Jing Xingzhi’s Daily Life in Ancient Times - Chapter 69
On the medium-sized boat not far from the dock, the boatman who had appeared before glanced at the shore a few times, his eyebrows filled with irritability.
The boatman, that was, Wu Dinong, opened the boat curtain and entered the boat: “Xing Niang, that boy’s friend is here. He has a boat from his own family, they can’t use our boat.”
The woman in the boat, wearing a simple colorful headscarf, was impatient when she heard this. She threw away the rag in her hand and said, “I’ve been working hard these days in vain!”
Wu Dinong looked at his wife, sighed, and hesitated: “What about the Madam? This is her own son, and delaying the exam will delay the future…”
Jing Xingzhi didn’t judge Wu Dinong from his appearance because Wu Dinong really had no other thoughts and he didn’t even know much. He didn’t even work in the Marquis Zhenyuan’s Mansion.
His wife, Xing Niang, was different. She knew clearly about the past and the present.
Xing Niang glanced at Wu Dinong unhappily and glared with her almond-shaped eyes: “Madam don’t want to do anything but you don’t know how ruthless this kid is! How could Madam sit still!”
Xing Niang scolded the man front of him and analyzed it for him: “In the beginning, he had an elder brother who robbed his property. As a result, one member of the family died, another was exiled, and there was no one to take care of his nephew. Then, two classmates who had bullied him drowned in the river! Tell me about this kind of person, how dare Madam keep him?
“When people seek wealth, he directly kills them! If he knew that Madam had thrown him, how would he deal with Madam? And Yongyuan, if he knows that he is the real little marquis, I don’t know what he would do. Although, Yongyuan is not a good thing but he is loved by the old madam, so I respect him a lot on weekdays.”
Xing Niang was frightened when she thought about the information she found out. She was afraid that Jing Xingzhi would come to their mansion and spread the good news.
When Madam lost her child, she, the “experienced person,” helped to identify the child and found out that the child would not survive for a few days. Even if he survived, he would be a sick man. So, Madam didn’t keep him.
Wu Shuangxi, although not afraid, was also vaguely worried about this abandoned child.
Wu Shuangxi didn’t believe any of those stories about ancestors having spirits and bad guys being punished by God! What she believed was the result of the analysis. People who were always lucky were scary, while people who were always unlucky were not worth fearing. Looking inside through the surface, Wu Shuangxi had noticed that Jing Xingzhi had benefited many times with great luck, so she sent Xing Niang and her husband to Hanbei Prefecture out of fear.
Who to send to Hanbei Mansion was chosen by Wu Shuangxi after careful consideration. She had many managers, some of whom were sincere, but in this case, Wu Shuangxi didn’t dare to let too many people know. So, she would rather send someone close to her, Xing Niang, and Wu Dinong to help Xing Niang, rather than send other capable people to take care of it.
Xing Niang knew the matter clearly and was the most afraid of Jing Xingzhi. With Madam’s clever plan in hand, Xing Niang was sure to get things done.
Xing Niang thought about her madam’s instructions and calmed down Wu Dinong’s fear: “You don’t have to be afraid of that. As long as we don’t let this child pass the exam, we don’t need to do anything harmful. As long as he fails the exam, when Madam gets old, it will be good if the Little Marquis can finish this job.”
Wu Dinong looked at the smart woman he rarely saw, thinking that Xing Niang was much smarter than him, and if Xing Niang wasn’t smart, she wouldn’t be able to do anything. He nodded honestly.
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The Wu family’s boat sailed smoothly and arrived at Hanbei Prefecture in the evening.
As soon as they arrived at the place, the Wu family’s boy went to the shore to inform them and brought a large carriage to take the group to the Wu family’s house.
People from the Wu family supported and protected him all the way. It could be said that they were strictly protected. Although Wu Dinong and Xing Niang, who had just arrived, had some people in their hands, they could not take action and could only watch Jing Xingzhi’s group walked away.
In the alley corner.
Wu Dinong looked at Xing Niang and wondered, “How can this be done? Why don’t we go back first and do something on the exam day?”
Xing Niang looked at Wu Dinong and shook her head in disappointment: “No. There is still more than half a month to do. We can’t wait. Madam has other arrangements; I’ll arrange them.”
After a while, Xing Niang entered a pawn shop. After she came out of the pawn shop, she went to a big gold shop.
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The Wu family’s courtyard in Fucheng was prepared by Wu Weirui. It was very close to the Gongyuan where the exam was held, and could be reached in less than ten minutes’ walk.
Jing Xingzhi was not polite to Wu Mingrui and took Liu Fang to live there peacefully.
After settling down, he reviewed his homework by himself, cradled the Buddha’s feet temporarily, and also told Brother Mingrui some of his experience in solving the problems. The two of them soaked in the sea of books and forgot about the passage of time.
Liu Fang watched the two people busy and took the time to ask his servants to bring some soup and hot water to replenish their physical fitness and energy.
However, after staying in the courtyard for five days, Liu Fang thought about how short one month would be in the future. Looking at the unchanged scenery in the courtyard, he felt inexplicably depressed, so he wanted to go out for a walk and see what Hanbei Prefecture was like.
At noon this day, during the meal break.
Liu Fang said, “I want to go out for a walk in the afternoon.”
Jing Xingzhi looked up at him and said without thinking, “Let’s go together, I’ll go out too.”
H wasn’t of Liu Fang walking around, but he was afraid of what might happen. Liu Fang all alone outside while pregnant If there was an accident or some kind of collision, there would be no place for Jing Xingzhi to cry.
Wu Mingrui also put down the chopsticks he put in his mouth and said, “I’ll go with you and lead you the way. It’s all my fault that I didn’t think it through properly and just let Xingzhi stay at home to study. It’s your first time in Hanbei Prefecture. It’s time for you to take a walk!”
“I can go by myself. You can stay at home and read at ease.” Hearing that Wu Mingrui wanted to come along, Liu Fang quickly refused.
Jing Xingzhi combed through the books and questions used in the exam several times from beginning to end. Liu Fang knew the progress, but Liu Fang guessed that he would still have to waste time with Wu Mingrui to help the other man.
Jing Xingzhi used other chopsticks to pick up a meat, and first gave one to Liu Fang, and then another to Wu Mingrui.
“I’ll go with your sister-in-law. Brother Mingrui, just stay at home and read a book. Let the steward come to lead the way, he is much familiar than you.” This was a polite rejection of Wu Mingrui.
Wu Mingrui didn’t know that the young couple wanted to spend time together, now that he was working hard to study all the time, he wanted to catch a break and refreshed his eyes…
Wu Mingrui’s face had two little red blushes, and he racked his brains to think of one excuse to go with them, he said with a thin sweat on his nose: “There will be a poetry meeting tomorrow afternoon in the Taibai Tower in Hanbei Prefecture. Many of the top examinees in this provincial examination will go there. Why don’t we spare some time tomorrow and take a look? We can also inquire about the news!”
Jing Xingzhi saw he was anxious, and looked at Liu Fang with questioning eyes. When Liu Fang nodded with a smile, he said, “Okay, let’s go out together tomorrow. But I will supervise tomorrow. Brother Rui, don’t be lazy in the future.”
“Okay.” Wu Mingrui smiled sincerely and nodded repeatedly.
Wu Mingrui felt his good friend Jing Xingzhi attached great importance of his own friend’s studies (Wu Mingrui) and was very moved. Jing Xingzhi was truly an open-minded gentleman. How lucky he was to have such a good friend!