Chapter 611: You Have Me From Now On

Moreover, she was focused on another matter, "How old were you when you became a Scholar?"

Song Chongjin replied awkwardly, "Eighteen years old!"

"Eighteen years old?" Wang Yongzhu widened her eyes as she looked at Song Chongjin. Although he was a year older than Wang Yongan when he passed the scholarly exam, before he was ten years old, Song Chongjin had no one to teach him and he struggled even to get enough to eat.

By this calculation, Song Chongjin's natural gift for learning might be even higher than Wang Yongan's.

"Then why didn't you continue your studies afterwards? Why did you go back to the countryside to hunt?" Wang Yongzhu was curious. Normally, shouldn't one continue to study and then take the imperial examinations, and after passing, participate in the higher-level exams?