20. Chapter 20(2/3)
Xing'er was a little angry when she heard this: "I originally bought one piece for each person, but they just took two pieces, so why didn't they leave a piece for the young master!"
"Forget it, it's a piece of ink." Yuan Jin was holding an extremely precious military book in his hand. The title of this book is "Qi Bin's Detailed Art of War", which was a book that the Empress Dowager told her when she was in the palace. The owner of this book was originally a genius of marching and fighting, and had made great contributions to the war of the ancestors. The military book he wrote was also very exquisite, collecting the strengths of the military strategy of the predecessors, and also a set of ways to deal with Tatars and other foreign races he had summarized himself.
Unfortunately, this man was demoted to Guizhou for offending the Emperor and died in office. His book was also listed as □□. It is said that he had conspiracy and rebellious remarks and was not allowed to trade promotion.
Just this one was bought secretly from a friend of Mr. Xu after spending five taels of silver. Mr. Xu also told her that there was no second one.
If the prince is selected within one month, then the Duke of Dingguo will definitely examine their military strategy. Although Wen Yu is talented, he is not as long as Xue Yunhai and Wei Heng's time to go to school, so he needs to win by surprise. If Wen Yu can learn this book, he will definitely make progress in military strategy.
But this book is old and has some damage to the corners and she is trimming it.
The fourth lady said it would be fine if she didn't want it, and Tong'er naturally took the order and retreated. But at this time Xue Jinyu walked in from outside, speaking with anger: "Xue Yuanjin, why did you beat my servant for nothing? He has provoked you!"
Yuan Jin looked up at him, lowered his head and said, "You are not big or small, are you calling your sister to make things difficult for you?"
Xue Jinyu didn't listen at all, walked to her, took away the book from her hand and threw it on the table: "Let me make it clear!"
Xue Yuanjin had tolerated him, but he didn't expect him to be so excessive. She sneered: "You little servant is worried about the unpleasant things about Wen Yu. Do you think I don't know? You came to me to make trouble. I just beat him today. Even if I beat him to death tomorrow, I will throw him out of the mansion. No one will say anything! Do you believe it?"
Xue Jinyu bit her lip. Since Xue Wenyu was selected and Xue Yuntao was eliminated, the family has changed a little. It turned out that everyone was pampering him, but now they are all around Xue Wenyu.
Even the servants in the mansion thought that Xue Wenyu might become the prince in the future and went to please him.
But he is obviously the legitimate son of the fourth family. Why is Xue Wenyu, a concubine son, more valued than him!
He was still angry, but Yuan Jin wanted to continue to revise the books, so he didn't want to pay attention to him at all. He even asked Xing'er to send him out and not come in to make trouble.
Xue Jinyu was wandering outside in the sun. He wanted to talk about this to Cui, but Cui was staring at them in the kitchen to cook Xue Wenyu's lunch. Since the incident of the poisonous snake, Yuan Jin had already advised Cui to keep watching the food sent to Wenyu until Wenyu entered, so as not to be tampered with others again. He didn't even go to Cui's place.
Qingrui was accompanying Xue Yuanzhen to enjoy the cool air in the yard, but saw a figure walking around in the distance.
She gently tapped Yuanzhen: "Madam, look, isn't that our Young Master Jinyu?"
Yuanzhen raised the round fan to block some light, looked in the direction Qingrui pointed, and it turned out to be Xue Jinyu. "It's a hot day, what is he walking outside?" Xue Yuanzhen was a little curious and said, "Go and call him over and ask."
Qingrui walked over, said a few words to Xue Jinyu, and brought Xue Jinyu over.
Xue Jinyu pursed her lips, looking depressed.
"What's wrong with Jinyu? She looks unhappy." Xue Yuanzhen said with a smile, "Qingrui, give Jinyu my ice bowl."
In summer, people like to eat ice bowls, or cook red beans into a paste, mix honey and pour them on crushed ice, or hawthorn and sugar juice on ice, a small bowl. It is sweet and cool.
After eating an ice bowl, Xue Jinyu felt a little better and said to Xue Yuanzhen: "Thank you, Sister Yuanzhen's ice bowl, it's nothing. Even if everyone in the family only surrounds Wen Yu, I don't feel happy."
When Yuanzhen heard this, she felt aroused in her heart and said with a smile: "I really sympathize with you when it comes to this matter."
"Why?" Jinyu asked.
Yuanzhen continued, "You are the legitimate son of the fourth wife, and you are not unable to choose this prince. Why is your sister only helping your stupid brother to choose, but not you?"
When Xue Jinyu heard this, she clenched her fists silently.
In fact, he always had this question in his heart. But in the past, he always felt that this fool could not be chosen. But now even Xue Yuntao has been eliminated, but this fool is still there. He only realized that it was not impossible.
Yuanzhen knew at a glance that he was dissatisfied, and sighed again, "You are still her brother, but she doesn't even help you, your brother. After all, are you not as good as a fool?"
Xue Jinyu's heart was shocked and her face turned red. She didn't know how to defend herself.
But Xue Yuanzhen stopped talking and got up and prepared to go back for lunch. Before leaving, she told Jinyu: "Fifth brother, you must think about it well!"
Xue Jinyu returned to the fourth room in a daze. The more he thought about it, the more angry he felt. Especially when he found that today's food was not what he liked, he was so angry that he fell into a job. His servant was startled and asked him what was wrong. Xue Jinyu did not answer, but ran to Yuan Jin's yard.
He wanted to go to her to ask why he was not as good as a fool!
When he arrived at Yuan Jin, there was no one around the room, and there was only one Zaoer staying there, and he asked him, "Young Master, what are you looking for?"
Xue Jinyu rushed straight into the study. She was really not here, but she probably had just gone out. The scissors and chips she used to repair books were placed on the table. Jinyu was full of anger and had nowhere to vent her anger, so she turned the desk into a mess and even opened the drawer. Although he suddenly saw that the book she had just repaired was placed in the drawer.
Xue Jinyu suddenly had an idea in her mind.
She treated him like this just now and beat his servant, so he couldn't just let it go!
Xue Jinyu knew that her book was collected for Xue Wenyu, otherwise why would she be so careful in repairing it? And it must be very important. Otherwise, she would not be so angry when he grabbed the book just now. He took the book and thought of destruction in his heart. He took the book in his arms and took it out. Zaoer followed him and scolded him back.
When he walked to the pond, Xue Jinyu threw the book into the pond.
He felt better after venting this way and was about to go back and take a nap.
When Yuan Jin came back from Wen Yu, she found that the book was missing. She searched the study room but couldn't find it. Just when she was asking the girl to search the room, Zaoer came back.
Yuan Jin asked Zaoer and found out that Xue Jinyu had come again at noon.
She immediately looked bad and asked someone to bring Xue Jinyu over for a question.
When Xue Jinyu came, she looked reluctant and asked her: "What do you want?"
Yuan Jin's face was calm at this time. She asked Jinyu: "You have just been here. Have you taken away the book I put on the desk?"
"Who wants to take your broken book!" Xue Jinyu turned her head to the side and refused to admit it at all.
Yuan Jin walked to Xue Jinyu a few steps and said, "You took it, you took it. Now hand over the book, I will blame you for a few words at most. If you have done anything else, don't blame me."
Xue Jinyu couldn't help but feel a little scared when she heard her sister's tone, but she was still stubborn: "I just haven't taken it, and you haven't taken it any longer!"
Yuan Jin must have taken it, grabbed his hand, and said coldly: "I'll ask you the last time. If you don't tell the truth, I will beat your servant to death and throw it out!"
Xue Jinyu's face was unsteady, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and she shouted: "What's wrong with me just taking it!"
"Where is now?" Yuan Jin asked him. What she was afraid of was not that he took the book away, but that he destroyed it, so where did she find a second book?
"I have thrown it into the pond." Xue Jinyu said, "If you want it, go and catch it yourself!"
Yuan Jin was so angry that his hands were trembling when he heard this. This younger brother was always arrogant and domineering. She thought that he was young and had never been careless, but now she did such a thing for a few quarrels. She searched for this book for a long time but finally found it through Mr. Xu. She repaired it for several days, and copied some of the damaged parts again with paper. He said he threw it away and threw it away. Even if it was fished out, it could not be taken.
For the first time, Yuan Jin was so angry at this younger brother that he scolded him.
Xue Jinyu is still young after all, and her eyes are so scared that she is red.
This naturally attracted Cui. Seeing his son like this, he immediately hugged him in his arms and asked Yuan Jin: "What's wrong with you? Look, it scared your brother!"
"You ask him yourself!" Yuan Jin no longer wanted to mention it.
Xue Jinyu cried while telling the process, and then said, "...She helped the fool, but didn't help me. I was obviously her brother, so why did she think of that concubine's son if she had good things? I was not convinced! It was just a book, why did she scold me like this!"
Yuan Jin sneered when he heard this, helping the fool but not him. This brother is so interesting!
"Who told you this?" Yuan Jin asked in a deep voice.
Xue Jinyu is still young and can't think of such a thing. Someone must have instigated him behind his back.
Xue Jinyu said, "I met Sister Yuanzhen, so she said that. Sister Yuanzhen felt sorry for me. She said that even a fool can be selected, why can't I?"
Yuan Jin sneered again. Her good brother was almost as good as a father.
"Xue Yuanzhen is for your own good. Do you really think it is easy to choose a prince?" Yuan Jin said, "Do you know how Yunxi was defeated?"
Xue Jinyu hesitated for a moment and said stubbornly: "What does he have to do with me!"
Yuan Jin continued, "He was tripped by Xue Yuntao's servant and cried endlessly. The old lady didn't think about him. Do you know, why did your brother be plotted against them? Xue Yuntao saw that your brother was appreciated by Duke Ding and put a poisonous snake in his food box. If your brother hadn't been smart and smart, he would have been bitten to death by the poisonous snake!"
Xue Jinyu's face turned pale.
He heard the servants mention the poisonous snake.
"Do you think Wen Yu is very easy to be selected now?" Yuan Jin continued to ask him, "Every morning Yin just got up to study, and he had to go to the Duke's Mansion to learn horse riding and archery in the afternoon. In the evening, there was a gentleman who continued to teach him. Because he had not read a few years, he was no better than the others. Fortunately, he was smart enough and could remember it after reading the books, but even so, he could only sleep for four hours a day. When he was studying, you might not have gotten up yet. Do you want to fight?"
Xue Jinyu could no longer speak. He looked at Cui like he asked for help, but found that his mother didn't help him.
Cui didn't know before, but after Yuan Jin's help these days, how could she not know that this prince's choice is really not something that everyone can do. If Xue Jinyu had been sent over, she might have been defeated by the old lady before she was selected. Even if she was lucky enough to be selected, she might face dangers from all sides. Fortunately, Yuan Jin and Wen Yu were borne by this matter. If it were Xue Jinyu, he would not be able to bear it at all.
So even though she had such thoughts at the beginning, after seeing Xue Wenyu's daily life and terrifying talent, she completely gave up on this idea.
Yuan Jin pressed step by step and said, "Now that someone else helps you work hard, if Wen Yu becomes the prince, he will naturally not ignore you. You just need to sit and enjoy the fruits. What qualifications do you have to complain? What qualifications do you have to say he is a fool?"
"I..." Xue Jinyu couldn't say a word.
"I have never expected you to help, I just hope you don't make trouble. But what about you, you believe Xue Yuanzhen's provocation, but you want to destroy it? If she really does it for your own good, she should tell her brother to give you the position of prince. Will she? What she said to you is just hoping to get rid of us, but you are so stupid that you are used as a knife! You clearly saw me there to study, and you knew that this thing was very important, but she still deliberately destroyed it!"
"You were so bad before. I never thought of blaming you. I thought you were still young and ignorant after all. Now you really did such a stupid thing, which is really disappointing!"
After the last sentence, Xue Jinyu was already leaning against the wall, tears accumulated in her eyes and refused to fall.
He also regretted Yuan Jin's words, but he didn't want to say it. He could only stare at Yuan Jin.
He knew that his sister had never really been concerned about him before. But today, she was really angry.
Yuan Jin took a deep breath. She was really angry, so she couldn't help but scold him so much.
Seeing the two siblings stalemates, Cui walked up and said, "Jinyu, why haven't you apologized to your sister? Do you know how many days she has been studying that book?"
Xue Jinyu pursed her lips and said without saying anything. Yuan Jin shook her head and said, "Forget it, you take him out. I really don't want to see him now."
Now that the situation is getting more and more tense, each room is eager to put out its best energy to deal with it. The big room hired another staff member to teach Yun Hai the art of military strategy at an extremely high price. How could any famous staff member be willing to come? It's okay, and it costs 40 taels of silver a month. I guess the Wei family is not idle either. But the military books she wanted to find for Wen Yu were gone. What should she do?
Yuan Jin was also a little tired for a moment.
She asked Cui and Xue Jinyu to leave first, and she thought about it for a long time. She sent someone to ask Mr. Xu, and Mr. Xu was really helpless this time. This book was really what he had done his best to find, and there was nothing else. Of course, the book that was taken out of the water was completely blurred and it was really impossible to use. Wen Yu comforted Yuan Jin a few words, telling her not to worry about this.
Yuan Jin wanted to ask Mr. Chen, but after he went there twice, he was not in the temple and didn't know where he went.
A few days later, news came that His Highness Jing defeated the Aoerdusi and returned from victory. The entire Shanxi province was very happy, and the emperor specially gave 5,000 taels of gold to commend King Jing for his victory. After all, the Aoerdusi was a major disaster in Shanxi. Now it has been removed, which is a great blessing for the people.
So on the second day of July, when this year's Jin Temple Fair began, it was held in an extremely grand manner.
To be continued...