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

Chapter 55

The three of them sat down, their faces not looking very good.

"Why did you fall down? Wasn't Uncle Wang with you when he was walking?" Meng Hong asked.He has been restless these days, and only hopes that Wang Xiucai will get better soon. After all, the Wang family and their family are relatives. If Wang Xiucai is not good, their family will not be good either.

Mengze replied: "Aunt Lin was there to take care of her, but she poured a glass of water halfway. Uncle Wang was stubborn and insisted on walking by himself, and then accidentally tripped over a stool." At that time, he was decocting medicine in the kitchen. Huan was studying in the room, when the two heard a woman crying, they dropped their work and ran into Wang Xiucai's room at the same time, but his right leg was suffering from a disorder and he ran slowly. Xiucai lay motionless on the ground, and the three of them managed to get him back on the bed.

After Monze finished speaking, there was a moment of silence in the room.

"Forget it, I'll go there with you tomorrow." After a moment of silence, Meng Hong said again.

"Brother!" Mengze reminded, "Tomorrow is fifteenth, so I won't go there for now. And it's not busy there, so you don't have to go there."

Mengze originally planned to return to the capital on the sixth day of the first lunar month. He didn't want to be delayed by Wang Xiucai's affairs, so he had to send someone to the medical center in the capital to ask his master for leave.The clinic recruited a new apprentice last year, and the two of them came here when they were free in the clinic. The master told him not to worry, and he would come over after he finished his work here.

As far as Wang Xiucai's current situation is concerned, he might have to wait until the first month of the lunar year before Mengze can return to the capital.

"When will your Uncle Wang get better?" Meng Zhen, who had been silent all this time, said the first words since entering the room.People are not sages, and there is nothing wrong with them. Wang Xiucai's nature is not bad. Meng really doesn't want him to lie in bed all the time, and hopes that he will get better soon. Even if there is no hope of imperial examination in the future, it is better to go out and walk by himself than to lie in the house all the time.

However, Monze's answer was ambiguous and vague.Monze said: "It's hard to say. Let's wait and see in half a month. If I can walk around on the ground, I can recover slowly with more activities. If not, then I can only wait and see."

"Hey, let's not talk about that for now." Xu felt that this matter was a bit disturbing, Meng Hong waved his hand, "San'er, have you eaten yet? Second brother will take you outside to eat if you haven't."

Mengze's face was slightly blushing for some reason, and he whispered: "I ate, but I'm not full."

"Pfft..." Meng Hong was so amused by his words that he laughed for a while, and then said: "Then Wang Xiucai's family is really picky, you have worked so hard to treat him for half a month, and they don't even give you food full."

"No..." Mengze quickly retorted, "I was full a few days ago, but today I am not full." 12-year-old Wang Huan found two handfuls of rice in the jar, threw it into the pot and boiled it, so that everyone would not be hungry after a full meal.

"Let's go!" Meng Hong got up and came over to give Mengze a hand, "Second brother will take you out for a delicious meal, and then we will buy some food to use at Wang Xiucai's house. Let's see what is lacking in his house, and we will buy it for you later." together."

Wang Xiucai is paralyzed on the bed and cannot get up. Wang Huan still has to go to school. The Lin family can't take care of it alone. In the next two days, I will hire a helper to wash, cook and clean the Wang family, so as to reduce the burden on their family.

Thinking of this, Meng Hong waved to his father, and took Meng Ze out for dinner.

Meng Zhen looked at the disappearing figures of the two of them, and without thinking too much, sat in the study and read a book.

Two days later, the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the opening day of the county school.Early in the morning, Meng Zhen took his own carriage to the county school, and there were students from the school who had arrived before him.

Because it is the first day of school, most of the students haven't gotten over the comfort of the holiday, and because the classmates haven't seen each other for a month, everyone gathers together at this moment, and there are too many words to talk about. Where did I go to play, I said what I ate during the holiday, and he said how many articles he wrote during the holiday, the voices overlapped and made a lot of noise.

Meng Zhen sat down on his seat with his books on his back, and looked at the young students in front of him, talking and laughing, some of them still had childishness on their faces, some of them were still youthful even though their childishness had been removed, and some were mature and prudent.

But without exception, these students all have a young and flamboyant face.A few of them, which I haven't seen for a month, seem to have grown taller.

Meng Zhen couldn't help thinking again, it's good to be young, young is a landscape of its own.

Although he was in the noisy and noisy environment, he didn't feel the noise, on the contrary, he felt much clearer than in his own home.There are so many trivial matters at home, and you will feel tired after being around for a long time, but it is different in school, where students are mostly talking and laughing, and the sound of reading is like the sound of nature, no matter how much you listen to, you will not feel noisy and boring.

The noise in the classroom overwhelmed one wave after another, and it was not until Instructor Yang walked into the classroom that everyone quieted down from the chattering and laughing.

At the beginning of school, everyone has not recovered their thoughts. Instructor Yang has also been a student, so he knows it all too well.He stood on it and said a few words, asking the students to review and recite the Four Books and Five Classics, while he sat in the lecture hall and watched.

Most of the students in the school have grown up or are about to grow up, they are not three-year-olds. How can anyone ask for someone to follow their buttocks every day, so everyone is very conscious, and they will obey them in a well-behaved manner and never disobey what Instructor Yang asks them to do. inverse.Because in their view, students disobeying the instructors is disrespectful and disrespectful to the instructors.

A person who doesn't know how to respect teachers and respect the way, still reads some sage books, so he just goes home and farms.

One morning passed quickly, and for the next three or four days, Instructor Yang asked the students to recite and review by themselves, and he only gave new lessons when the students got their hearts back.

Time always flies by quickly, slipping away inadvertently, and ten days are gone in the blink of an eye.

On the 28th day of the first lunar month, Mengzhen returned home as usual after his morning class.

What was different from usual was that the house was quiet. After asking the housekeeper, he found out that Meng Qing came back today, and Meng Hong brought a few servants to the pier to pick him up.

Meng Zhen had long heard that Meng Qing would come back in the past few days, but he didn't know the exact date.

"Is Monze back?" Meng Zhen asked.Mengze is still running to Wang's house with a medicine box on his back these days, and Wang Xiucai's health has also improved. These days, he can get out of bed and walk on his own, but his head and body are a bit slow.Monze said that this is the sequelae left by the stroke, and it is difficult to recover.

"Go send someone to call Mengze back!" Meng Zhen said, and the housekeeper immediately sent someone to Wang's house to call Mengze.It happened that Meng Che also returned home from school, Meng Zhen called him to him, and told him that his elder brother was coming back today, and asked him not to go to school in the afternoon, but to stay at home with him and wait for his elder brother to come back.

After about half an hour, Mengze came back from Wang Xiucai's house.Then the father and son sat at home and waited quietly. Meng Qing and Meng Hong came back with a group of servants until the sun was setting.

The servants carried a few boxes in their hands, and when Meng Zhen and Meng Che came out to welcome them, the boxes were carried into the gate of Meng Mansion one by one.Meng Qing stepped forward and bowed to his father: "Father, my son is back, and everything is going well on the road, so don't worry about it."

Meng Zhen looked at the elder son whom he hadn't seen for half a year, and saw that he was a lot thinner than when he left, so he knew that it would be difficult for him to go out, not like Meng Qing's calm expression on the surface.

"Just come back!" Meng Zhen said.Even though there were many questions in his heart, he didn't ask any, and just said a simple sentence, and he welcomed Meng Qing into the door.

Meng Qing went to see his wife and children first, then took a bath and changed clothes, and only came to his father's house after washing away all the dust.On the way back, he listened to Meng Hong talking about everything that happened at home during the six months he was away.

Therefore, when everyone was sitting together and talking about Wang Xiucai's family, Meng Qing was not surprised.Stroke is beyond human control. Once a businessman who had business dealings with him was only in his forties at the time. The business conversation with him happened to be fine that day. The businessman suddenly became speechless. The next moment Then fainted to the ground.

He hurriedly called a doctor, and the doctor said that the businessman had suffered a sudden stroke, and it was thanks to him that he arrived in time, otherwise the man's life would have been in jeopardy.Although the businessman was rescued later, he failed to recover to the past.

So Meng Qing can take it easy, no wonder others.Thinking this way, he turned his head and said to Mengze: "San'er, you will go back to the medical clinic in the capital tomorrow. You have worked hard during this time. I will go to my father-in-law's house tomorrow, and I will find out about his diagnosis and treatment later." If I come to take over personally, I won’t bother you.” Since the Wang family is married to his Meng family, now that something happened to the Wang family, the burden will naturally fall on Meng Qing’s head.He should take up this responsibility and take good care of his father-in-law's family. "

Mengze nodded hurriedly: "Since the eldest brother has spoken, then I would rather be respectful than obedient, and just listen to the eldest brother."

Meng Qing gave a "hmm", turned his gaze to Meng Hong again, and called out Meng Hong's name.Meng Hong didn't understand, so he said, "What's the matter, big brother?" Seeing his serious look, maybe he wanted to ask about his marriage, that would be really embarrassing.

However, the next sentence that Meng Qing was caught off guard made Meng Hong very surprised, "Thank you! During the days when elder brother was away, thanks to you for taking care of your sister-in-law and this family, the house is well-organized. I am very pleased with elder brother. "

After a long time, it turned out to be a compliment to him.Meng Hong smiled embarrassingly: "It should be, big brother, you are welcome, I am also a member of the family, these are what I should do, how dare I ask big brother to say 'thank you'. If big brother really wants to thank you, you should thank him most The person in question is my sister-in-law, she risked her life to give birth to you, and she suffered a lot, the eldest brother should take good care of her."

"I'll save it, you don't need to tell me about it." Meng Qing didn't change his expression, still showing a serious expression.Meng Hong couldn't help thinking, why did his elder brother take a trip to the south of the Yangtze River, he felt like a different person, why is he so serious, he is not used to it.

"Meng Qing!" Meng Zhen, who had been sitting there without saying a word, finally spoke up after everyone had finished talking, "Since you're back, you can take Sui Sui's name."

"This..." Meng Qing's face finally softened, and he was no longer tense, "Father is the head of the family, and the child's name can be chosen, why do you ask me? I am a student who has not studied for a few days , how can it be named after a talent like Dad."

"If you want to take it, you can take it. Why waste so much talk." After getting along with these sons for a long time, Meng Zhen knows their temper well.

"Okay, okay, dad, don't be angry, I'll just take it. But let me go back and discuss it with Xin Yu, and I'll come back and let everyone know when I've made up my mind."

Meng Zhen nodded, telling him not to worry.

"Father!" At this moment, Meng Qing suddenly changed his tone and called out in a high and low tone, all the people present looked over together, seeing that Meng Qing's expression was quite different from before, they didn't know what happened.

Meng Zhen also sensed something was wrong with Meng Qing, and hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?"

"Guess why I delayed my return trip this time?" Meng Qing asked without answering.

Meng Zhen said: "I don't know, if you have something to say, just say it directly, beat around the bush, and cover up what you are doing."

Meng Qing said: "I met a son of our family in the south of the Yangtze River. He is my cousin. He is of the same generation as my father. He is also the son of my uncle. I think I know about this uncle of my father. He was the general of the Tai family at the beginning. The Liangzhuang that my grandfather bought was converted into tickets and took the family away. My grandfather struggled for several years to find him, and finally had to give up. But now I met his son when I went to the south of the Yangtze River. It's so embarrassing that I couldn't help clapping my hands and applauding after seeing it."

What cousin, uncle, great-grandfather, Meng Zhen was confused and couldn't figure it out for a long time.Not only Meng Zhen, but everyone present was also very confused, not knowing what Meng Qing was talking about.

Seeing their blank and ignorant faces, Meng Qing had no choice but to wave his hands: "Forget it, it's getting late, let's eat first, and talk while eating."

The author says:

感谢在2022-04-3023:59:36~2022-05-0201:34:17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 of irrigation nutrient solution: 10 bottles of fragrance without CP;

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