"Brother Rong is only fifteen, although he is young and promising, but when he comes out, how many of us who are elders can see it?"

"It's the same exam, and the imperial examination can be taken for a lifetime, but female officials are only allowed to apply for the exam under the age of forty. Although the children in the family are young, they have an advantage! ”

"Mother, the man of the Zhen family, you have seen it all these years, not to mention the civil and military examinations, you are used to being the shopkeeper of a room, and you can't pass the exam for the invigilators and the history, but you can't get into other people's teens! To tell the truth, if this continues, this family can't afford the dowry of a few girls! ”

It's just a matter of paying taxes, and it's a common practice.

But the county order wants to give Shangfeng "Bing Jing" and "Tan Jing", where does the money come from?

It's not scraping from under the hands of these merchants!

Zhen Zhiwen complained as soon as he came, first listing the difficulties of running businessmen abroad, and then leading to the back.

He didn't mention the account book full of errors and omissions, but only grabbed the point that "the dowries of several girls can't make up" to diverge.

"My son is in business, there is no one in the court, and I don't say how much money I send to others every year, that's it, the brother-in-law of the county order is just the head of a drama troupe, and when my son sees him, he has to pay 100,000 yuan carefully."

The fourth brother died, the other children in the family were incompetent, did not earn an official position, and the merchant forced labor was heavier, so he had to use the silver money to redeem it.

Hu is also accustomed to pomp, and he usually chooses the best use within the specified range for food and clothing.

Don't say it's her, even Mother He under her hands, how much fat difference does the family have in the family?

These people go to the county to play tea and play around on weekdays, and they are all a few dollars of cash silver, flowing out like a drifter, just with the monthly silver, can they live so generously?

The money leaking out of these people's fingers is not all his Zhen Zhiwen's blood and sweat?

Zhen Zhiwen has been in business for six years, traveling from south to north, coming and going in the wind and rain, and even helping some nobles do a lot of unspeakable dirty work, which is only enough to barely support his mother.

"What do you mean, I'm not upbringing a mother properly?" Hu Shi used jasper japonica rice porridge while listening to his son's reply casually.

"My son didn't mean this, we were all useless, and I was ashamed of my mother's cultivation over the years."

Zhen Zhiwen accompanied him carefully, and kept handing over words to the Hu family: "Isn't this a palace election?" The son has also seen the candidate female officials of the palace election in the capital, and many of them are just relying on the strength of their father and brother, and when it comes to appearance and talent, it is nothing more than that. Now that there are not enough female officials, Your Majesty has given a heavy reward......"

He looked at Hu's face, and sure enough, when he heard the "heavy reward", a pair of squinted presbyopia eyes widened.

Zhen Zhiwen rubbed his hands: "My son thought, I had such a big disaster last time, although I put it down gently in the end, but this beam is knotted, and the girls' academy is not suitable to go again." ”

"The two small ones have always had good grades, and in the 'A word subject', what should be learned and what should not be learned have already been solid. Sister Lian'er is old, but she is just a child, and she is not very stable. I look at that, the other girls are also idle at home, and they are tired of their mother's bothering to teach. It's better to ask a palace maid to take care of it first, let's understand the rules and etiquette first, and wait for the autumn audition to give it a try. If it is really selected, it will add a lot of money in vain. ”

"What if you don't choose?" Hu was still a little hesitant.

"If you can't choose, it doesn't matter, I was taught the rules by the grandmother in the palace, and then I went to the girls' academy, it was naturally different. In the future, the mother can also worry less about marriage. ”

Although Hu was born as a palace maid, when she entered the palace, she only worked as a palace maid on the firewood in the Shangshan Bureau, and at most she saw the female officials cooking from a distance, but she never even spoke to them.

As for serving the Queen Mother in Cining Palace? It's just that he followed behind the medicine of the Shangshan Bureau, and when he asked for peace and order, he followed the medicine box twice.

Hu Shi was drinking gruel, and he was also thinking about it.

She was just a little palace maid back then, and she only knew many things, but she didn't know why.

The Zhen family is not a blessed family, and if you really want to run for election, I am afraid that you will not be able to pass the hospital examination.

The third child who married outside can be selected, at that time, because the third child is married to an official, she is an official dependent, and she is a widow, so she naturally has to be taken care of!

But the Hu family has always been full of the former palace maids, although they are not confident about whether their granddaughters can pass the hospital test.

She rinsed her mouth and wiped her mouth slowly, and after cleaning her face and hands, she held the teacup and said: "I know my own girl, if you talk about the rules, let alone Yunyang, even compared with the official lady of Wuzhong, it is impossible to find faults."

"It's just that your grandfather was a Qingliu eunuch, but when you came to you, you entered the business, and the family was not eager to learn. These girls, when it comes to talent, I am afraid that they are not as famous as those in Beijing. ”

Zhen Zhiwen couldn't hear what Hu meant, and hurriedly said: "Mother doesn't need to work hard, my son has helped the prince on errands all these years." Although this is not said in the palace election, it is still easy to pass the courtyard election. ”

Hu Shi is still hesitating: "What if you can't choose it in the first exam?" I've been taking classes for a long time, and there is a girls' academy in the county, but we've been handed, isn't it in vain? But it's a lot of silver. ”

Zhen Zhiwen sighed heavily: "How much is the tuition worth?" The dowry of a few girls, that's the big head. My mother didn't know that since I became a merchant, the conscription distributed by the imperial court was heavy year after year, and I was ignored everywhere, and I had to redeem the surplus at the end of the year. After a few tosses, there is not much money left after all year of hard work.

"Besides, Brother Rong in the second room, even if he is a student next year, a month, it will only be six or seven buckets of rice and one or two pieces of money, and he will not die of hunger. But since he has a fame, he can't marry a shabby wife, he doesn't have a hundred and ten taels of silver, and he is laughed at by people for nothing! ”

"There are also several nieces and nephews in the family, if they want to get married, they must prepare a dowry. When the time comes, when you go out, you, as a grandmother, can't make up for it? ”

He said this to the itch of the Hu family, and now the practice of thick marriage, the bigger the family, the more you have to prepare a thick makeup.

The Hu family has the best face, and this money cannot be saved. The left and right are for others, so it is better to hold them in our own hands and fight for a future.

Three girls, even if only one is chosen, the money saved is not a small amount!

In addition, when female officials enter the palace, they are all alone, and birth, old age, sickness and death are coordinated by the inner court. Since you don't live at home, whether it's a personal maid, or a monthly silver, there are four clothes in spring and summer, the clothes of the maids, and a few people's chewing ...... These are all removed, and it is another big deal!

Hu is already tempted.

Zhen Zhiwen made persistent efforts: "Mother doesn't have to worry, whether it is a famous family in Beijing, a Qingliu eunuch's house, or a capable official, whether it is a man or a woman, the future has been set early." My son has already inquired, and in the first round of the election in Beijing this year, there was no official family member. ”

It's natural.

The end of the universe is the establishment, and the officials in Beijing, who are willing to go, have probably passed a round of exams.

If you can go, you will naturally go early.

Nowadays, the backyard of officials in Beijing, digging open the housewife, can be called a "wild and virtuous".

There was even a duchess who signed up.

This lady has had a smooth life. Growing up in the palace since he was a child, he and Grandpa Guo's childhood sweetheart, and a pair of children were born into their own families, and there were no concubines in the backyard, and the stewards were also loyal.

After handing over the chores to her daughter-in-law, she was idle all day long.

When people are idle, they have to have something to do.

The Duchess looked at her niece who came from other places to catch the exam, and her heart moved, so she simply registered her name and said that she was going to accompany the exam.

And then she hit.

The first sword on the shore is to cut the person you want first.

Grandpa Guo splashed and rolled, and 10,000 were not happy.

But the lady thinks that if the son's qualifications are mediocre, he must leave his mother's arms and experience more; The daughter-in-law will also take over the Guogong Mansion in the future. Since it's all a matter of time, just take advantage of her still alive to vacate the place first, let the young people exercise more, and the old couple can also take care of it.

If something really happened, she would still be able to speak in the palace.

Grandpa Guo finally gave in and went to ask for a favor, begging His Majesty to be kind and not to let his daughter-in-law 007.

"996 is fine, you have to be the same as the courtiers in a month, and you will have at least two days off."

"If something happens to the elderly in the family, they can also take leave and worry."

His Majesty found the queen mother, the princess of the country, and the three of them held a small meeting temporarily, and fully exchanged views on the matter of "the impact on the family of the head of the house, the impact on the family, and if the husband and the monarch object, how to deal with it", and finally after a series of processes such as the emperor's decree, the queen's decree, and the female official Sibao's request for seal, the request of the grandfather was formally agreed to from the form and process.

Grandpa Guo knelt down to thank God.

Since then, the status of the housewives has been further improved, and if their husbands dare to take concubines, they dare to take the public examination.