Chapter 132 Chapter 131 Cheap Senior Brother is Too Excellent

An Xin ordered Da Zhuang to take out the copper coins she had exchanged in advance and scatter them. Regardless of whether there was such a custom in the capital, the family members of their families would scatter some copper coins to celebrate after someone passed the exam.

No matter whether it is neighbors, passers-by, or beggars, whoever wants to pick up the items can do so, and the host will be happy.

Wait until the crowd at the door disperses.

Li Ziyu, Leng Xiangbai, Jiang Zhou, An Rui, even the stingy Zhu Shijing, who pretended not to spend his money, would take it out and count it every day to see if any of it had been stolen by mice when he was not paying attention. He was also generous for once.

The five of them gave an extra month's bonus to all the servants serving in the yard.

Qingfeng Mingyue, Dazhuang, Xiaomai and the servants they brought with them were all smiling from ear to ear.

If each person is paid one extra month, that would be five months' monthly interest, which is not a small amount for them.

Because An Xin and his friends had only been in the capital for a short time and did not have any close friends, they had not originally planned to hold a banquet to celebrate.

However, there were still officials who wanted to make friends with them and sent them gifts. For example, General Yuchi and his family also sent congratulatory gifts when they learned that they had passed the exam.

An Xin sent these people away with a bright smile.

Thinking of the unfilial student who wanted to run away from home and go out early and come back late these days, An Xin's face immediately turned into a donkey's face after sending the person away.

It's a human thing to conspire to dump these trivial matters on her so that you can go out and have some free time.

An Xin declined all the gifts from other families on the grounds that he was not there, except for those from General Yuchi's Mansion, Duke Cheng'en's Jiang family, General Zhengdong's Gao family, and General Anbei's Chen family.

The four families sent their congratulations on the grounds that their sons were their junior fellow apprentices. An Xin declined with the same reason, but was defeated by the families' firm attitudes.

Thinking of those troublesome brats, and seeing the expressions of several families that said, "We will never take back the things we have given away."

"???"

What could An Xin do? Throwing it away didn't seem like a good idea, so he had to accept it.

Afterwards, An Xin invited the Liu family's grandparents and old doctor Su, as well as the Yuchi family, Jiang family, Gao family, and Chen family, who were already familiar to him, to gather together for celebration.

Several families saw that Li Ziyu and the other six had cunning eyes, and then they looked at their own little kids who were always causing trouble, and they were dissatisfied with them no matter how they looked at them.

Yuchi Yi and others who suffered from the unexpected disaster curled their lips and secretly glared at their cheap senior brothers, asking them if they had ever thought about other people's feelings when they were so outstanding.

"..." Please leave a way to survive for the young, helpless and care-seeking junior brothers.

Yuchi Yi, Jiang Chenxi, Gao Tai, and Chen Qibao, all four of them, were staring at one another with envy, jealousy, and hatred, and before they could retract their eyes, they happened to look at a few of their fellow brothers with amusement.

Meeting their eyes, the hearts of those previously arrogant little bullies couldn't help but tremble.

There was no way out. They were beaten up by six people in turn, and they couldn't find any fault to complain about. The senior brother who was full of bad intentions was too scary.

*The place where powerful officials and nobles live.

In a mansion whose low profile cannot conceal its luxurious decoration.

"Snap"

There was a loud slap.

Xiao Wenjin looked at his father, who was always friendly to others, in disbelief and was looking at himself angrily.

"Master!" the prime minister's wife next to him shouted in surprise.

Seeing their son, whom they were so proud of, being slapped in the face by their husband in front of several servants was something Xiao Wenjin and the Prime Minister's wife could not accept.

"We don't need you to serve here anymore. Go back next year." The prime minister's wife suppressed her fear and looked at the servants sternly with an obvious warning.

The servants who were the target of anger also felt very wronged. How could they know that such a thing happened in their master's house?

They were all very frightened, afraid of being implicated and silenced, and they retreated tremblingly.

Prime Minister Xiao has a compact body, handsome appearance, clear facial features, deep eye sockets, and eyes flashing with anger.

He has a wisp of beard on his chin, and his strong scholarly air makes him look wiser and more knowledgeable.

The prime minister’s wife suppressed her displeasure and said softly, “Master, how could you hit Jin’er for no reason? Not to mention that he has always been sensible and polite, even if he did something wrong.

The master can just talk to him, educate him, or beat him, but isn't that unnecessary?"

When Prime Minister Xiao saw that there was no one else in the room, the anger that he had just suppressed became even stronger, and he shouted sternly: "Woman's opinion, why don't you ask your good son what he did?"

After all, Prime Minister Xiao is a very shrewd man, otherwise he would not have been able to teach Xiao Wenjin to be so young, not only famous for his talent throughout the capital, but also become the leader of the Four Young Masters.

If he hadn't been caught cheating by some big boss, even if Xiao Wenjin didn't get first place in the examination, he would have no problem ranking in the top ten.

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But how could a person who has always been proud and arrogant be willing to be inferior to others? Otherwise, so many famous scholars would not have met with accidents in the capital some time ago.

An Xin would not sacrifice her beauty sleep. Every few nights, she would transform into a strongman and throw sandbags for fun.

Seeing his father so angry, Xiao Wenjin suddenly opened his eyes wide, with a hint of fear in his eyes.

I have a bad feeling in my heart.

Sure enough, the words left by Prime Minister Xiao before he left with his sleeves slammed, confirmed his thoughts.

"Several officials from the Ministry of Rites who participated in marking the examination papers this year have been secretly detained in the Ministry of Justice. I don't need to teach you what you should do, right?!"

Unlike the tense atmosphere in the Prime Minister's Mansion, Cao Zhiqing, a fourth-rank official in the Ministry of Rites, was originally supposed to be on the list of officials in the Ministry of Rites who would be reviewing the papers in this spring's imperial examination.

But because his son was implicated in the fight with some little bullies in the capital a few years ago and was seen riding a horse on the street, Emperor Sheng An crossed out his name in a fit of anger.

At that time, Cao Zhiqing was so angry that he wanted to beat his son Cao Peng because he lost this opportunity for good performance and possible promotion, but he was stopped by his strong and protective wife.

This made Cao Zhiqing, who had originally thought that marrying a noble lady would allow him to soar to the sky and enjoy high office, wealth and glory easily, once again suppress the resentment that had accumulated over the years due to not being promoted.

Cao Zhiqing was originally a poor scholar with lofty ambitions. After using the resources of the Yue family to pass the imperial examination, he abandoned his wife and children.

How could he be a man who is sentimental? He used sweet words to coax Du, the favored concubine of the Marquis of Wuchang, into his heart.

He just wanted to use her to get rid of his status as a son-in-law, and also wanted to find another person who could help him get promoted.

Now, after all these years, I don’t know whether it is because Cao Zhiqing himself is incompetent or for some other reason, he has never moved from his position as Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites.

How could such a person look for reasons in himself? He naturally blamed his inability to get promoted on the increasingly declining Wuchang Marquis Mansion.

He thought that it was because the Du family had lost the emperor's favor and was disliked by the current emperor that he was implicated and his official position had not been moved for all these years.

(End of this chapter)