Chapter 13
Day and night rotate, and time passes.
It was an hour later when the Earth God held the boat and sent Pei Wende and Aunt Zhu to Zhujiazhuang.
At this time, the scorching sun had begun to set, and the people on both sides of the river gradually stopped working, trying to return to their homes before going down the mountain.
After all, in today's era, mountain spirits and wild monsters are not legends, and villains who often rob people are also very common.
Even for the sake of their own lives, people on both sides of the river rarely act at night.
So when Pei Wende said goodbye to Tu Tugong and followed Aunt Zhu back to Zhujiazhuang along the rural road, he met many people who were traveling with him along the way.
Although these people have never seen Pei Wende with their own eyes, their image is too vivid to stand against him.
So from time to time, people would come up to chat with him, and occasionally he would meet a few pilgrims who had met Pei Wende when he was offering incense, and they would force him to chat with him all the way.
The only good thing is that these people may have their evil side, but they all behave very simple and honest in front of Pei Wende.
Pei Wende even suspected that if he hadn't repeatedly refused, these people would have definitely forced him to have a meal at their home.
“So, that’s why I don’t go down that often.”
After once again getting rid of an enthusiastic citizen, Pei Wende touched his bald head with a wry smile.
"Obviously when we were in Tanzhou, everyone wouldn't be so enthusiastic."
Listening to Pei Wende's happy and helpless complaints, Aunt Zhu just kept smiling throughout the whole process, but did not answer his questions directly.
In fact, she couldn't answer this question.
The reason why the people of Runzhou are so enthusiastic about Pei Wende is because he has lived countless lives in the past two years and has become almost a well-known living Buddha.
In Tanzhou, in addition to the victims of Ningxiang County who benefited from his kindness, Pei Wende was more of a disciple of Zen Master Lingyou, a practitioner who could subjugate demons.
Considering Pei Wende's brutal methods of exterminating demons, people did not regard him as a disaster or a broom star and drive him away because of the face of Zen Master Lingyou.
Today, Zen Master Fahai is to Jinshan Temple just like Zen Master Lingyou is to Miyin Temple.
When prestige and fame have reached their level, it is they who have made the temple where they live, not the temple that has made them.
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"Here we are!"
After a while, at the end of the rural road, Aunt Zhu suddenly stopped.
"Is this Zhujiazhuang?"
Following Aunt Zhu's gaze, she saw only twos and threes houses standing on the edge of the mountain forest, isolated from the outside world with crude fences.
In the center of these houses is an ancestral temple that was obviously built to worship ancestors.
That is the ancestral temple of the Zhu family and the common ancestral temple of everyone in Zhujiazhuang.
"To be able to gather so many clans with the same surname in just one year, the current head of the Zhu family is quite capable!"
If I hadn't learned from Aunt Zhu in advance, only a dozen or so members of the Zhu family would have escaped and survived.
Wende simply couldn't imagine that Zhujiazhuang, which had more than a hundred households, was only established in the past year.
Especially for those newly cultivated fields, even with the farm tools and water channel design drawings provided by Pei Wende, it is not easy to complete them in just one year.
Just a glance. Pei Wende knew why Zhujiazhuang dared to accept his commission and became the first batch of farmers to plant tea seedlings.
Because the cultivated fields have long exceeded the scope of "self-sufficiency" and are enough for more than a hundred families to live nourishingly.
"Zhao Yanwei was ranked second in the rankings back then. Although his official career was not smooth, he was still able to manage a small Zhujiazhuang."
Zhao Yanwei was the son-in-law chosen by Mr. Zhu for Aunt Zhu, but by chance he became the husband of her younger sister, Zhu Run.
Since Mr. Zhu became seriously ill, everything in the Zhu family has been taken care of by Zhao Yanwei, the visiting son-in-law.
"Do you hate Zhao Yanwei?"
Keenly hearing the disgust in Aunt Zhu's words, Pei Wende glanced at her in surprise.
The reason why the other party chose to escape on their wedding night was not as simple as he thought?
Pei Wende originally thought that Aunt Zhu ran away from the marriage because she was dissatisfied with Mr. Zhu's decision to choose a husband for her.
But judging from Aunt Zhu's current attitude, what she is dissatisfied with is not Mr. Zhu's own decision, but the husband he chose for her.
"Before Zhao Yanwei fell into disgrace in his family, he was a complete playboy."
"There is nothing he cannot do except eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling. His reputation is one of the best in Runzhou."
"My father was interested in his notoriety back then. He felt that he was the only one in Runzhou City who would not dislike me wielding a sword or a stick, so he specially recruited him as his son-in-law."
If it were Aunt Zhu who was sixteen or seventeen years old, she would definitely not be able to understand what Mr. Zhu did.
But times have changed, and now more than ten years have passed, and Aunt Zhu already understands that Zhao Yanwei was indeed her best choice back then.
First of all, although the Zhao family has fallen into decline, they still have an identity.
The marriage between the Zhu family and the Zhao family may not be called a strong alliance, but it is just right for both parties.
The second thing is that Zhao Yanwei is willing to get married, and he doesn't dislike his wife's dancing with swords and guns. She doesn't look like a lady at all.
In fact, the two elders of the Zhao family were interested in Aunt Zhu's strength and thought that she could take good care of their son and stop him from engaging in bad habits, so they agreed to get married.
The most important point is that Zhao Yanwei worked hard after falling behind in his family and got the second place in the exam. He can be regarded as a talent that can be developed, and he can be regarded as a potential stock in the eyes of Mr. Zhu.
"It's fate or destiny, just don't regret it."
After a little comfort to Aunt Zhu, Pei Wende asked another question that he was very curious about.
"You said earlier that Zhao Yanwei was the second-ranked candidate, but does he have an official position now?"
Under normal circumstances, the second place on the list is the second place in the imperial examination, second only to the top talent of the year.
Therefore, no matter how bad Zhao Yanwei's official career was, he couldn't possibly end up in this situation without holding an official position, right?
"I don't know exactly what happened..."
"I just heard that he was involved in a 'substitute examination case' and was eventually removed from his position by the court, retaining only the status of a scholar."
Shaking her head gently, Aunt Zhu speculated maliciously.
"Perhaps he was ranked second because someone else took the exam on his behalf, so he was revoked after being discovered!"
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