Dong Rong had just introduced Dong Ping and his sister-in-law to each other, and when she turned her head and saw Xizi's appearance, she smiled and said, "I didn't prepare anything else to eat today, I only took four mooncakes." Brother Ping'er will send it to the gentlemen as a festival gift for a while, and you will not be embarrassed to keep it. After the quiz the day after tomorrow, my sister will cook a table and make a good table to celebrate you! ”

As she spoke, she handed the bamboo tube that Silly Zhu was carrying in her hand to Dong Ping. Dong Ping only glanced at the carved patterns on the bamboo tube, and his eyes lit up. At the end, he solemnly bowed, "Eldest sister, my brother will definitely live up to your expectations." ”

Dong Rong didn't want her brother to be under too much pressure, so she hurriedly said, "Don't be so solemn, even if there is really a difference, let's take the exam again next year, and my sister is not short of you now." ”

Dong Ping smiled and didn't respond, but his chest was pulled higher. Unique to young people, the arrogance of the world who is not me, instantly filled his eyebrows, which made Dong Rong sigh secretly.

The two sisters and brothers said a few more gossips and dispersed, Dong Ping walked to his small courtyard with a bamboo tube, secretly wondering which four gentlemen to give the festival gifts to, but halfway heard a few classmates talking about the gentlemen's poems and gossiping in the garden, so he quietly turned around.

Mr. Yang's personal service to Uncle Mo is Mr. Tong's companion who grew up with him since he was a child, and he loves the house and Wu on weekdays, and is also very close to Mr. Yang's valued disciples. He was standing under the tree with his shoulders crossed, and when he saw Dong Ping coming with something from a distance, he smiled and said, "Mr. Fang Cai also mentioned Childe, I don't want Childe to come so coincidentally." ”

After speaking, he turned his head and said to the pavilion, "Sir, the son of the Dong family will meet you." ”

Mr. Yang was embarrassed by the rivals who were always bickering, and suddenly when he heard this, he smiled and said, "Let him come up." ”

Dong Ping smiled and gave Mo Bo a salute, and then walked up the steps steadily. When Mr. Yang saw the proud disciple, he smiled even more heartily, but he still refused to relax, and asked, "Didn't you ask you to read the Analects again, when the Wei Xuejian of the state capital questioned him, he liked to pick words from the Analects the most." What are you doing when you have nothing to do? ”

Dong Ping bowed down and saluted all the gentlemen one by one, and then responded with a smile, "What the gentleman said, the disciple should keep in mind. It's just that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and my sister sent a few pieces of crude snacks in. The disciple was afraid that he would be greedy and eat too much, and his stomach would be damaged as in the last hospital exam. So I sent it over, and reluctantly added a tea snack for all the gentlemen, and I hope that the gentlemen will not dislike it. ”

How could Mr. Yang not know that the disciple was changing the law to give him a gift gift, he glanced at the other colleagues who were full of envy, and his heart was so happy that he was about to bloom, but unfortunately he opened his mouth and said as usual, "This boy with no conscience, you are afraid that you will eat bad intestines, is the old man's stomach and intestines beaten with iron..."

As soon as he said half a sentence, he was interrupted by several other gentlemen, "Brother Yang, you don't want to be cheap and behave." If we had such filial disciples and knowledgeable disciples, we would have made offerings a long time ago. How can you be like you, and you will be counted when you meet. ”

"That's it, I've eaten almost a dozen kinds of dim sum these days, when have you eaten less than half of it?"

Mr. Yang was exposed by his colleagues, his face turned red with annoyance, and he hurriedly drove Dong Ping back to Wen Shu, so as not to refuse to respect him as a gentleman after listening to two more sentences.

After Dong Ping retreated and walked away, Mr. Yang hated and complained about everyone, "I don't know how to save me some face, it's really for nothing that you ate your snacks!" ”

Everyone laughed, and one of the gentlemen, who had three long beards, raised his hand and picked up the bamboo tube on the table and looked at it for a long time, and praised it, "This craftsman who carved the bamboo tube is really a good craftsman, and he actually carved a picture of the cold mountains under the moon to the fullest, and there is no ingenuity at all." ”

When everyone heard this, they picked up the bamboo tube and commented, which had the meaning of watching the picture to stop hunger. Later, a gentleman with a heavy appetite opened the lid of the bamboo tube first, only to see that the turquoise bamboo tube was lined with ivory-colored muslin, and a golden mooncake the size of a child's palm was lying quietly in the center, which made people feel extremely elegant at first sight.

Peeling it off like this, a bamboo tube is actually divided into six layers, each layer has a piece of moon cake, and the filling is never the same. The gentlemen praised while tasting, Mr. Yang was very proud, and said with a smile, "When the college opened that day, I saw that the Dong family woman was very pungent and rude, but I didn't expect her to have a good skill in making dim sum." It can be seen that the heart of heaven is the most merciful, and it will always give the blind sparrow a dead worm. ”

Everyone nodded one after another, and inevitably talked about the homeless people outside the city, and after discussing how to go to the court after the court exam, they turned to the main topic.

Although the academy is mainly about teaching and educating people, it is inevitable that people need to compromise on some things in life. In this college examination, more than 50 scholars will refer to it, but there can only be 10 people who can show talents. Among them, excluding the "distant relatives" of the people who the county order wants to take care of and the superintendent, there are only five places left, but there are six gentlemen here, and it is inevitable that the proud disciple of one of them will return empty-handed.

Mr. Yang leaned back in his chair and said, "The old man doesn't want to pay attention to the rest." But Dong Juncheng must take it! ”

Someone wanted to object, but when he looked down at the empty bamboo tube on the table, he shut up again. Seeing this, Mr. Yang picked up the bamboo tube and threw it to Mo Bo, then got up and walked away, leaving everyone to continue the verbal battle.

Dong Ping didn't know that he had been designated as a rookie, so he ate, slept and studied as usual, while Dong Rong took Cao's second sister and the handbag-carrying laborer Silly Zhu to start a big purchase.

As the solar term enters autumn, the mountains begin to get cold in the morning and evening. When he first married into the Cao family, the Dong family did not accompany half a cotton coat, and if he did not prepare as soon as possible, he would be frozen. In addition, the two old beds are also very cold and hard because they have been used for too many years, and now they have a few taels of silver on hand, and Dong Rong wants to replace them again.

In this way, the two sisters-in-law went to the grocery store when they left the cloth village, and then went to the jewelry store after leaving the grocery store. I bought bags and packs of things, and in the end, Silly Zhu couldn't carry it in his hand, so Dong Rong hired a carriage. Xu was afraid of the horse's hooves trampling, and when he went out of the city gate, he was actually very smooth, and even when he arrived at the door of the house, Dong Rong remembered that there were still steamed buns in the basket and did not give them up.

But there is no woman who doesn't like cloth jewelry, and when Du Juan saw that Dong Rong had bought so many things, she also joined the ranks of sorting out with great interest.

Seeing this, Wang Lu had to carry the steamed buns into the stove, intending to boil a pot of rice porridge to deal with it. Silly Zhu couldn't listen to the woman's noise, so he followed the stove to help light the fire. As a result, within a while, Steward Zhang also hid in. The three men glanced at each other, and they all laughed helplessly.

The west wing room has completely become a woman's world, and the second sister Cao pinched this hibiscus silver hairpin in her hand, and inserted it into her sideburns beautifully, I don't know which young man she liked to think of, and her little face was very suspicious. When Du Juan's sister-in-law saw it, she said enviously, "It's good to be young, and you look good with any jewelry." ”

Dong Rong found a long box, took out a plum blossom hairpin and stuffed it to her, and quipped, "Sister-in-law, you complain about my partiality again, this is for you!" ”

The cuckoo picked up the hairpin in surprise and looked at it carefully, and said with a smile, "Oh, there is still mine." Dong Rong picked up the last orchid hairpin and stuck it behind her head, and responded, "Everyone has a share!" ”

After speaking, he pulled the second sister Cao and hurriedly picked up the cloth, "Quickly put away your dowry, but a silver hairpin will make you smile and crooked, and it will be useless!" When my sister-in-law makes a fortune, I will buy you a set of golden-headed noodles, so that you can get married in style! ”

When Second Sister Cao heard this, she said, "I don't want it, my sister-in-law will give birth to a little nephew and keep the silver for him to marry a daughter-in-law." ”

Now it was Dong Rong's turn to blush, and Du Juan's sister-in-law rarely saw this shrewd cousin-in-law deflated, holding her stomach and laughing.

Not to mention how lively the three women were, just said that on the day of the college exam, Dong Rong entered the city early with a stupid pillar, and spent a high price to charter a table in the teahouse opposite the gate of the academy, and waited anxiously for Dong Ping to come out while drinking tea.

Dong Xiucai didn't know where he heard the news, and he actually rushed over with Niu's family. Niu's eyes were sharp, and when he saw Dong Rong lying behind the window of the teahouse, he pulled Dong Xiucai and ran over. Dong Rong secretly sighed unlucky, but she had to get up and give in.

Niu sat by the window, shouted loudly to Xiao Er to step forward, ordered seven or eight plates of dim sum in one go, and complained at the end that Dong Rong had no parents, why didn't he send a letter to the family early. Dong Rong was worried about how her brother did in the exam, and she didn't want to pay attention to her at all. Niu was furious and wanted to say something more, but Dong Xiucai was impatient and scolded, "If you want to stay, shut up, and if you don't want to stay, go home." ”

Since the last time he was imprisoned, the family lost all their savings, and the Niu family has lost most of his prestige in front of Dong Xiucai, even the two children often complain that there is no good food on the dinner table and no jewelry when they go out. Therefore, when Dong Xiucai shouted, Niu immediately became much more honest, except for occasionally glancing at Dong Rong fiercely, he didn't dare to say anything loudly.

Dong Rong didn't care, but the stupid pillar who put her on the tip of his heart was annoyed, and when his eyes swept over the chair that was clumped by Niu's fat body, he smiled faintly...

As the time approached, the teahouse was gradually filled with guests, including relatives of those who took the test, and idlers who came to see the excitement after hearing the news. Everyone is talking about what the new talented sons should look like, and those who have daughters at home even joked that they should take a good look and maybe recruit a good son-in-law to go home.

When Niu heard this, he hurriedly turned his head to look, and when he saw that the person who spoke had eight gold rings on his ten fingers, he immediately smiled like a bear that saw honey.

Dong Rong sneered and rolled her eyes secretly.

Soon, when the sun was rising, the superintendent who came from the state capital was accompanied by the county commander to Bailu Academy. In recent years, the dean, who rarely showed up due to physical reasons, could not be greeted at the door, so panicked that the Wei superintendent and Xu Xianling hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute, and everyone entered the gate of the academy with a few polite words.

After the guests had drunk the tea, a desk was set up in the largest room of the academy, and the students who were going to take the exam sat quietly, waiting for the question to be discussed by the superintendent and the prefectural magistrate, and then they began to think hard and start answering.

Dong Ping studied hard and had a solid foundation, but in half an hour, he made a five-character quatrain reciting a bumper harvest, wrote an essay silently, and drew a picture of the golden autumn of fruits.

(Woo, I'm a bad mother, I have a cold and infected my son again, it's so heartbroken.) ）ZM