Shen Yu rests, and the whole family doesn't have to get up early. Huai'an slept until dawn, got up with a bone, and went to clean the stable for the moon with the head of the chicken nest, and saw that Mother Wang and Mother Hao were spreading spring cakes in the stove room, and the fragrance was fragrant.

The family sits around and eats spring cakes. The hot pancake is full of fragrance, wrapped in mung bean sprouts, leeks, shredded meat, shredded eggs, shiitake mushrooms, bite down, the pancakes are chewy, the bean sprouts are crispy, the shredded mushrooms and shredded meat are mellow and fragrant, with a bowl of millet porridge, it is simply delicious in the world.

Shen Yu announced that the whole family would go on an outing in the suburbs today.

Yun Ling lifted the thick curtain and entered the door, and a cold wind blew into the hall, and Huai An sneezed first. How can there be a spring outing in early February?

Huai'an persuaded: "Dad, my eldest brother has seven days to take the exam." ”

Shen Yuman said with a nonchalant "um": "Dripping water through stones, it's not a day's work, the cold window has come for ten years, and the article is not on this day or two." ”

Huai'an, who has been counting on temporary cramming for exams in both lifetimes, hates to slap himself, communicates between top students, and what do scumbags talk about?

Xu Tinglan said: "You take your sons to make trouble, Sister Peng is too young to go, what should I do if I catch a cold?" ”

Nowadays, the mortality rate of children before the age of five is too high, and the immunity of children is poor, and a cold and flu may kill the child.

Shen Yu had no choice but to take his eldest son, younger son, eldest nephew and little cousin out of the city.

Huai'an sat on his father's horse, holding the moon like a dog in his hand. At this time, I realized that the purpose of this trip was to catch a pair of wild geese as the officiating ceremony of the eldest brother's appointment.

In terms of riding and shooting, Shen Yu is not a general, but to catch live geese, it is far from as simple as he thinks. The geese rarely rest during the day, and the rest is also on the high trees, and the geese live in flocks, and there are "wild goose slaves" standing guard, and the vigilance is very strong.

The group rolled in the field for a long time, but they didn't catch even a single goose feather.

Just as he was about to return from defeat, a few curses came from the jungle: "Hey, whose horse? His uncle's ...... Get out of the way...... Oops! ”

Huai'an originally tied the moon to the stump, but when he looked back at the empty stump and the half-cut bridle, he panicked: "Dad, the moon has run away." ”

The father and son followed the sound and peeled off the overgrown wild grass, and saw that the moon was turning in a circle to harass a hunter, and the hunter was unstable and planted his butt in the basket, and even the man with the basket fell to the ground. The moon still doesn't give up, and it's about to tear people's pants off.

"Moon!" Huai'an whistled, and the moon turned her head to glance at him, and continued to pull people's pants.

Shen Yu hurriedly stepped forward, pulled the moon aside, patted its neck, threw a carrot to it, and finally stopped.

Huai'an hurriedly apologized, stepped forward to help the hunter up, and helped him pull out the basket that was set on his buttocks, the basket was very heavy, and inside it was two live geese with two wings and claws tied. It turned out that the moon broke free from the reins because he saw the hunter catching geese, and it was really nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it.

"Dad, come and see, there's a pair of geese here!" Huai'an was excited.

The hunters were also real, and the two geese only sold them for two taels of silver. By the way, he also told them that catching live geese should only outwit them according to their habits, and they could not catch Yunyun hard.

Shen Yu held the moon, Huai'an carried two geese, and the father and son met with Huaiming.

The three of them let out a unison of exclamation.

Huai'an began to brag to everyone, how he and his father used clever tricks such as striking the east and west, striking the grass and startling the snake, hiding from the sky and crossing the sea, and closing the door to catch according to the habits of the wild geese......

"Caught?" Huai Ming asked.

"Bought." Huai'an Road.

The three elder brothers almost flashed their waists and took Huai An over to □□.

Shen Yu laughed and laughed, and the group was also considered a "big victory", and returned home with two taels of silver in exchange for live geese, and the unified caliber was captured by virtue of their witty minds and strong martial arts, and they were definitely not bought.

Xu Tinglan Yuan made a bet with his mother-in-law, guessing that they would not be able to catch it, but everyone had the same opinion, and they couldn't make up the gamble at all, and in the end, Sister Peng supported her father and brothers, and bet on her own New Year's money for a year.

It's a big deal.

Sister Peng can't take care of her father and brothers. Holding his own money box, he turned around in front of his grandmother, aunt and sister, and made a lot of money.

Shen Yu handed over the wild goose to Li Huan's daughter-in-law, ordered her to find two cages to raise carefully, and looked at Sister Peng dumbfounded: "This child has changed his career?" ”

Everyone burst into laughter again, and told the grandfather to hurry up and take a bath, covered in mud and dirty.

……

As Huai'an expected, there are more pits and fewer radishes, which is a good season for promotion and wealth. This month, Shen Yu was promoted to the position of the country's prince of sacrificial wine, the bachelor of Hanlin, and the fourth grade of official residence. Finally took off the word "deputy" in front of the official title and became one of the senior civil officials.

According to the convention, the official of Zhengsipin can be imprisoned, Huaiming will immediately participate in the Spring Festival, and he will not need it at all, Huai'an is still young, and it will take at least another five or six years.

"It's really a person who has attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascended to heaven." Huai'an shook his head.

"Little brother, you are the only chicken dog in our family." Sister Peng was anxious to get rid of the relationship with him.

Huai'an realized that he had scolded himself.

He was dizzy with joy, and at the age of nine, he obtained the admission qualification of the Central National University, which is the happiness of the second generation of officials!

At the same time, he finally finished memorizing "Mencius", thinking that he was familiar with the four books, and he was also a little cultural person.

Who knew that Dad took out the "The Mean" he had already read again-the four books were repeated, this time with Cheng Zhu's collection of notes, and recited the full text.

"What, again?!"

The workload was so large that Huai'an's pupils trembled.

Flipping through the "Notes on the Four Books", Huai'an is going crazy, God knows where these two old people came from so many words? It is necessary to use countless complex and jerky articles to explain the simplest truth, so that the more you read, the more confused you become, the more confused you become, and then explore the deeper meaning from the plausible.

But there was no way, at the moment when science was prevalent, the imperial court set the required scriptures for the imperial examination, and all the scholars across the country had to take it as a guideline and study it repeatedly.

Huai'an had a showdown, quit and went on strike.

"Dad, I don't want to study anymore." Huai'an said: "I want to go back to my hometown to farm. ”

Shen Yu was not annoyed, and asked him calmly: "Do you grow sweet potatoes?" ”

Huai'an nodded.

Shen Yu pondered for a moment: "It's not impossible, but you have to think clearly, it's really hard to sit in the study, but it's good to have ice in summer and charcoal in winter." The hardships of the crops, that is, facing the loess with your back to the sky, sweating all your strength, catching up with the drought and flood locust plague, you are a big man and still have the strength to come out to work, and your wife and children have to follow you as a homeless person. ”

A bleak scene appeared in front of Huai'an's eyes, and he fled from his homeland with his wife and children in tattered clothes, against the bitter cold wind......

He shook his head like a rattle: "Forget it, don't farm anymore, I'm in business, and business is what I'm best at!" ”

Shen Yu said again: "Business...... It's okay, it's just that you don't have an official body, you are weak and rich, and you are a lamb to the slaughter in the eyes of the government. ”

In front of Huai'an's eyes, there was a picture of himself being fattened by the official and killed, framed, and escorted to the execution ground with his wife and children......

He shuddered. Look at Daddy, rub his nose in embarrassment, and pick up the book he threw under the table again.

Chapter 112

Shen Yu likes children who cherish life and are easy to fool, smiled lightly, spread out the book and explained to him word by word, how Zhu Zi and his old man answered the words of the sage.

Huai'an fidgeted and twisted, always wanting to look out the window.

Today will try to release the list, my brothers and sisters have gone to the Gongyuan to see the list, but my father not only didn't go, but he didn't let him go, he was bored and caught him to study.

"Dad, are you nervous?" Huai'an asked suddenly.

"What am I nervous about?" Shen Yu said: "Even if I can try it myself, I have never been nervous." ”

Huai'an whispered: "Why are you not nervous to ravage me, I'm just an innocent little flower." ”

"Let you study and be motivated, how can you be called ravaging you?" Shen Yu said.

The father and son were having a quarrel between them, and the street outside the courtyard wall suddenly became noisy.

The sound of gongs and drums, the sound of firecrackers, noisy footsteps and congratulatory cheers filled the inns and inns all over the capital, and the newspapers of Shuntianfu began to announce the good news.

Yun Ling, who has always been steady and understands the rules, hurriedly ran in to spread the word, and went to the east house first: "Mrs., someone from the front yard is coming to report the good news!" “

went to the Westinghouse again: "Master, the government of Shuntianfu has come to the door!" ”

Huai'an jumped up with a thud, and the chair was crooked by him, and fell to the ground with a "bang".

Shen Yuyun glanced at him lightly: "Hairy hands and feet, what does it look like." ”

Huai'an didn't care what his father said, he jumped out like the wind, rushed back after a while, and ran with Sister Peng on his shoulder.

Shen Yu waited for them to leave, then hurriedly got up, walked out of the hall quickly, and saw two maids sweeping, hurriedly steadied his pace, and walked out of the courtyard in a well-dressed manner.

The front yard was like a pot.

The people who had always been in good order threw down their work and ran to the porch to look.

Under the guidance of the gatehouse, the newspapers bypassed the shadow wall and announced the good news loudly: "Good news to the old man Shen of your mansion, the second place in the high school examination, the top saint of the Jinluan Palace!" ”

There were cheers in the courtyard, Huai'an slapped hard, and Sister Peng jumped the highest, screaming excitedly.

Shen Yu was still standing in the courtyard and smiling, looking like the eight winds were not moving.

"Dad, my eldest brother is hit!" The two babies shook their father's arms left and right, shook him so much, simply didn't pretend to be anything, picked up their daughter and held their son, and asked someone to go to Huaiyang Building to set a box, and the whole family went out to celebrate.

After Huaiming went home, he was pampered and not surprised, but he reported to his father and mother that the children and grandchildren of those colleagues took the middle school examination, and even remembered the ranking very clearly, so that his parents could congratulate the various prefectures, and then continue to go back to the room to prepare for the palace examination two days later.

Huai'an listened to the retelling of the eldest brother, and only then did he know that Uncle Xie's eldest son had taken the thirty-ninth place in the examination, which was also quite a good result.

Shen Yu and his wife specially prepared a set of excellent study four treasures, asked Huai'an to send them to the Xie family as a congratulatory gift, and told him that Uncle Xie was about to be released to a certain place in the south of the Yangtze River as a prefect, and the reason why he did not leave for a long time was to wait for his eldest son to finish the palace examination.

"Huh?" Huai'an hugged the congratulatory gift and asked strangely, "Did Uncle Xie make any mistakes?" ”

Generally speaking, there are two different ways for Beijing officials and local officials to be promoted, and there are many cases of Beijing officials being released.

Shen Yu laughed and laughed: "It's just a normal tone." ”

After years of war, the rich land south of the Yangtze River was in ruins, and the prefectures and counties that had become poor because of the anti-Japanese war needed to regather wealth, not only so that the local people could live and work in peace and contentment, but also to increase commercial taxes to solve the financial crisis of the imperial court.

Cao Yu's success and failure and his departure from the southeast also led to huge changes in the entire southeast officialdom, many officials were implicated, dismissed and exiled, and there were many shortages, and the imperial court organized the court to make up for these missing officials, Xie Yankai was one of them.

These words let Huai'an digest for a long time, since the founding of this dynasty, the north is the political center, the south of the Yangtze River is the economic center, and the two have always not interfered in their own development, and now the north wants to control the south, meddle in commerce and trade, and increase commercial taxes, which will not only break the original balance, but also touch the interests of multiple groups.

"So, this trip is still very dangerous." Huai An said with a frown.

Shen Yu didn't speak, so he acquiesced.

Huai'an turned around and went to his cousin's room, the two muttered something and didn't know what to say, came out in a moment, took a wooden box, and together with the four treasures of the study, took He Wen, He Wu and Changxing to Xie's house.

The Xie family was in chaos, and there were more than a dozen servants coming in and out of the front yard alone, and there were boxes and picks scattered on the ground, obviously taking care of their luggage.

Huai'an followed the porter in and bowed to Xie Yankai: "Congratulations to Uncle Xie, congratulations to Uncle Xie, Brother Xie is the No. 1 on the high school apricot list...... ......

How much?

Xie Yan laughed and said, "Thirty-ninth." ”

Huai'an smiled awkwardly: "Yes, yes." ”

Xie Yankai looked at the mess all over the ground and said to him: "I didn't even care about going to your house to congratulate you, you actually came first." The house is too chaotic, so I won't invite you into the house. ”

Huai'an said: "It doesn't matter, I'll leave after sending the congratulatory gift." ”