Chapter 180: The Charcoal Seller

Fan Ning was silent for a while, even if he could help Su Liang and leak a little question to him, but the provincial test is different from the solution test, it brings together talents from all over the world, and many geniuses will perform very well even if they don't know the topic in advance.

Moreover, the imperial examination questions are not true/false questions and multiple-choice questions, there is no concept of full score, and knowing the questions in advance is at most more than most people's first-mover advantages, in front of top scholars, they actually don't have too many advantages.

Zhu Pei glanced at Fan Ning and saw that he looked a little depressed, so he said softly: "You don't have to blame yourself too much, this matter is obviously not something you can change, it is the Cheng family who has taken a fancy to Su Liang, and Su Liang likes Cheng Yuanyuan, it is a very simple matter of mutual affection, why do you think of it as a bad thing, and why do you have to take the responsibility on yourself?" ”

Fan Ning smiled bitterly, "Although the truth is like this, but morally I haven't done a good job, forget it, let's not talk about it, you are looking for me today, won't it be just to come out to play!" ”

Zhu Pei shook his head, "Of course not, I originally wanted to talk to you about the matter of spying on you, I asked Xu Qing to investigate this matter, he had already found out yesterday, it was indeed Zhang Yaozuo's housekeeper who arranged someone to spy on you." ”

"Is this butler still looking for me?"

Zhu Pei smiled and said: "He has indeed been looking for you before, but Xu Qing has given him an unforgettable lesson, and it is estimated that he is not working hard now." ”

"What did Xu Qing do?" Fanning asked curiously.

"Xu Qing threw him into the moat the night before yesterday and almost drowned him, and Xu Qing warned him that the day he found you was when his body sank to the bottom of the river."

"So ruthless?" Fanning laughed.

Zhu Pei sneered and said: "Being ruthless will have an effect, it makes no sense to treat this kind of person, only by exposing him to death threats can he be truly afraid." ”

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and Fanning turned around to see the teahouse shopkeeper walking over with a smile.

"Have you discussed it, are you willing to accept the small shop to deliver water every day?"

Fanning smiled and said, "Yes!" We accepted. ”

The shopkeeper was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Then it is a word, my man sends five pots of water to the junior officials every day, and charges a hundred yuan, and I promise to take new water in the early morning every day." ”

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Another month passed in the blink of an eye, and there were still three days before the New Year, and a belated heavy snow finally came.

Overnight, Tokyo's Bianliang turned into a snow-capped world, with roofs, trees, bridges, and roads covered with thick snow everywhere as far as the eye could see.

Fan Ning was awakened by the laughter of Su Liang and Cheng Yuanyuan.

"Yuanyuan, the snow is better here, let's collect it here!"

"Xiao Su, be careful!"

Fanning muttered, "These two guys! ”

He had to sit up, the outside light was very bright through the window paper, and he was pleasantly surprised, the sky was gloomy last night, could it have really snowed all night?

Fan Ning was anxious, hurriedly put on clothes, shoes and socks, put on a certain hat, stepped forward to open the door, a cold wind blew in his face, and it was indeed a white world outside.

"He's out!"

With Su Liang's laughter, a snow ball flew towards him and hit Fanning's forehead.

"You stinky boy!"

Fanning pinched a snowball, chased after it, and slammed it into the back of his head.

"You're foolish, how can you have a snowball fight so close?" Su Liang ran away with his head in his hands, complaining loudly.

"It's called a sneak attack on the enemy camp!"

Fanning pinched another snow ball and chased after it.

"Xiao Su, help me sweep the snow here!"

At that time, Cheng Yuanyuan was calling his lover again.

Su Liang hurriedly said to Fan Ning: "First hang up the battle exemption card, and then I will fight to the death after I finish dealing with the affairs of the concubine Niangniang!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a snow ball bloomed on his face, but it was Cheng Yuanyuan who made a move, and she said coquettishly: "Say it clearly, who is the concubine Niangniang?" ”

"I said the wrong thing!"

Su Liang corrected his mistake and hurriedly stepped forward to apologize.

Cheng Yuanyuan turned his anger into joy, and snorted: "Why don't you come over and help?" ”

Su Liang immediately hugged the jar and ran up, "Yuanyuan, which piece of snow are you going to sweep?" I'll sweep it! ”

Fan Ning rubbed his hands, and he found that this Su Liang had begun to show a trend of 'strict wife control', which seemed to be his nature.

Cheng Yuanyuan pointed to the snow on the laurel tree, "I want the snow on the tree, and I want the snow on the tile, as long as there is a layer on the surface!" ”

The literati of the Song Dynasty all had the elegance of snow sweeping sencha, although the effect may not be as good as spring water sencha, but what they wanted was that mood and elegance.

Fan Ning looked around, but didn't see Cheng Ze, he asked with a smile: "Yuanyuan, where is your brother?" ”

"I don't know, maybe I haven't gotten up yet!"

"I'm going to pick him up!"

Fan Ning came to the outhouse and pushed Cheng Ze's door, but unexpectedly found that the door was locked from the outside, Fan Ning was stunned for a moment, which meant that Cheng Ze went out.

Where did he go early in the morning?

At this moment, the little maid cuckoo ran in in a panic and said to Fanning: "Little official, there is an old man outside who has fainted. ”

Fan Ning was also startled, and hurriedly walked out of the courtyard gate, only to see an old man in black cloth lying in the snow at the door, and a small donkey standing not far away, with several large bundles of charcoal on its back.

Looks like a charcoal seller.

Fan Ning hurriedly helped him up, touched his snort, and the heat, but his hands and feet were cold, and in such a cold weather, he was only wearing a single shirt and pants.

The cuckoo said timidly: "As soon as I arrived at the door, he asked me if I wanted to buy charcoal, and I said no, but he fell down and had nothing to do with me." ”

"I didn't say he had anything to do with it, you called Li Dashou!"

Du Juan hurriedly ran back and patted Li Dashou's door, "Brother Li, open the door!" ”

After a moment, Li Dashou opened the door, "What's wrong?" ”

"The little official is calling you outside!"

Li Dashou hurriedly walked out of the door, and when he saw Fan Ning supporting an old man, he was also startled, "Senior brother, who is he?" ”

"He's a charcoal seller, and he doesn't know what's going on, and he fainted outside our gate, and you help me carry him in."

Li Dashou hurriedly stepped forward to help Fan Ning carry the old man's feet, and Fan Ning instructed the cuckoo to bring the little donkey in.

At this time, Su Liang and Cheng Yuanyuan also ran out, "Fan Ning, what's wrong with him?" ”

"I fainted at our door, I guess it's freezing, Xiao Su, you go and bring a bowl of hot water."

"A-Ning, is ginger soup okay?" Cheng Yuanyuan asked.

"The ginger soup is better, go and bring it to you."

Cheng Yuanyuan hurriedly ran back to the house, and after a while, he brought a bowl of hot ginger soup.

Fanning poured it little by little on the fainting old man, and after a while, the old man breathed a sigh of relief and slowly woke up.

"Uncle, you fainted at our door just now." Fanning said to him with a smile.

The old man hurriedly struggled to sit up, "Where are my donkeys and charcoal?" ”

"Here!"

Su Liang hurriedly dodged out of the way, revealing the stone coal and the little donkey at the door.

The old man breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to stand up, "Thank you to a few little officials, I have to sell charcoal, and my wife and grandson are still waiting for me to buy rice and go home!" ”

Seeing that the old man was old and frail, Fan Ning felt pity in his heart, so he said, "We also need carbon, and I bought all your charcoal." ”

"Thank you, little official! Thank you, little official! ”

The old man thanked him repeatedly, and Fanning went back to the house and took three taels of silver, and an old sheepskin jacket.

"This jacket is given to my father-in-law, it's a bit old, don't dislike it!"

The old man was startled, and hurriedly pushed it back, "The little official saved my little old man's life, and the old man has nothing to reciprocate, and he also needs the little official sheepskin jacket, how can this work?" ”

"I don't like this jacket either, I have been pressing it in the box to occupy space, giving it to the elderly in need, and it is also a blessing for myself, and the old man wears it."

Fan Ning didn't care about the old man's push, and forced him to put it on, but the old man couldn't refuse, so he had to put it on with tears.

Fanning gave him three taels of silver charcoal money again, this time the old man resolutely didn't want it, his bags of charcoal were only worth the same amount of money at most, how could he collect three taels of silver.

Fanning forced him to stuff the silver, "It's going to be the New Year soon, my husband will go buy some rice, buy some meat, and buy a piece of cloth to make a new dress for his grandson." ”

"If the petty official must give me three taels of silver, I can only bring all the charcoal at home, and I can't take advantage of the petty official anymore."

Fan Ning saw that the old man was very tough, so he smiled and said: "Then take another bag of charcoal, we will be enough this winter, we all have to go home after the imperial examination, and the excess charcoal is a waste for us." ”

The old man sighed, "You are all good people, little old man, I wish you all the officials Jinbang High School." ”

Fanning asked Li Dashou to send the old man out.

Su Liang sighed, "I'm still selling charcoal outside for the New Year, this old man is really pitiful." ”

Fanning nodded, "We are soft-spoken, we can't help the poor old people in the world, we can only do our best, and we can help a little if we can!" ”

At this time, Fan Ning remembered something and asked Su Liang again, "Cheng Ze's door is locked from the outside, do you know where he went?" ”

Su Liang shook his head and said with a blank expression: "I don't know? ”

At this time, someone outside the door asked, "Is there a person named Su Liang here?" ”

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