Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 72 The Secret Blind Date

Fan Ning couldn't help but smile, no wonder the second uncle's eyes were so apologetic, but he was only nine years old, what's the point of a blind date?
Fan Ning smiled and said, "Since you're here, it's okay to take a look!"

Fan Mingli put his arms around his shoulders, looked at him with contempt and said, "brother, don't think too much, it's useless for you to fancy someone, the key is that they want to fancy you."

Fan Mingren also put his arms around Fan Ning's shoulders, and said with a smile: "That young lady of the Wu family is really good-looking, but it's a pity that she belongs to the tiger!"

Fan Ning couldn't help laughing and said, "The little girl is so old, she can tell if she is a tiger?"

"Hey! You'll know it after reading it. Are we going to delay your lifelong event?"

Fan Ning hesitated when he thought of his second uncle's plea, "But... will it affect your shop?"

The two brothers looked at each other with pity in their eyes. Ming Ren shook his head and said, "If you are willing to feed the tiger with your body and save the shop, we can do it for you too."

Fan Ning didn't mean that. He guessed that he couldn't explain clearly, so he quickly denied it completely, "I listen to you, just eat."

At this time, Fan Tiege called them on the steps, "You three, come in quickly!"

The three quickly followed Fan Tiege into the Wu residence.

The owner of this house, Wu Yuanwai, and Fan Tiege used to be classmates in the same school. When Fan Tiege failed the county exam, he stayed in Wu County and worked as a waiter in the restaurant opened by Wu Yuanwai's family.

Thirteen years ago, Fan Tiege rented a small shop with his own little savings and opened his own shop. After more than ten years of hard work, his shop has become a two-story grocery store.

During this period, he got married and had children, and Fan Tiege became a successful person admired by everyone in Jiangwan Village, his hometown.

But life is like dressing one’s clothes, knowing one’s own temperature and temperature. Fan Tiege’s grocery store has a small capital and low profits, but he has to support his family and support his two sons to study. The pressure of life can be imagined.

Behind the glamor is actually a man who has to face the huge pressure of bankruptcy crisis all the time.

With the sudden appearance of Chai's grocery store, the survival crisis of Fan Tiege's store was finally detonated.

In order to get rid of the fate of bankruptcy, Fan Tiege had no choice but to ask his former classmate.

It happened that Yuanwai Wu was going to open a new restaurant in Wujiang County and needed to purchase a batch of pots and pans.

Seeing the face of his former classmates, Yuan Wai agreed to help him this time, but at the same time he also made a condition that Fan Tiege bring his nephew Fan Ning to his house for dinner.

For the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination system was not only a selection mechanism for reserve officials, but also a training base for the son-in-law of the Song Dynasty. Every time the imperial examination produced Jinshi, it was like freshly baked cakes, which were always snatched up by the rich and powerful.

Middle-level and high-level officials in other capitals, or wealthy businessmen who want to improve their political status, of course they also want to be on the blind date platform of Jinshi.

It's a pity that there are too many monks and too few porridge, so they can't get tickets for If You Are the One.

But there is no If You Are the One, there is love in the same city, and Lianliankan love.

Like the local giants, they will turn their attention to the top few in the state examinations and intercept future Jinshi in advance.

Of course, the risk is also great. The top few in each state's solution test may not be able to pass the Jinshi examination. It is very easy to catch a golden tortoise son-in-law, only to find out that it is a golden-plated soft-shelled turtle.

I lost my daughter and dowry in vain.

Under the guidance of this kind of social atmosphere where everything is low-grade and only high-study is the only one, as long as they can pass the test, the matchmaker who comes to ask for a marriage will step through the threshold.

Although in the Song Dynasty Juren could not be an official, if he passed the examination, his social status would naturally be greatly improved. If he could enter a good school as a gentleman, or enter the government as a clerk, the rich and powerful would compete to hire him. If he lived in the countryside, he would become a country gentry.

The selection competition for county officials in Wu County is well-known throughout the country. In the past 15 years, three young child prodigies who were born as Jinshi have been produced.

The county magistrate selection competition has attracted the attention of the local people since the beginning. Although the competition is not over yet, Fan Ning's dazzling performance in the selection competition has already attracted the attention of many big families in Wu County.

The Wu family is one of them.

Fan Tiege walked to the middle hall with his three children, and a fat, white man around 30 years old greeted him with a smile. Leather belts, leather belts are covered with all kinds of jade trinkets.

"The food and wine are ready, just wait for your iron pot to cook!"

The two laughed and hugged each other heavily. Fan Tiege pointed to his two sons and said with a smile, "These are my two dogs. Come and eat with me."

Ming Ren and Ming Li hurried forward to salute, "See Uncle Shi!"

"Hehe! I really can't tell who is Mingren and who is Mingli?"

Having said that, Yuan Wai kept his eyes fixed on Fan Ning behind him.

"This is..."

"This is my nephew Fanning!"

Fan Tiege pulled Fan Ning forward and introduced him: "This is Wu Yuanwai, my classmate and friend when I was studying in school."

Fan Ning clasped his fists and saluted, "Your junior has caused trouble to Mr. Wu."

"Fan Shaolang is too polite, please hurry up! Everyone follow me."

Ming Ren whispered in Fan Ning's ear, "The following is the first part of the investigation. You will accidentally find silver around you, which is easily available. Let me remind you that it is not silver, but cupronickel dressed like silver."

"How do you know?" Fanning asked with a smile.

"You are the ninth blind date. This is the summary of the blood and tears of the first eight people."

Fan Ning smiled and said, "Could it be that your brother is also one of the top eight?"

Next to him, Mingli pressed his chest and put on a painful appearance of being hit by an arrow, "It's too hurtful, so sad, kindness will not be rewarded! Second child, don't remind him again, let him taste Wu's family's food by himself." It's hard to guard against the backstab!"

Mingren, however, looked upright, "If we don't tell him, wouldn't it be meaningless for us to pay such a heavy price? Mingli, you're going to dump garbage for ten days!"

Fan Ning really liked the two brothers, he put his arms around the shoulders of the two, "Go on, what mechanism is there?"

Ming Ren whispered a few words to Fan Ning, Fan Ning nodded again and again, "It's really tricky!"

At this time, Fan Tiege called to his two sons: "You two come with me, Wu Shishu wants to have a few words with Aning."

Ming Li poked Fan Ning lightly with his arm, meaning to say, "The show is about to begin!"

Ming Ren looked at Fan Ning sympathetically, but the meaning of his eyes was, "Brother can only help you so much."

The two brothers left Fanning and followed their father.

"Fan Shaolang, this way please!"

Wu Yuanwai invited Fan Ning to sit down in the living room, and served tea. Fan Ning glanced at it, but there was a white ingot of silver, about five taels, under the small table where the tea bowl was placed.

Fan Ning secretly laughed in his heart, he really has money!
Wu Yuanwai didn't seem to see the money under his nose, he asked with a smile: "What is Fan Shaolang's father doing now?"

Fan Ning scratched his head, and replied seriously: "My father is currently fishing in Taihu Lake, and he is a fisherman!"

"Oh--"

The smile on Wu Yuanwai's face became a little unnatural, but he remained polite, and he asked again: "Isn't Fan Shaolang's home in Mudu Town?"

Fan Ning quickly shook his head, "The house in Mudu Town is a temporary rented house. My family is in Jiangwan Village. My family is relatively poor. There are only three thatched huts."

The smile on Wu Yuanwai's face disappeared, and he looked at Fan Ning's clothes again. He saw that he was wearing a half-worn fine linen straight jacket, and the square scarf on his head was also washed white. From the clothes, it could be seen that Fan Ning The family background was really not good, which really disappointed Yuanwai Wu.

He forced a smile again, "Fan Shaolang, please sit down for a while, I'll go and see if the food is ready?"

"Outsiders, just go!"

Wu Yuanwai glanced meaningfully at the silver under the table, turned around and walked away quickly.

At this time, Fan Ning picked up the silver on the ground, weighed it, and looked carefully for a moment. It was indeed not silver, but copper-nickel.

Fanning snorted lightly, and put the cupronickel on the table casually.

After drinking a cup of tea, a housekeeper walked in and said with a smile: "The food is ready, the master invites Young Lang to eat."

Fan Ning finally waited for the moment to eat, this is his original intention to come to Yuanwai Wu's house as a guest, eating is the essence, other blind dates are just floating clouds.

"Thank you! Please lead the way."

Fan Ning walked out with the butler, and just after leaving the living room, a girl came to meet her, about eleven or twelve years old, wearing a light yellow short jacket and a long red skirt, wearing a double ring bun, long His nostrils were upturned, his face was rather ugly, and there were a few small white pockmarks on his dark face.

The butler stepped forward and saluted, "Miss Wu is here?"

The girl nodded, and looked at Fan Ning with a smile. This is the second test of the Wu family. To be precise, it is the test set by the heroine. In Ming Li's words, this trick is called Li Daitao's stiffness.

To test Fanning's admiration for the heroine.

Fan Ning stepped forward and bowed deeply, "Xiaosheng sees Miss Wu, I have heard her name for a long time!"

The girl covered her mouth and kept laughing, the housekeeper secretly shook his head, what kind of eyes!Could the real Miss Wu be this ugly?Another test failure.

He laughed and said, "Young man made a mistake. This is not my young master, but Xiao Tao, the young master's servant girl. Her surname also happens to be Wu."

"Oh! That's it, I made a mistake, sorry."

Fanning smiled and hurried away with the housekeeper.

(End of this chapter)