Patriarch, he doesn't want to take the imperial examinations

The next day, August 29th.

Before dawn, people got up to work. The mansion invited a special cook to cook, and the servants helped. Some of them arranged banquets, served tea and water, and other matters.

From si o'clock in the morning, the guests came to the door one after another, and Meng Qing and Meng Hong greeted them one by one at the door. It was not until half past noon, when all the guests arrived, that they were able to stop and have a rest.

The stage was set up yesterday, and it was set up in the courtyard where Meng Zhen lived.There was a clanging gong, and an actor with heavy makeup appeared on the stage amidst the applause of the audience.

There were two groups of people who came to pay their respects, the young and the elderly, the young were led by Meng Hong and sat at several tables, the elderly sat at the same table with Meng Zhen, accompanied by Meng Qing to drink and eat.

"Uncle Liu, come on, you drink a lot, drink more!" Meng Qing poured a glass of wine and handed it to a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man surnamed Liu caught it with a smile, and said: "What my nephew said is, it's your father's birthday today, so I'd like to have a drink."

However, Meng Zhen didn't know this person, except Mrs. Zheng and Deng Yuming, he didn't know anyone else at the table. These people had little contact with the original owner on weekdays. Thinking about his birthday today, Meng Qing came here for the sake of excitement. I specially invited people here.

Immediately afterwards, Meng Qing poured another cup for Mr. Zheng, and respectfully said: "My father is in school thanks to the care of the master. In the future, he will study for the imperial examination, and he will need more advice from the master."

Mrs. Zheng replied: "Young Master Meng is very polite. Teaching and educating people is the duty of this old man. Your father respects teachers and attaches great importance to teaching. He is sensitive and eager to learn. This old man is very optimistic about him."

Most of the people present have heard that Meng Zhen went to the academy to study, and held back a lot of energy to study for the imperial examination. Now sitting together, some people deliberately joked:

"I said, Lao Meng, you are already half a hundred years old. Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy the blessings at home? Why can't you think about going to study for the imperial examination? It's a bottomless pit. It's okay to pass the exam, but it's useless if you don't pass the exam."

"If you pass the exam, you don't necessarily have to do your best," another senior interjected. "The main reason is that Lao Meng is getting older, and he is afraid that when the time comes, he will gain fame, but his body will not be able to bear it."

The two started talking, and soon other voices rushed in:

"I said you two, today is Lao Meng's birthday, can't you two say something nice? Let's think about it this way, if someone is admitted in three to five years, he will only be in his fifties at that time. Most of them are still in the scientific examination at the age of 80 or [-], Meng Zhen is not too old at this age, if he is appointed as an official by then, it will be a glory to the ancestors."

"Brother Li's words are very reasonable, let's have a drink here, and wish our birthday star to win the Toad Palace in the coming year, to be named on the gold list, to have a beautiful wife and concubines, and to be full of children and grandchildren."

"Hahaha, come, let's have a drink."

For a while, everyone toasted and invited each other, and the wine was intertwined, so it was very lively.

Meng Zhen also raised his cup and touched everyone politely, but felt that what they said was not very pleasant, like a mockery.

But he didn't worry about it, he pretended he didn't hear what they said.

Everyone chatted, laughed and drank for a while, Deng Yuming pointed to the actor on the stage, and said seductively: "This actor has a good figure and a good voice. The audience must have practiced a lot of kung fu."

Immediately, someone answered: "Old Deng, you must have fallen in love with him, why don't you ask him to be your concubine, and it will satisfy your greed."

Deng Yuming said: "Can you have a son? If you can, I will marry you."

"Hahaha, Lao Deng, you think your son is going crazy. If you are a woman, you want someone to give birth to a son for you."

The style of painting on the table gradually became crooked, but it was soon lost in the sound of singing on the stage.

Meng speaks few truths, and he rarely talks to people he knows well, let alone these unfamiliar "friends of wine and meat". Except for the first few polite words at the beginning, he has no more words with these people.

On the contrary, I talked a few words with Zheng Fuzi, but what I talked about was only about academic matters.The two chatted for about two quarters of an hour, maybe they thought the table was dirty and noisy, Mr. Zheng said goodbye to Meng Zhen and went back to the academy on the grounds of school affairs.

Today is not a holiday in school, in order to attend Mengzhen's birthday banquet, Master Zheng asked a student in the school to supervise other students' self-study, so he came here free.

Meng Zhen sent people to the gate, then turned around and came back, but did not go back to the banquet, but passed through the east courtyard and entered the back garden of his own house.

The Meng Mansion occupies a very large area, each courtyard is extremely spacious, and the back garden is even more grand in scale, with exotic flowers and plants, pavilions, waterside pavilions, rockery and rocks, everything you expect to find.

After Mengzhen entered the park, he went straight to the rockery.As soon as he came over, he heard something behind the rockery, and out of curiosity, he quietly stretched out his head to take a look.

This glance almost made him faint on the spot.

I saw two people hiding behind the rockery, biting and kissing forgetfully.

Meng Zhen suppressed his pounding heart, and was about to leave quickly, but the female voice over there caught his ear:

"Cousin, you can't help it. Let go of me quickly. If someone finds out, both of us will die."

"What are you afraid of? Your fiancé is so drunk right now, he has no time to find you. Let your cousin kiss him."

The man pouted and moved forward to find a relative, but the woman quickly pushed him away, "No way, cousin, we have been kissing for so long just now, I am so scared, don't just show it to others, that would be so real." There will be no place to die.”

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid," the man comforted the woman with his arms around him, "If someone really sees it, you will cancel your engagement with him and marry me."

The woman pretended to be angry: "What will I eat when I marry you? I am so poor that I will die, and now I have a baby in my stomach. I will suffer a lot if I follow you. When I marry Mengqing and give birth to a son and a half daughter, then I will marry you and give birth to a son and a half daughter." If you cheated me of your property, I will fly away with you and our children."

"Wan'er, is what you said true? Is the child in your belly really mine?" The man was very excited, and his voice trembled obviously.

The woman immediately said: "Of course, he didn't get it out anyway."

The conversation between the man and the woman contained a huge amount of information, and Meng Zhen on the other side of the rockery was dumbfounded and horrified.

This girl named Wan'er was exactly the fiancée that Meng Qing had said a few days ago that he was going to marry. Today was his birthday, and Wan'er came with the ceremony.

Mengzhen met her once in the morning, and Miss Ren called him daddy at that time, which made him a little embarrassed.

I don't want to spend time with another man at this moment, making love to each other.

Moreover, the woman also said that she had a child in her belly, and that the child was not Meng Qing's, but her cousin's.

Mengzhen was startled and confused, no wonder Meng Qing married a new woman and entered the house not long after he left, it turned out that the girl was pregnant, but Meng Qing probably didn't know that the child in the girl's belly was not his.

Just thinking about this, a voice came from behind:

"father!"

The author says:

感谢在2022-03-1921:05:50~2022-03-2020:55:42期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who irrigates the nutrient solution: the rain outside the curtain. 57 bottles;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!