After the imperial examinations, I grew up by farming

Chapter 28
The Xu family goes to bed early and wakes up earlier.

The sky was still gray and blue, Ning Yu was dizzy, and followed behind her parents, moving mechanically and numbly, to say good morning to the old lady, and to have breakfast after saying good morning.

A large family marched to the dining room.

It was already daylight.

It is a sunny day.

The soft orange morning light came in through the window panes and door openings, and the Xu family sat around in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.

The servants and maids were preparing vegetables, and the second lady caught sight of the third master who had a loveless expression on his face.

"Yo! Uncle! It's just now that I see that you are... drawing eyebrows for your younger siblings, and also applying eye makeup for yourself?"

The second wife's natal family opened a martial arts gym, and the second wife practiced small stances, and her loud voice could be heard from the dining room to the backyard.

"Hahaha, my uncle's eyes are like iron-eating beasts." The eighth child, Xu Linfutong, pointed at the third master and laughed loudly.

"Iron-eating beast, black lantern eyes." Lao Jiu inserted a knife, propped his eyelids with his hands, and stuck out his tongue to make a face.

The fifth child, Xu Linpeng, lay down on the table and dozed off. When he heard the laughter, he narrowed his eyes, glanced lazily and closed them again: boring.

The sixth child, Liu Xin, covered his mouth and snickered, his gaze unexpectedly collided with Xu Ningwen, and he hurriedly avoided it.

Ning Yu: "..." It has nothing to do with me, and I don't know anything about house fighting.

The third master looked to his wife for help, the third lady held up a cup of tea to moisten her lips, and looked at the second master who was eating snacks and watching the show.

"Second brother, I see that you have lost weight again, and your complexion is a little yellow. There are murders in Chunxinglou every year. I heard that the tea and wine there are all added. Second brother, it is better to drink less."

The second master wanted to finish it, but as expected, his ears tightened in the next second.

"Yo Yo Yo, it hurts, it hurts... it hurts..."

The second lady grabbed the second master by the ears and lifted him up from the chair.

"Cough!" the old lady snorted.

The second lady threw the second master away, the second master touched his ears and sat back on the chair, leaned close to the second lady's ear, and whispered aggrievedly: "Ma'am, I haven't been to Chunxing Tower for more than four years, let my younger siblings go back and succeed, How embarrassing."

"But when I think of the stupid things you did back then, I can't help it." The second lady also lowered her voice.

"It's not that you have to bear it all the time. Let's go back to the house and grab it again. Kneeling and abacus are all done." As long as you don't do it in public.

The second master suggested humbly.

The daughter-in-law who marries in the door is used to be lawless by the old lady. The old lady sets the rules. She is not allowed to fight back when she is beaten by her daughter-in-law, and she is not even allowed to hide. The same surname is Xu. Why is the eldest brother's life so good? One or two sister-in-laws are so gentle and considerate.

The second master looked enviously at the elder master and the eldest lady who was busy serving porridge.

"Then I'll try next time." The second lady agreed wholeheartedly.

Four years, nowhere to go, 40 years of humiliation that can't be eliminated, if you don't chop it up, you are already benevolent, and you still want to be decent, dream about Xu Houzai.

On the other side, the third master graciously picked up a piece of brown sugar glutinous rice cake for the third lady, "Ma'am, it's hard work."

The eldest lady put a bowl of porridge in front of the old lady.

"Mother, yesterday you said that the lean meat porridge was too greasy, today my daughter-in-law asked the kitchen to make porridge with wild vegetables and fish, mother, you can try it..."

As she said that, she picked up a steamed bun with her serving chopsticks and put it on the old lady's plate, "There is also this little steamed stuffed bun, which is also stuffed with wild vegetables."

Wild vegetable stuffing?eat fast eat fast!

The fifth child, Xu Linpeng, picked up two of them with one chopstick, the eighth child and the ninth child climbed onto the stool not to be outdone, and the second master, the second wife, the third master and the third wife also went straight to the plate of buns.

Ning Yu picked one up from a pile of chopsticks, tasted it, and it left a sweet smell on his lips and teeth, oh my god, it's so delicious, it is indeed the favorite of the whole family.

She can eat three plates of this bun!

"Yes, you can sit down too." The old lady looked at the eldest lady gently, and took a sip of porridge.

"Hey." The eldest lady sat down.

He looked at the second and third bedrooms who were busy cooking, then quickly glanced at the cold-faced Xu Ningwen, then at the old man who was getting more and more courageous in the battle to grab the buns, and finally at the dignified and decent Liu Xin who did not fight or grab.

Eight years later, this home is still cold and unfamiliar to their mother and daughter.

Steamed stuffed buns with wild vegetables are too popular, so the old man put aside the reservedness of his elders, took advantage of Ning Yu and Xu Linpeng's fight with chopsticks, quickly snatched one back, and put it in the lady's bowl.

"I've been busy all morning, eat quickly."

"Thank you, master." The eldest lady smiled softly at the elder, her voice soft like spring water.

After thanking her, the eldest lady picked up the steamed stuffed bun and looked around, and put it in the bowl of Xu Linpeng, the fifth child, "Sister Peng likes to eat, come here."

"Thank you, Auntie."

There was a smile on the corner of Da Furen's mouth, silly boy, it's just a saliva-stained bun, there's nothing to be thankful for.

Xu Linpeng took a bite out of the steamed stuffed bun, raised his eyebrows provocatively at Ning Yu.

Ning Yu picked up the bowl and sipped the porridge.

There is ample time……

After the meal, the whole family was busy with their own business.

Ning Yu went to visit Huang Chao, knowing that he was eating well and sleeping soundly, he was relieved, and led Zhiman Zhiyi straight to the Yamen.

The guard of the Zhuang class guarding the gate recognized Ning Yu and hurried over to greet him, "Sir Xu Qi, I heard that you went to Beijing to catch the exam. It's great to see you safe and sound."

"I'm here to find Uncle." Ning Yu didn't have much impression of the servant with a flattering smile.

The eldest uncle, Zhao Yuhai, served as the history of the yamen.

The county magistrate of the seventh rank is called an adult, the magistrate of the eighth rank county is called Zhima official, and the chief secretary of the ninth rank is called Zhima Xiaoguan.

Canon history, not even an official.

The guard led Ning Yu into the gate, and stopped outside the gate of Yi, "Sir Seventh Xu, wait a moment."

The eight-character yamen has two gates, the gates are not restricted, and people can come and go freely, but the second gate of ceremonies cannot enter and exit at will.

Ning Yu stood outside the Yimen Gate and looked in. There was a straight corridor leading directly to the lobby. There was a small pavilion in the center of the corridor. Inside the pavilion stood a small stone tablet. This was the famous Jieshi. The large characters are exceptionally eye-catching.

After a while, a middle-aged elegant man with a thin face, wearing a light gray Confucian shirt, stepped out of the lobby.

"I wanted to see you when I received the news last night, and I was afraid that the Xu family would be in a hurry, so I didn't go. I never thought that Brother Xiao Yu would come to see my uncle first."

Zhao Yuhai stepped out of the ceremony gate and said with a smile, "How?"

"Uncle, I didn't pass the Huiyuan exam, and I didn't participate in the palace exam." Ning Yu lowered his head halfway, with a sad expression.

This uncle is Xu Ningyu's first teacher and has great expectations for her.

"I'm not asking how you did in the exam, I'm asking how your journey was going, how did it go? Besides, what's the use of the number one scholar who has subjugated the country?"

It turned out to be this. Knowing that she would not be scolded, Ning Yu raised her head and held her chest up, "A little twist, it won't trouble me."

Zhao Yuhai said "hmm" and asked again, "Have you seen your grandfather and aunt?"

"Grandmother said that the Xu family will have a banquet tonight, and mother is going to invite my grandfather and aunt. I will come to the Yamen to find the county magistrate, and I will invite my uncle and eldest cousin to the banquet."

The eldest cousin, Zhao Jian, is thirty-two this year and works as a fast catcher in the Yamen.

Ning Yu glanced at the empty lobby, "Isn't today the trial day? Why didn't the magistrate open for trial? Did I remember the date wrongly? Today is not the nineteenth, but the eighteenth?"

Seeing Zhao Yuhai's expression troubled, Ning Yu asked, "But what happened?"

"Oh, that's all!" Zhao Yuhai flicked his sleeves and said angrily, "Last night, Lizhi County left Nanli County with Chen Xiancheng, Liu Zhubu and a group of family members. I only found out when I came to the Yamen this morning."

The war is about to start, there is no soldier in Nanli County, and Lizhi County is from the prefecture of Chengdu, so it is understandable to go home to avoid disaster.

"Run away?" Ning Yu was in a bad mood, and hurriedly asked again: "Are you going by water, or by chariot?"

"Chariots and horses." Zhao Yuhai replied, "What are you looking for from Lizhi County?"

Ning Yu had already lifted his clothes and ran out, "I'll talk to uncle after I catch him back."

　After two days of transplanting rice at home, I was considering whether to write a story about transplanting rice seedlings. I still remember when I was young when I went to the fields to plant rice seedlings and was always sucked by leeches.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)