Li Yun observed his words and looks, and saw that Zhao Yan's expression remained unchanged, so he continued: "They came to me this morning to say a few words, and I ...... I...... Can you do me a favor and buy the two of them? ”

There are some words that Li Yun did not say, except that there is not much silver on the two of them, Li Yun herself suddenly suffered a catastrophe, and all her relatives have left her side, sometimes she will inevitably have some thoughts of self-pity and self-pity, the maid and the elder have grown up with Li Yun since childhood, although they are not relatives, they are closer to Li Yun than others.

Zhao Yan noticed that there was a trace of sadness in Li Yun's eyes, and the tribulation of the heart is the best catalyst for people to mature, and this little girl's temperament has become a lot more well-behaved in the past few months.

"Do the two of them still have relatives?"

Li Yun hurriedly said: "No, no, both of them are born in the family, and their father and mother heard that they both died of the epidemic ten years ago." Li Er is older, but I still remember that Xiao Xiang'er was a year younger than me, and if my father hadn't let her take care of her, she wouldn't even be able to eat milk at that time. ”

"Okay." Zhao Yan thought for a while, nodded and said, "You let them go directly to my father, sign a death deed or a live deed, and take care of you in the future." ”

With Zhao Yan's consent, Li Yun's eyes were crooked, but there was no word 'thank you' in her dictionary, so it was a bit difficult to expect her to thank her.

"Is there anything else? If it's okay, I'll go back to my house and study. Zhao Yan gestured with his eyes, and his arm was still held in Li Yun's arms.

Li Yun's face turned red, and she quickly let go of her hand, Zhao Yan's figure walked farther and farther, Li Yun suddenly felt that the skin on her chest was numb and itchy, and she couldn't help but scratch it lightly with her hand, but then she stared at the direction where Zhao Yan left, and the blush suddenly spread to the pink neck.

"Phew...... Lecher. Li Yun was stunned for a moment and then suddenly took a sip, then held her face with both hands to cool herself, and when she felt that her face was no longer feverish, she came out of the hidden place and shouted into the porter: "Old Zhou, where do the two people who came in the morning live, do you remember?" ”

There are two small courtyards not far apart in the inner house, each small courtyard has two bedrooms, a living room, and a study, Li Yun is nominally Zhao Yan's adopted daughter-in-law, and now the Zhao family has no hostess, so the two mothers-in-law who temporarily manage the inner house made their own decisions, and divided Zhao Yan and Li Yun into a small courtyard to live, the east room for Zhao Yan to live, the west room for Li Yun to live, and a small living room in the middle.

Zhao Yan walked along the corridor to the inner house, and met a middle-aged servant who was pruning the branches of the grass and trees along the way, Zhao Yan saw that he had his back to him, so he did not disturb him, and walked a few more steps, and a thin man in his thirties came to him.

This is the eldest son of Wang Jiu, the housekeeper of the Wang family, Zhao Yan has seen it in the Wang family, before Wang Jiu recommended his son Wang An to be the housekeeper of the Zhao family, presumably Wang An has settled the family properly, and he will come to the post today.

"Childe, are you back?" Wang An's tone of speech was very respectful, which benefited from the words and deeds of his son Wang Jiu.

Zhao Yan nodded, this three-acre mansion is actually not big, but there are several winding corridors built in it, and Zhao Yan has actually only been here once before, so he should be a little lost at this moment.

Wang An said in a timely manner: "The master went to the workshop, and the child's books have all been placed in the study, and the small one will accompany the son to take a look, if there is anything wrong, the small one will find a craftsman to rebuild it." ”

Li Yingqiu is a person of good taste, although I don't know if this mansion was used by him to raise the outer room before, but the furnishings and decorations in the house are very stylish, including the study.

Now the Four Books and Five Classics include various scripture annotations, Zhao Yan has memorized it by heart, and he has read a lot of various Cheng Wen templates, at this time, Zhao Yan will go to the state every day to listen to lectures, most of the rest of the time is to practice words, and then try to write eight shares, and occasionally learn to write poems, every day is full of his own arrangements.

Liu Jing and Qian Liangcai came to Zhao's house together to visit the door a few times, and after seeing Li Yun, who was becoming more and more beautiful, Liu Jing drooled and said to Zhao Yan enviously: "Brother Xian, as a brother, I never believed that there was such a thing as getting something for nothing and waiting for the rabbit in the world, but now I believe in it." ”

Li Yun's ears are more sensitive than rabbits, she used her pocket money to buy a pure white puppy in the market, and when she has nothing to do, she takes the puppy around the yard, and her personal maid Xiao Xiang'er follows her every step of the way.

"Xiaobai, bite him." Li Yun pointed at Liu Jing, who was suspected of wiping his saliva, and shouted to the little white dog on the ground who was just a little higher than her instep.

The little white dog was less than two months old, so naturally it couldn't understand Li Yun's orders, it looked up at Li Yun, its little tail wagging and wagging it, hoping to get a warm embrace or food from Li Yun.

"Hmph, you can only wag your tail, what does this girl want you to do." Li Yun stretched out his legs angrily to push the little white dog aside, and then walked towards the inner house without looking back.

Xiao Xiang'er was aroused by the little white dog's screaming and sympathy, so she reached out to hold it in her arms, and trotted towards Li Yun with her head down.

"Tut-tut......" Liu Jing watched Xiao Xiang'er's petite back disappear around the corner, turned his head and smiled at Zhao Yan: "Even a little maid is so pretty, the virtuous brother is really a blessing." ”

Zhao Yan is not a person who can't afford to joke, he was about to speak, and Qian Liangcai next to him suddenly smiled: "Brother Liu was rarely released by your grandfather, I thought that Brother Liu would restrain his temperament, but I didn't expect to still like to be so open-mouthed." ”

Liu Jing smiled bitterly: "This is also in Brother Zhao Xian's house, there are no outsiders, you don't know what life I have lived in the past few months." The third watch is lit and the five watches are chickens, and they can only sleep for three hours a day, read the four books and read the Five Classics, and then they have to practice calligraphy, and the time for eating and lunch break cannot exceed half an hour. Alas...... Today, it is rare for my grandfather to let go and let me out, and from tomorrow, I will live that dark life again. ”

Zhao Yan smiled: "No wonder Brother Liu looks like he has lost a lot." ”

Liu Jing shook his head, gritted his teeth and said: "Life must be happy, today I am the east, let's call Brother Zhang Xian, and go to Shiyun Building together to get drunk." ”

Qian Liangcai said: "Fortune Building? I thought Brother Liu was going to invite us to Yihong Courtyard. ”

Liu Jing glared at Qian Liangcai and said, "If I dare to go to the Qinglou Chu Pavilion today, it is estimated that I will not be able to save these two legs when I go back." ”

Spring goes to autumn, cold comes and summer.

The township examination of the Ming Dynasty has a fixed time, the examination is divided into three sessions, each test is three days, and the three need to enter the examination room one day in advance, that is, the eighth day of the first month, the tenth and the fourteenth day of the first month, the second day of the examination, and the day after the examination.

If you want to participate in the township examination, you must pass the scientific examination held the year in advance, and only after passing can you be qualified to participate in the township examination. The top three in the scientific examination, the first quasi-township examination, called the admission subject, the third class of the scientific examination and those who did not participate in the scientific examination, one month before the township examination, can make up the examination for admission once, and the admitted person is allowed to take the township examination, which is called the record.

Zhao Yan has missed the time of the annual examination and the scientific examination because of the attached school, so he can only take the make-up examination one month before the township examination, and only after passing the registration quota can he participate in the township examination, if it is not for Li Fuzi to tell Zhao Yan at home in person, I am afraid that most of him may miss this year's township examination.

Zhao Yan, the admiral of Beizhili, has heard of it, this person is an orthodox seven-year jinshi, a native of Hezhou, Sichuan, surnamed Li Mingshi, and the word Meng Cheng.

In the Ming Dynasty, he was in charge of the attendants, admonishments, supplements, gleaning, reviewing, sealing and refuting the edicts, refuting the edicts of the hundred divisions, supervising the six divisions, impeaching the hundred officials, and complementing each other with the imperial history, and was also responsible for recording and compiling the edicts and supervising the implementation of the edicts; The township test is the examiner, the same examiner will be the examiner, and the palace test will be the examiner; When canonizing clans, vassals, or admonishing foreign countries, they shall be appointed as righteous and deputy envoys; Accept unjust lawsuits, etc., with humble quality and weight.

Now there are a total of 40 people in the imperial court, all of whom are given the seventh grade in the matter, and the left and right are given to the middle of the matter and the six subjects are given to the seventh grade.

According to Li Fuzi, he has a free and easy temperament, good arguments, is upright but not pedantic, and has a good reputation among the scholars in Beizhili since he took office.

Beizhili has jurisdiction over nine prefectures and two states, Li Shi wants to inspect one state and one county to inspect the scientific examination record, so the time is very tight and the task is very heavy, the examination time in Shenzhou is set for June 29, the location is the same as the county examination, the content of the examination is one for each of the four books and scriptures, and the time is limited to three hours, starting from the beginning of the morning.

When I entered the examination room on the day of the examination, I did not search my body, because the total number of students who participated in the scientific examination was only about fifty, which was far less lively than the day of the county examination.

Li Shi, a scholar and political official, is not amazing, his complexion is slightly dark, and he speaks with a slight Sichuan accent, but it is not obvious, and the first impression is neither good nor bad.

After saying a routine as usual, the exam began, Li Shi ran around for days, physically and mentally exhausted, although he never got up to inspect the examination room, but he still sat upright in the hall, observing the situation in the examination room with blazing eyes.

The title of the first four books is "A gentleman is not heavy, he is not prestigious, he is not solid in learning, the Lord is faithful, and he is not as good as himself if he has no friends, so don't be afraid to change", and he said "On Linguistics and Learning", Zhao Yan also tried to do eight shares on this topic, and after a little thought, he wrote on the scratch paper, a gentleman is a gentleman in learning, and he has his quality and must do his best. The cover is not dignified, and what you have learned must not be solid. However, if the road is not finished, how can it be accomplished......

The second article is also relatively simple, Zhao Yan straightened out his thoughts and waved it, and after checking the two articles from beginning to end, Zhao Yan copied them neatly to the main volume. There was no time for handing in the exam this time, and after Zhao Yan checked everything properly, he raised his hand to beckon an invigilator not far away to hand in the papers, and then walked out under the supervision of a servant.