In the imperial examination, whether the article can win the favor of the examiner, whether the writing is good or not, is the main reason, and if you want to write well, after all, there is good ink and good inkstone.

Dou Shiheng looked at the dragon and phoenix ink ingots in the sandalwood box, and blew his beard angrily and glared at him: "Okay, you have 10,000 yuan, such a good ink, it is hidden and not revealed, are you afraid that I will ask you." ”

He has two sons to do.

Dou Shiying smiled and said, "Isn't this unexpected?" I'll find a way to find a few ingots of good ink for you when the time comes. ”

Dou Shiheng's expression was slightly gloomy.

Dou Dechang whispered to Song Mo: "What happened to that matter?" ”

"Isn't this a big New Year, didn't you meet Wangge?" Song Mo said, "After the Lantern Festival, I will enter the palace to find Wang Ge, anyway, this time is sealed, so Fan Shichou can't do anything if he wants to." ”

Dou Dechang nodded.

Dou Shiheng drank over: "Manly man, what can't you say, if you want to talk to each other like this, where is it like a scholar!" ”

Dou Dechang is the youngest son, he is lively by nature, he has never been afraid of Dou Shiheng, and he is a guest in the alley of Jing'an Temple, Dou Shiying has always been indulgent to the child, and he joked: "I want to go to the Hutong of Thousand Buddha Temple with my fourth brother-in-law, can I say this loudly?" ”

"Something with no threshold on the lips!" Dou Shiheng's eyes widened like copper bells, "Do you want to be grounded!" ”

Dou Shiying and Song Mo couldn't help but laugh.

The atmosphere of the study room was made so troubled by Dou Dechang that it became relaxed.

When men sit together, they either talk about women or about government affairs.

There are two small characters present, so naturally they can't talk about women, so they can only talk about government politics.

Song Mo's heart moved, and he asked Dai Jian first: "...... I heard that he came from a humble background, so he attaches great importance to yellow and white things. Is there such a thing? ”

The son-in-law is not a scholar, so he naturally knows little about the affairs of this circle. It's rare that he is curious, and he sits idly idle, so he should be a reminder to the juniors.

Dou Shiying knows everything and says everything: "Who said that Dai Jian attaches great importance to yellow and white things? The one who really valued money was Yao Xiang, who was born in a family - he was proficient in mathematics, and he had been a scholar in the household department for six years, and even the emperor quietly borrowed money from the household department. It is said that their family is a sweeping maid who can also do arithmetic, and the daily expenses of the family are all on the account. Directly took the account book of Yao Xiang's family to know what the price was at that time! ”

He laughed as he spoke.

Dou Shiheng was afraid that they would misunderstand, so he hurriedly said: "Don't listen to his nonsense. Yao Xiangna should be used as a worthy person, all the money in the province is the treasury, and he has a lot of relief for relatives, friends, and colleagues, and he is very generous. Accounting. It's just a habit of his. As for his background, Dai Xiang's family has a few acres of fertile land, and there is no problem for him to study and become a scholar, but Liang Ge is old, his father died early, and he relied on his widowed mother to help people do laundry and save a few dollars to pay Shu Xiu's collapseRead the full text. So although he is talented and intelligent, his career has always been unsmooth and intermittent. It was nearly thirty years before he was lifted. After a few years of noble Hanlin, he finally entered the cabinet, first pressed by Zeng Yifen, and then pressed by Ye Shipei, like a puppet. After coming to power. The favors owed in the past must be repaid, and relatives and friends must be raised. A hundred years later, the way out for his children and grandchildren will be paved, and he must not pay attention to gold and silver. ”

There are many people like Liang Jifen who read books.

Dou Shiheng said, quite embarrassed.

Dou Shiying disagreed, and said: "He loves gold and silver, and it is also human nature. But I just can't get used to the way he wants silver and pretends to be high, every time I see Yao Xiang, it looks like Yao is a few hundred taels of silver behind him, and even when I see those new scholars with superior family backgrounds, I feel that people are either spelled out with silver, or they rely on the shadow of their ancestors, and few are really talented and learned, so it is inevitable that it is a little too much. ”

Obviously, Dou Shiheng has no way to deny this.

He was silent.

Song Mo shook his head in his heart.

This topic is so biased that it is almost impossible to find the north.

"It seems that this cabinet minister is just an ordinary person." He had to smile and pull the topic back again, "Among the several cabinet ministers, Mu Xiang's family is relatively wealthy, right?" ”

"Hmm!" Dou Shiheng nodded, "Not only Mu Xiang, but He Xiang, they are also from famous families." Although Dai Jian is a little close, he is not a ...... who lacks money."

Dou Shiying interjected: "So every time the cabinet ministers gather, our Liang Shoufu will feel very uncomfortable!" ”

Dou Dechang laughed "fluttering", and received a reprimand from Dou Shiheng.

Song Mo pondered in his heart.

From this point of view, it is impossible for Dai Jian and Mu Chuan to get along with the Kuang family for money.

He touched his chin with a hand.

Things just got more complicated and interesting!

Who's behind the scenes?

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Wei Tingyu did not appear in the Jing'an Temple Hutong until lunchtime.

Because Dou Ming was still in Xiaoyuezi, he was filthy and couldn't go from house to house, and he had an excuse that Dou Ming needed someone to take care of, so he drank a cup of tea in the hall and left.

Dou Shiying was also very cold to Wei Tingyu, and ordered him to send off the guests happily and went back to the study by himself.

Thinking of the Wei family's bad things, Dou Shiheng's face was also a little unsightly, and the atmosphere in the study also became low.

Dou Dechang shouted that he was hungry: "Uncle Seven, when are we going to have lunch?" I only drank half a bowl of porridge in the morning. "I copied the atmosphere again.

Dou Shiying smiled and ordered the servants to set the meal.

Halfway through the meal, Dou Bochang and Dou Jichang from Huaishu Hutong came over with their children.

Dou Shiying was naturally overjoyed and said, "Why are you here?" ”

Dou Bochang and Dou Jichang's father-in-law and mother-in-law are both in Kyoto.

Dou Bochang said with a smile: "We went to celebrate the New Year to my father-in-law and mother-in-law yesterday, thinking that the fourth brother-in-law and the fourth sister are going back to their parents' house for the first time to pay New Year's greetings, so we will come over to have a good time, lest the fourth brother-in-law want to play horses and hang without horns." ”

Dou Shiying smiled so much that she couldn't see her teeth, and hurriedly instructed the maids to make a table and wine banquet again.

Dou Bochang and Dou Jichang said that they had already had lunch at home: "...... If he knew this, he should have come to Uncle Seven's house to eat. ”

But how could Dou Shiying let them sit on the side, you had to push me and rearrange the table of wine and food.

And the inner house has a few children's laughter and noise, adding a little bit of festivity and excitement unique to the New Year's Festival.

The sixth aunt and aunt sat around the kang and talked about the family's shortcomings, but Cai's pulled Dou Zhao aside and whispered, "Fortunately, you didn't go that day." I have seen shameless people, but I have never seen a more shameless person than the Wei family, who wants to take advantage of his daughter-in-law's dowry, and he is so arrogant. That Wei Tingzhen is also a meritorious family wife, how can she talk and do things so unscripted, no wonder her mother-in-law looks down on her, and has been promoting the two daughters-in-law of the Shi family and the Feng family. ”

The reason why the Dou family did not tell Dou Zhao about Dou Ming's miscarriage was because Dou Zhao was pregnant, and the relationship between the two sisters was very tense, since Dou Ming was stimulated, he was afraid that Dou Zhao would be upset. But when Guo and Cai's daughters went to visit Dou Ming on behalf of the Dou family's daughters, the sixth aunt still asked them to send a medicinal herb to Dou Ming in the name of Dou Zhao, and Dou Zhao only knew when she met the sixth aunt just now that she didn't know what happened to Guo and Cai's Wei family, and she didn't know at all.

In her previous life, her dowry was not good, but the Wei family never had the idea of her dowry, how to be reborn in a lifetime, the Tian family and the Wei family became a little unrecognizable.

Dou Zhao couldn't help frowning and said, "What the hell is going on?" ”

The Cai family was dissatisfied with Dou Ming, how Wei Tingyu was with Wei Tingzhen, asking Dou Ming to hand over the dowry, and how did the Wang family ignore Dou Ming...... It's like telling a story.,Tell the story of the matter.。

Dou Zhao was very surprised, and said, "How could the Wang family ignore Dou Ming's affairs?" ”

Cai Shi saw that the sixth aunt and the others were talking happily, and no one noticed this, so she whispered: "I heard that the second wife of the Wang family is very dissatisfied with the seventh aunt living in the Wang family all the year round, and instigated the second master of the Wang family and the old lady to make a few troubles, and the eldest wife of the Wang family was silent, and the old lady of the Wang family was angry, so she took the seventh aunt to live in the Wang family's courtyard on the outskirts of Beijing. Many people in Kyoto don't know about this. The letter sent by the fifth aunt and grandmother to Liuyeer Hutong fell into the hands of the second wife of the Wang family, and the second wife of the Wang family pressed down the letter. However, it was too late, and the Wei family saw that there was no movement in Liuyeer Hutong, Wei Tingzhen humiliated the fifth aunt and grandmother severely, and also sold the two most intimate first-class maids around the fifth aunt and grandmother. The people of the Wei Mansion now know that their wives and aunts and grandmothers are fighting, and they don't dare to go to the house of the fifth aunt and grandmother to serve! ”

"So what's going on now?" Dou Ming's dowry was even more than Dou Zhao's back then, and if it fell into the hands of the Wei family, Dou Zhao felt disgusting as if he had swallowed a fly, "The fifth aunt didn't have a few words of theory with the Wei family. ”

"Who said they didn't go!" Cai was afraid that Dou Zhao would misunderstand Huaishu Hutong, so he said hurriedly, "Then Wei Tingyu invited the seventh uncle to the Jining Marquis Mansion under the pretext of Dou Ming's miscarriage, but who knew that the seventh uncle was asked to discuss the dowry of the fifth aunt and grandmother." Uncle Seven was so angry that he gritted his teeth, if my mother-in-law hadn't arrived in time, I was afraid that the two families would quarrel and tear their faces...... Now this matter is put on hold, and it is said that it will be said after the Spring Festival. can listen to the tone of the Wei family, either let the fifth aunt and grandmother hand over the dowry to the Dou family for trusteeship, or divorce his wife. Uncle Seventh didn't go to the government for a few days because of this......"

Hearing that her father was sick with anger, Dou Zhao thought that she would be very calm, but in fact, her heart was like a knife, and she was so painful that she could barely speak.

"You too," she said angrily, "how can you not tell me about such an important matter?" There is no one to serve my father, and if we don't come back to serve the sick, won't we be alone! ”

"Fourth aunt and grandmother, don't be angry," Cai explained in a panic, "It was specially instructed by Uncle Seven, let's not sue you, for fear that you will know that you are angry and have a ......."

Sisters and brothers, send the second watch.

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