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Chapter 393

Jia Mansion, Li Wan Courtyard.

"Did the uncle drink the medicine?"

Liu Yun frowned tightly: "I persuaded him for a long time before the uncle drank the medicine, but he still ate lazily and didn't read books anymore. When I talked to him, he would say yes or no, or even ignore him altogether. I just lay on the bed in a daze, not knowing what I was thinking. Grandma, would you like to go and see? This is the second time that the uncle has failed, I... I'm afraid he won't think about it. "

Li Wan's eyes darkened slightly, and he said with a sarcastic smile, "Can't you think about it? 'Thirty Lao Ming Jing, Fifty Young Scholars', people who take the imperial examination have failed twice and can't think about it? Then just burn all the books, don't It’s good to mention the word imperial examination. I won’t go, you go, I still have to sort out these accounts of my wife.”

Now that there are fewer people in Jia's mansion and the bills are cleared, Mrs. Wang is not happy at all when she leads the housekeeper.Really, there are rules for everything. In the past, you could steal valuable antiques, or put one or two of your own people in lucrative positions such as compradors, and so on. There are many ways to make money, but now...

Mrs. Wang is illiterate, so she can't get any benefits from management, and she has to manage accounts, which is exactly one head and two big.Therefore, on weekdays, Mrs. Wang would hand over such things as accounting books to Li Wan.Li Wan is a master who has never taken care of the family seriously. Seeing her mother-in-law entrusting such an important task to herself, she dare not be careless, so she is always careful and careful, for fear that there will be a slight mistake that Madam Wang will choose. Reprove her for mistakes.

In fact, Li Wan was worrying too much. Anyway, Mrs. Wang would not read the account books she sorted out every time.

However, Li Wan didn't have much talent for managing accounts. He had to take care of Jia Lan and his concubine Jia Tong every day, and he also had to worry about Suyun who was pregnant with Liujia. For a while, he really couldn't care about Jia Zhu.

Since Jia Zhu failed the rankings, she has fallen into endless self-doubt, and her self-confidence and self-esteem have suffered a double blow.Twice, failed twice in a row, if I knew it, I really don't want to take the exam, it's not embarrassing enough.

Here Jia Lian waited to visit him, and Jia Zhu also lay straight on the bed without blinking.

Jia Lian sighed: "Brother, why bother? Even so, there are still many opportunities in the future, so why bother to be Sima Niu's sigh? There will be another time."

Li Shaoyou also persuaded: "That's right, brother Yihui doesn't need to be like this, it's all right to accumulate experience. Besides, next year is the [-]th birthday of the emperor. In April this year, the court has already announced that Enke will be opened next year. In my opinion, Brother Yihui Rather than being sad here, it’s better to cheer up and study hard. The few of us will take the exam next year, and when the time comes, we brothers will join the battle and go to high school together, wouldn’t it be great?”

Feng Ziying nodded and said: "That's right, next year I will take the martial arts exam with Shaoyou and Erlang, and you, Lian'er and Honger will take the Wenju exam together. What's the matter with lying down? Don't go to sleep, how can a man be defeated by such a trivial matter?"

Jia Zhu really couldn't figure it out, but she couldn't hold back the persuasion of so many people taking turns to fight. In the end, even though she was still sad, she couldn't save face, so she had to do it, and had a meal with everyone, and the next few days These people also came to accompany him in turn, and finally saw him regain his strength and continue to appear in the class of Li Zhixing, the teacher of Jia's mansion.

Li Zhixing didn't comment on Jia Zhu's failure, and didn't even mention it. From his point of view, it's as common as a person who is unable to hold his head when eating. , and in the eyes of the sensitive Jia Zhu, that is—Mr. Li has been very disappointed in me.

Therefore, Jia Zhu, who seemed to have recovered to normal, felt envious in his heart when he watched Li Zhixing devote himself to teaching others, but no one noticed it.

On this day, Mrs. Wang was opening the cage to find out the old clothes she had worn in the past and give them to the girls. She heard Zhou Rui's family hurried in and whispered a few times in her ear. Mrs. Wang said: "The clothes in this box Clean up your clothes and see who fits them and take them back to wear. No one has two, so don’t take too much, it’s reasonable for everyone to share equally.”

Everyone responded with a smile, and Madam Wang entered the room with Zhou Rui's family and asked, "What do you mean by what you just said? Who has your son-in-law offended?"

"Ms. Hui, she is not a big person, but a businessman. Because my son-in-law and the businessman took a fancy to a set of ancient coins at the same time. My son-in-law first made an agreement with the seller to buy it for 1000 taels of silver, and the seller also agreed. Who knows When my son-in-law went back to get the money, the seller promised another 3000 taels of silver to this foreign businessman. Naturally, my son-in-law refused to agree, so he quarreled with the seller, arguing that the other buyer had also arrived , and argued with my son-in-law, my son-in-law suffered a loss, and was reprimanded by two people with guns and sticks. When he was annoyed for a while, he beat him. The seller and the businessman refused to let go, and sued my son-in-law. My son-in-law has been captured by the government. I have no choice but to beg my wife. I also hope that my wife can say something nice to the master and see if I can find someone I know and get our son-in-law out of prison. Let it out. At most, it’s enough to pay a few taels of silver. Now that he’s in prison, the antique shop will be gone, but who will my girl, a woman, rely on in the future?”

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she finally understood and sneered: "I used to think that your son-in-law was a good person, but now it seems that he is very incompetent. In the past, I always used the good things in this house to open his eyes. Seeing that he can give reasonable prices, I thought he was very good at making antiques. Who knew that I couldn't give you anything here? He goes out to receive goods based on his own ability, and he always encounters such things. , It’s really ridiculous. If you only have such a little ability, I think you should close the antique shop sooner or later, and you will cause less trouble, and you, the mother-in-law, can also worry less. "

Zhou Rui's family hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, what my wife said is true. As long as he is released from prison this time, I will definitely talk about him well, and change careers earlier when I am young, so as not to always cause trouble outside. But right now, we still have to rely on my wife, and I hope my wife will watch me and save him."

(End of this chapter)