Chunying's good mood has lasted for a long time. Even if Xinghong made an old mistake and made Shi'er half angry with her mouth, she didn't feel depressed, and even because she was in a good mood, she actually added a little patience, and she could slowly say the truth for half a day in the face of Xinghong, which was like a cowhide lantern, and she was discouraged and obedient. Seeing this, Shi'er gave a thumbs up in admiration.

Father Lu has been trained in the past two years, and he is very capable and neat, so he discussed with his daughter, but after four or five days of hard work, he bought two small courtyards in Jinmaoer Hutong near his eldest daughter's house, the larger one has eight rooms, and the smaller one has five rooms.

At this time, it was the peak period for candidates from various provinces to enter Beijing, and Jinmaoer Hutong was close to Chongwenmen. It is convenient to enter and exit the inner city, not far from the east gate, and the newly painted house looks very clean, so it is only ten days of effort, Lu Yougui rented out all the rooms one after another, and collected three months' rent, dozens of taels of silver into the pocket steadily, and made up a quarter of the money spent to buy a house.

He weighed it carefully, and felt that his daughter's words were really good, although the property almost wiped out his family's funds, but after a long time, he earned it back, and he could still have a good income. If there is any change in the future, at least two properties can be left, a small one for self-occupation and a large one for renting out, even if you can't find a living for a while, you won't have to worry about having no food. Besides, these two courtyards are not conspicuous, and it is the son-in-law who comes forward, and outsiders only think that the daughter and son-in-law have bought real estate, where would they think of themselves?

After checking the money bag again, Lu Yougui decided to deposit most of the silver into the silver number, and left two taels for his son-in-law to make tea money. Speaking of which, he was a little glad that if it weren't for his son-in-law persuading him. He might rent the entire courtyard to a wealthy merchant or official in Beijing, so that he could only receive a piece of silver, which is not as good as splitting the house and renting it out. This son-in-law is really good! When he turned around, he had to inquire carefully to see where there was medicine and wine that was good for his legs and feet, and then ask his wife to make new clothes for his daughter, son-in-law and grandson!

A month later, Chunying learned the news of her father's good fortune from her sister Qiuyu, who occasionally went back to the house to ask the old lady for peace, and her heart was even more happy.

Just when Chunying was carefully accumulating funds for her future free life, several small things happened in the Hou Mansion.

First of all, under the introduction of Princess Jing, Miss Fan Xiru met several clan girls and young ladies and made friends. Her temperament is very pleasing to the nobles, and one of the county lords said after returning home that within two days, her mother, the princess of the county, sent a few attendants to take Fan Xiru to the county king's mansion to play. The county had several sons, ranging in age from twenty to fourteen, and three of them had not yet taken a wife. On weekdays, he only interacts with the children of the princes and princes in Beijing, or is a vassal and elegant, reciting poetry, or walking on the horse and the stage, riding and shooting for fun, but he rarely gets involved in royal affairs. When others talk about it, they all call them gentlemen, but fortunately, they are still in order to do things, and they have never caused trouble.

Fan Xiru just went to the county palace to be a guest twice, and not long after, there was a rumor in the Hou Mansion that Miss Fan Jiabiao was also going to fly on the branches, like the eldest lady to be a princess, and it was rumored that she had a nose and eyes, Yijun used this to make fun of Fan Xiru, who just blushed and wanted to cover her mouth, but did not admit it, nor did she deny it. The old lady was so interested in it, and specially told Fan Xiru that if she received another invitation, she would bring the two sisters Yijun and Xijun as companions, saying that they would let them see the world, but when she talked to the prince and Mrs. Hou in private, she wanted to make friends with several princes.

Secondly, one of the main sons of the Hou Mansion, the second young master Li Chang, finally passed the imperial examination safely and healthily. In the summer of the fifteenth year of Shun'an, he successfully stepped into the gate of the Gongyuan. According to him and several gentlemen who have taught him, he has a good chance of high school. The people of the Hou Mansion were both happy and worried about this, he took the exam in the Tribute Courtyard for three days, and the old lady, the Hou Ye and his wife, as well as the eldest young master and the third young master were worried in the mansion for three days.

In the end, it was the "long-along-abiding" manager Wang, who officially requested the Hou Ye to abdicate for retirement on the day of the second young master's tribute to the hospital.

He looked out of breath and pale, and his calves were shaking slowly after walking a few steps, and the Hou Ye couldn't bear to see it, remembering that although he had done a lot of things that made people angry, he was finally an old servant for decades, and he had a lot of peace in the past few years, in the end, there was still the face of the old mother, he was both knowledgeable, so why should he be like him? So he agreed to his request, and gave him another fifty taels of silver.

At the same time, Mama Wang also mentioned this matter in front of the old lady, and she was in tears, saying that the old man had worked hard all his life, and he wanted to serve his master until he was old, but his body was really not angry. had to be cheeky and retired, in order not to ask the Hou Mansion to spend money to support him as a useless person, he was willing to redeem his savings, just hoping that before he died, his son and daughter-in-law could be by his side. The old lady sighed, not only nodded and agreed to her request, but also rewarded her with the price, and specially allowed Mama Wang to go home with her son and daughter-in-law to serve her father.

An's eyes were about to burst into flames when he saw it from the sidelines. She finally gathered the power in the house, and was planning to wait for the old lady to be useless, so she would solve the Wang family's gang of slaves in one fell swoop, and actually asked them to get out! If it weren't for Peony, she quietly pulled her sleeve several times. She was almost about to crush the teacup in her hand on the spot, and barely swallowed this breath, but she saw that the Wang family was ordered by her mother-in-law to kowtow to herself to thank her, and she immediately couldn't get up in one breath, and coughed for a while. The old lady looked unpresentable, so she frowned and said: "If you are sick, go and ask a doctor to come and see, don't just come and accompany me, the children are young and weak, if they are sick, how can they be good?" ”

The ladies present looked embarrassed, and only pretended not to hear anything, staring down at their own skirts. An's face flushed, and he squeaked and mixed up, and he couldn't sit for a cup of tea, so he found an excuse to leave. Seeing that everyone was silent, Fan Xiru had to start talking about jokes to make the atmosphere cheerful again.

Ahn's mood has obviously been greatly affected since then. The Wang family was very fast, and they didn't wait for dark to send the documents over, and asked An's to use the seal, so that they could be sent to the yamen early the next morning. Although An's teeth were itching with anger, but the old lady spoke, and Hou Ye was in front of her, she was not good at attacking, so she had to reluctantly hand Hou Ye the seal, and quickly threw the document to Peony.

The Wang family moved very quickly, so they handed over the documents to the yamen, and the family began to move things. They are going to move their belongings and belongings to their private homes. Although the redemption is only for the members of their own family, and those properties with the name of the Hou Mansion cannot be taken back, the owners of the Hou Mansion have rewarded them with many things, and they have not suffered a big loss.

Chunying heard Shi'er talk about when Mr. Wang's housekeeper moved his luggage, there were one or twenty boxes of gold and silver jewelry alone, and she was secretly speechless, but also comforted Shi'er a few words. But Shi'er still couldn't hold back the sneer on her lips: "The second sister still has the face to say that she is so wronged to marry for the sake of our Wang family's talents!" Now that his family has escaped, he has left us in the house and told us to be angry for his family! ”

Chun Ying hurriedly said: "You already know that she has her own careful thoughts. What's there to be angry about? No matter how much the wife hates them, she won't wipe out all the Wang family members who stayed, right? There are a few people around the old lady and the Hou Ye who are surnamed Wang or their husbands' surnames are Wang, and there is Brother Xiao Wu in the eldest young master's place, you used to be by the side of the third young master, and now you are Miss Biao's person, and there are countless people who are on errands in Dongfu or Gongzhong. Mrs. will not make the whole family uneasy for the sake of a few Wang families. ”

Shi'er pouted: "I only know that the second young master must be angry!" Uncle and grandpa have made us all miserable this time! ”

Chun Ying said in her heart, she was very suspicious, the Wang family took advantage of the scientific expedition to seek self-redemption, in fact, to avoid the second young master playing tricks to stop it, right?

After the three-day scientific expedition, the second young master Li Chang came back from the Gongyuan, he was so tired that he went to half his life, took a bath and ate in a daze, then lay down on the bed and slept in a dim place, and when he woke up, he had time to call Pan Lao Liu to come in and report the big and small affairs that had happened at home recently, it was already the afternoon of the fourth day. As soon as he heard that the Wang family's descendants had left the house, he didn't bother to ask his grandmother for peace, so he immediately rushed to the house where the chief manager lived in the past, where could he still see people? It's just some tattered furniture left, and even if you get angry, you will beat all that furniture to pieces.

Later, several small people surnamed Wang were whipped by the second young master one after another, but fortunately, the day of the opening of the Gongyuan was coming, so the second young master threw them away and went straight to see the results. Several of the little guys helped each other home, all with deep resentment in their eyes.

Li Chang really passed the exam, half a month later he participated in the palace examination, and won the 113th place in the top three, with mediocre results, but he was also born in the same jinshi, the Hou Mansion has not had such a glory for many years, and the Hou Ye was very happy for this, and greatly praised the second son. While Li opened his mouth modestly, he glanced at the two brothers, and his heart was proud. Li Jing remained silent, Li You sneered in his heart, sighing that the second brother was confused, he was in the top three exams, either idle or released, did he think he still had a chance to be powerful in the Hou Mansion?

Not to mention that the Hou Mansion was overjoyed by the Second Young Master's High School, in the small courtyard where Huo Yi lived, there was also a cheerful atmosphere.

Chunying and Shi'er stood outside the door, looking at Aunt Qing and Ju'er in the room with some consternation, crying and laughing around Huo Yi, but Huo Yi knelt down in front of her parents' tablet with tears in her eyes, silently praying.

Aunt Qing stepped forward, choked up and said to her, "Good young lady, I won't stop you again." I just hope that you will book the matter as soon as possible, if you can't open your mouth, why don't you let me say it? ”

Huo Yi just held her hand and wept, but didn't speak.

Shi'er pulled Chun Ying by the hand, the two went to the door, and while Ju'er was unprepared, the former pushed Chun Ying to the table, and Chun Ying happened to see a letter on the table, with only four words written on it: "Erjia Chuanyu", and she was shocked.

Who got the second grade?。.。