The next morning, the magpie came to the door, Yi Xiangxiang was still holding her little sister Yi Huanhuan in her arms, and she heard the good news from someone in front of her through the door, saying that Yi Luochuan had won the lift, although it was a dozen results, but it was also very remarkable.

When Grandma Sun saw that the main house of Yongle Ju was still closed, she knew that the eighth lady had not gotten up to wash. I secretly thought that these eight young ladies were really favored, and they were still staying in the room after half of the hour, and I just heard the maid say that for the sake of these eight young ladies, today's Ci'an Hall also moved the breakfast time back, but it was really spoiled.

After Yixi Lake became the governor of Tongzhou, he still continued the rules of the previous morning and dusk in the century-old county. It's just that Mrs. Yi thinks that it is really troublesome for a large family to have breakfast, and it is because except for the fifteenth day of the new year, if there is nothing else, everyone does not need to stay in Ci'an Hall to eat after they are invited. But here is the good news today, and the Ci'an Church is going to gather together. Yesterday, a Mo family knew that the brothers and sisters of the big house were still putting lanterns by the crescent moon lake for a few nights, so they had already exempted people from asking for peace today; And the old lady Mo Shi did know that Yi Xiangxiang loved to sleep lazy, since she went to women's school, she didn't have to go to Mr. Lai's place to read early, Yi Xiangxiang had to make up for a return sleep every time she went back to school, so Mo deliberately postponed the time for breakfast after receiving the good news today.

"Mrs. Xie Sun specially came to give the lady good news, this is the lady rewarded you with wine, and I need you to take care of the matter of Yongle Ju when I turn around!" Le Qi smiled and stuffed the embroidered purse to his grandmother, and he promised that he was very old-fashioned.

Grandma Sun half-pushed and half-accepted the reward and said, "Mrs. Zhou is polite!" Then I will thank Miss Ba for rewarding that mother-in-law! Just now, when the old woman came over, she happened to bump into the girl of the bird, she came to pass on the words of the old lady, so I brought the words with me, and the old lady said that she would go to Ci'an Hall to have dinner at the time. ”

Le Qi and Grandma exchanged a few words with me, and the grandmother left happily. She thought in her heart that it was no wonder that everyone in the house loved to be close to Miss Eight, and she really wanted Miss Eight to be generous; If you go to the second room to report the good news, thank God if you don't find an excuse to eat at the top of the row, where can you expect a reward? Just now, these maids and wives made a lot of noise about who came to Yongle Ju to report the good news, but fortunately, they were better than the seniors, otherwise this heavy reward would fall into the hands of others.

Yi Xiangxiang sat up and stretched her waist to call Le Qi outside the door in, and said, "Le Qi, you tell me to go down, Yongle Residence and Chuanhe Courtyard will be rewarded!" The brother over there in Chuanheyuan will definitely give a reward, but we reward us, they have done their best to serve their brother these days, and they deserve a generous reward. After that, you go to the treasury and choose a set of good study treasures to send to your brother, and say that I am a congratulatory gift to him. ”

Yi Huanhuan had also woken up, and after hearing her sister's words, she yawned and said, "Do you want to give a gift to your brother?" So what am I going to give? I like that bunny doll, or ...... Why don't I give it to my brother! ”

In Yi Huanhuan's eyes, her favorite thing must also be liked by others, so she proposed to give her beloved doll to her brother. Yi Xiangxiang made up for Yi Luochuan's appearance of holding the rabbit doll, felt that it was unsightly, and quickly stopped Yi Huanhuan and said: "Keep your little rabbit doll for yourself, brother He still likes the landscape paintings of the talented son Shi Yan, and my sister just has a pair here, so I will give it to Huanhuan and let Huanhuan give it to my brother, okay?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Sister is the best! Yi Huanhuan was happy when he heard that he didn't have to give away his doll.

Yi Xiangxiang smiled and said to Le Qi: "Send the landscape map in the study together, and say that it is a gift from Miss Nine!" Yi Xiangxiang felt a little painful after speaking, Shi Yan's paintings are not many, this landscape painting was obtained by her accident, it is said that it is worth a lot of money, because she has been hanging in her study. But I was relieved to think of giving it to Yi Luochuan, anyway, it was all a family, and the thing was not really gone, but existed in another way. Yi Xiangxiang could only comfort herself like this.

"It seems that in the future, we will have a brother in our family!" Yi Xiangxiang did a good job of psychological construction, so she personally dressed Yi Huanhuan and tied her braids; I think she used to hope to have a little sister who could dress her up every day, but now she finally got her wish, and she dressed up Yi Huanhuan energetically.

Yi Huanhuan rubbed her big eyes and said, "Sister, what do you mean by lifting people?" Is it to lift people up? ”

Yi Huanhuan's words made Yongle Curie burst into laughter, Yi Xiangxiang laughed and gave Yi Huanhuan the system of scientific examination, and finally said: "Lifting people can also be released from the government!" If my brother is older, the court may also release my brother as an official, then you will have an official brother, and you will be majestic when you go out in the future! ”

"Sister can't be like this, Daddy said we can't bully the weak, can't ...... No...... Bully people by flaunting one's powerful connections! That's right, you can't fake it. Yi Huanhuan clapped her hands and was excited to find the right idiom!

Yi Xiangxiang didn't want to be educated by her sister to be a fox and a fake tiger, so she couldn't cry or laugh for a while, she pretended to be annoyed and stuffed Yi Huanhuan who was dressed to Le Qi and said: "You little girl with no conscience hurry up, out of sight and out of mind!" ”

However, Yi Xiangxiang also said in passing, as she just said, her brother is still very young, and the chance of being awarded an official is very small. This scientific examination is not an easy task, some people take a lifetime to pass the exam, and it is not for nothing that Yi Luochuan won at a young age, but it is also a minority. Regardless of the rest, take Yi Hanchen in the second room as an example, Xiucai took the exam twice before he was successful; This time, Yi Hanchen saw that Yi Luochuan was going to test the water, and he also followed. Just now, Grandma Sun didn't say that Yi Hanchen was on the list, it seems that he didn't win; It was expected that Yi Hanchen did not enter the list, and Yi Luochuan was able to win, which also made Yi Xiangxiang a little surprised.

Yi Xiangxiang knew that Yi Luochuan had worked his studies in the past two years, but it was far less than the previous time when he spent time in Centennial County forgetting to sleep and eat. The main reason is that two years ago, Yi Luochuan suddenly proposed to teach the head to practice martial arts in the same week, which made the Yi family sad for all ages. Yi Xiangxiang even secretly asked people to go to Yi Luochuan's courtyard to check, wondering if his brother had read some martial arts novels recently and had some heroic plots, and the answer was naturally fruitless. Yi Luochuan's idea of learning martial arts came like a summer rainstorm, without any warning at all. Yi Xiangxiang even wondered if it was the excitement of Qishan's distress before, but because of the time difference, she felt that she couldn't get in touch.

The Yi family naturally disagreed with Yi Luochuan's martial arts, no, the Huang family in the second room agreed very much, because she had a concept of doing business with Yi Hanxi, she thought that now the wind and rain are smooth, the country and the people are safe, and if you can't make military achievements, you are just a martial artist. At that time, Huang was very excited, but he still suppressed his joy and pretended to understand: "It's good to practice martial arts, strengthen your body!" ”

Of course, Huang's wishful thinking did not start, because Yi Kangwen, the old lady Yi, did not agree. Also, finally the son is a little out of the way, this grandson is also a piece of reading material, seeing that the glorious lintel is just around the corner, and no elder will agree. For the sake of both, Yi Luochuan proposed that he would not let go of civil and military affairs, so the final result was that Yi Luochuan promised not to delay his studies and would still go to the academy diligently.

Therefore, his brother can still be lifted by his dual purpose, Yi Xiangxiang is a little surprised and admired. She has already gone to a women's school, although she fished for three days and dried nets for two days, and skipped class as she used to see when she was in modern school, but she had also seen the talent in the college, where she couldn't show her head without some real talent.

Speaking of which, Yi Xiangxiang has a headache about going to women's school. She can't compose poems or write pairs, but if she plagiarizes some of the ancient poems and phrases memorized in modern times, it will look too awesome! is that every time she goes to school for girls, she wants to compose poems, but she is silent.

At the beginning, the master hated that iron could not become steel and had to ask her to learn, but later the Lin family knew about it and said hello to the female master, and the female master gave up. After all, other parents don't care, what's the use of her chasing? In fact, Lin didn't care, she thought that her daughter wanted to hide it, after all, she had heard her daughter Yongju with her own ears back then, "I'd rather die with incense on the branches, how could I have blown down in the north wind" What a good verse! It was because she decided that Yi Xiangxiang didn't want to be in the limelight. Yi Xiangxiang didn't want to be "devastated" by her master now because she was unintentionally inserted into the willow, so she was very happy, so she didn't want to explain the misunderstanding at the beginning. Beautiful mistakes are beautiful after all, let Ms. Lin think that her daughter is very talented but hiding it! Yi Xiangxiang is very happy about this. However, the other daughters in the women's school will only think that Yi Xiangxiang's rotten wood cannot be carved, and it is rumored in Tongzhou Lane that Yi Xiangxiang has no talent and no virtue.

When Lin first heard these rumors, he still learned Yi Xiangxiang's tone and said, "A group of uninformed mortals! In the future, my son will become famous in one fell swoop, and see how you slap your face! These words made Yi Xiangxiang speechless, and she really wanted to ask Ms. Lin where she got her confidence.

Yi Luochuan is in the middle of the move, and the Yi family is naturally beaming. Yi Xiangxiang saw that some maids and wives in the house were lazy yesterday, and originally wanted to beat it up in the past two days, but now that there is a happy event, it is natural to postpone it.

After the family finished breakfast in Ci'an Hall, it was time for Yixi Lake to rest, and everyone sat in the side hall to talk.

"Chuan'er is now promising, so I have to set up a banquet to celebrate! That Lord Wu's sister-in-law held a banquet in the middle of the past few years, so it makes no sense for us not to celebrate Chuan'er. Mrs. Yi Mo sat in the red sandalwood Fushou chair at the top and said; The Lord Wu she said was Wu Jianbin , the governor of Tongzhou, who was in charge of all affairs in Tongzhou from the six products.

The reason why Mo said this was that she also said that she wanted to celebrate when Yi Luochuan was a talent in the middle of the show, but she was rejected by her son Yi Xihu on the grounds of low-key behavior. This time she said that she had to put this matter in the basket, and after Mo Shi finished speaking, she glanced at Yi Kangwen, the old lady Yi, and asked him to stand on her side.

"Madame is right, Chuan'er is also quite old, take advantage of this banquet to make some relatives and friends, and share your father's worries in the future." Yi Kangwen said seriously while drinking tea.

Yi Luochuan originally wanted to refuse his grandmother's proposal, but Yi Kangwen even brought out the "sharing worries", and as a junior, he naturally couldn't say anything, so he could only wait for his father to make a decision.

Yi Xihu naturally did not object, because the Lin family had already guessed that if his son was successful, his mother-in-law would definitely talk about holding a banquet; It was because the Lin family had already told Yi Xihu last night that her son should also see the world at this age, and the Lin family also said that she would also take this opportunity to see if there was a suitable daughter's family, and she would have to set a good family for her son in the future. Yi Xihu felt that his wife was reasonable, so he agreed to the banquet without Mo saying anything.

In ancient times, weddings were very complicated, that is, they spent many years before marriage, and after they were optimistic, they had to propose, matchmaker, and marry...... It is not possible to achieve things in a day or two after the three books and six rituals, because if you don't look for it now, I am afraid that you will have to be in a hurry in the future.

Yi Xihu naturally knows the concerns of his little wife, although his son is young and successful now, and there are many people who come to the door to say that they are married, but it is not suitable to catch any of them; This marriage not only depends on the girl's own character, but also on the family background of the in-laws, which is not unreasonable to look at each other in advance. He thought like the eldest niece in the second room at the beginning, and he also saw each other in advance, isn't it still suitable? It was because he agreed to Lin's precautions. Moreover, many teenagers of Yi Luochuan's age in Tongzhou City have already married, and he was afraid that his son would delay his studies, otherwise he would have let his wife go to Zhangluo a long time ago.

Of course, Yi Xihu thought that the eldest niece in the second room was not suitable, and what he didn't understand was that the eldest niece was higher than the sky. The year before last, Lord Wu's wife had a private conversation with the Lin family, and wanted the matchmaker to hire Yi Ruonan as her daughter-in-law; This is really a good marriage, then Lord Wu's official residence is from the sixth grade, and his son Wu Feng has already passed the Xiucai exam, and he will be able to achieve a career in the future; But Yi Ruonan's father is white, so if he is married, he should be regarded as Yi Ruonan's small marriage. Moreover, Lord Wu is working under Yi Xixi, and the inner courtyard of the Wu family will also be respectful to Yi Ruonan in the future. In fact, it is also because of the relationship between the Yi family's big house that the Wu family wants to marry Yi Ruonan, otherwise Mrs. Wu will not look down on Yi Tangquan's daughter, even if Yi Ruonan is famous.

At that time, Lin rushed to discuss with Huang, Huang was quite happy at the time, and he didn't want to say it to his daughter that night, but her daughter refused. Huang still remembers Yi Ruonan's original words: "This Lin family is really calculating!" Lord Wu is working under his uncle, so won't I have to be constrained by the big house to look at their faces even if I get married in the future? The Wu family is not a high-ranking nobleman, compared to the Changping Marquis Mansion, it is heaven and earth, I worked hard to make myself famous, how can I marry as good as that maid! Yi Ruonan has always been obsessed with the matter of Miaoqin, and he didn't even call his aunt when he spoke in private, and called Lin directly.

Yi Ruonan's words made Huang feel very reasonable, so she asked Lin to reject Mrs. Wu the next day. Lin was helpless, and since then he has no longer interfered in Yi Ruonan's marriage. But the Huang family is not as socialized as the Lin family, and the more they pick it up, the worse they are to the Wu family, and when they regret it and want to accept this family, it is rumored that Wu Feng, the eldest son of the Wu family, has hired the daughter of Judge Cui, and even the levy has passed! If Yi Ruonan still wants to enter the Wu family, he can only choose a concubine. Yi Ruonan refused, she dropped a set of koi carved tea sets in Nanfeng Ju before she calmed down and looked for a way out! So it was like this, Yi Ruonan was made an older leftover girl by herself.

Although the Huang family was not very happy because of Yi Luochuan, they thought that their son Yi Hanchen was also of age, and it was time to take a good look at his daughter-in-law, so he also had some expectations. She thought about it and looked at her eldest daughter Yi Ruonan, and sighed silently in her heart, now she really wants to urge her daughter to make up her mind, she thought to herself.

Seeing that Mo and Lin discussed the details of the banquet, Mrs. Yi asked Yi Luochuan again after adding a few omissions: "Next year's spring, can you prepare to go to Beijing to take the exam?" ”

After the township test, it will be the test, and only the lifter can participate; The time of the examination is in the spring of the second year after the township examination, and the place of the examination is no longer in the state capital, but in the official office of the Ministry of Rites in the capital, because the examination period is in the spring, which is also called "Chunfu".

Yi Luochuan shook his head and said, "This township has had a difficult time, and I think it needs to be consolidated; I won't participate in next year's spring festival, so let's take a look later! Yi Luochuan knows his strength very well, rather than being under the pressure of falling off the list, it is better to succeed in one fell swoop after doing a solid job.

Yi Kangwen was very relieved to see that this eldest grandson was not in a hurry for quick success: "It's best if you think like this, but you still have to go to the academy." The dean is a person with real talents, and you have to study hard with him. ”

The dean of Skumori Gakuin is full of peach and plum all over the world, and when he was in Kyoto, he also taught the current Prime Minister Hayashi Chongda, so he has a lot of weight in the hearts of students.

Yi Luochuan stood up and gave up.

The Huang family and Yi Ruonan in the second room were side by side with Yi Hanchen, and they were all relieved to hear Yi Luochuan say that he would not participate in the Spring Festival. Especially Yi Hanchen, when he heard Yi Luochuan say that the township had tried hardships this time, he naturally attributed Yi Luochuan's success to luck.

"The purpose of this study is first of all to enrich one's body and mind, to cultivate one's mind and body, and to achieve oneself with a positive mind and body. I don't want you to have any great achievements in the future, I just want you to understand the fundamentals of living in the world, and be a person of self-respect, self-love, self-confidence, and self-improvement. Yi Kangwen said as he twisted his beard with white flowers.

Yi Xiangxiang rolled her eyes in her heart, her grandfather's plagiarism was too naked, these words were what she said when she was teaching Huan Huanle to recite poems! The original words are: "Not all scholars have to take the top prize, many people are to be plated with a layer of shining golden light, but despite this, we must also correct our mentality, not let the golden light be full of mud, and be a sunny boy with self-esteem, self-love, self-confidence and self-improvement!" ”

Although Yi Kangwen tampered with Yi Xiangxiang's quotations, the latter would not expose her grandfather, and she still stood up with the large army to praise her.

Then Yi Kangwen said two more words, and then let the group leave Ci'an Hall, Yi Luochuan led Yi Huanhuan, Yi Xiangxiang led Yi Lele, and the four brothers and sisters walked behind Yi Xihu and his wife together.

Yi Luochuan looked at Yi Xiangxiang yawning, and said, "I don't want my sister to hide the true trace of Shi Yan, why didn't I give it to my brother earlier?" Yi Luochuan naturally knew that although the thing was given in the name of Yi Huanhuan, Yi Xiangxiang was the original holder. Yi Xiangxiang hung the painting in the study before, and she didn't let anyone else in her study, so Yi Luochuan really didn't know that this famous painting was actually in Yi Xiangxiang's place.

"What my brother said, isn't mine yours!" Yi Xiangxiang said flatteringly. She always knew that Yi Luochuan admired Shi Yan, but she never gave away the painting because it was too valuable. If Yi Luochuan is appreciating paintings, then she is simply for money.

Lin looked back at Yi Xiangxiang's doglegs, and felt that the ability of the two sisters and brothers to occasionally play doglegs must have been learned from their eldest daughter!