Wang Fulin already knew from his diary that he was a little younger, and although he was selected for Xiucai, no elder had yet given him a name. According to this, Shuangmu should be his nickname, as the name suggests, Shuangmu is a forest, catchy.

I didn't expect people to come so quickly, Wang Fulin was half-sitting on the bed. Before even Wang Yuanguan could get up, he saw a burly middle-aged man enter the door. This person is in his forties, with a square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he is hearty and easy to deal with at first glance. At this moment, his face was surprised and happy, and he couldn't hide his concern.

Wang Fulin knew that this should be his uncle Wu Tianbao.

Wu Tianbao stepped forward quickly, and pressed back Wang Fulin, who seemed to be about to get up, with great strength, just staring at Wang Fulin for a while, not knowing that the other party was nervous because of his gaze, and his vest was even sweating.

"Finally, you are blessed with a great life!" Wu Tianbao finally let go of his hand and said with a smile, "I'll just say, even if he is a prince who has just entered school, he is blessed by the stars in the sky, how can he be harmed by a few thieves!" ”

For this statement, Wang Fulin is really sweating, but thinking about the causes and consequences of "near-death and life", he didn't dare to disbelieve what the gods and Buddhas said, so he could only nod: "Even if it is really blessed by the gods and Buddhas, it is because the uncle is running, and the eldest sister, the second sister and the younger sister take care of it." ”

Wang Fulin only thought that this was a very ordinary polite remark, but who would have thought that Wu Tianbao would be even more pleased: "Shuangmu suffered this catastrophe, but he is not as wooden as before, it is the first time I have seen you talk so well!" ”

Oops, that guy didn't seem to be very good at dealing with people in the past, ** he only kept a diary quietly, and accidentally exposed his flaws!

Wu Tianbao didn't expect Wang Fulin to have some pictures of subduing demons and eliminating demons in his heart. Although Wang Fulin is his nephew, there is still a ten-mile mountain road from the south mountain of Yanzhen to this Songming Mountain Village, which is not far but not close, plus Wang Fulin has been studying hard every day since the beginning of enlightenment, he has not said much to this nephew before.

At this time, he only thought that Wang Fulin had grown his heart after this catastrophe, and his attitude became more and more kind.

"There are rumors outside, don't take it to heart. Your mother told me when she was leaving, it was your father who told me in a letter that you must not delay your career, so she ignored your plea, took two old servants, and asked me to borrow a few healthy servants to accompany her, and rushed to Hankou in person. Although the difference between the fourteen-year-old Xiucai and the fifteen-year-old Xiucai is only one year, there may be a world of difference in the future. Just because of this matter, I want to plant the charge of unfilial piety on your head, and accuse you of cheating, it is clear that someone is inciting public opinion, which is really vicious! ”

Wang Yuanguan hid this matter to the death, but she didn't expect her uncle to say it all in one mouth, and she was caught off guard. She hurriedly took her eyes to look at Wang Fulin, and when she saw that her brother's face was as usual, she was not surprised at all, she was greatly shocked, and the next moment, she saw Wang Fulin smiling at her again.

"Little brother, do you know everything?"

Wang Yuanguan asked a question, seeing Wang Fulin nodding slightly, she thought of the fact that he confessed to her about Cheng Gongzi before, and she didn't care about who was talking too much for a while, but felt that her younger brother had really grown up.

"My uncle is certainly right, but even if I really had to stay to take the exam because of my mother's life, my father and mother are not there, and others will only see that I have abandoned my filial piety because of my career. Now, my uncle doesn't need to comfort me, I just want to ask one question, who does my uncle think will hate me like this? ”

And Wu Tianbao was very happy with Wang Fulin's composure from his young chronology, but for the last question, he could only smile bitterly.

"Shuangmu, your father has been a layman for many years, and he is in the salt industry, but he started late, and now he can't even talk about profits. He doesn't use Wang's name outside, so he shouldn't have offended anyone. If you want to talk about the origin of this matter, I think in the final analysis, it still lies in the fact that there are more monks and less porridge. We have the most salt merchants in She County, Huizhou, except for some children of wealthy businessmen who are opportunistic and impersonate those prefectures and counties in the north to take the exam, but most of the children of the rich families are taking the exam locally, plus the children of other official eunuchs, the children of the family of Yin Shi, there are many talents, compared with the northern states and counties, a single talent who went to school is famous, and I don't know how many children have fallen into the sand! So, maybe there is a person who is off the list who is jealous, and I don't know who publicized the affairs of your family. ”

Wang Fulin only knew that Huizhou merchants were rich for a while, but he didn't expect that the imperial examination in Huizhou Mansion would be such a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops, so he had to ask a few more questions. As a result, he immediately knew the rather brilliant results of the imperial examination in She County, where he was located.

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination results of Huizhou Mansion are not bad, and since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it is more and more prominent, in recent years, each branch of Jinshi, She County has not hung zero eggs, less than one person, more than four or five people, the champion will be out of the Yuan. In Wu Tianbao's words, the number of Jinshi in Huizhou Mansion is second only to Suzhou and Changzhou in Nanzhili, and the number of people raised in the examination is often in the forefront, and at least two-fifths of the Jinshi in Huizhou Mansion are in She County, and the proportion of high-ranking officials is also very high. Therefore, even if it is just a showman, in the case of a fixed amount in each county, even if it is not as good as the devil's land of Shanyin Gusu in the south of the Yangtze River, it is almost the same!

"And, after all, you're at the bottom of the list."

Wu Tianbao didn't say this explicitly, but how could Wang Fulin not taste it? At the end of the road test crane, the family doesn't seem to have much power, and it was turned out that the father was sick and the son left, and the mother ran thousands of miles to serve the sick, and even the big hat of cheating was buttoned up, which was completely a soft pinch of persimmon!

The point is that I don't know who is the black hand at all!

Since Wu Tianbao, as the patriarch of the Nanshan branch of Wu's Yan Town, only knew so much, Wang Fulin did not expect to be able to find the source of the rumors in a short period of time. After thanking this uncle for his kindness, he entrusted Wu Tianbao with the matter of sending Wang Yuanguan back to his mother-in-law's house in Huizhou City, and asked him to send his eldest sister, who was still worried, back to Fucheng.

After seeing off his uncle and eldest sister, Wang Fulin went to the ground, saying that he wanted to go out for a walk. Jinbao was busy serving him to dress, although Wang Erniang was full of worries, but her brother's proposition was certain, it was useless for her to show her teeth and claws, so she could only sulk by herself. On the contrary, Wang Youhan, a little sister who is similar in age to Jinbao, did not have so many worries, as if she was going out for a holiday, opened the cabinet and found a set of clothes, and chirped that this match and that looked good, which made the home that had been gloomy and miserable for days a little more vibrant.

is unforgiving, but when the elder brother brought Jinbao and brought Wang Xiaomei, who was like a fart, to really go out, Wang Erniang stood at the door of the house and stomped her feet angrily, secretly annoying that she was just saying that her brother really left himself at home. can think about it, in addition to the old servants Wang Qi and his wife in the house, there are also two tenant women who occasionally come over to help, and there is no one else, so she can only stay stupidly.

When he first went out, Wang Fulin only relied on the diary in the previous "Annotations on the Analects" and thought that Songming Mountain was just an ordinary mountain village in a mountain col. However, when he left the house, he realized that he had been wrong.

It is true to get straight to the point, but as far as the eye can see, you can only see that under the towering green mountains of ancient pines in the distance, there are seven or eight typical white-walled and tiled courtyards built in a patchwork manner. One of the largest, with its rare pavilions and pavilions, is elegant and exquisite, and you can see the price of building a house in such a rural area. The other houses in the village are uneven, some are as neat as their own houses, some are dilapidated and low, but what is more striking is the fertile fields of the Pingchuan River, and a large river in the distance, and there is a very large village on the opposite side.

The mountains are not wilderness, and he also underestimated his own small Songming Mountain Village!

"Petty officials."

"Wang Xiaoxianggong."

Most of the villagers I saw along the way would say hello, but Wang Fulin didn't know any of them, so he could only ask Jinbao to remind him who was who when he saw someone from afar, so he could return the gift.

After walking for a while, Wang Xiaomei, who was like a fart behind him, said with a smile: "In the past, my brother was walking outside, only thinking about endorsing books, no matter who he met, he didn't even see the elders several times, and he was blamed twice, so he went out less and less." Today it was like a different person, and I greeted everywhere. ”

Wang Fu was sweating profusely, thinking that if there was no one next to this nerd, he would simply reach a certain level! I don't understand the sophistication of human feelings, and if I have any trouble, I will note it in the Analects, what kind of life has passed!

So, he said to Wang Xiaomei earnestly: "Once upon a time, now is now. Eat a trench and grow a wisdom, your brother and I have eaten this big lesson and decided to change the past! ”

Instead of continuing to play that nerd, he should take the opportunity to be himself!

Wang Xiaomei's eyes widened in disbelief, staring at Wang Fulin for a long time, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she stretched out her hand and pointed to the old merchant not far away and said, "Okay, brother, I want to eat sugar gourd!" ”

Where's this?

Wang Fu Linden was dumbfounded, and saw the little girl running over with her skirt and laughing, and said a few words to an old merchant not far away, and then took a string of sugar gourds with a smile, he patted his forehead with a headache, and chased Jinbao step by step. Even if he suddenly became a fourteen-year-old boy from a big man, what made him even more unbearable was his weak body that had just recovered from a serious injury!

When she caught up with Wang Xiaomei, the little girl smiled proudly at him holding a sugar gourd, and then stretched out her free left hand and said, "Brother, Sanwen money." ”

Wang Fulin had no choice but to reach into his arms, and then froze. Of course, he used to bring money when he went out, but now the situation is different, and he is now penniless with empty sleeves! He immediately turned his head sideways to look at Jinbao, who thought that this little guy also looked at himself with a bitter face, and whispered: "Dad, Erniang didn't give money when he came out." ”

Faced with this dilemma, Wang Fu Lindenshi's face was feverish. It's going to be a bully meal...... No, Overlord Sugar Gourd?

He was about to send Jinbao home to get the money, and the old merchant saw that their family of three was in such a situation, and immediately understood, because he smiled and said: "The little official was hit by Xiucai before, and the little old man has nothing to congratulate, so please invite Sanniang to eat a string of sugar gourds, no money." ”

"That's embarrassing." Wang Fulin said this, but his eyes glared at the little sister. Little gluttonous cat, don't kill you, be careful of tooth decay!

Wang Xiaomei didn't care what her brother looked at, and while eating the sugar gourd in her hand, she complained: "From childhood to adulthood, other people's brothers bought this and that for their sisters, brother, you have never bought anything for me and my second sister." Songbo's sugar gourd is the most delicious, the four towns and eight neighbors are famous, and often go to Huizhou City to sell, he is a good person, even if he knows that we sell less here in Songming Mountain, but for many people in the village love to eat, every ten or will deliberately carry twenty or thirty branches across the river to our village. In the past, I told you to bring one with you when you came back from school, but you ignored me! ”

Wang Fulin was just embarrassed just now, but when he heard this, he could only smile bitterly. Now, he doesn't want to complain, and has decided to accept his current identity, including the cause and effect maintained in his original body, and live a good life. Therefore, he immediately stretched out his hand and rubbed Wang Xiaomei's head, and said in a low voice: "My brother was sorry for you in the past, and if you like anything in the future, my brother will definitely buy it for you!" ”

Wang Xiaomei knew about the change in her brother's mood, and immediately cheered happily. Seeing her smile, Wang Fulin arched his hand to the old merchant and said, "Thank you for the favor, but you are also earning hard-earned money." In this way, if you make sugar gourds to sell in Songmingshan in the future, you will bring three to my family every time. ”

The old merchant who sells sugar gourds is a person from Xixinan Village on the other side of the river, and he has a good hand of sugar, so he makes sugar gourd goods to sell, and most of the time he goes to Huizhou City, where there are many people, but he also regularly sells in the villages near Xixinan Village, and the villagers who have spare money can taste it, and there are many rich families who like this small snack.

Although he is not familiar with this Wang Xiaoxiucai, he has come to Songmingshan many times and has seen him a few times, seeing that he is so doted on his sister, he feels that this little minister is fair and approachable. At this moment, the other party accepted his kindness and promised to take care of his business in the future, and he agreed with a smile. Finally, remembering the recent rumors, he often went to the city to sell sugar gourds, so he reminded him.

"Little official, this rumor is so fierce that even I heard it in the city. The Great Grandmaster went to the neighboring Ning Guo Mansion to preside over the Dao test, and maybe he would hear the rumors as well. Alas, Shexian County only produces more than 20 Xianggong who go to school in a year, and each township may not be able to get one, so it is not easy, and now the parents of the petty officials are not around, why don't you invite an elder to come out and speak fairly? ”

From Wang Xiaomei's words, Wang Fulin knew what kind of character the former one was, so he just smiled at the old merchant's grievances. Thinking of this man who had traveled all over the country, his heart suddenly moved, and he said sincerely: "After a while, Songbo has sold out of sugar gourds, can you come to my house and sit for a while?" I've been recuperating for half a month, and I don't know any outside news, and I want to ask for advice. By the way, please leave two for my second sister to try later. ”

The old merchant immediately smiled: "Isn't that easy?" Just bothered the petty officials to drink a bowl of tea. ”

In the evening, after selling twenty or thirty sugar gourds in Songmingshan Village, the old merchant Songbo came to Wang Fulin's house as promised. Although Wang Erniang thought that she was no longer a child, the sugar gourd sent by Songbo still made her overjoyed, and Jinbao was a little surprised and excited when Wang Fulin gave Songbo money and then stuffed one into him.

After sending the big and small two away with two sugar gourds and closing the door, Wang Fulin asked Songbo about the rumors about him in the city. found that the focus was on unfilial piety and cheating, but it was just a little thing upside down, and there was no dry goods, so he couldn't help but secretly start to calculate.

"Little official, if you want Xiao Lao'er to say, it's best to ask the clan elders to come forward and try to calm down, if it goes on like this, maybe it will really alarm the great grandmaster back."

"There was such a big movement in this matter suddenly, it was not so easy to calm down." Wang Fulin said thoughtfully, then suddenly stood up and solemnly slammed Song Bo to the ground.

Song Boden was in a hurry, and hurriedly reached out to help him: "Little official, you are a scholar, how can you give this great gift to Xiao Lao'er?" ”

"Thanks to Songbo, I can know what is happening in Huizhou City, dozens of miles away. So, I have one more thing I want to ask you to be old. ”

Instead of pale and feeble attempts to justify the first two charges, it is better to take a strong pill!