latelenovela Chapter 515 2 faces
Chapter 515 2 faces
"Brother Jiang Cheng, it's already noon, you should eat some buns to fill your stomach."
Jiang Cheng has sent them several times, but he refused to take the money every time.
Unfortunately, no other family in the village has an ox cart.
So Chen Hongxia could only shamelessly ask Jiang Cheng to send them to the town again and again.
After all, my brother's waist can't withstand the shaking of the cart.
It’s okay if you don’t want to take the money, you can always get the buns.
It’s cold outside, and the steaming meat buns are so tempting.
After refusing twice, Jiang Cheng had to take it when he saw that Chen Hongxia still had a bag in her hand. He drove the ox cart, ate the meat buns while queuing to leave the city.
In fact, there is another reason why Jiang Cheng would send the Chen family.
That means Jiang Fubao greeted him specifically.
Otherwise, as a servant, he would not dare to use his master's ox cart at will.
It's okay once or twice, but if it happens all the time, it's overstepping the boundaries.
"Grandpa, brother, have some steamed buns." On the ox cart, Chen Hongxia opened the oil-paper bag in her hand and whispered to her grandfather and brother.
Different from Jiang Cheng who ate a mouthful of greasy food, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren ate gray coarse flour steamed buns.
Jiang Cheng, who had been looking ahead, had no idea.
This snowfall is really strange. It stops for a while every day.
So the weather has been extremely cold, with repeated freezing.
The temperature didn't rise until the Chinese New Year.
This is the first warm year that Jiang Fubao has experienced since he came here.
On New Year's Eve, she played pitch-pot with her brothers and sisters in the yard.
After the New Year’s Eve dinner, they gathered together again to win money. This year, Zhang Jinlan spent a huge amount of money and took out four hundred taels of silver.
Almost everyone in the Jiang family won a lot of money.
The servants also received their rewards.
From the master to the servant, no one was unhappy.
On the first and second days of the New Year, people return to their parents’ homes to pay New Year’s greetings. On the third day, a lantern festival is held at Baishi Street in Lianshan Town.
It was as lively as the lantern festival in Baishui Town before.
There are not only jugglers, but also people guessing lantern riddles and selling various kinds of food.
Most of the townspeople hang out here, and the villagers from outside the city who are wealthier also bring their children here to broaden their horizons.
You can also see many new faces.
It should be from Chang'an Town or Baishui Town.
The city gates were opened and not closed all night.
The police patrolled back and forth, shouting "be careful with fire" and reminding women with children to keep an eye on their children and be careful not to let them be abducted by human traffickers.
There are patrol officers.
This year's Lantern Festival ended without incident.
No children were missing and no one was injured.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, before the end of the New Year, Meng Bujiu set out on the journey to take the exam. Qixi County was too far away from the imperial city, and the journey would take at least a month.
The spring examination is not like the autumn examination, so you naturally have to go earlier.
With him was Lingshan. This time, not only Kong Mingxue did not go, but even Shen Hechi, who had passed the imperial examination with him, did not follow.
Because before the Chinese New Year, something big happened in the Shen family.
Shen Hechi's biological father, Shen Zhong, has passed away.
His body suddenly fell ill, like a tree struck by lightning, and died in a short time.
During this period, dozens of doctors flocked to the Shen family.
None of them can be cured.
Shen Zhong's body is already exhausted.
If Shen Hechi hadn't spent a large sum of money to keep him alive, I'm afraid he wouldn't have survived a month.
There are regulations in Tianling Kingdom.
When one's parents die, one must observe three years of mourning and cannot take the imperial examination.
It was originally planned that Shen Hechi would set off with Meng Bujiu on the fifth day of the New Year, but he had to give up the plan.
This caused Zhang Jinlan to sigh repeatedly.
This Shen Zhong was not likable when he was alive, and he would bring trouble to his son even after his death.
Shen Hechi has a very good relationship with the Jiang family, so Zhang Jinlan naturally knows about the dirty things Shen Zhong has done.
So much so that Jiang Fubao heard it all.
When the funeral was held across the street, she went there with her grandmother. Of course, they did not go there to pity Shen Zhong's death, but to comfort Shen Hechi.
The fifth day of the lunar month.
Shen Hechi was in the school, and together with the headmaster and others, he watched Meng Bujiu leave.
There was a look of reluctance on his face.
"He Chi, please accept my condolences. It's okay. You are young, so it's okay to wait another three years. You can still take the exam then. If you go now, if you are on the list, you may be able to pass the exam and become a Tong Jinshi. Although Tong Jinshi is also called Jinshi, it is not the same as Jinshi. If you don't have anyone to support you, your official career will end at the sixth rank."
Master Lian patted Shen Hechi's arm and persuaded him.
"Thank you for your advice, Master. I know what's going on. It's just that I haven't slept well recently. I want to go home and rest for a while. I hope you can agree."
Shen Hechi pinched the bridge of his nose.
Sighed deeply.
"Go back and have a rest. There are still three years left. You are well-educated, so it's okay for you to take a month off. However, even at home, you can't neglect your studies." Dong Wei agreed without waiting for the teacher to speak.
"Yes, the student knows." Shen Hechi turned and left.
There was regret in his eyes.
His father's death was all his fault.
However, he didn't expect that the poison was too strong and his father passed away in just one month.
He originally wanted to delay it until the end of the Spring Examination.
Who could have imagined that my own father's body was so weak.
Strong on the outside but weak on the inside, it will fall down if let go.
After returning home, Shen Hechi sat at the desk with gloomy eyes.
"You won't let me go even if you die!" he cursed viciously.
"Master, what you ordered has been done." Just then, someone knocked on the study door, and a servant standing outside said.
"Have you watered the place with manure? Did you forget the talisman?" Shen Hechi finally came back to his senses. He lowered his head slightly and looked up at the servant.
"Yes, I dug this lowly concubine out of the ancestral tomb, and threw her into the mass grave with a straw mat. I poured feces all over her body, and finally pasted a talisman on her forehead before leaving. Master, rest assured, I got this talisman specially, and I will definitely make this lowly concubine's soul fly away."
The servants called me a lowly concubine all the time.
Shen Hechi was not angry at all, but felt relieved instead.
"Well done, you will serve me from now on. Also, I have another task for you. Drive this soul-destroying nail into the top of my dead father's head!"
Shen Hechi said viciously.
He would never let his dead father's spirit go looking for his mother.
This beast doesn't deserve it!
Shen Zhong has been laid to rest, but Shen Hechi still kept a special note of caution.
There are no nails in the coffin.
As long as you dig up the pile of soil, you can open the coffin lid.
"Yes, I will definitely get it done." The servant was very happy to hear Shen Hechi's words.
Now the only master of the Shen family is the young master in front of him.
If you please him, why worry about not having a good life?
As for opening the coffin, that’s nothing. He has even carried the bones on his back.
Duan's corpse had already rotted away and turned into bones. He wasn't even afraid of that, so why would he be afraid of opening the coffin?
Wait for the servants to leave.
Shen Hechi sat back in his chair.
His eyes were dull and he didn't know where to look.
He witnessed his mother's death since he was a child, and then learned that his mother was murdered. He was also bullied by the Duan family and was also biased by his father.
His mentality had changed a long time ago.
He has completely different faces internally and externally.
If you cannot take the imperial examination for three years, the next spring examination will be four years later.
Thinking that Meng Bujiu set out on the journey alone, maybe when he comes back he will have become a Jinshi.
Shen Hechi felt both sour and angry.