I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 341: Daming Prefecture Waiting for Examination 1

The group parted ways at the fork in the road and went to their temporary residence in Daming Prefecture.

As for the four scholars who followed them along the way, the two who were unwell had never taken the initiative to talk to Bai Jingzhou and his friends. They just stayed in hotels and took buses every day without saying a word. The two who wanted to curry favor with Bai Jingzhou and his friends, but had never been able to break into their small circle, had ugly expressions on their faces and cursed in their hearts.

They had been traveling together for such a long time and were almost at their destination, but Bai Jingzhou and his group were still lukewarm towards them.

Not to mention inviting them to live with them, they weren't even willing to say hello to them or leave them a contact address. The presence they had been shamelessly trying to show off these days was completely in vain.

The person the two cursed the most was Tao Chang. Firstly, it was because the person they wanted to take advantage of the most financially was Tao Chang. Secondly, it was because Tao Chang had taken a lot of advantages from Qin and Peng, but he ignored them.

Tao Chang was completely unaware of their resentment. Although he was labeled "the stupid son of a landlord" by Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, he was not really a fool. He didn't mind helping someone he liked, but he would not go to the trouble of taking someone home if he didn't like them.

For a period of time afterwards, Su Yunzhan, Tao Chang and others often came to visit Gu Wenxuan and others, and Bai Jingzhou, Bai Jingshan and others also often went to visit Su Yunzhan and Tao Chang and others. They made friends through literature and got along more and more harmoniously.

Except for Gu Wenxuan, no one knew that in addition to making friends, Bai Jingzhou was also looking for a suitable husband for Bai Jingxin.

Among the classmates Bai Jingzhou met in the academy, except for those who were already married or engaged, those who had various shortcomings themselves, and those who had problems at home... there were not many unmarried young people left.

Bai Jingzhou listed these people on paper, conducted further investigation without leaving any trace, and found the right time to have close contact with the other party as unnoticeably as possible.

As a result, a large number of people were soon eliminated by him for various reasons.

It’s not that those people are not good matches. Many of them are actually very good. Bai Jingzhou eliminated them simply because they were not suitable for Bai Jingxin in some aspects.

As for the remaining small group of people, Bai Jingzhou felt that they were very suitable for Bai Jingxin in all aspects, but they either already had their favorite marriage partner and had not yet proposed, or they felt that now was not the time to talk about marriage and only wanted to pass the imperial examination and become an official, or they wanted to marry into a high-class family that would be beneficial to their career in the future.

There were only three or two people whose external qualities matched Bai Jingxin's, but Bai Jingxin inexplicably felt that they were not pleasing to her eyes, so Bai Jingzhou didn't even bother to create an encounter for them.

This time, Bai Jingzhou and others came to Daming Prefecture to take the exam. Gu Wenxuan suggested taking Bai Jingxin and Jia Yuelan out to relax. The reason why Bai Jingzhou agreed immediately and took the initiative to persuade his parents was that he wanted to take the opportunity to find a suitable husband for Bai Jingxin.

Currently, he has a good relationship with Su Yunzhan, Tao Chang and others. Although they have good character and knowledge, from the perspective of choosing a brother-in-law, Bai Jingzhou only has eyes for Su Yunzhan.

The two scholars, Qin and Peng, were already married, so they were not considered by Bai Jingzhou from the beginning. Although Hua Zhihe, Tao Chang, and Jiang Yuheng were all promising young men who had not yet agreed on their marriage, each of them had his own fatal shortcomings.

Jiang Yuheng studied diligently, had a strong character, a strong heart, and knew how to be content and grateful. From the perspective of his character alone, he was a person that Bai Jingzhou admired very much. However, his family was poor, and he was able to study only because of his parents, brother and sister-in-law's hard work every day in the fields.

He was not ashamed of his poverty. He could face his shortcomings in origin, family background and qualifications calmly and frankly envy those who had better family background and higher understanding. He could also face all difficulties and setbacks without fear and move forward towards his goal of passing the imperial examination and becoming an official.

According to him, over the past ten years or so, all the money earned by his parents, brother and sister-in-law, except for the daily expenses necessary for their family, was used to support his studies.

Before he passed the imperial examination, whenever someone ridiculed him for his poor family background and Tao Chang was very angry, he would smile and say to Tao Chang: "Let them say whatever they want. From my point of view, I feel very lucky. Although my family is poor, I have very good parents, brothers and sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces."

He firmly believes that diligence can make up for lack of talent, and he studies even harder than Tao Chang, who actually works very hard.

Perhaps it was really the case that hard work pays off, as he passed the imperial examination and became a scholar in the year when the new dynasty held an imperial examination.

From then on, he not only continued to be a student on government stipend, but also found a private school to teach, and began to earn money in addition to copying books by relying on his fame and knowledge.

Thanks to him, his family's lives got better and better from then on.

Of course, this so-called "good" refers to their previous family, not a wealthy landlord family like Tao Chang.

From living frugally and going hungry every day to having enough food and clothing for every family member, there has indeed been progress, but the extent of the progress has to be very limited.

In Bai Jingzhou's words, "As a friend, I admire him very much, but his family burden is too heavy. He has three brothers, two sisters, and five families who are eagerly looking forward to him leading them to a good life."

Tao Chang didn't have this problem, but his grandparents, father, mother, and five sisters all treasured Tao Chang like a phoenix egg.

Bai Jingzhou inquired around and found out that their requirements for his future wife were too high, and the Bai family, a newly rich "nouveau riche", could not afford her.

Not to mention Hua Zhihe. On the one hand, he is physically weak, but on the other hand, and the most important aspect, he has a big secret in his heart, or to be more precise, it is a deep hatred.

Although he did not reveal all his secrets, he did not deliberately hide certain things.

First of all, he would practice the Five Animal Exercises every day. According to him, his weak body was brought from his mother's womb. Since he was a child, he has been taking medicine, getting acupuncture, and exercising constantly to save his life.

Secondly, although he obviously got along very well with Bai Jingzhou and Su Yunzhan, he always deliberately kept a certain distance from them. If the two did not look for him, he would never take the initiative to look for them.

If it weren't for the emotions he occasionally revealed, which made Bai Jingzhou certain that he had his own reasons and not because he hated them, Bai Jingzhou would have known better than to disturb him.