Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 180

Fan Ning was silent for a while, even if he could help Su Liang and leak some questions to him, the provincial test is different from the solution test, it brings together the best talents from all over the world, and many talented scholars will perform very well even if they don't know the questions in advance.

Besides, the imperial examination questions are not true or false questions and multiple-choice questions, and there is no concept of full marks. If you know the questions in advance, you will at most have a first-mover advantage over most people. In front of top scholars, they don't actually have much advantage.

Zhu Pei glanced at Fan Ning and saw that he was a little frustrated, so he said softly: "You don't have to blame yourself too much, it's obvious that you can't change this matter, it's the Cheng family who fell in love with Su Liang, Su Liang and I like Cheng Yuanyuan, it's a simple matter of mutual love, why do you think it's a bad thing, and why take the responsibility on yourself?"

Fan Ning smiled wryly, "Although the reasoning is like this, I didn't do a good job morally. Forget it, let's not talk about this matter. You are looking for me today, you can't just come out to play!"

Zhu Pei shook his head, "Of course not. I wanted to talk to you about the matter of monitoring you. I asked Xu Qing to investigate this matter. He already found out yesterday. It is indeed Zhang Yaozuo's housekeeper who arranged for someone to monitor you."

"Then is the housekeeper still looking for me?"

Zhu Pei smiled and said: "He was indeed looking for you all the time, but Xu Qing taught him a lesson he will never forget. It is estimated that he is not working hard now."

"What did Xu Qing do?" Fan Ning asked curiously.

"Xu Qing threw him into the moat the night before and almost drowned him. Xu Qing warned him that the day he finds you is when his body sinks to the bottom of the river."

"So cruel?" Fanning laughed.

Zhu Pei sneered and said: "It will be effective to be ruthless. It is meaningless to treat this kind of person rationally. Only by letting him face death threats can he be truly afraid."

At this time, footsteps came from behind, and Fan Ning turned around, only to see the shopkeeper of the teahouse walking over with a smile.

"Have you two discussed it, and are you willing to accept the daily water delivery from the shop?"

Fan Ning smiled and said, "Yes! We accept it."

The shopkeeper was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "Then it's a deal, my buddy will send five pots of water to the little officials every day, and charge one hundred Wen. I guarantee that it will be fresh water every morning."

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Another month passed in a blink of an eye, and three days before the New Year, a belated heavy snow finally arrived one after another.

Overnight, Bianliang, Tokyo turned into a snow-covered world. Roofs, trees, bridges, and roads were all covered with thick snow as far as the eye could see.

Fan Ning was awakened by the laughter of Su Liang and Cheng Yuanyuan.

"Yuanyuan, the snow is better here, let's collect it here!"

"Xiao Su, be careful!"

Fanning muttered, "These two guys!"

He had no choice but to sit up, the outside light was extraordinarily bright through the window paper, which surprised him for a while, the sky was gloomy last night, did it really snow all night?
Fan Ning was impatient, hurriedly put on clothes, shoes and socks, put on a certain hat, stepped forward and opened the door, a gust of cold wind rushed in, and it was indeed a white world outside.

"He's out!"

Following Su Liang's laughter, a snow ball flew towards Fan Ning's forehead.

"You stinky boy!"

Fanning squeezed a snowball, chased after it, and threw it hard at the back of his head.

"You're lying, how can there be a snowball fight so close?" Su Liang ran away with his head in his arms, complaining loudly.

"This is called a sneak attack on the enemy camp!"

Fan Ning pinched another snowball and chased after it.

"Xiao Su, help me sweep the snow here!"

In that room, Cheng Yuanyuan was calling out for her lover again.

Su Liang hurriedly said to Fan Ning: "First hang up the free card, and after I finish dealing with the matter of the imperial concubine, I will fight you to the death!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a ball of snow bloomed on his face, but it was Cheng Yuanyuan who made the move, she said coquettishly: "Speak clearly, who is the imperial concubine?"

"I made a mistake!"

Su Liang corrected his mistake when he knew it, and hurriedly stepped forward to apologize.

Cheng Yuanyuan turned from anger to joy, snorted and said, "Why don't you come over and help soon?"

Su Liang immediately hugged the jar and ran up, "Yuanyuan, which piece of snow do you want to sweep? I'll do it!"

Fan Ning rubbed his hands, he found that this Su Liang had begun to show the tendency of "strict wife control", which seemed to be his nature.

Cheng Yuanyuan pointed to the snow on the osmanthus tree, "I want the snow on the tree, and the snow on the tiles, as long as the surface layer!"

The literati in the Song Dynasty all had the elegant taste of sweeping snow and frying tea. Although the effect may not be as good as spring water frying tea, what they want is the state of mind and elegance.

Fan Ning looked around but did not see Cheng Ze, he asked with a smile, "Yuanyuan, where is your brother?"

"I don't know, maybe I haven't woken up yet!"

"I'm going to catch him!"

Fan Ning came to the outer room and pushed Cheng Ze's door, but unexpectedly found that the door was locked from the outside. Fan Ning froze for a moment, which meant that Cheng Ze had gone out.

Where did he go early in the morning?

At this moment, the little girl Du Juan ran in in a panic and said to Fan Ning, "Little official, there is an old man who has fainted outside."

Fan Ning was also startled, and hurried out of the courtyard door, only to see an old man in black cloth lying on the snow at the door, and a little donkey standing not far away, with several large bundles of charcoal on the donkey's back.

It looks like a charcoal seller.

Fan Ning quickly helped him up, touched his breath, there was still heat, but his hands and feet were cold, and in such a cold weather, he was actually only wearing single clothes and trousers.

Du Juan said timidly at the side: "I just arrived at the door, and he asked me if I wanted to buy charcoal, and I said no, but he fell down all at once, and it has nothing to do with me."

"I didn't say what he has to do with him, you call Li Dashou!"

Du Juan hurriedly ran back to pat on Li Dashou's door, "Brother Li, open the door!"

After a while, Li Dashou opened the door, "What's wrong?"

"The little official is calling you outside!"

Li Dashou hurried out of the gate, seeing Fan Ning supporting an old man, he was also startled, "Brother, who is he?"

"He is a charcoal seller. He didn't know what happened. He passed out outside our gate. Please help me carry him in."

Li Dashou hurried forward to help Fan Ning lift the old man's feet, and Fan Ning ordered Du Juan to bring in the little donkey.

At this time, Su Liang and Cheng Yuanyuan also ran out, "Fan Ning, what happened to him?"

"I fainted at our door, I guess I was frozen, Xiao Su, you go and bring a bowl of hot water."

"Ah Ning, is ginger soup okay?" Cheng Yuanyuan asked.

"Ginger soup is even better, go and bring it here."

Cheng Yuanyuan hurried back to the house, and after a while, a bowl of hot ginger soup was brought over.

Fan Ning drank the fainted old man little by little. After a while, the old man breathed a sigh of relief and slowly came to himself.

"Old man, you fainted at our door just now." Fan Ning said to him with a smile.

The old man hurriedly struggled to sit up, "Where are my donkey and charcoal?"

"it's here!"

Su Liang stepped aside quickly, revealing the charcoal and the little donkey at the door.

The old man breathed a sigh of relief and stood up, "Thank you a few officials, I have to sell charcoal, my wife and grandson are still waiting for me to buy rice and go home!"

Seeing that the old man was old and weak, Fan Ning felt pity in his heart, and said, "We happen to need charcoal too, and I bought all your charcoal."

"Thank you, little official! Thank you, little official!"

The old man thanked him again and again, and Fan Ning went back to the house to take three liang of silver and an old sheepskin long coat.

"This jacket is for my husband. It's a bit old, so don't dislike it!"

The old man was taken aback, and quickly pushed back, "The little official saved my little old man's life, but the old man has nothing in return, and I want the little official's sheepskin coat, how can this be done?"

"I don't like this jacket either. I've been pressing it in the box to take up space. I give it to the elderly in need, and it's also a blessing for myself. The old man wears it."

Regardless of the old man's refusal, Fan Ning forced him to put it on, but the old man couldn't refuse, so he had to put it on with tears in his eyes.

Fan Ning gave him another three liang of silver for charcoal, but this time the old man was determined not to accept it. His few bags of charcoal were only worth the usual money at most, so how could he accept three liang of silver.

Fan Ning forcefully gave him the money, "Chinese New Year is coming soon, my husband is going to buy some rice, some meat, and a piece of cloth to make a new suit for his grandson."

"If the petty official insists on giving me three taels of silver, I can only bring all the charcoal at home. I can no longer take advantage of the petty official."

Seeing that the old man was very stubborn, Fan Ning smiled and said, "Then take another bag of charcoal. We will have enough for this winter. We have to go home after the imperial examination. The extra charcoal is a waste for us."

The old man sighed, "You are all good people, my little old man wishes you all high school success."

Fan Ning asked Li Dashou to send the old man out.

Su Liang sighed, "The Chinese New Year is about to sell charcoal outside, this old man is really pitiful."

Fan Ning nodded, "We are soft-spoken. We can't help the poor old people in the world. We can only do our best. Help as much as you can!"

At this time, Fan Ning remembered something, and asked Su Liang, "Cheng Ze's door is locked from the outside, do you know where he went?"

Su Liang shook his head, and said with a blank face, "I don't know?"

At this time, someone outside the door asked: "Is there a person named Su Liang here?"

(End of this chapter)