Erzhu said: "He is here, he has already gone to the mansion, sister-in-law, should we wait for him a little longer, or go home to rest first." ”

"Are you tired of coming?"

"I'm not tired! I'm afraid that sister-in-law will be tired. ”

"Then let's wait for him, since he has entered, he must have had some connections."

Lin Piao waited outside the big stone lion of the mansion for a while, and finally saw Shen Hong walk out of the wide open red lacquer gate, he walked down the stairs, his eyes fell on Lin Piao, and he looked up and down before relieving himself.

It's no different from when you go out in the morning.

"Sister-in-law didn't encounter anything, did she?"

"No, I just went in and talked about things, what are you doing when you go in?"

"Meet Madame."

"Ma'am? The lady of Zhizhou? ”

"Yes."

On the way back, Shen Hong briefly talked to them about his plans, he prepared a medium jade bracelet with a good head, and gave it to Mrs. Zhizhou in the name of Lin Piao, wanting to ask for Mrs. Zhizhou's protection, Mrs. Zhizhou heard that Lin Piao was a brother, and also opened a shop by herself, and the partner was still a woman, coupled with some of Shen Hong's verbal shaping, Mrs. Zhizhou naturally did not reject such a gift-giving object, and promised to protect Lin Piao well in the future.

Lin Piao looked at Shen Hong in surprise: "This way is open for you?" Is it just a bracelet? ”

Shen Hong nodded lightly: "One bracelet is enough." ”

Lin Piao glanced at Shen Hong suspiciously, thinking that how could it be so good to give a gift to the official's wife, could it be because he was good-looking, and he was even more pitied by the older young woman.

However, Lin Piao also knew that he was simple in his words, and he must have a lot of mysteries in his words, not one or two sentences can be said.

When they returned home, Tongxilou didn't have any business today, so they planned to close the shop for two days, and they rested at home.

Because he entered the county government office once today, Shen Hong personally cooked and cooked two good dishes, which can be regarded as picking up the wind and washing the dust for his sister-in-law and going to get rid of bad luck.

Lin Piao ate the cold chicken and stir-fried mutton he made, and gave a thumbs up: "Our Shen Hong is really an all-round genius, we can read and intersect, and even the dishes are so delicious, whoever marries you in the future will definitely be a great blessing." ”

Shen Hong looked at him: "Really." ”

Lin Piao was stared at by his eyes, and there seemed to be a strange tone, and a strange feeling rose in his heart, and he picked up the dishes for a while before he answered.

"Of course."

When the family was reunited, Zhizhou's backyard naturally did not stop, and Zhizhou first severely scolded his relatives and told them to do less such unreasonable things.

Who knew that the big shopkeeper swore that these things were really done by Tongxilou, and he didn't admit it.

Zhou Lin was beaten and fainted yesterday, and he fainted in the infirmary until noon today, when the big shopkeeper was already being scolded by Zhizhou, and the big shopkeeper was hard-mouthed, saying that he would go to find out again.

After all, everything has come out, it is impossible for him to bow his head in front of a small restaurant from outside, such a falling matter, when the whole state capital will know about it, how can he mix here?

He instructed Zhou Lin at that time: "Don't tell me about this, you know that it was the people of Tongxilou who beat you to death?" ”

"It's not going to work...... Uncle, this really can't be done...... This ......" Zhou Lin thought of the big shopkeeper he saw in Tongxi Building, he just wanted to fight in front of the big shopkeeper before choking with people, this thing is clear, he bit the big shopkeeper back, how do the big shopkeepers look at him in the future, can people still see him as a man?

The shopkeeper stared at him: "What do you know, you can't do anything, you have to do it if you don't succeed!" It's all here, can we afford to lose this face? It's all reported to my eldest brother, you know? If we can't get through this, will my eldest brother be able to help us in the future? In the future, if anything happens, he thinks that we are the devil of our own doing, then let's not mess around in the future! ”

Zhou Lin was shaken by what he said: "Uncle, is it really so serious?" ”

"Seriously ! We're fighting on our backs! While persuading Zhou Lin and telling him and his friends not to leak their mouths, the shopkeeper was thinking in his heart that the news he had spread this morning said that there was a problem with the dishes in Tongxilou, and this matter had to be fought little by little, and it was necessary to subdue people, and then catch the problems with their dishes, and let them hand over the secret recipe for testing, so that the secret recipe would not also come to their hands in Juxianlou?

Zhizhou listened to the sworn words at the shopkeeper's side, and later listened to his wife's complaints in the backyard.

"What kind of cousin are you, the eldest brother screams all day long, and those who don't know think that you are his own eldest brother, he knows that he is causing trouble outside, but I heard it, he is now bullying his brother and woman, is it easy for people to open a small storefront? It's just that it tastes good for a while, and there are fewer customers here, and after a while, it will be fine, and he treats people like this. ”

Zhizhou listened to her, put down his chopsticks, and looked a little serious: "What?" The word has come to you, how did you say it? ”

Madame looked gentle: "My lord, it doesn't matter what he says outside, what matters is what they say about you, my lord, I am uneasy, I am thinking that Juxianlou is so unprovoked, and you are still protecting you when you become the emperor of the soil, this time you are not protecting it, I am afraid that in the future, the appetite is getting bigger and bigger, thinking that everything has your support and doing more ugly things, then Lin Piao's family is not without scholars, his brother-in-law is Shen Hong." ”

Zhizhou was very surprised when he heard Shen Hong's name: "Shen Hong? Are they a family? ”

"Yes, my lord, I think that Shen Hong is very good, dignified, if you want to talk about appearance, Pan An Song Yu is only like this when he is alive, he can read, he can understand how to advance and retreat, and with the support of his teacher, I think he can be a promising person in the future."

"You think a lot of about him."

"My lord, it's not that I value him, but think about it, we have two daughters, and what is wrong with him? It's just that he was born badly, but if he was even born well, how can we pick his share? It's better to sell a favor, this is a critical juncture, and the exam is coming soon, I think it can be lifted, so why bother to mess with others. ”

She is quite fond of Shen Hong, pay attention to her son-in-law over the years, she has never seen anything more satisfying than this, and she also listens to what she says, and she has figured out a lot of things in and out of the words, Xianggong is just a cousin, and she can rely on the prestige of Xianggong to eat in the state capital like this, she is also annoyed to watch it on weekdays, why bother to get used to it, it is better to replace it, let these silver coins come into her pocket, and add makeup and fat powder.

Zhizhou thought about it, this matter is really not good for his cousin, but if he directly slaps their face, it will be his cousin who is guilty.

So he folded it, asked Juxianlou to apologize to Tongxilou, and dumped the blame on a young man from other places who had no family, and then gave the young man a sum of money to fire him, and the young man absconded overnight.

The matter was resolved peacefully, Tongxi Lou opened again, and the shopkeeper of Juxian Lou was angry enough, but the prefect's eldest brother was not on their side, and no matter how angry he was, it was useless for him to be angry, not to mention that the eldest brother also warned him, saying that the scholar in their family should be able to lift the child, and told him to provoke less, so he could only swallow this breath back raw.

Anyway, everyone didn't get any good, he thought to himself, he was angry, Tongxilou was also angry, everyone had a stomach full of anger, no one was happy, and it was the best to send someone to ask Lin Piao if he was angry enough, the best thing was that he was sick, looking at his small body, it didn't look like his body was so hard, but when he came back, he didn't have anything to do, he did what he had to do, and he was worried about Shen Hong's exam recently, how could he have the heart to hate him.

Lin Piao didn't want to get too busy, especially at this juncture when the exam was about to take place, and in the last 10 days, he was basically counting the days with his fingers crossed.

Prepare clothes for Shen Honghe Erzhu, various brain-tonifying meals before the exam, and a pair of tools, but everything that can be brought in has been prepared.

On the day of the examination, he and his second aunt got up early in the morning and went to the entrance of the Gongyuan to take the exam.

All around are students who have gathered, surrounded by ordinary people and classmates, and they are still greeting and complimenting each other before entering the door, wishing each other the title of the gold list, and touting each other's talents.

When Shen Hong arrived at the door, there were also a few students who knew him, they greeted each other politely, and Shen Hong said goodbye to Lin Piao in earnest: "Sister-in-law, Hong has entered, don't worry too much these days." ”

"Naturally, with your skills, what is this?"

The tribute courtyard was built extensively, with red pillars and red walls, layers of green tiles on it, and the door was greatly opened to both sides, Shen Hong climbed the steps, walked up the porch, and stepped into the door.

He glanced back.

Lin Piao looked at him outside, and when he saw the look he looked back, he smiled at him.

It's so handsome.

It's an adult.

He suddenly glanced back and saw the reluctance in Lin Piao's heart.

Lin Piao waited outside the Gongyuan for a long time, and when he saw the door closed, he walked out slowly.

That's why he wanted to raise Hu Ci.

He was reluctant.

Shen Hong has grown up too fast, he regards Shen Hong as his very important existence in this world, but this world is very cold, studying, taking imperial examinations, being an official, and Shen Hong will only get farther and farther away from him when he grows up, and the intensification of this process will only make him feel more and more reluctant.

But this can't be changed, there is a natural gap between them, although he doesn't recognize such a ridiculous thing, but it has always been like this in Shen Hong's eyes.

In the future, he will become more and more mature and more stable, will he still be his family? Or is he offered in the high hall, a representative of the etiquette of this era, representing his reward and morality, only called the existence of a sister-in-law.

Just like in the days when he lived on Ludong Mountain, Shen Hong talked back to him, he was so angry in his heart, even after the peace, he didn't really want to pay attention to him, Shen Hong managed him like this, and from time to time he showed concern about some things, as if he regarded him as a relative, and more often regarded him as a sister-in-law.

So it's not a relative who can tolerate anything, but a sister-in-law who must know some rules.

Lin Piao walked and sat down at a tea stall on the side of the road, covering his eyes with a handkerchief.

He hoped that Shen Hong would still be the thirteen-year-old Shen Hong, and that holding his hand would not feel arrogant, there were not so many rules, but he was just the most important person to the other party, and he would support the other party to live a better existence.

And not a political animal that will drift away.

Lin Piao cried sadly, realized that something was wrong, and then hurriedly went to the pharmacy to grab the medicine, according to the prescription given to him by the gentleman before, went home with red eyes, and lay down on the bed after drinking, feeling much more comfortable.

Yes...... Endocrine disorders are terrible.

Lin Piao had never experienced what it meant to be sentimental so strongly in the past, and now he actually thought of so many things at once because he looked at Shen Hong's tribute courtyard.

"Oh my God, is this still me?" Lin Piao sat up on the bed and looked down at himself, not understanding where this emotional effect came from.

It seems that this medicine has to be drunk well and can't be broken, otherwise it will suddenly attack, so that Shen Hong will not be scared to death when he sees it?

The township test is divided into three sessions, one test is three days and two nights, and it is nine days and nine nights full of calculations, Lin Piao heard the second aunt say that although the content of the test on the second pillar side is different, it is almost the same.

Fortunately, Shen Hong has a good body now, and it is no wonder that scholars have to ride horses and archery or develop other skills to practice their bodies, otherwise they will not even be able to survive the physical strength of the exam.

Lin Piao and the second aunt were collecting ingredients outside, what medicinal herbs, dry goods, I heard that they could replenish the spirit and body, and hoarded a lot of them, waiting for them to come out and stew them for them to eat.

On the second day of the exam, I heard a message from the Gongyuan that a candidate had entered the Gongyuan and felt that he was hopeless in high school on the first day of the exam, and he was so sad that he committed suicide by hitting the wall in the Gongyuan.

Lin Piao and the second aunt were frightened when they heard this, feeling pitiful and pathetic, thinking that in this imperial examination, everyone was walking up with the heart of thousands of troops and horses crossing the single-plank bridge, and that kind of loneliness and suffering, especially the fact that they might not be able to pass the examination despite being pinned on high hopes, was particularly torturous.

When the second aunt heard the news, she didn't worry about Shen Hong, because Shen Hong had always read very well, and he was afraid that Erzhu wouldn't be able to think about it: "Erzhu is like this, and he can't read well, we still have to ask him to read and take the test, if he can't think about it, he feels uncomfortable, what do you say?" ”

"Auntie, you are a fan of the authorities, how can Erzhu not think about it, his brain never thinks about these things, he is not willing to read death or read, he is willing to read it, just flip through it, that mentality is very good."

When the second aunt heard this: "When you say this, it's true, I'm just in a hurry, and I like to think about these things, but his person is just a bull, how can he have the idea that if he can't pass the exam, he won't live." ”

Lin Piao nodded, although the two of them were just waiting these days, but the pressure was also great, Tongxilou just went to see it from time to time, the two of them walked around the state capital, shopping for things, looking at new things, thinking that they could use it, and they could save it first, and then continue to send it to the county government next time.

On the fourth day, Lin Piao couldn't go out at all, because the matchmaker who came to the door had blocked their house, and they all wanted to buy potential stocks, and wanted to take advantage of Shen Hong's fame to make a marriage first, and then it would be more convenient than catching a son-in-law under the list?

The peach blossoms on Shen Hong's side are blooming, and they are already going to open their house into a peach blossom source, whether it is coming for people, or for Shen Hong's fame and status, no matter how many people come, every day is those cars.

"You have to set a family for him, otherwise you will delay him."

"At this age, it's time to get married!"

"This XX family's young lady/brother, what is he worthy, I will definitely vigorously support him in the future!"

Lin Piao really didn't expect that Shen Hong would suddenly become so hot after entering the Tribute Academy, and everyone seemed to be 100% sure that he would win.

What did Shen Hong do in the Tribute Courtyard?

Or did an invigilator leak the news?

In the end, even the people from the Zhizhou family came to Lin Piao's most surprise, but fortunately, it was the big girl next to Mrs. who came, which was not too outrageous, and she didn't say it directly, but kept hinting to Lin Piao, Mrs. Shen Hong, the son-in-law.

Lin Piao didn't want to offend people, so he said to the outside world: "He is as old as he is now, I can't be his master, he has his own ideas in his heart, and it doesn't matter if I agree here, if it makes him unhappy, it will not be good." ”

Lin Piao let it go out on the phone and told everyone that even if the wheel war forced him to agree to the marriage, Shen Hong would not be annoyed when he came out, but offended their good son-in-law.

When these words were released, everyone thought that Lin Piao was really an unassuming person, widowed and raising his little uncle, but he couldn't hold his little uncle at all, he was submissive, and he couldn't even make a decision about marriage, what kind of eldest sister-in-law is this?

After Lin Piao said this, there were still many people who came to talk about family affairs, but there was no longer the kind of people who forced him to admit the marriage, they all wanted him to recognize his own children, and after Shen Hong came out of the exam, he would say more good things next to him, hoping that he would be able to say a few words on the side when he said goodbye.

Lin Piao naturally agreed, saying yes, yes, yes, your children are so good, I will definitely introduce Shen Hong well.

Anyway, when it comes to Shen Hong, it is impossible to say bad things about others, they are all introduced by picking up benefits, which brother is talented and which girl is good-looking, and always has to talk.

During this period, Lin Piao was also invited to the governor's mansion once, and his wife set up a large table of snacks for him to taste, and called out the two daughters in the middle of the meal.

Lin Piao was beaten by this wheel battle for several days, thinking.

Old swan, spare me!