Chapter 7 Specially Benefiting Others, Incidentally Benefiting Oneself
Zhao Hao couldn't help but feel a little moved. He divided the duck legs into two halves, said it was too salty, and then forced it to Zhao Shouzheng half.
Zhao Shouzheng touched Zhao Hao's head with relief, and no longer refused.
When the two of them enjoyed each other head-to-head, Zhao Shouzheng inevitably gave a few sour sentences such as "The cold spring covers the heavy door, and the fragrance of the golden duck is still warm in the fire."
Zhao Hao felt that it was quite appropriate, so he didn't complain. He solved half of the duck leg in his hand in a few seconds, sucked the bones until Bai Yingying was gone, and then threw it on the ground with an unsatisfactory feeling and lay back on the bed comfortably.
"How did grandpa offend Gao Gong?" He was puzzled by this.
Zhao Shouzheng also ate the duck legs cleanly, then picked up the bones that Zhao Hao threw away, wrapped them with grease paper, stuffed them into his boots, and prepared to take them out tomorrow to throw them away.
While eliminating the evidence of the crime, he replied nonsense: "Before that day, I had never heard of the wind. The day before yesterday, he asked your uncle, and he said that both sides were secretive about this matter, only told me that Gao Gong once said, "There is Gao Wu Zhao, and Zhao Wu Gao." After asking, your uncle only said, "The world is weak, the human relationship is evil, and the rain sends the flowers to the dusk and fall, which makes people unable to understand."
"Ask grandpa tomorrow?" Zhao Hao was lying on his arm. He had to figure it out.
"Your uncle repeatedly told me not to ask your grandpa. He said that this is a wound that he cannot lift, and he will be furious as soon as he touches it." Zhao Shouzheng sighed and said, "It's useless to say that these are now. The so-called 'time and luck are unlucky'. Now that Gao Gong is in power, our old Zhao family will not be able to turn over for a while."
He wanted to say, "There will be no more time to turn over," but he didn't want his son to be too desperate, so he changed his words.
"Oh, okay..." Zhao Hao nodded as if he accepted his fate, thinking that it seemed that the old man's affairs could not be overwhelmed.
Next door, the uncle and son didn't sleep well.
Zhao Shouye suddenly sniffed and reached out to poke Zhao Xian beside him.
"Son, what do you smell?"
Zhao Xian also sniffed hard, nodded and said, "Salty and fragrant..."
As he said this, his face suddenly changed: "Dad, you haven't washed your feet yet?"
"Get out!" Zhao Shouye kicked Zhao Xian off the bed, but after saying that, he couldn't help but lift his feet and smelled it.
"Vomit..." Zhao Shouye couldn't help but retching.
The room of Zhao Hao and his son.
The two were silent for a long time. Just when Zhao Shouzheng thought his son was finally asleep, he suddenly heard his son ask:
"Qingliu is very poor, right?"
"Uh..." Zhao Shouzheng was stunned for a while before suddenly awakening: "Oh, are you talking about my future father-in-law?"
"Yes." Zhao Hao responded.
"Others are poor, but they can't be poor. The Nanjing Imperial College Prison is so poor! I don't know hundreds of people who want to donate to prison every year. And those old prison students who have been waiting for the election for more than ten years have to beg him to give him a top-level exam. Do you think he can be fine?"
When Zhao Shouzheng mentioned this, he stopped sleeping. He sat up cross-legged and said with a smile: "And if Lao Taishan goes further, he can be promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of Rites. He has stepped into the cabinet with one foot! As the saying goes, 'There is firewood on the back of the green mountains', maybe our Zhao family can turn over with it."
After saying that, he came to his senses and looked at his son strangely and said, "What do you ask?"
"Didn't you ask us to give an answer?" Zhao Hao replied softly: "Would you like to leave or stay."
"What do you think? Anyway, it doesn't matter if you are a father. If you want to stay, we will stay. If you want to leave, we will leave." Zhao Shouzheng was free and easy, or irresponsible, and handed over the decision to his son.
"Okay..." Zhao Hao nodded with a wry smile. He didn't know if it was a blessing or a misfortune when he got such a father.
In fact, according to his idea, he stayed in Nanjing like his uncle's family and did not return to Xiuning's hometown. But after getting along these days, he felt that he had to live separately from his uncle to live in peace. That's why he seriously considered his father's proposal to eat soft rice and eat soft food.
"Whether you leave or stay, you have to think of the rules and regulations. If the rules are messed up, it will be difficult to turn over." Zhao Hao said, and sat up and looked at Zhao Shouzheng steadily.
"Well, it's very reasonable!" Zhao Shouzheng's eyes were red with relief, and he patted his son's shoulder and said, "No wonder the wise man said 'The wind is strong and powerful.' It's not obvious that my son has grown up if he doesn't happen." As he said that, he wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeves and asked Zhao Hao:
"What is the charter?"
"This year is the year of the provincial examination?" After thinking about it over the past few days, Zhao Hao had already made a decision.
"Yes, this year is the year of the competition, and there are autumn exams." Zhao Shouzheng nodded.
"My father is a student of the Imperial College in Nanjing, right?" Zhao Hao asked again.
"Yes, what do you mean?" Zhao Shouzheng understood a little.
"It's better for us to stay and try our luck." Zhao Hao said lightly, but his tone was firm.
Everyone knows the story of Fan Jin passing the Juren. As long as he wins the Juren, his personal and family's fate will be earth-shaking and reverse in one fell swoop!
If Zhao Shouzheng also passed the imperial examination, wouldn’t he be able to enjoy wealth again?
But Zhao Shouzheng smiled bitterly and said quietly: "Oh, son, I'm not boasting about my father. I have great confidence in the failure."
After a pause, he said indifferently: "Since the 31st year of Jiajing, my father has failed five times... I think we are looking for another way out."
Zhao Hao insisted, "The feng shui turns around. Maybe I will win this time."
He had made up his mind to convince Zhao Shouzheng to participate in this provincial examination no matter what.
Unexpectedly, before he could talk, Zhao Shouzheng nodded and agreed, "Oh... OK."
"Ah, that's what it's right?" Zhao Hao was stunned, and once again felt the depression of hitting Zuo with one punch.
"My son is ten times smarter than me. Now he is sensible. As long as he is willing to study hard, he will be as easy as he can get into school." However, he saw Zhao Shouzheng with a serious face and said, "The sage said, 'Telling by words and deeds'. How can a father not set an example for you?"
"Uh, I... I'm afraid it's really not possible..." Zhao Hao waved his hands repeatedly.
"Humility! I am humble at such a young age. I will definitely be able to become a general and a prime minister in the future..." Zhao Shouzheng became more and more boasted.
"Cough cough cough..." Zhao Hao's face turned red and he coughed repeatedly.
Zhao Shouzheng hurriedly patted his back. "It seems that the duck legs are really salty."
Zhao Hao was amused and cried.
He actually knows his own affairs. He doesn't need to mention himself. Isn't it a modern person who has no background in his dream to take the imperial examination?
The original owner, Xiao Zhao Hao, was even more ignorant. Although Zhao Liben said that he could not read a few big words, it was a bit exaggerated. However, from the beginning of the country to now, he could not even memorize the Analects of Confucius. Why did he get fame and honor?
Do you really have to study hard for twenty years?
I'm here to have a happy life... Is it good that I'm here to enjoy my happiness?
As the saying goes, if you die, I will not die. It is better to let Zhao Shouzheng take the exam.
Moreover, Zhao Hao also has a secret weapon in hand. The subject of his previous graduation thesis is the Jinshi of Wuchen in the second year of Longqing!
Because this is the most prominent subject in the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination history for more than 200 years, this subject has produced seven major scholars, eighteen Shangshu, and fifty-two people who became third-rank officials. Not only the Ming Dynasty, but also the entire imperial examination history, it is an unprecedented grand occasion.
He wrote that thesis for more than a year, but he didn't know how much the materials were found alone. He still remembered the questions in the Yingtianfu provincial examination that year.
This is the greatest reliance for him to remain calm and maintain confidence after he comes here!
Unfortunately, Xiao Zhaohao himself is ignorant and is not even a child, so he has no chance of participating in this year's provincial examination.
And he didn't know what to do in the next subject...
This is a real opportunity to be missed, and you will never come back. For the sake of the rest of your life, you must help Zhao Shouzheng get into this subject!
Chapter completed!