The Crossing of Fortune and Prayer Jubilee

Of course Lou Yuzhu didn't know about these things that happened in Li's residence, because after lunch at Xinyi Building in the afternoon, she set off for Yangliu Town to visit Lou Chenglan.Although the two families haven't had much communication in the past few years, Lou Yuzhu provided Wei Laosi with many opportunities through Zhou Cheng, such as fishing for big red crayfish and collecting wild animals to be escorted to Nanyang City. Taking the risk of hunting in the mountains can be said to have relieved Lou Chenglan's worries.

Stayed overnight in Lou Chenglana, and when Shuri returned to Yanjia Village, Lou Yuzhu began to get busy with silkworm breeding.When the spring silkworms grow to the size of chopsticks, Lou Hua and Lou Ming usher in the first wave of exams, Tongsheng Exams.Compared to the nervousness of Lou Chengyi and his husband, Lou Yuzhu is quite relaxed. With the sufficient conditions in the past few years, if the two brothers can't even pass the childbirth test, he will beat Mr. Mu first without getting angry!

The Tong Sheng Exam can be taken in Huya Town, so the results were announced very quickly, Lou Hua and Lou Ming were naturally on the list, Li Zheng's two grandsons also passed successfully including several other families.Successfully passing the Tongsheng Examination can be said to have officially touched the threshold of a scholar. Those who pass immediately are calm in joy, and those who fail are naturally another scene.

The two brothers both passed the children's test. Lou Chengyi, an honest man, couldn't close his mouth. It's a rare time to express his opinion and want to set up a few tables. Unfortunately, Lou Yuzhu ruthlessly beat him down. He only set up two tables for symbolic invitation. The acquaintances in the village had a meal.Of course, Sanfang set up a banquet and other people couldn't eat it for nothing, so they set up banquets in return one after another, which made Lou Chengyi, an honest man, very vain.

After passing the Tongsheng test, the short-lived happy atmosphere entered the intense scientific examination stage.The brothers Louhua and Louming were even more stunned. They lived and boarded directly in the town and rarely went home for a month.

Lou Yuzhu saw that apart from feeling sorry for the two brothers, what she could help was to take good care of them and not let them be distracted by chores.As September approached, students from all over the country rushed to Wutong County to prepare for the scientific examination, and the old house came to their door.

This time, Liu Ama and Xu Chunting came to the door, and the reason was that Lou Wen was going to Wutong to take the exam and asked Sanfang for travel expenses.

Lou Yuzhu was about to laugh angrily, not to mention how much money the old house has earned in the past few years, just say that the lion in the old house opened his mouth. Liu Amo opened his mouth for 100 taels, and That expression and attitude were not borrowing money but asking for money, and it was the strange expression that he should feel honored to be able to come to the third house.Looking at Xu Chunting's decent smile, Lou Yuzhu couldn't help but feel amused when she thought of the news she got before. "It's 100 taels, right?" Lou Yuzhu repeated, nodding with a smile, "Yes. It's just that I can't get it together right now, so let's go back with my uncle first, and when I get it all together, I'll send it to you." past."

Liu Amo naturally suspected that Sanfang was making excuses, Lou Yuzhu repeatedly promised to send the two away, then turned to Huangshan and said, "Huangshan, you go to the town to collect fifty thousand copper coins, send them to the old house, and talk to the township by the way." The person who went to Liu’s house asked him to greet the next few banks, and said that someone in the old house wanted to exchange copper coins for real money, so they had to refuse. Oh, by the way, remember to bring back the bamboo cage in which the money was sent. It doesn’t make sense to build a bamboo cage after giving money for nothing, doesn’t it?”

Huang Shan agreed with his mouth, but in his heart he was full of praise for his young brother's idea.Fifty thousand copper coins are equivalent to 150 catties. Of course, Lou Wen can't take them away, but the most convenient bank in the town won't exchange them. Naturally, I didn't bother to bother with this effort. If I don't have money, I can only change one or two taels.So Lou Yuzhu's trick is clever, don't you want to borrow money?Okay, I'll borrow it, but I have plenty of ways to make it so that you can't use it even if you borrow it!Just accept it, and hold back if you don't accept it!

Fifty thousand copper coins fell in the middle of the courtyard of the old house, Mr. Lou's fingertips trembled in anger, and he slapped Liu Ahmo back. "It's enough for me to ask you to borrow 20 taels, but you need to borrow 100 taels! You think you're capable when you annoy Sanfang?!"

"It's Sanfang who is acting like a demon, what are you doing to me?!" Liu Amo was also angry, but he was angry that Sanfang shouldn't have sent copper coins and even ran to exchange them for silver, but Mr. Lou was angry at this Behind the incident, Sanfang mocked brightly.

At the time when Fu Linshu changed his household registration, Liu Ama threw more than 1000 copper coins on Lou Chengyi, making the father and son pick up every penny with red eyes, but now Sanfang retaliates with a tooth for a tooth.

Mr. Lou trembled angrily, and ordered Lou Chengli to shout: "Let Sanfang take these copper coins back, we won't borrow them anymore!"

Liu Amo covered her face and jumped: "Why should I return the money I already got?!"

"I said I'll pay it back!" Mr. Lou's face was gloomy, Liu Amo didn't dare to blatantly resist, but his eyes were fixed on Lou Chengli, and he had the momentum to make him look good if he dared to pay it back.

Lou Chengli knew very well that the 100 yuan would not be useful to him, and he would not get any benefits, so why should he be ashamed to go up there?Immediately, he turned his head and picked up the hoe and said, "My son is not free now, so dad should call someone else."

Mr. Lou got angry again, but Mr. Lou didn't even shake him, turned around and walked away.Mr. Lou was so angry that he couldn't say anything, he flung his sleeves and went back to the room in a rage, and said harshly that no one could touch the copper coin.It's a pity that this family would not be what it is now if it was sincere and under his control. One night, the hill-like copper coins disappeared without a trace. Mr. Lou had a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat, and he became ill within two days. .

Lou Yuzhu raised her eyebrows when she heard the news, and turned her head to ask Huangshan to find a good doctor and let him go to the old house to see Mr. Lou, and generously said that he paid all the medicine money and consultation fees, and asked the good doctor to prescribe the medicine directly that is.Lou Chengyi, who didn't know the whole story, was moved by Lou Yuzhu's actions at that time, and gave Lou Yuzhu a favorite dish with chopsticks with a flattering face, which shocked Lou Yuzhu severely and also felt a little guilty.The strange thing is that Lou Chengyi and his wife were not there when Liu Ahma came to the door, and the only ones who knew about it were Lou Yuzhu and Xiao Louchen.

"Brother Yu," Lou Chen's face puffed up, "Where's your face?"

Lou Yuzhu coughed dryly: "I don't know where I lost it, I'll look for it when I go back."

"..." Xiao Lou Chen glanced at Lou Yuzhu speechlessly, and then at Lou Chengyi who was moved, and then silently covered his face.

Fu Linshu inexplicably asked his brother with his eyes, Lou Yuzhu returned an innocent face, and Xiao Louchen closed his fingers, deeply feeling that he couldn't bear to look directly at you!

In front of the tense scientific examination, this little episode did not turn up any waves. Lou Hua and Lou Ming set off to Wutong County to prepare for the exam, Pei Guanying then went to Nanyang City to prepare for the exam, and Lou Yuzhu invited Mr. Mu back to Yanjia Village as a guest.

In the afternoon, the two of them sat in the gazebo for a rest. Old Mu was drinking fresh and elegant fruit wine beautifully, and asked Lou Yuzhu with a smile, "Nervous?"

Elder Mu smiled, took a sip of the winery's fine fruit wine with a satisfied face, put down his glass and glanced at Lou Yuzhu, shook his head and sighed, "It would be great if you were a kid."

"Where did this come from?"

"If you are a boy, you can take the scientific examination, not to mention the child's examination, the scholar, the imperial examination, the Jinshi, and the final palace examination are all a piece of cake for you, right? After that, you will definitely have a place among the pillars of the country, not to mention your name will last forever , but it is feasible to be famous all over the world.”

Lou Yuzhu smiled, filled the wine glass for Mu Lao, straightened up and faced Mu Lao with a smile: "Mrs. Mu thinks highly of me, I'm just a brother from a small family, how can I deserve such praise from you?"

"You know if you deserve it or not." Seeing that people don't recognize Mr. Mu, and he doesn't take it seriously, he looked around the Yanjia Village outside the window, and said quite sadly: "I have been here for two and a half years in a blink of an eye, time has really passed Hurry up, it's time to go back in a blink of an eye." Satisfied with the surprise on Lou Yuzhu's face, she continued: "The person who picked me up should arrive tomorrow, and I will take a boat from Linnanwan Haikou by then."

"Mr. Mu won't wait for Second Brother Pei to come back?" This news has to be said to catch people off guard, and there was no news of such a big event before.

"What's there to wait for? It's not life and death." Mr. Mu's life can also be said to have come through rough winds and waves, and this parting is not in his eyes.

"You are old and unrestrained, but I have failed Second Brother Pei." Lou Yuzhu smiled wryly, remembering that he had patted his chest with Pei Guanying and promised to entertain Mr. Mu, but now no one wants to entertain anyone.

"Hmph, who told you not to be a boy, but to be a brother!"

"Old Mu, are you drunk?" Lou Yuzhu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, if he could be chosen, he would be one of the few who wouldn't know how to do it!I don’t know if I’m bent, so I’m going to jump directly to the step of giving birth, and I’m kneeling to God, okay!

"It would be great if I was drunk!" Elder Mu beat his chest, and finally found a good seedling, but it turned out to be a brother who couldn't take the scientific examination to become an official, which made him really scratch his heart.

Lou Yuzhu looked sympathetic, saying that he was really helpless in this matter.

"...haha." Elder Mu.

Lou Yuzhu, who was smirked, said that it was true that the disciples of the church starved to death of the master, and that he was choked to death by his own words from time to time.

The people who came to pick him up from Shuri went to Yanjia Village, and Lou Yuzhu knew that he couldn't stay, so he went all the way to send Mu Lao to Linnanwan. After Zhou Cheng heard the news, they rushed to Haikou.

Before boarding the boat, Mr. Mu summoned Lou Yuzhu to hand over three letters. "Don't tell Guan Ying and Lou Hua Lou Ming before I leave, you can forward these three letters when they come back from the exam."

Lou Yuzhu accepted the letter respectfully: "Definitely."

The boat was about to sail and couldn't stay for a long time, Mr. Mu pretended to be annoyed and said, "Teach your fourth child better, let him come to Beijing to find me when he is seven!"

Hearing this, Lou Yuzhu's eyes lit up: "Is this true?!"

Mr. Mu, who was suspected of his credibility, was really a little angry now, knocking on Lou Yuzhu and angrily said: "What's the benefit of me lying to you?"

Covering her head and taking a quick step back, Lou Yuzhu smiled calmly, "A word from a gentleman is hard to follow."

"Ugly words are up front, you need to have more than half of your spirituality, if not, I will send eight horses to chase the words back."

"..." How about a tall literary master?

A month later, when Pei Guanying was waiting for the return trip, Lou Yuzhu personally handed over the letter to the other party. "Originally, I wanted to send someone to notify the second brother, but Mr. Mu refused, saying that it was an important time so that you would not be distracted."

Pei Guanying took the letter and nodded: "My father told me about this in a letter, and I'm already prepared."

"After all, I didn't do what I promised, and the second brother will blame me for suffering."

The solemn and guilty expression on Lou Yuzhu's face was not only sad but made Pei Guanying smile. "Brother Yu's guilty expression is really not suitable for me."

"...hehe." Hello boy, goodbye boy!