An old lady's life

The results of the general examination came out on time after ten days, and they were posted on the wall outside the Gongyuan early in the morning. Many people sent people to check the results, and a crowd of people rushed forward.

As the day dawned, there was a sea of ​​people outside the Gongyuan.

Jia Zheng accompanied Zhou He to the tribute courtyard, but they couldn't squeeze in, but Jin Qiang, a young man, tried his best to squeeze in because of his small size.

About two quarters of an hour later, Jin Qiang squeezed out from the inside, scratched his ears and cheeks, and hesitated for a while before saying: "Master, Master Zhou, I searched from beginning to end, but I couldn't find Master Zhou's name."

When Zhou He saw the boy's expression, he was already prepared.

Jia Zheng frowned, looked at the boy, "Is it really worth it?"

Zhou He was a little dazed, and many failed students beside him had the same expression as him, and some of them who couldn't bear it had already fainted, Jin Qiang nodded again and again: "The little one can see very clearly, but maybe when he is dazzled, .” He pushed Lin Fang, “Why don’t Lin Fang go in and have a look again.”

Lin Fang moved quickly and immediately squeezed into the crowd.

Zhou He has come to his senses now, and tugged on Raja Zheng's sleeve, "Thank you for your concern, Cun Zhou. In fact, I didn't answer well this time, and I was expected to fail."

After the new year, he rushed from Jinling to the capital, but unfortunately he was delayed due to illness, did not have a better review, and was in poor health, which affected the exam.

Lin Fang also quickly squeezed out of the crowd, walked up to Jia Zheng timidly, and shook his head: "Master, Master Zhou, I checked carefully, and there is no name of Master Zhou."

Zhou He patted Jia Zheng on the shoulder, "Let's go, Cun Zhou, we should go back."

Jia Zheng can understand the feeling of being defeated. He has taken the exam three times since he was 15 years old. He did not take the exam last year because his father passed away. All hope is lost.

However, it was clear that Zhou He's endurance was stronger than Jia Zheng's. After walking a distance of about 500 meters, Zhou He said, "It's okay, I'll take the test next time."

There are many people outside this tribute courtyard who are in their 50s and [-]s to take part in the examination. He has only crossed [-] and is younger than them. How can he give up hope?

Jia Zheng accompanied Zhou He to have lunch at Zhou He's residence. During this time, Zhou He was considering whether it would be better to go back to his hometown or stay in Beijing, but his hometown had a wife and children. If he didn't go back, what would happen to his wife and children in the past three years? live?

"Mingfang, why don't you bring your sister-in-law, nephew and niece to Beijing with a letter. The learning atmosphere in Beijing is better, which will help you more in your studies. I know you are worried that you will not be able to live in Beijing. It's the same, you can be a teacher for others, and you can make a living by selling some calligraphy and paintings when you are free. After my book spreads, you can also copy books to make money. They say that they are useless as scholars, but in fact we scholars also have Many ways to make ends meet."

Zhou He knew what Jia Zheng had said, and at worst he had his friend to help him. No matter what, he wouldn't be able to make it through.

"Cun Zhou, thank you." Zhou He had thousands of words of emotion but couldn't utter them.

Jia Zheng shook his head, diverted the words, and said, "If your sister-in-law and nephews and nieces go to Beijing, you will not be able to live in this place." Jia Zheng looked at the small house rented by Zhou He. All candidates, toilets and kitchens are shared.

"In the afternoon, we went looking for a house together. In order to buy that bookstore, I don't mean to say that we traveled all over the capital, but we still know some places that are safe and reasonably priced. Let's take a look together."

The results of this test came out, and some families were happy and some were sad. There has always been a saying that the son-in-law was on the list. Beijing and China were really lively. It is true that many unmarried students were recruited as sons-in-law by some masters, but this It's all a happy event that you love and I wish. Of course, if the student has a bad character and conceals the fact that he is married, then the tragedy caused by Chen Shimei will reappear.

The next day, the Lin family received a visit from the four guards Lou, and Hao Ding was naturally there, and it happened that Lin Hai was resting, so it was his job to greet the guests.

Naturally, Lou Gao and the others did not return empty-handed. They carried a big sack full of things, including mountain delicacies, ginseng, etc. Ai Cao was quite speechless about this, and exchanged such a sack for her fruit. It's really a loss.

The Lin family had a happy time, Chang Ping, the royal study in the palace, played chess with Commander Wu, but unfortunately Chang Ping lost this game.

He glanced at Commander Wu faintly, "Old Wu, can't you let me?"

Commander Wu sat upright, with his hands on his knees, and couldn't help but smile: "The emperor wants his ministers to deceive the emperor? It's just a game of chess, the emperor can't be so stingy, right?"

"I'm just so stingy!" Emperor Changping complained.

Commander Wu couldn't help but continued to laugh. Emperor Changping dropped the chess piece, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise. Obviously, he was also in a good mood.

"Apprentices go to the Lin's house to eat delicious food and drink spicy food. How do you feel, master?" Emperor Changping was rarely in a relaxed mood, so he said such words jokingly.

Commander Wu glanced at the chessboard, "Does the emperor still want to play chess?" As he said, he set the chess pieces and said, "This humble minister can't help it. Who is Mrs. Lin who is kind and amiable? The disciples abandoned me as a master. I am also helpless."

Emperor Changping couldn't help laughing, shook his head and said, "Boy, just like Xiaoqi."

Commander Wu naturally knew what Emperor Changping meant when he mentioned the Seventh Prince, because after the Seventh Prince obtained the default list from the Emperor, he took advantage of the banquets, banquets, and birthday banquets held by various households in Beijing to run to meet him. After passing four girls, it caused various rumors, even worse than Hao Ding and the others.

"Yes, they are young and full of curiosity about everything." Commander Wu said with emotion.

Emperor Changping rolled his eyes at him again: "Don't say that, it's very embarrassing, I didn't force you not to get married, on the contrary, you didn't get married, so that I left an impression among the ministers of treating loyal ministers harshly, How do you say you want to repay my reputation?"

Emperor Changping stood up, "Let's go, accompany me to the Imperial Garden."

The two walked out of the imperial study room one after the other, Ji Yang followed from the corner, and then patted Wang Wei who was dozing off, and the two walked side by side, with the little eunuchs following behind.

It can be said that the imperial palace gathers all the precious flowers and plants in the world. This season, the imperial garden is even more colorful.

As soon as he walked to the entrance of the imperial garden, he saw a father-in-law in front of him followed by four brave young eunuchs, hurrying towards the gate of the palace.

Emperor Changping took a look and recognized that it was one of the great eunuchs in Concubine Xian's palace.

Wang Wei was deeply in Emperor Changping's heart. It took only a quarter of an hour. Wang Wei got the news from the eunuch. He leaned close to Emperor Changping and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, Concubine Zhen in the Prince's Mansion of Xiangjun is happy."

Miss Zhen San married into the Xiangjun Prince's Mansion for less than two months, and Emperor Changping raised his eyebrows: "You are a blessed one."

The news of Emperor Changping's visit to the Imperial Garden soon leaked out, and the ladies from all the palaces quickly dressed up and all came to the Imperial Garden.

When Commander Wu saw this, he was going to leave the Imperial Garden, but today Emperor Changping didn't seem in the mood to have sex with his concubines, so he calmed down the beautiful and lovely concubines, and left the Imperial Garden.

Emperor Changping didn't want to sit in the palace today, since he couldn't take a good look around the imperial garden, he went out of the palace to go shopping.

Taking advantage of the time when Master and the emperor were going to the gate of the palace, Ji Yang quickly mobilized more than a dozen guards. Everyone changed into casual clothes and caught up with the emperor at the gate of the palace.

It is rare for Wang Wei to go out of the palace with him today, he will be in high spirits, not as chaotic as he dozed off just now.

The streets were full of people coming and going, the exam results came out, and the dust fell to the ground. Except for the students who were going to take the palace exam who were busy with the palace exam on April [-]th, the other students who failed the exam could be regarded as carnival.

The people who walked by in twos and threes were a group of young students.Emperor Changping and Commander Wu led a group of people out, so they didn't walk on the regular road. After walking for a while, they turned to the edge of the Jing River. After walking for another distance, they saw many painted boats floating on the water.

At this time, it was not night yet, and there was a faint sound of a zither coming over. When I listened carefully, there were quite a few men and women talking again.

Emperor Changping looked as usual, of course, if he hadn't seen his two sons, he might be in a good mood.

Commander Wu felt that he really couldn't get involved in the emperor's family affairs. Seeing the ugly faces of Xiangjun King and Sujun King on the two boats, he silently took two steps back.

Especially just now when the palace found out that the side concubine Zhen of King Xiangjun is happy, he does not accompany the pregnant woman in the mansion, but spends time with his students outside.

Before he left, he saw three more boats sailing on the water. On the two smaller boats, he saw the Prince and Prince Gong respectively. On the larger boat, he saw King Qi. There were still many young people on board. students.

"It seems that there are too few things about the emperor." Emperor Changping said indifferently, his eyes fell on the four sons. Now the four of them are traveling on the deck, and they all look good. They can't see the people drinking and teasing with the women just now. The ugliness of the time.

Commander Wu murmured in his heart, Lord Qi has few things to do, isn't it because the emperor is on guard against him and gives few errands?Now I still blame King Qi for taking a leisurely tour of the lake with people.

"Let's go, it hurts your eyes to watch too much!" Emperor Changping turned around and walked to the side alley, followed by Commander Wu, Ji Yang, Wang Wei and others.

Prince Sujun and others may not have seen Emperor Changping, but King Qi did. He saw his back on the deck, and glanced at the four nephews, the corners of his lips raised. This royal drama is really a millennium Like a day.

This alley is very short, and it will end soon. Walk out of the alley and come to a street with few pedestrians. After walking through this street, just stepping into the next street, you hear a noise coming from the front.

When I got closer, it turned out that someone was decorating.

Both Jia Zheng and Zhou He were on the shop staring at the decoration, and they were doing what they could. There was a young man holding a little boy at the door of the shop, and a seven or eight-year-old boy was standing beside him.

That's right, this is Yu Qiu taking two students out to play.

Yu Qiu taught Jia Hu, so naturally he had a day off, and today happened to be a day off, and Yu Qiu knew that Jia Zheng was renovating the bookstore, so he decided to take a look.

But Jia Hu and Jia Zhu were here to join in the fun, and the two little guys came out with their husband with the consent of their grandmother and parents.

Emperor Changping saw that it was Jia Zheng, Jia Daishan's rigid son. After observing for a while, he found that this man was doing things by himself. Usually, when a house buys a shop, there is no need for the master to help.

So what is Jia Zheng doing?

Jia Zheng's image is not good now, not to mention disgraced, at least his clothes are covered with a lot of dust.

Jia Zhu didn't dislike his father, he stood outside and waved his hands and shouted: "Daddy." He got off his husband and wanted to run in front of his father, but Jia Hu and Yu Qiu grabbed an arm.

"Pearl can't go, it's dangerous inside!"

"My brother can't go, my second uncle is busy, my brother takes care of you."

Jia Zhu moved her eyes along her neck, and then stared at her father who was taking measurements with the craftsman inside. She reluctantly agreed and grabbed her brother's hand, but she didn't force her to go in to find her father.

After Jia Zheng and the craftsman finished their work, they wiped the clothes casually, walked out, and called Zhou He who was behind.

"Mr. Yu, why are you here?" Jia Zheng's eyes fell on Jia Hu and Jia Zhu. When Jia Zhu saw her father coming out, she immediately abandoned her brother and hugged her father's thigh.

Jia Zheng patted him on the head: "Don't make trouble, listen to your husband and brother, Daddy can't hug you today."

Jia Zhu didn't mind either, hugging her father's thigh and smiling happily.

When Zhou He came out, Jia Zheng introduced Yu Qiu and Zhou He. Yu Qiu was much younger than Zhou He, "I heard from Cun Zhou that there is a young and talented gentleman in the house, and I finally met him today."

Yu Qiu smiled gently, and bowed his hands together: "Young Master Zhou, you are being polite, I am only teaching the eldest and younger masters the enlightenment, not considered talented."

Jia Zheng smiled heartily: "Mr. Yu and Mingfang don't need to evade, we will get to know each other later, and we are all friends."

Emperor Changping and his party approached from a distance. Jia Zheng just glanced at it, but he was stunned for a moment, and took a step forward in the next moment. He cupped his hands and said, "This junior has seen the fifth master."

So far, Jia Zheng has only met Emperor Changping once, and only listened to his eldest brother's introduction about the third and fifth masters. He has never explored the identities of the third and fifth masters, so he really doesn't know who the fifth master is!And this person said that he and his father are old friends, although he still doesn't know what kind of friend he is.

Emperor Changping nodded, his eyes fell on the inside of the bookstore, and then on Jia Hu and Jia Zhu who looked very smart and cute.

"What are you doing?"

Jia Zheng took a step back and stood sideways, "This junior is going to open a bookstore."

Emperor Changping calmly said with a smile: "Aren't you afraid of losing money if you open a bookstore in this place?" Even if you open a bookstore, you are doing business, and you can't do business without losing money.

"The main purpose of the bookstore is not to make money." Jia Zheng was almost speechless. How the store should be run, he certainly can't say, it's a secret!

Emperor Changping nodded and stopped asking, which made Jia Zheng heave a sigh of relief.For some reason, facing this fifth master was more stressful than facing his father.

"These two children are your sons?"

Commander Wu, Ji Yang, Wang Wei and the others were veritable backdrops, and no one spoke, even Yu Qiu and Zhou He didn't dare to intervene, it's impolite to interrupt someone else's speech.

Before Jia Zheng could reply, Jia Zhu patted his chest and said with a grin, "I, brother, uncle!"

Emperor Changping immediately understood Jia Zhu's meaning, and was quite surprised. This child is quite smart, and Jia Zheng didn't expect his son to understand Fifth Master's words.

"The older one is Jia She's son, but he's not as glib as your father."

Jia Hu tried his best to keep a straight face, thinking that he was more stable, "My name is Jia Hu, the old man can't slander my father."

Emperor Changping smiled, "That's right, I know how to protect my father."

Jia Zhu rushed forward with fists, Jia Zheng's back began to feel cold, and he grabbed his son at an unprecedented speed, feeling terrified in his heart.This child was taught by his mother to be a little ignorant!

Commander Wu, Ji Yang and Wang Wei stared wide-eyed, my God, it was the first time they saw such a bold child, they dared to hit the emperor with their fists!

Emperor Changping raised his eyebrows, the depression just now was swept away, and he finally realized that he had encountered something interesting.

"Jia Zheng, put him down, and I'll see if he dares to hit me!"

Jia Zheng was embarrassed, knelt down/put his son down, and kept telling him, "Pearl, your behavior just now was very impolite. This is wrong. You must treat the elderly with respect."

Jia Zhu pouted, "Bully brother, hit him!"

There was another line of cold sweat on Jia Zheng's forehead. Yu Qiu and Zhou He didn't know the identity of Emperor Changping. people.

Jia Hu felt guilty, pulled his younger brother, the two brothers bit their ears, and then comforted Jia Zhu. Jia Zhu rolled her eyes and stared at Emperor Changping.

Emperor Changping beckoned, "What's your name, come here and let me have a look."

Commander Wu felt that the emperor was purely childish, and he actually competed with a two-year-old child. You must know that the eleventh prince and the twelve princes are only two years old. If you want a pure child, go back and watch yourself grow old. son go!

Children also have tempers. Jia Zhu hid behind her brother and just ignored the old man.

And Emperor Changping got into a fight with the children. It took a long time for Emperor Changping to get rid of the bad impression in Jia Zhu's heart, and the old and the young had a good talk.

"How old are you?"

Jia Zhu stretched out two fingers, felt that something was wrong, and stretched out three more fingers, "Three years old." It was four years old, but he heard his grandmother talk too much, so he also remembered that he was three years old.

"How many words do you know?"

Then Jia Zhu started counting, from one to one hundred, without missing a single one.

A large group of people stood on the side of the street and listened to the children counting. This was a novel experience for Wu Tongling and others.

"What do you do every day? Can you practice calligraphy?"

Jia Zhu thought for a long time, but she didn't quite understand what the old gentleman meant, "Eat, sleep, draw!"

Yu Qiu's eyes couldn't help but smile, because Jia Hu was the one he was focusing on teaching, so Jia Zhu only incidentally, because he was young, he didn't force it, but just like that, Jia Zhu also knew a lot of words, On painting, although it is graffiti, but drawing according to things, it is becoming more and more formed, and it is very spiritual.

The old lady is right, if he blindly instills and corrects the so-called painting knowledge of the child, he will lose this spirituality. As he grows up, his ability to understand things will be strengthened, and then teach him the corresponding knowledge, so that the child will not be lost. There is more room for imagination, and the aura will not be lost.

"Grandmother." Jia Zhu called her grandmother, then searched left and right, but couldn't find anyone, so she immediately abandoned Emperor Changping and threw herself into Yu Qiu's arms.

"Sir, sir, grandmother?"

Yu Qiu picked him up and patted him on the back, "We'll go home later and see the old lady."

Jia Zheng smiled sheepishly: "I'm sorry, Fifth Master, the child usually spends a lot of time with his grandmother, and when he's out for a long time, he will talk about his grandmother."

The corners of Emperor Changping's lips were raised, but his tone was not good when he spoke, "Does Jia Zheng think that I will still care about children at my age?"

Well, what this kind of person said is really wrong. Jia Zheng was at a loss for words for a while, and didn't know how to reply to Emperor Changping's words.

"Okay, you can do your work. I have something to do and I'll leave first." Emperor Changping waved his hands, and then led his subordinates away with his hands behind his back. Jia Zheng was not relieved until he walked a long distance.

Jia Zhu raised her head from her husband's arms, looked at the distant figure, blinked, bit her lip and wondered what she was thinking.

If there were no Jia Hu and Jia Zhu, Jia Zheng appointed to stay in the bookstore for a day, but his nephew and son are so young, no matter how serious he is, he can't let Mr. Yu take care of the children alone.

So the three big men took their children and went shopping, especially the book market street. There are fewer people today. After the exam is over, most of them have failed. The students who failed were either drunk or depressed. I can't bring myself to read a book.

The three wandered around several bookstores. Jia Zheng found some new books and bought them all. Yu Qiu and Zhou He also picked out two or three books that suited their liking, which was still affordable.

Near noon, several of them went back to Rong Mansion together. This was the second time Zhou He came to Rong Guo Mansion. The first time he came to deliver a letter to Jia Zheng.

When Jia Hu and Jia Zhu entered the house, they immediately asked Rongxitang to run away. They didn't see their grandmother all morning, and they missed her very much.Hongye learned about their experiences in the morning from the eldest grandson, especially the so-called scene where the fifth master teased the children. Hongye couldn't help muttering in her heart, how busy Emperor Changping is, running out of the palace every three days!