GBP Chapter 192 Giving Gifts
Chapter 192 Giving Gifts
Xu Shu had no objection to this.
After the gambling house incident, in recognition of Li Ziguang's outstanding contributions, Xu Shu gave him an extra mahjong hall.
Li Ziguang gave the mahjong parlor to Li Zile without saying a word, saying that it was for his younger brother's dowry. He then spent every day at Wu Yong's house learning how to play mahjong from the craftsmen.
Li Ziguang would not interfere and cause trouble, so Wu Yong was of course happy to see it happen.
But in this case, only the lonely old man Li would be left in Shiqiao Village. After all, he was his father-in-law, and it would be unacceptable for him to just abandon his business like that.
So Wu Yong's coming to Shiqiao Village to buy land was not a whim.
Xu Shu tried to help if he could, and just said, "If I'm free this afternoon, I'll ask the village chief for you."
Speaking of which, the current village chief is no longer the original Shen Guang.
Since Shen Lin'er's death, Shen Guang was very depressed for a while and suffered a serious illness during that time. Although Qi Huairen brought him back to health, he did not have enough energy to be the village chief anymore.
After Shen Guang stepped down, the position of village chief naturally fell to Shen Ze, the eldest son of the Shen family.
Just as the emperor's son will definitely become an emperor in the future, the village chief's son will naturally become a village chief in the future. For ordinary people, this is a very common thing.
Shen Ze is young and capable. Although he doesn't talk much, he is also a smart man. Xu Shu has no objection to this.
But after Qiao Jianhong learned about this, he sighed and shook his head for the whole afternoon.
He had originally planned to rebel with Qin Lianxi, so naturally he was not happy to hear words like "The emperor's son must be the emperor in the future." But now he has already become an outsider in the village, so who would care about what he says?
Of course, he himself didn't care whether anyone would care about what he said, he just said it for Mu Jinghua to hear.
Xu Shu didn't know what Mu Jinghua thought about this, but he still asked a question before going to bed at night.
Mu Jinghua said, "The emperor's son will definitely be the emperor in the future, so will your son become the top scholar in the future?"
Xu Shu couldn't help laughing. About a year ago, Xiao Ran sent the royalties for "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" as usual, and also brought Xu Shu a government announcement, which talked about the establishment of a military imperial examination.
Since then, Xu Shu has been preparing for this matter, and the first step is to get a fake identity certificate.
After coming to this world for such a long time, Xu Shu has always been an illegal resident, or rather, he actually did not know that native place was necessary in ancient times, and he just treated it as a verbal statement. In fact, in most cases, it was indeed just verbal statement.
However, even though the Jing Dynasty had long since ceased to exist in name only, proof of identity was still required to participate in the military examination.
This matter is actually simple. After all, he is guarding the county magistrate, so why can't he get his identity certificate?
The next step is to prepare for the various events of the martial arts examination, which mainly include long-distance shooting (archery technique), horse spear (the ability to use weapons in combat on horseback), walking shooting, flat shooting, and weightlifting.
In addition, there is a literary examination. After all, the Jing Dynasty has long emphasized civil service over military affairs, so naturally, those civil servants would not be willing to accept this.
Although it was a written test, it did not test the Four Books and Five Classics. Instead, the tests were mostly about military books. After all, although the gunpowder technology of this era was not particularly advanced, it was widely used in wars. It was not entirely an era of cold weapons, so naturally one had to understand military strategies.
This is Xu Shu's biggest headache. Even though he has such a wide range of knowledge, he still doesn't read many ancient military books.
That afternoon, he took Mu Jinghua to a bookstore and bought all the military books on the market.
But this is still far from enough. After all, there are wars going on all the time, and things like military books are, to some extent, state secrets. Things that are truly valuable cannot be circulated casually on the market.
When Xiao Ran learned about this, he wrote a letter to his elder brother at the border.
But before the news could be passed back, Qiao Jianhong learned the news first.
The fact that this guy grew up to be such a troublemaker must have something to do with his innate temperament.
Qiao Jianhong, the General Qiao who was once admired by everyone, was reduced to an outsider who married a widower and was looked down upon by everyone. However, he was able to find joy in the midst of hardship and was not affected by the outside world at all.
When he heard Xu Shu was worried about not being able to find a military book, he smiled and said to Mu Jinghua: "If Xiao Dalang really had something good, he wouldn't have been guarding the border and eating dirt every day in the past few years."
Mu Jinghua glared at him, but he didn't care: "No matter how ignorant you are of worldly affairs, you should know the name of Qiao Jianhong."
Mu Jinghua snorted, annoyed by Qiao Jianhong's attitude of not caring about anything: "I don't know Qiao Jianhong, but there is someone called Qiao Da right in front of me."
The name Qiao Da was a name that Qiao Jianhong made up to tell outsiders on the day he was forced to marry a widower. Of course, this was also because most people in Shiqiao Village did not believe that he was Qiao Jianhong, so he had no choice but to do so.
"It's not Qiao Da." Qiao Jianhong shook his head, "It should be General Qiao."
Mu Jinghua wanted to roll his eyes, but he was also a little tempted: "Since you are General Qiao, don't you have a lot of military books?"
"That's true." Qiao Jianhong said with a smile, "I have a large house with five entrances and five exits in the capital, and half of the house is filled with military books."
When Mu Jinghua heard about the capital, he was a little disgusted: "It's so far from the capital, so what if there are more?"
Qiao Jianhong started talking to him about something else: "Do you still remember the capital? When your father was pregnant with you, I would always climb over the wall to see you."
"At that time, if I called out Jinghua, Jinghua, Danchen would say you were kicking him in the stomach."
"Who is Dan Chen?"
"It's your father, but he probably didn't tell you his name. After the accident, no one could find him. He hid here under an assumed name and died quietly alone..."
"What's your father's name?"
Mu Jinghua didn't tell him and turned around to run to find Xu Shu.
"Robber Qiao Jianhong's house?" Xu Shu couldn't help laughing when he heard his plan. "You even went all the way to the capital to rob? Little Mu Jin, you don't have to do that."
"What about the book?" Mu Jinghua asked him with a frown.
"As for the military books, it's not impossible to find a substitute. Don't worry about this matter. I have already made a plan."
Xu Shu's plan is to read history books, which are living, realistic teaching materials and are more realistic than armchair military books.
In this way, he lived a leisurely life of reading, practicing martial arts, and visiting his wife. He even didn't go back to Muyi Tower once a month.
Of course, since Mu Jinghua's voice recovered, Xu Shu didn't plan to visit Mu Yi Building. After all, it was Xiao Mu Jin's building, so he could do whatever he wanted.
He will focus more on the construction and development of Shiqiao Village and Xu Shi's work.
After about a year of hard work, Xu Shi really made a very light iron pot, but it looked too ugly and Xu Shu couldn't stand it.
At that time, Xu Shi was very confused: "Sir, it's just a pot, why do you want it to be beautiful?"
Xu Shu glanced at him and explained, "Because this is for Xiao Mujin. Xiao Mujin is pretty, so the gift for him must be pretty too."
Xu Shi was even more puzzled: "How beautiful can a pot be? If you ask me, the longbow you gave to the young master at his birthday party last year is the most beautiful."
Xu Shu's face turned cold: "That bow was not given by me, but by that bastard Qiao Da."
"Qiao Da." Xu Shi sighed a little, "I have to say, he is a really weird person."
"Of course." Xu Shu thought, how could anyone give such a gift to Xiao Mujin at her birthday party.
How could it be better than the Simmons mattress he gave me?
Why doesn’t Mu Jinghua let it go every day?
What’s the point of fighting and killing?