Jinyi champion

Chapter 312

The old lady treated Zhu Niang with affection and reason, and she did everything she could to coerce and lure her.

But to Zhu Niang, this set is nothing new.

You all know the character and ways of this old lady, and now you will be deceived?But on the surface, she still pretended to be very embarrassed.

"Mother, my daughter-in-law doesn't have the ability to take care of the Zhu family's big business. She just wants to live a stable life with Xiaohao. My daughter-in-law will never do anything that insults the Zhu family's style, and will teach my son to be a talent..."

Zhu Niang replied neither humble nor overbearing.

Zhu Jia didn't feel annoyed, shook his head and sighed: "Oh... you really have no vision. This time, my Zhu family has made great achievements in calming down the bandits who came from Jiangxi, and I will be rewarded by the court soon. Now Jiangxi Nanzhong Governor Wang Shouren personally If you are willing to return to the Zhu family, it is not impossible for your son to inherit the Zhu family's brocade clothing for a hundred...or even a thousand households."

Zhu Niang murmured: "Mother, Xiaohao has already achieved some results in the imperial examination, so I'm afraid he won't be nostalgic for the position left by his ancestors."

"Could it be that he is so unfilial that he doesn't even inherit his father's behest?"

Zhu Jia's complexion was not good, and he began to scare people with the big hat of filial piety.

Zhu Niang really wants to say, when we wanted to inherit before, the Zhu family didn't give it to us, but now we don't want it anymore, you insist on forcing us to accept it, what's the point?
Do you have to confront us and always put the interests of the Zhu family first?

"Mom, I'm back..."

At this moment, Zhu Hao's clear and sweet child's voice came from the yard.

Zhu Jiashi was going to continue persuading and educating his daughter-in-law, but when he heard his grandson's voice, he couldn't help frowning, and his face was huddled together.

Immediately, the old lady and Zhu Niang walked out of the main room together, and saw Zhu Hao sitting on a bamboo chair under the vine trellis in the yard, picking up the teapot on the coffee table and pouring tea into his mouth.

The old lady asked with a dark face, "Grandson, isn't today a government test? Why are you here?"

"Grandmother? Why are you... grandson paying respects to grandma?"

Zhu Hao showed the posture of a virtuous grandson, and bowed to Zhu Jiashi to salute, with a childlike smile on his face: "Today is indeed a government exam. My grandson took the exam before dawn, and found that the exam was very difficult. Oh, the two questions were inexplicable, and I couldn't get the point for a long time, so I had to answer them casually and come out."

"what?"

When Zhu Jiashi heard this, he immediately felt that something was wrong.

this kid...

He was the top case during the county examination, so he won't answer the questions when he sees the questions in the prefectural examination?

Come out with an answer?

Is this statement credible?

Tang Yin and Fan Yikuan would definitely not listen to Zhu Hao's nonsense.

There are differences in difficulty and difficulty in writing the Four Books, but it is definitely not the case that you are the head of the case in the county examination and hand in blank papers in the government examination, right?Besides, what knowledge do you have, we don't know?

But Zhu Jiashi didn't know this, she didn't have a clear understanding of her grandson's knowledge, and felt that what Zhu Hao said... was very reasonable.

The whole thing is that Zhu Jiashi never thought that Zhu Hao was capable of taking the imperial examination.

A child who has only been educated for two years can be invincible in the imperial examination field?
It must be that King Xing's Mansion bought Tongzhou Yamen, leaked the questions in advance during the county exam, asked a famous teacher to write an article, and asked him to answer in the exam room after reciting silently.

It seems that you can easily get the fame of a scholar, but in disguise, you are kicked out of the palace... If you are a scholar, don't you study hard at home, try to pass the township examination, and have time to go to the palace as a companion to play with the children?
Unless it has ulterior motives!
As a result, now that Zhu Hao has come to the government examination, no one has given him the questions and written articles for him to recite silently. Isn't this showing his true form?

Zhu Niang said nervously: "Xiaohao, even if it's difficult, you can't leave the examination room so early, you... I have inquired, even if you get the top case in the county examination, if you don't do well in the government examination and the hospital examination, you can't get out of the examination room so early. You may not be able to enter school. You...do you still have time to go back to the examination room?"

Zhu Hao said aggrievedly: "Mom, I have had a little bit of cold these two days, and I have a runny nose or something. I am afraid that if I stay in the examination room for a long time, the snot will stain the examination papers. I am afraid that I will not even get into school at all." All the chances are gone, and today Mr. Wang Fu said that I have something to do, so I came out early, fortunately, all the papers have been answered."

In the past, Zhu Niang might have thought Zhu Hao's words were true.

But now she has grown up too.

Normally, his son would brag in her ears when he was fine, talking about how good he was, why did he speak badly about himself when he came to the government examination?When she turned her head and saw the annoyed mother-in-law, she understood everything.

This is not to tell her mother, but to convince the old lady that there is such a thing.

Didn't you say that my son is going to be a scholar soon and has a bright future? Didn't you use this to coerce and lure me to return to Zhu's family?Now my son said that he did not perform well in the government examination this time, you see he came out so early, how can a normal candidate leave the examination room so early?That must have been a problem with the test.

"Mom, look..."

Zhu Niang looked at her mother-in-law with an aggrieved expression on her face.

Zhu Jiashi said: "Son, your husband knows that you are going to take the government exam today, why does he still have something to ask you to do?"

Zhu Haodao: "It's like this, grandma, my husband has an old friend, a senior official named Wang Shouren, who arrived in Anlu today, and the palace asked my husband to be in charge of receiving him. The husband wants me to make more friends with the world's great scholars and famous officials. I participated in the reception work together and accumulated contacts...

"My husband also said that if I enter the examination room and find that the questions are difficult, I should write them out early. Not only will there be no hindrance, but it will also help me pass the government examination smoothly."

Justified.

People who are familiar with the rules of the examination room will definitely sneer at Zhu Hao's words. How can an unrelated provincial official affect a local government examination?
But Zhu Jiashi has a lot of bad water, but he has never taken the imperial examination. How can he know such details?
After hearing Zhu Hao's "reasonable" answer, coupled with her stereotyped prejudice against her grandson, all the doubts in her mind were instantly connected into a thread...

It was obvious that these words were spoken from the bottom of her heart.

It doesn't matter whether others think it is reasonable or not, as long as the old lady thinks it is reasonable.

"Mr. You really took great pains...you, the third child, think about it carefully, and go first for your mother!"

Based on the wrong cognition, Zhu Jiashi discovered that the situation had changed.

Now that the daughter-in-law is worried that her grandson will fail the student examination, she will definitely not rashly agree to the Zhu family's conditions. It will be futile to stay here any longer. Why don't you go back and send someone to investigate whether the grandson's words are true or not.

She knew about Wang Shouren's arrival in Anlu, but is Wang Shouren an old friend with the instructor in the palace?What role did the grandson play when he went to receive the reception?
What benefits will it bring to the Zhu family?
Compared with calculating the daughter-in-law, the old lady prefers to calculate people in the palace and official circles.

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Zhu Jiashi left.

Zhu Niang and Zhu Hao sent out the back door together.

When she came back and closed the door, Zhu Niang asked, "Xiaohao, did you lie in front of your grandmother? Actually, you did well in the exam?"

"Of course."

Zhu Hao said, "The topic this time is really too simple. I finished it in less than an hour. Why are you still in the examination room? Today, Mr. Tang asked me to receive the senior officials of the court and said that he would introduce someone to me for a better life." Fan, let me gain some reputation among scholars, so I handed in the papers and left the examination room in advance."

"Then why don't you hurry up?"

Zhu Niang was very relieved, and hurriedly urged her son to get down to business.

Zhu Hao smiled and said: "Mother, this high official was originally an official from Jiangxi, and was in charge of suppressing bandits in Jiangxi, Fujian and other places. Now that he is on a business trip across provinces, he must first hand over to the government when he arrives in a place. You let me go as a child." Why so early?"

Only then did Zhu Niang feel relieved: "No wonder you went home first."

Zhu Haodao: "At noon, when they finish the handover, I will go to Mr. Tang again... You know, Mr. Tang and Wang Zhongcheng took part in the general examination in the same year, but that year Wang Zhongcheng was admitted as a Jinshi, and Mr. Tang because of some Since then, I can no longer take the imperial examination...

"The situation is different, and the future is also very different... Now that Mr. Tang has achieved something in the palace, it is the result of our family's help..."

"OK OK."

It has nothing to do with Zhu Niang not wanting to hear these things about Chen Zhima and rotten millet, so she doesn't care at all.

"Hurry up and get ready. If you can't, change your clothes and go to see the official. During this time, my mother sewed some new clothes for you... I hope you can pass the government examination smoothly, so that you will be closer to the candidates One more step, mother can also feel at ease to reward God..."

Now that Zhu Niang has money in her hands, she finds that it is not helpful for her son's imperial examination.

I don't know where to spend my money.

It seemed that she could do nothing but pray to God and worship Buddha, pay homage to her ex-husband, and hope the gods would bless her. This was what made her feel powerless.

"Okay mother, I'll change my clothes and go. I'll go back to the palace first. The person Mr. Tang arranges to pick me up should be waiting for me... If grandma comes again, just prevaricate her, she must have no good intentions." ...I guess she wants to annex our business this time, and put you in charge of the Zhu family's business under the pretense, isn't it?"

Zhu Hao said with a smile.

Zhu Niang already knew that her son could pinch and count, and she could see clearly the old lady's schemes, otherwise she wouldn't have said those things just now.

"You are smart."

"Mom, we can't suffer, I'll go first."

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Zhu Hao left the house and was not in a hurry to return to the palace, but was still wandering around the city.

The matter of the robbers was successfully resolved, Anlu and even the entire Huguang area quickly stabilized, and the city of Zhou seemed to be more lively than before.

Everyone knows that there is a Xingwang Mansion in Anlu, and thousands of bandits are easily wiped out by sending troops. Which bandit will dare to come to Anlu to make trouble in the future?

King Xing's Mansion is simply the patron saint of Anlu and even Huguang. The government dared not fight the bandits. Not only did King Xing's Mansion take the initiative to attack, but they easily won. Why don't business people move to such a relatively safe place?
Besides, Anlu has relatively convenient transportation conditions. In the past two years, all kinds of livelihoods in Jiangxi have been hit. Many businessmen have transferred their business to surrounding provinces. Anlu has enjoyed a wave of dividends, and the economy is slowly rising.

"There are so many people."

Zhu Hao wandered around the city for a while, and found that not far in front of him was his family's shop in the city.

At this time, a group of people came out from the inside in a hurry. They were the "brokers" under the Ma shopkeeper. They came to discuss business with customers from all over the world, and they were going back to report to their superiors.

This business hall, which has both trade and accommodation functions, attracts businessmen from all over the world who come to Anlu to do business, because they can negotiate business in the business hall without leaving home, and avoid looking for people everywhere to buy and sell goods.

Originally Zhu Hao wanted to go in and have a look, but he looked up at the sky, it was almost noon, and it was already the time agreed to meet with Tang Yin, and he reckoned that after returning to the palace, someone would take him to see Wang Shouren.

Business matters can be put aside for the time being, I'd better go to meet Wang Yangming, a great sage in the world, who is more concerned.

(End of this chapter)