The sun at noon in early spring is gentle and warm, illuminating the warmth of the blacksmith's shop.

Zhao Hao and the Gao family father and son were eating a light meal and chatting about family life.

After learning about the disaster of Zhao Hao's family, the high-speed railsmith offered to help them.

Looking at the food and clothing of his father and son, looking at this shabby blacksmith shop, how much money can a high-speed railsmith have? but is willing to be anxious about what is difficult.

Although there is a meaning of repaying kindness, it also makes Zhao Hao quite moved.

"Don't tell the uncle, Brother Gao helped me make a lot of money yesterday, and I have solved my urgent need."

"That's great." The high-speed railsmith was happy for Zhao Hao for a while, and said with concern: "Then you have to have a long-term livelihood, what is Ling Zunke's plan?" ”

Zhao Hao knew that he asked euphemistically, why is Zhao Shouzheng still idle at his age?

smiled and said: "My father is studying in the country, and he wants to participate in this year's autumn festival." ”

"Ah, Ling Zun turned out to be a prime minister, it's really disrespectful." The high-speed railman was quite surprised, carefully recalled Zhao Shouzheng's attire and behavior, and couldn't help but shake his head and said: "The old man didn't see it at all. ”

"Oh?" Zhao Hao asked curiously: "The word Xianggong is not written on his face, and the old man can't see it, it's normal, right?" ”

"How could that be?" The high-speed railsmith shook his head and said: "Officials have the dignity of officials, and the public has the dignity of the public, which is not bad at first glance." ”

"Huh, what's going on?" Zhao Hao only knew that being an official had an official body, but he didn't know that even a talented prisoner had to have corresponding decency...... And even an old blacksmith knows it, and it has obviously become the default rule of the whole society.

"Childe doesn't know?" The high-speed railsmith's eyes widened in surprise, and he thought for a while before he came to his senses: "The home of the prince's official eunuch, Zhong Ming Ding food, clothing, food, housing and transportation on weekdays, is far beyond ordinary people, not to mention the showman, prisoner and the like." ”

The high-speed railmaker made up for his own brain, and saved Zhao Hao a bit of a tongue to explain, so he put down his job and arched his hand and said, "Please also ask the old man to give advice." ”

"Where does the son say, the old man is just hearsay, how can he know the real system?" The high-speed railsmith hurriedly waved his hand, but he couldn't shirk it, so he carefully said: "The old man will probably tell the son about what he has seen in Nanjing City all these years, and he will have the right to be happy." ”

"Uncle, please speak." Zhao Hao was busy washing his ears and listening.

"Don't talk about those who are still officials, the son must know better than the old man." The high-speed railsmith first ruled out the incumbent officials.

I really don't know...... Zhao Hao said silently in his heart, but in order to maintain the character of the son of the fallen official eunuch, he had no choice but to smile and say, "Okay." ”

"Let's just talk about those who are not officials. The old man looked at the two squires who were at home and Ding Wei, who were in and out of the sedan chair carried by four people, in addition to the sedan chair driver, there were also umbrella men who specialized in playing umbrellas, these five people were wearing red vests, with red hats, and the soap chief under the door followed, and more than a dozen people hugged each other, no different from those officials and masters in office. Of course, there is still no comparison with the official seal. ”

Zhao Hao's eyes straightened when he heard this, and he said in his heart that this is too cool. Then he asked, "What about lifting people?" ”

"The old man also sits in a sedan chair, but he can only sit in a cloth sedan chair carried by two people, and the sedan chair driver cannot wear red, but there are also scholars who follow him to play umbrellas, and they have to raise four or five people in total." The high-speed railsmith put his beard and said: "The old men are all upstarts, and they are the most disciplined, but I heard that the old men in the countryside all sit in a four-person sedan chair, and there are also those who hold the 'filial piety' and 'township kui' to avoid the card, but they can only confuse the old folks." But I didn't dare to enter the city, and I had to change back to a two-person sedan chair, otherwise I would be poked in the back. ”

"That's right." When Zhao Hao heard this, he became more and more determined to let Zhao Erye pass the exam. But suddenly his heart tightened, and he asked with some difficulty: "People are rich, but how can poor people maintain decency?" ”

The tribute students, prison students, and Xiucai of the Ming Dynasty are basically a class. Zhao Hao was inconvenient to ask 'poor prisoners', so he asked 'poor Xiucai' instead, and it was the same.

"Xianggong can sit on his shoulders, but they don't have serious income, and the cost of studying is large, if it is not for the family, life is not easy, so no one laughs at Anbu on weekdays. But if you meet the teacher and the official counselor, if you don't rent a shoulder and sit down, you will still be laughed at. ”

"But no matter how much you save it, a scholar can't save it." The high-speed railsmith looked at Zhao Hao and whispered: "Since March, there have been more rainy days, if Zhao Xianggong plays an umbrella by himself, not only will others laugh at him, but he will also feel bad." ”

"It turns out that Xiucai can't make an umbrella by himself?" Zhao Hao suddenly remembered that Zhao Shouzheng went out every day, and he asked him to bring an umbrella, but he didn't bring it. Originally, I only thought it was Zhao Erye's lazy attack, but I didn't expect that there was another reason.

"That's nature, and the umbrellas of the ministers are all tin-topped, which is different from our ordinary people." The high-speed railsmith said with envy: "On a rainy and hot day, the scholar opened his eyes, shining with silver light, and at a glance, he knew that he was a talented man." ”

Zhao Hao couldn't help but nod slowly, and he had already calculated in his heart the question of where to hire a scholar......

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Just as he was about to ask the high-speed railman if he had a way, he suddenly caught a glimpse of two familiar figures, probing their brains at the entrance of the alley.

"Huh?" Zhao Hao couldn't help but be a little strange, why did the uncle and cousin come?

happened to be full of food and drink, so he said goodbye to the father and son of the high-speed railsmith and came out of the blacksmith shop.

"What are you doing?!" Zhao Hao stood behind the two of them and suddenly let out a low shout.

"Mom......" scared Zhao Shouye's legs weak, and he almost knelt on the ground, but Zhao Xian almost jumped up.

"You stinky boy, don't you know that people are scary, scared to death?" Zhao Shouye looked back and saw that it was Zhao Hao, and couldn't help crying and laughing.

"Isn't this a joke with uncle?" Zhao Hao smiled and arched his hand towards the uncle, and then smiled at his cousin: "What kind of wind blew you here?" ”

"How does this boy speak? Shouldn't you be an uncle? Zhao Shouye's attitude today is much gentler than in the past.

"Then please go inside, the place is simple, don't dislike it, uncle." Zhao Hao said and led the two into the house.

Zhao Shouye was stunned by the tinkered and dilapidated scene in front of him.

It took a long time to be sad and said, "Do you really live here?" The day before yesterday, your father went to the yamen and said, "I still don't believe it." ”

"It's so much better, if it weren't for the neighbors who helped the good students repair it, they wouldn't be able to live in it."

While making tea for his uncle and cousin, Zhao Hao asked casually: "I heard my father say that my uncle doesn't live in the official house?" ”

Zhao Shouye coughed embarrassedly when he heard this, and prevaricated: "Alas, for some reason, I temporarily live in your brother's grandfather's house, just temporarily, temporarily." ”

Zhao Hao looked envious and said: "That relationship is good, I must live for a longer time, and I can save some expenses." ”

He really felt what he said, he didn't know the price of firewood and rice, and he had encountered several crises of cooking these days.

Seeing that Zhao Hao was not teasing, the uncle remembered that his father and son originally planned to eat soft rice, but they were both divorced tragically, and they fell to the point where they are today.

I couldn't help but feel embarrassed at all, but a little comforted.

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