The road of the farmer's fortune and the imperial examination

Chapter 229 The Calculation Behind

"Ma'am! Isn't this a lot of ways? If they don't go out, they won't be in trouble? We checked the details of his family, and they are still a well-off farmer! I heard that Gu's soap is made by his family. If His family's soap has disfigured others, so the business can still be done? Besides, didn't Mrs. Lu just point at her son to become an official? If that kid can't even pass the court exam, how can he become an official? explain?"

Mother Xi smiled and comforted Yu Shi. In fact, these methods were too simple, and she was used to them in Yufu before.

"What good idea did the mother come up with? Come and hear it!" Yu Shi eagerly shook Mother Xi's sleeves, she couldn't wait any longer!

At this time, Gu Chengyu, who was in the Gu family, was also thinking about Yu's matter. He thought about it carefully, and the shops he bought were all with another household registration. When I went to the shop, no one else knew that he was the owner of the shop, so there should be no problem with the shop.

The rest is the fertile land at home. There are not many fields, but some medicinal materials are planted on it. To be cautious, he does not plan to sell this year's medicinal materials.The last is the soap business at home. If Mrs. Yu wants to find a place to start, one is the soap business, the other is his exam, and the last one is the personal safety of his family.

He felt that he still needed to talk to his mother, and at least both of them should take precautions.

It was already the time of the unitary hour, Gu Chengyu had dinner, but did not go back to his room right away.He sat on a stool, picked up a bowl of tea and drank it.

"Little Treasure! You should go back and rest early too!" Papa Gu urged after seeing that Gu Chengyu was still sitting on the stool after taking a puff of dry cigarette.After running around for a few days, I think I should be tired.

Gu Chengyu put down the tea bowl, Gu Wan had just returned to the room, now is a good time to ask.But he didn't know whether he should ask. If Papa Gu didn't know about Lu's back then, and he just asked, wouldn't that leave a lump in Papa Gu's heart?
Gu Chengyu thought for a while, then stood up, ready to go back to the room.

"Xiaobao, do you have something to say?" Zhier Mo Ruomu, Gu Chengyu must have something to say if he is staying in the room so late.

Gu Chengyu hesitated, he didn't know whether to ask or not.

"It's okay! I'm going back to my room first!" Let's ask tomorrow!

"What can't I say to your mother?" Old Gu felt a little puzzled, it was rare for Xiaobao to hesitate like this!

Gu Chengyu was a little helpless, of course it couldn't be said that it wasn't because you were there?Is he going to ask his mother in front of Gu's father, mother!Do you still remember Jiang Mingyuan from Fucheng back then?
In the end, he really couldn't hold it back. In fact, he was really curious, "Mother! The prefect of Jiang in Fucheng?"

Mrs. Lu is sewing a purse for Gu Chengyu, which she brought when she was going to Fucheng for the exam. "Ouch!" Upon hearing this, Mrs. Lu was in a trance.

"What's the matter? Didn't I tell you not to sew at night? Look at it?" Father Gu felt a little distressed when he saw the blood dripping from Lu's fingers.

"Hey? Mom, are you okay?" Gu Chengyu stepped forward, took Lu's hand in his hand and looked at it. He didn't know that he just mentioned it like that, but his mother was so excited!

Seeing that Gu Chengyu tore a piece of cloth from the sewing basket and wrapped it around Mrs. Lu, Gu Lao felt relieved.However, in a blink of an eye, he thought of the prefect Jiang again. Could the prefect Jiang be that person?

Lu's expression was a little dull, she didn't expect that after so many years, she would hear about him again.

"Xiaobao! What do you think is the prefect of Jiang?" Mrs. Gu glanced at Mrs. Lu, feeling a little depressed.

"Ah? It's nothing. Even the prefect Jiang invited us to a dinner. He treats people kindly and looks gentle and elegant!"

While Gu Chengyu was talking, he paid attention to Papa Gu's expression, and saw that his expression was tense from the beginning, and then became ugly in an instant with his praise.Well, Gu Chengyu is now very sure that Father Gu also knows Jiang Zhifu, at least he has heard of it, and he should know something about his mother's back then.

Gu Chengyu decided not to go around in circles anymore, after all, the magistrate's wife is not easy to get along with, he himself doesn't care, but he is afraid that they will plot against his parents.

"Mother! Actually, I saw the magistrate's wife this time!" Gu Chengyu stared at his mother's face closely, and obviously felt some changes on his mother's face, but he couldn't see what kind of emotion it was, but Be sure it wasn't hate.

Lu seems to have just recovered from the memory, "You want to ask about the past?"

Gu Chengyu looked at Mrs. Lu, and replied seriously: "Yes! I met the magistrate's wife that day, but the magistrate's wife seemed to recognize me, and she was very hostile to me. I was afraid that she would be bad for our family. Take good precautions. It’s just that I don’t know much about what happened back then, and I don’t like being kept in the dark. I need to know the truth before I can think of countermeasures.”

In fact, what he didn't say was that his curiosity also accounted for part of it.

"Actually, there's nothing we can't say about that matter." Lu believed that he was innocent, and after so many years, he still said it was a good one.

Papa Gu was also a little excited at this time, and finally knew what happened back then.In fact, it's not that he hasn't thought of this for so many years, but when his mother married him, she was indeed a virgin.Besides, even if the Lu family was not, he would not despise her, and being able to marry her was something he did not even dare to think about at that time.

"Back then, I was sold to Renzi by my parents and brother-in-law, and I was transferred to Fengding Mansion." Lu's leisurely voice echoed in the room, and she seemed to have returned to the time when she was sold that year.

Gu Chengyu and Gu Laodi listened attentively, and finally Gu Chengyu summed up the story.

In other words, the Lu family was sold to Fengding Mansion back then.At that time, Jiang Zhifu happened to be promoted to the general judge of Fengding Mansion.

The ancestors of the Jiang family passed through the Shang Dynasty, and their family was well-off.Jiang Mingyuan fought hard, was admitted to Jinshi, and was favored by Yu Zheng, the Minister of Rites in the capital, and became his son-in-law. When Mrs. Lu went to Jiang's mansion at that time, Jiang Mingyuan had just been promoted to the general judge, but he had already married Yu's sixth son-in-law. years.

Jiang Mingyuan's mother was not very happy with the Yu family who came in, because the Yu family always thought of themselves as a noble family, and looked down on the Jiang family who used to be a family of merchants.Moreover, Mrs. Yu has done nothing after marrying for a few years, but her personality is domineering. Of course, Mother Jiang would not like such a daughter-in-law.

Three years later, Jiang's mother accidentally discovered that Lu Shi, the maidservant in the yard, was good-looking, so she took her with her as a second-class girl and named her Mujin. If she becomes pregnant in the future, she will be raised as an aunt immediately.

Lu Shi was only 14 years old at that time, and she was also ignorant of these things. Besides, if she entered the Jiang family, she would be a servant of the Jiang family. How could it be her turn to call the shots?Lu could only passively agree.

But when the Lu family was 15 years old, the Yu family refused to allow Jiang Mingyuan to take a concubine.Although Jiang's mother could not understand this daughter-in-law, her natal family was so powerful that she could only endure it, but the Lu family was delayed. Jiang's mother might feel that there was still hope, so she did not marry Lu.

(End of this chapter)