Soon a little steward called him into the inner hall for questioning, Xu Xianling and Wei Xuejian already knew it, and saw that Dong Ping's font was neat and beautiful, his poems and paintings were excellent, and he was obviously familiar with the "Analects". What is even more rare is that this young man has a long body and handsome eyebrows, although he wears a very simple royal blue robe, but he stands in the middle of the lobby with a humble posture and is respectful and polite. So, the two of them praised a few words one after another.

Mr. Yang also had a few proud disciples who were officials in the court, so he said with a very hard waist, half jokingly and half seriously, "The old man's disciple, how can he not be outstanding?" ”

Wu Xuejian and Xu Xianling have been in the officialdom for many years, and they are too handy to send favors to Shunshui, and when they heard this, they immediately took Dong Ping as a new student in the court.

Dong Ping was overjoyed, and rushed out of the door after saluting and thanking everyone one by one. But he was still quite sober, and soon restrained his joy, and when he met his classmates waiting on the porch, he only said that it was okay and hurried to the main entrance of the academy.

Outside the main gate, there were many men, women, and children gathered, and when someone saw him come out, they asked loudly, "This little boy, have you seen my young master?" ”

He also asked, "Little master, my son's name is Du Qiusheng, how did he do in the exam?" ”

Dong Ping looked around while reluctantly perfunctory to everyone, but fortunately, Xizi quickly got through the crowd and picked him up and rushed into the teahouse.

When Dong Xiucai saw his son coming upstairs, he was so anxious that he asked, "Are you a student?" ”

Dong Rong pulled over his younger brother who was about to salute, and first handed him a bowl of tea to moisten his throat, and then asked gently, "The topic is not difficult, right?" ”

Dong Ping tried his best to endure his joy and nodded in response, "It's not difficult." ”

Dong Xiucai saw that his son didn't open his mouth to report the good news, and thought that he hadn't taken it again, so he sat on the chair in disappointment and didn't speak. However, the Niu clan came to the spirit again, pursed his lips and mocked, "The dragon gives birth to the dragon, the phoenix gives birth to the phoenix, and the son of the mouse will make a hole." The father is incompetent, and his son can make any big waves. Hmph, it's better to go home and farm than to waste money studying. ”

When the people who were eavesdropping next to them saw Dong Xiucai and Niu's appearance like this, they were also not interested, and their eyes that looked at Dong Ping from time to time were a little pity.

However, Dong Rong intuitively felt that her younger brother would not be unable to take it, so she reached out and pressed Dong Ping to sit down, and whispered comfort while pouring tea for him, "Brother Ping, I only saw mud on my legs when I got out of the water, let's wait and see, my sister believes in you." After speaking, she pulled the stupid pillar to testify, "Zhuzi, do you also believe Brother Ping?" ”

Silly Zhu nodded, and Zhengse said, "I believe." Dong Rong was glad that he helped himself and sandwiched a piece of walnut cake as a reward.

Dong Ping's hands under the table clenched his clothes tightly, and his heart was warm...

Dong Xiucai sighed enough and wanted to get up and go home, but Niu planned to wait for the academy to come out and taunt Dong Ping after the roll call, it would be better if he could take him home to do work. So, she was desperate to stay. Dong Xiucai couldn't, so he had to sit down again.

Finally, after more than half an hour, all the candidates came out one after another, some looked happy, some were depressed and refused to look up, and some beat their chests and cried.

After another moment, the doors of the academy opened again. Xu Xianling and Wu Xuejian walked over together, and after humbling each other, Xu Xianling unfolded the red paper in his hand, coughed dryly twice, and prepared to read out the results.

Everyone in the teahouse sat empty all morning just to wait for this moment, so they swarmed to the window to listen carefully. Niu's seat was close to the window, and the railing was extremely low, she was squeezed by everyone uncomfortable, and wanted to turn around to dodge, but she didn't expect the chair foot to be tripped over, and she didn't have time to scream and fell down.

On weekdays, this would be a big bustle, but at such a critical moment today, no one has the time to pay attention to it. Xu Xianling took a good position and finally began to read. The first one is, "Qingxian South, Huaishu Village, Dong Ping Dong Juncheng, take!" ”

Master Dong didn't lean to the window at all, but it was too quiet inside and outside the house, and this sentence was clearly sent into his ears by the autumn wind, only to startle him to "whoop" and cry out, "What, take... Taken? ”

Dong Rong was already happily hugging her younger brother, and choked up, "Brother Ping, you took it, you are a talent!" My brother is a showman!"

Dong Ping's eyes also shed tears, hugged his sister tightly, and responded in a low voice, "Sister, I promised you, I will protect you in the future!" ”

The sister and brother cried together, and the stupid pillar was also pantothenic acid in his heart, looking up at the roof, not knowing that the purlin was in the wrong position.

Master Dong also wanted to come forward to celebrate, but his hands stretched out in the air and shrank back. The son also won the show, and if he doesn't care about the relationship between father and son in the future, the two will be on an equal footing. If his son's fame was obtained with his strong support, it would be better to say something, but unfortunately he only found out now that it had nothing to do with him.

Fortunately, as Xu Xianling read out the names of the new talents, everyone upstairs and downstairs were talking and cheering, which barely relieved his embarrassment.

Over there, Dong Rong's sister and brother also wiped their tears. Dong Ping saluted Dong Xiucai with a light face, and said calmly, "Father, I won Xiucai." ”

Master Dong was stunned and continued, "Oh, good." He wanted to say a few words of encouragement, but he couldn't get them out of his mouth. Finally, he let out a long sigh, and wanted to take Niu back to the village with him.

However, he turned his head to search for a long time and did not see Niu's figure. At this time, everyone downstairs saw the excitement, and suddenly remembered that there was another joke waiting for them to discover.

"Oh, whose woman is this, why did she fall downstairs?"

"It's like, it's not silent, it can't be dead, right?"

Everyone was talking like this, and a man reached out and turned the person over, and Niu, who was already half suffocated, finally breathed a sigh of relief and cried and scolded, "Oh, I fell to death my mother!" ”

Everyone laughed, and Master Dong hurriedly squeezed to the window to see that the mother-in-law who was lying on the ground on all fours, her dress turned upside down, revealing her red pants, was not his daughter-in-law. He immediately rushed downstairs, pulled Niu up and scolded, "You embarrassed mother-in-law, don't let me go home!" ”

The teahouse was not high, and the Niu family relied on the fat on his body to be extremely thick, and he didn't feel any pain when he was caught and shook a few times, so he scolded loudly, "You have no conscience, I'm going to fall to death, and you are still reluctant to send me to the hospital with money!" ”

As soon as Master Dong heard her shout, he was full of anger, where was he willing to stay any longer, and he walked away with her desperately, leaving everyone to laugh and disperse.

Dong Rong and her brother stood by the window, naturally seeing this qiē in their eyes, and at the end of the day, they looked at each other and threw them all to the back of their heads. Since childhood, for them, only each other can be called relatives, and the rest of the people with the same surname Dong are just more familiar passers-by.

Dong Rong slapped her face with a smile and announced heroically, "Today is a good day, you must set up wine to celebrate, go buy now!" Silly Zhu and Dong Ping both laughed and opened their mouths to order. Dong Rong simply responded, and the three of them laughed and walked downstairs quickly.

It was night, and the small courtyard outside the city was as bright as day. More than a dozen large red lanterns hang high under the cloister, and golden tassels dance happily in the evening breeze.

In the stove room, Dong Rong wore an apron around her waist, fried and fried quickly, and sweat beads on her busy head dripped down her hair from time to time. Stir-fried shredded chicken with shiitake mushrooms, fried river shrimp with leeks, diced hawthorn pork, jade bitter gourd cup, stewed lentils with sliced meat, cold lotus root slices, and of course, the most indispensable is a large pot full of braised pork, this dish has become the favorite of all Dong Rong's relatives and friends.

She can't wait to put out all the good dishes that she can cook, and she has studied hard, and finally takes a step closer to her brother.

The second sister Cao was happy to shuttle between the stove and the yard, helping to serve the food and set the table, and the cuckoo's sister-in-law walked around with a big belly, telling her to be careful about her feet from time to time, but in the end, she stumbled from time to time, which made Wang Lu tremble.

Finally, the dishes were complete, and the Yuhua spring wine bought in the restaurant was also unsealed, and everyone sat around, and one of them served a wine bowl, of course, the cuckoo was not counted.

Dong Ping looked at everyone for a long time before saying, "I got the qualification for being a student today, thanks to my sister's hard work to earn money for me to study, I will study harder in the future, and I will definitely earn a wife for my sister on the day of the high school champion!" ”

Dong Rong was relieved and amused when she heard it, and quipped, "When you win the top prize, let's earn a good daughter-in-law for yourself first." ”

Everyone laughed, Dong Ping blushed, and immediately raised the wine bowl and took a sip. Needless to say, his face instantly turned red.

The crowd applauded, and then toasted to the end. I don't know if this body itself is resistant to alcohol, or if the amount of alcohol that Dong Rong has trained in her previous life is working. After a bowl of wine, she was not drunk at all, and happily poured wine for everyone. However, Second Sister Cao'er soon lost her eyes, and the chopsticks pinched to the braised pork always failed.

Dong Rong was so funny that she dialed half a bowl for her, and then her little face was almost buried in the bowl. Men take a few sips on weekdays when they have nothing to do, so naturally they don't get drunk so quickly.

Steward Zhang took out a piece of residual ink from his arms and gave it to Dong Ping as a congratulatory gift, Dong Ping faintly smelled the special fragrance exuding from the ink block, so he guessed that this congratulatory gift was not simple, hesitated for a moment and got up to take it and solemnly thanked him.

Steward Zhang hurriedly returned the salute and said with a smile, "I came back alone, and I can only hold this piece of ink around me, so it's good that the second son doesn't dislike it." ”

Seeing this, Wang Lu also looked at his mother-in-law with a smile, and the cuckoo glared at him and said angrily, "You are an urgent child!" After speaking, he turned to Dong Ping and smiled, "Brother Ping, your cousin and I don't have any good things, we only prepared a set of clothes, shoes and socks for you." When you have free tomorrow, you can try it, if it doesn't fit, your sister-in-law will change it. ”

"Thank you, cousin and sister-in-law, my cousin's needlework is the best, and it must fit." Dong Ping thanked him sincerely, and praised him by the way, which made Du Juan's sister-in-law's eyes squint together.

After the second sister Cao finished eating the braised pork, she pouted and retorted when she heard this sentence in a trance, "No, my needlework is better!" ”

Everyone turned their heads and saw that her face was flushed, and her mouth and nose were greasy, like a very greedy little flower cat, cute and coquettish, so they all laughed. Dong Rong regretted that she shouldn't have let the little girl drink, and persuaded her to eat a few chopsticks and dishes and helped her go to the room to sleep.

Steward Zhang watched his aunt and sister-in-law walk through the corridor, and some different colors flashed in his eyes. Not wanting to suddenly feel the coldness on his back, he subconsciously turned his head to look for it, and saw the stupid pillar holding a wine bowl hidden in the shadows, the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, and his eyes were staring at him slightly. He immediately bowed his head respectfully, ate and drank food honestly, and laughed and laughed from time to time. ZM