Three days later.

The magnolia at the door was just blooming, and Xiaowen's sedan chair greeted her home.

On the wedding day, the house was full of guests.

All the prominent people from Shiliting Town came, the neighbors sat at dozens of tables, and the wedding banquet was placed all the way to the street.

Yan Chixia was sitting in the high hall, wearing a red robe. She did not appear as a master, but as a foster father. With a full beard, she looked exactly like Zhong Kui.

But Zhang Heng could tell that he was very happy.

He tried his best to suppress his smile, but it was like wrinkles that he couldn't hide.

"Worship heaven and earth!"

"Two thanks to Gaotang!"

"Couple greetings!"

"Send to the bridal chamber!!"

After a complete set of ceremonies, accompanied by lively applause, Xiaowen entered the bridal chamber with the support of the matchmaker and maid.

Yan Shi was not so lucky.

He is the groom, and he has to go to each table to toast and ask for good luck.

After a wedding, we were busy until midnight.

It was late at night and the guests dispersed.

Yan Chixia sat on the steps, looking at the messy wedding scene, and said to Zhang Heng who was sitting aside: "I picked Yan Shi up. He was only over a year old at the time. I kept thinking about it when I picked him up.

I thought I couldn’t survive.”

"This kid is lucky. He survived with a mouthful of rice cereal and a mouthful of goat milk."

"Today he is married and has his own family and wife. He doesn't have to spend half his life wandering around like me. I have no regrets in my heart."

Zhang Heng nodded silently.

September.

Autumn exams begin.

Cui Hongjian took the money and the peace charm given to him by Zhang Heng and headed to the prefecture to take the exam.

If this step is accomplished, the carp will leap over the dragon gate.

Even if you fail to pass the Jinshi examination in the future, you can still teach in a school in the prefecture or county. If you have connections and money, you can be recommended to an eighth-level official such as county magistrate or chief registrar. If you do well, you will be promoted from juren to

There were also many county magistrates and prefects who went up.

more importantly.

There are many names for poor scholars in the market, but there is no exhaustive list.

Juren are exempted from taxes and corvee.

The Dasong Dynasty may not look at the current bad times, but it has nothing to say to scholars.

The only clear stipulation is that one person can be exempted from the land tax of two hundred acres.

In reality, in addition to Juren's own land, the surrounding squires would also come to join him.

County officials in various places are also scholars. As long as they are not too outrageous and have 1,800 acres of land in their name, they don't have to pay a penny in tax.

The tax saved is your own land, so it belongs to you.

If you don't have any land, and the land in your name is obtained by a squire, then you will be given twenty pounds of grain per acre, or other money and goods of equivalent value.

Don’t be too short. Twenty kilograms of grain per acre of land, and twenty thousand kilograms of grain for one thousand acres of land.

If you win the imperial examination, even if you do nothing every year, you will still earn tens of thousands of catties of millet.

This money is enough for you to have three wives and four concubines, and support a dozen servants at home.

Of course, if you are arrogant and follow Hai Rui's example, allocate your land to the clan members and only take the salary from the court, then there is nothing you can do.

Throughout the ages, few officials have lived solely on salary.

Mid-October.

Accompanied by playing and playing, Cui Hongjianrong returned to his hometown.

In this autumn examination, Cui Hongjian performed extremely well and won the third place in the Central Provincial Examination. He was selected as the chief economic officer and was awarded the title of Juren.

The so-called Thirty Young Scholars, Cui Hongjian is 28 years old this year, and he has a promising future.

Even he himself found confidence in this provincial examination.

He also told Zhang Hengyan that he was going to double his review and compete in the spring exam next year to go to the capital to pass the Jinshi exam.

Zhang Heng doesn't understand scientific examinations.

But he knows what it means to be aggressive.

At the moment, Cui Hongjian is gaining momentum and writing like a god. With this momentum, he might really be able to pass the high school exam next spring.

December.

There was light snow falling outside the window and it was extremely cold.

Zhang Heng's heart was on fire because his ten-step flying sword finally reached a hundred steps.

It's not easy.

The flying sword technique was more difficult than he thought.

After a few months, I went from ten steps to a hundred steps, and I initially gained combat effectiveness.

Further up, thousands of steps, ten thousand steps, the sword roars for nine days, and someone's head is taken from thousands of miles away. I don't know how long it will take.

"Mr. Zhang, I have to leave."

Zhang Heng came to Yan Chixia to tell him the good news, but Yan Chixia stunned him with just one sentence.

"Walk?"

Zhang Heng was a little confused: "Where to go?"

"Guobei County, I heard there is a Lanruo Temple there. It is inaccessible and very suitable for seclusion."

Yan Chixia explained: "I have an enemy who lost to me in a sword competition seven years ago. Since then, he has come to me for a sword competition every year. I really don't tire of it."

"I couldn't hide from Yan Shi before, but now that Yan Shi has married and started a business, I don't need to take care of him anymore."

"I'm going to go out and hide for a while. If he comes again this year, I'll let him compete with ghosts."

Hear the sound.

Zhang Heng looked surprised.

It seems that this is the plot of A Chinese Ghost Story 1 about to begin.

"Master Yan, please go ahead. I will visit you when I have time."

Zhang Heng had no intention of leaving with him.

Because he has just completed his flying sword and has not yet tried the sword with the nine demon kings. If he leaves, he will lose his inner elixir.

Go back and kill the Nine-tailed Demon King, and then wait for Scholar Cui to come to Beijing to take the exam. Then it will not be too late to go find Yan Chixia.

After all, judging from the plot, A Chinese Ghost Story 1 should start in July next year.

At the beginning of the movie, when Ning Caichen was collecting his debts, Guobei County was filled with Menglan Festival flags.

As long as you get to Guobei County before July next year, you won't miss Yan Chixia's hunt for the thousand-year-old tree spirit.

"The green mountains will not change, and the green water will always flow. Don't let it go."

Yan Chixia has nothing to offer her.

Now that I had the idea of ​​leaving, I immediately took my sword and bow on my back and a jar of wine and left.

“So cool!”

Zhang Heng shook his head with a smile and continued to practice swordsmanship in Wumenju.

One month later.

"Who are you?"

This day.

Zhang Heng was practicing swordplay in Wumenju as usual, when he saw a swordsman in black.

"I was a passerby. I heard that there was a knight living in seclusion in Wumen Residence, so I wanted to come and pay him a visit. Unexpectedly, the knight had already left. I thought this place was good, so I stayed."

"gone?"

The swordsman in black frowned slightly: "Do you know where he is going?"

"have no idea."
To be continued...