Hua Wai's eyes widened, and she bit those names repeatedly in her mouth, and this time she saw it clearly, there were indeed no Qin Shuyu among the twenty-five names on the list.

He's off the list!

In a trance, Hua Wei didn't know who knocked her to the ground, she seemed to be unconscious, and her mouth just read: "It must be wrong!" Something must have gone wrong! ”

The crowd pushed back and forth, the flowers on the ground were unaware, and they were still immersed in the name of the laurel list, and they were about to be overwhelmed by the crowd, a pair of big hands grabbed her, and squeezed out of the crowd, and when she found that her feet were not moving but she could walk, she was being carried out by a strange man's long arms.

"Ahh Who are you? Help me! Someone! O human traffickers! Hua Cry panicked, Hua Changting was nowhere to be seen, he was going to be caught and sold by the bad guys?

"Stop screaming, who's the trafficker?" The man who carried her found a slightly more spacious place and threw her down, his face full of displeasure.

"Don't you want to sell me to the Qinglou? Otherwise, what are you going to do with me! Hua Weeping was caught in pain all over his body, Fei Lao got up vigorously, and wanted to reason with this "human trafficker", but unfortunately his size was only up to other people's chests, and he was not half as strong as others, and his momentum was instantly annihilated.

"Alone?" The man's face was expressionless, and he seemed very uninterested in talking to an impudent little girl, and his words were short and a little stingy.

"Huh? My dad ...... Father! Elder brother! Qin Shuyu! Where are you! Only then did Hua Cry remember to find Hua Changting and Qin Shuyu, and hurriedly shouted at the crowd.

The crowds are chaotic and noisy, and it is really not easy for Hua Changting to really hear his daughter's voice from the loud noise.

Hua Changting hurriedly walked over with an anxious face: "Yin'er, why did you come here, let my father look for it for a while." ”

"I was caught here by a bad guy...... "Hua Wai said and turned around to point to the "human trafficker", but the man was gone.

"Bad guys? Are you hurt? Hua Changting looked worried.

"No, Dad, the bad guys should have been scared away by you, ah! Qin Shuyu! Dad, that's my brother, look! The sharp-eyed flower cry finally caught Qin Shuyu's figure in the crowd.

Hua Changting pulled Hua Cry and hurriedly walked over.

The crying shout resounded through the sky, standing out in the noise, Qin Shuyu seemed to really hear it and glanced at her father and daughter, but this may be just an illusion, he didn't come over, but followed a few well-dressed people.

The father and daughter hurriedly squeezed through the crowd to keep up, there were too many people today, and the entire Dongcheng Street was crowded, and it seemed that they couldn't get out of the crowd.

Can't catch up with Qin Shuyu, Hua Changting had no choice, so he had to take Hua Cry to the south gate, which is the only way to go back to Taoyuan Village, and waiting at the south gate should be able to wait for him.

Squeezed for a morning, the stomachs of the two were already growling, last night the third watch drank a bowl of porridge until now, all morning is still squeezing people's physical work, can you not be hungry?

Hua Changting took out two or six coppers, which was all the money he had, and handed it to Hua Wei, asking her to buy three flatbreads, and wait for Qin Shuyu for a while, just one for each person.

When they arrived at the south gate, there were obviously fewer people, and it took a while for one or two people carrying burdens to pass by.

Finding a place with a good sight at the gate of the city and sitting down, the father and daughter began to nibble on the flatbread.

This flatbread is really expensive, the southern territory does not produce wheat, most of the rice is planted, and pasta has become rare, a pound of noodles can make at least five or six such flatbreads, and two coppers are needed, it is really not something that grass people can afford to eat, then again, who will eat flatbread in the nobles?

Today is different from the past, the poor family is rich, and Hua Changting doesn't want to save this money, starving the children.

"Dad, have you seen the list?" Hua weeping took a small bite of the cake, hesitated for a while and asked.

"Hmm." Hua Changting couldn't see the joy and sorrow, just the usual calm.

"Brother's name is not on it......"

"Hmm."

No more words, each chewing a flatbread.

The sun began to set in the west, and when it was about Mo Shen, Qin Yushu came out of the hole in the wall, and Hua Weeping had already dozed off in the shade of the tree.

Seeing the flower pavilion and flower crying waiting outside the city gate, Qin Yushu strode over with some surprise, but there was no loss on his face: "Uncle, Yin'er, why are you here?" ”

Hua Changting stuffed the flatbread left in the afternoon into Qin Yushu's hand, patted him on the shoulder, and showed a smile that he hadn't seen for a long time: "Let's go, uncle and your sister will come to pick you up and take you home, and keep the rice cakes for the Moon and the Evening Festival for you." ”

Qin Yushu nodded, snatched the package on Hua Changting's body and carried it on his back, and the three figures had their own hearts and minds, and walked in the direction of Taoyuan Village.

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The villagers did not usher in the good news of the government, that day the whole village waited outside the fence wall of the flower house until the second watch at night, only to see the Hua Changting family of three who appeared in the dark in the moonlight, it seems that Qin Shuyu fell off the list, the villagers sighed and were busy comforting Qin Shuyu, this year is not good for the next year, there is still a chance.

Hua Changting carefully examined the three questions that Qin Shuyu came out of silently, these questions are all from the content of classics such as "Poems", "Book of Rites", "Yi", "Book", etc., Qin Shuyu has already read it thoroughly, there is no reason why he can't write it, even the current affairs of the policy, he can also answer the unique perfection with his own point of view, but the problem is that he fell off the list.

Qin Shuyu himself was also like in a dream, and he had nothing to do, happily saying that he had an errand, on the day of the list, he knew that he had not passed the exam, and he was afraid of going home, and he felt shameless, who knew that he met a nobleman, it is said that the son of a big official took a fancy to his talent, and asked a few servants to take him to the house to chat for a while, and asked him to be a clerk, and give him a salary of one or two silver a month, as long as he can earn money, it doesn't matter if he is an official or not.

Hua Changting swept the tea bowl to the ground at that time, and he hadn't been so angry for many years.

There is a sentence in the Analects: "The virtue of a gentleman, the virtue of the villain, the wind on the grass, will die", which means that the "villain" is like grass, and when the "wind" of "the virtue of a gentleman" blows, the grass will definitely fall down and cannot stand upright, even if it is also "virtue". The grass of the villain is the grass people, the lowly people of the grass field, the powerful are the people, the grass can only be stepped on by people's feet, and the businessmen who have gold and silver are not also allowed to be trampled by the officials?

The tea bowl fell to the ground and fell apart, but Hua Changting couldn't say a word of harsh criticism, hating Qin Shuyu for having no ambition, why didn't he accept his fate back then!

On the second day, Hua Changting went to Ningyang City alone, and only came back after the second watch that night, and then he couldn't afford to be sick.

Hua Changting is seriously ill, and it takes money to ask Langzhong to buy medicine, and the villagers have not been cured, and the families are poor, and there are only three or five coppers that can be taken out.

Hua Changting has been unable to eat, he is hanging by Hua Crying to feed porridge paste, skinny as firewood, and he can't see what the disease is after changing several Langzhong, only saying that he is depressed, and there are more heart diseases, and there is no medicine to cure it.

Qin Shuyu couldn't bear to bother the villagers anymore, so he explained to Youwen that a few companions took care of the Hua family, and he wanted to go to Ningyang City to make money.

Hua weeping vaguely sent Qin Shuyu to the direction of Ningyang City with tears in his eyes, until his brother's figure disappeared behind the bend of the mountain, squatting on the ground and covering his mouth and crying, not long ago it was a family of filial piety and peace of mind and son, whether poor or tired, it was always comfortable, but why did he suddenly feel that the sky had stepped down like this?

A few days later, a man dressed as a servant came to Taoyuan Village, found Hua Changting's house, and gave Hua Cry a bag of silver, which contained twelve taels of silver, and said that this was Qin Shuyu's advance of a year's wages, he had to work in the house, and he couldn't go home for the time being, and asked Hua Changting's condition, saying that he would talk back to Mr. Qin, and then left.

Qin Shuyu has become Mr. Qin, Hua Wei doesn't know which mansion he is in Ningyang City to give people a clerk, look at the salary of this bag of silver, the master's family should value him very much, twelve taels of silver, a thousand copper for one or two silver, the whole village has never seen such a large sum of money!