After beating the third king of the splash, he let out a bad breath, Tang Jin also avenged the previous body, and after saying goodbye to Fan Lin, he told him to be careful on the street in the future, so he went back to his own house and found his mother.

Tang Jin's home is east of Xunyang Town. There is a small river in front of the door, which may have been formed by a tributary of the Xunyang River. There are hundreds of families living on both sides of the river, and the pattern is quite similar to the modern ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River. There are five or six small bridges winding on the river, and Tang Jin's home is located on the east side of the largest "Lion's Head Bridge".

When he first came home, Tang Jin felt like he had come to Zhouzhuang, "China's No. 1 Water Town".

Tang Jin walked down the street to the back of the family's three tiled houses, opened the back door with the key, entered the hall, and turned to the front door. There is a small yard around the front door. There is a sycamore tree in the courtyard, which shades the sun in the summer, and the shadows of the trees in the water are swaying. There are six bluestone steps in front of the courtyard, which stretch straight into the crystal clear river, which is a place for washing clothes and vegetables.

At this time, the mother Li was weaving under the plane tree in the small courtyard, and the spinning wheel was "chirping and chirping". The little sister Tang Yu sat quietly peeling beans. Li Shi stopped the spinning wheel in his hand, sat on the small bench with raised eyebrows and stared at himself, and his eyes seemed to say, "If you buy some salt, you will buy it now?" It's all three poles a day, don't you read or write?

Li was in his forties, dressed in a group of pale cyan coarse cloth with a placket, his hair was tied at the back of his head, a jade hairpin was inserted, a thin gold thread passed through his ears, and hung down from the back of his ears, and a small pearl fell, and there was a bit of pungent energy between his eyebrows.

"Mother, tomorrow the Nangong family will recruit a family, two taels of silver in a month, I want to try." Tang Jin put the salt aside and began to talk about applying for the family.

He had been thinking about this for a long time on the road. In short, with his current literary skills, it should not be difficult to gain fame, and being a family not only does not delay the township examination after March, but is also conducive to improving social practice ability.

Before the words fell, he was grabbed by Li's ears.

"Little rabbit cub, you still turn the sky upside down, don't go to study to test your fame and become a lowly family? Do you want to sell yourself into slavery? Are you trying to me off! ”

This is like a truth in modern times that children are not good at studying and have to go to the big city to work, how many mothers can agree?

"Mother, ah, it hurts, it hurts, I'm not a three-year-old kid anymore, why are you still pulling my ears?" Tang Jin broke free and covered his ears and escaped.

"Giggles. Oh, my brother was beaten by my mother again! Tang Yu on the side grinned, a front tooth was lost in front of the door, and his big black eyes were not to mention how cute.

"Don't laugh little kids!" Tang Jin glanced at his sister and said.

Only then did Li remember that he was used to beating his son, and he forgot that his son had really grown up and was taller than himself. But this stinky boy owes a lesson, and a few days ago, he almost lost his life in a fight with Wang San, which frightened the family. The husband is also an instigator, the son was beaten and went to seek justice with others, and he was scolded back when he didn't get the medical money. Li Shi was angry when he thought about it. Now I only hope that Tang Jin will gain fame as soon as possible and glorify his ancestors, so he will no longer be afraid of being bullied by others.

"I won't agree to this, and neither will your father!" Li said categorically.

"Mother, not all the family members are sold as slaves, there are also hired ones, and they can leave when the contract time is up. The most important thing is a lot of monthly money, two taels a month! Tang Jin smiled, walked to the little sister to peel the beans, and winked at his sister, meaning to ask her to help persuade her mother.

"Wow, that's so much for two taels a month! Daddy's monthly money is only three taels a month, right? Tang Yu's big eyes blinked in surprise, and the little clever ghost helped Tang Jin at once.

Li sighed weakly, the old one worked long hours in other people's restaurants, and the young ones had no intention of studying to be a housekeeper for others. This is really a crooked upper beam and a crooked lower beam, if there is a father, there must be a son! Why is there no one who fights?

However, his son is a strong head, and he has a stinky virtue with his old son, and once he decides, eight cows can't pull it back.

"Son, it's not that my mother doesn't understand your heart, but because my mother really wants you to fight! Your brother serves the country, and he is worried about his life on the battlefield at any time, am I willing to hand him over to the country? But won't your father and I agree to conscription? Speaking of which, isn't it true that there is no one in our Tang family, and there is no backer in my mother's family? Speaking of his eldest son, who was fighting in Liao, Li couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Your sister is a daughter's family, and your father is a good man. The hope of this family is all on you. You don't focus on studying, but you still want to be a family member of Laoshzi? The family who sells himself is a slave, you know? Once a person becomes a slave, he is a lowly status, not only his life is not protected by the state, but his children cannot participate in the imperial examination, do you understand? Hey, you want to me off! ”

Tang Jin's heart was heavy by Li's words, but he didn't expect that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders. Moreover, the people of this dynasty have a deep prejudice against the family, no wonder there is such a scolding sentence in later generations, "The man is a slave in the world, and the woman is a prostitute in the world."

Regardless of the amount of money, the householder and the prostitute were indeed the two lowest status people in ancient times. But I can't tell my mother that she is full of money, and sooner or later she will be admitted to the truth of the imperial examination.

What to do?

Looks like a ruthless move.

"Mother, the child knows that he is wrong. It's just that you know the temperament of children, and I can't bear to read. The gentlemen in the private school looked down on me, and my classmates ridiculed me for being worse than them, and I didn't like it. ”

"But Nangong Mansion is different, the family is big, and there are many things to learn. The most critical point..."Speaking of this, Tang Jin's face was slightly shy.

"What's the most important thing?" Li asked suspiciously, and said in his heart why this kid's face suddenly turned red.

"Mother, let's be honest with you, in fact, I want to enter Nangong Wan's house for Nangong Wan. They all said that it was very good to be able to marry a daughter-in-law like Nangong Wan, and I thought so too. Tang Jin looked shy and shy after speaking.

In ancient times, there were three unfilial pieties, and no queen was the greatest, and anything to do with marrying a daughter-in-law was not a big deal. Besides, if you can marry the daughter of the Nangong family, then she will be the uncle of Nangong Mansion, will she still be a family member?

Li sneered, "Little brat, how old are you, and you want to marry a daughter-in-law?" ”

"Giggles... I support my brother to marry a daughter-in-law, so Yu'er will have an extra sister-in-law who loves me! Sister Tang Yu also smiled.

Tang Jin pinched Tang Yu's white and tender little face and teased: "If any woman dares not to love our family Yu'er, I won't let him enter the door!" ”

Tang Yu nodded happily.

Li Shi rolled his eyes at Tang Jin and Tang Yu, "It's not embarrassing to say this!" The little kid doesn't study well and wants to marry a daughter-in-law! ”

"Mother, I'm sixteen, still young? When Sun Fugui, the owner of the rice shop, was sixteen years old, the doll would make soy sauce! Tang Jin said seriously.

Li was silent, thinking that Sun Fugui's family is rich, can you compare with others? I still want to marry the daughter of Nangong Mansion, I dare to think about it! Hey, this kid doesn't want to think about how big the gap between our two families is!

"You kid, no wonder you don't pay attention to your studies, and you focus all your attention on marrying a daughter-in-law? But Nangong Wan is like a golden phoenix, you are like a little sparrow, will the golden phoenix look down on the little sparrow? Besides, will the daughter take a fancy to the family? If you want to pass the Jinshi exam, that's pretty much it! Li smiled.

Tang Jin said with a bitter face: "Mother, how can you say that about your son?" Do you know that your son will not be able to pass the Jinshi exam? Maybe your son will still be a dragon in the future. ”

Li Shi was stunned when he said this, how did he find that this stinky boy was a little different from before these days? The son has changed, he has become bold, he has become confident, he has become lively, and he has even become a little oily.

It's just that marrying a relative must pay attention to the right person after all, how can the daughter of the Nangong family be so easy to climb? No, if this stubborn donkey enters Nangong Mansion and becomes a housekeeper, he thinks about it for a long time and does something disrespectful to Miss Nangong, he will be beaten to death.

Hey, children really don't know how thick the sky is!

"Needless to say!" Li suddenly turned his face, got up and walked towards the inner room, ignoring Tang Jin.

Tang Jin was a little inexplicable, the old lady said that she would turn her face, how could this be good.

Early the next morning, the fat man Fan Lin came to Tang Jin's house and called him to Nangong Mansion for an interview, and found that the doors and windows of Nangong's house were closed.

"Tang Jin!"

Fan Lin shouted loudly at the back door of Tang's house.

"Here, I'm locked up by my mother!" Tang Jin responded to the window not far away, and the wood-carved window was also locked.

"It's locked, haha!" Fan Lin walked to the window, leaned in front of the window and laughed.

"Laugh at your size, I'm locked, how can I go out to take the exam?" Tang Jin said with a bitter face, thinking that the old lady was also quite desperate to prevent herself from being in charge.

"What can I do about this, the assessment starts on time, and it doesn't wait for anyone!" The fat man also rubbed his hands slightly anxiously.

"There it is! Either I'll smash the window for you, right? Fan Lin smiled and squinted his eyes and said.

"What a bad idea. How beautiful are these carved windows, why don't you go and smash your house? Besides, if I smashed the window and turned around, my mother knew about it, and I guess I would smash my head. Tang Jin said.

"What then? Don't miss the opportunity and come again! If you don't go, I'll go alone. Besides, you can't carry it on your shoulders, you can't lift it in your hands, and you can't hang it when you go. Fan Lin shrugged.

"Fatty, do you want to die, and learn from me? Not all of them work hard. Wait, there you have it! Tang Jin suddenly thought of an idea and was overjoyed.

"Fatty, you wait for me."

Tang Jin left as he spoke, rummaging through the cabinets at home to find something. Fan Lin was in a hurry outside alone.

Half an hour later, Fan Lin outside waited anxiously and shouted to the window: "Tang Jin, what the hell are you doing?" Hurry up! ”

"Alright, right away!"

Soon, Tang Jin had an extra polished thin iron bar in his hand, stuffed it out of the window hole and handed it to Fan Lin, "You try to use this lock to open the back door of my house." ”

Fan Lin took the iron bar, the front was sharpened, and there were two grooves, what kind of broken thing is this, you can also pick the lock with this?

"You're kidding me, aren't you? Can this be unlocked? Is this what your keys look like? Fan Lin pinched the strange "key" in his hand and said in disbelief.

"Less nonsense, are you going or not?" Tang Jin said with a bluffed face. He is also a copycat version made according to the rough pattern of the previous life, and I don't know if it will work.

"Okay, I'll go. I don't have much hope for it, though. ”

Fan Lin pouted and ran to the back door to unlock the lock.

After a while, I heard Fan Lin's shout: "It's open, it's open!" Haha, that's amazing! ”

After opening the door, Tang Jin stepped out of the door, snatched the "key", and tried to relock the door.

Hey, the lock cylinder isn't broken at all.

"You know how good I am, right?" Tang Jin smiled arrogantly.

Fan Lin also thought it was incredible, could this key be able to open anyone's door? Isn't that stealing whatever you want?

So he asked Tang Jin with a puzzled expression: "Tang Jin, to be honest, you don't plan to be a thief, right?" Can you tell me which thief master I learned this craft from, and teach me it? ”

"I'm going to be a thief? If I want to be a thief, I will go to your house every day to steal and kill you! There is no thief master to teach, a master in the dream taught. Let's go, it's too late to go! Tang Jin said.

At this time, the Li family, who was shopping with Tang Yu on the street, probably didn't know that his son, who was locked at home, had escaped from the cage, and he didn't know what the reaction was.

When the two of them left Tang's house, they walked quickly and rushed towards Nangong Mansion.

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