Wangfu little dumb wife

Chapter 184 San Lang’s Life, Xie’s Fish Pond (1 more)
Someone summed up Song Wei's life:

It is difficult to be born, difficult to enter the examination room, and even more difficult to marry a daughter-in-law.

Miserable childhood, endless hurdles for teenagers, finally improved in the [-]s.

At the age of 30, he finally managed to keep the clouds open and see the bright moon rise to the top. He became a blockbuster high school Tanhua Lang.

Such deeds can be written into story books and taken to teahouses and restaurants for storytelling, and the designated venues are full.

……

Xie Zheng also won Jinshi, but compared to the impact of Song Wei's contrast between the front and back, it seemed much mediocre.

When Aunt Xie arrived after receiving the news, she found that many villagers in Shanghe Village were sending things to Song's house.

For Mrs. Song, I no longer hear the old "big sister", "old sister-in-law", "jurenniang" and other titles, such as "old lady".

It's the first time Mrs. Song has been called respectfully at this age, and she thinks it's quite useful.

When Aunt Xie saw her, she followed suit and called out with a smile, "Greetings to the old lady."

Even if it sounds awkward, Mrs. Song likes to hear it. She glanced at Aunt Xie, "I heard from Yuan Bao that your kid has also passed the exam. After a while, you have to become an old lady like me."

Xie Zheng hadn't written back yet, and now all the news from Shanghe Village and Qingshuiwan had to be conveyed by Song Yuanbao's small mouth.

He does what he says.

When the news came out earlier, most people automatically ignored Xie Zheng and paid more attention to Song Wei.

When it got to Qingshui Bay, there was nothing to say about Xie Zheng. What those people said was about the future of Song Jiasaburo, who became a high-ranking official in the capital, and arranged a carriage to pick up his parents. Go enjoy yourself.

Good luck!Really promising!

Aunt Xie came here to congratulate her second elder brother and second sister-in-law. She didn't expect such a sentence from Mrs. Song's mouth, and she was so shocked that she didn't respond for a long time.

Seeing that she was stiff like a wooden stake, Mrs. Song knew that no one had passed the news yet.

Aunt Xie felt that she must be dreaming.

When she was young, she didn't think about how to live her life. Seeing that Mr. Xie's family was good-looking, she didn't care about her parents' opinions, so she covered her head and walked into Xie's house.

After a period of freshness, there is only firewood, rice, oil, salt, fields, and endless work in front of and behind the house every day.

The Xie family is no better than the Song family.

No matter how poor the Song family is, they will never be short of food for the family.

Mr. Xie Jiatian, even if he kept pinching his hands and feet every day, he was still hungry most of the time.

Especially during the two years when Xie Zheng and Xie Tao ate long meals when they were five or six years old, they couldn't even provide coarse noodles at home, let alone fine grains.

But Aunt Xie has a backbone, no matter how bad things are going on, she will grit her teeth and stand up on her own, and will never reach out to her mother's family.

At that time, the Song family sent Song Wei to Kaimeng.

Mrs. Song didn't have any hope, she just hoped that reading more books and recognizing Chinese characters would help to drive away the bad luck of Saburo so that he could live a long life without detours.

Aunt Xie gritted her teeth and borrowed money to send Xie Zheng to Kaimeng as well.

She thought differently from Mrs. Song.

If Xie Zheng could succeed in his studies and come back, the old Xie's family would turn around completely, and she would be able to feel proud, so that she wouldn't be able to straighten her back when she returned to her natal family.

As soon as Xie Zheng entered school, the already difficult life of Xie's family became more and more difficult.

The mother-in-law felt that she was a prodigal, and that the money she had was not spent on the right way, so she was very angry with her.

No matter how difficult it was, Aunt Xie also tightened her belt. The work that usually took an hour to finish, she worked harder and finished it in half an hour.

Others only feed two pigs, so she will work harder to feed two more pigs. There will be rich households in the county who will come to the countryside to collect pigs for the New Year, and one pig can be sold for more than two taels of silver. Basically settled down.

The money that Xie Zheng paid for his studies was saved by Aunt Xie from between her teeth, one copper coin at a time.

After working day and night, the sister-in-law is older than the sister-in-law, Mrs. Song.

After seeing Bai Cai at both temples, he finally survived until his son was admitted as a scholar.

Aunt Xie was very satisfied, and felt that her hard work for so many years was not in vain.

Later, when Xie Zheng failed the township examination, Xie Zheng took a break for three years. Aunt Xie felt that it was nothing. The fame of a scholar had already exempted the family from taxes, and she had paid a few acres to go out. She could get some extra income every year. It was a little help for the family. She went out Chatting with people is also emboldened.

Later, Xie Zheng and Song Wei went to the provincial city and country examinations in the same class, and directly earned her a reputation.

On the day the news came back, Aunt Xie really sat on the bedside and cried.

be happy.

When her son has reached this point, even if her mother suddenly closes her eyes due to some accident, she will have no regrets in her life.

Like Mrs. Song, Aunt Xie also felt that if she got her name in the exam, she would be able to reach the top of the sky, and she couldn't even think about it.

But when Xie Zheng proposed to go to Beijing Chunwei, Aunt Xie didn't stop him.

If it had changed in the past, she would feel that Zhongju was already a big deal, and there was no need to spend more money to go to Beijing. Juren could go to the yamen to find a job and be a petty official with a monthly salary of two. Being an official in Beijing is not like them at all. People with a mud-legged background can imagine it.

But this year is different. Their family dug a fish pond, and they go to the town to sell fish and shrimp every few days. Occasionally, people from the village come to buy them. The income is good, and the family does not have much.

Aunt Xie really didn't think much of it, she just had the mentality of letting Xie Zheng follow Song Wei to the capital to see the world, thinking that when he came back, his son should calm down and do something serious.

Now the sister-in-law told her that her son had won the prize!
What did you hit?
More decent than juren and a reputation.

Aunt Xie couldn't say exactly what it was.

But that doesn't matter, the important thing is that if you pass the exam, you will have the opportunity to be an official in the capital, and you can completely change your family.

……

Relieved, Aunt Xie quickly pinched the back of her hand, felt the pain, and then realized that she was not dreaming, what the second sister-in-law said was true, her son really passed the Jinshi exam!
"Then why doesn't Xie Zheng come to write a letter?"

Aunt Xie was worried.

Even if he is happy for his son's success, his first concern is his safety, for fear that something will happen to him in the unfamiliar capital.

"Didn't Saburo from our family send you a letter?" Mrs. Song said: "Yuan Bao said, this time I won't write a letter, let him take all the messages. Don't stand outside stupidly. Come in and let Yuan Bao tell you about Xie Zheng." The kid wants to tell you something."

The aunt and sister-in-law entered the main room.

Song Yuanbao came back from the gentle Westinghouse, and reported the situation to Aunt Xie in detail, saying that Uncle Xie had to take another test to determine whether he wanted to stay in the capital forever. Let Aunt Xie and the others wait at home with the news that he passed the Jinshi exam.

Hearing that her son was fine and doing well, Aunt Xie felt a sense of relief in her chest.

He asked Song Yuanbao again, "Is your father sure that he wants to stay in the capital?"

Song Yuanbao nodded, "The emperor gave the plaque of Tanhua Jidi. My father is now an official in the capital, so naturally he can only stay in the capital. When I come back this time, I will take over my mother and grandparents according to my father's wishes." let's go."

Mother, the emperor personally gave the plaque?
Aunt Xie was dumbfounded when she heard that, "Then our old Song family won't be a mud-legged person from now on?"

"Well." Song Yuanbao said patiently: "Several generations of poor peasants from the ancestors of the Song family disappeared when they came to my father. In the future, if my father is promoted to an official position, he might be able to earn an imperial order for my mother and grandma."

Aunt Xie didn't quite understand these official words. Anyway, she knew one thing. The third nephew was promising and became an official in the capital.

Seeing Aunt Xie's envious face, Song Yuanbao said again: "My cousin is a Jinshi. As long as he can perform well in this exam and stay in the capital, he will have to write a letter asking you all to move to the capital."

Aunt Xie was taken aback when she heard that, "Really?" Then she asked in confusion, "Isn't it better that your cousin didn't pass the exam without your father? Why can he stay in the capital?"

This explanation is a bit long, and Song Yuanbao knew that he would not understand his aunt even if he said it, so he simply told her that it was possible, as long as he passed the exam.

Before the man left, Aunt Xie began to worry, "If your cousin doesn't come back, what will happen to our big fish pond?"

She had just dug out the fish pond for more than a year, and she raised all the fish and shrimp in it one by one. She suddenly said that she wanted to leave the pond, and she felt a little bit reluctant.

Mrs. Song asked her: "It's more decent to be an old lady in the official family or to raise fish and feed shrimp at home?"

"What's the point?" Aunt Xie smiled and said, "It must be that the old lady of the official family is decent, and she feels comfortable listening to it, but can't I put it down?"

"If you can't put it down, you can't roll it up, throw it in your pocket and take it away. If you really want to go, find someone who knows how to sell it to someone else, and go to Beijing to enjoy Qingfu with money in your pocket. Are you still worried about fish and shrimp?"

Aunt Xie heaved a long sigh, "That's right, when the time comes, no matter how reluctant I am, I have to be let out."

Mrs. Zhou has been listening outside, thinking that Mrs. Song and her are in-laws, and she will go to Beijing to become an old lady in the official family, and she feels a little uncomfortable. But when she looks back, she has a shop, and when the business grows in the future Yes, maybe even richer than their officials.

Mrs. Zhou is not so attached to being the mother of the Shangguan Lord, she only sees money in her eyes, and feels that as long as she has money, she is no worse than anyone else.

After opening a shop with Father Wen for a year, Mrs. Zhou learned some business acumen. After hearing what the two sisters-in-law said, Xie's Yutang was moved.

It's just that she had just entered the main room to talk to Aunt Xie, and the couple of Song Erlang's family came towards this way anxiously.

(End of this chapter)