Chapter 654: The Omen of Entering Dreams (3)_1
However, the initially agreed-upon time for starting construction was a few days later, but a virtual dream had advanced the date, aside from that, there were no other problems.
In the future, there would be no need to rent the warehouse in the city; grain would be sourced directly from home. Even if people inquired about the source of the grain, Mo Yan wouldn’t have to worry about exposure and the trouble that could bring.
With a long-standing concern now satisfactorily resolved, Mo Yan felt much relieved and wholeheartedly threw herself into the construction of the winery. On the afternoon of September 21st, she drove the horse-drawn carriage alone into the city, arriving at the gate of the Examination Institute to pick up her father, who had completed the last test question.
By that time, the entrance to the Examination Institute was filled with various kinds of horse-drawn carriages, and the gate was crowded with, judging from their age and attire, servants from wealthy families, elderly people, some with faces glowing with vitality and dressed in extravagant clothes, and some with faces marked by the vicissitudes of life and clothes patched over patches. Standing at the edge were young daughters-in-law, all craning their necks, looking inside as if that would make their masters (sons or husbands) come out sooner.
As a young lady, Mo Yan naturally didn’t want to push through the crowd, so she parked the carriage on an empty space not too far away and sat in the driver’s seat, waiting. About half an hour later, the Examination Institute finally rang out with a long series of clangs, announcing the end of the triennial autumn examinations!
Not long after, Scholars who had endured seven long days finally came out of the Examination Institute’s gate in an unending stream. There were boys around 16 or 17, not yet free of their youthful air, and old men with white hair and stooping frames. Most were middle-aged men, the age of sons, husbands, and fathers, but what they had in common was that each one came out pale-faced, with unsteady steps, seemingly about to collapse at any second.