Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 439

"Don't dare, the villain doesn't dare."

Sweat dripped down Aju's forehead.He didn't dare to look at Du Zheyan either, he lowered his head and described the situation just now.

Of course, as Du Zheyan's personal servant, although most of what he said was true, his rhetoric still favored Du Zheyan.

But just like that, Old Master Du was still so angry that he pointed at Du Zheyan and scolded: "Do you think that if you climb up to Young Master Qi, you will be number one in the world? Let me tell you, the old master of the Qi family is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. Even if the guy surnamed Du is not very powerful, he has the Qi family as his backer. Master Qi is in front of the Qi family (I didn’t think so much when I first named this surname, but now I realize that the two words have the same pronunciation. Fortunately If everyone reads the text instead of listening to the book, it should have little effect), then it is nothing. You behaved evilly in front of Young Master Qi, embarrassing his friends, are you trying to bring trouble for our Du family? ?”

Because Du Zheyan flattered Qi Siyu, he found an official for his father, which made the Du family rise from a scholarly family to a family of officials. Recently, his psychology has been very swollen.In the past, when Mrs. Du was angry, he would not even dare to say a word, but now he is not convinced.

He said: "Didn't the old master Qi become an official? When he came back, he was a white man. We have to be like this because Du Jinning is his grandson's friend? If he is asked to hang the plaque of Du's house there, the people in this alley What do people think of us? If we admit cowardice in front of a boy who is nothing, maybe someone will come and step on us."

Old Mrs. Du was quite angry at first, but after hearing his words, he felt very reasonable.

The Du family's eldest room and the second room have been secretly fighting for power and profit.The grandchildren of the two families have also been competing with each other.

At this time, Du Zhexin saw that his grandfather seemed to be moved by Du Zheyan's rhetoric, so he hurriedly said: "How does the third brother know that he is nothing? Nothing can spend so much money to buy a piece of land to build such a big house?"

"He offended Young Master Qi, so Young Master Qi will naturally investigate him." Du Zheyan said triumphantly, "That man's name is Du Jinning, but he is just a farmer. By coincidence, he worshiped the head of Shanzhang of Lishui County Boyue Academy as his teacher, and his life became easier. As for how he got the money to build the house, it is unknown. Maybe the money was given to him by Guan Shanzhang. Now Guan Shan The chief has already gone to the capital, and he has no backing other than some friendship with Young Master Qi and Young Master Liang. If such people can step on us and ignore us, how can we gain a foothold in Fucheng in the future?"

Du Zhexin wanted to say more, but Mrs. Du waved his hand: "Okay, Zhexin doesn't need to say more."

He called Du Zheyan: "Go and bring the calligraphy of Master Yan in my house. I'll go and find Mrs. Zeng. When the time comes, ask any young master from his family to go to that house. A strong dragon can't overwhelm a local snake. Even Young Master Qi and Young Master Liang have to give face to the Zeng family, let alone that kid."

Whenever he wanted to say "Du's family" or "Du boy", he felt awkward, so he simply used "that family" and "that boy" instead.

Although their Du family had never been an official, they had been in Fucheng for decades and lived in a place like Calabash Lane, so they naturally had some contacts.No, the Zeng family next door has been neighbors with the Du family for six or seven years, and they still get along well.Under the deliberate fawning of Mrs. Du, the old men of the two families often talked about poetry and painting together.

Although the Zeng family had never produced any high-ranking officials, Master Zeng was a general judge in the government office, a sixth-rank official, in charge of grain transportation, family land, water conservancy, and litigation.The general judge in the Song Dynasty also served as a supervisor, that is, he could directly report to the emperor the situation of all officials in the prefecture.So even the prefect dare not offend him.

For an official like this, even Qi Bokun himself would give some face.He would never stand out for a farm boy who made good friends with his grandson.

Now the Du family is not just for the title of "Du Zhai", they want to show their strength to others.Although their family did not succeed in education and no one became an official, their business was booming.There are quite a few restaurants under the Du family's name. If you show your strength from time to time so that people don't dare to underestimate them, you can avoid many troubles.

"It doesn't hurt to sell your father's land", let alone a pair of calligraphy.Du Zheyan would be willing to teach Du Jinning a lesson, no matter how expensive it was.

He ran quickly immediately, and quickly took out a scroll and handed it to Mrs. Du.

Old Mrs. Du opened it and looked at it, and after confirming that it was the picture, he went down to the Zeng's house next door with Du Zheyan's help.

Seeing this, Du Zhexin gritted his teeth in hatred.

Regardless of the family, most of the family property is passed on to the eldest son.But recently, because the second master Du, that is, Du Zheyan's father, became the head of the county government, and a little sycophant like Du Zheyan climbed up the big tree of the Qi family. Slowly tilted towards the second room.This made Du Zhexin and his father very unwilling.

Their father and son carefully managed the restaurant, and put in so much effort, don't even make wedding clothes for others at that time.

Du Zhexin squinted his eyes slightly, thought for a while, and ordered his servant: "Go and check again to find out what the origin of the Du family is. His surname is Du, and he looks so similar to the Seventh Young Master. Could it be that he is with us?" What is the origin of the family?"

"Yes, young master." The boy agreed and went out to do some business.

Du Zhexin and his son are the eldest son and grandson of this family, and they control everything inside and outside the house, so it is much more convenient than Du Zheyan to check and do something.

The old master Zeng next door coveted the old master Du's calligraphy for a long time, and now he heard that Du Jinning is so unruly, a newcomer, and a young junior, actually hangs the same plaque as the old resident, and he also knows what Du Jinning is not The young master of a powerful family is only close to the Qi family.Old Master Zeng relied on his son to serve as a general judge in the government office, and he didn't fear other people.

But he is different from Mrs. Du after all.If someone in the family is an official, he is much more cautious in his actions.It was an official who had become an official. He told Mrs. Du that there was no problem, but he didn't take any action at that time. Instead, he planned to wait for his son to come back at noon and ask his son to see if he could help the Du family.

But I didn't expect that Zeng Tongju had something to do that day, and he didn't come back at noon, but took his subordinates to the countryside to inspect the water conservancy project.

Mrs. Du waited all morning, but there was no movement from the Zeng family.He couldn't hold back anymore, and went to Zeng's house in the afternoon, and said to Mrs. Zeng: "If Mr. Zeng is not willing to offend people for our old neighbor, I won't force others. I will let my grandson go over and follow him later." Say it."

This is the aggressive method.

The reason why Mrs. Zeng and Mrs. Du were able to talk so well was that the level of vision of the two must be very close.And because the prefect had to please the magistrate for his son's general judgment, he was used to being flattered by others, so he felt a little swollen, and he couldn't hear the word "dare not" from others.

Immediately, he called a grandson who was studying at home, told him, and said: "Go. After finishing this matter, grandfather will reward you with a piece of jade. Didn't you say that you want a piece of jade from Mantangzhai?" Yet?"

The Du family runs a restaurant and has quite a fortune.Upon hearing this, Mrs. Du hurriedly said: "Which piece of jade is Yu Geer looking for? Grandpa Du will give it to you. As long as you help me with this matter, I will send someone to help you buy that piece of jade in a while."

The grandson of the Zeng family was only fifteen or six years old, and because of his good looks and sweet mouth, he was very much liked by the old man Zeng.He looks smart, but he is actually a careless child who doesn't care about anything except eating, drinking and having fun.On weekdays, he also messed around with his cronies.Everyone looked at his father Zeng Tongju's face, and didn't care about him as a child.Over time, he developed the problem of his arrogance.

At this time, when he heard that Grandpa Du wanted to buy himself the jade pendant that he had coveted for a long time, and his grandfather acquiesced, he was immediately happy, and patted his chest and said, "Grandfather, Grandpa Du, don't worry, I will definitely ask him to remove the plaque." .If you’re new to us, it’s okay not to obey the rules of our Calabash Lane. If he doesn’t, I’ll teach him to keep it.”

Zeng Yu was about the same age as Du Zheyan, so if the Du family wanted to curry favor with the Zeng family, they couldn't just burn one stove.If Mrs. Zeng dies, wouldn't the money that the Du family flattered and used to curry favor with the Zeng family be wasted?Therefore, every time Mrs. Du came to the Zeng family, he would bring his grandson to cultivate a relationship with the children of the Zeng family.Among them, Du Zheyan and Dafang's Du Zheyu brought the most.These two children are sweet-faced and sweet-mouthed, and they are also very fond of Old Master Zeng.

Seeing Du Zheyan standing there, Zeng Yu waved: "Du Zheyan, let's go."

"This..." Du Zheyan hesitated, looking at his grandfather.

His original intention was not to fight by himself, but to let the Zeng family do it for him.They gave away a painting of calligraphy worth a hundred taels of silver, plus a jade pendant of dozens of taels of silver. The Zeng family didn't want them to come forward, and wanted him to come forward to fight with Du Jinning himself?After contacting him several times, he suffered several losses in the hands of Du Jinning.

Old Mrs. Du was also dissatisfied with the Zeng family in his heart, but he couldn't say anything on the surface, so he said to Du Zheyan: "Go, you two brothers go together."

"Grandfather, it's not that I don't want to go. For my own affairs, even if I go up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of ​​fire, I will not refuse." Du Zheyan said with a bitter face, "But you don't know, Du Jinning is the most cunning. In the examination room I have suffered a great loss from him. If I go, he will definitely not answer Zeng Yu's words, and directly point the finger at me, only me. In this way, we will be passive."

"This...Look, Brother Zeng..." Mrs. Du looked at Mrs. Zeng in embarrassment.

Grandpa Zeng pondered for a while: "What Brother Yan said makes sense. Then, Brother Yu, you go by yourself and bring a few more people." Afraid that his grandson might not understand what he meant, he added, "Take that mouthful boy with you." of."

(End of this chapter)