Yun Jiao thought for a moment and nodded, "You’re right, Cai Ping, you should go. Quietly tell her about it, and also tell San Ya’s mother."

Cai Ping left with a cheerful smile.

San Ya received the news and was overjoyed. With a flushed face, she said to Cai Ping, "Got it, please thank Sister Jiao Jiao for me when you return."

Li Changchun didn’t even have a servant or an attendant student. He squeezed in front of the imperial notice board to check the list, then hurriedly stopped a carriage to go back to his rented place.

He prepared red envelopes at home, and not long after, the clerks who reported the results arrived.

He gave the landlady some silver coins, asking her to arrange a banquet for the clerks to enjoy.

The neighbors, although they did not know Li Changqing, all brought chickens and ducks from home to help out.

Passing the imperial examination and becoming an official soon after if luck is favorable is a deeply ingrained instinct among the people of Great Chu to curry favor with officials.

The next day, Li Changqing requested the landlady to find an official matchmaker for him.

Being unfamiliar with Xiang City, he didn’t know where to find one.

The landlady found an official matchmaker by the afternoon.

The official matchmaker took the silver and, after hearing Li Changqing’s words, went to the Jiang Family at Huai Tree Lane the next day.

As the matchmaker entered, Mrs. Chen was elated; Li Changqing had passed the examination, and her San Ya was about to become a government official’s wife.

Thinking about the past years, when they were in the countryside, she never dreamed of today’s situation.

She exchanged a few words with the matchmaker and agreed without much hesitation.

Next came the betrothal and name inquiry ritual.

While Li Changqing waited for his appointment from the Ministry of Personnel, the engagement process was steadily progressing over the month or two, and the betrothal gifts had already been delivered.

Later, the Ministry of Personnel issued Li Changqing’s appointment, keeping him in the capital as a Ministry of Justice Assessor.

During this time, Li Changqing often gathered with fellow successful candidates, so he knew that among this group of newly successful candidates, only a few were staying in the capital, besides the top two candidates, he was one of them.

Most others were still waiting for positions, while some were sent to remote areas to be small county magistrates.

Upon receiving the appointment notice, his fellow candidates expressed immense envy, everyone stating his fortune was good.

Only he knew that it was Lord Chief Minister who was reluctant to let his sister endure hardship in a remote area, specially arranging for him to stay in the capital.

Otherwise, without any connections in the capital and not having a high rank, he would undoubtedly still be waiting for a position.

Li Changqing received the notice and immediately wrote home, asking a nephew of a younger generation to escort his mother and sister to the capital.

Jiang Youzhi had already stated that he would handle San Ya’s dowry.

Considering that Li Changqing’s family was poor and had no house in Xiang City, Jiang Youzhi arranged a two-courtyard house for them and allocated five hundred acres of land to San Ya as her dowry.

Now, with the north losing large tracts of land, land prices have risen and are not so easy to acquire.

Mrs. Chen still had some silver, so she hastened to procure various items for San Ya.

A few days before the wedding, Yun Jiao asked Cai Ping to deliver two jewelry boxes, each containing a set of red gold headpieces, as part of her dowry for San Ya.

San Ya was also generous; upon hearing that her mother-in-law and sister were coming to the capital with nowhere to stay, she let them move into her dowry house.

On the wedding day, Yun Jiao came over early to personally do San Ya’s makeup.

After the makeup, it was even more beautiful than the other day.

San Ya held her face and softly asked, "Sister Jiao Jiao, at night, if I wash my face before going to bed, will he... will he think I look ugly?"