After eating, it was getting dark. Dong Hai drank the wine, put his hands behind his back and hummed a little tune and walked around. Zhao and the others also left under the pretext of leaving, leaving Chen Yuan, Dong Mingjing and Dong Mingyan, and the servants collected the table and served the fruit.

"Second brother, didn't you say you were going to check the treasury with me? Hurry up, dudes are waiting? ”

"Huh? When am I—woo. ”

Dong Ming didn't finish speaking, and his mouth was blocked and dragged away by the eldest brother.

After the servants retreated, Dong Mingyan and Chen Yuan were left.

The little girl blushed, glanced at Chen Yuan, and sat on the sandalwood chair. I only felt that my heart was beating fast, and I didn't know where to put my two slender jade hands.

The night was just dark, and the lights were dim.

The girl's shyness is extraordinarily enchanting.

Chen Yuan is not a junior brother, and he is also excited. When Zhao said that just now, he couldn't agree, so he had to eat, so they came out like this after the meal.

This is an era of status, no matter how rich a merchant is, after all, he is the lowest free man, except that he is a little better than a slave. If the government wants to establish authority, or what taxes the government wants to collect, it is the first to attack the merchants. The emperor granted amnesty to the world, and only gave tax exemption to the people, not to the merchants.

In a self-sufficient society, merchants do not work, do not produce social products, and are planned by the imperial court as a series of lazy people, focusing on crackdowns, and have always been marginalized.

Chen Yuan has no identity, he is the emperor, and he can casually say Xiang Jinyiwei, such a good son-in-law, Dong Hai can't find it with a lantern. Even if he marries an official eunuch like Wang Xian, he can only be a concubine, and his son will have no status in the future. Seeing that Chen Yuan didn't respond positively, he thought that the young people were shy, so let them get along with themselves.

After being silent for a long time, Chen Yuan opened the topic and said, "Miss Dong, thank you for taking care of my mother for a while." ”

Dong Mingyan said softly: "You're welcome, you're welcome, son, you also saved my second brother, our whole family is very grateful to you, and we also have - taking care of my aunt is due." Her head hung lower, and her face was like a red apple.

The girl's shyness is to refuse and welcome. Chen Yuan was almost lost, I used to watch TV, I couldn't feel it at all, the heroine in the TV series, because of her rich experience, all rely on acting, and what is even more excessive is that people in their thirties and forties play girls, and when they see the male protagonist, they will only love magic in circles, and their eyes will shine. The real girl is different, when she sees her sweetheart, she has to pretend that she doesn't know it, and wait for her sweetheart to come to her.

"Childe" and "girl" also have a strange feeling spreading to each other. The name is not so familiar, what is the name of Yan'er Yanzi is even more inappropriate, it is called "Miss Childe", and the two have such a relationship.

Chen Yuan couldn't bear to say anything about Wu Yuehe, the girl was affectionate, and a fool would refuse. But it is inevitable that there will be concerns in my heart: "I know your thoughts, but I-"

"Ah, you, you know, it's right to take care of your aunt, she's running the family by herself, and it's very hard for you to go to school, uh, what?" The girl's mind was flustered, she didn't hear what Chen Yuan said at first, thinking it was a word of thanks, but then she came back to her senses, her heart trembled, and her face turned white as if she had lost everything.

The most difficult to accept the grace of the beauty, Chen Yuan hurriedly said: "Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't think we are suitable, it's just that I think we don't understand it yet." ”

Dong Mingyan's face looked a little better, and she said, "What, what?" In her concept, the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, understand each other? Never heard of it.

Chen Yuan sighed: "Miss Dong, God arranged for us to meet, and there is also a marriage contract, which is a blessing that I have cultivated in several lifetimes, but you also know, my family is just a farmer, since ancient times, if civilians want to enter the scholar clan, there is no other way than to take the imperial examination and go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions." And these two things, I can't study and take the imperial examination, as for meritorious service on the battlefield? The general died in a hundred battles, and the strong man returned in ten years, and it is impossible to become a famous general, without dying tens of thousands of people, and the tens of thousands of people who died, how likely is it that he is one of them. ”

"If a commoner wants to get ahead, he must accumulate fame step by step and ascend to the sky step by step, which is just a dream. Everyone sees that I am loved by His Majesty, envy and jealousy, but they don't know that when a person without any background group fights out of the encirclement and enters their class, they can drown me to death with a mouthful of foam, and the officialdom of this era eats people without spitting out bones. My status is dangerous, and I can't talk about marriage just yet, you know? ”

Dong Mingyan was stunned, he didn't understand what this era meant, this was the first time Chen Yuan had said so much to her, but she lived in this era, she could also understand that what he said was the truth. I didn't know about Chen Yuan before, and I felt that men should be motivated and ambitious, but now that I heard what he said in my heart, I hesitated.

As he said, Shishu is separated by the world, if you want to succeed, you have to pay a hundred times more effort than others, and the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will urge it, don't look at his bright surface, how many dark eyes are behind him, one is not careful, and he will never be overborn.

Chen Yuan's expression was heavy, Dong Mingyan seemed to empathize, and said in a low voice: "I understand, but I hate that I am not smart enough, I don't even understand poetry and books, and I can't help you." ”

Chen Yuan was relieved: "You are a good girl, sympathetic to Dali, gentle and kind, to be able to marry you, it is a blessing from several lifetimes, please give me a little time, I still have to deal with some things." ”

Marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous wife is not how strong her ability is or how beautiful her appearance is, Dong Mingyan is reasonable, knows how to advance and retreat, is delicate and gentle, and is the most suitable for marrying home.

Dong Mingyan listened to his praise and got a reply, and her heart was sweet.

"Just do it, I-I'll wait for you!"

Chen Yuan was moved in his heart, and after another conversation, he said goodbye and left. In this era, the rules are very strict, there are no special circumstances, and living in someone's woman's house is ruining people's style, and others will look down on it. Since you have decided to marry her, you must think about her.

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In Zichen Palace, Zhu Di's face was pale, and he was holding a bright red white paper with eye-catching words in his right hand, and there were a few lines of bloody big characters in his eye, which scared him one by one, "Jiangbei candidates Zhang Zhan, Xie Tang, Wang Lun, Zheng Guangzhong, and Lu Yan wept and knocked on His Majesty. ”

"The examiner lives in Jiangnan, his love robe and siblings, although there is a first emperor to rectify, and then the minister does not show favoritism - for decades, there is no talent in Jiangbei, and there is no way to serve the country, if Your Majesty does not want me to wait, please chase me out, do not return to the homeland - I will wait for the blood to worship Your Majesty, Jiangnan will take talents, and in the long run, the court will be in the south of the Yangtze River - but Your Majesty will judge!"

It turned out that after Zhang Zan arrived in Nanjing, the northern talents often competed with the southern talents, fought, and even beat each other without talking about Sven. Without exception, northern geniuses almost never lose in a fight, but almost always lose in writing and poetry.

In this way, even if it is a imperial examination, it is nothing for them.

So he wrote a blood book and sent it to Zhu Di through the channel.

Zhu Di's face changed, he smashed the blood book on the case, and said to the little eunuch who served: "Go and call the prince, Yang Shiqi, Jian Yi, Yang Pu and Xia Yuanji." ”