Just after the Spring Festival in the eleventh year of Xining, Yuan Rui lay lazily on the edge of the fire pond every day, and now it is really cold, although he also wears a down jacket specially made by Xiaohe, but he still can't reach the cold snap from the northwest.

Xiaohe is still the same, tired of being by Yuan Rui's side every day, taking some sour radish for a while, and cooking and dried tofu for a while.

She knew that this was Yuan Rui's favorite snack, of course, she herself too, every time she made it, Aunt Wang made as much as possible according to the amount of the two, and her daughter knew that she couldn't finish eating.

Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Yuan Qing came, and Xingshi asked for guilt.

She didn't even go to her own house, and went directly to Yuan Rui's house. She didn't know whether she was annoyed or really helpless, so she ignored anyone when she entered the house, and came directly to the main hall, without saying a word, and knelt down directly in front of the tablet of Yuan Rui's parents.

Yuan Rui is really stunned!!

He didn't dare to help his sister, so he could only kneel behind her, thought for a while, but didn't dare to say a word.

Uncle Wang, Aunt Wang was also helpless when she saw Yuan Qing like this, and stood on the side silently, only Xiaohe couldn't bear it, and quietly knelt on Yuan Rui's side.

Seeing the tears on his sister's face falling down, Yuan Rui really didn't have any countermeasures, and finally saw the brother-in-law who came in, the eldest son of the Lu family, Yuan Rui hurriedly made gestures, and even kept kowtowing, looking very funny.

"Madam, you get up first, Xiyan is still young, don't scare him, you can get up and say something."

The eldest prince still came over to relieve the siege.

"Xianggong, don't worry about it, this is the Yuan family's business, as an outsider, I really can't do anything, I can only kneel in front of my uncle and aunt's spiritual seat, and ask them to forgive my sins, as a sister, I have failed my aunt's instructions before she died."

Yuan Qing was really sad this time, thinking of the difficulty of her uncle and aunt, and thinking of Yuan Rui's ignorance, she didn't pay attention to the eldest son's support at all.

"Sister, my own sister, what's wrong with me, it's okay for you to scold or beat, you get up first and say it well, I'll kneel."

Yuan Rui really provoked this sister again out of nowhere.

"How dare I, you are now not only Shuyang, but even Yangzhou has spread all over the city, making money and making money softly, I heard that the new four richest people have a share of you, the prefect has to take a look at it, where is my cousin who got married in your eyes!"

Yuan Rui looked at the eldest son, and really didn't know what kind of evil fire this sister sent today.

At this time, the fifth uncle and the eldest brother also rushed over when they heard the news, and they were all stupid when they saw the situation in front of them.

When Yuan Rui saw the fifth uncle, it was like seeing a savior, and he hurriedly gestured to the fifth uncle to persuade him, but he didn't expect that the fifth uncle was originally rushing to see his daughter, but when he saw this scene, he didn't say a word, turned around and walked out.

can choke Yuan Rui's anger, this is your daughter, you are a father with this virtue.

He didn't expect that he didn't hold it, he hated it in his heart, waited, and saw who would take you in business in the future, and the profits would not be shared, and he would die of this old guy.

Originally, the eldest brother also wanted to turn around and leave, Yuan Ruixue was obedient, where to give him such an opportunity, hugging the eldest brother's thigh, there is a posture that if you don't solve this matter, you won't be able to go anywhere.

"Third sister, look, it's not a matter of kneeling like this, right, you have to let Xiyan know what is wrong, let him change it in front of his uncle and aunt, if you are disobedient, you can beat or scold, I can use the family law."

Yuan Du knew that only he could say this, and he could make a buffer in the middle.

The eldest prince here also hurriedly persuaded Yuan Qing to get up and sit down.

Yuan Qing stood up and let the eldest brother sit down in the main seat first, and sat on the other side by himself.

The eldest prince was also let by Yuan Du to sit in the guest seat, but pitiful, Yuan Rui and Xiaohe were still kneeling.

"Xiaohe gets up first, it's none of your business." Yuan Du knew that he still had to be the master of the family.

Waiting for Uncle Wang to go out with Xiaohe, Yuan Duan hurriedly looked at Yuan Rui and asked Yuan Rui to ask for guilt, and to inquire about Yuan Qing's intentions.

The eldest prince Xining will be ranked 57 in the second class in the ten-year examination, and when he waits for the palace examination, the language of a policy is sharp, the writing is outstanding, and the words are good, especially the whole article has something to say, the arguments are sufficient, and even the examples are deeply heartfelt.

The palace examination went further, and was specially mentioned by the Holy Lord as the tenth of the second class, and entered the Hanlin Academy as a Shujishi, followed the cabinet ministers, and studied court politics.

Originally, Yuan Qing was very happy, Xianggong was promoted, and he stayed in the court, did some learning, and was able to display his strengths, which was Xianggong's expectation.

The eldest prince returned to his hometown for vacation during the Spring Festival, and Yuan Qing took care of his father-in-law warmly.

Originally, these things were not related to Yuan Rui, but during the Spring Festival, the eldest son who had just been promoted inevitably had a lot of entertainment, and Yuan Qing, as his wife, also accompanied him around.

After a few times, she heard some rumors, many of which turned out to be Yuan Rui's, mostly praising him for being young and promising, handsome and extraordinary, the key is that he has not yet married, so many of the husbands are about wanting to marry a daughter.

Yuan Qing was very proud at first, his younger brother didn't say it, but then he felt more and more that it was wrong, how many workshops Yuan Rui had opened, how many businesses he had done, and how many pieces of furniture at home he had.

Yuan Qing was stunned for a moment, maybe her younger brother really wanted to do business, so he didn't take the scientific exam! !

When I returned home, I asked the second son, indeed, for more than a year, the business has made a lot of money.

Yuan Qing was almost mad, and this was the scene just now.

Yuan Rui knelt down and listened, let out a long breath, and finally knew how he died!!

Finally sent away his aunt and grandmother, Yuan Rui had no choice but to take the exam and signed the alliance under the city, this aunt and grandmother are not terrible to scold, this soft knife kills people, and there is no blood!!

Yuan Rui returned to the state before the previous government examination, staring at the books in a daze every day, seeing that it was February, there were still two months before the government examination, and he really didn't want to participate in any imperial examinations.

Looking at the books brought over by Xiaohe, Yuan Rui wanted to cry without tears.

My brother-in-law also fell into the ground, and after he went back, he sent his treasured examination books overnight, which were full of experience notes, and there was even a complete set of mock questions for the imperial examination.

Yuan Rui held his head and had a headache, this is not the time to go back to the college entrance examination back then, when is it a head!

At the end of the first month, the second prince accompanied Yuan Qing to come again, bringing the advice of the eldest son, he had already arranged it, Tonghai County Yu had promised to let Yuan Rui enter the county's official school for the last two months of study, which was also the biggest help to Yuan Rui at present.

Yuan Rui could only reluctantly pack his luggage and books and enter the Lu Mansion, and began to go to and from school on time every day like the previous college entrance examination.

On March 3, Yang Kun, the inspector of Yangzhou, transferred the capital city to Jianye to serve as the governor of the palace, and this sudden transfer surprised the ministers of the court.

Although affected by the attack of the sea bandits in Xining for nine years, Yang Kun still made a lot of achievements in more than a year, not to mention promotion, at least he is a capable official in this position.

The new inspector made it directly announced without any delay this time, and it was Cao Yuan Cao Benli, the former prefect of Huzhou, recommended by King Wu.

The ministers are even more incomprehensible, King Wu has been staying out of the court for many years, never recommending the installation of officials, let alone having a relationship with any official, which makes people scratch their heads.

On March 18, the court made another decree, and Tonghai Wangzhi County was promoted to the prefect of Shuyang.

On March 20, the eldest prince of Lu Ming was transferred from a scholar to a waiter, and his grade was upgraded from seventh to sixth.

On March 26, Zhao Shuo, the king of Qi, took the initiative to play and applied for the feudal domain on the grounds that the construction of the Qi palace in Qingzhou had been completed and he was overaged.

The saint immediately issued an order to keep the palace of King Qi in the capital and increase the land production of King Qi in Qingzhou by 3,000 mu.

King Qi's performance suddenly blinded the king of Chu, and he was happy and worried, happy that he was the only prince who stayed in the capital now, and he was worried that he didn't know what the emperor was planning to do, and he didn't know how the ministers would react.

In fact, there are still many official transfers this time, Yuan Rui doesn't care about it, only Yangzhou has a close relationship with him, as soon as he gets the news, the second son directly comes to report. In fact, according to Yuan Rui's current situation, he didn't care at all.

Looking at the somewhat familiar situation on the side of the road, Yuan Rui sat in the carriage and didn't feel the pleasant scenery at all.

In the past two months, he has been about to vomit in the questions, and if he has not experienced the inhuman torture of the college entrance examination, he feels that he may not be able to bear it.

I don't know if those professors have nothing to do or have opinions about themselves, so let him do it one by one, consider it word by word, analyze it paragraph by paragraph, and fortunately he has studied history, otherwise he really can't bear this kind of cramming teaching.

This time, he didn't even go home, followed the advice of the second son, and went directly from Tonghai County to Shuyang.

This year's government test is different, and it is placed in Shuyang, which is a little closer than Yangzhou.

According to the practice of previous years, it is necessary to depart from Tonghai ten days in advance. This time, no need, the second son made sufficient preparations, arranged Yuan Rui directly in the Lu family's courtyard in Shuyang, and specially transferred the servants from Tonghai to serve food and accommodation.

He told Yuan Rui that he had arranged that the day before the exam, he would definitely go to Shuyang to protect Yuan Rui.

Yuan Rui was grateful, who knows, the second son is also helpless, it was all forced by Yuan Qing.

Without saying anything all the way, Yuan Rui entered the courtyard of the Lu family in Shuyang, and after the placement, he couldn't sleep at night.

It was the first time he suffered such gains and losses, he was afraid that he would not be able to pass the exam, how could he explain to so many people. If it was last time, he really didn't worry, he was completely familiar with the questions in the exam, and he had been preparing for so long, it would be difficult to do well in the exam.

And now I have forgotten many topics, and I have been fooling around in the past two years, and I haven't read the book seriously for a day, how to take the exam with this state.

If it weren't for the surprise attack in the past two months, I would have been a little sure of some of the topics and wouldn't have said anything. Alas, the tigress in the family can't be provoked, and no one can afford to mess with it.

didn't sleep well all night, so Yuan Rui simply didn't get up in the morning, no matter who called, he didn't care, and just lay on the bed and pretended to be dead.

At noon, he couldn't sleep, so he got up and simply ate lunch, still took a book, and slowly read and thought.

People who have experienced the devilish exam of later generations have a little experience, and a simple pass before the exam is conducive to deepening the impression, and the scripture test is memory, and once you get stuck, you can not panic.

Besides, he can still see it today, tomorrow is the last day before the exam, and he needs to take a good rest, he doesn't want to be like those candidates who are sick at that time.