Chapter 631 Homecoming
In Songmingshan Village, She County, Huizhou Prefecture, the Fengle River at the entrance of the village is still flowing smoothly as usual, irrigating many fertile fields on both sides of the river. Because the Wang family of Songmingshan and the Wu family of Xixinan on the other side have made a marriage, they will hold a wedding soon, and the two villages that often get married are even more shrouded in a joyous atmosphere. However, the capital recently sent a letter back and said that it was the woman's brother. Wang Fulin, who had just passed the imperial examination in the Jiaxu Palace and passed the imperial examination last year, actually took leave and returned to his hometown to recuperate. This attracted many people's worries and many speculations.
But for Wang Erniang, who was preparing to marry at home, she heard that her brother could come back to attend her wedding and even brought her fiancé's brother back together. She only had endless joy in her heart. The dowry was prepared long ago, and Ye Qinglong, the most capable shopkeeper under her brother, personally went to Suzhou and Hangzhou. All the silk materials were the most fashionable in Jiangnan. The Wu family in Xixinan was also a wealthy family. The betrothal gift was originally said to have been prepared for 64 pounds. This was Wang Daoyun personally went to the Wu family in Xixinan Village. He persuaded him not to be too arrogant. This was the only way to reduce the number of Wang Fulin's wedding at the time.
At present, the wedding dresses and meeting gifts are already complete. Wang Erniang, who is skillful and has made several small jewelry to give to others. Now that she is idle, she can only calculate her brother's return journey every day with her fingers. After all, since she went to Nanjing for the autumn examination two years ago, and then went to Beijing for the spring examination. Wang Fulin has not been back for more than two years. This is also the longest time he has left his hometown in these years. When he thought of the dull nerd brother gradually reflecting and correcting after being seriously injured, he shining, and Wang Erniang couldn't help but squint his eyes and smiled.
Even the Wu family in Xixinan all praised each other when they mentioned their brother. What's more, who would have thought that after Jin Bao came to Beijing to send news, the brother, who was about to become an official, would rush back to attend her wedding without hesitation, and would rather take a sick leave!
"Second sister, second sister!" Wang Erniang, who was sitting in front of the window and thinking, looked up and saw that Wang Xiaomei rushed in, her face flushed and full of joy. Her heart moved. Sure enough, Wang Xiaomei immediately shouted, "Brother is back, come back!"
At this moment, Wang Erniang no longer cared about her reserve, and rushed in with her skirt. When she arrived at the second door, she saw the familiar figure. She seemed to have grown a lot higher, and she looked even taller and handsome. Seeing her running out like this, he smiled and walked up straight. Just when she didn't know what to say, Wang Fulin suddenly took action, picked her up and hit her in a circle. When she put it down, she laughed and said, "Time flies so fast, and our most powerful housekeeper is going to get married too!"
"Brother, who are you talking about?" Wang Erniang turned red, but she did not blame Wang Fulin for this when she came back. When she saw Wang Fulin picking up Wang Xiaomei, she also whispered. She glanced at her parents who had just come out. Seeing Wang Daoyun's face was full of anger. Wu was stunned and quickly stepped forward to remind him, "Brother, parents are watching."
Compared to the two elders, Wang Fulin was closer to his two sisters, so he teased them and saw his parents' subtle expressions. He then changed into a solemn look in embarrassment and rushed forward to pay homage. Although Wang Daoyun was a little annoyed that Wang Fulin ignored the male and female defenses and had sex with his sister, the pride of a Jinshi in his family overwhelmed everything. He nodded with some relief. Wu had given birth to four children, and only this only son, so he naturally became more favored. After only one bow, he quickly pulled people up and looked around.
When she saw Xiaobei and Jinbao also came to salute. She quickly went up and pulled one with one hand. When Ye Xiaopang pulled Qiu Feng over, she was so busy that she could hardly greet her. She immediately asked everyone to go back to the backyard hall to sit together. At this time, Wang Fulin had to ask the old servant Wang Qi and his wife who had been guarding the old house in Songmingshan to arrange for the rest of the people who came back and to go in the last time.
When they passed Xuancheng before, Wang Fulin said goodbye to the uncle and nephew of the Shen family for a while, but invited them to come to their house to attend Wang Erniang's wedding. When they arrived in She County, Cheng Kui and the other two, who had been away from their hometown for too long, went back to their respective houses first, so there were no other guests in the main hall at this time, and they were all from the family. After a long separation, Wang Fulin asked Wang Erniang about his wedding date and learned that it was October 26, and it was October 13, and it was less than half a month before the day. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Before, Jin Bao went to the capital and said that Er Niang was engaged and was about to get married. But his life was not yet settled. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to catch up. Otherwise, Er Niang wouldn't blame me, my brother for the rest of his life?" Wang Fulin said and said, "I have nothing else to give you. I went to Liaodong before and found a lot of good skins, as well as ginseng and other medicinal materials. I will pick the best ones for you to accompany you."
"As long as you come back, who wants your stuff?" Although he was about to get married, Wang Erniang remained unchanged and was still more straightforward than shy.
However, she was happy, and Wang Daoyun was different. Although he was really happy to see his son again, he was more worried that his son had passed the Jinshi exam, so why did he take sick leave to return home, so he had to ask about this matter immediately. Wang Fulin knew that the twists and turns here would be difficult for a while, and he did not intend to ask them in front of his two sisters, so he could not worry about them, and he said lightly: "Dad, you are worried that I am not responsible for doing things. You should trust my uncle, right? In fact, the news is too tight. The Chief Auxiliary wants to clean up a group of disobedient people. I will come back to avoid the limelight first. When I go over here, I will go back to Beijing to find an official position. Don't worry."
At this level of Wang Daoyun, a county magistrate is enough for him to mutter for a long time, let alone the prime minister of the dynasty? So he glanced at Wang Fulin suspiciously and asked Xiaobei. However, Xiaobei has always been a husband and wife, so of course he would not expose Wang Fulin's understatement and comfort the two elders according to his words. As for Ye Xiaopang and Jin Baoqiufeng, who knew that Wang Xiaoren's brilliant achievements in the capital, they tacitly agreed with their words. In this way, even if Wang Daoyun was skeptical, he could only believe it helplessly.
However, Wang Fulin could avoid the importance of his parents. Cheng Kui and Wu Zhongming, who also returned from the capital, certainly, they were inevitably interested in talking about the experience of Wang Xiaoguan in the capital. Therefore, when Wang Daoyun actually learned from the Wu family in Xixinan that his son had actually visited the Wenhua Hall. In front of the current emperor Wanli and a large number of court bosses, he had a fierce debate with Yu Mao, Wuyuan, and almost slandered and brought a bad reputation, he felt that his heart was trembling.
If it weren't for his daughter's future uncle Wu Yingming, he said with great certainty that Yu Maoxue had just been dismissed from his post and returned to Wuyuan, which had nothing to do with Wang Fulin's return to his hometown after he was sick. He was afraid that he would ask his son for a good question.
But even so, Wang Xiaoguan's reputation has increased a lot in the entire Huizhou Prefecture. After all, Wang Fulin was in Huizhou Prefecture in the past because there was Ye Junyao who supported him, and Wang Daokun's nephew. He represented the Wang family in Songmingshan to the outside world, but he was just a scholar himself. But now the scholar has become a Jinshi. Although he is in the third grade, he is the first of the third grade. He has seen Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the current dynasty, and Tan Lun, the Minister of War, personally took the title of "The Palace". After walking around the Wenhua Palace, it was more than twice as heavy as before. Even now, he returned to his hometown to recuperate and strongly resigned from the emperor to the censor, and no one dared to underestimate him.
This can be clearly seen from the three greetings from the prefect of Huizhou, Huining Road and She County Magistrate.
Therefore, although the reason for returning to his hometown was to recuperate, and the actual reason was to attend his sister's wedding and avoid the limelight, Wang Fulin had to personally go to the three most important government offices in Huizhou, and visited the three main officials, Huizhou prefect, Yao Huizu, She County Magistrate and Huining Dao, but he did not know any of them. Each of the three was twice his age, but from that polite to a little too much, he still felt a little deep fear. Only Yao Huizu was polite and had a little closeness, obviously thinking that his relationship with Zhang Juzheng was extraordinary.
Anyway, he did not intend to cause trouble when he returned home this time, so he would beat him up most of the time. What made him very moved was that although the emperor had been a minister every day, it was normal for the change of officials but not officials. For example, the three ranks and six ranks in the She County Yamen were all the old men when Ye Junyao was in office. When he visited the She County Magistrate, Zhang Si Li, Liu Hui, Liu Hui, the clerk of the House Office, Xiao Zhenyue, and Zhao Wu, the head of the Zhuang Class. These four old acquaintances who had the closest to him were all welcomed and sent him away in person, but their attitude was a little more respectful than that year.
If it weren't for the Wang family in Songming Mountain, they wouldn't be so steady. What if even the new county magistrate dared to treat them?
Wang Fulin naturally would not forget the old team that had helped him a lot when charging forward. When he resigned from the She County Magistrate, he saw the four people sending them all the way out. When he arrived at the door, he smiled and took out the wedding invitation and invited them to attend Wang Erniang's wedding. After the four people received the wedding invitation, they were all flattered and agreed. Until they sent Wang Fulin out of the door, Liu Hui said with a sigh: "I really didn't expect that Wang Xiaoguanren got the Jinshi all the way from the scholar so quickly, and he also made such a great reputation in the capital. It was really like a dream."
"Talents are like this everywhere!" Zhao Wu smiled and suddenly remembered a big thing. He looked around and whispered, "I heard that Shuai Jiamo was sent by Mr. Wang to escort back last year. For more than a year, he has been passing the government office and the Nanjing Censorate. He has handed over the letters one by one. It is said that he has also seen Yinbu Hall. Huizhou Prefecture said that he has been checking out old files of Xia Tax silk. Do you think that Wang Xiaoguanren will ask about this matter when he comes back this time? You know, our Xue County Master is very enthusiastic about this now."
After being told by Master Zhao Wu, Zhang Sili and Xiao Zhenyue, the former boss and subordinates, could not help but look at each other. They were both from the equal-square ranks at the beginning, so they were won over by Ye Dapao. But later, they found that the water was getting deeper and deeper, so they did not dare to intervene casually. But now this Tang Zun is not as enthusiastic as Ye County Zun back then. It is not for anything else, but for reputation and political achievements! What's more, the taxes collected this year were very tight, and the backlash was very big. As officials, they would not be lenient in their daily lives, but with such a county magistrate who was eager for quick success and instant benefits but was quite greedy, he felt very unsure.
Moreover, I’m afraid Wang Fulin doesn’t know about Ye Qinglong’s incident. When Wang Erniang’s marriage is completed, they have to find an opportunity to mention it!
Chapter completed!