1334. The road to return (12) three in one(2/3)
"Where is more wealthy every time?" Daiyu said, "Who goes out and weighs the weight of the decoration?"
"It's very good." Baoyu quickly spoke to Daiyu, "Sister Tong is definitely not that kind of person."
Baochai smiled and stopped talking. She called the person who served her, "Go and tell your second grandma that the wife has been unhappy these two days and is so cold that she can't eat it. Just blanch the shrimp in white water and just put it on."
The girl talked to Wang Xifeng. Wang Xifeng was pulling Lin Yutong and whispering. Seeing that he was talking about this, he raised his eyebrows and smiled, said with a voice hanging on his face and said he knew, and then looked at Ping'er. Ping'er went to make arrangements.
Lin Yutong knew that Wang Xifeng was unhappy. She definitely didn't know that the wife was unhappy. But it was obvious that it was not a big deal for the girls to report it. When Baochai said it, she put Wang Xifeng in the air. It would be fine if she wanted to say it earlier. It was your intention. Now the mat was almost done, and she spoke.
Wang Xifeng said, "It would have been fine if it was the past. Today, the old lady just said she wouldn't ask her to serve her in front of her..."
In other words, Mrs. Wang doesn't have to serve Mu Jia for dinner. If it were usual, Mrs. Wang would have to wait until Mu Jia finished eating before eating. The preparation was naturally just right at this time, and it was still hot when it came up. She was about to take the seat, so she said this.
Wang Xifeng doesn't like it very much.
Lin Yutong just smiled. She didn't have to compete with them in this mansion for favor, so she could do whatever she liked.
She just sat on the small table on the side and ate crabs.
Next to her was Li Wan. She came over to talk to Lin Yutong and asked about the situation in the private school outside.
Lin Yutong said whatever he knew, without any extra words.
Li Wan also said: "Yuan Lan'er also said that his uncle Heng's knowledge is excellent, and the master often praises him at home."
Lin Yutong said, "That's just the encouragement of the master. But it's not easy to disappoint the master and do your best. If you are lucky in the autumn exam, the encore will be in front of you again next year. It's really hard to light the lamp and wait." So, don't say that you'll send Jia Lan to my house. She doesn't want to mess with this trouble at all. If you really want to study, just go for two taels of silver a month. If you're afraid that Mrs. Jia Zheng would not allow it, then you'd just spend a few taels of silver. Ask someone to rent a small courtyard outside and hire a private school teacher for Jia Lan. After school, you'll only ask Jia Lan to ask for advice. Two hours a day is enough. The Jia family
The clan school only has half a day to study, and the remaining time can be arranged by themselves. A month can only be solved by five or six taels of silver. Can Li Wan take out the problem? The monthly silver is only ten taels, but the old lady adds another ten taels. There is also a garden and land, so she asked her to take the rent. She also earns four or five hundred taels of silver a year. Speaking of which, Li Wan is one of the more economically wealthy people in the Jia family. She is also a widow, and she takes her son to give gifts to others. Even if she reduces the amount, she can understand it. Therefore, she pays less and earns more. Even if she spends ten taels of silver a month, she is not a big deal for Li Wan.
Li Wan would also say: "My widow is unemployed, who can I rely on? If there is someone who can make a decision outside, I don't have to suffer like this."
Lin Yutong smiled, then glanced at Baoyu, and stopped talking.
Li Wan was stunned for a moment, turned around and wanted to talk to Lin Yutong, and saw that she had already raised her cup and went to Daiyu and Sanchun.
The main thing is to talk to Daiyu, "If you are missing something or want something, just hit the woman and just go to me."
Daiyuyuan didn't really be polite to Lin Yutong, and said, "I've eaten the tea that my sister asked someone to send me before. If there is any, give me some more..."
"That's summer tea. I'll eat it to relieve the heat. If it's cold today, I'll ask someone to bring you warm tea tomorrow. When you go out, ask the girl to take the tea with you and don't eat other people's tea."
Daiyu responded with a smile, "I only stay at home and don't go anywhere else. Everyone knows the reason, and I'm not afraid of being frivolous." As she said that, she whispered again: "My father wrote a letter, and the meaning was vaguely revealed, that she would return to Beijing next year."
As she said that, her face was filled with joy.
Lin Yutong guessed that, as was the case. Wen Tianfang helped to arrange these things, but it was just a matter of time.
For Daiyu, this was a great joy.
Lin Yutong said, "If you go home in the future, you can go out too. I will place a post and ask you..."
As the two of them spoke, they looked closer than other sisters. Jia Mu nodded secretly and was happy again.
After returning, he told the Fourth Master about Lin Ruhai's return to Beijing, and the Fourth Master frowned: "Don't get it back next year for the sake of Enke's chief exam."
Lin Yutong was stunned: "Not to say, there is really a possibility."
Now even the teahouse tells the story of the two saints coming to the court, and the emperor and the emperor are competing.
Emperor Enke said that he would not be able to speak out such words that offend scholars all over the world. It is imperative to open up. But everyone wants to use the so-called own people in this test.
If the Marquis of Jinghai represented by Wen Tianfang was correct, he would have been the emperor who was still in the Qiandi. As the in-laws of the Wen family, Lin Ruhai's identity was very subtle. He was an old minister of the Supreme Emperor, but he could be considered the emperor's person. If he wanted to come up with a suitable candidate, both the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor were satisfied, Lin Ruhai was undoubtedly very suitable. The key is that he was a serious imperial examination, passed the third grade in high school, and stayed in the Hanlin Academy. So, he really has this qualification.
But for the Fourth Master, is this a good or a bad thing?
The Fourth Master then seemed to have thought of something and smiled: "It's a good thing."
As for why he said it was a good thing, Lin Yutong didn't see it yet. Since it was not a bad thing, she had no intention of taking care of it.
My family is very busy lately. It’s autumn, and all kinds of fruits have come down. There are no fruits in my own garden yet, but that doesn’t matter. Jia Yun is still good at doing things and asks people to go down to collect them. The goods delivered, regardless of whether they are good or bad, are collected. The brewing process is similar and there is nothing to hide from others. Only at the critical step, the Fourth Master accompanied Lin Yutong, usually avoiding people adding things. Others cannot know.
Jia Yun kept all the remaining steps, and the brewed things were divided into different levels because of the quality of the fruits. The earliest batch could be out of the cellar before the New Year.
Jia Yun was also interested: "This fruit is not available every season. It is sold at a price, but the price can be increased. I just want to do a bigger business, but I am afraid that it will not work. The fruit cycle is much longer, but I don't know if my aunt will brew flower wine. There are many barren mountains in Tongzhou and other counties farther away. Others can't be planted on the mountain, and flowers of all kinds can be planted. Flowers are objects that can be harvested back then, and I am afraid that they will be really made, and it is no worse than the ones sold in this fruit wine."
The Fourth Master asked him to find a place. If there is a suitable one, just buy it.
In the blink of an eye, it was late August and the provincial examination began. In fact, the provincial examinations were all taken on the ninth, twelfth, and 15th day of August. But this year, the situation was postponed for some reason. It was not until August 15 that the specific days were set. This abnormality further shows that the court was unstable. Even the small autumn examination in the capital was turbulent.
The time has been set, and Yu Liang came back the day before the exam started. However, he didn't live in the Yu family and went directly to the living yard here. It was the same, accompanying the Fourth Master to take the exam.
After the first exam, the Fourth Master felt that the atmosphere seemed a little different.
The difficulty of the exam is suitable, but this answer... The Fourth Master felt that he was quick, but he still couldn't catch up with others. He had a good individual, and was more than half faster than him.
After coming out, Yu Liang asked, otherwise he would find a teahouse and restaurant to listen to what these people said, and he would also know how everyone did the exam.
The Fourth Master kept getting on the carriage and went straight to the carriage: "Don't stay outside, go home."
Yu Liang knew something was wrong again: "What's wrong?"
There were some words that the Fourth Master and Yu Liang didn't know what to say, and just said, "I feel something is wrong."
Yu Liang thought he didn't do well in the exam, so he encouraged the Fourth Master: "There are two more games left."
But there was only a couple left, and the Fourth Master said, "I'm afraid the Supreme Emperor wants to teach the emperor a lesson."
Lin Yutong understood what this said: "The chief examiner is the emperor's person... Is something wrong with the exam?"
The Fourth Master La Lin Yutong sat next to him: "So, this storm must be small."
Lin Yutong frowned: "Then do we still take the exam?"
"Test!" The Fourth Master laughed: "This is the opportunity."
So he called Jia Yun, took out the fruit wine stored at home, and went to various restaurants to ask people to taste it for free. It seemed that he was building momentum for the wine produced in his own workshop. In fact, he asked Jia Xia to follow Jia Yun and gave another order. He only asked the two of them to carry their ears and listen to more news.
Jia Yun is quite clever, but she doesn't know much about scholars.
The Fourth Master originally wanted to hear what these people were talking about, but he didn't want to receive unexpected receipts. Jia Xia returned and said, "I met a senior brother who also followed his current husband to study. According to the teacher's opinion, this senior brother's time is still far from being impatient. He once told him not to be anxious and to try to get out for another three years. If he is lucky, it would be good to be able to get Sun Shan. Before, the senior brother was a little depressed and said he had no intention of studying again. He didn't expect that this year he would be out of the way, and he didn't even know about it. Moreover, when he saw him in a restaurant, he was very energetic and his words were different from before, and he was very arrogant. I gave him a jar of wine, but he didn't even accept a polite word and said a lot of words. I felt something was wrong in my heart. The gentleman said that his article was not good, but he was so confident now..."
What this means is that there is something wrong with it.
The Fourth Master and Lin Yutong both guessed it, but now it has only proved it even more.
Then Lin Yutong found that when the Fourth Master was practicing writing, the writing was a little different. This examiner admired the most beautiful articles. With the level of the Fourth Master, even if he didn't like it, he was not very good at this type of articles, but he had never been able to imitate it. However, the articles practiced by the Fourth Master are now more plain and heavy than the simple and restrained nature of normal circumstances. At a glance, it was really too stable.
Lin Yutong understood what the Fourth Master was going to do?
He planned to fail the autumn examination if he had any problems this time.
Even if the article is nothing but not obvious, it is easy to fall apart.
Therefore, Lin Yutong didn't care much about this autumn examination.
The results of the exam really came out. Just like Lin Yutong expected, the Fourth Master failed and was not on the list.
One case was not passed in the autumn examination.
There were other poor families who had not passed the exam before, clamoring that the students who passed the exam were all powerful and wealthy. In a blink of an eye, there was a person with obvious literary talent, and a branch of the Duke Rong's mansion, who failed the exam.
Some people said, "It's not a powerful man. This scholar Jia has already had a five-suffering match with him."
Many people silently wrote their articles and exchanged them with each other. They asked for the Fourth Master's articles. Everyone came to take a closer look and saw how bad it was than the ones who passed the exam.
Most of the people who passed the list were at the end of the crane during the April county examination. Now they were much better than those who ranked first. They were not far behind in the past few months. They were well-educated and had solid foundations. Without special reasons, they would never lose their level. But it is impossible for those who have poor levels to make a big progress in just a little time.
Other people's articles have their own judgments, but the more you read the articles of the Fourth Master, the more you feel. The first day of the first year of the junior high school, I see that they are ordinary, but when I read them, I feel that every word is as heavy as a thousand gold.
Such articles are not on the list.
The Fourth Master left the article and went away. He was the only one who failed the exam for a case like him. The cases from other counties were still on the list, and although the ranking was not very good. As long as he passed the exam, people would not make trouble.
Of course, the Fourth Master will not make trouble now, but this article is a stepping stone for these students who want to make trouble.
They copied the articles and spread them everywhere.
When the examiner Chen saw the article, he was stunned: "How could such an article stop falling?" Then the cold sweat fell on his head, "Hurry! Hurry! I am going to enter the palace!"
But where did the urgent problem come from? Because of some people's indulgence and guidance, these candidates rushed to the palace gate to lock the palace gate.
The best way to calm the chaos is to invalidate all this and start over. The court sent two chief examiners to complete the exam together.
Such a scandal occurred in the scientific examination, which was like the Emperor slapped the emperor directly on the face, and it also told everyone in the world to see it. Needless to say, everyone knows how angry the emperor must be at this time.
In mid-September, the Fourth Master entered the examination room again. The result this time was excellent. After the list was published, the Fourth Master's name ranked first, and this Jie Yuan deserved it.
Lin Yutong laughed. If nothing unexpected happens, the Fourth Master will definitely be from high school next spring exam. His fame has been exaggerated, and anyone will have to be cautious. Moreover, he will never associate the Fourth Master's success and future achievements with the Jia family.
However, the Jia family did not feel that there was a clear line between them. When Jia Zheng learned the news, he clapped his hands and called Jia Zhen again, saying that he should go to kowtow to his ancestors. He went to tell Jia Mu that the family should hold a banquet and celebrate well. Jia Mu called Wang Xifeng again, "Since it was your master who said it, let's start."
Then this kind of celebration requires notifying relatives and friends, and this is not a small banquet.
Wang Xifeng beat someone and called Lin Yutong, but the person sent to him only found out that he was not here.
"It's said that Qian is a little bad again. He didn't eat for two days... the couple didn't dare to delay, so they all went." Wang Xifeng looked at the old lady's face and whispered: "It can be seen that he is not a lucky person. His son has grown up so well and his wife is so filial, but she... there is nothing he can do about it."
Jia Mu said, "Since I know, I will beat the imperial physician and go and have a look." He turned around and said to Mrs. Wang, "I will invite Master Zhang tomorrow and ask..."
Taoist Zhang naturally would not say that the Fourth Master is not that. He is now with the Fourth Master. He has to learn from others on the talisman. So he only said: "The Qian family is not a wealthy fortune. Before, when Grandpa was weak, she could still support the door. Only when Master Qian saw that he was good, Brother Heng was promising again, and luck came, she could not stop him. Think about it... blocking the evil spirit... Those who are close to each other are good, but those who are weak in the eight characters can't bear it. If Master Qian is good, it is also an anomaly... He is weak and just responding to the poison with poison. If he is strong, he will definitely be like the Qian family..."
"If Qian had something to do, it would be a pity for Brother Heng'er's future." Mrs. Wang asked tentatively.
Master Zhang paused and hurriedly said, "That won't be. Everything must be good and bad. This is beneficial to the mansion, and there are people who are willing to bear this bad. If there is no such person, wouldn't it be just right?"
To be continued...