Chapter 12 This road is not available

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The three-day big exam is not good enough. Those obscure and limited questions make Song Nan cry without tears. Naturally, the result can be imagined. Adhering to the good habit of reading in later generations, Song Nan is full of paper, and I don't know whether the questions are in the corresponding format, let alone the fantasy examiner. I like good things like shooting.

Song Nan admitted that he had done his best. Before the exam, he basically had an understanding of the fixed pattern of the eight-strand article. As for how to imitate, he had no time to care about whether it was divine and not. He regretted that he had known that he would travel here. Anyway, he had to check several good eight articles in the library and brought them by heart, but Seeing that the world is unpredictable, there is no regret to buy medicine.

Out of the low number house, he walked out of the gate of Gongyuan and looked back. Song Nan's only impression of the big test was the inspectors wearing big red official uniforms, and the coughing sound one after another, which was the consequence of undressing and searching at the door. Most of the weak talents had a cold.

The efficiency of releasing the list of the township examination is not bad. It only takes more than 20 days from sending the approval to the selection of the candidates. During this period, Song Nan had to stay in Datong Mansion with Li Daniu and Uncle Zhong to wait for the list. In fact, Song Nan knew in his heart that unless the main examination was blind, he would never be able to win the election, but now that he has come, why not More than 20 days of waiting.

After wandering around Datong Mansion for a few days, Song Nan was also tired of it. Datong Mansion is an important town on the northwest border. In addition to guard against the remnants of Mengyuan in the northeast, it is also necessary to guard against the harassment of Tatar countries in the northwest. In addition to the tall and strong defense of enemy buildings and walls, the city is the soldiers and horses patrolled day and night. You can't go to many places, you can only wander around the streets.

In late autumn, the city was covered with dust and yellow dust, and there was no pleasant scenery to play, and the weather was getting colder. A few days later, Song Nan simply shrank in the inn and couldn't go out on fire.

Song Nan is a little worried. I'm afraid that the path of the imperial examination will be difficult to get through, but how should I go in the future? I can't sit idle all day long. After thinking about it, Song Nan decided to take advantage of his strengths. In later generations, he is an elite in the business world. Why not use this to do business to make money? The road of business may not be endless. It's the same, but at least they have something in common. It's not difficult to make a difference by yourself.

So Song Nan consciously observed and screened in the prosperous Datongfu market, looking for projects that could be bought and sold. Looking at the shops on the streets, such as salt oil, restaurants, restaurants, brothels, grain shops, cotton shops, silk shops, tea shops, iron shops, wood shops, livestock houses, ceramic shops, pawn shops, and money houses. And so on, there is nothing that I am familiar with. I have been engaged in the real estate industry in later generations, and there is no use here.

After thinking over and over again, Song Nan decided to start from the catering industry. On the one hand, the cost is low, and on the other hand, food is the first necessity of the people. This industry has a foothold in any dynasty.

Song Nan began a market survey in Datong Mansion. All the restaurants, teahouses and snack bars went to observe and ask questions. As a result, Song Nan was very disappointed. Datong Mansion is a medium-sized restaurant that costs three or five thousand taels of silver, and the big restaurant may not be opened without tens of thousands of capital. Although the profits of the big restaurant are okay, it is low-end. The profit of the teahouse restaurant is not enough. Most of the restaurants have their own real estate stores, which can be operated without rent. I'm afraid that the cost of more than 1,000 taels can only be rented and opened a small restaurant in a small place in Weizhou.

Fortunately, Song Nan quickly came up with a way. The house on North Street, which was recovered from Songfu, happened to be on the street. Now it is rented to others to live in. As long as it is recovered and slightly renovated, it can be used as a store operation. In this way, at least 30% of the cost can be saved, and the scale of the restaurant can be expanded. Larger, the larger the scale, the more high-end it is, the more profitable it will be. This is an unknown law summarized by future generations. I don't know if it will work well these days.

But Song Nan also has one of the most worried problems. Originally, she planned to keep the 2,000 taels of silver for her mother and her family not to worry about making a living. If she took it to do business whole so hard, in case she had no return, wouldn't she would return to the pre-liberation overnight? Is the whole family worried about making a living again? This is what Song Nan never wants to see.

After more than 20 days of entanglement, it has arrived in mid-September. Gongyuan finally posted a notice to release the list. The talents who looked through the autumn water suddenly boiled. The crowd in front of the notice column of Gongyuan were crowded. Thousands of Xiucai eagerly looked at the 50 or 60 names on the big red list, hoping that their names would be in Among them.

Song Nan leaned under a big elm tree in the corner of Gongyuan Square. He didn't want to see the list, because he knew that it was useless to look at it, but Li Daniu rushed into the crowd with strength to find Nan's name.

Some of the talents on the list silently shed tears and raised their hands to salute the sky, some shouted and laughed crazily, some waved their arms to treat guests to drink, and some suppressed their ecstasy and pretended to the people around them in a disdainful tone: "What's all I expected, what surprise is there to say?"

He didn't give up without finding his name. He read the list carefully over and over again. Finally, he had to accept the cruel arrangement of fate and left silently with a white face, and the people who accompanied him were also disappointed. What's more, they sat down and cried, grabbing the sky and the earth, looking like they were about to die.

Life is all in it, and fate is between the square inches of several red lists, or it is reversed or sinking.

Song Nan looked at all this and sighed secretly. She had to admit that from now on, she has embarked on a prosperous road. Ordinary people have no other way out. Only by relying on this road to take the emperor's job, everything will be worry-free from then on. Sadly, she has more knowledge and experience than everyone in this era. , but I can't go down this road.

Li Daniu squeezed out the crowd and came to Song Nan with a depressed face, carefully organizing the wording, which may have hit Song Nan.

"Brother Nan... I can't find your name, and I can't read very well. Why don't you go and see it yourself?"

Song Nan spit out the grass stem in her mouth, smiled and patted Li Daniu on the shoulder and said, "Don't look at it anymore. Let's go back."

Li Daniel said, "Brother Nan, don't be sad. Didn't you say that all the roads lead to Rome? It's not a big deal. Why don't you eat?"

Song Nan sneered and said, "You learned very fast. You don't have to comfort me. I'm fine. I've been psychologically prepared before coming, but my mother is going to be sad."

Li Daniel said, " Aunt Song will definitely let you study and take the exam in three years. I don't think Brother Nan seems to be interested in reading, which is different from you before.

Song Nan said, "It's useless to study for another three years. I don't have to waste my youth and waste my years. I have thought that I will be honest with my mother after going back. I have decided to go into business and become a millionaire of the Ming Dynasty in the future. Isn't it good?"

Li Da Niu became excited and said, "That's good. Da Niu runs errands with you."

Song Nan laughed. The two left Gongyuan Square shoulder to shoulder, returned to the inn to pack up, and rushed back to Weizhou with Uncle Zhong.

A few days later, Song Nan and others returned to Weizhou. Xiaoping, the maidservant of the Song family, who learned the news, had already rushed to the gate with Li Daniu's sister Erya to meet her. Song Nan thought well all the way, but he was worried when he was close to the door, and he was afraid of seeing his mother's disappointed eyes.

The greater the disappointment, the more the Song family was silent. Although they tried their best to hide it, the deep disappointment in their eyes still hurt Song Nan's heart. Song's mother was as calm as ever. She cooked good dishes and made good meals for her son who had been away from home to have a good meal, but did not say anything about Song Nan's failure.

After dark, Song Nan made up her mind to go to her room to talk to her. When she opened the curtain and stepped into Song's mother's room in the west wing, Song's mother was dazed under the oil lamp. Song Nan felt a pain in her heart. Although she was actually another person, she naturally agreed with the identity of mother and son in her heart, which made Song's mother lose Hope to be sad is the last thing I want to do.

"Mother." Song Nan shouted in a low voice and stood under the lamp.

Song's mother was shocked and came to her senses. She saw Song Nan's face suddenly full of smiles and whispered, "Nan'er, you're here."

Song Nan said, "The child is unfilial and came to admit his mistake to his mother. The child disappointed his mother."

Song's mother took Song Nan's hand and said, "Don't be silly. Isn't it so easy to take the imperial examination? Hundreds of thousands of students in each subject in the Ming Dynasty took the exam, and there were no more than a thousand people in the middle school, and there were only hundreds of them. It was a difficult road. In the first few years, you were not in good health and didn't read good books. It's not your fault. It's your mother's fault that you gave you a weak body. Besides, I didn't do well in the exam this year. I will study hard and take the exam again in three years. You are only 16 years old, and there are many years.

Song Nan was speechless. After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said, "Mom, I'm not going to warm up the book for reference."

Song's mother was stunned and said, "What's wrong with my son? Reading is the right path. I hope you can glorify your ancestors. Have you sworn before? Besides, when your father was alive, he told me that I wanted to study for you. How could my mother disappoint your father?

Song Nan scratched his head and said, "Have I ever sworn before? I don't remember; it's just that I don't think I'm the material for reading, so it's better not to waste time as soon as possible; I've already thought about doing business, and it's good for us to make money to become a rich family, isn't it?"

Song's mother looked at Song Nan and said, "Son, you are really disappointed. It's not easy to read the identity of a scholar. At least you are also a head-faced scholar. How can you be willing to fall into business? Although a businessman can be rich, on the one Hand, where did you come from the business experience and the other is that you are a scholar to do business? Isn't it a joke? My mother will never allow you to do this.

Song Nan has yet to talk about it. Song's mother has turned her back to wipe her tears. Song Nan was at a loss and didn't know how to persuade her, but she heard Song's mother sob: "Son, I know that you must be extremely frustrated this time, but you can't lose confidence. With my son's intelligence, you will definitely be able to go to high school, but the time has not yet come. Listen to you, good Good Wenshu, I will take the exam again in three years.

Song Nan sighed and said, "What if I don't win after three years?"

Song's mother frowned and said, "How come? If that's the case, I will continue to study for three years and take the exam until the exam. I don't want to listen to business or anything like that anymore.

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Song Nan had no choice but to return to the east wing. He still couldn't sleep until midnight. He only looked at the dark roof with his eyes open. He heard the cold wind passing through the treetops outside the window whine, and Song Nan's heart was also cold.