"When Father was still around, there were students heading to the capital for the examination every year," Lu Tong said with lowered eyes. "I grew up in Changwu County until I was nine, and during that time, the number of successful candidates in the autumn examinations was exceedingly rare."
It was precisely because of this that she knew how extraordinary it was for someone with mediocre scholarly abilities like Fan Zhenglian to pass the examinations with flying colors.
Yin Zheng pondered for a moment, "If Qi Chuan first took the exam in place of Lord Fan and then passed himself, only to be assigned shortly afterward to Yuan'an County as the magistrate, could it be that this position was also deliberately arranged by the Fan Family?"
The role of magistrate is one level below that of Magistrate, yet it can lend substantial support to the Magistrate.
