noffsinger Chapter 233 A Female-Dominated World (5)
Chapter 233 A Female-Dominated World (5)
Wangyou looked at the newcomer and guessed her identity. Not just anyone could wear purple clothes. Those who could wear purple robes were basically high-ranking officials of the first or second rank. The only person who could appear here at this time was an inspector.
"Student Xie Wangyou greets Lord He." Wangyou gave a proper student's salute.
"You're quite a smart man. Come up here with me, I have something to say to you."
"Okay." Wangyou nodded in agreement, comforted the somewhat flustered Xie Sanniang, and went upstairs.
"Judging from your confidence, you must know something, right?"
"I can guess a bit; it's the problem-solving methods in mathematics that have caught the adults' attention."
"That's right, your problem-solving method is original."
"Correct."
"I have a test paper here. Answer it now."
“Okay.” Wangyou didn’t refuse. She took the paper, glanced at it, picked up her pen, and wrote down the answers. “I’m done. Take a look.”
"So fast!" He Han hadn't even swallowed a sip of tea before she was done. How could that be?
Despite her doubts, He Han still took the test paper. The answers on it were correct, exactly the same as her calculations, even though she had spent a whole day working on them.
"Have you seen this type of question before?"
"No."
"Then how did you calculate it so quickly?"
"The answer is obvious at a glance, why bother calculating?"
He Han sensed a hint of mockery, but looking at the clarity in Wang You's eyes, he guessed she genuinely thought it was very simple.
"Then why did you write out the steps during the exam?"
"If I don't write out the process, I'll probably be judged as cheating. But using so many complicated calculations is too troublesome, so I can only create a simple way to answer the question on the spot."
“Truly, a heroine emerges from among the young. Your solutions are very clear and much simpler than the methods we usually use. If this could be applied to the Ministry of Revenue, it would save a lot of trouble.” He Han said with admiration.
Wangyou didn't say anything. She couldn't very well say, "Use it as you like," because that would seem frivolous.
"I see you are not very old. Are you married?"
"The student is eleven years old and unmarried. I don't want anyone uglier than me," Wangyou quickly said, otherwise she was afraid she would have a fiancé as soon as she went out.
"How can a woman be preoccupied with her appearance? She should marry a husband who is useful to her."
“Your Excellency is mistaken. When I marry, it means I will spend my whole life with him. No matter how good-looking he is or how good his family background is, I will not want him. Besides, I will fight for what I want myself and I don’t need to rely on nepotism,” Wangyou said firmly.
"Enough, I have other matters to attend to."
"The student takes her leave." Wangyou left the room, patting her chest. She was terrified; she almost thought she was about to go on a killing spree.
"Girl, are you alright?" Xie San Niang asked worriedly when she saw Wang You come down.
"Mother, I'm fine. The adults just asked me some other questions. Mother, let's go back quickly!"
"Okay." The mother and daughter quickly set off home.
Wangyou was thinking about continuing to take the exams. She was only a Xiucai (a lower-level scholar), and there were already more than a few people who wanted to marry her. If she passed the provincial, metropolitan, or even the top scholar exams, there would probably be even more people who wanted to marry her. What if she encountered the Empress and she was granted a marriage by imperial decree?
It's not that I'm oblivious to worries or narcissistic, but rather that this is something that could very well happen.
However, challenging imperial power as a commoner seemed like a good option, and Wangyou was somewhat eager to try.
However, we still need to protect our own family first; we can't let her reckless actions drag her whole family down with her.
Fortunately, there are still three years until the imperial examination, which is enough time for Wangyou to build up her own power.
Back home, the mother and daughter shared the gifts they had bought with everyone, and everyone was very happy.
"Wangyou, the leaves of the plants your father is watching over in the backyard are dried up. Shouldn't you dig them up?" Lingchen said with a smile.
"I'll go take a look." Wangyou went straight to the backyard. The sweet potato stalks on the three acres of land were mostly withered, so it was time to dig them up.
Wangyou originally intended to smuggle herself out of the space, but then she remembered that there were original seedlings in this world, so she simply used the sweet potatoes she dug up to cultivate the seedlings, and she was able to successfully plant them this year.
"Mom, get me a hoe."
Xie San Niang brought a hoe and watched as Wang You dug out the fruits below. The sweet potatoes were not very big, only about the size of a fist, but much bigger than wild ones, and each one had seven or eight sweet potatoes hanging on it, which was not bad.
"Forget-Me-Not, this is the new food you mentioned." Xie San Niang picked up a sweet potato, looked at it for a long time, and said.
"Yeah, we'll just grill it and eat it later."
"If this is really edible, and there's this much from just one root, then three acres would yield several thousand kilograms!" Xie San Niang suddenly exclaimed in surprise.
"Mother, don't doubt it, it's just what you think." Wangyou smiled and nodded as she looked at Xie Sanniang's gaze.
"So, are you planning to hand this over or what?" Xie Sanniang asked excitedly.
"I won't pay for now. I'll wait until I pass the imperial examination in three years. Anyway, we're not that short of food right now." Wangyou washed a few sweet potatoes and put them into the stove.
To be honest, Wangyou doesn't like farming, but that doesn't mean she can't. After all, she hasn't lived through so many worlds in vain.
"By the way, Mother, I remember you have a manor?"
"Yes, you need it?"
"Well, we'll dig up these sweet potatoes in the next couple of days, and then we'll start planting them on your farm next year. Are the people on the farm reliable?"
"They are all tenant farmers from the neighborhood; we can check them again later."
"Mother, please have someone investigate as soon as possible. This batch of sweet potatoes cannot be leaked prematurely."
"Okay, I understand." Xie Sanniang gave the men in the family a second instruction before feeling at ease.
After that, Wangyou's life continued to revolve around three points: school, bookstore, and home. Of course, she would occasionally go to check on the puppets' training results.
A year later, the mysterious organization Tingyulou suddenly appeared and quickly gained a foothold in the martial arts world.
The Listening Rain Pavilion is mainly responsible for taking on assassination and intelligence gathering missions.
After the county school stopped teaching much, Wangyou didn't think about finding an academy to continue her studies. Instead, she would occasionally rummage through the various bookstores in the prefectural city, truly taking the freebie-seeking approach to the extreme.
In the blink of an eye, three years have passed.
Over the past three years, thanks to the farmers' efforts, the quality of Wangyou sweet potatoes has improved and the yield has increased, with the yield per mu increasing from more than 1,000 jin to 8,000 jin.
After the imperial examination, Wangyou unsurprisingly became the top scholar.
In recent years, in addition to the two daughters born in the early morning, Xie San Niang's other three concubines also gave birth to a daughter, and one of her maids gave birth to a boy.
After the results of the "Forget-Worry" project came out, Xie San Niang went to the county magistrate and told him about the yield and planting method of the sweet potatoes. After hearing about the yield, the county magistrate went to the site in person. After witnessing the yield with his own eyes, he immediately went back to write a memorial to the throne.
The memorial detailed the merits of Xie San Niang's family, showing that she hadn't taken a single penny. In the past, she might have tried to suppress the matter, but since the Xie family produced Xie Wangyou, who passed the imperial examinations in three consecutive years, the county magistrate didn't dare to covet the credit and simply let it go.