Chapter 221: Shuyi, what will happen to our child in the future [Thanks to everyone for your support!]

Looking at the young yamen runner's expression,

Yang Luoyou ran over full of hope,

seeing Zhiyue curled up in a chair sleeping, just as she was about to get angry and roar to wake the little girl up, she saw the small drum she was holding in her arms.

Not knowing what she thought of, Yang Luoyou's heart softened instantly.

She squatted down in front of Zhiyue and pushed the little girl gently:

"Yue'er, wake up, we have to go home."

Hearing Yang Luoyou's voice, the little girl rubbed her eyes. Seeing Li Mubai, who was wearing a yamen runner's official uniform, the little girl peeked at him and hurriedly lowered her head.

Watching Yang Luoyou holding the little girl's hand, the three of them came out from behind the drying quilts,

Xu Zaijing and Gu Tingye looked at each other happily and said:

"Miss Yang, fortunately it was a false alarm. In that case, we will take our leave."

Yang Luoyou bowed deeply and said: "Thank you, noble person, for your righteous action. This humble woman will remember it in her heart."

"A small effort, not worth mentioning."

After speaking, the crowd left the place by carriage and horse one after another.

Yang Luoyou and the two followed at the end of the crowd,

seeing the young yamen runner leaving the courtyard, not only did he get a reward, but also servants from several families were whispering and asking his name.

Little Zhiyue looked at all this in confusion, still not understanding what had happened!

After parting with the crowd and returning to Yichun Lane,

Yang Luoyou closed the courtyard gate, suppressed the heartache in her heart, took the bamboo board, and came to Yang Zhiyue's front.

In the evening,

After leaving the vicinity of Pan Lou,

Xu Zaijing sat in the carriage and lifted the carriage curtain,

letting the breeze outside blow in, because his face, which was a bit hot from drinking, cooled down a bit.

Just as he was looking at the busy street scene outside the carriage and listening to various hawking sounds and conversations,

a group of young men riding horses entered Xu Zaijing's field of vision,

the leader's face was still a bit familiar, Xu Zaijing searched his memory:

'Oh, that Prince Yong's heir who was caught by himself and Gu Tingye together.'

Haven't seen him for a few years, he seems even weaker.

This heir was also followed by young masters like Lu Sanlang of the Duke of Ling's household and Han Wulang of the Duke of Han's household, whom Xu Zaijing was more familiar with.

One of this group felt Xu Zaijing's gaze and looked over.

It was the son of the Sha family of the Marquis of Zhongshan who caused trouble at the temple fair outside the city last year. Seeing Xu Zaijing, he clamped his legs, and his face turned away unnaturally.

After Xu Zaijing's carriage passed by this group of people,

he saw a young man with a somewhat dark complexion following behind them, talking and laughing with an enthusiastic person.

When that enthusiastic person was riding on a horse and looked toward Xu Zaijing's carriage, he only saw the carriage curtain blown by the wind.

Just at this time, Lu Sanlang in front turned his head and said: "Han Ge'er, come and tell the heir how the person who took the medicine was found..."

That person politely nodded to the dark-faced young man and chased after him on horseback.

Prince Yong's heir looked at Qin Chi Han, smiled, and nodded: "Tell me?"

"... With this, his life is no longer a life, but this is..."

"Dying under a pomegranate skirt, can also be considered a romantic ghost."

"Hahahaha..."

"Heir, you don't know that person actually had intercourse..."

The dark-faced young man following behind them listened to their conversation, licked his lips, and hid the cold smile at the corner of his mouth,

thinking to himself: I am a barbarian, then these few in front are truly beasts,

no, they should be worse than beasts!

After the crowd entered the building of Feiyun Terrace,

Prince Yong's heir and Qin Chi Han walked at the end,

possibly involving hobby exchange, others like Han and Lu knew better and went upstairs early,

listening to the laughter behind,

vaguely hearing the two words 'Rich Marquis',

Han Chengyun and Lu Sanlang looked at each other.

When Xu Zaijing returned to the Marquis mansion, his mother had not yet arrived home.

After drinking some sobering tea soup in the courtyard, Xu Zaijing came to the horse racing field again to build feelings with the three horses in the mansion that had not yet reached the age of tooth change.

Looking at the oily and shiny fur of the horses reflecting the sunset, and Xu Zaijing beside the horses,

his master's single eye was full of smiles.

In the evening,

Sun Shi, who returned home, and the two daughters-in-law all ate a basket of good melons specially left by Xu Zaijing,

and were praised by their mother and sisters-in-law for being sensible.

The next day,

Xu Zaijing resumed his usual exercise and school.

However, the weather was slowly getting hotter,

fortunately, there were big trees in the courtyard where the lecture hall was located, and the temperature in the lecture hall under the tree shade was quite cool and suitable,

the clothes of everyone in the Sheng family school were also at the time of changing seasons,

Xu Zaijing, who had always had a good physique, directly put on summer clothes and wore a thin cloak in the morning and evening.

And Princess Pingning had Qi Heng bring a few folding fans as summer gifts for the scholar and classmates.

A few more days passed,

as the day of the prefectural examination approached, the weather in Bianjing became hotter and hotter,

but it rained on the day of the prefectural examination, and the temperature dropped suddenly.

The sky was not yet bright,

because the rain was still a bit heavy,

the classmates of the Sheng family school did not gather together as before,

but each walked their own way,

Xu Zaijing's plan to absorb Changbai's literary spirit failed temporarily.

Outside the examination hall, Xu Zaijing sat in the carriage, listening to the sound of raindrops hitting the roof of the carriage, while re-checking the things in his book box.

Everything was ready.

Opening the carriage door, a cold wind mixed with raindrops blew over, giving Xu Zaijing goosebumps.

Taking the oil-paper umbrella from Qingyun, who was wearing a coir raincoat,

Qingyun said: "Young master, according to your instructions, the extra umbrellas brought from the mansion have already been distributed to those who didn't bring umbrellas."

Xu Zaijing: "Hmm, where is Second Brother?"

"Third Young Master has already arrived at the entrance of the Tribute Hall..."

Asking the question, Xu Zaijing walked off the carriage.

Walking to the carriage of his mother and sisters-in-law who came to send him to the examination,

the carriage door was open,

after Xu Zaijing said a few words, he didn't let them get off the carriage, and he walked toward the examination hall himself.

Looking at Xu Zaijing's back, Xie Shi said on the side: "Mother-in-law, our family's Little Five is really good at taking care of himself."

Hualan looked at Xu Zaijing's attire, nodded in agreement, and then looked at her own husband at the entrance of the Tribute Hall in the distance.

Holding an umbrella, feeling the whole piece of waterproof leather wrapped around the leather boots under his feet, and the thin cloak with some waterproof effect covering his body,

Xu Zaijing took a deep breath of the refreshing air.

Walking in the rain, feeling the dryness on his body, just raining without being drenched, Xu Zaijing actually felt a little bit of happiness.

After the soldiers finished checking the things on his body, Xu Zaijing wrapped himself in leather again and walked into the examination hall with an umbrella.

When Xu Zaijing was placing the things he brought in the number shed, he could hear someone sneezing from time to time.

Rain in the morning, sunny all day.

When the sky brightened, the sun rose,

after the examination questions were announced,

when Xu Zaijing was answering questions quietly in the number shed, the sun actually had some appearance of midsummer, shining fiercely on the ground, and several higher grounds in the Tribute Hall were dried.

Without the cold of the morning, the weather actually became hot and dry again.

Xu Zaijing quietly took off his leather boots, took out a pair of light and breathable shoes from the bundle and changed into them,

and continued to answer questions refreshingly and comfortably.

Xu Zaizhang, in another number shed, looked at the casual shoes in his hand and didn't know whether to wear them or not.

Before coming to the Tribute Hall from the Xu mansion, his younger brother asked him to bring an extra pair of casual shoes, but he didn't agree. It was Hualan who said 'better safe than sorry' before it was stuffed into his book box.

Feeling the damp heat of the leather boots on the soles of his feet, Xu Zaizhang whispered: "This is my wife caring for me."

Saying this, he also changed his shoes.

The Great Zhou prefectural examination process was much the same as the county examination,

when it was almost evening, Xu Zaijing handed in his paper and left the Tribute Hall with his book box and luggage.

At this time, the sky cleared up, and outside the Tribute Hall were family members waiting anxiously.

Xu Zaijing handed the things to Qingyun, and after paying respects to the Duke of Qi couple and the Sheng Hong couple, he prepared to get into the carriage with his family,

before entering the carriage, he saw many middle-aged people walking out of the Tribute Hall.

The prefectural examination ended,

the Sheng family school was closed for two days.

This day,

Xu Zaijing and his classmates came together to see the prefectural examination list.

All of them had wealthy family backgrounds, had been reading since childhood, and had famous teachers like Zhuang Xuejiu,

so naturally, they all passed,

but Sheng Changbai, Xu Zaijing, Gu Tingye, and Xu Zaizhang were all in the top thirty,

while Qi Heng and Changfeng's rankings were still at the back of the list.

Several people reported the good news to their families in high spirits.

And there were also many people around who didn't look young, their eyes searching bitterly on the list, and finally shook their heads and left in disappointment.

Seeing this, for some reason, Xu Zaijing thought of the Sheng family's main branch.

For these years, the Sheng family's main branch had the help of the Cao, Xu, and Sun families at the beginning, and later had cooperative relationships with the Gu, Bai, and Liang families,

now the Sheng family's main branch no longer only had the relationship of Sheng Hong's branch in official circles, so the business was much better than before.

The Sheng family was already the largest wealthy family in Youyang,

and their family property, even if they went to a big city like Yang Zhou, was still countable.

Xu Zaijing also thought that he and his classmates were participating in the prefectural examination,

there was no academy examination this year, and it would not be until next year.

And only after passing the academy examination could one be called a scholar.

Xu Zaijing naturally also knew that their eldest sister Sheng Shulan was engaged to a scholar in Youyang who became a scholar at the age of twelve and lost his father in his childhood.

That is the famous 'prime minister gin seedling' Sun scholar.

He also knew that this Sun scholar would always be a 'gin seedling', and after seedling for a long time, he was finally forced to divorce Shulan.

But that was a future matter.

Looking at the ranking of the prefectural examination alone, after another year of study, whether Qi Heng and Changfeng could pass next year's academy examination was still unknown,

but the family background, learning conditions, and teaching teachers of these two people

were worlds apart from the Sun scholar who lost his father in childhood, had a widowed mother washing clothes, and was supported by his clansmen.

From today's perspective, this Sun scholar who passed the academy examination at the age of twelve was worthy of the praise and expectation of a prime minister's root seedling.

The Sheng family's main branch also always had a blind box mentality when looking at Sun scholar, hoping that he would pass the provincial examination one day, and then pass the metropolitan examination...

Pity.

Thinking of these, Xu Zaijing shook his head. If it were a boy, it would be easier to say,

but Sheng Shulan was a woman. The nobles in Bianjing were high-ranking and powerful. No matter who mentioned it, even if it was Hualan, it would make people think crookedly: someone might think Zaizhang wanted to take a concubine.

Xu Zaijing also thought that for future things, only time was the most convincing...

If he said it now, those who didn't know would think he was coveting the Sheng family's main branch's marriage.

Let the Sheng family break off the engagement?

Hiss... this script is a bit familiar... there shouldn't be a high probability that Sun scholar will explode... right.

Xu Zaijing shook his head again.

Princess Pingning on the side smiled and touched Qi Heng's head,

looking at the proud Qi Heng, Princess Pingning wanted to say something, but... just in time, Princess Pingning saw Xu Zaijing, who had a thoughtful look and kept shaking his head.

"Heng'er, look at your Xu family brother, his ranking is higher than yours, but he has been shaking his head."

"Mother, is Jing Ge dissatisfied with his ranking?"

Princess Pingning nodded and said: "Otherwise? Learn from the good!"

Seeing the Xu family, the princess thought of the Pingmei couple and said: "And you don't be happy, think about the ranking of your Gu family Uncle Yu in the academy examination."

"Mother, child knows. I will definitely continue to study hard in the future!"

"What a listening good child, mother didn't love you in vain."

Hearing Princess Pingning's words, the Duke of Qi nodded with a smile.

Not far away,

Xu Zaijing sighed again,

he thought of a person, Zhao Meifeng.

This secret service head of Yang Zhou Prefecture, perhaps he could let him help teach Sun scholar a lesson...

Forget it,

in the eyes of others, he is a stranger,

so concerned about Shulan,

Xu Zaijing did not doubt Zhao Meifeng's strength at all,

he was afraid that Zhao Meifeng would send Shulan directly to Bianjing.

Not afraid of owing money, the Xu family has money.

Owing favors is terrible, because you don't know how to pay it back just right.

And the Imperial City Division is directly under the Emperor, he shouldn't use it too much.

What's more,

in the TV series or the original book, Shulan had this encounter,

one is as the eldest daughter of the main branch, she had to worry about the reputation of the family's main branch and even the second branch and the marriage of her younger sister in the future, so she could only endure the suffering in the fire pit of the Sun family;

second is mostly because the Sheng Wei couple handled the problem improperly. As a low-status merchant in Great Zhou, they were a bit restrained in doing things and could not play the role of a maiden family, and even had the opposite effect;

making Shulan actually become a hostage of the Sun family. If the Sun family lacked money, they would pinch Shulan,

and if Shulan cried, the Sheng family would give shops and money.

Vicious circle.

But in the past few years, the Sheng family's main branch has been dealing with top nobles in Bianjing,

the situation of the Sheng Wei couple, perhaps the situation will improve.

If the Sheng family's main branch is still the same as before in the future,

then, talk about it again...

Xu Zaijing has the perfect answer to deal with Sun scholar in his mind.

Thinking of these, Xu Zaijing smiled self-deprecatingly.

In the afternoon after watching the list,

the Duke of Qi's mansion and the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion in Xingguo Lane set off quite a few firecrackers,

and the servants of the two families bought quite a few meat buns and steamed cakes on the street and gave them to passersby for free.

They even set up porridge sheds in places with many beggars.

Of course, the scale of these actions of the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion naturally could not compare with Gu Tingyu's passing the list before. After all, Gu Tingye still had several levels to pass.

Marquis of Yongyi's Mansion on Quyuan Street,

at the stall at the entrance of the Marquis mansion,

Shu Bo and other old acquaintances of the Marquis mansion who set up stalls set up 'free tasting' signs on their stalls one after another,

while Chu Zhan relied on his young face to solicit passersby to eat everywhere.

What he thought in his heart was: maybe someone will be hooked by Shu Bo's craftsmanship like Mother Hua because of this free meal,

and can become a regular customer in the future!

Inside the Imperial Palace,

the Empress sat on the couch,

and the little princess, who was carved from pink jade, was sleeping soundly beside her.

The evening breeze blew through the gauze window, blowing away the incense smoke on the incense burner.

Holding the examination paper specially sent by the great eunuch, she looked at it carefully,

"Hmm, not bad, it can be seen that the characters have been practiced seriously, and the article is also good."

Zhao Fang on the side took off his shoes and came behind the Empress,

learning from the Mama in the palace, kneading on the Empress's shoulders:

"Mother, heard from Father that there are two divine Northern Liao dragon horses in Jing Ge'er's family, child wants to go to the Xu family..."

"Father said?"

Listening to the Empress's words, Zhao Fang hurriedly whispered:

"It was Father who said, Mother, child wants to go..."

Watching the mother, who got off the bed and put on embroidered shoes to walk out, Zhao Fang said:

"Mother? What are you going to do, wait for child."

"You like to watch horses, just let Jing Ge'er bring the horses to the palace. Your father only cares about talking..."

Half an hour later,

Imperial Consort Rong's sleeping palace,

the female official walked over quickly

"Niangniang, the Emperor is coming tonight..."

Hui Xue Courtyard of the Rong family's young lady.

The maidservant Ningxiang walked in with a piece of paper,

looked at Rong Feiyan, who was exercising with a soft bow, and said: "Young lady, this is the prefectural examination list just sent."

Rong Feiyan put the bow, arrow, and thumb ring on the table and took the paper,

looking at the names on it, she smiled and said: "Take five guan of money as a reward, consider it hard-earned money."

"Young lady, rewarding like this is too..."

"Then, three guan."

Sheng family,

family has happy events,

Weirui Xuan and Linqi Pavilion both rewarded the servants in their courtyards.

Sheng Hong had known since noon that his two sons, especially Changfeng, who was not very old, had passed the prefectural examination,

and his mood was very good.

The eldest son-in-law also passed the prefectural examination,

and his mood was even better.

By the evening,

the small kitchen of Shou'an Hall prepared a banquet,

Sheng Old Madam exceptionally drank a cup of wine with Sheng Hong and his wife, partly because of the two grandsons of the Sheng family,

and partly because of the two nephews of the Xu family who passed.

The two concubines were not allowed to come.

After eating and drinking enough,

Sheng Hong walked out of Shou'an Hall with Wang Ruofu,

not knowing what he was thinking of, he stroked his beard and smiled: "Madam, you go back first; I'll go see Zhen'er."

Wang Ruofu nodded, as long as it wasn't going to Lin Qingshuang's room.

Jin'an Study,

Wei Shuyi looked at Sheng Hong, who was holding his young son in his arms, and smiled faintly.

Sheng Hong raised his head and said:

"Shuyi, what do you think our child will be like in the future?"

Wei Shuyi said: "With the master's teaching, it will definitely not be bad."

"Hahahaha..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 222 =====