In the room, there is a guqin on the red sandalwood piano table by the window, a green jade three lion incense burner, and a book spread out on the table.

Qin Suqiu picked up the book casually, saw that it was a piano score, and said with a smile: "Good thing, what kind of tune did you just play?" It's very quiet. Is this new? ”

"This was sent by Gu Su Gu Meixian, and it was composed by herself." Zhu Mingzhi explained, picked up the camellia brought in by Xiaochun, and placed it on the small square table.

Shi Zuoqin and Jin Ju also went over to look, Qin Suqiu pondered while watching, and said: "The fingering is very fine, and it is difficult to be pure for a while, how many years has Your Highness been learning the piano?" ”

"But just play around, don't call me Your Highness, everyone is worthy of sisters." Zhu Mingzhi said again: "I don't dare to get an axe in Xu Mansion, my aunt is in the world, and there is probably no one in Jinling." Even Yu'er is a few chips higher than me, if you pay attention to it, you really don't understand it at all. ”

"Don't be polite." Qin Suqiu smiled and beckoned, "Come and play it for me." ”

Zhu Mingzhi shook his head with a smile, and Shi Zuoqin said: "You two don't be polite, don't be polite, don't care who it is, play it and let the two of us learn and learn." ”

At the moment, Qin Suqiu asked Zhu Mingzhi to play first, Zhu Mingzhi naturally refused, Qin Suqiu wanted her to play, Zhu Mingzhi couldn't push it, so he sat on the Wuhui seat, raised his hand and tuned the seven strings and five strings to a fairy, and then scattered the seven strings, and the four strings and nine micro also tuned an immortal.

Everyone saw her hands playing like running water, making a crisp sound of ding dong, stopping her hand and saying: "I have a bad habit since I was a child, the ring finger is not very flexible, this is not a product, please bear with me." ”

"It doesn't matter." Qin Suqiu was overjoyed when he saw Hunting, "Your fingering is already very good." ”

Jin Ju stammered: "Is this still a non-product?" Wouldn't I be a joke? ”

Zhu Mingzhi smiled, calmed down, and played a song of Dongtian Spring Dawn, and beautiful notes like flowing water gushed out. There was no pause in the fingering, and until the end of the playing, the aftermath was still lingering.

Shi Zuoqin and Jin Ju listened quietly, not daring to disturb loudly, and saw Zhu Mingzhi change the strings and make a tune, and played "Listen to the piano".

Qin Suqiu took the piano score and read along with the sound of the piano: "What about the children's language, grievances and grievances, suddenly become arrogant, and the warriors cross the enemy field." The floating clouds and catkins have no roots, and the sky and the earth follow the wind and poplars.

Noisy white birds, suddenly saw a lonely phoenix, climbing inadequately, losing momentum and plummeting.

Yu Yu has two ears, did not understand the silk fence, heard Ying Shi playing, sat aside, waved his hand to stop. Wet clothes are full of tears, Yinghuer is sincere, don't put ice and charcoal in my intestines. ”

"The song is good, and the words are good." Qin Suqiu immediately praised and waited for Zhu Mingzhi to get up. She happily sat down and improvised a song of Phoenix Seeking Phoenix, and her fingering was almost on par with Zhu Mingzhi.

Shi Zuoqin said: "It's too quiet, it's best to play and listen in the dead of night." That's what tastes. ”

Jin Ju asked, "Why didn't Yu'er see you?" ”

Zhu Mingzhi said: "He was invited by Mr. Sheng and them. ”

"Oh." Jin Ju's interest seemed to have decreased a lot all of a sudden, and after a while, he said: "The weather is very stuffy, why don't we go to Begonia Xiangmengxuan." Look at the Orchid Girl? ”

"Go first, and I'll come in a moment." Zhu Mingzhi called the maid to come in and clean up.

At that moment, Jin Ju pulled Shi Zuoqin and Qin Suqiu to leave, and suddenly Qingyan ran in and said, "The two young ladies of the Zhu family have returned to Beijing." ”

Zhu Mingzhi was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked the third daughter if she could go over? Shi Zuoqin said: "No, it's inconvenient to haven't seen it yet, see you later." ”

"That's good." Zhu Mingzhi couldn't take care of it, and hurriedly came to Jieshoutang.

In the house, the two wives of Xiao and Liu had just finished crying, Zhu Nephrite and Zhu Ruizhu were there to wipe their tears with handkerchiefs, and the sisters' faces were obviously very haggard, and they were also very pitiful and helpless, which made Zhu Mingzhi feel sorry for them, and the tears couldn't help but fall

Covering his mouth, he walked over to say goodbye to the elders, turned around, Zhu Mingzhi held the hands of the sisters and couldn't help crying.

One person cried and a hundred people responded, and Lu Shufang, who was standing beside Liu, saw that the three sisters Mu Lanxiang and Xu Yunsu also shed tears again, and stepped forward to persuade her.

After crying for a long time, Zhu Mingzhi wiped his tears and tried to change his smile, and after a long time, he squeezed out a sentence: "How are you?" ”

"Okay." Nephrite cried again after speaking.

Seeing this, Xiao sighed: "Alas, their sisters are both gratifying and sad to look at. He turned to ask the housekeeper of the Zhu Mansion, "Have the coffins arrived at the dock together?" ”

The housekeeper said: "Mrs. Hui, I arrived with the two young ladies, and the masters of the family rushed over early to help." There are still two aunts who did not arrive, and the second master personally sent them. ”

"Oh, huh?" Xiao Shi felt that something was wrong, and said in surprise: "Could it be that the two aunts were also martyred?" ”

The housekeeper cried and said, "Mrs. Hui, my aunt has been martyred in a row, leaving these two girls and the young master who was born prematurely, and what should we do if we are old and immortal?" ”

said that he hugged his head and cried, and everyone cried now, after all, the Zhu family was too miserable this time, and the death was scattered, and in a blink of an eye, only Zhu Kui and two nieces were left, as well as the premature posthumous son Zhu Yi.

With the martyrdom of his aunt Su, there is no need for Xu Hao to verify Zhu Yi, even if it is fake, it is true.

Zhu Nephrite fainted from crying because of her mother's death, Zhu Ruizhu also cried out of breath, others you cry to persuade me, I cry to persuade you, finally stopped crying, I saw Xu Yu running in like crazy, hugged Zhu Nephrite and cried.

Seeing this, Mu Ningxue shouted with tears in her eyes: "Let's just get better, you brute is disgusting again, go outside and take care of your sisters' luggage." ”

"Yes." Xu Yu wiped his eyes and went out in a gray manner.

Seeing that it was not a matter to cry like this, Mu Ningxue asked Zhu Mingzhi and them to accompany the Zhu sisters back to Yisu Garden.

The housekeeper here said to the Xiao family: "Thanks to the third master of your mansion, this great disaster is difficult to repay." Now that the master of the family has passed away, the second master is in a slump, and it is difficult to support it alone, and the Zhu family only has a bloodline left by the little master, who is too young, and in the future, it will all depend on the old and young masters in the house to supervise and promote him, just to raise him in peace and peace, inherit the title, and revive the incense of my Zhu family. As for the two girls, the younger one already has prejudices, so he asked Mrs. and Mrs. to remember the friendship of their ancestors and stay in the house to take care of them. ”

"It should." Xiao sighed. Now that there is no one in the Zhu family, who can rest assured that the little Zhu Yi and the two girls are like flowers? The Xu family can't stand idly by and watch because of reason, and they must be raised and taken care of by their own family.

For many days, Xu Hao and Zhang Fu invited Qin Tianjian to come and choose a cave near the tomb of Zhu Neng, the king of Dongping, to supervise the craftsmen to dig the soil, and the coffins of Zhu Neng and Mrs. Zhu were temporarily enshrined in the Huanggu Temple and buried on a good date.

After Zhu Kui and the Zhu family sisters came to see the cemetery, they lived in the Zhu family's family temple and stayed in the house for three months.

After all, Xu Hao and Zhang Fu can't be here all day long, and they will be handed over to Xu Hai, Xu Yu's uncle, nephew, Zhu Kui and other juniors. Come to supervise the work every day, make all kinds of national grade stone tools, plant trees and add soil.

The ladies of all families came to chant and eat fasting, and repent for the deceased. Xu Yu and other younger generations of major families also go out of the city from time to time to come to ask for peace and pay tribute to the tomb.

Inadvertently, the Zhu family's experience made the family of the martyr of Jingjing unprecedentedly united, and only the bloody lessons will be alarming and enlighten many people. If something really bad happens to one's own family, the most unreliable is actually a cadre of relatives and subordinates, but the relatives are the most reliable.

The reason is simple, there is a respected Xu family and the Zhang family to uphold justice. Besides, who in the Xungui family doesn't want to be faceless? Many relatives are different from each other, and distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, so the families move around each other more frequently.

Town. Lu Sheng has been secretly visiting these days, and recently returned home with a wet nurse who was kicked out for stealing two silver jewelry. He came to the door.

The nurse who got the benefit sued him, and it turned out that the famous Ma Huizi handled it for Gui Burong and invited a Zhejiang man, Ding Wei's wife. The student is the local version of the superintendent, and the public-funded students who belong to the state capital and county have few places, and most of them are students, that is, Xiucai.

The show that has just entered the school is called epiphytes, and after the annual examination, those with excellent grades can be promoted to hyperplasia or shengsheng, so the student is the best student in the local area, and then the next level is the representative of the province recommended by the tribute. Every time in the imperial examination, which province's tribute students have more Jinshi in the examination, or the top three in the examination, they become famous all over the world in one fell swoop, and naturally which province has the most face, so the treatment is rich.

Not only will the state give out food and pocket money every month to subsidize life, but the local government also has various names of assistance, which is equivalent to a variety of grants, scholarships and government subsidies in later generations.

The imperial court stipulated that the quota of 40 people in the government school, 30 people in the Zhou school, and 20 people in the county school. In this regard, the system of the Ming Dynasty was already very perfect, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty basically followed the Ming Dynasty. Basically, no child or above will not starve to death, and every Xiucai can receive a piece of money and food, and those who starve to death will not be scholars, except for those who occasionally die big.

He has the highest level of local reputation and material rewards, which shows his good social status and stimulates students from all over the world to study hard and serve the country. It is to obtain it regardless of whether it is rich or poor, as long as it studies well, but it must ensure that the net worth is innocent, for example, once the impostor is discovered, the punishment is very severe.

It is not uncommon for Gui Burong to find Ding Wei's student at home to take the exam for him, and there are not high-achieving students from famous schools who take the college entrance examination on behalf of him in modern times, and he promised a thousand taels of silver, and put it in the modern era for hundreds of thousands, and there will always be people who will be reckless for the sake of money.

But how can there be money if it is not honorable? He had to pay 100 taels of pens in advance, and he scraped together 40 taels, and he still hasn't paid a penny. Ma Huizi who handled it drew ten taels from it, so he only got thirty taels of silver for a hard trip, and he helped him pass the examination in vain.

Di Sheng ran to Ma Huizi's house every day to make noise, and even the gate was broken, Gui Burong hid at home and didn't dare to show his face, and now there are some rumors outside.

Lu Sheng inquired clearly from the nurse's mouth, and the rumors were confirmed by two confirmations, and they couldn't be wrong. In this way, Ge Lao Liu asked him to go to Gui Burong and borrow a thousand taels of silver.

I didn't want to be unmoved, I held myself to protect myself, and I spit on Lu Sheng in front of him.

Lu was so angry that he yelled and threatened to speak out, and the angry Gui Burong's head pounced, and the two of them fought, and Lu Sheng saw that this guy was blackmailing and did not move, and threatened to sue him if he went back.

That night, Ma Huizi notified Na Sheng, and the two fled in the starry night, and Ge Lao Liu also helped Lu Sheng write a submission and handed it to the Criminal Department.

In fact, cases of fraud in imperial examinations such as impersonation cannot be avoided at any time, who made this a matter of fame, fortune and wealth? No matter how strict and perfect the system is, it can't stop opportunists.

Every time this kind of thing happens, those students who fall behind will be extremely angry, involving vital interests, for three whole years, who cares what official explanation you have? Anyway, no matter how honest the era is, it's all your court's fault.

Of course, as the only ruling Confucian party, the civilian government cannot shirk it, and can only admit it in the face of mass accusations.

In short, as soon as this case came out, I don't know how many students got together, beat drums and attacked, marched in the streets, went on a hunger strike in front of the yamen, and vigorously criticized the corruption and darkness of the imperial court. (To be continued......) R1292