While they were talking, the old master and Zhixin, along with the others, also came in. Mrs. Chen hurried to call Wenhan to her side upon seeing her eldest grandson, "Come, my eldest grandson, to grandmother's side. Let me see, have you lost weight?"
Wenhan sat down next to his grandmother with a smile, "Gran, I haven't lost weight; look, I'm just fine. Everything outside is going well, Guoqiang is clever, and he's arranged our diet and daily life splendidly. This time, Zixuan, Pengcheng, and I all passed the exam for scholar. Zixuan was the most impressive, ranking third; I was fourteenth, and Pengcheng twenty-first. All of us have been named government-supported students and will head to the County School to study next. We receive a monthly stipend of grain, so we barely need to spend any family money."
