Chapter 019
After Fu Geng went to Shandong, he completely cut off contact with the Hou Mansion. Pingnanhou was concerned about his son, and he also sent people to visit, but Fu Geng didn't see anything, only saying that he wanted to concentrate on his studies and not see outsiders. When the steward's message returned, Ping Nanhou was angry. Study? Just Fu Geng's two goods? Don't say this to Pingnanhou, if you say this to the dogs in the house, the dogs will bite you!
Because he has never seen anyone, Pingnanhou has gradually not sent people to Shandong, and only makes some festivals in the past. Mrs. Hou muttered that Fu Geng was pitiful, and he didn't know how he was doing outside. Hou Ye strictly ordered Mrs. Hou not to be spoiled anymore, and also said cruelly, if Fu Geng does not learn well, the Fu family will not have this son in the future.
However, since Fu Geng went to Shandong, things that made everyone's jaws drop have happened one after another. First of all, Fu Geng was admitted to the most famous Yuelu Academy in Shandong Province with first-class excellent results, and also got the blue eyes of the head of the academy and the contemporary Confucian Jiefang, and became his closed disciple.
Then, Fu Geng passed the second year's college examination and the government examination, and his ranking was not low. In the next two years, coinciding with the autumn season, Fu Geng actually won the third place in the high school township examination for the first time. At that time, Fu Geng was only sixteen years old, and the reputation of this prodigy immediately spread.
It is said that when the newspaper came to the Hou Mansion to deliver the good news, Pingnan Hou was stunned for half a stick of incense, but he couldn't react. It wasn't until three groups of people were sent out to repeatedly confirm that the news was correct that Pingnanhou suddenly burst out into laughter, and the flood of laughter shook the dust off the beams.
In the end, Pingnanhou came out with a head of ash, and rewarded the newspaper with a big ingot of ten taels, and the later newspaper was also ten taels per person. On that day, the newspapers almost never leveled the threshold of the Hou Mansion.
"If you don't make a sound, it's just a blockbuster", the capital of the year was transformed and became a real lifter and reader, this story is really inspiring, and the people in Beijing have been talking about it for many days. The face of the Pingnan Hou Mansion that was thrown away by Fu Geng in the past ten years has grown back in that month.
Now that his son has changed well, Pingnanhou wants to take Fu Geng back. With Pingnanhou's connections and Fu Geng's reputation at this time, whether he entered the country to study, or invited a famous Confucian professor at home, he was the best choice.
However, Fu Geng insisted on not returning to Beijing for two reasons: one was to serve his elderly teacher, and the other was to concentrate on preparing for the next year's entrance examination. When Pingnanhou saw his resolute attitude, he let him go.
Then it came to the spring season, this year, Fu Geng lived up to expectations and shined, and his results ranked among the top three. In the following year, he went to the Beijing Palace to test, because he coped with it properly and looked handsome, he was liked by today, and he was hand-picked to explore the flowers.
At that time, Fu Geng will be eighteen years old, not only the youngest Tanhua Lang since the founding of this dynasty, but also two hundred years ago, there is no younger Tanhua than him. Because of Fu Geng's existence, the Pingnan Marquis Mansion became the most eye-catching noble house in the capital in that year.
According to rumors, when Fu Geng was dressed in red and green, and he was paraded on horseback, the girls all over the city crowded Suzaku Street, and they all wanted to see the demeanor of this young Tanhualang. The women in the market did not have so many rules, so they stood on the street and watched, while the girls of aristocratic families looked for the private rooms of the teahouse and restaurant, and stood behind the screen window to watch.
When Fu Geng rode a horse to the Shangyuanguan Restaurant, I don't know which daredevil, he threw a sachet out, which happened to hit Fu Geng's head and touched his hat crookedly. Fu Geng was not annoyed, raised his eyes, and smiled at the shadows behind the screen.
At that time, the spring breeze was just right, the city was flying lightly, the peach blossoms were falling with the wind, and the falling flowers were colorful, like a snow dance. Fu Geng's smile was imprinted in this bright and gentle spring light, and he was drunk with the heart of the street.
Since then, no one remembers "Fu Buxi" and "Erlenzi", the world only knows that there is a handsome Tanhua in the capital of Jinling, and the name of "Chunwen Smile Fu Saburo" has also spread throughout the Han Dynasty.
After listening to Fu Geng's experience, Fu Jun's first thought was: Demon!
A concubine can get out of this world, only luck is not enough. Strength and scheming are indispensable. Fu Jun even suspected that the more than ten years of squirming career was likely to be a smokescreen released by Fu Geng. For this reason, she also inquired about Fu Geng sideways, and the father and daughter had the following conversation:
"How could Dad get into the flowers?" Fu Jun looks innocent.
"Daddy is smart!" Fu Geng reclined on the Hunan concubine couch, supporting his head with one hand, and smiling charmingly.
Fu Jun secretly trembled, and then continued to pretend to be naΓ―ve: "What else?" β
"Dad studies hard!" Fu Geng continued to smile.
"Isn't Daddy playing?" Fu Jun continued to ask questions in the spirit of breaking the casserole and asking to the end.
"Dad plays during the day and reads at night." Fu Geng replied easily.
This answer made Fu Jun speechless for a while.
She knew that Fu Geng's success was definitely not as easy as the legend. The imperial examination system in ancient times was extremely strict, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one in a thousand. It's a great thing for a medium-sized city to have hundreds of lifters. No matter how talented a person is, it is impossible to study for two or three years in high school.
Come to think of it, in order to get out of this road, Fu Geng has put in more efforts than ordinary people, and has also experienced more hardships than ordinary people. Of course, he himself is a genius of Tianzhong, which is also an indisputable fact, and Fu Jun can't admit it if he wants to. That's why her father is so sassy all day long, and occasionally a single discharge can power down a bunch of people. This also has a lot to do with the fact that he was really ridiculous when he was young.
If it is said that digging out Fu Geng's black history made Fu Jun realize the difficulty of the survival of the Hou Mansion's concubines, then another piece of information made Fu Jun puzzled.
This information, to be precise, is a phenomenon, and it was obtained from Fu Jun's observation in the past three months. She found that there were very few mothers-in-law in the Hou Mansion.
When I read "Dream of Red Mansions" in my previous life, it was really all kinds of mothers-in-law and grandmothers, and I could find one or two mothers-in-law on the road. But in the Hou Mansion, except for the mothers-in-law and grandmothers of the Zhang family, the Cui family and the Wang family who each married, there are mostly mothers in their thirties and forties. Especially in Rong Xuantang, there is no mother-in-law, and even the rough ones are only the little girl and her mother.
Fu Jun secretly inquired twice, but found nothing. No one even notices the problem. After all, enough people are called, whether she is a mother-in-law or a mother, as long as someone does something.
Most of the month passed like this. Towards the end of the month, Fu Jun finally got a big deal:
She's going to school.
Instead of going to school, I had to follow a few female masters to learn a series of basic skills of the girls of the Hou Mansion.
The Pingnan Hou Mansion imitated the family of the world, the brothers were enlightened at the age of four, and the girls were relaxed to the age of five. Boys go to school, and girls are taught by a special master.
It stands to reason that Fu Jun should have gone to school a long time ago. It's just that since her fifth birthday, first Pingnanhou is going to live a fifty-five year-old, the house has been quite busy for a while, no one cares about this for a while, and then it is the New Year, and soon after the beginning of spring, Fu Jun fell into the water again, and lay on the bed for more than a month, Wang is also very sick, and the mother and daughter are alive together, and there is Qiaoyun, and the two adults in the autumn and evening are all on the bed, and Fu Jun's study has been put on hold.
It wasn't until recently, when Wang recovered from his illness and Fu Geng's injuries healed, that this matter was officially put on the agenda.
Since it is necessary to follow the master to study, the number of etiquette is indispensable. After the Wang family reported to Mrs. Hou, he instructed Shen's mother to prepare half a catty of fragrant tea, two boxes of fine points, ten gold and silver bills, and two ends of the ceremony, a total of four color gifts, and took Fu Jun to visit these female masters.
The Pingnan Hou Mansion invited a total of three female masters to teach calligraphy, painting, piano art and female red respectively. Among them, the master who taught calligraphy and painting was surnamed Cheng, the master who taught piano was surnamed Liu, and the master who taught daughter Hong was surnamed Mo.
These three masters have been sitting in the Pingnan Hou Mansion for several years, and they know a lot about the situation in the mansion, and they know that the four girls are the daughters of the concubines. As long as they weren't tricky, their lives would be better.
In a blink of an eye, it was the first day of August, and this day was Fu Jun's first day of study. After getting up in the morning, Shijiang and Mama Jiang took Qingman and Qingwu to work. Because the weather is getting cooler, he put on a light cyan embroidered plum blossom fragrant snow gauze jacket for Fu Jun, and tied a skirt embroidered with plum branches of the same color, although the hair is still combed in a bun, there are two small jade hairpins on the bun, and the hairpin head is inlaid with the pink crystal beads that are recently fashionable in Beijing, which is a little less childish than the bead flower. There is a gold lock on his chest, a sugar jade dragonfly pendant hangs from his waist, and a tassel like an eye under his head, which moves with his skirt when he walks, which is very good-looking.
When he went to greet Wang, Wang nodded with satisfaction: "It's okay, the first day/school, it's better to be clean." After that, he asked Huaisu to open the box, took a pen cover, an inkstone bag and a brocade bag, and said: "This set and inkstone bag were originally used by my mother when she was a child, and now it is just right for you." β
Fu Jun took a closer look and saw that the pen sleeve and inkstone bag were made of Tianshui blue material. On the pen sleeve, a few plum blossoms are embroidered with the convex embroidery method, the branches are knotted, the red plum is like blood, it is not graceful at all, but it is like a knife and an axe chisel with a murderous aura, and the momentum is very seductive.
The inkstone bag is embroidered with a large stone, and a cluster of orchids sticks out obliquely. The Nalan leaf is narrow and sharp like a sword, and the big stone is a bone Qingqi. Although it is embroidery, it has a sense of painting, and the charm is leisurely and vigorous.
Fu Jun was a layman, and he knew that these two things were different, so he raised his head and looked at Wang inquiringly. Wang smiled: "This is my mother when I was a child according to your grandfather's painting embroidered by myself, although it is not very exquisite, but it also took a lot of effort, do you like it?" β
Fu Jun said happily: "I like it." Thank you, mother. β
Wang Shi said again: "You also keep the other bag, and there are a few small silver bills in it, just in case." β
Fu Jun asked Shijiang to collect it. Wang told her two more words, and then took her to Rongxuan Hall.
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