The yellow list came out, and Xu Siyu ranked tenth in the second class.

The whole family of the Xu Mansion celebrated, and even the in-laws of Yongchang Hou, Weibei Hou, and Zhongqinbo were also happy, and let the steward drag the firecrackers to the door of Xu's house with a small car. The father of the third lady made a special trip to visit Xu Siyu.

Xu Lingyi showed a hesitant smile in front of Eleven Niang.

Eleven Niang covered her sleeves and smiled: "I don't know, I thought you were a jinshi!" Xu Lingyi hugged her and kissed her fiercely.

Eleven Niang laughed and pushed, and the two hugged each other......

Xu Siyu was constantly feasting and feasting, either to see the same department, or to visit the master. If someone else is invited to a banquet, do you have to see people?

The second lady finally seized an opportunity to pull Xu Siyu to speak: "It's just lively and lively, what matters is the next Shu Jishi exam...

Xu Siyu didn't make a sound, and came to see Eleven Niang the next day.

"Mother!" He saluted respectfully, "I want to be released!" In other words, he is not allowed to prepare for the exam!

Eleven Niang was surprised.

"Does your father know? She thought for a moment and asked.

"I haven't told my father yet." Xu Si said implicitly, "My parents are here, and I won't travel far." It's good to stay in Yanjing, but I want to go to Jiangnan. He showed a gentle smile, "Fortunately, there is a fourth brother at home who can replace me Chenghuan, and I can also take Xiang and the children out to take Huan out and see the scenery outside." ”。 He took a few steps forward and slowly knelt in front of Eleven Niang, "Mother ,..." looked up at her, with a little sadness in his eyes, a little reluctance, and a little relief" "Please be willing to be unfilial. , "The eyes were red, and the eyes were already shining with water."

When he was admitted to the Jinshi, the limelight overshadowed Xu Sizhen. Let Xu Sizhen take his place as a knee to Chenghuan, he took Xiang and the child away to Jiangnan, and even decided to go through the years and ask her to forgive him for his unfilial piety...... Did he want to use this method to tell Xu Sizhen that he had chosen a path that would not stand in his way? No" Or, he wanted to tell Xu Lingyi!

Shi Niang suddenly felt sour in her heart: "Your father has always valued you, otherwise, he would not have married the Xiang family......." ”

"I know!" , Xu Siyu nodded, and his smile was a little more relieved, "So I want to go to Jiangnan!" ”。 With that, he stood up. "Mother, what do you think is good? When I'm settled, you're going to stay with me for a few days, right? I accompanied you everywhere, looked everywhere, went boating on the lake, and also went to the teahouse to listen to the opera ........., he stood there with a smile on his eyebrows, as comfortable as the moon and the breeze. Such as a sapling that has just chou bud in the net. Where there is still a little bit of the haze of the past.

Eleven Niang's eyebrows couldn't help but stretch out, revealing a gentle smile.

"Leaving" is not necessarily the end, sometimes. It is the starting point of the wings flying high!

When Xu Lingyi returned to the house, it was already the time to hold the lamp.

The red lantern swayed in the wind, in his eyes. Suddenly, there was a little more festivity.

Slightly drunk into the house, the maid smiled and smiled along the fragrance and stepped forward to change his clothes.

He went to the clean room next to him and wiped his face, and let him chew again. Tea leaves, go to the mouth of the wine.

"What about Madame? …”

"Reading in the inner room... Leng Xiang is a native of Jiangnan, and has been to Xu's house for more than a year, although he speaks Beijing, he can bring the unique glutinous softness of Jiangnan Water Town.

Eleven Niang is also from Jiangnan. But the words are round, with a few copies of Qingyue. The Beijing dialect is even more beautiful than that of a native of him.

Thinking of this, he touched his head.

As soon as Eleven Niang got married, she spoke Beijing dialect. Drinking hot and sour soup, there is no place for the diaphragm at all, as if they were born to grow up in their parents. Is this what others say, it's not a family that doesn't enter the door!

Xu Lingyi entered the inner room with a smile, and a burst of heat rushed to his face.

Eleven Niang's body is weak, for so many years, other people's families only started to burn the kang in the beginning of winter, and they began to burn the dragon in the house in October.

She set up a quilt with a big red bottom and carved silk in a treasure vase, crooked on the big pillow of ginger koi brocade forging on the big kang near the window, and lazily flipped through the book, reminding him of a kitten roasting by the fire...... As soon as my heart was hot, I walked to the side of the kang and sat down in three steps and two steps" and reached in with my hand and held the delicate feet like condensation in the quilt......

Shi Niang was flipping the book vigorously, and she was startled, her legs naturally shrank, and she was dragged over again.

She smiled and glanced at him: "Master Hou is back!" …”

Xu Lingyi said "um", and stroked her smooth instep with her thumb, making her heart tremble, "I couldn't help but sit up straight." Hurriedly handed over the book in his hand: "What does Master Hou think of Yangzhou?" ”

It's the book "Chronicles of the Nine Domains of the Great Zhou".

It's been a long time since Shi Niang turned over this book.

His eyes couldn't help narrowing: "Yangzhou is not bad." It's luxuriant. There is good food. ”。 Then he said, "Why did you suddenly ask about Yangzhou?" …”

"Brother Yu said that he wants to take the Xiang family and the children to Jiangnan to be an official!." Eleven Niang looked at Xu Lingyi.

Xu Lingyi didn't speak, but the hand in the quilt stopped.

Leng Xiang came in to serve tea.

Madame and Hou Ye sat there affectionately, but the atmosphere in the room was cold.

She shrunk her neck and walked briskly out with her hands.

Xu Lingyi picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Did he say something else?" …”

"Said let me play with him. Eleven Niang looked at him with sympathy,...... Take me to the rafting and to the theater ....... …。

Xu Lingyi was silent for a long time, let out a long breath, put down the teacup, and leaned on the big pillow next to Eleven Niang: "Then go!" "It's good to ...... like that, you respect me, I respect you alone...... Brother Zhen is not the kind of person who doesn't know what to do......

Eleven Niang hugged his arm and leaned on his shoulder: "Then you can find him a better place, right?" When the time comes, we will take the children to send Xu Siyu on the boat! , Xu Lingyi dragged "um...", "Hurry up and send a letter to the political envoy of Huguangbu."

Master Xiang did not regret or sigh at Xu Siyu's decision, and drew a career for Xu Siyu very calmly and rationally. Fenzhou, Dezhou, and Changzhou, which are mainly taxed in Taicang, Gaochun, Jiaqing or Jiaotong: "...... It is impossible to be in charge. First go to such a big county to experience it, and then go to a wealthy small county such as Tongxiang, Xiushui, and Pinghu to be a parent official, and the tax will go up. There are many more opportunities for promotion than others...... Or, the other way around. When you go to poor counties like Shenqiu, Baofeng, and Nanzhao to be a parent official, it is easy to do something! …”

Xu Lingyi thought about it in the study for two or three days, and finally decided to go to places like Taicang, Gaochun, and Jiaqing.

During the net festival, he made a special trip to Chen Ge's hometown. After the New Year, Xu Si made up for the judge of Jiaqing Mansion "from the seventh grade."

Since Xu Siyu didn't go to the exam of Ji Jishi. All kinds of gossip are like netting the grass in the sky and growing wildly in Xufu. Wait for the news to come out. Mrs. Tai was silent for a long time, and instructed Dewdrop, who was in charge of the key to the cage: "Find out my ornament, I will give it away." …”

Yingniang was very envious, and Xu Si, who coaxed the child, admonished: "If my mother goes to see the second brother, we will also quarrel with her!" …”

Xu Si laughed: "I don't dare." To say, you go and say! …”

"I'll just say it." Ying Niang glared at him. "Don't hold me back."

A little maid ran in: "The fourth young master is here!." , Xu Sijie gave Brother Zhuang to Yingniang and explained: "The fourth brother said that he invited me to see off the second brother together. We're going to go to the Net-Hee House for a drink. "Then you come back early! Yingniang sent him out of the courtyard gate and went to Jiang's with the child in her arms.

Jiang is in the storeroom.

Hearing that Yingniang was coming, she walked out while putting her sleeves up.

Ying Niang asked Rǔ Niang to take the child to play with Brother Ting, and she discussed with Jiang: "Second sister-in-law, they are going to Jiaxing, what should we send?" …”

"I'm looking in the storeroom! "Yingniang xìng is hearty, and she gets along well. Jiang smiled. "There must be a lot of clothing over there, grandmother and mother are estimated to send some ornaments and the like, I want to send the porcelain from the official kiln to the past, there should be no one over there in Jiangnan, right? …”

"Less! Yingniang smiled, "Then I will also follow my second sister-in-law to send porcelain!" …”

The two agreed, "I went to Xiang's place."

The house was noisy. Several of Xiang's roommates held the booklet and drank the names of the objects, and several big maids led the little maids to count and store "half-packed things everywhere." Brother Qing saw that there was a lot of noise here and wanted to play in the main house, and when he saw this one took a plum bottle to touch it, and that one took a tea cup to see, Rǔ Niang's eyes didn't dare to leave for a moment. Tired, a few maids and mothers-in-law who were packing up their things kept shouting "Ancestor...", but they couldn't see Xiang's.

Jiang and Yingniang looked at each other.

Xiang's personal mother hurriedly invited the two of them to sit in the Hua Hall on the side: "The second young Nainai was called to Shaohua Courtyard by the second lady early in the morning!. ，……。 ，。。

Unlike the hustle and bustle in Xiang's house, Shaohua Courtyard was quiet. Because the second lady moved to Mrs. Tai, the two rough envoys who watched the yard and the two maids who were in charge of the study stayed in the regression of Shaohua Courtyard. Only Yuuka served tea in the house.

"When you were a child, you should have heard your mother say that your grandmother secretly gave me all the books in the Xiang family as a dowry?。。 The second lady sat on the Luohan bed in the study. The expression was cold, so that Xiang couldn't figure out her intentions.

"I've heard my mother say it." She said honestly, "Because it is a matter between the elders, we as juniors don't listen very carefully........." Before she finished speaking, the second lady suddenly stood up, and while going to the study, she said, "You come with me!" interrupted her.

Xiang didn't dare to hesitate and hurriedly followed.

The Bogu shelves in the study room on the east side are all empty, but there are a few more camphor wood boxes carved with patterns of wishful thinking.

"This is the book I brought from Xiang's house." The second lady slowed down, "her hand slowly dragged and stroked the persimmon carved on the camphor wood boxboard, and there was a kind of reluctant nostalgia," It's all here. I gave them all to you. Send someone to move it! ”

Xiang was stunned.

The second lady had left the study without looking back.

Xiang Shi hurriedly went to Eleven Niang: "Mother." Me, what should I do? …”

"Since it was sent by the second lady, you can collect the car! …。

This is the second lady's thing, and she has the right to decide who to give it to.