After the second day of the Lunar New Year, Mrs. Wang took Old Man Wang to the village chief's house and the homes of several elders in the village to pay New Year's greetings, and then rested at home.

Zhao Yunlan found out that there was a temple fair held in Qingshui Temple, so she invited Wang and Li Mingmei to go shopping together. When the brothers found out, they also wanted to go, and now it became a one-day trip to the temple fair for the whole family.

Qingshui Temple is not big, and the temple fair holds few activities, but many people come. As soon as Zhao Yunlan and his family entered this area, there were many small merchants setting up stalls, selling snacks, toys, or some small stalls.

They sell some lucky bags and tips, wear them on your body to ward off evil spirits and pray for good luck.

Zhao Yunlan became greedy looking at these snacks. Those small toys also attracted Xiaobao. Zhao Yunlan walked in front with Xiaobao and Li Mingmei and kept spending money. Several brothers from the Li family helped to get things from behind. The whole family

Under Zhao Yunlan's feeding, people were full just by eating these snacks.

By the time they entered Qingshui Temple, the Li brothers could no longer move their hands. Wang took Old Man Li in to pray for blessings, and Zhao Yunlan took Li Mingmei to worship the God of Wealth.

After the family prayed for blessings and left the temple, Zhao Yunlan looked at her husband and said: "We should have gone out to buy things just now, so as to save some effort. I see there are some different stalls outside!"

In the first sentence, Li Mingren felt that his wife was feeling sorry for him, but in the next sentence, he felt that something was wrong, and saw Zhao Yunlan dragging Li Mingmei for a walk again.

The family returned to Lijiacun. It was already evening. Zhao Yunlan’s legs were sore from shopping all day. The whole family was tired. They bought some steamed buns before coming back. Zhao Yunlan didn’t cook. He heated up the steamed buns and ate them in the evening.

Had a meal.

The next day, Zhao Yunlan planned to go to pay New Year's greetings to Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Wang, but Mrs. Liu and her family returned to their master's old house to celebrate the New Year. Zhao Yunlan gave the New Year's gifts to the steward who stayed behind to guard the courtyard and left.

Li Mingren has begun to resume Zhao Yunlan's devilish study mode. Seeing that the New Year is getting closer and closer to the exam, Li Mingren gets up early every day to exercise and run, and conducts simulated examination room training every seven days.

As time passed, the weather became warmer and warmer, and the Lantern Festival arrived. Zhao Yunlan sent Li Mingren to the Zhao family to pick up the Zhao family, and the two families celebrated a lively Lantern Festival together.

Zhao Yunlan has been busy for a day. After the Lantern Festival, the shops in the town will start to open, and those at home who should study will have to study. The work in the fields will also start. Zhao Yunlan took Wang Hanchun and Li Mingli together.

Carrying out pepper seed selection and germination. Wang Hanchun recorded Zhao Yunlan's steps one by one. From how to select seeds to the subsequent germination precautions, everything was clearly recorded. Zhao Yunlan also asked Li Mingli to record a separate copy.

Zhao Yunlan took advantage of the germination in the past few days and took the two of them to the farmland to apply fertilizer. Zhao Yunlan was worried that the fertilizer would be too much and burn the pepper buds, so he poured farm fertilizer mixed with water in advance. Zhao Yunlan also specially prepared it

I took a small piece of land to plant these newly sprouted pepper buds.

Zhao Yunlan divided several batches of seeds for germination. The germination rate of the first batch was not very good, barely more than half. Zhao Yunlan planted these buds into the prepared ground and continued to urge the second batch of buds. Waiting for the second batch of buds

After urging, the buds of the first batch have grown into seedlings. The germination rate of the second batch is higher than that of the first batch.

Zhao Yunlan transplanted the second batch of pepper buds, and then continued to transplant the first batch of pepper seedlings into the flat ground. In this way, twelve batches of pepper buds were repeated, planting them on two hills together.

Lan, Li Mingli and Wang Hanchun kept their eyes open every day and came to see the pepper seedlings at any time. After Deng Yong finished working on the fruit trees on the mountain, he would come down to help Zhao Yunlan. Even Old Man Li came.

I helped with the work several times.

After Zhao Yunlan transplanted all the last batch of pepper seedlings into the ground, Li Mingren also ushered in the annual county examination.

Zhao Yunlan planned to ask Mingli to accompany Li Mingren to the county. Li Mingren went to the county a few days early as in previous years. The two brothers found an inn closer to the examination room. There are only a few inns in the county.

The daily price was a bit more expensive, but Zhao Yunlan had asked the two brothers to find an inn that was closer and had a better environment.

Zhao Yunlan came to town the day before Li Mingren's exam, thinking of sending Li Mingren to the examination room. Li Mingren felt an indescribable feeling in his heart, and secretly vowed that he would not disappoint his wife this time. Zhao Yunlan also felt the same

It was an indescribable feeling, like an old mother sending her son into the examination room.

After Li Mingren entered the examination room, Zhao Yunlan was ready to return to Lijiacun. Before leaving, Zhao Yunlan stuffed another ten taels of silver into Li Mingli and told the brothers not to save money when eating out.

Zhao Yunlan went home and continued to take care of the peppers. Seeing the pepper seedlings growing up little by little, Zhao Yunlan felt more and more settled.

Ten days later, Li Mingren and Li Mingli rushed back from the county, both of them beaming with joy. Zhao Yunlan could tell from their faces that they should have passed this time. Li Mingli looked excitedly at the dancing at home and said

Li Mingren came second in the county examination this time.

Zhao Yunlan heard this and told him: "It's nothing to pass the county examination. This second place is nothing to be proud of. Don't make it public in the village for the time being. We can talk about it later after the government has passed the test."

Li Mingren nodded and said: "Yes, madam. I will continue to work hard. There will be a college exam this year. I will definitely prepare for the government exam in April so that I can catch up with this year's college exam."

Old Man Li: "Then don't waste time and go quickly."

Li Mingli also echoed: "Yes, brother, hurry up and go study."

Zhao Yunlan said: "You can repeat the exam questions silently, and I will take them to Mr. Liu to grade a batch." Zhao Yunlan thought about shamelessly asking Mr. Liu again.

Li Mingren responded, returned to the room and started writing silently.

Zhao Yunlan took Li Mingmei to the kitchen, planning to make something delicious to reward Li Mingren and Li Mingli.

Li Mingli was worried about the situation of peppers in the county these past few days. When he saw that he had already talked about it, he hurriedly went to the field on the top of the mountain to see the peppers. Seeing the peppers growing well, Li Mingli was very happy.

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The next day, Zhao Yunlan took Li Mingrenmo's test paper and went to town.

In the small courtyard of the Liu family, Old Mrs. Liu frowned as he looked at Li Mingren's test paper and shook his head from time to time. Looking at Old Mrs. Liu's expression, Zhao Yunlan was worried about what level Li Mingren was now.

Seeing Mrs. Liu's appearance, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but urge: "Hurry up and tell me, how is Madam Zhao's husband doing?"

Old Mrs. Liu then said slowly: "Hey, I can only say that it has improved compared to last time! This can rank second in Xihe County, which shows that the learning level of students here in Xihe County is worrying!"

When Zhao Yunlan heard this, he was worried that Li Mingren would not be able to pass the government examination, let alone the hospital examination.

I only heard Mrs. Wang say: "Don't compare yourself secretly to the students in the capital. You only want to talk about whether you can be sure to master the next government examination?"

Old Mrs. Liu pursed her lips: "This boy from the Li family will have no problem passing the government examination, but he will have to work harder in the subsequent hospital examination."

Zhao Yunlan nodded: "Thank you, old man, for your advice."

Mrs. Liu handed the corrected test paper to Zhao Yunlan, and Zhao Yunlan went back without staying long.
Chapter completed!