After more than ten days, Xie Liang came back.
Xu He saw the bags under his eyes and his legs were weak. He knew that he had been messing around with fireworks recently, so he glanced at him and said, "Brother Defu, you'd better go back to Yiling. I seriously doubt that you are a minister of the temple." Sir, under the guise of studying here, you are actually going in and out of Fireworks Alley!"
Hearing this, Xie Liangcai looked at Xu He with a heartbroken expression: "Xiaohe, I didn't expect that in your heart, my brother would be such a person!"
After saying that, he invited Mrs. Xie out in a casual manner. Without saying anything, he first asked about Mrs. Xie's well-being, and then brought a lot of nourishing medicine to Ms. Xie.
On the surface, he was honoring his aunt, but in fact, he knew that Xu He's aunt was seriously ill and needed nourishing medicine, so he specially brought it from home.
Although Xie was a female, she was also born in a family of low-level officials, so she was somewhat familiar with the events of welcoming and sending people off.
Seeing that Xie Liangcai was so attentive, he loved this [nephew] even more in his heart. He insisted on keeping him at home for a long time and [teaching] his son to study and learn.
"Aunt, you don't know that the world outside is so chaotic now! There are boats, academies, and brothels. When you see a scholar passing by, you will go in and drink. How can a scholar of our generation go to such a place?"
Seeing Mr. Xie nodding his head repeatedly, the stinky man continued shamelessly: "Xiaohe has now passed the government examination and will definitely be a Jinshi in the future. Even Master Zhenke from Tianning Temple in Yangzhou praised his knowledge and reputation. It’s very loud in Yangzhou now!”
Mrs. Xie likes people to praise her son most. Hearing this, he smiled and said: "They are all talented people and you have done a good job in supervising him. Before the imperial examination, you and him discussed knowledge day and night. My aunt saw it in her heart and was very grateful." "
Xie Liangcai patted his chest and said, "It won't be long before the Tao test. No, in order to prevent Xiaohe from being seduced by those unscrupulous women, I came here specially to continue to urge him to study hard!"
When Mrs. Xie heard this, she smiled so much that crow's feet appeared at the corners of her eyes: "Yes, yes, you are his brother, so it's up to you to worry more!"
When Xie Liang heard this, he turned his head and blinked at Xu He calmly.
Xu He was dumbfounded. If you want to be shameless, your saucy brother is definitely number one.
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In this way, Xie Liangcai asked his servants to move the ceremony grandly into the guest room in the front yard of Xu's house.
After a while, Xu He and Xie Liang sat opposite each other in the newly cleaned guest room.
Seeing that Xu He still had an unhappy expression on his face, Xie Liangcai laughed and said: "Okay, okay, I'm just staying here for two days, look at how stingy you are!"
Xu He rolled his eyes at him and said, "When I heard what you said to my mother, I felt ashamed for you. It's rare for you to speak with such big teeth that you don't blush or gasp."
Xie Liangcai said cheerfully: "You don't understand, I just chatted about romance with a few close friends, it's not as boring as you think!"
Xu He: "..."
The two exchanged sarcasm before Xie Liang took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Xu He.
Xu He took it and took a look. It turned out to be a family letter from Xie Liangcai's father...Xie Daozhi.
In addition to asking about the current situation at home and his study status, the book mainly mentioned several things.
First, he had already written to the head of the Xie clan in Rugao to discuss the matter of joining the clan. The Xie clan in Rugao was very happy and elected Xie Daozhi, who currently has the highest official position among the Xie clan, as the clan leader.
However, this matter was rejected by Xie Daozhi. Xie Daozhi asked the old chief of the Xie family in Rugao to continue to serve as the head of the Xu family after the joint clan on the grounds that it was inconvenient for him to take care of the affairs of the clan as an eunuch.
The old patriarch of the Xie family in Rugao is now seventy-two, a prestigious age, so he readily agreed and only waited for the two sides to send people to discuss it recently before proceeding according to Xie Daozhi's wishes.
In other words, in the near future, Xu He and Brother Sao Ren will really be related to each other.
The second is Xie Daozhi's account of recent major events in Beijing.
First, for some reason, the original impeachment against Lu Yun seems to have been restrained in recent times. According to Xie Daozhi's estimation, it should be related to Xie Kun entering his shogunate.
There is also the fact that Fengfang, the newly appointed Shaoqing of Taipusi Temple, recently had a dispute with Qiu Teng, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, in Beijing. The reason was still because of the events in Fengfang's early years.
It is said that after Fengfang arrived in the capital, relying on Xu Song's handwriting and Qin Que's connections, he suddenly became a popular candidate for the future Dajiu Qing.
This made the Qingliu group in the Hanlin Academy feel jealous and disgusted, so they impeached Fengfang based on the fact that Fengfang was both a leader and a rat in his early years, and used any means to kneel and lick the emperor in order to become an official [the behavior of a villain is to flatter the superior]!
Fengfang has been holding back his troubles in his hometown these years. How can he be embarrassed when he can become an official?
Hearing this kind of revealing thing, he immediately jumped up in anger and impeached Qiu Teng for accepting bribes. The family relied on Qiu Teng's status to dominate the countryside.
For a while, the two sides were fighting back and forth.
As a result, Fengfang's original plan to marry the concubine to Qin Que ended because Qin Que was afraid of provoking Qiu Teng's Qingliu.
It's over now. Now Fengfang's name is smelly even to the Qin family, which has discouraged some families who originally wanted to marry him.
Feng Xiaozhu Shengsheng became famous as soon as he arrived in the capital because of this father.
Xu He's heart tightened when he heard this, and he couldn't help but think of that girl who was both intellectually intelligent and charming.
"Hey! What are you thinking about?" Xie Liangcai smiled without doubting him, "This Fengfang is really interesting. Didn't he want to marry his daughter to you before? He also wants you to be his son-in-law. It's really ridiculous."
Xu He didn't reply, just lowered his head, as if playing with the tea cup in his hand.
Xie Liangcai then said mysteriously: "Xiaohe, look at the letter, something big is about to happen."
Xu He calmed down and continued to look down, only to see Xie Daozhi saying in his heart that a eunuch named You Xiao from the Li Superintendent came to Yangzhou. It was said that he was following the emperor's order to return the salt tax revenue to the inner treasury.
This matter caused an uproar in Beijing. Many officials were worried about the already stretched tax situation. Now the emperor has reached out to the salt tax, which is the largest part of the court tax. Many people are thinking that if this matter is true, they will go to court to persuade the emperor to take it back. Success.
Xu He already knew about this from his uncle, so he was not very surprised.
Xie Liangcai sighed: "I stayed in Yangzhou and thought about it for a while, and felt that this eunuch named You is a trouble. No, he is hiding here with you!"
"Okay..." Xu Hexin said that both of them are hiding from others. The uncle hid out, and Xie Liangcai is also hiding now. It seems that everyone is aware that a storm is coming!
Suddenly, he remembered that Xu Song had asked him to remind Xie Liangcai about the same thing that day, so he told Xie Liangcai exactly what Xu Song said.
Xie Liangcai said with a grateful face: "Originally, my father was not here, and I was still worried when I hid. Now that Little Shigong said this, I understand that you did the right thing when I came here!"
After saying that, he leisurely came to the bed and lay down, holding his head and looking extremely proud.
"Good!" Xu He thought to himself, "This guy acts like he is staying at my house under orders!"
