Chapter 22: The Aftermath
Jia Yu nodded, and Lu continued: "Grandmother wants to ask you, do you want to continue to take the spring boudoir exam or do you want to wait for the next time?" Jia Yu replied without thinking: "Grandmother, my grandson wants to continue to take the exam, even if he doesn't succeed, he can still gain experience from it, and he will be more sure of the next exam." ”
"Originally, Zhang Xiang meant to let you take the test again next time, after all, you are still young, even if you win the ranking, it will not be too good. After Lu Shi finished speaking, he paused and glanced at Jia Yu, and said, "But Zhang Xiang also knows that if you don't let you take the test, you will be unwilling." You are now sharp, since you are not willing to keep a low profile, you can only go down the test in one go. ”
At this time, Jia Yu understood the reason behind Lu's calling him, and Lu was afraid that he would be successful for a while and forget to be cautious. In the words, Zhang Xiang could guess from Jia Yu's behavior that Jia Yu was unwilling to hide, which meant that others could also guess Jia Yu's purpose, and Lu hoped that Jia Yu would not be complacent, so as not to fall into the trap of others without noticing for a while.
"Of course, if you still want to take the exam, the engagement can only be set after the spring boudoir, as long as you, the skin monkey, are not in a hurry. After Lu finished saying what he wanted to say, he began to joke about Jia Yu again. The cheeky Jia Yu will be repelled like this: "The grandson is not in a hurry, but the grandmother is in a hurry, just look at the grandmother's neck." ”
Lu Shi was puzzled, and he was in a hurry to close her neck, so Jia Yu continued: "Grandmother is looking forward to the left and right, and her neck is long." Lu laughed regardless of his image after hearing this. Jia Yu and Lu Shi were laughing leisurely here, and Shi Shi was worried on the other side.
Before the start of the autumn boudoir, Shi took 200,000 taels from Gongzhong and bet on Jia Zheng's body, and now that he has fallen off the list, the silver taels are naturally lost, and the 200,000 taels are gone. At that time, there were less than 800,000 taels in the Rongguo Mansion, of course, this was cash, and other shops, houses and villages had not been counted. 800,000 taels seems to be a lot, as a national prince, in order to marry a daughter in order not to lose decency, it will use more than 100,000 taels, and in the future, children will also need tens of thousands of taels to be officials, and hundreds of subordinates in the house will use up tens of thousands of taels a year. So 800,000 taels won't be available for long if there is no other income, and now Shi's greed has lost a quarter.
Shi Shi jumped in a hurry at this time, and the deficit of 200,000 taels was not enough even if she added all her dowry. Although Shi was born in the Baoling Marquis's mansion, the Baoling Hou also had to worry about her own inheritance, and she couldn't give everything to her, and her dowry was only 100,000 taels. After the Shi family became the family, their eyes widened a lot when they saw the property of the public middle school. She also took the opportunity to take advantage of the family to pull a lot of her dowry, at first she was afraid that people would find out and didn't dare to take more, but in recent years, Shi has become a lot bolder and has moved a lot bigger. Watching the dowry become rich little by little, Shi was satisfied.
Shi Shi desperately flipped through the account book, trying to find out what could she use to subsidize the deficit, but it was so easy, the number of entries on the book was a pit with a cover, and she knew it at a glance. Shi gritted his teeth and pouted, and hit the idea on Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi actually does not make much profit, a 100,000 taels of Zhuangzi only makes about 10,000 taels a year, Shi just wants to sell one or two Zhuangzi, fill in 200,000 taels first, and then plan to come after tens of thousands of taels per year.
After making a decision, Shi Shi found Lai Da and handed over the two Zhuangzi land deeds on the outskirts of the capital to Lai Da, and asked Lai Da to go and get things done. Lai Tiantian knew what reason Shi did this, he knew from Lai's mother that Shi had embezzled the silver taels from Gongzhong, and he was also curious about what Shi would do, but he didn't expect Shi to be so bold that he sold Gongzhong's Zhuangzi to fill the pit.
After Shi explained everything, he easily returned to his courtyard, and Jia Daishan also came back from work. Seeing Jia Daishan coming back with a shadow on his face, Shi knew that he was unhappy in his heart, and he didn't dare to mention Jia Zheng's matter to him. Jia Daishan enjoyed Shi's gentleness, and the unhappiness in his heart slowly disappeared. Shi is very good at understanding Jia Daishan's heart, she never shows her tough side in front of Jia Daishan, she knows that Jia Daishan likes her little woman's side, so if Jia Daishan is at home, Shi will personally hand over the hot towel and change his clothes, even if there is something at home, he will make up his mind and let him feel like the head of the family.
In fact, the Jiangmen Tiger Girl knew these ways, and Shi Shi did it at the suggestion of Lai's mother. As for the affairs at home, hehe, since Shi Shi has captured Jia Daishan's heart, he naturally knows what to say will make Jia Daishan react. Jia Daishan is basically completely at the mercy of Shi for his family's affairs.
Jia Daishan looked at the gentle Shi Shi, and he was naturally very clear about Jia Zheng's affairs. Today's autumn boudoir is released, so the attention of the hall is on this, among which Jia Daishan's two sons-in-law are on the field and naturally become the focus of everyone. After all, the brothers are in the same field, and it will be a good story to be admitted to the Jinshi together in the future. The saint didn't pay attention to it, and the triennial autumn boudoir was also a grand event, so it was lively and lively with a group of ministers.
While the candidates were crowding outside, the answers to the middle lift were already placed on the Holy Emperor's table. The saint flipped through and pulled out the answers of several more excellent and ministers, and Jia Yu's answer was also among them. Jia Yu's answer was the same as when he was a child in the exam, and it was his regularity that made the ministers take a fancy to him. Jia Yu is only fourteen years old, and this kind of performance can be regarded as old.
Jia Daishan was naturally curious, but he didn't go to the scroll, and as a martial artist, he couldn't understand it. He was just looking at the names on the list, and soon he saw Jia Yu's name on the list, thirty-four on the first list, which was very high. But he didn't even find Jia Zheng's name after looking at it twice. How is it possible, doesn't it mean that Jia Zheng is better than Jia Yu? Although he is still young, it is right that he can't pass the Jia Yu exam, so why can't he even pass the B list?
Seeing Jia Daishan's face, the saint naturally knew what he was thinking, and called the chamberlain next to him and asked, the saint's chamberlain was all human spirits, and he had long known that the saint was interested in Lu's two grandchildren, so he had already inquired and handed Jia Zheng's scroll into the hands of the saint.
After handing the scroll to Jia Dai, the saint talked about the other scrolls with the other ministers. Jia Daishan held the scroll, although he couldn't understand whose scroll was good and whose scroll was bad, but his son's one could only be said to be that even he knew that it was not good, except for the first paper that was full, the second and third questions were obviously not answered, and a few words were written. If this can be on the list, Jia Daishan will definitely say cheating.
Shengshang looked at a few scrolls with great interest, and suddenly remembered something, and said casually: "Jia Aiqing doesn't seem to have a son yet, right?"