Chapter 907 Preparing for the College Examination

The Shui family is planning to disrupt the Northern Border, but Qiao Ran and Mo Beihan, who are far away in the capital, know nothing about it.

After finishing the summer harvest and planting and the Medical Saint Conference, Qiao Ran was planning to take a good rest.

However, for the sake of her fourth uncle's scientific examination, she still planned to help him make some preparations first.

It was already the end of June (the ancients used the lunar calendar, which is August according to the current solar calendar), and there were less than two months left until the Autumn Examination.

Last year, due to droughts and floods in many places, refugees had to flee famine, and many students left their hometowns and were unable to take the imperial examinations.

Therefore, the emperor decided to hold an additional special examination this year so that students who missed the exam last year can postpone the exam.

When Qiao Sihai was in his hometown of Qingzhou Prefecture, he had already passed the county and prefectural examinations for the Tongshi exam. He did not have the chance to take the academy examination before he embarked on the journey of fleeing famine.

At the end of this month, he will take part in the final stage of the Tongshi: the Academy Examination.

As long as he passed the academy examination, he would be promoted from a student to a scholar and be able to participate in this year's special provincial examination.

Although time was tight, he should have taken the college entrance examination in the first half of last year. He had already memorized the contents of the examination by heart and was not worried about failing.

Therefore, for the past six months, he has been reading the Four Books and Five Classics that Ranran gave him, in preparation for the provincial examination.

Right now, he is preparing for the college entrance examination with full confidence.

Since Fourth Uncle is going to take such an important exam, Qiao Ran will naturally help him if she can.

Grandma and mother prepared all the other things, so Qiao Ran made some nutritious and filling Poria cocos and Chinese yam compressed pills for Fourth Uncle, as well as cooling and tranquilizing pills that could prevent heatstroke, dehydration and clear the mind.

In addition, she also found a few large water bags, filled six of them with spiritual spring water, and threw a detoxification pill into the water.

In this way, even if the conditions in the examination room were difficult or someone poisoned him, Fourth Uncle could come out of the examination room safely.

After doing all this, Qiao Ran can finally have some free time.

Her family also felt sorry for her and didn't let her do anything. They even wanted to deliver three meals a day to her bedside.

She slept until she woke up naturally every day. After getting up, she ate the delicious food prepared by her mother and third aunt, and then strolled around in the valley.

The mulberry trees beside the pond are growing very fast. The bare poles that were planted a few months ago have grown into rows of small trees.

Watered with the magical spring water, the mulberry leaves grew very large and green, and the ground beneath the leaves was full of fruits.

With the blessing of the spiritual spring water, the fruits in the Devil Valley grow wildly one after another. The same goes for mulberries, which bear fruit for almost half a year except in winter.

Qiao Ran has developed many ways to eat mulberries, including mulberry jam, dried mulberries, mulberry powder, mulberry juice, fruit wine, etc., and of course fresh mulberries.

Mulberries, which were rarely available to people in Beijing in the past, can now be bought in Shenxian Valley Supermarket.

There are also blue water fish. The first batch raised in the pond has basically been fished out. Now we are raising them while releasing them at the same time, and putting a batch of fry in after catching a batch of big ones.

Although the spiritual spring water grows fast, it is still in short supply.

Qiao Ran has already prepared to have people dig a few more fish ponds, one specifically for raising fish seedlings, so that they don't have to go to the narrow passage all the time.

In addition to raising fish, the Qiao family also raised a lot of chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and rabbits.

Ducks and geese are raised by the pond, and chickens are raised in a fenced-off area on the hillside.

The rabbits were raised in tents used during the famine, with rows of bamboo racks set up inside. It was similar to raising them in cages, but they had more space to move around.

There are several kinds of sheep: dairy goats are responsible for producing milk, sheep are responsible for producing wool, and goats are responsible for producing meat.