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

After hearing Zhou Ran's question, Wei Yan sighed and complained: "What else can I do? Of course I'm going to find you, Third Sister-in-law. Third Sister-in-law, you haven't come back. Third Brother is so worried that he died."

Zhou Ran smiled and said to the two of them, "It's my fault for making you worry."

After finishing speaking, Zhou Ran told what happened when she met the two brothers and sisters in the afternoon.

Ye Ximing glanced at the two brothers and sisters following Zhou Ran and said, "As long as you're okay."

The main reason is that recently there are not only many refugees in the city, but also many scholars who come to take the exam. Ye Ximing is worried that Zhou Ran and Da Niu will encounter some trouble outside, so he insists on looking for them.

Seeing that Zhou Ran and Da Niu were okay, Ye Ximing and Wei Yan went back to the room to read.

The woman they hired was at the party at the moment. Zhou Ran looked at the dirty appearance of the brother and sister and asked Zhao Wu to go to the kitchen to boil water and ask them to wash themselves first.

The younger sister looked about seven or eight years old. Zhou Ran was worried that she wouldn't be able to take a bath by herself. He wanted to ask the older girl to help him, but the younger girl said that she could do it herself, so Zhou Ran didn't care.

Half an hour later, the brother and sister appeared in front of Zhou Ran, clean and tidy.

Zhou Ran looked at the two beautiful children in front of her, and thought to herself that it was a good thing that these two children were too dirty before and couldn't tell their appearance, otherwise they would have been bought to those romantic places.

"Did you two escape from Ningze Mansion?" Zhou Ran asked softly.

The two brothers and sister nodded and told Zhou Ran honestly that they were from a small village below Hongcang County in Ningze Prefecture. The family used to make a good living by raising silkworms, but in June, Ningze Prefecture was hit by a siege. After seven days of heavy rain, the Yujiang River dike was washed away and their entire village was flooded.

The family's property and food were all gone. At first, everyone hoped to get relief from the government, but their county government only gave out porridge for two days at the beginning, and then closed the city gates tightly, not caring whether they lived or died. .

They had no choice but to rush to Fucheng. The parents of the two siblings also went to Fucheng with them. However, when they arrived in Fucheng, they discovered that they were not the only ones in Hongcang County who were affected by the disaster. The people under Ningze Mansion were also affected. Many counties and cities were affected by the disaster, including Ningze Prefecture.

When they arrived at Ningze Mansion, the city outside Ningze Mansion was full of disaster victims.

Although Ningze Mansion is also giving out porridge, the porridge is clear and contains only a few grains of rice.

The people outside the city were furious and clashes often occurred. In the end, some victims decided to rise up and rush into the city to grab food.

The brother and sister's parents didn't want to get involved, so they left Ningze Mansion with a group of refugees who also didn't want to get involved, and came all the way to Yongxing Mansion.

They didn't actually want to come this far at first, but other towns they passed along the way saw that they were refugees and refused to let them in. Only the city of Yongxing Prefecture did not stop them.

The road to Yongxing Mansion was actually not smooth sailing. The brother and sister's father died to protect them, and their mother was seriously injured yesterday while trying to grab a bite of food from someone. They had no money to look after them. Injury, their mother didn’t survive last night and she died.

After hearing this, Zhou Ran let out a long sigh and said, "You two, please follow me for now."

The brother and sister wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Zhou Ran again, but Zhou Ran stopped them and said, "I don't like being kneeled here and there. Don't kneel down all the time in the future."

"Yes, ma'am."

Afterwards, Zhou Ran asked the two brothers about their ages and found out that the older brother was twelve years old and the younger sister was eight years old. The elder brother's name is Awang, and the younger sister's name is Ahua. Zhou Ran didn't ask the brother and sister to change their names, so he just called them by their original names.

Zhou Ran didn't think about what to do with the two brothers, so she let her brother follow Zhao Wu for the time being, and her sister followed Da Niu.

The younger sister didn't have any particular reaction to following the older girl, but the elder brother was obviously a little afraid of Zhao Wu, but he didn't object and agreed obediently.

In the evening, after dinner, Zhou Ran told Ye Ximing what she had heard from her brother and sister.

After hearing this, Ye Ximing was silent for a long time before saying: "The late emperor was extravagant and licentious when he was in power. In recent years, the Queen Mother Xuan and her party have controlled the government. The entire court has long been corrupt. In the face of such a flood, the court and the government are afraid They couldn’t spare any money to help the victims, so they were left to fend for themselves.”

I don’t know if things will be better after the emperor takes charge personally.

Ye Ximing had already thought about it. He wanted to be a good official, but if he saw no hope in the emperor, he would resign after he finished what he wanted to do.

Although it is a bit premature for him to think about resigning as a scholar, he has confidence in himself and his teacher. He can definitely pass the Jinshi examination.

Ye Ximing and Zhou Ran lay on the bed and talked for a while before falling asleep in each other's arms.

However, the lights in the room belonging to Cao Bingwen were on for half the night.

In the morning, when Ye Ximing and the others got up, Cao Bingwen was already up and reading again.

While having breakfast, Wei Yan looked at the deep dark circles under Cao Bingwen's eyes and advised, "Brother Cao, you'd better take it easy. If this continues, don't try and fall down before taking the test."

Ye Ximing looked at Cao Bingwen's face and advised him: "Brother Cao, what Wei Yan said is right. Don't be too nervous. With your talent and knowledge, there will definitely be no problem in passing the exam, but if something happens to your body, Things, then the gain outweighs the loss.”

Every year, many candidates are carried out of the examination room for the imperial examination.

If Cao Bingwen was in bad health, he would definitely not be able to survive the nine-day provincial examination.

Cao Bingwen actually felt a little top-heavy at the moment. After listening to Ye Ximing and Wei Yan's advice, he decided to catch up on his sleep and not stay up so late at night in the future.

On this day, Zhou Ran did not take Da Niu to Liuyun Pavilion. Things at Liuyun Pavilion were almost finished, and now they were waiting for people to sign up.

At noon, Zhou Ran was embroidering a purse when the big girl suddenly ran over with Ahua with a look of surprise on her face.

"Master, look quickly." The girl held up the cloth in her hand to show Zhou Ran.

Zhou Ran took it and looked at it. There was a puppy embroidered on it. The embroidery work was not very good, but the charm of the puppy was captured very well, making the puppy look very agile at first glance.

Zhou Ran looked at the big girl, then at Ahua who was holding the corner of her clothes behind her, and asked, "Did Ahua embroider this?"

Zhou Ran took it and looked at it. There was a puppy embroidered on it. The embroidery work was not very good, but the charm of the puppy was captured very well, making the puppy look very agile at first glance.