I finally managed to get those neighbors to leave, but it was getting late.

Li Shao waved his hand and stopped cooking. He took the whole family to a restaurant for dinner and ordered all the good and expensive dishes to try.

It was a busy day. When Zhao Ye got home at night and washed up and lay on the bed, she was still too excited to fall asleep. She whispered in Li Shao's ear: "Husband, you are so amazing, so amazing. You got first place again. How can you be so amazing!"

"Also, do you think we should go to Wolong Temple to fulfill a wish?"

"Repay a vow? What vow? What vow did you make at that time?"

"I wish you can pass the imperial examination, our family will be healthy and safe, and we can be together forever." He felt a little embarrassed after saying the last sentence.

Li Shao laughed and raised his hand to touch his head, "You are so good. You still remember to wish to be with me forever."

"But I think we should just forget about fulfilling our vows. We paid a lot of money last time. What if we run into that liar again?"

After hearing what he said, Zhao Ye was a little hesitant. "Well, but, but I don't feel good if I don't go. After all, now my first wish has come true. If I don't go, I'm afraid of what will happen next..."

Hearing this, Li Shao reached out and gently tapped his head. This silly guy smiled helplessly and said, "Whether it's me passing the imperial examination, or our family being healthy and safe, and us growing old together, I don't need anyone's blessing for these, my husband can do it all."

Her husband's words always make her feel at peace, as if nothing is a problem when he's around. Zhao Ye is most fascinated by this point about him.

As if she was convinced, she put her face against Li Shao's chest, nodded, and said softly, "Hmm."

Seeing his obedient appearance, Li Shao couldn't bear to refuse any of his requests. After thinking for a while, he said, "How about this? I'll ask Shen An to go to Wolong Temple and donate more money for incense. Then I'll ask him to say a few words. It will be regarded as fulfilling our wish. How do you think?"

"Ah?! Is there anyone who can replace me when I fulfill my wish?"

"Of course we can. Isn't it that fulfilling a vow means that we have to thank them after we get the job done? Let's let Shen An go and thank them for us. The result will be the same."

Zhao Ye suddenly felt that this was the case. "Then my husband, you have to ask Shen An to give more money for incense offerings, otherwise I will not feel at ease."

"Of course no problem, it doesn't matter how much money you spend, as long as it can make you feel at ease."

"My husband, you are so good to me~"

"Hehe, since you know I'm nice to you, you have to be nice to me too~" As he said this, his hands became naughty.

Zhao Ye seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly held down his hand that was causing trouble, and said breathlessly: "Oh, my husband, remember to write a letter home tomorrow. Let the villagers and my parents know about your passing the imperial examination."

"Okay, but I think our letter hasn't arrived yet, but the good news from the government has arrived. Didn't the official who announced the good news today say that the court will send someone to the registered residence to announce the good news to the family members?"

"We are not in the village. I guess the officials will send a letter to the village chief or my parents-in-law."

"Okay, Brother Ye, you don't have to worry about those unimportant things now..."

"My husband..."

Li Shao and Zhao Ye were very happy and loving.

But the others who were below Li Shao and thought they could get first place were not very happy.

After Li Shao won the first place in the imperial examination, his name became known throughout the capital, and his background and past were also investigated.

Everyone then knew that he was just a country man from an unknown small village, an orphan who came down from the mountains and settled down in that small village.

Later, a winery was opened in the village, and the wine produced was actually that amber wine.

Boss Liu had long ago sold wine to the capital through caravans. There were many good things in the capital, so this wine was not as popular as in their town, but many people still liked it.

Li Shao's family had quite a bit of assets, but he only married a country boy from the same village and had two children with him. He had no concubines, so he could be said to have a clean background and be a decent person.

But there is a saying that goes, there is no first in literature, and no second in martial arts.

Although Li Shao won the first place, it proved his strength to a large extent, and other candidates who participated in the martial arts examination also had some respect for him.

However, most people who practice martial arts are combative, and the martial arts examination is for selecting military talents, focusing on assessing candidates' archery, strength, and military theory, so there is no fighting or competition session.

This caused many people who ranked after Li Shao to feel that Li Shao might not be as good as them in real martial arts. Many of them were holding back, wanting to challenge Li Shao after the palace examination.

Overall, I don't have any bad intentions, I just feel a little unconvinced and want to have a discussion with him.

Except for one person, Zheng Qian.

Zheng Qian ranked fourth in this provincial examination. If the emperor also ranked him according to this ranking in the palace examination, he would not even make it into the first class. Now he was furious and was smashing things around in the house.

The servant standing nearby was trembling with fear. He wanted to step forward to dissuade him, but knowing his young master's temper, he could only let him vent.

After smashing most of the things in the room, Zheng Qian sat down on a chair, breathing heavily.

The servant then dared to step forward and said tremblingly: "Master, calm down, calm down, while the master and the eldest master are not back yet, I will quickly ask someone to clean up this room, otherwise it will be troublesome when the master and the eldest master come back."

It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned this. As soon as he mentioned this, Zheng Qian got even angrier. He raised his hand and slapped the servant in the face. "You bastard! You're trying to scare me with my father and my elder brother? Who the hell are you? Don't you want to live?"

The servant was so scared that he fell to his knees on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy, "Master, that's not what I meant. That's not what I meant. Master, please forgive me! I was just talking nonsense!" As he spoke, he slapped himself hard.

The slapping sound was heard, and soon his face became red and swollen. Zheng Qian finally calmed down a little and kicked him over, "Get out! You're an eyesore."

The servant hurriedly said, "Thank you, young master. Thank you, young master. I'll get out of here right away!" After saying that, he rolled out and crawled away.

Zheng Qian was left alone sitting in the room sulking. He was really embarrassed this time. That damn Li Shao actually got the first place in the imperial examination.

Everyone outside should know by now that he, the great Master Zheng, was suppressed by such a country bumpkin during the provincial examination.

What made him most angry was that in addition to Li Shao, there were actually two people who ranked higher than him in this examination.

Zhao Yanming is a gangster, and there is Chu Jiang, whom I have never heard of before. I heard that he is also from a small place and his family runs a security company.

They are all a bunch of low-class people, a bunch of scum, and he was actually taken over by these scum!

Now his father looked down on him even more, as if he would never be as good as his elder brother, and it was all because of those bastards.

Why, why do these bastards always go against him? Sooner or later he will make them pay!

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