Chapter 34: The Purpose of Living
After Chu Jiayin left Fu'an Hall, he only felt that he should think of a way to make his grandmother no longer be so prejudiced against Chu Jingyan. One is one of the people he cherishes, and the other is the thigh that he must hug in order to protect the Chu family and his future life, but he can't let the two be estranged.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be very uncomfortable for her to be caught in the middle?
Peach Blossom was waiting on the side, and seeing that the young lady was worried, she couldn't help but worry: "Girl, are you uncomfortable?" If there's anything wrong with you, don't forget to tell Peach Blossom. Otherwise, if you go on any errand, the old lady will blame me. β
"I'm just thinking about something."
"Yinyin, Yinyin!" Chu Jiazhen came out of nowhere, shouting excitedly, with Chu Jiayin's name in her mouth.
Chu Jiayin turned her head in accordance with the sound, waiting for her to come in front of her because of the inconvenience of her legs and feet.
"Sister Jane." Chu Jiayin saw her face with joy, and guessed something slightly, "Quietly went to see Gongzi Qi?" Or sent a love letter and got an echo. β
"Oops, don't talk nonsense!"
Chu Jiazhen rarely showed a look of shame, and Chu Jiayin couldn't help but quip: "Oh, I almost forgot, the Qi family has already come to the door to propose marriage, even if you don't go to meet people and don't send love letters, your relationship with him is a foregone conclusion." β
"If you make fun of me again, I won't tell you anything." Chu Jiazhen really couldn't stand her mentioning her fiancΓ© like this, not to mention that she had just settled down, and she was not too familiar with Qi Gongzi...... Alas, it's not good to mention too much.
Chu Jiayin snuggled up to her affectionately and coquettishly: "Good sister, I won't laugh at you anymore, what kind of happy event can you say?" Do you have my share? β
"Yes, the whole family."
"What a happy event, the whole family has a share." Chu Jiayin was even more curious.
Chu Jiazhen was played by her before, and now that she has the opportunity to counterattack, she naturally doesn't want to let it go. She deliberately pretended to be calm and was about to speak, which caused Chu Jiayin's expectations to reach the peak, and finally sighed and shut up.
Chu Jiayin, who was put on the table, was like eating a bun that didn't sink, almost choked half to death, and complained bitterly: "Oh, sister, my sister Zhen, just tell me." β
The arm was held and shook by Chu Jiayin for a long time, but Chu Jiazhen couldn't stand it, so she responded: "Okay." I'm telling you. β
Chu Jiayin hurriedly opened her eyes wide, signaling that she was listening and speaking quickly.
"The township test is about to start, and my brothers have passed the hospital test, so I'm waiting for the township test to start. The master said that several of our brothers are very talented, and they have taken the township examination, and they will take the examination next year. After the examination, I have to enter the palace to take the palace examination in front of the emperor, and after the palace examination, there will be people in our family standing in the officialdom. β
"At that time, no one will dare to say that my Chu family is a family of merchants, and my status will have to be mentioned." Chu Jiazhen said with some pride.
Chu Jiayin was not afraid of the blame of his brothers, and poured cold water: "I think it's very difficult to pass these three tests." But...... The second brother will definitely do it! β
In his previous life, he didn't pay attention to what ranking Chu Jingyan had won, and where he ended up, Chu Jiayin at that time only followed Song Shuming, and later vaguely knew that the second brother who had been bullied by her for several years had become one of the top ministers in the court.
"The second brother is not from our family." Chu Jiazhen also revealed it mercilessly, "Chengtian's second brother, second brother, ignore me." Anyway, it's not biological, if you don't follow the second brother, you won't be able to call it in the future. β
Chu Jiayin, who had been facing the second brother for a while, suddenly turned white and red, and finally could only look at Chu Jiazhen with complaining eyes, and said, "Sister Zhen, don't talk nonsense. has lived under the same roof for several years, and called my brother for so many years, and it has really become another relationship, so it's not embarrassing to die. β
Chu Jiazhen looked at her awkward look, and became even more energetic: "Ouch, that's what you say, I don't think you think so in your heart." You just liked Song Shuming in the first place, so you chased people behind people's backs. Now I was chilled by the Song family's divorce, and I turned to stick to the second brother, which is very suspicious. β
"I'm here to learn! Learn! Chu Jiayin deliberately repeated the key point in disguise, but it had the opposite effect. This behavior that wants to cover up makes people can't help but be suspicious.
was laughed at to the end, Chu Jiayin frowned, and realized that things were not simple.
How can Sister Jane care about her brothers on weekdays? The brothers are not as important as hibiscus cakes, and they are worth her attention.
Chu Jiayin seized the opportunity to fight back, and asked her with a wicked smile: "Sister Zhen, are you here to show off Gongzi Qi to me?" β
Among the newly released talents, among the teenage generation, except for Chu Jingyan, the best achiever is not Chu Jiazhen's fiancΓ© Qi Lin?
"This is showing off, I just talk casually, share and share." Having said that, Chu Jiazhen could not hide her pride on her face.
"Oh, share, share. Sister Jane's husband will definitely soar in the future, and even with Sister Jane, her face will shine, don't forget your poor sixth sister when the time comes, huh. β
Chu Jiayin looked so pitiful, Chu Jiazhen was amused by her, and said: "You can pretend, everyone in this house spoils you and loves you, where are you pitiful?" Our family's Yinyin is good, and now I have learned a little talent with my second brother, and when it comes to the year of Jilu, the son who came to propose marriage may have to break the threshold. β
"What is a Song family, a small Zhenbei Hou? This town is more peaceful than your grandfather's family, but that's it, sooner or later, they will regret it. β
The Hou Mansion in Zhenbei is hung with an empty number, and the emperor allocates it according to the day, and it is just a good name. The Marquis of Anning's Mansion is different, it can say a few words in front of the emperor. The Song family dared to bully Chu Jiayin, just because her mother died early, and the connection between Anning Houfu and the Chu family was only such a young granddaughter, and she had not been deeply concerned about the Chu family in recent years.
But it's really going to be a big fuss, how can the Marquis of Anning ignore it.
"I borrowed my sister's good words." Chu Jiayin said.
She doesn't worry about getting married, she just hopes that the things in the past life will not happen in this life. The Chu family can have a smooth journey, those villains can stay away from their Chu family, and Chu Jiayin will feel at ease. For the rest, if you can't force it, you just let it be.
Chu Yun received the punishment, and he has been at ease a lot these days.
It was less than three months before the township test started, and Ruan Xiangling was in a hurry to stuff her son into the Chu family. It is said that Ruan Xiangling's son, Chu Liangshan, is still a man with some ink in his belly, and he won the show last year.
It is really not easy for him to be admitted to Xiucai at his age.
Although Ruan Xiangling's mother and son couldn't enter the Chu family's compound, Chu Zhang had feet to go out, and when he caught up with the township test, he couldn't help but have to blow the wind on the pillow. This imperial examination is not like playing with ink at a banquet, and if you can't get the teaching of a famous teacher, I'm afraid it will be difficult to solve the questions on that volume.
Ruan Xiangling's mother and son are shabby even to eat and live outside, where can they afford to hire any famous teachers.
Without the teaching of famous teachers, it may not be really successful, but this student will inevitably take detours, and it is common for them to go around for several years or more than ten years to understand three or two of them.
This is also the so-called deep meaning of the noble son from a poor family.
It is not impossible to study hard for ten years in the cold window and then go to the scientific examination, but Ruan Xiangling is obviously not a patient master, so she can't wait. While she is still young these years, she can still trap Chu Zhang, and in a few years, she will be old and decrepit, a pair of children will not be reliable, and she will not be able to fight for herself, she is afraid that she will not be able to step into the door of the Chu family for the rest of her life.
But if you want to enter the door of the Chu family in a short time, how easy is it?
Ruan Xiangling's mother and son were planning to fight outside, and Chu Yun had just made the old lady angry, and now in the inner courtyard, not only could she not speak, but she even had to lower her head and almost couldn't raise it.
On the other side, Chu Jiayin and Chu Jingyan were mixed in the courtyard of Linglong Pavilion all day long, with few piano sounds, faint flute sounds, and poems that were constantly recited one after another. The whole courtyard was rendered by the atmosphere between the two of them, and there was a kind of sacred book aroma.
"Sycamore treats each other old, and the mandarin ducks will die. Virgin noble...... The same is true of the martyrdom, and so is the sacrifice of life. I can't afford to swear it, and the concubine has an ancient well water. Chu Jiayin sat on the swing and recited a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao's "Martyr's Gymnastics", and slowly listened to Chu Jingyan analyze the meaning, and his little face wrinkled.
She was unconvinced and said, "Why does the husband die and the wife follows him?" Is there also a poem that says that when the wife dies, the husband follows and dies? β
"If you like each other enough, you should be able to live and die." Chu Jingyan said.
"How much do you have to like it before you are willing to die with one?" Chu Jiayin suddenly thought of when she died in her previous life, she was tossed all over her body, her ten fingers were stained with blood, and she was miserable. At the moment of breathlessness, I intuitively felt that the suffering in this life was not as difficult as that moment.
Maybe it's because she hadn't been sinned in her previous life. This damn Song Shuming and Chu Yun actually treated her like that!
Fortunately, God took pity on her and gave her a miserable death, allowing her to live again.
This opportunity to live again made her understand how terrible death can be.
"I don't know."
Chu Jingyan didn't even know who he was, who his biological parents were, and why the uncle of the Chu family took him home. He has been very confused in the past sixteen years, and he only feels that he should not be resigned to mediocrity, and he does his best to study and practice martial arts.
The person who secretly taught his secret words probably knew who he was, but no matter how Chu Jingyan asked, they only replied that the time had not come.
The hazy life experience and unpredictable future made him a little uneasy, and such small things as love and love were never in his planning. At present, the most important thing may be to find out his own background, such as starting with those who injured him with dark arrows.
And if you want to check these things, you must first use manpower, he is no different from the son of a servant in the Chu family, how can there be manpower to borrow. So before that, he had to gain fame, gain power in the hands of the emperor, and get manpower.
"Second brother, second brother?" Chu Jiayin saw that Chu Jingyan was stunned for a long time, and asked him without answering anything, so he could only stretch out his hand and shake it in front of his eyes.