Shanyin County, the capital of Yuezhou.

At this time, it is the time of February, when everything sprouts, and the elves in the fields begin to sprout, and among the fields, there are many peasant children, grazing on the roadside with their cattle and sheep.

Among them was a child who looked to be twelve or thirteen years old, with a dogtail in his mouth, lying on the back of a big green ox, half-squinting his eyes, and wandering leisurely.

He has a fair face, although he is still young, but he can already see that his appearance is quite outstanding, even if he is wearing a cloth clothes, it is difficult to hide his appearance.

Soon, the sun was about to set, the cowherd yawned, jumped off the back of the cow, led his big green ox, and began to walk home.

Along the way, he was greeted by a number of farmers who recognized him.

"Lin Jiasanlang, are you herding the cattle home?"

The young man, known as Lin Saburo, smiled and nodded at everyone.

"If you don't go home, it's going to be dark."

The sun was about to set, and after a few words with the young men, the peasants and the young men all went home with their hoes.

Lin Sanlang led his big green cow and went home leisurely.

His name is Lin Zhao, and he is the third young master of the Lin family's side branch in Donghu Town.

The Lin family is a big family in Yuezhou, the main family lives in Yuezhou City, and the family has had two Jinshi in the past, rich and rich, but Lin Zhao's family is a branch line, and can only live in Donghu Town to help the Lin family take care of the fields in Donghu Town.

Most of the farmers who passed by to greet him were tenants of his Lin family.

Originally, even if he was a side of the Lin family, although his family background was not very good, he would not be reduced to the point of herding cattle, but his background was very bad, and he was the son of a side concubine.

His mother, is the concubine of the Lin family, and she was born in the dust, and was bought by Lin Zhao's father Lin Qingyuan with a heavy ransom.

It is for this reason that Lin Zhao has been looked down upon since he was a child.

He didn't even have the qualifications to learn, so he could only be arranged by his eldest mother to herd cattle.

However, Lin Zhao himself did not feel inferior because of this, he came out to herd cattle happily every day, and then went back happily after the sun went down.

He has his ideas.

Soon, the Lin family's courtyard was close at hand.

Lin Zhao first led the cow to the cowshed, very neatly sluice some hay, put it in the cowshed, and then he patted the straw sticking to his body and walked out of the cowshed leisurely.

The cowshed was outside the courtyard of the Lin family, so after he walked out of the cowshed, in front of him was the gate of the Lin family.

These two young men, the eldest looked fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger one was thirteen or fourteen years old.

They are Lin Xian, the eldest lang of the Lin family, and Lin He, the second lang, that is, Lin Zhao's eldest brother and second brother.

It is said that the eldest Lin Xian has begun to prepare for the children's examination, once he has passed the county government road test, it is the talent of the eight classics, and when the time comes, even with the branch of the Lin family in Donghu Town, life can be much better.

It is worth mentioning that Lin Zhao's father, Lin Qingyuan, is a famous talent, originally taught in Donghu Town, and ran a few years ago to get a job in the field, and now he is a master in Yaojiang County next door, and he can only come back once or twice a year.

Seeing the two elder brothers, Lin Zhao bowed in an orderly manner.

"I've seen my brother."

Lin Xian and Lin He, both of whom came back from the private school, were talking about the gossip in the private school, chatting happily, after hearing Lin Zhao's words, the eldest Lin Xian was quite calm, and just nodded to Lin Zhao, but the second Lin He was much more arrogant, he raised his head high, and his tone was not salty or light.

"The cattle herd back?"

Lin Zhao nodded: "The cattle are back." ”

Do you know how to write the word "cow"? ”

Lin Zhao has never been educated, so naturally he shouldn't know how to write cow characters.

So Lin Zhao shook his head: "I don't know." ”

Lin He smiled disdainfully.

"So you can only herd cattle for the rest of your life, with your ......"

As soon as he said this, the eldest Lin Xian pulled his younger brother and frowned: "Don't say it, after all, it's an aunt, my father will come back in a while, and I know that you are talking nonsense, and I want to scold you again." ”

As he spoke, he walked into the house with his second brother, and glanced back at Lin Zhao as he walked.

"There's nothing to do, you go back."

Lin Zhao smiled slightly and nodded at Lin Xian.

Then he patted the dust off his body and walked into the courtyard as well.

Their big room and the second room are eaten and lived separately, and Lin Zhao's mother and son only go to the account room every month to receive some expenses, and then open the stove to eat alone.

Of course, the living conditions of the two rooms are still much worse, and you can basically see meat on the big side often, while Lin Zhao can only barely eat enough.

He walked around the courtyard of the Lin family for a while, and finally pushed open a courtyard door in a remote corner.

This is a single small yard, so small that in addition to a yard of two or three zhang square, there are only three houses, although the yard is small, all the organs are complete, and there are all the things that should be there, and the days finally go on.

There was a well in the courtyard, and at this time a beautiful woman with a slender figure was at the mouth of the well, laboriously drawing water outside.

This beautiful woman is Lin Zhao's mother.

More than ten years ago, the Oiran of the Yanyu Building in Yuezhou City was ransomed by Lin Qingyuan for a lot of money, and since then it has disappeared in Yuezhou.

Her surname is Zheng, and now others call her Lin Erniang, as for what her original name is, no one has heard her talk about it, and when others ask her, she is also silent.

Because of his mother's thin body, Lin Zhao hurriedly ran over to help his mother fetch water, and with the efforts of the mother and son, a bucket of clear well water finally came up.

After a bucket of water came up, Mother Lin first reached out and wiped the sweat on Lin Zhao's forehead, and her tone was gentle.

"Zhao'er is back."

Lin Zhao rubbed his stomach.

"The cows that have been herding outside for a day are starving to death, A-Niang, what will we eat?"

Lin Erniang reached out and touched Lin Zhao's hair, and said with a smile: "Eat white noodles today." ”

"But you have to memorize the rites before you can eat."

Mother Lin's language is gentle, but the content of what she says is very firm.

Lin Zhao grinned.

"Okay, I'll recite it to my mother."

Lin Erniang was the Oiran of Yanyulou in her early years, she knew everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and her attainments in reading were extremely high, compared to her husband Lin Qingyuan, and her knowledge was even better than that of ordinary people.

Although their mother and son did not have spare money to buy books, Lin Erniang had copied many books that needed to be studied in Mengxue and put them in the courtyard a few years ago.

Today's Lin Zhao, in terms of knowledge alone, is much stronger than his two stupid brothers.

You must know that Lin Xian, the eldest of the Lin family, has been studying for eight years, and he still doesn't even understand the scriptures, although he is taking the test for Xiucai, but it is very likely that he is not even a child, and the second Lin He is not a weapon, and he has not read through the four books and five classics until now.

This is also one of the reasons why Lin Zhao is too lazy to bother with the two of them.

Moreover, the two of them are too ugly......

Lin Erniang was born in an Oiran, so she is naturally handsome, and Lin Zhao has almost perfectly inherited her mother's appearance, and she has been good-looking since she was a child.

On the contrary, the eldest man of the Lin family, Erlang, is difficult to describe.

In this independent small courtyard, Lin Zhao shook his head and endorsed it to his mother, while muttering to himself in his heart.

"For the sake of seeing how ugly you are, I won't care about you......"