Chapter 74
"Master Zhou Yi won the exam, Mr. Zhou Yi won the exam..." The two officials and messengers shouted loudly as soon as they entered the village.
"What? Third uncle, did I hear it wrong? Why did I hear that Liu Langzhong had passed the exam?" The second uncle asked the third uncle with a puzzled look on his face.
The third uncle was already trembling with excitement, "Second Brother, you heard me right, our Liu Lang has passed the exam!!!!"
"Liu Lang has passed the exam..." "
Liu Lang has passed the exam?"
The old men and old ladies all made a fuss, some were ecstatic, some were in disbelief. The second uncle and the third uncle supported each other a long time ago, walked up to the official, and asked tremblingly: "Officer, are you talking about the Liulang of our Zhou family being promoted?
" There is a workshop, but it has gained a lot of fame. These officials also know Zhou Yi's name. Hearing this, they laughed and said: "Old Master, Mr. Zhou Yi of your Zhou family won the election, and it is still the third place. We are Come to announce the good news."
"Shuanzi, Shuanzi, hurry to your second uncle's house and tell them that Liu Lang has passed the exam!!!!" The second uncle called a great-grandson who was playing at the entrance of the village, and his old wrinkled face became a smile. Sunflower! He shouted angrily.
"Oh, that's great, Liu Langzhong raised it..." The other old men and old ladies crowded together, and happily went to Zhou's house to announce the good news with the officials.
When I met villagers on the road and heard the news that Zhou Yi had been promoted, they were all elated.
After talking with Wang Yan for a while, Zhou Laoer put away the account book and was about to go out to visit the workshop. As soon as he stepped out of the house, he saw the villagers happily walking towards his house with the two officials.
"Second brother, don't be dumbfounded, Liu Langzhong has lifted it!!!" Third Uncle shouted from a long distance away. At this time, his eyes were no longer blurred, his waist was no longer sore, and he was almost twenty years younger. .
When the two officials saw Zhou's second son, they rushed forward and said with a smile on their faces: "Congratulations, Mr. Zhou, your family has a jurengong!
"What, Liu Lang passed the exam?" Zhou Lao Er felt that his mind was confused at this moment, and he murmured in disbelief.
"Second brother, why are you still standing there, why don't you give Xiqian quickly." The second uncle approached and patted Zhou's second son.
Only then did Zhou Laoer come to his senses, "Did Liu Lang pass the exam? My son passed the exam? My son passed the exam, my son passed the exam... Hahahaha..." Tears came out as he smiled.
Both the villagers and the officials all looked at Zhou Erer understandingly, if his son won the election, let alone cry, he would just go crazy with joy.
"Don't cry, hurry up and thank the officials." Someone joked.
"Oh, that's right, I have to thank the officials..." Zhou Laoer was reminded, rubbing his hands and turning around excitedly.
"Hahaha, I'm so stupid to see brother Zhou being so happy!"
"No, brother Tuesday is lucky..."
Seeing Zhou's second child's excited and disorganized appearance, the onlookers joked one after another.
The people in the room heard such a big commotion outside, and Wang Yan led Zhou Jia out. Wang Yan didn't have too much obsession with Zhou Yizhong's failure to win the exam, so although she was happy, she was still sensible, and hurriedly gave money to the poor man, and invited people who came to congratulate her into the house. Zhou Jia heard everyone say "Liulang" to the left and "Liulang" to the right. Knowing that Liulang was Zhou Yi, he
grabbed someone and asked, "Auntie, my brother is back? Where is he?"
An aunt, heard the words and said with a smile: "Your brother hasn't come back yet, Balang, Liulang, you are the younger brother of Master Juren now!"
Zhou Jia immediately lost interest in Juren or something, he is still young now, I didn't know what this meant at all, but when I heard that Zhou Yi hadn't come back, I was immediately upset.
Everyone was celebrating, but he went back to the house alone, closed the door, and sat on the chair angrily, "Bad brother, smelly brother, you haven't come back for so long. If you don't come back, I won't like you!" After a while , felt that this sentence seemed to be a bit heavy, and said to himself awkwardly: "Then...then if you come back quickly, I will only dislike you a little..." The
Zhou family went to the room, because In the private school built in the village, Dalang and Zhou Laosi teach the children to read and write, so they can also receive a monthly salary of one tael of silver, plus the family has a lot of land, so they are no longer so extravagant, and life is easy have to.
Just after the autumn harvest, the whole family was sitting in the upper room, Bala income. Zhou Laosan bumped in. After entering the house, he looked for water, and then filled half of the pot with his arms.
"Where are you going again, don't you just gamble again?" Mr. Zhou asked Old San Zhou with a dark face. Since Zhou Laosan was sent to prison, his reputation in this area has been bad. No matter whether it is in the county or nearby villages, he can't find a job. On gambling.
Of course, he has no money in his hand, and the blockage is not too big. Although Mr. Zhou sometimes beats him, but most of the time he just turns a blind eye and closes his eyes to let him toss.
"Ouch, dad, what time are you still in the mood to say these things?" Zhou Laosan calmed down and said.
"What are you talking about, what's the matter? Judging by your flustered appearance, could it be that something serious has happened?" Zhou's mother sat firmly on the kang, and several daughters-in-law were sorting out wheat.
"Something has happened, something very big has happened! Liulang has been admitted to Juren!!!"
This sentence was like a thunderbolt on the ground, and Mr. Zhou stood up suddenly, staring at the third son Zhou: "You are serious! The third son of Zhou
groaned: "Father, the village is in trouble, and I can still lie to you. Now everyone has gone to the second brother's house to grab the happy money." "Happy money?" Next to
Zheng Ying Qilang, who was sitting, swiped and stood up, "Mom, I'm going to grab wedding money too!" He was just eleven years old, and he thought that he could buy a lot of delicious food with copper coins in his hand, so he begged Zheng Ying.
"This..." Zheng Ying glanced carefully at Zhou's mother, and seeing that she really lost her face, she said, "Don't go, your second uncle's house is busy now, don't make trouble." Qilang listened to Zheng very much
. Ying Ying said, although she was a little sullen, she answered in a sleepy voice: "Oh." Then she sat down again.
"Father, what should we do?" Boss Zhou asked. He really didn't expect that the lame second brother was so lucky. Not only did he open a big workshop, but he also had a son.
It's just that such a good thing can't happen to him! Even if it can't fall on him, the third brother, the fourth brother, whoever it is, at least they are siblings of the same mother.
Old man Zhou sat down slowly, took a puff of cigarette, and muttered to himself: "If I had known, I would have..." He just did what he said, and he didn't say the following words, but there was regret in his tone.
When Zhou's mother heard that Zhou Yi had passed the Juren examination, her heart felt like she wanted to explode. Now that Mr. Zhou still said this, she immediately exploded: "Whatever you do, what do you do? Ah, do you regret sending your good son? Divided out? The ones crawling out of my stomach are embarrassing to you, right? I know you only think about that foxy girl, boss, third child, fourth child. My good mother, there is no one who is promising now, and your father dislikes our mother and son..." Zhou's mother became more and more sad as she spoke, and then she patted her thigh and burst into tears.
Old man Zhou was crying until the veins on his forehead popped out, and he said with a dark face: "What are you going crazy again? When did I say that I don't want to see you mother and son!"
Zhou's mother woke up with a snot, and said in a hoarse voice: " Dare you say that you didn't try to curry favor with Erfang's family, let me tell you, it's too late, people don't like you as an old bastard!"
Mr. Zhou slammed his cigarette pouch on the edge of the kang: "Why do you want me to go? To curry favor with him, that is my son, my own grandson, do you need me to curry favor? I think you are afraid, you treated the Erfang family so harshly when there was no separation, and now that Liu Lang has passed the Juren exam, you Are you afraid that he will settle accounts with you?"
"Fuck your mother, my mother is afraid of him? Besides, I am also his grandma in terms of seniority, what can he do to me. Do you think you are his own grandfather, so people like you so much? Let me tell you Don't think too much, I hate you as much as I do, I wish you would die soon!" What the old man said touched Zhou's mother's heart, and Zhou's mother ignored everything, turning the words into sharp knives, directly Insert it into the heart of Mr. Zhou.
"Crack!" Mr. Zhou slapped Zhou's mother with all his strength, gritted his teeth and said, "Damn old lady, I will make you foolish..." Of course he knew that Zhou Yi didn't like him, but Zhou Yi His mother still couldn't bear to say it so bluntly. What he regrets most now is that he didn't treat Erfang's family well and let him separate from Erfang. And the biggest reason, Mr. Zhou directly blamed Zhou's mother. He believed that if Zhou's mother hadn't been nagging him, he would definitely not wait to see Zhou's second child. If he is close to the Erfang family, then he is the grandfather of the respected Master Juren...
"You hit me..." Mother Zhou covered her face and looked at Father Zhou in disbelief, "I'll fight you..." Zhou's mother looked crazy, she stood up and fought with Mr. Zhou.
"Father, mother, stop fighting..." But with so many children and grandchildren together, it was natural to come forward to fight, and there was a lot of chaos in the room for a while.
Zhou Yi and Zhao Yuwen's Zhongju was quickly spread in Guang'an County. Juren can be different from a scholar. There are more than 100 districts and counties under the jurisdiction of Liangyuan Province, plus a dozen prefectures. Most of the time, every three years In a rural examination, some small counties often fail to get anything, and they are often accompanied by runners.
Even though Guang'an County is a hometown of high school students, it is not easy to think that there are people who can pass the provincial examination every time. But now there are two people who won the election, and Zhou Yi's ranking is still so high, Li Boyong naturally wants to publicize it well, so that everyone who studies in Guang'an County knows the news of Zhou Yi's selection.
"Zi Li, your brother-in-law won the exam, when will it be your turn?" Mu Zili's classmates all knew that he married the sister of Zhou Yi, a famous child prodigy in Guang'an County, and joked with a smile.
Mu Zili forced a smile: "Don't laugh at me, you don't know what I am capable of." Mu Zili has taken the imperial examination so far, and his best result is only passing the county examination, not even a child. Admitted.
After Mu Zili bid farewell to his classmates, he immediately went to the pier and took a boat back home.
In the study, Mr. Mu was staring at Mu Zishu and Mu Zishi: "How do you do business? Why are these two restaurants losing money this year?" Mu Zishi was about to speak when Mu Zili suddenly opened the door
. Loudly said: "Father, Zhou Yizhong raised it!"
"Really?" Elder Mu immediately stood up and asked.
"It's true, it's spread all over Guang'an County!" Mu Zili said affirmatively.
"Hahaha..." Old Master Mu laughed loudly, "It's really worth finding such a marriage for you!" He looked at Mu Zili with more kind eyes.
Mu Zishi and Mu Zishu looked at each other, and they both saw worry in each other's eyes.
Mr. Mu had something to say to Mu Zili in private, so he waved his hand and let the two brothers go out. After some distance between Mu Zishi and the study room that Mu Zishu came from, Mu Zishu asked Mu Zishi: "Brother, what should we do? If we continue, will Zhou Yi care?" Mu Zishi
pondered After a while: "I heard that the relationship between the Zhou family and that Jurengong is not good. Of course, we don't know whether it is true or not. We still need to find out. As for the matter at hand, we will continue to do it, but we must be more secretive."
Mu Zishu nodded: "So what if it's the master Juren, he still can't manage our Mu family's family affairs."
Mu Zishi shook his head. It was hard to imagine that if he insisted on favoring Mu Zili for the sake of the Zhou family, the two brothers would have to accept it. I hope this newly promoted jurengong is sensible and won't deliberately come to suppress them.
Mu Zishu also knew that he was speaking out of anger, and at the end he said harshly: "Damn it, the third guy has a very good life. I thought he was married to a scholar's family, but I didn't expect to become a Juren, father's." The heart is too biased."
In the study, after Mr. Mu was overjoyed, he said to Mu Zili, "You have neglected your wife in the past two years, treat her better in the future." Mu Zili was a little reluctant: "
Father, you don't know how bad she is. Li Yu, with a small belly and a sharp mouth, if it wasn't for Zhou Yi, I would have divorced him a long time ago."
Master Mu stroked his beard: "Isn't she just a woman, if you say something nice, she will soften up "
Mu Zili nodded reluctantly, and left the study, thinking of Mr. Mu's instructions to go to the concubine's room, he turned a corner and walked towards the house where Sanya lived.
Sanya gave birth to a daughter two years ago, named Mu Qing. At this moment, Sanya was powdering herself in front of the mirror. Mu Qing was sitting alone on the side. The chair was a bit high. When she got down, her legs were too short. He accidentally jumped down and hit his forehead on the ground. Immediately hurt wah wah burst into tears. Sanya has been a bit irritable in recent years, and the maids in the house are trembling, usually Sanya does not give orders, and they would never dare to enter the house, even if they hear Miss crying at this moment, the maids guarding the door just look at each other , and had no intention of getting up and going in. "Howling!" Sanya was startled by Mu Qing's voice, her powdering hands became heavier, and she was very agitated, and she directly yelled at Mu Qing. "Wow wow wow..." Mu Qing became more frightened when she heard Sanya scolding her, and when she got frightened, she cried louder. Sanya got up and walked to Mu Qing angrily, instead of stretching out her hand to pull her, she hit her buttocks several times, "You are a girl who knows how to cry all day long, if it's not because you are not a son , How could I be so angry? Those foxes have all given birth to someone, but you are a girl, how can I gain a foothold in the Mu family in the future." Since Mu Qing was born, Mu Zili and her There were more and more quarrels, and finally she stopped coming to her house.
The concubines gave birth to sons one after another, but she had only one daughter under her wife's knees. At first she loved Mu Qing very much, after all, it was the flesh that fell from her body. It was just one time that I overheard the servant girl gossip, saying that she was not favored because she didn't give birth to a young master, and that Mu Zili would not go to her room in the future, and that she would only have Mu Qing for the rest of her life. It must be bleak when you get old.
At that moment she was terrified, yes, if she never gave birth to a son, how would she stay in Mu's house in the future, how would she maintain the dignity of her principal wife? But she tried her best, but Mu Zili still dismissed her.
As a result, her thoughts gradually became extreme, and now she even hated Mu Qing, feeling that she was the one who dragged herself down.
"Crying, still crying..." Sanya got angry and pinched Mu Qing's face fiercely, leaving only a red mark on Mu Qing's pinched face.
At this time, Mu Zili opened the door and came in, just in time to see her pinching Mu Qing, his expression changed drastically, he immediately pushed her away, hugged Mu Qing in his arms, and said in disbelief: "What are you doing?" , she is your biological daughter, so you can do it!"
Seeing that Mu Zili had actually entered her room, Sanya was overjoyed at first: "Master, you are back."
"Don't change the subject, I'm asking you Why are you pinching Qing'er? She is indeed a vicious woman, she can even kill her own flesh and blood!"
Sanya's face changed when she heard the words: "No, Mr., listen to me, it's Qing'er who keeps crying, Crying made me upset, that's why..."
"You have the nerve to say, Qing'er fell to the ground, why didn't you pick her up and coax her, as her own mother, you still want to pinch her, what on earth are you doing?" Do you have a heart!" Mu Zili patted Mu Qing on the back, gritted his teeth and said to Sanya.
Now Sanya also became angry: "You are ashamed to say that you are now playing the role of a loving father. After Qing'er was born, you have seen her several times. If you hadn't neglected our mother and son, how could I have treated her like this."
Mu Zili wanted to distinguish, but thinking of Mr. Mu, he had to suppress his temper, took a few breaths and said, "It's my fault. I ignored your mother and daughter before, but I won't anymore. You are mine after all. The main wife."
"Really?" Sanya asked incredulously.
"Of course it's true, let's live a good life in the future." Mu Zili said while holding back his disgust.
Sanya stepped forward joyfully, leaned her head on Mu Zili's shoulder tentatively, and seeing that he did not avoid him, she smiled and said, "Okay, from now on, our family will live a good life. I know my temper, and I will change it in the future." Yes."
"Okay." Mu Zili took Sanya's hand.
Sanya lowered her head in "shame".
That night, the husband and wife slept together after a long absence. Afterwards, Mu Zili put his arms around Sanya and said, "Xian'er, your younger brother has been admitted as a scholar. When he comes back, let's go and congratulate him.
" Surprised, Liu Lang was admitted to Juren? No wonder Mu Zili came to her house today, it turns out that the "backer" of her natal family has become much thicker.
"You and Zhou Yi are direct siblings, do you know that you need to get closer to your natal family in the future?" Mu Zili didn't see the gloomy look on Sanya's face, and was still diligently fulfilling Mr. Mu's instructions, softly Said in a voice.
San Ya sneered inwardly, such a Mu family, such a Mu Zili, seeing that Liu Lang had been admitted to Juren, he rushed to curry favor with her. Random and wry smile, several years of married life made her fully understand the importance of her natal family, it's a pity how stupid she was at the beginning, she offended all her natal family in order to fight, how can she come to the door now? After all, she let go of the cruel words of not going to the door at the beginning.
"Why, are you unhappy?" Mu Zili lowered his head to see Sanya's face and asked.
Sanya squeezed out a smile: "Why, I have a very good relationship with Liulang, how could I be unhappy when he won the election?" After
hearing this, Mu Zili was noncommittal. In his opinion, the relationship between Sanya and Zhou Yi No matter how good it is, it's okay, anyway, Sanya is the daughter of the Zhou family, as long as there is such a blood relationship, then the Zhou family and the Mu family are relatives by marriage. Let Sanya go to Zhou's house to work more in the future, and the relationship will naturally become closer.
Zhou Yi didn't know at all that after the news of his winning came back to Xiawan Village, it also attracted people from all walks of life to stage a human "comedy".
At this time, he was sitting on the boat fishing, and Zhao Yuwen twitched the corners of his mouth: "Zhou Yi, our boat is moving forward, can you catch fish like this?" Zhou Yi smiled: "Whether to fish or not?
" This is only in the process, not in the result."
Zhao Yuwen was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said with a sigh: "Don't ask about the result, just look at the process, I really can't compare with you."
Zhou Yi heard A little ashamed, he just casually spilled those chicken soup jokes on the Internet in his previous life, but Zhao Yuwen didn't expect Zhao Yuwen to really believe it.
Zhou Yike is a pragmatist through and through. Let him really only look at the process and not ask about the result. This ideological level is too high, and he can't reach it for the time being.
"Master, we have earned several thousand taels of silver this time, and my wife will be happy to go back." Qingzhu packed her luggage and said happily when she came out.
"Oh, what's going on?" Zhao Yuwen asked with interest.
"It's nothing, it's just that when the market opened, I suppressed myself." Zhou Yi shrugged.
Zhao Yuwen slapped his thigh: "Oh, it's a loss, I would have suppressed Zhou Yi if I knew it earlier." With a look of remorse/
Zhou Yi chuckled, he knew that Zhao Yuwen's family did not lack this little money, It was just a joke, so he also said: "Then you have missed a good opportunity to make a fortune."
Zhao Yuwen listened amusedly.
The boat went down the river much faster than when it went there, but within four days, the boat arrived at Guang'an Wharf.