Chapter 154 What's there to brag about?
Several villages in the countryside are adjacent to each other, and they often visit each other. Hu Yaozu is a celebrity, and he attracts attention wherever he goes.
Look, many people are looking over here from afar, whispering.
"I said the Hu family would come to find us and hold us accountable."
"It was indeed not fair of Hui Niang to take advantage of the situation. I heard that they married the girl without a matchmaker or engagement and without the consent of the Hu family elders. This is no different from kidnapping."
"What you said is unpleasant to hear. It's not the Wei family's fault! The girl agreed on her own, and no one forced her."
"Yes, what does it mean to have no matchmaker and no engagement? The Wei family is poor, but Hui Niang is from our village. Don't you know what kind of person she is? She and Shouzhong are both kind people. Don't say anything harsh. The head of Xilin Village went there for a drink."
"But if Hu Dazhu was at home, this matter would not have been accomplished."
"That's not necessarily true."
Someone raised his chin: "My sister-in-law is from Xilin Village. She went back to her parents' home and said that the girl was very opinionated and good-looking, and she got married because she couldn't stay in the Hu family anymore."
If she couldn't stay anymore, then these words would be meaningful.
Someone looked Hu Yaozu up and down and couldn't help sighing: "The scholar is more handsome than the last time I saw him. I heard that he has been recommended to study under a county teacher. It's amazing! Although he is not from our village, when he becomes successful in the future, we can go to his house to ask for some wedding cakes and share in the good fortune."
"Who did you hear that from? How could we not know!"
"Who else could it be? His mother Wang Cuihua brags about it everywhere when she gets the chance."
When it comes to Wang Cuihua, who is brainless and easy to offend people, everyone's eyes flash with contempt.
"Didn't Hu Dazhu beat her so hard that she couldn't get out of bed when he came back?"
Why did he jump out again
? "What's the matter? Can Hu Dazhu beat her to death for his niece? If it were me, I would sit at the door all day with injuries all over my body and praise my son's ability."
How face-saving!
Their voices were so low that others could not hear them, but Shunzi followed Rong Di to practice martial arts and listened to every word.
Are you kidding! Can he allow false news to spread?
Shunzi shouted exaggeratedly at the woman over there.
"What? The county teacher?"
"I know about this."
"That teacher and I live in the same alley."
Upon hearing this, Hu Yaozu's eyelids twitched, and he had a bad feeling, so he was called.
"Hu Yaozu, right?"
Shunzi squinted his eyes, wishing he could rub him under his feet: "Tell me about the county teacher who doesn't like you. Don't let people misunderstand."
His voice was very loud.
A word caused a thousand waves, and there was only a sound of inhalation.
Hu Yaozu's face darkened and his whole body was shaking.
"You-"
"What about me?"
Shunzi: "The teacher has a very high reputation in the county. Among the three students he accepted before, one became a tribute student and two became juren."
"He doesn't accept just any kind of people."
"That's right, he didn't like you."
Hu Yaozu was shaking all over.
He had never suffered such humiliation before!
Not being selected was embarrassing!
What Zhao Niang said at the beginning, it still feels like a lump in his throat when he thinks of it now.
Master Zhao will regret shunning him! Sooner or later, he will climb higher than Master Zhao.
But why...
why are his family so confused?
Let his mother say such things outside!
Now that it has failed, how can he save face?
Hu Yaozu felt that the eyes behind him were like sharp knives that could scrape flesh and blood.
He was embarrassed: "It must be that my family made a mistake."
"I was just helping a nobleman from the capital to handle the registration of cases in the county, and I did have a few encounters with Master Zhao. I also visited his home."
As for other things, he didn't talk about them at all. As soon as
he finished speaking, a woman raised her voice.
"Yes, the Chu family from Sandun Village went to the county and said that they met a scholar outside the post station. He looked like a good person, and he is the material for being an official in the future..."
"Then... then you can talk to the noble!"
Hu Yaozu straightened his back.
He nodded to those people in a gentle voice.
"I'm just helping in the best way I can. I've benefited a lot in those days."
Shunzi sneered.
"You look like a dog."
"The post station is short of people, and someone is eager to help. Of course, we won't waste it."
"What's so good about bragging."
The women:...
Is this true?
It's obviously an honor, but why does it become cheap when this strange foreigner says it?
However, this foreigner has a great background. He saved the Zhao family kid unscathed.
You can't just talk nonsense.
Under the astonished gaze of everyone, Shunzi didn't know how to restrain himself. He took a few steps forward and tidied Hu Yaozu's clothes intimately and casually.
"What's wrong? I understand that this is an excuse!"
"Not only are you hypocritical, but your family is full of people with long hair and short knowledge. What can't you do to make the villagers look up to you?"
Shunzi: "Today you said you can go to the county to study, and tomorrow the imperial tutor will call you teacher."
"In a few days, I won't be surprised if you say you have sat on the dragon throne."
Shunzi turned his head and asked Zhao Yu.
"How is it, he is amazing."
Zhao Yu is an honest man and can't hear the sarcasm.
He frowned.
"That's not right."
"In this world, all the literati and scholars must respectfully call the imperial tutor teacher, brother Hu is just a student..." He
didn't finish his words.
Shunzi interrupted: "How capable he is."
Zhao Yu bowed: "The dragon throne can only be sat on by the current emperor..."
Shunzi continued to interrupt.
"What's the big deal? If he works hard, everyone in the world will be surnamed Hu."
Zhao Yu: "But the students think..."
"Enough."
Hu Yaozu could no longer bear it and said coldly: "You have enough heads to chop off for making irresponsible remarks about the emperor!"
Shunzi: ...
He is so scared.
What's wrong with the throne?
If the general gives an order, Rong Di will rush to Shangjing and blow it up.
Hu Yaozu: "Stop talking nonsense! Are you trying to cut off my path to the imperial examination by being aggressive and slandering me? Isn't this what a gentleman does?"
Don't think he didn't hear Shunzi calling Wei Shouzhong uncle.
"I am upright, whatever you say!"
Hu Yaozu didn't want to argue with him. He didn't forget the purpose of coming here.
"Uncle Wei, my father and I didn't agree to this marriage, so it doesn't count."
"My younger sister is still young, and my mother...my mother is confused, so you succeeded."
He is a scholar, even if he hates the Wei family, he must be decent and noble, and can't insult like a country shrew.
"Don't blame me for speaking harshly. I don't like your poor Wei family, and I don't want to see my younger sister suffer."
"Then is Wei Shen worthy of her?"
"You are obviously tricking my younger sister into
getting married!" Hu Yaozu said, "To be honest, I am quite appreciated by the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice. We are from the same village, and I don't want to make things difficult for you. Please send my younger sister back! You can get married separately in the future! Otherwise..."
Who?
Shunzi: ???
Is it the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice who can't wait to serve tea and water every time he sees the general?
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