Chapter 452: A Bolt From the Blue
Tie Niu came back after an hour, with a happy face, and ran to Gu Fei, "Cousin, Mr. Su passed the exam, I saw his name was the first, just like what was written on your note."
"I asked others, and they told me that the first place winner is Su Chen."
Gu Fei chanted a Buddhist prayer, "Fortunately, fortunately, Mr. Su is probably still on the way, and I don't know anything about the first place winner."
Just as he was sighing, he saw the scholar who staggered after the exam that day also came back, with a happy face, sitting in the hall, constantly stretching his neck to look out.
Gu Fei's heart moved, this young man might have passed the exam too.
Just as he was thinking, a bunch of people came to the store with gongs and drums. Several reporters stopped their horses at the door of the store and shouted, "Mr. Xu Wenqing from Yunzhou Prefecture is here. Congratulations on your success."
Gu Fei saw that the scholar was full of joy, "Thank you, thank you everyone."
All the reporters rushed into the store, shouting congratulations.
Gu Fei hurriedly asked the waiters in the store to serve tea.
Some of these people went to the hall to hang posters, and some surrounded Xu Wenqing to ask for wedding money.
Xu Wenqing was originally poor, otherwise he would not have even had a book boy. Now the little money he had collected has almost been spent, how can he take out silver.
He was surrounded by people asking for wedding money, thinking that he only had a few big coins in his pocket, and his face became embarrassed for a while.
Gu Fei saw it from the counter and quickly took out a few large handfuls of copper coins. He didn't count them, but estimated that there were several thousand coins. He put them in a basket and asked Lian'er to take it out.
These people hung up the posters, took the wedding money and left happily.
Xu Wenqing came over and thanked Gu Fei profusely, "Thank you very much, Manager Gu, I will repay you in the future."
Gu Fei smiled, "Master Xu, don't worry about these small amounts of money. Master Xu lives in my store, and our store is also blessed by your happiness."
Xu Wenqing blushed and thanked Gu Fei again and again.
In the afternoon, Gu Fei suddenly saw her mule cart parked at the door. As she was looking around, she saw the family servant Liu Zhu get off the cart and run in. He whispered to Gu Fei, "Miss, go home quickly. Madam just received news from the army that the third young master died for the country and sent ten taels of silver as compensation."
Gu Fei was almost scared to death when she heard it, "What happened?"
Liu Zhu said bitterly, "I don't know what happened, but a yamen runner sent a letter and silver to my home and left."
Gu Fei almost lost her balance for a while and swayed twice. She told Yan'er and Lian'er to look after the store, and she hurriedly got on Liu Zhu's cart and went home.
As soon as the car entered the front yard, she heard crying in the back yard.
Gu Fei walked in and saw the old lady sitting in the hall, with the eldest aunt supporting her, and both of them cried non-stop.
Erlang squatted there, silently wiping tears.
Without seeing Chen, Lanzhi came out of the room with red eyes, and pulled Gu Fei and said, "Mom cried so hard before that she fainted, so I helped her to lie on the bed."
Gu Fei walked into the upper room and saw Chen's eyes open, with tears streaming down her cheeks.
Li Chunhua sat beside her, wiping Chen's tears while crying non-stop.
When Chen saw Gu Fei, she wailed, "Xiao Fei, what can I do? Your third brother is gone just like that--"
"My third son--"
Gu Fei couldn't stop crying, and walked to the bedside to hug her mother, crying non-stop.
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