Huang Zhong found his Marquis on a big tree a hundred paces away from the yard.
Gu Houye was picked up by Gu Jiao and hung on a big tree branch, like a piece of wet clothes. There was no dry place all over his body, and there was dripping water.
Huang Zhong was startled when he saw him, because it was a clear day and day, if it was at night, he might think he had seen a ghost!
"Hou, Lord Hou, why did you hang yourself on a tree?"
Did I hang up? It's that daring girl!
"And why is your face swollen?"
Still that girl!
Every time I see that girl, it's not a good thing, and his whole body is almost gone!
He has found out, that girl is here to beat him!
"I don't want to recognize her—"
—
Gu Jiao and Gu Yan said goodbye, Gu Yan was very reluctant, but Gu Jiao promised him to come to see him soon, so he reluctantly let Gu Jiao go.
He sat in his sedan chair with Gu Jiao and put Gu Jiao on the carriage.
This operation shocked everyone's jaws.
You must know that Gu Yan's sedan chair is his absolute private territory. Once, a young Gu Jinyu climbed in curiously and was kicked down by Gu Yan on the spot.
"I'll give you a seat next time." Gu Yan said to Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao nodded: "Okay."
After Gu Jiao left the Hot Spring Villa, she did not return to town immediately, but went to Dean Li's house first.
Dean Li was in the academy, and there were only Mrs. Li and servants at home.
Mrs. Li doesn't spend much time sober in a day, and it is said that sometimes even Dean Li doesn't recognize her.
However, she seemed to recognize Gu Jiao, grabbed a lot of candy for Gu Jiao, and smiled.
Gu Jiao checked her body. She was fine, but she was getting older, her memory was deteriorating, and her body was aging.
Gu Jiao kept a basket of fresh mountain goods, and found that Mrs. Li was always drooling while looking at a mulberry tree outside the wall. Gu Jiao went out of the yard and planned to pick some mulberries for Mrs. Li back.
But when she got closer, she realized that the mulberry tree was not wild by the roadside, but was planted in the courtyard next door. Because the crown of the tree was too high, it protruded out of the wall of her house.
Gu Jiao thought about it, walked over and knocked on the door of the other party.
"Cough, who is it?"
With a low coughing sound, the scarlet door was opened, and the one who opened the door was a lady with a blue temperament.
Gu Jiao recognized her at a glance.
She also recognized Gu Jiao.
She covered her mouth with a handkerchief, coughed twice, and then smiled: "Girl, is that you?"
Gu Jiao was stunned, she came to pick a mulberry, why did she meet the lady of the temple
"Madam, do you live so far away?" From here to go to the temple to offer incense, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a journey through mountains and rivers.
"My husband's surname is Gu." Yao said softly.
Gu
Is there a second wealthy Gu family here? the answer is negative.
Gu Jiao quickly guessed her identity, but she didn't say that she was Mrs. Hou, so Gu Jiao didn't point it out.
Yao shi invited Gu Jiao in. She had just been basking in the sun in the yard. The rattan chairs, tables, chairs and benches were all complete.
She pointed to the wooden stool and said, "Sit."
Gu Jiao sat down and found that there was no servant in the yard.
Seeing her doubts, Yao Shi smiled and said, "I want to be alone, so I let them go to the front yard. This is the back yard. Does the girl live near here too?"
Gu Jiao said, "I was passing by and saw that the mulberries were delicious, so I wanted to come in and ask, did I bother Mrs. Gu?"
"Nothing." Yao Shi was very happy to see Gu Jiao, she couldn't tell why, "I'll have someone pick it for you."
Yao shi summoned a servant girl to beat Gu Jiao with mulberries, and she took Gu Jiao and started talking in the yard, "I don't know the girl's name."
"Gu Jiao." Gu Jiao said.
Yao Shi smiled in surprise: "Your surname is Gu too? We were a family five hundred years ago."
Gu Yan also said this, as expected of a mother and son.
Yao Shi's condition was not very good, and after speaking a few words, he coughed violently.
Gu Jiao looked at her pale face, paused, and said, "Mrs. Gu, if you don't mind, I'll give you a pulse?"
"Girl Gu is proficient in the art of Qihuang?"
"I know a little bit."
Yao shi smiled and put his hand on the table.
After the maid finished picking up a basket full of mulberries, she came over and asked Yao Shi to show her off. Yao Shi waved her hand to signal her to step back.
The servant girl put the mulberries on the table lightly and backed away.
Her pulse was not very good, but her actual condition was worse than it seemed.
Gu Jiao calmly retracted her hand and asked Yao Shi, "Mrs. Gu, how is your sleep?"
Yao Shi said, "It's not good, it's hard to fall asleep."
Gu Jiao asked, "Appetite?"
Yao shi shook his head slightly: "It's not too big to eat."
Gu Jiao paused: "Is it like this before Feng Han?"
Yao Shi: "Yes."
Gu Jiao: "How long has it been?"
Yao Shi: "I don't remember the specifics, but it's been a long time."
Gu Jiao asked some more questions.
In fact, the Imperial Physician also asked, but Yao Shi was reluctant to open her heart, and she was always perfunctory.
Yao shi trusted Gu Jiao very much and answered all truthfully.
Gu Jiao said again: "Mrs. Gu has seen the doctor before, what did they say?"
Yao Shi smiled bitterly: "They said that I was too worried, so I was relieved, not to think too much about anything, and prescribed medicine. But it didn't help much, so I stopped taking it later."
That's it.
The worry in the doctor's mouth is too heavy, in the words of the previous life, it is depression.
But she is also accompanied by hysteria, which is very dangerous once it occurs.
Gu Jiao took two boxes of antidepressant medicines from the small medicine box and refilled them in porcelain bottles.
Yao shi sat opposite Gu Jiao and saw only the upright box lid, but did not see Gu Jiao's operation.
Gu Jiao handed the porcelain bottle to Yao Shi, explained the usage and dosage, and urged, "Mrs. Gu, you must take medicine so that the disease will be cured."
The imperial doctor's medicine was ineffective, how could the medicine handed over by a little girl have any effect
But the little girl was busy for a long time, and Yao shi couldn't bear to refuse her kindness, took the medicine and smiled: "Okay."
Gu Jiao looked into her eyes seriously: "You can't throw away the medicine, you have to promise me that you will really take the medicine on time."
Yao shi has not seen such sincere eyes for a long time. Those who want to cure her, they are not her, but the wife of Houfu.
If she wasn't Madam Hou, no one would look at her.
But the little girl in front of her really really wanted to cure her.
Yao Shi wanted to pay Gu Jiao the consultation fee, and Gu Jiao shook the mulberries in the basket.
Yao Shi smiled.
However, Gu Jiao did ask Yao Shi for an additional fee for the consultation, but it was not silver, but the cakes she made by herself.
Yao Shi is very happy.
She hadn't been this happy in a long time.
Every time I see her, she always has good luck, either saved by her or cured by her.
Is this girl her lucky star
Xu was the same age, and Yao Shi quickly thought of Gu Jinyu.
Although they are mother and daughter, her relationship with Jin Yu is not as close as she is with Gu Yan.
Even if Gu Yan had a stinky face all day, she could still feel Gu Yan's need for her.
She stayed in the villa and asked Gu Yan to go to the capital. Gu Yan would not do it, but Jin Yu could leave very easily. She seemed to yearn for the prosperity of the capital and the liveliness of the Hou residence.
This is not to say that Jinyu doesn't love her mother, but that there is more than her mother in Jinyu's world.
Without her, Jin Yu can live very well.
This might be a good thing, she thought.
After all, if one day Gu Yan is gone, she doesn't want to live anymore.
At least she doesn't have to worry about Jin Yu.
On the way back, Gu Jiao asked Er Dong's family about the Hou Mansion.
"Which aspect do you mean?" the second owner asked.
"Mrs. Hou." Gu Jiao said.
It is not surprising to ask Mrs. Hou. After all, they have met three of the masters of the Hot Spring Villa, and only the lady is left unmasked.
The second owner didn't realize Gu Jiao's purpose, he thought for a while, and said, "That Mrs. Hou seems to be surnamed Yao, and she has some stories to tell. She is the successor of the Hou of Ding'an, her family is in the middle of the road, and her father is in the household department. She hung up an idle job, and it is said that she offended people, and finally she was not even a good job. She and the former Mrs. Hou were handkerchiefs. Before the former Mrs. Hou died of illness, she visited several times, and there were rumors in the capital that she was taking advantage of the former Hou. Madam is seriously ill and hooked up with the Marquis of Ding'an."
Gu Jiao frowned slightly, she was not like this type of person.
Er Dongjia continued: "The truth is that she has never met the Hou's mansion and Ding'an Hou even face to face."
"How do you know?" Gu Jiao asked.
The second owner smiled lightly: "Our Huichuntang still has some reputation in the capital. The imperial doctor who treats Mrs. Former Hou has some contacts with my family, but Mrs. Former Hou did ask Yao Shi to take care of her children."
Gu Jiao asked, "Mrs. Former Hou has children?"
Er Dongjia said: "Yes, there are three sons. The former Mrs. Hou had the idea of letting Yao shi give Ding Anhou a continuation of the string, but Yao shi himself did not agree. Yao shi personally refused, and the imperial doctor boiled the medicine in the back, and gave it all to him. I heard.
"But after going around, the Marquis of Ding'an finally met the Yao family and fell in love with her. The Marquis of Ding'an directly proposed marriage to the Yao family, and the Yao family agreed without a word. You should be able to imagine what happened after that. Rumors that slandered the Yao family.
"Mrs. Hou has stayed in the Hot Spring Villa all these years, firstly to accompany Gu Yan to recover from illness, and secondly because she is not comfortable living in the capital.
"The Marquis of Ding'an doesn't actually have much affection for his first wife. On the contrary, he loves Yao shi very much. Because of Yao shi's background, it is not enough for him to continue his string. It is he who insists on marrying Yao shi. But the more he loves Yao shi, The more people feel that Yao Shi is a coquettish woman."
In fact, the second owner had met Yao once, and that was a woman with no scheming, her eyes were as clean as the bottom of the lake.
If she was charming, there would be no one else on that day.
—
But it was said that ten days after the end of the government test, the government government released the list.
Candidates went to the government office early in the morning to see if they had passed the exam.
The number of people admitted for the government test is very limited. Only fifty candidates are admitted in total. They are divided into two categories, A and B, with ten candidates in the first category, and the rest are all in the second category.
Feng Lin was awakened by Du Ruohan, and Du Ruohan slipped out of the prefect's mansion before dawn: "Feng Lin Feng Lin! Get up! You lose money!"
Du Ruohan made a unilateral bet with Feng Lin, he bet that Xiao Liulang could not pass the exam, and he bet 10 taels of silver.
Feng Lin yawned and opened the door: "...I haven't had breakfast yet."
Du Ruohan immediately put a big meat bun in his mouth, dragged him and walked downstairs.
Feng Lin took down the steamed buns: "Rokuro hasn't eaten yet..."
Du Ruohan said, "It's alright, alright! He has hands and feet, how could he still starve to death!"
Du Ruohan couldn't help but drag Feng Lin to the gate of the mansion.
There were already quite a few candidates standing there, and the bulletin board was surrounded by water. Du Ruohan took great pains to drag Feng Lin to the innermost place.
In Du Ruohan's view, the chances of a fool like Xiao Liulang being admitted are really low.
"Hehe, wait and give me the money, Feng Xiaodun!"
"I'm not Feng Xiaodun! I...I didn't talk to you either..." Halfway through, Feng Lin's eyes fell on the eye-catching name that everyone could not ignore. He choked abruptly and pointed to the list. , "You, look!"
Du Ruohan looked in the direction of his finger.
I saw a name in a quite conspicuous position - the head of the test case, Xiao Liulang!
Du Ruohan's jaw dropped in shock: "Isn't it? That guy actually passed the exam? Or is it the desk leader? How is that possible?"
What about the little dummy
The guy who can't finish the three-character scriptures, actually became the leader of the government test
The case for the prefectural test is much more difficult than the case for the county test, and it is not of an order of magnitude at all.
What's more, the exam questions this time were written by his perverted uncle, which makes it even more difficult to start
Feng Lin stretched out his hand.
Du Ruohan: "Why?"
Feng Lin: "I am willing to admit defeat."
No, don't you want to bet with me
You were spoiled by that kid!
Feng Lin returned to the inn happily with all Du Ruohan's belongings. He divided half of the money to Xiao Liulang, and he didn't need to tell him about the results. The person who announced the good news had already come to the inn to congratulate him.
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