FSC [QT] Chapter 12.2

Similar compliments came one after another. Widow Xu and others were surrounded by villagers watching the fun. Among them, there were much fewer people surrounding Mrs. Doufu than those surrounding Widow Xu and Sister Diao.

Because Mrs. Doufu’s man is no longer young, and he is not a person who is gifted in studying. He can only lift with his shoulders but cannot carry it with his hands. He has grown up on the road to the imperial examination.

Mrs. Doufu had cried over these years. She wakes up early every day and works hard to make and sell tofu. After more than ten years of hard work, the originally pretty girl looks more than ten years older than her peers.

Now that their children are about to get married, others are watching with cold eyes. It is a blessing from God that the other party can pass the scholar examination. If a miracle does not happen, it is impossible for the other party to pass the scholarly examination again.

But Lin Pingchun and Huo Lindong are different. They are both still young. They just turned fifteen years old this spring. Even in Fucheng, there are very few scholars of this age.

Even if you fail the imperial examination several times and study hard for ten or twenty years, you may not have any hope of passing the imperial examination or even becoming a Jinshi.

Widow Xu could hardly close her mouth when she heard the compliments from others. The more she heard these compliments, the more she felt in her heart that the little fool from the Jiang family was not worthy of her son.

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“The results should be out today. I don’t know if Pingchun’s kid got it.”

Because today was the day when the imperial examination results were released, Jiang Baozong gave the students a day off, and he rarely slept in. He waited until three o’clock in the morning before getting up and washing up.

He calculated the time. The village should have received the news by now.

“I don’t know. I’ll go find out later.”

Mrs. Ding helped Jiang Baozong bring the meat porridge that had been kept warm on the stove and carefully put the remaining ones back on the stove with lingering fire to keep them warm until Ah Wu, who preferred to lie in bed, got up to eat.

However, there was no need to wait for Mrs. Ding to go out. The proud Widow Xu came to her. Just by looking at her expression and before she spoke, Jiang Baozong knew that his student Lin Pingchun should have passed the exam.

“Sister-in-law Lin.”

Widow Xu is the wife of Jiang Baozong’s classmate and friend. Even if the other person died, Jiang Baozong still had to call her sister-in-law.

However, Jiang Baozong was very curious about the reason why Widow Xu suddenly came to the door today. You must know that because of her identity as a widow, she would not go out easily on weekdays, let alone come to his home, a widower who lost his wife.

Was it just to tell him that Lin Pingchun had passed the examination to become a scholar?

Jiang Baozong put down his chopsticks and had no appetite for breakfast. He asked Mrs. Ding to put away the dishes and chopsticks and then made a pot of tea.

“I took the liberty to come to your door today for two things.”

Before coming to the door, Widow Xu was confident. But after coming to the door, she felt a little guilty when she saw Jiang Baozong’s gentle and elegant face.

“Sister-in-law, please speak.”

Jiang Baozong was thinking about these two things. One of them must be about his student Lin Pingchun’s success in becoming a scholar. What about the other thing? Is it related to the marriage contract between the two families?

“The first thing is a happy event. Lin Pingchun passed the exam. He finally lived up to the high expectations of his father and me and also lived up to Teacher Jiang’s teaching and cultivation over the years.”

Widow Xu’s back gradually straightened. Now her son was also a scholar, but her son was still young. His future would definitely be higher than that of Jiang Baozong. There was no need for her to feel inferior to him.

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