Chapter 12: Horse Fighting
Zhou said coldly: "You and your good daughter have made the Bai family lose face, and those things are only regarded as subsidies for the family, which can be regarded as atonement for your sins." How, do you have an opinion? ”
Aunt Zhao's Lian was as stiff as wax oil, and she couldn't help but scold her by holding on to her handkerchief.
She even said it was "those things"! The father and son of the Bai family have been officials for two generations, but just those family backgrounds, and now she is ready to rely on the dowry of one hundred and twenty-eight burdens with such a fluttering sentence of "those things".
Aunt Zhao's heart hurt as if it was being stirred by a knife, and she had to hold up a smile and whispered: "But half of the makeup is the concubine's own selfishness, which should always be ......"
Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Zhou, and she sneered coldly: "You, the daughter who came out of a broken household, came in from the side door by herself with a big belly, not to mention what to marry, where did you come from?" It's not all my Bai family's stuff! ”
Aunt Zhao was speechless when Zhou said this, she gritted her teeth with tears for a long time, and then squeezed out a sentence with difficulty: "Aunt is ruining me like this, does she not care about relatives at all?" ”
Zhou snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "With your identity, if I don't care about my relatives, where can I enter the door of my Bai family, you don't know what to do." ”
Aunt Zhao is almost about to break out, aren't you also out of the house, and even when it comes to your background, the Zhou family is not as good as herself.
Aunt Zhao is a good concubine when she enters the door, and the Zhou family used to be a girl bought by the Bai family, and then gave birth to her only son before she was raised from the girl in the room to the position of the old lady now, and she forgot her origin after being flattered for a few years.
However, Aunt Zhao only dared to think about these words in her heart, but she would never say them. Bai Zonglin is a filial son, although he has been deeply fond of himself for many years, but if he really dares to disobey the old lady, it will definitely not be pleased.
After weighing it again and again, Aunt Zhao didn't dare to tear her face with Zhou, so she had to leave crying.
Bai Yanran in the Qiu Fan Courtyard couldn't help but bend the corners of her lips when she listened to the news that Su Xin inquired about. At the beginning, she specially arranged for her grandmother to meet the Lin family to propose marriage, just to let her know the ins and outs of this matter. She has calculated the good face of her grandmother, and she must be unwilling to add makeup to the marriage.
Originally, she just didn't want her grandmother and father to have a good face, so in order to support Bai Yueyu's face, she tightened her family, and her life was sad, who would have thought that things would end up like this.
Now my grandmother's trick can be regarded as cutting off Aunt Zhao's lifeline, and she can't say anything about the dumb loss and half a complaint, but the housekeeper can hand over the power in time.
Aunt Zhao couldn't please the Zhou family, so she had to go to Bai Zonglin to cry. It's just that Bai Zonglin even sold the only remaining ancestral property in his hand in order to make up the dowry, what else can he do now.
And he was also troubled by the recent series of things caused by Bai Yueyu, and now that the palace test is imminent, he is busy with business and has no time to bother with these trivial things, so he only comforted Aunt Zhao a few words.
Aunt Zhao saw Bai Zonglin's perfunctory and guessed that he was angry with Yu'er, so she had to grit her teeth and swallow her anger.
In this family, she has neither her mother's family nor her son, and her and her daughter's future depends on the favor of her master. Now that Yu'er has become like this again, she must not lose her only hope again.
Aunt Zhao and Bai Yueyu stopped, and the Bai family was calm, but Bai Yanran knew that with their mother and son's temperament, they would not stop like this. But she didn't panic, she just waited to see the move, after all, she still had a handle that was enough to make Bai Yueyu unable to turn over.
On the first day of the first month of March, Enke was elected.
At the time of the solstice, all the three hundred jinshi who had passed the spring this time gathered in the Ninghui Palace. At the moment of the hour, the current emperor Emperor Zhao Shengjia arrived with the prince and Prince An, and everyone kowtowed and shouted three long live.
Emperor Wen Zhao said some words of encouragement and announced that the exam questions of this palace examination, those who can go all the way to the palace examination are already like a rock, and they are completely selfless and do their best to get the exam questions. Or the fish leaps into the dragon gate, or the mediocrity and camp is struggling and looking at the present.
Emperor Wen Zhao was supposed to sit in a high position to invigilate, but a few days ago, he was not very cold, and the dragon was sick. At lunchtime, the prince persuaded him to go back, and the two of them invigilated the palace examination.
At this time, half of the time had passed, and Ji Chengyu and Ji Lingyun went around to inspect it.
Ji Lingyun walked somewhere, and suddenly saw that the name on the sign was Bai Boren, and then he thought of this brother who was about Miss Bai's family, so he silently stepped forward to look at it for a while, and found that although this person had some talent, he was a little old-fashioned, which was completely different from the informal Miss Bai family.
However, a Jinshi surnamed Song beside him is Wencai Pei Ran, I am afraid that he is expected to earn the first class this time, and the future is immeasurable. Looking at this person's appearance again, Ji Lingyun smiled in his heart, he was young and erudite, and he was born with such a handsome appearance, I am afraid that I don't know how many girls will be provoked.
Until the twilight was closed, the Jinshi had been sitting for a whole day without eating or drinking, and at this moment they got up as stiffly as if they had just woken up from a dream. There was even an elderly Jinshi who almost fell down in front of him, but fortunately, the father-in-law who was waiting on the side was experienced, and they had already taken a step forward and dragged it out, so nothing went wrong.
After everyone saluted the two, they dispersed, and Song Shiyang and Bai Boren saw the Bai family's carriage as soon as they went out. After the two went back, they had a meal and went back to the room to sleep, this sleep was dead, it was really too tired today, and at this moment they relaxed and went straight out of strength.
This sleep was like a wandering world, and when he was awakened, it was as if he was in another world, and then he entered the palace with Bai Zonglin and waited outside the main hall with other Jinshi.
It turned out that after they handed in the papers yesterday, more than a dozen examiners read the papers overnight, and then discussed the second and third grades. Finally, the examination papers of the three people jointly recommended were submitted, and the emperor decided the top three and personally awarded the official position in the early court today, which is a supreme honor.
All this turned out to be the same as in his previous life, Song Shiyang got Tanhualang to enter the Hanlin Academy, and his young age can be described as a promising future. Bai Boren is also worthy of being a second-class jinshi, and the specific official position will be determined later, but he has officially stepped into the officialdom.
According to the practice of previous years, the top three of the new branch need to go around the capital to play horses and tour the streets, Song Shiyang was invited to the horse when he left the palace gate, and there was still a trace of embarrassment on his face.
Although he is not his own son, but in the end he is his nephew, this blood is connected Bai Zonglin also has honor and glory, and this kind of thing that gives face to the head of the family naturally makes people happy, and he brought a family to wait at the door.
The new champion is the most lively time in the capital, especially the young and handsome Tanhualang is even more praised, and when Song Shiyang returned home, he left a lot of sachets and handkerchiefs, which were all gifts for young girls.
Bai Yueyu has been gloomy and depressed for the past few days, but Aunt Zhao specially dragged her here to think about joy. Bai Yueyu was extremely impatient, but after seeing Song Shiyang, she was stunned, and then a thought came to her mind irrepressibly.
How good would it be if the person who was going to marry him was a cousin? If she can marry her cousin, then she will be Mrs. Tanhualang, wouldn't she envy the thousands of women in the capital!
Not to mention how beautiful Song Shiyang is now, that is, his appearance is much stronger than Lin Sheng, otherwise he would not have sent it to the door every day to ask for warmth.
It's just that although she cared about Song Shiyang that day, she disliked his poor family background, so she didn't take it seriously to heart. But now he has a bright future, if he can really marry him, it will be a sparrow that will turn into a phoenix, how can a small Lin family be compared.
Until she returned to Chunhua Courtyard, Bai Yueyu's eyes were still in front of Song Shiyang's handsome and extraordinary appearance, and her heart was still beating "bang" to this day.
She suddenly grabbed Aunt Zhao's hand, blushed and said, "Little Niang, Little Niang, you must help me." ”
Aunt Zhao was caught by her and was in pain, so she hurriedly broke free, but Bai Yueyu came over and said urgently: "Little mother, you must help your daughter, and your daughter must marry her cousin!" ”
Aunt Zhao was stunned, and then her face gradually became solemn, Bai Yueyu continued: "Little Niang must help Yu'er achieve her wish, as long as I marry my cousin, Little Niang will no longer have to worry about the second half of her life, and no one in this family will dare to look down on our mother and daughter, I will definitely live better than everyone else." ”
Aunt Zhao nodded slowly and said, "You're right, Song Shiyang is the best candidate for a husband, and more importantly, we are close to the water, and we have more opportunities than others." ”
Bai Yueyu heard this, but said with a gloomy face: "But my cousin has never been interested in me, and now I am afraid that I already have a leg with Bai Yanran, what can I do?" ”
Aunt Zhao disagreed: "So what, as long as we grasp the timing properly, this matter is not impossible." ”
As soon as Bai Yueyu heard that she had a way, she was immediately overjoyed, and suddenly covered her stomach with disgust and said, "Then little lady, you find a way for me to get rid of this evil obstacle in my stomach, otherwise sooner or later I will show my stuffing." ”
Aunt Zhao showed a weird smile on her face, patted her hand and said, "Don't worry, maybe this matter will depend on him." ”
Outside the house, Lianxin leaned on the crack of the door and listened in horror, looked back and saw that there was no one around, and hurriedly tiptoed out of the yard and went to the autumn courtyard in a covert manner. When she told Bai Yanran what she heard, her heart was still beating so hard that she couldn't believe what she had heard.
"You're saying they're going to put this kid on their cousin?"
Lian Xin couldn't help nodding, and said with palpitations: "It was the slave maid who heard it with her own ears, Aunt Zhao said that she would find a suitable time to promote good things, and then she could say that the child in the eldest lady's belly was the cousin's young master, so that the cousin young master had to marry the eldest lady, killing two birds with one stone." ”
Bai Yanran didn't expect that even if she lived again, everything would be different, and Bai Yueyu and Aunt Zhao still had this evil thought. In that case, don't blame her for being ruthless.