Jia Cong, the concubine who crossed the Red Chamber

Three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past three years, Shi Guangzhu kept his filial piety and studied behind closed doors.Jia Cong also worked very hard to prepare for the imperial examination.The two get together occasionally in Shifu to discuss knowledge and martial arts, and their relationship has become closer.

In February of this year, Shi Guangzhu passed the filial piety, just in time for the county examination.All the students in the academy left one after another.There are four county examinations, the contents of which include stereotyped essays, poems, policy theory, etc., which are fairly simple.After passing the county examination, there will be a government examination. The examination period will be in April, and there will be a hospital examination after half a year.After more than a year of tossing around, more than half of the classmates who died together in the academy became scholars.When it came to the township examinations, the number of candidates who passed the high school entrance examination in the college was relatively small, but there were still four to five out of ten, which made outsiders envious, and the reputation of the college was even higher.Shi Guangzhu's ranking is very high, Chen Ruiwen's ranking is also at the top, only Jia Cong's ranking is average, neither good nor bad, considering that he is still young, it is considered rare, barely earned the title of a child prodigy.

With this imperial examination, Lin Ruhai also used a lot of brains to choose a future son-in-law.

Lin Ruhai thought about Daiyu's marriage for a long time.The Lin family is thin and has no successors, but they have a rich family background.Daiyu is like a three-year-old child walking in the busy city with gold bricks in his arms, making Lin Ruhai feel uneasy.

If Lin Ruhai recruits a son-in-law for Daiyu, he is afraid that he will attract Chen Shimei, a Zhongshan wolf.There are always those ungrateful white-eyed wolves in the world who rely on their wives to enjoy the glory and wealth, but dislike such things as being a stain on their own life. When they were too poor to live on, they coaxed their wives and their families with sweet words and vowed to live forever. Loyalty is like an ox and a horse, and when the wings are full, they will start to lead one from the left and one from the right.

Therefore, Lin Ruhai finally put down his old face and went to the emperor to beg for the qualification of the chief examiner for the next spring examination. Of course, correspondingly, Lin Ruhai was blackmailed by the emperor severely.Being the chief examiner of the examination is an errand where the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.Not only can you establish your own position among literati, but all students in this session of the examination must call the main examiner a teacher in the future.This teacher's call is not for nothing. The master has something to do and the disciple will do his best. Respecting the teacher is not just talking about it.Lin Ruhai planned to choose a good husband for Daiyu from this class of students. If this person dared to treat Daiyu badly in the future, the saliva of scholars would drown him.

In addition, this matter is also Lin Ruhai's temptation to the emperor.Originally, the new emperor should quickly build up his own team after he ascended the throne, but because the Supreme Emperor is still on the throne, it is not easy for everyone to stand in line.Serving two mothers-in-law at the same time is already difficult, especially for someone like Lin Ruhai who is not a real mother on both sides.So Lin Ruhai also used this to show his favor. The beauty is that the emperor also took over, and the Lin family can have another 20 years of worry-free life.

In the spring of the next year, the examination will be carried out as scheduled.Lin Ruhai almost got confused by picking and choosing, the father-in-law's choice of son-in-law is not pleasing to the eye no matter what, no matter how good the person is, he can jump out of the fault.In the end, the son of an old friend was chosen. He came from a Huizhou literati family. His father and Lin Ruhai were Jinshi in the same discipline. Here, the days are leisurely.The two families also negotiated that the second son would inherit the incense of the Lin family in the future.

During this period, there was one more thing.

Jia Zheng lingered in poetry, drinking and women's sex day by day, and he was called a romantic talent by euphemism, but he was actually hungry in his sex.On weekdays, he didn't pay attention to maintenance, and the concubines and maids who bought him wanted to seduce him to the top, and his body was gradually hollowed out.Instead of dissuading Mrs. Wang, she was happy to see the success and helped hide it from Jia Mu.But half a year later, I saw that my spirit was not as good as that of a day.In the end, Jia Amnesty relented, and yelled that he could not ask his son to observe his filial piety to delay the imperial examination, so he spent a lot of money to hire two well-known health doctors and sent them to Jia Zheng's house, and asked Jia's mother to stare at Jia Zheng's body. .At this time, Jia's mother knew that her second son and daughter-in-law were obedient to her, and she was hiding everything from her, so she fell down angrily.

The following year, Jia Cong successfully passed the palace examination and won the 34th place in the second class.Shi Guangzhu won the first prize, and Chen Ruiwen ranked second and ninth.Several of them had pretty good grades, but what is rare is that they are young, especially Jia Cong, who has never been such a young second-class student. If he hadn't been born in Rongguo Mansion, he would have been hacked by pedantic old scholars.

In the summer afternoon, it was hot and humid, Mrs. Xing was too lazy to move around, she lazily leaned on the imperial concubine's couch, and said to the little girl who was kneeling on the footrest and playing the fan: "Get up too, find a place to cool off by yourself, I'll be here for a while There is no need for people. Why bother in the hot weather, even if you move, you are sweating all over, and it is hard enough for you." Turning to the big maid again, she said: "Tell the mother, the master ordered, during the three months of summer, the manor Each person will be given an extra half a penny, just to buy two more bowls of herbal tea for everyone." After hearing this, the crowd thanked each other, "Master and wife are merciful." They flattered as if they had honey on their mouths.

Just as it was bustling, I saw a little girl outside saying: "The third master is back!" Before the words fell, Jia Cong rushed in like a small cannonball, and went straight to Mrs. Xing.Mrs. Xing shouted: "Hey, stop him quickly." The mother and son were fighting, who would dare to really stop him, the girls laughed and put on a few postures, but they were slightly in the way, but unexpectedly, it was really true. blocked.

Mrs. Xing said with a smile: "You guys, hurry up and receive the reward! This stinky brat comes to me every day, covered in stinky sweat, and it makes me sick."

Jia Cong curled his lips, dissatisfied: "I'm just coaxing them to be stubborn. I'm on duty for the first time today, young master, and I'll be an adult in the future. How can I learn the same knowledge as you?"

Mrs. Xing looked relieved: "In that case, my little lord, may I ask if today's duty will go well?"

Jia Cong, Shi Guangzhu, and Chen Ruiwen were all sealed as imperial servants, and they were on duty day and night.To put it bluntly, it is the emperor's secretary who works 24 hours a day.The new emperor likes to use young people, and the imperial servants are not very old, but they help the emperor to copy and write imperial edicts, and occasionally use Baidu or Zhihu when the emperor asks questions.Jia Cong was on duty on the first day today, but he went to find out the way, and came back half a day later, and said with a proud face: "That's no need to say! Young master, I am smart, imposing, handsome, and everyone loves me." , the success could not be more smooth, the emperor even praised me."

Mrs. Xing asked curiously, "What did you praise you for?"

Jia Cong groaned for a long while, and then choked out a sentence: "Praise me for being happy..." "Hahahaha..." The whole room laughed and laughed, overjoyed.

"Okay, okay, don't be silly, change your clothes and go see the master." Mrs. Xing said again: "I have a guest today, you can be more careful." The thumb of her right hand pointed upwards slightly.Seeing this, Jia Cong immediately understood, and said, "Go here, I'll come to my wife for dinner later."

Before reaching the door of Jia She's study, Jia Cong yelled: "Father, Dad, let me tell you, the emperor praised me today." Jia She looked impatient and scolded: "Stinky boy, I tell you to be careful The point, why are you shouting, the book has been read into the dog's stomach!"

Jia Cong looked aggrieved: "You are my dear father." Turning his face and smiling again, he said, "Today Brother Shi said that he would invite me to his hot spring village to relax. Father, do we have a hot spring village? You can give it to me too. Shall we play with each other?"

"Bah! You look so good-looking. I'll give you Hot Spring Zhuangzi? Are you still playing with me? Do you think Hot Spring Zhuangzi is a cat or a dog? Do you know how much a Zhuangzi with warm soup costs?" Jia She immediately raised his eyebrows. road.

Jia Cong's eyes widened, and he acted coquettishly: "Father, I'm going to be on duty in the palace today, and I'll be an adult in the future, so what if I don't have much money in my hands? And in the future, when I walk with Big Brother Shi, I will also be a man. You can’t always let people spend money.”

"No, no, I have no money." Jia Amnesty waved his hand.

Jia Cong rolled his eyes: "Then..."

"Yesterday your eldest brother from Dongfu brought some horses here, and you can ask Lin Zhixiao to pick one later."

"make a deal!"

"No, I can't do anything... What? A deal? Okay, brat, you were just trying to get the attention of these two horses from the beginning!" Jia Amnesty only came to his senses at this time, and said coldly: "Good boy, you're playing tricks on your father again, aren't you looking for a beating? I'm sure you will know why flowers are so popular today!" After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves eager to try.

"Cough, cough." At this moment, someone came out of the study in the back room and interrupted Jia She, "I never thought that Enhou would be so lively in private." I saw that this person looked slightly older than Jia She, Kind eyebrows and kind eyes, some gray hair on the temples but not much, wearing a navy blue gown, he looks like a rich man.Jia Lian followed behind this person with a look of fear and lowered eyebrows.This person can directly address Jia Amnesty, he must have some status, Jia Cong rolled his eyes, thinking of Mrs. Xing's gesture, he knew it in his heart.

Seeing this person come out, Jia Amnesty showed embarrassment, and said: "Why did you come out...this...this...stinky boy, come and see..." "Just call me Say hello to Master Shi." Before Jia She could finish speaking, the man hurriedly took the words.Seeing that this person didn't want to reveal his identity, Jia She hurriedly said, "Call Shibo quickly, it's really cheap for you kid."

Jia Cong knew that this person must be a relative of the emperor who didn't want to make it public, so the most sensible thing he did was to pretend not to know, and kept calling "Uncle".Jia Lian saw his younger brother's posture of climbing up smoothly, with an expression on his face that he couldn't bear to look directly at, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, it was a bit embarrassing, what if he offended the nobleman, what should he do, should he immediately call his daughter-in-law to prepare for his younger brother to run away? Luggage?