As soon as Zhou Chengxing finished speaking, he heard someone at the door of the study, and his eyes immediately turned cold.

Hearing Zhou Chengxing's voice, Zhou Mingcheng walked in from outside.

"Father, Uncle Shen."

Seeing Zhou Mingcheng and Zhou Chengxing frown,

"Mingcheng, you're not an unruly child. What brings you to the study?"

Zhou Mingcheng lowered his head.

“Father, I was reckless today. Now that you are returning to the army, I want to go with you to train in the army.”

Zhou Chengxing looked up at his eldest son.

"Have you thought it through?"

"Life in the military is much harder than at home."

Zhou Mingcheng nodded.

"I've made up my mind."

Father, I am the eldest son in the family, the heir of the Prince of Zhenbei's mansion.

As the heir to the Prince of Zhenbei's mansion, I don't want to hide behind my father forever.

He didn't want to be the Prince of Zhenbei, a man who knew nothing about leading troops in battle and only knew how to hide in the inner quarters.

Zhou Chengxing glanced at his son.

"Okay, I have no objection as long as you've thought it through."

However, you can't enter the army as the heir of a prince's family; you can only start as a common soldier.

Whether you can persevere or not depends on yourself. In the military, unless it's a matter of life and death, I won't give you any special treatment.

Oh, and you should talk to your mother yourself.

Zhou Mingcheng paused for a moment, then nodded.

"Yes, I understand."

Zhou Mingcheng respectfully bowed to Shen Junshan and Zhou Chengxing before leaving.

Zhou Chengxing stared silently at his eldest son's retreating figure for a moment, then looked at Shen Junshan.

"Junshan, I will take the child with me as long as you are willing to part with him."

Sijian and my son Mingcheng are the same age, but my son Mingcheng is a few months older than your son Sijian.

The two children are both quite young, so arranging for them to stay together will allow them to look after each other.

Shen Junshan nodded.

"Okay, I'm leaving the child in your care. You can make arrangements as you see fit."

………………

Ningbao knew that her father was going back to the army and had been very busy these past few days.

She not only moved out a lot of the grains she had taken on her journey of fleeing famine from her storage talisman, but also picked out a few ginseng roots of good quality.

Although Ningbao was young, she knew that people in the military were very frugal with their food and supplies.

The imperial court did not provide the army with food and supplies in a timely manner.

Ningbao was worried that her father would go hungry, so she gave him a lot of everything she could.

Having prepared the supplies, Ning Bao took out all the yellow paper and cinnabar he had on him.

"Flying talisman, invisibility talisman, peace talisman..."

Ning Bao drew numerous talismans of every kind that Zhou Chengxing might need.

When Zhou Chengxing saw the flying talisman, he made a decision immediately.

"How could I have forgotten about this?"

With a flying talisman, I don't need to ride a horse anymore; I can just fly there.

Let's set off again in ten days!

Because he had a flying talisman, Zhou Chengxing decided to set off again in ten days.

Zhou Chengxing was very happy to be able to spend a few more days at home with his wife and daughter.

Knowing that Zhou Chengxing was leaving, Shen Yuzhen and her husband had Ningbao stay at Zhou's house for the past few days.

Ten days passed quickly, and Zhou Chengxing, Zhou Mingcheng, and Shen Sijian used invisibility talismans and flight talismans to fly away.

Before they knew it, the preliminary examination for the imperial examinations was approaching, and Shen Muyang, Shen Sikang, Lin Dongyang, Huang Yuhu, Lin Zhiwei, Mu Chengrong, Mu Chengan, Mu Chengju, Mu Chengle, and Mu Chengye were all going to participate.

Because the children are going to take the preliminary examinations, the village has been much quieter lately, with hardly any loud noises, for fear of disturbing the children's studies.

Some of the women in the village originally wanted Ningbao to calculate whether their children could pass the imperial examination for the lowest level of education.