The True Winner of the Red Chamber

Both mother and son were taken aback at the same time, Mother Zhen hurriedly stood up, "What's the matter, Mrs. Lin brought him here to pay New Year's greetings to me during Chinese New Year, a good child, raised until he was three years old, how could he not?" It's gone!"

Zhen Yingjia sighed, and said: "Instruct the housekeeper to prepare things, we also have a funeral at home, but we can't go in person."

"To avoid collisions." Mother Zhen added, she didn't know what to think of, and added in a low voice: "Be careful to avoid Baoyu, don't scare the child!"

Zhen Yingjia subconsciously said: "There are also Zhilan and Zhiqi, don't let them know."

"Yes, yes, yes." Zhen's mother repeated: "We have to keep it a secret. Hey... a few days ago, they said they were going to play at the Lin's house."

Zhen Yingjia just gave instructions on these things, let the servants know how to handle them well, as for what to send, there are old rules, so he doesn't have to worry about it, besides, his mother is watching, so he went to the study with peace of mind, and thought about it carefully. The imperial examination is a great career.

As far as the imperial examination is concerned, the original owner must have thought about it, and even Mother Zhen had thought about it.

It can be seen from the fact that she is married to Mrs. Li.

The Zhen family is also one of the best families in Jinling City, not to mention the Jiangnan area, even the meritorious families in Beijing have thought of marrying their daughters into the Zhen family.

As for finally marrying Mrs. Li, the first advantage she has is that her family is a scholar.

Still a very good reader.

Li's grandfather is now the head of Qingsong Academy, as for the status of Qingsong Academy...

Let's put it this way, in the three-year scientific examination, a total of about 300 people were admitted by the top three, about half of which were from the Jiangnan area, and about 150 people from the Jiangnan area, and about half of them were from Qingsong Academy.

In the three-year imperial examination, [-] of the [-] Jinshi came from Qingsong Academy.

Qingsong Academy is a gold medal cram school.

Or it could be said that the admission rate is so high that the price of housing in the surrounding school district has soared to [-] square meters.

Of course, such an awesome school is not so easy to enter, not to mention that Zhen Yingjia has changed her soul now. Although the original owner still has the foundation of studying slowly and practicing stereotypes a few years ago, it is always like a veil, so I understand Not so thorough.

But... the dean of Qingsong Academy is Li Shi's grandfather, and Zhen Yingjia can still call their chief lecturer "Father" after seeing their chief lecturer.

What's more, Li's somewhat rigid grandfather also corrects the test papers of the college examination part-time.

Cheating in ancient times was much easier than in modern times.

If you have tried it in the court, you are a scholar, you have entered the class of scholar-bureaucrats, you don’t have to kneel when you meet the magistrate, you can be exempted from corvee at home, etc.

Of course, Zhen Yingjia doesn’t need to kneel when he sees the magistrate now. His current official position is the president of Jinling Provincial Tirenyuan, and he is the fifth rank. Zhixian is only a seventh-rank official, and he has to salute when he sees him.

But this official is not particularly good, it looks like a very noble name, but... Tirenyuan is actually the emperor's palace in the south of the Yangtze River.

In other words, Zhen Yingjia was responsible for looking after the palace for the emperor, and their family had been doing this for generations.

Although it is a bit like a gatekeeper in nature, as the saying goes, the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's gate is naturally even higher in front of the emperor's gate.

But just as the original owner's attitude towards Jia Yucun was a mixture of arrogance and inferiority complex, Jia Yucun, who was born in a serious imperial examination, also looked down on Zhen Yingjia a little bit.

Can you become an official without studying or taking the imperial examination?

Think beautifully.

Therefore, a person like Zhen Yingjia who relied on the protection of his ancestors to obtain an official position is at most a fifth-rank official.

Zhen Yingjia couldn't help but think of Jia Zheng who was far away in the capital. He originally wanted to pass the imperial examination to become an official in the court. Later, before Jia Daishan died, he wrote a letter and found Jia Zheng a head of the Ministry of Industry, and later he was promoted to be a member of the Ministry of Industry.

After working as an official for more than ten years, he was promoted to Yuanwailang of the Ministry of Industry. Although he was a Beijing official from the fifth rank, he stopped here.

As for those who came from the imperial examinations, although the number one scholar is only a seventh-rank editor of the Imperial Academy, and even more people are low-ranking scholars, but this road has no end.

Let's put it this way, being an editor or a scholar of the Imperial Academy may not necessarily be the chief assistant of the cabinet, but all the chief assistants of the cabinet come from the Imperial Academy.

Thinking of this, Zhen Yingjia couldn't help becoming excited.

Does he have the ambition to be the chief minister of the cabinet?

Have!

Does he have the qualifications to be the chief assistant of the cabinet?

Have!

Although at first it was an idea to get back my daughter, but thinking about it now...it has become a bright and bright road.

Zhen Yingjia immediately sat in front of the desk, took out the best rice paper and wrote a memorial to the emperor.

I quit my job!

Of course, you can't write it so straightforward, unless you don't want to lose your head.

So Zhen Yingjia made use of the experience he accumulated in his previous life, as well as his understanding of the human heart, as well as the calligraphy and literary talent cultivated in this life, and wrote a long memorial.

The memorial also has a fixed format, starting with thanking the emperor for his great grace, and then remembering the bitterness and sweetness. In this part, Zhen Yingjia carefully recalled when the old emperor was still a prince, he came to the south of the Yangtze River to study, emphasizing the three hundred thousand years of his own enlightenment. It was taught by the old emperor.

He also said that he is the real disciple of the emperor, and he is much stronger than the Jinshi who were named on the gold list after the palace examination.So in order to live up to the emperor's painstaking efforts, he decided to resign and take the imperial examination.

Zhen Yingjia thought about it carefully for several days before finally writing the memorandum. He sent someone to send the things to the palace quickly. He finally breathed a sigh of relief and waited to see the result.

But even though he didn't go out these days, he was not idle either. When he was dizzy and dizzy writing the memorial, he also found time to meet all the servants at home.

Or pay an extra month's money, or reward two old clothes that you don't wear, or promise a position as a book boy next to the young master in the future.

I have to say that the effect is not bad. The Zhen family has a total of more than 300 servants, and he successfully gained 370 five followers, and his golden finger was finally activated.

Now each of his posts has an average of about 20 likes, and he can earn about [-] or [-] points every day. Although it is not bad, he still needs points to upgrade, and the big V blessing of "pointing a deer into a horse" that can only be opened at level [-] also needs it. Points, and the fans at home can no longer satisfy him.

So after traveling for more than two months, Zhen Yingjia decided to go out.

The first stop is to go to Lin's house.

As for the reason, there is curiosity, and besides, he has just died and his wife has not been three months, so it is still a little taboo to go to other people's homes.Lin Ruhai's family has only had a funeral, and they are a pair of brothers and sisters, so don't dislike each other.

Zhen Yingjia thought for a while, and then told Yaru to call Zhilan, Zhiqi and Baoyu out. They had been bored at home for three months, and even if they took a carriage, it was just a way to relax.

However, Zhiqi and Baoyu were the only ones who accompanied him to go out in the end.

"My elder sister caught the wind and coughed a bit. Grandma asked her to stay at home to recuperate." Zhiqi explained.

Zhen Yingjia didn't take it seriously, and carried the two children into the carriage one by one with her own hands, and went to Lin's house.

In the past few months, he has not been eating or drinking, and he has to maintain a thin appearance, but he has not forgotten to exercise in private, so now although he is still a bit empty in the clothes made by the original owner, it is good that he is already strong. many.

At least the original owner has absolutely no way to lift the child on the shaft.

But these two children are really thin, Zhen Yingjia grabbed one with one hand, "I will take you to Uncle Lin's house today, your younger brother Lin went there last month, you two are not allowed to mention this in front of everyone."

As for the death of the son of the Lin family, Zhen Yingjia also mentioned it to the children afterwards, so Baoyu was not surprised at all, but asked in a low voice, "Is it the same as mother?"

Baoyu's voice sounded very pitiful, Zhen Yingjia sighed, "Same."

In the past two months, Zhen Yingjia got along very well with the children. The children who were a little afraid in front of him before now let go a lot, and dare to speak out whatever thoughts they have in their hearts.

So Zhilan continued, "Then Uncle Lin must be very sad."

Zhen Yingjia hugged the two of them tightly again, and said: "So you guys have to be good when you go, and don't disturb Aunt Lin when you say hello to her."

Baoyu and Zhilan nodded together, "Father, don't worry."

Not long after, the carriage arrived at the Lin Mansion, and the three members of the Zhen family were invited to sit in the side hall. Not long after, Lin Ruhai came out.

How much was the loss of his son in middle age a blow to him?You can tell by the way he looks.

The Lin Ruhai standing in front of Zhen Yingjia now is at least ten years older than the one in the memory of the original owner.

With grizzled hair, haggard face, and a waxy yellow face, Lin Ruhai, who was originally in her forties, now looks older than some people in their 60s and [-]s, especially her spiritual head, whose eyes seem to have lost the brilliance.

Zhen Yingjia sighed secretly, and went forward to meet her, "Baoyu, and Zhilan, come to greet your Uncle Lin."