Speaking of the two brothers Xie Chengping and Xie Chengdao, with their talents and abilities, if they live in ordinary people's homes, they may be the best destination.

Every mansion will raise idlers, and each mansion will occasionally produce some pillar-like figures, and in large families, the fate of both types of people is good.

It's like the homeroom teacher of each class who only remembers the students who have the best academic performance and the most mischievous students. Those students who are ordinary, ordinary and unusual, who will not excel in any aspect, and who will not hold back the class in every aspect, are often the air in the class, and few people will pay attention to them.

Xie Chengping and Xie Chengdao are two ordinary people in the middle of the Xie family in Wuyi Lane.

Their identities are ordinary, their knowledge is ordinary, their abilities are ordinary, and even their looks are ordinary.

Walking in the courtyard of Xie Mansion, the people will greet them respectfully when they meet them. But it is often forgotten after meeting, and there are no superfluous topics or memories at all.

The Xie family is too large, and there are too many young Langjun, the two of them are just ordinary members.

It's not like the two of them didn't have anything to learn or something. If you are born in an ordinary scholar family, no matter how hard you work hard, you may be able to become a model of the stars holding the moon. But in Xie Mansion, there are Xie Wan and Xie An, and Xie Xuan and Xie Daoyun below, in front of the sun and the moon, of course, the incandescent lamp will not shine brightly.

If it's just a student, they can still change schools, go to a slightly worse school, and try the feeling of being the best.

They are not phoenix tails, just an ordinary feather on the phoenix's body, and even if they fall, the phoenix itself will not feel pity.

That's it.

This is the sorrow of Erxie.

When they were young, they also used to desperately want to change their fate. They worked hard to do some things, reading, practicing calligraphy, and painting, and they also kept a heart to get ahead, but in the end, there was a truth that could not be broken.

People to people. It's different after all.

It took him a whole night to memorize the psalms, and Xie Xuan memorized them after reading them once.

The calligraphy that I have practiced hard for five or six years is not as good as the results of Xie Daoyun's more than a year of calligraphy.

The elders say it's called talent.

And in the opinion of Er Xie. This is fate.

They are just ordinary people, but they were born in the Xie family in Wuyi Lane.

This incident, in itself, is a kind of sadness.

Xie Chengping and Xie Chengdao have realized this sorrow, and they are not ready to endure it forever. Rather, they wanted to find a way out.

If Xie Xiaoman encounters this situation, she will definitely redouble her efforts, to study, to read, to practice calligraphy, stupid birds fly first, even if the flight is never as far as those talented human beings, at least to do their best.

Because of this, I can not regret it.

Life is short, if all the time is spent on long sighs, all wasted on the feeling of injustice in life, people's lives. It won't make any sense.

You're not Werther, and no one will write an entire book to praise no matter how troubled you are.

Instead of resenting the surroundings, it is better to draw your sword and move forward, overcome obstacles, and find your own way out!

But Er Xie is not Xie Xiaoman, they don't have the momentum not to hit the south wall and not look back, they have already "seen through" the world, and feel that this world is gray and unfair. It's because of the lack of his own bloodline. will lead to today's failure.

So they resent, they are angry, and they point all the fingers at the surroundings. They hate all those who are of higher birth than themselves, and they are jealous of those who are higher than themselves.

This is because of such a state of mind. They spent all their time and experience on anger and jealousy, and they came to Lanyue Tower that night and did something unfavorable to Xie Xiaoman in front of the public.

Xie Chengping and Xie Chengdao are pitiful, but at the same time, they are also hateful.

Mourn their misfortune. Angry and indisputable.

That's it.

"Uncle is really joking, as the children of the Xie family, we have no talent, and we have never been able to do anything for the Xie family, this is the knot in the hearts of our two brothers. Besides, we are all at this age, and we really shouldn't let my uncle worry about us. ”

Xie Chengping slammed Xie An to the ground and replied respectfully.

Xie An looked at the incense on the table next to him, looked at the curling breath, and thought to himself, it seemed that he hadn't seen the beautiful scenery of the mountains, sunset, and cooking smoke for a long time, and he really missed it a little.

There are so many mundane things that it's really boring.

Seeing that Xie An didn't reply, Xie Chengping raised his head slightly in fear, glanced at it secretly with the rest of his eyes, and hurriedly withdrew it.

The silence in the room made people nervous, and the two Xie glanced at each other, and they both saw uneasiness from the bottom of each other's eyes.

"What do you guys think? Chengping, you've finished the crown ceremony, right? It stands to reason that he is already a son of the Xie family who can take charge on his own, is it good to go out to be an official? ”

Xie An said lightly.

Xie Chengping was overjoyed and hurriedly agreed: "I can share the mundane things for the court, and Chengping can't ask for it!" Thank you Uncle for your support! ”

Xie An smiled lightly: "Chengdao is also a person who has participated in the Zhongzheng selection evaluation, what was the previous result?" ”

Xie Chengdao's face turned red when he heard this, and he frowned a little embarrassedly: "Uncle, Chengdao participated in the Huaishan Yaji last year, and the Zhongzheng official of that year was the court of the Yu family, and it seems that he has a lot of resentment towards our Xie family......"

Xie An raised his hand to stop his complaint, and only asked lightly: "Is it the fourth grade, or the fifth grade?" ”

Xie Chengdao blushed, and it took him a long time to squeeze out two words from between his lips: "...... Five, five products. ”

Nine products in the positive system, the upper grade has no cold door, and the lower grade has no scholars. A product is a fictitious and is kept for the saints. Two or three are called the top grade, four, five and six are the middle grade, and seven ** is the lower grade.

Xie Chengdao was rated as a five-grade when he was selected for evaluation last year, although it is also a medium-grade product, but in fact, the people of the scholar clan, especially the first-class scholar family such as the Xie family of Chenjun, the children were rated as the middle grade is already a thing that can be described as "shameful", not to mention that even the fourth grade was not selected, but fell into the fifth grade.

Even the children of the poor family, that is, those ordinary people who do not have the status of nobles of the noble clan, if they are very well educated and have a high reputation in their hometown, they can be rated as five or even four grades.

Of course, for the scholars and the Hanmen. The meaning of Zhongpin is completely different.

For the poor family, the middle grade is already the highest grade they can evaluate, and it is completely worthy of "celebrating each other". But for the scholars, the middle grade is their passing line. If you can't even evaluate the middle grade, it will only be reduced to "inferior quality", and that will become a real joke.

Although Xie Chengdao previously alluded to last year's Zhongzheng official Yu belittled his achievements, everyone who cares actually understands that the Zhongzheng official not only did not belittle him. On the contrary, it gave the Xie family a face, and did not let the Xie family have an inferior Langjun son to criticize the world.

But it is clear that Xie Chengdao does not think so.

"Although the five products are shallow, they are still young, and their future is naturally limitless." Xie An lightly appeased, and said, "If Chengdao is also interested in being an official, I can also help the inspectors." ”

When Xie Chengdao heard the first half of the sentence, he was already happy, where would there be any excuse at this time. The overjoyed promised: "That's the best!" Chengdao thanked his uncle first! ”

Xie An bowed slightly, took out a codex from the side, and handed it to the two: "This is my handwritten letter to the Huiji Taishou, you two will go to the Huiji." ”

"This ...... Will the inspector be too guarded? ”

Er Xie was stunned when he heard this, even if they didn't understand things, they probably knew what kind of positions they had under the appointment of the Hui Ji Tai Shou. There are basically no Qing officials, nine out of ten are turbid officials in the form of hard work, and ordinary people from poor families only go back to do official positions, is it possible to ask the two of them to do this kind of thing?

Xie Chengdao was the first to panic, and couldn't help but ask, "Uncle." You mean, let the two brothers go to the Huiji Taishou Mansion to take up their posts? ”

He deliberately accentuated the words "too shou fushang".

"Not bad." Xie An said lightly.

The corners of Xie Chengdao's mouth twitched, and his volume increased by three points: "Is Uncle mistaken?" The two of us ......"

Xie Chengping was a little calmer, and hurriedly stopped Xie Chengdao's remarks. He laughed twice and said respectfully: "Uncle, we are the Xie family, so naturally we have to listen to the arrangements of the Xie family." Naturally, the two of us will not have any objections to my uncle's arrangement. It's just that...... After all, this Taishou Mansion is a turbid official, and we are as the Xie clan of Chen County. Isn't it too much to discredit the Xie family to do such an official position? ”

"Oh?" Xie An raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at the two of them with a smile, "Then what kind of official position do you think is more suitable for you?" ”

Er Xie was trembling by Xie An's gaze, where did he dare to make a sound for a while, and hurriedly lowered his head and didn't dare to make a noise, but he was slandered in his heart.

I only heard Xie An smile and said: "I don't like to pay attention to mundane things at home, but sometimes, things always come directly to me like this, even if I don't want to deal with it." We're all family, and I didn't want to talk too much about it. But now it seems, in the minds of both of you, if I don't make it clear, you don't seem to understand what is going on. ”

Xie Chengping Xie Chengdao No matter how stupid they were, they could hear the anger in Xie An's words, and they were so nervous that they couldn't do it at this time.

Xie An looked at the top of the two people's heads and chuckled: "Xiaoman's matter, you did it, right?" ”

"Uncle Mingjian!"

Xie Chengping knelt on the ground with a bang, put on a sad face, and was aggrieved: "Our two brothers really saw Xiaoman's sister in Lanyue Building, and at that time, I felt that her words and deeds were really not in line with the etiquette of the boudoir, so I advised twice. Who knows, the ** of Lanyue Lou actually came forward and said that Xiaoman's sister was the owner of Lanyue Lou. Our Xie family has always walked straight, where can there be such a thing! I thought that someone must be trying to smear the reputation of my Xie family, Xiaoman's sister is young, maybe she was provoked by someone and didn't know it! I couldn't look past Chengdao, so I had a dispute with the ** in Lanyue Tower. It just so happened that General Huan was there, and he said a few more words, and the two of us were soft-spoken, and we were bored and almost beaten, and there was really no way, so we left! ”

Xie Chengping made up the story smoothly, and at this time, there was a sad look on his face, and tears flowed down. He knocked at Xie An again and again, crying: "Uncle, we are a pure heart, you can see it!" If you want me to say, someone must have taken advantage of Xiaoman's sister and wanted to smear the reputation of my Xie family! ”

Xie Chengdao also hurriedly knelt down, imitating correctly.

Xie An looked at the farce in front of him, and did not speak at this time, only took the tea and sipped it lightly, and casually touched a book and opened it to read.

The second Xie was out of breath when he cried, and after a while, seeing that Xie An didn't say anything, he was so embarrassed that he gradually stopped breathing, and he didn't continue to cry, and he didn't cry, and he was very embarrassed for a while.

"Stop crying?" Xie An didn't look up, looked at the scroll and asked.

Erxie didn't dare to answer.

The corners of Xie An's mouth were slightly hooked, he glanced at Xie Chengping, and said with a light smile: "Do you really think that I, Xie An, am blind and deaf?" I don't know anything about what's going on outside? ”

"Uncle, what are you going to say?" Xie Chengping said with a strong smile.

"What do you think, how did you stir up trouble in Lanyue Tower, I don't know? How did you point the finger at Xie Xiaoman in Lanyue Tower, I don't know? How did you hire people to spread rumors later, and then hire people to go to Nanluo Alley to smash the courtyard where Xie Xiaoman lives, and I didn't hear the news? Fifty yuan to hire a young man, it seems that the monthly money I give to you Langjun in the Xie family's house is too much, and I actually let you have nothing to do and do such things that people and gods are angry about. ”

Xie An's voice was still indifferent, and he didn't even speed up his words at all, just like chanting the wind and the moon on weekdays, and talking every word was as if he was chanting poetry, where was there any angry taste?

But such a voice made Er Xie tremble and be afraid when he heard it.

"Uncle, this is, it's fake, we, we don't have ......" Xie Chengdao squeezed out these words from between his teeth like chaff, and he could hear the sound of his upper and lower teeth fighting.

In the cold of March, not so.

"You know best whether it's true or not." Xie An didn't want to talk to them more, he raised his hand and patted the book case twice, and the two strong servants walked in the door, "Huiji Feng Shui Treasure Land, you can enjoy it, don't go back to Jiankang in this life." ”

After that, where did these two people resist, the two servants directly dragged Xie Chengping and Xie Chengdao, who were pale as paper and drenched in cold sweat, out.

Incense sticks curled with smoke, and it has entered the last years.

Xie An sighed silently.

"Mourn its misfortune, be angry with it, but Er'er." Xie An said, "Youdu, do you understand? ”

"Yes." Xie Xuan came out of the screen behind him at this time, bowed deeply to Xie An, and replied, "It is his misfortune to be born without a father, Tianxingjian, a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement, the 'indisputability' of these two people lies in the absence of the word 'self-improvement'." (To be continued.) )