All three people in the room were stunned, and then Wan Lang reacted first, laughed and stroking his hands and said, "What am I saying? You two don't have to worry at all, are you going to get the fame of scholars?"

It was not until he finished speaking that Li Ling exhaled a long breath of turbid air, and suddenly took the cup and drank the wine in his mouth, and felt even more relaxed. He was as confident as he was, and the pressure just now was quite large. He was only completely relaxed and finally stepped into the threshold!

Scholar, a fame and identity that can be seen everywhere in later literary and artistic works, is almost associated with poverty and uselessness. Only those who are truly in that era and have experienced the path of imperial examinations will understand how important it is and how difficult it is to become it.

That was the result of three consecutive exams, from thousands of competitors. Take this year's college entrance examination for example. In the end, less than 50 or more candidates who participated were ranked above the list. The difficulty and value of the college entrance examinations in the future were completely beyond the admission rate of 985,211.

Correspondingly, after gaining fame of scholars, a scholar truly entered the privileged class. From then on, he was one head taller than ordinary people. He could not kneel when he saw an official and could give him a seat when he came to the hall. Even if he made a mistake, local officials could not torture him before taking his fame.

All the previous ones are still empty. What’s more practical is that once you become a scholar, you can exempt yourself and your family from labor labor, and you can also reduce taxes on dozens of acres of land under your name... Although you can’t compare with the hundreds of acres of land that you don’t have to pay taxes, it is enough for the scholar with land to live a prosperous life.

It can be said that the Li family’s previous experience was caused by not having a scholar at home. If Li Ling or Li Tong has a scholar status, the dealer would never dare to plot against them like this, and Li Ling would not be forced to be assigned to work in the county government...

Now, the fame that his father and grandparents have always wanted to achieve has finally been achieved by Li Ling. If it were the original owner, he would probably have been so excited that he would have cried bitterly. But now, after he breathed a sigh of relief, he just smiled faintly. His ambitions are much greater than that of a scholar who passed the exam, so there is nothing to be excited about.

He had a plain reaction, but Xu Cang, who was beside him, was a little disobedient. After a long moment of stunnedness, Xu Cang's body began to tremble violently. First, he breathed rapidly, and then turned into choking. Two lines of tears were rolling down his cheeks: "Mom... I finally, finally..." With excitement, I couldn't even say anything later.

Seeing his appearance, Li Ling hurried forward, patted his shoulder and said, "Brother Xu, please calm down, don't be too surprised to hurt your body."

The other party was a little calmer after the slap, but his body was still trembling and he couldn't speak: "I...I know, thank you, thank you, thank you brother Li Xian..." As he said that, he suddenly stood up, his knees became weak, and he was about to bow to Li Ling.

This scared Li Ling very much. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough and immediately held the other party: "Brother Xu, why are you..."

"If it weren't for your words that day, and the awkwardness before the exam, I, Xu Cang, would have failed the exam as before, and wasted a year... Your kindness to me is like rebuilding, even if I pay a big gift, it would be hard to make a living..." Xu Cang said and wanted to kneel down again, but Li Ling's strength was much greater than that of him. No matter how hard he struggled, he would never really kneel down.

"Brother Xu, you are too rude. You and I are friends. It's natural to help you, why should you do this?"

"Yes, Mr. Xu, since Brother Li treats you as a friend, you are too disgusting." Seeing this, Wan Lang quickly stepped forward to persuade him, and helped him back with Li Ling.

After listening to the persuasion of the two of them, and the excitement fell a little again, Xu Cang stood still as he said, with a hint of embarrassment on his face: "What you said is that I am too dissatisfied. As the saying goes, I will never thank you for your kindness. Brother Li, you helped me, I will remember it in my heart in this life."

"Haha, Brother Xu, you are still too disgusting. Come on, let's drink first. Such a good thing, how can you not drink?" Li Ling said, and returned to his seat, picked up the wine glass and said.

Wan Lang immediately echoed and raised his glass and said, "Yes, come on, everyone drinks this cup. I wish you two a bright future and will be the next juren and Jinshi."

At that moment, the three of them raised their wine glasses, toasted each other in unison, and drank the glass of American wine together. The atmosphere was much warmer than before...

Unlike the celebration above, there are scenes of tragedy and comedy in front of the list outside the building. Those who are famous on the list are naturally extremely happy, some are as disobedient as Xu Cang, and some are as calm as Li Ling. However, compared with those who fail the exam next to them, they are nothing.

Some of those who failed the exam cried loudly, some were in a daze, and more were pointing to the list and shouting loudly, saying that the government was unfair, and that this college examination had major drawbacks. Especially when someone called out the title of the Four Books and the title was a distortion of the saint's words, the noise became louder and louder, and some even ran to the yamen to stir up trouble.

It was not until a few shouts that dozens of public servants waving sticks and killing the generals, knocking over and tied up the two of the guys who were making trouble in front of them, and then the scene was controlled. Then, an official turned black and went out and scolded loudly, and the frustrated people who made trouble retreated in shame.

So when Li Ling and the others brought a little drunk downstairs, the yamen was no longer as lively as before. Only a few people were still watching in front of the list, constantly making comments and sighs.

Li Ling narrowed his eyes and looked at the scene, smiling: "Brother Wan, then I will go back to Jiangcheng tomorrow. When will our bookstore officially open? You can inform us again."

"Okay, according to my calculations, you will get mid-to-late May when everything is arranged." Wan Lang also drank a lot, and his body swayed slightly at this time, and said with a smile, "But you have to go to the provincial and rural examinations next, maybe you have to go to the Beijing Examination. Can you take care of our bookstore affairs?"

"Don't worry, I will tell you more ideas at that time. I will ensure that our bookstore becomes Hengzhou City. No, it is the most famous bookstore in Huaibei. Just keep your heart in your stomach and wait to make money to open a bookstore." Li Ling smiled and punched the other party, then supported Xu Cang, who was also staggering, and headed towards the inn.

Li Ling, who was full of joy, had no idea how tortuous the process of becoming a scholar this time was. This not only involved a dispute over ideas, but also a sudden move by the prefect. Otherwise, due to the situation at that time, he might have really failed the exam...

Of course, all this is because of his outstanding ability. After being valued by the old master of the Wan family, he helped him to name the prefect. Moreover, not only the prefect, but also the officials of the higher level, Li Ling is already a person on the list!

When Li Ling and the other two swayed back to the inn and fell asleep, several fast horses also quickly rushed to the inn. Herodor said, and before the horse could stop, Zhao Chenghuang had already turned over and dismounted, threw the whip in his hand back, and took it away by his follower, and he himself stepped in with great strides.

When he arrived at the courtyard behind the ground, he paused a little and looked at a servant-like man who had heard the news and said, "What happened to the young master? How did you serve him? He actually made the young master sick here?"

He glanced at him, and the servant's knees softened. He immediately knelt down and said, "Third Manager, this is really no wonder the young men... It's the young men. He suddenly fell ill after going to the exam room. When he came out, he was stunned. He always said that there was a ghost trying to harm him. Then we asked him how he did the exam, but there was no accurate letter. Until today's list was released, the young men went to see it, and the young men really didn't get the first one..."

"Baby, I'll leave for a few days and let the young master do such a big thing. It's useless." Zhao Chenghuang kicked it out suddenly, hitting the servant's chest, kicking the person out, hitting the door frame behind him, and suddenly screamed, spraying blood and fainted.

This made the others in the yard tremble and instantly knelt all over the ground. However, Zhao Chenghuang didn't even scan the end of his eyes and just quickly walked into Ji Wuyou's room: "Wuyou, you..." When he entered the door, he saw that his face turned pale and his weight was thinner than before, all his concerns were cut off.

Hearing his voice, Ji Wuyou opened his eyes and said weakly: "Uncle Huang, you are here, I... I was targeted by ghosts and gods, you must help me..."

"What the hell is going on? I never believe in any ghosts and gods. With me here, nothing will hurt you." Zhao Chenghuang sat on the edge of the other party's bed, half comforting and half asking.

"It was a ghost in the examination room...he...he actually knew where I would take the exam, and the examination room was stinking, which made me...it was not even able to write the article in the end. It must be that the ghost and gods knew about Cuiqiong and the others, and they came to take revenge on me..." At the end, Ji Wuyou widened his eyes, full of fear, and his body trembled into a dead leaf in the wind.

"Young Master, be careful!" Zhao Chenghuang's face also darkened when he heard the words behind him, and he immediately interrupted, "I said, there are no ghosts and gods in the world, if there are any, someone will pretend to be a ghost! If you talk about the matter carefully, if there is any trouble, Uncle Huang will come to help you!"

Although he hadn't figured out what the situation was, he had already dared to assert that his young master must have been plotted against. Once he was asked to find out who was making trouble, Zhao Chenghuang would have to pay an extremely heavy price!
Chapter completed!