I met a melon seed seller on the road and bought a lot of agarwood. I didn’t have sunflower seeds, but melon seeds would be fine too, they’re all pretty much the same.
In the afternoon, a drizzle began to fall and the temperature dropped sharply.
Shen Changshan and Lin Cuicui frowned when they saw this. How could this late spring cold snap come so suddenly? The fourth child was still in the examination room!
Lin Cuicui clasped her hands together, and no one knew which god she was praying to. All Chen Li heard was that her mother only hoped that everything would go well for her fourth brother.
Chen Li was not too worried. Fourth Brother's body was many times stronger than that of an ordinary person, and he had brought enough clothes with him, so he would be fine.
The cold wind was accompanied by drizzle, but even so, there were many people in front of the examination room. Most of them were holding oil-paper umbrellas and wearing straw raincoats, waiting for their relatives to come out.
Shen Changshan went downstairs to wait for Shen Qi'an. There were too many people outside, so he asked Shen Li and Lin Cuicui to stay in the carriage.
"Ali, Auntie, it really is you!"
When Su Zhihui opened the carriage curtain, she saw the familiar carriage. Through the opened curtain, she saw Chen Li and her son.
"Ahui, you're here too."
"Yeah, my mom and I are here to pick up my dad."
As they were talking, they drove the carriage closer and the two families sat in the carriage and chatted.
Su Zhihui's mother is a lady from a wealthy family, but she is not pedantic. Instead, she is very open-minded and easy-going, which is incomparable to ordinary people.
Look, she is chatting with Lin Cuicui at this moment, and she doesn't mean to look down on Lin Cuicui at all.
Soon, the door opened and twos and threes of scholars came out. They were all quite calm during the interview. Their ages varied, from a 10-year-old child to a 40-year-old man. They all came for their own dreams.
Shen Qi'an's tall and slender figure was particularly eye-catching among the scholars.
Shen Changshan couldn't squeeze in, so he simply waited outside the crowd. After all, he was tall and had a good view, so he could see Shen Qi'an come out.
"father."
Shen Changshan handed over the oil-paper umbrella in his hand and asked, "The weather suddenly turned cold this afternoon. Did you catch a cold?"
"Dad, I'm fine."
Shen Changshan nodded, "That's fine, let's go back to the carriage first. This is not the place to talk."
"good."
The father and son squeezed out of the crowd and walked towards the direction where the carriage was parked. Soon they saw their own carriage.
"Mom, little sister."
"Come on, you are freezing, get into the carriage."
Su Zhihui looked through the drawn curtain and followed their conversation. She only looked for a few seconds and soon lowered her eyes and stopped looking.
The beautiful woman next to him seemed to be aware of this scene. She turned her head to look at her daughter, and then looked at the gentle and elegant young man outside the carriage.
Shen Qi'an felt her gaze and turned his head slightly to look over. When he saw the two people in the carriage, his gaze paused. Then he greeted the woman, looked away, and got into his own carriage.
"Auntie, Ah Hui, let's go back first."
Su Zhihui nodded and said, "You guys go first, my father won't be out for a while."
Shen Li smiled and nodded: "Then let's talk next time."
"Yeah, I'll come find you some other day."
Chen Li lowered the curtain. She felt that Ah Hui was more restrained at this moment. She usually talked a lot. At this moment, she glanced at Chen Qi'an standing beside her. Could it be because her fourth brother was there?
Well, that should be it.
As soon as they got into the carriage, Lin Cuicui took Shen Qi'an's hand and asked about his well-being. After returning home, she arranged every little thing in detail.
Shen Qi'an wanted to say something, but seeing his mother's nervous look, he simply kept silent. He thought everything would be fine after a few days.
The next morning, I got up before dawn and sent him to the examination hall. I did this for five days in a row, and it was finally over.
Chen Li also witnessed the mental state of her parents in the past few days. They were always tense, but she had never seen them like this. It was really not easy for her fourth brother these days.
Chen Li doesn't know now that when she gets married in the future, Shen Changshan and his wife will be even better than they are now.
When he walked out of the examination room on the last day, Shen Qi'an breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was confident, his parents were indeed a little too nervous.
Fortunately, he will not let them down.
Shen Qi'an has already made up his mind. After passing the examination for Tongsheng, he will take part in the academy examination and the prefectural examination in April this year, and pass the examination for Xiucai, and then continue to take the exams step by step.
In this way, the Shen family's status will be completely transformed in the shortest possible time.
Of course, he never thought that he could support the Shen family by himself. Doesn’t he have his elder brother?
Big brother has been in the north for a long time. With your martial arts skills, as long as no one steals your military merits, you will definitely be included in the rewards after the Tatars are defeated in the future.
In this way, they can support A Li. If she really wants to marry Pei Yu in the future, their Shen family will be Shen Li's confidence.
In the evening, Chen Li took her family to a restaurant for dinner. After being tense for so long, she had to let them relax.
"Ali, we can just eat at home. The food at home is worse than outside."
Chen Li took Lin Cuicui's arm and said angrily, "Oh, Mom, although the food at home is delicious, we have been eating it for so long, we have to try the delicious food outside!"
Lin Cuicui patted the back of her daughter's hand, knowing that her words were just an excuse. She simply brought the couple here to relax. The child has always been thoughtful.
Shen Changshan: "Okay, the child wants to take us out to eat, let her go."
Lin Cuicui glanced at him, but since she was playing the bad guy here, he had to be the good guy, right?
Just as he was about to say something and turned his gaze back, he saw Shen Changshan trying to please him, and the slight anger in his heart immediately disappeared.
Forget it, we have been married for so many years, how can I not understand him?
The family asked for a private room, each ordered their favorite dishes, and chatted while waiting for the food to be served. There was a plenty of charcoal fire in the room, and the atmosphere was very harmonious as they listened to the sparse rain outside.
After the family finished their meal, it was dark outside, but there were many shops and restaurants on this street, so it was still quite bright.
Because the results had not been announced yet, Shen Changshan and Lin Cuicui were anxious staying here, so they simply went back to Daohua Village.
As for Shen Qi'an, he returned to the academy and continued to study with the teacher, not worrying about the outcome of this incident at all.
During the waiting period, Shen Changshan and his wife were completely busy. Sometimes they would just take a hoe and go to the backyard to plow the soil.
Chen Li and Xu Taohua knew how anxious they were, and did not try to persuade them. Nothing they said would work at this moment. Only when the results came out would their tense nerves completely relax.
Later, Chen Li took them to stay at the farm for two days. The two of them were busy at the farm. Although they were both in their thirties and approaching forty years old, this period of time was completely different from before, and they were not as calm as before.
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