Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

Two days later, Qin Yunhe transferred Chen Er's land to his own name, and Chen Er began to happily busy himself with repairing his fields in preparation for spring plowing.

Qin Yunhe's family did not have a lot of land to begin with, and they planted wheat, which was a relatively easy crop to grow. With many people volunteering to help, the land was quickly cultivated.

At the end of March, Enko's decree was issued.

Since the beginning of the year, Qin Yunhe has been saying that the court might hold an imperial examination this year, so he asked Qin Si to prepare early. He also promised his brother that he would prepare the examination expenses and asked his brother not to worry.

Qin Yunhe has become much more stable now, especially after he passed the imperial examination. He has become like the head of the family, which makes Qin Si feel at ease.

Although he was somewhat skeptical about his brother's news about the special examination, he had never slacked off in his studies and had been preparing for the next provincial examination, so when he was sure that the special examination would be held, he decided to take another attempt this year.

Time passed quickly and it was the Dragon Boat Festival in May. Someone from the county town brought news to Qin Yunhe, saying that Feng Zhuo had returned and asked him to meet in the county town in a few days for a chat.

When the day of the appointment came, Feng Zhuo smiled broadly as soon as they met, and greeted him exaggeratedly, looking very proud.

"Why, my dear brother, do you want to kill me?"

Qin Yunhe asked with a smile: "Did your trip go smoothly? Did you enjoy the scenery of Jiangnan?"

"It went smoothly. The south of the Yangtze River is indeed full of mist and rain, and the spring breeze is intoxicating. It's wonderful." At this point, Feng Zhuo changed the subject and said more excitedly: "What's even more wonderful is that, brother Yun He, I find that you are really amazing.

We walked along the way, but it was too late when we got to the farm. It was just like what you said in the story. There was no refined rice to buy, but we happened to meet someone selling rice. I asked and the price was very fair, so I bought it. As a result, halfway through the journey, there was indeed a shortage of rice seeds in some places, and the price soared, even higher than the price of refined rice. Thanks to you, I made a lot of money this time. "

When Qin Yunhe heard that he had indeed earned the money, he felt relieved.

"I wonder how much you earned?"

Feng Zhuo took out a silver note from his sleeve and put it in Qin Yunhe's hand: "You have five hundred taels now."

Qin Yunhe knew that Feng Zhuo would make a lot of money on this trip, but he didn't expect it to be such a high profit: "How could it be so much?"

He looked at the banknote in his hand in disbelief. Feng Zhuo said it was five hundred taels, but in fact it said five hundred and twelve taels.

"That's it. Thanks to your clever planning, I made quite a bit of money this time," Feng Zhuo said to Qin Yunhe in a hypocritical manner, half covering his mouth with his hand, lowering his voice, "But my cousin is so jealous that he has been asking me to introduce you to him all along. I know he wants to monopolize you after meeting you..."

Before Feng Zhuo finished his nonsense, his cousin, who had been standing behind him and listening to his nonsense, hit him with a fan and scolded him with a smile: "Stop talking nonsense."

Feng Zhuo quickly dodged and said, "Look, isn't this jealousy of me?"

Qin Yunhe and Feng Zhuo's cousin both felt helpless about Feng Zhuo's unruly behavior and could only laugh and shake their heads.

Feng Zhuo's cousin was named Wu Cong. The two of them greeted each other, and this marked their formal acquaintance.

After the greetings, the three of them politely entered the teahouse.

"How come? Seriously, do you have some magical power? How can you be so accurate?" After sitting down, Feng Zhuo was still amazed that his prediction came true.

"I don't have any magical powers. I just heard of this story. I didn't expect that we would encounter the same thing by chance."

"Do you have any similar stories? Tell me a few more. Maybe I can rely on your stories to solve all my problems in the future."

Qin Yunhe smiled and said, "No, this is really just a coincidence."

Feng Zhuo thought that this was all thanks to Qin Yunhe, but only Qin Yunhe knew that this was actually all thanks to Feng Zhuo himself.

Even if Qin Yunhe was not there, Feng Zhuo would still buy the rice.

"Brother Feng, it's thanks to you that I was able to earn this much money this time. It must have been very hard along the way. I've said before that I only want half of the money I earn..."

Feng Zhuo immediately interrupted Qin Yunhe and said, "Hey - what do you want to do? Am I greedy for your little money? I tell you, I made more money than you on this trip.

When I saw that you had predicted everything correctly, I decided to buy the rice with you. I won’t ask you for labor fees, and you don’t ask me for prediction fees. We can offset each other.”

Qin Yunhe still wanted to insist, but Feng Zhuo's cousin Wu Cong said, "Brother Qin, you don't have to be polite to Feng Zhuo. He doesn't worry about anything. Apart from helping you buy and sell the goods as you asked, he really didn't do anything hard. You two have always been in love, so why would he ask for your money?"

Qin Yunhe knew that if he insisted any longer he would become estranged, so he finally gave up. The three of them chatted about their experiences on this trip and their future plans.

Feng Zhuo was more concerned about Qin Yunhe's plan for the imperial examination.

"Now that the Enke exam has been launched, there will also be a Spring Exam next year. Do you plan to take the exam?"

Qin Yunhe said, "I do plan to take the imperial examination next spring. My fourth brother has decided to take the imperial examination this autumn. If he passes, I will go to Beijing with him to take the imperial examination next year. This time, I am asking you to help me sell goods so that I can collect money to prepare for the imperial examination."

"Is that so? Then the money this time must be enough for you brothers to go to Beijing to take the exam. Things are going so smoothly, it seems that you are destined to pass the exam next year."

Qin Yunhe smiled and said, "I'll borrow your good words."

Wu Cong asked, "This is not a small amount of money. Brother Qin, do you have any plans? I think Brother Qin has some luck in business. If you are interested in selling any goods in the future, you can find me."

"Thank you, Brother Wu. But I just made a lucky profit this time. I can't say I have good luck in business. I plan to buy more land to be more stable."

Feng Zhuo said as if he had met a soulmate: "Great minds think alike. I also plan to buy more land. With permanent property, I can travel and enjoy the scenery. Of course, if I'm lucky enough to come across some new and interesting things, I can try to buy and sell them. But if I really want to make a living from this, I really won't be free."

Seeing that Qin Yunhe had no plans in this regard, Wu Cong thought that Qin Yunhe, as a juren, would want to take the imperial examination in the future and might not think much of this business, so he stopped trying to persuade him.

The three of them got along very well and had a great conversation, and it was not until the afternoon that they stopped talking and said goodbye to each other.

Qin Yunhe had been thinking about the money he had borrowed from his teacher these days, so after leaving the teahouse he went to a nearby bank and withdrew a silver note for sixty taels.

Mr. Gu had not originally expected him to pay back the money so soon, and was quite surprised to see the sixty-tael silver note presented by his disciple.

Qin Yunhe also saw it and explained, "I asked Brother Feng to buy the rice, and he helped me sell it at a good price. Now that I have the silver, I will return it to you."

“Did you really make money?”

"Yes, thanks to Brother Feng."

As he spoke, Qin Yunhe told the teacher the whole story of buying and selling rice.

After hearing this, Mr. Gu smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to have such good luck in business."

"It was just luck, just this once. It's not like I'll always run into something so good. Now that I have this money, I have the money to go to Beijing to take the exam. With the rest, I plan to buy some land and live a stable life."

Hearing the student's arrangement, Mr. Gu was very pleased and nodded in praise, "Well, that's very good."