Liaozhai: A scholar should draw a sword

Chapter 96 This Damn Bird

The gate was covered, and there was no one guarding the gate.

Just as Ying Ning was about to knock on the door knocker, a middle-aged man reeking of alcohol came over.

"Who are you two looking for?"

"Oh, brother, we want to ask..."

Zhou Yu turned his head to the side and subconsciously responded, but in the middle of the sentence, he looked happy: "Brother Dongming, I haven't seen you for a few years, are you okay?"

"Uh?"

Ge Dongming blinked quickly a few times, and sized Zhou Yu carefully...

After all, Zhou Yu has changed a lot from before.

Others are getting more and more vicissitudes, but he is getting older and younger, and he has a little more fairy-tale elegance.

"Ziling?"

After watching for a while, Ge Dongming couldn't help but exclaimed, as if he couldn't believe it.

"Haha, it's Zhou!"

In front of his classmates, Zhou Yu didn't put on any airs of Lord Hou, and smiled cheerfully and cupped his hands.

Ge Dongming looked excited, and hurriedly cupped his hands with a look of bewilderment: "Your Majesty, I am so polite."

"Brother Dongming, you are meaningless, Zhou is not a person who forgets his roots.

Back then, the two of us studied hard in the cold window of Yuhang Mansion. Although the time was not long, we still had a class together, so there was no need to see others like this. "

Hearing this, Ge Dongming was overjoyed, and quickly smiled and said: "Yes, yes, Lord Hou... No, no, brother Ziling is right, so he should be fined... three glasses of wine, hahaha. "

"Three cups are not enough. When friends come from afar, it's time to get drunk."

"Hahaha, I didn't expect Brother Ziling to be as forthright as he was back then. Then he should sacrifice his life to accompany a gentleman, never get drunk!"

While speaking, Ge Dongming stepped forward to open the door with some excitement, and raised his hand to invite the two to enter.

Zhou Yu was a little puzzled, isn't the Liu Mansion hanging outside?Could it be that Ge Dongming is boarding at someone else's house?
Of course, he didn't ask, so as not to hurt his pride.

"Uncle..."

Not far away, a servant girl came up to greet her.

"Well, Xiaoying, hurry up and make a pot of good tea, and then go to inform the lady that there is a distinguished guest."

"Yes, uncle."

Xiaoying went away in response.

Hearing this conversation, Zhou Yu finally cleared up his doubts. It turned out that Ge Dongming was the son-in-law.

Looking at this depressed appearance, going out to buy drunk alone, I'm afraid the situation is not very good.

As expected, after sitting down in the front hall, Ge Dongming took the initiative to talk about his experience.

"I'm not going to hide it from brother Ziling, but my family was poor since I was a child..."

After Ge Dongming's narration, Zhou Yu finally understood Ge Dongming's current situation.

Ge Dongming's family conditions are not very good, but he is talented and intelligent, and he can memorize a lot of poems at a young age.

Ever since, the family sold pots and sold money for him to study, coupled with the support of relatives and friends, he studied hard for many years and finally passed the examination of scholar.

Afterwards, Ge Dongming was introduced to a businessman named Liu He, who occasionally helped him with the accounting, so as to earn some money to continue his studies.

After a period of contact, Liu He felt that Ge Dongming had great potential and would definitely be able to go to high school in the future.

So they bet heavily on him... offered to recruit him as the door-to-door son-in-law, and fully funded his studies.

This is also something that many rich people like to gamble. If they win the bet, they will be able to shine in the family and become famous, and maybe even become a family of officials.

As a result, Ge Dongming failed the provincial examination twice in a row, and he is still a scholar.

As a result, his situation in the Liu family is a bit awkward.

Although the servants dare not do anything, their father-in-law, mother-in-law and wife Yunling are inevitably gossip and cold-eyed.

First, the Liu family was a little disappointed, and second, it was also because of a man named Xiang Nan.

Xiang Nan is the nephew of Mrs. Liu's natal family, that is, Yun Ling's cousin.

The cousins ​​and sisters have had a good relationship since childhood, and they often talked and laughed together... To put it bluntly, there is actually a little bit of meaning between the two of them.

It's a pity that Liu He only has one daughter, and his family's conditions are good, so he always wanted to find a son-in-law, and finally found Ge Dongming.

In the last township examination, Ge Dongming failed, but Xiangnan, who had always been underestimated, passed the Juren examination.

This incident greatly irritated Liu He and his wife and Yun Ling, and made Ge Dongming even more inferior.

However, that Xiangnan came to the door every now and then with a mentality of being a villain. He not only joked with his cousin unscrupulously, but also taunted Ge Dongming.

"I have never mentioned these things to others, but since Brother Ziling has seen them all, there is nothing to hide..."

Zhou Yu couldn't help sighing: "Dongming, you don't have to underestimate yourself, in fact, your literary talent is not bad..."

Although the two had only been in the same class for one year, Zhou Yu could roughly guess the reason why Ge Dongming failed the ranking, and it must have been because of his strategy.

Since ancient times, many talented scholars have been able to write sensational poems handed down from generation to generation, but they often fail some unknown scholars in the imperial examinations.

If you lose, you lose in policy theory.

Because the imperial court held imperial examinations, its purpose was mainly to select officials, not talents.

Policy theory is related to government affairs and major events in the world. In short, it is politics.

However, the content of the imperial examination is mainly policy theory.

On the other side, the maid named Xiaoying came to Yunling and reported: "Miss, my uncle is in the front hall, and he said that a distinguished guest came to visit."

"Guest? What kind of guest?"

"I don't know... It seems that they should come from other places."

Yunling casually teased the thrush in the cage: "What kind of distinguished guest can he know? You go and wait on it, just say that I'm a little uncomfortable and it's inconvenient to see guests."

"Yes, ma'am."

Xiaoying responded, and went to the front hall to turn over the words.

Ge Dongming's face turned cold: "Didn't you feel better before? How can you say that you are uncomfortable?"

"Slave... I don't know..."

Xiaoying is a maid in the mansion, what can she say?You can't say that the lady is just pretending, can you?

"Hehe, it's okay, since Lingzheng is not feeling well, Brother Dongming might as well go and take care of him."

"It's okay, brother Ziling has come from a long way, how can I leave the guests alone? Xiaoying, you go on another trip and let the lady come to meet the guests and say hello."

"Yes, uncle."

Xiaoying had to go to the backyard again.

Coincidentally, Xiang Nan also came at this time.

He also brought an invitation card, inviting his cousin to attend his birthday party in two days.

Speaking of which, even though Yun Ling has been married for many years and is over thirty years old, but the longer she grows, the more charming she becomes, which makes Xiang Nan never forget her.

So, when this guy visits every now and then, it's actually because he doesn't want to drink.

Ge Dongming knew it in his heart, but it wasn't easy to have a fit. After all, Xiang Nan usually made excuses to visit his aunt and uncle.

"Cousin, are you teasing the thrush again?"

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Xiang Nan said something cheerfully.

He bought this thrush with a lot of money, and asked an expert to train it, just to please his cousin.

It's just that this guy has a lot of eyes, and he knows that it might not be appropriate to give the bird directly to his cousin, so he pretends to present this gift on the occasion of his uncle's birthday.

But Liu He has never kept birds, and Yun Ling likes to plant flowers and raise birds when she has nothing to do.

So, turning his head, Liu He gave the thrush to his daughter.

Anyone with a discerning eye doesn't know the tricks?

"Cousin? Why are you here?"

Seeing her cousin coming, Yunling suddenly regained her spirits and greeted her with a happy face.

"Hehe, what's the matter? Cousin is not welcome?"

"Why, I just asked casually. Huh? Whose house is my cousin planning to send invitations to?"

Xiang Nan smiled and handed over the invitation: "The day after tomorrow is my brother's birthday, so I'm here to invite my cousin to the birthday dinner."

"Thank you, cousin."

Yun Ling accepted the invitation with joy.

"Miss……"

Seeing this scene, Xiaoying hesitated to speak.

"Xiaoying, what are you doing in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and make tea."

"Yes……"

Xiaoying didn't want to say much, so she could only obediently go to make tea, after all, she was the maid of the Liu family.

Besides, Ge Dongming waited for a while, but his wife did not appear, and his face became a little ugly.

When a guest comes from afar, Yunling, as the hostess of the family, comes out to say hello, which is the basic etiquette.

Fortunately, Zhou Yu was considerate and pretended to escape for a while.

Ge Dongming took this opportunity to hurry towards the backyard...

Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the gate of the backyard, he heard his wife talking and laughing with Xiang Nan, and his face became even more gloomy.

After entering the courtyard, I found that the two of them were almost head to head, laughing and lifting the thrush in the cage together.

It’s tolerable, it’s unbearable!

Ge Dongming's pent-up anger completely exploded.

Originally, Zhou Yu's unexpected visit made him very pleasantly surprised, and he wanted to show off in front of his wife to some extent.

Who would have thought that the maid called him twice, but his wife still avoided seeing him. Wasn't this intentional to embarrass him?

She was already very angry, but in the end... the wife said that she was not feeling well, and ended up here happily accompanying her cousin?
Still teasing that damn bird?

To be honest, Ge Dongming had long wanted to kill the bird. In his wife's mind, the bird's status at home was even higher than his.

"Uncle, servant girl..."

Seeing the uncle striding over with an angry look, Xiaoying was startled, and wanted to explain, but didn't know how to explain.

Those who are servants are most afraid of such things happening, and they are in a dilemma.

Hearing the sound, Yun Ling was taken aback, subconsciously moved two steps away, and then asked hypocritically: "Dongming, aren't you accompanying some distinguished guest in the front hall?"

"Accompany you uncle!"

Ge Dongming has always been gentle and refined, but at this moment he cursed like a boorish man in the market.

But the astonishment didn't stop there.

Then I saw him rushing to the stone table, grabbing the birdcage and throwing it heavily on the ground.

The cage is broken.

The sad thrush was also thrown to pieces, and then kicked away by Ge Dongming...

"Ge Dongming, are you crazy?"

Yunling screamed, and rushed to catch up to rescue her...

It's a pity that the bird was too careless.

"Ge Dongming, I will fight with you!"

Yun Ling seemed to be crazy, and rushed towards her husband with all her teeth and claws.

"Yunling, calm down, don't be as knowledgeable as this kind of person..."

Xiang Nan snickered in his heart, but pretended to be a good person on a serious face, and grabbed Yun Ling's hand to persuade him gently.

Seeing that Xiang Nan actually pulled his wife's hand in front of his face, and he still held on...

Ge Dongming was even more angry from the bottom of his heart, and the evil was on his side. He rushed forward and aimed at Xiang Xiangnan, and he slapped him in the face:

"It's a pity that you are still a juren, so shameless..."

This slap completely stunned Xiang Nan.

He never expected that Ge Dongming, who had always been weak and bully, would dare to slap him?

(End of this chapter)