Zhang Yiming saw that Li Wei was silent, and continued: "Master Li, you have studied hard for ten years, you have been cautious, and you have been just a servant in the past twenty years. Those who are worse than you in reading and have poor ability are rising step by step, and the scenery is infinite, why? It's just that there is no backer, no good backstage. ”

The more Zhang Yiming spoke, the more he felt that there was a turbidity in his heart: "Now that such a good opportunity is placed in front of me, how can I watch it slip away from under my nose?" How can I be worthy of my hardships in the past ten years, and how can I be worthy of my parents and sister who have paid for me? ”

Li Wei sneered: "I am indeed not from a rich and noble family, step by step, I have been a man with my tail between my legs for 20 years, and I am only a third-grade person, or an idle job." But one thing, I want to tell you, no matter how poor I am, no matter how bad I am, no matter how bad I am, I will not use women as a springboard. People have their own ambitions, and if they continue to talk about it, there is no point in it, the Li Mansion Temple is small, and it can't accommodate the big Buddha of the future Horse Master, so I asked Zhang Huiyuan to find another place. ”

Father Zhang, who was hidden in the house, heard this, and finally couldn't help but show up and said: "Lord Li, there is no master here, there is a place to keep the master, when the time comes, my family will be the champion and become the master of the horse, Lord Li should not regret it?" ”

Li Wei's face sank, but he laughed and said: "Master Zhang, I have been an official for 20 years, and I have seen a lot of ups and downs in the officialdom. Leave! ”

Zhang's father spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm to the place where Li Wei had just stood: "Phew, my son will be a master of the Yuan Dynasty, full of poetry and books, he will definitely be the top student in high school, and when the time comes, he can ......."

Zhang Yiming was afraid that his father would say something unbearable, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him.

The father and son entered the room and looked forward to each other, but they didn't take Li Wei's words to heart.

On this night, Li Wei prepared some light gifts and personally came to meet the Jiang couple, and the matter started and ended naturally with him.

When Jiang Hongsheng heard this, his face turned red with anger. But in the presence of the boss, it is not easy to have a seizure.

The Gu family stepped forward and said gently, "Master Li, don't blame yourself. It is difficult to draw the skin of a tiger and draw the bones. Knowing people, knowing faces, not knowing people. People's hearts are the most difficult thing in the world, standing in the position of the Zhang family, maybe this choice is the most correct, after all, it is an ordinary family, and the monstrous wealth is in front of you, and it is false to say that you are not tempted. ”

"Madame Chiang?"

Gu said with a smile: "It can only be said that the two children have no fate." Marriage, pay attention to your love and my wishes, the twisted melon is not sweet after all, while it has not yet been decided. Why don't you just let him go? Master Li's kindness, back and forth, I am grateful. ”

Li Wei saw Mrs. Jiang smiling, his heart was relieved, and he sighed: "It's just that I did something bad with good intentions." It is rumored that Miss Four and Zhang Yiming are discussing marriage, which has some impact on Miss Four's reputation. I don't know who revealed the news? ”

Before the words fell, I saw the housekeeper hurriedly come in, whispered a few words in Jiang Hongsheng's ear, and took out a letter from his arms and handed it to the second master. Then he bowed and retired.

Jiang Hongsheng took out the letter, his face changed suddenly, and he couldn't help but scold anymore: "The shaft is hateful!" He handed the letter to Li Wei.

……

Early the next morning, the Zhang family finished washing up and just waited for breakfast.

Although Zhang Yiming lives in a corner, three meals a day are provided by the Li Mansion. In the past few days, the Zhang family has gathered, and Li Wei specially asked his subordinates to add a few more dishes. I can't wait for the left today. Right can't wait.

Father Zhang just wanted to get angry, but when he saw the housekeeper come in with a few strong subordinates, he said with a smile: "Huiyuan Gong, the master has an order, please move out of the Li Mansion today!" The little ones just do what they are told. Please don't let the small ones be difficult to do! ”

Zhang Yiming was annoyed and angry, and his handsome face turned red. Zhang's father and the three female dependents shrank aside in fear and did not speak. But no matter how angry they were, the host's posture of driving people out was put out, and they couldn't be leprosy and not leave, so the Zhang family had to pack up their luggage and go out through the back door.

Zhang Yiming went out, and just wanted to say a few more kind words to the housekeeper, such as green mountains and green water, but he heard a squeak, and the back door suddenly closed.

Father Zhang was humiliated by this, and finally couldn't help but speak ill of him, and when he saw someone watching, he stopped.

Scolding and scolding, angry and angry, always have to find a place to settle down first, a family of five hired a car to go to the inn, found a few, always not satisfied, either the price is too high, or the conditions are too poor, finally found a clean, affordable inn, but there is no room.

I was tired and hungry, so I had to pick an inn and open two rooms, order a table of food, and bury my stomach first.

The conditions of the inn are not as good as those of the Li Mansion, the nature is simple, Zhang Yiming thought that he would be able to get out of the way after half a month, and he didn't care, he held his breath in his heart, and only studied hard in the room, and three meals a day were sent in by his father.

After Zhang Yiming entered Beijing, food and accommodation were provided by the Li Mansion, and he was a scholar, and he also spoke neatly, but he didn't know anything about firewood, rice, oil and salt, and thought that the twenty taels of silver at hand would be enough for a month.

Who knows that the price of goods in the capital is not as good as Kaifeng, and the Zhang family is a family of five people eating and drinking, and after ten days of settling the bill, there is not much left of twenty taels of silver, so I feel struggling. I was busy calling my parents and sister to discuss.

Everyone took all the silver in their hands to the table, and counted them a few times, but they only collected more than 20 taels.

It turned out that Zhang's father thought that his son had won Huiyuan anyway, and he discussed marriage with a young lady from a big family, so he couldn't lose his son's face. Before leaving, he made a dress for himself and the three ladies in the family, bought a few simple pieces of jewelry, and decorated the façade. The two hundred taels of money that Li Fu brought with the letter to go to Beijing were only a dozen taels left, excluding the hired car, food and drink, and travel expenses.

After discussing it, the Zhang family decided to save money and survive these few days.

Who knew that from this day on, the Terracotta Division patrolled day and night, saying that there was an important criminal who had escaped and had appeared near this area, and this toss was a whole night. How can Zhang Yiming still have the heart to read books?

In addition, in the past two days, there have always been people in the inn talking about the palace test, and some say that the emperor has no idea of picking a horse for the princess from the top three, but it is just the imagination of those students; Some people say that the emperor does have such an idea, but the candidate has already been finalized. Frightened and deceitful, happy and sad, between gains and losses, he always felt that there was an evil fire burning in his heart.

On that day's palace exam, Zhang Yiming appeared in the examination room with a pair of red eyes, handed in the papers in a dizzy state, avoided the crowd, returned to the inn, threw himself on the bed, and fell asleep.

Three days later, the list was released, Zhang's father crowded in the crowd, and after a long time, he found his son's name on the list of the second class.

Zhang Yiming learned that he had only hit the top 36, so he was furious and spurted out a mouthful of blood.

The first three natural scenery is infinite, but the emperor has not seen any movement, the choice of son-in-law gradually disappeared, after the palace test, the champion awarded the Hanlin Academy to revis, the list of eyes, Tanhua to edit the editor.

In a few days, the Hanlin Academy will take the exam again. Zhang Yiming didn't know why, he fell off the list, and he fell ill in the inn in a hurry. After some twists and turns, the person has lost his shape, and he no longer looks chic and handsome when he first met in the Yuan.

An illness cost all the savings of the Zhang family, and in desperation, they pawned a few pieces of jewelry, exchanged some silver taels, and retired to a room, and the family of five was crammed into one room. Fortunately, at the end of March, there was a little warmth, and there was finally a place to stay after playing two bunks.

Some people are frustrated, and some people are proud.

In this scientific examination, Zheng Liang, the future third aunt of Jiang Mansion, ranked sixth in the second class of high school, and was selected as a Shujishi and awarded the editing of the Hanlin Academy. People from Shu Jishi are promoted quickly, and Zheng Liang is also considered a ten-year cold window, and he will eventually achieve great success.

Feng Siyuan, the eldest aunt of Jiang Mansion, won the fifty-seven places in the second grade, and his father dredged up and down to make a connection, plus Jiang Hongsheng maneuvered around from it, and was sent to Renzhi County, Taicang County, under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Prefecture, a wealthy place, and was in the position of Qipin.

Biased that Zhang Yiming left and right, etc., can't wait for the outside paperwork. Seeing that the silver in his pocket had bottomed out, and there was no familiar person in the capital, his former classmates avoided it, so he had to be cheeky to ask for a meeting with Master Li, inquire about the movements of the officials, and ask for some silver taels by the way. But he ate closed doors for three days, and on the evening of the fourth day, Li Wei saw him in the study.

Li Wei saw Zhang Yiming, who was kneeling on the ground and crying, he didn't know whether he was sad or happy, and sneered: "I didn't plan to see you again, I just wanted to ask you a few words." You have made a marriage, and after falling into Xiucai, you disliked the woman's family and quit your family, but is there such a thing? ”

Li Wei didn't wait for him to answer, and said to himself: "This is the first, and the second is that you deliberately let people spread the matter of your marriage with the fourth lady of the Jiang family?" ”

Zhang Yiming raised his head violently, and just wanted to argue, but saw Li Wei looking at him expressionlessly, his eyes were cold, and he suddenly collapsed to the ground, all thoughts were lost.

After a long time, I only heard a voice on the top say: "For the sake of the friendship of fellow villagers, I advise you to say a word, wait honestly, and do it yourself." ”

Zhang Yiming fell to the ground when he heard this, and most of the people who were lifted in the cry were settled, but he was the only one who was unknown.

Li Wei looked at the originally high-spirited young man, crawling at his feet like a dog, with indescribable disdain in his heart, and said coldly: "Zhang Yiming, I told you at the beginning that the Jiang family seems to be inconspicuous, but in fact there are many branches. Being able to take a fancy to you is a blessing that your Zhang family has cultivated for several generations, only the Jiang family picks you, and you don't have the share of the Jiang family. You just refused the Jiang family, but you shouldn't ask people to talk about the marriage with the fourth lady, which ruined the reputation of the fourth lady. ”

"Lady Lee......"

Li Wei's face changed suddenly.

"You not only offended the Jiang family, but also the Shen family, the Sun family, and the Feng family. Don't look at them don't move around much in the past, at critical times, as long as you say hello, don't say that you have a small huiyuan, even I have to avoid three points. What's more, there is someone else behind the Jiang family this time, it's not for you and me to think about it, do you understand? ”

"Someone else?"

Zhang Yiming's heart was in a panic.

"There are a hundred taels of silver here, you take it as a plate, if you have something in the future, don't come to me, thanks to your gift, I, the servant Siqing, is about to come to the end...... I really didn't expect to be a matchmaker, but I put myself in. ”

Zhang Yiming suddenly thundered, his mind was blank, and he walked out of the Li Mansion in a daze. (..)

( Miss Jiang Si )