He Jiehao stood in front of the window, looking at the full moon in the sky, he was a little sad, the matchmaker's words about his parents' life were already a tradition in that era, so he gave birth to a lot of helplessness, making him constantly shake his head and sigh. When he was about to close the window, he looked at his father's room next door, the light was still on in his father's room, and finally closed the window, walked out of his own door to his father's door and kept wandering, just about to stretch out his hand and knock on the door and put it down, it seems that Jie Hao's heart is still hesitating, still imitating, and his own thoughts have a fierce struggle, and finally made up his mind that it is time to tell his father what he thinks in his heart, standing in front of his father's door and knocking on the door.

"Is it Jiehao?" The father inside the door said.

"Father, it's a child," He Jiehao stood outside the door, looking inside the door.

"Come in, Hao'er," said the father in the room after a while.

He Jiehao gently pushed open the door, stepped into his father's room, and looked at his father and mother sitting on the bed upright. He Jiehao looked at his father and mother in front of him, bent down and saluted: "Father, mother, the child has come to greet you." ”

"We're all well," Mother just nodded with a smile on her face, and then said, "Hao'er, please take a seat." He Jiehao sat aside, sitting very upright, not daring to relax in the slightest. Father's expression became a little serious, and he said, "Hao'er, for your father, it seems that you have something on your mind, so you can say anything about it." ”

"Father, the child does have something on his mind, and ask the father to explain," He Jiehao hesitated a little at this time, and said for a long time: "Father, why did you agree to this marriage without the consent of the child?" After finishing speaking, He Jiehao felt a little relieved, and raised his head to look at his father.

"What do you disagree with about this marriage, it is your great blessing to marry Lord Chen, which will be of great help to your future career, Lord Chen is the son of Chen Huizu, his father Chen Huizu served as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang and the governor of Zhejiang during the reign of the first emperor, Qianlong was dismissed from his post in September for corruption cases, and Qianlong died in prison in February of 48 years for profit-making private gifts. Although his son, who is now Lord Chen, is the commander of the southern county, he has strength in the court, and it is difficult for many nobles or court officials to get married, how honorable it is for you, do you know? Too righteous and righteous in the face of He Jiehao.

"The child doesn't want to get married yet, he just wants the title of the gold list and doesn't want to be distracted by it."

"Confucius said, first start a family and then start a business, and then unfilial piety has three nos and then is great, can you understand the heart of a father?"

The Duchess sat aside and persuaded very gently: "Hao'er, your father is doing this for your good, you are our only son, and it is also our only hope, you also have to think about your future, we also hope that you can achieve something, glorify our ancestors, so that we can raise our heads in front of the world and be upright." ”

"The child already has someone in his heart, he once made his promise to her, and when he waited for the title of the gold list, it was also the time to marry her and enter the door, and the child couldn't break his trust, so he couldn't promise his father."

"Whose family is the girl, and what is the family background?" Taigong asked anxiously.

"She is the top bonus of Fengming Tower, a dusty woman," He Jiehao thought of the bonus and hesitated for a long time before saying.

"Adverse fate, adverse fate, humiliating the door, such a pickled daughter, you don't want to marry her, the family is unfortunate, the family is unlucky," the prince said angrily and accusedly: "Unfilial, you are so unfilial, what face will I have to face the world, face the ancestors of the He family, you rebel, kneel." ”

He Jiehao stood in front of the prince and knelt down and said, "Father, the child will not marry her." ”

"Unless I'm dead, you don't want to marry her," Taigong said angrily at Jie Hao.

"Hao'er, you're going to be angry with us!" The mother was very angry on the side, and comforted the princess to sit down. Taigong sat down and said, "How can I have such an unfilial son of you, I'm angry with me," and then stood up, took a wooden stick and said, "See if I don't kill you." ”

"You fight, kill me, the bonus boy is married."

"Rebel, see that I don't kill you," Taigong raised a wooden stick in one hand and was about to hit it, He Jiehao raised his head and closed his eyes, but was stopped by his mother and said, "Go, go!" The mother took the wooden stick from the prince's hand and said, "Do you really want to kill him?" He is our son! ”

"Rebel son, I don't have such a son."

He Jiehao stood up and turned around and was about to walk out of his father's room, when Taigong said angrily: "Rebel son, rebel son, your marriage is up to your father, otherwise you don't want to walk out of this house." ”

He Jiehao glanced at Taigong, and was about to step out of Taigong's room with his front feet, Taigong was angry, stood up, and said: "Rebel, rebel, you, you, you," his hands were on his chest, his head was tilted upward, his eyes were wide and bloodshot, and he fainted for a while, and his wife shouted: "Husband, husband," holding Taigong with one hand. He Jiehao turned around and said, "Father," he stepped forward and helped Taigong to lie on the bed, his breath calmed down, and he opened his eyes slightly and didn't say a word. He Jiehao knelt beside one of his grandfather's beds and said, "Father, the child is unfilial, which makes you angry." ”

"Hao'er! You weren't like this before, you were very filial and well-behaved, how did you become like this today? The mother, who was sitting next to her, burst into tears as she spoke, and the corners of her eyes were red.

"Mother, the child will promise you."

"Okay," said the princess, lying on the bed, turning his head to the side, then gently closing his eyes and letting out a slow breath.

The hall was draped in red and hung with colors, and the people below were busy spreading. Miss Chen sat in front of the dresser in the boudoir, facing the huge mirror, dressed in red, and the maid next to her was combing her long hair. The morning sun shines through the windowsill and looks particularly warm, the red paper is contained between the lips, the lips are gently squeezed and pressed, her lips have a color, her face is like a peach blossom, slowly turned around to face her personal maid, and said with a smile: "Xiaocui, am I beautiful?" ”

"Pretty, Miss is the most beautiful today."

Then the sound of firecrackers sounded outside the door, and the maid said happily: "Miss, my uncle is here." ”

Chen Qianyuan poked her head out, slowly stood and walked out of the boudoir with the support of the maid. The county magistrate and his wife sat in the lobby and waited, and the maid helped Qian Yuan out of the boudoir and saluted: "Master, madam." ”

The county commander and his wife nodded in court, and then Qian Yuan saluted: "Father, mother." ”

"Daughter, let's go, people must have been waiting outside the gate for a long time," the mother stood behind the county order and got up, Qianyuan took a step back to support her mother, and the mother smiled and stretched out her hand to pat Qianyuan's hand.

He Jiehao rode a white horse, with a certain big red sedan chair behind him, and stood outside the gate of the mansion and waited for a long time. The county magistrate, his wife, young lady, maid and the people of the Chen Mansion walked out of the mansion to greet him. He Jiehao got off the horse and saluted to face them, and said, "Father-in-law and mother-in-law, the son-in-law is so polite." ”

"A virtuous son-in-law doesn't have to be polite, I don't know if everything in the hall will be fine," the county magistrate stepped forward.

"My father and mother are all well, thanks to my father-in-law and mother-in-law."

The county commander stretched out a hand, and Qian Yuan stepped forward and put a hand on her father's hand, and together they stepped forward and stood in front of He Jiehao and said, "The little girl will be handed over to you, you have to treat her well." ”

"The son-in-law knows," He Jiehao took it from the hands of the county order, helped Qianyuan to get on the sedan chair, stood in front of the horse and saluted, got on the horse first, and left slowly. On the night of the candles in the cave room, Qianyuan sat alone in front of the bed and kept the empty room alone. He Jiehao sat alone in the restaurant, drank alone and did not return until closing. Qian Yuan sat on the bed and waited for a long time and did not return, very angry, she uncovered the red hijab, pinched a few melon seeds in one hand, and swallowed the melon seeds. At this time, he heard the sound of opening the door, and put on the red hijab again, waiting for Jiehao to come and uncover it. Jie Hao was full of wine and a little drunk, and was about to turn around and leave, when Qian Yuan unveiled the red beginning, got up and said, "Husband, what are you going to do?" ”

"The scientific expedition is approaching, for the husband, I want to go to the study to study, and the lady will sleep first."

"The Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold, and it's already late, so let's sleep and read tomorrow."

"No, Madame, let's go to bed first," Jie Hao walked out of the room and into his study.

Talented people from all over the world gathered in the capital and rushed to the examination room, where there were several officers and soldiers standing at the entrance of the examination room, and they checked whether these candidates had entrainment in turn, and only after the examination could they enter the examination room and sit down according to the number, waiting for the examiner to come up with the question, and then answer. The list will be released at the end of the year. Ten years of hard work is for today's gold list title, look at the entire examination room, there are old and serious old people, there are erection of young talents and middle-aged people, they are different in age, and their literary talents are not good or bad. There are not a few people who faint due to physical exhaustion in the examination room, and it seems that they are really working hard for this scientific examination! At the end of the year, the list was released, and He Jiehao squeezed into the crowd of spectators, how much he was looking forward to it! Looking at the ranks of names on the list, he suddenly shouted, "I'm hit, I'm hit," because he felt that he was a little out of shape, so he walked out of the crowd of onlookers with a fixed look. Among these onlookers, those who fell off the list were depressed and heartbroken, those on the list were overjoyed, and invited the children of big families to celebrate with a big feast, and some did not control their mentality and went crazy, dancing and shouting, "I won, I won," running through the streets and alleys.

"Brother Benchu, wait a minute," He Jiehao heard someone behind him, and turned around to see that Lin Zexu was standing behind him.

"Brother Shaomu, I don't know how Brother Shaomu did in the exam?" He Jiehao took a step forward.

"The top two in the jinshi."

"Foolish brother is ashamed, after you, the top three in the Jinshi," After finishing speaking, He Jiehao and Lin Zexu left together.

The next day, on the palace test, Emperor Jiaqing Feng Lin Zexu, He Jiehao and others edited for the Hanlin Academy.

The peasant rebellion continued, especially led by the White Lotus Sect, the riot army rushed into the local government was a bloodbath, the imperial court repeatedly sent officers and soldiers to suppress it, but it intensified, and the riot soon spread to Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places, endangering the political situation of the imperial court, the lifeblood of the country, the country is panicked, its refugees flocked to the capital, and the burden of the imperial court continued to increase. Refugees are homeless and wandering in the streets, or lying on the streets, in rags, the small ones lying in the arms of adults are already dying, some are hungry and tired on the way to escape, and they rely on begging to survive along the way, and they come to the capital with difficulty.