Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 35
Du Jinning still had a good impression of Zhang Hongwen, and said with a smile, "I'm not doing anything, just sleeping." He took the chair and put it in front of her bed, "Brother Zhang, sit down quickly."

Just as Zhang Hongwen was about to speak, he saw Niu coming again with a charcoal basin in his hand, so he quickly shut up.

"Is it cold in the room? Come on, warm up." Niu smiled kindly at Zhang Hongwen, then gave Du Jinning another look, and said angrily, "This kid is just lazy, he doesn't even turn on the fire, and stays on the bed all day long." , look how cold it is in this room!"

Du Jinning raised his eyebrows.

If she wants charcoal and a brazier, will she still let herself be cold?

Zhang Hongwen frowned, and said politely to Niu: "You are welcome, grandma, I will leave after sitting down for a while."

Niu felt that it was very polite to treat the young master of the Lizheng family like this.But that's not what she came here for.

She sneered, but still asked, "Brother Wen, what are you doing with my Brother Ning?"

"I didn't do anything, just chat." Zhang Hongwen blinked as he said, and then added, "I heard from my in-law's grandfather over there that Brother Ning has a photographic memory and is very good at reciting books, so I wanted to come over and ask He asked for advice, to see how he could memorize what the teacher taught quickly."

Niu herself is illiterate, but Du Chensheng and her three sons have all been educated, especially the third son Du Yuncheng is a scholar, so she thinks she knows a lot about reading.

She curled her lips, waved her hands and said, "What's the use of memorizing memorization? You can pass the exam not only if you memorize it."

"But I can't even memorize the book, how to explain it? The first request of the master is to memorize the article."

About how to study, Niu didn't have the confidence to argue with Zhang Hongwen, she wanted to talk later, so Zhang Hongwen said: "Grandma Du, can I have a few words with Brother Ning alone?"

Is this disgusting?Niu didn't dare to blame Zhang Hongwen, so he could only stare at Du Jinning viciously, as if Du Jinning called him what Zhang Hongwen said.

Zhang Hongwen had always disliked the second wife and elders of the Du family, thinking that they had no kindness at all and were cold-hearted people.He is the grandson of Lizheng, so naturally he doesn't need to give face to the Du family.At this time, seeing Niu treated Du Jinning like this in front of him, he immediately became unhappy, stood up and said, "Forget it, I'll find Brother Ning some other day."

He stood up and planned to leave.

Niu hurriedly said with a shy smile: "Don't go, don't go, it's my old lady who is busy, looking at you juniors who can study, I always want to say a few more words. I'll go now, Brother Wen, stay and follow me My brother Ning is talking."

As she said that, she glanced at Du Jinning again, her eyes were full of warnings, and she didn't know whether it was to warn Du Jinning not to talk nonsense, or to treat Zhang Hongwen well, so she turned and left, and closed the door behind her.

Zhang Hongwen glanced at Du Jinning, with a smug smile on his lips.

Du Jinning was amused in his heart, got up and opened the door, and said loudly: "The smell of charcoal fire smells stuffy, it's better to open the door to let in some air." In fact, it was to prevent Niu Shi, Yao Shi and others from eavesdropping .

Zhang Hongwen seemed to understand this too. He saw that there was no one outside the door, and asked Du Jinning in a low voice: "I came here today to ask, do you have any new scripts here?"

Du Jinning had already guessed his reason for coming, and had already made up his mind.

She shook her head and said, "No, the interval is too short, and I haven't come up with a new story yet."

Hearing these words, Zhang Hongwen's pupils widened a bit: "You really wrote that script? How did you come up with such a story?"

"Oh, my mother often tells me ghost stories. I want to make money, and listening to people talk is expensive, so I pieced together a few stories and made up a story." Du Jinning used this nonsense again to fool people.

Even Du Yinsheng believed these words, and Zhang Hongwen naturally would not disbelieve them.He just found it unbelievable. He heard that Du Jinning didn't go to school all day, and he still learned the characters by himself, so he could write such wonderful words.Hearing this, he was still not convinced and learned to write a book, but found that the stories he made up were dull and boring, and the literary talent was not as good as Du Jinning's.

So he was very curious about this "child prodigy" who turned out to be born.If Du Yinsheng hadn't warned him not to talk about it, he would have made those self-important people take a good look at how talented they are at such a young age, and would have given those self-righteous "talented men" a resounding slap in the face.

"I heard from your uncle and grandfather that you have a photographic memory?" He asked curiously again.

"Uh." Du Jinning scratched his head, "No. Probably because I have learned little and my head is empty, so it's easy to remember; unlike your heads, which are full of things, it's naturally difficult to fill them in. "

"..." Zhang Hongwen was a little confused by this strange theory, but it seemed to make sense after thinking about it.

He looked at Du Jinning regretfully, and asked him, "Look...do you want my father to tell your grandfather and persuade him to let you go to school?"

Hearing this, Du Jinning shook his head and said, "It costs money to study, how could my grandfather spend that money to let me go to school? Unless..."

"Unless what?" Zhang Hongwen's eyes widened.

Du Jinning looked outside the door, and lowered his voice so that only two people could hear: "Unless we are separated from the third room. Since my father is a scholar, my mother will support my education no matter how hard or tiring it is."

As she spoke, she sighed, but her eyes were fixed on Zhang Hongwen, wanting to see his reaction.

In this village, only Du Yinsheng and Zhang Lizheng could make Du Chensheng afraid.Du Yinsheng cared about the brotherhood, and was not willing to oppress his own brother for the sake of a nephew.But Zhang Guangyi is different. As a Lizheng, if there is a scholar or even a candidate in the village, Taohua Village will become even more famous.And he didn't have any friendship with Du Chensheng, if he could show up, maybe he could get Du Chensheng to separate them from the third wife.

Zhang Hongwen thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "You're only ten years old, and you can't open a household yet."

"Can you set up my mother's female household?" Du Jinning asked.

An account was established in her name, and when she reverted to her gender later, if someone poked her out, it would be a clue.So the best way is to set up a female household in the name of the Chen family, so that it doesn't matter whether her gender is male or female.

"It's impossible." Zhang Hongwen said, "You have to have no husband and children, and no males in your family before you can establish a female household. Your mother has a son like you, so naturally it is impossible to establish a female household."

Du Jinning sighed in his heart, and asked again: "Can you accommodate me?"

She felt that in ancient times, the rule of man was greater than the rule of law, as long as Zhang Li was willing to accommodate, such a thing would not be impossible.

(End of this chapter)