After finally coaxing Xiaoru to be happy, Tangning helped Xiaoru up, and Zhongyi, Qing'er and Tang Yaoyao walked in from the outside.
Zhong Yi looked at Xiao Ru, whose face was full of tears, and hurriedly came over and asked, "What's wrong? He bullied you?"
Su Ru shook her head hastily: "No, no..."
"At this time, you are still protecting him..." Zhong Yi frowned and glanced at Tangning, and said somewhat sadly: "Xiaoru is so good to you, you..."
Tang Yaoyao looked at him with contempt.
Even Qing'er stuck out her tongue at him to show her contempt.
"Sister Zhong, it's not like that..." Su Ru showed a trace of panic on her face and hurriedly explained: "Just now, I just remembered something..."
Tang Yaoyao said: "Miss Xiaoru, don't always protect her, or I'll beat him to vent your anger!"
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It was hard for them to believe that they had not bullied Xiaoru. The servants of the Zhong family came in carrying several large boxes.
Tangning asked in surprise: "What is this?"
Zhong Yi pointed to one of the boxes and said, "This is the gift my mother and I picked for Xiao Ru."
Tangning pointed to a few others, "What about these?"
Zhong Yi said: "These are gifts from Yaoyao."
Tangning opened it and took a look. One box contained various precious tonics, one box contained precious silk, and another box contained dazzling jewelry...
This gift from Fairy Tang is really big.
Su Ru waved her hands repeatedly: "No, I can't have these..."
Tang Ning looked at Tang Yaoyao and said, "Keep these medicinal materials and take the rest back."
The value of her box can already buy several houses like this.
Tang Yaoyao pouted and said, "I gave these to Xiaoru, not to you..."
Having said this, she still took the other boxes away obediently.
The box Zhong Yi brought was not that expensive. It contained some cloth, rouge, gouache, and other things that girls could use. Su Ru refused at first, but later, after Tang Ning's suggestion, she had no choice but to accept it.
After accepting the gift, Zhong Yi and Tang Yaoyao took her to the cloth store to measure the clothes, leaving him alone here.
The friendship that Su Ru and Zhong Yi could establish was something that even Tangning didn't expect.
According to the normal routine, they should fight.
He soon figured out that it was because both of them were cute.
The word "ke" means "worthy" in ancient Chinese.
Tang Fairy is also very cute, with a true nature and no pretense. It would be even cuter if she didn't have to pay back the thousand taels of silver she owes him.
If she had persisted then, he wouldn't have had to write that IOU.
We had dinner together at Zhongfu.
The two women who were supposed to be enemies talked and laughed all day long. Zhong Yi said that he wanted to teach Su Ru to read, and Su Ru said that she wanted to teach Zhong Yi to embroider...
For some reason, Tang Ning always felt a chill on her back.
Zhong Mingli seemed to have something on his mind. Halfway through the meal, he suddenly put down his bowl and chopsticks, looked at Tang Ning, and said, "There is something about this state examination that I just learned today."
Everyone around the table looked at Zhong Mingli.
"The news coming from Kyoto is that the imperial court seems to have made some changes to the scientific examination system. There are rumors that starting from this year, those who are absent from the Fanzhou examination and above without any reason will be regarded as contempt of the imperial examination and will not be allowed to take the examination for three consecutive years.
Please refer to it again."
The reasons for being allowed to miss the exam definitely do not include amnesia.
Three consecutive terms, that is three years, three years and three years.
After not being able to take the state examination for almost ten years, both Su Ru and Zhong Yi looked a little pale.
"Although it's just a rumor, I'm not afraid of ten thousand, just in case..." Zhong Mingli looked at him and said, "So, you still have to take part in the state exam this time. Even if you fail, it is better than not being able to take the exam for ten years."
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He looked at Tangning seriously and said, "Just give it a try."
The state examination is the first step in the official imperial examination. Those who fail will need to pass several examinations in the next two years before they can regain the qualifications of the state examination.
It’s fine if you don’t take the state exam once, but if you don’t take it four times in a row, Xiaoru will be very sad, Zhongyi will be disappointed, Tang Yaoyao will blame herself, her father-in-law, mother-in-law, everyone will be disappointed...
Moreover, it will also reveal that he does not want to take part in the imperial examination, that he has given up on himself, is willing to degenerate, feels ashamed, and cannot extricate himself..., exposing the fact that he is a salty fish...
There was no way to avoid it. Tangning thought for a while and said, "Then let's try..."
"It's just an exam, Ning'er, don't worry too much about it." Chen Yuxian looked at him and comforted: "Your father-in-law took the state exam three times in a row before entering the provincial exam."
Zhong Mingli put down his chopsticks, looked a little unnatural, and said, "Why are you talking about this..."
Chen Yuxian ignored him, looked at Tang Ning, and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter. Even if we fail, we will be well prepared so that we can start all over again in three years."
Tangning smiled and nodded.
He had some understanding of the imperial examinations of this dynasty. In the broad framework, the rules of the Tang and Song Dynasties were still followed, but there were too many changes in the details, including examination time, content, emphasis... There were too many changes.
The state examination is roughly equivalent to the interpretation examination in the Tang Dynasty, but the time is pushed back one month, probably from early September to mid-September.
Only those who pass the state examination are eligible to participate in the provincial examination to be held in the capital next spring. If they can pass the provincial examination, they will definitely win the title of Jinshi.
The final palace examination only ranks the Jinshi who passed the provincial examination and divided them into the top three.
This is similar to the rules of the Song Dynasty.
Although the top three Jinshi are both Jinshi, their treatment is very different.
The prospects of the first-level Jinshi and the third person are unlimited. The second-level Jinshi is like his father-in-law, and he will be a county magistrate. His future official career will all depend on luck.
As for the third-level Jinshi, they are not even qualified to be sent to the county magistrate.
But even this third-ranked person is the best one selected from all the students in the world. Ninety-nine percent of them failed in the previous exams...
The examination that Tang Ning is about to face is the first step towards officially embarking on the road to the imperial examination.
Every step forward is extremely difficult.
He was like a salted fish that didn't want to turn over. Under everyone's expectant gaze, he jumped onto the chopping board.
Zhong Mingli looked at him and said, "From now on, you can come in and out of my study at will. If you see something you don't understand, feel free to ask me."
Tangning nodded and said, "Thank you, father-in-law."
"Family, you're welcome." After Zhong Mingli said this, he stood up and left.
"Hey, I haven't even finished eating yet, and I have to go out again..." Chen Yuxian looked at his back as he walked out, sighed, then looked at Tang Ning and said, "Ning'er, if you pass the exam and become an official in the future, don't imitate him.
so."
Taking the exam is a helpless move, but if you want to pass the exam, the probability is smaller than the probability of getting into Harvard and Oxford in future generations. This is a question of whether it is possible, not whether Tang Ning wants to.
"Daddy must have something important to do..." Zhong Yi said, relieving Tang Ning's embarrassment.
Chen Yuxian shook his head and said with some worry: "The villagers in two villages in the county make a living by growing vegetables. The vegetables and fruits produced by the vegetable farmers cannot be sold. They have done nothing this year, and the whole family has lost their livelihood...
, this morning two vegetable farmers were overwhelmed and threw themselves into the river. They were rescued, but if the fruits and vegetables can no longer be sold, I'm afraid..."
Tang Ning knew that there was a very important reason for the slow sales of fruits and vegetables, which was to follow the trend.
If this year everyone knows that cucumbers can whiten and nourish the skin, hydrate and fight wrinkles, and rush to buy them, which will lead to an increase in cucumber prices and driven by profits, more people will plant cucumbers next year.
In the second year, too many cucumbers are planted and the market is saturated, so the goods will not be sold and become unsalable.
Or maybe the women in Lingzhou City have abandoned cucumbers and used La Mer and the Key to Skin the next year, and a large group of cucumber farmers are going to drink the northwest wind...
Tang Ning shook her head and asked casually, "What fruits and vegetables are unsalable?"
Chen Yuxian thought for a while and said, "It seems to be cucumber..."
