"Everything is in the hands of my cousin and Lord Xie, can't you raise your noble hand and let me try it?"

"No, this matter is very important, you swallow it in my stomach, and I won't say a word after leaving Shenjia Village. I see that you have been playing wild recently, I will repair a book to my uncle, you had better go to Beijing as soon as possible to prepare for the exam. ”

"If you don't take the test, I want to travel through the great rivers and mountains of Dayan!"

Qin Zheng shook his head into a rattle to express his pursuit of ideals.

The Qin family is now in full swing, he is so good at studying, if he accidentally gets the top prize, will he accept it or accept it?

He is so smart that he will not face such a dilemma, and the sprouts will be cut off from the roots, just sauce!

"No test, absolutely no test!"

Don't take the test?

Fu Cheng stared at him for a long time with a pair of sharp eyes, and said, "I remember that you have a good relationship with Shen Jieyuan?" ”

"Xingluo is my confidant, and he is the life-saving benefactor of the Qin family."

"Shenjia Village has made great contributions to the capture of the Qingshanzhai mountain bandits, and Zhou Lesong was beheaded here, Shen Xingluo's name must have been placed on Zhou Xiang's table, are you sure you don't plan to enter Beijing?"

“！”

When he received the fourth letter from Shenjia Village, the Shen family's carriage had already entered the boundary of Zhuozhou.

In the past month, several people have visited half of Dayan, seen the Shennong Mountain Range up close, browsed large and small Buddhist temples, and almost every famous town will stay for two or three days.

The beautiful mountains and rivers are magnificent, but what amazes several people is much more than that, there is also the food tasted along the way.

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Cheng Xi would use local ingredients to make new dishes almost everywhere he went, which caused the other guests in the inn to be miserable, and when they checked out, the shopkeeper looked at them with almost no gratitude.

"Brother, what did Uncle Man Ho say in the letter?"

"The second-season potatoes planted in the village are already three inches tall and growing well, and most of the cherry trees and vines bought by the Tuoqin family have survived."

"Then when we get back, won't we be able to see cherry trees and vines all over the hills?"

"Not bad."

"Great, I can learn to make wine with my sister-in-law next year!"

Shen Xingluo didn't speak, and Cheng Xi glanced at her meaningfully.

Little fool, according to the strength of your brother Lin'an Mansion Xie Yuan, he will definitely be able to enter the top three, even if he doesn't stay in the capital, he will be released, and he doesn't want to go back to Shenjia Village in the past two years.

"The cherries have to wait for next year, now is the season for the grapes to ripen, if you want to learn, I will leave it to you when you get to the capital."

What's more, everything can be made to make wine, what are cherries and grapes?

Shen Xingqi's eyes were shining when he heard this.

In this month, the little girl has grown up at a speed visible to the naked eye, the original baby fat little face has grown, and the delicate facial features reveal a bit of the girl's unique youthful vitality.

Cheng Xi's heart moved when he saw this, and the little cabbage finally grew up.

The swaying carriage gradually stopped, and when Wangshu's voice came, several people got out of the carriage together.

This is a mountain forest near the official road, the weather is getting cooler at the beginning of August of the lunar calendar, the heat has long disappeared, and the autumn wind is just right.

After a while, Su Zhan lit a fire, and Wangshu also brought a few game.

Shen Xingqi automatically took over the cooking work, added a lot of seasoning to the pheasant's belly, wrapped it in thick lotus leaves, and finally buried it under the fire.

There were many passers-by in the woods, including scholars with bookcases on their backs.

Since August, they have met more and more scholars along the way, which also means that their plans to travel to Beijing have come to an end.

A scholar walked out of an ordinary carriage in the distance, stared at this side for a long time, and finally walked over.

"This brother, uh...... Can I borrow fire? ”

Shen Xingluo and Cheng Xi looked in the direction the man came from, and saw a pile of unlit firewood piled up near the carriage.

"Whatever you want."

"Thank you, brother."

The scholar did not seem to be very sociable, and after breathing a sigh of relief, he took a red-hot piece of firewood, and after a while lit a fire.

After a while, the smell of the fire was wafting from the side.

Shen Xingqi dug out the lumps in the fire, gently tapped them twice with a branch, and waited for the hard lumps to fall off one by one, and peeled them apart layer by layer along the texture of the lotus leaves with both hands, revealing the fragrant chicken inside.

She was just about to divide the meat into small pieces when she heard a swallowing sound and a gurgling sound from her stomach, and when she looked sideways, she saw a little doll of four or five years old looking at her pitifully with wide eyes...... It's called Flower Chicken.

"Goodong—"

The little boy blushed and immediately lowered his head, but after a while, he raised his head again and stared at the meatloaf.

“...... Are you hungry? ”

"Hungry, the wind is hungry."

Shen Xingqi was suddenly captured by the boy's pitiful expression, and cut out a small piece of chicken with a dagger, but before the meat was sent out, he saw the scholar who had borrowed the fire just now walking quickly to pick up the boy.

"Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, my younger brother is not sensible, and I've caused trouble to you."

"Brother Yu, why is your brother so pitiful, starved like this by you? If you don't have money to buy food, we can borrow you! ”

"That's right, Brother Yu, we are all students of the same academy, and this shame can't be thrown outside."

Not far away, a few luxurious carriages stood or sat beside a few brocade-clothed boys, in stark contrast to the scholars in patched cloth clothes in front of the fire.

The scholar was suddenly blushed by these words, but he was a little calm in his shame.

"Don't bother you, although you are shy in your pocket, your younger brother can still afford it."

He hugged the boy in his arms, turned to Shen Xingluo and saluted, "There are many disturbances, please don't blame Brother Tai." ”

"It's okay, Brother Tai is also going to Beijing to take the exam?"

"Yes, in Yuheting, Xialiuzhou, I don't know how to ...... brother"

"Lin'an Mansion Shen Xingluo."

Shen Xingluo didn't seem to see his embarrassment, and took a step back to the side to make way for his position, "Since they are both students rushing to take the exam, if Brother Yu doesn't dislike it, you can sit down together." ”

Yu Heting's face flashed with surprise, he didn't expect that someone would invite him to be so ridiculed, and even a few brocade clothes not far away were shocked, and they all turned their bad eyes to the fire.

"Heh, another low-born mud leg, the real thing gathers people in groups."

"Brother Qian didn't care what he did, and he didn't come out of nowhere, and after reading a few books, he thought he would be able to rise to prominence in the future?"

"I actually used mud lumps to make food, and it was really 'different', no wonder I could take a fancy to Brother Yu."

Shen Xingluo didn't even look at them, and took advantage of Yu Heting's stunned efforts to pull him to sit down, and Cheng Xi next to him rubbed his itchy fist to endure the movement in his heart, giving Wangshu and Su Zhan a slightly calming look.

"Thank you, Brother Shen, for the invitation."

Seeing that he had already sat down, Yu Heting sighed and looked apologetic at a few people, "Those people are not on good terms with me, and everyone has suffered." ”

"It's just a clown jumping off the beam, presumably they can't pass Brother Yu in their studies."