Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 481 One and a Half Years Later

Hearing what the old housekeeper said, Qi Siyu frowned, half-closed his eyes and said, "Tell him, since it's from his teahouse, let him silence the news. If it can't be calmed down, his teahouse won't let it go." opened."

"Yes." The old housekeeper went.

When Du Zheyan heard this, he was completely dumbfounded.He really didn't know that the news came from his teahouse.

Moreover, he used to be attached to the Qi family and the Zeng family, so he still had some energy.Now that the Zeng family doesn't pay attention to their family anymore, Qi Yuandao directly asked Qi Siyu to break up with him, his father Du Zaide was dismissed from office, and the family's big house split the family. How could he have the manpower and ability to calm it down? gossip?

Rumors are not something that can be quelled just by trying to quell them.

Du Zheyan told his father Du Zaide directly.

Du Zaide sighed: "Tomorrow, I'll go and apologize to Mr. Qi, and try to quell the rumors as much as possible. No matter what, we have to show our attitude." He looked at his son, "Which academy are you going to go to?"

As soon as this matter was mentioned, Du Zheyan withered.

The government school kicked him out. He planned to go to Nanlu Academy, but he never thought that Nanlu Academy would refuse to accept him in order to please Du Jinning, which made him and his father angry.He has always studied with Qi Siyu in the best academy in Fucheng, and now he is asked to go to a small academy, he doesn't like it at all.

"Go to Hunan Province to study." Du Zaide said, "Come back after you pass the exam."

Du Zheyan lowered his head and thought for a while, then nodded and said, "All right."

In the past, he had offended many people by following Qi Siyu.Now that he is down and out, those people will definitely laugh at him and target him.It's better to go to another place to avoid it.

"Then do it."

……

In late spring and March, the grass grows and the warblers fly.

Du Jinning was sitting in the bright study near the window, concentrating on practicing calligraphy.

"Dong dong dong", the courtyard door was knocked, and Jiang Bei's voice sounded outside: "Master."

"Come in." Du Jinning raised his voice and replied, but he didn't stop writing, and continued to practice his handwriting.

The gate of the courtyard was ajar, and there was no need for Du Jinning to open it. Jiang Bei pushed the door open and came in. When he saw Du Jinning practicing calligraphy in the academy, he didn't dare to make a sound, and stood aside quietly waiting.

After a cup of tea, Du Jinning finished writing the last word, put down the pen, carefully examined his calligraphy, and found that he had made some progress compared to before, so he nodded in satisfaction.

She turned her face and looked at Jiang Bei: "What's the matter?"

"Master, it's like this. Master Lin from Dongcheng just visited our garden and said that he would like to ask you to design a garden for him. The price is negotiable."

"Do you have the land? How big is it?" Du Jinning asked.

"About five or six acres."

Upon hearing the area, Du Jinning shook his head: "You know I'm well-behaved."

In her Du Garden, after a year or two, the plants had grown and prospered, and the overall design of the garden was displayed in front of everyone, which amazed the elegant people in Fucheng.

When it was first designed, Du Jinning had the idea of ​​using it for business, so there is a door between the back yard and the front yard where they live. Usually, when someone wants to visit the garden, Yao Shuqi will ask someone to lock the door and send someone to guard it.Those who can enter Dujiayuan to visit are basically those who have construction business with the Liang family, and they are all big businesses. The quality and level can still be guaranteed, and the number of people can also be controlled. About five or six people come to visit in a month. The life of the Du family has little influence.

Those who were lured by the steward of the Liang family to visit the garden would most likely ask to build such a garden with bright eyes.As a result, the reputation of Du Jiayuanzi gradually spread.

Especially after Yuan Xiuzhu and the magistrate Yang Yuntao built a similar garden one after another, Du's garden became more famous, and many people came to ask for a garden.

Du Jinning wants to study, of course it is impossible to put all his energy on it.Although designing a garden doesn't take much time for Du Jinning, and the benefits are quite good, she is happy to do it, but she wants to give Du Fanghui a chance to exercise.

Du Fanghui is very smart and has a special talent for planting and painting. After two or three years of study, he is now able to design gardens independently.However, in view of her responsible attitude towards customers, Du Jinning dared not hand over the large and complicated gardens to her, so she made a rule that those with more than seven or eight mu should be designed by her, and those with less than seven mu should be designed by Du Fanghui.

Because the design of the garden requires the designer to go to the site for inspection in person, the division of labor between the two cannot be hidden from others, and the steward of the Liang family will truthfully explain to the garden owner.And the design draft submitted by Du Fanghui was also satisfactory, so the division of labor was settled in this way.

But there are also those who play cards unreasonably and have to be designed by Du Jinning.

"Yes, Manager Liang told him. But he said that he can pay [-]% more for the construction cost, so please help him design this garden, young master." Jiangbei said.

A garden of five or six acres does not take much effort for Du Jinning. Although she is not short of money now, she is also very tired from reading and writing all day long.

"If you reply to Guanshi Liang, just say that I agree." She said.

Often when this happens, she and the Liang family will not share the extra [-]% of the money according to the ratio stipulated in the contract, but will belong to her.

"When will the young master go to see that land?" Jiang Bei asked.

Du Jinning thought for a while: "Tomorrow afternoon. It happens that there are no classes in the academy."

After class on the second day, Du Jinning planned to go home directly.Qi Muyuan said, "I'll go with you. I don't have anything to do in the afternoon. I don't want to stay in the academy."

"Oh, let's go together then."

Upon hearing this, Liang Xiankuan hurriedly said, "Then I'll go with you too." This business is a partnership between him and Du Jinning, and Qi Muyuan went with Du Jinning, so it's really unreasonable for him not to go.

Du Jinning hurriedly made a silent movement: "Stop shouting, Fang Shaohua and my eldest brother-in-law will follow after a while, and it will be troublesome. People thought we were going to fight."

Liang Xiankuan laughed loudly: "Your brother-in-law doesn't have time to accompany you, he will go home to accompany his daughter when he has some free time."

Du Fangfei gave birth to a fat girl last year, and she is now one year old.The little girl is beautiful, toddling like a duckling, and likes to chat word by word, she is too cute.Xie Shi and Xu Chengyuan didn't dislike her at all for being a girl, and they cared very little for the little guy.Especially Xu Chengyuan, who had to go home every day to see the little guy, and naturally took the opportunity to see his wife - Du Fangfei found out a few days ago that she was pregnant again.

When Du Jinning heard this, he couldn't help but smile.

"You don't have to accompany me, don't you have something to do at home? Go and do your work." Du Jinning said.

　I didn't have a good rest. I was not satisfied with the coding last night. I wanted to get up this morning to code, but I didn't sleep all night last night.It wasn't until the afternoon when the state got better that I could code.This chapter is added at 10 o'clock in the morning, and there will be another chapter after [-] [-] minutes

　　
　
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