said to his wife, "I just want to have children."
Zhou Lixin also thought about it, the smile on his face fell, and he sighed: "I don't know if he will be obedient at home. Why don't I go back with my second uncle and the others after my sister-in-law gets married?"
"No," Guan Yong said quickly, "You are willing to leave me alone."
"My parents are still here."
Guan Yong shook his head, "Father-in-law and mother-in-law are naturally wonderful, but we have been together since we got married. Now that we have come to the capital, how can you go back alone? Don't worry, mother will take good care of the children."
Guan Yong suppressed the thoughts and worries in his heart and persuaded his wife.
Zhou Lixin thought that he would be entering the examination room in a few days, so he didn't want him to be distracted, so he nodded.
Two days after the Double Ninth Festival, on September 12th, the Jinshi examination officially began. Bai Shan and the others went to see Bai Dalang and the others into the examination room.
Bai Shan, a successful man, personally sent the people to the gate of Gongyuan, and also met Feng Zongping and Pei Shouyue. He simply sent them blessings. No matter what the prospects were, everyone was very ambitious at the moment.
However, they also prepared for the worst. Feng Zongping said to Bai Erlang: "If you fail this time, we will take the Mingjing test together next year."
Bai Erlang nodded.
Bai Dalang also nodded.
Pei Shouyue and Guan Yong also nodded secretly.
In addition to looking at policy essays and scripture scriptures, the Jinshi examination also mainly looks at poems and the reputation of the candidates.
Feng Zongping had a good reputation in the capital, and he was the prince's accompaniment. All the examiners knew him. In the past two years, he had written two or three good articles.
Bai Dalang is quite famous. He almost passed the exam last year, so the marking officer has probably heard of him, but the two of them are still not as famous as Bai Erlang.
This person is famous for three reasons. First, he is also the prince's companion; second, he is the future consort; third, he is the junior brother of Zhou Man and Bai Shan. Especially this year, he and Bai Shan wrote the
From time to time, the emperor would share information about the Imperial Medical Office with his ministers.
As an examiner for the Jinshi examination, his status is naturally not low, and they also paid close attention to Bai Erlang's achievements.
Therefore, they had to admit that Bai Erlang was quite capable of doing things, so they put his papers on the winning side when grading the papers.
After they ranked the names, they took them to the palace to see the emperor. Well, the emperor usually ranked the top three. Of course, if he was interested, he could also rank the ones at the back. Whether everyone listened or not was another matter.
The emperor took out Bai Dalang's paper and looked at it. He nodded with satisfaction and glanced at the list. He didn't say anything when he saw that the examiners ranked him at the twelfth place. When he looked at Bai Erlang's paper again, he became a little confused.
This time Li Maoyue was one of the examiners. Seeing the emperor pondering, he asked: "Your Majesty, do you think this paper is not good?"
The emperor said: "It's not bad. I took a look at the other papers. He may be a little inferior in literary talent, but his knowledge is not inferior to others and he is pragmatic. He is not bad if you rank him in the top 20, but he is good at both.
Jinshi..."
He felt that this honor was too great.
However, Li Maoyue listened to the emperor's other meaning and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Wei Gong once said that it is not necessary to avoid relatives to promote talents. Since Bai Cheng has such talent, if he fails because he is the direct son-in-law, what will happen to him?"
It’s so unfair.”
The emperor raised his eyebrows, deeply convinced, cough cough, he was not pretending, he was not doing it to let people know that Bai Cheng passed the exam not because of selfishness, but because he did have the ability.
However, the emperor was still a little fair and felt that he was somewhat qualified to be ranked twentieth, so he moved him to twenty-third.
The examiners looked at it and nodded slightly, thinking that the emperor was fair, so the list was decided.