208: Driftwood
Lu looked at his son in disbelief, the corners of his mouth twitched twice, and he raised his hand to hit his son, but he couldn't bear it after all, and sat back in the chair as dizzy. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Shen Qin looked at his mother, and forcibly did not step forward to support her, but gritted his teeth and said: "You must not like to hear some things when I say them, I have the ability to have a few catties and a few taels I know myself, if it weren't for the guidance of the second uncle in this little half a year, I would never have been able to get a jinshi for the first time." ”
"Shut up!" Lu Shi shouted, this time it was really dizzy, she sat there and staggered for a long time, Shen Qin didn't help her, but knelt on the ground with a long robe. The disappointment in Lu's eyes could not be concealed, this ...... Is this still his gentle and considerate and filial son?" "Don't say this kind of thing in the future, your eldest brother is useless, the Shen family will still point to you in the future, and your second uncle will teach you that it is the duty of a man of the Shen family, this is his obligation and responsibility!"
"Mother, don't say it again, if the son has to learn to cross the river and tear down the bridge ungrateful at his age, then what face will the son have in the world in the future. ”
"Don't talk to me about these high-sounding things. Lu's eyes trembled, and he sneered: "You fool, you can't even see what they have in mind, if your second uncle really helps you, why don't you introduce you to those great Confucians in the Hanlin Academy? ”
"Mother, the second uncle is not that kind of person, not to mention what other people's affairs have to do with me, I just got the Jinshi exam, you just let me draw a line with the second uncle, don't say what the people outside think of me, even the people in this house will poke my backbone in the future. ”
"You are the first Jinshi ...... the Shen family"
"So what?" Shen Tan craned his neck, his body stiff and stiff, like a small sapling that still needed your protection yesterday, and it grew into a big tree that could not be moved overnight.
Lu's eyes flashed, only then did she find that a thin layer of sweat had appeared on her back, and she suddenly realized one thing, she had always hoped that her son could be an eagle with wings, but she forgot that after the eagle's wings were hard, it was going to fly to the sky.
She sat in the chair in a daze, and listened to Shen Tan say in a flat but tenacious tone: "It's me this year, there will be someone else in three years, there are some things you have never said to me, but I also know what you have in mind, you must think that your son has passed the Jinshi examination and has become the first in this generation, so he is qualified to compete for that title, right?"
"You ......" Lu Shi clenched the teacup in her hand tightly, her mind was no secret in the Hefeng Courtyard for a long time, but it was exposed by her son, she was still so angry that she couldn't say a word.
Shen Qin looked at the disappointment in his mother's eyes, but he still pierced the last layer of window paper, "Impossible......"
With a "snap", Lu Shi used a reaction that he didn't expect, raised his hand and gave Shen Tan a slap, and when the pain penetrated the palm of his hand and hit his whole body, the strength on Lu's body seemed to be taken away, "Bastard...... Bastard...... You indisputable thing...... You...... You're mad at me......"
This slap was not light, Shen Tan's face was slightly red, he didn't move, he didn't shake it, just as resolute as his determination. "Mother, if you ask me to draw a line with my second uncle, you must think that if you do this, your uncle will bother with me, right?"
Lu was very surprised, she did have such a thought, but isn't this a matter of course? Shen He is not a material for entering the office, the eldest lord is willing to provide for him for ten or eight years, she admires the patience of the eldest lord, but the son has already made a name for himself, the eldest lord is in the public for the interests of the family, and in private for his son in the future, he will also contribute to Shen Qin's career.
If Shen Qin and the second room were entangled at this time, the eldest master would definitely think that their third room was on the left and right, and the road of the big room and the second room would go together, but I was afraid that they might not be very dedicated.
Shen Qin looked at his mother's expression, smiled bitterly in his heart, he looked into his mother's eyes, "If the uncle wanted to help us, he would have reached out a long time ago, but has he bothered about his father's career and my studies over the years? Not to mention that the uncle has more than just a son, and three years later, Ming Zheng is already nineteen." ”
Lu's eyes flashed, she didn't know that there were two brothers Ming Zheng and Ming Zhe in the big house, so she had to plan for her son in front of everything, her son was no worse than anyone else, but there was no one to rely on, she couldn't help but think of her husband who was not motivated, for so many years, he was an official outside, and he didn't care about the affairs of the family, how could he ever care about his son's future and fate.
Thinking of this, Lu couldn't help but feel sorry for his son, and his voice softened, "Yuda, you have always been a sensible child since you were a child, your father has been an official outside for so many years, and your mother and sister have been able to raise their heads in this family because of you, my mother knows that you have suffered a lot of grievances, but no matter what, you have a chance now, and when you pass the Shu Jishi exam, your mother will never care about it again, okay?"
Shen Qin knows her mother too well, she is like a child who always has to take out sugar to tempt when she takes medicine, and she doesn't care whether the medicine is really right or not.
Shen Qin faintly had an idea, or this place is a quagmire at all, "Admitted to the Jinshi" is like a piece of wood floating in the quagmire, he used to work hard to climb on this piece of wood, thinking that he could go ashore by relying on it, but now he really caught this piece of wood, but found that it couldn't save you at all.
No matter how much they tossed in the Hefeng Courtyard, when it was ten o'clock at lunch, neither mother nor son dared to be absent from the lunch in Jingtai Courtyard. Lu Shi smeared a thick layer of fat powder to cover the red circles under his eyes, but the inexplicable red mark on Shen Tan's face still made the eyes of the caring person flash complicated emotions.
There were four tables for lunch, Chengping Hou and his many sons and grandsons sat at the largest first table, the hall was separated by a gauze curtain, the ladies and dependents were made into two tables according to the respect of the eldest and youngest, the old An people ate fasting, still a table of their own, and it was the Lu mother and daughter who served the cloth dishes on the side.
After the meal, the women accompanied the Lao An people to the small hall to eat tea, and the men stayed in the main hall to discuss the things that Shen Qin needed to plan for the follow-up of the Jinshi.
Although the two halls are divided into two domains, there is only one Duobao grid in between, which can be regarded as "auditing" in disguise.
Everyone chatted for a while, and then they heard Cheng Pinghou speak to Shen Hongcheng: "Yuda's father is not in Kyoto, you are an uncle, what do you think about Yuda's affairs?"
As soon as Chengping Hou said this, the voices of the ladies became quieter, and everyone wanted to hear Shen Hongcheng's statement.
Just listen to Shen Hongcheng's gentle voice: "There are only three ways for Gongsheng, enter Hanlin, watch politics in the six ministries, and be released as an official, you still have to see what the third brother and Yuda think." But ......" Shen Hongcheng paused and said with a smile: "There are a lot of people who want to go to the Hanlin Academy this year, although Yuda has passed the exam, he is barely on the tail of the second grade, and the road of the Hanlin Academy is not easy to walk." ”