The Farmer who Became the Top Scorer in the Palace Examination 11
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“Nonsense, aren’t that kid Yan Tao and you suing me?”
Originally, because he failed again, and his younger brother was unhappy after being admitted to the Zengsheng[1], he was thinking about going to the Spring Breeze House to find Xiao Cui to relieve his worries and touched his purse to see if there was money in it. Now he came back and heard that his parents had been accusing him wrongly, but Yan Duan was not wholly angry.
“It has nothing to do with your little brother. It’s just that Father and Mother want to ask you why your brother always got sick when he ate at home. This time, he secretly went out to buy something to eat by himself, but he finished the whole exam safely?”
Yan Changxue watched his eldest son’s fierce anger expression, and thought it as a guilty conscience, just like what he did to his younger brother before. He was especially experienced in this kind of thing.
Just because he was such a person, Yan Changxue was not particularly surprised by his youngest son’s statement. Although he could not accept it for a moment, he thought more about it and believed it.
“I’m to blame for his poor health? In that case, why don’t you say it’s Mother’s hand?”
Yan Duan was in a bad mood, and now he was even more furious.
He felt that everyone looked down on him. Ever since he had a younger brother who could study, they did not care about him anymore. When did he lack money before? But now when he just wanted to ask for a few hundred coins to go to the Spring Breeze House to relieve his worries, his parents were reluctant to give it. What did they hide that money for? It was not for their promising little son.
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[1] 增生 [zēng shēng]: lit. supernumerary candidate; one of the group names of the scholars with a fixed number in the ancient imperial examination system, the group of the second-best scholars, not provided with food by the government
[2] 童生 [tóngshēng]: a candidate who has not yet passed the county-level imperial exam
[3] 秀才 [xiùcai]: a person who has passed the county-level imperial exam (historical); scholar; skillful writer; fine talent
[4] 举人 [jǔrén]: graduate; successful candidate in the imperial provincial examination
[5] mu to acres conversion:
- 13 mu = 2.14 acres, 10 mu = 1.65 acres, 3 mu = 0.49 acres
- 7 mu = 1.15 acres, 5 mu = 0.82 acres, 2 mu = 0.33 acres
- 24 mu = 3.96 acres, 16 mu = 2.64 acres, 8 mu = 1.32 acres
[6] 唬鬼 [hǔ guǐ]: bluffing ghosts; tricks
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