Huang Desu led Wang Yi into the county town and came to the entrance of a small house with a familiar road. This was once the residence of the Huang family butler, and there were also the owner, wing, hall, and hall. It would be nice if there were only three people living in it, but now there are five families, and the Huang family only occupied one of them, one and two north houses.

"The master is back." Huang Li came out to see Huang Desu, and said in a low voice: "It's early to come back this time, I'll go and cook for the master."

Huang Desu nodded, saw his wife's gaze passing by the boy, and said, "Wang Yi, this is your master's wife."

"Student Wang Yi, pay homage to the teacher's wife." Wang Yi took a step and bowed to the end.

"My school students will take the B exam tomorrow and stay at home today." Huang Desu said.

"Yes." Huang Li nodded, turned around and went back to the house to get the rice, and was about to prepare for dinner. She lifted the lid of the rice jar and saw the black bottom of the jar at a glance. The housewife pulled the rice jar hard, gathering the rice grains in the jar, and finally scooped out a spoonful.

Huang Desu asked Wang Yi to wait at the door and entered the room by himself. Seeing his wife trying hard to get rice from the jar, he felt sad. He stepped forward to hold the rice jar, put it down gently, sighed, and said, "I'll ask Zhang Wenquan to borrow some rice."

"Don't..." Huang Li grabbed her husband and whispered: "I borrowed a bowl last time, but I haven't paid it back yet."

"Didn't I give you monthly money last time? Why didn't I buy it?" Huang Desu lowered his voice, but felt a little reproachful.

"I think the rice price will fall, so I'll endure it for two days." Huang Li said: "In just two days, I can buy an extra kilogram of rice."

Huang Desu patted his wife's arm and said, "I also brought some coarse grains back, and it's enough to mix them together."

"You don't have enough food to eat, so how can you bring it back?" Huang Li said suspiciously.

"There are so many wild vegetables that can be eaten in the mountains, and Le Le will come out." Huang Desu chuckled: "Where is the eldest sister? Why don't you see her?"

When Huang Li heard that her husband was living in a village school, she had to save food and brought it back. She felt sad and couldn't help but shed tears. When she heard her husband ask about her daughter, Huang Li shone tears and said with a strong cry, "She went to Laizhou with her female companions a few days ago to take the female official exam. I'm afraid she will be able to come back tomorrow and the next day."

Huang Desu lowered his head, and two tears fell on the ground, saying, "It was because of his husband that he harmed you mother and daughter."

"Why do you have to say that, lord?" Huang Li couldn't help crying. "A wife and husband are not in trouble. Now that we are in this situation, it is also my fault."

The couple hugged their heads and cried for a while before they could calm their faces down. Huang Desu went out first and took Wang Yi to the county school to register. Huang Li waited for them to leave. He came out with a pair of red eyes. Seeing the coarse grains brought back by her husband, he took them to the shared kitchen to cook.

Someone was already using the stove in the kitchen. When he saw Huang Li, he whispered: "It turns out it's Grandma Huang, I'm fine."

Huang Li adapted to the dim light in the kitchen, and just saw clearly that it was Zhang Wenquan's wife, so she stepped forward and said hello. Looking at Grandma Zhang again, she was also crying with her eyes swollen like peaches. She must have just cried. Huang Li himself was also sad. If she talked to her, she would inevitably cry again, so she would do her own things and remain silent.

This is the court of criminals, and all guilty officials are placed together. For example, Huang Desu and Zhang Wenquan, those who are guilty of minor crimes can also have a decent life, be a teacher or copy and record in the county. Those who are serious crimes will be directly imposed on hard labor, which is even more miserable.

"Mom! Mom! I passed the exam!" A girl of seventeen or eighteen years old rushed into the kitchen like a whirlwind. Seeing an outsider, she restrained her mouth and bowed a little, but she still couldn't help but say happily: "Mom! I passed the exam! From the ninth rank of the Eastern Palace maid, I worked in the Wenxuan Department, Mom! I will have a salary from now on! Five cents of silver per month!"

Huang Li finally couldn't help crying, "I don't think my family can actually sell their daughters to survive... It's said that when the marquis's family goes deeper, my sister is careful in the palace, and she can't be like at home." Zhang also cried aside and comforted him, "I heard that it can be released after more than ten years, and I'll still be able to reunite at home at that time."

The girl didn't care at all, but instead laughed with her mother's arm.

"Mom, Grandma Zhang, after hearing the rumors, do you think the female officials are going to enter the palace to serve the people?" Miss Huang smiled and said, "The female officials in the East Palace are like when their father was an official. They go to work every day and take a day off on Wu day. If there is a residence in Laizhou Prefecture, they can live at home. If there is no residence, there is a female officials in the East Palace, which includes food and accommodation. We cannot help but get married. As long as we have a grade-grade diploma, we can take the exam. It is said that we are under forty years old and will not be recruited!"

Huang Li was stunned for a moment, and Zhang was also speechless.

"When I came back from Laizhou Prefecture, I still took the official carriage." Miss Huang smiled and said, "The official road has been built, and it took only a day and a half to arrive after walking two hundred miles."

"From the ninth rank..." Huang Li murmured: "Can't you resist getting married?"

"You don't have to go to the palace, you just work in the government office." Ms. Huang said excitedly: "The Wenxuan Department is to take the exam for the village school below, and the teachers and teachers in the school here will not let them slack off. But I heard from my aunt who took the exam: You must run around in this position. But I'm not afraid, it's easy to walk on the road!"

"You said... as long as you have a Class A diploma, you can even hire at the age of forty?" Zhang was quite moved and asked hurriedly.

Miss Huang said with confidence: "There is a test selection notice outside the East Palace, and only two items are said: Those who apply for the exam must have a Class A diploma; those who must be under 40 years old." She stopped and said: "By the way, there is another one that no one mentioned, but I think it may also be hindered."

"What's the matter?" Zhang's heart hangs again.

"Foot binding." Miss Huang kicked her feet and smiled at her mother, "There is a Miss Zhu in the same field as me, who is a village lord from Defan. She is handsome and has good literary talent, but she didn't have a 're-search' and had only a 'waiting for transmission'. Although I was accused of an official, I immediately took the exam and worked on the Wenxuan Department on the spot. I was also surprised at that time, and later I met the aunt, who said, "I want to thank your parents for not binding you'. Only then did I realize that if I had wrapped my feet, I could only sit in the office room, and it was not convenient to call it."

"Amitabha, it's a blessing in disguise, and a blessing in disguise!" Huang Li breathed a sigh of relief and took his daughter's hand and said, "I blame your father for indulging you, which made you unable to get married even if you are seventeen or eighteen years old. Unexpectedly, he actually got the official position with this!"

Zhang lowered his head and looked at his feet, and said helplessly: "I am a tangle method in Yangzhou. I can walk or run when I am a girl, so it shouldn't be a hindrance."

In the Ming Dynasty, the trend of small feet was much more popular than that of the Song Dynasty, but only one-third of the girls in official families could bind their feet. If they wanted to work for women at home, it would be impossible to bind their feet.

There are also different ways to entangle feet. The "three-inch golden lotus" that later generations often say is not common in the Ming Dynasty. It is limited to the Shanxi and Shaanxi area, and it is also used by prostitutes. The Yangzhou entanglement method is popular in Jiangnan, and there is no need to break the entire bone of the foot. It just clamps the arch and the blade of the foot, which looks slender and delicate, and will not affect walking and running. The brothel, the girl in the song can still sing and dance as usual after entangling her feet. This is why.

Emperor Chongzhen's Concubine Yuan was Tianzu, and the two empresses Zhang Zhou were also both Yangzhou Chanfa.

"As long as it doesn't prevent you from walking, there's no taboo." Ms. Huang suddenly covered her mouth and smiled: "If my father saw me in school, I wonder if he would bow and say, 'The students have seen the best students!"

Huang Li couldn't help laughing and gently slapped his daughter in the hand: "Don't talk nonsense. It's really a happy moment. Your father is back today and brought a disciple, saying that he would be given a second-class diploma tomorrow."

"Oh, there was one so soon?" Miss Huang was overjoyed, "My family is really in time."

After hearing this, Zhang touched the sorrow in his heart again, pretended to smile, waited for the food to be ready, and then he had to wash the pot when the food was ready. Miss Huang stepped forward and snatched the wash, said some comforting words, and sent Zhang out.

Huang Li waited for Zhang to walk away and said, "When you get your salary, you will get two cents first. The family must have a table, and the neighbors will be fond of joy."

"Mom, after I get my salary, I will give you all the money." Miss Huang said: "I don't need money for food, accommodation and official clothes."

"You have to save some of it yourself." Huang Li sighed: "You steam it first, I'll buy some wine and meat for your father. Today, he looks good, and his eyebrows are a little heroic, but unfortunately he's a little smaller."

Miss Huang just pretended that she couldn't understand and kept working hard without answering.

ps:
Chapter completed!