Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 211
In Mudu Town, the banners of Fan's Medical Center fluttered in the wind.

Fan Tiezhou just sent away an old man who came from Kunshan to seek medical treatment.

Even in Pingjiang Mansion, Fan's Medical Center is well-known, especially in the field of bruises. Even Dong Zhifu sent a boat to pick up Fan Tiezhou because of a sprained hand, which made him more famous in bone setting and healing. .

One of the advantages of Pingjiang Mansion is that the waterway is well developed. Patients don't need to ride a bullock cart all the way to see a doctor. Instead, they lie on a boat and come here easily. Fan Tiezhou directly boards the boat to heal his injuries without even getting off the boat.

For this reason, Fan Tiezhou opened his Fan's Medical Center directly opposite the pier, and rented a two-story shop at a price of [-] pennies per month. fly high.

The first floor treats bruises, and the second floor sees internal medicine. Take the prescriptions prescribed by Fan's Medical Center to get medicine, and you can also get the lowest discounted price from the pharmacy.

Fan Tiezhou is not only a famous doctor, but also a well-known squire in Mudu Town. His family has hundreds of acres of fertile land. He is the deputy head of the Fan family and has been the family's officiant for two consecutive years.

However, he is still at the level of Fan Yuanwai, and he is far from reaching the level of Fan Daguan. This requires him to at least obtain the honorary officer from the fifth-rank cavalry captain.

The only person in Mudu Town who can be called a high official is Zhu Yuanfu, who has the title of Duke of the county.

In the past two days, Fan Tiezhou was really restless. He was worried about his son's situation.

It has been four days since the provincial examination and imperial examination, but he has no way of knowing how his son did in the examination.

Although his wife was more concerned about his son's safety and talked about it several times a day, Fan Tiezhou didn't care much about it. The second brother came back from the capital and told him about his son's recent situation, which made him feel at ease.

Now he is more concerned about his son's provincial examination situation. Since his son can pass the entrance examination in Pingjiang Mansion, it is not hopeless to pass the provincial examination.

It is this mentality of worrying about gains and losses that has made Fan Tiezhou restless these days, and he has not been out for three days.

"Brother Tie Zhou!"

Someone called him from behind, Fan Tiezhou turned his head and saw that it was Liu Yansi, the principal of Yanying Academy, he hurried forward and asked, "Why is Principal Liu here?"

Since Zhu Yuanfu moved back to Wujiang, the boss of Mudu Town is the owner Liu. He is the largest landlord in Mudu Town, owning [-] hectares of fertile land and many industries. For example, the three medicine shops in the town are all It is his property, closely related to Fan Tiezhou.

Director Liu stepped forward and asked with concern: "Is there any news about Aning?"

Since Fan Ning won the first place in the Pingjiang Mansion Boy's Solution Examination, the Yanying School in Mudu Town has surpassed Yuqing School and the county government-run school to become the No. [-] school in Wu County.

In December last year, nearly [-] young students from all over Pingjiang Prefecture came to Kaoyanying Academy in Mudu Town.

Dean Liu is of course more concerned about Fan Ning. If Fan Ning can pass the entrance examination of Tongzi, then Yanying Academy will be as famous as the famous Wenshuyuan Academy in Pingjiang Mansion.

Being admitted as an adult Jinshi has little impact on the school, mainly the county school benefits, but being admitted as a Jinshi for children is the credit of the school.

Although Fanning did not stay in Yanying Academy for a long time, no one can deny that Fanning was born in Yanying Academy.

Fan Tiezhou shook his head, "I'm also worried!"

After a pause, he continued: "I heard that there will be another imperial examination. Does the provincial examination not have much meaning?"

"No! No! No!"

Headmaster Liu shook his head quickly, "As long as you pass the provincial examination, you will at least be of Jinshi background. The palace examination is just a ranking."

"Master Liu, let's have a cup of tea!" Fan Tiezhou pointed to the Tongxing Teahouse not far away and smiled.

Headmaster Liu nodded happily, "Then please!"

As soon as the two of them reached the door of the teahouse, they saw Ah Qing rushing out of breath, "Master, there is an express message from the capital!"

Fan Tiezhou regained his energy, turned around and ran to the hospital, followed by Director Liu.

When I ran to the door of the medical center, I saw a messenger waiting at the side. The messenger stepped forward and said, "Excuse me, is this Fan Tiezhou?"

"I am!"

The sender took out a letter, "This is a signed express letter to Beijing, and it needs to be signed by the staff!"

Fan Tiezhou hurriedly fetched his personal seal from the medical clinic, and stamped the receipt on the receipt.

Only then did Fan Tiezhou read the letter, and it was indeed written by his son.

He quickly tore open the cover of the letter, and Dean Liu also stretched his neck to read the letter.

After reading only two lines, Fan Tiezhou knelt down covering his face, and tears of excitement poured out from between his fingers.

Headmaster Liu didn't see it clearly, and asked anxiously, "Tie Zhou, how is the situation?"

Fan Tiezhou said with a trembling voice: "As you wish, he passed the exam!"

"what!"

Dean Liu burst into a smile on his face, and quickly cupped his fists, "Congratulations Tie Zhou!"

The news that Fan Ning had passed the entrance exam for a boy and a Jinshi soon spread throughout the town. For a while, the whole town of Mudu was boiling with the sound of gongs, drums, and firecrackers. Hundreds of people flocked to Fan's Medical Center to congratulate Fan Tiezhou .

Fan Tiezhou specially took out [-] guan coins, and each family in Mudu Town and Jiangwan Village gave [-] guan coins to express his gratitude to his parents and villagers.

At the same time, Sutai Township in Wuxian County was also boiling. The news that Su Liang had passed the boy's examination spread throughout his hometown. Su Liang's grandfather was so excited that he specially set up a hundred tables of banquets for the elders in his hometown.

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According to the schedule in the admission notice, on March [-]th, all the scholars lived in the Chongwen Hall together and were not allowed to go out.

In fact, this is also for the sake of the scholars. The tide of arresting marriages once every three years has already begun before the announcement of the list.

The rich and powerful and the wealthy merchants drove around in horse-drawn carriages looking for Jinshi who had been listed.

Married Jinshi hid in their father-in-law's house one after another, and unmarried Jinshi also hid in the homes of relatives and friends in the capital. They didn't want to be arrested and married, but they just wanted to take the initiative in their own hands.

Putting themselves up for a price, choosing a wife they are satisfied with, and getting the most benefits, they don't want to be caught so easily into the mansion to worship and marry.

As for the scholars in the boy test, they were not paid much attention. After all, they were young, all under the age of 15, and the court also had express regulations that it was not allowed to arrest and marry a boy in the test.

On March 590th, that is, three days before the imperial examination, the Ministry of Rites summoned [-] six scholars who passed the provincial examination to study etiquette at the Ministry of Rites.

Since the emperor personally presided over the palace examination, the examination room was set in the Daqing Palace, which required the scholars to learn the necessary court etiquette, bathing and changing clothes, how to speak and behave when going to the palace, how to salute the emperor, etc.

Many details were taught to the scholars one by one, and the simulation was repeated three times until no mistakes were made, and the meticulous officials of the Ministry of Rituals ended the day's training.

It was already dark when we left the Ministry of Rites.

"Fan Ning, do you think we will be robbed?"

Su Liang got into the bullock cart and looked around worriedly. He lowered his voice and said, "I heard that Meng Tong was snatched into the mansion by Yan's family and married Yan Shu's seventh granddaughter."

Fan Ning said with a smile: "Meng Tong is Ouyang Xiu's disciple, and Ouyang Xiu is Yan Shu's disciple. Do you think it is necessary for the Yan family to snatch Meng Tong?"

"You mean, it's already booked?"

"should be!"

At this time, a carriage suddenly came in front of the ox cart they were riding in. "Gah! ' stopped with a sound, and only someone shouted: "This ox cart also came out of the Ministry of Rites!"

Four or five strong women rushed out of the carriage, rolled up their sleeves, and rushed straight to the ox cart. They were the main force in robbing the bride.

The rich and powerful should also consider the feelings of Jinshi. Women are usually used to snatch marriages. There are two types of women, one is healthy women, and they are the main force. Beautiful women, they are responsible for appeasing Jinshi's emotions.

The two women held the Jinshi's arms, one on the left and the other on the right, to prevent him from jumping out of the car and escaping. At the same time, they coaxed the Jinshi to eat some tofu. As long as they can send the Jinshi to the mansion, they will all be rewarded.

Seeing a group of tiger and wolf-like women rushing towards them, Su Liang turned pale with fright, and said anxiously, "What should we do? We are about to be robbed of marriage!"

Fan Ning looked normal, but he wasn't worried. They were boys and scholars, and it was said that many women waiting to get married were in their twenties. Could it be that a 13-year-old boy like him should marry a wife in her twenties?

It's time to speak clearly.

But it seemed that he didn't need to worry about it. There were screams of women, and four or five healthy women who were about to get on the bullock cart to snatch people fell to the ground one after another, and a black shadow protected the gate of the bullock cart.

"Who is this person?" Su Liang asked in surprise.

"You know him!" Fanning smiled and walked out of the bullock cart.

Su Liang suddenly came to his senses, and he said sourly, "I knew Zhu Pei would protect you!"

Fan Ning jumped off the bullock cart and smiled at Xu Qing, "Let me reason with them!"

Fan Ning clasped his fists and said to the butler sitting in front of the carriage, "Which family's envoy is it?"

When the butler saw a young man coming down, his face was a little embarrassed, "We belong to Yang Taiwei's family."

Taiwei Yang is the brother of Empress Yang, Fan Ning nodded, "Fan Ning, I am a boy in the test list, thank you Taiwei Yang for your high opinion, forgive me if I can't obey!"

When the steward heard that he was the boy's candidate, he immediately called out bad luck, and had to get everyone on the carriage, and apologized to Fan Ning, "It was a misunderstanding, I'm sorry!"

The carriage turned around and rushed towards the Ministry of Rites.

(End of this chapter)