After having lunch in Cao's mansion, Fan Ming walked out.

As the account office of Cao Mansion, he has the benefit of eating in Cao Mansion, which is better than eating at home, not to mention that he can save some food, why not.

As he walked, Fan Ming pondered the two pieces of information mentioned in Xiangxue's letter just now.

The screening test is very important to him, how to make use of these two information, this is a science, China has been a personal society for generations, as long as it is used well, there will be no obstacles to this audit.

The only person he knows now who can help him is Chen Siliang, but he doesn't know much about reading, otherwise he would have asked him.

No, there's another person.

After thinking about it, he turned around and walked in the direction of the village school.

When he arrived at the village school, Fan Ming saw at a glance that Old Master Gong was sitting by the window, looking at a book.

Fan Ming walked over and saluted respectfully, "Master." ”

Old Master Gong nodded, stood up, and beckoned, "Fan Ming is here, come in." ”

patted his body outside the door, patted off the dust all over his body, and then entered the room, and sat down around the stove with his master unceremoniously, and Old Man Gong asked about his schoolwork, "Fan Ming, where did you read the "Five Classics of Justice"?" ”

Fan Ming replied seriously: "I just went through the whole article, read a rough idea, and prepared to officially start reading the interpretation in a few days." ”

Old Master Gong nodded slightly, and he didn't mean to blame, but said with a serious face: "If you don't advance or retreat, you must not be lazy." ”

Fan Ming hurriedly owed, "Yes, Master." ”

After asking some more schoolwork things, Fan Ming finally couldn't help but talk about his intentions, "Master, I heard the news, the county magistrate is new, and the county school is open and selected, I also want to try it, but I don't know the bottom in my heart, so I want to find some tricks here for the master." ”

Fan Ming said tactfully, while looking at Old Master Gong's reaction, he found that a smile flashed on Old Master Gong's face, and said: "I already knew about this matter, I was going to recommend you to it, but I didn't want Chen Qichang to take the lead that day." ”

Hearing this, Fan Ming's heart suddenly warmed, to be able to do this, Old Master Gong already regarded him as a real disciple.

I only heard Old Master Gong speak again: "Since you have been recommended to the roll call, then do your best to take the test, I know your foundation, and there should be no problem." ”

Fan Ming hesitated for a moment, and said: "I heard that there are a lot of people this time, and many of them are the children of squires and local tyrants, my family background is shallow, if they take advantage of the relationship to forcibly obtain places, I am afraid that they will not be able to compete with them......"

Old Master Gong suddenly frowned, with a hint of displeasure on his face, "How can you pay attention to these things at a young age, Fan Wenzhenggong is also from a poor background, but he is upright, he has upheld an upright style of acting all his life, and he has a scholarly spirit in his belly, as long as your knowledge is solid, who can not let you enter the county school?" ”

At the end, Old Master Gong said heavily: "Study hard, don't think about these messes." ”

Seeing that the master was angry, Fan Ming hurriedly apologized, "Master, I was wrong. ”

"Okay, it's not early today, you should go back early." Old Master Gong stood up and flicked his sleeves, this is obviously the meaning of sending off guests, Fan Ming could only stand up and salute and turn to leave, the moment he went out, Old Master Gong suddenly said: "I heard that Sun Cailiang, the scholar of Chuqiu County, is from Guanzhong, and he has good wine." ”

Hearing this, Fan Ming was immediately overjoyed, and turned to Old Master Gong with a long look, "Master Xie pointed." ”

The mood was suddenly good, Fan Ming couldn't help trotting up, humming a small tune in his mouth, "It's the New Year in the first month, the first day of the new year, the family reunion, the New Year's greetings to the old land, and it doesn't matter whether it's a man or a woman......

Looking at the childish appearance of Fan Ming in the distance, Old Master Gong's face was full of tears and laughter, shook his head, and muttered: "If jade is not cut, if you don't go through some ups and downs in life, you will fall big, I used to be too smooth!" ”

……

Under the dim oil lamp, drinking noodle soup and pickles, Fan Ming was eating the brown wheat cakes in the bowl with his head bored, but his heart was full of an indescribable feeling.

Zhang Wan'er looks very much like Xiaoqian, but her personality is completely opposite, compared to the one he prefers now, gentle and virtuous, dignified and generous, the most important thing is always for his own sake, he knows that Zhang Wan'er will wait for him to fall asleep every night before falling asleep.

In fact, he has always known this, but he didn't show it, and this heart alone made him a little embarrassed.

recalled that the first person I saw when I woke up was Zhang Wan'er, but at that time, I thought that in my dream, the moment when those soft hands wiped my body......

Fan Qinshi took Zhang Wan'er's hand, and kept chattering about some homely things, "Wan'er, when you go to someone's house, it's not as good as ours, you have more eyes and less mouth, just a few months, endure it and wait for the spring next year, and you'll come back." ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Wan'er responded in a voice so low that only she could hear it, her head hung down in front of her chest, and her delicate face was particularly delicate under the light of the charcoal fire.

"Mother, Uncle Chen is good, he won't treat his sister-in-law badly!" Fan Ming couldn't help but answer.

"Alas, you don't understand!" Fan Qin glanced at Fan Ming, "This big family has many rules, your Uncle Chen will not treat Wan'er badly, it is difficult to ensure that the concubine in the family will not, this woman is narrow-minded." ”

Fan Ming was speechless for a moment, it is difficult for Qing officials to decide family affairs, but this is a theorem since ancient times, especially in large families, Chen Sihao is also one of the best people in this fifty miles radius, and there are several daughters-in-law in the family, and it is not surprising that there are disputes between various rooms on weekdays.

"Mother, I don't fight with anyone." Zhang Wan'er said suddenly, her voice was twice as loud as usual, as if she was relieving Fan Ming, seeing Fan Qin's stunned eyes, the already crimson cheeks expanded more and more to the root of her ears.

Fan Qin's heart was overjoyed, but Fan Ming was very embarrassed, got up and said, "Mother, I'll go back to the study to read." ”

"Go ahead, let's talk."

This night, he didn't read anymore, his mind was always thinking about some miscellaneous things, and he completely lost his usual calmness, although his heart was not rejecting this matter, and even said that he had a little expectation, but the shadows of several other people ran in from time to time, some in the past, and some in the present.

I slept with a heavy thought, and I didn't sleep peacefully all night.

After breakfast, Chen Siliang sent someone to the house and took Wan'er over, Fan Ming was a little reluctant for a while, after all, they had lived together for so long.

Even so, he still maintained his usual appearance, and there was almost no change in expression on his face, but at the moment when Zhang Wan'er looked back, Fan Ming couldn't help but open his mouth and shouted, but the voice was just swirling in his throat, and the voice was so low that he couldn't even hear it.

The days still have to be the same, and being able to arrange it like this is the best thing for Wan'er and Fan Ming, which is equivalent to giving both parties a buffer time, and also making the whole thing justified.