Domineering husband

Chapter 77 The mansion test slips up and flies, life is better than death

   Hexi Prefecture is not the capital of Yuanhe Province, but it is quite prosperous, and the gate of the city is crowded with people, which is very lively.

In Dasheng, when people leave their place of household registration, they need to go to the county government to apply for a certificate called a public certificate, which includes their name, place of origin, what they want to do when they go to a certain place, and so on.

At this time, when they were about to enter the city, Li Qiao and the others took out the official documents issued to them by Pingcheng and asked the soldiers guarding the city to inspect them.

After staying at the gate of the city for about a quarter of an hour, the group entered the city smoothly.

The Xu family had already sent someone to wait at the gate of the city, on the one hand to pick up Xu Ying and Shen Hua, and on the other hand to be Li Qiao's guide.

After the results of the county examination came out, Xu Ying learned that Li Qiao didn't plan to live in a hotel, so she asked her family to find a few places in Fucheng suitable for candidates to rent. Now that Li Qiao came, the Xu family sent someone over to take Li Qiao went to have a look at the houses they had chosen.

However, it is evening now, and there is obviously no time to see the house today. Therefore, after entering the city, the group split into two groups. Xu Ying took Shen Hua and Meng Yue back to Xu's house, while Li Qiao took people to stay. Inn, see the house tomorrow.

With people from the Xu family as guides, Li Qiao and the others drove the ox cart to the inn first. After being settled in the inn, the steward of the Xu family left and came back tomorrow morning.

The inn recommended by the steward of the Xu family was really good. The room was clean and the food was delicious. After the meal, a few people called for hot water to take a bath. After being fumigated by the hot water, they were exhausted like a sea. After traveling for three days, the few people didn't feel like going out for a stroll. straight to sleep.

At nine o'clock the next day, the manager of the Xu family came on time.

Huang Youming and his son stayed in the inn, while Li Qiao, Tao Zhu, Li Dashan, and Zheng Qianqian went to see the house with the manager of the Xu family.

The houses chosen by Xu's family are all around the test shed, which is close to the government test. Candidates from several counties in Hexi Prefecture come to the city to catch the test, so the houses here are very sought-after.

Like Li Qiao's last life, the way of renting a house here is very flexible. Some rent out the entire yard, and some rent out a house of their own. There are various forms.

Li Qiao and his party consisted of six people, and they were not short of money, so they naturally wanted to rent a yard.

The Xu family found him clean and tidy small courtyards. After looking at three in a row, he picked the one with the most rooms, and signed a contract with the owner on the same day.

The yard has two entrances, and the yard is smaller than the surrounding yards. It looks a bit compact, but it has everything you need.

The well, the kitchen, and the utility room for the ox carts are all there, just like Li Qiao's house.

This was what Li Qiao liked, so he rented it for two months without hesitation, with a deposit and rent, a total of twenty taels of silver.

After signing the contract with the owner, Li Qiao and the others returned to the inn to bring the luggage cart over, washed and scrubbed, and after a busy work, a whole day passed.

On the third day, Li Qiao took Tao Zhu, Li Dashan, and Zheng Qianqian to go shopping.

Pots and pans, vegetables and meat, as well as various small items needed for home, and of course, pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

If you want to buy all these things, you have to go to a lot of shops. After a day, several people went around the city from east to west, from north to south, and gained a clearer understanding of the prosperity of the city.

The money was spent like running water. Li Dashan thought he was quite rich at first—he had a salary increase, and now it was 150 Wen a day, plus the red envelopes his uncle gave him during the holidays. In two years, he has saved two hundred taels of silver.

He thought he was super rich, so he was very rich when he asked Tao Zhu to buy things for him before, and asked Tao Zhu to buy whatever looked good.

But now that he really came to Fucheng, he touched his money bag in his arms, and he only had one feeling:

stealing money.

In Pingcheng, a knife of straw paper only costs thirty Wen, but in Fucheng it costs forty Wen.

There is also pork. In Pingcheng, the best pork belly is twenty yuan a catty, but in Fucheng, it is almost thirty yuan a catty.

As for pots and pans, etc., they are also more expensive than Pingcheng.

Even these things are more expensive than Pingcheng, so jewelry fabrics, rouge and gouache must be more expensive than Pingcheng.

He brought a total of one hundred taels of silver this time. At first, he thought that he would not be able to spend it all, but now that he went shopping around, he regretted it.

If I had known earlier, I would have brought all the money in the money box!

Tao Zhu also thinks that the prices in Fucheng are high, but the so-called poor family has a rich life, and he doesn't mind spending more money as long as he can feel comfortable when he is away from home.

On the fourth day, Li Qiao followed Xu Ying and Meng Yue to the government office to apply for the government examination.

The required certificates and procedures are similar to those of the county examination. At this time, the village head and linsheng cannot be brought in as guarantees, and only the official documents issued to them by the Pingcheng county government can be presented.

When it was Li Qiao's turn to hand over his official documents, the official in charge of candidates' registration in the ceremony room couldn't help but look at Li Qiao a few more times.

Pingcheng Li Qiao, this is the Li Qiao who received the honor from the Holy One?

I heard that in order to quell the rumors, the magistrate of Pingcheng directly posted his policy article. After the article was posted, all doubts disappeared.

Tsk, the future is limitless.

He didn't know what kind of splendid articles the chief of the Pingcheng case could write in this government test, and he was looking forward to it.

Thinking so in his heart, but the official didn't say much, carefully checked the various documents that Li Qiao handed over, and then registered Li Qiao in the register.

Li Qiaonian didn't change his face, and let the adult look at him.

But I couldn't help crying in my heart, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong, the pressure is huge.

After coming out of the government office, Li Qiao said goodbye to Xu Ying and Meng Yue, and then took Tao Zhu back to the rented yard.

It was already late March, and the time for the government examination was set on the ninth day of April, and there was still half a month left. He had no choice but to work hard.

It was already the case, not to mention that Jiangzhi County didn't want him to lose the chain at a critical moment, and he himself didn't want to lose the chain.

Li Qiao began to study hard again, and Tao Zhu took charge of his daily life just like in Sanliu Village.

Apart from being clean, the reason for renting the yard is to let Li Qiao eat familiar home-cooked dishes.

Because the yard they rented was close to the government office, it was a little far away from the market that sells vegetables and meat, but fortunately, there were small vegetable vendors carrying their loads around every morning, so they could eat fresh vegetables in the morning.

The weather is not too hot at the moment, so breakfast is served hot, and the bought vegetables are either fried, stewed, or made into cakes.

If you want to eat meat, you have to go to the meat market to buy it. Small vegetable vendors don't sell meat.

Tao Zhu brought the meat grinder, afraid that Liqiao would get tired of eating porridge all the time, so he made some five-grain soybean milk and corn juice.

After a simple breakfast, Li Qiao was studying, while Tao Zhu went to buy meat with Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian, and bought some vegetables that the small vegetable vendors didn't have.

It took an hour to go back and forth. After buying the meat and vegetables, Tao Zhu, Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian began to prepare lunch.

Lunch is the same as the one in Sanliu Village, and it is the usual meal at home.

After lunch, Li Qiao would have a half-hour lunch break. At this time, Tao Zhu would become a humanoid pillow and take a nap with him.

After the nap was over, Li Qiao continued to study, while Tao Zhu did some housework, such as washing clothes, cleaning and so on.

In the evening, he prepared dinner with Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian.

The days were so repetitive, but he didn't find it boring at all. Li Qiao said that the case was brought back together by his husband and wife.

What he did was to help Li Qiao get the case again.

Li Dashan would often go out with Zheng Qianqian, but both of them were small country bumpkins. It was the first time they came to a big city, and they didn't dare to go far. In addition, they had to come back to help Tao Zhu cook, so the two of them just stayed together. Stroll around the rented yard.

Huang Youming stays at home like Li Qiao, and is always ready to solve Li Qiao's doubts.

Huang's famous son took care of three cows while taking care of him.

During this period, Meng Yue and Xu Ying came to Li Qiao, first to discuss knowledge with Li Qiao, and second to ask Li Qiao if he would go to the party.

At present, candidates from several counties have come to Fucheng. These candidates often hold various parties, on the one hand to make friends and expand contacts, and on the other hand to discuss knowledge.

Everyone is a candidate for the government examination, not even a scholar. Now that they are far away from the private school where they study daily, and their master is not around, they can only find students of the same class to explain their doubts.

Naturally, Li Qiao would not go to this kind of gathering.

He has his own private trainer, and his private trainer is Mr. Xiucai. If he has any doubts, he can just ask Huang Youming.

What's more, he has also been rewarded by the Holy Spirit. If he goes to this kind of gathering, then all the focus will definitely be on him, and the study of learning will become secondary.

Meng Yue and Xu Ying are not very interested in this kind of gathering, and they don't plan to go if Li Qiao is not going.

Chief Li is smarter and harder than them, scary.

They are also under a lot of pressure.

Shen Hua doesn't need to study, and wants to invite Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian to go out to play.

Shen Hua liked to pester Xu Ying since she was a child, and she always lived in Xu's house for a period of time in a year, so she was familiar with Fucheng.

Right now Xu Ying stayed in the study for a whole day, so he wanted to take Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian out for shopping.

After these days of getting along, he had a good time with Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian.

Although he is an official boy, he will not look down on Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian, two country boys.

He plays well with Baiyou, you can tell by looking at Baiyou, Baiyou can fall in love with Li Dazhong regardless of the difference in status, so he naturally doesn't dislike the peasant family.

What's more, now that Baiyou is about to become Tao Zhu's cousin, and his cousin and Li Qiao are also related to each other, so he is quite willing to play with Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian.

But regardless of whether it was Tao Zhu or Zheng Qianqian, facing his invitation, they all shook their heads.

Li Qiao failed the government examination, and the two of them had no intention of going shopping.

Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian flatly refused, and Shen Hua couldn't help sighing: "I thought I cared about my cousin in every possible way, but compared to you, Brother Zhu, I have done too little."

After that, his immature face wrinkled.

He has liked Xu Ying since he was a child, and as he got older, the two families also intended to match him and Xu Ying.

Xu Ying also understood what he was thinking, but his cousin also told him clearly that he was just treating him as a cousin.

Marry him, of course you can.

However, it is impossible to want to be as sweet as Tao Zhu and Li Qiao.

Like Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian, it is impossible.

Because Xu Ying just treats him as a cousin.

well!

Zheng Qianqian was straightforward, seeing Shen Hua like this, she couldn't help but said, "You can also cook for brother Xu." "

I don't know how to cook." Shen Hua sighed again and shook her head.

"Then learn, like me, I didn't know it at first, but I was forced by the family's business, so I got started."

Zheng Qianqian said, stretching out his hand to let Shen Hua see the calluses on his palm: "Originally, my palm was also white. It's white and tender, but I have to make sausages and pork balls at home, so I have this cocoon."

Originally, he could take a break, because his father asked his uncle's family to help.

But then there were vermicelli, and the wages were too high. His elder brother and second brother couldn't stand the temptation, so they went to the sweet potato workshop to make vermicelli together.

So he can only go up.

Over time, the cocoon in his palm took root and sprouted, and it could no longer disappear.

Shen Hua opened her eyes wide and looked at the callus on Zheng Qianqian's palm, and couldn't help but stretch out her fingers to touch it, it was hard.

He couldn't help pursing his lower lip, fear appeared on his face, and he was so tired that he had so many calluses!

"You want Brother Xu to take care of you, so your concern for Brother Xu can't just be in your mouth." "

The Xu family has a servant girl who arranges everything for Brother Xu clearly. What does he do, how does that show the difference between you? Later, other people will fall in love with Brother Xu. If that person is willing to make soup for shoes and socks for Brother Xu, then Brother Xu must have a better impression of him than you. "

Zheng Qianqian said again.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Tao Zhu shook his head: "You can't say that, these are trivial things, if Xu Ying doesn't pay attention to these, then brother Hua will be busy for nothing.

" do these.

But are the men moved?

Xu Ying was well-fed since childhood, and was served by servants. If Shen Hua really did these jobs, Xu Ying might not have a special feeling.

Shen Hua: "..."

Before he had time to think about whether Zheng Qianqian's proposal was feasible or not, Tao Zhu directly rejected it.

He cried and asked: "Brother Zhu, how did Brother Li fall in love with you? And Brother Qian, how did Brother Dashan fall in love with you?" "You all tell me so that I can refer to it." Tao

Zhu

: "..."

Cough.

It's a long story.

Zheng Qianqian laughed.

Although Li Dashan is simple-minded, but after being pointed out by his father, he immediately fell in love with him, and he persisted in chasing him for so long, and even changed his bad habit of not being able to talk.

Compared with Brother Hua, he is so lucky.

Well, why not advance the date of marriage, get married when you return to Sanliu Village, and enjoy his brother Qiao's joy, give birth to a baby as soon as possible, study and take the imperial examination just like his brother Qiao... Wait, if you really marry Li Dashan , then he will change his name to Uncle.

Hey!

The word "uncle" is closer to that of brother Qiao, and it is decided that we will get married as soon as we return to the village. Hurry up and let him and Li Dashan's baby enjoy the joy of the table!

Zheng Qianqian is a person who does whatever he thinks, and when Shen Hua left, he immediately told Tao Zhu what he thought.

Tao Zhu was very supportive: "Dashan has long been talking about letting his children study with Li Qiao. You should marry him and have a child with him sooner." With Tao Zhu's support, Zheng Qianqian couldn't help laughing

. , Immediately went to find Li Dashan who was drawing water by the well.

Tell Li Dashan about the early marriage, but Li Dashan is so happy that he throws the bucket in his hand and wants to hug him.

Normally, the two of them would also hold hands, but hugging like this in public...isn't a big deal.

Compared with his brother Zhu Qiao, he and Li Dashan can definitely be called innocent!

In the evening, after washing and lying on the bed, Li Qiao hugged Tao Zhu as a pillow as usual, chatting leisurely with him.

Although his head was dizzy, he still wanted to talk to Tao Zhu.

Tao Zhu then told Shen Hua's troubles and Zheng Qianqian told him about the advance of the marriage, and he couldn't help laughing after listening.

The big hand moved from Tao Zhu's waist to Tao Zhu's face: "Brother Dashanqian's marriage has been brought forward, which is very good."

Li Dashan has been chasing him for two years, which is not short.

But how did he fall in love with Tao Zhu?

Recalling the moment when crossing opened his eyes, he couldn't help lowering his head to kiss Tao Zhu's lips. When he opened his eyes, the whole world was bright and the world was beautiful.

Then Tao Zhu appeared.

He will remember that scene until his death.

Feeling Li Qiao's tenderness, Tao Zhu wrapped his hands and feet around him, and responded enthusiastically to him.

In fact, after Shen Hua left today, he has been thinking about what to do with Shen Hua's situation, but after thinking about it now, two words:

no solution.

A son like Xu Ying who lacks everything is too difficult to deal with.

He has always disliked the fact that Li Qiao mentioned that he gave them two wowotou, but now he is glad that there is such a thing.

It's great that Li Qiao likes him so much.

Li Qiao studies hard during the day and mixes oil with Tao Zhumi at night. Her days are busy and fulfilling.

Soon came the day of the government examination.

The process of the government test is the same as that of the county test, the difference is that the county test takes five days, while the government test only takes three days.

On the ninth day of April, Tao Zhu got up early in the morning to make breakfast.

Breakfast is still light, with steamed buns, buns, porridge, and fried seasonal vegetables.

After breakfast, Li Qiao and the six of them went to the test shed.

The sky hadn't fully dawned yet, but it was April now, and it was getting dawn early. When the six of Li Qiao arrived, there were quite a few people gathered in front of the examination shed.

Candidates from several counties in Hexi Prefecture were all present, and the battle in front of them was much bigger than that of the county exams. At a glance, they were all black heads.

And the humming of voices.

Li Qiao turned his head and looked around, wanting to find Meng Yue and Xu Ying.

The same as the county examination process, the three of them will have to testify against each other.

Meng Yue and Xu Ying have already arrived, this time Xu Ying has come to her territory, and not only Shen Hua, but the entire Xu family are also present to accompany the exam.

The hopes of the four generations of the Xu family rested on him, and they expected a lot from him.

Li Qiao looked at the group of people surrounding Xu Ying, and couldn't help but click his tongue, Brother Xu is also under a lot of pressure.

Li Qiao didn't want to go forward, so she stood not far away and waved to Xu Ying.

At this time, Meng Yue came over. These days, Meng Yue was used to seeing how much the Xu family attached importance to Xu Ying, and her expression was normal.

When he came to Li Qiao, he stretched out his hand and patted Li Qiao's shoulder: "Brother Li, take the exam well, just now I heard someone talking about you, saying that you are the strong enemy of all candidates, and you will overwhelm the others. "

"They are waiting to see what kind of article you write this time."

"..."

Li Qiao was speechless.

At this moment, a not-so-loud voice came from not far away, but because Li Qiao was mentioned, Li Qiao couldn't help but look over.

Five meters away from him, two scholars were leaning against the wall and talking, the taller one said: "Brother Zhang, I've thought about it for a few days, and Li Qiao's article is indeed complete without any omissions. The leader can convince the public. I don't know how his article is this time, if the magistrate named him as the leader of the case, he should also post his article."

The man called Brother Zhang nodded: "I just don't know Can he write an essay like the county test this time."

"I hope he can write it, my wife has already used his essay as a model essay, I hope he can write another one." "

Hey Not to mention, after reading his article, I feel that if I encounter a similar topic again, I must have made great progress." "I have

also been inspired a lot from his article. If I encounter a similar topic again , I must have made a lot of progress."

The first scholar who spoke also said with a smile, full of confidence.

"I just don't know what Li Qiao looks like. I heard that he is very outstanding." The

scholar called Brother Zhang turned his head to find out if there is any good-looking person nearby, maybe it is Li Qiao.

Li Qiao: "..."

He quickly turned his head and began to dig the ground with his toes.

Use his essay as a model essay?

Thank you for giving him another pressure!

As Meng Yue said, some candidates were not convinced, and this time he hadn't written the policy essay yet and was waiting for the trial.

I don't know whether the Holy One is grounded or hellish this time, the Holy One is the needle of the sea.

Soon, the yamen servants came to maintain order, let the idlers back off, and asked the candidates to line up and wait for the body search to enter the examination room.

Li Qiao asked Tao Zhu to go back just like the county test, "I'll be distracted if you stay outside, and wonder if you miss me as much as last time and shed tears." "You go in and we'll talk." Tao Zhu

did

n't Should be next.

He didn't know how he would feel later, anyway, he didn't want to leave now.

Seeing this, Li Qiao could only sigh: "Okay, okay, do whatever you want, but pay attention to safety and don't run around." "Don't worry,

I won't walk around." Tao Zhu made a very sure promise this time , he wouldn't do anything to distract the man.

So, Li Qiao grabbed his hand and shook it, and then went to line up.

This scene happened to be seen by Shen Hua, and Shen Hua immediately looked envious, Li Qiao was like this in Pingcheng, and it was the same when he arrived in Fucheng.

He can have the sweet love of his cousin at any time...

The examination shed in Fuya is much larger than that in Pingcheng, but the overall layout is similar. Simple tables and chairs are placed in the hall to the north, and all candidates sit Answer questions in the hall.

The chief examiner was the magistrate of Hexi Prefecture, surnamed Ming. Li Qiao stood in the crowd, looked at the prefect carefully for a few times, and then waited quietly for the magistrate to check the official documents like other examinees.

There were a lot of candidates, so the process was extremely long. The magistrate looked at it very carefully, and didn't make things perfunctory because of the large number of people.

When talking about Li Qiao, he looked more carefully. Is this Li Qiao?

The examinees behind Li Qiao couldn't help looking at him. Is this Li Qiao from Pingcheng who won the Holy Spirit's award for writing an excellent article?

Li Qiao faced different gazes from front and back, with a calm expression, and when the magistrate finished the inspection, he grabbed the paper and the test basket to find his own seat.

His seat number this time is one hundred and seventy-eight, which is fairly close to the front.

However, there were too many candidates in the queue behind him, and by the time the verification was completed, the sun had already risen high.

Like the county test, the questions are not printed on the test paper, but the yamen servants hold up a wooden board and ask the candidates to copy it by themselves.

Today's test is called the main test, and the test is still very comprehensive, and the questions involve not only the Four Books and Five Classics, but also a little bit of "Historical Records".

But this did not bother Li Qiao.

He memorized the Four Books and Five Classics very quickly. Although he didn't memorize all of the "Historical Records", he basically memorized all the key points.

He wrote very fast, swish swish swish, and he wrote like a god.

But when it comes to poetry, he began to feel worse than death.

When it came to policy theory, he returned to his previous writing style.

Like the county exam, the first day's essay questions did not involve the short composition of the Holy Spirit, but asked candidates to write essays based on the four books.

After Li Qiao finished writing, she checked it carefully from beginning to end, and after confirming that there were no mistakes or omissions, she stood up and handed in the paper.

For the first county test, he was still a little cautious, and he only handed it in after seeing others hand it in.

But this time, since it is already the focus of everyone, then do whatever you want. With his head on other people's necks, he can't control what others think.

The mouth grows on other people's heads, so he can't control what others say.

He does his best.

He took the test paper and the test basket, and walked towards the magistrate.

The rules of the prefectural examination are the same as those of the county examination. The magistrate is not allowed to walk around in the hall and can only sit at the head.

There are ten halls in total, and the magistrate is not in the hall where Li Qiao is, so he doesn't know how Li Qiao answered the questions.

Seeing that Li Qiao was the first to hand in the paper, he was a little surprised. The young man is so confident?

Aren't you afraid of being slapped in the face?

Right now, not only the candidates this time are paying attention to Li Qiao, but as the magistrate, he is also paying attention.

After Li Qiao came to Fucheng, he was very low-key. He didn't party or make friends, and closed the door to study.

However, vermicelli has swept the entire Hexi Prefecture now, farmers in remote places don't know Li Qiao, but all the scholars who have taken the imperial examination in recent years know him.

After Jiangzhi County posted Li Qiao's article that day, it was immediately copied by interested people. There were many people outside Pingcheng, so Li Qiao's article spread.

He also read that article, and it was well written. Although it wasn't amazing, he thought of everything. As a twenty-year-old young man who had never been out of Pingcheng, writing it like this could indeed be a top priority.

However, for the case of Pingcheng, this honor does not convince candidates from other counties.

Candidates from other counties were waiting to see what articles Li Qiao could write this time.

In this case, Li Qiao should keep a low profile and be cautious in his words and deeds. In this way, even if he can't write a good article after two days, the other candidates will not be too mocking.

But who knew that Li Qiao was the first to hand in the paper this time?

Mingzhifu suppressed his surprise, held back his curiosity, and just cast a faint glance at Li Qiao's test paper. Seeing that it was densely written with words, he turned his gaze.

If he endured it for a few more days, he would know whether Li Qiao could still write the model essay this time.

Soon came the second day. Today, we will study the meaning of ink, scriptures, and poetry.

Because they don't consider strategy theory, the difficulty of these three items has increased a bit. However, Li Qiao is the same as yesterday, Mo Yi and Tie Jing flew up, and poetry is life is worse than death.

On the second day, he was still the first to hand in the paper.

On the third day, the highlight came.

Today we only examine policy theory.

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