Chapter 1 Returning to the Homeland
The third prince has always kept in mind what his mother said: Jane is in the emperor's heart! As long as your father likes whoever he likes, then no matter how much you manage your power, it will be empty, and it will even arouse your father's suspicion! So, Emperor, you have to remember that even if you win over people, it is for office affairs, so that you can sometimes act conveniently, even if it is really for that position, you have to pretend to be for official business, and you must remember that you can't go too far! Even if it's for business, you have to pay attention to proportion, pay attention to that degree!
Moreover, why does the third prince always feel that this Wang Sheng looks very familiar? Where exactly did you see this person?
The third prince thinks that he has a good memory, if he has seen it, he should remember it, how can he forget it!
The third prince sat there, thinking with expressionless faces.
In this way, the three princes seem to have been distributed, the eldest prince and the second prince have all gained, and none of the three princes seem to be satisfied, and on the other hand, on the Jinshi side, Chen Zihan and Liu Sansi have also gained, only Wang Sheng, there is no gain!
In fact, it is not that there are no high-ranking officials and nobles who take a fancy to Wang Sheng, but they are all worried about the three princes, everyone knows that there is some undercurrent between the three princes, even if the three princes are not likable, it is also the three princes, and they can crush themselves by pinching their fingers.
In this way, Wang Sheng has become the one who has no water to drink, Wang Sheng doesn't care, for the undercurrent in this, he can still detect a little bit, Ziqi also mentioned to him, Ziqi is telling Wang Sheng to find a noble person from inside, and he can rise to prominence from then on, but Wang Sheng feels that his daughter is more reasonable to pay attention to the balance of the mean, besides, a little person like himself, really chooses a faction. When the time comes, it will be easy to become the cannon fodder that her daughter said, and, in this world, it still belongs to the emperor, no matter how well the princes perform now, it is also the prince, and the world does not necessarily belong to anyone, why make up your mind too early, the emperor is still in the prime of life, for Wang Sheng. It is better to take refuge in the prince than to take refuge in the emperor, so Wang Sheng is actually happy that everyone did not come to him.
When he returned to the courtyard, Wang Sheng couldn't sleep. At the end of today's dinner, Wang Sheng himself came back. Oh. There is also a clerk, for the behavior of following a singer at the banquet, the clerk is also very uncomfortable, and later saw that Wang Sheng did not have a singer, so he hurriedly pushed the singer away, regardless of the singer looking at him with tears in his eyes.
Tang Wen saw that Wang Sheng's room was still lit. knocked on the door and entered, "Brother Zixian, it's so late, why haven't you rested yet?" โ
"Huh. Isn't it the same with Brother Clerical? So-and-so is writing a letter to his family! Wang Shengdao.
Tang Wenwen said with a smile: "Why did Brother Zixian write a letter today, this matter should be done at the end of the palace examination, right?" Oh, I almost forgot, in those days, Brother Zixian was stupid with joy! โ
"Yes, Brother Wen, I'll tell you the truth, in those days, I was really happy and stupid, I always felt like a dream!" Wang Shengdao.
Tang Wenwen said: "Brother Zixian, this time, have you decided to go home?" โ
"What? Go home? Can I still go home? I thought I wouldn't be able to go home, so I was about to write a letter and ask my wife and daughter to come with me. Wang Shengdao.
Tang Wenwen really felt that Wang Sheng was really happy and stupid in those days, and he didn't know a lot of things, Tang Wenwen said: "Generally speaking, the top three are to enter the Hanlin Academy directly, so there is a period of time during the period when the top three can go home, and if the home is here, this holiday can be omitted." It depends on what the choice is. If we want to go out, we don't have to go home, we can go home before taking office, or, if we are not given a position, we can go home and wait for the opportunity. โ
Wang Sheng's eyes widened: "There is still such a statement!" As he spoke, he said to Tang Wenzuo: "Brother Wenwen, it is really my luck to listen to you today, otherwise, I really miss a chance!" "What opportunity is missing, it is naturally an opportunity to return to his hometown, for Wang Sheng, returning to his hometown after gaining fame is to return to his hometown, which can make his wife and daughter proud.
Tang Wenwen hurriedly helped Wang Sheng up and said, "Brother Zixian's politeness, this fact should be. By the way, Brother Zixian, among all the Jinshi I have seen today, only you and a few have not found a nobleman, Brother Zixian, if you are interested, I can help you introduce Lin Guiren! โ
Wang Sheng shook his head with a smile and said: "Thank you Brother Wen for your kindness, this matter is just a trivial matter for a certain person, you don't need to care, and there is no partisan dispute, in fact, it's very good, since Brother Wen has found a nobleman, congratulations, it's just that everyone has their own ambitions, Zixian has no other talents, but he is willing to be safe!" โ
Tang Wenwen was only kind, but seeing that Wang Sheng was unwilling, he stopped mentioning this topic, and when he saw that it was getting late, he took his leave.
Wang Sheng tore up the letter he had written before, originally in the letter, Wang Sheng did say that he wanted Wang Ya to come with Wang, and now that he can go home and let his daughter and wife enjoy the glory, he is naturally happy.
Wang Sheng put pen to paper, and then thought about it, or should he give his family a surprise, or don't write it on the letter, and then go home, meet his wife and daughter directly, and look at their surprised expressions, wouldn't it be more wonderful?
Wang Sheng forgot, this time he won the Jinshi, and he was not the only one, even if he didn't want it, didn't there be Yang Mengxian, as early as after he came out before, Yang Mengxian sent a messenger to help him send the letter back, this kind of great joy, the messengers are naturally the favorite, there is money to make, and they can also touch the joy of these people.
When Yang Mengxian saw Wang Sheng like that, he naturally knew that Wang Sheng couldn't remember this matter at all, so he asked the messenger to send a letter to Wang Sheng's family at that time.
Therefore, five days later, Wang and Wang Ya happened to be at home, and they heard Zheng Rong come in and say that there was a messenger outside who said that Wang Sheng had been a jinshi and was still a tanhualang, so he immediately stood up in surprise and hurried out of the city to meet the messenger.
The messenger smiled and said the good news again, Wang and Wang Ya were very happy, Wang even forgot to reward, or Zheng Si's eyes were good, seeing that Wang and Wang Ya had forgotten about it, and the messenger reported the letter but did not leave, obviously there was still something to be done, so he took out five taels of silver from the money cabinet and handed it to the messenger, sure enough, there was no while. The messenger offered to leave.
When Wang Ya saw the money, she remembered that it was her own negligence, and hurriedly said: "This uncle is slow, coming from afar, and he is not in a hurry to go back at this time, it is better to have a little meal here and then leave!" โ
The messenger excused himself, accepted it, ate a fresh and delicious meal at the Wang family, and had a good impression of the Wang family. Otherwise, I was a little unhappy when I saw that Wang and Wang Ya didn't take money before.
In fact, these messengers are all from the government, and some of them are specially appointed by the government. It is also possible to appoint someone to report the news by the Jinshi of the middle lift, regardless of whether he is assigned by himself. It was still assigned by the government. In short, this messenger is not to be offended.
Wang Sheng naturally didn't know about this, and within two days, after attending two more banquets, Wang Sheng no longer participated in the banquets, and their orders had already come down, Chen Zihan, Liu Sansi, and Wang Sheng were appointed as the editors of the Hanlin Academy. Each person can have three months of vacation, and after three months, they must come to the Hanlin Academy to report, while they have not returned. Wang Sheng wandered around the capital every day, taking the opportunity to buy some gifts, so that he could go back to his family to bring them, and the Wang family said that they would come to the capital in the future, that is, Wangjia Village, and the village chief and the like naturally wanted to bring some gifts back.
Wang Sheng felt that the family's business must not be lost, so someone must help take care of it, so Master Yang and Village Chief Wang are naturally the best choices, and it is also very important to have a good relationship with the neighbors, and former colleagues should also buy some gifts to give each other.
In this way, Wang Sheng has a lot of things to buy, and Wang Sheng doesn't know what to buy, mainly according to personal preferences, for example, Master Yang and the village chief like to smoke, so Wang Sheng bought them the most popular cigarette holders in the capital, and some other things, and a lot.
When the top three returned to their hometowns, the court gave them a lot of face, and they would send special escorts and small honor guards, so that everyone could see the glory of the top three and make everyone envious.
Therefore, Wang Sheng didn't have to worry about buying so many things, there was someone who could help take them, because there were many people and he was in a carriage, so the time to catch the car was slow.
Yang Mengxian entrusted Wang Sheng's blessing and took his newly-acquired beautiful concubine into the car, Wang Sheng saw it, although he was unhappy, but he didn't say anything, he was not unhappy that Yang Mengxian took his car, but he was not happy that Yang Mengxian actually took the singer that night into the house, didn't he know that it was not good for his reputation?
Wang Sheng didn't say anything about Yang Mengxian, but Yang Mengxian didn't care about death, saying that he had a wife at home, and he just added another beautiful concubine, which was a great joy in life.
What else can Wang Sheng say, anyway, he has missed it, and the reason why Yang Mengxian wants to go home is also very simple, this time he went to pick up his wife and daughter, Yang Mengxian climbed up to a nobleman, and the speed was quite fast, but it was a few days to arrange the county order of Linhe County for him, so that Yang Mengxian must go to the place to take office in three months, Linhe County is not far from Wuyangcheng, that is, two counties apart, but it is also cheap.
The two of them went home, Wang Sheng thought he was secret, but he didn't know the way, someone had already gone to report, so, when they entered the gate of Wuyang City, the whole road on both sides was full of village sages, with Lu Zhixian as the head, everyone welcomed together, and some people stood in front of Wang Sheng to say hello, and then invited Wang Sheng to go to Yuelai Inn for dinner, saying that it had been chartered there.
Wang Sheng refused, and said: "I have been away from home for many days, I miss it very much, and this journey is tiring, I am really tired, everyone is kind, Zixian understands it, another day, another day, Zixian will definitely be the host, and I invite you to the banquet!" โ
Not to mention that Wang Sheng is very polite, even if Wang Sheng is not polite, what can he do, after the townsman fades, several people who went to the exam with the Wang family before also came to say goodbye, Wang Sheng made a gesture one by one, thanked him, and then went home.
Wang Sheng was very polite to Lu Zhixian alone, Lu Zhixian was originally polite to Wang Sheng, originally thought that he could win the top ten in the second class, it was already the top sky, who knew that Wang Sheng was so competitive, he actually won Tanhua, and now he is even more polite.
Wang Sheng also said to Lu Zhixian according to the previous statement, Lu Zhixian said again and again: "It should be, it should be, Zixian should go." โ
said that he was tired and missed home, which is indeed the truth, and another is that Wang Sheng is unwilling to participate in such a banquet, which is obviously a village sage to please himself, Wang Sheng has also heard that some people will take the opportunity to stuff gifts, stuff money or something, Wang Sheng is not without money, so, for this kind of behavior, Wang Sheng can't say that he hates it, but he doesn't like it. The so-called eating people with a soft mouth and short hands is better to feast on these people in their own homes for a few days, firstly, it will not embarrass them, and secondly, it also shows their sincerity, and they will not accept gifts from others.
Of course, Wang Sheng was also worried that the four officials who sent him home had opinions. explained: "I bother you to work hard to escort Zixian back, and go with Zixian's house, and prepare good wine and food, it can't be said to be better than Yuelai, but it is guaranteed to be not bad!" "After all. If Wang Sheng went to the banquet, they would also attend.
Thereupon. All the way back to the Hakka Inn. It turned out that when Wang Sheng and they came, they passed by the Hakka Inn, and according to Wang Sheng's original meaning, they wanted to go home directly, who knew that Yang Mengxian told Wang Sheng that Lu Zhixian and others were waiting in the county. I still have to go to Wuyang City first, and then go back, which takes an extra distance.
Even if Wang and Wang Ya are not well-informed now, they don't inquire. Some people will come to tell Wang Sheng's itinerary, which is a gesture of favor to them, but for the people who came to visit their homes this time, all the gifts left by them were checked one by one, and if they were valuable, they were sent back, and if they were ordinary things, they were not worth one or two halves, and Wang Ya and Wang Ya accepted them.
It is also because of this that the Hakka Inn is famous, and everyone knows that Wang Sheng is the owner of this inn, and Wang Sheng has taken the Tanhua test, which means that this inn is Tanhualang's inn.
When the village chief Wang knew the news, he came to Wang's house once, and saw that Wang and Wang Ya were still knowledgeable, very satisfied, and then told Wang and Wang Ya that if Wang Sheng wanted to come back, he would wait for him to come back, and then open the ancestral hall, and tell the good news to the ancestors and ancestors, Xie Lu thanked them for their blessing, if he didn't come back, then, take advantage of the two days of hard work to open the ancestral hall, and tell the ancestors and ancestors, their unscrupulous descendants, finally have a more promising, and take the test to explore the flowers and return to their hometown.
Wang and Wang Ya didn't know what to do, and told Village Chief Wang that they would only know the news in two days, and Village Chief Wang was not angry, and said tremblingly: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, wait for the news, you come and tell me again, I will first let people prepare things for ancestor worship, and then I will open the ancestral hall!" โ
In addition to the head of Wang's village, the people of Wangjia Village also came in an endless stream to say goodbye, and the people who came often brought a basket of eggs or something, but Wang and Wang Ya did not accept them all, not because they had few things, but it was not easy for the peasant family, why let people break the bank, however, generally when they did not accept it, they would be unhappy, and Wang would say that in two days, they would invite everyone, Xie Lu thanked everyone for their kindness, as for these gifts, they were exempt.
Seeing that the Wang family said this, it was not something that disliked them, and everyone left happily.
The children of the Wang family are also very happy, for them, the Wang family is good, they can be really good, they have integrated into the Wang family, and treat him as their own home.
Therefore, everyone is very happy, in the past few days, Wang Ya and Wang have also bought a lot of good dishes, not only for their own home, but also to the guests living in the Hakka inn to send a plate or two of their own food, so that the guests can also feel the joy of their own home.
When Wang Sheng came back, the Wang family and Wang Ya were watching on both sides, and Wang Sheng could only wave his hand to Wang Ya in a hurry.
This time, after coming back from the city, the guard of honor was also withdrawn, Wang and Wang Ya because they didn't know whether Wang Sheng would eat with others in the city, or go home to eat, some were undecided, or Zheng Si said that if Wang Sheng didn't come back to eat, then he would eat it, and if Wang Sheng came back, if he didn't buy good things, it wouldn't look good at that time.
Wang hurriedly went to the entrance of the village to buy some meat, and asked people to kill the chickens, just waiting for Wang Sheng to come back, and then they could eat it.
Because he didn't expect that there were still four servants, Wang didn't know what to do for a while, but Wang Ya spoke: "There are five rooms vacant in the guest rooms, and there are exactly four rooms for these servants to live in, just right!" โ
As for the food, the children didn't eat it for the time being, and Wang Ya and the Wang family didn't eat either, so they left it to Wang Sheng and them to eat, and they made some more by themselves, otherwise, how could it be enough to eat, when they were cooking, they didn't count the share of these four officials, who knew that they would live in their own homes.
In fact, it is also possible for these officials to live in the official mansion, Wang Sheng does not know the rules of the road, and it is also okay to live in the Wang family, so he brought them back.
After eating, the official went to rest, Wang Sheng didn't have time to talk to Wang more, he hurriedly fell asleep, seeing Wang Sheng so sleepy, Wang naturally couldn't bear to disturb Wang Sheng.
And the people in the inn also knew that it was Tanhualang who had returned, and he was originally going to visit, but they were all rejected by the Wang family on the grounds that Wang Sheng was tired.
Hearing that Wang Sheng was tired, everyone couldn't help but slow down.
The corners of Wang Ya's mouth are almost behind her ears, as if she has seen a bright future, Wang Ya is very confident in Wang Sheng's ability to enter the jinshi, but she didn't expect that Wang Sheng was so powerful, and got a Tanhualang back, when she got the news, Wang Ya was overjoyed, and thought in her heart: Just say it yourself, God let me come back, definitely not to make myself a local girl, Ha Luha, from now on turn over to be the master, the old lady has become an official girl!
As long as she thought that she was a second-generation official, Wang Ya was overjoyed, and felt that the future would be smooth from now on, and the world would be so beautiful! But I don't know that I am still far away from a truly qualified official girl.
Wang Ya has begun to fantasize at this moment, like the daughter she saw on TV in her previous life, holding a fan, covering her mouth, half-covering her appearance, adding: Beautiful appearance, giving people a mysterious rush, hazy and faint beauty, every day, when I am idle and bored, I go to flutter butterflies, as if I am full of food, bah, what is full of support, Miss Qianjin, this foot is fun! o(โฏโกโฐ)o
Then, Wang Ya fantasized again, sitting in the small pavilion with her back to the audience, and then began to play the guqin faintly, this is a lady, a lady! Oh, by the way, what else will you do? By the way, when I'm idle and have nothing to do, I just read a book, and then, all day long, in other words, what did everyone do all day? Oh, oh, there are embroidered handkerchiefs, small handkerchiefs, playing the piano, writing, reading, female red, and painting, yes, look, this is the life of Miss Qianjin, how good!
Wang Ya's fantasy is so wonderful, imagining that she has become a qualified lady, sitting quietly all day long, not going anywhere, fantasizing about this, Wang Ya can't help but shudder, not going anywhere? Sitting all day? Wouldn't you eat it and wait until you die?
One is not careful, and his thinking is crooked, Wang Ya returns to the right path again, but he can't return to it, but, no matter what, Wang Ya's idea of becoming an official girl is like the rising sun in the morning.
With this beautiful wish, Wang Ya smiled and fell asleep.
Wang Sheng slept until the next morning, then woke up, Wang was looking at Wang Sheng stupidly, he hadn't seen him for more than a year, Wang only felt that he couldn't see his husband enough, and never thought that he would become a Tanhualang's wife, at that moment, happiness came so suddenly, people wanted to be ecstatic, but they had to keep calm, telling themselves that they couldn't lose their husband's face, but that joy couldn't be suppressed!
Seeing that Wang Sheng lost weight, Wang was very distressed, and when he got up this morning, he deliberately ran outside to wash, for fear of disturbing Wang Sheng, who was sleeping, and at this time, Wang Sheng had not woken up yet, Wang dared to look at Wang Sheng so directly, revealing the love in his heart, only feeling that he couldn't see enough no matter how he looked at it, just looking at it like this, it was a kind of happiness.
It is said that the ancients were subtle, Wang Sheng slept enough, and when he woke up, he suddenly opened his eyes and saw his wife, who was looking at himself stupidly, full of affection.
Wang Shi didn't expect Wang Sheng to wake up suddenly, his face turned red, his eyes turned to other places, and his mouth said happily: "Father, child, you wake up, I'll fetch water for you!" โ
Wang Sheng grabbed Wang and said, "Child, don't go!" Wang Sheng's heart was also full, seeing his wife looking at him so tenderly, how could Wang Sheng not be happy in his heart, Wang looked away, Wang Sheng felt a sense of loss in his heart, so he grabbed Wang and said: "Child, mother, you, you look at me like you did just now, okay!" Being looked at by the Wang family like that, Wang Sheng felt that he was the happiest person in the world, and the person he loved loved him so much, what is happiness? That's happiness. (To be continued......)
PS: Bow and thank Mercury for the masked superman's peace charm!