After I stopped being a lady from a rich family, I fought all over the capital

Chapter 245 What's a good thank-you gift?

As soon as Tan Ci received Liu Wu's message, she immediately brought Su Xianyun, who had already prepared everything, over.
Liu Guixiang accompanied the mother and daughter, and finally remembered to go back to her own home.

Behind the three of them followed Su Wenheng, a man carrying various thank-you gifts and bags.

Besides the essential thank-you gifts of gold, silver, jewelry, and jade, they also brought dried fruit and preserved fruit that Liu Guixiang was good at making. They had noticed that Song Lan really liked these when they were at the Liu family's house!
Although it's not the season for fruits and vegetables to be widely available now, especially since Beijing is located in the north, it's still a bit cold even though it's springtime.

However, in the south, in places under the jurisdiction of Lingnan Road, such as Danzhou, Wan'an, Chaozhou, Duanzhou, and Yongzhou, many fresh fruits and vegetables have already been put on the market.

Getting fresh fruit over is a bit difficult.

Even if it were delivered here, even at the fastest speed, with horses galloping to the capital, it wouldn't be very fresh anymore.

Not to mention, to prevent damage during the journey, or to prevent overripe fruit from rotting and becoming inedible, most fruits transported to distant places are picked before they are fully ripe.

It was ripened during transport.

As a result, the taste of the fruit will inevitably be worse.

It's neither fresh nor cooked; it would be strange if it tasted good.

However, once it's made into dried fruit or jam, it becomes much easier to transport.

In addition to Liu Guixiang's uniquely prepared dried fruit and candied fruit, there is also cured meat and sausage made by Tan Ci, and sachets hand-sewn by Su Xianyun.

Su Wenheng had no skills whatsoever; he couldn't cook, sew, or embroider. His only talent was teaching people to read.

He was particularly skilled at teaching students who were preparing for the imperial examinations.

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Although the current dynasty allows women to enter officialdom through the imperial examinations, the requirements are extremely stringent, whether for civil or military examinations. In fact, if a woman performs exceptionally well, surpassing all the male candidates of the year, she may be impeached and criticized, or at worst, be expelled from the examinations.

However, if you do poorly on the exam, it will be difficult to overcome those strict requirements and constraints.

Therefore, although women were allowed to participate in the imperial examinations to enter officialdom, in reality, apart from a few female candidates being seen in the first two or three autumn examinations, very few women would participate in the imperial examinations later on, let alone enter officialdom through this means.

He couldn't very well let Song Lan participate in the imperial examination, could he?

Moreover, Song Lan already holds an official position.

It was by special permission of the Emperor that he was allowed to obey orders but not summons.

Throughout the journey, Su Wenheng racked his brains, trying to think of something else he could do to help Song Lan as a token of his gratitude.

Tan Ci glanced at Su Wenheng, who could barely keep up with his pace, and immediately felt a surge of anger.

"If you really don't want to go, just give me all your things and go home."

"Don't act like someone forced you or made things difficult for you."

"You shamelessly asked to come with us."

"What's with this long face now? Does anyone owe you anything? Do they need you to come here?"

As Tan Ci spoke, she was about to step forward and snatch the things that Su Wenheng was carrying.

Su Wenheng came to his senses and quickly apologized before daring to explain in a low voice, "It's not that I didn't want to go. I was just thinking that you all prepared thank-you gifts, each with your own sentiments, while I was only responsible for carrying something and didn't have anything presentable. It's a bit unreasonable. I was racking my brains to think of something that could be given as a thank-you gift to the young lady of the Song family."