The next day, Zhang Jinbao was going to leave the examination room. Ye Hexiang Zhang Xing was originally going to be sent. Ye Yunlan stopped Ye Hexiang and said with a smile: "These are placed by others, you don't have to worry about it, I finally came to my place, and our sisters have a good talk." ”

Although Ye Hexiang was concerned about Zhang Jinbao in her heart, she also knew that it was useless for her to go. This government exam is going to take several days, and she just goes around the neighborhood, and she can't help at all. It's better to stay, maybe you can get some benefits from Ye Yunlan.

Ye Yunlan knew Ye Hexiang since she was a child, and knew what she was planning to do in her bones, if it was in the past, she would avoid as far as she could, so as not to be wronged. It's just that now the Liu Mansion has already bet their future on Gu Xichao and Zhang Xing, and it is really nothing to fold some money and goods. She had the heart to be close to Zhang Xing, so she called her two concubines out, thinking that they were of the same age, and maybe she could open Zhang Xing's stuffy gourd.

Although Ye Yunlan's idea is good, the results are not good. Her two concubines, one fourteen and the other thirteen, were usually suppressed a little harshly, and they acted and spoke cautiously. Although they knew in their hearts that they had been called out to talk to others, the coarse cloth clothes worn by the girl of their age had nothing on her head except a yellow wooden hairpin. Even the girls around them are more decent than her.

It's really hard to talk about some topics that girls often talk about.

And they don't understand the work in the fields. After being together for a long time, they just asked each other their names and talked about their age and usual preferences - this preference is even more separated by 108,000 miles.

Fortunately, there is Ye Hexiang by her side, she is a talker, and she likes clothes and jewelry the most. saw Ye Yunlan's two concubines dressed up. And his eyes lit up. Tsk boasted from head to toe.

Zhang Xing only smiled and watched, she could see that Ye Yunlan's two concubines were cautious, and they were not trying to embarrass them. It's just that she really doesn't know much about what they said.

After dealing with Ye Hexiang for half a day, Ye Yunlan couldn't stand it. The girl next to her saw that she was tired, so she hurriedly found an excuse and sent Ye Hexiang Zhang Xing away.

In the afternoon, Ye Hexiang had seen enough of the yard and wanted to go around the street. Zhang Xing didn't want to make trouble, so she said that she was tired from riding in the car yesterday, and her head was still dizzy, and she didn't want to go out. Ye Yunlan had no choice but to send the clever woman beside her to accompany Ye Hexiang.

Ye Hexiang lived happily in Liu's Mansion, but the Mansion test was only three days. When the house test was over and the candidates were about to come out, Wei Yunhai, Ye Hexiang, Zhang Xing all stood at the door, and Liu Hai also came over.

One by one, the withered candidates came out one after another, and Zhang Jinbao was also helped out. Several people from the Wei family hurriedly surrounded them, and Ye Hexiang remembered the results of the exam. Keep asking: "Jinbao, my son, how is it? Did you pass the test?"

Zhang Xing couldn't help frowning and said, "Mother." Where will this result come out so quickly?" She had seen Wei Minwen and Wei Minwu take the county exam, and at that time, the two of them came out to follow up on the same vigorous and vigorous life, and they were full of energy, where was Zhang Jinbao like this? She didn't know if Zhang Jinbao came out of the county exam after the county exam, was it the same as now? At that time, it was the same for three days. Zhang Jinbao's current appearance is really not good.

She felt that the imperial examination was too devastating. Stay in that square spot for three days. No matter how strong the nerves are, I am afraid that they will complain, let alone Zhang Jinbao, who is only ten years old.

However, the children in the township are not clay sculptures, Zhang Jinbao grew up rolling in the mud since he was a child, and after resting in Liu's Mansion for two days, he was relieved. It's still not good to just look at it mentally. Zhang Xing saw that he was obviously a little evasive in the face of Ye Hexiang's questioning, and knew that he probably didn't do well in the exam. Instead, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly climbed too high and fell, and now falls, the latter is much lighter. Prodigies throughout the ages rarely became great talents in her impression. What's more, Zhang Jinbao is not a prodigy. If it is too smooth, it will always make people get carried away, and people will grow up in tribulations, and only then will they know that they cherish it.

She took Zhang Jinbao to walk around Yuxian for a long time, and bought a lot of food, and the smile on Zhang Jinbao's face returned.

When they went out, they came by their own cart, but when they went back, they were sent back by the coachman of Liufu. The car's own cart was full of things sent by Ye Yunlan.

Zhang Xingzhi said that Zhang Jinbao did not do well in the exam, and informed Wei Yunhai. Although Wei Yunhai is a rough man, he also knows that the child is still young and can't withstand too many ups and downs, so he helped stop many villagers who came to explore the wind.

Half a month later, the results of the government examination came out, Zhang Jinbao really didn't win, Ye Hexiang seemed to be the sky fell all of a sudden, and asked Mr. Liu: "Could it be a mistake?" Her son is going to take the top exam and become a big official. also asked Wei Yunhai to hurry up to Yu County to inquire about Liu's Mansion, and Mr. Liu, who was in a bad mood, fled.

Wei Yunhai had already been told by Zhang Xing, although he was also a little disappointed in his heart, but it was okay. He pulled Ye Hexiang into the room and said, "Don't make a fuss, how can this matter be fake? The child is still young, and if he doesn't pass this time, he will take the test next time. "Didn't his two sons take the exam several times?

Ye Hexiang whimpered and cried. Wei Yunhai frowned and said, "The child didn't shed tears before he did well in the exam, why did you cry? I think you are not even as good as a child." ”

Ye Hexiang felt that she was sad in her heart and couldn't say it to others. She is a strong person, and she has been top-notch in the nearby village since she was a child. However, her fate was not good, she was first promised to Zhang Shuisheng by her father, and the Zhang family was so poor that they couldn't open the pot. Later, with Wei Yunhai, although the Wei family's family background is slightly better, it is only enough to make a living. Ye Yunlan, who was in the same village as her, was not as good as her when she was a child, but what kind of life is her life now? What kind of life is she living now? It is really a heaven and an underground. The two girls raised are also more troublesome than the other. The only son, she thought there was still some hope, but it turned out to be empty.

Why is she so miserable?

Ye Hexiang couldn't stop crying, Wei Yunhai was impatient and persuaded, and as soon as the door slammed, he went out.

Ye Hexiang cried even more heartbreakingly. Men are also unreliable.

Listening to Ye Hexiang's cry, Zhang Jinbao's face turned a little paler. Zhang Xing pulled him up and said, "Didn't you want to catch loaches last time?" Let's go, let's go now." ”

The sister and brother built a dam in the ditch in the field to scoop water and catch fish, and caught half a basket in half a day.

There are many gossiping women in the township, and Ye Hexiang is mean, and her popularity in the village is really not good. The news that Zhang Jinbao did not pass the government test, it spread all over the four towns like wings, and the woman who had seen Ye Hexiang's face at the beginning seized the opportunity to return the words that Ye Hexiang had buried them. For a while, regretful, gloating, and all kinds of eyes looked at Wei Yunhai's house.

Ye Hexiang is definitely a paper tiger, seeing that the opportunity is not good, he went back to his parents' house with a bag of clothes.

It's just that this excitement didn't last long, and the peach blossom flood in May came as scheduled. As if overnight, the water level of Huaishui rose sharply, and all the branch rivers below were overflowing, and many low-lying areas were flooded. The fish in the Wei family's fish pond have all run away, and the fields are full of children carrying buckets to catch fish.

Compared with the carefree children, the nerves of the adults were tense again, and most of the men in Weijiazhuang were pumped to the river embankment. Zhang Xing had to go up to the embankment to take a few glances every time she delivered food, and saw the boundless turbidity waves rolling, flooding up day by day, gradually closing the embankment. The newly built berm on the embankment was as pale as a thin line in the yellow sky, as if it would be submerged in the next moment.

Her heart also rose to her throat.

She cleaned out all the clothes, shoes and socks to wear at this time, the cooking utensils that were easy to carry, and the Li flatbread, which was enough to make thirty or forty, and packed them into four bags.

Weijiazhuang's private school has left school early, Mr. Liu went to Yu County, Zhang Jinbao is ten years old, and he already knows the importance of Taoism. At this time, no one has mentioned the matter that he did not get in the house test. Everyone is talking about the big water right now. He was busy with Zhang Xing all day long, and he seemed to have come out of the frustration.

Ye Hexiang also came back from her mother's house, and Ye Dahu's family in Buhe Village went to Yu County, and when she came back, Uncle Ye's family was also preparing to go to Yu County. As soon as she came back, she was anxious and wanted to go to Yuxian. Wei Yunhai did not agree to go to Yuxian County as before. Zhang Xing didn't want to leave Wei Yunhai alone.

Ye Hexiang can't be the master of Wei Yunhai and Zhang Xing, but she can be the master of her own son. She pestered Zhang Jinbao and cried for a long time, but Zhang Jinbao had no choice but to agree.

Half of the people in the village have moved to the town, and Zhanghe Town is relatively high compared to other villages and towns. The flood of the 35th year of Yuanping did not overflow to the town.

Wei Minwen came back and asked his father and Zhang Xing to move to the town. Wei Yunhai is a tough person, and he doesn't want to trouble others until the last moment. What's more, in the past few years, the water of the Huai River has also overflowed many places during the flood season, but it has not flooded to Weijiazhuang. He thinks that Weijiazhuang will be safe and sound this year.

Every time Zhang Xing went to the embankment, the villagers who guarded the embankment compared the water level in the past few years, and said that although the water level was high this time, it was still not as good as the flood in the 35th year of Yuanping.

In the thirty-fifth year of Yuanping, although Zhang Xing had experienced it personally, it was not in the same area, and she couldn't see the high and low. But it's always right to be prepared. She put away the valuable things in the house, took away as much as she could, and put them into waterproof and moisture-proof jars and urns, and the rest of her clothes and quilts were wrapped in oilcloths, and the doors and windows of the house were also re-hammered aside, for fear that when the flood came, she would wash away and all the belongings would run away.

Even the tiles and beds in the poor homes are treasures. (To be continued......)