Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 300 Qionglin Banquet

Jiang's face changed, but he quickly put on a concerned expression.

"Old lady, the sun is shining today. If you go to the gate and wait so early, you will be ill if you get hot." Jiang advised.

"It's okay, it's okay, in our Wan family, such a Tanhualang has only been born in generations, our ancestors have spirits, ancestors bless us, let's go, I'll go too." The old man glanced at her and moved his legs first.

The old man stepped forward, and when the old lady saw her, she hurriedly waved to Mai Xiang and said, "Little daughter-in-law, come on, help me to go, Zhiyuan must be the first one I want to see when I enter the door."

After hearing this, Mai Xiang had no choice but to walk to the old lady. Seeing Wan Chengyao, he hurriedly stepped forward and followed Wan Baocai away.

Wan Zhigao saw that his grandfather, grandmother, and father, who usually held him in their hands, didn't even look at him. Wan Zhigao, who had never received such a cold reception, felt the bitterness and loss in his heart swelled beyond measure. I still don't forget to think about it by his side.

"Son, why don't you fight for your breath and make your mother feel proud, you are my mother's son, and he is just the son of a lowly maid. Mother is more than a hundred times better than that maid. You should also be better than that maid." He is the one who is strong, why is he not as good as him?"

"Madam, it can't be entirely the uncle's fault. The second master is because of Mai Xiang's help. Mai Xiang asked the second master for help from these high-ranking officials. Can the second master not win? What's wrong with our uncle? We suffer alone in the room." Read, how can someone teach you how to learn quickly? If you want to blame, blame Mai Xiang, this girl is too selfish, she has been like this since she was a child, and she can't see others well." Ziju came out and filed a complaint.

She is an aunt, and she usually can't come into the old lady's upper room at all, but these days, I also know from the mouths of the maids that Mai Xiang and his wife are not on good terms, and the uncle and the second master are not on good terms. She is worried about his wife and grandma. I have opinions on her and think that her elbow is twisted outward, so I chose this opportunity to confess my love.

"That's true. If you want to blame it, you can only blame your grandmother for being biased. If you had taken that girl as your concubine, wouldn't there be nothing wrong with others? Well, if I had known this earlier, I would have wished I hadn't withdrawn. "Jiang muttered to himself again.

"What? Retire for what?" Kang Yi asked.

"No, no." Jiang quickly concealed, she did not dare to offend Kang Yi, and Kang Yi's father had a higher official position than Wan Chengyao.

"Master, tell me." Kang Yi felt that she had been cheated.

"Don't ask me, I don't know anything. It's all you, all you. If you hadn't seduced me back then, how would I have thought of retiring?" Wan Zhi roared.

At this moment, he didn't know what he said at all, he just wanted to vent, vent.

"Master, people are doing what the sky is watching, when did I seduce you?" Kang Yi staggered and almost fainted again, but luckily the maid next to her supported her.

"Okay, okay, why are you arguing. There is still a child in Kangyi's stomach, Zhigao, you help Kangyi go back to rest." Seeing Kangyi's complexion is not good, Jiang said hastily.

The maid beside Kang Yi saw her and hurriedly helped Kang Yi away.

"Okay, what's your ability to get angry at your daughter-in-law, go back and coax her." Seeing her son bowing his head, Jiang thought that his son regretted offending his wife, and hurriedly pushed him away.

Besides, Mai Xiang sat in the porter room with the old man and the old lady, and waited for a long time.But Mai Xiang didn't even eat breakfast, her stomach was growling with hunger, so she had to find an excuse to go back to her small courtyard, just after eating a few mouthfuls of porridge, Tao Ye came running, saying that an official came to her door.

When Mai Xiang rushed to the gate again, she saw the aunts of Wan's family all dressed up and coming along, the housekeeper and his servants were preparing firecrackers at the gate, and two servants were carrying a basket of copper coins Put it next to the old man and the old lady.

"Here we come, here we come," someone yelled.

At this time, there was a sound of gongs and drums at the entrance of the alley, and the children in the alley came running like a swarm, shouting as they ran: "Happy news, good news..."

When the old lady heard that the wrinkles on her face were loosened, she hurriedly grabbed a lot of money for each of these children.

The housekeeper of the Wan family hurriedly went to greet the man, and when the official came to the door, the servants lit firecrackers, the housekeeper hurriedly delivered red envelopes, and the whole family surrounded the official and entered the upper room of the compound.

Wan Chengyao personally took a scroll from the officer's hand, opened it tremblingly, and saw a flying dragon printed on the top of the good news, and a sea of ​​clouds and mountains below, and Huai Ci's name and hometown were written in the middle , age and examination results.

"Father, father, come and take a look." Wan Chengyao excitedly handed the scroll in his hand to Wan Baocai.

Wan Baocai took it tremblingly, looked at it again and again, and then asked people to post it in the hall.

After seeing off the official messenger, another servant came to report that the three of them were riding a big horse through the streets. The old man was excited again and wanted to go out to have a look. Wan Chengyao had to accompany him. Is the old lady right? He seldom went out, and now he was already a little uncomfortable after waiting for a long time for the official. This time, there was no Zhang Luo to leave, and he lay on the Arhat bed, and let the little maids help him beat it.

The old lady squinted her eyes for a while, only to realize that she didn't seem to see Wan Zhigao's family for a long time, so she hurriedly sent someone to invite them, but the maids replied that Kang Yi was feeling unwell, and the old lady sighed, thinking it was because of her grandson's success For the sake of stimulating the eldest grandson, I don't force them.

Huai Ci came in at midnight, and said that he had just returned from the Qionglin Banquet, when the Wan family was also eating in the room.Seeing Huaici, he hurriedly surrounded him to inquire.

At the Qionglin Banquet, the emperor would ask the three Yijia some sharp questions about current affairs as usual, in order to test their ability to answer.

Huai Ci knew about it a long time ago, and Ji Xiaolan, Acton, and Yong En all trained him, so at that time, he not only responded fluently, but was also quite insightful.

For example, Qianlong mentioned that "the Celestial Dynasty is rich in products and has everything, and there is no need to communicate with foreigners." Therefore, he planned to close some coastal ports and only open one port in Guangzhou.

At that time, almost everyone was full of praise, but Huai Ci raised a different point of view, because Mai Xiang had instilled many ideas in him, and Westerners had many things to learn from China.

"What did you say at the time?" Wan Chengyao breathed out, how dare this son play against the emperor?
"As I said, even Confucius said that three people must have my teacher, let alone a country and another country, let alone a simple medicine, some diseases our Chinese medicine is really powerless or effective It is not as fast as Western medicine, such as malaria, but sometimes Chinese medicine can quickly solve diseases that cannot be solved by Western medicine, such as migraine."

"The emperor can believe you when you say something?" the old lady asked, because the old lady often had migraines, and acupuncture would help.

"Of course not, I'm just making an analogy. What I mean is to find out where the other party is stronger than us, then learn from the other party's strengths, take the best and discard the dross. Only in this way can we truly be stronger than others."

"Is the emperor listening?" Wan Baocai asked.

"Not at the beginning, as I said, we and those Western countries are like a herd of horses running a race together. If we close our doors and guard ourselves, we will drive away all the other horses, and we are the only one left to run. You can't tell good from bad. This horse needs comparison to tell good from bad. This man is also the same. I also said what my daughter-in-law often said, only those with a truly strong heart will not be afraid to compare with others Only by learning from the strengths of others can we stick to our own beliefs and create a bright future.”

"Who said that?" Wan Chengyao asked.

"Of course it's my wife."

"Didn't you tell the emperor the same?" Mai Xiang asked.

"After hearing this, the emperor asked me who my disciple was. I said it was Ji Xiaolan. The emperor laughed at that time, saying that he didn't expect that the master and the apprentice would become Tanhualang one after another. He also specially called the master and let us two Bibi is talented. I saw that the emperor was very happy, so I knelt down and kowtowed, thanking the emperor for being a matchmaker for us."

It turned out that Huai Ci had always hidden this gratitude in his heart. He always felt that without the emperor's gift of marriage, he might not be able to marry Mai Xiang. Therefore, all these years, he has always thought about having the opportunity to meet the emperor, so he must kowtow to the emperor himself Thank you.

Qianlong did not expect that the Huaici in front of him was the young man who was vaccinated back then. He thought of the relationship between this person and Prince Li, and naturally he also thought that this person was the person who once donated the Datong Coal Mine. He also thought that Huaici drove the largest Looking at the bookstore, he thought of a newspaper that Prince Li once gave him.Qianlong asked Huaici a few more questions, such as his views on money, his remarks on newspapers, etc. Huaici answered them all.

"The emperor said in front of all civil and military officials that he was my matchmaker, and that I owed him a matchmaker."

When the Wan family heard this, they immediately felt proud and proud.Mai Xiang breathed a sigh of relief, the emperor himself said that he was Huai Ci's matchmaker, Pei Chunlin shouldn't be so blind to the muzzle of the gun, right?
Originally, Mai Xiang still had some doubts about the identity of Huaici's Tanhualang, did Qianlong put some water in it, but now hearing Huaici's words, the emperor seems to have forgotten Huaici, this Tanhualang is him by virtue of his own Having passed the exam, Mai Xiang really admires Huai Ci.

How did Mai Xiang know that Huai Ci's Huai Ci was a part of Mai Xiang's contribution, Mai Xiang instilled some modern economic concepts with Huai Ci, and also knew that the Qing Dynasty's Opium War and the invasion of foreign powers were caused by Ye Lang's arrogance and self-defense.

With hundreds of years of theoretical guidance from later generations, Huai Ci's strategies and theories are naturally somewhat different from others', which makes these examiners feel fresh and enlightening.

The Wan family chatted and laughed around Huaici, but no one noticed when and how Wan Zhigao in the corner left.

(End of this chapter)