Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 203 Consideration
When Du Jinning was in class, Yan Cen was standing in front of a house in the city, looking eagerly at the gate.

Not long after, a servant came out and said to Yan Cen, "Master Cen, the old man said, no see."

Yan Cen's expectant eyes suddenly dimmed.

He came early in the morning and stood here for almost an hour. He spent money and begged a familiar boy to inform him, but Yan Songtao still refused to see him.

On a very cold day, standing here with the cold wind blowing for an hour, he felt that there was no warmth all over his body, and his feet were cold and stiff, not like his own.

But to show his sincerity, he gritted his teeth and decided to stand for another half an hour.

He stuffed a piece of silver and said to the boy: "I'm still waiting here, please tell Brother Aqiang to inform me again in half an hour."

This time, seeing the money-eyed boy, he didn't dare to take his money anymore, he waved his hands again and again and said: "No, no, the old man said, if I bother him again, he will punish me to kneel here for a day."

With that said, before Yan Cen could speak again, he turned around and quickly walked into the gate.

Looking at the Yan family mansion, Yan Cen felt that his whole body had fallen into the ice hole, and there was no place from the inside to the outside that did not feel cold.

After a while, Fang Fang left the Yan family mansion with heavy steps, walked a short distance to the west, entered an alley, and returned to his dilapidated small courtyard.

Before opening the courtyard door, I heard the crying of the child next door.Yan Cen tightened his hand to push the door, lifted his gown, and walked quickly towards the door next door.

The door next door was ajar and opened with a push.After entering the door, Yan Cen saw his five-year-old daughter sitting on the ground with disheveled hair and a muddy footprint on her clothes, she was crying loudly with her head up and her mouth open.There were two other children surrounding her, one grimacing at her and the other cursing in disgust.On the steps of the main house, leaning against a pillar, stood a woman, kowtow melon seeds irrelevantly, watching her two sons bullying his daughter with cold eyes.

Yan Cen only felt the blood in his heart rushing to his head, he kicked the wooden board with a "bang", made a loud noise, then strode into the yard, went straight to his daughter, picked her up, and glared at her. The woman said, "I'll give you three denarii a month. Is this how you brought up my daughter?"

When the woman was bumped into by Yan Cen, there was a moment of panic in her eyes.However, she quickly calmed down, and said with a sneer at Yan Cen, "Children are playing around, Mr. Yan, don't take it seriously." Then, she slapped her eldest son on the back and scolded: "I'm called You take your sister to play, what are you doing to make her cry?"

The woman's eldest son is now seven years old, and he can already see that his eyebrows are raised and his eyes are lowered. He had been told by his mother before, but now he immediately argued: "It's not that I bully her, it's because she wrestled and cried in pain. of."

"Master Yan, look, it's really none of our business." The woman sneered at Yan Cen again.

Yan Cen is not the kind who waits to read and become stupid.

Pointing to the shoe prints on his daughter's clothes, he asked the woman, "Then what are these?"

The shoe prints, depending on the size, were printed on the shoes of a seven-year-old boy.

When he mentioned this, his heart tightened, he quickly rubbed his daughter's back, and asked her, "Sister Yin, does it hurt here?"

When Sister Yin saw her father coming, she stopped crying and only gasped.Hearing her father's question, she shook her head, thought for a while, pointed to her wrist and said, "It hurts here."

Yan Cen pulled up the sleeves of her jacket, and saw two bruised finger prints of different shades.

Yan Cen only felt a surge of anger rushing straight to his forehead.He suppressed his anger and asked his daughter, "Who made it?"

Sister Yin pointed at the older boy: "Brother A Lin."

When the woman saw something bad, she quickly pulled her son behind her, and said with a smile to Yan Cen: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding. She fell down, and Lin Geer went to pull her with a little force, and the child's skin was as tender as water. It seems that this is a green mark at the first touch." Pushing his son again, "Apologize to Uncle Yan and Sister Yin quickly."

"Yes, I'm sorry." Alin stuck his head out from behind his mother, and timidly apologized to Yan Cen.

Yan Cen took several deep breaths before suppressing the anger in his heart.Without saying a word, he left with his daughter in his arms.

The people living in this alley are all offshoots or distant relatives of the Yan family.Some of their own ancestral houses are here, while others moved from other places and lived attached to Yan's family.

Yan Cen's family is the former, and the family just now is the latter.The male master of his family is the younger brother of a concubine of the master of the Yan family.With the help of his sister, he worked as a clerk in a shop under the name of Yan's family.

Such a person does not succeed enough, but fails more than enough.If Yan Cen beat and scolded his wife and children today, he would definitely go to his sister and cry.If the concubine blows the pillow wind in the man's ear again, there may be no hope for Yan Cen's affairs.

Yan Cen carried his daughter back home full of aggrieved feelings.

As soon as he entered the door, he was shocked.I saw my old lady who had been paralyzed in bed crawled into the yard.

He hurriedly put down his daughter and helped his old lady up. Seeing that she was in good spirits and there was no serious problem, he couldn't help but blame him: "Mother, why don't you lie down on the bed and climb out to do what?"

"I've heard Sister Yin crying over there all morning." Mother Yan looked down at her granddaughter, "Is Sister Yin okay?"

"It's okay, it's just that Ah Lin has been bullying her." Yan Cen said.

Yan's mother sighed for a long time, helped her son's hand into the house, and lay down on the bed: "I took good care of sister Yin, but since yesterday, seeing that you lost your job, the family The face is not a face, and the nose is not a nose. Tell me, how did this person's face change so quickly?"

Yan Cen smiled wryly: "It's not that I have no income, I'm afraid I can't afford the money."

Yan's mother crawled on the ground, her hands were covered with mud, and she didn't dare to hold her granddaughter's hand, she just asked her where it hurts, seeing her shaking her head, she felt relieved, turned her head and said to Yan Cen: "It's not the way to go on like this. You should hurry up and ask Aunt Seven at the entrance of the alley to tell you about a wife."

Yan Cen's wife died of dystocia more than half a year ago, one dead body and two lives, and a good boy was also stillborn.Yan Cen had only an old woman who was paralyzed in bed, and a five-year-old daughter who needed to be taken care of very much.

Originally, he was a scholar, and he was also a teacher in the academy, and he had an income of six taels of silver a month, which in the eyes of the ordinary people was considered a good income.He is not very old, only 23 or [-] years old, although he is thin, his features are still pretty.If you marry another stepwife, there are many people who are willing to marry.

But he is a scholar, and he is not willing to stop here, and wants to continue to seek fame.Not marrying within one year of a wife's funeral is an etiquette, and others can disobey it, but he doesn't want to leave a stigma, so he keeps procrastinating.

For the sake of his mother and daughter, he also bought servants and hired helpers, but the people he encountered were either lazy or greedy, spending money and making his mother angry, and his daughter neglecting to take care of him.The woman next door said she was willing to help, so he sold her and resigned, and entrusted the family business to that sister-in-law.

It was okay at first, the sister-in-law next door took good care of Sister Yin, and she cooked three meals a day for Yan's mother, bathed and turned over, and helped with laundry and cleaning the house. The Yan family felt that the three coins were well worth the money.But he didn't want Yan Cen to change his face once he lost his job.

Yan Cen had to seriously consider getting married.

　First of all, Du Fangfei is the only one who knows Du Jinning's true identity. She wants to help the heroine, but she has no ability, so she can only sacrifice her own marriage.Later, a plot was designed in which Yan Cen wanted to plot against the Du family and came to propose marriage to Du Fangfei, but was rejected in the end.If you feel that this design is a minefield, you can detour to Chapter 216 and read it again, without affecting the overall reading.Important point: Du Fangfei will not marry Yan Cen, nor will he have any contact with him, because she will not go out at all, and all Yan Cen's calculations will be in vain.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)