Chapter 122 Gu Tingye Returns to Beijing

The four of them returned to the Marquis' Mansion together.

Mrs. Chen had already given instructions to the kitchen and prepared meals at home. She felt that Yang Wenyuan might have become thin due to hunger in recent days, so she kept urging him to eat more, which made Yang Wenyuan feel a little amused and helpless.

But it was hard to refuse my aunt's kindness, so I ate it all.

And add some wine.

Slightly tipsy, I had the most comfortable sleep in a while that night.

The announcement of the results of the provincial examination is scheduled for mid-September.

It was the season when osmanthus flowers were in full bloom, so the list posted after the provincial examination was also called the "Guibang".

The provincial examination has just ended.

Although there is still nearly a month before the results are announced, the wedding schedule has already been set.

September 18th is a good day for weddings.

Therefore, this period of less than a month was the busiest time for the Sheng family and the Yang family of Pingyang Marquis Mansion.

In addition to preparing various makeup and jewelry for the wedding, you also have to receive relatives coming from all over the world on Friday.

These should have been prepared by Yang Wenyuan's mother, but under the current circumstances, they can only be taken care of by Mrs. Chen.

Yang Wenyuan still went to the Sheng family to study with ease. After all, if the autumn examination went well, it would be the spring examination next year soon, so he had to take it seriously now.

But this made life difficult for Mrs. Chen.

The Yang family is large and powerful. Although there are not many direct descendants, there are countless relatives and friends. If someone comes to Bian Jing specially to celebrate your marriage, even if the relationship is distant, you have to go to receive and greet them, right?

She had to put on a smile every now and then to receive and deal with guests, and Mrs. Chen felt like her face was almost stiff from smiling.

This also meant that even though good things were about to happen, Mrs. Chen's temper was getting worse day by day, like a powder keg that could explode at any time.

One day, Yang Wenyuan came back from Sheng's house humming a little tune.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw Madam Chen sitting on a chair with a lot of resentment in her heart - in order to facilitate the preparations for the wedding, Yang Yuqing and Madam Chen's family moved into the Pingyang Marquis Mansion this month.

However, the moment she moved back into the Marquis' Mansion, Madam Chen recalled the past and swore in her heart: "If I move into the Marquis' Mansion again and have to worry about it, I will no longer be named Chen!"

When Yang Wenyuan entered the room, he saw that Mrs. Chen had an unfriendly look on her face and immediately turned around and left.

But as soon as he took a step, he was stopped.

"Come here! I've seen you a long time ago, where are you running to?"

Madam Chen spat, "I've been busy all the time for your marriage and put on a smiling face, but you see me as if I were a plague god?"

"You are a heartless fool!"

"You're mistaken. How dare I do that?"

Yang Wenyuan quickly comforted him:

"Aunt, you have helped my cousin Wen Yan to rehearse this. When he gets married in the future, you will be able to do it easily with today's experience."

After hearing what Yang Wenyuan said, Mrs. Chen nodded slightly. She felt a little relieved, but then she changed her mind and thought, will the miserable days she has been experiencing in recent days happen again in the future?
As soon as I thought of this, the peace of mind I had just felt disappeared instantly.

I felt angry and bitter.

I was really captured by your Yang family and forced to do hard labor!

Knowing that Madam Chen had been very worried these days, Yang Wenyuan quickly smiled and said, "I wonder who did Auntie meet today to make you so angry?"

The more people there are, the greater the probability that someone will be confused.

During dinner these days, Yang Wenyuan had heard Mrs. Chen complain about several groups of people in succession.

"These people don't look like they are here to celebrate, instead they look like they are here to collect hay!"

Yang Wenyuan just thought that it was just another unrelated family who came to his house to establish connections and seek power.

Madam Chen said unhappily, "It must be related to you. Otherwise, I would be so upset when I saw you, the 'culprit', that I would not have come here to block you."

At this point, Mrs. Chen frowned:
"Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered that I sent someone to the Sheng family to look for you this afternoon, but I didn't see you at all. Could it be that you didn't go to study and went somewhere else to have fun?"

Yang Wenyuan was startled when he heard this and explained:
"That's absolutely not true. I went to the dock to pick up Gu Tingye this afternoon."

"Gu Tingye? Is the second son of the Gu family willing to return to Beijing?"

Mrs. Chen nodded slightly, looking a little strange.

She remembered that Gu Tingye had not returned to Bian Jing in previous years since he went to Bailu Academy.

Why are you suddenly returning to Beijing?
"Ok!"

Yang Wenyuan nodded affirmatively.

"Zhong Huai has finished his provincial examination. He left an attendant at Bai Lu Cave to check the results and then returned. I heard him say that if the provincial examination goes well, he will return to Bian Jing to study in the future. Chang Bai also invited him to go to Sheng Family Academy together."

"You're in such a hurry to come back, maybe it's because of your marriage?"

Mrs. Chen's beautiful eyes flashed with some relief: "It's worth it that you ignored your reputation and accompanied him in Bianjing for so long."

In the eyes of their elders, their own children are definitely the best.

Based on Yang Wenyuan's current performance, Mrs. Chen naturally blamed Gu Tingye for Yang Wenyuan's previous ignorance.

Gu Tingye: Hmm? Is that true? Why do people always put the blame on me?

Yang Wenyuan coughed lightly and his old face turned red.

Even though he always blamed Gu Tingye, he felt a little embarrassed now and asked:
"Aunt, why are you waiting for me here?"

Mrs. Chen's face suddenly straightened, and she frowned slightly and said:
"In the afternoon, your uncle and his family came, so I sent people to look for you, but they couldn't find you, so I asked them to stay in the Marquis' Mansion first and wait for you to come back."

Although she respected her sister-in-law, she was not very nice to Yang Wenyuan's maternal family, the Liu family.

It's not because Mrs. Chen has high standards and sees the Liu family as of low status, so she looks at them with tinted glasses.

In fact, in the eyes of Mrs. Chen, the Liu family is a hopeless case.

The Liu family is a small family, and they come from a family of farmers and scholars.

In the generation of Yang Wenyuan's grandfather, Yang Wenyuan's grandfather successfully made the leap to success and obtained the status of a fellow Jinshi, officially starting his official career.

At some point, Yang Wenyuan's father and mother fell in love with each other and married the daughter of the Liu family.

Therefore, the noble families in Bian Jing were not so surprised that Yang Wenyuan married the daughter of the Sheng family. After all, there was the "excellent" tradition of their predecessors.

It is a happy thing for any family when their children marry into a marquis's mansion, and this is naturally the case for the Liu family as well.

For a normal family, after several generations of hard work and frugality, if someone in their family marries into a marquis's mansion, this is naturally a good time to use connections and curry favor with the powerful.

This was the case with Yang Wenyuan’s grandfather.

Although he lacked ability, he relied on his connections with the Yang family and finally retired as a fifth-rank official.

But when it comes to Yang Wenyuan's uncle Liu Qing, the situation is completely different.

Not to mention that he has been stuck at the threshold of the imperial examination and has not been able to pass the imperial examination. Even at the age of nearly forty, he still looks unhurried.

Even when Yang Wenyuan's mother wrote to him, Liu Qing replied that one should not be impatient in the imperial examinations and that he would easily obtain the title of Jinshi one day.

Fortunately, in the end, Yang Wenyuan's grandfather came forward in person and came to the Yang family to save his face and let Liu Qing solve the official position problem.

Although Liu Qing never passed the imperial examination, he was still a juren and qualified to be a candidate for an official position.

However, our Great Zhou has its own national conditions.

In order to implement its national policy of "promoting culture and suppressing military power", the Great Zhou naturally needed a large number of literati.

Therefore, compared with the previous dynasty, the number of literati in the Great Zhou Dynasty increased greatly.

(End of this chapter)