"Uncle! Do you really plan to choose Mr. Yin? He has offended many people!" Gu Wanqian had personally inquired about the information, so of course he knew about Yin Kun's situation.
"What are you afraid of? We are just opening a restaurant in the capital! Mr. Yin is not involved in all the affairs of the restaurant. He only needs to go and take charge on the opening day. Since he dares to agree, there is a way. We can give him 20%
Where is the profit! How can he still give up all this money?"
Gu Chengyu had already discussed the restaurant with Yin Kun yesterday. Yin Kun did have concerns at first. But later he agreed. Gu Chengyu couldn't help but think of Anhe Hou Mansion.
The Yin Mansion and the Anhe Hou Mansion are related by marriage. Although the Hou Mansion has declined now, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
The title of Anhe Houfu was obtained during the reign of Emperor Jiaren. At that time, when he was seeking to usurp the throne, the first marquis of the Houfu was indispensable. Although the descendants of the Houfu now have no promising people, Emperor Huiming saw that there were people who had followed Long Zhi before.
For the sake of merit, I won't treat the Hou Mansion lightly.
Therefore, even if the current Marquis of the Hou Mansion is a scholar and cannot wield a sword or a gun, he can still be a doctor in the Ministry of Household Affairs. The second master of the Hou Mansion is the fifth-ranked Marquis and is appointed as the Prime Minister of Guanglu Temple, but he is only from the sixth rank.
It stands to reason that since the Holy Emperor wants to take care of the old nobles, he should not be able to give such a low official position, but who asked the Liang family to appoint a chief assistant? The Hou Mansion can only make way for the side branch.
Gu Chengyu guessed that the teacher might have married the second daughter of the Hou family to his eldest disciple in order to make up for the direct lineage, but this was also his guess.
The relationship between the aristocratic families is complicated, and An and the Hou Mansion are not without powerful in-laws. Officials in the capital, big and small, always have to look at each other.
These reasons couldn't be explained for a while, so Gu Chengyu just asked Gu Wanqian to prepare for the opening.
"When I go back, you will stay in the capital to take care of things. The mistress will follow you in the future and let him learn some words. You just have to boss him around. After more than a month after I go back this time, I may have to come to the Imperial College in the capital.
Go to school, and I will leave the affairs of the capital to you and Manager Yu for the time being!"
Gu Chengyu went to Yin Mansion yesterday, and Yin Kun told Gu Chengyu that the teacher said in the letter that he wanted to recommend Gu Chengyu to the Imperial College.
In fact, before coming to the capital, the teacher mentioned it to him, but at that time Gu Chengyu had not yet taken the provincial examination, and Gu Chengyu felt that it was too early to say this.
Yin Kun mentioned this matter again yesterday, probably because he felt that Gu Chengyu had a good chance of passing the provincial examination. Besides, even if he failed the provincial examination, it was still possible to enter the Imperial College as a student member. After all, his previous results were quite good.
Although Liang Zhirui has already retired from office, he still has this little face in the court.
Gu Wanqian was a little nervous about handing over such a big stall in the capital to him, but when he heard that Gu Chengyu could come to the capital, he breathed a sigh of relief. With Gu Chengyu here, he dared to let go.
"It's great that my uncle can come to the Imperial College. The Imperial College is the highest university. My nephew is here to congratulate my uncle!"
"It's just a quota for the Imperial College! The purpose of studying hard in the cold window is to get a name on the gold list. This provincial examination is the top priority now."
The results of the provincial examination will be released in five days, and even Gu Chengyu will inevitably be affected.
"Uncle was still Xiao Sanyuan before! The provincial examination should not be difficult for uncle, right?" Gu Wanqian was very confident in Gu Chengyu. He always felt that any difficult problem could be solved by Gu Chengyu.
After hearing this, Gu Chengyu shook his head and said with a smile: "You can't talk nonsense. If others find out, they will think that I have got carried away!"
In the next few days, Gu Chengyu and Sun Xian walked around the capital and bought some specialties from the capital for their families.
Five days later, this time it was the day when the results were released. Gu Chengyu and the others had been waiting in the lobby of the inn early. At this time, the students staying in the inn were already in the lobby, and everyone was anxiously waiting for the results of the provincial examination.
"Son! You have to live up to your expectations this time! You are almost thirty this year. If you fail again, your father will not be able to support you, and you will have no choice but to go back and find a school to become a tutor."
Next to Gu Chengyu, a father and son were talking. The person who was speaking was an old man about fifty years old. He was holding a thirty-year-old scholar and was talking while wiping tears with one hand.
"Dad! What are you doing? If I win the exam, I can be an official, and our family can have all the hardships. Didn't I promise you before? If I really fail, I won't take the exam next time."
The scholar shook his head and sighed, looking quite sad. Gu Chengyu observed the other person's clothes and thought that his family was in embarrassment and couldn't afford it anymore.
Gu Chengyu had noticed this candidate before. He moved in on the third day after Gu Chengyu. However, he lived in a lower-class room and was admitted with a reduced rate. Gu Chengyu often went downstairs to pay attention to the students answering questions and look at others.
What's the level?
Since this candidate's answers passed, it means that his knowledge is not bad. But there was an incident when he moved in. His rent was reduced, but his father was not exempted. He wanted to answer two more questions, but
The rule of the inn is that you can only stay once, so in the end he had no choice but to pay the room price.
In fact, what Gu Chengyu didn't understand was that since he knew that going to Beijing was expensive, and if one more person stayed in the inn, he would pay more for the room, why would his father still go to Beijing with him?
However, that was also someone else's business. After Gu Chengyu was puzzled, he forgot about it because the servants who had good news rushed towards their inn.
"Good news in the rural examination! Congratulations to Mr. Su Yang of Fengding Prefecture for winning the 96th place in the capital rural examination." A servant galloped to the door of the inn on horseback, holding up the good news in his hand and singing loudly.
"Dad! It's me! It's me! I won! I passed the exam!"
Gu Chengyu turned around and saw that it was the son who had spoken just now. Unexpectedly, he was the first person to receive the good news at the inn?
"Son! Is it really a hit? Is it a hit?" His father seemed to still not believe it and asked repeatedly.
"Old man, your son has won the prize! He is the Master of Juren!" Shopkeeper Wan of the inn immediately came forward to congratulate him. There are many Juren and Jinshi who live in their inn every year. This is the first successful result in this year's provincial examination, and of course he is also happy.
stand up.
The inn suddenly became lively. No matter what they thought, all the students congratulated one after another, and even the waiter started to make witty remarks.
"Son! Since you won the election, you can also discuss the marriage of our eldest son!" The old man was at a loss for words with joy. When he looked up, his son also had tears in his eyes.
"Old man, hurry up and ask the master to reward me with money!" Seeing that the servant had arrived, the others gave the good news to Su Yang. But Su Yang seemed to have not recovered from the joy, so he quickly reminded him kindly.
"Yes, yes, hurry up, Yang'er, give us the money!"
"Chengyu! I don't know if we can pass the exam?" Sun Xian looked at Su Yang and felt very envious. Although his ranking was not very high, he still passed, right?