Three years later, in the imperial examination, Xia Shi ranked second.
During the palace examination, he was directly chosen by the emperor as the third place winner!
When Xia Zhengan learned about this, he was almost crazy with joy. "Boss, I have to go back to my hometown and open the ancestral hall to inform my ancestors about this."
Xia Yang also felt that this was the Xia family's ancestral tombs smoking, and it was a return to their hometown in glory, so he had to go back.
After living in the capital for several years and getting used to seeing dignitaries, the Xia family's temperament has quietly changed a lot.
The year Xia Chen returned to the capital in the summer, many families came to propose marriage to him.
Xia Tian did not aim too high and chose a wealthy family that was of equal status to his own and married Xia Chen off.
With her and Xia Shi supporting him, Xia Chen lived a happy life.
In recent years, Mrs. Xia and Mr. Xia from Xiajiazhuang have been tortured by their sons and have had a very difficult life.
The fourth uncle of the Xia family ultimately failed to pass the imperial examination and after he spent all the money that Xia Zhengan gave to Old Lady Xia, he didn't know where he went.
Some say he is dead, some say he is crazy!
Because of their most beloved son, Mrs. Xia and Mr. Xia were paralyzed on the kang, and had to live their lives according to the mood of their eldest son's wife every day.
When the news that Xia Shi had won the third place in the imperial examination reached Xia Village, Old Lady Xia was still struggling and kept shouting, "Why wasn't my fourth son among the candidates? Why wasn't my fourth son among the candidates?"
Like a madman, he kept cursing the unfairness of God.
As a result, he was so excited that he died of suffocation before Xia Zhengan and others arrived home.
Later, when Xia Zhengan brought Xia Yang and Xia Shi back, it was the fifth day after Old Lady Xia's death.
Xia Zhengan never expected that returning home in glory would end up being a funeral.
After burying his mother, before he left, Old Man Xia also died.
The few of them stayed for a few more days to bury Old Man Xia before returning to the capital.
Seeing Xia Zhengan now, the eldest and third sons of the Xia family no longer dared to approach him and make trouble.
They are all polite!
The three of them left smoothly!
Later, with Shen Nian's recommendation, Xia Shi went to the local area and became a seventh-rank county magistrate.
With a term of three years, Xia Shi's official career went smoothly under the protection of Shen Nian and Xia Tian.
Xia Shi was upright and dedicated to the people throughout his life, and had countless political achievements. Before he was forty years old, he reached the third rank!
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