Tranquility

The Tang Mansion is indeed very lively recently.

Dr. Lu, Mr. Cheng, and Shu Hongyu all came back, and Tang Mu's family arrived more than a year earlier than them.

In fact, since Tang Carpenter passed away and his family opened a seafood shop, Tang Mu seems to have suddenly enlightened, and he no longer makes furniture all day long.As if some kind of burden was missing, Tang Mu was a lot more reckless, and focused his energy on various delicate mechanisms that he was more interested in.

Tangning was very happy with her eldest brother's life like this. Today's eldest brother has found his own value and has a goal in life.Every time he saw the brilliance on his eldest brother's face when he was working, he even felt that his eldest brother was not a craftsman at all, but an artist.

When his father was alive, Tang Mu cared a lot about his father's opinion. He only thought that he was the eldest son in the family and should inherit his father's craftsmanship.After his father passed away, although Tang Ning was the younger brother, he was also the one with the most say in the family. He didn't want to separate the family, and neither did Tang Yun. Tang Mu'ao was only two younger brothers, so the three brothers of the Tang family haven't separated yet.

According to Dazhao's law, with Tangning around, the Tang family is considered an official family. The hundreds of acres of fertile land under Tang Ning's name, and the wealth of Tang Yun's family are actually the common property of the three brothers of the Tang family.

In this way, in fact, Tang Mu has long been regarded as a wealthy landlord class, but he is honest, and it is always awkward to spend his brother's money, and he has always insisted on the original life of poverty.

Fortunately, after the shop opened, Tang Mu took care of the shop and made things by himself. The craftsmen in the shop imitated and sold them, and stopped doing carpentry work. So Tang Mu himself didn't know how much money he made, and the accounts were vague. Tang Mu was confused.

Coupled with Tang Yun's sugar-coated bullets and Tangning's ideological education, how could an honest Tang Mu be able to fight against two cunning and cunning younger brothers.

Starting from the addition of a fire-burning girl in the family, to the youngest son's nurse, the eldest daughter's foster mother, etc., when there are too many people, it is natural to build a house, expand it, and then spend more money, and the housework expenses are also complicated. , How can my sister-in-law be able to take care of her illiterate, it is logical, there is a housekeeper in the family, from frugal to extravagant, unknowingly, Tang Mu became a veritable landlord.

A year ago, Tangning finally managed to lure her elder brother and his family to move to the capital with the blueprint of a merchant ship sent by Tang Yun.

Mrs. Tang has no objection to moving. Although she is a village woman, she has her own plans.My daughter is already 11 years old, so I should start to see her now. The Tang family is not what it used to be. Qi Dafei is not even married. Naturally, he can't marry his daughter to a villager. With my uncle's face, it is reasonable to find a well-matched family in Beijing. , Let the daughter come over early to see and see, and it is never wrong to learn the rules in Beijing.My son is also five years old, just at the age of enlightenment, it would be best to come to Beijing to follow the champion uncle.

A year ago, taking the opportunity to enlighten her nephew, Tang Ning arranged the Tang family tree for four generations, with "living and working in peace" as four generations. After four generations, there will be descendants.

According to the family rules, the daughters of the Tang family are also ranked in the same generation. The previous names are not counted. Tangning re-named the younger generation.The eldest niece was named Tang Anran, the younger nephew was named Tang Anyue, and Tang Yu's name was given by Mr. Cheng, so it made sense, so Tangning didn't move.

Since then, the Tang family has become like an official family.

There are more children in the family, and the atmosphere is different.

After Mr. Cheng came back, he took over the education of the three children. Maybe because he was getting older, maybe because he had less worries, he was much gentler. Facing the three little bean dings, he didn't have the strictness of the husband at all, only the kindness of the grandfather. .Mr. Cheng has made up his mind to retire. Now he never asks about Tangning's affairs in the officialdom. Apart from teaching, he just chats with Dr. Lu, plays chess, and eats and drinks with Shui Mingxuan. He is very uncomfortable.

On the other hand, Dr. Lu, who is more than ten years older than Mr. Cheng, still has a strong sense of professionalism. When he came back, he devoted himself to his own books, occasionally seeing patients, and teaching a few children how to practice boxing and so on.

I haven't seen him in three years, but the one who has changed the most is Shu Hongyu. The so-called Eighteen Male Changes, after three years of tempering, the young boy at the beginning has completely transformed into a gentleman who is gentle and elegant but still romantic.

At the beginning, he came back with the hot eyes of the big girl and the little daughter-in-law all the way.

Now as soon as he goes out, it is even more grand than ever.Almost all the girls' eyes lit up the moment they saw him, as if under a spell. When he frowned, everyone worried about him. When he rolled his eyes, everyone felt their hearts collapse.

Tang Ning didn't know what Shu Hongyu had experienced in the past three years. He only knew that Shu Hongyu's eyes were filled with compassion, his brows and eyes softened, and his every move and gesture was full of brilliance. General presence.

Even Tangning herself, who grew up watching him, would occasionally go into a flash.

Fortunately, such a monstrous character is an otaku.Since he came back, he has been staying in the room to make medicine, probably because he was scared by the eager women outside, Shu Hongyu would not go out unless he could go out.

Early this morning, Tangning took the three little radish heads for a morning jog in the garden to exercise as usual, and then, as expected, her feet stuck to Shu Hongyu's sword practice.

Although Tang Ning put on a helpless face as usual, he actually wanted to watch it himself. I have to say that watching Shu Hongyu's sword dance was an ultimate enjoyment. Even if he watched the same move every day, he would never get tired of watching it.Tangning suspected that Shu Hongyu's unspeakable charm in every move was because he had been practicing the most beautiful sword moves in the world for ten years.

After watching the sword dance and the family had breakfast, Tangning packed up and went to the official department. His new position will be confirmed today.

The result of the position arrangement was slightly different from what he thought. He originally wanted to be a doctor of Guozijian and then casually hold a small position in Zhan Shifu, but it turned out that Zhan Shifu Cheng concurrently served as an assistant teacher of Guozijian.

The left and right are the same, Zhan Shifu is the sixth rank, and the assistant is from the sixth rank, so he still took advantage.

It is probably because Zhan Shifu and Guozijian are not important departments with real power, and there is nothing to gain, so he just cleared up a little bit, paid enough money, and with Lin Qingyu's explanation, the officials in the official department gave it so happily.

After confirming her own news, Tangning also inquired about the changes of the few people she was familiar with.

Zhao Qian is still the censor who has never changed for thousands of years. As long as he doesn't make any surprise moves, Tang Ning estimates that he will die in this position.In the past, Tangning might have worried about Zhao Qian's temper, but now it's not his turn to worry about it.

At the beginning, his wife went back to Cangping County in a fit of anger, but her natal parents died early, and her elder brother and sister-in-law refused to let her in. Thanks to Jin Yongfu secretly giving her a small courtyard to live in, and ordering his wife to take care of him from time to time, his wife was less Suffered a lot of grievances.

When Zhao Qian came back to pick up his wife, he was grateful for the help of his old friend. He went through a few twists and turns, went around the gate of hell, and saw a lot. What's more, Tang Ning, a victim, also forgave Jin Yongfu. Sincerely repenting, Zhao Qian's previous grievances towards Jin Yongfu disappeared.

After accepting Jin Yongfu's love, Zhao Qian wanted to repay his old friend, but Jin Yongfu had many sons and daughters, rich and leisure, and lacked everything, so Zhao Qian couldn't do anything; in the end, Tangning secretly pointed Zhao Qian, and Jin Yongfu What Yongfu lacked most was social status, so Zhao Qian invited Jin Yongfu to be his guest minister. The guest minister is the guest of honor of the master and the highest-ranking staff member. Although he is still not an official, his status is much higher than that of a businessman. At least he It is no problem for her daughter to marry someone like Juren's birth clerk.

With Jin Yongfu escorting him outside, and a good wife in charge of the house, his mother is no longer noisy, and Zhao Qian is doing his favorite job again. Others know that he is a thorn, and generally don't provoke him. Zhao Qian's little life It can be said to have a good time.

Jin Yongfu didn't lose the business in his hands, and even pulled Zhao Qian into the stock. Zhao Qian himself didn't know about this. Anyway, his salary was handed over to his wife. He just stretched out his hand, how much money he had at home I don't know either.

Shui Mingxuan has been studying politics for more than ten years, and finally made it through, and was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Officials.He is not young, and he is kind and good at recruiting talents. After many years of operation, he has countless disciples, and now he will be the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. His connections are unimaginable.

Tang Ning was very happy. Not only was he happy that Shui Mingxuan was here, it would be easier to be promoted in the future, but more importantly, Shui Mingxuan stayed in the capital. The husband was lonely all his life, and the only people he could talk to were Doctor Lu and Mrs. Shui Mingxuan is here.

Now that the two of them are staying in the capital, the husband will definitely not be too lonely in his old age.

Unexpectedly, none of Tangning's top three in this year's class went to work in the sixth department.

Not to mention Tang Ning's number one scholar, the second place in the list has sought a foreign job. He is not young, and staying in the capital can't afford to waste his qualifications. It's better to go outside to practice. With political achievements, he can be promoted quickly. Besides, he is caught between nobles and civil servants in the capital. It's not good either.

Lin Zizhang, the No. [-] candidate, stayed in the Imperial Academy. He chose two completely different paths from the No. [-].You must know that entering the cabinet from the Imperial Academy is easy and easy, but also difficult. In a word, as long as the popularity is not too bad, when you reach seventy or eighty, you will naturally be able to enter.

But Tang Ning knew that Lin Zizhang's choice to stay in the Imperial Academy was definitely not for the sake of improving his qualifications. His choice was somewhat disheartening and decadent.

Tang Ning felt that this was not bad. Lin Zizhang's character was really not suitable for fighting in the officialdom. His and Qiao Hanyun's personalities were two extremes.One is inferior and weak, one is lofty and aloof, one dares not to express love, and the other disdains to express love. Their tragedies may have factors of fate in them, but they are also inseparable from their own personalities.

Although there were battles in the Hanlin Academy, if you want to avoid the battles, it is very easy to settle down in a corner.At the beginning, Qiao Hanyun was still in the Imperial Academy in his thirties. It is estimated that Lin Zizhang also wanted to follow Qiao Hanyun's old path. As long as there is no accident in the Lin family, he will be able to grow old in peace.

After receiving the official seal and going through the formalities, it took two days for the official uniform to be available, so Tangning was free for these two days.

After leaving the Ministry of Officials, Tangning saw that it was still early in the morning. After thinking about it, she decided to go to the Imperial College first.

For Guozijian, Tang Ning had heard its name for a long time but had never seen it before. In his imagination, Guozijian was the official academy in ancient times.

However, after he walked around the tall screen wall in the gate of the Imperial College, he was deeply shocked.

In front of him was a large marble-paved space. In the middle of the space stood a huge statue of Confucius. At the end of the space was a majestic main hall. Standing in it, Tangning immediately felt her own insignificance, and unconsciously felt a little respect in her heart.

There were occasional students in green shirts passing by in the square. Tangning regained her composure and asked a random student where Dr. Zou Wen was.

Zou Wen, a doctor of Taixue, is his immediate boss, who is in charge of painting and calligraphy in the imperial clan.

The division of labor in the Guozijian is very detailed. The children of officials and eunuchs are classified according to the ranks of their grandfathers and fathers, and the clans are classified according to their blood relationship and their own titles. Those with the same status and rank are regarded as a class and taught by a doctor.

Doctors can also be divided into teaching scriptures and history, or teaching painting and calligraphy, or teaching servant archery.Zou Wen is in charge of the calligraphy and painting of the sons and nephews of the pope's county king level.

Zou Wen's office was quite far away. Tangning passed classrooms, classics hall, cafeteria, nursing home, and student dormitory along the way, and finally arrived at the destination.

I have to say that the facilities of this Guozijian are not inferior to those of the previous university, and the area occupied is several blocks away from the previous university.Even if Tangning exercised and ran every day, it would be too much for her.

Zou Wen's office is a small attic, very quiet, next to the side entrance of the Imperial College.

Tangning looked at the side door without saying a word for a while, and she would have stopped the carriage at the side door if she knew about it.

Zou Wen was a very gentle person, he treated Tang Ning very politely, without any pretensions of being a leader.

Seeing that Tang Ning reported for duty early, he didn't mind. Instead, he gave him a detailed introduction to the situation of the Imperial College, and explained Tang Ning's position very clearly.

There are also classifications of teaching assistants in the Imperial College. One category is pure assistants, helping doctors to correct test papers, managing students and so on.There is also a part-time job like Tangning's, which is equivalent to external employment. Tangning only needs to come to give two classes on calligraphy and painting on the third and eighteenth of each month. As for other aspects, such as answering students' questions, it all depends on Tangning's own mood.

Of course, Tang Ning's class is open-ended. Although it is classified under the clan classification of Taixue, other students can come and listen.The number of students and their identities all depended on Tangning's reputation in various circles.

Then Zou Wen personally led Tangning to the classroom to get familiar with the surrounding environment.The Guozijian is really big, after a lap, the sunset was already deep red, and Tangning's feet were also sore.

After saying goodbye to Zou Wen with great difficulty, they walked back to the gate together and got into the carriage. Only then did Tangning lie on her back and let out a sigh of relief.

Maybe it was because she was extremely tired, but Tangning became confused in the car.

After an unknown amount of time, when the coachman arrived and called him, Tangning managed to open her eyes. She lifted the curtain of the car and saw that the sun had set and it was already slightly dark outside.

Tangning got out of the carriage with a nuisance, the soreness in the soles of his feet returned, and he became sober up a lot.

The door of the house is right in front of you, and just as Tangning was eager to enter the door to soak her feet in hot water, a figure suddenly appeared inside the door. Although it was already dark and he couldn't see his face clearly, his clothes didn't look like a man from the house. servant.

The man was about forty years old with a gloomy face. He passed Tang Ning, but he didn't notice Tang Ning's serious master.

Tangning watched the man get into the carriage from a distance, squinted her eyes, and asked the porter, "Who is he?"