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The banquet to celebrate the housewarming didn't last long. The three school disciples of Cheng Juxiu were busy with many things, and they still had their own affairs to deal with.

And Yang Yu, Yong Hongzhong, and Ji Linlang also had to prepare for their future life in the academy.

Yang Yu's family held running banquets for six consecutive days. Anyone who came over and shouted Yang Qilang is talented, Yang Qilang is rich in learning, Yang Qilang is smart and studious, can eat and drink for free.

In this way, Yang Yu's family still felt that the banquet scene was deserted compared to the other families in Chang'an City who had their children admitted to the academy.

Yong Hongzhong and Ji Linlang had to write letters home to inform their parents of the good news, so that the family members would not have to worry.

In addition, Ji Linlang also told Li Ang an interesting fact - Yu Miaoshui, a Fu doctor who was famous for selling mung beans in Weizhou City, was also eager to inquire about the process of this year's school exam during this time.

When the news of Li Ang's second place in the first test came back to Weizhou City, Yu Miao was ashamed and closed his business.

When the news of Li Ang's first place in the retest was sent back to Weizhou City, the door of Yu Miaoshui's house was closed, and crying kept coming from the yard.

When the news that Li Ang was determined by Xi Yangyu to be unable to cultivate for life came back, Yu Miaoshui was overjoyed again, and the crying in the yard stopped again.

And when the dust settled and the news came back that Li Ang had become the first scholar in the academy, Yu Miaoshui sat at home all day without eating or drinking.

The next day he looked haggard, as if he had aged several decades, and took the initiative to drag his family and went to the Lansheng Building at Qiaotou, Songzhou, to find Song Shaoyuan's mother, Aunt Song,

Kneeling down and begging, Yu sold his family's pharmacy property and house in the city of Weizhou to Aunt Song at a low price-looking at the situation, if Aunt Song really refused to accept it, the other party would jump into the river.

In desperation, Aunt Song had no choice but to buy the property at a low price, and Yu Miaoshui also thanked her and left Weizhou with her family to go to other places.

The letter sent from Weizhou to Chang'an the next day also explained these contents.

In the letter, Aunt Song first expressed her apology to Li Ang for making a decision without authorization, and attached a flying ticket that sold one-third of the Yu family's property at the normal price, a total of 1,500 guan—the other two-thirds We need to wait until the remaining houses are sold before sending them to Chang'an.

Then Aunt Song wrote another letter, asking Li Ang to comfort Song Shaoyuan, so that he should not be sad if he failed to get into the academy, and he can stay in Chang'an for another half a year to take the imperial examination in February next year.

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Li Ang looked at the letter, and thought of Song Shaoyuan, who had a close relationship with You, with a strange expression on his face.

Next year, if Aunt Song comes to Chang'an to visit next year, I'm afraid she will have grandchildren.

It's all about nothing.

Li Ang shook his head and put down the letter. Song Shaoyuan studied very hard, not to mention that You all knew that he had a high literary talent, so he was relatively confident in the imperial examination.

The matter of Yu Miaoshui was just a short episode, and Li Ang put away the 1,500 pens casually.

During this time, he was mainly busy with two things.

The first thing is to meet people from the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, Taichang Temple, and the Imperial Medical Office.

The Ministry of War needs Li Ang's assistance in formulating the problems related to malaria that may be encountered if Yu State uses troops to the south. For example, anti-mosquito and anti-mosquito strategies when stationed in barracks.

The Ministry of Household and Taichang Temple informed Li Ang about matters related to midwifery forceps, such as publishing articles in academic journals, explaining how to use midwifery forceps and key points, and asking physicians from various prefectures of the Imperial Medical Office to call midwives in their states to promote the use of midwifery forceps etc.

By the way, Li Ang wrote down the precautions for childbirth and postpartum care in text form.

For example, midwives should wash their hands, midwifery forceps and mattresses should be disinfected, maternal health care should be strengthened during pregnancy, balanced nutrition should be paid attention to, and physical fitness should be strengthened.

This is a broken can, and the matter of malaria is relatively sensitive. It is not easy to post Li Ang's name. Midwifery forceps do not have this taboo.

According to the officials of the two ministries, both His Majesty and the Queen intend to publicize Li Ang's achievements, and the title of master of gynecology will never escape.

In this case, it is better to do a good job in publicizing maternity care, and save more lives. The mortality rate of puerpera during childbirth and postpartum care is as high as 1.5% in some extremely backward areas of Yu State ,

Many are caused by backward hygiene concepts.

The Ministry of Industry’s visit is about Chang’an’s anti-mosquito matters—although Tantai Leshan Siye of the Academy has already revised the construction plan of Chang’an’s canals with his students, but we still have to consult again on the specific anti-mosquito strategy Leon.

For example, how to make anti-mosquito nets, what plants should be used to repel mosquitoes, if fish are to be raised in water canals to eat larvae, what kind of fish should be raised, etc.

Because the people in Chang'an have a lot of talk, and I don't know what's going on, the Ministry of Industry has not yet formulated specific policies, and the news of mosquito-caused diseases has already begun to spread in the market.

Rich families began to hang silk mosquito nets in the halls and bedrooms one after another, and the linen mosquito nets made of inferior materials were also sold out, causing the price of cloth in Chang'an to rise in place.

These matters are handled by professionals, and Li Ang didn't pay much attention to it. He locked himself in the house and declared to the outside world that he would study the medical books and classics sent by the imperial medical office.

In fact, he used the 1,500 guan to buy precious metals such as gold and silver in the gold shop in Chang'an West City, and continued to study Mosi.

Feeding precious metals to ink silk can indeed increase the strength of ink silk, improve body functions, and optimize the transmission efficiency of spiritual veins without affecting its own volume and weight.

At present, Li Ang has consumed about 150 taels of gold and 500 taels of pure silver.

The spiritual veins have been strengthened from six and a half when the sword was broken in the skull to about ten spiritual veins.

If more gold and silver can be devoured, the strength of the spiritual pulse can even reach thirteen or fourteen, which is getting closer and closer to the genius in the concept of the academy.

I heard that Pei Jing's talent for spiritual veins is fourteen, which is a talent that can only be found among thousands of people.

And Liu Yemei is definitely not bad either.

It will take more money to match or surpass their innate aptitude.

In the room, Li Ang shook his head and complained, Is this considered creating happiness with krypton gold?

The faster Mosi grows, the more gold and silver it consumes.

The price of gold in Chang'an, one tael costs seventeen pennies and five hundred cash.

Fifteen hundred guan, not even a hundred taels of gold can afford it.

New sources of income must be explored.

While Li Ang was thinking about ways to raise money, he was also concerned about the news of the Zhenfu Division.

Jiao Cheng's disappearance had just caused some uproar in Pingkangfang and Chang'an gangs, but they were quelled by the people above.

Jiao Cheng was a tool for one or some powerful people to make money, and no one wanted his death to be widely noticed. So it didn't take long for Pingkang Square to usher in a new steward.

And the pavilion where Jiao Cheng originally lived was also engulfed and burned by a fire. It is rumored that Jiao Cheng has private information of the dignitaries in Chang'an in his hands.

As for whether the Zhen Fusi continued to investigate, and whether more clues were dug out from the underground palace to contact the missing Jiao Cheng and even Li Ang.

Li Ang has no way of knowing this information, so he can only search for information secretly and continue to wait.

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye, and finally, the day when the school started.