The snowflakes are fluttering, and the sky and the earth are vast.

The fire kang was burning in the house, and on the roof chimney, there were cooking smoke and birds, and the fire kang against the wall in the house was burned warmly.

Wang Li woke up slowly, looked at Wang Chong sitting on the edge of the kang, remembered the conversation between the two before the coma, and tears involuntarily overflowed in his eyes.

"Uncle, I'm ·······"

"Drink the medicine first!" Wang Zhong held the steaming decoction and said, "Don't worry, this is for nourishing the gods and soothing the fetus."

Wang Li had doubts, but he still drank the decoction that Wang Chong handed over.

"The baby in your womb is less than three months old now, and you still have time to think about it."

Wang Chong didn't expect that he would hunt geese all day long, but this time he was pecked in the eye by the geese.

After all, he is still too conceited, thinking that everything is under his control, and what should have been noticed a long time ago has been ignored by himself.

Wang Li poured the decoction into his abdomen in one bite, handed the medicine bowl to Wang Chong, looked at Wang Chong and said, "I think about it, I will guard Sister Qian and the child in my womb in the future, and I will not return to Yangzhou."

Wang Chong's eyebrows raised slightly, and he was a little surprised: "Not going back to Yangzhou?"

Wang Li looked at Wang Chong, met the gaze that could almost see through people's hearts, and nodded solemnly, "No return!"

"Have you really thought about it?" Wang Zhong asked again.

"I've figured it out!" Wang Li said in a firm tone: "I never thought of deceiving my uncle, let alone daring to hope that I could follow my uncle, my uncle will be the one who will do great things in the future, and I can't drag my uncle down because of me!"

Looking at Wang Li's honest gaze and expression, Wang Chong felt even less in his heart.

Wang Li's feelings for himself should be true, but once there is such a thing, it will be difficult to eliminate it.

"Let's settle down in Tokyo first!"

The next day, Wang Chong sent Wang Erxi and Yu Chuer back on the grounds that there was no one in Yangzhou.

I personally found a tooth man, picked two little girls who were twelve or thirteen years old, had received some simple training, and knew some needlework, followed Wang Li and Wang Qian'er, and found a mother-in-law to do some heavy work, all of which were more honest in nature.

Seeing that the end of the year was approaching, Wang reprepared a lot of gifts, went to the Tongke Mansion of the Lu surname in Sheng Hong, and learned from his mouth that the candidates for the main examination of this time, and their temperament, and spent a lot of money, and got a lot of articles about the main examination.

Wang Chong, this can be regarded as a lot of hard work.

The New Year of the second year of Jiayou was a little boring, Tokyo City is indeed prosperous, but compared with the unrestrained Xiaozhuzhuang, it is far less attractive to Wang Qian'er.

Seeing that the little girl was bored, and even a little depressed, Wang Chong found Renyazi again, bought two little girls of the same age as the little girl, and let them study and practice martial arts with the little girl every day, and play together.

Time passed day by day, gradually came to February, the spring also officially began, the process and the autumn is not much different, a group of lifters, gathered in the tribute courtyard, after nine days and ten nights, half a month later, Wang Chong won the championship in one fell swoop, became the current branch of the Yuan, for a while, the name of the prince of Jiangdu, spread throughout Tokyo.

Generally, the Huiyuan represents the first class of the palace examination and the three lists of the palace examination, and the weight is different.

At the beginning of March, Wang Zhong and all the tributes gathered in the Chongzheng Hall to participate in the palace examination, which is said to be the official family of the present day.

Wang Chong entered the eyes of Emperor Jiayou with an article based on benevolence and education, and was appointed by Emperor Jiayou as the champion of today's department.

Before it was dark, Wang Zhong and a group of candidates gathered outside the Donghua Gate, waiting for the roll call.

is the so-called good son outside the Donghua Gate, which is what he is talking about.

After the roll call, Wang Chong, Zhou Ru, who was also a first-class leader, and Xu Shi, Tanhualang, were taken by the chamberlain to change into green official clothes and meet the official family.

In the main hall, Wang Chong and the three of them were led by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and they saw the emperor of the Song Dynasty, but in Wang Chong's eyes, this ninety-five honor was just an old man who looked sixty or seventy years old, his hair was already silver and white, his face was quite wrinkled, and he was full of old age and drooping old age.

But in his fifties,

looks like a person in his sixties, which shows that he must have worked weekdays.

After a bowful meeting, Emperor Jiayou spoke: "Look at our new champion, it looks quite old, not like an eighteen-year-old boy!"

Emperor Jiayou also knew Wang Chong's age after selecting the champion, and at first several examiners who scored the papers wanted to slightly press Wang Chong's ranking and hone Wang Chong, but Emperor Jiayou rejected it.

The eighteen-year-old champion, don't say that it is the current dynasty, even the previous dynasty has never had one, such a young talent, if you still have to suppress and temper, wouldn't it go against the original intention of the imperial examination to select talents?

If you really want to temper, it is not impossible to temper it again when you are conferred an official.

The three of them stood in a triangle, Wang Chong's position was slightly ahead, and the first thing Emperor Jiayou saw was naturally Wang Chong.

As soon as Emperor Jiayou spoke, there was a bit of old age in his magnetic voice, but in his tone, there was no sense of superiority, as if he was a neighbor's elder.

Wang Zhong bowed respectfully and said, "Xu Shichen often runs around, the sun and rain are drenched, and when he looks dark, he looks old!"

"Oh?" Emperor Jiayou was quite surprised: "Zhuang Yuanlang has such a talent to learn at a young age, but he doesn't study hard at home day and night? There's still time to get around?"

Wang Zhong explained: "The minister's mentor teaches the minister that he needs to travel thousands of miles to read thousands of books, and combine them with life to be able to understand them!"

A smile appeared on Emperor Jiayou's face: "This is a great goodness, to have such insight, the mentor of Zhuang Yuanlang must be a great Confucian!" I don't know the name of the teacher?"

Emperor Jiayou once supported Fan Wenzhenggong to implement reforms, although he failed in the end, but Fan Wenzhenggong's various reform strategies left by Fan Wenzhenggong allowed the court and the people to enjoy the actual benefits, and Emperor Jiayou was not one of those emperors who only talked about it.

Wang Chong said, "Back to Your Majesty, the teacher's teacher, I was feathered in the mountains a few years ago!"

"Is Champion Lang's mentor a real person?" The word feathering is not used casually, and Emperor Jiayou is becoming more and more curious.

Wang Chongdao: "The teacher is not a scattered person, he has learned through the three sects, and he is a strange person who is not born, but he is stupid and stupid, and he can't learn one or two of the teacher."

Emperor Jiayou said, "There are still such strange people in the world?"

Wang Chongdao: "The teacher has traveled all over the world, hanging pots to help the world, before Yuhua, once said to the ministers: the art of medicine, is the practice of no matter how subtle, can save hundreds, thousands of people, but can not save ten thousand, ten thousand people, want to help the world, only to enter the court as an official, implement His Majesty's benevolent government, educate the people of the world, promote agriculture, drain water, in order to make the country strong, the people live a prosperous life!"

Even Emperor Jiayou couldn't help but applaud when he heard this, "Master Ling's heart is full of life, and Zhuangyuan Lang should remember Master Ling's teachings!"

"Champion Lang has the ambition to educate the people of the world, this is a good thing, I should have supported it, but Champion Yuanlang is still young and has little experience, why don't you do a secret pavilion first, and then put it out to practice in a place?"

"Minister, obey the holy will!" Wang Zhong bowed his hand and said.

Emperor Jiayou brushed his beard and his head and moved his gaze to Zhou Ru, the list eye behind Wang Chong's left: "The list eye is ······."

The first three people, all of them were directly sealed by Emperor Jiayou, Wang Chong's grade is the highest, from the sixth grade, the list of eyes and Tanhualang are all seven grades, and they are all Beijing officials, if they are released, they are either the magistrates of Wangxian County, or they are all judged by a state, just higher than the peers of the second class.

Coming out of the palace, Wang Chong and the three of them followed the officials of the Rite House to receive the corresponding official uniforms, and only after they went to the Ministry of Officials to report before they could receive the rest of the items such as the seal letter.

Yangzhou, Shengjia.

"What, you said that Wang Chong's kid won the champion?" Wang Ruofu stood up with a shocked expression.

"The official family issued an order on the spot above the Golden Palace, Feng Zihou was Feng Zhilang, the secret pavilion was repaired, and the six ranks were obtained." Sheng Hong's smile was full of words.

"It's just one level below me." When he said this, Sheng Hong couldn't help but sigh, he had worked hard for nearly 20 years, and so far it was just a general judgment of the six products, although he could be promoted to the next level when he returned to Beijing in the coming year, but compared to Wang Chong's step to the sky, there was a lot of difference!

The gap between the first and second grades,

It's like a chasm.

"How is that possible? Did he really hit it?" Wang Ruofu hasn't recovered from the shock yet, and the mud legs that he didn't look down on in the past really won the champion!

The Wang family is a scholarly family, an official eunuch for generations, and the Sheng family is also a civil official, and most of the relatives and friends who come and go are civil officials.

Wang Ruofu couldn't let go of his son again: "What if you win the champion, the Yuan family is the Earl's Palace, or the officials themselves said that the Yuan family had suffered before, different from those of other noble families, the children know how to be motivated, then Yuan Wenshao is also seen by the officials themselves, what kind of character is kind, humble and polite, and has a furrow in the chest, aren't these all said by the officials?"

Wang Ruofu can be regarded as being in a hurry, and he uses Sheng Hong's own words to block Sheng Hong!

"Yuan Wenshao's kid is really good, but compared with the prince, it's still a little worse after all." Sheng Hong said: "Our Sheng family and the Wang family are both scholarly families, civil officials and clear streams, the Yuan family is a noble, and although Yuan Wenshao is a son-in-law, he is not the elder, and it will be Yuan Wenchun, the eldest of the Yuan family, who will be in charge of the Zhongqin Bo Mansion in the future, not Yuan Wenshao's child."

Wang Ruofu said: "The official is hard-hearted, do you want to promise our Hua'er to the prince?"

"The new champion, isn't it worthy of our family?" Sheng Hong looked at Wang in bewilderment.

Wang said: "What about the new champion, the Wang family is just a Zhuang family, the family background is thin, and the prince is even more alone, with no relatives and no brothers to help, even if he really enters the official career, will he be able to rise to the top?"

Sheng Hong's eyes condensed slightly, and said, "I think you are blinded by the riches of the Earl's Palace!"

"Aren't I doing this for Hua'er's sake?" Wang said: "Although Wang Zihou is the champion, he can be the way of the official, who can guarantee that his life will be smooth, if he is degraded in the future, what should we do with Hua'er?" Isn't it possible to follow him to those bitter cold places to endure hardships?"

"Then Yuan Wenshao may not be as thick as the prince, but the Yuan family has a title to protect after all, even if the career is not smooth, it can also preserve the wealth."

Rich and rich, in addition to rich, there is also a noble word.

In the land south of the Yangtze River, the rich and wealthy families are everywhere, but they are by no means a few, especially the salt merchants in Lianghuai and other places, and the silver in the family can be described as piling mountains and stacks of seas, but Sishenghong is such a civil official, when he hires his daughter-in-law and marries his daughter, he has never considered those rich salt merchants?

"You only know the riches of the Earl's Court, but you don't know the dangers inside!" Sheng Hong said, "Then the Earl's Mansion must be good? You are the eldest lady of the Sheng family, do you want me to tell you about those intrigues in the inner house?"

"Humph!" Wang Ruofu said coldly: "Are all scholars necessarily good? Can you guarantee that Prince Hou will not spoil his concubine and kill his wife like you in the future?"

"You!" Sheng Hong was poked in pain, his face changed, his eyes were round, and he pointed at Wang Ruofu, wanting to have a seizure, but what Wang Ruofu said made him indefensible.

"We're talking about Hua'er's family affairs, what are you doing with this!" Sheng Hong flicked his sleeves and turned around and sat back on the big chair.

Wang Ruofu said with a gun and a stick: "You are allowed to do it, but you are not allowed to say it?" The official scrolls of the entire Yangzhou City, who doesn't know that you Sheng Tong sentenced the concubine to kill his wife, and even the right to give money in the family was handed over to that slut, I am also the wife of your eight sedan chairs to marry into the door, but now it has become a joke in the eyes of others, this is the family style of your Sheng family?"

"You... You... You... Mess around!" If it was usual, Sheng Hong, who had understood Wang Ruofu's temperament, would not be too simple to coax Wang Ruofu to come, but once he talked about the Lin family, Sheng Hong had no confidence in his heart, and he was speechless by Wang Ruofu every time, and he couldn't refute it.

"Unreasonable!" Sheng Hong's sleeves brushed away angrily.

In fact, Wang Ruofu's impression of Wang Chongde is not bad, and Wang Chong won the champion again, but as soon as Wang Ruofu thinks of Sheng Hong's behavior, he is always worried that this scholar selected by Sheng Hong will be like Sheng Hong, spoiling his concubine and killing his wife, and there are no rules at all.

After all, there is a tradition for the Sheng family to spoil concubines and kill their wives, Sheng Hong's father, the Tanhualang who was once famous all over the world, married the daughter of the Yongyi Marquis Mansion, the Yongyi Marquis Mansion at that time, and the old Marquis Yechun

Qiu Dingsheng is among the nobles in Tokyo City, which is also in the forefront, but Sheng Hong's father who explores the flowers, but the same is to spoil the concubine and kill his wife, if it weren't for his untimely death, where would there be today's Sheng family.

Wang Ruofu's opinion on Sheng Hong has been suppressed for many years, but now that it has exploded, his heart is really happy, and the more he thinks about it, the more he feels that his worries are not unreasonable.

Sheng Hong is an excellent example, the road he has already walked, he must not let his daughter go through it again and repeat her mistakes.

In order to accept Wang Zhong as a son-in-law, Sheng Hong can be said to have worked hard, but he hit a wall here in Wang Ruofu, seeing that he couldn't convince Wang Ruofu, Sheng Hong first said that he moved his son, and then wrote to his brother-in-law and old mother-in-law, asking them to come forward and persuade Wang Ruofu, but Wang Ruofu was like eating a scale, and he didn't agree to marry his daughter to Wang Chong, and no matter who persuaded him, he just refused to let go.

If Wang Ruofu refuses to let go, Sheng Hong wants to marry his daughter to Wang Chong, but it won't work, Sheng Hong was completely wiped out by Wang Ruofu.

Even Wang Ruofu's mother, Sheng Hong's mother-in-law, somehow was moved by Wang Ruofu's words, and she fell in love with Yuan Wenshao, the second son of the Yuan family.

Including Wang Ruofu's brother and sister-in-law, they also stood on Wang Ruofu's side.

Sheng Hong was completely out of options.

Time flies, not long after the Qionglin banquet, Wang Chong officially took office and became a librarian, Wang Li's belly is getting bigger and bigger, Wang Chong rented another yard to house Wang Li's, and Wang Chong himself took Wang Qian'er to continue to live in Sweet Water Lane.

Seeing that it was June, Wang Li successfully gave birth to a son.

Wang Zhong named the child a Xu character, which means that the red sun is rising, and its way is bright.

In July, Wang Li and his son moved back to Sweet Water Lane, and the maids and daughters-in-law who had been serving Wang Li in the rented courtyard were also sent away, and Wang returned their deeds, gave them money, and let them go home.

The little girl and her mother were separated for half a year, and when they saw Wang Li's, their feelings of longing suddenly swelled like a spring, and they cried when they hugged Wang Li's.

As for the infant brother brought back by Wang Li's family, the little girl and the external statement was that Wang Chong's Tongfang was born and passed on to Wang Li's family to inherit the incense of Wang Da's brother's lineage.

Wang Zhong and Wang Li are still called uncles and sisters-in-law, and it is as if nothing has happened between the two.

It's business as usual.

With a son, Wang Li's face has more smiles, and he is a little happy to be in the courtyard every day, taking care of his daughter, making clothes and cooking, not having to worry about the business outside, and not worrying about his livelihood.

It's just that after a long time, life in the city is inevitably a little too restrictive, Wang Li's family has some appearance, and the maintenance has been good in recent years, and Wang Chong can't be by his side all the time, if he encounters those scoundrels, it is also troublesome.

Wang Chong simply went outside the city again, spent a lot of money from a local outsider, bought a small Zhuangzi with more than 200 acres of fields, and placed Wang Li and her two daughters in Zhuangzi, Wang Chong still lived in Sweet Water Lane, and only went to Zhuangzi every once in a while to see them.

Wang Li knew that because he was hiding the matter from Wang Chong's mother's house, Wang Chong's heart had a pimple, and the layer of window paper that had just been pierced between the two was re-connected to the lake, and this time the lake was not just a layer of window paper, but a wall.

Fortunately, Wang Li was also conscious, and he had no ambitions, so he only lived in Zhuangzi with peace of mind, taking care of a pair of children, and did not make any trouble.

Although the city of Bianliang is prosperous, whether it is Wang Li or Wang Qian'er, they all prefer the quiet and comfortable life on Zhuangzi, on Zhuangzi, Wang Qian'er can be wild wantonly, when you want to go to the city, put on a carriage, go to the city for a day, you can settle down in Sweet Water Lane at night, and it doesn't matter if you stay for a day or two and come back.

In late September of the third year of Jiayou, Wang Erxi followed the Cao Gang to press the boat north, got off the boat at the Bianhe Wharf, took several brothers of the Cao Gang, and Yu Chuer, pulled several carts of things, and came to the outside of Wang Chong's house in Sweet Water Lane.