You Miao said, "Just give my brother a jar of bamboo leaves from the cellar."
The servant went away, You Miao dressed in a brocade robe, and walked out of the room. The servants divided into two teams and followed behind You Miao. Step over and look at You Miao.
You Miao: "Have you finished cleaning up?"
Li Zhifeng nodded slightly and walked in front of the servants.
You Miao has grown taller in the past few years, and he is a handsome young man. He was taught by Sun Yu to learn to read and learn to be a person. The scholar can't hide the bookish air, but because he practiced martial arts on weekdays, there is a martial artist's uninhibited freedom between his eyebrows, and there seems to be an irresistible edge under the two clear eyebrows.
Qiao Jue, You Hange and Zhang Wenhan were sitting and drinking tea, and when they saw You Miao coming, they smiled and said, "I got up so late today."
You Hange said, "Brother."
You Miao nodded slightly, took the seat, and said with a smile: "I have to go today, but I can't bear to be at home, so I slept for a while, let's eat first, I'm hungry."
The servants from the family came in to set the meal, and there was a table full of dishes. When there were outsiders in the family, Li Zhifeng stood behind You Miao, serving the dishes and pouring wine. You Miao said, "Is eldest brother going to Beijing too?"
You Hange laughed at himself: "No, just stay at home honestly."
Zhang Wenhan said, "Brother Shuofang has already raised people, and he has been studying for several years, why didn't he take the exam?"
You Hange said, "Daddy specially explained to me today that he came to see you off. Although I have studied in the past few years, I still can't do it, and there is no one at home to take care of it."
Hearing this, You Miao just nodded. He was no longer hostile to You Hange as before. Although his Jiangbo Villa was no match for his father, Chashan, self-sufficiency was enough. For several years, Tokugawa never mentioned family property, and You Miao didn't bother to ask, so he pretended he didn't know.
Qiao Jue tapped his finger on the table, the servant brought wine, and Qiao Jue smiled, "Hango has similar tempers to me, and he doesn't like reading and writing, and it's good to do business at home."
You Miao snorted, and Qiao Jue said, "Come on, Miaozi, may you be blessed by Wenqu, and order a champion to go home!"
Several people were very happy, You Miao held a cup with a smile on his side, and glanced at Li Zhifeng.
Li Zhifeng picked up a cup, You Miao poured Zhu Yeqing half of it to him, and You Miao said to Zhang Wenhan, "Zhang Er, you have to study hard too."
Zhang Wenhan nodded with a smile, and said, "I don't have the life of the champion. I just hope to be a tribute, and I won't be ashamed of the young master."
You Miao said: "Whatever you read is counted, and wherever you go, it counts, everyone!"
Several people drank it.
After drinking and eating, You Miao left the mountain gate with a little drunkenness. All the servants in Shenyuan came out to see them off. The whole Jiangbo Villa learned that the young master was going to Beijing for the exam today. , come for a lucky draw.
You Miao finally felt a little cowardly. Everyone was saying congratulations to the young master and the title of the golden list for the young master. You Miao could not wait to get into the car as soon as possible. Qiao Jue smiled and gave the tenants a lot of luck, Li Zhifeng put on a carriage at the gate, and Chang Yuan and Shaowei waited in a car.
"Okay, okay." You Miao said with a smile: "Go back, it must be named on the gold list, definitely!"
You Miao has been running the villa for many years, and he is a generous person. He will give food to anyone who brings his family to join him. Even today, he is going to Beijing. The tenants stand for nearly half a mile, but they are very reluctant to let him go.
You Hange walked to the front of the car and said to You Miao again, "Brother, this is what Dad asked me to give it to you."
You Hange's servant came over with a heavy carved box. You Miao opened it and glanced at it. There were square boxes the size of a palm, and he immediately understood that it was all tribute tea. The sandalwood box that holds the tea leaves is already valuable.
"Just put it in the car." You Miao nodded and asked Li Zhifeng to take it with him.
You Hange added: "Here is a little bit of my brother's thoughts. I know that you are not short of silver taels, but these are lightweight. You can take them with you if you need them, and you can protect yourself." He handed him a small bag, You Miao He weighed it, rubbed his fingers, and knew that it was full of gold foil.
"What about you?" You Miao said sternly, "Brother, after reading for a few years, don't you want to go to Beijing?"
You Hange sneered at himself: "No, my brother is not that material. If you can pass the test, you will be satisfied."
You Miao jokingly said: "You should just go to Beijing to play."
You Hange leaned into You Miao's ear and said, "It really doesn't work, it's a shame for our family to go to the exam, you don't know, at the town exam, it was my father who invited the master and wrote the essay accordingly, and I made every stroke. I copied it from my back…”
When You Miao heard this, she immediately looked strange.
You Hange smiled again and said, "Let's go, take a test for fame, and return home in a beautiful and beautiful future."
You Miao nodded and got into the car. At the transition of spring and summer, the turquoise wheat waves rolled straight to the sky. He sat in the car and looked at Jiangbo Villa, Shenyuan, and his home... until I saw it again. not. With infinite emotion in his heart, he leaned in Li Zhifeng's arms.
"What are you thinking about?" Li Zhifeng said.
You Miao: "I'm thinking of my brother."
Li Zhifeng: "Your brother?"
You Miao couldn't help laughing and crying: "I said, how come he has only been reading for a few months, and he can pass the exam without recognizing every word! It turned out that he invited the master to write an article and copied it by rote!"
The corners of Li Zhifeng's mouth twitched, and You Miao said again, "It is true that money can make ghosts run the mill, no wonder my husband doesn't want to see him."
The front window of the carriage was open, and Chang Yuan, who was driving the carriage, turned his head and said with a smile: "Young master is going to Beijing this time, but you can learn it on the basis of real talent, and you will definitely be on the list!"
You Miao was really clueless. Although he had studied with Sun Yu for the past three years, he had read everything he should have read, but he was not sure which stage he had reached, whether he could be admitted as a tribute scholar or a jin scholar. , or the title of the gold list, really hit the top spot? Sun Yu said that he has read these books, but it is impossible to get the champion. He is satisfied with being a jinshi.
"How much money did we bring?" You Miao's heart moved, but she forgot to ask about such a big thing as money. However, the accounts in the villa are all Li Zhifeng and Qiao Jue. Qiao Jue manages the income and expenditure of external expenses. Li Zhifeng manages the household expenses. You Miao can get the total amount every month. Knowing that he has more than 5,000 taels of silver, and four warehouses of hundreds of thousands of catties of grain. Presumably going to Beijing is a top priority, and even if he was careless and forgot to ask, Qiao Jue would definitely give him a good money ticket.
Li Zhifeng replied: "At the beginning of the year, I went to Yangzhou to redeem 2,000 taels of silver, and I took them all with me. Qiao Jue took another 300 taels of silver in the box, enough for you to spend a year. When buying slaves, Remember to pay back."
You Miao did not expect that Li Zhifeng was still thinking about what happened back then, so he couldn't help laughing.
Li Zhifeng said again: "Is it enough? If it is not enough, there are still hundreds of taels in the shop in Yangzhou. Let's go to support now."
You Miao thought about it and said, "It should be enough."
"Huh!" Chang Yuan couldn't help laughing when he heard this.
You Miao said: "You should be talking about ostentation, that's not the case, your young master has a lot of friends and friends, and now everyone has made a fortune, the imperial court in Japan will be the world of Li Yan's son of a bitch, and we need to sort out the mess. Not a thousand to two thousand taels of silver is really not enough to spend."
Li Zhifeng pondered for a while, and then said, "Not enough? Take a detour to get it."
"Enough." You Miao said, "Let's use it for now."
Back then, when You Miao spent money, it was just a few dozen taels and hundreds of taels. At that time, he was still young, and now he has to spend more money, which is not what he used to be.
When he entered Beijing, he wanted to meet many people.
The imperial eunuch, the prime minister's mansion, Li Yan, Pingxi, Lin Luoyang... The young masters who used to hang out with each other in the past have all reached the age of being involved in the officialdom. Maybe everyone has changed, and they are no longer the mood of their youth, especially Li Yan. , Every time a Beijing official goes to the south of the Yangtze River, the one who talks the most is the Li family and his son.
Today's Li's power is so high that it has become the mainstay of the Tianqi Dynasty. Li's party is powerful, and the crown prince appreciates and supports... There are also You Miao's comrades-in-arms who once shared life and death and shared weal and woe, and now they have lost the battle and were scorned in the capital. The third prince Zhao Chao.
Undercurrents are surging in the capital, and I am afraid that there will be no shortage of money, and factional disputes and intrigue. You Miao was surprised to find that he had left unintentionally three years ago, and he had to go back and face it after all. It seems that the years have given them a leisurely time, but in fact it is like a sharpening stone, forcing them to grow up on their own.
Fortunately, he Youmiao was not the rusted sword that was thrown in the corner.
You Miao couldn't help sighing and said, "Am I going to test for merit and serve the country? Or am I going to the battlefield!"