After the big fool gets married

Doudou leaned back and let herself lean on Wu Xuan's broad shoulders.

He didn't answer Wu Xuan's question, but said in a low voice, "Brother Xuan, I want to accompany you in scientific research in the future."

Wu Xuan moved down in cooperation to make Doudou more comfortable, "Why? Don't you hate endorsements the most?"

"I want to be with you, and I don't want to be separated from you anymore." Doudou rubbed against his shoulder, like a small animal attached to its owner.

Wu Xuan felt numbness from the place where Doudou rubbed him, and his entire arm seemed to have been electrocuted, "Then I will take you with me in the future exams."

"Yes." Doudou happily replied.

"However, I won't force you to take the exam anymore. If you want to take the exam, go there, and if you don't want to take the exam, you can wait for me outside." Wu Xuan said again.

"En." Doudou nodded in a leaning posture, a few strands of hair floated up and touched Wu Xuan's cheek lightly.

Wu Xuan helped him straighten his hair with his fingers, and then he couldn't bear to move his hands away.

-

On May 23, Wu Wentao finally came back from Fucheng, and brought back Wu Xuan's government examination results.

"Congratulations, brother, you are No.8." Wu Wentao handed a wooden box to Wu Xuan, which contained Wu Xuan's government examination results and household registration pages of the settlement documents.

"Same joy, same joy." Wu Xuan got up and poured him a cup of tea.

Wu Wentao picked up the tea bowl, took a sip, and said, "The leader of the case is still Gu Jin. Apart from him, you are the one with the best grades in our Dingshan County." The students of Zhiyuan Academy were all pushed back by Wu Xuan.

Wu Xuan said: "Zhenxing Prefecture has thirteen counties under its jurisdiction, and there are many natural talents." Their Dingshan County is just one of the small counties.

Wu Wentao sighed, "That's right, there are people out there, and there are people out there. There are countless outstanding students in such a big country, so what do we care about!"

"Don't underestimate yourself!" Wu Xuan was very optimistic, "At least we have passed the government exam, and we can take another exam. Compared with those who failed the exam, we are already much luckier."

Wu Wentao shook his head and smiled wryly, "I passed fifty of the government exams, and I'm afraid I'll fail the college exams."

Wu Xuan was not interested in seeing Wu Wentao at first, knowing that he was afraid that he did not do well in the exam, so he purposely didn't ask about the result, but Wu Wentao said it himself.

Wu Wentao continued: "Brother Hall, do you think I'm bad? I've worked very hard, but I can't even rank in the top few in the academy. The masters will only praise me for my diligence, never praise me I am excellent."

"It's not bad at all! Wen Tao is very good!" Wu Xuan praised decisively.The tone is exactly the same as that of the elders who blindly spoil their children.

The sad atmosphere that Wu Wentao created just now disappeared immediately, and he said helplessly: "A gentleman should not speak in vain."

"How can I be lying?" Wu Xuan retorted, "You are really outstanding. I don't know how many girls in the village want to marry you." A few words.

"No matter how many girls there are, it's not her." Wu Wentao said in a low voice.

Wu Xuan instantly smelled gossip. He said why such a cheerful person like Wu Wentao suddenly became depressed. It turned out to be a relationship problem.He went over to the two brothers and put their arms around Wu Wentao's shoulders, saying: "Which girl do you like? Brother Da Tang will help you as a staff officer."

"Impossible, it's impossible for Miss Luo to marry me." Wu Wentao lowered his head, depressed.

"Miss Luo is—"

"Miss Luo is the only daughter of the head of the Academy. She said that the head of the academy does not agree with her marriage and plans to recruit a son-in-law." Wu Wentao said.And he is the only son in the family, so it is naturally impossible for him to be the son-in-law.

Wu Xuan looked serious and asked, "Do you like her very much?"

Wu Wentao lowered his head and said nothing.

It looks like I should like it very much.Wu Xuan asked again: "Have you told your uncle and aunt about this?"

Wu Wentao shook his head: "I dare not tell my parents, I'm afraid they will be sad." After raising such a big son, he fell in love with a girl who wanted to recruit a son-in-law.Whether they agree or not, parents will be very sad.

"And I'm not good enough for Miss Luo, I failed the exam." Wu Wentao buried his head in his palm, his voice muffled, "I originally thought that if I was good enough, I could persuade the head of the mountain to let Miss Luo marry me ,But--"

The following words turned into a long sigh.

Wu Xuan patted him on the back, and suggested: "If you really like Miss Luo very much, it's okay to go to her house. You live your own life, so you don't have to worry too much about other people's evaluation." Wu Xuan is not If you care about these things, think about it differently. If Doudou wants him to marry, he will agree.

"Then what about my parents? They only have me as their son." Wu Wentao raised his head and smiled wryly.

Wu Xuan said: "If you don't mind, I can take care of Uncle and Auntie for you. No matter where I go in the future, I will take them with me. Of course, it depends on whether Auntie minds."

Wu Xuan fantasized about the scene where he and his aunt lived under the same roof, and couldn't help laughing.If they really lived together, they might have to fight every day.

-

Wu Wentao looked at him with a strange look.

"What's wrong?" Wu Xuan asked.

"Brother Hall, do you know that my dad has always liked you very much. After you grew up, he still fed you spoon by spoon. But—" Wu Wentao paused, "In my memory , he never fed me."

After he finished speaking, he laughed at himself, "Of course, as the smartest kid in my generation, I can feed myself at the age of three. How can I need others to feed me?"

Wu Xuan was silent for a while, and said, "Wen Tao, Uncle values ​​you very much."

"I know!" Wu Wentao said, "Most of the family's money is used for my education, and the money my father spent on me is more than a hundred times more than what he spent on you. Moreover, since I started studying, I have You wear fine cotton long gowns, but you will always only have those two sets of coarse cloth clothes, and no one will mend you when they are worn out."

"That's not true!" Wu Xuan retorted, "Doudou will make it up for me!"

"That was after ten years old, and no one helped you before. My dad can only feed you, nothing else. He is always careless, and he doesn't even notice that his clothes are dirty or torn , let alone notice you."

"So, when you were young, your clothes were always tattered, with one piece missing and another piece missing, and everything that should be exposed was exposed. Hahaha——" Wu Wentao seemed to suddenly think of some interesting picture, I couldn't stop laughing so hard.

Wu Xuan had a thick skin, and he didn't feel embarrassed when he heard the embarrassing things in his childhood, and he asked with great interest, "Is there anything else?"

He didn't remember these things at all.The earliest memory he could recall was playing with Doudou when he was around ten years old.

Wu Wentao said: "When I was five or six years old, before I went to school, we ate together at that time. You eat a lot and eat slowly. Every time we finish eating, my father is still feeding you with a spoon."

He showed a look of reminiscence, "I didn't leave the door once, and hid secretly behind the door to watch my father feed you. But he found out. He thought I was not full, so he dragged me back to the dining table , let me have another bowl."

"Then have you eaten?" Wu Xuan asked.

Wu Wentao laughed, "Eat, that meal will kill me!"

Wu Xuan also laughed lightly.

"Also, the first day of the new year when I was eight years old. Because I had already entered school, my mother specially made a long shirt made of fine cotton for me to wear when worshiping my ancestors, and to show off in front of you by the way." Wu Wentao thought of that time In such a scene, he was still small, but he was wearing adult clothes, and he deliberately swayed in front of Wu Xuan several times under his mother's instructions.

"It's a pity that my father and you are both stupid, only thinking about going home to eat dumplings after worshiping the ancestors, and no one looks at me more. My mother's careful preparations are in vain."

-

Wu Wentao talked about many, many things about his childhood, and the two laughed out loud from time to time, and then joked a few words with each other.

They drank a whole pot of tea.

"Hahaha, no wonder my aunt doesn't like me!" After Wu Wentao told another interesting story, Wu Xuan said happily.

Wu Wentao also laughed for a while, then put down the tea bowl, and looked directly at Wu Xuan solemnly, "Brother Datang, I will try my best to be excellent, so that the head of the mountain agrees to marry Miss Luo to me. However, if the head of the mountain doesn't agree in the end, I won't force it either."

"After all, I am the only son of my parents. I will never abandon them." Wu Wentao said the last sentence resoundingly.

My parents are mine and I don't need anyone to take care of them for me.

Wu Xuan heard Wu Wentao's implication, he didn't answer, but asked with a smile: "Do you want to know why my government test rank is higher than yours?"

The topic change is very abrupt.

So much so that Wu Wentao didn't react all of a sudden, and stood there with a serious expression on his face.

Wu Xuan said: "Because I didn't mention anything about the New Deal."

"However, there are obviously two questions that are talking about the New Deal." Wu Wentao memorized the questions of this government test very firmly.

"So, ignore it and talk about other content." Wu Xuan said, "Facing the old-school examiner, we must completely avoid the New Deal."

Before the exam, Wu Xuan, Wu Wentao and other fellow students inquired about the news together.Naturally, Wu Wentao also knew that the prefect of Zhenxing Mansion was a conservative, and he was the main examiner for the examination.but,

"The answer needs to be meaningful. I can't just talk empty words and have no practical insights." Wu Wentao said, "Besides, the chief examiner is not responsible for marking the papers. How can you be sure that the examiners who grade the papers are also conservative? If there are reformers, Seeing your empty views on the New Deal, don't you just cross it."

Wu Xuan said: "That's why I'm betting. The examiners who bet on my exam paper are all conservative. Facts have proved that I won the bet." With Wu Xuan's current level of poetry and prose, being able to get such a high ranking can only show that he Cater to the examiner's preferences.

The magistrate will be retiring soon, and in the last government examination before he leaves office, he will definitely arrange for all of his own people and recruit as many conservative students as possible.

With this in mind, Wu Xuan dared to give it a go.

"Of course, our situation is different. You value the government test results very much, so you don't dare to take risks, but I am fearless, at worst, I will take the test next time!" Wu Xuan said, "Anyway, Doudou won't take the exam because of me. Not good, don't want me."

One sentence hit Wu Wentao's sore spot, and he received an angry stare.

Wu Xuan hurriedly made amends and comforted him: "But don't worry, you don't have to talk empty words against your will in the next exam. The college exam will be presided over by the new Xuezheng Master Dai, who is a very determined reformer. We just need to support the New Deal That's right."

Wu Wentao said: "So you mean, when answering the questions in the college exam, you will deliberately mention more about the New Deal?"

"Of course!" Wu Xuan said decisively, "You must do what you like!"

Wu Wentao looked at him with your sloppy style that insults the integrity of a literati.

Wu Xuan spread his hands indifferently, "Isn't this for the test of fame!" Of course, the primary goal of taking the test is to pass the test.

As for the article written on the test paper, it doesn't matter whether it is the same as your own inner thoughts.