Chapter 153: The eldest grandson has a request
The next day, there was no movement at the end of Luoxia Garden, but Shen Liancheng and Li Ji received a post from Han Fu early in the morning, saying that they had specially prepared a family banquet for the two of them. [No pop-ups. 】
Originally, Shen Liancheng also planned to accompany Li Ji to visit Mrs. Han on this day, and he was a little ashamed to receive the other party's post first.
In this family banquet, the most exciting person is Han Que. Seeing Shen Liancheng and Li Ji, he had a lot of resentment, and every word he said was that the two were secretly married, and he didn't drink a glass of wedding wine.
For this reason, at the banquet, he persuaded Li Ji to drink one cup after another, so that Li Ji was really drunk this time.
Shen Liancheng helped him back to the wing room to rest, but Han Que ran over, took her aside mysteriously, and said in a low voice: "Sister-in-law, you go with me to see someone." ”
"Who?" Shen Liancheng felt that something was strange.
"You'll find out later." Han Que hurriedly, even pulling.
There is a difference between uncle and sister-in-law, Shen Liancheng struggled, straightened his body and said, "I'll just go, you lead the way in front of the head." Saying that, he called Shang Qingling and followed his pace.
Han Que took her all the way to the garden where she lived, and after entering the house, he sent away all the servants who were waiting, looked at Qingling, and couldn't help but ask Shen Liancheng: "You slave can be trusted, right?" ”
Shen Liancheng nodded.
"Alright then!" Han Que shouted at the inner room, "Young Master Yan, you can come out." ”
Yan Gongzi? Shen Liancheng was surprised when Yan Gongzi walked out from behind the curtain with a white shirt.
He stepped forward and gave Shen Liancheng a gentle salute, "Son-in-law, don't come to harm." ”
Shen Liancheng bowed his knees, and the look of surprise in his eyes had disappeared, and turned into confusion and incomprehension in his heart. How did Yan Xiaokuan, who had done himself a little favor at the beginning, and let himself write down that kindness, appear in Han's house and in Han Que's house?
"Is it Yan Gongzi who wants to see me?" She looked at him calmly, without revealing the suspicion in her heart.
"Exactly."
"You talk." Han Que said that he was about to go out.
"Wait!" Shen Liancheng called him to stop, this is rude. "Now I am your cousin's wife, but it is different from before, it is not appropriate for you to leave me alone with Yan Gongzi."
Han Que was surprised and glanced at Qingling, "Aren't you a slave?" Don't look at incivility, don't listen to incivility, I'm just outside, what else can Yan Gongzi do to you? As he spoke, he couldn't help laughing, and he took another step without thinking.
He was still a former Han Que, still a child. Shen Liancheng frowned, just thought about it, and asked Yan Xiaokuan, "So mysterious, what's the matter with me?" ”
It turned out that Yan Xiaokuan and Han Que have become friends since they got to know each other. Recently, Yan Xiaokuan's family life has been rough, so he went out early and returned late and hid in Hanfu. This morning, I heard that Shen Liancheng had come to the mansion for a banquet, so I begged Han Que to help us meet.
"In this year's township test, I am also known as Luosun Mountain." Yan Xiaokuan explained, and when he said this, his expression suddenly became gloomy.
"What can I do for you?" Shen Liancheng is quick to talk and get straight to the point.
"I heard that the eldest brother of the son-in-law became a tribute with the first place in the spring of this year, and he made a big show in the palace examination and won the first class of Tanhua!" Yan Xiaokuan said, his eyes faintly glowing with admiration.
Speaking of this, Shen Liancheng sighed secretly in his heart.
In the eyes of others, the eldest brother Shen Qingzhi got a first-class tanhua, which is a great happy event. On the same day, Shen Qingzhi won a first-class tanhua in the palace exam, but he was very depressed when he returned to the Taifu Mansion. The eldest brother's goal is to be the champion. Not to mention that later the Son of Heaven arranged him in the Chunguan Mansion and held a dispensable position.
It's not that the eldest brother can't take on the heavy responsibility, but that the Son of Heaven is targeting the Shen family, and it is the Son of Heaven who intends to suppress it. At that time, Shen Liancheng was nervous about his marriage, and he was busy until now, and he hadn't had a good chat with his eldest brother. But I don't know if the eldest brother has insight into all this?
"Brother Qing has studied in Kyoto for a while, and his growth is faster than ordinary people."
Hearing the words "Brother Qing", Shen Liancheng suddenly came back to his senses. Shicai is still the "eldest brother of the son-in-law", and now he will become the "brother of Qing"? This Yan Xiaokuan is self-cooked.
"I also want to go to Kyoto to see and see." He just got straight to the point, "Can the son-in-law help me?" ”
"How can I help you?" Shen Liancheng thought about it and couldn't help laughing, "If you want to go to Kyoto, it's not something you can go to if you want to?" Why do you want me to help you? ”
"I heard that the prince is a wingman under the Zun Taigong, can the son-in-law talk to the Zun Taigong and let me be a wingman under him?" Yan Xiaokuan said this, bent down and arched his hand to Shen Liancheng.
"You are a person who has not even passed the township test...... Shen Liancheng did not look down on him, this was an instinct. What is his strength: Dare to ask for this? But when it comes to this, her words came to an abrupt end, just because her husband Li Ji has never even participated in the children's exam, didn't he also enter her grandfather's door? Although it is a relationship between a husband and son-in-law, it is always not good to say it.
And Yan Xiaokuan, who listened to her half of the sentence, immediately blushed, but he still mustered up the courage to say: "Being a wingman under the Zun Taigong, I have more contact with capable people and a broad mind, and I may not be able to pass the township test next year." I just can't get over ......."
He paused, and then said: "I heard that the Zun Tai Gong is only useful, and under the Zun Tai Gong, I may not only have the road to take the imperial examination. ”
That's what he had in mind.
Shen Liancheng's gaze swept him up and down, and he couldn't help but look again. Elegant and dusty appearance, unconcealed humility, and hidden a trace of shrewdness and cunning, in the end, can not pass the hurdle of the imperial examination, can not step on the official career, but so eager to change the fate?
Let him worship as a wingman under his grandfather, for Shen Liancheng, it is a gesture. But she may not be able to make it happen. For this reason, she told him: "When I go back to Kyoto, I will explain it to my grandfather." As for whether you can successfully go to the Taifu Mansion to become a wingman, it depends on your own ability. ”
"Thank you, son-in-law!" Yan Xiaokuan was overjoyed, and immediately thanked Shen Liancheng again.
The world is poor, and I don't know how many people want to worship under the Taifu Mansion, and most of them can't see Shen Kuo's face, let alone display their talents. Although he Yan Xiaokuan is the eldest grandson of Sikong Mansion, he is the eldest grandson like a waster, and even the poor Confucians in Lin'an City don't take him seriously. If he rashly went to Kyoto's Taifu Mansion, he wouldn't be kicked out? With Shen Liancheng's help, if he can see Shen Kuo, he will have a chance to win.
Mrs. Shen, who assists the Son of Heaven, must be different from those examiners who only know "Zhihu". (To be continued.) )