In a blink of an eye, it was the test day.
Mingyue left the children at the Liang Mansion and went to the county government office alone.
At this time, many women had gathered at the gate of the county government office. They were all here to take part in this royal test. Most of them looked very young. Someone like Mingyue, of her age, would seem a little out of place among them.
But Mingyue didn't care about other people's eyes at all. She just glanced around and didn't see Jiang Huiyue, which made her feel a little strange.
She knew that Jiang Huiyue and even the entire Jiang family attached great importance to this royal test. Logically, they should have come early, so they shouldn't be nowhere to be seen now!
Unless... Mingyue narrowed her eyes. Something happened to the Jiang family.
Moreover, the incident in the Jiang family was so serious that Jiang Huiyue could no longer take care of this test.
However, Mingyue had no time to think about the Jiang family's affairs, because the county magistrate had already appeared at the gate of the yamen, and the test was about to begin.
The middle-aged county magistrate held a notebook in his hand and winked at the yamen runners beside him. The runners immediately came forward to maintain order and asked all the testers to line up in three rows.
The county magistrate then said to the crowd, "I will now start reading out the names of the test takers. Whoever's name is called out will come up to get a badge. After getting the badge, you will line up in order and someone will come to take you to take the test."
The yamen gate, which had been noisy, now became completely quiet.
"Liu Xuan."
"Zhou Lingyu."
"He Shenghua."
"Feng Cai."
"… "
As one woman after another took their signs and lined up nearby, the space in front of Mingyue became increasingly empty.
After a long time, the county magistrate finally read out the name "Jiang Mingyue".
Mingyue stepped out of the line, took a wooden carved sign from the yamen runner, and stood in the queue on the other side.
Then there was another long wait.
The original owner had never participated in this kind of test before, nor had he ever heard anyone talk about the content of the test, so Mingyue was also confused about the test questions.
However, Mingyue had heard Liang Baoer give a simple science lesson these two days. Most of the royal test questions were about issues between men and women. As long as she tried her best to answer in the direction of women being in power, and then passed the royal sincerity test stone, she would be able to pass the primary test.
The ultimate test was in the imperial city. The test there was much more complicated and included many strange questions. Some of them were even beyond the ability of the royal family to answer. They could only distinguish right from wrong based on the answers because these questions were set by the first empress herself.
But the royal ultimate test was very lenient. As long as you answered three of all the test questions correctly, you would pass and be able to enter the royal library.
Mingyue's goal is to enter the royal library, and some of her guesses need to be verified by her.
From sunrise to sunset, Mingyue finally heard her own name, and then she followed the bailiff into the yamen and came to a separate small room.
Candles had been lit in the room. In addition to a piece of paper similar to a test paper, there were also pens, inkstones, and a glowing stone on the table.
The one guarding the room was a gray-haired old woman. She didn't even look at the people who came in. She just repeated what she had said countless times: "Just look at the test questions and answer as many as you can. Call me when you're done."
Mingyue raised her eyebrows, but her eyes first fell on the stone.
There are actually spirit stones in this world
Moreover, there was a formation drawn on this spiritual stone. Anyone who touched this stone could only speak the truth. This was somewhat beyond Mingyue's expectations, because she originally thought that this was just an ordinary small world, but now it seems that this world seems to hide many secrets.
Even though Mingyue was in a daze, the old woman said nothing. She just lay on the soft couch in the room with her eyes closed, as if she was still dozing off.
If it weren't for the test question, Mingyue would have almost thought that she had accidentally entered the old lady's house.
But Mingyue quickly came to her senses, let out a breath, and said, "No matter what, let's answer the questions first!"
As for the truth, she could even deceive Feishuang in her sea of consciousness, so a mere small formation would not be a problem for her at all.
Mingyue quickly glanced through the test paper from beginning to end, and the content was indeed not much different from what Liang Baoer said. All the questions revolved around women and men.
For example: The first wife of Jiafu has a daughter, and the second wife has a son. However, the daughter of the first wife is dull, while the daughter of the second wife is smart. Jiafu is a wealthy family with a lot of wealth and is surrounded by wolves. Everyone is coveting Jiafu's wealth. If you are the head of Jiafu, how should you deal with it
If Mingyue were to answer sincerely, she would definitely hand over the huge family business to the smart second wife. After all, a fool cannot keep the family business.
But Mingyue knew that if she really answered like that, she would be eliminated in the preliminary test.
So she could only train more loyal subordinates to assist the eldest daughter, train her to maintain the status quo, suppress the second daughter, and send her far away, so as to make her have unreasonable expectations.
Another example: Kofu has twins, a daughter and a son, who look the same and are both very smart. The daughter has been carefully nurtured by the family since she was young, while the son is locked up in the backyard with nothing to do. However, one day, the daughter dies unexpectedly, and the son steps forward and offers to pretend to be the daughter. As the head of Kofu, how should you respond
If Mingyue really wanted to, she would do her best to train Jiazi and hand over the entire family business to Jiazi in the future. After all, he is also her own child.
But facing the reality, she could only reject Jiazi's request, rebuke him for his wishful thinking, tell him the fate of men, and ask him not to dream of things that do not belong to him. Then she adopted a girl from the side branch and trained the next head of the Jiafu family.
Almost all the test questions are like this, putting the opposition between women and men on the table and not giving men any chance to come forward. It has almost reached the point of suppressing men's living space.
Mingyue frowned slightly, she couldn't understand why the first empress hated men so much that she had already beaten them into the mud but still refused to give them a way to live.
In just a stick of incense's time, Mingyue had written down all her hypocritical words on paper.
She looked up at the old woman on the couch and reminded her, "Madam, I have answered the question."
The old woman opened her eyes almost immediately and looked over, then stretched out her hand to Mingyue: "Bring your answers and the stone on the table here."
Mingyue blinked and obediently walked forward with the things in hand.
The old woman took Mingyue's test paper and said slowly, "Hold the stone in your hand. Now I will ask you a question and you answer it."
Mingyue nodded and held the spirit stone in her palm, but her mind was completely empty.
It’s terrible. I feel very terrible right now.
My younger brother scored 240 points in the high school entrance examination. My mother was quite proud when she called me to tell me. I really don’t understand what she was proud of
The total score of the high school entrance examination was 710, and he scored 240. 240, what a brain... I am really shocked, who can understand! ! ! !
My mother said it was no big deal, saying that so-and-so went to work in a factory after graduating from university, and that there was no point in studying so much, and she had to make up for her son.
But does she really understand? More education means more choices in the future and greater room for advancement. It is not like her son can only choose to work in a factory and be an ordinary workshop employee for the rest of his life (maybe the factory doesn't want him).
Of course, she might still be waiting for me to help her son in the future. After all, she wouldn’t allow me to use my own provident fund, and even said: What if you use it to buy a house for your brother in the future
What to do? If you don’t have money, don’t buy a house, don’t get married, and don’t have children. My sister is not my mother, so she really can’t help me.
The more I think about it, the worse it gets!!!