Chapter 70: The Case Goes Again
However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, there are frequent business contacts between Baihe Town and Xiangyang City, and the matter of Li Hongyu's lawsuit in Baihe Town has spread in Baihe Town at dusk yesterday, which has caused quite a stir.
Qin Yue naturally heard about this, and was very surprised by this, she never expected that someone would calculate Li Hongyu, even if Tang Yu did not find out the facts of the case, she did not believe that Li Hongyu, who was preparing for the government exam, would be interested in a widow.
Li Hongyu had such a big thing, the Zhao family must not be relieved, she wanted to take care of it herself, but after thinking about it, this was an excellent opportunity to bring Qin Yue and Li Hongyu closer, so she discussed this matter with Mrs. Qin.
Mrs. Qin naturally agreed with Zhao's proposal, anyway, Qin Yue and Li Hongyu were officially engaged, so it was logical for Qin Yue to take care of Li Hongyu as his fiancée.
Qin Yue wanted to surprise Li Hongyu, but at the same time she was worried about Li Hongyu's injury, so she quietly led Xiaolan to leave Baihe Town by car overnight, and after arriving in Xiangyang City in the morning, she waited outside the city for the city gate to open, but Li Hongyu gave her a closed door, no wonder Xiaolan was so angry.
"He has a knot in his heart, and it would be good if he untied it." Qin Yue smiled slightly after hearing Xiaolan's complaint, although she felt disappointed in her heart, she still defended Li Hongyu.
After all, Li Hongyu is her future husband, Qin Yue naturally wants to tolerate Li Hongyu, Qin Yue is a little arrogant and willful, but this does not mean that she does not know the proportions of her actions, in her opinion, the most stupid thing as a wife is not to have the same heart with her husband, in that case, it is destined to be a tragedy.
"You send someone to inquire about Niu Feng's affairs, especially if he has any enemies in the city." Xiaolan was about to open her mouth to complain again, but Qin Yue interrupted her and ordered with a cold expression.
Qin Yue came this time not only to take care of Li Hongyu, but also to avenge Li Hongyu, how could she allow Li Hongyu to be bullied in vain?
Judging from the current situation, Niu Feng is her primary target, and according to the circumstances of the court trial, she concluded that Niu Feng also participated in the framing of Li Hongyu, so he must be punished.
"Well, I'm going to do that." Xiao Lan nodded when she heard this, and walked towards the door, don't look at her dissatisfaction with Li Hongyu's snubbing of Qin Yue, but she was also angry that Li Hongyu, the "uncle", was framed.
"Don't care about the silver, as long as you can find out about Niu Feng's shady deeds, you can spend as much as you want." Qin Yue thought of something, and opened her mouth to admonish, she didn't believe that Niu Feng, who had been an official for many years, would not have a little handle!
Although Li Hongyu avoided Qin Yue, Qin Yue had to fulfill the obligations of his fiancée, so at noon, when Li Hongyu's buttocks wound was changed, Qin Yue replaced Rou'er, and changed Li Hongyu's gold sore medicine with red cheeks.
This made both of them feel quite embarrassed, but this was a very helpless thing, after all, Qin Yue was here to take care of Li Hongyu, how could she let Rou'er change Li Hongyu's medicine.
In fact, Qin Yue, who was arrogant after being engaged to Li Hongyu, had already accepted her fate and was ready to live with Li Hongyu in the future.
Moreover, Li Hongyu "kissed and touched" Qin Yue when he rescued Qin Yue last year, and the two had already broken through the defense of men and women, so Qin Yue would not have too much psychological burden to change Li Hongyu's dressing, and some things would become much simpler once they started, and this was also an important reason why Qin Yue accepted his fate.
Two days later, in the morning, Qin Yue carefully massaged Li Hongyu's body, which could make Li Hongyu, who was lying on the bed all day long, feel much more relaxed, because both of them were silent, the atmosphere at the scene was a little embarrassing and dull.
"Miss, the list of the main field of the government test has been announced, the third son is ranked 37th in the first circle on the list, and the young master is ranked 9th in the first circle, and they can all participate in the retest." Suddenly, Xiao Lan rushed in, breaking the silence of the scene.
Originally, Xiaolan thought that Li Hongyu was going to fail the test because of his injury, but she didn't expect that Li Hongyu would be admitted to the first circle like Li Hongyi, which can be described as a double happiness for the Li family.
A subtle smile flashed at the corner of Li Hongyu's mouth, after the exam, he knew that he could pass the government exam, but he didn't know how many Zhao Xin took this time, it was obvious that Zhao Xin was also affected by his case, and he took the exam without much rest at night.
However, Li Hongyu didn't ask, he lay there silently, and continued to pose as an introverted and wooden image in front of Qin Yue, anyway, he would know Zhao Xin's achievements sooner or later.
Qin Yue smiled slightly, secretly relieved in her heart, after these few days of recuperation, Li Hongyu's body and spirit have improved a lot, and he will definitely be able to do better than the main test in the retest.
"Who's number one?" Subsequently, Qin Yue asked a little subconsciously, for her, the person who took the first place in the exam would be Li Hongyu's strongest opponent in the re-examination.
As Li Hongyu unexpectedly won the Jiangkou County Examination, Qin Yue's expectations for Li Hongyu couldn't help but rise, and naturally hoped that Li Hongyu could get good results in the government examination and the hospital examination, and the case leader was undoubtedly what she hoped Li Hongyu would take the most, which was a glorious thing.
"Yang Renxiao, the second son of the Yang family in Fucheng, the second place is Lu Kun, the head of the county trial case in Guanghua County, and the third place is Wang Kuiju Wang Gongzi of our county." Hearing this, Xiaolan methodically reported the names of the top three.
When Qin Yue couldn't help but be slightly stunned after hearing the words "Yang Renxiao", the movements in her hands followed by a stagnation, and the image of a personable and noble son appeared in front of her, whether it was family background or ability, Yang Renxiao was obviously above Li Hongyu.
Li Hongyu keenly sensed the change in Qin Yue's psychology from the abnormal movements on Qin Yue's hand, and his brows couldn't help frowning slightly, it seemed that Qin Yue was still a little relieved of Yang Renxiao, which made him feel a trace of jealousy in his heart.
Although Li Hongyu is deliberately keeping a distance from Qin Yue, the two are engaged after all, what man can tolerate his fiancée thinking about other men?
However, Qin Yue quickly returned to normal, her expression was a little gloomy, in her opinion, she had no fate with Yang Renxiao, maybe this was the will of heaven.
In the afternoon, Wang Kuiju and students from Jiangkou County came to visit Li Hongyu.
Although the Wang family and the Li family have many grievances and entanglements, as candidates from the same county, Wang Kuiju and others naturally want to come to see Li Hongyu, how to say that they can be regarded as having a friendship with the same subject, and in the eyes of candidates from other counties, they belong to the same camp.
Wang Kuiju ranked third in the provincial examination this time, and the candidates in Jiangkou County can be said to be proud, but Wang Kuiju knows very well that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, who had more than 20 people in the first round, did not play their full strength because they were seriously affected before the examination, so the real competition is tomorrow's government examination retest, and the top ten of the government examination will be decided at that time.
Regarding Li Hongyu being carried into the examination room to take the exam, Wang Kuiju did not say anything on the surface, but he admired it in his heart, and if it were him, he would definitely give up the exam.
Because in that case, he felt that it was impossible for him to complete the answer to the exam paper, and Li Hongyu not only successfully completed the exam, but also ranked very high on the list, and he could only sigh to himself, at least Li Hongyu's perseverance was more tenacious than him.
The next day, the re-examination of the prefectural examination was held at the prefectural school.
Since about half of the candidates are eliminated from the main exam, and not everyone who passes the main exam takes the retest, the situation in the examination booth has become much more deserted.
Li Hongyu was still lying on the ground to take the exam, and after a few days of recuperation, his energy and physical strength were much better than during the main exam.
Therefore, for the sake of prudence, Li Hongyu left the Fuxue with the second batch of people who handed in the papers, Qin Yue and Rou'er were already waiting outside the Fuxue gate, and pulled him back with an ox cart like last time.
With the end of the re-examination, the candidates who came to take the exam finally relaxed, and a large number of candidates began to appear in the Qinglou Tavern, and those candidates from wealthy families had to treat themselves.
Li Hongyu had to stay at home due to a hip injury, lying bored on the bed and reading books to pass the time, in an era of scarcity of entertainment, people really have nowhere to have fun except for green buildings and casinos.
Although Li Hongyu looks like he has nothing to do, in fact, Wang Tieniu is secretly collecting information about Niu Feng.
At the same time, Li Hongyu also knew that Qin Yue was secretly inquiring about Niu Feng's news, and he couldn't stop Qin Yue from dealing with Niu Feng, so he could only let Wang Tie pay close attention to it, so as not to cause any trouble for Qin Yue.
Three days later, in the morning, the gongs and drums in front of the Li Mansion were noisy and firecrackers were repeated, and there was a joyful scene.
On the list of government examinations announced early in the morning, Li Hongyu's name ranked first, defeating Yang Renxiao and Lu Kun, who were very popular, and became the head of the Xiangyang government examination.
To everyone's surprise, the second and third places on the list were neither Yang Renxiao nor Lu Kun, but Zhao Xin and Wang Kuiju from Jiangkou County, with Yang Renxiao ranking fourth, Lu Kun fifth, and Li Hongyi sixth.
As soon as the results of the government examination came out, it immediately caused a sensation, who would have thought that four of the top six on the list were from Jiangkou County, and they also won the top three, which is simply an incredible thing.
It stands to reason that due to the big upset in the exam results, several casinos in Xiangyang City should be the happiest, because the gamblers who bet on Yang Renxiao and Lu Kun account for the vast majority, and the amount is also very considerable.
But with the announcement of the list, those casinos couldn't be happy, for no other reason, Li Hongyu, Sun Feng and Xiao Baimian almost sucked up all the profits, which made them only make a small amount of money in the gambling plate at the head of this government test, which is just a hard-earned money in terms of amount, God knows that Li Hongyu can still get the first exam if he is injured like that.
In this way, Li Hongyu suddenly had 100,000 taels of silver in hand through two successful gambles, which made Rou'er, who was in charge of the accounts, very excited, she had never seen so much money.
Li Hongyu was quite emotional about this in his heart, and it was recorded in the history books that when the Ming Dynasty fell, whether it was the treasury of the household department or the internal treasury of Emperor Chongzhen, as well as the Tai warehouse, they were so poor that they even paid the soldiers to guard the capital, but he didn't expect the people to be so rich, and he made 100,000 taels of silver from two big gambles.
Somewhat different from what Rou'er thought, Li Hongyu did not plan to hide the money at home or save it in the bank, in his opinion, only when the money flowed could it bring greater benefits.
Therefore, after weighing left and right, Li Hongyu asked Li Hongqing to take 90,000 taels of silver tickets south to Nanjing City to take over the business of the Li family's three rooms in Nanjing City, and by the way, he made friends with local officials and businessmen.
The Yang family was shocked by Li Hongyu's decision, you must know that Li Hongqing has just been weakly crowned this year, but he is only twenty years old, and if things are messed up, the 90,000 taels of silver will be lost.
Li Hongyu felt very helpless about this, no one was available to him except Li Hongqing, although Li Hongqing was young but honed the Li family's Baokun for a few years, and later supported the Li family's third room business in Xiangyang City, he was a calm person with a good business acumen, so he believed that Li Hongqing would not let him down.
The Li family has a house and two shops in Nanjing City, one is a cloth shop, and the other is a restaurant, both of which were established by Li Renhai when he was alive, but the house and shop are now being taken care of by Li Renhe's people, and Li Hongyu's move is also to take advantage of his fame to take back what belongs to him, and at the same time start to operate the interpersonal network in Nanjing City.
As a result, Li Hongyu only had 10,000 taels of silver left in his hand, he left 5,000 taels by his side for backup, and the remaining 5,000 taels were given to his second brother Li Hongxiang.
As soon as Li Hongqing left, Li Hongxiang was in charge of the fabric business of the Li family's three rooms in Xiangyang Mansion, especially the production of new dyes, which can be described as a heavy responsibility.
As a major trade secret, Li Hongyu is naturally aware of the commercial value of new dyes, so the production methods of new dyes are only known to a very small number of people.
In order to keep it secret, Li Hongyu divided the production process into three processes, and the people in each process were only responsible for their own work, and they did not know what the other two parts of the people did, so as to avoid leakage as much as possible.
Obviously, once this kind of cloth dyed with new dyes is put on the market, it will definitely make many people covet it, and Li Hongyu has to be on guard in advance.
After the government exam, the unsuccessful candidates went home disappointed, and they had to wait for the next exam in three years.
Candidates who have passed the prefectural examination will stay in Fucheng to prepare for the June exam, when the examination will be presided over by the Huguangti academic officer himself, and those who pass the academy examination will receive the fame of Xiucai.
It is worth mentioning that not all talents can participate in the township examination held in August, and the provincial school officials will be appointed for a three-year term, during which they will conduct two examinations for students in their jurisdiction.
One is called the annual examination, which tests the students' studies, and the other is the scientific examination, and the students with excellent scientific examination results are eligible to go to the provincial capital to participate in the township examination.
As a result, some students have failed to pass the scientific examination in their lifetime, and they have not been able to participate in the township examination in their lifetime.