To tell the truth, Qiao Baisheng's death is a relief for everyone in the Qiao family, and the only ones who are really sad may be his three sons, but Qiao Chengjin has always had no way to take the Yue family, Qiao Chengyin can only keep his mouth shut under the Li family's benefits, Qiao Chengtong opened his mouth, but one is a sister-in-law and the other is a nephew and daughter-in-law, so what does he say?

Yue's mouth is fast, Luo's voice is loud, fortunately, there is only the courtyard of the three brothers of the Qiao family nearby, otherwise it will be really embarrassing to attract other onlookers.

"Roche, don't be complacent over there! Wait for 'Donkey Rolling Noodles' to come and see if you can still be so hard-mouthed. Yue's small stature, seeing that Luo Shi crossed his waist and stood in front of him, he still trembled in his heart, hid behind his son, and sneered with his head exposed.

"'Donkey rolling noodles'? How did Uncle Lu come to our house? Qiao Hammer, who was kneeling in front of the coffin in the hall with his respective Lao Tzu, sensitively caught a word that made him familiar, raised his eyes and asked.

"Brother Hammer, your family Yuanfu has paid the money for the county examination, and he also invited a fellow student in the academy to Zhenweiju for a big meal and drink. Ask him where the money came from. Qiao Jindan pursed his lips, a little angry that the two nephews had a lot of money but did not spend it from the restaurant, and deliberately accentuated the tone of "big money".

"I'm borrowing this money, yes! But it's not what you said about 'donkey rolling noodles', it's Lu Fangzhong's uncle, a very kind uncle, who is kind and charitable, and likes to help students like us. Qiao Yuanfu thought of the "Uncle Lu" who smiled kindly, and couldn't help but stubbornly push back: "Uncle Jindan, if you don't know, don't talk nonsense here." ”

"Charity? Ha ha. I'm laughing to death, who would want to lend you a few dozen taels of silver for no reason. Qiao Jindan squinted and looked Qiao Yuanfu up and down for a while, and smiled in front of his grandfather's spiritual seat.

Qiao Yuanfu straightened his back and held his head high with his hands behind his back, "Uncle Jindan, I have never been in a day of school, of course, I don't know the hardships of our cold window for many years. But this hardship will be affirmed by the imperial court in the end, after getting the fame of Xiucai, you can see the official without kneeling, you can not pay food tax, Uncle Lu said, he is willing to help us like a boy who has the hope of being admitted to Xiucai, and we will have to rely on us to promote him in the future. ”

"Yuanfu and Yuangui, did you two really hand over the silver taels for the test Xiucai?" Qiao Hammer walked out of the hall, and his face was already blue and red. It can be seen how entangled my heart is. suddenly remembered that Qiao Yuanhong didn't accompany the two little ones to reference? I looked around. "Yuanhong, didn't you bring your two younger brothers with you?" At the beginning, I thought that Qiao Yuanhong was twenty years old, and he had seen that he was still safe in doing things for a period of time in the town, so he was allowed to take the helm with his two younger brothers as an escort.

Qiao Yuanhong's face turned pale with a brush, and he lowered his head and whispered: "I don't know." ”

"I don't know! How could you not know? Qiao Hammer took two steps and slapped Qiao Yuanhong in front of him: "Then what do you know?" ”

Qiao Yuanfu saw his brother being beaten. I'm afraid that the next one will be my turn. Half a step back. "Brother Yuanhong, he didn't go with us. It was Lu Fangzhong who said that he didn't want to ride in a carriage with mud legs......"

"Yes, everyone is a scholar, of course they look down on people like us; I don't have any money. When I drove someone else's ox cart back to the town, I heard about my grandfather, and I drove it back. Qiao Yuanhong pulled the clothes that were still covered with mud dots on his body aggrievedly, and then looked at the brand-new fine cotton scholar's robe on his younger brother, saying that it was fake not to be jealous.

"Yuangui, you come! Did you and Yuanfu really borrow money to pay the money for the county test registration? Qiao Hammer had already realized the seriousness of the matter, and his face was dark and gloomy compared to his father Qiao Chengyin, who looked much more dignified.

Qiao Jindan wanted to say something, but was pulled aside by Yue's family: "Jindan and I just came back from the town, go back and change into plain clothes and come back; But the golden egg was right just now, the restaurant in our town only spent so much silver, and the family didn't have a penny. After that, he glared at Qiao Chengjin, who was looking at the two of them in front of the coffin, and warned the old man to be careful when he spoke.

Gu Banniang also wanted to pull the arbor to go, but unfortunately the arbor couldn't move his feet at all, and he was still burning paper on the edge of the iron pot and shedding tears.

Qiao Yuangui's face was also frighteningly white, and his speech was a little blurred, so he could only reluctantly shake his body and nodded.

"How much did you borrow?" Qiao Hammer asked softly with a fluke, and turned his head to look around at the dazed women in the courtyard, hoping that these people would be able to withstand the test of cruel facts later.

"Thirty taels." Qiao Yuangui closed his eyes and said a number that the Zhuang family couldn't think of.

Smack-

Qiao Hammer slapped out again: "Dare, how dare you!" The surname Lu is not a man who looks like a bodhisattva and has a mole on the corner of his mouth? ”

"Dad, have you seen Uncle Lu?" Qiao Yuanfu saw that his cousin and brother were beaten and were shrunk behind Luo Shi in fright, who knew that Qiao Hammer asked another question that surprised him, and couldn't help but scream.

At that time, sixteen-year-old Qiao Yuangui was slapped by him and fell to the ground, Xiao Li, who loved his son, and Li, who loved his grandson, pounced together, helping Qiao Yuangui to see the blood marks on the corner of his mouth, and Xiao Li cried out "wow": "Second brother, this is beating the child to death, isn't it really your son?" ”

Qiao Yuanhong was also beaten, but how could the people who worked and the scholars look at each other, they were also beaten, the honest Qiao Yuanhong looked like no one, and Qiao Yuangui's appearance was quite scary to look at.

Seeing this, Qiao Chengyin in the hall couldn't pretend to be dumb, after all, he was still a father, "What kind of nerves do you have with a hammer?" ”

"Dad, our family is going to break up!" Qiao Hammer howled and squatted on the ground, "'If the family has a heavy filial piety, it must not be referenced', this is the rule of the imperial court. The thirty taels of silver handed over by Yuangui and Yuanfu are equivalent to being lost, this is nothing, the key is that the silver is the money they borrowed. ”

Qiao hammer's mission pounded his own head, he knew very well how ruthless the "donkey rolling noodles" was, in the town, he saw with his own eyes that the donkey rolling noodles led people to sell all the family to people as slaves, and then collected the title deed of others, the old man stepped forward to stop him, and the donkey rolling noodles poured a cup of lamp oil on the back of the old man's hand, and then lit a fire to burn the back of the person's hand, and the donkey rolling noodles himself touched the mole and laughed.

I don't know who the "Donkey Rolling Noodles" is, but Qiao Chengyin knows how powerful Yinzi Qian is, and he was so frightened that he sat on the ground: "What should I do?" What to do? ”

"What to do? What the hell is going on, you should make it clear and howl! The Li family finally became powerful, and her son and grandson didn't say everything one after another, she only heard what thirty taels of silver and what a donkey rolled noodles, and she didn't know what was going on.

"Mother, you're used to these kids, and now it's a big deal!" Qiao Hammer sighed, looked at his eldest brother and listened, sorted out the matter before and after said simply:

"These two boys actually borrowed thirty taels of silver in the town without permission and reported the name of the county examination Xiucai; Now that our master has passed away, these two are not qualified for the exam, and these thirty taels of silver are equivalent to being lost, and our family will have to bear a debt of thirty taels! If you can't repay the money in a month, it will be doubled to sixty taels a month. ”

"Ahh Why is it so serious? Li was startled, and pulled Qiao Yuangui beside Xiao Li and said, "What do you think?" You dare to borrow so much silver! ”

Qiao Yuangui already knew that he was afraid, and he had also heard about Yinzi money, so he knelt on the ground with a puff: "Milk, I was wrong!" It's all Yuanfu who said that if our brothers can go to the exam to show off, grandpa doesn't know how happy he will be, so I ...... Besides, after being admitted to Xiucai, the court will return the thirty taels of silver to us, and it will be returned when the time comes. ”

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Hearing this, Guan Ping, who was lying on the wall, gently sneered in Yun Ying's ear: "If Xiucai was so easy to get in, your grandfather would not be a child until he died." Yun Ying's ears were not red yet, but Guan Ping's face was red because he smelled the fragrance of Huang Jiaonan that Yun Ying put on his body, but fortunately, the sky was dark, and Yun Ying did not notice his embarrassment when he turned his head.

"Brother Guan Ping, let's not go over tonight. It's not too late to come back tomorrow with the gift. Yun Ying didn't have a good time coming back from the West Mountain today, the night was dark, and no one said anything to cook or eat, in order not to torture her stomach, she decided to go back to Guan's house first.

After greeting the Yang family, Yuangen and Man'er rested at her house, and Yunying and Guan Ping went to the end of the downstream village.

"Brother Guan Ping, are there really so many benefits of being admitted to Xiucai?" Yun Ying was not used to the silence between the two of them, and broke the silence with a voice.

Guan Ping walked two or three steps behind her, and when he heard the sound, he strode forward a little, and replied in a deep voice: "Tengyun Dynasty's reward for Xiucai is indeed quite big, but it is not as good as Brother Yuangui said, and it is far from being as easy as they thought. My mother said that the darkness of officialdom is beyond our imagination, the 'county exam' is already the beginning of officialdom, and it is far from enough to really become a showman. A person can't spend it without thirty taels of silver, and in the end, although the court wants to return the thirty taels of silver, what about the cost after being admitted to Xiucai? If you stop there, you can find a academy to be a gentleman, teach and educate people, and live a dull life, but if you want to take the exam, you have to go to the academy in the county to ask Mr. for advice for a while. ”

The knowledge and qualifications of the gentleman in the county are naturally not ordinary, and the more knowledgeable the gentleman, the more arrogant he is, and the less likely he is to be impressed; If you don't have amazing talent, you must have enough money to impress Mr. to teach him, otherwise he won't want to stand out in the later government examinations and general examinations. (To be continued......)