If you don't farm, you will be smashed [End Times]

In April, Xia Chen went to Fucheng to participate in the government examination. It took more than a day to travel from home to Fucheng by bullock cart. These years, the Da'an Dynasty was relatively stable, and there were fewer bandits in the mountains. However, Xia Chen was only 12 years old, and the family naturally Don't worry, he will go on the road alone.

The children in the county who are also going to take part in the government examination, some of them are able to go there on their own, and some of them have a similar family background as Xia Chen. More people are safer.

There are five young examinees like Xia Chen in Qingyang County. Besides Xia Chen, there is also Meng Mingjun, the younger brother of Mr. Meng's family. This kid is really talented in reading. He is two years younger than Xia Chen. Knowledge is no better than Xia Chen.

The other three are all boys who are older than Xia Chen, but they are also under the same age. The other candidates are all in their twenties and have passed the exam several times.

The Xia family also paid two taels of silver to the largest commercial firm in the county, and bought two places. Master Xia and Xia Chen went to Fucheng together, taking care of Xia Chen on the way.Mrs. Meng fell ill suddenly, and Mr. Meng couldn't leave due to the small number of people. He was close to the Xia family, paid money to the firm, and simply entrusted his son to Mr. Xia to take care of him.

Xia Chen packed his luggage a few days in advance, and brought his slingshot. Brother Nan also specially found a bag of round stones for him to make projectiles.

Xia Chen did not persevere in learning martial arts from the two masters at the beginning, but he is quite talented in shooting. Although the two masters used to learn bow and arrow, they were all shooting classes. It is no problem to teach Xia Chen to use a slingshot.Now Xia Chen doesn't say that he hits every shot with a hundred shots, but he can hit eight or nine out of ten shots.

On the day of departure, Xia Dalang drove Xia Chen and Mr. Xia to the county in a bullock cart. Mr. Meng took Meng Mingjun to wait in the business house. When he saw them, he handed his son to Mr. Xia and told him to be obedient.

Meng Mingjun is a little nerdy but well-behaved and kind-hearted kid. Xia Chen and him have been classmates for more than four years, and the two have a good relationship.

After the time was up, the caravan drove away. Xia Chen and the others were scattered and sat beside several trucks. Xia Chen and the others were lucky. The goods in the car seemed to be cloth and embroidery, unlike some trucks. It's made of leather, and it smells so bad that it makes people dizzy when they sit close to it.

From the moment we met, Xia Chen noticed that Meng Mingjun seemed to be in a bad mood, his head was lowered and his eyes were a little red, as if he had cried.

Xia Chen thought that he was afraid of leaving his parents for the first time when he was young, so he talked to him and wanted to enlighten him. After all, they were going to take the exam, and it would be too bad if their grades were affected by a bad mood.

Unexpectedly, Xia Chen didn't say a few words, not only did the junior brother not become happy, but his eyes became redder, and he was about to cry.

Xia Chen panicked, quickly coaxed him, and asked why.

He has always taken good care of Meng Mingjun, and Meng Mingjun has always regarded him as a reliable elder brother. Hearing his question now, he choked up and said: "Last night I overheard my parents arguing, and my mother said that I shouldn't listen to my father, I should It's better to take my little uncle along with me than to be broken and give up my mind to become a monk now."

Xia Chen was stunned by the huge amount of information, and Meng Mingjun's tears had already rolled down: "My mother was so angry that she vomited blood when she received the news a few days ago. I am so worried about her."

"It's all right. The master is taking care of her. Mistress will be fine. You take the exam well. After the exam, your mistress will recover from her illness." Xia Chen hurriedly wiped the child's tears, and then pieced together the whole incident from Meng Mingjun's venting cries.

It turned out that Meng Mingjun had a little uncle. When he was young, he made a contract with a child from another family who was close to him.

Marrying a contract means that two men get married. Da'an is more open-minded. Remarriage of widows, female households, and men's contracting are all protected by relevant laws. Xia Chen was surprised when he first learned about it. After all, there are still many people in modern times who think that homosexuality is sick.

At the beginning, both Mr. Meng's family and Mrs. Meng's natal family fell due to certain things. Mrs. Meng's family was originally thin, leaving only a young brother. She herself was married and planned to bring her younger brother to raise her. Mr. Meng I also agreed at that time.

However, the family friend of Uncle Meng's betrothed not only did not break the marriage contract, but offered to take Mrs. Meng's younger brother over and raise him with the children of the family.

Of course, the conditions in the imperial capital are not the same as in this small county in the countryside. Mrs. Meng considered her younger brother's future, and Uncle Meng himself was reluctant to part with Zhuma, so she stayed in the family's family home.

The two parties have communicated over the years, knowing that my younger brother is doing well in that family, and Madam Meng is very grateful. Who would have thought that they would be able to hold a wedding for their two children in two years, but the family suddenly regretted that they wanted to marry their children? .

In Uncle Meng's letter, it seemed that he had said a lot of good things to that family, but Madam Meng was still so angry that she returned all the important gifts from that family, and became ill with anger.

After Xia Chen listened, he quietly complained to Xia Tongban: "This is not a scumbag, why bother him so long if he doesn't like it."

He is close to the Meng family, saying this has a subjective sense, but the fact is also the same. Generally, adult men go directly to form a contract with men, and it is rare to get engaged first when they are young.After all, the parents would definitely prefer their son to marry a wife and have children. The teenagers have not yet grown up, so they would be in a hurry to settle for a boy first.

So Uncle Meng's engagement with that family must have been strongly requested by the children of that family, and the parents would consider it. After waiting for so many years, he turned around and wanted to marry a woman, which is scumbag.

After coaxing Meng Mingjun all the way, he finally made him happy.Rest at the post station at night, the caravan doesn't care about food, let them make arrangements by themselves.

Master Xia brought the rice balls made by Mrs. Xia and Qiao Niang. This was Xia Chen's idea. Originally, his mother wanted to bring him big meat buns. Since he taught his family to make dough, buns and steamed buns have become a must in the family. Prepared staple food, loved.

But after these things are cold, not only are they not soft, they are also hard and easy to fall off. Compared with the original steamed cakes, they are of course much better, but Xia Chen still doesn't like it, so he asked his sister-in-law to make rice balls for him, which are convenient to eat and cold. Does not affect the taste.

In addition, there are some beef jerky and pork jerky, which are also packed in a large bag, with food and meat, and ask the post station for a bowl of hot water, it will be very good to eat.

The government examination went smoothly without any accidents. After returning home after the examination, Xia Chen couldn't help sighing that the imperial examination is really not for the poor to take the examination. This trip just spent ten taels of silver for the round trip and accommodation expenses. I can't save that much money in a year.

After the results came out, both Xia Chen and Meng Mingjun were on the list, but their positions were relatively low, in the middle and lower ranks. With such results, they basically missed the college entrance examination.

However, Xia Chen didn't expect too much in the first place, so he calmed down and accepted the result calmly.On the contrary, it was his family members who were all overjoyed. Master Xia even held a banquet and invited Xia Chen's uncles to eat at home.

He himself took the protagonist in the novel as his target, but he didn't know that the 12-year-old Tongsheng was already very remarkable. The villagers used to have little respect for the Xia family who had not been rich for a long time, but after Xia Chen passed the government examination, everyone changed. The attitude is very respectful to the Xia family.

The college examination was in August, and Xia Chen continued to study at ease after returning home. During this period, the general's mansion sent things twice, such as summer light fabrics and some seasonal fruits, etc. Xia Chen also returned gifts as usual.

Later, Xia Chen listened to Wang Wu and Liu Si chatting, talking about the general's mansion, and heard that his cheap brother-in-law escaped from marriage. Back then, the Xia family sent congratulatory gifts, who would have thought that the groom would run away.

Xia Chen sighed a few words, so there were rebellious youths in ancient times, and turned his head to forget about it.

In August, still accompanied by Master Xia, he took Meng Mingjun to the county town to take the exam. The county town was farther away, and the journey took four days.

Xia Chen's buttocks were numb from the bumpy roads and cars with extremely poor shock resistance in ancient times. Thinking of suffering such a first crime, Xia Chen yelled at Xia Tongpan, begging him to get a car come out.

Xia Tongban said calmly: [If I give it to you, do you dare to use it? ]

"...Don't dare." Xia Chen shrank back aggrievedly, the car didn't look like seeds or other small objects, how would he explain it when he took it out?

Unexpectedly, although he didn't get the car, Xia Chen's college test was super long, and he passed the test, even though it was the Sun Shan who was named in Sun Shanli, um, that is, the last one.

The last one also passed the test, and Xia Chen became a scholar in a daze, but Junior Brother Meng, who usually had better grades than him, did not pass the test, probably because he did not perform as well as Xia Chen.

Mr. Meng didn't expect that, in his opinion, Xia Chen was still a bit late, so he asked Xia Chen to silently read the papers for the college examination, and found that Xia Chen really played super long, and his writing was a level better than usual , I can only sigh that Xia Chen is probably the kind of student who is naturally suitable for exams.

Now that he has passed the college examination, he has to prepare for the next year's provincial examination. What Mr. Meng means is that although Xia Chen is not capable enough now, he still has to take the exam if he can. Experience more, and be more prepared and confident next time.

In August of the next year, Xia Chen went to the county town to take part in the rural examination. This time, only Master Xia was with him. Because he came here once, he still stayed in the original inn, which was more smooth.

As expected, Xia Chen did not pass the exam this time. Although luck is a part of strength, but strength must be enough for luck to be the icing on the cake. Xia Chen was a bit worse this time.

That scholar's fame is like picking it up, so he didn't pass the county test, Xia Chen was also very calm, and bought some county specialties to take home.I forgot last time, this time Xia Chen secretly dug some soil outside the examination room to plant his magical seeds.

I don't know if the examination room was full of culture, but the miraculous seeds planted this time mutated again. The mutated plants grew three pods, and each pod contained four to six beans.

As for the function, it is very similar to the peashooter, as long as the beans are thrown out, it can become a half-person-high peashooter with nozzles.Xia Chen tried it, the range can be 30 meters, the strength is not small, it can punch trees into holes, and a bean can be sprayed at a rate of one per second for 5 minutes without interruption. The one used by Xia Chen in the experiment Most of the trees as thick as the mouth of a bowl were blown off by spraying, and they fell down as soon as they were pushed.

This thing is fun, but it's useless. If you really take it out, it should scare people.

As for why the soil outside the examination room would be in this direction of variation, Xia Chen couldn't figure it out either. Is it because literati are good at talking?