poor family prodigal

If there is no backstage, reaching the third rank in ten years is definitely extraordinary!

"Forget it!"

Hu Mengying pursed her lips and chuckled: "The late emperor wanted to reform the civil service, and Mr. Haitian went ahead with it. Everywhere he went, he killed powerful officials, county magistrates, and aristocratic families, making everyone in the court enemies. He was impeached all day long. It was also the late emperor who Only by taking shelter can we escape unscathed!"

Wang Yuan clicked his tongue: "This is indeed amazing!"

In the most dangerous place in the court, being killed from the bottom to the top and still escaping unscathed is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.

Hu Mengying added: "After resigning, Mr. Haitian began to give lectures. Each time, at least three of his disciples would be in high school. When scholars come to Jiushan County, they all want to visit Mr. Haitian and ask for his imperial examination secrets."

Wang Yuan couldn't help but said: "You seem to know Mr. Haitian very well!"

Hu Mengying's pretty face turned sad: "He was my father's role model. My father often told me his stories when I was a child. My father's biggest wish during his lifetime was to visit Mr. Hai Tian, ​​but he never had the chance until his death."

Wang Yuan was surprised when he heard this: "Is it so difficult to meet Mr. Haitian?"

"It's hard to say, but it's easy to say!"

Hu Mengying said lonelyly: "If you want to see Mr. Haitian, you don't have to be a high-ranking official. You can also be a peddler. He will meet with you once a month. He will ask three questions each time. If you answer correctly, you can go to see him. No matter how high the official is, you can't." ! But his questions were too difficult, and many candidates and scholars couldn’t answer them correctly! My father came to answer the questions three times, but he never got it right once, which became a lifelong regret for him!"

Looking at the sad girl, Wang Yuan blinked: "Then do you want to take care of your father's unfulfilled regret?"

"Can I see Mr. Haitian?"

Hu Mengying was overjoyed and a little ashamed and said: "But I am just a little girl. Mr. Haitian invited you, the young master!"

"What's wrong with women? Women can do the same things that men can do!"

Wang Yuan raised his head and raised his eyebrows: "A great man once said that women can hold up half the sky. You have managed the Hu family for many years, but you are no better than men. Also, Mr. Haitian didn't say that women are not allowed to answer questions."

"Women hold up half the sky!"

Hu Mengying's beautiful eyes were bright and she looked at Wang Yuan blankly: "Sir, you are different from ordinary people. You don't discriminate against us women at all!"

Wang Yuan frowned: "Why do you discriminate against women?"

There is nothing worth despising about women in this era. They have three obediences and four virtues, know how to be grateful, know how to be content, and can't be nicer to men.

This reaction made Hu Mengying feel warm in her heart. She lowered her head and whispered softly: "I manage the Hu family. Many uncles of the Hu family say that hens waiting for the morning and reversing yin and yang will definitely bring disaster to the family!"

Wang Yuan sneered: "That's because they used psychological tricks to put pressure on you so that they can take away the Hu family's property from your hands. If you have psychological pressure, you will be fooled!"

Hu Mengying stretched her beautiful eyebrows, as if she had put down something on her mind: "Thank you, Master, for enlightening me!"

The next day, the three of them came to Wang's Mansion!

Dahu was dressed in a servant's uniform, and Wang Yuan was in a scholar's uniform. Hu Mengying did not dare to wear women's clothes, and dressed up as a handsome young boy, following closely behind.

……

Wang's Mansion is very large, with three entrances and three exits, as well as water pavilions, streams and rockeries.

However, the floor tiles in the garden are dilapidated and the green plants are in disrepair, showing a sense of decay that kills all things in autumn.

There are not many servants and maids in the manor, they are all dressed in coarse cloth and linen.

There is a pavilion in the middle house, with mats on the ground and a low table.

A middle-aged man with a handsome appearance and gray temples sat on the floor, yawning and stretching!

A prim, upright, old-fashioned young man knelt down on the mat and served tea!

The old-fashioned young man pouted and said, "Teacher, I have been here in Jiushan County for two years. This is the first time I have been recruited by you. What orders do you have?"

Wang Haitian rolled his eyes: "Xiao Yan, you are also the magistrate of the prefecture after all, and the second-in-command under the prefect, why are you acting like a resentful little daughter-in-law!"

Yan Fuzhu hummed softly: "Because you have made me angry, teacher. I am your student. I have been working in Jiushan County for three years, but you have not seen me. Teacher. I know that you are trying to avoid suspicion, but this is too much." Well, outsiders who don’t know better think that you are old and have kicked me out of the school... Oops."

With a slap on the back of Yan Shu's head, Mr. Haitian cursed: "It's enough to mutter a few words, but it's not over yet. I asked you to come here this time to take care of someone. He will do business in Jiushan County in the future."

"Taking care of a businessman?"

Yan Fushi widened his eyes: "Teacher, did I hear you right? You didn't let me take care of the Wang family, but now you ask me to take care of a businessman. Also, don't you usually look down on businessmen the most, saying that businessmen are profit-seeking and unethical? Without righteousness, if business prevails in the world, rituals and music will be destroyed, morality will no longer exist, and the world will fall into a state of collapse!"

"He does business, but he is not a businessman. Even if he is really a businessman, he is different from ordinary businessmen. This is a letter from Zhao Weimin, a friend in Kyoto!"

Mr. Haitian handed over three letters: "Do you think he looks like a businessman again?"

"...a boy, living behind the scenes, commanding a group of villagers...reported on the village chief, recruited thieves, ambushed fishing tyrants, subdued mobs, captured patrols, and captured heads...using tricks to ambush and kill bandits, bring down powerful men, and not yet Stepping into the yamen... one plan demolished the wall to open a night market, the other plan to spread the land between farmers and farmers, and the officials and gentry all paid for the food, which made the government and the public excited, and the two factions on the right and left continued to argue... and even stabbed the emperor in front of him, giving his majesty a headache. Endless."

After reading all three letters, Yan Xiu was dumbfounded and said after a while: "Teacher, this kid is really good at doing things. He can do things better than you did back then... Oops!"

Covering it with another slap, Wang Haitian puffed his beard and glared: "What do you mean by tossing? We are doing practical things, just like you who follow the rules and protect yourself wisely. Is the world peaceful? Every one of them eats nothing with his corpse, and gets his salary from the court for free, and has turned the world into this Look like this! Now there is clearly a plan to rejuvenate the peasants and the government and the gentry together, but the left and right prime ministers are still talking nonsense. Your Majesty is still seeking stability and balance. You don’t know that if you seize this last opportunity, you will regret it in the future. It’s too late!”

"Teacher, be careful what you say!"

Yan Fuzhu's expression changed drastically. He glanced left and right and found that no one was there. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and changed the topic: "How does the teacher want me to take care of him?"

Wang Haitian waved his hand indifferently: "You don't need to take care of anything. Just don't let others make things difficult for him in Wang Fa Nei. As long as Wang Fa Nei, judging from his skills in Fu County, he can get along with each other and settle down the country." Ce, none of the little fishes and shrimps in the county can beat him!"

Yan Fushi smiled bitterly, only a teacher like this could regard the county magistrate as a small fish and a shrimp, he couldn't help but said: "What about others, when will the teacher introduce them to me!"

Wang Haitian yawned: "I sent the invitation yesterday, so it should be waiting outside the house now!"

Yan Fuzhu frowned and said: "Teacher, you are confusing the students. Since you asked me to take care of him, it means that you value him, but you also asked him to wait outside the door. I remember the person you like, you I always greet you barefoot and never put on airs!"

Wang Haitian snorted: "I like him as a teacher, but I have to settle some accounts with him!"

Yan Xiu was surprised: "What account!"

Wang Haitian had an indignant look on his face: "Zhao Weimin, that elm-headed guy, I call him "sir", but he actually calls that guy sir. I'm sorry that I'm a generation shorter than that guy, so he also has to pass the test. If he can't answer the question, I will ask him to call me husband, and then next time Zhao Weimin comes, I will be two generations older than him... Hehe!"

"..."

Yan Xiu was speechless for a while. Even though he was very knowledgeable, he was often childish. He couldn't help but said: "Teacher, you and Mr. Weimin are brothers. If you are two generations higher than him, wouldn't you also be two generations higher than me? You should also be called My own...oh!"

Snapped!

With a slap on the back of Yan Shu's head, Wang Haitian looked sullen: "If you can't speak, just speak less. That bastard from Chonglou went to check the columns again. You go and be an examiner for me. All the test questions have been prepared. No matter what If the boy can't answer the question, let him in. If the kid can't answer, don't let him in!"

Yan Fuzhu said with a sad face: "Teacher, aren't you asking me to cheat?"

Wang Haitian raised his hand and patted the back of his head.

Yan Fu, the second in command of Jiushan County, turned around and ran away like a rabbit.

……

In front of the gate of Wang's Mansion, there are already overcrowded people. There are many scholars, hawkers, and some gangsters with fierce faces. In short, it seems that there are people from all religions and nine schools, and they are of all ages!

"I wonder what questions Mr. Haitian will ask this time?"

"Remember the three questions asked by Mr. Haitian last month: Who are you? Where do you come from? Where are you going? Not a single answer was correct!"

"There is also the question from two months ago. Is human nature inherently good or inherently evil? I heard that the butcher Zhang who butchered the pigs answered correctly and was invited in by Mr. Haitian for a long time. He said that Mr. Haitian invited him to drink, and before he left, he returned Give him ten taels of silver and say you learned something from him!"

"Three years ago, Yexiang Liu, who poured Yexiang, also answered a question correctly. Mr. Haitian also treated him to a meal and gave him ten taels of silver. The grandson immediately boasted to everyone he met, saying that he was eating with the number one scholar. After dinner and drinks, we just fucked for three years!"

"Well done, Mr. Haitian, you never look down on us low-status people!"

"I don't know, Mr. Haitian, what questions will be asked today, and whether we can get it right. I really hope we can get one question right, and meet the only number one scholar in Jiushan County, who doesn't need only ten taels of silver!"

The traffickers and lackeys in the crowd were talking a lot!

All the scholars frowned and looked at these ordinary people with disgust!

They couldn't figure out what truth these ordinary people could say that could reach Mr. Haitian's ears.

"This Mr. Haitian is really interesting!"

Looking at the mixed scene of fish and dragons, Wang Yuan's eyes lit up and he looked thoughtful!

Hu Mengying smiled and said: "Mr. Haitian and the young master are both unique people!"

Wang Yuan joked: "You lift me up so high, what if I fall down and break my leg? Will you be responsible for the rest of your life?"

"Sir, you..."

She had never heard such words before. Hu Mengying's pretty face was hot, she lowered her head and was speechless.

Wang Yuan said in surprise: "Why is your face so red!"

"me……"

Hu Mengying was speechless: Young Master is teasing her!

Suddenly a voice of gnashing teeth sounded: "Miss Hu is blushing because she was scorned by a shameless married man!"

"Who are you saying is shameless? We are just kidding, and you have nothing to do with it... ugh!"

Wang Yuan turned around and was stunned.

Second brother-in-law Li Sansi looked at him with a livid face, his eyes filled with anger as if he had successfully caught the traitor!