Imperial Exam Daily

The business of Fuxizhai gradually got on the right track, and it was June in a blink of an eye. In the past three months, although the family was tired, the income was not unbearable, and the net profit was close to 50 taels of silver.

I got news today that the exam time for the college exam is set on the sixth day of August, and the time for the college exam is different every two years. Xuezheng conducts the exams in various cities and towns, and the last exam is ten days later than this time. Candidates are not surprised when the date comes out, but they just feel that time is running out.

Now only two months away from the hospital exam, Yang Ye also took the 40 taels of silver owed to Pang Zhanzhong, and went to Fengxianglou to resign from his errand to concentrate on preparing for the exam.

One month earlier, Yang Ye had planned to resign in June, and had already found a new accountant Mr. He had brought the new accountant for half a month. After grasping the relevant matters of the restaurant, Yang Ye resigned from his job with a lot of magnanimity.

Even if Pang Zhanzhong doesn't want to let him go, he can't. After all, people are going to do scientific research, and it's impossible to stay in a restaurant as an accountant for the rest of their lives. Besides, he has a shop at home now, so it would be condescending to keep him in their restaurant.

Having been together for more than half a year, the employees in the restaurant were very reluctant to part with Yang Ye, and came to say goodbye one after another, but Huang Jin thought about it: "Mr. Yang has a shop in the county town, and his business is booming. Sooner or later, he will buy a house in the county town. Everyone Afraid of not being able to see anyone?"

That being said, everyone felt much better.

Having no debts, Yang Ye walked briskly after resigning from his job and paying off his debts, but he didn't dare to relax. There were still things to do in the future, and he had to go to the county's ceremonial house to apply for the examination.

The registration method for the hospital examination is similar to that of the county examination. Five people are required to join each other, and then the county's linsheng will be a guarantee to verify whether the candidate meets the requirements for the examination, such as whether the candidate is from the county, whether his background is innocent, whether his parents are deceased period and so on........

He didn't study in the college, so it's not as convenient as looking for mutual insurance and insurance for granary students, but it's not a big deal. There are countless candidates every year, so you don't have to worry about finding them all. As for granary students, as long as you are willing to spend some money, that's not a problem thing.

There are two children in Zao Village, Zhang Jie is also going to take the entrance exam this year, Yang Ye is thinking about whether to marry Zhang Jie, when he passed Zuixiao Tower, he happened to run into Zhang Jie.

It had been a long time since the two of them had seen each other. Although they were in the same village, Zhang Jie would go back to the village in a horse-drawn carriage every day. Wherever they went back in an ox cart, they could see people. Wearing a piece of white jade, although the color is not very good, but it looks very impressive from a distance. It doesn't look like a poor scholar in the village, just like a son of a small family in the county town.

Zhang Jie was sending the three people out of the restaurant, nodding and bowing to the three of them, very respectful.

"Zhang Tongsheng will be sent here, thank you for today's hospitality."

The middle-aged man who walked in the front continued to poke his beard, and smelt it from time to time, with a rather refined attitude. After thanking Zhang Zi, he walked away with the other two.

After Zhang Jie watched the man go away, he turned around and saw Yang Ye standing not far away, he swept the ashes with his sleeves in his hands, and walked towards him in a very dignified way: "I don't know that Brother Yang is here."

Yang Ye replied: "I resigned from Fengxianglou and am going back."

Zhang Zi said: "Fengxianglou regards Brother Yang so much, it's a pity to resign like this, but we scholars come out to work after all to study for scientific exams, and now that the lower college exams are approaching, it's time to resign to prepare for the exams. After all, Brother Yang has already If you have experience in the hospital examination, if you only want to accumulate experience this year, you will have to wait two years later."

"Oh, by the way, brother Yang must hurry up and find a candidate for the same knot. I originally wanted to marry brother Yang, but Mr. Liu of Tonghua Building and his several young masters invited me to join the knot, so I couldn't." reject."

Yang Ye said: "Thank you, brother Zhang, for your concern. Now that we have formed a relationship, I will just look for other candidates. It's not a big deal."

Zhang Jie sneered: "Then I will wish Brother Yang good grades in advance."

After this farewell, Yang Ye completely cut off the slightest hesitation about marrying Zhang Ying.

He went back to Fuxizhai first.

After having Xu Qiuhe's help in the shop, it is not as busy as before.

Yang Cheng was in charge of collecting the bills, Xu Qiuhe greeted the guests, and Axi found a relatively quiet job, packing pastries for the guests.

He is dexterous, and the pastries he wraps for guests are very obedient and beautiful. Sometimes, if a man comes to buy pastries for his sweetheart, he will use dyed rope to tie a bow on the pastry box. In his free time, he also makes beautiful and simple The lucky knot is hung on the outside of the pastry packaging, and the exquisite pastry is even more beautiful when decorated in this way.

Ah Xi is inconvenient to speak and doesn't like to communicate with customers. The people in the shop are often all-round, and such a temperament is not pleasing, but he is good at craftsmanship and good-looking. Instead of annoying customers, he comes to pester His hardcover pastry has more people.Sometimes the guests will inform Axi one day in advance that the pastry needs to be hardcovered. Axi will ask who to give it to, and then make different decorations as appropriate. Often, when the guests come to pick it up the next day, they will be pleasantly surprised.

Although this kind of packaging is a bit troublesome, if you want to do a good job, you have to have a lot of tricks.The guests are happy, not to mention the increase in repeat customers, the hardcover pastries have gradually become a major feature of Fuxizhai, and occasionally the guests are really satisfied with the packaging of the pastries, and they will tip some money.

When Yang Ye came to the shop, when the business was flat, there was no one in the shop, Yang Cheng was fiddling with the abacus and reconciling the accounts, Xu Qiuhe was wiping the dust on the counter, only Axi's was standing in front of the counter, an old lady who was quite rich , standing there to block the thin and small Axi by more than half.

"When I was drinking tea, I heard people say that Fuxizhai's pastries are exquisite, and today they look really good." The aunt also talked a lot, and even if Axi didn't answer much, she spoke vigorously: "The matchmaker told my son We got married, everything went well, and I'm going to visit people today, I'll take this pastry with me, it's generous, the girl likes it too."

"Although the price of your shop is expensive, the pastries are worth the price."

A Xi neatly tied a red bow with her fingers, carefully put the pastry box in front of the aunt, and said, "It's done."

Generally, you don’t need a box to buy cakes. If you want a box, you need to pay more. Many people are reluctant to pay for the box. Except for gifting, few people want a box.

The aunt lifted up the box happily, looked left and right, and was satisfied with how she looked. After thanking Axi, the aunt asked in a low voice: "My little brother was born so beautiful, and his hands are so skillful, can he be married?" gone?"

Ah Xi opened his eyes slightly, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes."

The aunt thought he was shy, and laughed and said, "Surely you are not so reserved. My aunt knows quite a few young masters in the county. You have good conditions, and you can find a good husband for the custody."

Xu Qiuhe on the side also heard this, she put down the rag in her hand, and instead of going to help Axi out of the siege, she looked at Yang Ye who was standing nearby as if she was joking.

"Auntie buys pastries when she buys pastries, why is she abducting my husband for no reason?"

Yang Ye stepped forward with his hands behind his back, Ah Xi saw her husband came back, grabbed the scholar's sleeve and hid behind him.

The aunt saw that the two were very close, the younger brother had always been neither cold nor indifferent, but after the scholar came over, her emotions were different this morning, and they were actually married before she thought about it, knowing that she had slipped her tongue, she smiled and said to herself I patted it twice: "Look at my mouth, I like to talk about marriage when I meet a good brother or girl. I see that my brother is not very old, so I don't think I'm married."

Yang Ye laughed, and stroked A Xishun's soft hair: "My husband is beautiful and charming, so I want to marry him back sooner."

The aunt was holding the food box and said with a smile: "The young couple is really nice. Let's go, if my son's marriage can be completed, I will come to your shop to buy pastries someday."

Xu Qiuhe saw off the guests.

A Xi said: "Thirsty? I'll pour you some tea."

"I'm going to the bookstore to find someone to help me later. You help me pick up some pastries and put them on the bag. Go out with me later, and I'll pour water for myself."

Ah Xi obediently went to get the pastry packaging.

Yang Cheng came out from the counter: "Can the business of Fengxiang Tower be done better?"

"It's settled. Now I'm going to find the candidates who are connected with each other, and I have a guarantor."

The exam is about to come, and there are quite a lot of people in the bookstore these days, Yang Ye deliberately staggered the peak time, and went later at noon.

Many books in Xiucai's shop were sold out, such as the collection of college examination questions in previous years, the price was raised to a tael of silver a book, but even so, they were sold out.

Yang Ye added pens and inks, as well as slightly better paper, and bought two different volumes of test post poems.

The scholar had a good memory, although Yang Ye only came here once, but he still remembered, he said: "Don't you want to buy a copy of "Sacred Edicts and Guangxun?"

"I have passed the college exam once, and I have this book at home."

The scholar nodded, but he didn't ask Yang Ye whether he wanted to enter the school, but said: "The chances of passing are much higher if you have experience, so you can study well, relax your mind, and don't eat too much before the exam, and eat a normal diet. Just the same. In previous years, there were some candidates from small towns from poor families. Before the exam, they bought meat specially to let the candidates eat better. The body is unwell, and the test status is broken."

Yang Ye knew these truths, even if the scholar didn't tell him he would understand, so he didn't feel relieved, but Ah Xi listened very seriously.

The scholar talked on and on for a while, and Yang Ye handed over the pastries when he paid the bill.

People who often stay in the county are afraid that there is no one who doesn't know Fuxizhai. From the moment Yang Ye entered the door, Xiucai saw something in the hand of the little brother who was following him, Fuxizhai's pastry Good, but the price is also high, and their scholars don't spend enough money on their studies, so how can they have spare money to buy those expensive gadgets? Right now, he felt that this boy had a good family background.

When he saw Yang Ye give him the pastries, he was very shocked: "Does Tong Sheng want to enroll as a teacher?"

Yang Ye said: "The college entrance examination is about to take place now. Xiaosheng has no intention of enrolling. He just heard that Mr. Xiucai has a lot of contacts. I want to ask Xiucai to find four friends for me and introduce a grannie."

Xiucai's gaze was unobtrusively swept over the delicately decorated pastry box, and it was a lie to say that he was greedy. When he was giving lectures, he heard the young masters and brothers in the school talk about Fuxizhai's pastries, just once or twice. If I say too much, I want to taste it out of curiosity. Now that someone brings something to him, it can be considered as what he wants. Besides, what Tong Sheng asked for is just a matter of effort for him.

"Tongsheng is polite." He accepted the pastry as he spoke, and said in a gentle tone, "I am not talented. I didn't get the grades of Linsheng in the college entrance examination. I was just an ordinary scholar, but my friend who took the same exam at that time was a Linsheng. , let me introduce you to the line, as for the examinees, it is even easier, and the students will come to the school tomorrow, and I will point you to four people."

"It couldn't be better, thank you Mr. Xiucai for your help."

"a piece of cake."

The next day, all the students in the school went to register together, and Yang Ye followed them. After filling out their resumes, personal confessions, mutual affidavits, and affidavits, the registration was considered successful. Yang Ye heard and commented that his mutual affiliation There is a scholar with excellent grades, No. 1 in both the county examination and the government examination. Candidates speculate whether they can also get the first place in the hospital examination.

But the strange thing is that the examinee didn't show any admiration, instead, his words were contemptuous. When Yang Ye knew who the examinee was, he knew why the examinee was like this.

The scholar was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and the long gown he was wearing was worn out from washing, the sleeves had reached much above his wrists, and there were some dark patches on the front.

The students in the school all talked and discussed together in groups of three or four, but the scholar was isolated and no one talked to him.

In ancient times, a noble son from a poor family, Yang Ye did not look at a person solely from his family background like ordinary candidates. He was not a student in the school, and it happened that no one talked to him, so he went up to greet the candidate.

"I'm Yang Ye, this time I happen to be with my brother."

No one has greeted him for a long time, and the scholar didn't realize it for a while. Seeing that the person who came was indeed talking to him, and he did see this name on the link of the registration form, he hurriedly cupped his hands: "Wen Han in Xia , had the honor of forming a mutual bond with Brother Yang."

The condition of Yang Ye's family is better now, but compared to people with the same family background as him, it is already quite simple, and the clothes are decent but not extravagant. Even so, it is an extremely good appearance for Wen Han. He has been in a situation of blank eyes and no one to make friends with for a long time, which undoubtedly made him feel a little panicked.

"I don't know where Brother Wen is from?"

Wen Han paused, and seeing that Yang Ye didn't show any contempt, he said slowly, "I'm from Yuanyan Village."

Yang Ye had heard of Yuanyan Village. This village was two hours away from the county seat, and the rock masses in the village were widely distributed, and there were few fields that could be reclaimed. It was a well-known poor village.

"Brother Yang is from this county?"

Yang Ye shook his head: "I'm also from a nearby village. I used to find errands in the county town for my livelihood, and I often walked around the county town."

After a simple conversation, Wen Han felt that Yang Ye was not arrogant, and his calm words made people get close for no reason. He couldn't help but talk more than usual.

After Yang Ye left, a young man in the school said loudly: "I didn't expect that the boss of Fuxizhai would look at poor people, he is really noble."

Wen Han was used to cynicism, so he could hear the sourness and disdain in the son's voice, but he didn't know where this Fuxizhai was, and he thought it was quite elegant just by hearing its name, so he didn't think about it, anyway, there are people today Willing to make friends with him, he is happy in his heart.

Two months passed in a blink of an eye, Yang Ye spent most of his time reading and writing except for making some rose sauce, and it was the opposite with Axi, who went to the county town during the day Li helps with the business. He stays at home and occasionally buys cassava from the villagers.

His thinking is not as old-fashioned as the people here, and he feels that it is not good for a girl to show his face. Although he has never thought about it, he still feels that without Ah Xi around him, life at home is boring.

The day before the hospital exam, Ah Xi didn't go to the shop, and stayed at home all day preparing for Yang Ye's exam. He put the pen, ink, paper and inkstone into the basket early, and counted the things over and over again, for fear that something was missing. Afraid of rushing to the county seat on the day of the exam and being exhausted, they decided to go to the county seat one day in advance and live in the shop at night.

It was already early in August, and on the day of the exam, Axi got up before dawn to make porridge for Yang Ye. It was only after breakfast was ready that Axi counted the things in the basket again, and then Go to the examination room together with Yang Ye.

The exam starts at Sishi, but candidates have to arrive half an hour in advance to prepare for admission.

When Yang Ye arrived, many candidates had already gathered outside the examination room. There were many young children who participated in the examination. Yang Ye's age is not too old to take the examination, and of course he can't be regarded as outstanding. Three-year-old examinee, parents are still walking with him.

Their Wenyang County has good luck this year, and the school administration happens to be located in their county seat, so they don’t have to go to the prefectural city to take the exam, but candidates from the prefectures under the jurisdiction of Wenyang County have to come to their county seat for the exam. Yesterday, the inn in the county seat It was full and the business was booming. Some inns seized the opportunity to increase their prices, and the rooms that usually cost more than 100 Wen just doubled.

After about a quarter of an hour, the door of the examination room opened, and candidates entered one after another. Someone inside shouted loudly to maintain order, and those who came for reference quickly found their way and lined up.

Axi handed the basket to Yang Ye, and said softly, "Go in quickly, I, I'll wait for you outside."

Yang Ye patted the young man on the shoulder: "I got up so early today, go back and sleep for a while, I guess I will have finished the exam by then, don't wait outside, I don't worry, go back, I see with you."

Ah Xi pursed her lips, and finally answered Yang Ye.

After watching Axi go back to the shop, Yang Ye was about to enter the arena, when he saw Zhang Jie and the four young masters talking and laughing towards this side, he clearly saw it, Zhang Jie pretended not to see Yang Ye As if, he turned his head and entered the examination room.

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