Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 156 Three Letters

"I'll find someone to forget about it. It'll be a good day in half a month. Let's go back tomorrow and tell my parents the news that Aniu was the head of the case. Let them be happy. We can also talk about the banquet." Li Nan drank. He took a sip of wine and said.

"Then I will inform my two brothers from my mother's side later." Mrs. Liu said happily.

During dinner in the evening, when he heard his parents talking about who to invite and what dishes to prepare for the banquet, Li An hesitated for a moment and then said, "Mom and dad, I'm afraid the banquet preparation will be slowed down."

"What's wrong?" Mrs. Liu asked confused.

Li An repeated the news that Lu Mingde said, and said: "I'm afraid it won't be easy to calm down the commotion this time. Maybe the county exam will have to be retaken this time."

"When I went out to find someone to calculate the days in the afternoon, I heard a lot of people talking there. I thought it was because of what happened in the morning, but it turned out that there was a lot of commotion again," Li Nan said.

Mrs. Liu worriedly said: "Aniu, if we take the exam again, won't your case manager be gone?"

"Mom, don't worry. I can't guarantee that if you take the exam again, there should be no problem. But I think it's unlikely that you will take the exam again, and the papers will be re-examined," Li An said.

He later thought about it carefully, and it must be impossible to cover up the situation when it happened like this.

However, fraud in the imperial examination is a big scandal, and the court probably does not want to make the matter bigger.

It is very likely that someone was sent to re-examine the papers. The re-examination would involve too much, which is equivalent to confirming the imperial examination fraud.

"So you are still the head of the case?" Ms. Liu said happily.

"My child is just guessing. We have to wait and see what the details will be. So the banquet to celebrate must be slow down first." Li An said.

"These people are just right. The county test is so strict. How can there be any fraud? They just didn't win the exam and deliberately made trouble." Liu said angrily.

Liu, this is a typical mentality of those with vested interests.

If Li An fails the exam, she may join the crowd who go to the Tongxuan Yamen to block the door.

But this is human nature. Li An comforted his mother with a few words before she calmed down a bit.

Even so, I didn't eat a few bites of dinner before I stopped eating.

……

Because something new happened, there was no need to go back the next day.

In the morning, Li An had breakfast, told Desheng to go out to inquire about news, and then went back to his room to read.

There was a lack of entertainment activities in ancient times, and he had few friends in Yangzhou. Reading and practicing calligraphy was the best pastime for him.

"Cai'er, let me help you."

"No need for help, I can do it myself."

"You're too weak, and you haven't even wrung the water out of your clothes. It's better for me to do it."

Li An read the book and listened to the voices coming from the yard, with a smile on his lips.

Cai'er has been at his home for about a month. The conditions at home were not good before and she was very thin.

In addition, I was often exposed to wind and sun while doing farm work, and my skin was not only rough but also very dark.

I had good food at Li's house and only had to do some chores, so I wasn't tired.

After a month, not only did I gain weight, but my skin also looked whiter.

It looks a lot more pleasing to the eye.

Although Shi Zhu didn't quite understand the meaning of a daughter-in-law, he always kept what Li An said in mind.

Li An said that his wife was there for pain, and he didn't know how to feel pain, so he helped Cai'er work.

Usually whenever I see Cai'er working, I'll run over to help.

Because Li An told him that he couldn't call someone his wife now, but he didn't call her anymore.

Cai'er was called "wife" by Shi Zhu a few times at first. Although she stopped calling him "daughter-in-law" later on, she still felt that Shi Zhu was uneasy and well-intentioned.

In addition, she felt that if she sold herself to the Li family, she would be a servant of the Li family, and Shi Zhu was considered a guest of the family, so naturally she was not willing to let Shi Zhu help.

But Shi Zhu always remembered what Li An said about his wife being for pain, and he always rushed to help with the work.

After going back and forth, Cai'er no longer rejected Shizhu as before.

Mrs. Liu had told him before that she was going to help him and Shi Zhu make some clothes, and Cai'er took the initiative to ask Ying to take over the job of making clothes for Shi Zhu. "Yeah, look, the clothes are all twisted."

Cai'er grabbed the clothes from Shi Zhu's hands angrily and glared at him.

"I didn't mean it." Shi Zhu scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Okay, you go and rest, I'll do it myself."

When Cai'er saw Shi Zhu's innocent eyes, she couldn't blame him.

Although Cai'er didn't blame him, Shi Zhu always felt that he had done something wrong and stood there a little aggrieved.

Li An saw this scene through the window, shook his head and shouted: "Zhuzhu, come in."

"coming!"

Shizhu responded and trotted into the house.

"Brother A Niu, what's the matter with calling me?" Shi Zhu looked at Li An and asked.

"I'm going to write a letter to the master. Do you have anything to say to the master?" Li An asked.

Before he came back, he made an agreement with Sheng Changbai. After the results of the county examination were released, they would write to each other to inform each other whether they had won the examination.

Now that the county examination is over, although there have been some changes, the letter still needs to be written.

In addition, he also wanted to write a letter to his teacher Liu Xuewen and his master Shi Lin, telling them about his grades and that he would not return to Bianjing for the time being.

Shi Zhu scratched his head when he heard this and said, "Brother A Niu, just tell my dad that I miss him."

Shizhu has never read a book, and is a bit naive, so he is not very good at expressing his emotions.

However, he had been dependent on his father since he was a child and had never left the stone forest. Suddenly being separated for so long made him really miss him.

"Okay, I understand. You go and play." Li An said.

After sending the stone pillar down, Li An studied the ink and thought. When the ink was ready, he picked up the pen and wrote three letters.

When the ink dries, fold it and put it in an envelope, seal it, and write each person's name on it.

Just after it was done, Desheng, who went out to inquire about the news, also came back.

"Sir, I went out to inquire around. I heard that the scholars sat in Tongpan Yamen all night last night, and it was useless for Lord Zhizhou to persuade him. This morning Lord Zhizhou promised in public that he would report the matter to the court and let the court handle it. , the scholars just left." Desheng said.

"Ah."

Li An nodded when he heard this, handed him the three letters he had written, took another ingot of silver, and said, "Take these three letters to the inn and send them out."

In order to deliver news from various places, the ancient imperial court built large-scale post stations.

In addition to delivering official documents, memorials, and news from the public, these stations also received letters and express delivery services from the private sector.

"Yes." Desheng took the letter and money, bowed and left.

……

"Ming Gong, you must save the official." Xu Shigao begged.

"Now that things are going like this, how do you want me to help you? Where did you find this idiot to dare to place such a heavy bet on yourself? Isn't it obvious that there is a problem in telling others?" Gu Yi said with an ugly face.

If he knew that Xu Shigao was so stupid, he would not dare to ask for gold, let alone forty thousand taels of silver.

"Ming Gong, I didn't expect him to do this. As long as Ming Gong can help me, I will be rewarded generously," Xu Shigao said.

In fact, he did such a thing, but he always asked people to spread their bets, and each bet was not much.

Who knew that Chang Zhihua was so stupid that he bet thirty thousand taels in one go.

Xu Shigao wanted to strangle Feng Xihui and Chang Zhihua to death.

Gu Yi said impatiently: "Okay! Generally, if the court sends people for this kind of matter, they will be officials who have served in Yangzhou in recent years. I should be able to put in some good words for you, so it won't be a big problem. But you have to pay for this."

"Thank you Ming Gong. The money will definitely come from the lower official." Xu Shigao said happily.

(End of this chapter)