After hearing what Chen Guhong said, Chen Xiuxiu accepted the one hundred thousand taels of silver. It's just that Chen Xiuxiu didn't let Chen Xiuxiu handle the matter of buying slaves. In the end, Chen Guhong and Wang Song worked together on this matter.
Speaking of Wang Song, it was another happy event.
Because this time not only Chen Guhong became a scholar-in-law, Wang Song, but also Ma Nong and Ma Zhengde, who had become friends with Chen Guhong, became a scholar-in-law.
Of the five children who got along with each other, four were selected as scholars. Among them, Manon is only nine years old, which is also a good story. The three of Ma Zhengde went back home that day to celebrate with his family.
Chen Guhong also entrusted a gift to the farmer Ma Zhong, because he admired Ma Zhong's integrity, the gift was just an ordinary Four Treasures of the Study, as the saying goes.
Wang Song's level is about the same as that of Chen Guhong before. God knows whether he was released by the county magistrate Ma Zhong to pass the county test, but Wang Song is still very happy, and his family is even more happy.
The scholar-officials have uniforms issued by the imperial court, which are called raw clothes. Taken from Zhu Shengyan.
This day the two went out together, both dressed in raw clothes, the belt around Wang Song's waist was very bright, inlaid with agate stones, and there was a jade pendant around his waist.
"My father was so happy that he said he would allow me to marry another concubine." Wang Song had a happy face, his head turned up forty-five degrees.
"Didn't your family have a regular wife, three concubines, and children who can form a small army?" Chen Guhong was very puzzled.
"Food is sex, sex is also. How can you know what it's like inside, you little chicken?" Wang Song looked down on him.
Chen Guhong shrugged his shoulders, he really couldn't understand the life of the son of a born rich man.
While talking, the two came to a street. What is sold on this street is not goods, but people. Some people sold themselves because of the famine, some were resold, some sold themselves to bury their fathers, and so on.
All in all, people can sell themselves.
But recently, the market here has been greatly impacted. Because of the downfall of the Wu family, many slaves of the Wu family were sold off by the officials.
Given the relationship between Chen Guhong and the county magistrate, buying some servants is nothing. But Wang Song is too eye-catching, according to his statement.
"We have been friends since childhood, no matter what we do. But I was born in a squire, and you are an ordinary person. You are not as good as me. Some people seem loyal, but they are cunning. To buy a slave is to buy honesty Yes, hands and feet are clean. And you can’t buy too much. If you buy too much, you will form a gang to deceive the master. So some of them will be transferred from my house to your house. Our family’s slaves are all born at home, with broken bones and tendons. Have a solid foundation. I will definitely not bully my master."
What Wang Song said was clear and logical, and there was a lot of reason in it. Chen Guhong was also very concerned, so he handed over to Wang Song the full authority to handle it. Because to him, trivial things in the world are not important, and even the one hundred thousand taels of silver is just too much for the status of a scholar.
These are all reserved for my sister and brother-in-law, so naturally I will take care of them a hundred times.
Chen Guhong came to the front of the official office, let Wang Song choose the slaves, and then gathered some slaves and slaves sent by Wang Song to form a service team of the Chen family.
Brother Kun has two properties in the city, one of which is a four-entry mansion. Chen Guhong and the two bought slaves and added some utensils, and they came outside this house.
Order these slaves to live in first, ready to do it properly. When a good day and auspicious day are selected, the housewarming ceremony will be carried out.
At this time it was already noon, Chen Guhong invited Wang Song home to eat and drink together. As soon as I started, I saw my sister's eyes were a little red, as if she had cried. Yuanyuan was beside her, wanted to speak but stopped talking.
Chen Guhong frowned and asked, "Sister, what's wrong?"
"It's okay." Chen Xiuxiu turned her head slightly and said softly.
Chen Guhong's brows were furrowed even more deeply, he knew his sister deeply, he looked sullen, but not serious. But I, Chen Guhong, am a scholar now, and I want to show off my fields and houses. I am considered a powerful man in this Chengyang City. Why do people still have trouble with my sister
Chen Guhong turned his head to look at Yuanyuan next to him.
Seeing Chen Guhong looking at her, Yuanyuan pouted and said, "I went out to buy vegetables with my lady in the morning, and I met a child's mother in the next street. That person was unreasonable and pointed at the lady's nose and scolded her. Relying on your good relationship with the magistrate, you gained the fame of a scholar through this relationship, which caused her son to fail the exam. Yuanyuan wanted to scold her, but was dragged back by the young lady."
"Bastard, I'm a famous person, known all over the world. How could it be because of connections?" Wang Song became furious when he heard that, and jumped up.
He was really guilty of not being good enough, so he became angry from embarrassment.
After Chen Guhong heard this, he shook his head and comforted Chen Xiuxiu: "Sister, don't be angry. People in the world are greedy, angry and ignorant. I don't want to see other people's family well. I am not afraid of shadows, so I don't need to pay attention to those gossips."
"Yeah, don't say that the young master's talent is real gold and silver. It really can't be true. Even if he really went through the back door, so what? There are more than a hundred people vying for a position. Why do you say that the young master took it?" Their son's fame as a scholar?" Yuanyuan tried her best to nod and chimed in.
Chen Guhong immediately raised his forehead when he heard this, this girl really wanted to help him speak, but why did she sound a bit bullying
No matter what, the three of them talked and comforted Chen Xiuxiu a lot. A little smile appeared on Chen Xiuxiu's face, she nodded, and then went to prepare lunch with Yuanyuan.
Chen Guhong and Wang Song sat in the room and waited for the meal. Soon after the meal was ready, the two went to eat. After eating, they left the housework to the woman, patted their buttocks and left.
In the afternoon, Chen Guhong planned to go to the fields in the countryside with Wang Zhengzheng and Wang Song. Up to now, Wang Zhengzheng has hired a shopkeeper to manage the grain shop, and he concentrates on managing the thousand acres of fertile land under Chen Guhong's name.
However, not long after the three of them left the house, the government officials chased after them. The yamen servant panted and said to Chen Guhong: "Chen Xianggong, my lord invites you to go to the county yamen."
"Do you know what it is?" Chen Guhong asked.
"Troublesome." The yamen servant said with a wry smile.
"What's the trouble?" Wang Song asked.
"It's a lot to talk about, let's talk about it on the way. It would be better for Wang Xianggong to come together." The yamen servant said.
"Take me?" Wang Song pointed at himself, puzzled.
Seeing this, Wang Zheng said: "Then you go there. I'll just go and see for myself about the farmland in the countryside."
"That's troublesome brother-in-law." Chen Guhong said, and then parted ways with Wang Zheng, and together with Wang Song went to the county government with the yamen servant, and the yamen servant told the situation on the way.
"Zhu Tongsheng refused to accept this county test, saying that it was Chen Xianggong and Wang Xianggong who got the back door of the old man. This scholar's fame is not worthy of this world, so he went to the county government to make trouble. In addition to their family members, there are now a huge crowd of people outside the county government. , there is a murderous intent."
The yamen servant said with a wry smile.