Seeing the visitor walking into the hospital out of breath, the twins shouted in surprise: "Dad!"
Dalang and Erlang looked at each other, a little excited. I wonder if Dad has passed the preliminary exam?
One of the two brothers went forward to pick up Liu Ji's luggage, and the other went to the kitchen to get the dishes and chopsticks and entered the main room.
There are still vegetables left, and because Qin Yao has a bad appetite today, there is still one bowl left, which is enough for Liu Ji to eat alone.
Liu Ji rushed home all the way, almost going crazy with hunger. He forced a smile at Qin Yao, washed his hands in a hurry, picked up the food handed over by Da Lang and sat at the table to eat.
Qin Yao waited for him to finish eating, then asked: "Have the results of the preliminary examination come out?"
Liu Ji took the handkerchief from his daughter Siniang and wiped his mouth, took a deep breath, burped "uh", and then nodded.
Thereupon, the mother and son all gathered around him, waiting with bated breath for his result.
The four Dalang brothers and sisters still have one day off tomorrow and can enjoy half of the sun, so they only need to take care of the other half.
Dalang was very unsure of the results of his father's re-examination, and the results were not yet available, so he did not dare to say anything nonsense. He only replied: "My mother went to the county town to sell magical book boxes."
Liu Ji nodded heavily. It was a long story, so he kept it short.
Old man Liu obviously didn't believe it, “How many days will it take to sell book boxes?”
After subtracting 40% of the rent, I still have 1,150 kilograms left.
Dalang Erlang is responsible for sweeping the wheat grains into the basket.
After hearing the cause and effect, Qin Yao didn't know what expression to use to face Liu Ji, a bastard.
Before departure, I also led Da Lang and Erlang to the old house, saying that the wheat was still drying at home, and they were going to the city for a few days. If it rained, I asked the old house to help keep an eye on it.
Qin Yao sighed, then stood up, "Very good, let's thresh the wheat as a family first!"
Even the Liu family's old residence is confused.
"Wait!" After thinking about it, he asked Liu Bai to go with him and followed his two grandsons to his house to look at the wheat.
At this time, he didn't even have a chance to prepare. It was just a matter of rushing ducks to put it on the shelf.
He only regrets not buying a yellow talisman and putting it on his body before entering the examination room, otherwise he wouldn't be so bad!
Seeing how calm the stepmother was, the four children's ups and downs calmed down inexplicably. The family of six began the hard days of threshing wheat.
Liu Ji looked at Qin Yao's **** moves, and without her reminding him, he immediately entered a mysterious state of smiling without saying a word. He would just laugh when others asked him anything, and he would only answer a few specious questions until they helped him with the work.
Old man Liu and his son stayed at Qin Yao's house for half an hour, helping the four brothers and sisters to get all the wheat into the yard and cover it with a drying mat before going back.
To be so low-key now is not his style at all.
Liu Ji smiled and said, "I tried it for the first time."
Not in a hurry?
How can we not be anxious about this!
Old man Liu rubbed his eyebrows. How big of a deal is the scientific examination? How come the third family can be so calm? He couldn't figure it out.
As soon as Qin Yao heard this, she had an ominous premonition, "Good news."
The mother and son raised their eyebrows in unison, surprised and happy that he could actually pass the preliminary examination.
The dragon and the phoenix are responsible for picking up the crushed wheat straw.
“Tell me honestly, did your father fail the first test?”
In the end, I could only accept the reality and asked him: "When will the retest be retested?"
He found someone to find someone for the first test, and the seats and students with outstanding academic performance were well arranged. In addition, the invigilation of the first test was not strict, so Liu Ji was not surprised at all when he was able to pass at the tail end.
Want to hear the results? Very good, let's help thresh the wheat first.
But he never expected that less than an hour after the list came down, the government would cancel the previous preliminary test results and conduct a retest because someone reported that someone had cheated in the preliminary test and was dissatisfied with the results on the list.
Finally, Liu Ji used a sieve to completely separate the wheat grains and grass clippings, and poured them onto the drying mat to dry.
Qin Yao's family harvested more than 1,900 kilograms from ten acres of land.
The old man waved his hand and had no choice but to let his two grandsons go home first.
But compared to the output per mu of most people in the village, this is already an enviable figure.
Liu Ji: “!!”
Qin Yao did not forget that there was bad news. She suppressed her joy and asked tentatively: "What about the bad news?"
But just when Old Man Liu was sure of his guess, Qin Yao and Liu Ji drove their carriage to the county town on the afternoon of the second day after Liu Ji returned home.
The wheat was harvested by two day laborers in two days. Qin Yao settled the wages to them, twenty-five cents per acre, a total of two hundred and fifty cents.
This is prime farmland, but after being attacked by insects, the yield was directly reduced by 30%.
Therefore, two days after Liu Ji returned home, no one in the village knew whether he had passed or not.
Mother and son all asked in confusion: "Retest?"
But Dalang kept his mouth tight. No matter how many people in the old house asked him, he would not say anything about Liu Ji's re-examination. He only gave an ambiguous explanation, "I will know when my Aunt Yao comes back."
When he finally left, Qin Yao handed over an extra half a tael of silver to He, as labor expenses and meal money for the four Dalang brothers and sisters.
It wasn't until the couple drove a carriage out of Liujia Village carrying nineteen improved magic book boxes from the factory shed that everyone in the Liu family's old house realized what they were doing.
Liu Ji asked Qin Yao: "There is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"
At the same time, he also handed over the keys to the front door of his home so that he could get the oxcart and handed them the work of picking up and dropping off students at school.
Qin Yao brought big stones and crushed them again and again.
However, Old Man Liu has a clear understanding of his son. It is most likely that he has not passed the exam. Otherwise, with the temperament of the third son, he would surely make the whole town know about it.
Dalang showed the tangled expression he had when Liu Jigang arrived home two days ago. He sighed like a young adult, nodded, and shook his head. Everyone in the Liu family's old house was confused.
Liu Ji lamented, "We need to retake the exam."
Erlang also echoed: "We'll know when my mother comes back, don't be in a hurry."
Old man Liu caught Da Lang and Er Lang who were running home and asked: "What are your parents doing in the county town?"
All students on the list will be re-examined, and the final result will be based on the results of this re-examination.
Liu Ji had a grimace on his face and said, "The day after tomorrow."
Liu Ji felt a little achy just looking at it. Two qian was a lot of money. But thinking about the energy saved, after the two day laborers left, he immediately gave Qin Yao a complimentary thumbs up. Well done, madam!
Liu Ji suddenly came back, and the villagers curiously asked him if he had passed the exam. Wave after wave of people came, and they were all captured by Qin Yao.
Still want to know how to take the preliminary exam?
Sure, I will tell you right away after sifting through these wheat grains.
At the door of his home, Old Man Liu stood on the stone slab in front of the door, looking at the gray wheat fields in the village. He only hoped that Qin Yao and his wife, who had entered the city, would bring back good news to dilute the gloom in the village.
Before the city gate closed, Qin Yao and his wife drove a carriage to the county seat of Kaiyang smoothly.
After paying the sanitation management fee, the carriage drove directly into the city and stopped in front of Shopkeeper Fan's restaurant.
Chapter end
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