Chen Xiaosheng cheated his brothers, but Wen Zhengming was beaten by Zhu Pingting, and Zhu Pingting ran home ashamed and angry, making the few people watching laugh breathlessly. Wen Zhengming came to Chen Xiaosheng to settle accounts with grief, and Chen Xiaosheng said eloquently: "Do you see that you are much closer to Pingting?" Did you say a lot? Have you been together for a long time? ”

Wen Zhengming said angrily: "Yes, but she is scolding me when she speaks, and she is beating me when she gets along." You also said that Ping Ting would definitely like me more? You're lying to me! ”

The fan in Wen Zhengming's hand waved wildly, and Chen Xiaosheng hurriedly dodged away, "You carefully insert it into the window of my soul!" Calm down, calm down. Zhengming, beating is kissing and scolding is love, you see that you and Pingting are obviously much closer than before, how can you be polite and polite like usual? Don't get cheap and sell well. ”

Wen Zhengming showed a puzzled expression, "Is that so?" ”

"Of course, I always wish to teach you a trick, don't look at the process in everything, the most important thing is the result." Chen Xiaosheng opened the fan and fanned it, standing there like a master in the world.

Zhou Wenbin couldn't help laughing out loud and said, "Zhishan, don't bully honest people." Zhengming don't listen to him, go buy a gift that Ping Ting likes to make her happy. ”

Wen Zhengming was stunned for a moment, thought for a long time, and hesitated: "I...... I do not know. ”

Chen Xiaosheng knocked on the table with a fan and said, "Na, take a look, right?" If you don't have contact, you don't understand, and if you don't understand, you can't get close. You two are usually shy, I'm shy, and you don't know what to say when you stand together, how can this work? I'm obviously helping you get closer, but tell me what you learned through the contact you just had? We can help you with further advice. ”

"If you want to make an idea again, I will lose half my life!" Although Wen Zhengming muttered, he still sat down and said seriously, "Ting Ting's father seems to have been very short-tempered in the past two days, and if he doesn't say the right word, he will lose his temper and scold people, and there are many people who have been beaten by the board." By the way, the woman that Ping Ting hated was gone, as if she was hidden by his father, and she had to give birth to a child, which seemed a bit cruel to think about. I don't know anything other than that. ”

Su Xueyun said: "These are enough, it is enough to show that she is having a bad time at home, and she really wants to leave that place." In other words, she didn't lose her temper with you just now, she was just venting the depression in her heart. ”

Chen Xiaosheng nodded and continued: "My lady is right, that's why I asked you to relieve her boredom." You see that now that you let Ping Ting vent happily, is her face much better? ”

Wen Zhengming said a little confused: "That's what you mean?" ”

Chen Xiaosheng smiled, "Yes, brothers, I can't really let you be beaten for nothing, right?" Right? But this is a symptom but not a cure, we are about to go to see the emperor, you think about how to ask the emperor for advice. ”

Su Xueyun saw that Wen Zhengming was a little nervous, so she said: "Don't worry, if it is something else, the emperor may not allow it, but the emperor must be happy to see this kind of thing." Auntie, you've already written to me, no problem. ”

Wen Zhengming nodded, clenched his fan and said firmly: "If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent!" ”

Several people laughed again, and then began to prepare what they needed to enter the palace for an audience. The emperor list was posted, and the rankings of the first three people were exactly the same as when they reported the good news, and the students sighed after seeing it, after all, everyone knows how difficult this exam is, and most of them have to answer their own opinions, and there is no way to cheat.

Su Xueyun looked at the list behind the crowd and confirmed, but before they passed, Tang Guangde's noisy voice came from over there after a while. Su Xueyun turned his head to look and saw Tang Bohu standing in front of the emperor list staring at his name, which was the sixth place among everyone, indicating that his results were also very high, and it was likely that he was sent to the emperor along with the fourth and fifth places, but in the end, the emperor did not point him into the first rank.

Tang Bohu shook his head in disbelief, "Impossible...... Impossible! I answered very well, better than before, how can it be the second grade? Isn't it the top two yet? ”

Tang Guangde was already so angry that he almost fainted, and Lu Zhaorong helped him and persuaded: "Father-in-law, the second-class jinshi is already very good, and we didn't think that we would definitely take the top prize before we set off, right?" ”

Tang Guangde said angrily: "I never thought that I had to take the top prize, but look at the three people above, Wen Zhengming, Zhu Zhishan, and Zhou Wenbin!" If someone else presses on Bohu's head, I just think that Bohu's skills are not as good as others, but they ...... They are obviously Bohu's defeated generals, you go back to Suzhou and ask, who doesn't know that Bohu is the first? ”

Tang Bohu muttered to himself, "Yes, why? Because have they seen the emperor? Because they are appreciated by the Grand Master? Even Zhou Wenbin from Persia is better than me, how can this be? ”

Zhu Xiaolian pushed aside the crowd, walked over and pointed at Tang Bohu and scolded, "What do you mean by this?" They didn't talk like you when they couldn't compare to you before! Do you think you're more knowledgeable than before, can't the three of them improve? Can you be the first once you are the first for the rest of your life? If the rabbit is lazy, the tortoise will be able to run over it! ”

Tang Bohu turned his head, his eyes swept over his friends who were once like relatives, and said expressionlessly: "What do you mean that I can't get the first grade because I don't work hard and I deserve it?" ”

Su Xueyun didn't want to talk to him at all, Chen Xiaosheng was silent for a while, and said, "If you make progress, there is no reason why we should not improve." Think about what you did when you arrived in the capital? We study hard every day, read every day at night, and dare not slack off, what about you? How much time have you wasted for the sake of the moment? These four words are most suitable for you, and I hope you will one day understand that you are just an ordinary person. ”

Su Xueyun opened his mouth and said, "What are you doing with him?" In his heart, no one can compare to him, even if it is a friend, it is only what he deliberately let it, and there is no real loss. Such a person, when he is good, he gives away some friendship to others, and when he is bad, he feels that there must be some reason that affects the result, so that the person who can't really hope for your good is a waste of time. Let's go. ”

Chen Xiaosheng and Qiu Xiang naturally walked without hesitation, and although Wen Zhengming paused again and again, he finally followed Su Xueyun.

When Lu Zhaorong thought of Su Xueyun's words, he couldn't help but think of himself, how could his life not come from the Tang family's charity? said that she was a young grandmother of the Tang family, and she was no different from a big girl. She said with some coldness: "Bohu, friends are the most important thing, you grew up together, why did you make such a fuss?" I watched you and them estranged step by step, and I was anxious for you, wake up, if you continue like this, you will really lose them. ”

Tang Bohu suddenly looked at her and asked, "Do you think I'm wrong too?" Am I doing everything wrong? What's wrong with me? Haven't I been like this since I was a child? ”

Lu Zhaorong said: "Yes, you have been like this since you were a child, the lord and the lady lost two sons in a row, you are their only remaining child, who do they spoil you if they don't spoil you?" It's a pity that you've grown up and are no longer a kid who can do whatever you want. ”

Tang Bohu seemed to be stimulated, "Even you dislike me?" ”

Tang Guangde said angrily on the side: "Zhaorong! Okay, you, if our Tang family hadn't raised you, you would have starved to death a long time ago. Now that you see that Bohu didn't get into the first grade, you dislike him, don't you? Why are you? If it weren't for the fortune teller who said that you must marry Bohu to save your life, what would you be worthy of him? ”

Lu Zhaorong's tears flowed out at once, "Father-in-law, the conscience of heaven and earth, I have always been grateful to the Tang family, I have tried my best to take care of Tang Bohu and serve you two elders all these years, what did I do wrong?" Could it be that I was wrong to persuade Tang Bohu? Is it good to let him have no friends in the future? ”

Seeing her like this, Tang Guangde regretted what he had just said, but he couldn't hold it on his face, turned his back and snorted coldly, "Don't scold us two openly and secretly for not being able to teach our sons, you don't even have a son, do you know better than us?" You just have to serve Bohu well, and you don't have to worry about other things. ”

Tang Bohu said suddenly: "Let's leave." ”

Lu Zhaorong and Tang Guangde were both stunned, Tang Bohu looked at their expressions, and said lightly: "You heard it right, I said peace." Zhaorong and I were originally involved because of some unwarranted fate, and Zhaorong and I have been in name only over the years, and I wronged her. ”

Tang Guangde hurriedly said: "Bohu, what are you talking about?" She was picked up by our family, we saved her life, and she should repay her! ”

Tang Bohu said: "Dad, I have already decided. I treat Zhaorong as my sister, and I can't be married to her in the future, so it's better to let her go free than delay her like this. ”

Lu Zhaorong opened his mouth and wanted to say no, but Tang Bohu's expression was too resolute, and Tang Guangde's words were too ugly to hear, so she couldn't say anything.

Tang Guangde saw that Lu Zhaorong actually acquiesced, and immediately became angry, and said without words: "If you want to leave, you can leave, but you don't want to take anything away from the Tang family!" ”

Lu Zhaorong felt humiliated, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, crying: "Okay! I'm leaving! Over the years, I have made cattle and horses for the Tang family, and everything is enough, and from now on I have nothing to do with the Tang family! ”

Lu Zhaorong turned around and rushed out, she had just been watched by so many people, she only felt faceless, and she understood more why Su Xueyun said that Tang Bohu was irresponsible. Such a husband who doesn't care about her feelings in front of the public, she can't afford it, and she doesn't dare to ask for it! She is only glad that Tang Bohu has been drilling the horns during this time, and she hasn't had time to give birth to a child for Tang Bohu, otherwise she may really have to be a cow and horse in the Tang family for a lifetime!

Su Xueyun and Zhu Xiaolian came out of the Treasure Pavilion and were about to go home, when they saw Lu Zhaorong looking so embarrassed, they couldn't help but be stunned. Zhu Xiaolian hurriedly stopped Lu Zhaorong and said with concern: "Sister Zhaorong, what's wrong with you?" It's easy for you to get into trouble if you run around like this? ”

As soon as Lu Zhaorong saw her, he lay on her and cried bitterly, "I almost caused you to marry into the Tang family, I'm sorry for you!" ”