I took the imperial examination in the red building

It was raining outside, and it was already dark.

Shen Juan looked down at Lin Huan with a serious face, looked at him for a long time by the light hanging at the door, and thought he was an overly cute kid.

And Lin Huan was still babbling: "Bah, I must be the cutest, smartest kid you've ever seen, right? You must never forget me! Let's play together when we have free time!"

Shen Juan squatted down, reached out and touched Lin Huan's head: "Well, I won't forget Huanbao."

Lin Huan reflexively wanted to avoid his hand touching his head, halfway through hiding, he remembered that he was leaving, and held back abruptly: "Forget it, you are leaving, I will touch my head for you once." Ba, but only once."

"Also, Lagou! You are not allowed to lie! I will ask you when we meet next time."

"Row."

Lin Huan hooked his little finger: "Hang yourself on the hook, and it won't change for 100 years!"

Shen Juan said: "Is there anything else you want to say? If not, go back quickly. It's windy outside. Don't wait for the wind to blow away."

Lin Huan thought for a while and asked, "Bada, when are you leaving?"

Shen Juan counted the days: "I'll leave in two days."

Lin Huan pinched the corner of his clothes: "It's early, so you must work hard for the exam!"

Shen Juan nodded: "Understood, go back quickly, I will go to bed late later and grow taller, are you afraid of thunder?"

"Not afraid!"

"Boom!"

As soon as Lin Huan finished speaking, a thunderbolt struck.

His whole body froze.

No, no, no?Why is there such thunder!Makes it look like he's telling a lie.

He is really not afraid of thunder!Just, except tonight's particularly big thunder QAQ.

Shen Juan smiled seeing his stiff and shrinking expression: "Let's go, I'll take you back."

He took the umbrella to support Lin Huan, and led him back slowly.

After the thunder, the raindrops grew heavier and fell on the roof with a crackling sound, like countless small beads scrambling to roll down from the sky, with some crisp sounds.

All the verandahs of the squire's house are equipped with wind lamps, the yellowish lights illuminate the road ahead, and through the light, you can still see the slanting rain curtains.

Shen Juan and Lin Huan, one big and one small, walked on the corridor holding hands. At first glance, they looked quite harmonious and had an atmosphere.

The premise is that the two of them did not speak.

Lin Huan said: "It's raining heavily outside, I always feel like I've forgotten something."

Shen Juan hummed: "You forgot that we agreed to catch birds, the bamboo baskets are all ready, and I bought rice."

Lin Huan was stunned: "Ah, it seems that I have indeed forgotten."

He was in a hurry to dig out the bird's nest, then he was busy fishing, and then he was busy raising turtles, and he forgot the little basket for catching birds.

Thinking of that beautiful little frame, he immediately bowed his head and admitted his mistake: "I'm sorry."

Shen Juan had already sent him to the door, and now he was standing by the door and talking to him: "It's okay, it's just a small bamboo basket, it's not worth anything, go to sleep."

Seeing that his expression was the same as usual, Lin Huan felt relieved: "Then I'll sleep! Goodbye, be careful on the road!"

"it is good."

Lin Huan fell asleep obediently.

Early the next morning, the rain was not as heavy as last night, only a little drizzle.

When Lin Huan woke up, Jia Jun and Yinglian had already woken up, and they were playing with Jiao Xing and Yin Meng at the moment.

The two-month-old ducklings have not yet moulted, and their bodies are all fluffy. The girls threw these woolly ducks in the pond, watched them swim in the water, and drove them away with a piece of handkerchief from time to time. they.

Jia Jun and Ying Lian recognized a duck and said they wanted to compete to see whose duck could swim faster.

It didn’t work out, Jia Jun’s one stopped swimming halfway through, and Yinglian thought she was going to win, but when her one was about to reach the finish line, another duck turned her head in the wrong direction, and turned her head directly. The silly duckling swam back all the way in this deviated direction, which made Yinglian very angry.

The two of them shouted that this was not a new game, and when they saw Lin Huan appeared, they asked him if he would come, but Lin Huan politely refused: "I have something to do! You guys can play!"

Zhen Yinglian glanced at him curiously, seeing that he was wearing a small cloak, a rain hat on his head, and water shoes on his feet, she immediately asked, "Where are you going? It's raining!"

Lin Huan ran outside with a servant: "I'm going out for a while, I'll be back soon! Don't tell my mother that I'm out!"

The little servant held an umbrella for him, anxious as if for something: "Oh, my little ancestor, where are you going? Why don't you tell me, the nanny will know that I followed you out to punish me! "

Lin Huan ignored him and ran all the way to the grain drying field.

The squire's grain drying field was on the other side of the river. It was just down the slope and across the small stream. Lin Huan ran all the way down the slope.

When he reached the edge of the stream, he was stunned.

The big rock he was lying on before is still there, but it has been mostly submerged by water. The small stream, which was originally only half a meter wide, was much wider after the rainwater poured in last night, and it was only ankle deep before. Now it's all down to Lin Huan's knees.

Seeing that he was going to cross the river, the boy was scared out of his wits: "Ancestor! The water is so fast, you will be washed away as soon as you stand on it!"

Lin Huan looked at him: "Then you carry me over there!"

Seeing that he just refused to go back, the boy was determined to go there, and suddenly felt bitter, thinking that he would not be able to escape a beating, and a normal beating would be lighter than letting my brother be washed away by the water. He simply carried Lin Huan on his back.

The rice drying field is not locked on weekdays, it is only locked when the millet has just been harvested and is about to be dried, so as to prevent others from stealing the rice and taking it away, so Lin Huan can enter without any effort.

Seeing him running all the way to the back, the boy thought to himself, maybe brother missed something important, right?

Lin Huan looked around and saw everything he could see, but he couldn't find those small bamboo baskets.

Originally the bamboo basket was propped at the back, he remembered it clearly, why did it disappear?

He asked the boy to look for it together: "Help me look for it. There are three small bamboo baskets. They are so big and they are tied together beautifully!"

Servant: "..."

So ancestor, you braved the rain to cross the river just to find three small bamboo baskets? !How much do you want for this thing, how much can I charge you!

But Lin Huan didn't listen, so he wanted the little bamboo baskets Ba Da had woven for him.

Shen Bada was very serious about weaving yesterday, and he still remembered these small bamboo baskets before going to bed yesterday, so he had to help him find them.

Lin Huan wandered around the grain drying ground for half an hour before he found the three small bamboo baskets covered in mud under a wall, picked them up quickly and walked back.

"Brother, wait for me!" The servant hurriedly wanted to take the bamboo basket from him, but Lin Huan hugged him so tightly that he didn't let him get it, "Brother, let me hold it, carefully take the bamboo basket." The stick cut my hand!"

Lin Huan shook his head: "No way! Let's go back quickly, it's time for my mother to find me later!"

The boy had no choice but to let him hold her.

When crossing the river, he still carried it on his back, and when he got home, everyone in the yard woke up.

Lin Huan hugged the small bamboo basket and slipped to Qin Wan's place first, seeing that she had slipped away before calling for dinner, and hurried back to his yard.

The little coir raincoat and rain boots I was wearing had to be changed quickly, and I had to drink a bowl of hot ginger syrup.

This time he finally let go of the small bamboo baskets, and put them on the side of the door where he could see them. Seeing that he was thinking about them, the servant went to the kitchen to ask for water and sat on the porch to help him wash the three small bamboo baskets. clean up.

After drinking the ginger syrup, he ran to Shen Juan with three small bamboo baskets in his arms.

It was still "bang bang bang" knocking on the door.

Shen Juan opened the door with drowsiness, and saw Lin Huan squatting at the door and smiling at him: "Bada is ashamed, I haven't woken up yet."

Shen Juan also looked at him: "Last night, I came back to read a book, and I was fascinated by it. After reading it, it will be dawn."

Lin Huan giggled, took out three small bamboo baskets and put them in front of him: "Look! I found something back!"

Shen Juan was stunned.

He looked down at the small bamboo basket Lin Huan was holding in his hand.

This bamboo basket is a style he is familiar with. The bamboo baskets he weaves are different from others. The ends of others are all on the edge of the basket. He weaves them upside down, with the ends under the basket. These three bamboo baskets look like the ones he wove yesterday. of those three.

Lin Huan was still complacent: "Yesterday you were talking about these small bamboo baskets, and I will find them for you today! How are you?"

For some reason, Shen Juan felt a little sore in his heart: "Did you go to the grain drying field in the morning?"

Lin Huan squatted and nodded: "Yeah! I was afraid that they would be picked up when the rain stopped, so I went to look for them in the morning. Let me tell you, the river outside is swelled so badly. If I squat down, it will It's all up to my neck..."

He babbled, just like the little novice novice in the temple.

Shen Juan listened very seriously, listening to every word.

He also squatted down and listened to each sentence: "Next time, don't run to look for it. If you lose it, throw it away. I can make up a lot of these things. It may rain for two days in these two days. Don't worry if you are fine." go out..."

The two squatted together and chatted to each other.

The servant who followed Lin Huan wondered why Mr. Shen was in his teens, so he squatted on the ground and talked like this, so he looked about the same age as his elder brother?

It's childish.

When Lin Huan finally finished speaking, he got up from the ground, and Shen Juan also stood up from the ground.

Lin Huan waved his hand: "Then, I'm leaving! You can continue to sleep, no one will come to look for you today!"

Before Shen Juan could speak, he ran away - if he didn't go to his mother's place, he would be called a slob!

Sure enough, the rest of the people sat at the table and waited for him.

Jia Jun and Ying Lian wanted to ask him where he went when he got up early, but he stopped him with a wink: "Bada said he was tired from reading yesterday and wanted to go to sleep, so let's not wait for him!"

Qin Wan just laughed: "Now I'm an educated person, and it's not that I don't know how to read, but I still yell. If I'm tired, I'm afraid I'll be depressed."

Lin Huan climbed onto the stool and sat down, dangling his legs and said, "No way, Bata is not so stingy."

Qin Wan pretended to be angry: "You mean mother is being stingy?"

Lin Huan opened his mouth: "No... Mom, I didn't mean that!"

"Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore, let's eat."

There are three families sitting here, and the tastes of the three families are different. Jia Jun and Lou Shi are from the north. They like to eat pasta in the morning, such as pasta, and Jia Jun can eat several of them by himself.

Lin Huan and Yinglian are both natives of Gusu, and they like to drink porridge or noodles in the morning. Yinglian has been suffering from a cold recently, and she drank medicated porridge. She looked at Jia Zhu and Lin Huan with a bitter face. .

Yesterday Lin Huan didn't enjoy the fish soup and didn't drink enough, so he asked the kitchen to prepare fish ball noodles.

The hand-knocked fish paste is combined with mustard, diced lotus root, and diced bamboo shoots to form longan-sized balls, which are cooked in hot water.

The noodle soup is a milky white soup base boiled by crucian carp, and the surface is covered with a layer of tenderly cooked meat slices.

Lin Huan could eat a big bowl of noodles like this.

The Lin family didn't have the rule of not talking when eating or sleeping. Lou Shi didn't talk at the dinner table, and he didn't care about it after staying in the Lin family for a long time.

Now she said, "In two days, I want to take Jia Zhu back to the capital."

Lin Huan was stunned, why did Shen Bata leave, and Junbao also left?

Jia Jun was also stunned holding the pastry, mother didn't tell him?

Lou didn't know that he had thrown a huge thunder in front of the three little dolls, and still said: "There has been no reply from the family. I have to take Jia Zhu back to have a look. It just so happens that Shen's family is going back to Beijing, so I might as well have sex with them." Take a boat back."

Qin Wan said: "That's good, it saves your orphans and widowed mothers from being inconvenient on the road. The Shen family is a very safe person, and Shen Juan is also a good-natured person. With them here, we don't worry if you take Jia Zhu back."

The adults have decided, what else can the children say?

The three dolls didn't eat very well, so they went to Lin Huan's room after they dispersed.

Jia Zhu burst into tears: "Huanbao, Yinglian, I don't want to go back, I can't bear to part with you."

Lin Huan also felt uncomfortable.

All of a sudden two of the three playmates left, only Yinglian was left.

He didn't feel that bad when he knew Shen Juan was going to leave yesterday, reciting the poem dilutes the sadness of parting, and now Jia Zhu is going to go, and the forgotten melancholy from yesterday immediately returned.

He sighed deeply: "Is the capital that good? One or two of you are going there!"

Jia Jun burst into tears: "Not good, not good at all! There is no one to play with me, I am not happy at all, I did not have fun with you."

Zhen Yinglian asked: "Junbao, will you come back?"

Jia Jun shook his head: "I don't know..."

He said so, but he thought in his heart, probably he won't be able to come back, right?

【I'm coming to the Red Chamber: I don't think he can come back. How could a noble family like Rongfu allow a widow from the Lou family to run around outside?Jia Zhu is no longer taken seriously, he is also the grandson of the Jia family. 】

[Speechless: Did everyone wake up so early?I saw that no one spoke and simply hung up. 】

【Sweetheart: I'll be there when Huanbao goes to Guchang, but I'm so sleepy, I don't want to talk...】

[Cabbage Tofu Nao: Huanbao is so miserable, losing two friends in one day. 】

Lin Huan also felt miserable.

The key point is that Shen Bata is going to take the imperial examination, while Jia Zhu is going back to his home. Both reasons are normal, but the point is that they are too normal. He can't find any reason to keep all his friends.

He sighed again, feeling that if he continued to sigh like this, he would almost become a little old man.

No more sighs!Lin Huan clenched his fists, turned to Jia Zhu and Zhen Yinglian and said, "Since Junbao is leaving, let's hurry up and play while we're still together!"

Zhen Yinglian also echoed: "Yes, hurry up and play, we may not be able to play together in the future!"

The children were immediately attracted by the play, and then collectively froze: "What are we playing?"

Lin Huan scratched his head, Shen Juan was still sleeping, without him, mother would definitely not let him go fishing, so he could only continue to watch the hens lay eggs?

Lin Huan didn't really want to go.

He was a little disgusted by the stinky chicken coop.

The three children were discussing what to play when the porter came in. Usually he would not come in if there was nothing wrong. As soon as they saw him, Lin Huan and the others knew that something had happened in the village.

really!

The porter said: "Last night there was heavy thunder and heavy rain. Several houses in the village were hit by thunder. They almost caught fire. The sparks were poured by the rain, and the houses were also washed away. The village chief came here and wanted to ask the county government about it." What can I say?

Qin Wan immediately stood up: "You go and ask the head of the village to come in, and then ask someone to deliver the letter to the county government. It has only rained outside. You find someone with better skills and tell him to be careful."

She was disturbed by the collapse of the house, and she didn't tell the three children who crowded in and eavesdropped to go out.

The head of the village came in with a sad face.

When the hatchbacks met, Qin Wan said: "I have sent people back to report the letter, and it will take some time for the county government to come. Please tell me how the situation in the village is?"

The village chief sighed: "There are 39 families in the village. It rained heavily yesterday, and there were [-] families whose houses were washed away. Two of them suffered more serious losses. One was the family of Widow Xie in the village. Their livelihood was difficult. The roof was covered with thatched grass, which could not hold back the water at all, and the whole house was washed away, but fortunately, it was all thatched houses, so the pressure was not too heavy, and there were no casualties."

The other family is similar, the conditions of the family are not good, and they cannot afford to build a large tile-roofed house with blue bricks. They are all houses built with thatch mixed with mud, which will be washed away by the heavy rain. This family is even more unlucky, with the mud on the roof falling off. Injured people.

And because of the sudden rain, the medicinal materials of the old doctor in the village were all dampened, and they were probably useless.

Qin Wan thought for a while and said, "Give me a list of the losses of those houses, and report all the casualties. Is there any place?"

The village chief shook his head: "This time, there are not a few houses that have collapsed. The village has made arrangements as much as possible, but the houses are still not enough. That's why I came to you."

He wanted to use this courtyard to house the person who suffered the most from the two houses.

Qin Wan said: "It's not a big problem. The people here can move away. You can tell them to come here. In addition, for those who have suffered losses, you should also report the loss list according to the severity. Go back and see if there are any regulations in the county government. .”

The village chief and village chief felt relieved, as long as the county government was determined to take care of it, it wouldn't be a problem, and it was such a coincidence that it happened that Qin Wan lived in their village, so it was more convenient.

The two of them went to make arrangements, leaving the three children standing in the house.

Lin Huan stepped forward: "How is mother? Is it serious?"

Qin Wan sighed: "I don't know yet, we only know that this village was affected by the disaster. It rained so much yesterday, it is inevitable that other villages will have the same situation, and the water in those rivers - it rains a lot The water level in the river must have skyrocketed, and if the river overflows, the consequences will be unimaginable."

It's just that the collapsed house is not bad!

If the water level on the river is too high, and the flood gate will be opened if it exceeds the expected water level, then it will not be a matter that money can solve.

If it is not handled properly, the entire Jiangnan situation will be in turmoil.

Therefore, we still have to wait for Huanbao's father to come to know what's going on outside.

Probably after receiving the news, Shen Juan didn't go to sleep anymore, and hurried over to ask about the situation.

"There are many waters in the south of the Yangtze River, which are prone to flooding. There was heavy rain yesterday. I'm afraid we can't escape it."

It would take half an hour to ride a fast horse from the county government office, and Qin Wan and the others knew they couldn't be in a hurry, so they simply found other things to do.

"Now we need to empty a yard for those two families to live in, Yinglian Jiajun, you two have followed your mother closely, easily out of sight of the two of them, and moved all your things to your mother."

"Huanbao, you can live with me, we mother and son will be together."

Shen Juan thought of something and said, "Arrange the rooms of County Magistrate Lin and me together?"

He said another thing: "Also, madam should ask the servants and servants in the yard to take turns to patrol."

He didn't distrust Qin Wan, but he just thought that she might be too busy and might miss something.

What's more, the more serious the natural disaster, the lower people's moral bottom line will be.

Knowing that they have things and money here, if there is chaos outside, the men and women in this room alone will not be able to resist those people.

Qin Wan made arrangements for external matters, and Shen Juan added something as she thought of it.

Lin Huan and the other two friends were shocked!

They don't have a deep understanding of natural disasters, they are just surprised that the weather was fine two days ago, how it suddenly changed, and so many things are involved.

After a while, the two families were sent over by the village head.

Both sides came here empty-handed, their bedding and so on were covered under the soil, and they were going to wait for the rain to stop and go back and dig the mud to see if they could save something.

Don't expect anything else, pots and pans should be able to fish out a little.

Lin Huan watched quietly, and sure enough, that Widow Yang was also inside.

Her complexion became even worse, and it was obvious that she hadn't rested well.

The rest of the people also gritted their teeth and held on, and they all didn't sleep all night.

Widow Yang's mother-in-law, Widow Xie, was even worse. She already had a cough, but yesterday she was soaked in dirty water and her throat became even more uncomfortable. Now she is coughing so loudly.

Qin Wan didn't want to embarrass them either, so they each asked someone to stay, and then called a doctor to see Widow Xie.

Shen Juan's original plan to leave in two days was also shelved—the current situation is not known, if there is a real problem in the south of the Yangtze River, I'm afraid there will be great turmoil in the court!

It is estimated that the higher-ups have no intention of holding any imperial examinations.

Lin Huan watched them contemplating each other, and suddenly thought of something: "Where's Mr. Jia?"

He has always behaved very well in front of Qin Wan, if Qin Wan was not around, he probably would have called Jia Yucun directly.

Strangely, Lin Huan always felt as if no one in this room had seen where Jia Yucun had gone since yesterday.

The author has something to say: As mentioned in the first chapter of the original book of the Red Chamber, the drought and flood in Gusu have been very serious in the past two years.

我快困成傻狗了呜呜呜！感谢在2021-08-0821:52:42~2021-08-0907:51:03期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: 1 Weiwei Weien;

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 1 bottle of Mi porcelain;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!