Chapter 13 Zhujiazhuang
Turn day and night, and time passes by.
It was an hour later when the land Lord supported the boat to send Pei Wende and Aunt Zhu to Zhujiazhuang.
At this time, the hot sun has begun to fall along the river, and the people on both sides of the river have gradually called it a day to try to get back to their homes before the mountain.
After all, in this day and age, it’s nothing to say that it’s common to rob evil people.
Even for their own lives, people on both sides of the river rarely act at night.
When Pei Wende bid farewell to the landowner and followed Aunt Zhu back to Zhujiazhuang along the township road, he met many fellow people all the way.
Although these people have never seen Pei Wende with their own eyes, it is too fresh to hold his image.
From time to time, people will strike up a conversation before, and occasionally they will meet a few incense sticks. When they met Pei Wende, the pilgrims just took him and talked all the way.
The only thing that is fortunate is that these people may have a wicked side, but they are very simple in front of Pei Wende.
Pei Wende doubted that if he hadn’t repeatedly refused these people, he would definitely drag himself to their home for dinner.
"So that’s why I don’t often go to the mountains."
Once again, after getting rid of some enthusiastic people, Pei Wende wryly touched his bald head.
"Everyone wouldn’t be so enthusiastic in Tanzhou."
Listen, Pei Wende, a happy and naive aunt Zhu, kept smiling but didn’t answer his question directly.
In fact, she can’t answer this question either.
The reason why people in Runzhou are so enthusiastic about Pei Wende is that his number of people living in these two years has almost become a well-known living Buddha.
While in Tanzhou, apart from those who have benefited from the disaster in Ningxiang County, Pei Wende’s identity is more of a brother of Lingyou Zen Master and a walker who can subdue demons.
Considering Pei Wende’s rude exorcism, people didn’t regard him as a disaster or a jinx to drive him away, but they were already looking at the face of Zen master Lingyou.
Nowadays, Zen master Fahai is in Jinshan Temple just like Zen master Lingyou is in Miyin Temple.
Prestige and fame have reached their level because they have achieved their own temples, not temples.
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"Here we are!"
Moments later, at the end of the township road, Aunt Zhu suddenly stopped.
"Is this Zhujiazhuang?"
Looking down aunt Zhu’s eyes, I saw the houses in twos and threes standing on the edge of the mountain forest, and the rough fence separated me from the outside world
And in the center of these houses is an ancestral temple built for ancestor worship.
That’s Zhujiazhu Temple, and it’s also the common ancestral temple of all people in Zhujiazhuang.
"It’s not small to be able to gather so many families with the same surname in just one year!"
If it hadn’t been learned from Aunt Zhu in advance that there were more than ten people fleeing from Zhu’s family in the end.
Wende can hardly imagine that there are at least more than one hundred families in Zhujiazhuang, which was established in the last year.
Especially those newly reclaimed fields, even with Pei Wende’s farm tools and canal design drawings, it is not easy to complete in just one year.
Glancing at Pei Wende, I knew what Zhujiazhuang dared to entrust himself to be the first farmer to correct tea seedlings.
Because those cultivated fields have already gone beyond the scope of "self-sufficiency", more than 100 families have been nourished and lived.
"Zhao Yanwei was, after all, a second place. Although the official career was not smooth, it was more than enough to manage a small Zhujiazhuang."
Zhao Yanwei was the son-in-law of Master Zhu and Aunt Zhu, and it was a coincidence that she became her sister-Zhu Run’s husband.
And since master Zhu was seriously ill, everything in Zhujiajian has been handed over to Zhao Yanwei, the son-in-law to take care of.
"You hate Zhao Yanwei?"
Keenly recognized the disgust Pei Wende in Aunt Zhu’s words and glanced at her with some surprise.
The reason why the other party chose the wedding night to escape marriage seems to be not as simple as he imagined?
Pei Wende, the former aunt Zhu, was dissatisfied with Master Zhu’s decision to let her choose her husband.
However, judging from Aunt Zhu’s present attitude, she is not satisfied with Master Zhu’s independence, but with her choice of this husband.
"Zhao Yanwei was a real dude before his family came down."
"Eating, drinking, whoring and gambling is nothing but notoriety, and Runzhou is one of the best in the whole country."
"My dad took a fancy to his notoriety in those days and thought Runzhou City also had it. He would not abandon me to dance with knives and stick it before he specially recruited him as a son-in-law."
If you were aunt Zhu at the age of 16 or 17, she must have understood Master Zhu’s practice.
But times have changed, and now more than ten years have passed. Aunt Zhu is already white, and Zhao Yanwei was indeed the best choice for herself.
First of all, although the Zhao family has come down in the world, they still have an identity there after all.
Zhu Jia and Zhao Jia may say that they are not strong, but they are just right for both sides.
Secondly, Zhao Yanwei is willing to adopt a wife by adoption and does not abandon his daughter-in-law to dance with knives and guns, which is not a good family style at all.
In fact, the old Zhao family took a fancy to Aunt Zhu’s strong feeling that she could take care of her son and stop getting into bad habits before agreeing to adopt her son in law.
The most important point is that Zhao Yanwei became angry after his family came down, and he won the second place in that year, which is a potential stock in Master Zhu’s eyes.
"It’s fate that you don’t regret it yourself."
A little comfort to Aunt Zhu, Pei Wende asked another question that he was very curious about.
"You said earlier that Zhao Yanwei was the second in that year. Does he have an official position now?"
According to the normal situation, the second place is the second place in the imperial examination, second only to the champion of that year.
Therefore, even if Zhao Yanwei’s official career is not smooth, it is impossible that he has not been reduced to this point.
"I don’t know exactly what happened …"
"I heard that he was involved in a’ substitute test case’ and was eventually stripped of his fame by the court and retained his status as a scholar."
Gently shook his head, aunt Zhu is not full of malicious speculation
"Maybe his second place was found by others who took the exam, and then he was disqualified!"
Chapter 14 Weird Zhu Family
[Will the truth be like this? 】
I couldn’t help but look at Aunt Zhu, who was full of prejudice. Pei Wende didn’t continue to ask questions.
After all, Aunt Zhu’s current mentality, even if she continues to ask questions, must be negative news from Zhao Yanwei.
Anyway, Pei Wende denied that things would be like what she said.
After all, no matter which dynasty or generation, they attach great importance to cheating in the imperial examination.
If Zhao Yanwei’s second place is really won by others, the ending will definitely not be as simple as getting rid of his fame and keeping his status as a scholar.
"Five aunts?"
I have to say that Zhao Yanwei’s management of Zhujiazhuang is in place.
Almost before Pei Wende and Aunt Zhu stepped into Zhujiazhuang, a young boy of thirteen or four years old appeared in front of them.
"Aunt Wu, where did you go today?"
"I’ve been looking for you all day, but I haven’t found you."