Aunt Song woke up with a groan, and Song Ke hurriedly brought a cup of tea and fed it to Aunt Song's mouth. Aunt Song took a bite, tears slid down, held Song Ke's hand and said: "Big brother, you have been diligent and sensible since you were a child, and other people's children go to have fun, only you, the little one, is in front of the desk, holding a pen in your hand, reading and writing wholeheartedly." In winter, with a stove to warm your hands, and in summer, your clothes are soaked with sweat, and Mr. said that you have studied well, but you are not satisfied, and you have found other books to read, and even your father and colleagues are secretly listening to and learning next to them, and they are still writing articles at night in the Chinese New Year's Eve. Your father left early, and while you were studying, you were also taking care of the family's business, and how many times did you fall asleep tired when you read at night, still holding a pen in your hand...... Can you just endure the hard work of more than ten years like this......" couldn't say any more, and whimpered and cried.

Song Ke gritted his teeth with tears in his eyes and said, "It's not the last step yet." ”

"Why didn't it arrive? My brother has gone out early and come back late these days, how many people have begged him, but who is willing to give his brother a hand in the snow? There are many ulterior motives, and they don't even dare to accept the money they dredge. How much my brother ate behind closed doors, even if you don't say it, I can see it. Song Tanchai wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief and cried, "Now that the emperor has made a decree again, who else dares to stand up for his brother?" ”

Song Ke's face has changed, these days he has tasted the warmth and coldness of human affection again, the officialdom friends he intended to make because of his high school before, now they are running away one by one, he begged with a cheeky face, and others were just pretending to be perfunctory, and said a few words of comfort in his mouth, which was really "human affection is as thin as paper".

Aunt Song saw that Song Ke hung her head and was silent, so she rubbed his hand again and said, "From childhood to adulthood, I have never violated one thing about what you said, but this one thing ...... Big brother, just listen to your mother. Sister Xian'er has a good appearance and temperament, and she is infatuated with you, such a girl must not be missed. ”

For a while, Junxi took a pill and asked Aunt Song to take it with water, and Song Tanchai wiped the corner of her lips with a handkerchief. Aunt Song still lingered, and said: "I also thought that in the future, when you become an official, you still have some livelihood in the family, although you are not a top and solid family, but you have some savings, tell you how many young ladies you have, which one you like will marry, regardless of what background, as long as you have a good appearance and good temperament, I can treat you wholeheartedly and have children, I will be content, but who knows what happened." Big brother, I know you don't like Sister Xian, but she is also a good girl in the end, especially if she can pull you at this time, where do you find such a heart and character? ”

Aunt Song spoke bitterly, and there was already a hint of water in Song Ke's eyes. I was afraid that Aunt Song would be very angry and hurt herself, so she comforted: "Mother, let's not talk about it today, you can rest for a while, and I will think about it." ”

Aunt Song was exhausted at this time, and closed her eyes by herself. Song Ke stood guard for a few more moments before coming out of the house.

At this time, Menzi came to report, Lin Jinting came to look for him, and Song Ke invited him to the study. Lin Jinting couldn't help but be startled when he saw him with a sad face, described as haggard, and a layer of stubble appeared on his chin, and said, "I saw that you were already in good spirits a few days ago, what's wrong today?" ”

Song Ke shook his head and said, "Mother and sister just cried, thinking that their age made it difficult for them to sleep and eat, but it was really unfilial. He let out a long sigh and sat down in his chair.

Lin Jinting ordered the little servant to come in with a food box, took a few dishes from it, moved a small jar of wine, patted the small wine urn and said: "I know that you are not happy in your heart, I specially brought wine and food to get drunk with you, and it will be good to eat once, there is no one else in this house, cry out if you want to cry, you are always stuffy in your heart, and you are afraid of causing a serious illness." As he spoke, he ordered the little servant to sift the wine, poured a full glass and brought it to Song Ke.

Song Ke drank it all, the wine was sad, and his heart became more and more twisted. Because Lin Jinting was a close friend, he told him about Zheng Jingxian. Lin Jinting patted his thigh and said, "Ah, I said brother, if you don't want this beautiful thing that fell from the sky, you are your grandson!" Even if the Emperor is not a thing, he can't stand up to his power, if he is willing to help, you will be half of the matter. Then the Zheng family's little girl is not an ugly bastard, Baba has taken a fancy to you, why don't you hurry up and send someone to propose your relatives, what are you still doing in a daze? - Even if the Zheng family's chick is ugly, if I were you, I would endure it, and it would be a big deal to take a few more beautiful concubines in the future, and it was not because of your temperament. ”

Song Ke glared at Lin Jinting and said, "The dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth." ”

Lin Jinting was stunned for a moment, smacked his lips, and patted his face: "Yes, yes, I'm a dog's mouth, you're a good mouth, but what's the way now?" Now there are people who are willing to help, but if you marry someone else's girl, what's not to do? You should bear the humiliation and burden yourself, didn't Liu Bei marry the dominatrix Sun Shangxiang for the sake of the country? ”

Song Keliang let out a long breath and said: "It's just that I already have a favorite woman in my heart, but she is not tall enough, but she has an empathetic temperament, she can write, read, and make a good painting, what I want to say, she can always know first, she is my confidant, and there is an indescribable ......happiness with her."

Lin Jinting laughed, put the cup in his hand on the table, cocked Erlang's legs, and sneered: "My brother, are you singing Zhang Sheng Cui Yingying with me?" Still a confidant? I ask you, even though she has a million benefits, can she help you in this matter now? In the future, you can't be an official, you will be depressed for the rest of your life, you can only go back to be a landlord, even if you guard a beautiful woman, you can be happy in your heart? Lin Jinting took a chopstick dish, swallowed it and said: "Besides, isn't she not from a high background, if you really can't let go of your hand, you will be able to take a concubine in the future, which is called both human and wealth." ”

Song Ke said: "She is unwilling to be a concubine, and letting her be a concubine is also insulting her." ”

Lin Jinting wrinkled his brows impatiently and said, "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what should I do?" There is no such thing as the best of both worlds! How can you be a big man, mother-in-law and mother-in-law, which is more important, the future or the woman, what are you studying so hard for? My eldest brother once said that women have long hair and short knowledge, and they are easy to indulge in love, just like the tone of the wind and snow, you love me, I miss you, and all day long is the crooked idea of 'one life and one couple', but it is a pastime, how can it be taken seriously. Song Yanhong, do you want to keep a woman, see Tian'er's love and love, and your wife is hot on the kang, or do you have ambitions to stand on top of the court, do a career, revitalize the family, and get ahead? ! Do you still remember that snowy night, you and I sat in the river pavilion, and you spoke to me? You said that if you don't have a will in this life, you will die without turning a blind eye, even if you can't serve as an official and benefit one party, you must dedicate what you have learned and do your best to the court! ”

Song Ke was stunned, his heart couldn't help but fluctuate, and he poured the wine in the cup into his stomach with trembling hands, but his eyes were red, and he slowly turned into tears.

Lin Jinting sighed, stretched out his hand and patted Song Ke's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "I know that you are a person who values love and righteousness, and the woman in your picture must not be bad, but it is just ...... Alas, I just didn't expect you to be proud of your youth, but you have a bad future. You have always done everything in detail, for fear that there will be a trace of imperfection, but in this world, there must be trade-offs, depending on how you decide. I just advise you, if you are a big husband, if you are only confined to the feelings of children, what else can you do in the future? ”

Song Ke poured several glasses of wine one after another, only to feel that Lin Jinting's words seemed to be in his ears, and they seemed far away. He seemed to have returned to his previous life, when he and his cousin were childhood sweethearts and hid their admiration for each other, but his father and mother asked him to marry the powerful daughter of the Shen family for the sake of his future, and he had to agree. At that time, my cousin was very sad and cried for a whole afternoon, willing to be his concubine, but was slapped on the head and face by her father, and the aggrieved face was firmly engraved in his heart. In a daze, that face became Shen's, then it became Xianglan, and finally it seemed to become a wisp of green smoke coming out of the mouth of the golden and bronze fox on the table, curling around him, and slowly drifting out of the window with the breeze.

No further ado.

Within a few days, Zheng Baichuan found a new imperial history who had entered the Taoist Dao, called Yan Liwen, and told the ins and outs of Song Ke's matter. That Yan Liwen was a stunned young man, boasting of his iron bones, and heard that Wuliang Pingsu had done a lot of evil, so he rolled up his sleeves and wrote a large article, denouncing him for "tricky bullies, harming the township, corrupt the law and reversing black and white, comparable to referring to the deer as Ma Zhao Gao and others", "slandering the court officials, his heart is hateful and should be punished", Song Ke "even though he is guilty of lax control, but because he was framed by a traitor, it is excusable". He also denounced Wu Youwei for indulging his subordinates to the emperor for "slandering and blinding the holy people", and "if this goes on for a long time, it will definitely harm the foundation of the country".

This book was presented to the cabinet, Zheng Baichuan was friendly with the cabinet minister Li Yong, and he had been an official in Kedao for many years.

Although the emperor didn't like someone to rehabilitate Song Ke so quickly, he had to "hate me and be deceived by the villain" because of the real evidence, and gave Song Ke some royal things to appease, and demoted Wu Youwei's official position, Wu Liang punished 20 boards, and Li Jia beat 20 boards. But the emperor was annoyed that Yan Liwen had lost his face, and he took him out of the road and threw him to the poor countryside to be a petty official. Zheng Baichuan originally used Yan Liwen as a gun, and he didn't care about this person's life or death, and this matter that had been in trouble for a long time finally subsided. RS