Su Liang sighed, "I knew that I should have staked all the silver at that time, and when I studied in the future, I am afraid that my family would not give me any more money." ”

Li Dashou persuaded on the side: "Actually, no, we can all help you, and besides, you don't need money for room and board, and you still have a monthly subsidy of a few yuan, what are you worried about?" ”

"Don't worry at all!"

Fan Ning sneered: "He is now a boy science jinshi, will his family be willing to throw away this jinshi?" If you can't get over the face, you can let his mother give him a sum of money from time to time under the pretext of feeling sorry for her son. ”

Su Liang and Li Dashou glanced at each other, and the two had to admit that Fan Ning really saw things more deeply and thoroughly than them.

Fan Ning was too lazy to dwell on Su Liang's affairs anymore, he took a sip of wine and asked Li Dashou, "How are they doing?" ”

"I heard that Dong Kun and Lin Hong went to Bashu to study, Duan Yu studied at home, and Lu Youwei didn't seem to be in a good situation."

"What's wrong with him?"

"He is very pessimistic about the future and does not want to participate in the imperial examination anymore, and not long ago I heard that he was married."

"Lu Youwei is actually married?"

Fan Ning was a little surprised, Lu Youwei is only fifteen years old this year! Married so early, doesn't he really want to take the imperial examination, his father is a professor of Fuxue!

Su Liang and Lu Youwei have a good relationship, he knows Lu Youwei better than Fan Ning, he shook his head and said: "I think it's normal for Lu Youwei to make such a decision, he has a relatively cowardly personality, plus his brother's grades are better than him, and he is also famous in Sun Shan, so he has no confidence." ”

Fan Ning didn't buy Su Liang's statement, who said that Lu Youwei was cowardly?

In the kendo class, when Yang Xiancheng's nephew Yang Du used his sword to provoke dozens of students in Luming Academy, only Lu Youwei stepped forward.

The cowardice on the surface can't hide the bravery in his heart, maybe he doesn't have confidence, but even Li Dashou can pass the exam, why can't he.

Fanning snorted heavily: "I can't forget it like this, I'll go to him, I must let him continue to read to me." ”

Li Dashou got up and said, "Lu Youwei's home is not far from here, I'll go to him to find it." ”

"You go, let's drink slowly and wait."

Li Dashou went downstairs and hurriedly left, taking advantage of this vacancy, Fan Ning asked Su Liang in a low voice, "You tell me the truth, how good is your relationship with Miss Cheng?" ”

Su Liang actually wanted to break with his family for Cheng Yuanyuan, which was a bit unexpected by Fan Ning.

Fan Ning knew that Su Liang had been studying under the pressure of his grandfather since he was a child, and he was very afraid of his grandfather, and now he actually had the courage to confront his grandfather for a woman, Fan Ning had every reason to doubt that on the way back, did Su Liang have a 'horizontal' relationship with Cheng Yuanyuan?

Of course, Cheng Yuanyuan is not such a woman who pays so easily, the key is that there is Cheng Ze in the middle, this bastard does things by unscrupulous means, will Su Liang fall into a trap and do something beyond the rails under his planning and arrangement.

Su Liang's face flushed, how could this kind of thing be easy to say, he had to say vaguely: "I made an oath with her on the Yangtze River, and we didn't live up to each other." ”

Fan Ning observed his words and looks, and saw that Su Liang's face was swollen and red, and his expression was twisted, so he knew that his guess was not far from ten, so he didn't ask any more.

"If you have already made up your mind, then you should leave early, go to her house to meet her parents when you pass through Yangzhou, tell them about your family's resolute opposition, and let them make a decision."

"That's not good!"

Su Liang hesitated and said, "If I tell them about my family's attitude, will it make them embarrassed?" ”

"Silly boy, you don't understand, you are now a Jinshi, although it is a child child, but after three years, you can be an official, you don't have to take the exam again, you are worth at least 100,000 yuan, your family is against it, you just feel that the Cheng family is not worthy of your worth, it depends on how the Cheng family behaves, if they can come up with a rich dowry and be worthy of your worth, then your family will still give in."

"Do you think the Cheng family can get a dowry of 100,000 yuan?" Su Liang asked suspiciously.

"I estimate that 50,000 yuan can be obtained, the key depends on whether the Cheng family has this heart, if they still have that kind of small peasant mentality, they are reluctant to invest in you, and want to send you away with a few thousand taels of silver, I think your marriage is enough."

Su Liang shook his head and said, "I don't think they will make a decision right away. ”

"Then drag it out, until three years later, you have received an official rank, and they haven't shown their attitude, then you can consider other powerful families."

After a while, Su Liang snorted: "Isn't this too snobbish?" ”

Fan Ning shook his head lightly, "In three years, your worth will be at least 200,000 yuan, if the Cheng family can't get a dowry of 50,000 yuan, it's okay, they obviously can take it but don't want to take it, then the sacrifice you made is too big." ”

After a pause, Fanning said: "You may not understand what I mean by sacrifice, because you still don't understand the hardships of officialdom, you don't have enough backstage or not enough money, you won't get the opportunity to show your political achievements, and without political achievements, it is almost impossible for you to be re-elected from an alternate to a Beijing official."

For the daughter of the Cheng family, you almost put on your own future, but the Cheng family has no compensation, how can you make your grandfather and parents think about it? As a good friend, I'll do all I have to say, think about it yourself! ”

Su Liang fell into deep thought, while Fanning continued to enjoy the delicious taste of his hometown, his chopsticks attacking a freshly served steamed white fish.

At this time, the sound of stairs sounded, and the burly and tall Li Dashou walked upstairs with a thin teenager.

The thin young man is Lu Youwei, he has also grown taller, but his body still looks relatively thin, like a soybean sprout, plus he is a little afraid to face Fan Ning, and his weak aura is vividly reflected, he doesn't even dare to sit down in front of Fan Ning.

"Sit down!"

Fanning pointed to a chair next to him, asked the guy to put on a pair of cutlery, and ordered a few more dishes.

Lu Youwei sat down on the edge of the chair with his buttocks, and asked with a humble smile, "When did Senior Brother come back?" ”

"You're ready to give up the imperial examination, are you embarrassed to call me senior brother?" Fanning glared at him with a straight face.

Lu Youwei's face suddenly swelled into the color of pig liver, and after a while, he whispered: "I do have difficulties?" ”

"What's the difficulty? I'll give it to you if you're short of money, I don't know how to review, I'll help you, if your father thinks you're useless and asks you to give up the imperial examination, I'll talk to him, you tell me now, what's your difficulty? ”

Fan Ning's strong questioning made Lu Youwei speechless, he lowered his head, and there was a trace of tears in his eyes, and after a while, he choked up and said: "It's mainly my clansmen and relatives, who all say that I am not a reading material, and I actually write off the questions when I participate in the exam, saying that I even make this kind of mistake, which is too stupid, they say every day that my father and I can't bear it, so ......"

Fanning stared at him for a moment and asked, "When are you going to get married?" ”

"There is no reservation for the time being, hurry up next year, if you are in a hurry next year, it will be okay in a few years."

Fan Ning nodded, "You go back and tell your father that you are going to study in Beijing next month, and I will arrange for you to study in Kaifeng Mansion, and you will not have to bear all the room and board expenses. ”

Lu Youwei finally whimpered and cried, "Thank you, senior brother!" ”

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That night, Fanning stayed in the county seat, and he rushed home the next morning.

He almost didn't sleep all night last night, considering the arrangements of his junior and younger brothers, Lu Youwei, Li Dashou and Duan Yu all had to go to Beijing with him to study, and it was best to call Dong Kun and Lin Hong as well.

He wanted to arrange for them to study in Kaifeng Mansion or in a private cram school run by a famous Confucian.

In this way, it is best for him to have a house in the capital as a foothold for everyone in the capital.

It was only natural that Fanning began to think about buying a house in the capital.

Although the houses in the capital are expensive, they have just begun to rise in price when Song Renzong, and the housing prices in the capital have risen until the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, especially in the era of Song Huizong, which has risen extremely crazy, and has increased several times, in the early years of Xuanhe, a ten-acre house in the outer city asked for 300,000 yuan, and the inner city could not buy a mansion even if there was money.

It's not very expensive now, at least Fan Ning knows that the five-acre house that the Cheng brothers and sisters bought in the Hongqiao area outside the city only cost more than 2,000 taels of silver in the end, and it only costs more than 10,000 taels of silver at most in the city.

Fan Ning didn't plan to touch the money of the Strange Stone Pavilion, he now had 5,000 taels of silver to win and 3,000 taels of silver for the imperial examination, and he was going to take another 5,000 taels of silver from his mother to buy a five-acre mansion in the outer city.

My mother had the dividend money for soju in her hand, almost 14,000 yuan, and basically didn't move.

Their family has their father's medical income and tenant income, which is enough to maintain the life of a large family, not to mention that he also received a reward of 500 acres of land, which is handed over to his parents, and the annual tenant rent is also a large income.

After thinking about it all night, Fanning finally made a decision, he couldn't even take care of Pingjiang Mansion for the time being, so he hurried home to discuss the matter with his parents.