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Chapter 131
☆、Chapter 3 The house
Zhou Jin had nothing to do. After wandering around the capital for a few days, he really decided to open a restaurant and asked Xiao Yuan for the three hundred taels of silver.
"When did I owe you three hundred taels? Is there any evidence?" Xiao Yuan put down the book and raised his eyebrows.
"You, you want to default on the debt!" The thin man jumped up suddenly, now that he has reached the boundary of the capital, and Xiao Yuan and Dingyuan Hou are relatives, they really can't do anything to him.
Zhou Jin stopped the younger brother, who was about to rush up to beat Xiao Yuan, and said with a smile: "Xiao Gongzi, now the two of us don't have household registration, but I came to Beijing with you. I don't know if you can take part in the examination? "
Xiao Yuan's eyes widened. He was busy reading for a while, but he forgot to register the two of them. If they jumped over the wall and surrendered to the yamen, he would definitely be implicated, and immediately exploded in anger: "You, you, despicable villain!"
The thin man was stunned, who was the first to default?
"Since we have to settle accounts, let's do a good calculation!" Xiao Yuan angrily took out a small ledger, starting from their expenses along the way.
Horses, quilts, and clothes cost money everywhere, especially if two thieves can eat them, one is worth three, and the cost is huge. Since they entered the northern border, the weather was cold, the charcoal fires, hand stoves they used, and the inns they stayed in after entering Beijing, all added up, enough to cover the three hundred taels. After careful calculation, they still owed Xiao Yuan ten. Hang money.
The thin man was speechless in surprise.
Xiao Yuan proudly held the ledger, and suddenly changed the topic: "However, I am a kind-hearted person, and for the sake of your dedication, food and clothing will be paid by me, and the three hundred taels will also be given to you. You guys, but it should be counted as the money I invested in, and in the future, this restaurant will have half of mine."
The thin man scratched his head and felt that Xiao Yuan was quite generous, but it seemed that something was not right.
Zhou Jin smiled: "Okay."
Xiao Yuan asked someone to get a new household registration for the two. Due to the strict control of farmers, they could only get a merchant, but the two black household thieves were already satisfied.
Zhou Jin bought a storefront facing the street, and after the thin man was busy, the restaurant really opened in less than a month. Xiao Yuan spent some more money to buy the house behind the restaurant, and the three of them had a place to live.
The business of the tavern is getting more and more prosperous. Although the thin man is thin, he is very capable. Few people make trouble in the tavern, because Xiao Er has a ferocious face, and it is not easy to make trouble at first glance.
The Xiao family's reply was not sent until after the new year. Xiao Yuan looked at it and couldn't help but sneer. The uncle knew that the person who hired the murderer to kill him was the aunt, but he asked him to settle down and do not know what to do. The family is still a family. A family who wants to ruin his future and wants him to do everything he can to manage the family affairs for her two sons to study... family? How ridiculous!
Blink of an eye to March, will try to start.
Zhou Jin filled a box full of food with a large food box and personally sent Xiao Yuan into the examination room.
The nine days will take the test, and the candidates for the test are very tormented. Most of them bring cold and hard steamed buns, take a couple of bites and drink some water, and then start to write hard. In Xiao Yuan's food box, there is a layer of braised chicken legs, a layer of sauerkraut buns that are not easy to break, and many delicious pastries. He nibbled on a chicken leg, solved a problem, and lived a very nourishing life.
Xiao Yuan only got fifth in the exam, but unexpectedly took the first place in the palace exam.
The emperor was patrolling the main hall, and in the crowd of old people with gray hair, Xiao Yuan, who was so young, looked so abrupt, so he first ordered his papers to read. Unexpectedly, although this young man was young, the articles he wrote were very insightful, especially the management of the accounts of the Ministry of Household and the treasury, which made the emperor's eyes shine. With a slap on the forehead, he is the champion!
In fact, the determination of the top three is entirely based on the emperor's preferences. It has to be said that Xiao Yuan occupies the light of young and handsome. Such a champion would have a lot of face to pull it out.
Xiao Yuan won the champion, and Zhou Jin was even happier than him. When he heard the news, he immediately waived all the guests in the restaurant. Xiao Zhuangyuan, who was full of spring breeze, suddenly turned dark, this is his money!
The champion was going to parade to the Qionglin Banquet, Xiao Yuan asked Zhou Jin early to triple the price of the restaurant by the window.
"Why is this?" Zhou Jin couldn't help laughing.
"I'm so romantic and suave, there must be a lot of people coming to see me." Xiao Yuan proudly raised his chest.
Sure enough, heard that the champion was a handsome young man who had not yet reached the weak crown. The number of people who came to see the champion parade more than doubled compared to previous years. Even those young ladies who were raised in the boudoir watched with their elders in the restaurant's elegant seat. Zhou Jin's tavern is right in the middle of the street, and the seat on the second floor is very good. Even though the price has tripled, the supply is still in short supply.
The young man in fresh clothes and angry horses, with hairpins parading around the street, especially with a somewhat immature handsome face, is more and more eye-catching under the foil of the folded face and the second place.
Zhou Jin held a glass of wine and leaned against the pillar on the second floor.
"The champion looks like he hasn't reached the crown yet!" Someone in the restaurant exclaimed.
"It's rare to see such an amazing person in a hundred years!" Some elders sighed.
No one knew that this genius who had never met in a hundred years was almost lost in the hands of a short-sighted woman. Zhou Jin quietly looked at the young man passing by below, with mixed feelings for a while.
Xiao Yuan seemed to feel something, and suddenly raised his head, facing Zhou Jin's sharp eagle eyes.
Zhou Jin rolled his eyes and raised his glass to him.
Xiao Yuan bared his teeth at him, is it great to drink alcohol? This champion can drink imperial wine for a while, so I don't care about your cup!
Three first-class scholars, first-ranking scholar, second-ranking scholar, and third-ranking scholar, can directly enter the Hanlin Garden, and do not have to be delegated to officials. Ordinary people in Hanlin would have to endure for three or five years at least, but Xiao Yuan’s reckoning was really good. The Minister of Household endured it for half a year.
Xiao Yuan, who naturally likes to care about things, is like a duck to water when he arrives at the Ministry of Households. With his outstanding accounting and stingy skills, he has been in the position of the Minister of the Ministry of Household in five years.
At first, the Xiao family would send letters every ten days, and Xiao Yuan replied on time, but did not mention going back to his hometown to visit relatives. He spent the New Year with Zhou Jin in the capital. Slowly, the Xiao family's letters became less frequent.
Until another year of spring approaching, Xiao Yuan met his cousin who he hadn't seen for many years on the way to the next level.
"Hengzhi!" Cousin Xiao Ping quickly greeted him.
Xiao Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that this cousin, who had been dropped three times, finally took it in the middle of the fourth autumn season. After calculating the time, he just arrived in the capital.
"Father and mother have both come, and now they live in the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion." His cousin took him and walked towards the Marquis Mansion, apparently making a special trip to wait here.
Xiao Yuan couldn't, even though his heart had faded, the etiquette could not be abandoned, so he had to let the boy go back to inform Zhou Jin that he would not go back for dinner at night.
Seeing Xiao Yuan's order, his cousin couldn't help but be stunned: "Hengzhi, but are you married?"
"How can it be!" Xiao Yuan heard the words, and suddenly couldn't help laughing and laughing. Even if he was already cold, he would still inform his uncle about such a big event as getting married. How could he marry a wife quietly. What's more, the object of suspicion is still such a tall bandit.
The Xiao family moved to the capital, one for the eldest son Chunqi, and the other for the sake of a future for the second son, who had repeatedly failed the exams. Naturally, they got close to the Dingyuanhou family. Dingyuan Hou was interested in Xiao Yuan's talents, and also intended to draw closer to the Xiao family.
However, Xiao Yuan was tired and crooked in his heart, and it was not advisable for civil servants and generals to make deep friendships, so he stayed away from the Dingyuan Hou family from the beginning.
"Hengzhi is not too young, why hasn't he married yet?" Mrs. Dingyuan Hou asked the eldest aunt.
When the aunt heard the sound and knew Ya, she smiled and said, "It's all my fault. I've been so far away all these years that I can't see each other for Yuan Er, and the people in the capital are unfamiliar, so I have to rely more on my wife."
Mrs. Dingyuan Hou smiled very satisfied.
A few days later, because Xiao Yuan was not always in Dingyuan Hou's mansion, the steward's mother beside the eldest aunt led the matchmaker to find Xiao Yuan, and after searching, they found Zhou Jin's tavern.
"Young master is really, it's easy to find slaves and maids." The steward's mother laughed.
Xiao Yuan poked the dishes in front of him with his chopsticks, and said casually, "What's the matter?"
"It's a good thing," the steward's mother pulled the matchmaker, "the slave is on the order of the wife..." Before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly stopped, and the smile on her face suddenly disappeared, replaced by a gradually thicker color of horror, as if Live to hell!
Xiao Yuan frowned slightly, and when he turned around, he saw that Zhou Jinzheng was walking over here with a plate of chicken legs just out of the pan.
"This is the brother I met on the way to take the test. Why, Mom also knows it?" Xiao Yuan took the chicken leg, took a bite, and asked curiously.
"No, I don't know..." The steward's mother turned pale, and without saying a word, she took the matchmaker and hurried away, not even having time to say which lady she wanted to kiss.
"It's said that you are so ugly, don't come out casually, you will scare people." Xiao Yuan laughed at him.
Zhou Jin smiled helplessly, he didn't believe that Xiao Yuan didn't know what was going on, but he just acted as if he didn't know: "Mr. Xiao has already become a servant, should he move from the backyard of my tavern?" The third-rank officer lives in a small courtyard with only two entrances, so it is no wonder that he has not been able to marry a wife yet.
"I've only opened a restaurant for you in the three hundred two households. How can I have the money to buy a house and marry a wife?" Xiao Yuan said, as a servant of the household, he was very poor.
Zhou Jin couldn't help laughing, and said solemnly: "It's okay, I have money, and I have built a three-entry house in Dongcheng..."
"Well, I'll move in tomorrow." Before Zhou Jin could finish speaking, Xiao Yuan made a final decision.
"Master Shilang, your stake is in the restaurant, and the house is not yours." Zhou Jin gritted his teeth.
"Why not, did you get the money for buying the house with my buyer's money?" Xiao Yuan stretched out a slender and fair hand, because he has held a pen all the year round and has never done heavy work, this hand is still the same as the five As tender as a year ago, "Do you see that this is the hand of the Minister of the Household, who manages half of the treasury. Half the treasury is one hundred thousand taels of silver, and it's not worth your three-entry small house?"
When the thin man who came up to deliver the drinks heard the words, he suddenly felt that it was very reasonable, and nodded.
"Wealth, honor and glory, don't forget your heart. Brothers who have been fortune-telling for so many years, my house still allows you to live together." Xiao Yuan took the wine glass and waved generously at Zhou Jin.
Zhou Jin stared blankly at Shi Lang Xiao for a while, and finally couldn't help laughing: "So, thank you very much."
The author has something to say: three chapters in a row, ending hahaha