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Shi Hongda smiled back, and quickly changed the subject, chatting about what to plant next year, and sure enough, the three big men finally stopped feeling sad.

"Try it, this is wine made from grapes grown by our family." On the dinner table, Yu Liangji opened a jar of wine.

"Okay, have a taste, have a taste!" The old lady was very happy.

There are very few in this world who can drink the wine brewed by Master Hou himself.

Yu Liangji also ate the sauerkraut stew made by the old lady himself, it was very delicious!

We talked about the land and the crops, and we talked about the crops and the children, especially the eldest son of the uncle's family and the eldest son of the second uncle's family.

"Let's go this fall. Let's take the children's exam first. If you pass the exam, you can take the scholar exam next spring." Yu Liangji is very concerned about the studies of these children, but not all of them. There are too many children now, and he can't pay attention to them. Come on, but the children of my relatives still know about it.

The eldest cousin of Xiao Xinghuai's uncle, and the eldest cousin of the second uncle's family, originally had learning skills, but they were delayed by others. Now they have been taught for half a year, and it is almost the same.

"Can you pass the exam?" The old man was worried: "It has been delayed for several years."

Since the death of the old man, the school has lost the head of the school. Fortunately, there are still two scholars teaching. Later, Zhang Yunyi took over the position of the head of the mountain, but he only cares about making money. If it weren't for those two scholars who have taught in the school all their lives Books, not willing to let the children waste their time, and taught the students under pressure. Later, Shibalipu took over the school here. Yu Liangji gave the two old gentlemen a generous pension, and the two old gentlemen returned to their hometowns to support their families. .

No wonder the old man has no confidence in his two grandsons.

"There is nothing difficult about being a scholar, you are sure." Yu Liangji gave them confidence: "Don't worry, my place has both Jinshi and Zhishi officials."

Shibalipu Academy has strong teachers, they have heard about it, and everyone is guessing, never heard Yu Liangji admit it, but this time they heard the truth.

With such a teacher, the students will definitely not go wrong.

"That's good, that's good!" The old man was very relieved.

"It doesn't matter how smart they are, as long as they can gain fame and not be bullied by others." The old lady just put her hands together and recited "Amitabha".

"I won't be bullied." Yu Liangji smiled and gave the old lady a piece of stewed sauerkraut.

The old lady and the elderly think that it is the best thing to have fame, whether it is literature or martial arts, as long as it is fame, it is fine.

As for the children of the Zhang family in the coming year, their martial arts are better than their literary ones.

Stayed at Zhang's house for one night, the child was too old to sleep with grandma, but slept in the same room with his cousins, and the half-grown teenagers had a long fight before going to sleep.

After breakfast the next day, Yu Liangji and the others bid farewell and set off home.

In the first month of the new year, many parcels were also sent to Shibalipu, for Shi Hongda of the Hou Mansion, and his comrades mailed New Year gifts.

And on the 25th day of the first lunar month, the people who went to Beijing to offer congratulatory gifts came back. This time, they pulled two large carts of rewards from His Majesty the Emperor, a large cart of rewards from the Empress, and a small cart of rewards from the Crown Prince and princes and princesses.

Yu Liangji was having a spring banquet at Lao Ni's house at the time, and immediately said after hearing about it, "They must be good things!"

Everyone laughed: "The reward from His Majesty the Emperor is a piece of paper, and it is all golden!"

Sure enough, when I went home and looked at them, they were all good things. The first ten pieces were all made by the imperial order, and they were not allowed to be given away or bought or sold. The rest were not, especially the things given by the empress. Made by imperial order, they are a pair of Ruyi Hetian jade, a pair of Ruyi inlaid with precious gold, a pair of jade pendants inlaid with gold, and a pair of long-necked vases inlaid with gold gems.

They are all in pairs!

"Keep it, it will be used as a betrothal gift for the child in the future!" Yu Liangji waved his hand, and immediately asked someone to pack it up and put it away: "I also keep that box of pearls and the coral bonsai over there!"

As Yu Xinghuai grew up, Yu Liangji began to pay attention to his studies and save his dowry.

In the future, I will find a virtuous and virtuous daughter-in-law to carry on the family line for them.

During the first lunar month, I went to see my classmates' homes, and my classmates also came to eat their spring banquet. After the lively first lunar month, it will be February [-].

On that day, I also ate pork head meat.

Yu Liangji ate the lean meat, and gave the fat one to Shi Hongda.

After February [-], the school officially opened. The children who had to prepare for the exam were divided into a separate class and taught by two new teachers to teach them how to pay attention to the exam.

Because the two old gentlemen are already old, their memories of the boy test are already blurred.

I am a little vague about the county exam, but I have an impression of the government exam and the general exam.

So now it is the two new gentlemen who teach the children to take the exam. Occasionally, sixteen scholars come to the class to talk about their exams.

Yu Liangji went directly to Fucheng with most of the troops and the clothes and luggage of the eight young men.

Two things, one thing is to send Lin Jie and Hong Zetao to the capital with their families. They will live in the capital for a year, and they will see if they can take the national exam.

The other thing is to arrange the eight young Juren to go to college here in Fucheng.

When we arrived at the house in Fucheng, it happened that there were four guest rooms in the front, eight children, two people in one room, let Qi Wu's family take good care of them, stayed for another two days, asked Fangfu Yin, and recommended a famous public house The two gentlemen Lin Hong took them in to get acquainted with the academy. After three days, the eight children went to the academy to go to school.

Here, Yu Liangji is trying to move Lin Hong's family.

"Actually, you don't need to move anything. As long as people go, it's enough to bring clothes and luggage. It's all arranged there. The two families will go there, and they will eat and live in Qiwei's Mansion. The capital is large. Anyone can have a head and a face. So now the two of you are the teachers of my Qiwei Mansion, there are just a few families in the Qiwei Mansion, and there are also children in the house, so you can teach them in your spare time." Shi Hong said early. I thought about the reason: "Their parents are both working in Qiwei's Mansion. If you have anything to do, you can find them if you are too busy."

"It would be nice to have a place to live. I heard from the students in front of us that the capital city is very big, and it's hard to find a place to live. There are even fewer suitable ones. We both wanted to rent a house in the suburbs of Beijing." !" Lin Jie was very moved: "It's good to be able to go to Qiwei's Mansion, at least there is a familiar place."

"After the past, I will write back when I have something to do. I am also a marquis." Yu Liangji joked: "Speaking out can still bluff people."

"Yes, yes!" the two said in unison.

Lin Hong's family, together with their children, a change of clothes, bedding, pillows, etc., loaded ten horse-drawn carriages, and Shi Hongda sent forty people to escort them to Beijing. These forty people did not have to come back after entering Beijing, and stayed in the capital. The Qiwei Mansion, waiting for the two of them to be a Jinshi.

If they want to come back after passing the exam, they will be escorted back. If they want to stay in the capital to develop, these forty people will come back by themselves.

Anyway, there is not enough manpower here for the time being.

After seeing off the person, Yu Liangji sighed: "I just left like this, maybe I won't come back."

Who would come back to a border city after seeing a prosperous place?

"That's not necessarily true!" Shi Hongda said on the contrary: "I also went to the capital back then and saw the imperial palace. Didn't it mean that I didn't want to stay there!?"

"How did you get in?" Yu Liangji turned around and looked at him with his arms folded.

"Not everyone in the special battalion can enter, but all veterans of the special type have the opportunity to enter Beijing. In fact, His Majesty the Emperor wanted some people with extraordinary skills to be the guards in the palace, not the children of the aristocratic families with embroidered pillows. At that time, some people left In Beijing, more people still like to go back to their hometown, and I am one of those people who like to go back to their hometown." Shi Hongda pointed to himself: "It was also at that time that I became a Jinyiwei, but it was just a casual job. If it wasn’t for you, I’m afraid I wouldn’t even be able to write a secret book now, and I would only write one memorial book a year, and it’s just trivial.”

There is no shortage of people to complain about trivial matters. He writes it once a year, which is worthy of his salary.

What this said was true, Yu Liangji was amused.

I sent off the two gentlemen and stayed for another two days. Seeing that the children are adapting well, and the college is also very good, I entrust Fang Fu Yin Duoduo to take care of them. I also looked at his family's daughter Qianjin and went to the seed station to pick some seeds. , and then went back to Shibalipu.

Yu Liangji told every family member the address of Fucheng. If anyone wants to see the child, they can take a bus to the county seat, reverse the car and go to Fucheng. There will naturally be someone to welcome them there.

The family thanked and thanked excitedly, because the children were sent by Lord Hou, and they didn’t bring much at home, for fear that they would be procrastinated, but now that they have an address, it’s a small thing to send some clothes, the main thing is Send some money, and I heard that they are all food and lodging for Lord Hou, which is not very good. I can’t transport the vegetables from my house, so I will set up a vegetable shop there, and deliver the vegetables to the door on time and according to the order. , They can still afford the money.

It turned out that Hou Ye had already ordered a vegetable shop when he arrived, so the family bought a lot of chicken, duck and fish. Sending ten fish over in three days, sent a large deposit, and bought some ordinary gifts for Qi Wu's family. Thank them for taking care of the children. The people in Shibalipu have clear grievances and grievances, and Qi Wu's family accepted it with trepidation. After that, he took care of the eight children more attentively.

After Yu Liangji knew about it, he didn't say anything.

In the evening, I murmured to Shi Hongda: "Poor parents in the world, no matter how powerful people are, they are restrained when it comes to children. In the past, the people in Shibalipu only knew how to compare their voices with others, because they couldn't compare with others. Now it's better." Now, even butcher shops and fish stalls can place orders for money.”

"If it were Xiao Xinghuai, you might be even more generous than them." Shi Hongda pulled him tightly into his arms: "Don't think too much, go to sleep!"

"Oh!" Yu Liangji made a comfortable position in his arms, and fell into a deep sleep.

In March, the Ching Ming Festival came, and there was light snow in the north, but many people went to worship their ancestors. Yu Liangji had already built tombs for his parents and brothers and sisters. In fact, they were bigger than the other tombs. It's just a circle of blue brick curtains.

After the worship, I went home and ate vegetarian food for a day, and started to toss about spring plowing the next day. I took out all the farm tools for repairs, sent them to the blacksmith's shop for sharpening, and returned them all!

"Why?" Usually it can be repaired after delivery!

"The daughter-in-law of the blacksmith's family is pregnant, so it shouldn't be too noisy. It is estimated that the business will not be able to open in the past two years." He Guanshi said with a smile: "This is the only next generation of their family."

Yu Liangji was stunned for a while, and then laughed: "Then tell the villagers, whoever wants to repair farm tools, go to the blacksmith shop in the county with Liu Wenxi, and let them get two little roosters. Send the two fat ducks to the blacksmith's house, congratulations to his eldest daughter-in-law!"

The blacksmith has a son and a daughter, and the daughter has started to see her this year. After the son has another son, it is no wonder that he dare not strike iron. Pregnant women are most afraid of making noise.

Tiejiang Shao is one of the very few families in the village that has only one son. The eldest daughter-in-law of his family got it, and the news spread in the village immediately. People from every household sent things to him, and they all tacitly never went to Tiejiang Shao's house again. Instead of blacksmithing, he took their family's farm tools and followed Liu Wenxi to the blacksmith's shop in the county. Because there were so many of them, they even negotiated the price, which was a little more than what they usually spent at Blacksmith Shao!