Xu Mansion, Study Room. ++++

Xu Hao was writing something, and Xu Hu said, "Brother, I will invite you to have a drink tonight and have an appointment with Brother Li and his brother-in-law."

Xu Hao asked while writing: "Location?"

"Yes, it's the Qing'er's house in Gusu." Xu Hu couldn't figure out whether the third brother knew the inside story, probably because he knew it. Hongye couldn't tell it.

"Shen Qing'er?" Xu Hao sneered, "It's the one I met a few days ago? Well, he is a beauty who can sing music."

Xu Hu rubbed his hands embarrassedly and said, "Brother, I don't plan to take her home, but I'm a pair of confidants in the world. I'm sorry Wenjun."

"What does it have to do with me if you take it home? Whether Wenjun is right or not is Wenjun's business." Xu Hao put down his pen and raised his head, "I ask you, if the other party is pregnant, how can you prove that the child is your blood and how can you deal with it?"

Xu Hu was stunned and didn't know how to answer. After a long time, he said, "If it is clear that it is my flesh and blood, I should take my mother and son home. Even if Wenjun and Daimu are unhappy, I can't break up the mother and son, or leave them outside."

Xu Hao then smiled and said, "It's good to have this responsibility, and you don't have to take it home and have a headache. It's better to send it to Xiaojia Village. Your cousin will take care of it properly."

Xu Hu asked tentatively: "Brother, aren't you disappointed in me?"

Xu Hao laughed and said, "What's there to be disappointment? Do you really think you and Wenjun are Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai? Just ordinary people, it is inevitable that you will be fed up with the new and the old. You should be glad that you were born in the present, otherwise you would be troubled."

Xu Hu didn't understand, and Xu Hao did not continue to explain that Lao Qi had to give him face, so he stood up and stretched, "Prepare the car, as the host, you should go early."

"Oh!" Xu Hu laughed, quickly delivered his coat to serve his brother to change his clothes.

Yingchun and Lanchun pouted. With dissatisfaction on their faces, Xu Hao smiled and said, "I'm just going to socialize. Why don't you two go with me? To supervise?"

"Yeah, yeah." Lan Chun immediately became happy, "I'll change into a nice-looking dress, hum! You can't be compared by outsiders and lose our face."

Yingchun asked strangely: "Why take us out?"

Xu Hao said, "Isn't she unhappy for the past two days? Let's take her out to relax. After a while, we will sneak out. Take a boat to explore the night view of the two sides of the Qinhuai River."

"Okay, then I'll help her find a beautiful dress and dress up well." Yingchun also went out with a smile.

Xu Hu said enviously: "Why aren't I so doting as a third brother, but all the girls are arrogant? On the contrary, if there are one in your house, you are all so sensible and generous."

"Why?" Xu Hao smiled, "There is great knowledge here, you can experience it slowly."

At the same time, in the teahouse, Liu San said happily: "What's so ashamed of this? Although I can't be close to the nobles all day long, I'm still a court official. Both of us are outstanding. Come on, let's have tea and go with me to drink."

Li Zhongnan is not very capable. He studied at Shandong Maritime Institute. He did not like new homework and adhered to the traditional Four Books and Five Classics. He lived alone for a year.

Unexpectedly, he was lucky. He was just about to catch up with the Ministry of Justice to select a group of young people with special talents to replace the families of officials from all over the place that were gradually fighting against the Song Dynasty. In some counties, the officials were all controlled by the father and son. After the officials left them, they could not leave the door.

Xu Hao was quite surprised by this. He did not expect that the court would change the traditional administration of officials. It was because of the choice. In the past, there was an imperial examination for selecting officials, but there was no standard for selecting officials. Officials were considered one of the lowest-ranking industries and were discriminated against in the Song Dynasty.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty undoubtedly turned over and their status was greatly improved. Due to well-known reasons in the Hongwu Dynasty, many experienced officials were appointed as officials. It happened that they were the Hongxi Dynasty, which inherited the Hongwu Dynasty. The imperial examination once every three years was far from filling the gaps in officials at all levels. This gave officials opportunities. Many things happened, both good and bad.

In short, students who graduated from the new-style college also faced this opportunity to save the country in a curve. With the knowledge and concepts they learned, they stood out from the identity of civil servants, and gradually made officials of the six cabinet ministries realize the shortcomings of traditional minor officials. Are there any more familiarity with the bad customs of the deep-rooted official culture than scholars?

There is no doubt that Xu Hao failed to achieve his wish to reform the imperial examination, but indirectly promoted the birth of the professional local government officials class, that is, the civil servant group in later generations, which was of far-reaching influence on the Ming Dynasty and was of great significance.

Liu San led his cousin out, walked for a while, and said, "Sit inside."

Li Zhongnan looked at the gate, was stunned and asked, "Where is this place?"

"What do you ask, just go in horizontally and vertically." Liu San pulled him into the second door with a smile.

A middle-aged woman with heavy makeup came out and sneered at Liu San, "You still know how to come back. As soon as you leave my eyes, you will immediately make trouble." As she said that, she saw the scholar behind her and asked, "Who is this man? Come into the house. San'er, why don't you introduce him?"

Liu San smiled and said, "Don't worry, this is my cousin."

Widow Sun stopped talking, and Liu San said to Li Zhongnan: "This is the biological daughter of my girl. She is her own family. She will give her a regular ritual."

Li Zhongnan bowed for no reason. Widow Li looked down on Liu San's relatives, bent down slightly, and turned around and left.

Liu San took him to his house. Li Zhongnan saw that the house was located in the corner of the second door, with a bed inside, and the walls were covered with opera cards and huqins.

There was a table and three chairs by the window. Liu San asked his cousin to sit down and smiled and said, "You sit down first, I'll go out to deal with it and come back."

Li Zhongnan also knew his business and agreed. When Liu San went out, he flipped through the notebook on the table, such as the plan to kill the yellow robe and empty city. There were a variety of books. He had never been good at this, and he didn't know the whole story. Finally, he found out the account book.

When I opened it, I saw that the first one was the chief of a certain royal palace, followed by the six officials, five temples, and the so-called five temples, namely Dali Temple, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Taipu Temple and Honglu Temple, as well as Gonghou Bo Mansion, and the prefects of a certain province, were all amazing nobles.

Li Zhongnan looked at it over and over again, thinking in a daze. "I can't see an inconspicuous house, but there is a signature sheet in the court."

Since he was a child, his parents repeatedly warned him not to interact with his cousin and his family. His family has no ambition and has changed the dynasty and shamelessly rely on the kiln for a living.

Of course, the Li family, who became a commoner, was not rich, and just an ordinary farmer. For so many years, I was deeply ashamed of having relatives like the Liu family.

So when Li Zhongnan came in, he felt uncomfortable all over. He was also thinking that his cousin helped him. The two brothers hadn't seen each other for many years and thought they would take him to his house, but he still went into the kiln.

Li Zhongnan said I'll leave, but after reading the account book, my butt was like a iron cast on a chair and I could never get up again.

He quietly listened to the sound of cars and horses outside, please rest and laughter, and looked out through the crack of the door. He saw people in brocade clothes and gorgeous clothes walking inside. His cousin Liu San changed into a green cloth robe and happily led him in the front hall. Many servants stood in awe of the yard. After learning the pomp of the nobles in the capital, Li Zhongnan did not dare to sniff at all, and stuck out his tongue and quietly retracted his head.

Soon the sky darkened, and lanterns were hung outside. The room was pitch black. There was nothing to eat or drink in the room. The hungry Li Zhongnan wanted to look at his cousin, but there was not even a shadow. He couldn't help but smile bitterly and was placed under house arrest by him for a long time.

While he was thinking about it, someone rushed in and asked, "Where is Liu San?"

Li Zhongnan couldn't see the person clearly, and suddenly said, "I've been waiting here for a long time. Please tell him something, saying I'm leaving."

Unexpectedly, the man spat, turned around and left. Li Zhongnan was stunned and said to himself, "I am a master after all, but I just haven't passed the exam. I'm not a vulgar person. I'll vomit me when I see you?"

After waiting for a while, a servant walked in with a lantern. He looked at him, put the lantern on the windowsill, ignited the oil lamp, and said, "Brother Liu said that today is Mr. Xu Qi's drinks party. Mr. Xu San is here and is too busy to come. Please wait for me."

Li Zhongnan didn't know who Xu Sanye was. He looked at the servant and saw him bald robe, with curved eyebrows and eyes, and he smiled without laughing when he spoke. He couldn't help but respond. He asked him what his name was? What errands did? How much promising is he every month?

The servant smiled and said, "I have no duty, just put on the spittoon for the guests. The fortune of a month depends on the number of guests, and it will only cost more than a dozen taels of silver for a long time."

Li Zhongnan said in surprise: "Why is it so much money? I got a second-class exam and was assigned to the county magistrate. Even if I took office, I would not be as good as you."

The servant couldn't understand it, and I also thought that his words were inappropriate. Is there such a comparison? I knew that he was a nerd and boring, and he smiled and said, "You always sit there, I'm going to go in and work."

After saying that, he turned around and left. Li Zhongnan heard the song of bamboo swaying waves inside. From time to time, he smelled the tempting fragrance of food. His stomach became more and more empty and hungry. After a long time, he still disappeared from Liu San. The longer he waited, the longer he waited, the more hungry he became, the more anxious he became. The more anxious he could not wait for Liu San to arrive. He could only wander around in the big room alone.

I don’t know how long I have been waiting, but it was almost midnight. Suddenly I heard a burst of laughter inside, and then a shout of shouting and serving.

There was a promise outside, and in an instant, cars and horses were neighing outside the door. What kind of turtles and turtles stood in two rows. Under the lights, a group of distinguished guests came out.

Li Zhongnan stood at the door and looked around. Seeing each other walking over, the wheels outside the door were scattered for a moment, and he said to the moon with ambitious ambition: "In the future, I, Li Zhongnan, will also be like this, so that I can be worthy of my life!"

Just as I was thinking about it, I saw someone inside say, "Miss is out, turn on the sedan lamp, I will stay at the pleasure boat tonight."
Chapter completed!