He brought a total of one hundred taels of silver this time. He originally thought he couldn't spend it all casually, but now after shopping around, he regretted it.
If I had known, I would have brought all the money in the money box!
Tao Zhu also felt that prices in Fucheng were high, but as long as he could be comfortable when he was away from home, he didn't mind spending more money.
On the fourth day, Li Qiao followed Xu Ying and Meng Yue to the government office to apply for the government examination.
The required documents and procedures are similar to those for the county examination. At this time, the village chief and village students cannot be roped in as guarantees. They can only show the official documents given to them by the Pingcheng County Yamen.
When it was Li Qiao's turn to hand over his official certificate, the official in charge of candidate registration in the ceremony room couldn't help but look at Li Qiao a few more times.
Pingcheng Li Qiao, is this the Li Qiao who received the award from the Holy One?
I heard that the magistrate of Pingcheng actually posted his policy article in order to quell the rumors. After the article was posted, all doubts disappeared.
Gee, the future is limitless.
He didn't know what kind of beautiful article this Pingcheng case leader could write in this government examination, and he was looking forward to it.
With this thought in mind, the official didn't say much, carefully checked the various documents handed over by Li Qiao, and then registered Li Qiao in the register.
Li Soba's noodles did not change color and allowed the adult to look at him.
But I couldn't help but cry in my heart. People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. It's a lot of pressure.
After coming out of the government office, Li Qiao said goodbye to Xu Ying and Meng Yue, and then took Tao Zhu back to the rented yard.
It was already late March, and the government examination was scheduled for the ninth day of April. There was still half a month left. He had no choice but to work hard.
It was already the head of the case. Not to mention that Jiang Zhixian didn't want him to lose the chain at the critical moment, and he himself didn't want to lose the chain.
Li Qiao began to study hard again, and Tao Zhu took care of his daily life just like in Sanliu Village.
In addition to the cleanliness, the reason why I rented the yard was that I wanted Li Qiao to eat familiar home-cooked food.
Because the yard they rented is close to the government office, it is a bit far away from the market that specializes in selling vegetables and meat. However, fortunately, there are vegetable vendors carrying burdens around every morning, so they can eat fresh vegetables in the morning.
The weather is not too hot at the moment, so breakfast is all hot food, and the vegetables bought are either stir-fried, stewed in soup, or made into pancakes.
If you want to eat meat, you have to go to the meat market to buy it. The vegetable vendors do not sell meat.
Tao Zhu brought a meat grinder. He was afraid that Li Qiao would get tired of eating porridge all the time, so he made some grain-soy milk and corn juice.
After a simple breakfast, Li Qiao read while Tao Zhu, Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian went to buy meat and some vegetables that were not available at the vegetable vendors.
This trip took an hour. After buying the meat and vegetables, Tao Zhu, Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian started preparing lunch.
Lunch is the same as in Sanliu Village, the meals we are used to eating at home.
After lunch, Li Qiao would have a half-hour lunch break. At this time, Tao Zhu would become a human-shaped pillow and take a nap with him.
When the nap was over, Li Qiao continued to read, while Tao Zhu did some housework, such as washing clothes and cleaning.
In the evening, he, Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian prepared dinner together.
The days were so repetitive, but he didn't feel bored at all. Li Qiao had said that the couple had brought back the case together.
What he did was to help Li Qiao win another case.
Li Dashan often goes out with Zheng Qianqian, but both of them are little country bumpkins. It's their first time in a big city and they don't dare to run far. In addition, they have to come back to help Tao Zhu cook, so the two of them just stay together. Wandering around the rental yard.
Huang Youming, like Li Qiao, stayed at home and was always ready to answer Li Qiao's questions.
Huang Youming's son took care of three cows while taking care of him.
During this period, Meng Yue and Xu Ying came to Li Qiao, firstly to discuss knowledge with Li Qiao, and secondly to ask Li Qiao if he would go to the party.
At present, candidates from several counties have come to Fucheng. These candidates often hold various gatherings, on the one hand, to make friends and expand their connections, and on the other hand, to discuss knowledge.
Everyone is a candidate for the government examination, not even a scholar. Now that they are far away from the private school where they study daily, and the master is not around, naturally they can only find students of the same class to answer their questions.
Naturally, Li Qiao would not go to such a gathering.
He has his own personal trainer, Xiucai Gong. If he has any questions, he can just ask Huang Youming.
Moreover, he had received a commendation from the Holy Spirit. If he went to such a gathering, all the focus would be on him, and the discussion of knowledge would become secondary.
Meng Yue and Xu Ying are not very interested in this kind of gathering. Now that Li Qiao is not going, they have no plans to go.
Chief Li is smarter than them and works harder than them, which is scary.
They are also under a lot of pressure.
Shen Hua doesn't need to study, so he wants to invite Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian out to play.
Shen Hua has liked to pester Xu Ying since he was a child. He always lives in the Xu family for a period of time during the year, so he is relatively familiar with Fucheng.
Xu Ying was staying in the study all day now, and he wanted to take Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian out shopping.
After these days of getting along, he and Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian had a good time.
Although he is a young man from an official family, he does not look down on Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian, two young country men.
He and Baiyou play well, as you can tell by looking at Baiyou. Baiyou can fall in love with Li Dazhong regardless of the difference in status, and he naturally doesn't dislike the peasants.
What's more, now Bai You is about to become Tao Zhu's cousin, and his cousin and Li Qiao also have a mutual relationship, so he is quite willing to play with Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian.
But regardless of whether it was Tao Zhu or Zheng Qianqian, they all shook their heads when faced with his invitation.
Li Qiao had not taken the government examination yet, so the two of them were in no mood to go shopping.
Tao Zhu and Zheng Qianqian refused straightforwardly, and Shen Hua couldn't help but sigh: "I originally thought that I cared about my cousin in every possible way, but compared to you, Brother Zhu, I have done too little."
After saying that, his young face wrinkled.
He has liked Xu Ying since he was a child. As he grows older, the two families also intend to bring him and Xu Ying together.
Xu Ying also understood what he was thinking, but his cousin also told him clearly that he only regarded him as his cousin.
Of course you can marry him.
However, it is impossible to be as sweet as Tao Zhu Li Qiao.
It's impossible to be like Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian.
Because Xu Ying just regarded him as a cousin.
well!
Zheng Qianqian was outspoken and outspoken. Seeing Shen Hua acting like this, she couldn't help but say, "You can also cook for Brother Xu."
"I can't cook." Shen Hua sighed again and shook his head.
"Then just learn. For example, I didn't know how to do it at first, but I was forced to do it by my family's business, so I started to do it."
Zheng Qianqian said and stretched out his hand to let Shen Hua see the calluses on his palms: "Originally, my palms were white and tender, but I had to make sausages and pork meatballs at home, so these calluses appeared."
Originally, he could take a break because his father asked his uncle's family to help.
But later, when vermicelli became available, the wages were too high. His eldest brother and second brother couldn't resist the temptation, so they went to a sweet potato workshop to make vermicelli together.
So he had no choice but to top it.
Over time, the calluses on his palms took root and sprouted, and could no longer go away.
Shen Hua opened his eyes wide and looked at the callus on Zheng Qianqian's hand. He couldn't help but stretched out his fingers and touched it. It was hard.
He couldn't help but pursed his lower lip, fear appeared on his face, he was so tired that he had so many calluses!
"If you want Brother Xu to be interested in you, then your concern for Brother Xu can't just be lip service."
"There is a maid in the Xu family who has arranged everything for Brother Xu clearly. If you don't do anything for him, how can you show your difference? In the future, other people will also take a fancy to Brother Xu. If that person is willing to If he makes shoe and socks soup for Brother Xu, then Brother Xu will definitely have a better impression of him than of you."
Zheng Qianqian said again.
But as soon as he finished speaking, Tao Zhu shook his head: "You can't say that, these are all trivial things. If Xu Ying doesn't pay attention to these, then Brother Hua's work will be in vain."
In the countryside, which daughter-in-law or husband would not do this?
But are the men moved?
Xu Ying had plenty of food and clothing since she was a child, and was served by slaves. If Shen Hua really did these jobs, Xu Ying might not have any special feelings.
Shen Hua: "..."
Before he had time to think about whether Zheng Qianqian's proposal was feasible, Tao Zhu rejected it directly.
He asked with a sad face: "Brother Zhu, why did Brother Li fall in love with you? And Brother Qian, how did Brother Dashan fall in love with you?"
"You all tell me so that I can refer to it."
Tao Zhu: "..."
cough.
It’s a long story.
Zheng Qianqian laughed.
Although Li Dashan was stupid, after his father pointed him out, he immediately fell in love with him and persisted in chasing him for so long. He even changed his bad habit of talking but not thinking.
Compared with Brother Hua, he is so lucky.
Well, it’s better to advance the wedding date and get married when we return to Sanliu Village. With his brother Qiao’s happiness, we can have a baby as soon as possible and study and take the imperial examination like his brother Qiao... Wait, if he really gets married to Li Dashan , then he will change his name to uncle.
Hey!
The word "brother-in-law" is closer than Brother Qiao. I have decided to get married as soon as I return to the village. Let him and Li Dashan's baby enjoy the happiness of being in charge of the case!
Zheng Qianqian is a person who does whatever he thinks. After Shen Hua left, he immediately told Tao Zhu what he thought.
Tao Zhu was very supportive: "Da Shan has long wanted his children to study with Li Qiao. You should marry him as soon as possible and have a child with him as soon as possible."
With Tao Zhu's support, Zheng Qianqian couldn't help but laugh, and immediately went to find Li Dashan who was fetching water from the well.
I told Li Dashan about the early marriage, but Li Dashan was so happy that he threw the bucket in his hand and wanted to hug him.
Normally, the two of them would hold hands, but hugging like this in public... was nothing.
Compared with his brother Zhu and Brother Qiao, he and Li Dashan are definitely innocent!
In the evening, after washing and lying on the bed, Li Qiao hugged Tao Zhu as a pillow and chatted slowly with him as usual.
Although his head was dizzy, he still wanted to talk to Tao Zhu.
Tao Zhu told Shen Hua's troubles and Zheng Qianqian told him about the advance of the marriage. He couldn't help but laugh after hearing this.
