The woman in front of her was more rounded than before, the paper's gaze fell on her bulging abdomen, this undulating arc was a sign that the fetus had sat firmly and was gradually maturing, she supported her waist with one hand, it was a little difficult to stand, a little girl was supporting her, and there were two stout servants standing beside her, guarding her from being squeezed down.

"Great, Brother Wen, you have passed the test!" Lu Hui said to him very happily that she was really happy for him.

The clerk's breath was suffocated, he looked at her face as round as a full moon, and for a moment he had mixed feelings, his throat choked slightly, and he didn't know what to answer.

Lu Hui's face was full of joy, and she looked at the red list again, looking at the last name written with an ink pen in the lower right corner, and her joy was overflowing:

"After many years of hard work, I finally succeeded, Brother Wen, this time you are considered to be outstanding!" She sighed with a smile.

If you are lucky, you can also start from a small local school of study and politics, which is also a road to enter the officialdom, which is what Xianggong told her, so when she confirmed that she had passed the essay exam, she was very happy in her heart, at least there would be no more problems in the future life of the clerk.

The clerk looked at her in a daze, he didn't want to speak, but he felt that it was too unreasonable not to say anything at this time, so after hesitating for a long time, he opened his mouth in a dry voice and asked in a low voice:

"You are pregnant, why did you go out, there are a lot of people today, how can you be injured if you are squeezed?"

"I heard that the list was released today, and I couldn't put it down in my heart. I told Xianggong that I wanted to come and see, it was Xianggong who accompanied me, and he was unwell because there were too many people. I asked him to wait for me in the teahouse, so many people accompanied him, it didn't matter. Lin Yan smiled calmly, pointed to the teahouse not far from the diagonal opposite, and saw that the clerk's frowning expression became a little uncomfortable, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Xianggong said it." Brother Wen took care of me in the past, I came to see if I should be happy for Brother Wen, my husband was not in good health and couldn't accompany me back to Fengzhou. I can also take a look now, and when Brother Wen leaves Suzhou in the future, we won't have a chance to meet again. ”

The clerk didn't know what to say.

"Originally, the minister said that he wanted to meet Brother Wen, but I thought that Brother Wen, you must be busy. Forget it. Lin Yan half-hung her head and smiled when she said this. It was clear that she didn't want the two of them to meet.

When she raised her head again, her face flashed brightly, and she smiled:

"Great, Brother Wen, I can be completely relieved at this time!"

Wenwen's heart moved, looking at her face, his heart spread out with a sourness that could not be described in words, he was a person who was not good at words, looking at her face in a daze. He didn't know what to say.

At this moment, a small monkey came in from outside the human wall. Smile and say:

"Grandma, I said, it's too hot, I'm afraid you can't stand it, so I asked if you're okay, it's time to go back."

Lu Hui nodded, glanced at the clerk's face with a smile, and with a deep last glance, she smiled softly:

"Brother Wen, I have to go back."

The clerk nodded.

Lu Hui smiled, turned around, and left with the support of the maid.

"Lu Hui!" The clerk suddenly called her in an anxious tone.

Lu Hui was slightly stunned and turned back suspiciously.

"Thank you." He said in a dry voice, paused, and added, "Take care." ”

Lu Hui looked at his face, the corners of her lips raised, smiled, and replied softly:

"Brother Wen also take care." Turned around, left, did not look back, and soon disappeared into the bustling crowd.

"Lu Hui is such a good girl." Chun Niang stepped forward and stood beside the clerk and sighed, she had already come over, and she wanted to say hello to Lu Hui, but when she saw the atmosphere between them, she was embarrassed to come over and disturb her, and she didn't come over until Lu Hui left for a while.

The clerk was startled, looked at her, and didn't say a word.

Chunniang glanced at the red list and said with a smile: "Today, our family is happy." ”

The clerk was stunned for a moment and knew that what she said meant that all three of them had passed the exam, but because he had just met Lu Hui, the joy in his heart was washed away and became heavy.

"Have you ever liked Lu Hui?" Jun Niang asked, staring at his face.

The clerk was very uncomfortable with her, dodged her gaze, and said softly: "I can't stand her." ”

"If you've liked her, you can't live with her. But you haven't liked her, you can't live with her, and your arrogance has to be a little limited. Chunniang wrinkled her nose disapprovingly, turned around and left.

Seeing that she didn't ask any more questions, the clerk let out a long sigh of relief and lowered his head, was he too arrogant? quietly stared at his name on the red list for a while, and finally won the ......

The Su family was happy this time, Su Miao arranged a table of meals in the evening, and early the next morning, the family packed up and went back to Fengzhou.

When I came, there were few people and less luggage, and when I went back, there were many people and a big car was pulled, and I finally got home, Mrs. Su and Hu had already received the good news, and naturally it was a toss, and the neighbors who often came and went not often came and went all came to say goodbye, the most surprising thing was that the ex-husband's family of the eldest sister, who had been thrown to the back of the head by the eldest sister, actually got the news and sent a man in the clan to salivate and congratulate him, it is estimated that he came to explore the situation, and the Su family came out of three people this time, That status is definitely going up, the Sun family doesn't dare to offend and rush to repair, even the illiterate Mrs. Su can see their thoughts, and they just blast out with a crutch, and the Sun family will not dare to come to the door again.

After tossing and turning for half a month, Su Yan, Ning Le, and the clerk went around to thank the teacher and participate in various local literati and bureaucratic banquets, which made them exhausted. Ning Le and the clerk are okay, the two of them have made up their minds to go to the glory of the ancestors, but Su Yan felt very confused, he found that he can study, he is not stupid, he can basically understand what Mr. tells him once, what Mr. asks him to do, he will not get too bad results when he does the exam honestly, he is not good at talking. He is a little lacking in communication, and at a banquet he can talk and laugh with strangers in two sentences, but he can't say ten words. can only sit awkwardly and listen to the people around him talk about learning and praise each other, occasionally smiling and laughing, such an atmosphere is incompatible with him, so after three or four times he doesn't want to go again, even if he knows that now is a good opportunity to make friends, and the most important thing in officialdom is "friendship", but he is a little afraid. So I could only lie that I was sick and pushed them all, and then lay in front of the window to read the paperwork and the back left by Ning Le when he went to the banquet in new clothes.

Once or twice, everyone only thought that he was weak since he was a child, and it might be really uncomfortable, but after three or four times, even Hu Shi could see that something was wrong. She is a woman who has read books, and she can be regarded as having some knowledge, and she is very worried about Su Yan's strange appearance, and quietly said to Su Miao:

"How can smoke do this? A brat. Nesting at home all day long, he shouldn't have sent those posts inviting him out to eat and drink, he shouldn't have sent them to the door, it's okay once or twice, three or four times people still treat him as big, and now he offends people in entertainment, and he won't necessarily be in the officialdom in the future, how can this be done! ”

Su Miao looked at her with a sad face, and she was also worried. When the child is not productive, he is worried, and when he is productive, he has another kind of worry. The news of Su Yanzhong's move spread all over Fengzhou City, and the matchmaker who came to propose marriage almost broke through the threshold, Hu and Mrs. Su wanted to say goodbye to Su Yan several times, but Su Yan refused, and now he is already a slim young man, but his heart is still as fragile and sensitive and sentimental as when he was a child, and Hu is sad because of his temperament.

"Mother, don't worry too much, Yan'er is originally softer, and it is inevitable that he will be rejected when he suddenly asks him to deal with unfamiliar occasions, just wait for him to adjust himself." Su Miao smiled comfortingly.

Hu Shi took her hand, was silent for a while, and suddenly grabbed her fingers and asked worriedly:

"Miao'er, you said that your brother's temperament, can he really be an official?"

Su Miao was slightly stunned, in the hearts of ordinary people, the word "getting ahead" basically refers to entering the officialdom, Shinong, industry and commerce, and the status of scholars is the highest, so anyone who wants to let their son get ahead will provide his son with a study and test for fame, and Hu is no exception, why is this Zi Hu suspicious of his own approach?

"The reason why I forced your brother to study at the beginning, one is to see that he is smart, and the other is to fight for a breath in front of your grandmother, your grandmother has never looked down on your brother, thinks he is soft, and says that I haven't taught well, I must let Yan'er read a famous hall in order to fight for a breath, so I always force him to study, but you know your brother's temperament, shy, and soft ears, in case he really becomes an official, because his temperament causes a little mess, this official might as well not do it!"

Su Miao glanced at Hu Shi with surprised eyes, it was really rare that she had actually figured out this problem, but Su Yan was no longer the child who only knew how to be obedient, as a young man, he must have had a lot of his own thoughts and ideas.

On the night when Hu told Su Miao about his worries, Su Miao walked to the yard when he got up at night but found that the side gate was open, Su Yan was sitting alone on the threshold with his hands and his face quietly looking at the stars, which looked very similar to when he was a child, the three or four-year-old baby sat shyly and quietly on the threshold and counted the stars, because he was too much like a girl, and he didn't like boys' rude games, he was bullied since he was a child, and his biggest entertainment at that time was to count the stars and play.

Su Miao was slightly stunned, paused, walked over, sat down beside him, and also sat on the threshold.

Su Yan was startled, turned his head, and his big watery eyes were still confused: "Second sister." ”

"What are you doing sitting here at this hour?" Su Miao asked with a smile.

Su Yan looked at her smiling face, wanted to speak and stopped, a pair of beautiful eyes blinked, lowered again, and shook his head.

Su Miao smiled, didn't ask, smiled and admired the surrounding night scene, and then said as if he were a homely person:

"After a while, the second sister is going to Liangdu, my mother and grandmother are too far away to go, I will take the eldest sister, Chan'er and Chunniang to go. The clerk and Ning Le said that they wanted to go to Liangdu before me and report to the academy first. ”

"Oh." Su Yan replied in a low voice.

"What are you going to do?" Su Miao asked with a smile.

Su Yan's face froze, and his eyes flickered for a long time before he replied softly:

"I'll go, I'll report with them."

Su Miao heard some reluctance in his tone, raised her eyebrows, but didn't say anything.

The two were silent for a long time, and Su Yan suddenly frowned, and said with some anxiety:

"Second sister, I heard the second brother say before, when I arrived in Liangdu and passed the examination, even if I didn't enter the palace examination, I might be made up as a local official, and now fresh blood is needed everywhere, and the court is very short of people, and he also said that our batch is catching up with a good time, even if we get the last place in the exam, we can make a small county order."

Su Miao nodded: "Although the second brother is not in tune, he seems to know a lot about the affairs of the DPRK and China, so he shouldn't be fooling you." ”

"Second sister, you say, can I be a county magistrate?" Su Yan asked solemnly.

Su Miao was slightly stunned, looked him up and down, tried not to laugh, and asked seriously:

"What do you think?"

Su Yan fell silent, and after a while, he seemed to say to her, as if to say to himself:

"I am the only male member of the Su family, I will glorify my ancestors for the Su family, and I will not disappoint my grandmother, mother and sisters!"

Su Miao stared at him for a while, smiled, suddenly clapped his hand, and said to him:

"Follow me!"

Su Yan was slightly stunned, stood up for some reason, and followed the second sister into Su Ji Pinxian Building from behind, and came to the kitchen.

Su Yan stood aside puzzled, Su Miao took the indica rice that had been soaked for a day and mashed it, added the same proportion of water, whipped the indica rice into rice milk, sifted it with a filter cloth and then whipped, whipped and then filtered, after a few times, the clear and delicate rice milk was filtered out, and the precipitated rice milk was left after standing. Stir salt and peanut oil into the precipitated rice milk, smear a little oil on the disc, pour in an appropriate amount of rice milk, steam in a steamer for one minute, steam out a clear and thin round rice skin, fill the rice skin with minced beef with salt, soy sauce, chopped green onion and ginger, chopped tangerine peel, pepper and peanut oil to stir the beef filling, wrap the filling with rice skin, and then steam it in a steamer for two minutes.

Put the steamed beef cheong noodle on a plate, drizzle with a sauce made with soy sauce, salt, shiitake mushroom water, rock sugar, and sprinkle with sautéed cooked sesame seeds.

White as snow, thin as paper, shiny oil, smooth and delicious.

Take a bite of it soft and glutinous, full of fresh and fragrant, delicate and smooth, with a little tenacity, which makes people unforgettable when they eat it.

Su Yan's eyes lit up, and he took a big bite of the plate, this soft and glutinous but non-sticky taste made people like it very much, the sweet rice skin fragrance was not covered by the thick and fresh sauce, the two flavors blended together harmoniously, as if the rice skin and beef filling were a natural match, fragrant and delicious, slippery and attractive, soft and slipping into the stomach, making people's hearts have an indescribable sense of vitality, and he immediately cheered up. (To be continued.) )