I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 124
Zhan's third son is a bigot, throwing cold water on the excited Ma Shi with his legs crossed, "Shut up, Xiaoyu's workshop has nothing to do with you?"

"I'm Xiaoyu's third aunt!" With a stalk in her neck, Ma glared at Zhan Lao San angrily. If it wasn't for her man, she would have scratched her face with her claws!
Now in Jinlin Village, the eldest sister-in-law Li is the most sought after, and her Ma-shi can also be ranked second!

"Come on, you used to scold Xiaoyu a lot." Zhan Lao San rolled his eyes back, looked at the old man who was smoking a pipe, and said, "Father, the old patriarch told me in private that after the workshop is completed, if If possible, I will let you work as a cook in a workshop."

The old man Zhan sat up straight suddenly, and stopped smoking the dry cigarette. Various emotions were intertwined and changed on the wrinkled old face surrounded by smoke.

"Alright, are you still working at the pier?" Old man Zhan nodded, and couldn't help but look at the second son who lowered his head. Originally, he valued the second most, but now...

Zhan Lao San didn't want to enter the workshop and be supervised by others, so he said lazily, "I'm also in charge now, and the boat bosses and shop workers at the wharf treat me respectfully, so I won't come back."

One person attains enlightenment, chicken and dog ascend to heaven!The wharf was originally a place where dragons and snakes mixed together, but Zhan Feiyu was valued by the county magistrate Chen, and Zhan Laosan, the third uncle, followed suit.

The street patrolling policeman and Zhan Laosan called each other brothers, and those running boats dared not offend, and the guys from various shops who came to the dock to pick up and deliver goods were naturally polite.

Although Zhan Lao San is lazy, but he is not bad by nature, and he is also righteous. Now he is a small steward arranging delivery and receiving goods by ox carts. Xiaojiu, this day is as beautiful as a fairy.

"That's fine, second child. From now on, you will take care of the field, and hire someone to help when the farming season is busy." Old man Zhan didn't dare to bother anymore. Xiaoyu, the granddaughter, has been adopted and has nothing to do with Lao Zhan's family. But these days are much stronger than in previous years.

After leaving the main room, Mrs. Ma still wanted to persuade Mr. Zhan to go to the workshop, "I heard that those in charge of the shop have five or six taels of silver per month!"

Zhan's third dog, who was being nagged about, got angry, went back to the bedroom and went to bed, "If you keep talking, I won't even go to the pier tomorrow!"

"I..." Madam Ma glared at the rascal Zhan Lao San angrily, but he was also afraid that he would really give up his burden, so he could only lie back on the bed holding back his anger.

In the main room, watching Zhan's second child leave, the old man Zhan sighed, "Old woman, why don't you ask the second child again, I think the lotus has changed a lot now, and the vegetable field is also well taken care of."

Although Xiao Yao has a lame leg, she doesn't need to do any heavy work. She can earn hundreds of Wen a month by farming the vegetable fields. Besides, she is the mother of Da Lang and San Lang.

The old man Zhan can give money to Zhan's second son to marry another wife, "The second son offended Xiaoyu to death, and a girl from a good family will definitely not marry the second son. If she marries a widow or gets divorced or divorced Yes, not as good as a lotus."

The old lady Zhan lowered her head and bit off the cotton thread for mending clothes. She looked at the old man who was smoking a pipe and shook her head. The old lady Zhan didn't care about the matter of Zhan's second child, and she couldn't control it either.

Old man Zhan sighed again, who would have thought that the second child is now the most downcast in the whole family, this is fate!
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Still getting up before dawn, Zhan Feiyu read through the five art essays, and then recited [-] of his short poetry collections, in order to know how to recite poems.

"I'll bring you bath water when I come back." Looking at Zhan Feiyu who was waiting for punching in the yard, Li Shi warmly warned, and then went to the vegetable field with a basket to cut some leeks and came back, planning to spread a leek egg pancake Give Zhan Feiyu breakfast.

Zhan Feiyu nodded obediently, but when she punched, her movements were crisp and neat, coupled with her cold eyes, she was full of posture.

When it was Chenshi, Zhan Feiyu had already packed up after breakfast, "Mother, the teacher will return to Beijing soon, I may come back a little later these days."

Although he was a bit reluctant, Mrs. Li would never delay Zhan Feiyu's study, "Mother knows, you have to listen to the teacher and don't be too tired from studying."

As soon as the mother and daughter left the courtyard, they saw that the village was walking quickly with a middle-aged man.

"Uncle Dong?" Zhan Feiyu was taken aback.

Dong Fang, who is in his 40s, is wearing a cotton gown, but his demeanor is not ordinary.

"Miss." After saluting respectfully, Dong Fang continued: "My lord asked my subordinates to deal with the workshop affairs, and the carriage stopped at the entrance of the village."

Zhan Feiyu is a hands-off shopkeeper. After telling the village leader and the old patriarch about the workshop, she will not interfere again, so she took over the conversation at this moment: "Then Uncle Dong, you and the village are busy. I will go to the teacher, mother. You go back."

The carriage stopped at the gate of the farm, Zhan Feiyu jumped out of the carriage, and there was the sound of horseshoes behind him.

Chong Guang turned over and got off the horse in a graceful manner, pointing the whip in his hand at Zhan Feiyu's leg, "Fat girl, are your legs so sharp?"

Frowning and staring, Zhan Feiyu ignored Chongguang, and smiled at Yin Wuyan who got off his horse, "Big brother, are you here to find the teacher?"

"Yes." Yin Wuyan responded indifferently, and took down the bookcase from the carriage, "Let's go."

Zhan Feiyu obediently followed Yin Wuyan, and two figures, one tall and one short, entered the yard together.

Chong Guang, who fell behind, clicked his tongue twice. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have believed that Qi Ye still has such a considerate side.

There are two roads through the courtyard, the main courtyard is on the right, and the long corridor on the left leads to the backyard, which is also a small courtyard where Zhan Feiyu temporarily lives.

"Big brother, I'm going to the study." Zhan Feiyu stretched out his hand to take the bookcase.

Although the teacher was born in the Nanling Gu family, he didn't pay much attention to these red tapes. He didn't need Zhan Feiyu to ask for greetings first in the morning. He might as well go to the study to write an extra sheet of characters when he had time.

"I'll take you there." Yin Wuyan turned left without stopping, and only left after entering the study and putting down the bookcase.

Looking at the densely packed pages of today's homework on the desk, Zhan Feiyu hurriedly opened the bookcase and started to study. The amount of homework from the teacher is definitely driving people to tire of studying, so he can handle it by himself!
In the living room in the front yard, Prince Yu glanced outside the door, "Didn't you say that Wu Yan is here?"

Gu Qingzhou, who was woken up by Prince Yu early in the morning, was lazily leaning on the wooden couch for a rest, and the wind was blowing in by the window, carrying the fragrance of flowers. Behind him was a square soft pillow with royal blue satin, The inside is stuffed with cotton, which is as comfortable as it is moderately soft and hard.

Did not wait for an answer.Prince Yu looked contemptuously at the weak Gu Qingzhou, "I really should let those sour scholars in the Imperial Academy see you like this!"

Looking at Prince Yu who was sitting straight and upright, Gu Qingzhou smiled and asked: "My lord, I heard that you were shot by an arrow in your waist in the early years, isn't it tiring to sit like this?"

"When you reach the age of this king, you probably won't be able to walk without a cane." Prince Yu scorned a few words, then suddenly got up and walked over quickly, and before Gu Qingzhou had time to react, he grabbed the pillow behind him Snatched away.

When Yin Wuyan entered the door, he saw Prince Yu sitting on the chair enjoying himself, leaning back from time to time, clearly liking the comfort brought by the pillow.

Gu Qingzhou didn't bother with Prince Yu, and said to Yin Wuyan: "Is there any change in Liu Jian?"

"This king has sent all the guards of Prince Yu's mansion there, if Liu Jian dares to silence him, then he will be charged with murder!" Prince Yu snorted coldly, Liu Jian is now in a dilemma.

Staff Zhou Wenquan must not stay, this is a big hidden danger, the best way is to kill the mouth, but the trouble is that the guards of Prince Yu's mansion can't fly the flies around the other courtyard where Liu Jian is temporarily staying.

It's easy to kill people, but it's troublesome to dispose of the corpse. It will definitely be found if it is buried in another courtyard; Discovered, that is ironclad evidence!
Of course, Liu Jian also thought about asking Zhou Wenquan to pretend to leave the other courtyard with him, and then silence him after leaving Shangsi County.

But if Zhou Wenquan was found by Prince Yu's Mansion or the Forbidden Dragon Guard and captured him alive, it would not only be the case of Wan Yunhao being poisoned to death, Liu Jian has done many things that have not been seen in the past, and Zhou Wenquan knows it all. Once he was captured alive, Liu Jian would not be far away from being ransacked and beheaded.

"Liu Jian should be silenced in another courtyard." The Dragon Guards had investigated all officials in the court, and Yin Wuyan deduced based on Liu Jian's character that he would not take the risk of letting Zhou Wenquan be captured alive.

Prince Yu thought that he would be able to take revenge soon, and even the wrinkles on his rosy old face were lessened, and he said in a loud voice: "It's not enough to just kill people, that old man Liu Jian will definitely cut off Zhou Wenquan's hands, come on!" Destroy corpses and wipe out traces!"

Fingerprints cannot be extracted without hands, at least the charge of killing Wan Yunhao with poison can be cleared.

Of course, this step is also a bad move. After all, the corpse has no hands. Everyone knows the reason. The scholars in Nanxuan Mansion are not stupid, and the officials in the court are not stupid. Know.

"It's enough to have a big fire." Gu Qingzhou interrupted Prince Yu, "It's bloody and cruel to chop off his hands. Liu Jian is also a Jinshi, so a big fire is enough."

People died, their bodies were burned, and their hands were naturally gone.

Prince Yu looked at the handsome and dignified Gu Xueshi speechlessly, and wanted to ask, is setting fire to a corpse considered elegant?

Yin Wuyan actually agrees with Gu Qingzhou's inference that there is no need to destroy the body, but only a suitable reason to destroy Zhou Wenquan's fingerprints.

Prince Yu thought for a while, then slapped his thigh and laughed loudly: "I will immediately send people to sneak into the other courtyard and steal all the lard and sesame oil from the kitchen, I want to see how this fire starts! "

Setting fire would definitely destroy the corpses and wipe out traces, but thick smoke would give the palace guards and the Forbidden Dragon Guard a reason to rush into another courtyard, so Liu Jian had to ensure that the fire would burn quickly, and he had to break in before the Forbidden Dragon Guard. Burn Zhou Wenquan's body before coming here.

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When it was time to eat at noon, Zhan Feiyu, who had been sitting at the desk for two hours, heard Prince Yu's words about frying hands, and the chicken nuggets he just picked up fell into the bowl with a clatter.

"Haha, the little girl is still too timid. When you arrive in the capital, I will personally train you." Prince Yu, who succeeded in pranking, was amused by Zhan Feiyu's stunned appearance.

It's a pity that the two little girls in the palace were taught by their mothers to be polite and dignified. At the age of seven or eight, they only knew how to obey the rules, and they lost all aura.

"My lord, did you really let someone steal all the oil?" Zhan Feiyu was so shocked again that his jaw almost dropped.

Looking at the triumphant Prince Yu, the corners of Zhan Feiyu's eyes twitched, and he couldn't help but said, "But you just need to burn the fingerprints on your right hand with fire, and then set another fire, there is no need to burn the body."

At least it is enough to create the illusion of a fire. For example, when Zhou Wenquan fell at night and fell unconscious, he accidentally knocked over the oil lamp, and his right hand happened to be stained with spilled lamp oil, so his fingerprints were burned. It is also reasonable.

"With Wuyan here, Liu Jian dares to set up a murder scene, and Wuyan can find the flaw." Prince Yu didn't care at all. False evidence is also fine, the left and right saints believe in Wuyan!"

Zhan Feiyu was stunned for a moment, can it still be like this?

"Little girl, do you not believe in Wuyan's ability?" Prince Yu laughed jokingly.

no!Zhan Feiyu quickly looked at Yin Wuyan, tried to open his eyes wide, and just missed writing the word trust in them!

"Don't talk about food." Yin Wuyan said in a deep voice, and used the serving chopsticks to pick up food for Zhan Feiyu.

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Although Zhan Feiyu really wanted to stay at the farm and wait for the results in the evening, but she also knew that Mrs. Li was still waiting at home, so she could only take the homework assigned by Gu Qingzhou and ride back to the village in a carriage.

And after the moon was in the sky, there was a carriage parked on the small road not far from Jinlin Village.

A night pearl hangs on the top of the carriage, and the white light illuminates the interior of the carriage, but from a distance, there is no light at all in the darkness, and no one knows that there is a carriage parked in the distance.

In the darkness, Zhan Er Er took a sneak peek at the woman in black clothes. She looked very young, with a pretty face, sitting in the carriage, like a picture scroll of beauty.

But Zhan's second son didn't dare to have any obscene thoughts, not to mention the priceless luminous pearl on the top of the carriage, or the noble aura of the woman in front of him, he didn't dare to have any blasphemy.

"Are you Zhan Feiyu's second uncle?" Qin's voice was soft, but her posture revealed the arrogance of a daughter of a family. It seemed that talking to a mud-legged person like Zhan Feiyu had already belittled her status.

"It's a villain, I don't know who is a nobleman?" Zhan's second child lowered his head, thinking quickly.

During the day, he was doing farm work in the field, and suddenly a man came over. Zhan's second child only thought that the other party was here to ask for directions, but who knew that the other party gave him a five taels of silver ingot, and left a word to tell him to go to bed tonight. See you here sometime.

Wealth is touching!Zhan's second son didn't want to be a mud leg digging in the fields for the rest of his life, being ridiculed and ridiculed by others, so he avoided the people in the old house and went out secretly.

"You don't care who I am, just talk about Zhan Feiyu, she can do anything from childhood to adulthood." Qin picked up the teacup and drank tea, while the maid beside her poured two ten taels of silver ingots The child was placed in front of Zhan's second child.

"You heard what my lady said. As long as you say it well, don't say 20 taels, 200 taels is just a hairpin on my lady's head." The little maid is seventeen or eighteen years old, with her chin held high. He looked down on Zhan's second child, so he spoke bluntly.

20 taels of silver is not a lot to Zhan's second son, but he couldn't refuse 200 taels.

Not to mention that Zhan Er Er guessed that this nobleman had a grudge against that lowly girl Zhan Feiyu. Thinking of Zhan Feiyu's bad luck, Zhan Er Er's eyes flashed with excitement and madness.

The second Zhan didn't know much about Zhan Feiyu. Before she entered the Lin family private school, the second Zhan only knew that this niece was sensible and filial. She never quarreled and fought with the children at home. Everyone in the village likes Zhan Feiyu very much.

"That is to say, Zhan Feiyu has a good reputation?" Qin narrowed her eyes, never expecting that a country girl would have such a scheming mind and know how to manage her own reputation.

"Yes, she has been smart since she was a child, and she has a sweet mouth." The second Zhan nodded. If he knew that he would have today, he should have killed that damn girl, a child of a few years old, who fell into the water and drowned !
As for the things after entering school, what Zhan's second child said was almost the same as what Qin's investigation had said. He was gifted in reading and relaxed in his actions. Gangsters would not defend Zhan Feiyu like this.

(End of this chapter)