Chanyi picked up the two maids from the teahouse and asked the coachman to drive to Xie's house.

She went to Ronghua Courtyard to greet Mrs. Xie, Xie Mansion had guests coming, and Ronghua Courtyard was full of laughter.

Old Madam Xie saw that Chanyi's eyebrows were a little gloomy, and she pulled her over and asked with concern: "Why don't you look so happy tonight?

Chanyi twisted her skirt, smiled reluctantly, and said, "Brother Chunyi, I'm worried that I can't sit still at home these days, so my grandmother sent me to find Sister Fei and Sister Shuangyun to play." ”

Mrs. Xie smiled and teased her: "Your elder brothers, they are also the ones who should be worried, why are you restless, I don't know and think that you are going to take the top prize," laughed for a while, and said, "Sister Fei just went to the big kitchen, saying that she has just learned a recipe to make pine nut candy, you go and see if she is ready," Speaking of this, she couldn't help but talk to her, "You should eat and drink at a young age, and when the sky falls, there is also a tall top, thinking about everything all day long, and you have wasted all your good years!"

Chanyi nodded obediently and let the housekeeper's mother lead her to the big kitchen.

Chanyi walked out, and a lady beside Mrs. Xie who had a high bun and a cloisonné inlaid with agate inserted into it, and was wearing an apricot-colored makeup gown, looked at Chanyi's back and said curiously: "The second miss of the Xia family is really good-looking, and I don't know if anyone else has it." ”

Old Madam Xie smiled and suppressed her words, "She still has two brothers on top of her, and her mother also means to kiss her two brothers first." ”

The meaning of this is that there is no one left, and the woman's mind is alive.

Mrs. Xie smiled silently, although she and Yingxue both fell in love with the Zhu family, but a few more people asked to marry, which is a good thing for a woman, and the more people who asked to marry, the more it showed that her lady was virtuous and gentle.

The big kitchen was in full swing, Xie Feiyun was studying the shape of the syrup with two dim sum molds, and his eyes lit up when he saw Chanyi coming.

"You're here in time, come and show me whether it's better to use a flower-style mold or a leaf-shaped mold. ”

Chanyi's love is not high, and she said a little absent-mindedly: "Whether it is flowers or leaves, aren't they all eaten in the end, if you can't make up your mind, just make some each." ”

Xie Feiyun pouted, "Where is the pine nut candy so easy to make, it took me two hours to make a little, if the mold is not selected well, the quality is different, and the taste is dull no matter how good it is in the mouth." ”

In fact, what's the difference, Chanyi shook her head, and suddenly felt that she was not interested at all.

Looking at the pine nut syrup boiled in the pot over low heat, bubbling a little, and the sweet smell of the thick pine nut candy in the kitchen, I thought of the young man holding a short knife I saw in the secret room, as if he had been soaked in blood, and his eyes were splashed with cold light.

How many of those young people are not well fed and clothed, and have to work hard with others to survive?

On the other hand, in addition to brocade clothes and jade food, they also think that the dim sum is not in good condition and tastes bland.

She let out a long sigh and rubbed her brow gently.

"Sister Fei, tell me about what you saw in Quanzhou, didn't you say that Quanzhou has been flooded for a long time, so how did those victims live?"

Xie Feiyun was busy for a long time, and finally selected a maple leaf-style mold to fill pine nut candy, and heard Chanyi sigh for such a long time, and said strangely, "Why did you suddenly ask about this?" Without waiting for Chanyi to answer, she instructed the cook to pour syrup into the mold, and said: " I haven't seen it with my own eyes, every time there is a flood, our family members of the official eunuchs hide in the official room behind the yamen to avoid the disaster, but I heard the little guy next to the eldest brother say that every time there is a flood, there will be dead people outside, either the house is flooded and swept away, or the quagmire is entangled to death, in short, it is very chaotic. ”

In other words, Xie Feiyun has never seen the real victims.

The more Chan Yi listened, the lower her mood became, as if she had a flame in her heart, but she didn't know where to burn.

She reluctantly said a few more words to Xie Feiyun, and then went back to the Xia Mansion.

She had been a little depressed for several days.

Because Xia Mingche came out of the examination room, the Xia family surrounded him, but it didn't show the abnormality of Chanyi.

Chanyi's depression and unhappiness lasted until the day of the trial release list.

On the day of the list, the spring sun is particularly bright, the breeze is slightly blowing, and the pines and cypresses are blowing, and it is lively and lively like flowers blooming one after another.

As soon as the list came out, I took a closer look, and I saw the list written in the pavilion style, with the names of all the Jinshi in the examination written in a dignified line by line, the most obvious is the two sons of the Zhu family, ranking second and second respectively, Huiyuan is Zhu Xuan, and the second place is Zhu Bi, and Xia Mingche's name is not far from them, in the fifth place, followed by Xie Pianyun and Xie Xuanyun's names in the back.

Chanyi's breath of relief was finally relieved, if because of her rebirth, and the future of the second brother changed, she was afraid that she would have a bad conscience in this life.

When Xie heard the news, he clasped his hands together with joy, recited several words of Buddha, and discussed with Mrs. Xia, wanting to set up a few tables at home to celebrate.

Old Madam Xia said with a smile: "Don't worry, when Brother Che has passed the palace test, it's not too late for us to put the wine on the table, don't put too much pressure on Brother Che at this time, let him rest well, and wait for the palace to try it." ”

Xie Shi smiled and nodded, she was very happy, after so many years of hard work to cultivate a few children, now she finally has a bright future.

The few stones she put in her heart finally fell halfway.

A few days later, it was the first day of the third month, the day of the temple examination.

Xia Mingche wore the brand-new turquoise long straight embellishment that Xie had made for him, and took his own carriage to participate in the palace examination.

After one day's palace test, Emperor Wen set the first and third grades, the second class one hundred and four and the third class one hundred and eighty-seven.

The new champions, Bangyan, and Tanhua are Zhu Xuan, Zhu Bi and Xia Mingche respectively.

made others can't help but be surprised, the average age of these three people is less than twenty, which shows that the saying that heroes are teenagers still makes sense.

For a time, Dayan rose up with a literary style, and all young students were proud of entering the imperial examination.

And this result also surprised Chanyi, Xie Pianyun and Xie Xuanyun are both in the second class, why is it that Liang Wendong, who got Tanhua in the previous life, is also in the second class? And the second brother, who was supposed to get Tanhua in three years, actually won Tanhua three years ahead of schedule.

She asked Xia Mingche privately, but Xia Mingche said with a smile: "Although Liang Wendong's literary talent is above me, but the emperor will not give Liang Xingyong this face lightly when he looks at Liang Xingyong's actions these days. ”

I have to say that sometimes if my father is not pleased, it will also affect me, just look at Liang Wendong like this.

It's just that Chanyi guessed, judging from the emperor's move of ordering the second brother to be a tanhualang, maybe there is also the intention of compensating his father, after all, his father has been secretly raising Chu Shaoyuan, and the father of the previous life has been an official to the third rank at this time, but now he is still dangling above the fourth rank official, although there are some accidents in it, but the credit for so many years is still there.

And Xia Mingche got the flower show, the happiest is Xie Shi, she is now smiling when she sees people, and her eyebrows, which usually have some bitterness, have gradually loosened her eyebrows because of the good news that has come again and again in the past few days, and the whole person is more and more energetic.

Mrs. Xia is also in good spirits on happy occasions, and has held a banquet in the mansion for several days in a row to entertain guests and relatives and friends.

Xie Feiyun followed Qiao's family to Xiafu to say goodbye, while a few elders were chatting in the flower hall, Xie Feiyun quietly pulled over the clothes, handed her the dim sum box in his hand, and said in a low voice: "Oh, when you came back to the house, you left without eating a piece of pine nut candy, this is what I specially made for you to eat." ”

Chanyi hurriedly took it over and thanked her, she was really not in the mood for a few days, so she snubbed Xie Feiyun, but fortunately, Xie Feiyun grew up with her since she was a child, and she didn't care about her little feelings.

Xie Feiyun couldn't help but chatter: " It's really busy, since the eldest brother and the third brother have been in the Jinshi, there are basically guests at home every day, originally according to common sense, Shu Jishi generally has to stay in the Hanlin Academy to watch the government, and I don't know what the emperor thinks, the errand of the two brothers was sent to Huguang, and one was sent to Yunzhou, Yunzhou is better, close, if there is any news, we can also take care of it, but Huguang is a little far away, and I have to take a boat to go over, my father is put out to the coastal place, I didn't expect my eldest brother to be put out to a place with water, this is simply with the water can't get by！”

Xie Feiyun's chattering appearance made Chanyi can't help but want to laugh when she sees it, didn't she follow Zhu Ling to serve in a place where there is water in her previous life? I didn't see that there were many dissatisfaction in the letters she wrote to her, why did she have such a big grievance in this life.

She comforted Xie Feiyun softly: "Don't complain, if the officials who are released out of the country do a good job and make political achievements, then it is not easy to be transferred back to be a court official?

Xie Feiyun heard her say this, smiled and said, "You still comfort me, Brother Che'er, a tanhualang, was originally supposed to stay in the Hanlin Academy to do editing, but the emperor sent him to Quanzhou, aren't you afraid that he won't be able to enter the cabinet in the future?"

Speaking of this, Chan Yi smiled slightly, and said softly: "Now is the time to employ people, presumably the emperor will also compensate afterwards, besides, non-Jinshi does not enter the Hanlin, and non-Hanlin does not enter the cabinet It is the rule of the previous dynasty, our dynasty's military department Shangshu Shen Wei, he has never served in the Hanlin Academy, and he has not entered the cabinet steadily?"

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