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Chapter 3 Deceiving People Too Much

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This beautiful young woman who made Liu Jun a little afraid of this was Liu Jun's sister-in-law Mei, the eldest brother Liu Zhao's daughter-in-law, and the Mei family of Qiligang, Macheng. It was the Mei family, the leader of the four major families in Macheng. It was just a branch of his side. His father was also an old scholar. He went to school with Liu Jun's father Liu Xiu. After that, both of them had been taking the exam for many years and had a very good relationship with each other.

The Liu Mei family made a baby marriage many years ago, and then Liu Zhao officially married the Mei family six years ago, and gave birth to his son Liu Hong a year later.

From my memory, Liu Jun discovered that this sharp man, the young wife, was actually the same age as him. Liu Jun was twenty years old this year, and his sister-in-law was only three months older than him.

Sister-in-law Mei Lingran followed her with some reluctance and said in the back, "I think the second uncle is not young anymore, and now he is a dignified martial artist. It should be considering the major issues of personal marriage. Otherwise, how about it, my sister-in-law helps you do some planning?"

Liu Jun couldn't bear it. He was a bachelor Wang Laowu in his previous life. He had a lot of girlfriends, but he was most afraid of marriage. Now that he has just arrived in the Ming Dynasty, he is in a dark place and asked him to get married. It was too early, and he found that even a beautiful woman like his sister-in-law had a pair of small feet. If he introduced him to a scholar's daughter, how could he accept it?

And it doesn’t mean that women in the Qing Dynasty were the most conservative, why did the sister-in-law be so familiar with her?

"Second Uncle!" When the little nephew saw his uncle, he immediately ran over without caring about his entrustment.

Yi Feng caught Liu Hong and had no stranger to this nephew who was stuck to him and refused to go down. It seemed that the original Liu Jun had a good relationship with this nephew.

"Everything will be established, and if you don't feel hesitant, you will be abolished. If you say things before you are determined, you will not be careless, if you make decisions before you are determined, you will not be guilty, if you make decisions before you are determined, you will never be exhausted." Yi Feng hugged his nephew, and then said the passage that his nephew had not memorized just now, "You will study the Book of Rites so quickly. The doctrine of meanness will definitely be the top scholar in high school in the future. My uncle asked you, do you know what the passage I just recited just now mean?"

Liu Hong shook his head, "Uncle Second teaches me."

Liu Jun smiled with a slight smug smile and said, "Okay, Uncle Er tells you, these words mean that the word "he is to make progress" and that if you are prepared in advance, you will succeed; if you are prepared in advance, you will not be unable to stand up; if you are prepared in advance, you will not encounter difficulties and setbacks; if you are determined in advance, you will not have any mistakes or regrets; if you can make a decision in advance, you will not be able to work. Remember, these words are what Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty said in the Book of Rites. The Doctrine of the Mean."

Mei couldn't help but feel confused when she heard her brother-in-law's words from her son, and she was confused.

My brother-in-law didn't hate studying the most. He usually likes to play with a knife and stick and make friends everywhere. In the end, the father-in-law was unable to do so, so he gave up on the road of imperial examinations and entering the officialdom. He wanted him to go home and farm honestly, but this brother-in-law also had some skills. He had made more friends outside, but he finally entered the martial arts of Huangzhou Wei through his relationship with those friends and became a martial artist. He had to teach clothes and towels and enjoy the best and free service.

It seems that my brother-in-law has been outside for two years and has also learned some skills. He not only learned martial arts, archery and horses, but also learned a lot of Four Books and Five Classics.

As he was talking, he saw the maid Baoer jogging over again and said to Liu Jun from a distance: "Second Young Master, Grandma, Master fainted."

"What's going on?" Liu Jun asked.

"It's not that butcher Zhang bullied others with his power!" The little girl panted while leading Liu Jun and a few others into the house, explaining.

It turned out that the village where Liu Jun and his family lived was called Xiwan. Because it was not far from the county town, it also straddled the main traffic roads and the commercial roads, so a large market had long been formed, with thousands of households and many powerful households.

The Liu family can only be considered a middle-class family in the town, and the neighbors of the Liu family were originally pig slaughterers. They borrowed some relationships to monopolize the butcher meat transactions in the town and made a lot of money. They paid money to their eldest son and donated a prison student, so they became proud. But his second son was also very powerful. He first became a scholar and then passed the imperial examination. This made the butcher proud. Since then, he regarded himself as an old man. The Liu family lived next to him, so there have been many frictions.

Perhaps because he was just a pig butcher in his early years, he might have felt inferior and suppressed a lot of depression in the face of Mr. Liu, a scholar. Now he is in power and often deliberately makes trouble for the Liu family. Liu Jun's father, Liu Xiu, is an old scholar. He studied for his son all his life and took the imperial examinations all his life. He is not the kind of person who likes to argue with others, especially now that Mr. Zhang has a juren's son.

As a result, the Liu family gave in, but only made the butcher Zhang become more severe.

Especially in the past two years, Liu Jun, the second son of the Liu family, has been studying martial arts in the city, and his eldest son is as soft as Liu Xiu, which makes people bully him.

Now, because his second son came back, Dad Liu planned to slaughter a fat pig raised at home, but when he was doing it, he accidentally let the pig run away.

The pig ran to the opposite Zhang family, and then the butcher Zhang opened the door and drove the pig into his pen. The Liu family went to ask for it, but the Zhang family said that the pig belonged to their family. In the end, he said that it was okay to ask for the pig, so he bought it with silver, five taels of silver.

This is simply a robbery. Not to mention that the pig is originally owned by the Liu family, and even if you go to the market to buy a pig, it will not cost so much. A good pork weighs only two cents of silver for a pound, and a good pork weighs only two taels of silver for a 100 pounds.

Mr. Liu and Zhang's butcher-son argued according to the theory, but an old scholar had never mentioned a butcher. In the end, not only did he not ask for a pig, he also fainted at the door of the Zhang family in anger, and someone was carrying it back.

"This butcher Zhang is too bullying. How can he do this? Is there any justice in the king's law?"

As soon as Liu Jun entered the main hall, he heard a very terrifying voice. When he heard this voice, he knew that this must be his elder brother Liu Zhao. Just like the tone of this voice, his elder brother Liu Zhao was a somewhat weak and cowardly man. He studied with his father since he was a child, and then he had been reading for more than 20 years, and he is still a child.

The so-called Tongsheng is to take the imperial examination and pass the county and government examinations in a total of eight exams, but he failed the college examination and did not even achieve the fame of a scholar.

Therefore, Tong Sheng is actually a little bit higher than ordinary people, but in fact he doesn't even have any privileges. After passing the scholar, he can still be exempted from the servants of two tutors at home. He doesn't have to kneel down when he sees an official, but Tong Sheng doesn't have such treatment.

Liu Zhao couldn't succeed in writing, and he didn't want to be a martial artist. He kept reading and taking the exam, and he must keep reading and taking the exam.

Usually he turned a blind eye to the things outside the window, and only read the books of sages, and ignored the fire, rice, oil and salt. Dad Liu even took a restaurant and became a teacher to make some money, but Liu Zhao kept eating at home and was not making money.

Fortunately, he married a good wife. Although the Mei family was just a scholar's family, the Mei family was the leader of the four major families in Macheng. The family was relatively wealthy. When he got married, he brought a lot of dowry, including forty acres of land and a shop, which allowed him to be a hand-off manager over the years.

But the more this happens, he becomes more and more isolated from the world and devotes himself to studying. The result is that his communication skills are very weak. Just like now, he is bullied so much that he can only dare to complain in front of his family at home, and even stand at the door of the Zhang family to curse for a few words.

When Liu Jun saw that Boss Liu was like this, he could only shake his head helplessly. He was cowardly but had good luck. He married a good wife and gave birth to an obedient and good son.

"Wang Fa? Zhang Butcher's son-in-law is the county magistrate, and his eldest son has also donated to be a prison student. Now his second son has won a new election. Who can still suppress Zhang Butcher in Xiwan Town? Forget it, a pig is just a matter of only two taels of silver. Just think that he died of swine fever. A pig cannot be poor and cannot be sent to them."

Dad Liu was awake at this time, lying on the bamboo chair, looking listless, and his father finally had to knock his teeth into his stomach when facing bullies like the Zhang family. Well, he swallowed his anger and calmed down.

Liu Jun's mother was an old lady with no sense of existence. She sat aside and said nothing.

"If there was a juren in our family, how dare he, butcher Zhang, bullied us like this?" After sighing, Zhang's father began to take the opportunity to inspire his descendants. Unfortunately, he glanced at the men in the room, but couldn't help but be disappointed. He gave birth to three sons. Although the eldest son studied hard, he was not the material at all. After studying for many years, he was just a child student, and he was not even as good as him. At least he was a scholar.

Not to mention the second brother, he was a dishonest person since he was a child and refused to study at all. He wanted him to farm at home, but he was uneasy and went out to make friends with those friends, but this kid was also a smart guy. He actually made him into martial arts and became a martial artist. He said that he was also a martial scholar. If he passed the martial arts examination in the future, he could also be a military officer. Although martial arts is not as good as literary, he really wanted to become an official, both military officers and civil officials would be the same as the Liu family.

However, if the Liu family really wants to become an official, they have to rely on the third brother who is not at home. The third brother Liu Jian is only thirteen this year, but he has passed the exam for Tongsheng. Although he failed to become a scholar for the first time, he is still young and has always had a chance with his talent. Now the third brother is studying in the county academy and is one of the most promising scholars in the Liu family. Liu’s father’s hope for the third brother is to become a scholar, and he dare not expect too much as a Jinshi.

Liu Zhao lowered his head in shame. He knew his family's affairs. The more exams he took, the less confident he had passed the exam.

At this time, my sister-in-law Mei said to her son Liu Hong, "Did you hear what your grandfather said? Study hard. If you get a Jinshi exam in the future, you will no longer have to worry about others bullying us."
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