The next step is to choose a son-in-law at the top of the list, which will test people's vision.

Many high-ranking officials are very smart and discerning. When they see a young scholar, they think it is good and they marry their daughter to him in advance, which is regarded as a sign of appreciation. However, there are also many big bosses who messed up. Their son-in-law never passed the Jinshi exam and ended up losing his money.

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There's nothing you can do about it. It's like playing with futures in the stock market. It means you are willing to gamble and admit defeat.

Then there is the third level, the agreement is made before the appointment, and the marriage is done after the appointment.

But the risk is that the two parties made the agreement verbally and did not exchange details. The woman may choose someone else when she sees that the man has not been ranked in a few years.

Many folk tales from the Song Dynasty were adapted from these stories.

However, it was very common at that time for the marriage to be agreed before the wedding and the marriage after the wedding was somewhere in between.

For example, as mentioned before, after Liu Tingshi won the Jinshi, he learned that the woman was blind, but he still completed the engagement.

The same was true for Zhang Yue's chief chaplain, Liu Ji. After he passed the first prize, he petitioned the emperor to marry the woman he had planned to marry from his hometown.
Chapter completed!