Patriarch, he doesn't want to take the imperial examinations

Chapter 47

Mengzhen entered Minglun Hall with the bell ringing. There was no class at the moment. Some students in the classroom were memorizing, some were chatting, and all kinds of voices were chaotic.

He walked to his seat in the last row, and the students in front were chatting together.He put down the book case, took out a book from it, and listened to what they had to say while reading it.

"Are there really ghosts in this world?" one of the students asked, "Is it true that the mourning hall is haunted?"

"Of course it is." Another student said, "My house is near their house, and the sound of his house crying woke me up from my sleep last night. I wanted to go out and have a look, but my mother refused to let me say It is unlucky for a person to die, and hearing the cries, it is probably haunted. Oh, by the way, the family name is Deng, and it is Deng Bowen's uncle's family."

"Oh, that's how it is." The rest of the students suddenly realized that Deng Bowen and the others knew each other, and they were in the same classroom as them.No wonder the man hasn't come these days, he went to mourn for his uncle.

Meng Zhen sat on the seat and recited the article silently, and after only a few ears, he understood that these students were discussing the haunting of Deng Yuming's mourning hall last night.

"But why is it haunted?" The same student asked, "Did the dead person have some grievances, was he murdered? Or is there something else hidden."

The student who lived near Deng's house said, "It wasn't that he was killed. The man accidentally fell to his death while walking. It is said that he fell on..." He lowered his voice and looked back, "It was because of classmate Meng. doorstep of the house."

"Ah..." The students looked at Mengzhen, "Since I accidentally fell to my death, how could it still be haunted? Is there something else wrong?"

The student said: "No, it was the uncles in his family who fought for the family's property before they were buried. The master of the family turned into a ghost and came to catch them. The one who died last night was the elder uncle. It is said that he was burned to death. Yes, not even ashes are left."

"There's no ashes left?" A student wondered, "What kind of fire did it burn? There's not even ashes left. This ghost is so haunting."

The student said again: "I don't know either. A relative in my family cooks and sweeps the floor in that family. What happened last night scared her half to death. She didn't dare to do it there anymore. Don’t walk around in front of that family’s door for a few days, it’s not good if you get something inauspicious. These are what my relatives told us. I came out in a hurry in the morning and didn’t listen too carefully. Let me tell you these I just want to tell you that you must not have the intention of harming others, or you will be crushed. Just wait and see, there will definitely be trouble in the mourning hall tonight."

After the students finished speaking, instructor Yang happened to walk in.Everyone quickly shut up and quietly slipped back to their seats.

Meng Zhen listened to what the student said just now, thinking about how to make trouble in Deng's mourning hall tonight.Deng Yuming had a total of five sons-in-law, the eldest son-in-law was killed by him, and he couldn't kill the remaining four, otherwise the five married girls of the Deng family would all become widows, and Deng Yuming might still be unable to rest in peace.

Scaring them is enough.When Meng Zhen thought so, Instructor Yang had already stepped onto the podium and started to speak.

Instructor Yang said that there will be an annual exam in mid-November, and students are required to register at the county school tomorrow. Students who do not participate in the annual exam should write down their reasons in advance, and the school will submit them when the school administration comes to the county school to invigilate the exam.

The annual examination, also known as the annual examination, is an examination held by the school administration for the students of the government, state, and county it belongs to. It is usually held in the first year of the school administration's term.

Students from all prefectures, prefectures, and counties are required to take the exam. The exam results are divided into six grades. Those with excellent grades will be rewarded, and those with the worst grades will be removed from the school administration.

It can be seen that the annual examination is very important to the students, and the students cannot ignore it.

After Instructor Yang finished speaking, he assigned a four-book essay to the students and asked them to hand it in before get out of class ended.

In the morning, I will try the four calligraphy essays, and in the afternoon, I will try the five character and eight rhyme test, and it will be too early for Meng Zhen to return home after school.

Meng Hong has been waiting for him for a long time.Meng Hong greeted him with joy on his face: "Father, you came back early today."

Seeing his happy face, Meng Zhen said, "You didn't close your mouth today."

Meng Hong still smiled and said: "Isn't this happy? Once you are happy, you will not be able to get along. By the way, I have inquired about the situation in the Deng family today. The other sons of the Deng family saw that the elder uncle was burned. There was no ashes left, and I was terrified in my heart, claiming to be sick one after another early this morning and fled back to my own home."

"Escaped?" Meng Zhen frowned, he also said that he wanted to deal with them, how would he deal with them if they escaped.

However, Meng Zhen thought again, since these four people chose to escape, they must have done something bad, and they had ghosts in their hearts.That being the case, you have to chase it back.

But how can he get it back, he doesn't know where their home is.

Meng Zhen didn't raise his eyebrows, he couldn't think of a reason, Meng Hong raised his hand and waved in front of him: "Father, what's wrong with you, why don't you talk anymore."

Meng Zhen turned his eyes, looked at him and said: "I was thinking, these four people escaped like this, it would be too cheap for them."

Meng Hong said with a smile: "Never mind him, the old uncle of the Deng family is the lesson for the past, so they don't dare to do anything to the Deng family in the future."

Meng Zhen didn't take it seriously, since he accepted Deng Yuming's entrusted dream, he should send the Buddha to the west, good people will do their best to the end, and let these four people suffer some punishment.

He suddenly thought of a way, and immediately told Meng Hong: "Meng Hong, go and find out where the other four aunts of the Deng family are."

Meng Hong was thinking about the fact that the eldest uncle of the Deng family was burnt to ashes, when he suddenly heard his father say this, he was very puzzled: "Father, don't you care about other people's affairs, why do you ask this suddenly. "

Meng Zhen said: "If you are told to inquire, then go, why ask so many nonsense."

Meng Hong smiled: "Okay, okay, I'm going to inquire now, don't be impatient if you are safe." He got up and came out of his father's room, but he thought in his heart, what is Meng Zhen asking about this, maybe he wants to find someone's house go?

But after thinking about it again, it's impossible. With Mengzhen's personality, he would never interfere in these matters.

Meng Hong thought for a long time but couldn't think of a reason, shook his head, and left the gate of their house.

At dinner time, Meng Hong came back.

Meng Zhen looked at him: "Are you ready to inquire?"

Meng Hong smiled and said, "Naturally, I'll inquire about it." As he spoke, he handed him a piece of folded paper.Meng Zhen took it and unfolded it to have a look. On it were written the detailed addresses of the four aunts of the Deng family, as well as the age and family members.

Meng really thought, what did Meng Hong want to do with such detailed inquiries? He wasn't recruiting a son-in-law, he even wrote down the family members and children in such detail.

On the mouth, he said: "It's none of your business here, you can go on your own."

Meng Hong: "Ah, I haven't eaten yet Dad, why are you driving me away in such a hurry?"

Meng Zhen: "Then you eat quickly, and go back to your room after eating. I'm not feeling well, so I'm going to rest first."

Watching his father enter the room, Meng Hong always felt that his father was strange, as if he was hiding something from him.But it was not easy for him to ask. After eating, he went into the room to have a look, and saw that his father had already slept wrapped in a quilt, tucked in the corners of the quilt, and left too.

Meng Zhen waited for Meng Hong to leave before opening his eyes.Then with the help of the system, like yesterday, the soul came out of the body and floated away from the body of the original body.

Of the four sons-in-law of the Deng family, two live in Xianghe County and two live in the capital.According to the detailed addresses on the paper, Meng Zhen first found the homes of the two uncles in the capital, pasted a piece of talisman paper on each of them, and then sent them directly to the gate of Deng's house with a teleportation talisman.

After that, he used the same method to get the two from Xianghe County.The four sons-in-law were a little dazed when they were teleported over. When they looked up, they saw that they were in Deng's house at some point, and they were so frightened that they turned around and ran away.

But their legs didn't seem to be their own, and they didn't listen to them at all, as if being restrained by something, they walked towards the mourning hall step by step.

At this time, in the mourning hall of Deng's family, the female family members knelt beside Deng Yuming's coffin and wept endlessly.The one who cried the saddest was the elder sister of the Deng family, "Father, how could you have the heart... to find uncle, no matter how bad he is, he is also your daughter's husband. Now that uncle is gone, how can you let your daughter live."

The eldest sister of the Deng family thought that her father's uncle's death was the result of her father's stealth. When she thought of her husband's death without even ashes left, her heart felt as if she was being tortured. She patted her father's coffin with both hands, her voice hoarse, Almost fainted.

Several younger sisters comforted her and asked her to go back to her room to rest, but the eldest sister of the Deng family couldn't listen, but she cried more and more fiercely, and her voice became hoarse from crying.

The younger sisters saw their elder sister crying so sadly, and when they thought of their husband returning home early this morning, they felt even more sad, lying on their father's coffin and weeping.

When the sisters cried loudly on the coffin board, Deng Zhaozhao was among them, but she didn't cry so loudly, she sobbed softly.

The villain's eldest brother-in-law died, and she was happy in her heart.She was almost ruined by that villain last night, it was Daddy's spirit in heaven who protected her.

Thinking of her father's kindness to her, Deng Zhaozhao cried silently.She got up from the haystack, came to her cousin Deng Bowen in front of the mourning hall, picked up a stack of paper money, threw it into the brazier, and brought up a cloud of smoke.

"Brother Bowen, do you think tonight will be like last night?" Deng Zhaozhao asked with a crooked face.

Deng Bowen also threw a few pieces of paper money into the brazier, looked at the flames that burned for a while and then went out, and said, "No, everyone who has to go has gone." He didn't stay here last night to watch the spirit, so he came here this morning I just heard that the mourning hall was haunted by ghosts last night, and the ghosts burned the eldest uncle to death.

Because of this, the first lady couldn't get sick, the eighth lady had a miscarriage, and the other wives didn't care about it. The family was full of women and children, so Deng Bowen decided to stay here until his uncle's funeral. If you are a man, you can take care of it.

"If sister Zhaozhao is sleepy, go back and rest. There are many people here, so you don't need to keep guard."

Deng Bowen asked Deng Zhaozhao to go to rest, but Deng Zhaozhao shook his head: "I'm not sleepy, I'll keep watch for my father, and after a few days when my father is buried, I can't keep watch even if I want to." Thinking of this, Deng Zhaozhao couldn't help crying Live and fall.

Seeing this, Deng Bowen comforted him: "The deceased is gone, sister Zhaozhao, don't be too sad, you will be an uncle and become a star in the sky, protecting us in the sky."

God bless them.Deng Zhaozhao forgot to shed tears while reading Deng Bowen's words.

At this moment, the door of the mourning hall was suddenly opened, and several men were thrown in.

The crying in the mourning hall stopped abruptly.

A few women were timid, screamed loudly after being frightened by this action, and hugged each other. After seeing who the men who fell to the ground were, they were shocked again. This is not their Deng family. The four sons-in-law, who just said they were sick and left in the morning, why are they back now?

The four sons-in-law crawled to Deng Yuming's coffin, knocking their heads on the ground with a loud bang: "Father, we knew we were wrong, and we shouldn't have agreed to embezzle your family property privately, but this was all a bad idea from that Xing, we It was also a momentary obsession with money, and it was a last resort. Father, for the sake of your grandchildren who are not yet grown-ups, please forgive us, we will not dare to do it again in the future."

The four sons-in-law were crying, and the two were fighting. They also saw the scene of the eldest son-in-law being burned to death last night. They didn't want to end up like that. They were so scared that they would die, so they just kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Meng Zhen floated in front of them from the outside, and said in his heart, now I know I’m asking for forgiveness. When you conspired to steal the family’s wealth, did you think about the youngest daughter and widow in the family? If he remembered correctly, Deng Yuming’s youngest daughter was still alive. Less than two years old, about the same size as Meng Yuan.

With a "slap", several slaps were slapped on the faces of the four sons-in-law.This slap was no ordinary slap, it was infused with Mengzhen's fairy art, which was as powerful as a whip.

The faces of the four sons-in-law immediately became bloody and bloody, and they lay on the ground begging for mercy: "Father, my son-in-law knows his mistake, he knows his mistake, and he will never covet the property of my sisters again, please show your noble hand and don't kill us. "

The four daughters of the Deng family also came to kneel down to beg for mercy for the uncles, and begged their fathers to let the uncles go. The children in the family are still young and they cannot live without their fathers.

Only Deng Bowen and Deng Zhaozhao stood on the sidelines and watched. Deng Zhaozhao wiped away the tears on his face and was very happy to see the four brothers-in-law being punished.

What Deng Bowen thought in his heart was that these people were slapped in the air. Is it really the uncle's ghost that is causing trouble?

He doesn't really believe in ghosts and gods.

"Uncle, is that you? If so, can you say something." Deng Bowen shouted into the air.

However, in the mourning hall, apart from the cries of the sons-in-law and the daughters of the Deng family, and the whistling of the wind passing through the hall, there was no other response.

Looking at the few people kneeling in front of the mourning hall and begging for mercy, Meng Zhen had already thought about how to deal with them.

On the piece of paper Menghong gave him, there were not only the detailed addresses of the four uncles' homes, but also their ages, occupations, and family members.

Among the four uncles, the second and fourth uncles who live in Xianghe County are scholars, and the third and fifth uncles who live in the capital are businessmen.

Reading, Meng really thought, reading must first be a person, this person can't do it well, what's the use of reading more books.He slightly cast a spell, only to hear the second and fourth uncles who were kneeling on the ground screamed in agony: "Ah..." It turned out that the right arms of the two were broken.

The two sons-in-law rolled on the ground in agony, and the other two were already pale with fright, trembling uncontrollably, kowtowed and begged, their voices hoarse.

"Father, we know we are wrong, please let us go. Father, we will never covet your property again, please... ah..."

However, before the third and fifth sons-in-law finished crying, there were a few more miserable wailings, this time it was the two sons-in-laws whose legs were broken.

Reading will ruin his fame.Doing business will cut off his source of income.If the hand is broken, the fame will be broken.Similarly, if you have a broken leg, you can't run a business.

This is something Meng Zhen had already thought up on the way back from catching a few sons-in-law.Seeing them rolling on the ground and howling now, I felt that they were very noisy, so I simply knocked them out with a spell.

The mourning hall was gone without the screams of the sons-in-law, and it was indeed much quieter, only intermittent women weeping.Deng Bowen looked around for a week, and still asked the same sentence: "Uncle, is that you? If you have any last wishes, you may as well tell them, Bowen will definitely fulfill them if he can."

Meng Zhen casually wrote a few lines in mid-air, and then turned it into paper and sent it out.The paper happened to fall into Deng Bowen's hands, and Deng Bowen unfolded it to see that it was about the distribution of the Deng family's wealth.

Meng Zhen didn't quite know how to distribute Deng Yuming's property, so he could only divide it equally.Except for the five married daughters, the other four daughters and eight wives of the Deng family, Mengzhen gave them the house deeds, land deeds, store deeds and other scattered property among them.

After Deng Bowen looked at it, he lifted his clothes and knelt in front of the mourning hall, cupped his hands and said, "Bowen will definitely tell the aunts about the uncle's last wish. Don't worry, uncle. May uncle rest in peace!" He kowtowed on the ground.

Meng really knew that this meant for him to leave.But he really should go.He helped the Deng family to this extent, which is considered as the utmost benevolence.No matter how the Deng family lives in the future, it has nothing to do with him.

A gust of cold wind came in from the outside, and the white cloth and white flags in the mourning hall immediately fluttered. Accompanied by the mournful cry of the woman, Meng Zhen floated out of Deng's house.

In the early morning of the next day, when Meng Zhen finished washing and having breakfast, Meng Hong came to his room again.

"Father, my son has brought you good news again today." Meng Hong said as he sat across from him, his face could not hide his joy.

"Let's listen to it." Meng Zhen was calm.

Meng Hong approached him and whispered: "Last night, another accident happened in Deng's mourning hall, and several other sons-in-law of his family also had accidents. Two arms were crippled, and two legs were broken."

Meng Zhen only gave a soft "hmm".

"Father!" Meng Hong touched his father's arm, "Why do you react like this, shouldn't you be happy to celebrate together like this?"

Meng Zhen quickly said: "How happy should I be? Do you want to hang a whip for you to celebrate? You don't care about other people's family affairs in the future."

Meng Hong was reprimanded by his father, not only was he not unhappy, but secretly pleased, his father didn't let him meddle in his own business, but he himself managed it happily.

In fact, when Mengzhen asked him to find out where the uncles of the Deng family lived yesterday, he vaguely guessed that the haunting of the Deng's Lingtang should be related to Mengzhen.

Until this morning when he inquired about the punishment of the four uncles of the Deng family last night in the mourning hall, he was even more convinced that the haunted person in the Deng family mourning hall was Mengzhen.

His father was a god in his previous life, so it's not a problem to use external force to pretend to be a god.Meng Zhen is a real person, he says he doesn't help others, but secretly solves a lot of troubles for others.

Duplicity.Meng Hong thought to himself.

He grinned: "I know dad, I don't like to meddle in other people's affairs, I just feel happy to see the bad guys being severely punished, and I can't help but want to sing a song."

Immediately afterwards, he thought of Deng Zhaozhao's appearance like pear blossoms and rain, and couldn't help but smile knowingly, the little girl should be able to live comfortably without the entanglement of the scumbag.

When he was thinking this way, he stood up and said to his father, "Father, you have dinner, I'll go to see my sister-in-law." Wang Xinyu was due to give birth in two months, so he had to go and watch at all times.He still has to write a letter to his elder brother later, asking when he will come back.

Meng Hong walked out of his father's house full of joy.Soon Mengzhen also went to school after breakfast.

Five days later, Deng Yuming was buried in Deng's ancestral grave.That night, he came to Mengzhen's dream and said goodbye to people: "Old Meng, thank you for your help to my family. I can't repay you. I will be your cow and horse in the next life. Lao Meng, I'm leaving now, you Take care of your body, brother, I wish you an early entry on the gold list, and your wish will come true." Then he waved to Meng Zhen and drifted away.

Meng Zhen woke up from the dream, a little dazed. After Deng Yuming's incident, he became more convinced that mortal life is too fragile. If Deng Yuming can fall to death today, he can also fall to death tomorrow.

So he wants to pass the imperial examination, so that he can get back his morality and ascend as soon as possible.

Meng really thought so.

Thinking about it, he fell asleep again in a daze.

The author says:

Suddenly I found a big bug in my article, that is, the hero will take the provincial examination in the year after next, not next year.

The imperial examinations in the Ming and Qing Dynasties are generally like this. Starting from the first year of serving in Xuezheng, there are annual examinations, scientific examinations, and rural examinations. It is the annual examination and the two-year examination of the scientific examination.

Year-old exam, also known as year-old exam, is the first-year exam of the school administration’s tenure. It is an exam held by the school administration for all students from the government, state, and county. You can't take the country test.

The scientific examination, also known as the scientific examination, is an examination in the second year of the school administration's tenure. It is an examination for all students. Students must pass this examination before they can participate in the rural examination.On the contrary, those who fail the examination will not be allowed to participate in the next provincial examination.

Therefore, these two exams are very important, because it is related to whether students can participate in the next rural exam.Isn’t there a saying that beggars are afraid of being bitten by dogs, and scholars are afraid of the annual exam.Lu Xun said.

Although it is said that the hero can only take the township examination in the next year, but I have a time machine, time will pass quickly, just like that, after a year, it will be gone in a year.

感谢在2022-04-2100:59:58~2022-04-2223:57:58期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: Xiao Zhanzhan 1;

Thanks to the little angels of the irrigation nutrient solution: 30 bottles of Qi Lite; 1 bottle of Li Shui and Xiao Zhanzhan;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!