Chapter 35-Legend of Concubine's Daughter Minglan (Latest Updates)

Chapter 35 - The Fortune of Changbai


The imperial examination held in spring usually took place in mid-February. This year, due to the poor health of the emperor, it was delayed until the beginning of March. Changbai and Qi Heng set off in mid-February. After Changbai left, Lady Wang burned the incense, worshipped the Buddha, and visited the Taoist temple every day. The room was full of smoke, and the outsider almost brought in a fire fighting team as they thought Sheng Mansion had caught fire. Every time Minglan went to pay respects to Lady Wang, her eyes would be smoked to red. Sheng Hong complained in the beginning, "Confucius never talked about odd, puissance, turmoil and deity ", but according to reliable information, he worshipped the Buddha several times secretly.


This examination lasted for three day, and each part was a torture. Even if you passed it, you would have an arduous time. Qi Heng was carried home by the servant of Qi Guo Gong Mansion once he came out. Changbai struggled up the carriage, and then Chang Wu, who was a trainer in Jingwei martial arts, took Changbai back to rest. The good news was one step ahead of the candidates arriving home, and Changbai ranked the fifth in Scholars section.


Lady Wang was overjoyed and immediately wanted to put out the firecrackers and offer money and foods to the poor, but Sheng Hong rushed to stop her - Qi Heng failed.


Lord Qi was still fine, as he knew that candidates who could pass in just one go like Changbai are few after all. Most of the candidates would succeed in the second and third times, and some even strived for this examination more than ten years, but Ping Ning Infanta was quite unsatisfied with the result.


The Qi got a lot of contacts, so they had the chance to find the reason of Qi Heng’s failure. The old Qi Guo Gong consulted the chief examiner, and the latter said: most candidates simplified their lives for the imperial examination in spring. From the imperial examination held in autumn, they would lock themselves in and study wholeheartedly. But the Qi even rushed back to the capital city to celebrate the New Year for fear that Deng State was not lively enough, leaving Qi Heng spending an extravagant and overwhelming time for about two months. Finally, Qi Heng only got less than one month to prepare for the examination, how could he get passed?


Ping Ning Infanta regretted it a lot, and Lord Qi suddenly realized that, no wonder Sheng Mansion was quite during the New Year celebration and he should have Qi Heng in Dengzhou during the celebration. Sheng Hong was really a very experienced person; after all, he was a candidate once himself.


After another few days, the Imperial Academy held the subsequent exam by which Changbai was selected as the Imperial Bachelor, and was assigned with editing works. He would take office after the festival was over. Along with this news, Changbai’s brother was engaged with the second daughter of the first wife in Jiang Ninghai’s Mansion. The Jiang was a scholarly family, full of wealth, and both the father and brothers were imperial officers. But for these two things, the responses of Sheng Hong and Lady Wang were radically different.


"It’s rare for Bai'er to obtain such results, why not let he be an external officer, but go to suffer in the desolate Imperial Academy!" Lady Wang cried, and complained of Sheng Hong, "You master have said that several old friends of you had led Bai’er to visit and lubricate the relationships, but only got a low-grade Imperial Bachelor!"

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