[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

The road that Lu Sui pledged to donate originally coincides with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the distance is longer than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. If you don’t transport large quantities of goods, the speed is faster than taking the waterway.

As the first and longest road in the world today, this road named "Helin Avenue" has a reputation far and wide, attracting the crowds and curiosity of many literati and inkmen. Thanks to the fame of the book, this road once surpassed the limelight of the imperial palace and became the most curious building for everyone in the world.

As the fame increases, it will naturally attract the curiosity of many people, which will make this road even more famous. Even the fame of Lu Sui and He Nian's pseudonyms will follow this road and successfully enter thousands of families. household.

This kind of effect made some businessmen who didn't want to let their money go to waste to give birth to a certain desire——

Although there is no way to build the longest road in the world, the second longest road is still possible!

So it didn't take long before the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry ushered in a frenzy of registration again, and the businessmen who came to sign up this time were all real wealthy businessmen that even the imperial court had heard of, and many of them even worked for the former emperor. There are also some big merchants who have made a lot of money by relying on sea routes.

Such a businessman is really not short of money.

All it takes is to protect your good name and power.

Power is hard to come by, and seeing that the emperor has not opened the way to donate officials, these big businessmen can only work hard on their fame in order to protect themselves.

But in the past, if you want a good reputation, you have to do good deeds, and find literati who are willing to bend their waists for five buckets of rice, don't dislike their stench of copper, and write poems and poems for them to spread their good reputation.

But such a person...

If you look at what these businessmen are famous for today, you will know how hard those literati and inkmen are avoiding them.

Even if I don't dislike them, in order not to be squeezed out by others, I would never dare to write poems and poems for them.

But now, there is an opportunity in front of them——

Although it costs a lot of money to pledge roads, it is also famous and can be appreciated by the villagers.

And the money wasn't really wasted.

For example, businessmen who live along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and whose business is in this area are fine. Without roads, they can still walk by water, and the impact of having no roads on them is almost negligible.

But for merchants in other places, or their business is not in the area of ​​the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but in other places, such as those in Guangdong and Guangxi, is there a flat and smooth road that will not particularly affect the driving speed in rainy days? important.

Because of various considerations, those who want to pledge to donate to the road will spring up like mushrooms after a spring rain, and there will be no time to stop.

Some people may think that the length is not enough and the quantity is not enough, and he signed up for a road is not enough, he went to the Ministry of Households to sign up five places away, and wanted to pledge a road from where to where to where to where, once every other day, I come again the next day, and I will confirm it every time I pledge. After I pledge, I will really erect a monument at both ends of the road and engrave my name on it.

Once confirmed, he will leave contentedly.

This was originally a good thing, but what made the Ministry of Finance feel helpless was that the location of the road that the businessman pledged to donate, except for the first one, had nothing to do with him at all.

From all over the world, he has been involved in almost all parts of the country.

Household official: "..."

Although like this businessman, there is one and only one person who has pledged so many roads, but there are quite a few people who have pledged more than two roads.

According to them, there is no surprise, and it didn't take long for the overlap to appear.

Then, the people from the household department directly sacrificed the big killer——

Hold an auction, let them bid for themselves, and let whoever has the highest price pledge.

Those who won the quota were naturally overjoyed, and those who didn't get it didn't care, just turn around and find other unclaimed paths.

The country is so big, it is really not that easy to pave concrete roads all over the country.

Of course, there will also be situations where several businessmen join forces and pledge to donate a super long road.The imperial court highly encouraged such behavior. As long as the road they said could be repaired after investigation, it would be immediately registered on the roster, and it would even be given priority to repair.

After all, such a long road is easy to arrange the location of the cement workshop, and it is easier to build than the section by section.

……

The "Helin Avenue" pledged by Lu Sui was officially completed in April of the following year, when the imperial examinations were all over.

Maoshou was originally traveling with Ji Song, You Shilang of the Ministry of Industry and others. Before Chunwei, he returned to the capital in advance to prepare, and then, without any surprise, directly took the first place in the examination.

But this champion is different from other champions in that he did not enter the Hanlin Academy, but was directly assigned by the emperor to the Ministry of Industry and served as the right servant, while the original right servant was directly promoted to the position of minister of the Ministry of Industry .

Others can't quite understand the emperor's intention of making such an arrangement. You say that the emperor doesn't pay much attention to the longevity of cats. She directly arranges people to the Ministry of Industry, one of the six ministries. Go to popular departments such as the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households.

Everyone was at a loss and did not understand Lin Liu's intention in doing so.

But when the fifth cement workshop was built, Ji Song and his team suddenly received unexpected good news——

Maoshou improved a small structure of the blast furnace and successfully made the temperature inside the blast furnace higher.

By the time of the sixth, there was another good news.

Maoshou also improved a structure of the blast furnace, and successfully reduced the size of the blast furnace. Not to mention easier to build, it is also more time-saving and labor-saving than before, and the construction time is shortened.

Seventh, eighth...

Almost everywhere you go, there will be good news for Maoshou.

After the cement workshops were opened all over the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the appearance of the last blast furnace was completely different from the previous one. Even if the two blast furnaces were placed together, no one would guess that they were actually the same thing.

In the end, Maoshou even used local materials and used cement when building the blast furnace.

Lin Liu looked at the drawings and found that the blast furnace remodeled by Maoshou was almost the same as the modern one.

Lin Liu: "..."

Maoshou's talent in science really amazes her once she experiences it.

At this point in the transformation, there is nothing to change the structure and materials of the blast furnace. After all, the materials are limited. Even if Maoshou has a knowledge reserve and IQ beyond the current level, there is no way to build a better blast furnace.

But such a blast furnace is already very good, whether it is the calcination efficiency or the temperature inside, it has been greatly improved compared to before.

The right servant, no, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry would walk around in front of the new blast furnace almost every day, and then he would stroke his beard and smile from ear to ear.

……

In the next two years, Ji Song, Mao Shou, and Minister of the Ministry of Industry divided into two groups and began to build cement workshops all over the country.

With the completion of the cement workshop, cement roads as smooth as bluestone roads began to be rolled out all over the country.

……

Ji Song and others were on the go, so the marriage between him and Lin Liu could only be postponed again.

Lin Liu didn't think it was a bad thing to be unmarried in her 20s, so she didn't take this matter to heart at all.

What she is more concerned about now is the opening day of the girls' school.

With the end of the imperial examination, women's schools will naturally start.

According to the original plan, a total of three women's schools were opened, all in the same place, but the enlightenment school was closer to the school for cultivating Jinshi, while the school for learning talents was farther away.

As expected, the first two schools enrolled either children from poor families, or people who had fallen into poverty but were unwilling to be married off by their family members and wanted to make a living on their own.

Many of them signed up without telling their family members.

Because of this, on the second day of registration, many girls' parents and family members came to the school to ask for someone.But Lin Liu had already expected this situation, so he sent guards to guard the school gate early on, and if he encountered these people, he would immediately drive them away.

If the other party is noisy, the guards will directly carry out the emperor to suppress people——

"Since they have entered these schools, they are the emperor's people. Unless they are voluntary, as long as they are still in school for one day, you can't take them away forcibly!"

Those people insisted on being parents, and although they were afraid of the emperor and the guards, they still made noise outside the school unwillingly. For this reason, they even did not hesitate to tell the news that their daughter was engaged and would be married soon, hoping to bring them home.

Marriage has always been a major event, and when it comes to marriage, even the guards are a little moved.

But after Lin Liu learned about this, he was completely indifferent. He just asked the girls for their opinions and made sure that they didn't want to marry right away, so the guards sent them away directly.

If someone still wants to make trouble again, they will be directly arrested and thrown into prison.

In the eyes of the common people, "that person will go to jail sooner or later" is almost one of the most vicious curses. Now that the guards directly say that they will arrest the person in the boss, those people naturally dare not make trouble anymore.

For a while, the area around the girls' school became much quieter.

Officials in the DPRK and China have some opinions on Lin Liu's actions, but she is firm, as if anyone who dares to hinder her will directly take off the other party's black hat...

For their own future, officials are still very aware of current affairs.

So this matter was only brought up once or twice in the court, and then the topic disappeared directly in the court.

……

The women's school started, and it was time for the concubines in the harem of the former royal family to leave.

At the beginning, when it was reported that most of the teachers in these three schools were concubines in the harem of the two former emperors, everyone was stunned and speechless, completely unable to understand what the current emperor was thinking. What.

After all the harems of the two former emperors were disbanded, everyone could not help but think that the emperor was just trying to make room for himself, so temporarily arranged those former concubines into women's schools.

However, such a view did not exist for long, and was soon dispelled——

Because they soon discovered that although most of the teachers in the women's school were from the concubines of the former harem, not all the concubines from the former harem became teachers of the women's school.

After inquiring again, other people knew that these concubines had passed several exams before they were released from the palace, and only those with excellent exam results could enter the women's school to teach.

As for those whose test scores were not good enough, they either went to the temple after leaving the palace, or returned to their natal family. Of course, there were also those who bought a small courtyard with their own money and shared it with someone they had a good relationship with...

But these people who did not enter the women's school are enough to show that the teachers of the women's school are not randomly selected.

What's more, there are still many talented women who have made great achievements in a certain talent and have stood up to speak for them.

Although the identities of these teachers as concubines in the former court and concubine are a bit disturbing, the emperor himself doesn't mind, and they don't seem to have a position to mind?After all, in the previous dynasty, even if someone wanted to learn talents from these people, they would not have that opportunity at all.

These people observed for a while, and after confirming that the emperor really didn't care about the identities of those people, they assuredly sent their daughter to the third school to study talent.

As for the female students in the first and second schools, they didn't have much access to information, and most of them didn't really enroll in the women's school to take the imperial examination, so they didn't have any opinion on the identities of these teachers.

After some of them knew their identities, they still felt that they were very powerful, and they became closer and more fond of them.

Fu Qiufang, as the oldest female student among them, also tried to take the imperial examination, but she just passed the exam for a child student and couldn't continue——

If you want to be a scholar, you have to wait until the second year.

Fu Qiufang was both disappointed and fortunate.Frustrated because she couldn't take the government examination, she felt that if she succeeded in one fell swoop, she would be free from her elder brother, and would not have to worry about fines from the court anymore; but she also knew her own level, and understood that even if she really took the government examination, With the current level, I am afraid that there is no way to pass the examination of scholar.

The intertwining of the two emotions in her heart made her unable to settle down and study for a while.

It wasn't until the words and deeds of those guards spread into the school that she was completely relieved.

As long as you don't get married casually...

Fu Qiufang already has a foundation and a good talent. Although it has been neglected in recent years, the time is short and it is easy to pick it up.

So after not studying for a long time at the women's school, her grades improved by leaps and bounds, and she soon reached the level of a scholar——

The principal of the girls' school said it himself.

Fu Qiufang still believed in the principal's words, so she applied for the government examination without hesitation, and successfully won the honor of a scholar.

Although the ranking is not good, it has a completely different meaning to Fu Qiufang.

After passing the examination as a scholar, she no longer has to be under the control of her elder brother.

Women's students originally did not have much hope of being admitted as a scholar, but Fu Qiufang successfully obtained the honor of a scholar after entering the women's school for less than a year, which is really inspiring.

Many girls who couldn't find their goals at first, immediately determined their goals and began to work hard towards the goal of being a scholar.

Many girls admired Fu Qiufang very much, and there were many girls around her who came to ask questions.

However, the days like this were not very long, because the principal of the school, Song Min, asked Fu Qiufang for her opinion, and after confirming that she still wanted to go down after passing the exam, she was directly transferred to another school and began to carry out the system. Actively learn the knowledge related to the imperial examination.

For example, history books, miscellaneous books, Jiuzhang arithmetic and other books that may or may not be tested in the imperial examination.

Because Fu Qiufang was the first student of this school, and there was probably no second student for the time being, so she received the attention and preferential treatment of almost all the teachers in the school.

And these attentions and preferential treatment are all reflected in...

Pay attention to and compare her academics.

Jian Huizhen, the principal of the second school, has a strong temperament, and she once lamented that she wished to be born as a man, so she was 1 in favor of Lin Liu's idea of ​​changing the status of women.

Jian Huizhen can be regarded as Lin Liu's loyal supporter.

Because she knew more about the affairs of the court and struggled to survive in the center of power, Jian Huizhen had a much deeper understanding of power than other women, including Sheng Man and other girls who had achieved excellent results in Enke before.

For Lin Liu's focus on improving the status of women, she directly focused on the number of female officials who entered the court and the education of women, and she was even more appalled.

Therefore, when she learned that she became the principal of the school, Jian Huizhen was the one who most wanted to make achievements.

It's a pity that the time for women to participate in the imperial examination is still short. It's not that there are no girls who have passed the imperial examination, but the number is very small——

There are rumors from other places that every place has one or two girls who have passed the exam, but most of these girls have good family backgrounds, so naturally they will not leave their families and come to the capital just to go to school; Three or four, but Fu Qiufang was the only one who entered the women's school.

Therefore, Jian Huizhen's enthusiasm can only be placed on Fu Qiufang alone.

If it is said that Fu Qiufang had a relatively easy life in the first school, when she entered the second school, she fell into a deep learning hell.

She almost started from opening her eyes in the morning until she went to bed at night.

In addition to eating and changing clothes in the middle, there is almost no time to play.

The only time to relax is to learn the six arts of a gentleman.It was only after this that she could temporarily let go of her tense nerves.

If other girls who are not short of food and clothing suddenly experience such an intensity of study, I am afraid that they will have cried countless times, and they may even drop out of school and give up the imperial examination directly.

Fu Qiufang gritted her teeth and persisted, because...

She is older.

Fu Qiufang, 24 years old this year, will be forced to marry if she fails to pass the exam next year.

The words "compulsory marriage" are like a guillotine hanging over her head. As long as she relaxes a little, it seems to push herself to hell. As long as she fails to meet the teacher's requirements, she feels that she is far from her Being forced into a marriage is one step closer.

When Fu Qiufang was the most exhausted in her studies, it was not that she thought of giving up and returning home to let her elder brother arrange to marry directly.

Whether it is marrying a fat-headed, elderly man to fill the house, or being given to the rich and powerful by his elder brother as a concubine, it is much easier than today.

But every time when she was about to give up, she would feel a sense of unwillingness in her heart.

Why can she only marry such a person?

Why can she only be a concubine?

Why can she only obey her brother's arrangement, whoever he asks her to marry can only marry?

Is it because she is old?But she is old, isn't it because she was delayed by her brother?When she was in the prime of her life, not to mention a family with hundreds of women begging, there were more than a dozen matchmakers who came to propose marriage, and many of them were genuinely good.

But just because the other party's family background did not meet his brother's expectations, he rejected them all.

Later, she got older and older, her reputation got worse and worse, and her options in the marriage and love market became less and less.

But even at this time, her brother has not given up the idea of ​​letting her marry into a noble family.

Fu Qiufang just felt suffocated.

She didn't want to fulfill her brother's wish, even if this unwillingness would make her life very tiring.

With this unreconciled energy, Fu Qiufang survived the most difficult time at the beginning, successfully adapted to the rhythm of the school, and became more comfortable in her studies.

At this time, the school's second student also came to sign up.

Zhen's family in Gusu, Zhen Yinglian.

After Zhen Shiyin learned that Lin Liu became the emperor, his mood was quite complicated. Firstly, he didn't agree with such behavior, and secondly, he was also worried that if he joined in at this time, people would misunderstand that he was taking advantage of his previous relationship.

So whether it was Enke or the first imperial examination, Zhen Shiyin did not let Yingzhu participate.

But he has worries of one kind or another, but the two children don't.

After Yingzhu heard that Maoshou won the first prize in the examination, she was a little unhappy.He and Maoshou's study progress has always been not much different. Maoshou won the first prize in the examination. He felt that if he took part in this imperial examination, even if he could not get the top three, a position of biography would still be more than enough.

But because of Zhen Shiyin's concerns, he missed three years and had to take the imperial examination three years later.

But how many three years are there in life?

If he misses one, the gap between him and Maoshou will be directly widened, and then it will even be further and further widened. In the end, he may not be able to catch up with Maoshou's achievements in his entire life.

But obviously at the beginning, the gap between the two was not that big at all.

Yingzhu is awkward at home, and Yinglian also wants to go to the capital.

Yinglian was already engaged before, but who knew that after Lin Liu ascended the throne, the officials would be strictly investigated.The family that Yinglian was married to was also an official, but unfortunately, they didn't survive the strict investigation of the court, and they were directly dismissed and exiled by ransacking the house.

Yinglian regained her freedom again.

According to common sense, Yinglian's fiancé's family has an accident and has nothing to do with her. If something happens to his family, Yinglian can find another fiancé.

But firstly, as soon as something happened to her, Yinglian could not wait to engage in another marriage, which would make the Zhen family and her feel colder; secondly, the timing of their engagement was too coincidental, almost less than a month after the lovers got engaged. Something happened to her fiancé's house.

Some superstitious people felt that Zhen Yinglian's luck might be a bit bad.

Although such gossip is rare, since some people say that Zhen Shiyin and Feng's couple can't let it go, they simply let Zhen Yinglian stay at home, study and embroider, and wait for the limelight to pass.

But during this period of shelter from the limelight, the country has undergone too many changes.

The first is the blast furnace that has sprung up on this land like mushrooms after a spring rain, and the second is the flat road that is intertwined in this land like a silver belt, and the establishment of a women's school...

Yinglian and Daiyu grew up together, and were also greatly influenced by Lin Liu.

Out of her understanding of Lin Liu, Yinglian always felt that the changes in this country were more than that.She very, very much wants to participate in it, wants to experience such changes in person, wants to see the beginning of these changes with her own hands, and even wants to promote such changes with her own hands.

Therefore, Yinglian proposed to her parents without hesitation that she wanted to go to the capital and enter a women's school.

Zhen Shiyin is a hermit-like character with a big heart, but at the same time, he values ​​the defense of men and women more than anyone else.

Although he didn't mind his daughter being able to read and write, he agreed to his daughter's request to take the imperial examination after struggling.But the help he provided during the Yinglian imperial examination was too limited. Except for the books he and Yingzhu read during the imperial examination, and various reading notes, it can be said that there was almost no help.

After she decided to take the imperial examination, Yingzhu helped her more.

After all, Yingzhu would not talk to Yinglian about men's and women's defenses, would not refuse to be alone with her own sister, and would not be entangled in whether her daughter's success in the scholar exam would hinder the marriage.

Yingzhu's idea is very simple: if my sister wants to take the imperial examination, then go, it's not difficult anyway!

Yinglian almost knew everything about the imperial examination through Yingzhu's younger brother.

When she returned from the Tongsheng and Xiucai exams, Yingzhu was also the happiest one for her.

Zhen Shiyin seemed to have finally let go of her entanglement after she passed the examination as a scholar, and began to fully support her to become an official through the imperial examination——

After all, all the scholars have passed the exam, those who care about it will definitely not consider Yinglian again; and those who don't mind, I'm afraid they still hope that Yinglian will come back from the exam for a Juren, or even a Jinshi.

Things seem to be changing for the better, but what the Zhen family never imagined is that the biggest resistance to Yinglian's imperial examinations comes from the fact that the dodder is attached to Zhen Shiyin for survival, and she obeys her words and is gentle and careless. Fengshi of the good wife template.

It stands to reason that Zhen Shiyin has no objection to Yinglian's imperial examination, and Feng Shi, who has always been Zhen Shiyin's answer, should also agree with this.

But the fact is that it was the first time Feng Shi expressed a completely different opinion from Zhen Shiyin.

When Yinglian proposed that she didn't want to get married for the time being and wanted to continue her exams, Feng's reaction was quite fierce: "Daughter, how old are you now? If you don't get married now, someone else will pick out your good husband. You I have no objection to taking part in the imperial examination, but now that you have reached the age of marriage, you should get married first and then consider the imperial examination. How can you not get married?"

Yinglian thought that Feng had misunderstood that she was planning not to get married for the rest of her life, so she quickly explained: "It's not that my daughter doesn't plan to get married for the rest of her life, but she hopes that she can think about getting married after passing the Jinshi exam."

"How is this possible?" Feng said emotionally, "It will be years before you pass the Jinshi exam? How old will you be then? Will anyone still want to marry you? Are you still able to marry?"

Yinglian was taken aback by Feng's family, and she spoke after a while: "Mother, please believe me. Father and Yingzhu have both said that it is no problem for my daughter to pass the exam. After she wins the exam, according to the court law, Even if my daughter waits until she is 25 years old, she will not be forced to marry by the official media, and she can take the Jinshi exam slowly."

She thought that Feng was worried that she would waste too much time on the imperial examinations and end up in the worst situation for herself, so she specifically mentioned this matter.

And Yinglian is still very confident about her passing the Jinshi exam: "Even if you fail the exam for a while, you will definitely be able to do it before you are thirty..."

"Why are you so selfish?" Feng Shi was already very angry. "You only think about yourself, why don't you think about your brother? You are only a few years older than your brother. If you never get married, why is your brother?" What to do? He is only short of being able to pass the Jinshi exam, and when he goes to the capital, he can marry a marriage that will help him, but if you never get married, who is willing to wait for your brother?"

Yinglian was struck by lightning, she never expected that the reason why Feng's disapproval of her participation in the imperial examination was actually here.

She suddenly felt that the always gentle mother in front of her had become strange.

Ying Zhu was also there at the time, and frowned immediately after hearing this: "Mom, what are you talking about? The imperial court has increased the legal age of marriage. Although there are still many people who marry according to the previous age, they are not protected by the law." And if the son really wants to be an official, he must not violate the law of the court. The court said that he can only marry at the age of 22, and it is impossible for the son to marry earlier than this time."

Feng frowned and retorted: "How do you know that when you were 22 years old, your sister would definitely pass the Jinshi exam?"

Yingzhu was dumbfounded, he really couldn't guarantee it.

It's not that Yinglian is not smart enough, but because Yinglian was only interested in poetry and poetry since she was a child. Although she also read other miscellaneous books, she only let go of books like the Four Books and Five Classics after studying them. Her accumulation in the imperial examinations was not enough. .

Moreover, she has never systematically studied knowledge related to the imperial examination, and it is still somewhat difficult to make up for it.

Especially when Zhen Shiyin would not teach her personally.

But that was never the point.

Ying Zhu looked at Feng Shi with a displeased expression: "But why do I have to get married at the age of 22? What happened a few years later?"

"You got married a few years later, and I will be able to have a grandson a few years later. What do you think is wrong?" Feng still felt aggrieved, "My mother is getting older, in her sixties and seventies, who knows how long she can live?" Year? Mother wants to hug her grandson before she dies, what's the problem?"

Sister and brother Yinglian Yingzhu: "..."

The two siblings suddenly didn't know what to say.

They were originally the old daughter and old son of Zhen Shiyin and Feng Shi who were born over half a century old. While the husband and wife doted on them, they naturally placed more hopes on them.

It's just that before the husband and wife both restrained themselves and didn't express their innermost expectations, but now that Yinglian didn't even want to get married because of the imperial examination, they were anxious and subconsciously expressed their thoughts .

Yinglian thought of a compromise, thinking about taking the imperial examination after getting married.

After all, Yingzhu has little experience and is completely unable to give his own opinion.

Zhen Shiyin learned about her daughter's thoughts, but dissuaded her: "I must remind you, once you get married, no matter how enlightened the other party is, they will hope that you will give birth to a child as soon as possible. There will be a second, a third, a fourth."

He looked at his daughter who had been doting on him for many years, and opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment.

After hesitating for a long time, he said: "If you really want to go on the road of imperial examination, it is almost your only choice to get a Jinshi first and then get married."

After finishing speaking, Zhen Shiyin shut up, leaving enough time and space for Yinglian to think.

The issue of offspring has always been the primary issue in family continuation.

If Yinglian married and gave birth to her first child, then after confinement, as long as she can be ruthless and let her child get close to her father-in-law, mother-in-law, or even nanny and others, she can turn a blind eye to the crying of the child, can If you are not disturbed while studying, you can naturally continue the imperial examination according to your previous ideas.

But the fact is that such a situation is too ideal.

As a man, he knew very well how much dissatisfaction would arise in his heart if his wife neglected the child to such an extent after giving birth.

If married, this becomes an unsolvable problem.

——Even in modern times, those girls who really want to study further will never let themselves fall into marriage when they haven't finished their studies.

Because of marriage, it will really take too much energy from women.

After listening to Zhen Shiyin's words, Yinglian fell silent.

She couldn't help but wonder, if her younger brother was in the same situation as her now, if he said in such a situation that he would never get married if he didn't pass the Jinshi exam, would her mother still say the same thing as she did to herself? Come?

After thinking about it, Yinglian showed a wry smile.

Zhen Shiyin was a little distressed: "Yinglian, you don't need to make a decision now. Just like your brother said, he can't get married before the age of 22. If you can't choose between the imperial examination and your mother, you might as well work harder. Years, wait until Yingzhu is 22 years old to choose."

After all, Yingzhu is now 22 years old, and there are still many years left.

Yinglian smiled and nodded, then said goodbye and left Zhen Shiyin's study, returning to her own room.

After tossing and turning all night, Yinglian finally made a decision: "Father, my daughter wants to go to a girls' school in the capital."

She couldn't watch her mother die with regrets, but she also felt unwilling to let her give up the idea she had just had so easily.

and so……

Let her try it, set a deadline for herself, and let her try to see if she can achieve her goal in these last few years.

Feng's objection was expressed on the spot.

Zhen Shiyin was unwilling to agree at first, but after Feng Shi spoke, he was silent for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement with Yinglian's request.

After going to the capital, maybe I can really calm down and study.

Yinglian breathed a sigh of relief, and decided to pack her luggage as soon as she went back.She doesn't want to stay at home to waste time anymore, she must grasp every moment in the future in order to get one step closer to her goal.

Seeing that her sister's proposal to go to the capital was agreed, Ying Zhu immediately said, "My son is going to the capital too. My son has already missed the imperial examination this year, and my son doesn't want to miss it again next time."

Knowing her son's dissatisfaction, Zhen Shiyin felt a little guilty about her son, and also worried that it would be unsafe for Yinglian to go on the road alone, so she agreed to Yingzhu's request to leave Gusu for the capital together without much hesitation.

The two siblings got what they wanted, and the smiles on their faces were a little bit more.

Feng looked at Yinglian and Yingzhu unhappily, pursed her lips, and said, "It's not safe for the two siblings to go to the capital, and there is no one to take care of them in their daily lives, otherwise I will go to the capital too. "

The smile on Yinglian's face disappeared instantly, and her whole body became tense.

Yingzhu looked at Yinglian worriedly, and said: "Mother, my sister and I are already grown up, and there are maids and servants to take care of us, so how can there be no one to take care of us?"

Feng Wenrou retorted: "How can a servant be taken care of by his mother?"

"We are going to study and study, waiting to take the imperial examination, so what should we care about if we take good care of it? As long as we have food and clothing and don't get cold, wouldn't it be fine?"

"If you live comfortably, you will be motivated to learn, won't you?"

Yingzhu still wanted to refute, but Zhen Shiyin said: "The two children are old, they are not children anymore, they can take care of themselves, why are you making trouble? You just stay with me in Gusu, and go to the capital to do it. What? You are worried that the two children will not be taken care of carefully, why don't you worry about me, a bad old man? "

Feng Shi opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything.

Yinglian and Yingzhu looked at each other, subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Yinglian was worried that she would have to come back to take the imperial examination a year later, wasting time on the road.Unexpectedly, at this time, the imperial court once again promulgated an imperial decree——

As long as students who really study in women's schools, no matter where their native place is, they can directly apply for the imperial examination in the capital.

After the edict was spread, Yinglian didn't even have the last bit of hesitation.

……

After the Yinglian sister and brother came to the capital, they went to visit Lin Ruhai's family.

After a few days as a guest at Lin's house, Yingzhu went directly to the Imperial College, while Yinglian went to the second girls' school to be a classmate with Fu Qiufang.

The arrival of Yinglian has a great positive effect on Fu Qiufang, after all, he was the only student before, but now