I’m the Hero, His Brother, Wear It Quickly

After the end of the palace exam, the list will be released three days later.

Yuan Jia only took the third place in the exam, third.

Yuan Jia, who set his sights on the number one scholar, was a little disappointed. Although he didn't pay much attention to the ranking, the first scholar entered the dynasty by editing from the sixth-rank Hanlin Academy, while the second and third-ranking candidates could only be edited by the seventh-rank Hanlin Academy. , The starting grade is one level worse.

For Yuan Jia, who has no background and can only rely on himself to work hard, if the starting point is higher, he will naturally be able to grasp the real power faster.

Yuan Jia originally thought that his article was not as good as the champion and second place in the list, so the emperor liked it, but later he learned from his father Zheng: "Your Majesty is very satisfied with your advice and wanted to nominate you as the champion, but because of your appearance The most outstanding among the jinshi this year, I will appoint you as Tanhua Lang!"

Yuan Jia: "..." So is his appearance delaying his future? Alas, he wanted to rely on his talent, but his appearance was too handsome, covering up his talent! He is also very helpless!

Father Zheng didn't think it would be a pity for Yuan Jia to change from the top spot to the third flower. The important thing is that he can be remembered by the emperor, even if he has only a sporadic impression, it is very rare.

Next, Zheng's father and Yuan Jia discussed the wedding date. Yuan Jia hopes to get married as soon as possible. After all, he is about to enter the Hanlin Academy as an official, and the Xinke Scholars will have a two-month family visit. With his new wife, he went back to his hometown to enter the family tree.

But Father Zheng knew in his heart that Zheng Lan did not receive any elite education in Zhuangzi, and even the housekeeper could not manage it well. The surprise study for more than a month before was not very good, so he postponed the marriage because he was reluctant to let his daughter marry too early. for a year.

Yuan Jia thought about it, his fiancee Zheng Lan was not very old, so it would be better to wait another year, so he agreed.

After Yuan Jia agreed without saying a word, Father Zheng felt even more guilty, and his attitude towards Yuan Jia became better, so much so that Yuan Jia felt a little murmured in his heart.

As a tanhualang, Yuan Jia did not need to take the examination of Shuji Shi, and directly awarded the editor of the Hanlin Academy of the seventh grade.

When he put on the official uniform of the seventh grade, Yang's father and Yang's mother watched him excitedly, and the joy in his heart was like a volcanic eruption, and he couldn't hold back any longer.

Mother Yang asked expectantly, "Yuanjia, when are we going back to our hometown?" She couldn't wait to go back and show off.

In the capital, she really had no object to show off, and she was full of joy but panicked.

Father Yang also had a look of anticipation on his face. He also wanted to go back to his hometown to pay tribute to his ancestors, so that the ancestors would know that his son Yang Yuanjia was proud of his ancestors!

Yuan Jia changed his official uniform and said, "I can go back to my hometown in a few days or two, so let's prepare first."

Mother Yang suddenly remembered something, hesitated, and asked, "Your marriage with Miss Zheng..."

Yuan Jia replied: "Mother, I have already discussed with Master Zheng, and it will be in early October next year. It is a good time when the autumn is high and the atmosphere is cool."

Mother Yang is a little disappointed, and it will be delayed for another year. Her son is not too young. When will she be able to hold her grandson!

But now the Yang family's affairs are all decided by Yuan Jia, even Yang's father and Yang's mother are also used to listening to their son. In their opinion, the son is the most promising person in the Yang family's entire family, and it is right to listen to him.

Yuan Jia had already made a decision, but Mother Yang was disappointed and didn't say much.

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Yangjia Village.

At this time, the people of Yangjia Village have received the good news from the magistrate of Ping'an County. Everyone knows that Yang Yuanjia in their village has been admitted to the Tanhua Lang in the drama. They are so happy as if they are celebrating the New Year, lively and festive. The villagers almost broke the threshold of Grandpa Yang and Grandma Yang's house.

"Third uncle, walk slowly!" Yang Sanzhu sent a middle-aged man out the door, watching him walk away, he was a little relieved.

He's been so busy these days that he doesn't have any spare time just to entertain guests.

Since the county magistrate personally came to tell grandpa that cousin Yang Yuanjia passed the exam, the whole village has been a sensation, from the village elders to the ordinary villagers, all of them came to give gifts, even the poorest family members. Bring me a piece of bacon.

At present, the second elder of the Yang family is too old to entertain customers, and the characters of Li Shi and Yang Dazhu can't support this scene, so it is Yang Sanzhu who has opened the store for several years.

All the people who came to visit in the village were sent away. Next, the squires and landlords from Ping'an County and nearby counties came to visit. Yang Sanzhu continued to entertain these guests with a warm smile on his face.

Finally, when the sun sets in the west of the mountain, it is time to be free.

Yang Sanzhu poured the herbal tea on the table into his stomach in one breath, which relieved some of the dry mouth.

Grandpa Yang came out with a cane and asked, "Sanzhu, when will Yuan Jia come back?"

Grandpa Yang has asked this question many times, but Yang Sanzhu answered patiently: "Grandpa, Brother Yuan Jia will take a lot of time on the way back from the capital. We will wait."

Grandpa Yang nodded and walked towards the gate with a cane.

Yang Sanzhu is used to it. Every time Grandpa Yang asks if Yuan Jia is back, he will go to the village entrance to have a look and wait. Although it was useless work, but after all, it was the old man's expectation for his grandson, and he couldn't stop him.

Grandpa Yang walked to the entrance of the village this time, without much expectation in his heart, but when he just walked out of the courtyard, he saw a group of people walking towards him from a distance, and he could still hear the noise, but his ears were behind. Can't hear what they are saying.

Soon the group of people came over, Grandpa Yang was old, and his ears were behind his ears, but his eyes were not bad. He saw the handsome grandson in the crowd at a glance, and hurriedly threw his crutches and walked over quickly: "Yuan Jia Hey! My good grandson! Grandpa is looking forward to your coming back!"

Yuan Jia was hugged by Grandpa Yang in the crowd, and the smell of soap from Grandpa Yang's clean clothes came from his nostrils. He reached out and hugged Grandpa Yang back, and said warmly, "Grandpa, I Come back, it's windy outside, come in quickly!"

Father Yang stood beside him and picked up the crutches that his father had thrown away. Looking at the touching scene of the grandfather and grandson embracing each other, he was inexplicably a little sad: Dad, my father, can you see that the old man is standing next to you? The big one is smashed by a relative?

Grandpa Yang took Yuan Jia's hand and walked towards his house: "walk around, go back and ask your grandma to cook you something delicious!"

The villagers who came across Yuanjia and his son on the road also said goodbye wisely, so as not to disturb the reunion of Yuanjia's family.

After entering the house, when Grandpa Yang was about to close the courtyard door, he realized that there were two people beside him: "When did you two come?"

Father Yang and Mother Yang: "..." Feelings, you have only seen our two great living people now!

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"Brother Yuanjia! You're back!" Yang Sanzhu rushed out excitedly when he saw Yuan Jia, and then noticed Yang's father and mother next to him, and hurriedly called, "Second uncle and second aunt!"

Father Yang smiled and nodded, finally ignoring the two of them.

When Grandma Yang met Yuan Jia, she was even more enthusiastic than Grandpa Yang, so she drove Grandpa Yang to the kitchen to cook, and dragged her promising grandson to greet him.

Grandpa Yang was born in a poor family. Although Grandma Yang always cooks at home, it doesn't mean that he can't cook, but his cooking skills are quite good.

Yuan Jia tasted Grandpa Yang's cooking skills for the first time, and was very surprised: "Grandpa, the dishes you cook taste so good!"

Grandpa Yang raised his eyebrows proudly: "That's right! Grandpa learned a few tricks from the chef when he was young. That's better than what your grandma did..." He suddenly glanced at Grandma Yang's face, "If it wasn't for your grandma to do it. The food is better than what I cook, and my craftsmanship won't come in handy for so many years."

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Yuan Jia buried his head to eat, but Father Yang couldn't help but almost laughed.

After dinner, the village chief and the clan elders came to the door: "Yuanjia, congratulations! I'm going to call you, Mr. Tanhua!"

Tanhua adults? What kind of weird name is that?

Yuan Jia said: "You are the elders, you can just call me Yuan Jia, you don't have to be polite."

The village chief and the clan elders are still people who can handle it clearly, so Yuan Jia is also willing to respect them a little bit.

The village chief and Yuan Jia discussed the matter of ancestor worship tomorrow, Yuan Jia remembered the plan he made before returning to his hometown, and said to the village chief and the elders: "Everyone is from the Yang family, and it is not enough for me alone. I plan to fund the establishment of a clan school in the village so that all the children in the village can go to school.

The village chief has been to a private school and read books, and he has more knowledge than ordinary villagers. With Yuan Jia as a promising example, he certainly understands the benefits of reading.

He heard Yuan Jia say that he was willing to invest in the establishment of a clan school in the village. He agreed without saying a word: "This is a good thing! The whole clan should thank you. The matter is announced, let everyone remember your kindness!"

Yuan Jia smiled without saying a word, and announced the matter to the public in the ancestral hall tomorrow. The village head probably also wanted to guard against his repentance.

But he can still do this trivial matter by investing in the establishment of a clan. Moreover, reading makes a person wise, and people of the same clan read more and have more awe of the law, so they will not do anything bad to the whole clan under the condition of ignorance.

Originally, Yuan Jia wanted to buy sacrificial fields for the clan, but now he didn't have enough money to buy too many sacrificial fields, so he planned to wait.

In the early morning of the next day, the village chief opened the ancestral hall and announced to the ancestors the good news that a Tanhua Lang was selected from the Yang family.

As a role model, Yuan Jia put the benefits of reading and reading in front of everyone. Almost people with children in the family did not hesitate to send their sons and grandchildren to clan studies.

Not only Yangjia Village, but also the nearby villages and Ping'an County have been influenced by Yuanjia's Tanhualang, and the number of children enrolled in school has increased sharply. Parents of children dream that their children can become the second Yang Yuanjia and take their chickens and dogs to the sky.

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Ping'an County, Treasure Pavilion.

Under the leadership of Yang Sanzhu, Yuan Jia turned around the Treasure Pavilion, and looked at the various commodities that were very rare in this era, as well as Yang Sanzhu's endless discounts, full discounts, buy-to-delivery and other activities to attract customers, let the Treasure Pavilion business is booming.

Looking at the passenger flow, Yuan Jia nodded slightly and said to Yang Sanzhu, "You are quite talented in business." Although it is convenient for crossing, it is also Yang Sanzhu's ability to manage the treasure pavilion prosperously.

Yuan Jia turned to look at Yang Sanzhu, and asked with a serious expression, "Brother Sanzhu, are you sure you really want to go into business? If you regret it, you can still re-enroll now."

Yang Sanzhu looked at the neatly arranged counters in his shop, pondered for a while, and suddenly laughed: "I'm sure. When I was doing business, I felt very happy, but when I was studying, I felt very miserable."

He was not the kind of person who studied liberal arts. The boring recitation and classical Chinese made him crazy. He used to force himself to study hard to improve his living environment. .

But now that he has his cousin's thick thigh and can make money by himself, he has no motivation to force himself to study.

Doing business makes him happy! He loves business!

Seeing that Yang Sanzhu had really made up his mind, Yuan Jia said, "Since you've made up your mind, let's do it! But in the early stage, you may need to slow down a bit and change farmers into merchants first. The Lu family is a good partner. Step by step. As for the future..." Yuan Jia smiled and patted Yang Sanzhu's shoulder, "Brother will cover you in the future!"

Yang Sanzhu responded excitedly: "Okay! Brother Yuanjia, I'll be relieved if you say this!"

Yuan Jia didn't stay in Ping'an County too much. After he left his address in the capital to Yang Sanzhu, he greeted the magistrate of Ping'an County and asked him to take care of the Yang family before taking Yang's father and Yang's mother there. Beijing.

After returning to the capital, Yuan Jia's family leave ended, and he officially entered the Hanlin Academy to work.

The officials in the Hanlin Academy are all Jinshi who entered the imperial examinations, but Jinshi and Jinshi are also naturally divided into different divisions. For example, students from poor families and students from aristocratic families cannot play together. Jinshi in the same subject are in the same year, so the relationship should be closer...

Yuan Jia and the No. 2 champion of the same session naturally formed a group, but this small group soon fell apart, because Yuan Jia and No. 2 were students from a poor family, and the champion was a family member.

Yuan Jia joined the group of underprivileged students together with the second place.

Joining the group camp is inevitable, and those who try to be neutral are most likely to be rejected by everyone just like the sons of nobles in the Hanlin Academy.

Although the aristocratic family is powerful now, the emperor uses the students of the poor family more, so the officials from the poor family are not small, and Yuan Jia is still a duck to water.

Soon he figured out the preferences of the academics in the Hanlin Academy, and he was appreciated by the academics in the main academy, and then had the opportunity to be brought into contact with the emperor. So within a year, Yuan Jia was promoted in the Hanlin Academy, and he was promoted two levels in a row, from the seventh rank to the sixth rank, and he was overwhelmed by the champion of the same class, because the champion was still from the sixth rank. Edited by the Imperial Academy.

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Zheng House.

After learning that Yuan Jia had been promoted by the emperor, he couldn't help but sigh at his son who was still a shogun at a banquet when he returned home: "Although I knew Yuan Jia was talented, I didn't expect him to be in the officialdom. To be able to go up so smoothly, I am afraid that it will be smooth and blue, just around the corner!"

There are too many officials who are talented but can’t get along. Although Father Zheng has long discovered that Yang Yuanjia has his own way of dealing with people, he is a good seed of the officialdom, but he did not expect that he would be able to get along without any support. So brisk.

Zheng Chi, who was backed by the Zheng family but did not do well, lowered his head and did not speak, but he felt that he was not the same kind of person as Yang Yuanjia.

Mother Zheng felt her son's embarrassment, and hurriedly smoothed out: "Dinner! I don't say a word or sleep, what do you say when you eat?"

Father Zheng glanced at his son who was bowing his head and said nothing, sighed slightly in his heart, and said, "I am happy that I have a good son-in-law!"

This time it was Mother Zheng's black face. Originally, she felt a little uncomfortable because Yang Yuanjia took the exam, but now Father Zheng praised in front of her how quickly Yang Yuanjia was promoted. Isn't that poking her sore spot?

Mother Zheng felt that she didn't regret pushing off the marriage of her daughter Zheng Xiang and Yang Yuanjia, but regretted pushing this not-so-good marriage to a concubine who couldn't make it to the top.

She looked at Zheng Lan, whose brows were full of joy, and snorted coldly: "Master, Yang Yuanjia is capable, but you concubine is not worthy of such capable people! She is simply a piece of rotten wood, learn to be a housekeeper. She is clumsy, she can't teach it! How can there be someone who can't teach it? It must be that she doesn't study hard!"

Zheng Lan, who was sitting on the side and didn't speak from the beginning to the end, looked at Zheng's mother in shock and opened her mouth. She wanted to say that she didn't know how to learn. Still not a word was spoken.

Because the head mistress of the house is her first-mother, how could the servants who stumbled her, if they didn't get the instructions of the first-mother?

Although Father Zheng doesn't care about the affairs of the house, he is naturally not a fool to be a third-rank official in the officialdom.

Knowing that his wife was not used to concubine daughters, Zheng's father could still hear that Zheng's mother was deliberately attacking Zheng Lan, and he could tell by looking at Zheng Lan's aggrieved appearance.

"Okay!" Zheng's father gave Zheng's mother a warning look, "October is still three months away, how is Lan'er's dowry preparation?"

Mother Zheng said indifferently: "It's almost ready, but the furniture that is currently being built has not been built yet."

When a woman gets married, she wants dowry furniture, and the furniture is made according to the specifications of the new house prepared by the man. The amount of furniture for the dowry depends on the size of the new house prepared by the man.

Of course, Mother Zheng was not very kind to her concubine. She prepared her dowry with all her might, just like her own daughter, and made as little furniture as possible. Other dowries were even more glamorous. Not to mention Zhuangzi's farmland.

In Mother Zheng's opinion, everything in the Zheng family should belong to her children. The dowry that Zheng Lan, a prostitute, wants to take away is equivalent to robbing her children's property.

Zheng's father heard that Zheng's mother was almost ready, but he was worried and said, "When the meal is finished, show me Lan'er's dowry list."

Mother Zheng's face changed slightly: "Master, don't you believe me?!" She preempted herself with a guilty conscience, "As a concubine of the Zheng family, she has been in charge of internal affairs for decades, and she has never made a mistake, but the master doesn't believe me! Do you think that Will I treat this prostitute badly?"

Father Zheng was not fooled by Mother Zheng. He has been with Mother Zheng for decades, and he still has a good understanding of the character of the person beside him. When she seems to be more assertive and preemptive, the more she shows her guilty conscience.

When he was about to come to Zheng Lan's dowry list, he looked at the shabby things on it, not even a huanghuali ornament. It looked like a dowry for a daughter married to a broken family.

Zheng's father looked at the dowry list and his face sank, not to mention that Zheng Lan was his biological daughter, he would lose face by marrying so shabby, and Zheng's mother did this to offend Yang Yuanjia!

He wanted to marry Yang Yuanjia, not to have a grudge against Yang Yuanjia! It would have been very immoral to marry a concubine on behalf of a concubine on a temporary basis. As long as this matter is kept secret, it is fine. The problem is to marry Zheng Lan. What will Yang Yuanjia think?

Throwing an unloved prostitute to send me off? Who is this looking down on!

Zheng's father estimated that when he lost his daughter, he would be separated from Yang Yuanjia.

Father Zheng hurriedly added something to the dowry list. Large items such as furniture were inconvenient to replace with raw materials, but he added several pieces of red sandalwood, and added several shops under his own name to the dowry list. Zhuangzi added to his fields.

Although she is a prostitute, her dowry treatment is not as good as that of a first-class daughter, but she can't let her daughter marry so shabby.

When Mother Zheng saw the dowry list revised by Father Zheng again, she almost fell back with anger.

Because the dowry on the list was added and added by Zheng's father, it was only 10% less than the dowry of the daughter-in-law. Among them, there was a golden shop with a particularly good location that also gave Zheng Lan a dowry. That was her I plan to keep it for my daughter!

However, this time, no matter how dissatisfied Mother Zheng was, Father Zheng never meant to change his mind. After all, Father Zheng was the head of the Zheng family. Mother Zheng couldn't beat him, so she could only prepare a dowry for Zheng Lan according to the items on the dowry list with a dark face.

Time flies, and the day when Zheng Lan and Yuan Jia get married is coming.

When Zheng Lan got her dowry list, she was also very shocked. She thought that her first-class mother who hated her would not give her anything good, but she did not expect that the dowry was still very generous!

Although the mother and sister always looked at her strangely, but Zheng Lan didn't care, because she would soon leave the Zheng family that made her feel depressed and marry her fiancé.

Zheng Lan put on a gorgeous red wedding dress with anticipation and happiness, and boarded the sedan chair under Yuan Jia's welcome. Behind her, one after another of dowries were carried out by the family.

Worship heaven and earth, enter the bridal chamber.

It was not until the red hijab embroidered with the Chinese character was lifted that Zheng Lan saw her husband for the first time.

The bridegroom, who was wearing a bright red dress, was handsome and graceful, and looked at her with star-like eyes. She couldn't help blushing on her cheeks, and she lowered her head shyly.

The clouds under the moon are unloaded early, and the tents in front of the lamp sleep late.