Professor Li’s Married Life Chapter 34:
Babies with insufficient subscription ratio need to wait two more days, I’m really sorry. At this time, he was really glad that he invested in the most economically developed capital city.
If it is a remote area, in a poor small village, the troubles are even more difficult, and it is even more difficult to do something.
At least in the capital, there are things that are not available in other places, and people from other places come to the capital first.
After listening to books and eating tea a few times in the teahouse, and looking up some information, Li Cheng then told Yuan Bao to go out to inquire about the situation in the Western Regions, or find a local merchant who has been there all year round. The kind of person who travels back and forth to do business.
When Yuan Bao got it, he went there. He was quite familiar with the capital. Before he was sold, he went around doing part-time jobs for others. It is not difficult for those who know things.
On this day, Li Chengze cleaned up himself. He didn’t forget that he had accepted the appointment of Su Ziyan, so he went to the appointment.
It’s afternoon.
On the way there, Li Chengze flipped through his memory again, and found that when Yuan went to school, at the very beginning, he didn’t actually have any friendship with those Su Ziyans, and the relationship was just average.
Su Ziyan’s family situation is much better than Li Chengze’s. I heard that his father was a fellow Jinshi himself, and now he is exiled to serve as a parent official in Ludi, and his mother is also the daughter of a small official.
Because Lin Juren and Su Ziyan’s father, who opened the private school, were candidates in the same subject back then, they had some friendship, so Su’s father sent Su Ziyan to study with Lin Juren.
Su Ziyan never paid much attention to those students who were born in poor families, and he looked down on those people in his heart.
Li Cheng was naturally one of the members he looked down on, but because of his face and reputation, he didn’t show it too stupidly, so others thought that he had a cold personality, so he didn’t communicate much with others.
The change of things happened almost two months before the literary conference was held in the Mingdehou Mansion.
At that time, Su Ziyan suddenly started to get close to Li Chengze intentionally or unintentionally, and later even asked Li Chengze when he and his own friends went out for a drink.
Li Cheng knew that the people that Su Ziyan made friends with were of good status, at least those people didn’t pay attention to him in the past.
With Su Ziyan’s introduction, he can make more good friends. Li Cheng is very happy, and since then he has been in frequent contact with Su Ziyan.
Even the banquet of Ming Dehou was deliberately revealed by Su Ziyan himself in front of Li Chengze, saying that he got an invitation card from his cousin to the Marquis Mansion, and he took the initiative to let Li Chengze take advantage of it.
There is no need to talk about the following things. A girl from Mingdehou’s mansion accidentally fell into the water and was rescued by Li Chengze. Among them, Su Ziyan was always there, and he even gave some words of guidance intentionally or unintentionally.
No matter how you look at it, this person does not seem innocent.
Li Cheng’s heart is clear.
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The venue for Su Ziyan’s banquet was set at Fanlou, the largest restaurant in the east of the city.
He reserved a large room on the third floor.
When Li Chengze arrived, there were already four or five people inside.
Laughter and laughter continued.
In the room, there are three small tables on the left and right sides, with various wine and dishes on them.
Based on memory, Li Cheng is familiar with those people.
The four of them, including Su Ziyan Zainei, were served by one or two girls with open shoulders and tight waists.
Some people have already given each other wine with the girls, or they have half untied their clothes, stretched their hands into their soft waists, and let the girls fall on them. No end, eyes blurred.
There is a woman holding a pipa in front of her, who is babbling and singing while stroking the strings.
What a luxurious picture.
Li Cheng stepped in, and Su Ziyan found him. The other party immediately narrowed his eyes, looked like he was smelling of alcohol, put one hand on the floor, and pushed the person next to him away.
Said loudly: “Brother Li is here, come and sit quickly, I have been waiting for you for a long time!”
There was only one seat next to Su Ziyan in the room, so Li Chengze didn’t say anything, walked over calmly, lifted his robe, and knelt down.
The waitress next to him was very winking. Seeing Li Chengze, she twisted her waist from left to right, stepped forward slowly, one of them poured wine, and the other directly stuck to his body.
But it was torn apart by Li Chengze blankly.
He said in a calm manner: “There is no need to wait on you, they are all far away.”
Seeing this scene, Su Ziyan’s eyes flickered slightly, and then he burst out laughing again: “Brother Li is very handsome, and he passed the exam at a young age, no wonder these girls are attracted to Brother Li as soon as they see him.”
Li Cheng just smiled lightly when he heard the words, but said: “Brother Su’s ridiculous praise, I’m ashamed of myself, Brother Su is really talented, I can’t compare with you.”
Both Su Ziyan and Li Chengze took this year’s exam, and Su Ziyan’s grades were much better than Li Chengze’s, ranking among the top ten on the list. Li Chengze said this casually.
However, when Su Ziyan talked about being admitted as a scholar just now, something flashed through Li Chengze’s mind.
But now is not a good time to recall, and Li Cheng’s expression remained calm.
Su Ziyan is probably a talkative person, he keeps talking and never neglects anyone.
I heard him say again: “Since the spring of this year, some areas of the two lakes have not had a drop of rain. The climate is severely drought, and the grain is not harvested. The drought has not eased over the past few months. Instead, it has become more serious. By the end of June His Majesty sent officials to the local area to provide disaster relief, but when the news finally came, tens of thousands of people still died of starvation. A small group of rioters in Bashu took advantage of the situation and rebelled against the Majesty. Although they were quickly suppressed, the Majesty in the court was still furious , dealt with a lot of people in one go, because of this, this year’s rural examination was postponed to late October, hey, it was in late August in previous years.”
The person on the opposite side nodded after hearing this, “Who says it’s not, but luckily it hasn’t been cancelled, otherwise many people would be in great pain.” Yes, those Juren who have worked hard for three years might not be able to cry.
At this time, Su Ziyan turned his head and asked Li Chengze: “Brother Li, can you take part in this year’s provincial examination? Brother Yi is a talented person, he must have gone back.” He laughed a few times after he finished speaking.
Li Cheng didn’t answer directly, but said again and again: “I’m really ashamed, Brother Su is a really learned man.”
After finishing speaking, he dragged several other people to brag about Su Ziyan.
The so-called literary club played until the evening before disbanding, and those few people would continue to stay overnight, implying that the evening activities would be more interesting.
Li Cheng didn’t want to mess around here, so he made an excuse and left.
It wasn’t until I came out and blew the cold wind that I felt the smell of powder in my nose dissipated, and I felt much more comfortable.
Going back to take a shower, Yuan Bao dutifully wiped his master’s hair with a dry handkerchief.
Li Cheng forced his eyes to think about something, and suddenly his mind flashed, and he finally remembered what he hadn’t thought of in Fanlou in the afternoon!
It is a matter of the original body being selected as a scholar, but in fact it is not simple!
For a period of time, Su Ziyan asked the original body to discuss homework with him every day. Suddenly, one day, he took out a stack of densely written paper to Li Chengze, and then secretly told him that it was a waste of money from his family. Ask someone to bet on the question, which can be used to take a look.
Su Ziyan’s mysterious and solemn appearance really attracted Yuan Shen’s thoughts.
After Su Ziyan left, Li Cheng looked at the questions one by one.
Then he kept it all in his heart, thinking that he would not suffer a loss no matter whether he got the bet or not in the end.
Fortunately, he is not so stupid. Although Su Ziyan has written the answers to the questions, the original body does not intend to use other people’s questions. Except for the questions with fixed answers, other poems or poems or Fu must be understood by oneself To answer, Yuanshen spent a lot of effort, read many books, and did it patiently by himself.
No idea, but most of the last questions were passed!
Li Cheng was surprised and pleasantly surprised!
So in the end, without any accident, the original body also got a talent.
After Li Cheng remembered all these things, he really let out a long sigh.
He also frowned and thought, this Su Ziyan is even more complicated than he imagined.
Moreover, what is his purpose for approaching the original body?
After arranging his clothes and asking Yuan Bao to pay for the car, Li Cheng raised his eyes to look around.
This village is not small. I just came all the way, and there are also villages nearby, which are not as large as Hekou Village.
Hekou Village is said to have a population of about a hundred households, and it was named so because it is next to a small river.
There are rivers, water and mountains, and because it is next to the official road, the road to the city is not far and convenient.
The paddy fields are fertile, and there are many forests and mountains, so life here is good.
At least it doesn’t look sallow and emaciated.
Hekou Village is populated by mixed surnames, with seven or eight surnames, but more than half of them are surnamed Li, so the village is headed by the surname Li.
The ancestors of the Li family were from Hekou Village, until the generation of Li Baode’s great-grandfather. Fortunately, he married a girl from the city, so the family took root in the imperial city, and settled in the city for several generations.
Only the ancestral hall and old house of the Li family are still here. Every year during the Chinese New Year, your family members of the Li family still come back to worship their ancestors.
The current patriarch of the Li family, in terms of seniority, Li Cheng calls him the third grandfather, and the other party is Li Chengze’s cousin.
In ancient times, the clan ancestral hall was very important. There is usually no break in contact between clan relatives.
Don’t talk about it on weekdays, but you have to go to the ceremony on New Year’s Day.
There are more than one hundred households in Hekou Village, and the population should be around seven or eight hundred.
Because the surname Li accounts for half of the people, the head of Hekou Village is also the surname Li, the son of the third grandfather Li Chengze.
Because of this, it is much more convenient for people surnamed Li to live in Hekou Village, and no one dares to bully them.
This is the power of the clan.
The ancestral house of the Li family here is a large courtyard with juniors, which is much larger than the place where they live in Beijing.
After all, it is a village, and the land is not that valuable.
Although the house of the Li family looks a bit old, it is not broken, and everything inside is neat.
The house is not dirty, it is cleaned every now and then.
This is because the tenants hired by the Li family live here to help look at the house.
It is a couple with an eight or nine-year-old son.
This tenant used to be a foreigner, and later settled in Hekou Village.
The two had no house or land, so they could only be tenant farmers. Later, the old lady Sun saw that people were pitiful, so she recruited people to look at the house, let them live in the outermost part, and clean the house on weekdays.
Li Cheng came here and didn’t ask someone to deliver a message in advance, so he came here suddenly, and the couple who couldn’t help being hurt at the moment were in a panic.
Although the two knew that this was the young master of the master’s family, in previous years, it was Mrs. Li and the elder who came here more often. Li Chengze’s sudden arrival made people flustered.
They all knew that Young Master Li was a promising man. In the spring of the first year, they heard that he had passed the examination as a scholar. With fame and fame, I married a young lady from a rich family this month, which is really enviable.
In their eyes, this kind of person is already superior, and they dare not climb high, let alone offend them.
After a long time, Li Cheng has adapted to the ancient behavior of kowtowing and kneeling.
The sudden kowtow of the husband and wife can no longer give Li Chengze a headache. He calmly ordered Yuan Bao to wake up, and then asked about things here.
Of course, the main question is about the one-hundred-acre mountain land of the Li family.
This couple, the man is called Wang Hu, and the woman is called Wang Hu’s family.
They are all in their thirties, very honest, and speak with a different accent.
He was very cautious when answering in front of Li Chengze.
However, I am not confused at all, so I will answer whatever I ask.
It’s noon now, and it’s time for dinner.
These two probably also came back for lunch, otherwise they should be busy in the fields.
Before going out, Mrs. Sun has explained many trivial matters one by one, and Yuan Bao is also very clever. Seeing the situation, he took out a bunch of big money the size of a wrist from his pocket, and gave it to Wang Hu’s family, and asked her to cut some Pork or kill a chicken, and eat them neatly.
His young master got up in the morning and rushed over. He was hungry and tired.
Wang Hu’s family rubbed their hands together, heyed a few times, and said, “Let’s go now.”
In response, he took the money carefully, served Li Chengze another pot of tea, and hurried down to the stove.
This man was nimble and quick at work, and within half an hour, a table of food was served.
There is a pot of chicken soup, a bowl of bacon and dried vegetables, a plate of green beans, a plate of fried bamboo shoots, and a plate of scrambled eggs.