jdhmnovel Chapter 241: Picking up the candidates
Chapter 241: Picking up the candidates
The old man was an honest man. When he learned that Gu Qingqing also wanted to grow crops herself, he immediately told her all his experiences without reservation.
"This plant eats too much manure. I planted quite a bit when I was growing it, but it only grew to the size of an egg. Only in some areas with thick manure could it grow to the size of a goose egg. You might as well plant sweet potatoes, because they are more delicious. This plant, if you bury it in the soil, will only produce two fruits. You have to have three or four fruits on one root to have some left over for the family to eat."
Gu Qingqing smiled at the old woman. Sweet potatoes are good, but she likes potatoes more.
But she didn't plan to tell this to the old man.
No! Wait! The whole tree is buried in the soil?
Gu Qingqing suddenly turned her head to look at the old man and asked suspiciously, "Uncle, what did you just say? Buried in the soil?"
She strongly suspected that she had heard it wrong. Are the potatoes grown here sold in their original form?
"Hahaha, you reap what you sow. If you don't bury the eggs in the ground, how can the ground produce fruits?" The old man smiled in a good mood at this moment.
Gu Qingqing's eyebrows twitched twice, "Uncle, aren't you going to cut the earth eggs into pieces and plant them in the fields?"
Now it was the old man's turn to look her up and down. She was wearing fine cotton clothes, and her children were also dressed well. At this moment, he just thought she was some family's lady, who had never worked in the fields and had no idea what farm work was like.
Then he saw that she didn't look like him, and the old man couldn't figure it out, so he stopped talking.
Gu Qingqing looked at the old man's eyes that looked like he didn't understand anything, and then she thought of the way sweet potatoes were planted in Niutoushan Village, where one sweet potato was planted in one pit...
Her change would be a waste of seeds.
......
When the group arrived at the inn, Gu Qingqing greeted the waiter and asked the old man to deliver the things directly to Wen Wuyan's room.
Gu Qingqing then said to the old man, "Can you let the child take you downstairs to wait for a while? I'll bring you the money."
The old man sold all his things and felt relieved. He nodded hurriedly and followed Li Xin downstairs.
Gu Qingqing didn't let the other party wait any longer and counted out two hundred copper coins and handed them to the other party.
Only then did he take the child to pick up Wen Wuyan.
The entrance to the examination hall was crowded with people, men, women, young and old. Dahua grabbed Erhua's wrist and looked up to ask Gu Qingqing, "Mom, are these people here to pick someone up like us?"
"Of course." Gu Qingqing stood on tiptoe and gave up trying to see what was going on inside.
"Aunt, when will uncle come out?" Li Xin also asked.
"I guess soon..."
Suddenly, there was a commotion among the crowd ahead. Gu Qingqing looked left and right and finally saw that the patrol officer was carrying a person out. Then the crowd dispersed a little, and then low sobbing was heard from the front.
Several children raised their heads and looked at Gu Qingqing nervously. It was then that Gu Qingqing heard a voice from the crowd saying, "Another one fainted."
Gu Qingqing heard it, and so did the other children. Dahua asked in a worried voice, "Mom, aren't they taking an exam? Why did he faint? Is Dad okay?"
Gu Qingqing was also a little nervous in the atmosphere, hoping that Wen Wuyan would faint due to the pressure. However, she remained calm and said, "I guess he fainted because of too much pressure and nervousness."
Then Gu Qingqing used a derogatory and silent word to comfort the children.
She said, "Your father is thick-skinned, he will be fine."
Almost as soon as she finished speaking, she looked through the sparse crowd and suddenly saw a person walking out of the entrance of the examination hall. Who else could it be but Wen Wuyan?
"Fuck!" The essence of the language was blurted out by Gu Qingqing!
She had just mentioned Wen Wuyan, so how come Wen Wuyan walked out of that door?
Seeing Wen Wuyan walking out of the door with his eyes looking for something, she didn't have time to think about it at this moment, and blurted out again, "Go quickly, your father is out."
As soon as she finished speaking, the three children rushed into the crowd in an instant. She stood there holding Sanhua without moving, but her eyes were fixed on him.
Wen Wuyan saw a child running towards him in the crowd, and he hurriedly went to meet him. Before the child could speak, he said, "Shh! Don't be so loud!"
Two flowers and one letter, the cry that was already on the tip of her throat was swallowed back down, and her face turned red from holding it in.
"Where is your mother?" Wen Wuyan couldn't see Gu Qingqing anywhere.
Dahua pursed her lips tightly and raised her hand to point in a direction. Only then did Wen Wuyan see Qingqing behind the crowd.
Seeing Wen Wuyan leading the child out of the crowd, Gu Qingqing stepped forward and said, "Why did you come out? Did you hand in the paper after the exam? How did you do? We just saw someone being carried out!"
Gu Qingqing had no idea whether he had handed in the paper early.
Wen Wuyan took the three flowers from her arms, looked at Gu Qingqing whose eyes were dark, and gently wiped her lower eyelids with his fingertips with heartache. "I feel like I have a lot of exams, and I'm sorry to have made you worry about me these two days."
After Wen Wuyan finished speaking, he saw the three children looking at him eagerly, and hurriedly said, "You have worked hard too."
The three children couldn't hide their joy in their eyes, but they kept their lips tightly pursed and said nothing.
Gu Qingqing naturally noticed the abnormality of the three children. They were fine when they just went in, so why couldn't they speak when they came back?
"It's my fault. You can talk now. You are not allowed to make loud noises at the door, otherwise you will be driven away by the patrol officers, so I told you not to talk." Wen Wuyan said.
After hearing this, the three little ones started chattering.
When Gu Qingqing learned that he had handed in the paper after he finished the exam, she felt relieved.
"Since you have passed the exam, let's go back. Ask the waiter to boil some ginger water when you come out. You can go back and drink a bowl to get rid of the cold. You took the main exam today and there will be a supplementary exam tomorrow, so you can't be careless." Gu Qingqing said.
For the examination for Tongsheng, there are two basic examinations: the main examination is for the results, and the supplementary examination is for extra points.
The supplementary questions test the application of imperial edicts, memorials, and essays as well as real-time policy essays.
If someone is noticed by the county magistrate, there will be a third round, which is the interview with the county magistrate. At that time, as long as you don't make any big mistakes, you will definitely get extra points if you answer the questions correctly.
This point is not that point, but it means showing face in front of the county magistrate!
Just when Gu Qingqing and the others were about to walk out, they suddenly heard a child crying behind them, "Wuwu... I can usually do the questions, but I couldn't remember them just now. Wuwu, I remember them now, let me go in again!"
"How can you mess around in this important place? No noise, leave immediately!"
Gu Qingqing listened to the crying of the child, and suddenly a word came to her mind: You can learn it when you see it, but you will fail when you try it.
When she looked back, she didn't see the child, but saw a familiar figure. The only person who seemed familiar to her was the woman who sold her potatoes. Could it be...
Their family arrived at the inn in the blink of an eye. Wen Wuyan drank two cups of tea in succession, and only then did a look of fatigue appear on his face. The family had dinner early that day and went to bed.
The next day, Gu Qingqing got up and made a few egg noodle pancakes, trying to make them thin and translucent so as not to be damaged when checking for any interlayers.
After sending Wen Wuyan in, Gu Qingqing did not take the child out to play like she did yesterday. Instead, she gave Daxin some money with a smile, and told him to take Dahua and ask the waiter to bring food when he was hungry.
"Aunt, what are you doing?"
"I'm going to sleep for a while. Make sure Dahua and Erhua don't leave the inn. Got it?"
"Aunt, can you eat before going to bed?"
"My eyes are blurry and my pillow is already waving at me." Gu Qingqing shook her body and fell headfirst onto the bed.
When she woke up, it was already noon.
Sanhua was not in the room either. When Gu Qingqing went to Wen Wuyan's room, she saw Daxin sitting on a chair holding Sanhua. Dahua was blowing rice soup on a spoon to feed Sanhua.