"Ha, this guy has some skills!"

Mr. Cai was looking at the Dream of Red Mansions with relish, and seeing the wonderful things, he couldn't help but praise.

Shi Jin tasted: "What's the excellence of a mere broken book? I also read it. It was full of the homely confusion in the house and it was so boring."

"Hey, even if this child is your enemy, as long as he has the ability, he must give him full respect. If you don't respect him, it is equivalent to despising yourself. Do you understand this principle?"

Mr. Cai glanced at him with a squinted eye.

"Disciple... understand!"

Shi Jin responded reluctantly.

Mr. Cai said leisurely: "This book looks like trivial things in the boudoir at first glance, but this child's experience is clear at a glance, but it can write the wonderful and vivid things of his daughter's family affairs. It's like you have experienced it personally. Don't you find it strange? If it was really his imagination, then this child's talent is far more talented than you. I ask you, let me write a Dream of the Red Chamber, which you might write?"

Shi Jin didn't say anything, but that expression had betrayed his inner helplessness.

Mr. Cai said again: "The four major families in Jinling are also very interesting. They are as peaceful as they are, and they are extremely luxurious. If I expected it, this book uses the boudoir affairs to tell the rise and fall of the four major families. Unfortunately, only the first volume is. I don't know when the second volume will be released. It's really awesome."

Lin Mei said from the side: "No matter how good you write, it is a trivial path. What else can you do besides making some money? After two years of enrollment, you will be able to pass the imperial examination. With Duke Zhou, you will definitely become a great gift. If that kid offended Duke Zhou, how can he have good results? I wonder how Duke Zhou plans to deal with him?"

When Shi came in, he laughed loudly: "The Duke of the Kingdom has already explored the Queen Mother's words. The Queen Mother means to be experienced and experienced, so the Duke of the Kingdom intends to arrange him to the Censorate after the New Year."

"oh?"

Lin Mei's eyes lit up: "The Censorate is not a good way. I heard that Lai Junchen, Zhou Xing, Wan Guojun and others are even more tigers and wolves. If that kid goes to the Censorate, he will be skinned even if he doesn't die!"

"This son is arrogant because of his talent, how can he not fail?"

Mr. Cai smiled slightly.

On the market, Dream of Red Mansions was selling crazy. The 100,000 copies of goods under Zhang Jianshu took advantage of Xiao Ye's top prize and the merchants raised the price of one tael of silver on their own, but they were still rushing to buy them. In less than five days, they were sold out.

Xiao Ye knew that no matter how well he wrote, it could not replace life. Readers' expectations were limited. If the follow-up content was not released, he would abandon the book, so he released the middle volume in three days!

Interim book!

Mr. Cai stared at the word "The second book" and murmured: "It seems that I overestimated the lower limit of this boy!"

"Classic?"

The Empress Dowager was furious when she saw the two words in the middle volume!

For a moment, she wanted to capture Xiao Ye and forced him to reveal the second volume!

Shangguan Wan'er shook her head helplessly.

Jiangnan Guild Hall!

Su Yue'er smiled and said, "Xiao Lang, you are scolding you all over the streets now. According to my opinion, why not release the second volume together?"

"Don't let it go!"

Xiao Ye waved his hand: "Let them scold them, the more they curse, the more they look forward to the second volume, have you never tried Soli who eats cold melons around a charcoal pot in winter? Readers scold you because they cannot be satisfied with their desires, and their hearts are like cats scratching. Haha, I still think there are fewer 100,000 copies of the seals."

"Puchi!"

Su Yue'er pursed her lips and burst into laughter.

Jiangdu!

"Mom, sister-in-law, brother is back with a letter!"

Qiao Niang came back happily with a letter.

"oh?"

Du's whole body froze and looked at Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu is the wife of the family, so Xiao Ye’s letter will naturally be dismantled by Zhang Yu.

Since Xiao Ye went to take the exam, only three women were left in the family, but now the Xiao family is no longer the same as before. It is a family of resignation from the prime minister. Du also has an imperial decree, so no one dares to make an idea. This is also the fundamental reason why Xiao Ye left with confidence.

"Display it apart and see what brother wrote."

Qiao Niang couldn't wait to say.

"Um!"

Zhang Yu took the letter and saw the envelope read: Madam, aunt and Qiao Mother opened.

"Hmph, it's very slippery!"

Zhang Yu chewed the smile in her mouth, tore off the fire paint, took out the letter and looked at Qiao Niang.

"Mom, brother has passed the top scorer in the exam!"

Qiao Niang said in surprise.

Du also looked happy and asked, "Tomorrow is the New Year's Day, your brother will definitely not be able to come back. Did he say in the letter when will we take us to Luoyang?"

In the Tang Dynasty, the importance of the New Year was not as important as the Shangyuan Festival, that is, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It was not a festival that was highly valued by eating dumplings, but was a festival that both Buddhists and Taoism attached great importance to. Especially since the reign of Emperor Wu of the State, monks have been prosperous. Every time on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, they have to burn lanterns to offer Buddha, and thousands of people have been left in the streets.

The New Year's Day is connected to New Year's Eve, and the New Year's Day is eliminated and the New Year's Day is welcomed. There is no saying that the whole family will be reunited. Qiao Niang shook her head indifferently: "Brother, don't let us go to Luoyang, so we can stay in Jiangdu."

"Why? Is Luoyang unstable?"

Du's understanding.

Qiao Niang knew it was related to her Feng Ge. After all, the imperial capital was crouching tiger and hidden dragon. If it was discovered, the consequences were unpredictable, but it was not convenient to say it.

Zhang Yu was also worried. As a husband and wife, Xiao Ye could naturally understand the meaning revealed between the lines. That is, Luoyang is not a good place, but she would not mention this meaning to Du, so she smiled and said, "Your husband has won the top scorer. I am afraid he will be awarded an official position after the New Year. Let's wait until your husband settles down. Tomorrow, the grand ceremony will be the top scorer. We must not go too late."

"oh!"

Du nodded.

She was no longer afraid of the clan, and no one dared to force the aunt of the top scholar and a wife of the imperial decree again.

...

Today, Xiaojiazhuang is no longer located in the deserted beach by the river, but occupying hundreds of hectares of fertile land by the original Shijia. The clan itself has a small population and is less than a thousand people. The land is distributed very abundantly. The clan originally planned to give Xiao Ye a thousand acres of land. The contribution Xiao Ye made to the clan was not excessive, but what puzzled everyone was that Xiao Ye only asked the clan for the wasteland by the river.

Even if the wasteland has been cultivated for 30 years, the yield of wasteland is extremely low due to soil erosion and flood disasters. This is a manifestation of high moral character in others' eyes.

Xiao Song failed to persuade him, so he simply divided all the thousands of acres of river and beach wasteland under Xiao Ye's name.

Just the next day, when Xiaojiazhuang held a ceremony for ancestor worship, Xiao Ye and others were extremely busy in Luoyang. From time to time, there would be Jinshi of the same subject to visit. After all, the relationship between the same year in the officialdom is also a very important relationship. It is necessary to communicate with each other in advance and make personal favors.

There were also many people who came to propose marriage, and there were even a few, implicitly suggesting that Xiao Ye divorced his wife and married a big family woman.

Jiang Fang and Lu Wen both agreed with Xiao Ye's advice, so everyone who came to propose marriage did useless work. In fact, Lu Wen's father did not agree with Lu Wen's marriage to a large Luoyang clan woman. Marriage did not need to be an urgent need for such a large family who had been passed down for hundreds of years.

The Lu family is like a huge classic car, which is slow to move but stable. Since the Six Dynasties, the political situation has been turbulent. Although the Wang Xie, Huan and Yu families have been in power for a period of time, they have now become dry bones in the tomb. The Lu family does not have too strong utilitarianism. The positions held by their ancestors are mostly based on noble and idle positions, and they pass on their poetry and books to see the changes in the world.

Five days before the Spring Festival, Xiao Ye finally released the second volume of Dream of Red Mansions. Regardless of Jiangdong's income, he issued 300,000 copies in Luoyang, totaling 900,000 taels of silver, and 30% of the royalties were 270,000 taels. This was a full moment.

Unconsciously, after the Shangyuan Festival, the huge machine of the court started to move again, three, one, three, three, two, and seventy, three, all gathered together in the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Personnel will be awarded the official position.

Before the Jinshi was appointed as an official in the Ming Dynasty, there was actually an internship period, but the Tang Dynasty did not care about it, and the students were directly assigned to the exam. If they were good at doing it, they would stay in office, and if they could not do it, they would not be able to get out of the way. At first glance, it was very inhumane. The key was that the Tang Dynasty had the honor to say that if you could not do it, the sons of the powerful and powerful families were looking at it.

The gate of the Ministry of Personnel has not yet been opened, and many people are worried about gains and losses.
Chapter completed!