Ten years of hard study is for today, when he was twelve years old, Li Xie had already been admitted to Xiucai, and now three years have passed, Li Xie is for this year's round of county exams.

As long as he passes this year's county exam, he will be one step closer to the day of marrying Wang Xin'er. In order to prepare for this county exam, he has been preparing for three years, and he has been studying hard for three years to sharpen his sword, and he must firmly seize this opportunity. After being admitted to Xiucai, the Wang family's attitude towards themselves was much better, and a small room was specially prepared for him, so that he could study hard, and even work a lot less every day.

Although he knew that most of this was the result of Wang Xin'er's secret efforts, he was a person who knew how to repay his kindness, and he had already sworn in his heart that he would repay the Wang family in a thousand ways when he came out.

But from my own modern point of view, this Li Xie is really pedantic, the family doesn't agree, it's a big deal to elope, anyway, the ancient government in the TV series all eat white rice, and if you run away, it is estimated that people will not chase after you. If you don't succeed in eloping, you will be drugged, and if you are caught, you will go to jail if it is a big deal, and you don't even dare to say that you love her on any basis when you are in prison.

After reading the book for so many years, after being admitted to Xiucai, I feel that Li Xie's whole person has a new look, and he is no longer the sloppy little boy he used to be. Wearing a long gown, a bun was made on his head, and the headband was flowing in the wind, giving people a feeling of elegance and literature. Coupled with that face that resembles me for seven or eight points, what a quiet beautiful man! That's just what I think, but overall I'm still a pretty scholar.

I continued to watch the plot unfold and found that more and more of the later parts were fast-forwarded to the movie, but I always understood the content of this part very clearly, as if these were all I should know.

In order to catch the exam, Li Xie prepared his luggage nearly half a month in advance, and said hello to the master of the Wang family but did not go to see Wang Xin'er, perhaps because he was afraid of the sadness when he parted, he left a letter. Between the lines are full of reluctance and firm assurances to Wang Xin'er.

Even I didn't expect that Li Xie's departure would be a long-term separation between the two.

Rushed to the state capital on foot, and along the way he always looked back at the Qingzhou City that was gradually moving away. There is the place where he was born and raised, there is the person he loves the most, and there is Wang Xin'er who is waiting for him to go back. Finally, after walking for a long time, he didn't look back at Qingzhou City, his face was full of determination, and there were words in his mouth, "Xin'er, wait for me to come back." ”

The picture in front of me is constantly changing, and in the sporadic pictures I see Li Xie's name falling to Sun Mountain, and the first defeat did not hit Li Xie. Li Xie saw that there was no name on the list, and his heart was only a little bitter, "Come back next year." He didn't have the face to go back to Wang's house, he didn't have the face to see Wang Xin'er who had been waiting for him. He plans to find a place to settle down in this state capital to help people work and earn a year's worth of living.

However, another group of people who were watching the list gave him a different taste.

The young man with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks waved his hand at a fat man beside him, "Congratulations, congratulations to Gongzi Lu for winning this position." ”

This fat man was dressed in brocade clothes, his face was full of oil, and he looked like a gentleman from a big family. The fat man waved his bloated fat hand, "Brother Xian is polite, it's a fluke for my brother, it's luck." ”

The fat man stopped talking and beckoned to the young man's ear, signaling him to come. The thin man with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks leaned his ears over, and the fat man whispered, "My father spent more than five hundred taels of filial piety to the examiner and asked him to help me keep this position, but I didn't expect the examiner to directly change the name of the lifter to mine." ”

The thin man thought to himself that it was known all over the city that he didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, how could he be so lightly admitted to the exam, but he didn't expect it to be like this, and he didn't know which unlucky ghost was changed his name. He cursed the fat man in his heart, but he still made a laughing appearance and gave the fat man a look, "Then I will ask Brother Lu to take care of the little brother more in the future." ”

Fat Lu looked at this thin man's very good appearance, nodded with satisfaction, and said softly, "Follow me, your benefits will be indispensable in the future." ”

The thin man bent down, "Then thank you Brother Lu." "The two of them look like underworld brothers joining the gang.

Phew, I spat on the ground. I didn't expect the crows in the world to be as black as black, and in modern times, there are a lot of rich second-generation officials and second-generation officials borrowing their fathers to take the position, and this routine in ancient times actually worked, it seems that I am still too young.

I think so, but Li Xie, the benevolent brother, is different.

After listening to the conversation between the fat and the thin, Li Xie said to himself, "Although this is not worthy of the name, my article should still be unsatisfactory, so it can't be on the list." "The naïve Li Xie thinks that he is not good at learning and does not have the strength to win the position of lifter.

After another year of hard study, Li Xie found a job as an inn helper, and the innkeeper was kind-hearted and knew that Li Xie was frustrated in the examination room and kindly left Li Xie. He was not given a lot of work every day, and he was given more oil lamps for him to use at night, which was equivalent to feeding a person in the inn for nothing.

For the boss's kindness, Li Xie can only keep it in his heart silently, and now he has nothing to repay the boss.

After the re-examination and the unveiling of the list, there is still no name on the list, just like this year after year, ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the list has been unveiled again and again. The exhausted Li Xie finally couldn't stand it anymore, today he has long lost the vigor he had when he left Qingzhou City, and he didn't have time to take care of his messy hair, and the whole person was in a mess.

He ran to the examiner's residence with red eyes, wanting to find out what was going on, and his red eyes were not red because he was crying, but because he read books day and night.

Outside the mansion, he saw the examiner who was carrying a bird cage and was going out to relax, and the examiner was startled by Li Xie who suddenly appeared, and said slightly angrily, "Who is coming, who dares to rush into Lord Ben." ”

"Student Li Xie, meet the examiner." Li Xie bowed and saluted, and his politeness gave people a sense of humility and courtesy.

"Li Xie? It's a familiar name. The examiner silently read the name, as if he had seen it somewhere. Suddenly, he remembered that this name seemed to have failed in the exam for ten years and ten years, but others failed the list because they had no real knowledge, and his failure was deliberately done by himself. Because he doesn't fall off the list, how can he receive gifts from those who are rich and noble?

The examiner pretended to be profound, "What are you talking about?" ”

Li Xie still bowed down and kept a salute, "The student thinks that he is not a great talent, but there is still some ink in his heart, the student wants to know that he has never been on the list in ten years, and he wants to know what kind of articles adults like." ”

"With your knowledge, it would be easy, but ......," the examiner continued.

"Just what?" Li Xie straightened up and looked at the examiner expectantly.

The examiner rubbed his index finger between his thumb and said, "Do you have that golden thing?" ”

"Nope."

"Is there a powerful position in your family?"

"Nope."

"Hmph, where did that come from?" The examiner flicked his sleeves, snorted coldly and left.

it? I looked at the examiner in the distance, and if I could have touched him, he would have been beaten into a pig's head by me. Looking at Li Xie who was standing in a daze, he suddenly felt a feeling that he was not made of steel. It's like Lao Tzu saw that his son obviously had the intelligence to be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University, but he was greedy and secretly ate a few packs of **** spicy noodles before the exam, and then had diarrhea during the exam and delayed the exam and failed. It's not quite a good analogy, but that's pretty much how it feels.

And Li Xie was grown up by me, and with a face similar to me, I really think of him as my own son.

"Hahaha." Li Xie suddenly burst into a wild laugh, "I'm so naïve, I have no power and no power, how can I embark on this career." I'm sorry, Xin'er, I may have broken my promise. On the bustling road, a lonely figure walked towards the lakeside in the suburbs.

Looking at the calm lake, Li Xie walked forward step by step.

it? You don't want to die like this, you unfilial son. I took off my shoes and wanted to call him in the face, Ma Dan, I don't know if my father has been watching you for so long, and he is still waiting for you and Wang Xin'er to do something embarrassing. You're hanging like that now, what do I think. Day! He walked forward silently alone, and I could only do it by the lake.

"Young man, the water here can't drown people, if you want to find a short-term view, go somewhere else." Fishing by the lake, an old man shouted at Li Xie.

"Huh? Ha?! Hearing this, Li Xie touched his head and hurriedly walked away.

Damn, why is this scene so wrong?

Since then, there has been one less potential young man on the road to official career, and there is one more beggar in the broken temple outside Qingzhou City.

One day, a peerless woman carried a delicate lunch box to the ruined City God Temple outside Qingzhou City. I watched a beggar trembling in a small corner walk straight over and put down the lunch box in his hand.

Ten years is enough to change a lot, Li Xie has changed from a handsome young man to a down-and-out beggar, but Wang Xin'er's beauty is still undiminished, and ten years have allowed her to precipitate a mature charm.

"Evil? Is that you? The beautiful woman reached out to pull away the beggar's loose hair.

"Don't." The beggar's voice was hoarse, "I'm too ugly to scare you." The beggar curled up.

"You are evil, I will not be wrong with this voice."

"No, I'm not."

"Well, since you don't want to see me, I'll go." The woman left the lunch box and walked away alone.

"Girl, wait a minute." Looking at the woman's back, the beggar paused, "There is a son named Li Xie who asked me to sue you." He is sorry for you in this life, and he has no way to fulfill his promise to you anymore. If there is an afterlife, even if there are thousands of mountains and rivers blocking each other, even if the ends of the world are separated, there will eventually be a **** who will find you and share the prosperity of the world with you. ”

"Huh. A thousand mountains and rivers, a good end of the world, a good prosperity in the world, you help me tell him, if he doesn't have the courage to come to see me, I won't forgive him in this life, could it be that he really regards me Wang Xin'er as a person who loves fame......" The woman walked out of the broken temple quickly, leaving a little teardrop everywhere she walked.

"You won't forgive me, I'm so useless. Maybe that's the best ending. The beggar opened the lunch box and gave all the food to the other beggars.

The man in the broken temple is called Li Xie, and the woman who ran out is called Wang Xin'er.

And I stood on the sidelines and couldn't change anything, and I don't know why I felt an inexplicable heartache.