A month later
A lot of people gathered at the Yang Family's gate. Everyone in the village who could come did, not for anything else, just to send Yang Ming off.
Because in a few days, it will be the triennial Autumnal Exam.
The village has only this one scholar, and although he's not a relative, the community here is like this: if Yang Ming succeeds, everyone feels proud, standing taller, and it might even bring benefits to the village.
So everyone takes it very seriously.
If he passes this time, he can participate in the metropolitan exam next February. If the metropolitan exam is passed, he can enter the court exam.
If not successful, then it's back to the drawing board to try again three years later.
The exam venue is the Provincial Capital, the Capital City!
It's about two days' journey south from here.
Xiaoxiao will accompany him this time because she has never been to the Capital City.
