People like Wang scold women for being heartless and untrustworthy, but in fact they cannot live without women. He is lazy and likes to eat. Ever since his wife ran away with her mistress, the family's rice fields have basically been dependent on his mistresses to help with the harvest and sowing.
A Ruan saw Wang in the fields a few times some time ago. Each time he saw the woman working for him was different. A Ruan thought they were relatives of Wang who came to help, but he didn't expect that they were all his bed partners.
The woman who was caught having an affair with Wang Shi lowered her head in shame when she saw Wei Min coming. She pulled the man next to her and muttered in a low voice, "Let's talk about it when we get back. It's so embarrassing to make such a scene."
The man was unhappy when he heard this. He raised his hand and twisted the woman's ear, shouting, "Do you know it's embarrassing now? Do you want to save face now? Why didn't you think about this when you were seduced by this bitch and slept with him?"
The woman did not dare to refute when being scolded, and she covered her ears and begged for mercy in a low voice.
The man kept cursing and didn't spare Wang.
It was obviously not the first time that Wang was dragged out of the house. He straightened his clothes, crossed his arms, and sneered, "With a husband like you, the wife deserves to cheat on him."
"Say it again!" The man rolled up his sleeves angrily and reached out to grab Wang's hair. "How dare you say that to me, you little bitch! Whose wife ran off with a prostitute?
If you hadn't been flirting with women everywhere, would your wife have left you and run away with someone else?
Your woman would rather have a prostitute than you. Don’t you know why? ”
The Wang couple are not easy to deal with. The woman is a drinker, gambler, and sleeps with prostitutes, while the man is lazy and likes to seduce women. They are really a perfect match.
The two men wrestled with each other, scratching each other's faces and pulling each other's hair, neither of them giving in.
The woman nearby was the first to try to stop the fight, and then the onlookers also rushed over to help separate the two.
The older men began to persuade the man, "You know what kind of person he is. What's the point of beating him? You might as well go back and take care of your wife."
The man was so angry that he turned around and slapped the woman next to him in the face, "Come back with me!"
The woman didn't dare say a word after being slapped, and just followed the man timidly.
The onlookers chatted in low voices and couldn't help shaking their heads, "She has a miserable life. She married a male tiger and can't say anything at home. If she doesn't do her job well, she won't be allowed to enter the house, let alone go to bed."
The man lowered his voice and half covered his mouth with his hand, "I heard that in bed, she is always the one on the bottom."
A woman who is oppressed like this by a man must want to find someone else to regain her self-esteem as a woman.
It’s hard to say about Wang Shi’s other aspects, but all the women in the village who had an unclear relationship with him said that he was quite good in bed, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to seduce women to work for him.
Several women were talking together, talking about everything, including food and sex. Occasionally, they spoke in obscene tones, which made Ah Ruan frown and feel uncomfortable.
When Wang saw the man taking the woman away, she looked like she had won the fight. She raised her chin and sneered at everyone, "Why, you're still reluctant to leave? Then why don't you sit on my bed for a while? The quilt is still warm."
When the men heard what he said, they immediately pulled their wives away, while the women did not show it on their faces, but only they themselves knew what they were thinking in their hearts.
Wang glimpsed Wei Min and A Ruan standing by and sneered, "Oh, Wei Jieyuan is here too?"
Wei Min glanced at him with a lukewarm look, which made Wang shudder inexplicably.
Wang wrapped her messy clothes tightly around her body and said to Ah Ruan with a stiff face, "Look at her pretending to be serious now, but women are not good people. Just wait and see, when she gets the chance, will she climb into another man's belly?"
Before A'ruan could say anything, Wei Min's face turned cold, and his voice was filled with the chill of late autumn. He said to Wang: "Since you know that I have passed the imperial examination, you should know that a juren can be appointed as an official. You insulted an official of the imperial court, what crime should you be punished for?"
Wang had no idea what was going on. He was just trying to show off his eloquence for the moment. But when he saw Wei Min's aura of an official who was intimidating without even getting angry, he was frightened and stammered, not daring to speak.
Wei Min stopped when he saw that he was ahead, and said in a cold voice: "I haven't settled the score with you for what you said to A'ruan last time. Including this time, it's the second time in total. If it happens again, don't blame me for not considering the friendship between fellow villagers."
Wang was like a quail, without any of the aggressiveness she had just shown when fighting with the man.
A Ruan looked at Wei Min with admiration, smiling all the way. After walking for a while, he raised his hand and "asked" her:
——If Wang says those things again, will she really be arrested and put in jail?
Seeing that A'ruan believed it, Wei Min shook his head and chuckled, "I am just a scholar, not a county magistrate, let alone an official of the imperial court. How could I have the right to arrest him and put him in jail? I was just trying to scare him so that he wouldn't dare to talk nonsense the next time he sees you."
Wang was just a country boy, and the highest official he had ever seen was the county magistrate. When she was a scholar, she had the right not to kneel before the county magistrate. Now that she was a juren, Wang naturally thought she could put him in jail.
Upon hearing this, A Ruan turned around and looked behind him, then looked at the woman beside him who was smiling and raising her eyebrows at him without saying a word, and immediately smiled.
The two men walked all the way to the gate of the county government office. Wei Min showed his status as a top scholar and took A Ruan, who was a little restrained and uneasy, with the yamen runners to the backyard.
The yamen had set up wine and food in the lobby in the backyard, but it was not yet noon and the governor had not arrived, so the students had no choice but to stand in groups of three or four in the yard and chat.
When the candidates met, they would first bow and congratulate each other with a smile, and then introduce the people next to them. Some of these people brought their sisters here to make friends, while others brought their younger brothers here to see the world.
Those who passed the imperial examination were not necessarily all poor scholars. There were also daughters of wealthy gentry. As long as one could become familiar with them or let one's own brother marry into their family, there would be many benefits, especially the latter.
What was supposed to be a gathering of the candidates turned into a meeting of flattery and matchmaking.
There are very few people like Wei Min who come here with their husbands.
After all, although the candidates who come here today have a promising future, the imperial examination is held every three years and only one top scorer is produced each time, so the competition is too fierce. If I come here today and I'm lucky, maybe I can leave my old husband behind and marry a delicate young man, marry into a wealthy family, and never have to worry about food and drink...
Who would want to ruin their own future?
Wei Min brought A'ruan here and met familiar classmates in the yard. She couldn't help but hear people congratulating her on winning the title of Liyuan.
Wei Mintong bowed and then introduced the person next to her as her husband.
The classmate was slightly stunned when he heard this, but after he realized what was happening, he immediately smiled and greeted A Ruan.
Wei Min was a handsome and talented person, and she was also the top scholar in the provincial examination. When they came, they heard that the county magistrate's son had just reached the age to get married. If Wei Min did not have a husband, they believed that none of the scholars present would be able to compare to her.
At noon, the governor and the county magistrate came together, followed by a pretty and lovely man.
When the man came out, he was very graceful and had the air of a young master. Because of his pretty and charming appearance, he did not seem too rigid like those men in the boudoir, but rather seemed smart and energetic.
He was like a bright but not dazzling light, standing there and attracting everyone's attention.
A Ruan recognized who the man was at a glance.
Qingping County is not big, but it is not small either. But what a coincidence is that the young man who once gave Wei Min an umbrella is actually the son of the county magistrate.
A Ruan turned his head to look at his wife calmly, pursing his lips slightly.
Wei Min was also watching the three people. However, she was looking at the governor and the county magistrate. As for the man behind them, she completely ignored him, as if he was too short and out of her sight.
Wei Min felt that A Ruan seemed to be glancing at him, thinking that he was in trouble, so he leaned towards him and asked, "What's wrong?"
The governor had just stepped out of his sedan chair and came over to greet the candidates. Then he told everyone to wait a while before the Lu Ming Banquet began.
Everyone in the yard stood up straight and smiled. Wei Min couldn't stand out, so he lowered his voice and asked A'ruan, "Are you hungry?"
Seeing that his wife seemed to want to check if his stomach was flat, Ah Ruan immediately raised his hand and gently patted the hand she stretched out. With a slightly red face, he glared at her lightly, as if to scold her:
——Stop making trouble.
Wei Min smiled, and when he stood up, his face turned serious again, without any trace of the smile he had when he lowered his head to tease him just now.
A Ruan felt relieved, it seemed that his wife really had no impression of that young man.
The governor specifically pointed out Wei Min, patted her on the shoulder with a smile, and praised her, "Young people, work harder, everything is possible."
The county magistrate looked at Wei Min with satisfaction in his eyes and praised him a few times.
"So you passed the exam and got the highest rank, how impressive." A head popped out from behind the county magistrate, and the person who spoke was the county magistrate's son, Li Qing.
Li Qing's eyes curved as she asked Wei Min, "Do you still remember me?" Seeing that she seemed to be recalling something, she couldn't help but remind her, "The one who gave you the umbrella at the entrance of Luoyu Academy."
After he finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of his mother looking at him, and his face blushed, and he lowered his head and twisted his sleeves.
Wei Min shook his head apologetically, with a smile in his eyes, "Every time I forget to bring an umbrella, my husband will come to pick me up, so I don't remember ever accepting someone else's umbrella."
Li Qing had always remembered the scene where Wei Min hugged a man in the rain, but she had been holding on to the hope that "that man might be her brother." But now that she heard Wei Min say with her own mouth that the man was talking about her husband, she immediately lowered her head listlessly like a leaf hit by frost, "Oh."
Li Qing was depressed for only a moment, then he raised his head, clenched his fists, and said through gritted teeth: "You passed the exam, which is really amazing."
In just the time it took to catch his breath, he looked completely different from the shy person he was just now.
Since he is not the person I like, he will be my strong opponent in the provincial examination!
Wei Min smiled slightly when he heard this, and said calmly, "You're welcome."
The author has something to say: Boy who is not the same inside and outside
When you like
Li Qing: (looking shy) Do you still remember me? I gave you an umbrella.
When you know that the other person is married and is your rival
Li Qing: (with fists and a fighting face) Come on, draw your sword. If I can’t kill you, I lose!
Ahhhhh, I overestimated myself. I haven't finished writing "The Lu Ming Banquet". I will definitely write that sentence in the copy tomorrow. I promise it with the tail of this salted fish!
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