Li Xiaonan returned home. In the hall, Li Yuzhu and Sister Mei were gesturing back and forth over half a piece of fine cloth, discussing how to cut it most cost-effectively. Li Jinzhu held the soles of his shoes and made suggestions from time to time.
"Brother is back?" Li Xiaonan looked towards the east room.
"I'm back." Li Xuedong replied and leaned out.
"Is everything okay?" Li Jinzhu looked at Li Xiaonan carefully.
"Brother is going to take the Qiuwei exam?" Li Xiaonan did not answer Li Jinzhu's question.
"I was just telling my elder sister about this." Li Xuedong came out of the room, "Originally I wanted to take the exam, but I definitely wouldn't pass. I just wanted to see how Qiu Wei took the exam and the Jingjing field.
"But today Chief Dong came to me and asked me if I would take the Qiu Wei exam this year. He asked me to take the exam quickly. He said that while the prince was in Jiangnan at the moment, Liang Zhejiang was studying politics and Wei was studying politics." Li Xuedong looked at Li Jinzhu.
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"I asked your brother not to take the exam." Li Jinzhu answered directly.
"Brother, do you want to pass the examination?" Li Xiaonan looked at Li Xuedong and asked with a smile.
Li Xuedong hesitated, "I think so, but I am not good at learning or writing, at least not now. Although the professors all praise me, and Mr. Dong also praises me, I know it myself, and my classmates,"
Li Xuedong paused, "Brother Hong said, don't pay attention to the gossip of your classmates. They say they are sour because they can't eat the grapes, but they are indeed sour.
"I want to pass the exam based on my own ability."
"What if your articles are never that good and you never pass the exam?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"Then I kept thinking about it. I also thought that it would be great if I was a great talent, just like Senior Lu in the government school, but I will never be a great talent in this life." Li Xuedong said with a smile.
"The crown prince said that he would help his brother pass the examination, but I refused." Li Xiaonan looked at Li Jinzhu.
"This damn girl is so petty!" Li Yuzhu raised her hand and patted Li Xiaonan on the head.
"The prince said that he doesn't need to do anything. As long as my brother takes the exam, someone will take the initiative to take care of him, just like my brother is doing at the government school now." Li Xiaonan came to Li Jinzhu's side.
"Then wait until you feel that your academic articles are good enough to be elected, and then you can take the exam." Li Jinzhu looked at Li Xuedong and said.
Li Xuedong nodded repeatedly.
In the evening of the next day, Li Jinzhu and others had just arrived home, and Li Yinzhu arrived in a hurry.
Li Yinzhu went to the kitchen first and handed a package of white-cut mutton to Sister Mei. Then he entered the main room, put a package of plum blossom cakes on the table, and then stuffed a package of honey-soaked hawthorns to Li Xiaonan.
"Why are you here now?" Li Jinzhu took a piece of plum blossom cake.
"Erlang asked me to come back. I said I would come back after dinner. Erlang couldn't wait. He kept urging me. He was getting annoying." Li Yinzhu poured a cup of tea and drank it.
"Is it about brother's exam?" Li Xiaonan asked vaguely, biting a honey hawthorn.
"Yes! I knew that you must know. Erlangfei said that you definitely didn't know. He said that the opportunity was rare, and that Xuedong actually said he would not take the exam. You didn't see his look like that. He was so anxious that he was jumping around in circles. What did he say?" Li Yinzhu put her head between Li Xiaonan and Li Jinzhu, suppressing her voice.
"How can the prince be able to do it? If you want to borrow the prince's light, how can you do it? I said at that time that this light cannot be borrowed. Erlang said I didn't understand and asked me to come back and tell the eldest sister. The prince's light is really powerful.
Borrow? How did you discuss it? I think even if I can borrow it, I shouldn’t borrow it."
"The eldest sister also thinks that we shouldn't borrow it, and I think so too." Li Xiaonan nodded quickly.
"I'll just tell you!" Li Yinzhu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Go back and talk to Erlang. Don't always try to borrow the light of others. It's best to rely on yourself for everything." Li Jinzhu said.
"Yeah! I'll teach him a lesson when I go back!" Li Yinzhu pulled up his sleeves and snorted.
Li Xiaonan raised her eyebrows and looked at her third sister. Li Yuzhu patted Li Yinzhu on the shoulder from behind, "Look at you, there is an old man from the Hong family. Don't open and shut up to lecture others. Is your mother-in-law gone?"
"I left early the day before yesterday. On the day I saw her off, I slept until the sun set in the west and didn't even eat lunch.
"I didn't say anything against her, she said whatever she said." Li Yinzhu confessed to the eldest sister.
The eldest sister did not allow her to contradict her mother-in-law in person. This time, she really did not contradict her with a word.
"Were your mother-in-law happy when she left?" Li Xiaonan asked with a smile.
"I think it's okay." Li Yinzhu glanced at Li Xiaonan.
"Did your mother-in-law come over for something, or just to see you?" Li Jinzhu asked.
"She said she just came here to take a look, but Grandma Zhou said she told the old man that she couldn't sleep well at night and wanted to come to Pingjiang City to see Doctor Tang to take her pulse and prescribe a prescription for her to be recuperated." Li Yinzhu laughed a few times. Aunt Zhou was the youngest of the eight girls who were married to the late old lady. She was only eight or nine years old when she was married to the Hong family. She followed the old lady, running errands and delivering messages, and became the general manager of the old lady.
Lady in charge. After Li Yinzhu married into the Hong family, Mr. Hong asked Aunt Zhou to work as the lady in charge of Li Yinzhu.
"Is there anything in your family that Aunt Zhou doesn't know about?" Li Xiaonan said in wonder.
"I don't think so. Aunt Zhou is so amazing." Li Yinzhu said with admiration, "By the way, Aunt Zhou asked me to bring you this honey hawthorn. She made it herself."
"I ate it." Li Xiaonan handed another hawthorn to Li Yuzhu.
The second sister likes to eat hawthorn with honey the most, but the eldest sister finds it sour.
"Is everything okay?" Li Jinzhu asked with concern.
"What could possibly happen to her? She gave me a bunch of prescriptions for inducing labor, and I took them all. She just gave them to me and continued." Li Yinzhu chuckled, "He also brought me a bunch of books, a lot of them.
, I took them all and piled them all into Erlang’s study.
"I said I must look good. If there is anything I don't understand, let Erlang explain it to me. She couldn't tell me, and said she couldn't disturb Erlang's studies. She started to talk to me again and asked me to go back to Kunshan County. She taught me, and I said
Okay, that's good. But the old lady asked me to come here to take care of Erlang. If I want to go back, the old lady has to say something. I don't dare to make the decision without permission.
"She asked me to go to the old lady and taught me how to say this and that. I said I wouldn't go because I was afraid of the old lady and wanted to go to her, and she started to say that she had chest pain.
"Later she asked me what to do if I couldn't understand, so I told her that I asked Grandma, and she said that Grandma is a little girl, what does she know? I said that Grandma is more knowledgeable than Erlang. This was said by the old lady, and the old lady also said
, Huang Xianzun also praised A'nan for her knowledge. She started to say that she had chest pain."
"Has your mother-in-law asked Doctor Tang to check her pulse?" Li Yuzhu asked, holding back her laughter.
"Looking for it, I went with her. She complained to Dr. Tang in a long way. Aunt Zhou secretly told me that she took up at least three or four people's time by herself. She asked me to take her home and hurry over.
Come on, I’ll accompany Doctor Tang, and I’ll give you a token of gratitude. That token of gratitude is worth five taels of silver! Five taels! I’ll give you a blessing on the left and a blessing on the right, and I’ll give you four or five blessings!”
Li Yinzhu looked angry.
"Please be patient and don't be angry." Li Xiaonan patted Li Yinzhu.
"I'm not angry, I just feel sorry for Yinzi."
"It's time to eat!" Sister Mei shouted and brought the food up.
The family had dinner, and the big car that picked up Li Yinzhu was already waiting outside. After seeing Li Yinzhu off, Li Jinzhu and Li Xuedong said: "You prepare some gifts tomorrow, and go to Gao Cunji the day after tomorrow to tell Mr. Gao that he will not take the exam this year.
Regarding Qiu Wei, just say that you think you are not good at academic articles, and you can take the test in a few subjects later."
"Okay." Li Xuedong agreed quickly and smiled.
"You buy a few kilograms of pine nut candies and take them." Li Xiaonan explained.
Li Xuedong suddenly blushed and muttered something unknown.
"Ai Ye also likes to eat pine nut candies. Go and ask which store in Pingjiang City has the best pine nut candies." Li Jinzhu explained with a smile.
