Chapter 876 Master Yan

After Cao's mansion hired Zheng Xie as the seat of the western province, Qian Chenqun finally got out of his body and was able to prepare for the exam wholeheartedly.

Perhaps because he had been in the Cao family for a long time, Qian Chenqun was not as reserved as he was in charge of the subject and did not insist on moving to the guild hall. The Cao family had a house in the city and a garden outside the city. Cao Yong meant that Qian Chenqun chose to live in one place, so that he could not live in a house and everything was not cheap.

Qian Chenqun lived in Haidian Garden and was happy about the purity there. So he told Cao Yong to move there. Cao Yong asked the housekeeper to prepare two hundred taels of silver as a gift.

Before leaving, Qian Chenqun met Zheng Xie.

Zheng Xie was just a poor scholar with a difficult life at this time and had no reputation; Qian Chenqun was a young talented man and a knowledgeable man.

Later generations called Zheng Xie, the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", was respectful and polite, and had no special behavior at all.

Seeing this, Cao Yong was secretly satisfied.

Although he was a little curious about this famous Kang Gan celebrity who was famous for his later generations, he did not want his son to be taught as a "little monster". He would not feel difficult to survive in this society.

Qian Chenqun did not bring his family. The place where Tianyou and their school was in the living yard where he lived. Now, Zheng Xie came with his wife and children, and it seemed a bit messy in the same yard.

Cao Yong ordered someone to clean up the three wing rooms opposite the side hall of the second entrance to the courtyard and set the home school location.

On August 30, Cao Yong set up a banquet, which was regarded as a farewell to Chen Qun.

The children all came to pour wine for Master Meng, and Niu Niu and Hang Seng all had red eyes, showing their reluctance to leave.

Qian Chenqun's demeanor became more and more calm.

With his talent, he should win the first place in the subject, but he didn't know what was wrong and failed.

After the farewell banquet, the butler Cao Yuan personally led the people to send Qian Chenqun out of the city.

Zheng Xie's family moved into Cao's mansion on the first day of September.

Wu Sheng took two mothers and a few servants to pick them up. Their family used to rent a house in Dajiang Hutong outside Qianmen, and they rented two wing rooms.

The ancestors of the Cao family have been in office for several lifetimes. Now, they have married the royal family and are rich. Even though Cao Yong, the head of the family, is not willing to be extravagant, he is not stingy with his subordinates. They all make monthly payments for the servants in the mansion according to the treatment of other families in the capital.

Even the subordinates in the mansion live a wealthier family than ordinary people outside.

Many people are as embarrassed as Zheng Xie's family, but this is the first time they see them.

Wu Sheng, who was connected to others, thought in his heart that the old man hired such a shabby seat, should not let the young man get shabby.

The two mothers who followed him were originally having the job of going out to pick up people, and they were all so happy that they could get some rewards. Unexpectedly, they were stunned when they entered the yard where the Zheng family lived.

In the narrow Sanheyuan, there were two east wing rooms, with chicken manure in the yard and a yellow dog tied to the corner of the yard. When people came in, they kept barking.

When the old lady of the landlord heard the news, she saw that she was moving for the Zheng family, she stopped Wu Sheng and asked him to pay the three-month rent owed by the Zheng family, and the two stones of sorghum on the Zheng family, totaling 3,100 yuan.

It was unreasonable to say that, but the old lady took out two pieces of paper from her sleeve, and the words were clearly written in black and white.

Wu Sheng looked up and saw Zheng Xie blushing and had no objection, so he knew that the old lady was right.

He had already regretted it. If he had known this, he would have asked the master to send some sacrificial work to deal with the debts so as to avoid such embarrassment. This was the face of the master in front of the servants in the mansion.

He took out a ingot of silver from his purse and gave it to the old lady, saying, "Auntie, this is five taels of silver. Except for the rent and rice owed by Mr. Zheng, please treat the aunt to tea for the remaining silver. Thank you for your long-term care."

Although this old lady is impolite to ask for money by blocking the road, in the capital, she is a kind person who can allow the tenant to owe the house for three months and can also give rice to the other party with credit.

The old lady took the money and was not afraid of being hurt. She brought it to her mouth and bit her teeth marks before she put it in her arms with a smile. She retreated to the side, her eyes stuck to the two housekeepers behind Wu Sheng, feeling that it was not enough to see.

The two mothers were careful of the chicken manure underground, while looking at the two low and dilapidated wing rooms in front of them, and were already stunned.

Because I had known that Zheng Xie's house had been packed up today.

The family of four is only three blue cloth bags, one umbrella, a few pairs of bowls and chopsticks, two tin basins, one iron pot, and half a load of firewood.

As a scholar's wife, Xu, the wife of Zheng Xie, was dressed in a blanket. The only jewelry on her body was thin copper gilt earrings. Perhaps as the age of time, the gold color on the outside faded, revealing the copper color on the inside.

The two daughters, five years old and three years old, were both thin and small, wearing half-old clothes. They held Xu's clothes and looked at everyone timidly.

The Xu family and his daughter were worn out, but they were washed clean, and they did not make them bored after seeing it.

These two mothers are sensible. They know that no matter how shabby this Xiucai is, after entering the mansion to become the young man's husband, his identity is unusual, his face eases up, he calls "Grandma Xu" and goes forward to help Xu carry his bag.

They wanted to persuade Xu to throw away all the bowls of bowls, but when she saw that she had closed the chopsticks, the paper she had written by her husband did not fall down, and swallowed the persuasion again.

Xu only knew that her husband had planned a house, but he didn't know who it was. Now that he saw this woman, the style of the carriage, he felt nervous.

The old landlord, whether he was watching the fun or was reluctant to let Zheng Xie’s family go to the door, and smiled and said to Xu: “Amitabha, Master Zheng is now developed. Grandma Zheng’s baby is a brother, so he will be happy.”

Only then did the two mothers realize that Xu was still two-body, but she was short of months and she didn't show any signs of her conceit.

Xu took his two daughters and blessed the old landlord and spoke softly: "I thank my aunt for taking care of her in recent years, and my niece-in-law and granddaughters, thank you aunt for yours."

The old landlord helped her approach, wiped her eyes with her sleeves twice, and watched her get onto the carriage...

Because the Master was away, the children rested for a day.

I heard that this time the Master brought his family, Li and Chu Yu, all prepared gifts and were waiting for someone to pick them up.

Cao Yong was idle and went to Lanyuan to talk to Li, talking about his origins with Zheng Xie. Li lived with his son Xiao in Hangzhou for a while and met Zheng Xie.

My son said that the master who came back this time was Zheng Xie. She said it was fate and asked Chu Yu to arrange a kitchen and add a few dishes of Huaiyang dishes to welcome Zheng Xie's family.

Chu Yu was also quite happy to hear that the new Master was her husband's fellow disciple. She loved the house and Wu. After marrying into the Cao family for the years, she really favored her husband's big characters and copied them in her spare time.

Thinking about my children, even if my father is not teaching by hand, he can learn good handwriting from the new Master, which is a good thing.

After all, in families like them, children study not for the imperial examination, but for the sake of being sensible and polite. Beautiful characters can help you whether you go to the government or the imperial examination in the future.

After only more than an hour Wu Sheng left, he returned to the house when he picked up the carriage. A servant reported to the second door.

Cao Yong walked out and went to the front yard to meet Zheng Xie.

The yard where Zheng Xie lives was the one where Qian Chenqun lived before, and the furniture was replaced with new ones.

Thinking of the family here and having a family start, a full set of pots and pans were installed in the ear room.

Zheng Xie's family moved in and there was no need to add anything, and they could live in the house. Here, there was a little girl, a maid, and a servant who was on duty, all waiting in the yard.

The two mothers who picked up the man sent Xu's mother to the yard and returned to the inner house to hand in the office.

There was really nothing to clean up. In just two quarters of an hour, Xu had all the items he moved in. Zheng Xie asked Cao Yong to come to the hall to serve tea.

Seeing that they were almost done, Cao Yong asked someone to go to the inner house to pick up Tianyou and the others and pay homage to the master and his wife.

Chu Yu was also here. Thinking that it was his sons' class and he was treated as a courtesy, he brought the children over and invited the Xu family and his daughter to the inner house along the way.

After meeting and holding the ceremony, Chu Yu invited the Xu family and his daughter to the inner house.

Xu had heard from her husband that there was a widowed old lady in the mansion who was the elder who was going to pay homage to her, so she took her daughter as she said and left with Chu Yu.

On Zheng Xie's side, he saw seven or eight students, the older ones were in his teens and the younger ones were five or six years old, and he was worried that the young masters and ladies of wealthy families would be naughty and difficult to teach.

Unexpectedly, when answering, everyone looked very knowledgeable and well-educated. He looked at Cao Yong sitting next to him, wondering if these children were so honest in front of the parents. If they had always been like this, then the Cao family's tutoring was really admirable.

However, when I thought of the fact that when I met Cao Yong when I was a child, a child one year younger than me, was like a little adult, Zheng Xie felt that it was caused by family traditions.

Zheng Xie looked at these children and felt quite emotional.

Previously, after Cao Yong agreed to take the job to attend the restaurant, Cheng Mengxian told Zheng Xie about the situation of the junior of the Cao family.

In this school, there are eight students, only three of them are from the Cao family, and the remaining five are Cao Ying's adopted son, adopted son, son of his family, and daughter of Xixi.

If it were other families, this son of a different surname would mostly be a companion.

It seems that these children, from the perspective of their dress, cannot distinguish their identities.

The oldest female disciple named "Shuping" should be Cao Yong's junior sister, and he is still Zheng Xie's junior sister.

For this reason, when Niu Niu held the ceremony to Zheng Xie, Zheng Xie turned slightly and did not receive the full ceremony.

Cao Yong looked around and knew that this "junior nephew" seemed to have a clear mind and did not forget his "junior uncle".

After Zheng Xie asked about the disciples’ homework progress and met each other, Cao Yong asked Niu Niu to take the children down.

Zheng Xie stood up to thank Cao Yong for the reason why Wu Sheng paid the rent before.

Cao Yong had heard Wu Sheng say it just now and waved his hand and said, "Don't be so polite. I was negligent. I had just said hello to the butler and asked him to send this year's Shu Xiu first."

Zheng Xie thanked again before sat down and spoke with Cao Yong.

Seeing him being stern, Cao Yong couldn't help but smile and said, "It's both a fellow disciple and an old acquaintance. Kerou will be more comfortable in the future, and there is no need to be so restrained. Although Shuping is the daughter of a family teacher, since she is under your disciple, she is your female disciple, and she discusses her own opinions."

When Zheng Xie heard this, he realized that Cao Yong still remembered himself. He hurriedly stood up, but this time he met with his son and nephew.

In other words, he is one year older than Cao Yong.

Cao Yong patted his forehead and said, "I just said it, there is no need to be too polite. We are about the same age, so it is better to have a fellow disciple."

Zheng Xie is also a free and easy person. Seeing that Cao Yong was not arrogant and treated warmly, he was no longer alienated and was much more comfortable in his words...

Xizhimen, Li’s House.

The butler Qian Zhongrui led the imperial physician into the inner courtyard and heard a cough coming from the room. He felt heavy in his heart. The third young master had been sick for more than ten days and had not recovered yet. After hearing what the second young master said, he coughed up bleeding last night.

In less than half a month, the third young master was so thin that he lost his human form. He used ginseng to raise him earlier, but later the imperial physician said that he had a strong heart fire and was not allowed to use ginseng. He only drank half a bowl of porridge for each meal.

The imperial physician went in, sat by the kang, carefully examined the pulse, and asked a few questions about the patient's recent diet and daily life.

After reading it, he went out to the outside world and said to Li Yu: "The patient's external evil invaded and injured his lungs. Now his heart fire is strong, which is quite dangerous. But he doesn't know why the patient has these many things at such a young age. Heart disease still needs to be cured by heart medicine and cured well. Otherwise, if it delays for a long time, even if the disease is cured, he will probably sit down the root cause."

Li Yu looked at each other with the butler, and knew in his heart that there was still something wrong with the failure of the provincial examination.
To be continued...