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Chapter 330 Little Ayu's Grand Ambition
Wang Wulang did know what an imperial edict was, because his teacher had once dedicated a lesson to explaining the system of requesting titles in the Great Chang Kingdom.

Female relatives of officials of the fifth rank or above can request an imperial decree to be granted, provided they have not committed any serious offenses.

Female relatives usually refer to the legal wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, or even maternal grandmother and great-great-grandmother.

It was easy for the female relatives of fifth-rank officials to request titles; they would almost always be approved as long as a memorial was submitted.

Those below them were usually close ministers of the emperor, or people in the court who mediated between them.

Even for ordinary officials who enter officialdom through the imperial examinations and work diligently their entire lives, it is very difficult to rise to the fifth rank.

Unless one performs a great service or becomes a top-ranking scholar in the imperial examination.

Wang Wulang felt he wasn't good enough.

Although the Wang brothers were often praised by their teacher at Qingmu Academy, Wang Wulang himself did not like studying. He preferred to learn martial arts with Mr. Ding.

"Sister Ayu, let's change the gift. Grandma might not like that noblewoman." Wang Wulang discussed with Ayu.

Little Ayu ran up to Old Lady Wang, tilted her head back, and asked, "Grandma, Grandma, don't you like the title of Imperial Noblewoman anymore?"

Grandma Wang glanced at Wang Wulang following behind, as if to say, "Is there anything else you don't understand?"
She sneered, "I do like it, but if someone doesn't want me to like it, then so be it. Anyway, I'm just an old woman, with no one to care for or love me, so what does it matter whether I like it or not?"

Little Ayu became anxious: "No, Grandma, I love you! I'll earn you a title of nobility, lots and lots of it, and I'll even take the imperial examination to become the top scholar, okay, Grandma?"

Upon hearing this, the people around smiled kindly.

The village chief's wife, who came to help, said to her, "Ayu, it's good, but in our Great Chang Kingdom, women are not allowed to take the imperial examinations."

"Why not?" Little Ayu didn't understand.

No one could really explain why, but from ancient times to the present, it has been a long-standing and unwritten rule that women cannot take the imperial examinations.

It's not unheard of; in the neighboring Western Wind Kingdom, since the founding of the nation, many women have been pioneers in taking the imperial examinations.

However, there were no proper women's academies. Usually, it was the daughters of noble families who were trained and educated by their families, and they participated in the imperial examinations together. In the end, they generally served the imperial court, and few of them truly established themselves in the officialdom.

Grandma Wang said, "Because there are no women's colleges here, without colleges there are no teachers, without teachers there are no students, so no women participate in the imperial examinations."

Xiao Ayu interpreted it in her own way: "Is it because everyone is too busy at home and doesn't have time to learn?"

In Old Wang's family, things were alright. The men did more work than the women. Sometimes, after finishing the work in the fields, the women would only be responsible for washing clothes and cooking when they got home. The men would take care of other tasks such as hanging clothes, sweeping, chopping firewood, and starting a fire.

But it's not like that in other families. Men usually only do physical labor. During the off-season, they neither go out to look for work nor help out at home. Even if the women in the family are exhausted and fall ill, they won't lend a hand.

Therefore, girls in the village usually start doing chores from the age of three, and all the odd jobs around the house are handed over to them.

The boys, however, didn't start working until they were 12 years old. Except during busy farming seasons, they were like crazy monkeys, running around everywhere.

Little Ayu saw it all.

Now I remember it even more.

"When I grow up, I'll open a girls' academy so all my sisters can study!" Little Ayu said. "I also want to study and take the imperial examinations so that my grandma, my mother, my aunt, my second aunt, my third aunt, and my maternal grandmother can all receive official titles!"

His childlike words made everyone burst into laughter.

Even the Feng family, the Ma family, and the Zhang family laughed until they cried. They said that their Ayu was a lucky star and might actually be able to take the imperial examination.

They were somewhat inclined to believe that they could pray for the fate of their grandmother and fourth brother's wife.

But of course, it's impossible to give them to other people.

However, they did not know that Xiao Ayu would later fulfill her promise, making the Wang family the family with the most imperial consorts in the history of the Great Chang Kingdom, directly breaking the historical record.

(End of this chapter)