Xu Xiangyue savored the meaning, a little puzzled, and said: "You don't fly down one by one, but every time you have to send me recently." No, I'm going to pay it back. ”

"A cup of yam into the elixir, please drink the elixir." Xu Xiangyue teased.

Xue Shangwen raised his head and drank tastelessly, suffering from not being able to show his heart, so he had to say: "It is better to settle the grievance than to settle it, I will spare you and fly down the river." Peony and cherries are swept away. ”

When it was Ye Qin's turn, Xiao Yezi drank half a cup and said, "The old herbs and trees are all immortal medicines. ”

When it was Ma Yu's turn, Ma Yu said casually: "Who will pass on the big medicine." He sat beside him to welcome the spring, picked up the cup, and said without thinking: "A fire around the stove to collect medicine." ”

Everyone immediately praised: "This sentence is out of the dust, and they should each congratulate each other." ”

Everyone drank the wine, and it was Lai Yuanchu's turn, Lai Yuanchu couldn't think of it for a while, and he didn't want to delay it for too long, so he said: "There is, the crystal belly tastes poison." ”

The big guy laughed when he heard it, Xu Ye picked up a piece of sea cucumber with ivory chopsticks, and just when it reached his mouth, this laugh dropped the sea cucumber to the ground, and was scrambled by three pugs under the table, making everyone leave the table to avoid it, and the maid laughed and drove the dog away.

When he re-seated, Xue Shangwen said, "May I ask where did you get this sentence?" ”

Lai Yuanchu still quibbled to himself: "Don't you hear that the ancient Shennong Emperor tasted all kinds of herbs and encountered seventy-two poisons in one day?" He has a crystal belly, and he can taste any poison, otherwise how could he write a Materia Medica? has died countless times a long time ago, since he has been the medicine king Bodhisattva in later generations, isn't it an allusion? ”

Xu Xiangyue said: "This is your opinion, not in the book, you should be punished for drinking." ”

Lai Yuanchu said: "What's so difficult about coming out of the book? Niu Pu Ma Bo is eaten as medicine. ”

Everyone laughed again, the ripples laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt, and Jiaxing even laughed out of tears. Lai Yuanchu blushed and said: "Isn't this from the ancient text, Niu Pu Ma Bo is an idiom." ”

The idiom is indeed true. Niu Pu is cow urine, a kind of grass that is conducive to small solutions; Ma Bo is a fungus that can cure sores. The meaning of the idiom is that what is considered useless by ordinary people can become useful in the hands of those who understand its properties. It also refers to the talent that is useful by the humble status, and can also be used to describe the doctor's medical skill.

Obviously, this is not the poetry of the ancients, Ma Yu was afraid that he would not be able to get over it, and said: "It seems that Brother Lai deliberately made us laugh." I'll take a drink and move on. ”

Lai Yuanchu got the steps and went downhill naturally, and the girls were not familiar with each other because of the first meeting. I'm embarrassed to continue teasing him.

While carrying out the wine order, Jiaxing asked: "The next year is the year of the big exam, do you all have to take the exam?" ”

Ma Yu nodded silently, and Xue Shangwen said: "In the past few days, the Guozijian will take the test, Brother Lai is not from Jinling, I am afraid that someone will attack you for impersonation, I am afraid that it will be inconvenient." ”

Lai Yuanchu said: "I'm also worried, I will definitely offend the students in this province by taking the entrance examination in Jinling." ”

Xu Ye said indifferently: "Only those who have no ability will make irresponsible remarks." Although you can rest assured to take the test, if someone says that it is long and short, it will be pushed on the younger brother. ”

Lai Yuanchu was overjoyed, and then went to register the next day. The so-called impersonation means that people from other provinces take the township test in other places. The name is not right. This is the same as in later generations, thinking about the difficulty of children from other places going to Beijing to take the college entrance examination, the scholars in Beijing are naturally unwilling to be seized by outsiders.

One of the reasons why Ma Yu repeatedly failed to pass the exam, one of which is impersonation. And he has been in Jinling for so many years, even if he returns to his hometown of Shandong, there are still scholars from this province who attack him for impersonation. The two ends are not pleased, and they are very depressed.

Jiaxing knew his grievances, and silently poured him full of wine, Ripple and others looked at this scene with a smile, making Lai Yuanchu grow his mouth, and secretly said that it was a princess!

Xu Ye doesn't need to take the exam, Xu Hao is not as rigid as Jin Zhong, he is a son of the powerful, why not take the shortcut of the son of the powerful? Could it be that if you go to participate in the imperial examination honestly, people will not say that you are not a powerful person and do not rely on your family background?

Because his son said Lai Yuanchu's ugly things, Xu Hao paid attention to this trial exam.

On the day of the exam, Xue Shangwen and Lai Yuanchu went to Guozijian together.

After reviewing the file, the officials called each other and asked, "Which one is Xu Yuanchu?" ”

Dare to love Lai Yuanchu who is smart and bold, and he actually changed his surname to Xu without permission, and saw Lai Yuanchu immediately get up and salute, and said: "The disciple is Xu Yuanchu." ”

Who in the Xu family doesn't know? The officer looked at him carefully and asked, "Are you the nephew of the British prince?" ”

Lai Yuanchu replied: "The disciple is Xu Ye's brother. ”

The official said in surprise: "This official has never heard that he has a brother, but you are his brother-in-law, the son of Lord Xu?" ”

The students are all talking about it, why did the son of Lord Xu suddenly appear? This is the headline gossip in Beijing this year.

Everyone pricked up their ears, and Lai Yuanchu's face did not change and his heart did not beat, and he said seriously: "Exactly, just because it involves the privacy of the family, it is difficult to say it clearly." The disciple has been studying abroad since he was a child, so he has never come to the country to meet the teachers. ”

Seeing that he had said this, the official could not continue to ask any more, so he wrote the word tong guò on his scroll and drew a circle, which he deliberately memorized.

Xue Shangwen shook his head when he saw this, Ma Yu was very surprised, and said in his heart that your courage is really big, whose son is easy to recognize? Why be so vain, for the sake of fame and fame.

Back at Xu's Mansion, Lai Yuanchu immediately said to Xu Ye: "When the adults called me, they asked me, and I said that I was your brother in a hurry, please have the right to recognize me as a brother-in-law, and write a post to explain it, otherwise I will have no face to see people." ”

Xu Ye was also speechless, and it was hard to say anything, when he told his father about it at night, Xu Hao just smiled and said, "Then you can recommend the two of them by the way." ”

Xu Ye didn't understand his father's intentions, and the next day in the study, he wrote a post in person.

Lai Yuanchu leaned over to take a look, except for a few polite words, the following shows that Xu Ye has two brothers, Xue Shangwen, who is a cousin; Xu Yuanchu is the elder brother.

Undoubtedly, this gave Lai Yuanchu a big face, how many people's dreams? The three words of the brother are worth 10,000 gold, and with this, Lai Yuanchu turned into a son of the Xu family.

Xue Shangwen saw that he was also recommended, so he hurriedly thanked him. On the contrary, Lai Yuanchu was very uncomfortable in his heart, why did he open him on the secret road? asked: "Is this post personally addressed by Brother Xian, or is it sent to vote?" ”

Xu Ye said, "Let the steward send it." I'm not going to show up. ”

That's of course, who is embarrassed to run to sue outsiders, this Xu Yuanchu is my father's illegitimate son?

God knows that Xu Ye didn't sleep well all night last night, and he even guessed that he was afraid that it was not secretly born by his father and his fourth aunt Yuan? And then fostered in Lai's house?

Not to mention Xu Ye, who was cranky and suspicious that his father had an extramarital affair, Lai Yuanchu followed the steward Xu Zhong out, and said as he walked: "I'll go with you, Guozijian must not go often, you are not familiar with it." ”

"That's for the best." Xu Zhong said with a smile.

When he arrived at Guozijian, Lai Yuanchu said: "It just so happens that I have something to do, so I'll send it in for you." ”

This Xu Zhong and Xu Ye are exactly the same. How dare you not look at Young Master Lai? Even if it's not true, then he has actually become the eldest young master of the British Mansion, and the third master has not denied it, if he can't inherit the title in the future, who knows, he handed over the post to the other party without saying a word.

In this way, Lai Yuanchu sent people away, turned around and went to a nearby paper shop, changed the post, and removed Xue Shangwen's name. Only wrote his own name, and went to the country to vote.

I think the imperial examination system can be called the fairest selection of officials in the world, but there is never an absolutely fair thing in the world, not to mention that the odds of passing the Beijing scholar examination are much greater than those of people from other provinces. Isn't the odds of winning the Shilin exam in the south far higher than in the north? It is that the imperial court has adopted the standard of taking scholars from the south and the north, and the south is still more preferential than the north.

As the eldest son of Xu Hao, who suddenly appeared, the relevant officials dare not give him face, so that the eldest son of Xu's mansion has the identity of a lifter? I don't need to say anything about it. Lai Yuanchu has already been set on the list of must-take.

Lai Yuanchu knew that it was bad, and he didn't dare to say that I was Xu Hao's son when he met people, and those officials were all exquisite. When it comes to Xu Sanye's unspeakable romance, no one spreads it out, and even those students are thinking about their future, and they don't dare to offend the powerful from their mouths.

So not too many people know about this, of course, this can't hide it from Xu Zengfu, so he specially called Xu Hao to come to him and asked why?

Xu Hao said lightly: "I just want to see if his character can become a good match for Xiangyue." ”

Xu Zengfu said: "It's really inappropriate to change the surname in vain, and it's not too much to read it when he is young." ”

Yuan also said: "Third brother, Yuan Chu is your brother's godson, and he will join our family in the future, I don't think it's anything." ”

"Yes! I don't think it's anything either. Xu Hao smiled, "So didn't I agree?" ”

"Oh." Yuan always felt that this was unusual, but he couldn't guess what medicine was sold in the third brother's gourd.

When Xu Hao left, Yuan said, "Dad, what did you say my brother was doing this for?" In this way, he will inevitably be talked about behind his back, which will damage his reputation. ”

Xu Zengfu touched his beard and sighed: "In the end, the third child is not worried about Xiangyue's girl, so he does not hesitate to take this test to test Yuan Chu." This man! When there is no career, it is honest and honest, but once it is developed, it will expose its nature, and so on in the early examination of the Yuan Dynasty, it is even Jinshi and the first, when the young man is proud, in the end, how he is a person, it is not difficult to see at that time. ”

"I see." Yuan Shi was suddenly full of emotion, "In the end, it is the elder brother, who has taken great pains for the sake of the child." ”

In the flower hall, Mu Ningxue asked with a smile: "I heard that my husband has an heir outside, and the concubine doesn't dare not congratulate him." Dare to ask the husband, when will the ancestral hall be opened, so that his son can recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors? ”

Xu Hao glanced out with a headache, and knew that there were still some boring women hiding without looking, and said with a wry smile: "Before marriage, I dare to swear to the sky that I will guard my mother like jade." I have always dared to do things for my husband, so naturally I don't need to hide it for so long. ”

"Phew!" Mu Ningxue pursed her lips slightly, she was loyal before marriage, but what about after marriage?

Xu Hao also knew that he was losing money in front of his wife, so he stood up and said to himself: "Recently, Yu'er didn't need to study hard, what about people?" Lao Tzu wants to teach him a good lesson. ”

"Alright." Mu Ningxue sat down slowly and glanced at her husband, "Yu'er was praised in public by Mr. yesterday." ”

"Huh." Xu Hao raised his hand and patted his head, "It's my mistake in memory, it's Ye'er's bastard who doesn't learn well." ”

In an instant, laughter was heard from all directions, and laughter and laughter rang out. (To be continued......)