Feudal scholar-bureaucrats reborn: marrying a husband and marrying a virtuous

After sending away the mother-in-law sent by the Liu family, Zhao Shiyue felt that he and his husband had to face up to some things and stop whitewashing the peace.

Others may not know it, but he and his husband have already confirmed that the current second sibling is definitely not the previous second sibling.

It sounded absurd and ridiculous, but it was precisely because of this that neither he nor Mr. Xiang told the truth, but at this moment Zhao Shiyue said directly to Lin Fangqin: "Msister, I'm afraid I can't let her go on like this."

Lin Fangqin's face was flat, with a hint of coldness hidden in his eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "I will leave for Jinhua Mansion the day after tomorrow, and accompany Brother Xu to Hangzhou to take part in the provincial examination. Please pay more attention, if there is anything wrong, you can go directly to the uncle, and ask the uncle to find someone to take them back to Linjiacun to watch them, and deal with them when I come back from the township examination."

Zhao Shiyue nodded. The tacit understanding of the husband and wife for many years let Zhao Shiyue know that the husband and the second brother were planning to give them one last chance. If they really did something that harmed the interests of the Lin family, it might not be easy.

The next day, Lin Fangqin went to the county town after having lunch at home, and entered the house on Wutong Lane, only to find that Lin Fangxu was at home alone, sitting next to the desk, staring at the tip of the pen in a daze, with a white steamed bun in his mouth.

"cough……"

Lin Fangming heard the sound of coughing, looked over, saw the elder brother standing at the door, and hurriedly asked: "When did the elder brother arrive, what's the matter?"

Lin Fangqin looked at the steamed bun in his hand, and said, "Where's the second sibling? What time is it, do you only have lunch? Just eat this?"

Lin Fangming only knew that the lady was busy with the clothing store recently, and didn't say anything specific. Of course, he didn't care too much, so he replied: "She has something to go out, so I can just eat something by myself."

Lin Fangqin didn't answer his words, and didn't intend to beat around the bush, and directly told him about the Liu family's plan and the cooperation between Ai Xiaoya and Aunt Xiao.

Lin Fangming was surprised after hearing this, obviously just found out, Lin Fangqin continued: "Brother Xu is only 15 years old this year, and he still has a bright future, and the imperial examination will not stop here. I plan to wait for the test in other places, Looking for a marriage that will help his official career, it is definitely not marrying a concubine daughter of a tea merchant right now."

Lin Fangqin knew that although his second brother was greedy for some enjoyment, he was definitely not a fool, so he didn't plan to continue beating. After finishing speaking, Lin Fangming, who hadn't reacted, went to Fangshi to buy some things for the road, and returned to Linjiacun. .

Ai Xiaoya communicated with the embroiderer until the evening before returning home. On the way home, she bought crab roe buns and sweet duck.

Lin Fangming was waiting in the living room, originally planning to question her loudly as soon as she came home, but Ai Xiaoya opened her mouth first and said, "Master, did you not go out today again? You still have to go out for a walk, otherwise the body Where can I bear it?"

Ai Xiaoya took the sweet-skinned duck to the kitchen and cut it up, quickly fried two side dishes, made a bowl of egg drop soup, and greeted Lin Fangming for dinner.

Lin Fangming picked up the bowls and chopsticks silently, thinking 'forget it, let's talk about it tonight'.

When resting at night, Ai Xiaoya naturally noticed that Lin Fangming was hesitating to speak. She thought it was about writing a book, and asked, "What's wrong with Mr. Xiang? Is writing the book not going well? By the way, Mr. Xiang is planning to write the first "" "Buying Flowers"? What do you think of starting with 'Flowers wither, flowers fly all over the sky, when the redness disappears, who will feel pity?' as the beginning?"

In fact, she only remembered the first two sentences.

Lin Fangming was almost turned into a poem by her, but thinking of his elder brother's stern look, he snapped back and asked directly: "I heard that you opened a tailor shop in partnership with the Liu family's aunt, and you only draw clothes. Just took [-]% of the profit?"

Because Ai Xiaoya didn't tell him, she said with a guilty conscience: "Yes, Mrs. Xiao appreciates the clothes I drew."

Lin Fangming frowned and said, "A businessman is after profit, no matter how much he appreciates it, he can't do something that loses money!"

Ai Xiaoya was also a little dissatisfied and said: "It's not that I forced her to give up, besides, without my new style, this shop would not be able to open, where would she go to find this way to make money, she would be at a loss. "

Lin Fangming didn't have much contact with his wife before, but after giving birth to Simu, he found out that she was very kind and thoughtful, and she was self-reliant and self-respecting.

Lin Fangming had no choice but to patiently say: "Lady, although the Liu family is not a wealthy family, it is also one of the best tea merchants in Wuyi County. Although Aunt Xiao is not in charge of the family, she does not lack the money of a tailor shop. Haven't you thought about her real purpose for doing this?"

Ai Xiaoya wondered: "What purpose does she have? Is there anything in me worth her attention?"

Seeing that she really didn't understand, Lin Fangming had to break it open, crushed it and continued: "After Brother Xu's case in the Intermediate Court, Master Liu planned to give him the concubine daughter, but the eldest brother disagreed, and it didn't work out in the end, but look at it." It can be seen that Aunt Xiao has not given up. Maybe she simply thinks that Brother Xu is a good son-in-law, but I guess it is more likely that she intends to find a foreign aid to fight with Mrs. Liu. No matter what the situation is, the eldest brother will not agree Yes, you should be more careful when interacting with her."

Traveling through time for so long, Ai Xiaoya has long realized that there are some things that cannot be explained clearly with these ancients, so she did not refute, and said superficially: "Okay, I know, I will be careful, Xu I don't care about my brother's marriage, and it's useless for her to approach me, I'm just doing business with her, and I won't have anything else to do with her."

Lin Fangming just reminded her, seeing that she listened to it, he didn't say anything else.

But in fact, did Ai Xiaoya listen?I really listened to it. She was thinking yesterday whether she had taken 20.00% of the profit. In modern times, the partner who started the company with his brother is a technical shareholder, which only accounts for [-]% of the shares, that is, Less than [-]%.

But now she doesn't think much of it anymore, and she thinks, 'you have to pay a price for taking advantage of me, right? As for whether you get married in the end or fight with chicken and egg, it's none of my business. '

So you see, people with different values ​​and worldviews never agree on the same point of view. This is the reason why people who were originally traveling together parted ways in the end.

When Ai Xiaoya was still fighting for her career, Lin Fangxu and his party also arrived in Hangzhou.

This time, both Wen Boyuan and Lin Fangshao felt that the chances of the rural examination were not great, so they did not participate.

Lin Fangxu, Lin Fangqi, and Wu Zisheng were traveling together, together with Lin Fangqin who was taking the exam, two guards sent by Grandpa Six, and Wu Zisheng's schoolboy, this time they lived in another courtyard of the Xu family.

On the eighth day of the township examination, Lin Fangxu and the others arrived only on the tenth day of July. Because it was still early, the three of them, together with Xu Zhongkang, who was also going to take part, gathered together in the morning to talk about their exam experience and comment on each other's essays.

In the afternoon, I went out to visit the West Lake, and organized a literary meeting with candidates from the ten prefectures of Zhejiang. Teachers from the four major academies would write questions, and a group of people gathered together to learn from each other.

The regular subjects in the imperial examination are held regularly, and unless there are major events in the state of the Gongyuan, the general examination time will not change.

The township examination lasted nine days, and the examination was divided into three sessions, each of which lasted three days.

The ninth day of August is the first session. There is one test of "The Analects of Confucius", one test of "The Doctrine of the Mean" or "Great Learning", one test of "Mencius" and four tests of "Five Classics". In the first session, you must write three questions and four books. More than [-] words, and more than [-] words for the four scriptures and meanings.

The twelfth day is the second session, where we try to discuss one piece, and try one piece of imperial edict, judgment, table, and imperial edict.

The [-]th is the third session, trying to use five current affairs strategies, that is, to express comments or opinions on current current affairs and government affairs in combination with theories of Confucian classics.

During the essay meeting, the teachers of the four major academies simply wrote the questions according to the requirements of the provincial examination. The students who participated in the essay essay wrote individually, and then joined each other/taste/evaluate each other the next day, and voted for a ranking.

After all, Lin Fangxu was the leader of the three trials last year. Although he was young, he was extremely knowledgeable.

Senior Brother Xu Zhongkang and Lin Fangxu's pen pal Shang Tan, Shen Jing and Shen Mao brothers also made a name for themselves. The teacher from Chongwen Academy even joked, "I'm afraid the top five in this township examination will be five of them." .”

Later, every time the literary meeting was held, the five people would even be deliberately arranged together, so when the literary meeting ended in early August, it was unknown whether the five people could win the top five. Except for Lin Fangxu and Shen Jinghui, the others would fight each other get acquainted.

The full and busy days passed in a blink of an eye every day, and soon it was the eve of the exam.

The provincial examination is different from the college examination. Being a scholar is only to obtain the qualification to enter Shilin. Whether you can get in or not depends on whether you pass the provincial examination.

The ninth day of August in the seventh year of Jianwen was one of the most important moments in life for scholars like Lin Fangxu.

When the exam to determine whether to be an official or a citizen came, the Xu family's other courtyard was shrouded in a tense atmosphere. The people who took the exam were not doing well, and the others had become cautious.

Last night, the four of them went back to their rooms early to rest as soon as it got dark. The next day they didn't need to be called. Chou Shichu gathered in the main hall and had breakfast together.

After all, Lin Fangxu lived an extra life, so he wasn't too nervous, but Wu Zisheng's complexion was pale, with dark circles around his eyes. Seeing Lin Fangqi staring at him, he said with a wry smile, "Don't look, I didn't sleep all night last night, hey... ..., not as calm as the three."

Lin Fangqi handed him a hard-boiled egg and said, "I'm a broken pot. Ever since I participated in the literary conference and saw the performance of talents from various prefectures, I knew that I might only be the Now that I have an accompanying tester, I am not so nervous."

After Xu Zhongkang finished speaking, he smiled and said: "You are very open-minded, yes, no matter what, Husband is married, haha..."

Lin Fangqi also smiled and said: "That is, if I can't survive this time, I will go back and give birth to my son first, help the community, serve the court and it is not my turn, the task of passing on the family must be completed."

After listening to him finish speaking, the other three laughed out loud, gagging each other made the atmosphere much more relaxed.

After breakfast, the three of them got up at the last moment of ugly time and set off for the Gongyuan.