"Huai'an!"

"Yao Ge Laoyo, you can take a look and fight again!"

The scene was chaotic for a while, and Huai was stable and calm, only to see Master Yao, who had not been seen in the past five years, the whole person was a lot older, wearing a coarse cloth and short beatings, pedaling clogs, holding his sleeves and panting and standing in the middle of the yard.

Yao Bin was familiar with Gonggong Chen, so he first made a salute to him, and laughed, only to see two handsome young men standing aside.

"Master Yao." Huai'an held the disciple salute and bowed to Yao Bin.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Yao Bin came back to his senses: "Shen Huai'an? ”

"It's the students." Huai'an said with a smile.

"I haven't seen you for a few years, but I've grown so big." Yao Bin was obviously still immersed in Fang Cai's anger, and he barely squeezed out a smile on his face: "This is ......"

Huai'an smiled and said, "Master, this is Master Xie's daughter, my daughter-in-law who has not passed through the door." ”

Xie Yun made a blessing ceremony this time: "Good master." ”

Yao Bin was slightly startled, and his smile was a lot more sincere: "Okay, good, it's a good boy at first glance." ”

As he spoke, he touched his body, only touched a few coins of broken silver, and seemed to feel that he couldn't take it out, so he untied the jade pendant on his waist: "Come on, the master will give you a meeting gift." ”

Huai'an hurriedly took it for Xie Yun, and the two saluted and thanked him.

"Come in and sit down."

Huai'an took Xie Yun and followed Yao Bin and Gonggong Chen to the main courtyard.

Gonggong Chen persuaded all the way: "Old Yao Ge, you are very angry and hurt your liver, and you are old, and your old temperament is also appropriately accepted." ”

Yao Bin sighed: "Injustice, it's all injustice." ”

Mrs. Yao greeted each other, and after greeting each other, she pulled Xie Yun to take a closer look, looked at the pair of beautiful people with joy, and took off the jade bracelet on her wrist and gave it to her: "It's not a very good condition, so let's play with it." ”

Xie Yun refused, so he had to accept it, and was dragged by Mrs. Yao to the inner room to taste the salted cherry tea she made herself.

Huai An rubbed his shoulders and looked unconvinced, why did he eat a stick when he entered the door, and Xie Yun had a greeting gift when he entered the door.

Walk into the main room, only to see the hall furnishings are simple, the middle hall has a picture scroll, a couplet, look up and see a pair of iron painting silver hook ink treasure - quiet and far-reaching, there is a bamboo cane and a pair of straw sandals hanging on the beams, which means "bamboo cane and mango shoes are lighter than horses".

Huai'an knew at a glance that Master Yao had become a lot of fire in recent years, and he was so popular that he used various decorations to imply that he wanted to be indifferent to fame and fortune.

Yao Ge Lao and Chen Gonggong sat separately, and Huai An sat down to accompany them and listen to them.

The two are allies to a certain extent, and Gonggong Chen helped Yao Bin recover, naturally so that he could one day sit smoothly in the position of the eunuch of the boss and the eunuch of the palm seal, so he spoke very brightly.

"My Yao Binxin is in the temple, there is no need to hide this, there is a Wu Party in the imperial court, dictatorship without authority, full of evil, and then the Wu Party fell, His Majesty ascended the throne, Zheng Ge Lao is in charge of the cabinet, and now Yuan Xie is the first assistant, so what? It is still the official who is absent from the rule of the officials, and the sea has opened a small crack, and the Qingzhang Junfu can not be implemented, and the border reserve has finally improved a little, but there are still big loopholes in the old system, and then the new policy is not drastic, and I am not far from the country! ”

Huai'an's heart was beating when he listened to it, Master Yao really dared to say it! However, these words, although radical, are not unreasonable.

Gonggong Chen is not an ordinary eunuch, he has been in the palace for many years and is used to seeing the wind and waves, but he can still drink tea slowly and logically, and chat without changing his face.

Huai'an ate a lot of refreshments on the side, and the more he listened, the more he felt that the emperor was really thinking too much, and Master Yao didn't want to refuse this appointment at all, not only did he refuse, but he also geared up and was ready to roll up his sleeves and do a big job.

So this trip, in addition to eating, drinking, and having fun at public expense, he didn't need to work at all - he made a lot of money!

After the incense case was successfully read out, Yao Bin led his family to accept the decree and asked his wife to offer the decree to the ancestral hall, and was about to continue to greet Gonggong Chen. Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Yao Hong slipping along the wall towards the gate, picking up a stick directly from the ground and smashing it over.

Yao Hong shuddered, and a wad of manuscript paper fell out of his sleeve.

Yao Bin was even more angry, and started a new round of chasing with a stick.

Huai'an saw that Master Yao hadn't done anything else in the past five years, worrying about the country and the people and beating his younger brother, and he was angry as if he was a teenager old.

Gonggong Chen can't stop it, Huai'an doesn't stop it at all, this kind of pit brother's goods deserve to be beaten, unlike him, he never pits brother.

Out of curiosity, he picked up the manuscript paper on the ground one by one, and his eyes widened: "Geometry problem?!" ”

To be precise, it was a pile of calculus paper, with a lot of geometric figures drawn in pencil, and various formulas, but there were no mathematical symbols of later generations, but instead of the heavenly and terrestrial branches, how could these things end up here?

"You know it, too!" Yao Hong asked while hugging his head.

"How could you do this?" Huai'an asked.

"A Westerner taught me, oops!" Yao Hong said, and received a stick on his waist.

Huai Anxin thought that he was probably the legendary missionary, so he immediately stepped forward and hugged Master Yao with Gonggong Chen.

Yao Hong took the opportunity to escape from the gate.

Yao Binqi's eyes turned black, and he stood in place with his waist pinched, panting. Back in the hall, under Chen's father-in-law's repeated questioning, he began to pour bitter water.

"I must have done a sin in my previous life, and I had such a younger brother." Yao Bin said bitterly: "I haven't read the Bible since I was a child, but I like arithmetic, what is arithmetic?" Tiny trail! What is the way out for learning to refine again? I sent him to other provinces to send him to his hometown, taught by famous teachers all the way, and forced him to beg, so that he could be regarded as a person in the examination and made up for a half-official position. Who would have thought that he would be open-mouthed in office, but he would invite a catastrophe. Now it's a good thing, even his daughter-in-law has returned to her parents' house with her children, if it weren't for the fact that there is no Hugh husband in the world, he would have given people a Hugh a long time ago! ”

"I let him take care of the family business at home, he is good, every day with a ghost-like Westerner to learn witchcraft, you look at these foreign charms he draws." Yao Bin pointed to the calculation paper in Huai'an's hand.

Huai'an carefully flipped through the geometric figures as he explained, "Master Yao, this is not witchcraft, this is a branch of arithmetic. ”

Yao Bin glared at him: "You also put your mind on the scriptures and historical articles, and don't touch these things that are not serious." ”

Huai'an only responded, and no longer argued. There is no way, under the imperial examination system, arithmetic is not valued, and arithmetic talents are extremely scarce.

However, when I heard that Master Yao was going to return to Beijing with Yao Hong, I knew that he still hadn't given up on his younger brother, and he had the heart to find another opportunity to find an official position for him.

But Huai'an is eyeing Yao Hong, and there is a shortage of arithmetic talents, so he can't care about how perfect his character is, so let's go to the academy to be a gentleman of arithmetic first! After all, it is really rare for a second-generation official like him to have three views and not cheat, and he can't be too demanding.

Hearing that Yao Ge Lao was really going back to Beijing, the officials in the entire capital were shocked.

The officials who had offended him before, in order to support Zheng Ge Lao and suppressed him, all trembled and walked on thin ice, among them, led by the second assistant Zhang Zhan, who was directly scared and couldn't afford to get sick, but on the tenth day, he went on the fold of begging the bones to return to his hometown.

Yuan Xie is still like a big Buddha who is not sad or happy, the emperor wants Yao Bin to be the first assistant, and the Manchu civil and military forces are afraid of offending the heavenly officials and dare not say much, so he will retreat to the second assistant, anyway, where and the mud are and, in the position of the first assistant, it is easy and uneven.

Huai'an took Xie Yun back to "return to Zhao after completion", and was scolded by his father-in-law and father-in-law, knowing that he was thick-skinned, and scolding for three days was in vain, except for giving him homework, he couldn't hurt him in the slightest, so he asked him to copy the "Mencius" with a set of annotations, and if he couldn't finish it, he was not allowed to go out even if he was on a holiday.

Xie Yun was so smart that the imitation font was mixed in the original handwriting, and even Huai'an himself couldn't recognize it, so he finally let him take time out to inspect the construction sites of the girls' school and the academy before the midsummer of May.

Since the end of last year, the school building of "Qi'ershan Academy" began to work, it is the season when farming is not busy, recruiting villagers from Qi'ershan to work, Ronghe sent two eunuchs who had built the palace to supervise the project, Huai'an also sent a few clever men who can understand the drawings to help, staring at the construction site every day.

More than half a year has passed, and the scale has finally begun to see.

Everything is going smoothly, and although Huai'an is busy and tired every day, he often laughs out loud in his dreams.

Yao Ge Lao has not returned to Beijing yet, Zhang Ge Lao is ill, Yuan Ge Lao needless to say, the cabinet affairs are busy, even if it is not a day on duty, Shen Yu and Zeng Fan are often busy until late at night. On this day, he came back from the stars and the moon, and saw Huai'an sleeping directly on the Luohan bed outside, and it was hot and dry in summer, Xu Tinglan only put a thin list on his stomach.

"Why did you sleep here?" He asked.

It has been more than two years since Huai'an moved to the front yard.

"Let him sleep." Xu Tinglan said: "I don't know what I'm busy with these days, I'm tired." ”

Shen Yu smiled: "There are many small ideas." ”

As soon as the words fell, Huai'an laughed and woke up laughing.

"What a good dream, so happy?" Xu Tinglan asked.

"Yao Ge is always going to be the first assistant, I am down-to-earth." Huai'an stretched, got up and sat cross-legged.

Shen Yu looked inexplicable, shouldn't his father be the first assistant and be down-to-earth?

Huai An said happily: "Every time the old Xiaoge collapses, I have to be scolded and recited for a long time. Yao Ge Lao has no son, and there is no Xiao Ge Lao, so I finally don't have to be scolded. ”

Chapter 181

"Look at your little bit of talent!"

Shen Yu twisted his ears and threw him out, Since he was a child, he went to the sky and the earth like a monkey, and he dared to be long-winded with adults!

In this year's examination, Shen Yu was supposed to be the main exam, but because his nephews and nephews were all out of the exam, he took the initiative to let Xian take the initiative to avoid suspicion. The three children failed to disappoint him, after the palace test, Gu Tong High School explored the flowers, awarded the seven grades of editing, Huaiyuan and Chen Yong were "ashamed of the snow", respectively, the seventeenth and twentieth place in the second grade, and the court examination was admitted to the Shu Jishi, and was able to enter the Hanlin Academy Shu Changguan to study.

There is an unwritten rule in the dynasty, "non-jinshi do not enter the Hanlin, non-Hanlin do not enter the cabinet", a door of three Hanlin, counting two sons-in-law is five, of which three are three tripod armor, the achievements are really remarkable, and the future of the eunuchs is in front of them.

Huaiyuan Huaiming has a fame, Huai'an is also in the country, Shen Yu took the opportunity to propose, hoping that the emperor will send a decree to let the Shen family get out of the army, the emperor naturally has no two words, and the decree authorizes the Shen family to change the military household into a private household.

For many days, there was an endless stream of guests who came to congratulate them, and under the side of the inquiry, they learned that all the children and nephews of the Shen family had been married, and only a young Sister Peng was left.

Sister Peng is the only daughter of Shen Ge Lao, with red lips and white goose egg face, a pair of apricot eyes that are big and round, and smart eyes that are shining. Since the brothers and sisters are married, many people inquire about Sister Peng's marriage.

Sister Peng had just turned twelve, and it was when she was tired and coquettish by her father's side, Shen Yu never mentioned her marriage, and she couldn't hear the temptations of outsiders openly and secretly.

Sister Peng was not affected, but when she went out with her mother, she felt that her aunts and aunts looked at her differently, and she came back and asked her brother: "Why do they always pull me to ask for warmth, it's weird." ”

Huai An said matter-of-factly: "They think you look good, and they want to touch your appearance, you can hide a little, don't give people too much, and you won't have it." ”

Sister Peng felt that it was very reasonable, and from that day on, the reputation of the eldest lady of the Shen family spread all over the capital.

Shen Yuxu Tinglan also called his sons and nephews to mention their faces, and asked them to be cautious in their words and deeds outside, "No one is good for a thousand days, and no flower is red for a hundred days", the more proud the scenery, the more you can't get carried away.

Huai'an felt that he didn't have to worry about his parents the most, because of the excellent results of his brothers, he was scrutinized by his classmates and teachers in Guozijian for more than half a month, and he was not proud at all.

Everyone was curious about how he felt about making soy sauce in such a family. How could he feel? If the gap is small, he will feel pressure, and if the gap reaches the point where it is beyond reach, then he can only shout six, six, six.

In a blink of an eye, it was Huaiyuan's personal welcome ceremony, the Zou family went to the New Year's dress, and the two families accelerated the completion of the three books and six ceremonies very tacitly, and the weather was still very hot, but in order to avoid the ghost month, the wedding date was set at the end of June.

Huai'an followed his cousin to greet his relatives, and the long procession went around the city, dancing dragons and lions, blowing and blowing, and came to the door of Zou's house.

The Zou family is prosperous, and there are more than a dozen of the bride's brothers and brothers-in-law, as well as a few dolls of all sizes tied with red hair ropes, and the whole street is full of people.

"Good guy, the Zou family has given birth to a juju team." Huai'an sighed.

The Shen family welcomes relatives, they are all skilled in business, Chen Yong Gu Tong needless to say, he has been waiting for the other party to come up with the problem, Huai'an is rich and rich, and first sent the dolls all over the ground with red envelopes and candy.

As a result, the other party did not engage in "cultural fighting", but engaged in "martial arts", only to see the little guy bring a bow with red silk and a few arrows wrapped in cotton and red cloth.

Zou Yingtang's eldest grandson stood up and said to Huaiyuan: "'Shooting' is the six arts, the ancients said: A gentleman has nothing to fight, he must also shoot." I wonder if the groom can bend this longbow and shoot down the hydrangea on the opposite tree? ”

Everyone looked at each other, and even the drummers stopped.

Shooting is the six arts, but most of the scholars in this dynasty have been trapped in the study hall for more than ten years, full of literary atmosphere, at most they play with pitchers, and they are right on poetry, so that a Hanlin old man bends a bow and shoots arrows, which is really a bit difficult.

Chen Yong's mind was sensitive, and he immediately asked in Gu Tong's ear: "What does this Zou Shao mean?" Really? ”

Ordinary people get married, and the groom wants to enter the door of the Yue family, but the Zou family has always paid attention to decency, and he should not be embarrassed by his in-laws.

Gu Tong said in a low voice: "Zou Shao once laughed at the fact that the military classmate who was admitted to the school was crowned by a monkey, and later when he was a seven-rank patrol according to the imperial history, he asked the local four-rank military attache to kneel to him. ”

"Ridiculous." Chen Yong let out a soft snort: "Is it because you look down on the second uncle?" ”