Time: 213-1-5

Mrs. Cheng couldn't sit still, and helped Zhao to turn in from the back corner door, Li Danruo hurriedly took into the main house, Zhu Yi served tea, and Mrs. Cheng smiled sideways: "Listen, the sound of firecrackers is sounding, let's stay away, it will take a while to come over." \[\]" Zhao folded her hands and looked anxiously at the hanging flower door, in fact, she couldn't see anything, but she kept staring at it, and she always felt that she was not so anxious.

"But it's not, we're just afraid that it's not easy to find ...... here" Li Danruo was nervous by the two people and was also restless, before he finished a sentence, there was already a hustle and bustle at the gate of the courtyard, Li Danruo walked out of the house in two steps, Mrs. Cheng stood up and walked out, Zhao hurriedly stepped forward to help, but tripped on the flat ground, and took two steps to stabilize.

When the three of them went out to the door, Wei Zi had already rushed into the hanging flower gate with her skirt in her hand, and shouted across the courtyard: "The fifth master has been hit!" Hit!"

"How many places did you win?" Old Mrs. Cheng was full of joy, and hurriedly pointed at Wei Zi and asked, Wei Zi was stunned and smiled: "I forgot to ask, I'll ask!" Before she finished speaking, she rushed out again, and before she came back, Yao Huang had already rushed in and shouted with a smile: "The fifth master won the seventeenth place, the first list is full, and the door is full of people.

Mrs. Cheng took a long breath, folded her hands, her lips trembled for a long time, the words did not come out, but tears poured out, Li Danruo hurriedly handed over the handkerchief and said with a smile: "The grandmother said in the morning that there must be good news today, sure enough, let's go into the house, Wulang is afraid that he will be busy for a while before he can come in and kowtow to the wife." ”

Zhao pressed his tears with a handkerchief, choked up and said, "It's over, it'll be fine in the future, I'll help my wife...... Come into the house and sit and talk. ”

Mrs. Cheng re-entered the room and sat down, sighed a long time, and then spoke: "Seventeen, most of the palace exams will not move, this is the second-class jinshi background, I originally thought, I can pass the exam, in the past two years, those things have happened, it is all Wulang running outside, this book is almost deserted, I didn't dare to expect more, just be able to win, I didn't expect it, it's still the second class, you don't know, this Jinshi background and this same Jinshi background, it's far away!"

"Jinshi is the main house, and the same Jinshi is Mrs. Ru." Zhao said a witty thing with a happy face, and Mrs. Cheng laughed and said: "Although this is vulgar, it can be said that this distinction can not be clearer, that's it, the second class seventeen, a Jinshi background is stable, Amitabha, the sky is endless Jiang family, if sister, wait for Wulang to come in, look at him, don't go anywhere these days, prepare for the palace test, although the palace test is mostly a scene, but you can't be careless, which year you have careless and lost your reputation." ”

"Look, the lady said." Zhao gently pushed Mrs. Cheng and muttered, Mrs. Cheng hurriedly smiled: "I'm old, just talk nonsense, don't count, don't count, you look at Wulang, don't work too hard these days, don't boil your eyes, look back at the official family and don't be happy, people have to be spiritual, Wulang's knowledge is so good, no matter how you take the exam, you can't be afraid......" Mrs. Cheng excitedly told non-stop, and said a sentence Li Danruo smiled and responded, before Mrs. Cheng finished speaking, Wei Zi lifted the curtain with sweat on her forehead and reported: "Old lady, grandma, aunt and grandma are here." ”

Li Danruo hurriedly greeted her, her aunt Jiang Yanhu was beaming, carrying her skirt, striding straight in, and seeing Li Danruo smiled: "I asked people to prepare the car in the morning, just wait for the list, and rush to the door to congratulate you, but this alley is too narrow, and there are people outside, otherwise I can be earlier!" While speaking, Jiang Yanhu had already pulled Li Danruo into the house, and Mrs. Cheng pointed at Jiang Yanhu and laughed: "Look at your cleverness, you know that Wulang must be in the middle?" ”

"That is, the fifth brother is so knowledgeable, isn't it unreasonable? Father from the past boasted about the fifth brother can not stop, I expected accurate, if sister, this is five hundred taels of silver, you take it to use, back to the palace to try to put the list, that is the big prize, in the morning I and Da Lang said, to buy some pen for the fifth brother to send over, Da Lang laughed at me, said that people came to ask for the head of the science and technology, but begged me to buy fakes, back to the test is not good, all to blame me, I thought it was not, I didn't dare to buy. ”

"I have the silver here, big sister ......"

"Take it!" Without waiting for Li Danruo to finish politely, Jiang Yanhu stuffed the red seal containing the silver ticket into Li Danruo's hand and said: "Just this red seal, not everyone can seal it!" How many people want to seal it and don't have a chance!" Li Danruo didn't let him go any longer, accepted the red envelope, bent his knees to thank Jiang Yanhu, watched the people serve tea, and called Yao Huang to order the preparation of the banquet.

Immediately behind Jiang Yanhu, Weiyuan Hou's Mansion, Zhongyongbo's Mansion, Lu Langzhong's family, Wei Jia's family and other families have come to congratulate the housekeepers, and the mother-in-law has come over again, Li Danruo has turned the axis to thank the reward, and in the middle, there is also the Di family's congratulatory mother-in-law, Li Danruo has the same reward as the gift, and the mother-in-law has not been back for a long time.

At the beginning of April, there is also a palace exam, and the provincial test list will be festive for a day, and the next day in the exam, continue to bury your head in the book, and you will not win, lamenting, and looking for a way.

The next day, before dawn, Xuande Lou Zuo Ye Door was full of people waiting to see the list, Pingfu was full of sweat, no matter how to beat his feet, how to jump his feet, at a glance, they were all black pressure on people's heads and all kinds of heads, Pingfu turned around and looked around, and saw that the trees next to him were full of small guys and followers, and he suddenly beat his chest and stomped his feet in chagrin, how did he forget this? I came so early, if I thought of this, I would have been able to occupy a place on the tree, and now I ...... Pingfu looked around for a long time, and could see the list tree, which was all full.

Just as Pingfu was squeezing around in a hurry and couldn't think of any good way, there was a scream and commotion in the direction of Xuande Gate, and the crowd shouted, 'coaxing' to rush in the direction of Xuande Gate, and the officials shouted one after another: "Retreat!" Back off! All back off!" Just rushed to the front crowd and squeezed a tidal wave back, and again' Coaxed forward, Pingfu crowd forward and backward and then forward, and didn't care about those exquisite, clenched his teeth, twisted his body and squeezed forward desperately, squeezed out the head, and dropped a shoe, finally squeezed to the front, the gold list that is more than one zhang long has been posted, Pingfu just squeezed the end of the big gold list, busy stretching his neck out, opened his eyes and looked carefully all the way, and saw the head of the gaze, there is no Jiang Yanming's name, the fifth master provincial test is the seventeenth, definitely ahead, but to squeeze to the front, where to squeeze, Pingfu had to squeeze out, rushed to the front, and then cheeky, endured pushing and scolding, just squeeze hard, only squeeze the clothes messy, sweating all over, this list is finally finished, you can see it from the beginning to the end, but I didn't see Jiang Yanming's name.

Pingfu was stunned, standing a little farther away with his bare feet, rubbing his eyes vigorously with his two hands, he looked carefully, he would definitely not be mistaken, where did the fifth master go?

Pingfu stood stunned for a while, how could he report to his grandmother this time? Pingfu had the strength to stumble backwards out of the crowd, while retreating to the side of the Fuze Bridge in the distance, half leaning and half sitting on the railing of the bridge, was hanging his head in a dejected and stunned state, there was a burst of cheers from the Xuande downstairs, and there was a burst of whirring, Pingfu stared at the crowd with a blank look, leaning against the city wall, a group of officials and servants guarding the officials and servants, and opened a small golden emperor list, and posted the big gold list in front of the head.

Without waiting for Pingfu to react, a shrill voice came out of the crowd: "Sanding Jia......" The voice behind it drowned out the hustle and bustle without waiting for it to come out, yes, there is also a Jia! Pingfu scurried down from the bridge railing, and just after running a few steps, he heard the chanting in front of him: "...... The first and third, Yao Yanming ...... "Pingfu's eyes widened, he stood for a moment, and suddenly jumped up and shouted: "It's my fifth master!" After speaking, he didn't care about the surprise, envy, jealousy and other eyes around him, and ran back with one bare foot.

Pingfu didn't run over the first batch of good news, even the seventh or eighth batch of good news, also rushed ahead of him, no alley is still far away, he heard the alley firecrackers, gongs and drums, the air is full of festive gunsmoke, dozens of steps away from the alley, it is crowded with people watching the lively and festive atmosphere.

Pingfu squeezed out of Xuande Building, and then squeezed hard into the alley and squeezed back, and when he squeezed out the other shoe and squeezed into the courtyard, the large baskets of pens and inkstones had already been distributed.

There was a chorus of joy in the weeping flower door, and Mrs. Cheng's face was flushed, she originally only planned to be able to pass the exam, and it was good to be able to pass the second grade, but she didn't expect Jiang Yanming to be ranked in the top three and become this science Tanhualang, this joy is mixed with a lot of expectations, since the court has named Yao Yanming, it is actually Jiang Yanming of the Jiang family who has won the Tanhualang, so the Jiang family's guilt, is there a sense of loosening?

This day was lively until midnight, and early the next morning, Jiang Yanming reported to the Ministry of Rites.

Jiang Yanhu rushed over early in the morning, and directly looked for Li Danruo and whispered: "Let's go to pick up Yanshu, such a big happy event, if she is far away, just go to the capital, you accompany me to go on a trip, I have been thinking about this since last year, I have to take her out anyway." ”

Li Danruo was stunned and said, "It depends on the second sister's own meaning......

"I grew up with her since childhood, I know her, don't worry, it must be her own will, go, let's go, I'll let people inquire about it, but I'll pick it up in an hour or two, let's go." Jiang Yanhu pulled Li Danruo and walked out, Li Danruo hurriedly called Wei Zi and others to follow, went out and got into the car, and followed Jiang Yanhu to Hu's house.