Today is the day to send good news, and Shang Zhi has always been paying attention. When she heard the sound of gongs and drums, she immediately ran to Xue Shenzhi's house and took him to the entrance of the village to wait.

As the officials got closer and closer, Shang Zhixin immediately raised her up, just like when she was taking the college entrance examination, she was waiting for the score line to come out, and when the announcement was about to be announced, her heart would jump out.

Too nervous!

He Pingzhang had no vision to talk, but Shang Zhi was in the mood to pay attention to him and just waited for the good news before saying it.

Xue Shenzhi's face was plain, and his fists were clenched in his sleeves, revealing his tension.

Both of them ignored He Pingzhang and looked at the officials together.

The officials walked over step by step, and the people watching the fun were silent.

The official was holding a roll of yellow good news in his hand. He stood in front of He Pingzhang and slowly unfolded.

He Pingzhang was both excited and nervous, his hands were sweating, and he was waiting for the reading with his breath.

"Good news: The young master of the mansion, Xue Mingshen, was a Chinese-style Xie Yuan Dynasty in the Yiyou Department of Danzhou Provincial Examination."

Deng and He Liangguang, who were suppressing the ecstasy, froze the smile on their faces, and their eyes almost fell out.

"Xue...Xue Shenzhi?"

"Not Ping Zhang?"

No one answered both of them.

"Who is Xue Jieyuan?" the official asked.

Shang Zhi suddenly came to his senses, pushed Xue Shenzhi forward, and said excitedly: "Master Guan, he is! He is Xue Jieyuan!"

Xue Shenzhi was a little confused and couldn't come back to his senses.

He was in a bad state in the end. He thought he could only win the imperial examination. It would be nice to win the five masters, but he did not expect to understand Yuan!

"Student Xue Shenzhi." Xue Shenzhi quickly stepped forward and bowed.

The official smiled happily and said, "Xue Jieyuan, congratulations, Qinghe County has not produced a Jieyuan in a century! The county magistrate appreciates you very much. Remember to attend the Luming Banquet tomorrow!"

He handed the news of the good news to Xue Shenzhi, and suddenly slashed over with one hand, winning the news of the good news.

He Pingzhang's face was tense, and he opened the good news. He saw that his face turned red first, then turned pale, and finally turned ashen!

"How is it possible? No... impossible..."

He Pingzhang's hand was trembling with Jiebao. After a long time, his back and neck were stiffened. He looked at the official, "Are you mistaken? What about mine? How could I not have my Jiebao? He is just a child, how could he participate in the provincial examination?" And it was Jie Yuan!

He Pingzhang became more and more angry the more he thought about it. He stepped forward to the officials and asked: "I am the only one in Xinghua Village to participate in the provincial examination. The good news is mine. You accept his money and replace my name, right?"

The official was immediately angry, "What's your name?"

"He Pingzhang! A student in the 12th year of Yuan and Jin, think about it carefully, is the good news mine?"

Deng also reacted and rushed forward, "Sir, this is a big deal. You can't be careless. Are there any omissions?"

He Liangguang had been waiting for more than ten years, and Xinghua Village was waiting for a good news, but his name was not his second son. When he reported the words Xue Shenzhi, he felt cold. He heard this, he woke up. Where was Xue Shenzhi's juren? He didn't even have the qualification to be a provincial examination!

He stepped forward and stuffed a handful of copper coins into the official's hand, "Sir, look for it, is there something wrong?"

The officials saw that they believed he had made a mistake, and they also wondered if he had made a mistake.

He took out a list from his sleeve, not only from Qinghe Town, but also from the entire Danzhou Prefecture, with 80 people. From the beginning to the end, there were no three words "He Pingzhang".

He raised his eyebrows, pushed the copper plate back, and said contemptuously: "This list is a personal instruction from the governor. How could there be any mistakes? Not to mention Jie Yuan, even the end of the list will not have your share!"

Missed?

He Pingzhang sat dejectedly on the ground.

The official took the good news back and handed it to Xue Shenzhi with both hands.

Xue Shenzhi took it with a serious expression.

Shang Zhi reached out and took out two taels of silver from his sleeve to reward the officials, "Thank you hard, come into the house to have a cup of tea."

The official accepted the reward and declined, "No, Xue Jieyuan is the first to come to deliver it. I have to go to other places to report the good news."

Shang Zhi sent the officials away.

The neighbors surrounded Xue Shenzhi and said, "Congratulations to Shenzhi for passing the exam and taking the Jinshi next year!"

"Thank you, uncles and aunts, for your good words." Xue Shenzhi's face was full of spring breeze and his smile was faint.

Shang Zhi was also very happy. She distributed the prepared basket of wedding cakes to her neighbors to enjoy the joy.

"After Xue Shenzhi's deer music banquet, we will invite the neighbors to have a meal!" Shang Zhi said with a smile: "Everyone can go to home to have tea and snacks."

The neighbors naturally couldn't find it. Xue Shenzhi is not a sick person or a bad star, but a juren!

It is urgent for the juren to be exempted from taxes of 500 acres, and it is urgent for them to establish a good relationship with Xue Shenzhi.

Everyone surrounded Xue Shenzhi and went home.

The laughter and joyfulness over Xue Shenzhi made the He family feel particularly desolate.

Deng had a dark face and couldn't figure it out at all. He was a sick man and a short-lived ghost. How could he be admitted to the juren? He was still the first place!

The more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt. How much money did He Pingzhang spend at home? Why couldn't he compare to Xue Shenzhi? He didn't even pass a juren!

She wanted to complain a few times, but it was obvious that He Pingzhang felt heartbroken. He turned around and said, "Pingzhang, I failed this time, and I will take the next time. You are still young, less than 20 years old. Look, everyone in the seventies and eighties are taking the exam!"

He Pingzhang felt a thunder rolling through his ears.

You are still young, less than 20 years old, you see that people in their seventies and eighties are still taking the exam.

This sentence sounds very familiar, isn’t it just what he said to make fun of Xue Shenzhi at the gate of the Gongyuan?

Now, his mother returned this sentence to him intact!

He Pingzhang's eyes were ferocious. Xue Shenzhi didn't even have the qualification to be a provincial examination. Why did he take the provincial examination and get a Jie Yuan exam?

Suddenly, He Pingzhang remembered Shang Zhi. She cured the county magistrate’s wife and asked the county magistrate to arrange a quota for Xue Shenzhi?

Thinking of this, He Pingzhang laughed a few times, looked at the lively Xue family, and his fingers tightly clenched into fists.

Let you be proud first!

Several people returned home, Hu and He Pingwen sat in the main hall waiting for news.

Hearing the noise in the yard, Hu rushed out quickly, looking at their faces without any joy, and his heart was stuttering. Could it be that he failed the exam?

With a "bang", He Pingzhang threw it to the door and locked it in the inner room.

Mrs. Hu asked, "Dad, brother-in-law..."

"You have your portion everywhere! The rice is ready? Let's go and kill the chicken!" Deng's eyes flew over and glared at Hu. This bitch said, "Where is this bitch, who doesn't open the pot of the pot!"

"I failed the exam, and I still have the right to eat chicken? My family sent a lot of money to support him in the county school, and I went to the dog's belly! I ate and knew how to eat, and I would eat him to death sooner or later!" He Liangguang was so angry that he completely exploded, kicking down a bench, "Useless waste!"

If it weren't for Xue Shenzhi's examination, He Liangguang wouldn't have been so angry.

For the title of He Pingzhang as a juren, he spent his time calculating, but he was still disappointed!

Is this fate? You can't even get what you deserve in your fate?

Xue Shenzhi obviously deserves to die, but Xue Dahu died in the end!

When Mrs. Hu heard that He Pingzhang had not passed the exam, she felt a secret pleasure in her heart. She couldn't help but say, "Xue Shenzhi studied at Qinghe Academy in the town. He has only been studying for half a year. Why did he pass the exam in one go? If I ask me, I have to rely on my talent to study. It is not a material for studying, not to mention going to the county school, or even a government school."

This time, I poked the hornet's nest!

Seeing the joy that could not be hidden in Hu's eyes, Deng wanted to strangle this bitch to death! Hearing her implicit words in the morning, he rushed up and twisted Hu's ears down, and slapped her in the face with two big ears on her back, pulled her head and pressed it to the ground, punching and kicking her.

"I beat you to death, a bitch who can't hold on to the door and the dog can't spit out human words! Who do you say is not the material for studying? If you have something to say again!" Deng's new and old hatreds, the hit made Hu's nose and face swollen, and blood foam leaked from his mouth. Then he gasped and let go, but he was still not satisfied, and kicked her in the stomach again, "Next time I will hear you spitting shit in your mouth, and a roll of mat wraps you around you to feed the wild dog!"

Mrs. Hu curled up on the ground with her stomach covering her stomach, her ears buzzing, and she couldn't hear any sound. She moved her fingers, and her whole body was so painful that she could not move, almost half of her life was lost. She took a breath, looked at the vicious Deng, took a breath, and endured the pain and climbed into the inner room. When the door was closed, she lay on the ground and cried with aggrieved voice.

Mrs. Deng spat at Mrs. Hu's door. Seeing that He Liangguang's face turned pale, he pulled his clothes and couldn't help defending He Pingzhang, "He has taken the exam several times, and the exam is too difficult for the exam for the juren. What's the point of not winning one time?"

He Liangguang was still angry. He heard this and said angrily, "You know nothing! Xue Shen was promoted. What does uncle have to do with He Pingzhang?" The dry tobacco rod in his hand was knocking, "I didn't fight for someone's life in his hand, and he couldn't even fight for a sick person. He only knew how to reach out to ask for money from his family! If he knew that he was so useless, he should change to him to do farm work, and He Pingwen went to the scientific examination!"

Mrs. Deng curled her lips, "He has the will to go to Beijing! What's the hurry?"

The doctor said that Xue Shenzhi could not live to be twenty-five years old.

How many years will it be before twenty-five?

Then, she complained to He Liangguang, "You promised that this short-lived ghost could not take the provincial examination. Now that he not only got the exam, he also won the Jieyuan. It was your own mistake. In turn, he blamed Ping Zhang. How much does he weigh, you don't know what he has!" As he said that, he got up and went to the yard to catch chickens, killed the soup to make up for He Ping Zhang.

He Liangguang was smoking a dry tobacco, with smoke scattered and unpredictable expression.

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Xue Shenzhi's house was lively and the people who congratulated each other were sent away. Xue Shenzhi's face was exhausted.

Shang Zhi's face was stiff and she rubbed her cheeks, tightened the tea bowls and washed them clean in the kitchen.

"Tomorrow you go to Luming Banquet. I will prepare a new dress for you. You can wear it." Shang Zhi thought of this when he was taking the exam. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, she was going to pick him up in the city, asked Qin Boyan to borrow a carriage, and went to the ready-to-wear shop to pick him a white collar and straight hem.

Xue Shenzhi's eyes fell on the bag she placed on the table, and only then did he realize that the clothes he had given him were contained.

Shang Zhi took off the bag and gave him the neatly folded clothes, "I don't know how tall you are. I'm roughly showing off. The size recommended by the shopkeeper to me, you can try it."

Xue Shenzhi looked at her deeply, took her clothes and went to the inner room to change it.

After a while, Xue Shenzhi was wearing a white straight skirt, covered with black hair, and slowly walked out of the inner room. Under the glimmer of light, the white robe seemed to flow with light. His eyes, which were as cold as the moon, were shaking, and his pale cheeks were rosy as the red after drinking under Shangzhi's gaze, and a faint smile appeared slightly.

“It fits very well.”
To be continued...