The daughter-in-law of the first assistant is a super prosperous husband, and the whole family is vy

Zhou Ran stayed with the big girl in the village until her grandma passed her first birthday and then took her to the county town.

Da Niu was depressed for a long time after her grandma passed away, and then she slowly came out.

The days are like water, and it is July in the blink of an eye. This year is the year of the rural examination. Ye Ximing and Wei Yan have to rush to Fucheng to participate in the rural examination.

Just a few days ago, Gou Sheng went to Fucheng to prepare for the opening of Liuguang Pavilion, so Zhou Ran thought about going to Fucheng with Ye Ximing.

After Wei Yan knew that Zhou Ran was going with them, he originally wanted to take Ye Xiaomei with him.

Unexpectedly, when they were about to go out, Ye Xiaomei became pregnant, and Wei Yan could only give up his plan to take his wife to take the exam.

Zhou Ran and others set out from Nanxing County on July 20th. In addition to Wei Yan, Cao Bingwen and Da Niu were with them.

On the road, Zhou Ran and Ye Xi drove a carriage. Although in Zhou Ran's opinion, the eldest girl was still a child, the fact was that the eldest daughter was old enough to get married in this era, and he was afraid that she would not feel comfortable staying in a carriage with them. , Zhou Ran hired a carriage for her alone.

Cao Bingwen and Wei Yan were in a carriage, driven by the Wei family's coachman, and Wei Yan's servant was sitting outside with the coachman.

At noon, when the carriage stopped to rest, Wei Yan looked at Ye Ximing and Zhou Ran who got off the carriage together and sighed quietly to Cao Bingwen beside him, "Why is my little sister pregnant at this time? Otherwise, I wouldn't have to be with you." The elders have been looking at each other in the carriage all day long."

In fact, it is not accurate to say that they looked at each other in the carriage. Cao Bingwen was a hard-working person. Even in the carriage, he would not let go of the book and was very diligent and studious.

Wei Yan has been closely watched by Dean Meng during this period. Naturally, he no longer wants to read at this moment, but he cannot disturb Cao Bingwen from reading, so he can only sleep in a daze.

Ye Ximing, who was walking over, happened to hear what he said and snorted: "What? Are you unhappy that my little sister is pregnant?"

Wei Yan quickly shook his head, "How is that possible? Third brother, please don't slander me."

Ye Ximing also knew that Wei Yan didn't mean it this way, so he glared at Wei Yan and let him go, and turned to chat with Cao Bingwen about poetry.

Cao Bingwen made a mistake in the last provincial examination. He attaches great importance to this year's provincial examination. In the past, whenever Ye Ximing had time, he would always come to Ye Ximing to discuss poetry.

This time he could actually go with the students from the college who were rushing for the exam, but in order to be able to discuss poetry with Ye Ximing on the road, he chose to go with Ye Ximing and the others.

Who would have thought that if Ye Ximing brought Zhou Ran with him, it would be inconvenient for him to sit in a carriage with Ye Ximing, so he had to take advantage of the rest time to ask Ye Ximing for advice.

The two had just finished discussing a policy article. Zhou Ran brought food over. Cao Bingwen wanted to continue. Ye Ximing smiled and shook his head: "Brother Cao, let's eat first."

Cao Bingwen had no choice but to stop with regret and took out the dry food from the bag on the side to eat.

It was hot and they were on the road, so what Zhou Ran brought over were the pancakes and dried meat they had prepared before, as well as the meat sauce she had specially fried.

The meat sauce was numb and spicy. As soon as the jar was opened, Wei Yan couldn't help but swallow. Then he squeezed in front of Zhou Ran without saying anything, "Sister-in-law, give me a spoonful of pancakes."

Zhou Ran gave her a spoonful of meat sauce with a smile, and then handed the jar to Ye Ximing.

After Ye Ximing took the jar, he invited Cao Bingwen to eat with them. After Cao Bingwen repeatedly refused, he started eating with them at Ye Ximing's kind invitation.

After eating and resting for a while, they started on the road again.

They don't walk in a hurry on the road and usually find an inn to stay in the county town at night.

After walking and walking like this, they finally arrived in Fucheng on the fifth day. Zhou Ran sat in the carriage and frowned slightly as she looked at the passers-by on the street who were dressed in tatters and had sallow complexions. The last time she came to Fucheng, Fucheng was not like this.

Ye Ximing squeezed Zhou Ran's hand and explained: "Those people should be refugees."

"Refugees?" Zhou Ran was surprised. She didn't hear where the disaster was.
"Ningze Mansion suffered a flood some time ago. These people should have escaped from Ningze Mansion." This is what Ye Ximing heard from the villagers outside the city when he got off the car.

News of the flood in Ningze Prefecture did not reach Nanxing County, and they had not heard of it before.

"Ningze Mansion?" Zhou Ran looked at the refugees on the street and murmured: "Ningze Mansion is so far away, how could they come to Yongxing Mansion?"

Zhou Ran had heard of Ningze Mansion. Qian Dong’s family seemed to have opened a branch of Linglong Embroidery Shop there.

It's just that Ningze Mansion is in the south and not really close to Yongxing Mansion. Why did these victims come to Yongxing Mansion?

Ye Ximing didn't know this question either.

Gou Sheng had already rented a courtyard for Zhou Ran and Ye Ximing in Fucheng. Ye Ximing originally planned to stay in an inn, but Zhou Ran felt that the inn staff was noisy and they needed a good environment for exams, so he asked Gou Sheng to rent a courtyard for them in advance. .

The yard was not too small, so Ye Ximing invited Wei Yan and Cao Bingwen to live together.

Neither Wei Yan nor Cao Bingwen refused.

The location of the small courtyard is very good, just southeast of Fucheng and very close to Gongyuan.

Most of the courtyards in an alley are occupied by scholars, and the environment is very quiet.

When Wei Yan saw the courtyard, he waved his folding fan and said to Zhou Ran: "Sister-in-law, you are really good at being a manager. You can actually find a courtyard in such a good location. When we came here last year, we could only rent a remote and unknown courtyard."

Because it was too far away from Gongyuan, they finally chose to stay in an inn.

Zhou Ran smiled and said: "Gou Sheng is indeed very capable."

Gou Sheng handled everything she asked Gou Sheng very well.

Cao Bingwen raised his hands to Zhou Ran and Ye Ximing and said, "Thank you, brother Ye and sister-in-law, for taking me in. This yard is really nice. No one has disturbed me these past few days. We can just read a book."

When Wei Yan heard Cao Bingwen's words, he cried out: "Brother Cao, brother Cao, I say you should take a rest. With your knowledge, you will definitely pass the exam this time. There is really no need to face a formidable enemy like this."

Ye Ximing glared at Wei Yan and said, "Brother Cao is right. It's not long before the provincial examination. You should also read carefully for me these days."

"But……"

Wei Yan wanted to say something else, but Ye Ximing interrupted him coldly: "If Brother Cao and I both win later, you will fail the exam in disgrace. How dare you go back to see my little sister, your parents, and Dean Meng?" Them?"

Wei Yan shut up. He originally wanted to go to various poetry gatherings and so on, but now he might as well read in the yard.

Although he himself doesn't care much about whether he can win, his family is still looking forward to him winning. It would be really ugly if he really went back in despair.