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Chapter 235: Good News from the Farmer's Spring

Sanlang still had a smile on his face, his mouth wide open, and he had already called out the word "Master". But he just called out this word and it stopped, and even the smile on his face froze, because he felt as if he stepped on something soft and squirmy, and there was a scream from under his feet. The scream frightened him and froze him at the moment, then he suddenly took two steps back, tripped on the door sill, and fell backwards.

There was a burst of laughter outside, because everyone was laughing because they saw Saburo fall on his butt.

Sanlang's face turned red and white because of the laughter. He wondered what had happened just now. Why was there a scream under his feet, and it was such a scary scream. He was really embarrassed!

There were a lot of people gathered outside, including the neighbor Zhao Dazhu's family. Dazhu's wife immediately came over and helped Sanlang up. Of course, she was not concerned about Sanlang, but because of the two people Sanlang brought back.

The two men were wearing official uniforms, riding horses, holding paddles in their hands. Thinking that the fifth son of the Shen family should have finished his examination, it was obvious that they were here to bring good news!

Of course Dazhu's wife wanted to rush over to curry his favor, so she immediately helped Sanlang up.

"Sanlang, are you okay? Get up quickly. Look at you. No matter how happy you are, you can't even walk! Ouch! Why is there blood on your shoes?! What is this?!"

When Dazhu's wife saw Sanlang's shoes, she screamed in surprise. She did it on purpose. In fact, she had already seen something that had been trampled into a meat pie on the ground inside the courtyard gate, and a furry chicken ran out from it. There was no need to guess, the bloody pool was a chicken.

Dazhu's wife laughed three times in her heart, thinking that it was really a relief. Shen Ziju had just passed the imperial examination, and the family came to announce the good news. The Shen family had not prepared anything else. First, they prepared a dead chicken. This was interesting! She was envious and jealous of the Shen family's good fortune. She thought that since the Shen family had a scholar, they would be related to the government and would be superior to them. Now seeing this, she would definitely publicize it. She would make a big deal out of a small matter!

"Oh! How can you say this! Isn't this a little chicken? Oh! How pitiful! It's just hatched, right? Look how adorable it is. But it's been trampled into minced meat! I was wondering why I heard such a piercing scream just now! It turned out to be from this little thing. It's really pitiful. Mr. Shen just won the title of scholar, how can you say this? Even if you want to kill a chicken to celebrate, isn't this chicken too small?"

After hearing what Dazhu's wife said, some of the people around couldn't help laughing, but some soft-hearted women couldn't bear to see the pool of blood and flesh, and murmured, saying that this person came to deliver good news, but something like this happened before they even entered the house, which was unlucky!

The two runners who were delivering the good news also heard it. The two looked at each other and thought that Shen Xiucai's house was really messy. They came here to deliver the good news, but they didn't get the reward. It was not a good thing to see such a scene. Looking at the situation in the courtyard of the Shen family, they shook their heads even more, thinking that it was rare for Shen Xiucai to grow up in such a family.

It's no wonder the two officers thought so. There was indeed some chaos in the yard.

Just now, Goro made such a fuss that both baskets fell over and all the chicks ran out. A group of kids started chasing the chicks, and the chicks ran around in all directions. There were so many kids, and they had to be careful not to step on the chicks. They kept looking down and didn't see anyone, so two pairs of chicks bumped into each other. When one of them fell, it crushed the rest of the chicks, and some chicks were crushed under them.

Silang is a bad boy. You can tell from the fact that he hurt a chick just now that he doesn't care how hard he tries. Just because of a chick, he got beaten up. He was unhappy, and when he saw the chicks running around, he also ran around and stepped on several of them to death.

This was the scene the two officers saw. Adults and children were in a mess in the yard, and many chickens were running around on the ground. Several of them had already fallen to the ground, and some had the same fate as the one that was stepped on by Sanlang under their feet, all covered in blood. The scene was really frowning.

"Everyone stop!"

Wang shouted loudly and finally stopped everyone. In fact, all this happened in just a short while. But the next time she looked at the situation, it had become very ugly. Her face also turned ugly, especially when she saw the two officers at the door, it became even uglier.

Everyone in the yard looked towards the gate in shock. They couldn't react for a moment as to why there were two officers standing at the gate. What were they doing there? This was what everyone was thinking.

"What are you all standing there for! You kids, don't worry about the living chickens, pick up all the dead ones! Big sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, fourth sister-in-law, hurry up and call the two messengers! I'll go inform my parents! Hurry!"

As soon as Shen Zhu saw the two officers, she knew what they were here for. She was overjoyed, but she was also furious at the situation. She thought this was a really bad time to make trouble. What kind of impression would this give to the people who came to deliver the good news? The Shen family was not a family to be laughed at! She hurriedly made some arrangements, thinking about cleaning up the mess as soon as possible, and hoped that the two officers would not pay attention to these things.

Wang was the first to react. She told her children to "quickly pack up" and then went to face the two officers.

Li also hurriedly followed. In fact, she didn't know what to say. She just went over when Shen Zhu asked her to. She was a little flustered. Ordinary people would be nervous when they saw officials and would be a little panicked when they saw the police. This was normal.

Su Zhi did not follow. She picked up the basket, used a handkerchief to throw the dead chicken on the ground into the basket, and asked Dalang and Erlang to pick up the chicken as well.

Several children immediately followed suit. With strength in numbers, they used two hands each. With a few people working together, they picked up all the chickens on the ground in just a moment of bending over. As for the blood on the ground, they followed Su Zhi's movements and rubbed it vigorously with the soles of their shoes. Soon it was rubbed away. Dalang held a basket in each hand and threw the two baskets back into the house.

When the two officers walked into the yard, they saw that it was already clean. Although there were still a few chickens running on the ground, it looked like an ordinary farmhouse.

Su Zhi stepped back a bit. She didn't want to move forward at this time.

Shen Zhu had already gone in and delivered the letter to Shen Youfu and Shen Zhangshi. They were both overjoyed when they heard the letter and came out to greet them. When they saw two runners coming in with gongs in their hands, they believed that they were here to deliver the good news. In this good country, one must bring a gong when delivering good news, and the gong must be tied with a red flower to make it look festive.

"My dear officers, these are my parents."

Wang introduced Shen Youfu and Shen Zhang to the two officers. Her face was full of smiles and she was extremely excited. All the depression she had felt because the second and fourth wives separated and went out to live a good life disappeared at this moment, because she and Shen Ziju were the ones who did not separate, and she was still the eldest wife. This could bring so many benefits to her, her husband, and her children. From now on, when they go out, they can be said to be members of the scholar's family!

"Master Shen, Madam Shen, I have good news for you. Your son has passed the imperial examination and ranked first! He is really talented. He will surely pass the imperial examination again this year! Then we will win the honor!"

"Congratulations to Mr. Shen, congratulations to Mrs. Shen!"

The two officers congratulated loudly and said nice things. They really meant what they said. In all these years, they had never heard of anyone from their place winning the first place in the imperial examination. This person was truly talented. He would definitely pass the imperial examination in the future, and would definitely be a Jinshi. By then, he would be an official higher than their magistrate! They would kneel down when they saw him, so it would be a good idea to curry favor with him now.

"Congratulations! Congratulations!"

Shen Youfu's face was full of joy. He was so proud. This son, who he had high hopes for, finally did not disappoint him. He finally passed the examination to become a scholar! And he ranked first. He would definitely pass the examination to become a judge! How far would it be for him to pass the examination to become a Jinshi? By then, he would be the father of an official. Their Shen family would finally be honored. They would finally be scholars among the four classes of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans!

Shen Youfu was so happy that he was a little confused. Seeing that everything was good, he just said "let's be happy together".

Shen Zhang was much better than him. Although she was also excited, she was not so excited that she could not greet people. She straightened her back and said to the two officers with a smile, "Two officers, please come in and have some tea. You must be hot on the way. I am a poor family, so please don't despise me."

"No, no, thank you very much, Mr. Shen and Mrs. Shen. But we have other things to do, so we won't stay for tea."

An officer said with a smile, looking at Shen Zhang, he thought this woman did not look like a country woman, but looked like a city lady, not timid at all. Her demeanor was really incompatible with the old man beside her. It seemed that the scholar was so smart because of his mother.

Shen Youfu came to his senses at this time and invited them in for tea, but the two of them did not go in.

Shen Zhu said at this time: "Two officers, please have a cup of tea. We have some cool tea at home. Drink it to cool off. Otherwise, you will have to rush back all the way. Don't get too hot."

When the two men saw that Shen Zhu was pretty, they went in as she invited them in with a smile on her face.

There was cold tea in the room, so there was no need to prepare anything else. However, Shen Zhang asked Shen Zhu to go into the room to get the reward money and give it to the two runners.

The two officers saw that each of them had a small silver coin, weighing about five or six coins. They thought that although they were farmers, they were generous.