Especially after Lin Yuanbai's marriage was settled, the family's attention began to focus on Lin Yuanqiu.
As for Lin Yuanhuai, they got married two years ago and married Mrs. Wang’s granddaughter.
This marriage was originally proposed by Mrs. Wang herself and Mrs. Wu.
In recent years, because of Lin Yuanqiu, Mrs. Wang and his wife have been in constant contact with the Lin family, so they naturally have a lot of understanding of the Lin family. Especially the atmosphere of harmony between brothers and sisters-in-law made them like it very much.
Also, it seems that Yuan Qiu is a promising person, and the Lin family's life will only get better and better in the future.
Thinking of their eldest granddaughter's age, the couple came up with the idea of getting married to the Lin family.
Lin Dazhu and Zhou were very happy to be able to marry Mrs. Wang. In this way, Lin Yuanhuai and Wang Xiangyun's marriage was quickly settled, and they got married at the end of last year.
In addition to Lin Yuanhuai, Chunxiu was also married last year.
That day, when the dowry burden tied with bright red wedding silk was carried out the door, the entire small mountain village exploded.
At first, everyone thought that Chunmei's dowry was decent enough, but they didn't expect that Chunxiu would need more. In addition to the six acres of paddy fields and silk and satin cloth for all seasons, there was also a package of ten taels of silver. With.
In fact, this was because Lin Erzhu and Mrs. Liu felt sorry for their daughter. No, the couple had used all the money they had saved in the past few years to make a gift box for their daughter. In addition to Chunxiu's own savings and the makeup given by Chunmei and her two sisters-in-law, there are already ten taels of silver.
Seeing the substantial dowry weighing eight tons, the villagers sighed in their hearts, Lin Dagui was really willing to support his granddaughter.
Also, there was actually a large stack of books placed on the front dowry burden. It looked like the appearance of a young lady from a scholarly family when she got married.
Just like his eldest sister Chunmei when she got married, Lin Yuanqiu also gave his second sister a set of books he copied.
It was precisely because of this dowry that the relatives of the Shen family who saw the dowry that day had a high opinion of the bride.
Lin Yuanbai's betrothal partner was Liu's niece, who was Lin Yuanbai's cousin.
In June last year, Mrs. Liu went back to her parents' home. At that time, because Qin Hehua was pregnant with Hao'er, Lin Yuansong couldn't leave, so Lin Yuanbai accompanied his parents to Lingzhou.
When the three of them came back, Mrs. Liu told her parents-in-law that she wanted her niece to be her second daughter-in-law. Seeing the flushed face of the fourth grandson, it was obvious that he liked her, so Lao Lintou and Mr. Wu agreed to the marriage.
By the time Lin Yuanqiu received a letter from his family and learned about the incident, the two families had already passed the ceremony.
So he didn't say anything. After all, the marriage had come to this point. If he jumped out and said that close relatives couldn't get married, it would be too late.
What's more, everyone may not believe what he said, because there are more than a dozen couples in the village about cousins getting married, and there is no abnormality in their children.
So he'd better not mention it.
As for his marriage, to be honest, Lin Yuanqiu has never thought about it. Now he is still focused on the examination, so he has no time to think about it.
What's more, this is not the era of free love like the previous life.
Here, parents follow the instructions of a matchmaker, and many couples don’t know each other before a matchmaker sets them up.
Therefore, Lin Yuanqiu can be sure that his marriage will definitely be the same as that of his cousin and others. He will definitely get married first and then fall in love.
However, Lin Yuanqiu also has his own most basic requirement, that is, his significant other must be in line with his eyes.
Otherwise, how can two people who can't talk about each other at first sight develop a relationship in the future?
As for the woman's family background, Lin Yuanqiu really didn't think much about it.
He still said the same thing, good luck comes first, otherwise it doesn't matter even if he is a wealthy person. What's more, Lin Yuanqiu is self-aware. Not to mention that he is just a young scholar. Even if he has passed the examination, he may not be a candidate for a wealthy family.
Not to mention, among the dozens of scholar classmates in his private school, he had never heard of any one who came from a peasant family and married a daughter of an official family.
As for those whose in-laws have high family backgrounds, their own family backgrounds are not bad either. This is what people nowadays pay most attention to when they are well-matched.
It is not uncommon for high-ranking officials to marry low-ranking officials. For example, Wang Jiaoyu, who taught scriptures, was married to a concubine from the prefect's family.
Wang Jiaoyu himself, on the other hand, came from a serious farmer's family.
However, I heard that Wang Jiaoyu's life was not easy.
The reason is that the daughter-in-law looks down on her parents-in-law who are from peasant backgrounds and often looks down on them.
As for Wang Jiaoyu's parents, how could they bear this anger? After all, they were the father and mother of Mr. Juren. Besides, they worked so hard to provide for their son to study and get a good name, but in the end they still have to look at their daughter-in-law's face. How could they possibly understand this in their hearts. So the family basically had a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every two days. It was like a big drama every time.
As for Wang Jiaoyu, he often dared to be angry but dared not speak out, otherwise his wife would immediately move out to become the father of the fourth-grade prefect.
"Yesterday, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had another big fight. Wang Jiaoyu scolded his wife for the first time. Well, early this morning, his wife packed her bags and went back to her parents' house." A fat-faced man said. Shaking the folding fan, he said with a smile.
As soon as he finished speaking, the people sitting at the tea table next door burst out laughing.
Looking at the tea guests chatting not far away, Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu couldn't help but glance at each other, and they had already made up their minds. That is, if you want to buy a house in the future, you should be more picky about your neighbors, and try to stay away from those who like to gossip or gossip. Otherwise, like Wang Jiaoyu, people will lie on the wall and watch everything at home, and then treat it as a joke. The news spread everywhere, and it would be embarrassing.
Thinking of the scratches on Wang Jiaoyu's face this morning, Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu couldn't help but shudder. This is not the daughter of the prefect, I'm afraid she is nothing more than a shrew in the market.
It is said that one must marry a virtuous wife, so Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu felt that it was not just the matter of buying a house that they needed to keep their eyes peeled for.
After putting away their pen and ink, the three of them left the Bafang Tea House.
The provincial examination is coming soon, and Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu are going to focus all their attention on studying seriously, so they will not come here for the next period of time.
In the past two years, Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu have never stopped collecting information in the teahouse.
Sometimes they come every other day, sometimes they come every day, and there are more than twenty books of information that were carefully classified and recorded by the two of them.
These include farming, water conservancy, civil engineering, engineering, transportation, government offices, etc.
This also surprised Zhou Zixu. At first, he just thought that there was an endless stream of foreign merchants at the dock, and he would definitely hear a lot of things he didn't know, but he never expected that such a wide range of people would be involved.
Lin Yuanqiu was equally surprised, especially because of the nature of merchants coming and going erratically. There were many topics that others did not dare to discuss, and they could often hear them at Bafang Tea House.
After all, they are all merchants who unload or load the cargo, weigh the anchor and leave. I don’t know when the next time I will come back.
So some things have been said, and if you want to find the person who said this, where can you find them?
Besides, everyone has a tacit understanding with each other. The conversation starts and ends in the teahouse. After leaving this door, apart from going their separate ways, the rest is to ask questions.
It is precisely because of this that Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu heard many officials' secrets in addition to current affairs.
Including those in the backyard, there are also those in the clan who use their power to bully others, and they can even say ugly Yinmao when it comes to taking sides in the court.
This made Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu admire them, and they also had a new understanding of the abilities of merchants.
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After sorting out the information, of course the next step is to memorize it.
Almost every morning, after the two of them came back from practicing horseback shooting at the racecourse, they would pick up the book and read it over and over again.
When reciting, the two of them never "favored one over the other". All the information recorded in the book, whether it was about farming, water conservancy, drought and floods, engineering, transportation, government affairs, etc., were all memorized. down.
The purpose of both of them is that no matter whether it can be used or not, if you keep this information in your mind for emergencies, you will definitely get it right.
What's more, the policies and articles written by the two of them now will no longer be as superficial and empty as before.
This is the reason for substantial accumulation.
The two also tried to write their own strategies and articles by referring to the topics in Wei Mo Zhiyi.
As a result, I found that not only could I quickly determine the topic, but also it was no longer as laborious as before to plan the layout and fill in the details.
This made Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu very happy.
It seems that as long as you work hard, you will always be rewarded.
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Thinking of the paintings in his bookcase, Lin Yuanqiu took the time to go to shopkeeper Xiao Hu.
He will be busy for a while, so while he still has time, he has to send the paintings to others.
Ever since Shopkeeper Xiao Hu became famous for selling the kang screens in his shop, more than half of the orders Lin Yuanqiu has received in the past two years have been for quadruple kang screens.
Although painting on embroidered cloth was not as smooth as paper at first, the more times you paint, practice makes perfect, and you will become more accustomed to painting again.
Compared with the four-foot-wide portrait of Bodhisattva, the three-foot single screen strip is much smaller. The smaller size naturally saves much time in painting.
Therefore, Lin Yuanqiu could draw a set of twenty-two kang screen patterns in just two hours.
Therefore, in the past two years, Lin Yuanqiu's Analects book has collected a lot of banknotes.
As for those scattered small denominations, Lin Yuanqiu had also exchanged them for a dozen silver notes ranging from fifty taels to one hundred taels.
Although money is not everything, they all say that nothing is impossible without money.
Every time he opens the Analects of Confucius book, Lin Yuanqiu will feel inexplicably at ease.
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This year’s provincial examination is still scheduled for the ninth day of August.
Since the beginning of July, students have been leaving their schools and heading to the county town one after another.
Some of them even set off at the end of June. The reason why they had to go so far in advance was naturally to check into a good inn early.
There are many more candidates taking the provincial examination this year than three years ago. With the large number of people, the guest rooms will definitely be tight. Otherwise, they will have to stay in an inn far away from Gongyuan.
Obviously Lin Sanzhu and Zhou Xing thought so too.
Lin Sanzhu, in particular, remembered that last time he and Gouzi had to rent a house.
And because he lived alone, he was worried that he would miss useful information related to the exam, so Lin Sanzhu would go to the inn lobby from time to time to inquire.
It is not only time consuming but also laborious.
So this time they had to go there early anyway.
Therefore, only six days after July, Lin Sanzhu and Zhou Xing came from Hengxi Town. They did not delay after arriving in Fucheng. Early the next morning, the group set off for the county town in a carriage.
Lin Yuanqiu always felt that something was wrong with his father, why he seemed to be talking to Uncle Zhou more than before. Moreover, Uncle Zhou secretly looked at him a few times, but he saw it himself, so the two of them couldn't hide anything from him.
What Lin Yuanqiu didn't know was that the two of them had been chatting about his marriage on the way from Hengxi Town. As for the other thing, Lin Sanzhu planned to wait until he passed the provincial examination before letting his son make the final decision. .
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Chapter 95 Examination
Because they set off early, after arriving at the county town, there was still a quarter of an hour before the city gates were closed. Everyone couldn't help but feel happy, otherwise they would have to spend the night in an inn outside the city after the city gates were closed.
When the carriage entered the city, Lin Sanzhu pointed the way to the inn with the coachman. Lin Sanzhu remembered all the inns closest to Gongyuan.
Just when I was approaching the first inn, I saw a fully booked sign hanging at the door of the inn in the distance. Looking ahead, I saw the same thing at the next inn.
The coachman could only drive the carriage forward slowly, but the same was true for the next few inns. Are they still too late? Thinking of this, Lin Sanzhu and Zhou Xing couldn't help but feel that if the nearby inns were gone, they would have to live far away from Gongyuan.
