It was rare that the sun was shining, Song Tian took Chen Jiali to prepare to go shopping casually and then come back, Pang Zimo and Hu Ke went to listen to the class.

The master and servant were walking down the street, wanting to go back and buy some gadgets or snacks along the way, but the street was bustling with people.

There are candidates, and there are also family members who accompany them to refer to it.

It didn't take long for Song Tian to be in a mood and wanted to find a carriage to go back, but there were too many people, and the carriage was not found, so he had no choice but to walk back.

This walk led to the teahouse where Hu Ke had spoken last night.

"Childe, do you want to go up and take a look."

Chen Jiali saw Song Tian looking up at the second floor, and leaned over and asked.

Song Tian frowned and said, "No need, let's go back." ”

In a small teahouse that didn't even have a signboard, Song Tian felt that most of Pang Zimo and Hu Ke's two hundred dollars were lost.

The master and servant slowly moved forward with the flow of people, and by the window on the second floor of the teahouse, Tian Mao glanced down, and then said to Song Hong, who was counting copper plates at the table: "Brother Song, come and see, is that your third brother." ”

Seventeen or eighteen-year-old Tian Mao is already an adult man, wearing a blue jacket, a wooden hairpin on his head, his facial features are not handsome, but he is also very upright, with the bookish anger emanating from the top and bottom of the mixed body, it looks pretty good.

Third brother?

I hadn't heard this word for a long time, Song Hong put down the money box and walked over quickly.

He followed Tian Mao's gaze and looked down, his expression condensed.

For more than three years, Song Hong has not been back since she ran away from home.

The Song family was about to forget about him, but they didn't expect this person to appear in the city.

Song Hong is almost eighteen years old, he has faded from his childishness, his eyebrows are a little rough, and he looks like Song Dacai in terms of appearance alone, but he does not have the naivety of Song Dacai, and he is only shrewd in his eyes.

"Brother Song, the scar on his face seems to be gone."

The two of them couldn't see it too clearly when they stood on the second floor, and Tian Mao only recognized him because of the moment Song Tian looked up just now.

I haven't seen that little bit of change a lot in a few years, not only has the person grown taller, but without that scar, his appearance is also rare and handsome, if it weren't for the eyebrows and eyes and the way he walked, Tian Mao almost didn't recognize it.

"It seems that he is having a good life, and the one who follows him should be a scholar."

Tian Mao was a little envious, once upon a time he was like this, he had a car when he went out, there were people around him when he went to school, and he was a rich boy in the real sense, but those were all in the past.

"Hey, why don't you speak? Don't call it up to catch up on the old days? ”

Tian Mao turned his head sideways, and saw that the green tendons on Song Hong's forehead were bursting up, and he was pinching the window lattice with both hands, and his fingertips were a little white.

"Brother Tian, it's not that you don't know that I ran away from home."

Song Hong turned around and glanced at him coldly, when his plagiarism was exposed, the family was divided, and he wanted to wait for the next year to gather enough money to find a place to study, but he went out to inquire about it those days, and found that he only relied on his father's five hundred money to pay for a year.

A year, how could he wait, and then Tian Mao, who thought of pit his silver, looked for it.

At that time, Tian Mao had already entered the new academy, and the ten taels of silver he got from himself and Su Yongna, some of which were paid for bondage, and some were given to the family for emergencies, which were long gone.

That year, Song Hong troubled him and beat Tian Mao's gang, but he beat him, but he didn't care about him, took him to see his injuries, and found him an errand over there.

Tian Mao said that as long as he followed him, the money for studying would be available sooner or later, and there was no need to ask for help.

Song Hong's reputation was ruined by borrowing money, and it was not comfortable to face the strange eyes of those people in the village, so he didn't go back.

It's just that more than three years have passed, and the two have done a lot of things, but Song Hong has not been able to go to school.

Thinking that the matter of going to school had not yet been settled, but Song Tian had already left the field to prepare for the exam, Song Hong was panting, and he didn't want to see the old man, but he couldn't help but want to destroy him when he saw it.

"Hey, Brother Song, it's important to make money at the moment, but it's not the time to repay personal grievances. If you don't want to go to school this year, the county exam is over, and the government exam and the college exam are over, and if you don't seize this opportunity, you won't be able to make up the money. Next year, it will be a township test. ”

Tian Mao stretched out his hand and grabbed Song Hong's shoulder, the entrance examination of the government examination institute was imminent, and he needed this person's help to make money to catch the exam, instead of doing those things that didn't make much sense.

"Going to school?"

Song Hong snorted and laughed, and said gloomily: "When I save enough money to go to school, people may have gone to Beijing to prepare for the exam and prepare to enter the court as an official." ”

In the past few years, when there is no exam, he works as a casual worker to eat and drink, and when he encounters the county examination twice every three years, he and Tian Mao go into the city to partner with an old master to hold some classes, and take some money from those students.

I don't mention the casual workers on weekdays, I can only keep my life, but I took the county exam and the government exam twice, and the three of them earned a lot, but unfortunately they gave more to the master, and there were fewer of them here.

Song Hong has never given up going to school over the years, he has already saved a little money in his hand, and seeing that the matter of admission is about to be achieved, how could he ever have wanted to see Song Tian.

Seeing that everyone has ended, even the scholar has it, this is undoubtedly a heavy blow.

He will fall into this field, Song Hong feels that it has a lot to do with his good third brother.

"Brother Song, you look up to him too much. This is the county exam, even if there is still the government test and the hospital test, even I am just a child now, he Song Tian is a big deal to pass the county test and the government test, can you still expect him to be a showman? Rest assured, there is a chance to compete with him on the field. ”

Tian Mao is calming Song Hong's emotions, this year's hospital test, next year's township test, no accident he will go to Beijing.

When he leaves, this person will have no use value, let him take revenge, let him toss, and have nothing to do with himself.

But now he doesn't want Song Hong to cause something, after all, he hasn't saved enough money to enter the Fucheng exam, and making money is more important.

What Tian Mao thought, how could Song Hong not know.

He smiled and said, "Brother Tian, don't worry, you need money, and so will I." ”

At that time, it took Song Tian nearly half an hour to return to the inn, he went upstairs to repair it and sat under the window to read, and Chen Jiali also served it for lunch.

After eating, Song Tian took a nap, and when he got up, Pang Zimo and Hu Ke came back.

The two of them were very dissatisfied with the topic in the morning, and the level of that person couldn't even catch up with the lady of the Cangshan Academy, and they called out that they had spent unjust money.

But even so, Song Tian heard that there were dozens or hundreds of people who listened to the lectures in the past, and even the place where they sat down was full.

In the afternoon, Master Zhang gathered everyone to say something in the hall.

The county exam is divided into five sessions, which is five days.

From morning to sunset, an exam takes a whole day.

At noon, you need to bring your own food, and you also have to prepare some copper plates, and you need money to order tea and water in it.

After the matter was told, Master Zhang asked everyone to prepare things early, not to read at night, and to sleep a little longer.

The county exam is twice every three years, and even if you don't have a chance to be listed, you can do it again, so you don't need to put too much pressure on yourself, so you don't have to get up tomorrow morning and your spirit is not good.