The aunt said slowly: "You are poor and worried, does the master want to save face, does the second master Luo not want face?" The second lady's marriage cannot be easily withdrawn, and it is impossible for the Cao family to withdraw it! ”

The maid outside the door said, "The second lady is here!" ”

"Why is this hour coming?" The aunt muttered to herself, threw away the powder box and took Cao Ying from her mother-in-law's arms and went to the inner room.

"You made my father unhappy yesterday, and you can't meet with the second miss now, I can't make sure that she is thinking of crooked ideas to harm our mother and mother at the moment!"

The aunt put Cao Ying on the head of the bed, told her not to run around, and casually took a small boxy brocade box from the pillow box.

"Hello auntie."

Cao Qin's faint greeting actually made her aunt choke, and her eyes flew with displeasure.

"Why does the second lady have time to come to me?"

Cao Qin didn't answer, but asked, "Auntie, is this going out?" Go to Liunan Lane? ”

The aunt opened her lips and planned to fool the past, but she was once again preempted by Cao Qin.

"Actually, there is no need for my aunt to go in person, because no matter what today, my father and uncle must retire this family business. Auntie, you are good at scheming, but you don't know the truth of both prosperity and loss.

That's right, my aunt is just an aunt, I just need to know how to please my husband and win favor, and I need to work hard to support the court, so why worry.

Auntie, do you think I'm right? ”

Cao Qin had practiced these words thousands of times in her heart, and today she finally had the opportunity to pour out, she couldn't control her father's half-heartedness, and in order to protect her mother's precarious position, she could only beat her aunt to do her duty.

"Who taught you the rules, don't you know how to be inferior to the elders?"

The aunt pinched the brocade box in her hand, and originally planned to use this to fool Cao Qin, but she didn't expect her to sing this one!

Cao Qin said coldly: "I respect my aunt for a long time, and I didn't say a single ugly thing today." On humility, auntie, you are not qualified to say this to me anyway! ”

What is the aunt's mind, Cao Qin knows very well in her heart.

Cao Ying likes Luo Siyuan, but it is impossible for her aunt with a heart higher than the sky to marry Cao Ying to Luo Siyuan.

Uncle and Dad are going to withdraw from the marriage, which means that she will compete with Cao Ying for a better marriage in the future.

But my aunt is not smart at all, and her mind is full of stupid ideas. If she is divorced by the Luo family, will Cao Ying be able to prosper?

This kind of woman who doesn't focus on the overall situation, I really don't understand why my father likes it! Perhaps, it is because he is stupid and coaxing that he is different, and his father will abandon his mother.

The aunt sneered.

"Do you really think I like to stay in your Cao family? Let me tell you, the affairs of the Shen family have now been turned over by Shen Mingyuan's mourning star, if this involves the Cao family again, we will all have to finish the game!

I persuaded your aunt Cao Yun not to marry Shen Qingqiu, but your Cao family didn't believe me, so don't you want to be implicated again?

You dislike me, and I dislike you! When the master comes back, I will take Yingying back to my hometown and never go back to this place! ”

Shen Qingqiu hid the official silver of the first year of Chengkang......

Cao Qin hurriedly returned to the boudoir and rummaged up and down.

Ah Nuan looked confused in the back, "What is Miss looking for?" ”

"The last time my aunt came to see me, didn't she give me a book of poems, Ah Nuan, can you see it?"

Cao Qin remembered that there was a page in the book of poems, and she felt that it had nothing to do with the poems, so she casually inserted it into the pages of other books.

A Nuan said: "The slave maid remembers that there was a time when the old man liked to appreciate poetry, and asked the young lady to borrow it, but it didn't seem to be returned." Is that book of poetry important? ”

Cao Qin nodded.

She remembered that her aunt was full of sadness when she gave her the collection of poems, pulled her to say a lot of inconsequential things, and said that if her father wanted this collection of poems, he must give it.

At that time, she didn't understand the meaning, since her aunt wanted to give it to her father, she would send it directly, so why bother to turn one in her hand?

But after that, her father never asked her to ask for it, and she forgot about it, and if it wasn't for her aunt mentioning it, she wouldn't have remembered the existence of this poetry collection.

Maybe Sister Mingyuan's insistence all along is right, the Shen family is wronged!

……

The third session of the examination came to an end on 16 February.

Xu Yuan handed in the answer sheet, quickly packed up the suitcase, and took the cotton wool and clothes prepared by the little girl out of the examination room.

Just after Xu Yuan walked out of the gate of the Tribute Courtyard, Xu Cover sneaked in from the door, avoided Hao Tingmei and Ren Shuhua in the Tribute Courtyard, and tiptoed towards the room where the Mi Feng official was.

"Lord Xu, the discussion is over, why are you here?"

The transcriptionist who came to the sealing room to get the exam papers recognized Xu Bao.

"Ahaha, I'll take a look, it's a pity that I couldn't invigilate the exam in person this time, so I specially waited for the end to take a look and feel the tense atmosphere of the field!"

The transcription officer nodded in understanding, and arched his hand: "Then Lord Xu is going around, this sealing room and the transcription room prohibit unrelated personnel from entering and leaving, you take care of it, we are all choosing pillars for the country, aren't we?" ”

Xu Bao said again and again, and reluctantly looked at the busy but orderly sealing officials inside.

Mi Feng can't do anything here, and there are people who know him among the transcribers, but there doesn't seem to be anyone who knows him in the reading room.

Xu Bao raised his feet and strode towards the reading room, if he couldn't buy the reading officer, he could only take care of the cooks, handymen and others.

He had a few plans in mind.

The first trick is to ask the cook to switch the copied Xu Yuan and Xu Heng's Zhu scrolls while the examiner is having lunch.

However, this is too risky, and after opening the seal and comparing the ink scroll, you can still tell who the owner of the exam paper is.

As for the second move, Xu Mask is ready to "cut the roll"!

But it doesn't work to cut the roll to the right reading officer, alas, I blame myself for not fighting my stomach on the first day, I missed the opportunity, and now I have to run around!

If it doesn't work for the transfer, so do the cuts, so they will buy the handymen to go to the transcription room to "curry favor" with the transcriptionists.

As far as Xu Wei knew, some transcriptionists were masters of imitating handwriting like him, and they usually secretly reserved a few blank exam papers, and when the money arrived, they could forge answer sheets that were exactly the same as the original handwriting on the spot.

Before the exam, he tested Heng'er's level a little, and found that he not only did not make sense of the theory, but even the scriptures that only needed to memorize and express his own opinions were stumbling.

At this level, how can you be on the Dragon and Tiger list?

However, Xu Hao felt that Xu Heng's answer sheet could still be rescued again.

"Lord Xu!"

Hao Tingmei was patrolling around the courtyard when she bumped into Xu Cover hanging outside the transcription room.

Xu said with a stiff smile: "Lord Hao, I haven't lost a lot of weight in a few days!" ”

"How can Lord Hao work hard, your stomach is ...... Okay? Hao Tingmei pointed to Xu Cover's abdomen and asked with a smile.

"Much better."

Xu covered it perfunctorily, but Ren Shuhua in the distance saw the two of them here, and ran over happily.

Oh!

"Lord Xu is holding his stomach and doing something, isn't he angry again?" Ren Shuhua and Hao Tingmei glanced at each other.

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