personally watched the horse gather fifty taels of silver, and invited Lang Zhong to prescribe a prescription for the shopkeeper Duan, and then the third, fifth, sixth, and seventh four people carried the shopkeeper Duan home. Finally, he said to Ma Qian:

"Don't you want to know who my master is? I have a master, but I can't tell you. One more thing, I feel compelled to tell you, I don't have a home, and naturally I don't have a family. If anyone wants revenge, if they can't kill me at once, then you can? ”

Why did Wu Zheng say this? Of course, he wanted to warn Ma Qian and the master behind him. Don't come to the trouble of the shopkeeper Duan, let alone find trouble with yourself. As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes, and it will be a terrible thing for a bachelor to go crazy without care.

Ma Qian can only be submissive, if he is in the current state of mind before the horse, he can't hide as far as he wants, where will he have the courage to come to Wu Zheng's trouble again.

"Shaoxia's surname?"

"Wu Zheng. ”

didn't think much about it for a while, Wu Zheng still casually reported his real name.

For the next period of time, Wu Zheng shuttled between the small courtyard, the bookstore, and the shopkeeper Duan's house every day. When he was interested, he would also go out of the city and go to the woods on the hill north of the city to practice the "Lingxiao Nine Styles" and "Lingyun Footwork" for an hour or two.

Although for a period of time, since he understood the trajectory of the three footprints in "Lingyun Footwork", there has been no progress, Wu Zheng is still very satisfied, knowing that learning martial arts is by no means a matter of overnight, so he is not in a hurry.

However, when he often visited Duan's shopkeeper's house to visit his illness, Wu Zheng accidentally discovered that Duan's shopkeeper's house actually hid books from six entire houses. That is to say, the east and west wings in the front yard of Duan's shopkeeper are all full of all kinds of books.

According to Duan's shopkeeper's explanation, he has been doing this business since his grandfather, so there are many lonely books and rare books, and he is reluctant to sell them, so they are all kept at home.

"If you like it, just take it back and watch it, and then return it after reading it. ”

Of course Wu Zheng liked it, so he picked a few books and brought them back to the small courtyard every once in a while, and studied them carefully in the study room between Sui Xingdong.

Soon, Wu Zheng's actions were seen by Shopkeeper Duan.

"Little brother, seeing that most of the books you read are a combination of pen scrolls from the county and township examinations, is the little brother interested in fame?"

The current Wu Zheng does have such thoughts, and it is hazy, and it is difficult for Wu Zheng to explain why he wants to gain fame for a while.

Seeing Wu Zheng nodded, Shopkeeper Duan already knew that Wu Zheng was now a student with others, and to put it bluntly, he was a subordinate, and he was the identity of a follower.

"Little brother, if you want to take the county exam, you not only need to be full of literary talent, but also have a background in school. That is to say, you must have a student status. Can you do it?"

Wu Zheng thought to himself, he had fled for his life, where did he dare to go back to Wujiabao to run a school?

Seeing Wu Zheng pondering, Shopkeeper Duan also pondered for a moment before saying:

"There's a way to fix this. ”

In one sentence, it whetted Wu Zheng's appetite.

"Coincidentally, the mother's family is also surnamed Wu, and there is a nephew in the family, if he is alive, he should be four or five years older than you, and when he dies, he is about the same age as you. ”

Hearing this, Wu Zheng understood that the shopkeeper Duan wanted Wu Zheng to fraudulently use his daughter-in-law's nephew's school registration, or the background of a scholar. This is indeed a good choice, not to mention fraudulent background, even the phenomenon of impersonation for the exam abounds.

"Uncle Duan, do you need me to do anything?"

Shopkeeper Duan bowed his head again and pondered for a while, and finally said to Wu Zheng:

"No, you? Okay, I'll get better after a while, so I'll do it for you." If the little brother has the guts, he will definitely miss the end of the spring in February. ”

Shopkeeper Duan just said casually that the student registration would definitely be given to Wu Zheng, but he would not believe that Wu Zheng, who was only thirteen years old and less than fourteen years old, would participate in the county examination in February of the next year.

With the promise of the shopkeeper Duan, Wu Zheng really had such a plan.

So most of the next thoughts were spent on reading.

Especially in the Duan family's collection, the papers of the county examination over the years, especially those excellent test papers that have been annotated by famous Confucians, have become Wu Zheng's must-read books.

With Wu Zheng's current memory, if he didn't understand the truth of being greedy and chewing too much, it would not be difficult to memorize four or five books a day.

I don't know if Ma Qian was really scared by Wu Zheng, or if there was another conspiracy in the planning, anyway, until Chinese New Year's Eve, they were all in order, and the two who stayed to take care of the bookstore also went to Duan's house on time every evening to report the account, and the profit from selling books that day was naturally according to Wu Zheng's orders, no more, no less, just one or two silver.

Wu Zheng didn't care whether he made money by selling books or whether they posted it, he always signaled to the shopkeeper Duan to put it away.

On the contrary, the shopkeeper Duan was not sure, although he didn't say anything in front of Wu Zheng, but the silver he put away didn't touch a cent, and all of it was well kept.

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, no matter how Wu Zheng refused, he insisted on letting Duan Shopkeeper stay at home.

Wu Zheng, who didn't like to stay up late, barely passed the time, so he got up and went to the east wing room to draw a book from a book, which was the "Origin of the Surname" that he had been optimistic about for a long time, but had never had time to read, and took the book back to the small courtyard rented by Sui Xing.

The Chinese New Year is very simple for Wu Zheng, it is no different from ordinary days, one person is full and the whole family is not hungry. It's not that I don't want to pass away my grandmother and father, it's just, what's the use of wanting to?

When I came back at night, I read the book "The Origin of Surnames" and fell asleep. When I woke up in the morning, I had a casual bite to eat and went straight out of the city.

He spent almost a whole day in the woods on the hill north of the city, and returned to the city in the evening before the gates were closed. I went to the shopkeeper's house by the way, first, to pay New Year's greetings, and secondly, to bring the other books in the remaining volume of "The Origin of the Surname" back to the residence.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Ma Qian leading Xiao Wu and Liu to sit in the living room, and there were several silver ingots on the coffee table in front of him.

Mistakenly thinking that Ma Qian was making trouble again, Wu Zheng was just about to get angry, and he didn't want to see Wu Zheng in front of the horse, so he hurriedly stood up and walked quickly to meet him, bent down deeply with his hands in fists, and gave Wu Zheng a deep salute.

The little five and six also did the same, and saluted Wu Zheng who was standing in front of the door.

Wu Zheng also had to clench his fists at the three of them, turned his head to look at the shopkeeper Duan in the room, although his face was a little unnatural, he didn't find any signs of being injured again.

"Uncle Duan, have a good New Year. ”

"Hehe, Happy New Year, Happy New Year, come in and sit. ”

Wu Zheng walked in and asked Ma Qian:

"Is there something wrong with you?"

"Wu Shaoxia, the master wants to withdraw a few of us back. Therefore, Xiao Er and Xiao Si can no longer look at the store for Duan's shopkeeper, and today they are here to pay New Year's greetings to Shaoxia and Duan's shopkeeper, and the other is to send ten taels of silver. ”

When Wu Zheng heard this, he looked at the horse twice.

"Did your master think that you were not doing a good job so he withdrew you back?"

Ma Qian nodded. Seeing that meaning and having something to say, I was stunned.

"The silver will be free, I will make the decision for Uncle Duan, and I will only reward you with New Year's money. ”