Chapter 9: The Man Who Boiled Stones
Walking southwest from Pinecone Village for seventeen miles, one would arrive at Pingshui Town.
Although it was just a town, it was very famous within a radius of a hundred miles.
Because over ten years ago, a scholar emerged from here named Lin Xianzong.
He was originally a provincial graduate from the previous dynasty, but in the first special imperial examination of the Kingdom of Jing, he won third place overall.
All the way from a seventh-rank Compiler in the Hanlin Academy, to a sixth-rank Senior Compiler, and then to a fifth-rank Reader-in-Waiting.
In just over a dozen years, he had already become the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works, a proper third-rank official.
Lin Xianzong's wife and children had naturally been taken to the capital to enjoy a life of ease.
But his old father and mother were unwilling to go.
There were too many officials in the capital, and they were too high-ranking.