In Songmingshan Village, She County, Huizhou Prefecture, the Fengle River at the entrance of the village flows gently as always, irrigating many fertile fields on both sides. And because the Wang family of Songming Mountain and the Wu family of Xixi Nan on the other side of the river have set up a marriage, and the wedding will be held soon, and the two villages that are often married are even more shrouded in a joyful atmosphere. It's just that a few days ago, Jingshi sent a letter back, saying that it was the woman's brother, Wang Fulin, who had just passed the high school entrance examination in Jiaxu Kedian last year, actually took leave to return to his hometown to recuperate, which caused many people to mutter, and there were a lot of speculations.

But for Wang Erniang, who was preparing to get married at home, she only had endless joy in her heart when she heard that her brother could come back to attend her wedding, and she actually brought her fiancé's brother back with her. The dowry has been prepared a long time ago, and Ye Qinglong, the most powerful shopkeeper under his brother, personally went to Suzhou and Hangzhou, all the silk and satin materials are the most fashionable in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Wu family in Xixi South is also rich, just the dowry was originally said to be prepared sixty-four lifts, this is still Wang Daoyun personally went to the Wu family in Xixi South Village, so that he should not be too ostentatious, which is reduced according to Wang Fulin's original wedding.

At present, the needlework such as wedding dresses and meeting gifts has long been completed, and the ingenious Wang Erniang has also made several small pieces of jewelry to give away. After all, since he went to Nanjing the year before last to go to the autumn festival, and then went to Beijing to catch the spring festival, Wang Fulin has not been back for more than two years, which is also the longest time he has been away from his hometown in these years. Thinking that the nerdy brother who was wooden at the beginning gradually reflected on his ways and shone after being seriously injured, Wang Erniang couldn't help but squint her eyes and laugh.

Even those people in the Wu family in Xixi South mentioned their brother, and they were full of praise one by one. What's more, who would have thought that after Jinbao entered Beijing to deliver the news, her brother, who was going to be an official, would rush back to attend her wedding regardless of it. Rather call in sick!

"Second sister, second sister!" Wang Erniang, who was sitting in front of the window full of cranky thoughts, looked up, but saw that Wang Xiaomei rushed in with a smoke, her face flushed and full of joy. Her heart moved, and sure enough, Wang Xiaomei immediately shouted. "Brother is back, back!"

At this moment, Wang Erniang couldn't care about any more reservedness, and rushed in with a puff of smoke when she lifted this skirt. When she arrived at the second door, she saw the familiar figure. I saw that Wang Fulin seemed to have jumped a lot taller, and he looked even more long, handsome, and saw her running out like this at this moment, he smiled slightly and walked straight up. Just when she didn't know what to say. But he didn't want Wang Fulin to make a sudden move, so he directly picked her up and played in a circle, and when he put it down, he laughed and said: "Time flies so fast, our family's most powerful housekeeper is also getting married!" ”

"Brother, who are you talking about!" Wang Erniang's face turned red, but she didn't complain that Wang Fulin was like this when he came back. When she saw Wang Fulin painting a gourd and picking up Wang Xiaomei, she also swirled, she glanced at her parents, who had obviously just come out, and saw that Wang Daoyun's face was full of annoyance. Wu was dumbfounded, and hurriedly stepped forward to remind. "Brother, my father and mother are watching it."

Compared with the second elder, Wang Fulin was closer to his two younger sisters, so he teased them, and saw the subtle expressions of his parents, so he changed his face to a solemn face with some embarrassment. Hurry up and see you. Although Wang Daoyun was a little annoyed, Wang Fulin ignored the male and female defense and his sister fooling around, but after all, the pride of a jinshi in his family overshadowed everything, and he nodded with some relief. And the Wu family gave birth to four children, and only this only son is naturally more favored. After only taking a bow, he quickly pulled people up and looked left and right.

When she saw that Xiaobei and Jinbao also entered the second gate and came to salute, she hurriedly went up and pulled one with one hand, and saw Ye Xiaopang pulling Qiu Feng over, she was so busy that she almost couldn't greet her, and immediately called everyone back to the backyard to sit together. At this time, Wang Fulin had no choice but to ask Wang Qi, the old servant who had been guarding the old mansion in Songming Mountain, to settle the others who came back, and he was the last to go in.

When he passed through Xuancheng before, Wang Fulin said goodbye to the Shen family's uncle and nephew temporarily, but invited them to come to the house to attend Wang Erniang's wedding. And when they arrived in She County, Cheng Kui and the three of them, who had been away from their hometown for too long, also went back to their respective homes first, so there were no other guests in the hall at this time, all of them were a family. After a long absence, Wang Fulin asked Wang Erniang's wedding date, and learned that it was October 26, and now it was October 13, less than half a month away from the main day, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Before Jinbao went to Jingshi, he only said that Erniang was engaged and was about to get married, but the date has not yet been decided, fortunately I was lucky to catch up, otherwise Erniang wouldn't blame my brother for a lifetime?" Wang Fulin said with a smile, "Brother doesn't have anything else to give, I went to Liaodong before, collected a lot of good skins, as well as ginseng and other medicinal materials, and picked the best one for you to send." ”

"As long as you come back, whoever wants your things." Although she is about to get married, Wang Erniang's temper has not changed, and she is still more straightforward than shy.

However, she was happy, Wang Daoyun was different, although he was really happy to see his son again, but he was more worried that his son had obviously taken the Jinshi examination, why did he take sick leave to return to his hometown, so he had to ask about it immediately. Regarding the twists and turns here, Wang Fulin knew that he would not be able to speak clearly for a while, and he didn't plan to make them worry in front of the two younger sisters, so he had to avoid the important and said lightly: "Dad, you are worried that I am not responsible for doing things, I should always trust my uncle, right?" In fact, the wind is too tight, Lord Shoufu wants to clean up a group of disobedient people, I will come back first to avoid the limelight, and when this period of time passes, I will return to Beijing to seek an official position, so don't worry. ”

At Wang Daoyun's level, a county order is enough for him to mutter for a long time, let alone be the first assistant of the court? So, he glanced at Wang Fulin suspiciously, and asked Xiaobei. However, Xiaobei has always been a husband and wife, so of course he would not expose Wang Fulin's understatement, and followed his words to comfort the second elder. As for Ye Xiaopang and Jinbao Qiufeng, who knew Wang Xiaoguan's brilliant achievements in the capital, they tacitly echoed their words, so that even if Wang Daoyun was suspicious of his beliefs, he could only believe it helplessly.

However, Wang Fulin can avoid the important and trivialize his parents, and Cheng Kui and Wu Zhongming and Wu Yingming, who also returned from Beijing, are of course indispensable to talk about Wang Xiaoguan's experience in Beijing. Therefore, when Wang Daoyun actually learned from the Wu family's in-laws in Xixi South that his son had actually gone to the Wenhua Palace, and had a heated argument with Wuyuan Yu Maoxue in front of today's Emperor Wanli and a large number of court bigwigs, and was almost slandered and notorious, he only felt that his heart was trembling.

If it weren't for his daughter's future uncle, Wu Yingming, said with great certainty that Yu Maoxue had just been dismissed and returned to Wuyuan, which had nothing to do with Wang Fulin's illness and return to his hometown.

But even so, Wang Xiaoguan's reputation has risen in the entire Huizhou Mansion. After all, in the past, Wang Fulin had unlimited scenery in Huizhou Mansion, and that was because there was a Ye Junyao who supported him behind him, and he was Wang Daokun's nephew, who represented the Wang family of Songming Mountain to the outside world, but he was just a talent. But now Xiucai has become a jinshi, although he is in the top three, he is the top three first, I have seen Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the dynasty, Tan Lun, the secretary of the military department, personally took the table words, and the Wenhua Hall turned around, how much heavier than before? Even if he is now sick and returns to his hometown to recuperate, and the good story of the Son of Heaven and the imperial history is in front of him, no one dares to underestimate him.

And this can be clearly seen from the three greeting posts of the Huizhou prefect, Huining Dao and Shexian Ling.

So, although the nominal reason for returning to his hometown was to recuperate, and the actual reason was to attend his sister's wedding and avoid the limelight, Wang Fulin still had to personally go to the three most important official offices in Huizhou, and visited the three main directors - the prefect of Huizhou or Yao Huizu, Shexian Ling and Huining Dao, but he didn't know any of them, each of the three was twice as old as him, but from that polite to a somewhat excessive tone, he still tasted a little deep jealousy, only Yao Huizu was polite with a little closeness, Obviously, he thinks that he has an unusual relationship with Zhang Juzheng.

Anyway, he didn't plan to cause trouble when he returned to his hometown this time, so most of the time he just played haha. What made him very emotional was that although he was once a son of heaven and a courtier, officials did not change officials, which was the norm most of the time. For example, the three classes and six rooms in the Yamen of Shexian County are all old people when Ye Junyao was in office. When he paid a visit to the Shexian Order, the official Zhang of the office, Liu Hui, the secretary of the household room, Xiao Zhenyue, the secretary of the torture room, and Zhao Wuye, the head of the Zhuang class, all of the four old acquaintances who were closest to him at the beginning were personally greeted and sent, but their attitudes were a little more respectful than back then.

If it weren't for the Wang clan of Songming Mountain, how could they be so stable, and they wouldn't even dare to take them with the new county order?

For the old team who helped him a lot at the beginning, Wang Fulin naturally will not forget, when he resigned from the county order, he saw the four of them sent out all the way, he smiled at the door and took out the wedding card, and invited them to attend Wang Erniang's wedding. And after the four of them received the wedding card, they were all flattered and agreed, until Wang Fulin was sent out of the gate, Liu Huifang said with a sigh on his face: "I really didn't expect that Wang Xiaoguan was admitted all the way from Xiucai to Jinshi so quickly, and he also made such a big name in Beijing, it was really like a dream." ”

"Talent, everywhere!" Zhao Wuye smiled, suddenly remembered a big event, glanced left and right before he whispered, "I heard that Shuai Jiamo was escorted back by Wang Gongzi last year, and he has been going around the government and the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate for more than a year, and he has been handed over one by one, and it is said that he has also seen Yin Butang, and the Huizhou government is said to have been checking the old files of Xia tax silk, do you say that Wang Xiaoguan came back this time, will you ask about this matter?" You know, our current Xue Xianzun is very keen on this. ”

When Zhao Wuye said this, Zhang Siyi and Xiao Zhenyue, the former bosses and subordinates, couldn't help but glance at each other. To say that they were all from the Junping faction at the beginning, they were enveloped by Ye Cannon, but later found that the water was getting deeper and deeper, so they didn't dare to step in casually. But now this hall is no better than Ye Xianzun back then, and he is keen on this matter not for anything else, but for fame and political achievements! What's more, the tax pressure collected this year was very tight, and the rebound was very large. As officials, they will not be soft on the money they should collect on weekdays, but with such a county order who is eager for quick success but quite greedy, their hearts are very bottomless.

And Ye Qinglong's incident, I'm afraid that Wang Fulin doesn't know yet, and when Wang Erniang's marriage is done, they have to find an opportunity to mention it!

PS: Continue to ask for a guaranteed monthly pass for the New Year...... (To be continued.) )