Chapter 216 It seems a bit difficult
In a villa in Chang'an City, a little girl was lying in the quilt thinking about the test paper, frowned and scolded while doing the questions, "What questions did this bad guy ask? He also said that if I could answer them all, I would be the owner of the pharmacy shop. Humph, obviously this was deliberately making things difficult for me."
Although she was cursing Du Shaoqing in her mouth, the little girl seemed to have a determination to give up and was still working hard to do the questions. She was Du Shaoqing's engaged wife, Miss Wuzhao.
The Chinese New Year is about to be celebrated, and Du Gou is also back from outside, so Wu Zhao and his daughter can no longer live in Laiguo Mansion, which will cause criticism. Du Shaoqing rented a yard for them and provided money and food on time. He agreed to marry Wu Zhao until he was sixteen years old. Originally, Du Shaoqing wanted to say that he was eighteen or twenty years old, but the girl was reluctant to stamp her feet, so she could only force her to do so. She was sixteen years old. This age is also the legal marriage age for women newly revised by the Tang Dynasty.
In the Political Consultative Hall, after Fang Xuanling and Gao Shilian got the test paper, they first browsed the whole paper. Then the old house spoke to Gao Shilian and said, "You are the Minister of Revenue and are good at counting. I will give you the previous questions of history and articles, and the subsequent arithmetic questions."
Gao Shilian shook his beard for a moment, thinking that he was not good, and he spoke slowly, and was blamed by Fang Xiang. He quickly retorted: "Fang Xiang is humble. You are the prime minister and a great talent in planning a country. It is definitely no problem to calculate it just by counting it. It is just a matter of research on literature and history. Let's discuss it together."
Li Er saw that, what happened to the two confidant ministers today? They actually started to shirk each other in front of themselves? This is not normal.
"Ahem, my dear friends, I'm here to consider it. Don't get me wrong about this topic with a shadow area. I'm generally aware of other topics." Li Er coughed lightly and reminded.
Gao Shilian asked in surprise: "Your Majesty, you have already done the problem of the collision between the fast horse and the slow horse from Chang'an to Luoyang in the 13th? Forgive the old minister, please help me solve the problem..."
"Uh..." Li Er was stunned for a moment, then said a little embarrassedly: "I haven't had time to see that question yet, let's get the question one."
Fang Xuanling asked curiously: "Your Majesty, where did this test paper come from? Could it be the new type of question for next year's scientific examination?"
Li Er explained with a wry smile, and finally reminded him: "If we can't even answer the recruitment test questions of a pharmacy, wouldn't it be a joke? Seeing this test paper, I feel that the scientific exams in the past have been a bit of a joke, so it will be necessary to increase the difficulty in the future."
After that, the students who were in the scientific examination were shot innocently. Fang Xuanling and Gao Shilian looked at each other. This was not because His Majesty, the father-in-law, was competing with his son-in-law Du.
The three monarchs and ministers in the Political Consultative Hall faced the numbering questions of a test paper for a long time before they made two questions. After a long time, Gao Shilian took the initiative to propose: "Your Majesty, there are many questions, why would you let me take them back and let all the ministers and employees of the Ministry of Revenue participate?"
"The old minister also wants to take it back and let his colleagues take a look. This test paper seems quite interesting. Since it was made by the number one talented prince Du Fuma, I think there must be many people interested." Fang Xuanling said.
Both old ministers tactfully proposed to give up, and Li Er let them take the test paper back, and he stood up and walked to the back hall. Not long after, he changed into plain clothes and brought the eunuch Lao Gao out of the palace with his eunuch Lao Gao in a low dress. He wanted to see if anyone could answer such difficult test questions. Of course, the most important thing was that he wanted to get an answer from his son-in-law Du Shaoqing, and he didn't know what the son-in-law sold.
When it comes to selling medicine, Du Shaoqing has already succeeded, which is to use an incident to successfully spread to the streets and alleys of the Tang Dynasty before his clinic was opened. Now there is no need to worry about interview talents and patients coming to visit in the future.
Hearing her husband explaining the exam like this, Li Lizhi asked in surprise: "Husband, didn't you say that the clinic cannot come like a guest? Why do you still use this method to attract customers?"
Du Shaoqing glanced at his wife awkwardly, and then explained seriously: "This is not to attract customers, but to ask customers to come here to solve their illness. If you don't seek medical treatment when you are sick, wouldn't it be very painful?"
The princess covered her mouth and chuckled, instead of revealing her husband's improper meaning, she asked in confusion with her test papers: "Husband, I see how many people have answered these test papers, why are you eliminated without even looking at them?"
Du Shaoqing glanced at the pile of test papers and said disdainfully: "Not to mention answering a few questions, just commenting on the emperor, I will write about your Majesty, my father-in-law today. Not to mention how many people are capable of, but they are full of flattery at the age of teens and twenty. I guess the yamen is suitable for them. We are a pharmacy and are doing a solid business, so we can't ask for these."
The princess suddenly realized, "Oh...it turns out that my husband's question is not about the answer, but has a deep meaning. He uses the question to test a person's nature. I have to say that this method is really clever."
Suddenly being praised by his wife, Du Shaoqing was a little proud, but his smile did not reach halfway through the corner of his mouth, and a voice came from outside the door: "Isn't I that worth mentioning? Why can't anyone admire it?"
"Ah! My daughter has seen her father. Why don't you say hello if you are coming?" The princess looked back and saw that it was her father and hurriedly saluted.
Du Shaoqing quickly got up and followed the ceremony, thinking that he was really instructing himself, and he was hit by someone else's words.
"I don't know if my father-in-law has arrived, but my son-in-law has missed the opportunity to welcome him."
Li Er walked into the living room of the back house of the clinic, looked at it and found that it was new. It seemed that the tables, chairs and furniture were very unique, and he did not continue to make things difficult for his son-in-law to comment on the emperor. After all, Li Er himself hated those ordinary flattery words, so he asked about the furnishings of the living room.
Du Shaoqing explained that when customizing the clinic furniture a few days ago, the carpenters specially asked new carpenters to make, such as the Taishi chairs and Eight Immortals tables, etc., and the Tang Dynasty generally sat on the ground, and in a few low cases, it was very inconvenient for people to kneel down and sit on the daily life. In the long run, they would suffer from leg diseases. This design solved this problem.
This is what Du Shaoqing has only started working on recently. He used to have no conditions to buy furniture in Luoxia Town, but after entering Chang'an, he stayed at other people's homes. Now he finally has his own courtyard and has a great leisure time, so he found Cheng Yaojin's home. The two parties cooperated with the furniture industry again, but they were still in the production stage and did not start selling.
Li Er was guided by his son-in-law and felt it was reasonable in his heart. This son-in-law would enjoy it. Sitting on the chair of the Grand Master, reading a book and drinking tea, this day is better than a god.
Without straightforward questions and answers, Li Er looked at the answer sheet on the table, "I'm here to see the recruitment situation. Are there any children with good qualifications here?"
Chapter completed!