The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 762 Zhu Family Village

Chapter 13
Day and night turn, and time goes by.

It was an hour later when the land lord took Pei Wende and Aunt Zhu to Zhujiazhuang with his boat.

At this time, the scorching sun had begun to set, and the people on both sides of the river gradually finished their work, trying to return to their homes before going down the mountain.

After all, in this day and age, mountain elves and wild monsters are not legends, and villains who often rob the way are also very common.

Even for the sake of their own lives, the people on both sides of the river rarely act at night.

So when Pei Wende bid farewell to the land lord and followed Aunt Zhu back to Zhujiazhuang along the country road, he could meet many common people along the way.

And although these people had never seen Pei Wende with their own eyes, they couldn't help but his image was too vivid.

So from time to time, common people would come forward to strike up a conversation, and occasionally they would meet a few pilgrims who had seen Pei Wende during the incense offering, and they just dragged him to chat all the way.

The only good thing is that these common people may have their wicked side, but they all behaved very simple in front of Pei Wende.

Pei Wende even suspected that if he hadn't repeatedly refused, these people would definitely drag him to their homes for a meal.

"So, that's why I don't go down the mountain very often."

After getting rid of a certain enthusiastic commoner again, Pei Wende touched his bald head with a wry smile.

"When we were in Tanzhou, everyone wouldn't be so enthusiastic."

Listening to Pei Wende's happy and helpless complaints, Aunt Zhu just kept smiling the whole time, but did not answer his question directly.

In fact, she couldn't answer the question either.

The reason why the people of Runzhou are so enthusiastic about Pei Wende is because he has lived countless lives in the past two years, and he has almost become a well-known Living Buddha.

In Tanzhou, apart from the disaster victims in Ningxiang County, Pei Wende's identity is more of a disciple of Zen Master Lingyou, a practitioner who can subdue demons.

Considering Pei Wende's brutal method of exorcising demons, they didn't drive him away as a disaster star or a broom star, but they were already looking at Zen Master Lingyou's face.

Today, Zen Master Fahai is to Jinshan Temple, just like Zen Master Lingyou is to Miyin Temple.

Their prestige and fame have reached their level, and it is they who have achieved the temple they are in, not the temple.

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"We have arrived!"

After a while, at the end of the country road, Mrs. Zhu stopped suddenly.

"Is this Zhujiazhuang?"

Following Aunt Zhu's gaze, I saw houses in twos and threes standing on the edge of the forest, separating themselves from the outside world with crude fences.

And in the center of these houses is an ancestral temple obviously built for ancestor worship.

That is the ancestral temple of the Zhu family, and it is also the ancestral temple of everyone in the Zhu family village.

"To gather so many clans with the same surname in just one year, the current Patriarch of the Zhu family has a lot of tricks!"

If it hadn't been learned from Aunt Zhu in advance, only a dozen or so members of the Zhu family escaped and survived.

Wende couldn't imagine that Zhujiazhuang, which has more than 100 households at least, was established in the last year.

Especially for those newly reclaimed fields, even with the farm tools and canal design drawings provided by Pei Wende, it is not an easy task to complete them in just one year.

Just glanced at it.Pei Wende knew why Zhujiazhuang dared to accept his commission and became the first batch of farmers to replant tea seedlings.

Because those reclaimed fields have already exceeded the scope of "self-sufficiency", which is enough for these more than 100 families to live on.

"Zhao Yanwei was second in the list after all. Although his official career was not smooth, he was more than enough to manage a small Zhujiazhuang."

Zhao Yanwei was the son-in-law chosen by Mr. Zhu for Aunt Zhu, but by chance, he became the husband of her younger sister, Zhu Run.

Since Mr. Zhu became seriously ill, everything about the Zhu family has been handed over to Zhao Yanwei, the visiting son-in-law.

"You hate Zhao Yanwei?"

Sensitively hearing the disgust in Aunt Zhu's words, Pei Wende glanced at her in surprise.

The other party chose to escape from marriage on the wedding night, the reason seems to be not as simple as I imagined?
Pei Wende originally thought that Aunt Zhu's escape from marriage was because she was dissatisfied with Mr. Zhu's self-assessment in choosing a husband for her.

But judging from Aunt Zhu's current attitude, what she is dissatisfied with is not the old man Zhu's self-assessment, but the husband that the old man Zhu chose for her.

"Zhao Yanwei was a complete playboy before his family fell into ruin."

"Eating, drinking, whoring and gambling are all things that you can't do. Its notoriety is one of the best in the whole Runzhou."

"My father was interested in his notoriety back then, thinking that he was the only one in Runzhou City who would not dislike me for wielding a knife and sticking a stick, so he specially recruited him to be his son-in-law."

If it were Aunt Zhu when she was sixteen or seventeen, she would definitely not be able to understand what Mr. Zhu did.

But time has changed, and now more than ten years have passed, Aunt Zhu already understood that Zhao Yanwei was indeed her best choice back then.

First of all, although the Zhao family has fallen into ruin, they still have an identity there.

The marriage between the Zhu family and the Zhao family may not be called a strong alliance, but it is just right for both parties.

The second thing is that Zhao Yanwei is willing to marry, and he doesn't dislike his daughter-in-law for wielding knives and guns. She doesn't have the demeanor of a lady at all.

In fact, the second elder of the Zhao family liked Aunt Zhu's strength, and thought she could take care of her son so that he would not be infected with bad habits, so he agreed to marry him.

The most important point is that Zhao Yanwei worked hard to improve after his family's decline, and got the second place in the exam. He can be called a talent that can be created, and he can be regarded as a potential stock in the eyes of Mr. Zhu.

"If you have a fate, you don't regret it yourself."

After reassuring Aunt Zhu, Pei Wende asked another question that he was very curious about.

"You said earlier that Zhao Yanwei was the second place in the list, so does he have an official position now?"

According to normal circumstances, the second place in the list is No. 2 in the imperial examination, second only to the No. [-] scholar of the year.

Therefore, no matter how bad Zhao Yanwei's official career is, it is impossible for him to be reduced to the present situation without a half-job, right?

"I don't know exactly what happened..."

"I just heard that he was involved in a 'substitute examination case', and was finally dismissed by the court, only retaining his status as a scholar."

Gently shaking her head, Aunt Zhu said maliciously.

"Perhaps his second place in the list was obtained by someone else, so after he was discovered, he was revoked!"

——Monthly ticket/recommendation ticket——

(End of this chapter)