Making money, taking exams, and raising a family in rural imperial examinations

Lin Ze only found out that Lin Sangui ran away from home the next morning.

He didn't know the specific situation at the beginning, anyway, Lin Xiaolian who hurried to the town said so.

"Brother, Dad ran away from home!"

Lin Ze, who was practicing calligraphy, was so startled that the tip of his pen was crooked on the spot.

The private school does not need him to teach in the morning, and he spends most of the morning reading and practicing questions and calligraphy. Good calligraphy is very beneficial in the exam. The examiner reads so many papers, the first thing is to see if your handwriting is not good-looking and you are still in the mood Read on?This is the same in modern and ancient times.

Zhang Yu was also startled by Lin Xiaolian's shout, father-in-law ran away from home?This news is not small.

Father Lin's age is not too old. People in ancient times got married early. Although Father Lin has so many children, he is actually only in his 40s.But this age is not considered young, after all, he is still a middle-aged uncle, and it is scary enough to leave the village suddenly without making a sound.

"Sangui ran away from home? No way, that kid is too old to do such absurd things..."

Grandma Zhang also ran out when she heard the movement, she couldn't believe that Lin Sangui could do such a thing, it was so amazing.

"Really, my father still left a letter!"

Lin Xiaolian anxiously took out the things.

In fact, the so-called letter is a xxoo plus a few villain pictures, because Lin Sangui can't write and is not familiar with the other party, ordinary people will definitely not be able to read it.

Even familiar people... can only understand half of it.

Anyway, Lin Ze didn't fully understand it, but the content of this letter was not what Lin Xiaolian said about running away from home, because at the end of the letter, Father Lin drew two arrows circled by villains.

"Father probably meant that he went out to find someone..."

Talented student Lin Ze made a final summary.

"Father went out to find someone, and he didn't know anyone outside, so even if he went, why did he sneak around?"

"It should be a woman. This villain drew a woman's hair in a bun."

Lin Xiaolian was surprised, "What, Dad still has women outside?!"

This can be regarded as an anecdote in the world. It is impossible that her father's honest and incomprehensible appearance can hide women outside.

Besides, even if there were, why didn't you ask a matchmaker to hire him back? Although there are few men in the village who have three wives and four concubines, it's not that there are none. What's more, her mother has been divorced now, and there is no one to stop her father from marrying again.

Lin Ze was also very puzzled.

As far as he knew, Father Lin should not be this kind of person in terms of feelings, but the letter only had xxoo's drawing on it, so the exact meaning could only be guessed and confused.

"Did anything special happen at home while I was away?"

So Lin Xiaolian remembered,

"Yes, uncle came here, I didn't hear what he said specifically, but it seems that uncle had a fight with dad again, and dad even kicked uncle out, dad is so majestic this time!"

Lin Dakun went to the village again, there was a problem, that guy went to the Three Treasure Hall for nothing, and he didn't care to go back to Heba Village if he had nothing to do.

"I see, a man as big as Dad and a man, nothing will happen for the time being, I think it says that he should go to Qingshan County, I will drag a few people to look for it, little girl, you go back first, it's okay Come to the private school to learn a few words, so that you can find a marriage in the future."

Lin Ze thought about it, nodded and comforted him.

When Lin Xiaolian heard this, she knew that her elder brother was considering her own marriage. She was a little shy and happy. Her brother's current status and connections, just finding someone's house was far better than what the village matchmaker said. Sure enough, her father and elder brother cared about her. Where did she come from? Like the second brother and mother.

Thinking of this, she remembered the things in the village, and hurriedly said,

"Thank you, brother. By the way, brother, you and your sister-in-law don't go back to the village to live if you are fine."

"why?"

"It's not that some people regret it. They run around your old house all day long. Brother, you also know that the houses in our village are just like that. It's not difficult for anyone to break in. If there is something unclear, it will be a big loss. There's always someone who can do anything..."

Lin Xiaolian pouted.

It is self-evident who the regretful "some people" refer to. Who else can there be except the Zhang family? After Lin Jianwen brought the sturdy sister of the creditor back to the village in order to repay the debt, Zhang Yinzhu and the Zhang family met a fierce god. up.

The creditor's younger sister is not good-looking and has a tough personality, but she can't stand her mother's wealth. Now that Lin Jianwen has been kicked out of the house, there is no one to support her. Apart from writing a few calligraphy and paintings, she has no ability to make a lot of money. If she can't bear hardships, she can only Rely on that sturdy woman.

The houses I live in and the fields I plant are all owned by other people, and the woman is so tough that she wants to do something to the man. It is a common thing in the past to beat her husband with black nose and swollen face. Lin Jianwen is now being beaten. It's miserable and aggrieved, even a mud bodhisattva can't cross the river, how can he have the ability to protect the silver beads.

So Zhang Yinzhu's days of sharing a husband with others can be imagined.

In the dead of night, I will naturally think of the good people in the past, and then compare the current life, and I will inevitably regret it and want to change my mind to change and live a better life again...

"And... recently, many people in the village are saying that my sister-in-law is a younger brother who can't conceive a child. There has been no news of marrying an older brother for so long. Even a matchmaker from the next village came to our house to ask Dad."

Speaking of this, Lin Xiaolian stared at Lin Ze nervously, afraid that he would get angry.

Her elder brother is most jealous of others talking about Zhang Yu. These rumors have actually existed for a long time, but everyone dare not go to Lin Ze to tell them, and her father knows the elder brother's temperament, so he sent away the matchmakers who came to ask questions, and did not tell the elder brother. Mention, save a bad mood.

She said it this time because she was purely worried about Zhang Yinzhu. After all, her elder brother really liked Zhang Yinzhu before. Seeing that the other party was not doing well, she would inevitably soften her heart. She didn't want Zhang Yinzhu to come back home again. That woman was lazy and restless.

Lin Xiaolian was really worried, "Brother, there is nothing good about Zhang Yinzhu, don't be fooled by her..."

"Understood, if someone comes to ask about this kind of thing again, you will help the elder brother drive away. What the elder brother said at the beginning was not a joke. What are you worrying about, the elder brother knows it well."

Lin Ze thought it was something serious, and smiled indifferently after hearing it.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, no one cares about you in the downtown area, and if you are rich, you have distant relatives in the mountains. When he was just beginning to develop, someone wanted to give him people. Now his reputation is on the rise. In the ancient times when marriage was the only way to build relationships, this situation is too serious now. Normal.

The atmosphere of the times is like this, no wonder others have ideas, just look at men who can't control themselves.

This Lin Ze still has confidence in himself. As for the problem of children, it is not a problem for him who has never thought of having children. He is naturally happy if he has children, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't have children.

Let Lin Xiaolian go back with peace of mind, dragged someone to the county town to help find Lin's father, and finally asked someone to inquire about Lin Dakun.

After making arrangements like this one by one, Lin Ze took Zhang Yu back to the room where the private school lived to comfort his wife.

He doesn't care about the messages in the village, but Zhang Yu doesn't necessarily care. Zhang Yu is an out-and-out old brother who attaches great importance to the child's affairs in his heart, and has long wanted to give him a monkey.

However, since Grandma Zhang said last time that Zhang Yu was in poor health and that it would be good to have children, he has been paying attention to the harmonious exercise every night since then, and most of the time he will not get involved in it.

So it's been half a year, and according to the diligence of their husband and wife, they still haven't had children, so it's his intention.

"Don't worry about what's said outside. We will know what's going on with the child. Don't worry, wait until you get your body back. Otherwise, I won't be at ease. I see that your complexion is not very good recently. Is it because the business in the store is too tired, is it because of Luo Geer's help, don't worry about everything..."

Don't tell me, I don't know, when he talked about the body, Lin Ze found that his daughter-in-law seemed to have lost weight recently, and her complexion was not as rosy as before, so she began to feel distressed.

Zhang Yu's face immediately turned red.

The husband still dared to mention the matter of the child, and he was ashamed and angry when he mentioned it. Grandma Zhang said that it would be better for him to have a child later, but she didn't say that it is absolutely impossible to have a child now. .

Forcing him to take herbal diet every day, let’s not talk about it, but at night when it happened, I said something to exercise... Anyway, there are so many tricks, and I have to make him cry every time to be reconciled.

He very much suspected that his complexion was not very good recently, because he was tossed by his wolf-like man.

Zhang Yu was angry, "How dare you say, what kind of body do you want to raise? It would be strange if I could raise it well after tossing like you..."

"Hey, a lot of in-depth communication will help the husband and wife live harmoniously. This proves that your husband and I have recently exercised effectively, and my body is getting better and better."

Lin Ze didn't feel guilty, but rather complacent. It is every man's pride to make his wife so weak that she can't get out of bed.

Zhang Yu really couldn't explain it to him, and was very helpless. Xianggong has no shame, and is as clingy as a little wolf dog.

"I won't tell you this anymore, anyway, you are not allowed to come again these days... Pay attention to Dad, I think it is quite serious to run out to find someone with Dad's temper."

"I know, Lin Dakun must be inseparably related to Dad's going out, and he will find out when the person who inquired comes back. If you feel uncomfortable, lie down for a while, and I will press it for you first."

Lin Ze smiled and nodded, while reaching out to rub the waist of the 'tired' daughter-in-law.

Hearing this, Zhang Yu showed a smile on his face, and lay down obediently, the topic jumped back again, shy and expecting,

"Msister, actually, I think I'm in good health now, but I'm not feeling well these few days. Can we, can we have a little monkey earlier? Now we have the conditions at home, so I'm not afraid of starving him..."

"Then let's find a doctor to have a look at it some other day and see what the doctor has to say."

Thinking about the picture of a child he created calling him father, Lin Ze suddenly felt a little hot in his heart.

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Lin Dakun went to the village that day to find out what Father Lin said, but it was not as easy to find out as what Lin Ze said.

After all, everyone saw Lin Dakun go to the village, but there were only two people talking at that time, and only they knew what they said.

After looking for someone to inquire, I only know about Lin Dakun's recent dismissal, but I don't know much about the rest.

Lin Ze was surprised by this news. How come Lin Dakun has also worked in Xianleju for so many years, let alone his character, he still has the ability to work. It is really cruel that Xianleju resigned just because of his words.

Thinking about it this way, he guessed that it was very likely that Lin Dakun was eyeing the position of the manager of his dessert shop, so he went back to the village to look for Father Lin with the cheek. After all, his dessert shop did not have a manager in the eyes of outsiders.

But the result was not so good, Dad Lin didn't agree, and the two old brothers fell apart again.

But what exactly did Lin Dakun say?Who is the person who can make Father Lin 'run away from home' and run outside to find him?still a woman...

It seems that there is only one woman who can make Lin Sangui so excited.

Lin Ze had some guesses in his heart, but he was not sure.

In the end, he could simply find a few people to chase him to the county town, and let Lin Sangui do the rest. Anyway, Father Lin is such an old man, and he knows it well, so nothing major will happen.

The students at the private school are busy with their studies, and the dessert shop has just opened and someone needs to be in charge, so he can't leave for the time being.

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the other side.

Lin Sangui, who didn't know how much shock he had caused to his family and children, was carrying a small burden, and was rushing to the county seat in the hired ox cart full of expectations.

In fact, Lin Sangui is definitely not such a reckless person at ordinary times, but as a man, it's normal for a man to get mad when he encounters a wife.

In this place where the word filial piety is too big, in the past, in order to marry Jiang Rongniang, he was able to defy his parents honestly and disobeyed his parents. Now that he hears from his wife again, he can endure the past few days and arrange the family affairs before leaving. stamina.

He felt that he was not doing something bad, so he left a 'letter' at home, and he went back after finding Rongniang, nothing serious.

But what Lin Sangui forgot to consider is that other people must be able to understand what is written in his 'letter'...

With a joyful mood, after putting on his beard and dressing up and putting on the new clothes that he was reluctant to wear on weekdays, Lin Sangui, who was already very old, looked a lot younger, and it would be an exaggeration to say that he is a middle-aged handsome uncle.

This is not surprising, he can give birth to several good-looking children, but Father Lin's appearance genes are still good.

That spring breeze looked like he was going to meet his lover, and the driver who was driving the car looked sharp.

According to what Lin Dakun said, the other party was a person whom he saw at the door of a member named 'Fan' many years ago. After all these years, he still doesn't know if he is still in that house, or if he is still alive...

The latter Lin Sangui didn't dare to think about it. He had always believed that Jiang Rongniang was still alive all these years.

After all, Jiang Rongniang is good-looking, virtuous and industrious, and is the favorite type of daughter-in-law for ordinary people. As long as she is not dragged down by her natal family, she can be treated well by anyone.

And back then I heard that the new husband's family was very good, otherwise he would not have moved out of the village. In short, in Lin Sangui's opinion, Jiang Rongniang's life should not be too bad.

But he really didn't expect that there was such a big gap between imagination and reality, that a woman as good as Rongniang could be sold, and became a slave without complaining about being beaten or scolded.

When Lin Sangui thought of the person he had been thinking about for so many years, Lin Sangui felt so uncomfortable that he would die.

It's all because he was useless at the beginning. Why did he think so hard in the village? He went out to work for a few days, but he didn't make any money. In the end, he went back and lost his wife!

Over the years, he has tried hard to get his son confessed. In fact, he also has some thoughts in his heart that after his son has a good future, he will find someone if he has connections.

I was both happy and anxious.

After arriving at the county seat, Lin Sangui didn't even drink his saliva, so he hurriedly asked someone to find out how many "Fan Mansions" there were in the county seat, planning to ask them one by one.

Simply because he was lucky, there was only one old man surnamed Fan in the county.

However, how could someone casually go in and inquire about the news in this noble mansion? Although Father Lin took care of it, the rough wind and frost left by years of farming on his face and hands couldn't be covered.

Seeing Lin Sangui's appearance, the servants of the family's mansion knew that the countryman came from nowhere, and he was not even in the mood to deal with it, and there was no way to answer questions.

Besides, what Lin Sangui asked was all about many years ago, and the servants at the door had only been working in the mansion for two years, so how could he know.

"Okay, okay, we don't have a servant called Jiang Rongniang, you hurry up, our wife is going out soon, if you disturb the lady's head, I won't spare you, hurry up..."

The servant was very impatient.

Lin Sangui didn't do it even if he didn't get the news, he refused to leave, and hurriedly stuffed a dozen more copper coins in the past.

"Little offspring, it doesn't matter if you don't know, can you let me meet your steward, the old steward must know that Jiang Rongniang is my wife, and I'm here to redeem her, please do me a favor, just go for me. "

A dozen or so copper coins are worth asking for a few words in the countryside and Nanyang Town, but not in the county town.

When the servants at the door saw the amount of copper coins, they frowned even more. They were so poor that they couldn't even pay for the news, even if they were really in their house, they couldn't afford to redeem them.

Seeing that Lin Sangui didn't plan to leave until he got a question, the boy thought about his wife who was about to leave, and worried that the master would blame him for not being able to do things if he was disturbed by others, so he could only dismiss him casually.

"Let's go, even if you ask the steward, you can't take anyone away. There are a lot of ransoms for slaves who sell their bodies. If there are no tens of taels, it will definitely not work. It will be miserable if you rashly make the steward unhappy and raise the money. You go first Collect money, come back when you have enough..."

"Does it cost dozens of taels?"

Lin Sangui was frightened. He knew that ransom would cost a lot of money, but he didn't expect so much.

Looking at his face, the servant guessed that he must have no money, so he nodded.

"Of course, the servants who have stayed in the mansion for a long time are all taken by the master. If you want to redeem someone, you must have money. In fact, if you want to find someone who is still there, go to the government to check. The slave trade is registered in the government. , We are a rich family, how can we let idlers like you go in casually, don't hold me, go to the government to investigate."

There is no point of reference in this way, slaves who sell their bodies are lowly, they have to be registered with the government, and the government will naturally record where they are bought and sold.

This is a matter of common sense, but Lin Sangui, a countryman who has never bought and sold slaves, naturally does not know the way.

"Then, then I'll go to the Yamen and ask."

After listening to the instructions, Lin Sangui immediately ran to the Yamen in a hurry.

Seeing this, the guard at the door laughed and shook his head, secretly thinking that he didn't see half of the old guy's white hair, and his feet still feel windy when he runs...

However, Father Lin, who was windy under his feet, had really bad luck today.

It was hard to find the location of the yamen by asking around, but in the past few days, because the new county magistrate took office, the yamen is sorting out all the unfinished things left by the previous county magistrate, and there are many handover places. The whole yamen is very busy. There is no time to pay attention to him.

"It's more important for you to find someone than to be on official business! If you delay in handling official business, you will be killed. If you have something to do, come back another day, go away and go away!"

The yamen who are busy and upset are almost bored to death.

On weekdays, they would be particularly annoyed by such things as looking for someone, who lost their cattle and donkeys, who lost someone, and so on.

Besides, how many files do you need to check for people who lived so many years ago?How long?

Seeing Lin Sangui's appearance as a countryman, he waved him away before he finished listening to the words. The new county magistrate took office and everyone was busy showing that he was so favored by the new adults that he was promoted and made a fortune. Who cares about such a small trick.

"Of course my wife is important!"

The impatient attitude of the yamen servant really made Lin Sangui anxious to death. For his official business and his wife, of course the wife is important, so I need to ask.

Yacha: "..." This old guy can't understand people's words.

So Lin Sangui, who was too low in EQ and refused to leave, was finally carried out of the yamen naturally.

"Hey, you guys are too bullying. It's not like I won't give you money, so just check it for me and delay it for a while..."

The goal was not achieved, and he was treated rudely. Lin Sangui, who was several decades old, couldn't help crying at the gate of the yamen.

Just think about what if Rongniang made some mistake and was punished by the master if she went late?Or maybe he has been sold long ago, so he can find him quickly. His son often reads something like "the difference is a thousand miles away", and big things can happen a quarter of an hour later!

It would be fine if this person had no hope. Seeing that hope was right in front of him but he couldn't grasp it, it was simply a blow that could break people down.

I have thought about it for so many years, and I have read it for so many years.

Lin Sangui's voice made one feel sad and miserable, so that the people passing by thought he had some serious grievances and the yamen would not deal with it, pointing fingers.

The Yacha was so angry that he had no choice but to shove him away fiercely. Why is this old guy ignorant and stubborn.

Just delay the investigation for a while, the files of people more than ten years ago can be checked in a while!

People in the Fan Mansion refused to let them in, and the yamen did not immediately investigate. Lin Sangui, who was kicked like a football, was really sad.

If he had known it earlier, he would have called his son up. How could he have known that some things outside could not be done with money...

"I'll come back tomorrow!"

Depressed and heartbroken, Lin Sangui found an inn with his baggage in his arms, and asked for the cheapest Datong bunk to stay in. It seemed that he was ready to start a long-term war of resistance.

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A courtyard two streets away from Yamen.

Jiang Rongniang was cooking chicken soup for her pregnant young son. While advising the young son on the precautions for her health, she was discussing with her son the older son and the man who were waiting to meet.

This is what their mother and son like to do the most these two days, and they are looking forward to the son/brother and husband/uncle who are about to meet.

"Mother, the young master said that my brother is very powerful. He was admitted as a scholar at a young age, and now he has opened a private school and is very famous in Nanyang Town. If my brother is so promising, Uncle Lin must have been a very good man when he was young." ..."

"Well, your Uncle Lin looks honest and honest, but he is actually very smart and reliable in his work. He is a very responsible man. Otherwise, my mother would have looked down on him before. There are many men who like my mother in all directions. gone."

Jiang Rongniang, who still looks good, recalled the beautiful love of her teenage years, smiling proudly.

Listening to his mother's description, Brother Jun created a tall, mighty, handsome and tender hero in his mind...