The one who came with Chen Nianjian was Aunt Chen whom hadn't seen for a long time.

In addition to three sons, the Chen family also has two daughters.

Aunt Chen married far away and died of dystocia many years ago. The husband-in-law had no contact with the Chen family anymore. Aunt Chen married a shopkeeper surnamed Shen, and later moved to Yulin County next door to make a living. When Chen Ming was alive,, Occasionally, they will move around during the New Year's Eve.

Aunt Chen is the youngest in Chen Ming's generation. When she was young, Chen Ming loved her sister. When Aunt Chen was a daughter, she had a good relationship with Chen Ming. She even got close to the third sister-in-law of the Liu family. She was helpless.My uncle made his home in the next county, so after Aunt Chen got married, the relationship gradually faded away. She just went home occasionally and knew about the bullying of Liu's mother and daughter. Even if she wanted to help, being a married woman was fine.As far as can tell, can only secretly ask Chen Nianjian to take care of him.

This year's New Year's Eve, Aunt Chen brought her son Shen Fan back to pay New Year's greetings.

Influenced by the third brother Chen Ming, the children of Aunt Chen's family tried their best to study and study, and this year they are also preparing for the scientific examination.

Although Aunt Chen's family lives in Yulin County, Shen Fan's household registration is in Funing County, so he can only go back to his original place to take the county exam.

Aunt Chen had already inquired about the recent situation of the third sister-in-law's family from Chen Nianjian. Now when she came to Yanlai Lane, she saw that they lived well, dressed well, ate better, and felt a little at ease. Instead, she talked about her own trivial matters.

Chen Nianguan listened from the side, the main meaning was nothing more than gritted his teeth and only confessed such a seedling, worried that Shen Fan would not do well in the exam.

Hearing his mother's rambling, Shen Fan's originally nervous expression became even more embarrassed.

Chen Nianguan did not know the situation of this cousin, but heard from Chen Nianjian that although this Shen Fan was younger than him—Chen Nianjian was five months older than Chen Nianguan, while Shen Fan was only fourteen years old, but since his wifeThe reason for agreeing to end is firstly that Shen Fan really has this ability, and the other is to let Shen Fan go out to test the waters and adapt to the environment of the examination room first.

Unlike Chen Nianjian's wife, who has always refused to allow him to end, because he felt that he was impetuous, and after he developed a calm momentum, he took the initiative to ask Chen Nianjian to take the exam this year.

Knowing that both of them were going to take the scientific examination, Chen Nianguan couldn't help encouraging his cousins, and then took a silver ticket of ten taels each and asked Liu to seal a red envelope and hand them to them to prepare for the upcoming county examination.

Not to mention Shen Fan's surprise, Chen Nianjian clutched the thin red seal, his eyes flushed.

He was originally from the second room, but his third uncle encouraged him to take the imperial examination. Not only did he benefit a lot from teaching, but he was also able to enter Qingyun Academy because of his third uncle's favor. It can be said that the third uncle's deathHe is not the third house, but he has benefited the most. Now the third aunt has given out such a large sum of money to subsidize her own scientific research. Chen Nianjian feels that this kindness is really irrepayable.

On the contrary, it was his own biological father, whose character and temperament were simply hopeless.

What Chen Nianjian didn't dare to mention to anyone in his family was that an incident happened after the announcement that the county examination would be scheduled for February 12 years ago.

After learning the exact date of the test, students who take the test must go to the county government office to sign up, and then start preparing for the test.

One is to fill in the "professional confession", which includes information about one's name, age, place of origin, physical characteristics, and the life and death history of great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents.The second is to find four people who take the exam together, and the five people bond with each other, and if they cheat, the five people will sit together.Finally, you have to find a granary student in the county to prove for yourself that all the information provided are true, so that you can be considered qualified for the exam.

However, in the beginning, no one was willing to form a bond with Chen Nianjian except Zhang Erlang.

The reason is obvious, it is Chen Nianjian's father who abducted and sold his niece, and kidnapped and blackmailed the reputation.

In this era, in the same clan, everyone is honored, and everyone is lost.

It can be said that because of what Chen Feng did, Chen Nianjian's study career should have come to an end.

Even though Chen Nianjian was not reconciled after the incident, he was still desperate in the face of the plight of no one to settle the insurance.

The grievance of being isolated and misunderstood in normal times is not as chilling as the isolation and helplessness at this time, which even gave birth to deep resentment towards his biological father.

Fortunately, after learning about this incident, Fan Shanchang came forward.

Chen Ming was kind to the Fan family, and Chen Ming always praised Chen Nianjian endlessly. It was Fan Shanzhang's idea to accept Chen Nianjian into Qingyun Academy.There are students here, but there are very few applicants.

After all, Chen Nianjian was good at studying, and everyone had a clear mind. Taking the imperial examination is like crossing a single-plank bridge. If Chen Nianjian loses the qualification to take the exam, then they will lose a strong competitor.

Usually, there are many dirty tricks to stumbling students with high talents to lose their qualifications for the exam. Who would want to miss the opportunity to get rid of the serious troubles in such an upright manner?

Therefore, in Qingyun Academy, only Fourth Master Zeng and Shen Fan are the ones who are finally willing to form a bond with Chen Nianjian.It was only after an exam-taking student from a poor family in an academy that he was willing to be a guarantor for him.

At this point, Chen Nianjian managed to gather a guarantor. As for the guarantor who testified for him, he relied on the help of his wife.

It can be said that it was extremely hard-won for Chen Nianjian to qualify for this county examination, and Chen Nianjian cherished this opportunity very much.

Penniless, he was holding the ten tael bank note and looked at Chen Nianguan excitedly: "Fourth sister, don't worry, I will work hard to pass the exam."

Chen Nianguan nodded, not doubting what Chen Nianjian said.

After all, Chen Nianjian's strength was also recognized by the original body's father, and she believed that Chen Nianjian had the ability to pass the exam.

Chen Nianjian hesitated for a moment, then told Chen Nianguan to be careful, and told Chen Feng that he could not succeed at one plan, and wanted another plan for rebirth.

The Chen family saw that after the Chen family hor fun, the Chen family sauce jerky was selling very well. During the New Year's Eve, they discussed with the clan, planning to get the patriarch to come forward and persuade the Liu family to adopt an heir to Sanfang, so as to continue Chen Ming's incense.

And in order to allow the Liu family to inherit, the person they chose to adopt to the third room was Chen Nianjian.

When he heard it for the first time, Chen Nianguan was quite surprised, and looked up at Chen Nianjian: "Will you?"

Chen Nianjian couldn't look directly at Chen Nianguan and lowered his head.

In his heart, he was willing.

He has always admired his third uncle, and he has no objection to being able to be his stepson, not to mention that his aunt's family is getting better and better.

But he couldn't say that he was willing, because he knew that his father didn't really want to be good for the third uncle when he adopted him to the third room. He wanted to grab the third aunt's hand through his own handsin the family property.

Obviously, when the third aunt's family was kicked out of the house, the Chen family gave them nothing, but now seeing them starting a family, but wanting a piece of the pie, even if it was his own relatives, his father, Chen Nianjian cursed inwardly for being shameless.

But on the surface he dared not say anything.

Bai Shan filial piety is the first, no matter how bad his father is, he is still his father, he can only bear it and hold it.

And because of this, Chen Feng came up with this poisonous trick.

Father dared to think, but he couldn't do it.

He couldn't injure his third aunt and fourth younger sister just to get rid of such a lacking father. Chen Nianjian had no intention of agreeing to them: "Don't worry, fourth younger sister, I won't agree."

Chen Nianguan was not relieved.

She knew very well what Chen Feng was up to, even if Chen Nianjian was unwilling, there might be a second stepson candidate.

"Third brother, don't think too much. The most important thing for you right now is the county exam. If you pass the county exam well, maybe the Chen family will be reluctant to send you to our house as a stepson."

She sincerely hoped that Chen Nianjian would do well in the exam, that he would be famous in the exam and become a prominent official, so that when the Chen family got up, they would not keep looking at their room.

It is better to hope that the Chen family will live well than hope that they will live well.

If the Chen family is always down and out, they will always be jealous that they are living well. If each other's life is going well, why would the Chen family put their minds on the third room?

It is the best compromise to live in peace and make a fortune for each other.

Chen Nianjian also understood this truth, so he nodded, and before he left, he did not forget to say: "I'm afraid, I shouldn't do it on my side, they will try to push someone out to get you a son-in-law."

Chen Nianguan didn't expect that if the adoption failed, there would be another trick, so he laughed, but was stared at by Liu Shi, and quickly restrained himself.

Recruiting a son-in-law seems like a good idea too!Chen Nianguan actually wanted to say that.

The Great Zhou Dynasty said that it was light corvee and light taxes. On the surface, regardless of farmers, businessmen, and businesses, they all adopted a tax system of 30, but in fact there were many taxes in various names, and Chen Nianguan was most interested in it. Except for businessThe tax is the population tax, which is 120 yuan per person per year, doubled by merchants, and for women, the latest is 16 years old. If you don’t marry at 17, you have to pay a five-fold single tax every year, that isSix hundred Wen.

If it was half a year ago, the Liu family would definitely not be able to pay it. Even if they can afford it now, Chen Nianguan still thinks that he can't pay it.

You can't hand over your hard-earned money to the yamen for nothing, can you?Six hundred cash is not a small sum of money for ordinary people's families.

Although there is still a year to go, Chen Nianguan still has to think carefully about this matter. After all, it can save money and stop the Chen family from finding someone to force him to marry, isn't it killing two birds with one stone?

Only when I have completely settled my lifelong affairs and have no worries, can I concentrate on my career and make money!

Mrs. Liu also took this matter to heart, and when she closed the door and talked about it, she said to her eldest daughter directly: "If it is serious about recruiting a son-in-law, I think Zhang Erlang is a good one."

Chen Nianguan's eyes widened at once: "Mother, are you joking?"

Zhang Erlang still has to study and take the imperial examination. According to the regulations of the dynasty, he is not allowed to take the scientific examination if he is a son-in-law. If he becomes a son-in-law, wouldn't he cut off his future in the examination for fame?The golden thigh she wanted to cultivate was just broken like this?She is not reconciled.

"No joke, don't hesitate to recruit a son-in-law, don't hesitate to find a good family." Liu gave Chen Nianguan two choices.

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I will continue to work hard!!