The princess was very kind to this brother, but her family couldn't accept his mistakes, especially the eldest man of the Zhou family, his career was not smooth, but the eldest son was so mediocre, and no one in their family inherited his father's talent and talent.

"It's not as good as others, who is to blame if he doesn't blame him? The boy of the Lin family, who is about the same age as you, is much better than you in the exam, are you poor for other people's food or poor for other people's use? Eat the same rice and read the same book, why are you not as good as others? ”

The Zhou family and the Lin family are the two major scholarly families in Beijing, the two old men were also in the same imperial examination that year, the old man of the Zhou family got the flower in his early twenties, which is the scenery, and the old man of the Lin family was sixteen years old and won the thirty-eighth place in the second class, which can be called a young man. Later, the old man of the Zhou family was stationed in the Hanlin Academy, and his knowledge convinced the first emperor, and he entered the palace to teach the prince, and became the emperor's master today, and the old man of the Lin family traveled to various places to govern the people's livelihood after the closure of the museum, and returned to Beijing at the age of thirty-eight to serve as the secretary of the ministry, and the position of the minister, and has been sitting until now, and the protégé is all over the world.

The two old men have been fighting openly and secretly for decades, and they have not come up with a winner, so they pinned their hopes on the descendants, their son's generation is not particularly outstanding, Lin Shangshu's third son is a bit of a father's style, but he does not love officialdom to send love to the landscape, and there are no children under his knees, and his wife and his wife love to gamble on books and pour tea, they are the fairy couple that everyone in Beijing envies, but it also gives Lin Shangshu a headache, and the smartest son is the most unsuccessful.

It made the Zhou family breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately, your son is not successful, otherwise my family will be under pressure.

There is nothing to fight for in the son's generation, and they have to compare with the grandson's generation, they have been comparing since the children were young, when the palace had to pick a few children to study in the palace, the Lin family came out with the smartest Lin Rui, and the Zhou family was the head of the long house Sun Zhou Xiuwen at the beginning, but Zhou Xiuwen was not as smart as Lin Rui, and was brushed down, which made Master Zhou so angry at that time, or Zhou Ning automatically asked for help, saying that the female student also recruited people? She went to fight.

In the end, the eldest daughter gave him a long face, or the emperor chose a grandson and the Zhou family chose a granddaughter in order to balance the two families, and they were all happy.

Lord Zhou and Taifu often sigh, but unfortunately Zhou Ning is a daughter's family, if it is the eldest grandson in the family, why worry about not being able to glorify the court.

Zhou Xiuwen is Zhou Ning's younger brother when he was three years old, the Zhou family poetry heirloom family style is rigorous, not only has the rule that the eldest son can not have a concubine before he is born, but also a rule that the eldest grandson is not born and the other room can not give birth to a grandson, Mrs. Zhou married into the Zhou family coincided with the first imperial filial piety, and only after a few years of filial piety did she conceive a child, and she was born Zhou Ning, and then she became pregnant again after two years, and gave birth to the eldest grandson Zhou Xiuwen. It's just that this eldest grandson, who was born with everyone's hopes, is a mediocre person.

It's not like the eldest master is strict with his son, Mrs. Zhou is more tolerant of his grandchildren's children, one is the next generation, and second, he hasn't even taught his sons well, what position do he have to discipline his grandson, the son doesn't teach is the father's fault, and the grandson has their own father to teach, but if the son disciplines too harshly, he can't see it, and he still has to nag a few words.

This time, he couldn't see it, and said to his eldest son: "It's not easy to cultivate Wen, you don't have to put too much pressure on him, how old is he this year, you don't seem to be a jinshi at his age." ”

Zhou Xiuwen has not yet reached the crown, and many scholars of his age are still in school, and he has already entered the Gongyuan, which is good. But this is just for ordinary people, for the Jingzhong family, you are the grandson of Taifu, a child of a scholarly family, you should be born to read, you should be born to read, and it is natural to take the top prize.

The eldest lord scolded his son, and the Taifu came to teach him, he was also trained as a quail, and now he taught his son these words, all of which he taught him back then, he was ashamed and ashamed, he was not as good as the Taifu Dad at that time, his father was Tanhualang, and he had not been criticized for his life, he failed to inherit his father's intelligence, and he deserved to be scolded, and now he scolds his son, and he also owes this son to an honest character, if it is a thorn, he will definitely have to reply a few words: "Dad, you have such qualifications, What good things can you expect me to pass on? You haven't passed on your grandfather's good qualifications, and you've been separated by a generation to me, and you can't pass them on, so you have to blame you for isolating your grandfather's good qualifications and not letting me pass them on. ”

This is what the eldest man thinks in his heart, and the eldest son does not dare to say this, the eldest son said that the eldest grandson will also participate in the palace examination, don't taunt him more, let him rest and recuperate, and raise enough spirit to participate in the palace examination.

Zhou Ning is now also seven months old, it is not easy to go out, Mrs. Zhou let her live in her mother's house for a few days, she is so good to accompany her daughter, Zhou Ning comforted her brother a few words and lost energy, Zhou Xiuwen also felt sorry for his sister, touched his sister's stomach and said hello to his nephews, and closed the door after returning to the room, he may not have worked hard enough.

The palace examination is scheduled for the ninth day of the fourth month, held in the Jinluan Palace, four hundred tribute students sit in a row in the Jinluan Hall according to their ranks, the emperor sits on the dragon chair and looks down, several examiners who will take the examination are now coming to invigilate the palace examination, patrolling back and forth in the hall, occasionally seeing the test paper of the middle eye, will stop and watch more, write down the candidate's name and hometown, and pay more attention to the paper when grading.

The emperor sat for a long time with back pain, and also came down to walk, the candidate glanced at a wisp of bright yellow around him, a sense of oppression struck, and the pressure made people breathless and sweat on their foreheads, and their hands were a little trembling.

The emperor knew that the dragon was threatening, so he stopped walking around, and went to sit on the dragon chair again, muttering to Wan Fugui, and commenting on the candidates in the palace.

"Look, the fifth in the third row is Qiao Qingyun, who is really good."

He just went down for a walk, focusing on going to see Qiao Qingyun and see what kind of demeanor this talented fairy man praised by everyone was.

Wan Fugui's old eyes were a little dizzy, and he only saw a mess in the hall, and he couldn't see what Qiao Qingyun looked like, but as soon as the emperor said it, he immediately agreed: "It's not!" Qiao Gongzi is really immortal, and the lord of Ting County has found a good son-in-law, which can be regarded as satisfying the prince and his wife. ”

The emperor laughed, the prince and his wife were satisfied, he was not satisfied, this was originally his son-in-law!

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