Early in the morning, Xiao Shi took Mu Ningxue and others back from Qianshoutang, and the girls poured fragrant tea. Today, the Xu family is talking about Xu Fen's renunciation, which can be regarded as a gossip version of entertainment headlines.

Yuan said: "It's strange that Brother Fen can't also become a monk! He usually meets and fortune-tellers and interacts with different monks, how can he become a monk out of thin air? In the past few years, there have been several monks in the clan, why did Master Yao fall in love with our family? One by one, he was seduced, but I don't know what it means? ”

"It is said that it was the master who ignited him, and it was also the last time he caused trouble, and he can no longer make money from our family, and other families also refuse him to come to the door." Wang Xuanqing explained.

Mu Ningxue said jokingly: "You should also be careful, don't let the master take a fancy to it, the last time you burned incense, you can say that you have a Buddha fate." ”

Everyone laughed, with the relationship between Yao Guangxiao and the Xu family, the female dependents naturally could ask to see each other and get a word or two of guidance.

Yuan also smiled: "The second sister-in-law is talking seriously, you are here to make fun of her." ”

"Do you want you to give your second sister-in-law a head?" Mu Ningxue stretched out her hand and nodded Yuan's forehead, and chuckled: "You don't have to be angry, that day in the temple, who of those monks didn't look at you with their eyes and saw God?" Half the day will come to lure you into the house. ”

The big guy couldn't stop laughing, and Yuan deliberately sighed: "The third brother has not been at home in the past two years, and the third sister-in-law, you have become more and more mean, and you have been amusing us all day long." ”

The girl came in and replied, "Grandma Zhong Wu has come up." ”

After a while, Zhong Kegu came in and said: "I went to see the old lady over there, and when I returned to Brother Fen to become a monk, the old man and the wife didn't say a word, and after a while, the old man said: 'That's it, fortunately, there is a second child, so I will give birth to him for nothing.'" But the girl heard that her father had left the house, and wept to die and hang herself. I think she's pitiful. After persuading for a while, I looked strange and sad, and asked a few sisters-in-law to take care of it, and then came back. ”

Xiao sighed: "It's useless to cry, in the future, according to the girl's monthly example, I will send money and food every month, and take care of it, I remember that Qingzhu is about to leave the pavilion, right?" Your intentions as elders are to find her a good in-law. ”

"I see." Zhong Kegu nodded and agreed, speaking of which Xu Fen had a great relationship with her, so she was very unhappy.

At this time, Qiu Xiang sent someone to send eight gift cards. The housekeeper's sister-in-law said: "Mrs. Zhu of the Chengguo family sent the housekeeper to ask for peace, and invited the wife and grandmothers to come to the banquet tomorrow." ”

Xiao Shi said: "You asked Xiao Cheng to go to Zhu's house with the housekeeper to pay the original post, please thank you, saying that I am not in good health these days and can't go out." Wait for me to go another day, and tomorrow I will call Xuanqing Ningxue and them to take the ripples to receive his wife's love. ”

The housekeeper woman was born as Xiao's maid, and her husband was also Xiao's confidant, Xiao Cheng, went out to let her husband continue the post and invited the Zhu family's housekeeper to drink tea for a while. I prepared a horse and went to the Chengguo Mansion together.

It was Zhu Yong's birthday at home, and there were many guests, Xiao Cheng entered the door, and the housekeeper invited him to sit down in the guest hall to eat and drink. Someone took the post into the house to reply. came out and said: "Mrs. said that since Mrs. Tai owes peace, she dare not be alarmed. Mrs. Half of the day came to visit in person, and tomorrow I will invite all the grandmothers and the Ripple girl to come and sit down. ”

Xiao Cheng ate a few glasses of wine, got up and said goodbye and went back. I saw Mrs. Xiao coming in a car, and hurriedly sent people into Jieshoutang.

This lady's surname is Bai, and she is a relative of another branch of the Xiao family. I am in my 40s this year, and as soon as I came in, I said, "I have something to discuss with my eldest sister and brother-in-law." ”

Mu Ningxue and the other concubines got up to greet each other, and Xiao asked Bai to sit down beside him and asked, "What's on your mind?" ”

Bai Shi sighed: "It's not for your niece and granddaughter Xiuzhi, that child has a smart personality and is very delicate, since she was born, she has been supported by medicine until she is thirteen or fourteen years old, her body is too weak, and she is sick for twenty days a month." Last year, I was seriously ill, almost unprotected, but fortunately a monk came to her home to diagnose and treat her, and sent a piece of ancient jade to ward off evil spirits, since then, the disease is really better.

I want to make a marriage for her, but eldest sister, think about it, who will marry a sick man and go back to serve? Besides, if she gets married, she has to do her duty as a daughter-in-law, Xiuzhi can't even take care of herself, can she still serve her husband and honor her parents-in-law? Moreover, this child has always had a bad temper and a strange temperament, not only is her diet and living different from others, but there are very few people she can look up to among her relatives.

When she saw the children of her relatives, she said, 'What are they doing in vain?' It's better to give their ages to the Ye brothers of the Xu family. "Listen, eldest sister, her tone is that Ye'er is suitable for her." ”

Hearing this, Xiao Shi was embarrassed, but the other party was telling the truth, nothing more than wanting to send it with a name, but unless it was a family of close relatives, who would be willing to take in a daughter-in-law who was about to die?

Bai Shi continued: "I mean to marry the eldest sister, I know that Ye'er and Qinglian's daughter are married, I have considered it. I want Xiuzhi's child not only can't have children, but the lifespan is also very limited, please let the eldest sister fulfill it, and give Xiuzhi to Ye'er as a daughter-in-law, as long as she can be a daughter-in-law in front of her eldest sister-in-law for a day, she can also be regarded as a person, and I also do my best to love my granddaughter, and my sister and brother-in-law have to approve my love for this matter. ”

Xiao Shi was not very happy in his heart, but he also sympathized with his mother's brothers and sisters, and said with a pleasant face: "I am not good at calling the shots in this matter, in the final analysis, Ye'er and his father and mother have to nod." ”

Bai Shi said in surprise: "Could it be that even my sister can't get an idea?" Is this really what Hao'er and his wife say? ”

Hearing this, Xiao Shi was suddenly unhappy, and said lightly: "Needless to say, the child's father and mother have the right to speak, and I still have the old lady above, and the old lady doesn't agree to whoever agrees, so let's put this matter aside for the time being, and discuss it later." ”

It's good to say that he sent people away, and the big guys are very speechless, where is this who came to propose marriage, but it was the same as coming to force marriage.

It was inconvenient for anyone to say anything in front of the Xiao family, Wang Xuanqing said first: "It is the wife's kindness to agree, and it is also her duty to disagree." ”

Xiao Shi smiled bitterly: "You don't know what is going on, she is a famous person in my mother's family, she has never understood the depths, and I ate her mother-in-law's milk when I was a child. Poor Xiuzhi has three disasters and eight tribulations, and it can be regarded as a good deed to let her have a home, but I don't know what Ning Xue and Hao'er mean. ”

Mu Ningxue was also embarrassed and said: "Pity the hearts of parents in the world." How can you explain it to the eldest sister? ”

Yuan said: "If you want me to say it, just refuse, although this kind of thing is not uncommon, it is unlucky for people to die in our family." ”

"Alas! Let me think about it. "Shaw has a headache.

After discussing this for a while, in the final analysis, it was really in response to Bai's words, Xu Ye's marriage was impossible without his Lao Tzu personally nodding.

"The Seventh Little Grandma is here." The girl came in again to report.

I saw Feng Wenjun's personal maid walking in with a smile, she became Xu Hu's room person that year, and since then, she has come forward on behalf of Feng Wenjun in everything, so everyone calls her the seventh little grandmother, and Feng Wenjun is called the seventh grandmother of the lake.

Seventh, Xu Hu is ranked seventh in the family, and the second room is used to being called so. However, most of the people in the third room or outsiders call Hu San Grandma, because Xu Hu ranks third in the third room.

Daimu greeted each other one by one, and said with a smile in his eyebrows: "Mrs. ordered me to come over to say hello to my wife and grandmothers, and my husband was released in Lianzhou County, Guangdong." I specially sent someone to the ministry to inquire, it's not bad at all, tomorrow the five drums will enter the palace to thank you. ”

"Good, good!" Xiao Shi and the big guy were all overjoyed, and less than a month after returning from overseas, Xu Hu was released from the Qipin County Order. It's not in vain that he's been running around for so long.

Not to mention that the Xu family celebrated for this whole family, Xu Hao rushed to Yongshun Mansion in Hunan on the way back to Beijing.

Yongshun, Hunan Province is adjacent to Sichuan, and since ancient times, Han and Miao have lived together, and the local people are mainly Tujia. There are many ethnic minorities. In the second year of Hongwu, he placed the Yongshun Military and Civilian Pacification Division, and in the sixth year of Hongwu, he was promoted to the Yongshun Military and Civilian Propaganda and Comfort Division. It is of the nature of an autonomous region.

In the second year of Hongxi, the imperial court began to move to the Yongshun area to settle the Han people, relying on the power of muskets and artillery. More than 200 years in advance, Yongshun Tusi was forced to ask for land and set up liuguan, and Hongxi placed 32 counties such as Yongshun County in seven years, and Hongxi was promoted to Yongshun Mansion in nine years.

It can be said that unconsciously, the population of the Ming Dynasty was growing slowly, and the measures vigorously advocated by the imperial court, such as sanitation, the promotion of improved crops, the abolition of household registration restrictions, and the reduction of excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, have achieved certain results.

Since ancient times, Yongshun County has been different from Changsha, Yuezhou and other prosperous areas, remote on the border, and the folk customs belong to the ancient style of the Miao people.

The Miao and Han people here have lived together for many years, and most of the time they have been at peace with each other and have a simple atmosphere. Because it is located in a place where there are more mountains than water, green mountains rise and fall on all sides, the highest altitude is more than 1,400 meters, the heat is sufficient, the rainfall is abundant, and the average temperature is above 16 degrees Celsius all year round.

The territory is full of lofty mountains and mountains, and the Han people who moved here are distributed in various mountain cols, ploughing the fields and digging wells, resting at dusk, no need to pay any taxes for the first three years, there are mountains everywhere and there is no labor, there is a bit of paradise atmosphere, so the officials who come here are very idle, and there is almost nothing to do all year round, which can be called leisurely.

The new prefect's name is Wang Xian, who is a native of Shanxi, a two-list jinshi of the Hongwu Dynasty, who has been in the ministry for 20 years, and has been promoted from the chief to the outside, and from the outside to the Langzhong.

Seeing that he was shrewd, cautious and diligent, the officials of the headquarters reported his name, and soon after the emperor allowed him to play, he was released to the prefect of Yongshun.

In this way, Wang Xian took his family to take office for thousands of miles, and in the first half of the year, he followed Xiao Gui Cao, and the upper and lower ministers were safe, except for eating and sleeping every day, there was nothing else to do, and there were many people in the yamen.

After a long time, Wang Xian was uncomfortable, thinking that with me as an example in the house, he had to do something, right? Eat and sleep like a pig all day long, what do you say when you sleep and eat? But after thinking about it, I didn't know where to start.

It just so happened that last spring was the year of the annual examination, when Wang Xian was thinking about it in the capital, there were often people who asked to change the test strategy, he had a hunch that the Bagu Wen would soon be abolished, and he was not the kind of literati who did not know how to change, and often went to the new-style school to listen to lectures, the atmosphere in Jiangnan has changed a lot in recent years, Wang Xian gradually and imperceptibly changed, belonging to the reformers who support new education and mercantilism.

Therefore, he planned to take this opportunity to collect a few talents first, and issued a notice, ordering the children to apply for the examination in addition to the eight poems and poems, and allowed to apply for various titles, such as arithmetic, historical theory, etc., arithmetic and historical theory are both subjects that existed in the Tang and Song dynasties, and they do not dare to be the first in the world.

Yongshun Prefecture has a total of four counties, the total population is less than 300,000, of which the Han people do not exceed 50,000, and it is also a relatively backward western region in later generations, it can be imagined how remote it was during the Ming Dynasty, since the founding of the country, even the number of Xiucai can be counted in a slap, and almost all of them are monopolized by Changsha and other areas with a strong traditional literary style.

The four counties together, there are less than 300 people who practice martial arts, but there are more than 2,000 martial arts children who practice martial arts, and most of them are military families, which shows how prosperous the atmosphere of practicing martial arts is, of course, the Han people practice martial arts mainly to defend their homeland.

Wang Xianxing hurriedly issued a notice, but in such a remote mountainous area, the students all read the Four Books and the Five Classics, and they couldn't understand the history of the arithmetic at all. When the day of the roll call, only a child in Longshan County reported the historical theory, a child in Yongshun County reported the written calculation, and the rest were all eight shares, and there were very few people who even made poems.

Wang Xian was very disappointed in this, he opened the bow and did not look back, so he came out of the question and put it out, and the room where he wrote the eight-strand essay was full of people, and there was only one candidate in the other examination rooms, but there were a lot of invigilators and so on.

Wang Xian didn't have any hope for the result, and he didn't want the boy who reported the pen to finish the paper perfunctorily, which was also a rare and pragmatic talent, which couldn't help but make him a little happier. And the boy who took the historical theory, because he saw that the title was "Han Xin's Theory", he didn't know which dynasty Han Xin was, so he said that the topic didn't know the source, please change it to a simpler one.

is such a lone seedling, the invigilator knows that the prefect attaches great importance to this exam, and he can't make an exception, so he will discuss it with the invigilator first.

The scholar took a look at the question, and said to himself: "The name Han Xin is very familiar, as if somewhere?" Ah! Didn't the ambush on all sides and the second enter the palace sing, what Han Han believed in the death of Weiyang, yes, yes, isn't he? If you are not from the Han Dynasty, why would you sing Han Han Xin? You say don't you? ”

The scholars of Yongshun Mansion have always been known as both civil and military, and the habits of martial artists are greater than those of literati. Don't boast, since Han Xin is from the Han Dynasty, why does the play still say that he is the king of Sanqi Han who took the stage to worship the generals? I think this Han Xin must be from Qi State. ”

The invigilator turned back to Tong Sheng and said, "Xianggong! Don't fall for him, you will not be wrong if you do what I say. ”

Who knows that this boy has never been out since he was a child, has never heard of a play, has never seen the Yetai team, he is lonely and unheard, and there are a few books such as wild history at home, and he has not even read historical records, so he still can't figure out his head.

Seeing this, the scholar said, "Then I'll go and ask the master to change the subject." (To be continued......)