The pigs at home were crying out with hunger, and Zhao Ruxin had no choice but to take care of them first. Her parents wouldn't be back soon anyway, so she had plenty of time.
She didn't believe that she couldn't find it, so she dug the house upside down.
My mother is really good at hiding things. Zhao Ruxin felt that she had to find a place to put her fifty-one taels of silver.
After preparing the pig food, she ate a steamed bun, closed all the doors and fell asleep. Everyone in the family had left. Her task was to take care of the animals in the house. She also had to collect grass for the pigs and fetch water the next morning.
There are still two basins of dirty clothes to be washed, and after that I will continue to look for silver.
This time, Zhao Dashu brought with him several personal servants, and they all lived in the backyard. There was only Zhao Dawen's family in the front yard, which disappointed Wang, who had originally wanted to catch two servants to help her with the work.
She was born to be a hard worker and could not escape the fate of working wherever she went. It seemed that all the blessings in her life were used up after selling Zhao Xiaoyu.
"Xiao Lei, do you think I can pass the exam?" Zhao Dashu was very confident, but now he had deep doubts about himself. He knew the gap between himself and the people around him.
"Of course, uncle. You have to trust the Master. If you really don't believe me, you can go and test the two people in the front yard. They may not be as knowledgeable as you."
"I won't go. If being better than me affects my mentality, or if being worse than me affects them, then my brother will definitely get angry with me."
"Uncle Zhao, you can definitely do it. Didn't we go to the temple to have it done? This is a lucky day for both of us."
Zhao Dashu looked at the people around him. The master said that this kid was more prosperous than him. "Where's your amulet?"
"I didn't bring it. You can't bring anything with you during the exam."
Zhao Dashu, who wanted to exchange amulets, gave up and said, "Help me review again."
"T."
That’s right, Xiao Lei has been helping him review recently. While helping him review, it also means he has reviewed it himself, so Zhao Dashu feels at ease.
Zhao Xiaoyu brought Song to the kitchen to prepare meals for them for the exam. There were only three examinations for the Tongsheng examination, one every two days, and the candidates only needed to prepare one meal for lunch for each examination.
Most people bring snacks or some bread to make up for the meal.
"Xiaoyu, what are we going to do?"
"Just order some fried rice. It's just one meal, so we'll have to make do." It's a one-day exam, and I heard that even hot water won't be provided. Just eat some fried rice and drink some water, and then prepare carefully when you take the exam to become a scholar.
Why not make pancakes? Because steamed buns and pancakes have to be broken into pieces for inspection, which is too disgusting, isn’t it? Fried rice is the safest.
But the water bags nowadays don’t keep the water warm, so they can only drink cold water.
Fried rice is very easy to make. Zhao Xiaoyu made two flavors, one sweet and one salty. She also made some mung bean cakes for them. They were very small, just a little bigger than the fried rice. There was no bean paste in them, but the bean paste and glutinous rice flour were mixed together and steamed.
I also took some homemade beef jerky and tore it into small strips. It's enough for a day.
It took the two of them half a day to make two boxes of cakes. "It's really hard to knead such small cakes."
"Or we can just make it big and then break it into pieces. It's better for us to break it than for the officials to do it."
Song lamented the difficulty of the imperial examination, "The examination is so strict."
"It will become more strict as time goes by. The imperial court must be very careful in selecting talents. Mom, you don't know what methods some people can come up with to cheat. Tomorrow, Dad and Xiao Lei will have to take off their clothes for inspection. Even their hair will be checked."
Song smacked her lips, "Won't the entrance be full of candidates taking off their clothes tomorrow? How are we going to see them off?"
“We don’t go where we can’t see ahead.”
Here, Wang was also preparing food for her two sons' exams tomorrow. Because of Zhao Dawen, she was very familiar with how to prepare these foods, but she had no intention of teaching Song a thing or two.
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