All Hail Cousin Brother

After three exams in seven days, the closed door of the Gong Yuan was finally opened.

Beijing is full of excitement.

Yu Shanyan, those who were not qualified for the test, all ran to the entrance of the Gongyuan to feel the atmosphere of the Gongyuan in advance. Yu Youyao also wanted to go, but her grandmother didn't let her go out.

The students who had stayed in the tribute courtyard for seven days came out one after another, most of them had one foot deep and the other shallow, with dazed faces, obviously they had suffered a lot.

On the second day, all the disciples of the Yu Clan who participated in the examination came to pay their respects to Madam Yu and thank Madam Yu for taking care of her these days.

Seeing that they were in good spirits, Mrs. Yu asked, "Is this year's test difficult? Have you all finished?" She didn't ask if they did well.

The dozen or so children below were silent, and a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old behind him wanted to say something, but he asked the people around him to tug at him and shook his head at him.

Naturally, this scene couldn't be hidden from Old Madam Yu's eyes, and the hand holding the Buddhist beads paused for a moment.

The young man who pulls people is Yu Shande, the third young master of the Yu clan's direct branch of the eldest son, and he is also the most outstanding young man this time. The Yu family has high hopes for him. If he can make it to the list, there will be another one in the Yu clan in the future. capable minister.

At this moment, Yu Shande stepped forward respectfully: "The exam questions this time are the same as usual. The late students are not talented, so they barely do it."

This is a humble word. It is already very great to be able to finish it. Mrs. Yu said with a smile: "That's good. In the next few days, you all have a good rest and wait for the announcement of the ranking." At this point, she paused After a pause, he said again: "You are still young, and most of you are taking part in the test for the first time, so don't think too much about it."

After receiving Mrs. Yu's words, everyone relaxed a lot.

Old Madam Yu kept them for lunch, and it was rare to hold a banquet in the house, so Madam Liu asked Yu Youyao to go to the big kitchen to have a look, and when she returned to the north courtyard and passed the lotus pond, she heard someone talking by the rockery.

It was Yu Shande and another boy named Yu Shanren.

"Why did you stop me from talking just now?"

"However, I heard someone mention it in Jinyulou by chance. I don't know if it's true or not, so I dare to say it outside. I don't want my life?"

"But since this matter has been mentioned by others, it must not be groundless."

"If you don't have evidence, you shouldn't talk too much."

"However, making friends with the chief examiner in private, getting the disclosed test questions from the chief examiner, and agreeing to be teachers and students with each other, and waiting for the students' gold list titles, they must not forget their mentors. This is clearly cheating in the scientific examination. Scholars, it's too unfair."

"shut up!"

"I……"

"Agreement with disciples has precedents in the previous dynasties. It turned out that the former pilgrim patriarch was old and regretted that he could no longer serve the country, so he asked him to recruit a few more disciples to cultivate talents for the country, right? If you don't know about the cheating in the scientific examination, you dare to be careless."

"Can……"

"Who in Beijing doesn't know that Jinyu Tower is one of the properties of the Weininghou Mansion, if something happens accidentally, the Yu Mansion will be involved."

There was silence in the rockery for a while.

After a while: "Don't think too much about it, maybe it's just an ordinary student appointment, and it has nothing to do with cheating, and we are backed by the Yu Mansion, so it doesn't have much influence on us anyway."

"Third Brother, I see."

The two left the rockery together, but Yu Youyao on the other side felt her scalp tingle and her right eyelid twitched non-stop, and walked around the rockery. Fortunately, there were guests at home, and everyone was busy with the rockery. There was no one else here except her, so I was relieved.

It was agreed that the students, no matter whether it was related to the cheating in the scientific examination or not, should not have any relationship with the Yu Mansion.

Yu Youyao turned around and went to the North courtyard, and told Mrs. Yu verbatim what she had heard.

Madam Yu's face was solemn, and she repeatedly asked Yu Youyao not to spread this matter to the outside world.

So he sent someone to look for Mrs. Yao in the second room, and asked Yu Zongshen to come down from the yamen to visit the big room, and then called Yu Shande and Yu Shanren into the room, and dismissed everyone in the family.

She remembered the strangeness of the two people in the hall before.

After touching a cup of tea, Yu Shande and Yu Shanren walked out of the Anshou Hall with shame on their faces, apparently to teach Mrs. Yu a lesson.

The children in the clan left after lunch.

In the afternoon when Yu Zongshen came to the big room, Mrs. Yu closed the door and said to Yu Zongshen again: "This child Shande is quite a man of the city, but after all he is inexperienced. He is more than cautious, but not thorough enough. You can mention it later. Shanren is upright and has a bit of a temper, but he still has a sense of the big picture, and he can be educated. I talked to them today, and they also know the importance. After a while, you can go and reason with them. The children in the clan will all Willing to listen to you."

Yu Zongshen nodded: "Mother is out, so my son can rest assured."

Old Madam Yu: "Needless to say to your elder brother, let him know, he will have to jump up and down again, and he will be happy at that time, not only will it be difficult for you, but even the Yu family will be burned. "

After waiting for two or three days, Yu Youyao didn't hear any rumors about cheating in the scientific examination. Instead, the students who participated in the examination were active in Beijing, meeting friends, talking loudly, and making friends with powerful people. Put on the list.

When this list comes out, the students on the list are already tributes and can take part in the palace examination in April.

Yu Youyao breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately remembered the sachet she promised to give to her cousin, and hurriedly fetched the jar of dried flowers.

The de-dried apricot blossoms are bright in color, pink and white, and the floral fragrance is slightly sour and sweet, fresh and layered, suitable for both men and women.

Yu Youyao called Chun Xiao: "Go and pick a sachet from my box, it's for my cousin."

After a while, Chunxiao came over with two sachets, one embroidered with blue lotus patterns and one embroidered with blue orchid grass. The colors were not bad, but Yu Youyao was not very satisfied.

Mother Xu smiled and said: "Isn't my sister learning from female celebrities? Why don't you embroider one yourself and give it to Young Master Biao?"

When Yu Youyao heard this, she quickly shook her head: "No! No, I have only learned female red for a few days, and I haven't learned all the stitches. I can't embroider well, so I taught my cousin a joke."

Yu Youyao is not very interested in female reds, but Nanny Xu insists that she learn. Every hour for an hour, in the first few days, she often pricks her fingers, and the tender fingers are densely covered with blood holes.

Yu Youyao was coquettish and afraid of pain. After resisting Madam Xu, it was useless, she realized the reality. In order not to suffer for her fingers, she had no choice but to learn from female celebrities honestly and earnestly.

Generally speaking, the best age for a school girl is five or six years old, when the bones are tender and flexible.

Yu Youyao is a bit older, but she is naturally delicate and soft. After studying for a few days, she has learned a lot of stitches, but she has not embroidered anything seriously.