The Transmigrated Li Jin's Daily Farming Life (Translated With Mtl)

Chapter 137

Typically, the grading period for the capital examination is the same as that for the provincial examination, ranging from ten to twenty days.

Li Jin participated in this capital examination with only 4,000 candidates. Logically, the grading period should be around fifteen days.

However, this was a special examination, the Enke. After the Ministry of Rites graded the papers, they had to present the successful candidates' papers to the emperor for review, hence the process took a bit longer.

Li Jin is now at peace, no longer as anxious as he was when awaiting results in the past.

As the announcement of results approached at the end of February, Zhu Shan saw him persistently going to the dockyard day after day. He couldn't help but ask if Li Jin was not worried about passing the examination.

Li Jin responded, "Perhaps because I've taken the exam so many times, I'm more composed than before."

Zhu Shan was puzzled, "You've taken the exam many times?"

If Zhu Shan remembered correctly, Li Jin always ranked first in every examination. In other words, he only took each examination once. How could this be considered 'many times'?

Zhu Shan recalled his own past when he couldn't pass the imperial examination and had to delve into studying mathematics, which led to a different kind of achievement.

He decided not to discuss the imperial examination with the 'top scorer', so he abruptly changed the subject, "In a few days, there will be a Cuju competition involving the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of War. The Beijing Academy will also participate. You're physically fit, would you like to join in for fun?"

Li Jin thought, since he wasn't on duty at the Ministry of Works and wasn't studying at the Beijing Academy, he wouldn't join in the excitement.

However, he could take his spouse and children out for a spring outing. His family moved to Beijing last November when the weather was cold. Not to mention Baozi and the little leopard, even Qin Muwen hardly went out.

Now that the weather is warming up, it would indeed be possible to take the children out to play if they were bundled up warmly.

On the second day of March, early in the morning, Li Jin and Qin Muwen began to dress their children.

The little leopard seemed to know that his father was going to take him out to play. He obediently stretched out his arms to put on the thick cotton clothes, calling out, "Dad!"

However, there was a problem with the usually obedient Baozi.

Given that Baozi was already six years old, Qin Muwen was in charge of dressing him while Li Jin waited in the courtyard.

After a while, Li Jin surprisingly heard Qin Muwen say, "Baozi, be good."

Li Jin was somewhat surprised. Baozi was always well-behaved and sensible, and Qin Muwen never used an elder's attitude to suppress the child. Why was he so serious today?

However, when his spouse was disciplining the child, he must not contradict him, so he waited patiently.

After a while, Qin Muwen came out with the Little Bun.

Li Jin's eyes lit up at that moment because Baozi was not wearing the thick cotton jacket that Qin Muwen had prepared for him in advance. Instead, he wore a slightly thinner jacket, an indigo cloak with rabbit fur trim, and a small tuft on his head with shiny beads hanging from the ribbon.

With Xiao Baozi's long eyelashes and fair cheeks, he looked like a little doll carved out of pink jade.

Xiao Baozi was really four years and eight months old, and he was over three feet tall (over one meter). Although his little hands were chubby, his skeleton was small.