Watching Secretary Wang leave with a sigh, Hong Song said to Fang Yingwu hesitantly, "Is it possible that Brother Fang Xian wants to take advantage of this opportunity to get into camp?"
Fang Yingwu really wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get a scholar spot. After all, no one was sure about the name-dropping exam, but could he answer truthfully like this?
A gentleman is likened to righteousness, and a villain is likened to benefit. Fang Yingwu, who had a deep understanding, replied: "I am just following the order of Shang Xianggong to discuss some matters with the great master. It is related to the current situation of the government and it is inconvenient to talk to others. Please forgive me.
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Hong Song and Xiang Chengxian both had a look of admiration on their faces, and did not ask any more questions. Of course, the important affairs of the government were something they could only look up to.
It was getting late at this time, and the three of them returned to the city. As the saying goes in the previous life, there are four irons in life, and Fang Yingwu and the two young masters almost completed three.
We drank flower wine together today, and although we were in a false alarm, we were almost punished by the school yamen together. They were about to become classmates at the county school. Naturally, the relationship between them unknowingly deepened.
The two young masters of Hong Xiang were both county students, and they were impatient of living in the dormitory and being restrained. At the same time, it was inconvenient to live with their wives. Therefore, they both had houses in the city, not far from each other.
On the issue of whose house Fang Yingwu would stay at tonight, the two of them had a small discussion for a while. Xiang Chengxian said: "I still hope that Brother Fang Xian will persuade me with his soft tongue, so I have to go to my house."
There."
Hong Song had nothing to say and could only respond to the other party: "Ms. Xiang is fierce. This trip is not easy. Brother Fang Xian, take care!"
In this way, Fang Yingwu followed Xiang Chengxian and left. When he got home, Mr. Xiang ordered his servants to clean up the wing in the outer courtyard and arrange it as a guest room for Fang Yingwu to live in.
Mr. Xiang pointed to the wing and said, "I won't take away the utensils, I'll keep them all for you. After the next Taoist examination comes, you can continue to live here. There is no need to find another place."
Suddenly, Xiang Chengxian quietly handed Fang Yingwu a brocade bag, which contained several ingots of silver, which was quite heavy. Fang Yingwu was frightened and said, "How dare I accept such a generous gift!"
"Silence!" Mr. Xiang whispered: "You take it first, and then you will say you lent it to me."
Fang Yingwu suddenly realized that this was Mr. Xiang's private money that he wanted to launder. Not only was he going to be a matchmaker today, but was he also playing a money laundering role?
Fang Yingwu thanked her. The two of them went to the main hall again, and Mr. Xiang invited his wife out to meet Fang Yingwu. This was also a sign of the excellent relationship between the two, which is called the good relationship between the two families.
Fang Yingwu and Mrs. Xiang met each other and addressed each other as "Brother of the Fang Family" and the other as "Sister-in-law of the Xiang Family".
Although he didn't dare to look too closely, he took a quick look and saw that this lady of the Xiang family was dignified in appearance, with a face like a full moon, white teeth and red lips, and a pleasant smile when treating others. She did not look like a fierce and jealous woman.
Is Mr. Hong exaggerating a bit? Fang Yingwu thought.
Xiang Chengxian stood in a blind spot where his wife could not see, winking at Fang Yingwu, and hinting to Fang Yingwu to talk about taking concubines.
It was Fang Yingwu's first time in his life to persuade someone to take a concubine. Even though he was so eloquent, he didn't know where to start. How should he say this?
Under Mr. Xiang's repeated urging with his eyes, Fang Yingwu had no choice but to bite the bullet and carefully consider his words to say to Mrs. Xiang: "I know that there is a woman who admires Brother Xiang. She is so pitiful that she becomes lovesick. I can't bear to see him sad and miserable.
, I want to be a mediator among them.”
Mr. Xiang stood behind his wife and extended a thumbs up to give her a thumbs up. Starting from here, the angle was chosen very well. It would be easy to arouse sympathy first!
When Madam Xiang heard this, she put away her smiling face to treat guests and snorted, "The Fang brothers are very young, so they are very skilled at matchmaking."
Fang Yingwu was in great embarrassment. Some time ago, eighteen matchmakers from the county and even neighboring counties came to visit in turn. Under the influence of his ears and eyes, of course he was familiar with 300 Tang poems and could recite them even if he could not compose them.
Mrs. Xiang glanced at her husband and said to him: "You scholars, if you don't study the classics seriously and discuss knowledge, you spend your whole day thinking about some evil ways? Do the Four Books and Five Classics teach you to take concubines?"
Fang Yingwu's mind turned around and he quickly argued: "What the sister-in-law of the Xiang family said is right, Mencius has it. "Li Lou Chapter 2" says: The people of Qi have one wife and one concubine. As the saying goes, the blessings of the people of Qi are
, Sister-in-law of the Xiang family dares to say that saints don’t teach people to take concubines?”
Mrs. Xiang was stunned. Mr. Xiang was overjoyed and gave Fang Yingwu two thumbs up behind his back. He is indeed a young talent who is good at explaining classics. If he studies hard, he will become a master in the future!
After staying for a while, Mrs. Xiang was unconvinced and said: "If we follow what the Fang brothers said, according to the scriptures, I will have to take another husband."
Before Fang Yingwu said anything, Xiang Chengxian jumped out and angrily said: "Nonsense! How can there be one woman and two husbands in the classic sense!"
Mrs. Xiang said coldly: "Don't you hear that Zhu Xi wrote a preface to "The Great Learning", in which he said: Zhu Xi, the two husbands of the Cheng family in Henan, both said, why can't I be like this?"
I x! Fang Yingwu and Xiang Chengxian secretly vomited three liters of blood. Zhu Zi's original sentence was "The two husbands of the Cheng family in Henan came out", but Mrs. Xiang cut it into "the two husbands of the Cheng family in Henan". It was really easy to cut it off!
Mr. Xiang retorted loudly: "How can you intercept the meaning of the scriptures so randomly!"
Mrs. Xiang said aggressively: "When you write eight-legged essays, don't you always use scriptures and phrases in your titles? Why can't I?"
This is true. In order to prevent guessing and non-repetition of the questions in the eight-legged essay, sentences from scriptures are often cut off at will, or they are randomly combined with prefaces and follow-up sentences to form weird and outlandish questions.
Fang Yingwu quietly wiped his sweat, and could conclude that this lady must also come from a scholarly family, but he was speechless.
As expected, it was very difficult to offend. No wonder Mr. Hong was so frustrated that he couldn't hide himself. He didn't know the inside story, so he came to be this unjust lobbyist.
So it’s better to leave with the Thirty-six Strategies! Fang Yingwu turned around and left while he and his wife were talking. Xiang Chengxian saw from the corner of his eye that the allied troops he had found were planning to escape before the battle, and he quickly shouted: "Brother Fang Xian, wait a minute.
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Fang Yingwu stood there helplessly, and heard Senior Xiang say to his wife: "You are in charge of the household, so you can just blame the lack of money at home, but it is not a problem. Brother Fang Xian has a warm heart and is willing to lend it to Shiliang. Today he has brought all the money
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Fang Yingwu almost forgot about this matter and had no choice but to come back, take out the bag of silver from his arms and hand it to Young Master Xiang - it was exactly the one that Young Master Xiang had secretly stuffed to him before. He was so heroic and generous.
Said: "Why bother, don't be in a hurry to pay it back!"
Mr. Xiang held the tips bag and shook it at his wife, "Money is no longer an issue, what else can I say?"
"Show me," Mrs. Xiang said with her hand, and Mr. Xiang handed her the brocade bag.
Mrs. Xiang opened the brocade bag and took a few glances. It was indeed a piece of silver. She weighed it gently in her hands and found that the weight was indeed about ten taels.
After reading it, she put the tips bag into her sleeve, rolled her eyes at Mr. Xiang, and suddenly said softly: "Since my husband really wants to take a concubine, then I am willing to be a little girl, so this money can be regarded as buying me."
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Fang Yingwu was dumbfounded and couldn't help but feel great sympathy for Senior Xiang. How could he possibly survive a fight with such a wife? He would give up in this life.
Tonight, Fang Yingwu and Senior Xiang went into battle together, and they were completely defeated! Senior Xiang not only failed to convince Madam, but also put ten taels of his private money into it.
Mrs. Xiang turned to face Fang Yingwu again, smiling brightly again, "Brothers of the Fang family, since you regard your husband as your elder brother, then I can also be regarded as your eldest sister-in-law.
Suddenly I thought of a good marriage, and my sister-in-law wants to go over the details for you here. I guess my little brother won’t refute my sister-in-law’s honor?
This girl from this family is just a little different in appearance. But it doesn’t matter. If she marries a wife with virtue, her family will definitely be worthy of Jieyuan Mansion.”
Fang Yingwu made a bitter face and bowed his head repeatedly: "Brother, I just felt dizzy after drinking and couldn't think things through. I'll go down to sleep first, and you two say goodbye."
After that, he hurriedly escaped from the front hall. If he didn't leave, he would even get in!
The next day, after Fang Yingwu got up and washed up, he went to the alley where the small door on the side of the county school was. Yesterday, he made an appointment with Secretary Wang to meet here, and then Secretary Wang found a way to send him to the county school.
go.
After waiting for half an hour, he saw Secretary Wang sneaking over and giving him a set of clothes. "Put on this handyman's jacket. I'll let you go in pretending to be a handyman later so as not to be noticed by others and cause gossip."
Already."
Wang Shuban’s words are reasonable. This Taoist examination is not just for Chun’an County. I heard that the great master asked the children from Sui’an, a neighboring county in the south, to come and take the exam together. I don’t know how many eyes are staring at the area near the county school.
Must be careful.
Fang Yingwu had no choice but to put on a short coat of coarse cloth and make his bun a little loose, barely hiding it from others.
Then Secretary Wang joined the food delivery team and arrived at the small corner gate of the county school.
The small door that could only accommodate a single person was opened from the inside, but Secretary Wang and others did not go in. They placed several large boxes of vegetables on the steps, and then the vegetable delivery boy left, while Secretary Wang and Fang Yingwu retreated.
Then go ten steps away and wait.
Afterwards, several handymen came out and walked towards the door carrying the vegetable basket. Secretary Wang saw that there was no one around, so he took the opportunity to push Fang Yingwu and motioned for Fang Yingwu to follow him.
Fang Yingwu understood, and hurriedly took a few steps forward, picked up another vegetable basket, and followed the people in front of him into the county school.
These handymen must have been dealt with in advance, and none of Fang Yingwu showed the slightest surprise, as if Fang Yingwu was one of them.
In this way, Fang Yingwu sneaked into the county school that had been used as an examination room. Inside the county school, there were only handymen and civil servants who were allowed in but not allowed out, which was relatively loose.
Fang Yingwu was allowed to wander around without anyone questioning him. A quarter of an hour later, he found the temporary apartment of the academic officer in the back hall.
The person guarding the door was Tixue Guanchangsui, who had followed Li Tixue to Shanghuaxi Village last time. He was startled when he saw Fang Yingwu suddenly appear in front of him.
Fang Yingwu was afraid of causing trouble, so he rushed to report in a low voice: "Hurry and report, I came to see the Grand Master for business related to Shang Xianggong, and you are the only one who asked me if I missed it!"
The Chang Sui opened his mouth, but didn't say anything. He turned around and went into the public room to report. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)