"Everything is under the control of my cousin and Mr. Xie, can't you be so generous and let me have a try?"
"No, this matter is of great importance. You swallow it in my stomach and don't say a word after leaving Shenjia Village. I think you have been playing wildly recently. I will edit a letter and send it to my uncle. You It’s best to go to Beijing as soon as possible to prepare for the exam.”
"If I don't take the exam, I want to travel around the great rivers and mountains of Dayan!"
Qin Zheng shook his head into a rattle to express his pursuit of his ideal.
The Qin family is now gaining momentum, and he is so good at studies. Should he accept or accept someone who accidentally gets the top prize?
He is so smart that he will not face such a dilemma. He will cut off the symptoms at the root, just like that!
"No test, absolutely no test!"
Not taking the exam?
Fu Cheng stared at him with stern eyes for a long time and said, "I remember that you and Shen Jieyuan have a good relationship?"
"Xing Luo is my confidant and the savior of the Qin family."
"Shenjiacun made great contributions to capturing the bandits in Qingshanzhai. Zhou Lesong was beheaded here again. Shen Xingluo's name must have been placed on Prime Minister Zhou's table. Are you sure you don't plan to go to Beijing?"
"!"
When I received the fourth letter from Shenjia Village, the Shen family's carriage had already entered the boundary of Zhuozhou.
In the past month, several people have visited half of Dayan, seen the Shennong Mountains up close, visited large and small Buddhist temples, and stayed in almost every famous town for two or three days.
The beautiful mountains and rivers are so spectacular, but what surprised a few people was not only these, but also the delicious food they tasted along the way.
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Cheng Xi would make new dishes using local ingredients almost everywhere he went, which often made other guests in the inn miserable. When they checked out, the shopkeeper looked at them with almost tears of gratitude.
"Brother, what did Uncle Mantun say in the letter?"
"The second-season potatoes planted in the village are already three inches tall and are growing well. In addition, most of the cherry trees and grape vines bought by the Qin family have survived."
"Then when we go back, won't we be able to see cherry trees and grapevines all over the mountains and plains?"
"good."
"Great, I can learn winemaking from my sister-in-law next year!"
Chen Xingluo said nothing, and Cheng Xi glanced at her meaningfully.
Little fool, according to your brother Jieyuan's strength in Lin'an Prefecture, he will definitely be admitted to the top three. Even if he doesn't stay in the capital, he will be sent abroad. Don't even think about returning to Shenjia Village in the past two years.
"The cherries have to wait until next year. Now is the season when grapes are ripe. If you want to learn how to do it, I'll leave it to you when we get to the capital."
Not to mention that everything can be used to make wine, so what are cherries and grapes?
Chen Xingqi's eyes sparkled when he heard this.
In this month, the little girl has grown up at a speed visible to the naked eye. Her originally baby-fat little face has grown, and her delicate facial features reveal a bit of the youthful vitality unique to a girl.
When Cheng Xi saw this, his heart moved, and the little cabbage finally grew up.
The swaying carriage gradually stopped, and when Wang Shu's voice came, several people got out of the car together.
This is a mountain forest near Guandao. The weather is getting cooler in early August of the lunar calendar, the heat has long disappeared, and the autumn breeze is just right.
Soon Su Zhan started a fire, and Wang Shu also brought in some game.
Shen Xingqi took the initiative to take over the cooking task, added a lot of seasonings to the pheasant's belly, wrapped it in thick lotus leaves and buried it under the fire.
Many passers-by stopped in the woods, including scholars carrying book boxes.
Since August, they have met more and more scholars along the way, which also means that their plan to travel to Beijing has come to an end.
A scholar walked out of an ordinary carriage in the distance. He stared at it for a long time and finally came over.
"Brother, uh... can you lend me a hand?"
Chen Xingluo and Cheng Xi looked in the direction where the man came from and saw a pile of unlit firewood piled near the carriage.
"random."
"Thank you, brother."
The scholar didn't seem to be very sociable. After heaving a sigh of relief, he took away a piece of red-burning firewood and soon lit a fire.
After a while, the fragrance next to the fire here is fragrant.
Shen Xingqi dug out the lumps of soil from the fire and tapped them twice with a branch. When the hard lumps of soil fell off piece by piece, she peeled them apart layer by layer along the texture of the lotus leaf, revealing the fragrant fragrance inside. Overflowing chicken.
Just as she was about to cut the meat into small pieces, she heard a swallowing sound and a growling sound from her stomach. When she turned around, she saw a four or five-year-old baby looking at her pitifully with his big eyes open... ....the beggar's chicken.
"Gudong——"
The little boy's face turned red and he immediately lowered his head, but after a moment he raised it again and stared at the meat pie.
"......You are hungry?"
"Hungry, Feng'er is hungry."
Shen Xingqi was immediately captured by the boy's pitiful expression, and used a dagger to cut out a small piece of chicken. However, before the meat could be sent out, she saw the scholar who had just borrowed the fire quickly walked over and picked up the boy.
"Hug, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. My little brother is ignorant and has caused trouble to you all."
"Brother Yu, why is your brother so pitiful and so hungry because of you? If you don't have money to buy food, we can lend it to you!"
"That's right, Brother Yu, we are all students of the same academy, and we cannot leave this shame outside."
Not far away, there were several young men in rich clothes standing or sitting beside several luxurious carriages, which was in sharp contrast to the scholars in patchwork clothes in front of the fire.
The scholar's face turned red immediately at these words, but he was still a little calm despite being ashamed and angry.
"I won't bother you, but although I'm short on money, I can still afford to support my little brother."
He hugged the boy in his arms, turned around and saluted Chen Xingluo, "Please don't blame me for disturbing you."
"It's okay. Brother, are you also going to Beijing to take the exam?"
"Yes, I'm at Yuhe Pavilion in Liuzhou. I don't know, brother..."
"Lin'an Mansion Chen Xingluo."
Shen Xingluo seemed unable to see his embarrassment and took a step aside to make way for him, "Since we are both students rushing to take the exam, Brother Yu can sit down together if you don't mind."
Surprise flashed across Yu Heting's face. He didn't expect that someone would extend an invitation after being so ridiculed. Even a few people in brocade clothes not far away were shocked and cast unkind glances at the fire.
"Hehe, he's another lowly born mud-legged guy. It's true that birds of a feather flock together."
"Brother Qian, what do you think he is doing? He just came out of nowhere. After reading a few books, he thought he would be successful in the future?"
"He actually uses mud lumps to make food. It's really 'unique'. No wonder he fell in love with Brother Yu."
Chen Xingluo didn't even look at them. He took advantage of Yu Heting's daze and pulled him to sit down. Cheng Xi next to him rubbed his itchy fists to suppress his thoughts and gave Wangshu and Su Zhan a calm look.
"Thank you, Brother Shen, for the invitation."
Seeing that he had already sat down, Yu Heting sighed and looked apologetically at a few people, "Those people are not on good terms with me, and everyone is affected."
"They are just clowns. They must not be able to pass Brother Yu academically."
