Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 494
Qi Muyuan stood outside the courtyard gate and didn't go in for a long time.

But soon some classmates came out from the yard, and they happened to see Qi Muyuan standing outside.

"Senior Brother Qi, are you back? They asked you just now." The classmate thought that Qi Muyuan had just come here, so he hurriedly greeted him.

Qi Muyuan nodded to him, and bowed back.

When Fang Shaohua in the courtyard heard this, he immediately smiled and said to Du Jinning: "Look, am I right? As soon as you come back, Qi Muyuan will definitely come back."

Qi Muyuan knew he couldn't stay outside anymore, so he had no choice but to step into the yard.

While arguing with Fang Shaohua, Du Jinning turned around and looked towards the door, meeting Qi Muyuan's eyes.

"Qi Muyuan, I didn't come, and you are too lazy to come to the academy." Du Jinning laughed.

Seeing Du Jinning's flowery smile, Qi Muyuan's heart beat faster.

He suppressed his emotions, walked over as usual, and said lightly: "There are guests at home, grandpa called me back."

Although Qi Bokun has retired, he is not lonely at all, and people often come to visit him.So when Du Jinning heard this, he didn't think deeply about it. He nodded and invited everyone: "Come in and sit down. I just brought some snacks and good tea."

"Okay, okay." Fang Shaohua didn't know what it means to be polite, "Is it this year's new tea? Then I have to taste it."

Qi Muyuan saw a group of people surrounded Du Jinning and entered the room. He didn't stop, didn't follow in, but went directly to his own room.

As Du Jinning's brother-in-law, Xu Chengyuan naturally wouldn't move forward when everyone was expressing greetings and intimacy with Du Jinning.But seeing Qi Muyuan's actions at this moment, he couldn't help walking to Du Jinning, and asked her, "What's wrong with Qi Muyuan?"

Although Qi Muyuan looks indifferent, he usually treats people well, at least his etiquette is considered considerate, it will not give people a feeling of being superior and looking down on others, but it will only make people think that he is like this by nature, this is what Xu Chengyuan admires him more .

Because of his closeness to Du Jinning, even if Qi Muyuan didn't like the excitement and entertainment, he would come to this room to say a few words before going back to his own room, so he wouldn't walk away with such a cold face.

Du Jinning is a sensitive person, Xu Chengyuan can feel the strangeness, so she can feel it too.It's just that there are so many people at this time, even if she has doubts in her heart, she won't ask at this time. She just smiled at Xu Chengyuan and helped Qi Muyuan explain: "Maybe he's tired. Or his guests are annoying him again."

Xu Chengyuan thought of the endless stream of guests bringing their own children to the door, with the idea of ​​marrying the Qi family or letting their sons and grandsons make friends with Qi Muyuan, and he understood it in his heart, and nodded sympathetically: "That's true."

The students of Nanlu Academy are not as rich or noble as in the prefectural school, or they are the favored children of heaven.The students here are either rich but have no status, or their family background is not good, and their rankings in the college examination are not high.People are jealous of people who are similar to their own status but stronger than themselves, but they only have the idea of ​​​​"hugging thighs" for people who are much higher than themselves and beyond their reach.

This is the case with the students in the school.They only have admiration for Qi Muyuan and Du Jinning, they are not like the school, some students are obviously inferior to Du Jinning in knowledge, but still despise her status, thinking that they can step on her Showing nobility; even Qi Muyuan was dissatisfied.

Everyone was afraid that Du Jinning would bother them and make noise, so everyone ate a piece of snacks and stayed for a while before leaving.Xu Chengyuan also left, but Fang Shaohua stayed.

Du Jinning saw that he was hesitant to speak, so he couldn't help asking curiously: "What's the matter?"

Fang Shaohua groaned for a long time, and squeezed out a sentence: "Then, that... do you understand the situation of our family?"

"What about your family?" Du Jinning looked at him in surprise, then shook his head, "I don't understand."

She doesn't like to inquire about other people's privacy, but she only heard from Fang Shaohua that his father was transferred to Guizhou Province as the governor, so he stayed here to study, and she didn't know anything about the rest.

"My ancestral home is in Shou County, and there is only my cousin's family in my hometown. My parents died young and were brought up by my uncle. My father won the third prize in the palace examination, and was favored by my grandfather, who betrothed my mother to My dad."

Having said that, he raised his eyes to look at Du Jinning, and added: "My grandfather is Wei Zhengming, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion."

Du Jinning's heart skipped a beat.

The Song Dynasty continued to use the official system of the Tang Dynasty, but it has developed to a certain extent in the centralization of power.For example, this Wenyuange scholar is no longer an official in charge of literary works, but has the status of a cabinet scholar in the Ming Dynasty.Although the rank is not high, but because he is a close minister of the emperor and can influence the emperor's decision, he holds real power and has a very high status.

She really didn't expect that Fang Shaohua, who looked carefree and without any scheming, was a real person who didn't show his face, and his status was not worse than Qi Muyuan's.

But when she thought about it again, she wanted to slap herself on the head.

In fact, there are traces of Fang Shaohua's background.

She is well aware of the powerful families in Gui Province and their relationship in Beijing and China, but there is no Fang family among them.It can be seen that Fang Shaohua's father was not from a prominent family.She knew that Fang Shaohua was second in the line, so she inferred that Fang Shaohua's father was not very old, and he was only in his early forties now.Is it possible that a person of ordinary background, in his early forties, can achieve the position of governor of one party and a third-rank official, with no one behind him to help him?There is no one here in the Fang family, only Fang Shaohua's maternal ancestor's family.

Seeing that Du Jinning was only surprised, and did not show any anger or alienation, Fang Shaohua breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "My father and mother only have three children, my elder brother, me and my sister, a family of five. Others. My elder brother has been awarded Jinshi and married, and he is an official in other places; my younger sister is only 12 years old this year, and has not yet married."

"In addition, after my father became an official and got married, he took the uncle's family into office and lived with us. But within two years my uncle passed away, leaving only my aunt and two cousins. Sister. The two cousins ​​are now married and married in Jiangnan. My aunt used to live with us. This time my father and the others went to work in Guizhou. In our house in Suzhou."

As he spoke, he stopped and looked at Du Jinning.

Du Jinning became more and more puzzled. Seeing him stop for a while, he couldn't help asking, "Why are you telling me this?" She didn't check his household registration.

"I..." Fang Shaohua blushed, stammering, "I, I want to propose to your fourth sister."

"What?" Du Jinning's eyes widened.

(End of this chapter)