Chapter 2 Boundless Rain
In the golden autumn of September, because of the rainy weather, the area of Hangzhou is like a rain, but for the Pu family, there is good news.
At this time, among the Pu family, a feast was being held and officials from the Hangzhou government and various governments were invited. As a home of merchants, such pomp is rare, because in the Northern Song Dynasty, especially in the era when literati became more and more angry, officials were reluctant to get too close to merchants.
But on this day, the Pu family had such glory, and invited many officials and Confucians in Hangzhou, such as Chen Yaozuo, the transfer envoy of the two Zhejiang, as well as famous people such as the mountain chief and university scholar Sheng Xiuwen of Hangzhou Wansong Academy.
There is naturally a reason why so many literati can be invited to the Pu family. On September 15, Hangzhou released the list, and Pu Jiaqing ranked first in the township test and became Hangzhou Jieyuan.
For a while, the Pu family was proud, and then this thank-you banquet was arranged for the Pu family.
After the banquet, Pu Jiaqing came to his little sister's room, at this time he was slightly drunk, but his mind was still sober, and after seeing Pu Jiajing, he asked, "Where is Old Chen?" ”
Pu Jiajing said: "After sitting here for a while, I left, brother, why did you come to me instead of entertaining guests outside?" ”
After a period of exercise, Pu Jiajing's body has improved a little, although it has not returned to a normal state, but now it is not so difficult to stand up and walk two steps.
She got up and poured a cup of tea for Pu Jiaqing, and then said: "Look at your pride, this is just a test, after the spring next year, if you can still get the first, no matter how proud you are, it will be almost the same!" ”
"Why is it so sour when I hear this?"
Pu Jiaqing took a sip of tea, and then said, "What, isn't there any news from Changzhou yet?" ”
Pu Jiajing's face changed, then he turned around and sighed leisurely: "The news is there, this time in the Changzhou Township Test, a total of twenty-three people were selected......
"And then?" Pu Jiaqing asked: "Then how did Ye Heng do in the exam?" ”
Pu Jiajing's voice trembled a little: "There is no ...... his name"
"Won't it?"
"How not?" Pu Jiajing took out a list, which recorded some of the people who were selected in the Changzhou Township Examination this time, and then Pu Jiajing said: "This is what Chen Laotuo inquired about......"
Chen Yaozuo sent it, it will definitely not be wrong. But the brother and sister didn't know that Chen Yaozuo was playing with them by doing this, because only Chen Yaozuo knew that Ye Heng went to Jiangning to participate in the township test.
Inside the room, the brother and sister fell silent.
Then Pu Jiaxin walked in happily, and sat on the stool like Pu Jiaqing, but she poured herself a cup of tea, looking very angry.
"What's going on here?"
Pu Jiaqing was a little speechless, but he still glanced at Pu Jiaxin and said: "I said, today is the day of your brother and I to solve the yuan, can you not be depressed one by one, Jing'er is understandably unhappy, what's wrong with you?" ”
Pu Jiaxin said a little angrily: "Hmph, I just returned to Hangzhou from Lin'an, and I met Qian Qibo, this person has a villain face, and he speaks sarcastically, why is he?" ”
"That's right!"
Pu Jiaqing also said disdainfully: "But the Qian family is a vertical son, relying on the name of the Qian family, he is praised as the first talent in Hangzhou, this time the township test was suppressed by me, why is he proud?" ”
"It's not that Ye Heng ...... yet"
Halfway through the words, Pu Jiaxin, who was originally very loud, saw Pu Jiajing's face, so he immediately lowered his voice and said, "Don't be angry, he ...... How can you not even pass the township test? Jing'er, it can't be that something happened to him, right? ”
"I ...... I don't know? ”
At this time, Pu Jiajing's heart was mixed, and today was Pu Jiaqing's proud day, but she couldn't be happy at all, and she only thought about Ye Heng's affairs in her heart.
Her temperament is very indifferent, but because it is related to Ye Heng, she still asked Pu Jiaxin: "Sister, Qian Qibo and them...... What did you say? ”
"It turns out that Ye Heng is a silver spear candle head, and a soft-footed shrimp ......"
Pu Jiaxin was dissatisfied, and said in passing: "Those people are laughing at you!" He also said that Ye Heng's poems must have been bought, and that it was our Pu family who paid to help Ye Heng for you, and even the Fugui Restaurant was also helped by our Pu family......"
"Huh?"
Pu Jiajing frowned when she heard this, and then said: "If he hears this, maybe he will be angry again!" Sister, have you clarified? ”
"I told it!"
Since Ye Heng was negative and wanted to clear up the relationship with the Pu family in front of everyone in the Fengbo Pavilion, and after Pu Jiajing showed his heart in front of her, Pu Jiaxin came to his senses.
This Ye Heng has a temper, and he ...... Or is it angry when you are angry, but her own sister seems to like him very much, so there is no way, Pu Jiaxin has to desperately accommodate now.
"How did I not know the character of that little one? He was very stingy, but just joking with him, he got angry. If Qian Qibo's words reach his ears, and my Pu family doesn't come out to clarify for him, he may even hate us at that time, so ah...... I had an argument with Qian Qibo and them at that time! ”
"Just make it clear!" Pu Jiajing nodded, then glanced at Pu Jiaxin again, and said, "Sister, don't say that it was just a joke that time, can this kind of joke be made casually?" And...... In his opinion, I am just a person who meets in the water! ”
Hearing Pu Jiajing's words, Pu Jiaxin and Pu Jiaqing glanced at each other, and then the two shook their heads, both of them looked helpless.
They all know that their sister is afraid that they won't be able to keep it.
She said it herself, Ye Heng just regarded her as a person who met in Pingshui, but Pu Jiajing had only thought about Ye Heng in her heart, didn't this mean anything enough?
However, Pu Jiaqing and Pu Jiaxin can also understand Pu Jiajing's expression, of course...... At first, he didn't understand, until later, Pu Jiajing said in front of Pu Jiaxin that he would wait for Ye Heng, and when Ye Heng turned around one day, he found that there had been someone who had been silently supporting him and thinking about him.
Later, Pu Jiaxin deliberately chatted with Pu Jiajing, and also used Pu Jiajing's words, from Pu Jiajing's mouth, Pu Jiaxin knew what they had met.
When he heard that Ye Heng was sick on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was because he jumped into the water to save Pu Jiajing's life, and later encouraged Pu Jiajing not to give up, to exercise hard, and said that he wanted to cure Pu Jiajing's illness, Pu Jiaxin knew that in just a few days, for Pu Jiajing, so many big things had happened!
First it was life-saving grace, then encouragement, and help to heal, oh my!
After Pu Jiaxin told Pu Jiaqing and Pu Louyuan all this, the father, son, brother and sister completely understood why Pu Jiajing would identify Ye Heng......
Because, this kindness is indeed too great!
It was in this way that Pu Louyuan, who understood it, immediately reprimanded Pu Jiaxin.