Domineering husband

Chapter 76 Celebrating Going to Fucheng

   After passing the county examination, it is actually not worthwhile for the government servants to go to Sanliu Village to announce the good news. After all, there is no hard and fast rule for being a scholar.

Whether he is willing to announce the good news or not depends entirely on the yamen servant himself.

But the honor at the head of the case is unusual, and Li Qiao's status is special, so the yamen servants first congratulated Li Qiao with a smile, and then said they would go to Sanliu Village to announce the good news.

Seeing this, Li Qiao smiled and handed them ten taels of silver, letting them go ahead.

As for him and Tao Zhu, they were going to pay their respects to Jiangzhi County.

Not only did Jiang Zhi County not be afraid of rumors, but he also defeated them forcefully, which Li Qiao admired.

Li Qiao and Tao Zhu said goodbye to Meng Yue, Xu Ying, Shen Hua, shopkeeper Wang, Zhuang Wen and his wife, and then drove the ox cart to the tea shop to buy some high-quality tea.

In order to avoid being labeled as a bribe, they only bought tea.

When they arrived at the county government, Jiang Zhixian received the couple in the meeting hall beside the lobby.

Li Qiao first thanked the county magistrate of Jiang, and named him the top case, which is tantamount to recommending him to be a scholar.

Because under normal circumstances, the examiners of the government and hospital examinations would not slap the county magistrate in the face, but let the head of the case pass the government and hospital examinations smoothly in the magistrate's face.

This is a great grace and must be thanked.

Of course, it is impossible for Li Qiao to point out such unspoken rules clearly, so he only mentioned the two items of the grace of knowledge and the clarification of rumors.

Jiang Zhixian stroked his beard and saw that Li Qiao was more and more satisfied.

Very good, no matter whether you have won the honor of the Holy One, or become the head of the case at this time, or you are in the vortex of rumors, you will always be neither arrogant nor impetuous, and be cautious in your words and deeds.

Young people are very stable.

"Although your poetry is poor, your writing is good. Your Majesty once said that poetry is flowers, and practical writing is the skeleton. Dasheng can be without flowers, but he can't be without a skeleton. Therefore, your case is justified." "

... ...So that's how it is."

Li Qiao was stunned.

"However, honor and pressure are at the top of the case. Xiao Li, you have to shine in the government and hospital exams. There are so many people staring at you."

Jiang Zhixian said again.

Li Qiao represents his vision and face. Next, Li Qiao will go to Fucheng to take the prefectural examination, which is a competition with candidates from the entire prefecture.

Li Qiao can't just shine in Pingcheng, but if he leaves Pingcheng to fight with candidates from other counties, he must stand out and blind the candidates from other counties.

You can't drop the chain at a critical moment.

Hearing these words, Li Qiao couldn't help but smile wryly in her heart, look, the pressure really came.

This case is hot.

"Our lord prefect has always been realistic and pragmatic, anxious about what the sage wants, and thinks what the sage wants, no, because our sweet potato workshop was a big success, so the lord prefect wants the next-door Peishui County to learn from our experience to make vermicelli, so that Peishui County The peasants have also become richer."

After talking about the imperial examination, Jiangzhi County talked about vermicelli again.

Right now, it is certain that he will jump through the ranks with the vermicelli. As the prefect of the prefecture, the prefect naturally wants to accumulate achievements for promotion.

"Last year, the official informed the big and small vendors in Fucheng in advance, so although we made a lot of vermicelli, the sales were not worrying."

Most of the 10 million catties of vermicelli flowed into the hands of vendors in Fucheng.

Some of them flowed into the hands of traders in several surrounding counties. This part is too small to be ignored.

Pingcheng belongs to Hexi Prefecture, and Hexi Prefecture belongs to Yuanhe Province.

Big merchants in Fucheng transport vermicelli to other provinces, either north or south. Anyway, vermicelli can be stored for a long time and can withstand long-distance travel.

Small vendors in Fucheng transport vermicelli to several other prefectures in Yuanhe Province.

Therefore, relying on the large and small vendors in Fucheng, the tens of thousands of catties of vermicelli can be consumed.

But if you come to another county, that's not necessarily the case.

Vendors of all sizes are limited, coupled with inconvenient transportation, the vermicelli is very heavy, and the vermicelli does not have a shelf life, it is best to eat it in the same year it is made.

If Peishui County is also engaged in sweet potato frenzy like Pingcheng, if the vendors in Hexi Prefecture cannot transport the vermicelli made this year to other places in time, then the vermicelli will be backlogged in the sweet potato workshop.

How can this be done.

Absolutely not. Vermicelli must be cashed out quickly, and the sweet potato workshop must pay workers wages every ten days.

The magistrate of Jiang County doesn't have many connections, and the magistrate doesn't have a lot of connections, so he couldn't find a reliable sales channel for vermicelli for a while.

Therefore, Jiangzhi County stood upright and refused to back down.

Jiangzhi County is willing to save political achievements for the magistrate, but this cannot affect his political achievements or the sales of Pingcheng vermicelli.

If it had been in the past, the magistrate of Jiang would not have dared to refute the magistrate's decision, but now the vermicelli in Pingcheng had been specially investigated by the Holy One, and it was proof that he had jumped out of the vicious cycle of cheap rice hurting farmers and expensive rice hurting the people.

If it is because Peishui County affects the sales of vermicelli in Pingcheng, it will jump back into the vicious cycle of cheap rice hurting farmers and rice expensive hurting people.

The magistrate also didn't want to slap the majesty in the face, he discussed with the magistrate of Jiang, and decided not to allow the farmers in Peishui County to grow sweet potatoes this year, but to check the sales of vermicelli first.

If the vermicelli sell well, let the farmers who grow sweet potatoes in Peishui County make starch.

If the sales of vermicelli are booming, let farmers in several other counties of Hexi Prefecture make starch.

Anyway, farmers have to grow sweet potatoes every year, and the yield of sweet potatoes is high, so the most indispensable grain in Hexi Prefecture is sweet potatoes.

As long as the sales of vermicelli are satisfactory, several counties in Hexi Prefecture will have sweet potatoes on top.

But no matter what, it will not affect Li Qiao's interests.

The magistrate gave Li Qiao a guarantee that as long as it is within the scope of Hexi Prefecture, Li Qiao can get half of the profit for every catty of vermicelli produced.

As long as the magistrate is still in Hexi Mansion, this will never change.

This is also the point of Jiang Zhixian's long-winded words. Regardless of how he and the magistrate make arrangements, Li Qiao's half of the profit is indispensable anyway, so Li Qiao can rest assured.

After hearing these words, Li Qiao sighed for the umpteenth time, is it a paradise? This Dasheng is a paradise.

Now he looks like a three-year-old child wandering around downtown with a gold brick in his arms, but no one covets him, he can hold the gold brick tightly in his arms.

This is why he doesn't want to protect this paradise.

I want to add bricks and tiles to this paradise!

After talking about the vermicelli, Jiang Zhi County sent Li Qiao and Tao Zhu to leave.

However, when Li Qiao and Tao Zhu walked to the entrance of the meeting hall, Jiang Zhixian suddenly said to Li Qiao: "The government test is coming soon, and there are many talents in other counties. You can't take it lightly." "Poetry is your weakness, and you can't improve it in a short time.

" , you might as well pay close attention to the articles."

"The magistrate is also a good official who wants to make the people rich."

The magistrate is the chief examiner of the government examination and the hospital examination, and also the examiner.

Li Qiao paused, and bowed deeply to Jiangzhi County.

Jiang Zhixian not only recommends him, but also emphasizes that he will always remember this kindness.

Coming out of the county office, Tao Zhu was obviously relieved, he looked at Li Qiao with a smile on his face, "Case chief Li, where shall we go next?"

Li Qiao looked at his smile, and laughed too: "Go home. "

Aren't you going to take a stroll in the county?" Tao Zhu was a little surprised.

"Don't go shopping anymore, the elder brothers of the yamen servants are still in the village."

Thinking of the yamen servants who were one step ahead, Tao Zhu nodded, "Let's go home."

However, on the way back to the village, Tao Zhu was more lively than ever before. .

"I just said that you are very strong. Look, you are really strong. You have to recognize yourself in the future." He stretched out his slender fingers to poke Li Qiao's heart, with a look of air on his face.

He was right, this person can indeed take the case.

It was the first time for Li Qiao to see him showing such a lively expression, and it happened that there was no one around, so he directly held his face, and kissed him hard on the lips a few times.

cute!

After doing this kind of thing in public, Tao Zhu couldn't help laughing after a short moment of shyness, and he shouted in Li Qiao's ear: "The chief of the case, the chief of the case~" A pair of good-looking eyebrows were raised

.

The soft voice draws a long tone.

The water eyes are shining and curved.

While talking, the hot breath sprayed on Li Qiao's neck.

All this made Li Qiao couldn't help holding him in his arms, rubbing him hard, and kissing him hard.

Tao Zhu has always been quiet, and this quietness is tempered by hard life. The mischievousness of children and the vigor of young people are all squeezed into his bones by life.

But at this moment, Li Qiao took the lead in the case, and all the expression and tone that had been imprisoned in his bones for many years and had never been shown before came out.

Li Qiao was very rare, anyway, there was no one around, and the bullock cart didn't need to be driven, so the two of them fell on the bullock cart, and he rubbed and kissed the man in his arms, soon making Tao Zhu's cheeks flush, and his watery eyes flushed. There is an extra layer of water vapor.

Tao Zhu's body was completely limp. He lay on the bullock cart, pillowed on Li Qiao's arm, and curled up in Li Qiao's arms.

But he still couldn't help shouting in a low voice: "Li Case Chief~"

These three words are the best reward for this person's long-term hard work.

He loves it so much.

"Well, Mrs. Li, what's the matter?"

Li Qiao lowered her head and could only see his head. Seeing that his hair was a little messy, she stretched out her hand to smooth it out for him.

"Li Anshou Fulang? These five words don't sound good, not as good as Li Anshou."

Tao Zhu felt that it was not easy to pronounce.

"My honor is half of yours. From now on, I will call you Mr. Li's Chief." Li Qiao said with a smile.

"How can there be half of me?" Tao Zhu was puzzled, turned over, supported the cart with his arms, and raised his head to look at him. Li Qiao couldn't help pinching his cheeks: " Without

you taking care of everything in an orderly manner, how can I study at ease?"

The case was actually obtained by the two of us together. No matter who is missing, neither of us can get the case, so this honor is half of yours." "Unfortunately,

only the two of us know this, the world I don't know."

"People in the world don't know how good Tao Zhu is, but even if they find out in the future, Tao Zhu can only be my treasure~"

Li Qiao couldn't help dragging the end of his voice, he was so happy now.

Tao Zhu: "..."

He laughed out loud, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand to poke Li Qiao's chin: "So stupid."

Very touched.

But somehow he felt that these words were a bit silly, and he almost had goosebumps when he heard it.

However, he couldn't help but arched his body forward, and kissed Li Qiao hard on the lips, even if it was stupid, he liked it very much.

He and this person took this case together.

He likes it.

With these words in place, when Li Qiao went to the examination room again, his heart would definitely not be as empty as it was this time.

In this way, the husband and wife lay on the bullock cart and talked, hugging each other when there was no one else, and separating when there was someone.

Pedestrians passing by saw them and knew them, and couldn't help feeling that the relationship between these two people was too good.

For those who don't know each other, a few words of tut tut will pass.

Back in Sanliu Village, they were greeted by the shouts of the villagers like a tsunami.

Sanliu Village was full of joy, and Li Qiao was the first in the case, the first name!

Li Qiao is awesome!

Everyone who heard the news gathered at the entrance of the village, waiting for their husband and wife to come back.

Standing outside the crowd, Zhuang Fengshou was persuading several yamen servants to stay overnight and return to the county seat tomorrow.

At this time, seeing Li Qiao came back, he pulled Li Qiao together to persuade him.

Naturally, Li Qiao also persuaded.

Regardless of the results of the government examination and the hospital examination, anyway, he has won the case at this time, and he will have to celebrate it tomorrow.

The banquet will not be held for now, and we will talk about it when we are really admitted as a scholar.

He asked the villagers to buy ten pigs, built a stove at the entrance of the village overnight, and cooked pig dishes, and added vermicelli in it. If you want to eat, you can eat it with a bowl.

Not only people from Sanliu Village can eat it, but people from other villages can also eat it.

Nowadays, there are many fewer people who come to his house to look at the plaques, but they come every day.

Besides, the news spread today, many people from eight villages in ten miles came to congratulate, so those who saw it had a share.

In addition, he also asked the villagers to cook a lot of eggs and duck eggs.

Now the most important thing in his family are eggs and duck eggs.

As the weather gets warmer, it will soon be the peak egg laying period, so we must quickly consume all the fresh eggs, fresh duck eggs, and salted duck eggs stored at home.

After a day of lively celebrations, Li Qiao sat back at the desk on the third day.

The government examination was in April, and he had to hurry up to review. Jiangzhi County had great expectations of him, and wanted him to come back with a small three yuan. He was under a lot of pressure.

Moreover, with the rumors about Pingcheng in the front, if the magistrate also named him as the leader of the case, in order to silence the mouths of other county candidates, maybe the magistrate would also post his test paper for everyone to judge.

That scene, just thinking about it makes my toes dig.

But he can't decide what the magistrate thinks, if the magistrate does the same, then all he can do is to write good articles.

I just don't know what the topic of the strategy is this time, if I still go to hell...

Sigh.

Li Qiao worked harder than before. Since Jiang Zhixian reminded him of the important points, he found out the content related to the common people in the Four Books and Five Classics, memorized them, and reviewed them again and again.

He even memorized the contents of the Three Histories and Three Biography.

He figured out Jiangzhi County's preference early on, so when he read the three histories and three biography, he picked out all the content related to the common people and wrote it down in a small notebook.

Right now this little book helps a lot.

He doesn't need to read the thick three histories and three biographies, he just takes this small book to review.

Huang Youming still lives in his house, if there is anything he doesn't understand, he asks Huang Youming.

In short, he wished he could hang his head on the beam, prick his buttocks, and put out the hard work of cultivating supernatural powers in his previous life. In addition to eating and sleeping, he spent all his time reading.

Even evening sports are saved.

Even if it is a supernatural person, after using his brain intensively for a whole day, his head will still be dazed, swollen and dizzy, lying on the soft and warm kang, holding Tao Zhu's body one size smaller than him in his arms, He didn't want to think about anything but sleep.

Tao Zhu admired him for working so hard and felt distressed at the same time.

Originally, Tao Zhu had called him Li's case chief two days ago, but Tao Zhu soon stopped calling him these three words, for fear of putting pressure on him.

But Tao Zhu can't do much, except feed him soup in different ways, and the rest is not to let anyone or anything disturb him.

Except for the three meals in the morning, noon and evening, no one can come to him during the rest of the time, so as not to affect his study.

Even if you come to him, it can't be an annoyance, so as not to affect his mood.

Just like Han Xiaoyan, seeing that Li Dazhong was going to remarry so soon, and that he was marrying Baiyou, whom she deliberately stopped, he almost went crazy with anger.

She was no longer like a few days ago when she knelt down and cried and begged Li Dazhong to forgive her.

She regained her former vigor, scolding Li Dazhong for having changed her mind a long time ago, the anger that wanted to cut off her tongue that day was just an excuse for everyone to see, his original intention was to take this opportunity to divorce her as a poor wife.

A heartless man, a scumbag, should be gutted!

Li Dazhong didn't refute Han Xiaoyan's insults, he was tired, had too many arguments with Han Xiaoyan, he didn't want to quarrel now, Han Xiaoyan could do whatever he said.

But Zhao Erniu couldn't stand it anymore. Isn't this cursing her son?

Zhao Erniu seemed to have forgotten how she encouraged Han Xiaoyan to make trouble, so she rushed forward and kicked Han Xiaoyan.

Han Xiaoyan suffered from Li Dazhong's side, and wanted to come to Li Qiao, wanted Li Qiao to make decisions for her, and wanted to expose to Li Qiao the fact that Li Dazhong used him to abandon her, a poor wife.

Although Tao Zhu didn't understand why Han Xiaoyan had such a brain circuit, but seeing that the villagers stopped Han Xiaoyan in advance and didn't let Han Xiaoyan approach his house, he didn't bother to talk to him.

From the beginning to the end, Li Qiao never felt sorry for Han Xiaoyan.

On the contrary, Han Xiaoyan had never had any kindness towards Li Qiao, and even wanted to stop the nobleman's carriage and let Li Qiao take care of it.

For this alone, Tao Zhu would never be able to forgive Han Xiaoyan, if it wasn't for the sake of the two children, he really wanted to scold Han Xiaoyan every day.

After ten days like this, Tao Zhu started to pack his luggage, he and Li Qiao were going to Fucheng.

According to Zhuang Wen's experience, he should go to Fucheng to rent a house or stay in a hotel in advance to adapt to the environment of Fucheng.

Pingcheng is quite far from Fucheng, even if you drive an ox cart, it will take three days. If you rush to Fucheng a few days before the exam, in case you get sick or take the wrong road along the way, it will be very dangerous. Exams may be delayed.

This is the experience that Zhuang Wen and other candidates have summed up through practice.

But this time, with Xu Ying, a person from the prefecture, leading the way, at least Li Qiao and Tao Zhu would not go wrong.

Xu Ying's household registration is in Pingcheng, but his family actually does business in Fucheng.

After passing the county examination, he didn't return to Fucheng immediately, but stayed a little longer, and returned to Fucheng together with Shen Hua, Li Qiao Taozhu, and Meng Yue.

Li Qiao and Tao Zhu have a lot of luggage. They don't plan to stay in a hotel when they arrive in Fucheng, but plan to rent a house.

Living in a hotel is too noisy, which affects reading, and I can't eat home-cooked meals.

So Tao Zhu took the bedding with him.

Pots and pans can be bought temporarily, but as for bedding, it must be comfortable at home.

In addition to bedding, the most important thing is the book.

After Li Qiao arrived in Fucheng, he had to continue to review, so he brought a big box just for the books.

In order to have someone to go shopping or run errands with Tao Zhu, Li Qiao brought Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian with him.

With Li Dashan's unremitting efforts, Zheng Qianqian finally nodded and was willing to marry Li Dashan.

This made Li Dashan very happy, so he hurriedly asked his father to go to Zheng's family to propose marriage, and tried to get the marriage done in summer.

Every family has to make vermicelli in winter, and they are so busy that they don't even want to have a good New Year's Eve, and there is no time to prepare for the wedding.

So Li Dashan wants to get married in summer.

He wanted to give Zheng Qianqian a perfect and grand wedding that Zheng Qianqian would never forget, so he knew that Li Qiao and Tao Zhu went to Fucheng for the exam, but he still asked Tao Zhu to bring him back Something new.

Like jewellery, fabrics, rouge and gouache, as long as they are not available in Pingcheng, he wants to buy them for Zheng Qianqian.

Li Qiao knew about this, so she simply took him along and asked him to go to Fucheng to buy it himself.

After these two years of experience, Li Dashan is much more stable than when Li Qiao first crossed over.

This stability is more forced out.

Because Zheng Qianqian was angry because he couldn't speak well before, Li Qiao just wrote him a strategy at that time, so he made up his mind to get rid of this bad habit.

When talking to Zheng Qianqian, he would always think about it, as if his mind was not working, and he would look silly.

At first, everyone thought that he would give up after persisting for a few days.

Because it's just too hard.

It's just talking, how can I say a word or think about it, how can I have a pleasant chat?

But who knew that he would persevere. Every time he talked to Zheng Qianqian, he would think about it before speaking.

Zheng Qianqian was moved by his persistence, so he let go.

And he also brought this habit to get along with other people, so slowly, he became more stable.

Now that he was steady, Li Qiao took him with him this time and asked him to go out to see the world.

As for Zheng Qianqian, one is to hang out with Li Dashan before marriage, and the other is to have a companion with Tao Zhu.

After being resettled in Fucheng, Li Qiao must have stayed at home to study, but Tao Zhu had to take care of his daily necessities, so Tao Zhu had to go out.

If Tao Zhu went out alone, he would definitely be worried. Now that Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian are following him, he can save a lot of worry.

There are a lot of people and luggage, but Li Qiao's family has no shortage of ox carts at this time.

After buying 200 mu of land, he bought a few more cattle, put a cart on the cattle, and a bullock cart was freshly baked, and he could go wherever he wanted.

So, in the middle of March, Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and two people had an ox cart, Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian had an ox cart, and Huang Youming and his youngest son had an ox cart—Huang Youming was getting old, and Li Qiao specially let them His son took care of him, and the six of them drove three ox carts behind Xu's and Shen's carriages, leaving Pingcheng unsteadily and heading for Fucheng.

Meng Yue was in the carriage of Xu's family. His family was poor, and he was the only one who relied on him to go to Fucheng, so he had to walk.

This time he took the Xu family's carriage, he didn't sit in vain, he paid the fare.

Although his family is poor, he has also prepared the money to go to Fucheng to rush for the exam. Of course, the money is not much. If he is alone, it will be very difficult for him to eat and live.

Right now, he took the Xu family's carriage, and the fare he paid was obviously not worthy of the carriage, so he could only write down this kindness and pay it back later.

The distance is long, and often you can't meet the town after walking for half a day. However, there are tea sheds on the official road.

It was opened by people from nearby villages, providing simple tea and meals for passers-by.

There will also be a town in the middle. There is an inn in the town, and you can stay in the inn at night instead of sleeping in the wild.

In this way, after walking for three days in an ox cart, the group finally arrived at Fucheng in Hexi Prefecture.

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It's a bit of a text, so I wrote less... QAQ