Chapter 531 The First Prodigal Son to Return

That night, Qin Yao had a dream for the first time. She dreamed that Liu Ji was afraid of being held accountable by her because of his bad results in the college examination, so he avoided Awang's supervision and ran away.

Many years later, Liu Ji became a wandering beggar, suffered a lot, and finally crawled to the door of his home step by step. With a haggard face, he called her "wife" affectionately.

Qin Yao's breathing stopped suddenly, and she sat up from the bed with a startled "Shock!"

The sounds of dogs barking and people busying about in the village reached her ears, and she realized that she had had a terrible dream.

"Let's go, it will be late if we don't go out to school!"

Yin Le urged outside the yard.

Dalang and his two siblings rushed out the door dragging their book boxes, while Sanlang was still holding half a mooncake made during the Mid-Autumn Festival in his mouth.

Li ran out of the door, "Food box, there is also a food box!"

Xiao Fulai ran out with two water bags in his arms and threw them onto the carriage, "Brother Dalang, catch them!"

Da Lang quickly reached out, took the water bags in one hand each, and turned to hand them to San Lang and Si Niang, saying helplessly, "Don't forget it next time."

The twins, boy and girl, should be good.

After picking up Jinhua and Jinbao from the old house, the carriage drove away quickly.

As expected of master and disciple, Yin Le has learned the true skills from Qin Yao. He drives the carriage like it's flying, with smoke and dust rising all the way, and it has its own special effects.

Arriving at Xiahe Village, Jinhua, who was looking around, saw two men in red official uniforms riding horses along the official road. She hurriedly pulled Si Niang and said, "There are officials coming to our village."

Si Niang looked over curiously, and as if she had sensed something in her heart, she opened her eyes wide and guessed in a low voice: "Could it be that my father passed the imperial examination?"

"Ah?" Jinhua didn't hear clearly, and her open mouth was blocked by the dust. She quickly retreated into the car and spat several times before she cleared the taste of dust from her mouth.

Si Niang repeated the question again, "Did Dad pass the imperial examination? The officials in red are here to announce the good news. I heard from Miss Ding that when Master Ding passed the imperial examination, officials in red also beat the gong to announce the good news."

"Really?" Jinhua and Jinbao became excited.

Si Niang frowned again, "I just heard it."

Dalang and Erlang were also excited for a moment, but then they shook their heads, thinking that it was impossible, and signaled Si Niang not to think about it for the time being, so as not to delay the teacher's lecture.

Si Niang nodded in agreement, but couldn't help but lift the curtain to take a look outside.

Unfortunately, time was tight and Senior Sister Le drove the carriage very fast. The thick smoke blocked the view and the two horse-riding officials had long disappeared. It could not be confirmed that they were heading to Liujia Village.

Si Niang could only put away her excitement, hold on to her seat, adapt to the bumpy rhythm of Sister Le and A Niang, and miss the happiness when Uncle Awang was at home.

Over there, Qin Yao had just picked up her breakfast when He's excited voice came from outside the door:

"Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law, come out quickly! The official is here with the good news!"

Qin Yao put down the bowl in confusion. Shouldn’t the He family be in the stationery factory cafeteria?

The news from the government came faster than Liu Ji's letter. Yesterday, the county government had already received the list of candidates who had passed the imperial examination. There were only three people who passed the examination in the entire Kaiyang County, and Liu Ji was one of them.

Thanks to Qin Yao, the official working in the yamen recognized at a glance that Liu Ji was the beautiful good-for-nothing husband of Lady Qin from Liujia Village - the first prodigal son to return to his original ways in Liujia Village.

I heard that he is very lucky and can become a disciple of a great scholar and a fellow student of the Kyoto prodigy.

When the officials saw the news of his success today, they were all very shocked.

Besides being shocked, there was also a strange sense of balance that Qin's husband should have.

Reporting good news is one of the jobs that yamen officials like to take on the most. They will usually be rewarded with silver, ranging from a few dozen coins to several taels.

If the host wants to hold a banquet, you can also drink and eat together.

Moreover, unlike the fear and vigilance that the people would show when they saw the officials on ordinary days, in this kind of happy event, the people were not unhappy. They greeted the officials with smiles and were genuinely happy, which made people feel comfortable.

So, relying on his old friendship with Madam Qin, Zhou Zheng took the job and came to Liujia Village early in the morning with his followers.

The first time I arrived in the village, I didn’t know where Mrs. Qin’s home was, so I asked outside the stationery factory.

Yin Le would arrive late in the morning, and He was impatient and couldn't wait for Yin Le to come back to wash the vegetables, so she prepared to go to the river to wash them herself.

Coincidentally, the person Zhou Zheng was asking about was He.

When He saw the two officials' attire and the gongs in their hands, and heard that they were asking about where Liu Ji's home was, she was so excited that she dropped a basket of vegetables and offered to lead the way for them.

He's voice arrived first, followed by the sound of gongs from Zhou Zheng and others.

In order to please Madam Qin, Zhou Zheng's followers bought two rolls of firecrackers and lit them up when they arrived at Qin Yao's door.

The loud sound of firecrackers spread throughout the village, and Qin Yao's ears were also reached by the news that Liu Ji had passed the imperial examination.

Zhou Zheng handed the document to Qin Yao, who looked calm, and sighed in his heart, saying that Qin Yao was indeed someone who had seen a lot of ups and downs, and his expression did not show his emotions.

Qin Yao smiled and nodded at Zhou Zheng, then gave a wink to Song Yu who was following the large group.

Song Yu nodded in understanding and went back to the house to wrap the red envelope.

Qin Yao wanted to go inside and take a closer look, but Old Man Liu and his clansmen rushed up excitedly, so she had no choice but to unfold the document in front of everyone.

Although he was illiterate, he read it carefully as if he knew the characters.

Old man Liu didn't know other characters, but he recognized the two characters "Liu Ji" at a glance. He was so excited that he shouted, "My third son is a juren!" He almost fainted.

His uncles and aunts quickly supported him and said to him with a smile: "Yes, he passed the exam, Ji Ge'er has made it. You are the father of the Juren master, and you will be the master in the future!"

The aunts also looked at Zhang, He and Qiu excitedly, nodding their heads continuously, and were so happy that they were speechless.

There were two aunts whom Qin Yao had rarely seen, and they actually shed tears, saying that they had always felt that Liu Ji was a natural talent, and today it had come true.

Qin Yao calmed down, withdrew her attention from other people's reactions, read the contents of the document carefully again, and raised the corners of her mouth slightly.

It turns out that dreams and reality are opposites.

If luck is also part of a person's strength, then Qin Yao had to admit at this moment that Liu Ji was indeed quite capable.

Plus, he was fairly obedient, so she didn't mind continuing the cooperation to the end.

The government also gave rewards to the candidates who passed the examination, a total of twenty taels of silver, which Zhou Zheng handed over to Qin Yao.

Although Liu Ji's parents were still alive, the two sides had already separated, so it was the candidate's wife who should receive the reward money.

Old Man Liu finally calmed down after being comforted by his brothers. When he saw Qin Yao accepting the reward money, he felt a little dissatisfied for a moment.

Old Man Liu was frightened by his own thought and quickly closed his eyes and calmed himself down.

He knew that he must have been obsessed. These words of "the father of the juren master" made him feel lost, and he couldn't help but take it for granted that he was no longer a peasant, but the father of the juren, the master.