Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 29
Mrs. Chen also saw Mrs. Zhang, hurriedly took a few steps forward, and said with a smile, "Fourth brother and sister, why are you here? It's so cold, don't freeze."

Mrs. Zhang greeted her with a smile, and took Mrs. Chen's hand and said, "Sister-in-law, you are here, please come in." Then he called Du Jinning, "Brother Ning, come in quickly, it's cold outside."

Chen was a little flattered.

Although the people in the first house were always polite to their third housemates, but they were concerned about Du Chensheng and Niu Shi, Meng Shi and Zhang Shi only secretly took care of them, and usually just nodded and smiled when they met on the road.It was the first time in her life that she received such a courtesy like today.

After entering the courtyard, she saw Du Yinsheng, Mengshi, and Du Yunchang standing on the steps in front of the porch. Seeing this, Mrs. Chen became terrified, took a few steps quickly, and saluted Du Yinsheng and Mengshi: "Uncle, aunt."

"Come on, please come in." Du Yinsheng smiled kindly, turned around and entered the door first.

"Come, go in and sit." Meng Shi took Chen Shi by his arm and entered the door.

But Du Yunchang stopped Du Jinning: "Brother Ning, come to my room, I have two scriptures for you."

Du Jinning had no choice but to follow Du Yunchang to the East Chamber.

Chen entered the door anxiously, and sat down under Meng's greeting, but before her butt touched the stool, she stood up again and saluted Du Yinsheng and Meng: "Uncle, aunt, if Ning If there is anything wrong with my brother, please forgive him for the sake of losing his father in his early years and no one to teach him."

"Hey, what are you doing? Get up quickly." Mengshi hurriedly stepped forward to help her up.

Du Yinsheng also waved his hand: "It's not about this. She didn't do anything wrong."

Only then did Chen feel relieved, and sat back under Mengshi's courtesy.

Du Yinsheng knew that it was inconvenient for Chen to stay here for too long, and if Niu found out, he would definitely be punished again, so he asked directly: "Brother Ning wrote the story book, you know?"

Chen Shi was startled, and wanted to stand up again.She guessed that Du Yinsheng called her here for this matter, but he just said that Du Jinning did not do something wrong.If Du Jinning hadn't been blamed, how could Du Yinsheng have called them over?

"Sit down, sit down." Du Yinsheng pressed his palm, and continued, "I read the script he wrote, and it's really well written. It's hard to imagine that it was written by a child who has only been able to read for a few days."

Chen didn't understand what Du Yinsheng wanted to say, and didn't dare to say more, but just nodded.

Du Yinsheng saw that Mrs. Chen's expression was still worried, so he stopped playing around and said straight to the point: "It would be a pity if he didn't go to school with his qualifications. I've been thinking about it for the past few days, and I think the best way is to adopt him." .I want him to be adopted under your brother Yunqing's name, what do you think?"

Mrs. Chen was stunned for a moment, and then she came to her senses, then shook her head violently: "No, this won't work, this really won't work."

Du Yinsheng frowned.

Meng Shi and Niu Shi are not in harmony, as long as the second wife is involved, she always doesn't care.But Du Yinsheng wanted to talk to Mrs. Chen. Although he was an elder, it was always bad for a man and a woman to talk in the house, and it was even more likely to gossip when outsiders saw him, so Mengshi stayed.

Hearing this, she couldn't help persuading Mrs. Chen: "The third family member, you can't be so selfish, you have to think about Brother Ning. He was born because of your father-in-law and mother-in-law's prejudice against him. You can't understand how much you have suffered. For this, you and Sister Fei have also suffered a lot. Now that he is ten years old, he is a little smarter than Yun Cheng back then, isn't it? You just want him to go on like this, to follow you to work in the fields every day, grow up to be unable to marry a daughter-in-law, and be a cow and a horse for those people all his life? Adoption, although he has become our grandson in name , but no matter what, he came out of your stomach, he is still your son. When he is promising and admitted to the scholar, we will ask him to take you over to take care of you. If the brothers are promising, they can also count on them. You can't just stare at the front, you have to take a long-term view."

Du Yinsheng nodded: "That's exactly what I want to say."

Seeing Chen's words, Mengshi kept his head down and said nothing, he couldn't help but frowned and said: "What are you thinking, you should say nothing."

Chen raised her head, but her face was already covered with tears.She wiped away her tears and said in a hoarse voice, "I know you are doing it for her and for our family, but I really can't adopt her to you." Then, she knelt down and knocked three times. Nodding his head, he got up and rushed out the door.

"Hey..." Mengshi wanted to stop her, but in the blink of an eye, Chen disappeared. She turned her head to look at Du Yinsheng, and said with a wry smile, "What is this?"

Du Yinchang sighed and did not speak.

Mengshi was afraid that he would get sick, so he relieved him and said, "It's understandable. At the beginning, she struggled desperately to give birth to Brother Ning, but lost Yuncheng. Yuncheng only had an incense stick like Brother Ning under her knee. For the sake of her deceased husband, how could she be willing to adopt Ning Geer? I don’t think you should think about it. Ning Geer is smart, and he is better than those children who study in the school without learning. You will borrow more in the future. Give her some books, and ask her to come over every night to explain. After two years, we will pay for her to take the children's examination. If she passes the exam, I don't believe that your second brother can stop her. Whether it is a dragon or a phoenix, it will always It’s about spreading its wings and flying high, no matter how hard it is to stop it, it can’t be stopped.”

Du Yinsheng nodded: "That's the only way to go."

After thinking for a while, he got up and opened the bookcase, took out a book from it, went out with his hands behind his back, went to Du Yunchang's room to find Du Jinning, and gave the book to her: "Master this book by heart, and I will arrive at dinner tomorrow." Come here and recite it to me. If you can understand its meaning, try to explain it. If there is anything you don’t understand, I will explain it to you later.”

When Du Jinning heard this, he knew that the adoption had not been negotiated.She felt relieved, reached out to take the book and read it, but it was "Poetry".

She agreed, and said: "When I just went back, my mother was about to ask me to have dinner. I'll go there first, and I'll come back tomorrow night to disturb my uncle."

"Well, let's go." Du Yinsheng nodded.

Watching Du Jinning go out of the room, through the yard and out the gate, Du Yunchang asked, "Father, third sister-in-law won't?"

"En." Du Yinsheng muffledly responded, and went out with his hands behind his back.

Mrs. Zhang came in with her sleepy-eyed son in her arms, and asked about the situation. She breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Du Yunchang, "You also persuade Dad, the twisted melon is not sweet. Since they don't want it, forget it."

Du Yunchang took a deep look at his wife, but did not speak.

Du Jinning went back to the second room and went straight into the bedroom, planning to hide the "Poetry" and the two storybooks Du Yunchang gave her before going to dinner, but saw Chen sitting on the bed alone and crying.

(End of this chapter)