Lucky husband

Before night fell, Li Chengzhi and the others returned to Shanghe Village, because they wanted to stagger the time for guests to eat dinner in advance. After working for so long, they were actually a little hungry when they got home, and they happened to have soft cakes to eat when they came back.

After tasting several kinds of soft cakes, Li Chengzhi himself saw the business opportunities in soft cakes without the need for Mrs. Li and Jiang Zhiyun to say more.

That night, Li Chengzhi and Bai Xiuhe wanted to learn how to make soft cakes, but they were scolded by Mrs. Li. It's so late now, what's the rush, they have to get up so early tomorrow and can't sleep late, want to Learn to make soft cakes tomorrow after selling the round of rice noodles at noon, let Bai Xiuhe come back first, then Jiang Zhiyun will slowly teach Bai Xiuhe how to make this colorful soft cakes.

In fact, making soft cakes is really not complicated. After watching the soft cakes made by Jiang Zhiyun, Mrs. Li already knows a lot about the making of soft cakes, but she is not skilled, and Jiang Zhiyun is more accurate in distinguishing colors. It will be better if Jiang Zhiyun teaches Bai Xiuhe to make it, and after the soft cakes are sold for money, the boss and the others should give the money to the third and his family.

In the following days, Bai Xiuhe followed Li Chengzhi to the county town to sell rice noodles in the morning, and after noon, she returned to Shanghe Village early to study soft cakes with Jiang Zhiyun.

Five days later, Bai Xiuhe has learned how to make soft cakes, but the color matching of soft cakes has not been completely done, but Li Mingkang's wife has returned to the county, and he has to go back to class, so Jiang Zhiyun had to return to the county with her two children , leaving Bai Xiuhe alone in the village to study how to make beautiful and delicious soft cakes.

Time passed slowly like this. Because of the study of soft cakes, everyone in the Li family did not think about how the county test was like before. It was not until the results of the county test came out that Li Chengzhi heard the guests who came to eat talk about it. There is such a thing.

The results of the county examination were announced on the first day of late May, and a whole month had passed since the county examination. Li Chengzhi only cared about the results of two people, one was his son Li Mingde, and the other was their neighbor and son. His younger brother Bai Zhiwen.

When he first heard the news, the rice noodle shop was busy, so Li Chengzhi couldn't leave the business behind and ran to the county office to check the results.

He didn't go, but someone ran over and told him that the two children had passed the county examination, and their grades were very good. One, Li Mingde, was first, and the other, Bai Zhiwen, was second.

The person who came to tell Li Chengzhi the news was an errand runner that Li Chengshi randomly found outside the county government office, and gave him two pennies for a trip, and most people were willing to take such a job.

Li Chengzhi was collecting the bowls at that time, his hands trembled and almost dropped the bowls on the ground, he blinked his eyes, his Mingde got the second place in the exam?

Because Li Chengzhi didn't know a lot of big characters, he always only listened to his third brother explaining that he was good at reading, and if he continued to study like this, it would be no problem to pass the exam as a scholar, but he didn't expect this kid to get second in the exam quietly and come back to scare him. His father?

That's right, after Li Chengzhi heard the person who came to report that one of the two children was the first and the other was the second, he acquiesced that his own Mingde passed the second place, and he didn't hear what they said clearly.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly, stabilized his hand immediately, supported the bowl, and did not lose his composure and drop the bowl to the ground.

Bai Xiuhe was ironing rice noodles at that time, and her movements also stopped. She looked at the person who came to report the letter in a daze, and it took a long time before she realized and asked: "My Mingde passed the scholar examination?"

Because Jiang Zhiyun and Li Mingde had explained many times before, Bai Xiuhe knew that she had to pass the county examination, the government examination and the college examination three times before being a scholar, but the news that Li Mingde had passed the county examination made her forget the things that needed to be memorized In the back of my mind, only the initial impression of Kao Xiucai remained.

It wasn't the first time for the people who came to report the news to do this kind of thing. They had seen all kinds of people's reactions when they heard the news, and Bai Xiuhe was not bad.

Suppressing his smile, the man explained to Bai Xiuhe and Li Chengzhi: "Our county only takes the county exam, and your scholar is not a scholar. If you want to become a scholar, you have to go to the prefectural city to take the exam. Fucheng Examination and Academy Examination, but I see the results of your County Examination, and it is no problem to become a scholar. After two years, I will come to your shop to announce the good news, haha..."

At this time, Bai Xiuhe also realized that she was making a fool of herself. She shrugged her hair embarrassingly, and hurriedly scooped up the rice noodles in the pot under the kind urging of the guest.

Li Chengzhi recovered faster. He dragged the person who came to report the news and sat down in the shop, saying that he wanted to serve him a bowl of rice noodles with high soup, so he would make a trip.

Because of Li Chengzhi's negligence, when the messenger left after eating a bowl of rice noodles, they didn't notice that Li Mingde was the first in the county examination.

Jiang Zhiyun got the news earlier than Li Chengzhi and the others, because Li Chengshi also sent someone home to tell Jiang Zhiyun the news. The distance from the county government to Liangxi Lane is closer. After Jiang Zhiyun got the news, she began to prepare things for congratulations. Later in the afternoon Together with Li Mingjin, they were sent to Dafang's house in the county seat.

In addition to the rice noodle shop and Liangxi Lane, Li Chengshi also spent ten copper coins to ask someone to go back to Shanghe Village to inform the old couple Li and Mrs. Li in the village, so that they would be happy when they heard the news.

The county examination is only the first step in the examination of a scholar. The Li family knows it for themselves. There is no need to tell it to the outside world. Just like the Jiang family, Jiang Qiming passed the county examination last year. The Jiang family keeps a low profile, and no one who knows the news many.

This year Jiang Qiming went to take part in the government examination. Normally, the results of the government examination will be released on the same day as the county examination, but the results of the government examination will be in the state city, and it will take a day or two at night to deliver the letter.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day that the Jiang family got the news that Jiang Qiming's mansion had tried it, and he was only one hospital exam away from Xiucai.

After getting the exact news, Jiang Yuzhi immediately went to his sister's house to tell her the good news.

It was just these two days that Jiang Yuzhi had another piece of news to tell Jiang Zhiyun——he was going to be a teacher in the county school.

For this reason, their family moved to the county seat. They couldn't afford a house for the time being, so they rented a small courtyard, enough for the family to live in.

Five years ago, if the Jiang family wanted to move to the county, it would be difficult to get the money to rent a house, because Jiang Wang's health is not good, and he often keeps soup and medicine in his mouth, and the medicine expenses will almost be spent. The bundle repairs received by the students.

Since five years ago, the wild ginseng sent by the monkey has been used to recuperate the body, Jiang Wang's health has improved a lot, and the Jiang family has finally been able to save some money since they no longer take medicine frequently.

However, there were fewer and fewer children Jiang Yuzhi could teach in Xiahe Village. He saw that his income would decrease if he stayed in Xiahe Village, so he made up his mind to try the county school.

Jiang Yuzhi felt that his own son, the elm lump, who he taught was about to be admitted to a scholar, so it should be no problem for him to go to the county school to teach those children who were only children or even not children.

With this in mind, Jiang Yuzhi approached Li Mingde to find out about the usual courses in the county school, and after preparing at home for a month, he went to the county school to recommend himself.

The dean of the county school is an old Juren. When he was young, he taught in Fucheng. Later, he felt that the colleges in Fucheng had many rules, so he went to the school in his hometown in the county as the dean. They are also very responsible.

The dean met with Jiang Yuzhi and asked him to give a basic four-book course to the students who had just been admitted to Tongsheng this year. After that, he made a decision to keep Jiang Yuzhi as a teacher in the school. Considering that Jiang Yuzhi still had some students in the village, the dean asked him to Jiang Yuzhi should report to the school within a month, leaving him enough time to prepare.

This month happened to be the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination. Jiang Yuzhi first took six days to accompany his son to the state city to take the government examination. After returning, he told the remaining students in his private school that they would I no longer teach them. If you don’t want to continue learning, you can ask him to retreat. If you still want to continue learning, he will accompany them to find a new teacher.

Jiang Yuzhi spent more than half a month to deal with the affairs of the students in the village. At the same time, old man Jiang also found a small house with a reasonable price in the county. The family spent a few days cleaning up the house and the newly rented house. The day before the results came out, the Jiang family moved to the county seat.

Jiang Zhiyun didn't know that the Jiang family had moved to the county seat before, and after hearing her natal brother talk about the busy time, she couldn't help complaining to him in surprise: "Brother, what do you do with such a big deal? If I didn’t tell us in advance, I was not prepared to say anything, and I didn’t help at all.”

"You are the daughter-in-law of the Li family now. Don't keep thinking about your natal family. Besides, I don't think there is anything to say about it. We just rented a house to live in, not bought a house." Jiang Yuzhi faced his sister's complaints Confidently stated his reasons, "Besides, you have to take care of your two children and your brother-in-law is very busy. We don't have many things. Your sister-in-law and I finished it in half a day."

Jiang Zhiyun disapproved: "Brother, even if I am the daughter-in-law of the Li family, I am still the daughter of the Jiang family. Brothers and sisters should help each other. Why are you and my sister being polite? Brother Shi is going to the county government during the day, and Kanger is going to the county government." Private school, only brother Jin and I are at home, even if we can't do anything else, it's okay to help clean up the house, my sister-in-law is not in good health, and it took a lot of effort to recover..."

Seeing that Jiang Zhiyun was about to continue chattering, Jiang Yuzhi held her down: "Okay, okay, I came here just to tell you, don't cook at home tonight, you bring Cheng Shi and two children over here, I and Your sister-in-law is ready, to celebrate your elder brother, I went to the county school to be a master and Qi Ming passed the government examination, and we will talk about anything else later."

Jiang Zhiyun grabbed Jiang Yuzhi, who was about to leave, and went to the kitchen to find two pieces of dried meat and some food that could be stored for a while, and put them all in a basket for Jiang Yuzhi to take back: " Brother, if you don't want to take all these meals, how can we have the nerve to eat at night."

In the past, the economic status of the two families was similar, and the Jiang family was vaguely better than the Li family. Although it was impossible to save money because of Jiang Wang’s taking medicine, the Jiang family’s population was simple and their expenses were low, unlike the Li family’s big family. People, all the money is under the control of Mrs. Li, and Jiang Zhiyun, the daughter-in-law, is struggling.

After the separation of the Li family, the first, second and third families all had their own fortunes. Li Chengshi's situation was much better than that of the Jiang family. Every time Jiang Zhiyun went back to her natal family, she would bring back a lot of things, thinking about making her family's life better.

But in fact, every time Jiang Zhiyun brought so many things, old man Jiang would ask her to take more things away, so as not to let others have the opportunity to gossip.

Seeing that the basket was full of food that wasn't particularly valuable, Jiang Yuzhi didn't refuse, and it was fine for his sister and the others to bring some food back after they went over to eat later, it wasn't a big deal.

So, Jiang Yuzhi just left with the basket in hand.

There are no secrets among the families in the alley. Everyone has seen Jiang Yuzhi before he came in and after he left. After Jiang Yuzhi left, those who thought they had a good relationship with Jiang Zhiyun went to her house and talked to her in a subtle way. Said that she is too thin-skinned when dealing with some relatives. If this happens once, it will happen twice. If it is not resolved early, she will be entangled and unable to get rid of it.

Without waiting for Jiang Zhiyun to explain, Li Mingjin, who was helping Jiang Zhiyun make summer shirts for Kang Er, stood up and defended his uncle: "Aunt Zhou, that was my uncle just now. My uncle is going to be a teacher in the county school. They just moved To the county seat, and my eldest cousin passed the government examination, and will be able to go to the city to take the hospital examination next year. My uncle came here to tell us that two happy events happened in our family, and invited our family to their house for dinner to celebrate."

There is another sentence that Li Mingjin didn't say, uncle is not the poor relative you said to come to the door to cheer for the autumn wind, every time they go to grandpa and uncle's house, grandpa and the others will give a lot of things.

Although Li Mingjin didn't say the last sentence, his previous words have almost expressed this meaning. The one who can be a teacher in the county school must be a scholar. How could Mr. Xiucai be a poor relative? Let's think about his dress and demeanor , The person who wanted to remind Jiang Zhiyun as someone who had been there immediately blushed.

After thinking about it, Li Jiang's eldest brother is a scholar, and there is also a nephew who will be admitted to be a scholar next year. They are both scholars. It turns out that Li Jiang's natal family is more powerful than everyone knows. The two children are taught to be smart, cute, sensible and well-behaved, and they can also hold her husband's heart tightly.

Thinking about what people in the alley said before Li Tantou married Li Jiangshi as his wife just because of Li Jiangshi's appearance, now it seems that it may not be so.

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