"Listen to Uncle San, we need to discuss this with the village. This is supposed to be a good thing, we can't let it turn into something unpleasant."

Jiang's father and the clan chief discussed for a long time, and this matter needed to be decided as soon as possible.

The messenger who brought the good news entered the village with gongs and drums, and only then did the villagers realize that young Jiang had passed the imperial examination and become a Jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations). Their Jiangjia Village had produced a Jinshi, who would become a high-ranking official in the future.

From elderly people with missing teeth to toddlers in open-crotch pants, everyone was laughing, even if they didn't quite understand what was happening.

Soon, a meeting was held in Jiangjia Village and a vote was passed to build the Jinshi (successful candidate in the highest imperial examination) archway at the village entrance, so that it would be visible as soon as one entered the village. The area there is open, and if anyone else passes the imperial examination in the future, more archways can be built next to it.

Because of the county magistrate's special instructions and Mu Ziwu's connections, the county government quickly dispatched people with a construction team to Jiangjia Village to build the Jinshi Memorial Archway.

Once you've chosen a good location and measured the dimensions, everything follows fixed standards and is quite easy.

A construction team worked for several days and the Jinshi Archway was completed.

In the past few days, my third grandfather arranged for the villagers to cook for the construction team, and Mu Yi'an sent people to deliver a lot of meat, eggs, fish and other food.

The construction team was treated well, so they did their work very diligently.

Before Jiang Shuyun even got home, the village's memorial archway for successful candidates in the imperial examinations had already been built. From a distance, it looked magnificent and particularly eye-catching.

This memorial archway has attracted people from nearby villages to come and visit, all wanting to witness the splendor of this Jinshi (successful candidate in the highest imperial examination) memorial archway for themselves.

Elderly family members, accompanied by their young boys, would come to touch the memorial archway commemorating successful candidates in the imperial examinations. They hoped to share in the good fortune and wished for a scholar to emerge from their family.