Manbao's fief is not very rich, so the land is not expensive, especially the wasteland.
Zhou Lijun found a piece of land close to the road and bought it. Now that the workshop and the house have been built, everyone went to see it.
The reason why the speed is so fast is that it was built according to the small farmyards, not as meticulously divided as the old courtyards in Jianpu Village, and the bricks, stones and wood used are also good.
The workshops built are rows of yards and houses, inside which are Lu's pharmacy grinding room, boiling pharmacy, oil refining room...
Anyway, it's pretty detailed.
At that time, many people will be invited, so Zhou Lijun decided to invite my sister-in-law to entrust the people on the ground.
Man Bao carried a vase to Mrs. Zheng.
Zheng put it on the shelf in the outer room, and after looking at it, she felt that it was not coordinated enough, so she carried it to her own study and found a shelf to put it on, so she felt more comfortable.
"Cut it in the garden?"
Man Bao nodded and said with a smile, "Cut a little."
It was only when Mrs. Zheng went for a walk in the evening that she realized that it was more than a little pruning. All the flowers she was proud of were cut off. She felt distressed for a while, and then she protected the remaining buds, and Zhou Man was not allowed to cut them. up.
She said: "There is also a process for cutting flowers. At least one blooming flower must be left on the flower branch, so as not to look bare and ugly."
Man Bao nodded repeatedly, and said, "Aunt Zheng, next time I go out to buy flowers and come back to insert a vase for you."
Mrs. Zheng immediately said, "I want a big one."
This is not difficult for Man Bao at all.
She responded with a smile, turned around and went to the shopping mall to place an order for a lot of flowers, and when she was leaving the office after the vacation, she went around the street and came back with flowers in her arms.
Mrs. Zheng knew that Manbao could always buy a lot of beautiful flowers, so she was very happy. She put the vase together with her, and then kept a bottle for herself. The rest was given to Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Bai and Xiaoqian .
I had just gone to work and had the Double Ninth Festival holiday for a few days.
But this time, Man Bao and the others didn't go out to play, but stayed at home with Bai Erlang and the three of them studying.
When Guan Yong came to the capital this time and saw Bai Shan's notes, he was amazed. Sure enough, there was a big difference between the teachers in the county school and the Guozijian, let alone the teachers in Chongwenguan.
He can basically learn new knowledge every day, and then he knows that he is really here to accumulate experience in the Jinshi exam. After reading Bai Shan's article, he knows that he may not be able to pass the Jinshi exam in three years. .
And Bai Dalang and Bai Erlang's articles were not bad, so he also felt that he couldn't catch up.
Guan Yong said quietly to his wife: "We should live until next year's Mingjing exam, and I won't be able to pass the Jinshi exam."
Zhou Lixin had expected that Jinshi would be so easy to take the exam, so he nodded and said: "Don't be afraid, we just live here, and you can still study with Mr. Zhou. I also studied with Mr. Zhou for two years. We're still classmates."
Zhou Lixin couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, and said: "I knew that Mr. Zhuang is so powerful, he should have studied in Qili Village back then."
It's just that Mr. Zhuang's reputation wasn't that obvious back then. Compared with Mr. Zhuang who could only accept the invitation of Master Bai to teach a group of urchins in the village, he was naturally better than the two famous gentlemen in the county, so Guan Yong was sent to the county to study early. , he has always been the most promising child in the three nearby villages besides Bai Dalang.
It's a pity that Bai Shan came later, and Bai Erlang, who was not a good student, actually surpassed him and went to Yizhou to study...
Guan Yong coughed lightly, brought back the thoughts of Paofei, and said to his wife: "I just miss the child."
Zhou Lixin also thought about it, the smile on his face fell, and he sighed: "I don't know if he is obedient at home, or I'll go back with Second Uncle and the others after my sister-in-law gets married."
"No," Guan Yong said hastily, "You are willing to leave me alone."
"There are my parents and the others here."
Guan Yong shook his head, "Father-in-law and mother-in-law are naturally excellent, but we have been together since we got married, since we have come to the capital, how can you go back alone? Don't worry, mother will definitely take care of the child."
Guan Yong suppressed the thoughts and worries in his heart, and in turn persuaded his wife.
Zhou Lixin thought that he would enter the examination room in a few days, so he didn't want him to be distracted, so he nodded.
Two days after the Double Ninth Festival, on the twelfth of September, the Jinshi Examination officially began, and Bai Shan and the others went to send Bai Dalang and the others into the examination room.
Bai Shan, a successful man, personally sent people to the gate of the Gongyuan, and met Feng Zongping and Pei Shouyue. Just send them blessings together, no matter what the prospects are, anyway, everyone is very ambitious at the moment.
But they also made the worst plan, Feng Zongping said to Bai Erlang: "I failed this time, let's test Mingjing together next year."
Bai Erlang nodded.
Bai Dalang also nodded.
Pei Shouyue and Guan Yong also nodded secretly.
In addition to policy theory and post scriptures, the Jinshi examination also mainly looks at poems and the reputation of candidates.
Feng Zongping's reputation in the capital is not bad, and he was accompanied by the prince. The examiners all know him. In the past two years, he has written two or three good articles.
Bai Dalang was quite famous, he almost passed the exam last year, so most of the examiners had heard of him, but the two were still no more famous than Bai Erlang.
This person is famous in three aspects. First, he is also the prince's companion; second, he is the future son-in-law; The records about the Imperial Medical Office were often taken out by the emperor to share with his officials.
To be an examiner of the Jinshi Examination, the status is naturally not low, and they did not miss Bai Erlang's notes.
Therefore, they also had to admit that Bai Erlang was quite capable of practical work, so they put his papers on the side of the paper when grading the papers.
After they ranked the rankings, they took them to the palace to find the emperor. Well, the emperor usually ordered the top three. Of course, if he is interested, he can also arrange a row at the back. Everyone will listen to it and talk about it.
The emperor took out Bai Dalang's paper and looked at it, nodded in satisfaction, and glanced at the list, seeing that the examiners had placed him in the twelfth place, they didn't say anything, and when he looked at Bai Erlang's, he became a little entangled.
This time Li Maoyue was one of the examiners. Seeing the emperor pondering, he asked, "Your Majesty thinks this paper is not good?"
The emperor said: "It's not bad at all. I looked at the other papers. He may be slightly inferior in literary talent, but his knowledge is not weaker than others, and he is pragmatic. It's not bad for you to rank him twenty, but a double Scholars..."
He felt that this honor was too great.
However, Li Maoyue listened to the emperor's other meaning, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Wei Gong once said that you don't have to avoid relatives when you are a virtuous person. Since Bai Cheng has such a talent, if he loses the rank because he is a son-in-law, it will be a shame for him." It's just too unfair."
The emperor raised his eyebrows, deeply convinced, ahem, he was not pretending, he was not trying to let people know that Bai Cheng's success in the exam was not because of selfishness, but because he really had the ability.
However, the emperor was a little fair, and felt that it was a little watery for him to be ranked 20th, so he moved him to 23rd.
The examiners looked at Wei Wei and nodded, thinking that the emperor was fair, so the list was decided like this.