Escape: I rely on the food exchange system to survive to the extreme

Chapter 278 Mid-Autumn Festival
It’s Mid-Autumn Festival again.

Although the entire Mei family is in Jiangnan, if the current situation were not wrong, they would all wish they could grow wings and fly back.

What's more, there is a female marquis in our family!
It's not that this is a reason not to tell anyone. In that big family, except for the ignorant Quandan and the little Laosi who don't know what the family is laughing about, the faces of the others are almost stiff with laughter every day.

It’s just the Mid-Autumn Festival, the time when the full moon brings families together. Apart from Mei Qian, Mei Shitou is also out studying to make a living this year. Although it’s a happy day to know that my children and grandchildren are successful.

But after drinking a few sips of rice wine, Old Mrs. Mei couldn't help but wipe the sweat from the corners of her eyes with her hands.

Her fingers gently brushed across the deep wrinkles at the corners of her eyes. Old Mrs. Mei was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the younger generations sitting at the table and sighed inaudibly.

She is old.

It’s not like she hadn’t thought about this topic before, but then she recalled that sometimes in her dreams she saw her husband who had passed away young, and he was still so young. Old Mrs. Mei suddenly wondered if she was also that old in her dreams.

Han didn't notice her mother-in-law's sudden abnormality. She just hugged Quandan and kissed him. Looking at his face that was 50% similar to Shitou, Han chuckled and shared with Cui'er the interesting story of raising Shitou when she was a child.

Oh, if it’s funny that a stone that knows nothing ate chicken poop due to neglect.

Jiang was standing opposite and watching Cui'er, whose pupils were dizzy when she heard this. Seeing Cui'er cast her worried gaze on Quandan from time to time, Jiang knew that her sister-in-law was no longer looking at people when she spoke.

"Ahem, hurry up and eat the food, it's getting cold."

Jiang coughed lightly and urged everyone to eat.

The fourth child, who already knew how to use a spoon and was very skillful, took the lead, scooped out a piece of braised pork, and then spit it out with a "wow".

"Salty!"

Mei Li was not born in a good time. When Mei Qian was at home, the family's meals were considered good. After Mei Qian left, the family went through a dark period.

Later, Jiang and Han had to start learning how to cook all over again.

As Mrs. Mei said, practice makes perfect.

Even if you can’t cook, you can still eat it if you cook it a few more times.

No matter how bad a person’s cooking is, it will get worse the more times he cooks.

Even though the fourth child was abused since childhood, he still has a basic sense of taste.

After all, the food at Brother Lin’s house next door is really delicious, and the food at Yuan’s house is also okay.

Their home...

Looking at the best-looking braised pork made today, with salt put in as if it were free, Mei Li couldn't hold it in anymore.

Not only was he choked, but he also burst into tears.

When he started crying, Quandan started crying too. As the "culprit", Jiang took the initiative to taste the braised pork and an awkward smile appeared on his face.

"Oh, the sugar should be separated..."

"Look at you, I don't know who Qian learned that skill from!"

Old Mrs. Mei once again mentioned Mei Qian who was far away in Jiangbei. Now many officials were in trouble because of Mei Qian and Qi Chen.

The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jiangbei’s new Enke ended.

After that, it means marking the papers and grading them.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a good time, but now I have to be busy. How can I have time to take care of it?

Fortunately, Qi Chen had people make a lot of mooncakes with solid ingredients and delicious taste, and sent a plate of them to the homes of officials who worked overtime during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Including Mei Qian.

Mei Qian was also at her house today, inviting a few friends to taste the snow skin mooncakes she asked the cook to make.

When Qi Chen sent her mooncakes, Mei Qian also did not forget to ask someone to send her own welfare gifts to the palace.

Otherwise, they didn't say anything more, but Mei Qian, under the eunuch's hint, took the mooncake from the plate and ate the one on the top. It was a white mooncake with only a red bean in the middle.

Mei Qian twitched the corners of her mouth. Ever since her attitude towards Qi Chen softened and she began to gradually accept Qi Chen, Qi Chen's behavior was sometimes quite naughty.

Nasha, who was eating a snow-skin mooncake at the side, saw the problem at a glance. Seeing Mei Qian staring at the mooncake from the palace in her hand, her shoulder touched a water chestnut.

Lingjiao was eating a snow skin mooncake, and was disturbed by Nasha, and the fruit filling fell to the ground.

"What are you doing?"

"Shh-"

Nasha immediately kept silent and quietly pointed her finger in the direction where Mei Qian was in a daze.

"Hee hee~"

Having been in the capital for so long, Nasha has heard a lot of rumors about Mei Qian and Qi Chen.

In modern times, she would support the couple, but because Mei Qian and Qi Chen rarely spend time together, Nasha wanted to dance in front of Mei Qian and ask, "When are you two going to be together?!!!"

It’s just that Mei Qian’s aura is sometimes too strong, and when she glances at him with a sharp look, even a seasoned person like Nasha would be somewhat scared.

Therefore, Nasha quietly ate it and pulled her like-minded friend - water chestnut.

"What are you doing?"

Unfortunately, Mei Qian’s daze lasted too short a time. She came back to her senses and glanced at the two people who were gathered together. Lingjiao was the first to react and said, “Nasha asked me how I felt about taking the exam this time.”

This time's special examination has a nice name, "Recruitment Order".

However, the issue of gender is not specifically mentioned here, which is a small loophole that Mei Qian deliberately left.

After this recruitment order was issued, Mei Qian immediately sent people to spread this "loophole".

By the time the news had reached the court, Qi Chen said that time was running out and since the decree had been issued, it would be inappropriate to change it overnight.

Since someone has suggested that women can also do it, let’s look forward to it.

At that time, Qi Chen's words were considered as tacit approval that women could participate, and no one took it seriously.

Although after the exam, some people who left the examination room mentioned that there was a woman in the examination room.

But no one cared.

However, it was these women who were ignored by everyone, who shocked all the officials involved in the marking of the papers during this first Mid-Autumn Festival.

This year's Enke test paper is not of the same type, but is directly divided into six categories according to six parts.

In the six types of examinations, all the contents are not about classics, history, or collections, but are more inclined towards practical policy essays, and are related to the categories they applied for.

The six officials who were marking the papers almost fainted.

If I hadn't been trained by Chu Ji before and understood the whole story, how could it be okay for me, as a member of the Sixth Department, to not seem to understand the knowledge of my own department?
The Ministry of War even had additional tests on martial arts, weapons, etc.

This exam was conducted in a anonymous manner, and the final results were shocking.

Many people didn't expect that a woman would actually pass the exam.

"how so?!"

When something like this happened, and it was not an isolated case, no one dared to act on their own and told Chu Ji, who was now the prime minister, about it.

When Chu Ji saw it, he raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Since the result is out, just tell His Majesty the truth."

After saying that, he glanced at the test paper again. The woman named "Chu Yuan" finally sighed...

Chu Ji, Chu Yuan, Chu Ying, there are three rebels in one family. The Chu Ji family is about to be expelled from the family. Hahahahahahahahaha