Chapter 515 Two Faces

"Brother Jiang Cheng, it's already noon, you should eat some buns to fill your stomach."

Jiang Cheng had sent them off several times, but he refused to take any money each time.

Unfortunately, no other family in the village had an ox cart.

So Chen Hongxia could only shamelessly ask Jiang Cheng to send them to the town again and again.

After all, my brother's waist couldn't withstand the shaking of the cart.

It’s okay if you don’t want to take the money, you can always get the buns.

It's cold outside, and the steaming meat buns are so tempting.

After refusing twice, Jiang Cheng saw that Chen Hongxia still had a bag in her hand, so he had to take it. He drove the ox cart, ate the meat buns while queuing to leave the city.

In fact, there is another reason why Jiang Cheng would send the Chen family.

That means Jiang Fubao greeted him specifically.

Otherwise, even if he was just a servant, he wouldn't dare to use the master's ox cart at will.

It's okay once or twice, but if it happens all the time, it's overstepping the boundaries.

"Grandpa, brother, have some steamed bread." On the ox cart, Chen Hongxia opened the oil-paper bag in her hand and whispered to her grandfather and brother.

Different from Jiang Cheng who was eating a mouthful of greasy food, the three generations of grandfather and grandson ate gray and fluffy coarse flour steamed buns.

Jiang Cheng, who had been looking ahead, had no idea.

This snow is falling in a very strange way. It stops for a while every day.

So the weather has been extremely cold, with repeated freezing.

The temperature did not rise until the Chinese New Year.

This is the first warm year that Jiang Fubao has experienced since he came here.

On New Year's Eve, she played pot-tossing with her brothers and sisters in the yard.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, they gathered together again to win money. This year, Zhang Jinlan spent a huge amount of money and took out four hundred taels of silver.

Almost everyone in the Jiang family won a lot of money.

The servants also received rewards.

From the master to the servant, no one was unhappy.

On the first and second days of the New Year, I went back to my parents’ home to pay New Year’s greetings. On the third day, a lantern festival was held at Baishi Street in Lianshan Town.

It was as lively as the previous lantern festival in Baishui Town.

There were not only jugglers, but also lantern riddles and people selling all kinds of food.

Most of the people in the town hang out here, and the villagers outside the city who are wealthier also bring their children here to broaden their horizons.

You can also see many new faces.

It should be from Chang'an Town or Baishui Town.

The city gates were opened and not closed all night.

The police patrolled back and forth, shouting "be careful with the candles" and reminding women with children to keep an eye on their children and guard against them being abducted by human traffickers.

There are patrol officers.

This year's Lantern Festival ended without incident.

No children were missing and no one was injured.

Before the end of the New Year, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Meng Bujiu set out on the road to take the exam. Qixi County was too far away from the imperial city, and the journey would take at least a month.

The spring examination is different from the autumn examination, so you naturally have to go earlier.

With him was Lingshan. This time, not only did Kong Mingxue not go, but even Shen Hechi, who was also implicated in the attack, did not follow him.

Because before the Chinese New Year, something big happened in the Shen family.

Shen Hechi's biological father, Shen Zhong, passed away.

His body suddenly became ill, like a tree struck by lightning; in a short time, it withered and died.

During this period, dozens of doctors flocked to the Shen family.

None of them can be cured.

Shen Zhong's body was already exhausted.

If Shen Hechi hadn't spent a large sum of money to keep him alive, I'm afraid he wouldn't have survived a month.

Tianling Kingdom has regulations.

After one's parents pass away, one must observe mourning for three years and cannot take the imperial examinations.

It was originally planned that Shen Hechi would set off with Meng Bujiu on the fifth day of the first lunar month, but the plan had to be cancelled.

This caused Zhang Jinlan to sigh repeatedly.

This Shen Zhong was not likable when he was alive, and he would bring trouble to his son even after his death.

Shen Hechi has a very good relationship with the Jiang family, so Zhang Jinlan naturally knows about the dirty things Shen Zhong has done.

So much so that Jiang Fubao heard it all.

When the funeral was held across the street, she and her grandmother went there. Of course, they did not go to pity Shen Zhong's death, but to comfort Shen Hechi.

The fifth day.

Shen Hechi was in the academy, and together with the headmaster and others, he watched Meng Bujiu leave.

There was a look of reluctance on his face.

"He Chi, please accept my condolences. It's okay. You are young, so it won't matter if you wait another three years. You can still take the exam then. If you go now, you might be on the list and get a Tong Jinshi. Although Tong Jinshi is also called Jinshi, it is not the same as Jinshi. If you don't have anyone to support you, your official career will end at the sixth rank."

Master Lian patted Shen Hechi's arm and advised.

"Thank you for your advice, Master. I know what's going on. I just haven't slept well recently. I want to go home and rest for a while. I hope you can agree."

Shen Hechi pinched the bridge of his nose.

Sighed deeply.

"Go back and have a rest. There are still three years left. You have a good knowledge, so it's okay for you to take a month off. But, even at home, you can't neglect your studies." Dong Wei agreed without waiting for the teacher to speak.

"Yes, students know." Shen Hechi turned around and left.

There was regret in his eyes.

My father's death was all his fault.

However, he didn't expect that the poison was too strong and his father passed away in just one month.

He originally wanted to delay it until the end of the Spring Examination.

Who could have imagined that my own father's body was so weak.

Strong on the outside but weak on the inside, it will fall down if let go.

After returning home, Shen Hechi sat at the desk with gloomy eyes.

"You won't let me go even if you die!" he cursed viciously.

"Young Master, what you ordered has been done." At this moment, there was a knock on the study door, and a servant standing outside said.

"Did you pour feces? Did you forget the talisman?" Shen Hechi came back to his senses. He lowered his head slightly and looked up at the servant.

"Yes, I dug this bitch out of the ancestral tomb, threw her on a straw mat and poured feces all over her body. Finally, I pasted a talisman on her forehead before leaving. Don't worry, Master. I got this talisman specially to make this bitch's soul fly away."

The servants called her a concubine.

Shen Hechi was not angry at all, instead he felt relieved.

"Well done, you will serve me from now on. Also, I will give you another task. Nail this soul-destroying nail into the head of my dead father!"

Shen Hechi said fiercely.

He would never let his dead father's spirit look for his mother.

This beast doesn't deserve it!

Shen Zhong has been laid to rest, but Shen Hechi still took special care of him.

There is no nailing on the coffin.

As long as you dig up the soil, you can open the coffin lid.

"Yes, I will definitely do it." The servant was very happy to hear Shen Hechi's words.

Now the only master of the Shen family is the young master in front of him.

If you please him, why worry about not having a good life?

As for opening the coffin, that was nothing. He had even carried corpses on his back.

Duan's body had already rotted away. He wasn't even afraid of that, so why would he be afraid of opening the coffin?

Wait for the servants to leave.

Shen Hechi sat back in his chair.

His eyes were dull and he didn't know where he was looking.

He witnessed his mother's death when he was young, and then learned that his mother was murdered. He was also bullied by the Duan family and was also biased by his father.

His mentality has changed a long time ago.

He has completely different faces internally and externally.

If you cannot take the imperial examination for three years, the next spring examination will be four years later.

Thinking that Meng Bujiu was setting out on the journey alone, maybe when he came back he would become a Jinshi.

Shen Hechi felt both sour and angry.