amaotonovel Chapter 442 Bad people
Chapter 442 Bad people
"Jiulang, let's take this back and fry it, it will be just right for a snack." Jian Ming grinned with joy, wishing he could just quit the activity of hunting gray mice. He could get more than three kilograms from a hole. If he dug all over the pine forest, how many kilograms would he get?
Cui Bianxu didn't even bother to look at his subordinate. He raised his foot and said, "Whatever you want. We'll eat meat tonight, and you can eat your pine nuts."
"Hey, hey, hey, Jiulang, wait for me~" Jian Ming was unwilling to listen to this. How could these things compare to meat? Only by eating meat can you feel at ease!
He immediately jumped down from the tree and followed Cui Bianxu attentively: "Jiulang, let me come down later to avoid tiring you out."
"Huh..." Li Sheng let out a breath. He felt that being a colleague with a fool like Jian Ming really lowered the average level of the guards in their Cui Mansion.
Jiang Shangxian discovered that the Chinese New Year only seemed very long before the actual day arrived, but once it actually started it was like pressing the fast-forward button.
Their family was doing the same things as last year, except that there were a few more people and livestock, and Xiao Jiang would go to Cui's house for lunch every two or three days.
Every day, I just eat, drink, defecate and urinate, or I sleep and think about what to eat the next day. The days go by very quickly, and sometimes it feels like a day has passed without me doing anything.
On the Lantern Festival, the atmosphere in the Jiang family was not very good.
Wang Leisheng sent someone to deliver the results of the investigation early in the morning. It should have been delivered earlier, but when Wang Leisheng told his wife about it after returning home, she said: We have to find out more carefully about this matter. Miss Jiang wants to find a young man, probably for the marriage of her sisters, so we can't be vague.
Wang Leisheng was willing to listen to his wife's words. After all, his wife was often smarter than him, so he really took the trouble to find out.
Just like Jiang Shangxian's sixth sense, Qi Sanlang, this coward, is not a good guy.
He is from Yanzhou, Henan Province. He is nineteen years old this year. His family's financial situation is average, but of course, it is the best in their village.
In the Tang Dynasty, a township had five village heads, and Qi Sanlang was the grandson of the village head.
There is no problem in supporting his studies, but it is still a bit difficult for him to play around with his classmates and friends. However, this kid still has some luck.
When he was sixteen, he was engaged to the daughter of a wealthy merchant. However, this guy used some tricks to postpone the wedding until he was twenty years old.
The young lady from the merchant family is one year younger than him and is already eighteen years old this year, which is considered late marriage nowadays.
After marrying the daughter of a wealthy family, Qi Sanlang's living standard improved. He had no trouble going in and out of restaurants and writing poems with his classmates. The clothes he wore were made of good materials with fine stitching, and were all sewn for him by the young lady herself, stitch by stitch.
Of course, these were not found out from the archives, but were inquired by Wang Leisheng with the help of Jin Hejing.
As a student who traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an to take the imperial examination, Jin Hejing originally lived in a corner, but he still had some connections.
It was the New Year's Day, and there were many gatherings among these students who were alone in Chang'an. Wang Leisheng had found Jin Hejing, and he took this matter very seriously. During the gathering, he not only met Qi Sanlang, but also met Qi Sanlang's fellow townsman.
According to what Jin Hejing had inquired, the merchants' fortunes were not achieved for nothing. Originally, they invested in students without any academic achievements just to try their luck at turning their bicycles into BMWs, so they must have made the decision early on.
Unfortunately, the daughter was a love-brained person and was coaxed by Qi Sanlang. She listened to his boasting that he would pass the imperial examination and come to marry her before she was twenty.
The father couldn't persuade his daughter, so he had to agree.
Although his daughter was in love, his father was still smart. Although he agreed to postpone the wedding date reluctantly, he was still worried that his son-in-law would meet some wealthy family in Chang'an and abandon his daughter. Therefore, he was very prudent in the activity of "sponsoring" poor students.
The silver and money were sent to Qi Sanlang in batches little by little without any hesitation, and she paid someone to deliver them to Chang'an at a separate expense. It just so happened that every time they were delivered, they were accompanied by letters from her daughter and clothes, shoes and socks made for Qi Sanlang, and the amount of silver and money was not particularly large.
There is no problem with food, clothing, housing and transportation in Chang'an City, but it is definitely not enough to go to brothels to have fun or buy some expensive things to please the ladies.
Qi Sanlang's fellow villager happened to rent the same courtyard as him. This type of rental housing was very common in Chang'an City. It was specially built for these students from other places to live in. It was a house with rooms rented out one by one.
It is more advanced than modern shared housing.
The fellow villager said that Qi Sanlang didn't seem to have any major problems on a daily basis. He was quite hardworking in his studies and didn't usually go out to have fun with others.
There was only one time, which was when he failed the exam last year. A few of them, who were also failed candidates, drank together. Perhaps because he didn't pass the exam, Qi Sanlang drank a little too much.
It just so happened that they lived in the same courtyard, so he helped Qi Sanlang back. It was also during that time that he heard from Qi Sanlang's drunken words that he was somewhat dissatisfied with his future father-in-law and wife.
It was probably about him coming all the way to Changan Technology, and his father-in-law knew that the expenses were huge, and although the family had money, he deliberately didn't give him more. His future wife came from a merchant family and her status was too low to be able to help him.
The man was a little drunk at the time. After listening to it, he felt something was wrong, but he couldn't resist the drunkenness and fell asleep.
When he woke up the next day, he felt a little ashamed of Qi Sanlang when he thought about this incident. Qi Sanlang's marriage to the rich businessman's daughter was quite famous in the local area. Many of their classmates thought that if Qi Sanlang could rely on the money from his wife's family to pass the exam, it would be a good story.
Who knew this guy was so despicable behind the scenes?
But after all, they are all students and from the same hometown. If Qi Sanlang is really lucky enough to pass the exam in the future, they still want to help and support each other, so they keep this matter in their hearts.
This time, when Jin Hejing was asking for tutoring, eating together, and drinking some wine, he said that he had a younger sister at home. He saw that Qi Sanlang was very dedicated and wanted to match them up, so he wanted to find out if there was any marriage planned in his family, so he got the information out of him.
Xia Zhenying and Jiang Wangri both looked dismal upon hearing this, especially Xia Zhenying. Her smiling face flushed crimson, and she clenched her fists in anger. "Damn it! If you can only come to Chang'an to take the exam with the Yue family's financial support, how could you do such a heartless thing?! How shameless!"