Chapter 133 Brother-in-law Appears

Regarding the article, Mrs. Shen planned to let her daughter talk to Minsi. It is not impolite for young people to talk in private after they are engaged, not to mention that the relationship between husband and wife is built on their relationship.

Shen Xi didn't take love matters seriously before. She only knew that the marriage chosen for her by her father, mother and grandmother must be the right one.

However, during her time in the capital, she saw the feelings of her second uncle towards her aunt, the relationship between her cousin and sister-in-law, and the mutual affection between Manman and Mr. Xie. She began to feel that if they could have mutual understanding after marriage, life would be more fulfilling.

"Third Miss..."

Shen Xi smiled slightly, "Call me Xixi, that's what everyone at home calls me."

Lu Ne was stunned for a moment, but soon she blushed and called out "Xixi", "Xixi, just call me Minsi."

Although his ears were already red, his tone was firm.

Although the two were engaged, they had never spent much time together in private. Not knowing what to say for a moment, Shen Xi got straight to business.

"My cousin's grandfather was the top scholar in the imperial examination. You should know this, right?"

Speaking of studying, Lune was not as nervous as before. "I know, Mr. He! I have read the article he will try to write many times. The teacher also told us about it when we were in the academy."

"Do you have an article that you are particularly satisfied with? If not, you can go back and write another one. Mr. He has promised to show you the article. You can show it to my second uncle first and then send it to the He Mansion."

"Me? Mr. He agreed to read my article?!" Lune's first reaction was excitement. He even stood up directly. Then he began to calculate which of his recent articles was the best. But after a while, he calmed down and sat down again.

"Xixi, Mr. He, there must be a lot of people begging him to read his articles. Would this be too much trouble for you? I... Thank you, Xixi. I will go back and sort out the articles and pick out a few good ones to show to Uncle Shen tomorrow."

As his name suggests, Lu Ne has been tongue-tied since childhood. For example, he had a basket of things to say just now. He knew that Mr. He must have agreed to read his article out of respect for the Shen family. He was afraid that this matter would cause too much trouble to Shen Xi, and he didn't know how to thank her.

"Yes." Shen Xi took out the purse she had embroidered before and gave it to Lu Ne. "I don't have anything good to give you. I made this myself. I wish you good grades in high school."

"Thank you, Xixi." Lu Ne took the purse with both hands, looked at it carefully again and again, and then carefully put it in his arms. There was another thing in his arms, which he had been carrying for the whole day.

"Xixi, I bought this before I went to Beijing, and I wanted to give it to you after I arrived." Lu Ne took out a hairpin with twin magnolia flowers from his arms. He had previously accompanied a married classmate to a jewelry store and fell in love with this hairpin at first sight. He thought at the time that Xixi would look very beautiful wearing it.

"Thank you, I like it very much." Shen Xi took the hairpin and directly replaced the one she was wearing on her head. "Does it look good?"

This is the truth Shen Xi learned from her cousin: if you like someone, you have to express it directly.

"It looks good, it looks good, it looks good."

Lu Ne was silly and said "beautiful" three times, which made Shen Xi laugh.

Before leaving, Lu Ne said to Shen Xi solemnly: "Xixi, don't worry, I will definitely do well in the exam and will not embarrass you."

"Well, I believe you."

Before it got dark, Shen Su and Lu Ne went to the inn. When they were almost there, an old man and a little girl stopped Lu Ne.

Shen Su looked at Lu Ne and motioned him to explain what was going on. Lu Ne himself was shocked, but he quickly recognized that the old man was the one he helped pick cabbages with yesterday.

The old man took out some silver from his cloth bag and tried to give it to Lune while waving his hand, "Silver, I don't want it!"

The little girl at the side helped the old man explain, "My grandfather said that he found the silver after the young master left yesterday, and he waited until the city gates were about to close but didn't see you. He came into the city early this morning to sell while waiting, thinking of returning the silver to you. Grandpa said that we have hands and feet, and we can't take other people's silver."

The old man nodded on the side. He was hard of hearing and could not speak clearly, but he had specially brought his granddaughter with him today.

Lu Ne was also very embarrassed. He saw the old man selling vegetables at such an old age yesterday and couldn't bear it so he gave him money. He didn't expect that his good intentions would lead to bad results and he made the old man wait for him in the city for a whole day.

But he felt embarrassed to ask him to take the money back now. It would be a waste of time. Lu Ne felt sorry for the old man and the little girl when he saw their thin, patched clothes.

Seeing the remaining half of the cart of cabbage, Lu Ne came up with an idea, "I'll buy the cabbage, old man, I'll buy all the cabbage, you keep the money."

"Sir, these cabbages don't cost that much money. And you don't have to buy cabbages for us."

Lu Ne looked at Shen Su, and he didn't know what to do.

Shen Su said to the grandfather and grandson, "Take the money. You don't have to come here every day to sell cabbage. You can send the cabbage directly to several charity halls in Beijing. If you have other vegetables, you can send them there too. The money for the vegetables will be deducted from this money. Don't be embarrassed. His family has opened hundreds of inns. They have more money than they can spend, so they like to do good deeds."

The little girl nodded blankly.

Lu Ne was also dumbfounded. He didn't expect that he could do this...

After Shen Xu finished speaking, he took Lu Ne away. After they walked a long way, he said to Lu Ne: "You can't do this. You have to learn to adapt."

"Minsi will follow Brother Shen's instructions."

"I just said a few words casually. It can't be considered as a teaching." Shen Su couldn't help but worry about his cousin's future life. Both of them were quiet people, and the house must be very lonely.

The Jidi Inn where Lu Ne lived is now occupied by students who come to Beijing from all over the country to take the imperial examination. Although the examination is in March, if they arrive late, the good inns will be sold out, so everyone chooses to go to Beijing early.

As soon as Lu Ne and Shen Su arrived at the door, they heard people in the lobby of the inn discussing what questions would be asked in the imperial examination. Some were discussing essays, and it was not just the Jidi Inn that was like this. It was probably the same in all the inns, big and small, in the capital.

"Minsi is back? Who is this?"

"Oh, let me introduce them to you. This is Brother Shen, he is also from Nanjing. Brother Shen, these two are my fellow townsmen who came to Beijing with me, Chen Congyi and Wu Wengong."

"Shen Jianxing, I have met all of you."

After they exchanged greetings, the man named Chen Congyi asked the two of them, "Brother Jinxing, Minsi, there will be a poetry contest at Tianyue Tower tomorrow. Do you want to go and have a look? I heard that a student from Shuzhou has won the first prize for two consecutive days."

Originally Shen Su wanted to go out and take a look tomorrow, and now that there was this poetry competition it was just right. He nodded in agreement and made an appointment with the three of them to meet at Tianyue Building at the beginning of the day tomorrow.