Shen Junqian originally sneaked out of the Peony Poetry Meeting to hide Qingjing, all the places she is looking for now, in fact, the Shen family does not want to hold the Peony Poetry Meeting this time, but it is better to hide in the place. So Shen Junqian pulled Guo Baobao to walk when the time came, and the place he passed along the way seemed to be separated from the place of the Peony Poetry Club by a rockery or something like a shelter.

Walking all the way, you can still hear various voices coming from the peony poetry meeting.

"Where is this, it feels very close to the garden where your family held the Peony Poetry Club this time?"

Guo Baobao and Shen Junqian are also people with a tacit understanding, although they were simply and rudely pulled away by Shen Junqian's words, they had no objection at all, and they couldn't help but speak curiously when they listened to all kinds of laughing voices all the way.

Shen Junqian pulled her head and didn't look back, concentrating on turning left and right on the hidden road, and replied casually: "It's not very close, this is the garden, but this garden is a little bigger, and there is a rockery group here." ”

"No wonder!" Guo Baobao nodded and gently pulled Shen Junqian, "By the way, where are you going to pull me?"

Shen Junqian stopped and turned around and explained to Guo Baobao: "I'll take you to find my fifth sister, a few days ago, my fifth sister came back from King Ning's Mansion and brought back a red foal, it's so tall, it's interesting, do you want to see it?" Shen Junqian said while comparing a height that was not much higher than his own height.

"Pony, really, let's go, take me quickly!" Guo Baobao's eyes immediately lit up when he heard this, this time he didn't need Shen Jun to pull her, he just wanted to pull her away.

Shen Junqian looked at her back speechlessly as she rushed straight out, made a helpless expression, and felt like she walked to the front, "Come with me, the road here is very detouring, but it's easy to get lost." ”

"Did you hear that...... Recently, Wenling Xujia ...... It's amazing......"

"Oh, really, where did you hear that?"

"I think I've heard ...... too"

Only then did Guo Baobao come out of the passage of a rockery, and he heard the voices of several girls talking on the other side of the rockery, and he was startled.

The little girls get together to say some whispers, or exchange some gossip about various families in the capital, what's so strange, Guo Baobao himself will also get together with the little sisters and talk back about some anecdotes that they are interested in, sometimes the elders don't like some of the scandals in the capital they say will also secretly share one or two.

Shen Junqian didn't take this matter to heart, but he didn't think of anything when he heard the words Wenling Xu family, and suddenly heard the word "Shen family", and his subconscious pace slowed down.

After listening carefully, I found out that it was about the second room of the Wenling Xu family, which was related to the Shen family by marriage.

Shen Junqian thought about it, the eldest aunt seemed to be married to the second master of the Xu family's house in Wenling, the second room of the Xu family, no, no, well, Xu Zhuqing and Xu Yaqin, brother and sister. It's not that in addition to the two brothers and sisters, now there are two grandmothers and mothers left in the second room of the Xu family, is there something wrong?

In an instant, the question in Shen Junqian's heart aroused her curiosity, and she couldn't help but stop listening carefully.

Guo Baobao was very surprised to see Shen Junqian walking and walking to stop, and couldn't help but want to ask, but was interrupted by Shen Junqian's booing action, staring at his big eyes, seeing Shen Junqian pointing at the rockery with his fingers, and making a gesture of lying on the rockery to listen to the sound before he barely understood, and nodded his head to show cooperation.

Shen Junqian listened carefully to the voice, and the voices of four or five little girls came from the other side of the rockery.

"I heard that the girl from the Xu family lives in the Shen family now!"

"You say that, I really think that there is really a girl from the Xu family in the Shen family, isn't it the one who entered the Cangwu Women's Hospital as a relative of the Shen family before. The little girl who said this didn't know if there was any reason, and there was still some mockery and disdain in her voice.

"That's that, that's it, what's it called?"

"Xu Yaqin!"

"Yes, yes, that's it, she also has a brother who seems to be in Cangwu Academy!"

The voice of the girl who had spoken with a mockery from before came again, "I don't think it was also in the name of a relative, right?"

"You are wrong, I heard my brother say, that Xu Yaqin's brother is called Xu Zhuqing, but he didn't get in in the name of his relatives, but really relied on his own ability and talent, in front of the portrait of Confucius and the master and the students of the academy in the sage hall of the academy, he came to Longmen Sanguan to enter, I heard that his knowledge is good. ”

Another little girl also seemed to come out to help, "Actually, although Xu Yaqin came in as a relative of the head of the academy, I heard that her writing is also very good, and their husband has praised it a few times!"

The little girl who had always had a sour tone seemed to be unhappy, "How is it possible, that Xu family is just a broken businessman, what's the big deal, then Xu Yaqin, a merchant girl, can still compare with a few of us? Look at what she is doing in Wenling, tsk, where is what a lady should do, and she actually hides from us to pretend to be a lady." ”

The other side seemed to be silent for a while, and then a little girl who seemed to have a calm tone said: "Although it is true that the ancestors of the Wenling Xu family are businessmen, they have long since their ancestors abandoned business and literature, and now they are also a first-class scholar in Wenling, so you can't talk like this in the future." Besides, the girl of the Xu family may not be able to do this accurately!"

"What else is there to do accurately, now there are only so many people in the Xu family in Wenling, when it comes to the girl's family, who else can there be besides Xu Yaqin? Actually attracted several sons to praise her in Wenling, and also made a name for her talent, and also criticized the girls of other families in Wenling, as if Wenling was alone, it was really shameless. ”

"Alas, let's not talk about this, how can we say that we are still guests at the Shen family now, if we are heard, it is not good!"

"What's wrong, we didn't talk about the Shen family, what's the matter!"

A few little girls seemed to have some differences of opinion, and then said a few more words, and then slowly dispersed.

"After listening to it for a long time, what did you hear?" Guo Baobao was not interested in these things, so when Shen Junqian went to the rockery to eavesdrop, Guo Baobao looked at her boredly, and only vaguely heard words such as "Xu family, Shen family, capital", so that he didn't hear anything specifically.

Shen Junqian thought about what he heard, it seemed that he was talking about the Xu family in Wenling, and it seemed that it was still Xu Yaqin, who was now a guest at the Shen family.

Listening to what those little girls said crookedly, it seemed that Xu Yaqin came to the capital because she couldn't stay in Wenling anymore.

Sought after by the son of Xuzhou?

Shen Junqian's eyes suddenly appeared, the expression of Xu Yaqin when she went to her yard to apologize to herself that day, proud, stubborn, and calm buried under the ability that seemed to be able to destroy the miè world.

Shaking his head, forget it, it should be nothing, "It's nothing, I just seemed to hear the two words of the Shen family, I thought they were talking about something, I want to hear it, I heard it wrong, let's go, let's go see the foal first!"

As soon as Shen Junqian changed the topic, Guo Baobao immediately forgot to ask Shen Junqian what he heard, and quickly pulled Shen Junqian away.

"Forehead......" Shen Junqian was speechless and pulled Guo Baobao in time and pointed to the other side, "Baby, you are wrong, you should go this way." ”

Guo Baobao was not embarrassed, he was only stunned for a moment, then smiled, and decisively chose to follow Shen Junqian.

*******

"Third brother, have you really thought it through?" Shen Jitang's voice in the quiet study was cautious.

This is Shen Jitang's study in Jingxian Hall, and there are only two brothers in the study at this time, Shen Jitang and Shen Ji'an.

Shen Jitang is rarely at home today, but what kind of peony poetry meeting is being held by the Shen family, and most of the women in the backyard are coming. Shen Jitang was practicing calligraphy in the study when he had nothing to do, and the next person came to report that the third master was here.

Shen Jitang, who didn't care about it, didn't expect that what Shen Ji'an said to him was to completely abandon the path of civilian officials and go to the army.

Although Shen Jitang was cautiously asking Shen Ji'an if he had thought it through, he was already scolding his mother in his heart, although he knew that Shen Ji'an might have to take the path of a military attache before he took the test, but no matter what he said, there was still a fluke, and he was not very sure.

After Shen Ji'an won the champion in the retest, the Shen family felt that Shen Ji'an must also be a civil official in Hanlin, but he never thought that there would be a questioning voice, Shen Ji'an turned his head to participate in the martial arts without saying a word and got back the title of martial champion.

Not to mention the difference in the weight of the two champions, that is, the future of civil officials and military attaches is also very different, even if the military attache is the same as the civilian official in grade, it must be half a level shorter than the civil official of the same grade.

And Shen Ji'an, who is so well-rooted and well-rooted in the liberal arts, gave up and chose to join the army.

Forget it, what makes Shen Jitang even more speechless is that if you really want to join the army, forget it, don't you discuss it together at home, now you just talk to me, the second brother, what do you mean.

Thinking of this, without waiting for Shen Ji'an to reply, Shen Jitang couldn't help but ask again, "You came here to trap your second brother today, right?"

Shen Ji'an sat there rubbing his hands and smiled brightly, "How could the second brother be, I don't believe that the second brother must understand me, all the thoughts are about talking to the second brother first, and listening to your opinion, second brother?"

"Just listen to my opinion?" Shen Jitang raised his eyebrows, "Okay, I don't agree, you are a good liberal arts champion, what are you fooling around in the army, it is the right thing to enter the Hanlin Academy honestly." ”

Shen Ji'an suddenly felt like he was lifting a stone and hitting his own foot, "How can I be fooled, aren't I still a martial artist?"