He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

Lu Yan and Lu Sheng did not go back immediately that day, but walked around the county town. Lu Yan has already made up her mind to open a shop in the county town. Lu Sheng will definitely go to the county school to study anyway.

The county school is open to anyone who has passed the entrance examination regardless of academic merit. If you are admitted as a scholar, you must go to a county school. It is not that easy to pass the exam. Studying at home is not as good as going to a county school. If he fails to pass the examination as a scholar, he will have to go to school in the county. Failure to pass the examination means that there are still some problems in his self-study, so he should not study on his own in the future.

As for the twenty-two bunches of cultivation, it is indeed not a problem. In the past few months, I have saved more than [-] taels from setting up a stall selling morning and evening meals, soap and sausages.

Lu Sheng didn't know what Lu Yan was thinking, but he knew that Lu Yan had always wanted to open a shop in the county, so the two of them took it more seriously than the other.

"The ones sold here are more expensive than those in town. Vegetarian buns cost three cents, meat buns cost six cents, and a bowl of wontons costs eight cents. Tsk tsk, eight cents."

"There are also people selling snacks. Desserts are really expensive. These pastries are thirty cents per pound, which is twice as expensive as meat."

"Go and inquire about housing prices. The main reason for high prices is because of high housing prices."

Lu Sheng and Lu Yan went to Yahang again to inquire about house prices.

"You two want to see a shop not far from the county school. What a coincidence, I happen to have one here." Ya Ren introduced: "It's a shop facing the street, one room, with a small backyard. The place is not big, but the location is very convenient. Okay, the rental price is forty taels of silver a year. But I suggest buying it directly. You can buy this shop directly for two hundred and eighty taels."

Lu Sheng was already shocked by the forty taels of silver a year, but Lu Yan understood the price. Forty taels a year is more than three taels a month, which is actually not bad. If you want to buy it, you have to consider whether this store will open in Beijing in the future.

Lu Sheng and Lu Yan went home as soon as they came out of Yaxing. Along the way, Lu Sheng was still shocked by the rent in the county town.

"This is nothing. It will be high when we go to the capital." Lu Yan said.

Thank you, I am more anxious.

A few days later, it was time for the county examination. Lu Sheng moved into his aunt's house two days in advance. He went in at dawn in the morning and finished after sunset. After five days of struggling like this, he finally finished the county examination. It would take about a week after the test for the results to come out. Her aunt asked Lu Sheng to stop running back and forth and go back after seeing the results. So Lu Sheng stayed at his aunt's house for about ten days.

When I took the county examination, it happened to be around the spring equinox. It’s time for spring plowing to begin in Hengzhou.

Xu's leg had completely healed, and Boss Lu and Xu got off the ground. There are many things to do during spring plowing, including weeding, plowing, and sowing. Lu Yan doesn't know any of them... Lu Yan can only grow vegetables in her own yard...

Lu Yan followed for two days, but Boss Lu and Mrs. Xu sent her back home, telling her not to cause trouble and just give her food every day.

During the past few days of spring plowing, there have been fewer people in the town, and those who live in the village have gone home to tend the fields. Lu Yan didn't leave the stall at all. She handed out a bowl of noodles in the morning, and then went up to the mountain to pick wild vegetables with a group of girls from the village, carrying baskets on their backs.

Spring is here, and the mountains are full of wild vegetables. Lu Yan only recognizes a few of them, and she has never even seen many of them.

There is a kind of wild vegetable with long and thin leaves called noodle vegetables. The little girls say it is delicious and it is said that it can also be used as medicine. Besides shepherd's purse, this is the noodle dish that Lu Yan picks the most.

Lu Yan carried a basket full of food home and prepared steamed wild vegetable buns. The shepherd's purse and noodles were blanched and dried, then mixed with the meat filling to make two pots of filling. Lu Yan's hands were very fast, and in a short time she had two large buns made from a grate and steamed.

After the buns were steamed, Lu Yan wrapped them in oil paper, put them in a basket, filled a pot of water, took two empty bowls, and went to the fields to deliver food.

When we arrived at the field, there were already many families sitting in the shade of the trees having lunch, mostly steamed buns and pancakes. No one was too lazy to bring food, so they just took one bite and left. Lu Yan called Boss Lu and Mrs. Xu back, and the three of them found a shade and sat on the ground.

Lu Yan took the pot and rinsed their hands first, then wrapped the buns in oil paper and handed them to them. This way you don’t have to touch the buns, and you don’t have to worry if your hands are dirty. When other people next to me saw it, they would say sourly, "It's really exquisite." The paper was so expensive, so why did you just hold it with your hands?

The steamed buns made with wild vegetables and meat were very delicious. Lu Yan was willing to add meat. The whole steamed bun was full of meat and meat juice. The meat juice soaked into the white and fat skin of the steamed bun, and the meat juice flowed out after taking a bite. The first crop of wild vegetables in spring are also extremely fresh and tender. Both noodles and shepherd's purse are very refreshing and delicious, and the noodles are slightly sweet. The fresh and tender wild vegetables are full of meat juice, and when you bite into it, the fresh aroma of the wild vegetables, the meaty aroma of the meat, and the sweet aroma of the white noodles all burst into your mouth.

Mrs. Xu couldn't help but sigh: "It's so delicious. All the wild vegetables I used to pick were in vain."

Boss Lu didn't say anything. He ate three big steamed buns and drank two bowls of tea before stopping with a burp.

After I finished eating the buns, there was nothing left to clean up, so there was nothing left to do with stuffing the remaining oil paper back into the basket. A few people were sitting and chatting when a seven or eight-year-old boy from the village suddenly ran over quickly, shouting: "Uncle! Auntie! Brother Sheng is back!"

When the three members of the Lu family heard the word "Brother Sheng", they immediately stood up and turned around. The child just ran over and said breathlessly: "I just passed by your house and saw Brother Sheng coming back! He seems to have passed the exam. You should go back and have a look!"

As soon as they heard this, the three Lu family members ran home.

People in the field who heard it also started talking about it.

"Did I hear correctly? Brother Sheng passed the exam?"

"You heard that right, I passed the exam."

People in the village don't know how many exams there are in the imperial examination: "What did you get? Number one?"

Someone knowledgeable came out to correct me: "Where is it! It's far away! This person is a child student."

"Oh oh oh Tong Sheng, Mr. Tong Sheng is also amazing."

"Hey, the child students haven't even finished the exam! After the county exam, there will be the government exam. After the government exam, you can be a child student." This is because I couldn't finish studying for a few days and went home to farm with sore eyes.

The three of them ran all the way home. The door was open. Lu Sheng was preparing to go out in the courtyard. When he saw the three of them coming back, he was startled: "I was talking about going to the fields to find you!"

"Passed the exam?" Lu Yan asked excitedly.

"I passed the exam." Lu Sheng was calm on the surface, but there was excitement hidden in his actual tone: "I got fifth place in the exam!"

Ranked fifth in the county! I am ranked fifth in the county through self-study. What is the difference between this and being a genius?

Lu Yan cheered and rushed forward, hugging Lu Sheng. Lu Sheng was also very excited. He hugged Lu Yan's waist and suddenly picked her up and spun her around.

Lu Yan landed on the ground and stretched out her hand to squeeze Lu Sheng's arm: "You can do it now!"

Needless to say, the whole family was excited. After Lu Sheng returned home, he lived a leisurely life of eating, sleeping, and eating for a few days. After hanging around for a few days, he started studying again. The prefectural exam will be held in April, and only after passing the prefectural exam can I officially become a child student.