Yoshida Mii

Chapter 351
When he was nine years old in the evening, Zhang Qian was named on the gold list and passed the examination of the top three Jinshi. Soon, when he was nearly [-] years old, he waited for his letter of appointment and went to Yu County, Huzhou to be the seventh-rank county magistrate.

"I have passed the Jinshi examination, why are you just a seventh-rank county magistrate?" Aunt Qiuxia and Mrs. Li complained very much for Zhang Qian. In their opinion, there are so many outstanding Jinshi characters, and an Anzhou combined. It's still uncertain whether there will be a Jinshi, why did the emperor give a seventh-rank county magistrate, how stingy!
"Mother, getting a Jinshi exam is the first step to become an official. No matter how good you are in the exam, you have to start as a seventh-rank official." Lin Shi explained with a smile, even if it's the number one scholar or something, if there is no internal relationship, you can still be an official. It didn't start from the editing and editing of the Imperial Academy, the same Qingshui yamen, the same seventh-rank officials, but although everyone started from the same place, it depends on their own ability to mix up in the future.

Some people became high officials at a young age, and finally entered the center of power, and some people were seven-rank county officials all their lives.Lin Shi's reluctance to take the imperial examination is also based on this. He has a family, fame, land, and property. Why should he let go of the comfortable life in front of him and go to the officialdom to fight.

Everyone thought that Li Hongqin would follow her son's family to Huzhou to take office, but Li Hongqin was unwilling to go, and only asked her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Hu, to take good care of Zhang Qian and her grandchildren.

"What am I going to do? I don't know anyone when I get there, and I can't find anyone to talk to!" Li Hongqin said, "I'm here, accompanied by my old sisters and my daughter and son-in-law. Me, how many people envy my days!"

On the day Zhang Qian's family set off to take office, almost everyone came to see them off. Quanzi arranged a lot of people to escort them all the way, so there was basically no problem with their safety.

The uncle's family also came, and Gao, holding cousin Chang Liang's newborn son, looked enviously at Zhang Qian and his family and boarded the carriage, and waved goodbye to everyone.

"Hey, if Chang Liang continued to work in the government office, he must be an official now!" Gao babbled, and couldn't help complaining about one thing and then another, "At the beginning, his second aunt and uncle were willing to work hard. Transfer Chang Liang to a civilian job, and now he doesn't have to do handicraft work, so he must be an official, not much worse than Xiaoqian!"

After Chang Liang learned the craft in Anzhou, he went back to Yuanshui and opened a woodware shop. The business was not very prosperous, but it could keep the family well fed.

In the past, Gao babbled in front of everyone, as if her son was worthless because the relatives in the family refused to reach out, and Li Changfeng would quarrel with her, but now everyone is used to Gao's nervousness, and Li Changfeng is too lazy to argue with her These.

In fact, Dongbao can also understand Gao's mood. In the 20 years before she married Li Changfeng, her life was much better than that of her two sister-in-laws, who had to look at her face when they came to her house.Who would have thought that feng shui would take turns, the two sisters-in-laws are making rapid progress, although she will not stand still, but compared to the two sisters-in-laws, every family has famous scholars, her two sons are just craftsmen, it is her turn Seeing the faces of the two sister-in-laws, the psychological gap is too great to accept.

After having a child, Dong Bao always felt that time passed quickly. In a blink of an eye, Wan Wan was nine years old, Jin Geer was six years old, and the youngest son Min Geer was two years old. The two children laughed and played together, and the days passed like running water.

It is rare for someone like her to have only three children. Although Zhang Qian got married four years later than her, he has four children. The rhythm of holding one child a year, Quanzi also has two sons and two daughters.

Her home in Tagouji was also expanded twice, with six wing rooms built in the yard, and the backyard was also expanded to build three tile-roofed houses.

Xiaoxu has already passed the Juren examination, and he is still the case. After the spring, Mrs. Liu took him to travel around.For Xiao Xu, it is not difficult to be a Jinshi, but the difficult thing is how to get a champion and get a three-yuan grade.If you want to be the number one scholar and write beautiful articles praised by the examiners, you can't just rely on dead books, and experience is also very important.

Compared with his big brother, Xiaodong is not so brilliant. He was not as smart as Xiaoxu since he was a child, and he developed in the direction of honesty and honesty as he grew up. Take it to heart.It's just that the more he behaves like this, the more the adults love him. Dongbao is ready to hand over the Baoji shop to him. It would be even better if he can achieve something in his studies. Even if he doesn't, his family has land and a shop. It is enough to be cautious and kind to be a businessman.

When sending Zhang Qian off, Li Hongqin kept smiling, and advised her son to be an official and not to disappoint the common people, but after Zhang Qian's carriage gradually disappeared from sight, Li Hongqin began to cry, and finally hugged Zhang Xiuyu and Li wailed, except for the few times when Zhang Qian rushed to take the exam, her son had never left her side. Now that he left, he didn't know when he would come back.

The crowd persuaded Li Hongqin for a long time before they persuaded Li Hongqin. Huzhou is not too far from Anzhou, and it is only five or six days' journey by carriage. Li Hongqin really misses his son and grandson, so going there is not too difficult.

It was already noon when Dongbao's family arrived at Tagouji.When the carriage passed by the entrance of the village, old man Lin suddenly said that he hadn't gone back to see the old house for a long time, and wanted to go in and have a look.

Tie Zi, the driver, turned the carriage around and entered the village from another direction.Dong Bao and Lin Shi accompanied old man Lin to look at the house, and Aunt Qiuxia took the children home to cook.

Although the old house was unoccupied, Aunt Qiuxia often brought her servants to clean it. After all, the old house was where the older generation lived for decades, and emotionally it was incomparable to any house.The lock on the gate is still a brand new large iron lock, which is often oiled and wiped to prevent it from rusting.

Old man Lin looked at the things in the yard with pity, and told Lin Shi and Dong Bao what happened in the yard with a smile.Once people get old, they like to recall the past and become rambling, like the stories old man Lin told them, I don’t know how many times he told them. explain.

Dong Bao and Lin Shi listened with smiles on their faces, looking very interested. The old man has only a little hobby, and it is not difficult to be tolerated by the juniors.

The three of them were talking when they heard a burst of sharp yelling from the Song family next door, breaking the tranquility of the farmyard.

"You old bastard! Things are worthless in your hands? If you sell your bones and tendons, you won't be able to get back a bowl..." The sharp and mean female voice continued.

Dong Bao recognized that it was Yang Xiaohong who cursed.

Old man Lin sighed, stood with his hands behind his back and listened for a while, then shook his head and said to Dong Bao, "Go and have a look, you are a good boy, they really don't look like you." I don't know what to wear, it's not appropriate, and after so many years, the grandchildren are all grown-ups, and no matter how big the grievances are, it's time to let go.

Dong Bao responded, and when he was about to go, Lin Shi also followed him. Dong Bao stopped him with a smile, knowing that he was worried. The incident between Qiaoxian and Tonggu frightened him. Years passed, and Dong Bao was never allowed to go out alone.

"How dare they harm others now!" Dong Bao laughed.

She didn't want Lin Shi to come forward. She went alone to solve the Song family's housework. If Lin Shi went alone, she couldn't stand up to shrews like Yang Xiaohong. It's not just housework.

The front door of Song's house was replaced with a wooden door two years ago. Because there was no money to paint it, the wooden door was exposed to wind and rain, and it was rotted a lot, so Dong Bao went straight into the yard without closing it.

The roof of the east house collapsed in heavy rain last summer. When I got closer, it should have been repaired with wheat straw. The west wing and the main room are tile-roofed houses. The old houses are old and dilapidated.

There has never been an example of knocking on the door to say hello between farmers. When Dongbao walked to the door of the main room, Yang Xiaohong was still cursing, and she opened the curtain without saying a word.

Beside the mottled old wooden table in the main room, Song Bai, who was eating with a bowl, and Song Bai's son and two daughters, all four of them seemed to be eating without distractions, and they didn't care about Yang Xiaohong pointing at the old man Song and Huang. Shi cursed and foamed, and the sky was dark.

A rough porcelain bowl with a hole on the ground was broken in two, and the corn slag soup was spilled all over the floor.

Old man Song trembled, his face was flushed by scolding, he immediately lowered his head when he saw Dong Bao, and Mrs. Huang sat on the ground crying, yelling, "If you can't bear it, let's die! If you can't bear it, die!" never mind!"

"What is this for?" Dongbao smiled lightly at the entrance of the station, looked at Yang Xiaohong, and said casually, "Third Aunt is so angry!"

Seeing Mrs. Juren, Yang Xiaohong had to restrain herself no matter how aggressive she was, and said with a smile: "It's Dong Bao, why come to the third aunt's house when you have time? Oh, this is really a visit from a nobleman!"

"Don't talk about that." Dong Bao didn't bother to talk to her, looked at old man Song and said: "You scolded like this at noon, the third aunt wanted to let the whole village know how good you are, right? Don't feel ashamed to panic?"

Yang Xiaohong chuckled, and said: "Niece Dongbao, you haven't come this way all these years, you don't know, your master is called a ghost, look at the shaking hands, he can't even hold a bowl. It is said that ghosts are afraid of people, and I am just trying to scare the ghosts that are on your body, so that you can become a normal person soon..."

Dong Bao glanced at old man Song's hand, and immediately understood, what kind of shit is on his upper body, old man Song is suffering from a common disease of the elderly - Parkinson's.People with superstitious beliefs say that they have been possessed by ghosts. There are many elderly people who suffer from this. In fact, everyone knows what is going on. It is just as nonsense as someone said that Dong Bao was a tiger girl who defeated his father.

What Yang Xiaohong said about the upper body was an excuse, an excuse for scolding the old man, after all, she felt sorry for the broken bowl and the bowl of thin corn dregs soup.

(End of this chapter)