The journey of the heavens by Jia Huan, the salted fish

Chapter 280
The world that Jia Huan traveled through this time was similar to the background of the Red Chamber World, but he was not born in the Duke's Mansion, but in an ordinary official's family.

It's just that the backyard of this ordinary official's home is not peaceful.

Jia Huan and his elder brother Jia Xun were born of Jia's father's original spouse.

The original partner was the wife Jia's father married before he passed the Jinshi examination, but she was the daughter of a scholar, and did not help Jia's father much.

After the original wife died, Jia's father married the lady of the salt merchant.

The step-wife brought a generous dowry and used money to help Jia's father clear up and down, which made Jia's road to promotion very smooth.

Therefore, the status of the stepmother in the Jia family is very high.

The second wife didn't like the two children of the original spouse, so Jia's father sent Jia Huan and Jia Xun back to their hometown, and Jia Huan's grandfather and second uncle took care of them.

The step-wife felt comfortable not seeing her original spouse's child being an eyesore, so she didn't mind giving Jia Huan and Jia Xun some extra money for living expenses in their hometown.

Jia Huan and Jia Xun are the sons of the most promising members of the Jia family, and they are also rich, so the old family fawns on them.

This made their life in their hometown easier than living with Jia's father.

Jia Xun is honest by nature, and he has changed his temperament without being flattered by others. He likes to study. Fortunately, there is a good school in his hometown. Jia Xun entered the school at the age of five.

At the age of 12, Jia Xun passed the examination of scholar.

At the age of 15, he passed the Juren examination.

Now, Jia Xun is going to Beijing to take the Jinshi examination.

Jia's father was very satisfied with the elder son, and regardless of his step-wife's objection, he would definitely take the two sons of his first marriage home.

Jia Huan, a salty fish, was also admitted to Juren under the supervision of various Jia Xun.

There's no way, Jia Xun is too good at nagging.

For the safety of his own ears, Jia Huan must not listen to Jia Xun's words.

Isn't it just relying on the imperial examination?
It's not that I haven't passed the exam.

There are a lot of imperial examination materials in his mind, and he can pass the exam just by taking the exam.

Here is a mention, Jia Huan's help is indispensable for Jia Xun to pass the scientific examination every time.

Every time the money for the scientific examination came, Jia Huan would "don't know where" to get a bunch of mock questions for the scientific examination, and asked Jia Xun to do it.

Among these mock questions, there are the questions of the current scientific examination.

Jia Xun had prepared in advance, so he passed the exam easily.

Of course, Jia Xun himself is really capable.

The two of them came to the capital smoothly, and Jia's father is now a third-rank official in Beijing, in charge of Dali Temple, with a lot of power.

There are many people who want to curry favor with Jia's father.

After Jia Huan and Jia Xun arrived in the capital, they were surrounded by many young people, all of whom were children of families whose senior status was lower than Jia's father, and wanted to make friends with Jia Huan.

Jia Huan interacted with these people with a smile on his face, but Jia Xun was not used to socializing like this, and would rather read in the yard alone.

Jia Huan talked a lot with those young people, and he quickly understood the situation in the capital.

Now that the emperor is getting old, the princes have already started to win the heir.

Father Jia had already taken refuge in one of the princes, and that prince was very optimistic about Jia Huan and Jia Xun, thinking that after this scientific examination, he would ask Father Jia to bring the two sons to him.

But the other prince didn't want that prince to add help. He wanted to use this scientific expedition to set a trap, and it was best to kill Jia Xun to ease Jia Xun.

Even if you can't kill them, you will have to kill two people.

Other princes also participated in this scientific expedition, wanting to fish in troubled waters.

The above is guessed by Jia Huan based on the information he collected.

He couldn't help but feel overwhelmed.

What a hassle!
If Jia Xun is not allowed to participate in this meeting, forget it.

It's just that if I escaped this time, can I escape the next time?

And Jia's father would not allow them not to participate in the examination.

Or just abolish these princes!

Dangerous thoughts arose in Jia Huan's mind.

For their own benefit, these princes didn't care about the life or death of innocent people. They even dared to tamper with the imperial examinations. When they became emperors, they were not wise kings who would consider the people.

Then all lose the qualifications to be emperor.

Therefore, before the start of the examination, the adult princes had accidents one after another.

Today, the eldest prince fell off his horse and broke his leg; tomorrow, the second prince fell directly on the ground, his face on the ground, disfigured; the day after tomorrow, the third prince...

Although these adult princes had no worries about their lives, they were either disfigured or had their arms and legs broken, and lost their qualifications to compete for the throne.

These princes are all crazy. They think it is a conspiracy of other princes, so they start fighting with each other, causing their forces to suffer a devastating blow.

Some of them pulled away early and stopped helping them because of their disfigurement and severed limbs.

After all, those people want to earn merits from the dragon, and now the princes have no hope, so they are stupid to continue helping these princes.

Jia's father was one of them. He simply abandoned the prince whom he had taken refuge in before, and hooked up with a young prince's family.

In order to establish a relationship with the young emperor, Jia's father decided to marry the young prince's natal family, and asked Jia Xun to marry the young lady of the prince's natal family.

The young prince's natal family was the Hou's Mansion, and the young lady in his family was of noble birth, beautiful, and very talented, so she was a good candidate for his wife.

Jia Xun met Xia Xunqiu, Miss Hou's Mansion, and was very satisfied with her.

There is no such thing as love and liking, after all, I have only met once.

It's just that she feels that this girl is in line with his expectations for his wife regardless of her background, appearance and talent.

Jia Xun looks forward to the days when he and his wife get married and sing in harmony.

However, what he didn't know was that Xia Xunqiu didn't fancy Jia Xun.

Well, the main reason is that Xia Xunqiu already has a sweetheart.

Xia Xunqiu likes his cousin, the second young master of the Duke's Mansion.

In Xia Xunqiu's eyes, that second young master is the most perfect man, and other men are no match for him.

Even if that cousin doesn't like reading, at such an old age, he hasn't even passed the exam for Tongsheng.

But he is the young master of the Duke's Mansion, and he is kind-hearted not to compete with poor scholars for the chance to get ahead.

This is what Xia Xunqiu and everyone in the Duke's Mansion think.

The only thing Xia Xunqiu thinks is bad about his cousin is that this cousin doesn't like her, but likes his other cousin, and the two families even have the idea of ​​getting married.

Xia Xunqiu was very upset, she didn't want to marry Jia Xun, she just wanted to marry her cousin.

So, Xia Xunqiu thought of an idea to kill two birds with one stone.

The Hou's Mansion held a banquet, and Jia's father took Jia Xun, Jia Huan and his stepmother's younger brothers and sisters to the Hou's Mansion.

The younger brothers and sisters didn't like the two older brothers who appeared out of nowhere, so they ran away to find friends, leaving Jia Huan and Jia Xun to walk casually by the lake.

Their activities were reported to Xia Xunqiu by the servants of the Hou Mansion.

Xia Xunqiu looked for his cousin's sweetheart Dou Si'an with a smile, and asked Dou Si'an to go for a walk by the lake with a smile.

(End of this chapter)