Self-cultivation of male support

Du Shiyou had originally shown himself to be very ambitious, trying to get ahead in the academy, but in the past two years, his family's situation has gotten better and better. So care about it, as long as you are on the list.

Because of his extreme confidence in himself, he seemed very relaxed, and he still had time to look at Chen Shimei, who was rumored to be even more unlucky than him.

"As for Chen Shimei, I don't know whether it's luck or misfortune. I heard that due to the tight exam time, the poisonous steamed bun was put aside after only one bite. The medicine didn't show its effect in the exam room, so I finished answering the questions anyway.

He collapsed as soon as he left the examination room, and it has been four days so far. He was carried back home, and the doctor came to the door every day, but he did not get better. "Du Shi said with emotion.

Probably thinking of his own unlucky experience, he feels more empathy for Chen Shimei's experience.

"Anyway, he came from a village and studied in an academy. Hearing that something like this happened to him, brother should go and have a look, so as not to be called cold."

Shiyan asked Du Shiyou to prepare a pack of snacks for ten taels of silver and let Du Shiyou take them away: "When something like this happened to Chen Shimei, there should be a lot of people from Chenjiacun. Big brother, if you like it, go and come back quickly. Don't get entangled by the people of Chen Family Village."

After all, Chen Shimei is the hope of all the people surnamed Chen in the Chen family village. Shi Yan guessed that after this experience, the elders in the clan would probably be alarmed.

Before leaving, Du Shiyou still had some headaches: "Every time I meet those people, they have to ask questions, compare me and Chen Shimei, until finally, when they hear me say that Chen Shimei is better than me, they can Satisfied and let people go, but I have to put on a good face to deal with it, it's very annoying."

Zhi Yanxin said that this is all human nature. It is unreasonable to ask relatives and friends one by one during the Chinese New Year to ask you about your grades, and then to show off the nature of other people's children.

If you don't want to be shown off by other people's children, you'd better try hard to become someone else's children, so as to avoid a lot of troubles.

Apparently, Du Shi had not experienced this unique treatment because he had few relatives in the Du family. He was too weak after only being verbally attacked by the people of Chenjia Village.

As a result, Du Shi went melancholy and came back with an angry face. It only took more than half an hour. Calculating the distance, he stayed in the Chen family for less than two incense sticks. Yan had only read less than half of the book that Yan had in hand if he had eloped with a young lady.

Du Shi angrily took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve, put it on the table stiffly, and said to Shi Yan angrily: "The dim sum was taken away by the Chen family and they opened it on the spot and ate the tea. I will take the money directly came back."

Du Shiyou is not a stingy person, even if a classmate with a good relationship is sick, he will not be reluctant to part with ten taels of silver, not to mention that Chen Shimei has never done anything wrong to the Du family from the beginning to the end, the two grew up in the same village, The friendship of reading together is not what Du Shiyou did so badly.

Shi Yan put down the book in her hand, raised her eyebrows and said, "Tell me."

"Hmph, as soon as I walked in, the Chen family's parents said in a weird way that this time Chen Shimei was in an accident, even if I was on the list this time, it would not win. That tone, who has never been unlucky during the exam? But this is me I can bear it.

But they are getting more and more over the top, saying that 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, their family Chen Shimei is unlucky this year, next year it may be my unlucky, so let me not be too complacent.

In the eyes of their family, I came to visit patients with money and snacks, just to show off, without a word of thanks, and I would be cursed for nothing, why am I so cheap? "

"So?" Shi Yan asked.

"So I asked for the silver that I handed over to Chen's father, and the dim sum had been torn apart and eaten. It was dirty, so I didn't take it."

All right, Du Shi has become more casual in his actions in the past two years. In the past, as long as he didn't completely tear his face, he would definitely not be able to do such a thing.

However, there is one thing that Shi Yan is quite curious about: "Didn't you go to see a doctor? Did you see Chen Shimei?"

Speaking of this, Du Shiyou became sad: "No, they said they were recuperating in the house. When I went there, I had just rested. The Chen family didn't let me go in and have a look."

Shi Yan: "..."

Okay, this is very Chen family.

So Shiyan comforted Du Shiyou: "Okay, don't be angry, and bring back a Jieyuan later, and make the Chen family mad."

Those who pass the township examination are called Juren, and the first among them is Jieyuan.

Du Shi had thought about it, but he couldn't do it. The last time he was lucky enough to be the chief case, he was secretly excited for several days.But he can't directly say in front of his sister that he can't do it, because that will make him lose his dignity as a big brother, so he can only feel aggrieved by himself.

But it turns out that some things would not have happened if he didn't want to, such as getting Jieyuan in the township examination.

Not only was Du Shi unexpected, but Du's father and Du's mother also never thought of this day.

But when things really happened, the family was excited besides excited.

The family prepared for this for two days, and carefully packed two tables, one for the Du family and one for the Zhang family. They had a good celebration. Du's father was slightly drunk and chatted with Du Shi at odds. .

Mother Du took this opportunity to announce to everyone: "Yesterday, I discussed with your father that we will take part in the examination three years later. Instead of leaving for the capital at that time, why don't we set off in the near future and settle directly in the capital? The income from Nianniang and your father's two shops is enough for our family's expenses in the capital."

Du Shi was startled. The person who was still a little bit drunk just now woke up instantly. He tugged on Shiyan's sleeve and asked in a low voice, "Sister, have you discussed it with your mother? This is extremely efficient! Brother thought that we must at least prepare several times in this line of work. It will take a month to make the trip!"

Shiyan blinked her eyes, stared at Mother Du, suppressed her thoughtfulness, shook her head and said: "I haven't said it yet, this is Mother's own idea."

No matter whose idea it was, the Du family decided to move to the capital in two months.

After dealing with the affairs of Fucheng and Chenjiacun, and bringing the Zhang family with them, the family took a slow boat first, then changed cars, and gradually headed for the capital.

However, by coincidence, Shiyan met Chen Shimei who was alone on the boat and was heading to the capital.

Shi Yan didn't find it strange at all, as expected of the hero, he was never absent at critical moments.

At that time, Shiyan was taking Manniang to watch the sunset on the deck. The magnificent waves made everything seem peaceful and distant. Suddenly, Chen Shimei's voice sounded beside her: "Miss Du, long time no see."

Shiyan turned her head and saw the tall Yuli, a modest gentleman, and Chen Shimei, who was a little thin, probably because she had not fully recovered from the last poisoning incident.

According to Aunt Zhang, Chen Shimei ranked 50th in the last township examination. The Chen family not only had a day of firecrackers in the alley, but also went back to the village to hold a three-day feast to celebrate the first lord in Chenjia Village in [-] years.

Compared with the Chen family, the Du family's simple way of celebrating at home seemed very sorry for Du Shiyou's efforts.

In the final analysis, it was because of Chen's father that Du's father almost lost his life, and after spending a lot of money to see a doctor, Du's father was completely overwhelmed.

Therefore, I seldom went back to Chenjiacun in the past two years, and I also meant to take the initiative to cut off contact there.

Only a few families have a particularly good relationship with Du's father, and Du's father often helps out in private.This has almost become a default thing in the Du family.

Shiyan turned her head to glance at Chen Shimei, then turned her head and continued to look at the sunset in the distance. Manniang next to her looked at Chen Shimei curiously, and then at Shiyan. In the blink of an eye, she stood from Shiyan's left to right, squeezing in Between the two, as if nothing happened, they continued to pretend to watch the sunset.

Shiyan chuckled and rubbed Manniang's head, in exchange for Manniang's bright smile.

Then he turned to ask Chen Shimei: "Where is Mr. Chen going?"

Chen Shimei was unexpectedly frank, watching the distant sunset side by side with Shiyan, and said softly: "If I'm not wrong, I should go to the capital with you.

After the township examination, a master in Fucheng subsidized me with some money for my studies. With the money, I wanted to go to the capital in advance to see it, and it could be used as a study tour.

It just so happened that someone from the master's family was going to the capital on business, so he could go with me. "

This kind of thing is very common in the world of scholars, especially scholars or juren with poor family conditions. Some people invest in advance and cast a wide net. As long as one of them can get a return, the investment will not be lost.

Having said that, obviously some people don't think so, ever since Chen Shimei stood next to Shi Yan for a short while, a strong gaze has been fixed on Shi Yan, as if to burn a hole out of her.

Zhiyan glanced at Chen Shimei with a half-smile, whether this person wanted to use her as a shield, or was he still so black-hearted.

When Shiyan looked over, Chen Shimei showed her an extremely gentle smile, from a distance, it was a picture of affection, even though there was a Manniang between them.

Sure enough, the man in the dark finally couldn't hold back and rushed out, with heavy footsteps, standing beside Chen Shimei as if he was very close to him, first gave Shiyan a very unfriendly look, after seeing Shiyan's face clearly, The expression on his face instantly relaxed a lot.

Shi Yan's appearance is largely inherited from her biological mother, and she walks in a dignified and majestic manner, but this face is on Shi Yan's body, when she is not talking, she is a bit cold, and she walks freely and freely. Together, the two are completely different.

But definitely not ugly.

But who made her black?

In this era where white is the beauty, if one black destroys everything, black is the original sin.

After raising her for two years, she finally came back for nothing. Recently, because she was about to leave for the capital, the medicine that Du's mother had given her before quietly appeared in her bowl again.

Shi Yan could smell the smell of medicine every time she ate, and pretended not to know anything. For this family, Shi Yan felt that she had paid too much.

I saw the little girl dressed in red, with a pretty appearance, leaning against Chen Shimei, and said in a sweet voice: "Brother Shimei, who is this black-faced sister? Are you familiar? No Would you like to introduce it to others?"

Then she turned to Shi Yan and said: "Oh my sister, I'm really sorry, I really don't think you're black, but it's really... Oh, anyway, I don't mean that, sister, you will understand me, right?"

Then he turned around and pinched Chen Shimei's sleeve, with a coquettish tone: "Brother Shimei, help me intercede with my sister and don't make her angry with me, okay? Since it's someone you know, in the future You can be friends with me! I like this sister very much, she is very nice at first glance, she is not a stingy person!"

Manniang was so angry that she felt that this girl was a master of tea art, with full green tea skills, but she had grown up in the simple environment of the Du family for two years, and she had no tricks at all. At this level, I could only blushed angrily and said "you, you" for a long time, but there was no effective output.

Shiyan noticed that Chen Shimei took a step back calmly, as if she wanted to run away and leave the mess to her.

So she cracked her finger bones and gave the girl in red a nasty smile: "No, sister, I am the cheapest, and I really hate people saying black, ugly, etc. in front of me, as if they are talking Like mocking me.

When encountering such a situation, the general sister would directly fight back, avenge her revenge and then talk about other things. "

As she said that, Shiyan slapped down the chair that Manniang moved out of the room next to her. The chair made a suspicious clicking sound, and several cracks appeared on the surface of the chair.

A few people were taken aback.

Chen Shimei was stunned, she couldn't get rid of the blame, and the girl in red held her sleeve firmly, seeking a sense of security and protection. Now she couldn't get rid of the girl in red at all.

The girl in red was taken aback by Shiyan's fighting power, hid behind Chen Shimei, and threatened tremblingly: "Do you know who my uncle is? Be careful, I will let my uncle chop off your head!"

Oh, I don't have a long memory.

Shi Yan simply slapped her again, and the solid mahogany chair instantly fell apart and lay on the deck, and the broken pieces could only be moved into the kitchen as firewood.

The girl in red was instantly as quiet as a chicken.

With his hands behind his back, Shi Yan gave a dangerous look at Chen Shimei who was forced to stand in front, and warned: "There will be no next time."

Chen Shimei's complexion was very ugly, she didn't know if it was because she was frightened or what.

When passing by the girl in red with Manniang, who was already stupid, Shiyan added slowly: "Do you know where the last woman who called him Shimei is now?"

The girl in red was obviously desperately refusing to contact Shiyan, but in the end she couldn't get over her concern for Chen Shimei, and said, "Where is it?"

Shiyan showed a very nasty smile: "Oh, I have become your brother Shimei's younger sister!"

The girl in red grasped the meaning of Shi Yan's words accurately, and did not misunderstand anything, and looked at Shi Yan's leaving back with an ugly expression.

And Manniang finally recovered from the shock of "Sister Ayan is a martial arts master", and excitedly took Shiyan's hand and asked: "Sister Ayan, how did you do it? Is it difficult to learn? Manniang also I want to learn, it's really amazing!"

Of course it's not easy to learn, so Shi Yan said euphemistically: "It's all ostentatious, charlatan tricks to bluff people, there are no martial arts masters at all."

Shiyan slapped Shiyan twice, Chen Shimei was honest, but she provoked the green tea girl that day. After the other party came back to his senses, he loved Shiyan's skill very much, and pestered Shiyan every day to learn from a teacher .

In just half an hour, Shiyan knew that the girl in red was surnamed Lu and her name was Hongshao. This time she went to the capital to receive a letter from her grandma in the capital, and specially went to stay at her uncle's house, and asked her to find a suitable marriage for her in the capital.

Lu Hongshao's uncle is not well known in the capital, but outside of the capital, the name is still useful, because in addition to being Lu Hongshao's uncle, he is also the uncle of the Eighth Princess, barely considered a relative of the emperor.

With a few simple words, Shi Yan discovered that Lu Hongshao had a flamboyant and domineering personality on the outside, but was actually simple and deceitful on the inside. She was raised by her family to be silly and sweet, without the slightest scheming.

Shiyan flipped through the script and remained silent, while Lu Hongshao chattered around her, Manniang couldn't help curling her lips when she saw it, and said to herself that you should give up this heart, my sister Ayan is not that Chen Shimei, I can do it for you The family's five buckets of rice bent down, and thus provoked you, a troublesome spirit.

Seeing that Yan didn't pay attention to her, Lu Hongshao became even more enthusiastic when she saw that she was sitting opposite her, and confide in her as if she were a best friend: "My mother asked my grandma to find a marriage for me in the capital, but I looked at Chen Yan. The young master is fine, but my mother disagrees, saying that we are not suitable.

Sister Shiyan, I heard Mr. Chen said that you grew up in the same village. Do you know Mr. Chen?What kind of person is he? "

Consciousness is as immovable as a mountain, seeing that Lu Hongshao still looks ignorant up to now, not as crazy as Wang Xiaohua, and asked from the bottom of her heart something that puzzled her for a long time: "What do you like about him?"

Lu Hongshao blushed, and said with a bit of shyness: "I, I see that Mr. Chen is good-looking, and he is the best-looking man among all the men I have ever met."

Shi Yan: "..."

That being the case, there is still help.

So I seriously told Lu Hongshao a fact: "Then you don't have to worry, Jingcheng is good-looking, young and talented, with a good personality, and there are many men who match your family background. If you now believe in Chen Shimei in your heart, you will look better when you look back. Yes, my heart was shaken by it, I couldn't help but feel guilty, and I started to reflect on myself.

Why bother?Wouldn't it be nice to give myself a chance to meet better men? "

Lu Hongshao was fooled by Shi Yan, and suddenly figured it out by herself: "That's right, at the foot of the emperor in the capital, there are outstanding people, and the Tanhua who comes out every three years will not be ugly. If I rush to get married, wouldn't it be a big loss?"

Consciously figured out, Lu Hongshao regards Shi Yan as a confidant, and at the same time, she no longer pesters Chen Shimei, withdraws the special care she gave Chen Shimei before, and treats Chen Shimei as a stranger when she meets her occasionally, instantly regaining the pride that the eldest lady of the Lu family should have.

At the same time, she made a willful decision to turn around and get off the boat, and let the family guards go with the Du family's carriage. She wanted to go with sister Shiyan and protect Shiyan by the way.

"Sister Shiyan, I've looked at it carefully. There are eight people in your family, and none of them can fight except you. If you encounter danger along the way, you don't even have a helper. But it's too late, you won't lose if you go with me."

Lu Hongshao tried her best to sell herself.

Shi Yan said that it doesn't matter, and nothing else, just the carrier pigeons released by Du's mother every day when no one is paying attention, and those strangers around the cabin who seem to form a protective circle, any danger has long been covered by these people. It was resolved in advance, and it was not her turn to make a move.

When Shiyan met Chen Shimei again, the other party thanked her sincerely, but Shiyan just waved her hand indifferently: "I don't mean to help you, don't think too much about it."

If it was Shi Yan from before, Chen Shimei would definitely say something to refute her, but since seeing Shi Yan's strength that day, he was very worried that Shi Yan would slap him flat if he disagreed with him, without even a chance to complain .

So aggrieved, he bowed his hands and left.

At that time, in another room next door, Father Du was holding a carrier pigeon with a small letter tied to its leg, and said to Mother Du in a low voice, "From the first time I saw you, I have always loved you." Knowing that there are secrets about you, where you come from, where you came from, and even your past experiences may be false.

But I hope your heart for our family is true.

Since you proposed to move to the capital, so that Shiyou could have the opportunity to communicate more with the scholars of the academy in the capital, improve his horizons, and make connections, I felt strange, but you are kind, and the family conditions allow, Shiyou himself wants to go out and have a look , I, as a father, naturally won't stop it.

But Xiuhe, these days, no matter day or night, the pigeons follow her from home to the boat.

Can you tell me exactly what you are doing, or who are you working for? "

After Du's father finished speaking, the air fell into silence. After a long time, Du's mother said, "I can only say that I never have any ill intentions towards my family, and what I do will not endanger my family."

After speaking, he took the carrier pigeon from Du's father, raised his hand lightly, and the news that had not been sent out gradually disappeared in mid-air, and Du's mother fell silent facing the outside of the window.

Du's father saw that Du's mother refused to say more, he let out a long sigh, and lowered his hands weakly.

On the other side, in the Ganquan Palace in the capital city, the eunuch who received the news whispered to the queen who was lying on the bed and had been ill for several days: "Your Majesty, Aunt Xiuhe has a message, saying that it will be about five days later." With time, the little master will be able to enter the capital."

There was unconcealable joy in his tone.

The mother and daughter were forced to separate for more than ten years because of what happened back then. They couldn't see each other, couldn't recognize each other, and couldn't let the child get everything she deserved. Originally, the queen could persuade herself that everything was for the safety of the child, for the sake of Great plan.

But when the emperor unscrupulously declared in front of the ministers that the eighth princess was his favorite, and slapped her and the fifth princess in the face without hesitation, the empress felt for the first time why she should let her A Yan live a hard life in the countryside. ?

She felt that she couldn't wait for the day when everything she had planned would come true. For the sake of her daughter, it was okay to take some risks. She had been operating in the palace for so many years, could it be that she really couldn't protect a daughter?

Although they can't recognize each other on the surface, there are many ways to make up for it. She will give the child what she wants. In this world, there are very few things she can't afford, the queen thought confidently.

"I heard that the child from the Du family is still doing well, so I will send him back to the Imperial College. After the examination is over, we can arrange errands."

"Prepare a copy of the materials of the young men of the right age from each family in the capital. I have to personally find a suitable husband for Ah Yan. This child will be eighteen after the Chinese New Year. The youth of my daughter's family is precious and cannot be wasted.

It's good that Xiuhe didn't find a suitable Erlang locally. "

"On the day the child enters the capital, Yuchen, you go out of the palace to see for me, and see how she has been doing all these years."

So on the day when Shi Yan entered Beijing, she unexpectedly met an eager gaze. Because the feeling was too strong, Shi Yan's expression was not very gentle when she saw the past, and she shocked the other party, and disappeared in front of her eyes in an instant.