Chapter 290 [The Life of an Ancient Scholar]
The landscape is dictated, and the sister-in-law is sorted out.
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"I'm going to hear this story now!"
Qi Yanran's eyes flashed, and she suddenly whispered, the girl reached out and grabbed Li Yun's arm, and said in a quiet tone: "This should be a good story, I want you to tell it to me now." ”
"Now?" Li Yun glanced back at her.
Qi Yanran had a solemn face, nodded and said, "Yes, now." ”
Li Yun slowly turned his head, looked at the couple not far away, and said softly: "Actually, I don't need to tell you, their husband and wife are just like each other......
As he spoke, he suddenly raised his feet and pulled Qi Yanran over.
They approached slowly, their steps very slowly, and the couple noticed that someone was coming, and the woman struggled to lift her head off the man's shoulder, but unfortunately her strength was too weak, and she raised her head and struggled to put it back. She could not lift her head, so she could only lean on her husband's shoulder, so she felt a little shy, and weakly hung her head down.
This is really a traditional Chinese woman, although she is in trouble, but she is sensible, has a gentle personality, and knows how to fight for her husband in front of outsiders.
She herself was already sick and weak, but she felt sympathy when she saw Li Yun holding on to a branch, but seeing that this woman's eyes were full of tenderness and pity, she said to her husband in a low voice: "Husband, don't help me, go and help this little brother, the slave family saw him walking with a tree branch, mopping the ground and staggering, you hurry over and help him, let the little brother sit on the side of the road and rest." ”
As she spoke, she glanced at Li Yun again, and suddenly her eyes fell on Qi Yanran behind Li Yun, the woman's eyes hesitated, and soon burst out with strong sympathy and pity, and said in surprise: "This girl's eyes, can't they see things?" ”
Seeing that she was so kind, Qi Yanran was a little ruthless for a while to deceive the other party, but fortunately, Li Yun quietly reached out and grabbed her wrist, and replied on her behalf: "My wife has a disease in her eyes, and it is indeed a little difficult to see things. ”
The woman was even more sympathetic, and struggled to sit up, but unfortunately she suddenly coughed violently again, and she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand in a panic.
When she coughed violently for a long time, there was already a pool of bloody phlegm after taking away her palm, her face was pale and bloodless, and she hurriedly waved her hand at Li Yun and Qi Yanran, but unfortunately because she had just finished coughing violently, she couldn't speak out of her mouth for a while, her husband knew his wife very well, and hurriedly looked at Li Yun and Qi Yanran and said, "My wife, please don't approach, so as not to contaminate her tuberculosis ......"
After a pause, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the other side of the road and said, "You little couple sit over there, we can be safe across the road......"
After saying these two sentences, he listened to them again, and said with a trace of guilt on his face: "It's a pity that there is no shade on the other side of the road, which will make your husband and wife bear the sun, and I feel guilty about this, but I am reluctant to let my wife move." ”
Li Yun and Qi Yanran glanced at each other, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes, if they hadn't experienced the scene in front of them personally, they couldn't believe that there were such kind people in the world, obviously they were poor, but they always thought about others.
Why can't such a couple be happy? But if you have to endure the suffering of the world, God is blind?
Li Yun leaned on the branches, Qi Yanran helped Li Yun, and the two really walked to the other side of the road, and then sat down to rest like a couple.
said it was resting, but in fact it was a disguise, looking tired, but in fact observing the couple.
saw that the middle-aged man had picked up the tuber again and was carefully feeding it to his sick wife, and the woman had happiness on her face, and refused to eat it again after only taking a small bite, and said softly: "Husband, you can also eat a bite, and leave the rest to Hong'er." ”
As she spoke, she suddenly remembered something, and raised her head suddenly, but when she saw her eyes looking at the mountains and forests not far from the road, she said worriedly: "Why hasn't Hong'er come back yet?" ”
The middle-aged man was afraid that she was too worried, so he hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, Madam, Hong'er knows how to protect herself, she has been climbing trees and going down to the river since she was five years old, she is easier to find food in the forest than her husband, and her husband estimates that she will come back soon, madam, you calm down and wait." ”
The woman was still frowning, obviously worried about her daughter.
The middle-aged man could only continue to reassure, and whispered softly: "Although this is a mountain forest, there is no danger, the forest is full of people looking for food, and there must be a ...... to take care of each other."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and hugged the woman's neck, and gently helped his wife change to a comfortable position to lie down, and then continued: "Madam, don't look at this deep mountain forest, in fact, there is not a single beast in the forest, because we are following the court convoy to trek, and the Son of Heaven's royal car must ensure safety, there are thousands of troops in front of the road, there are thousands of royal forest army retinues, and there are also the chariots and horses of the military generals of the civil and military generals, each family has a martial arts force, and those soldiers swept the mountains and forests when they opened the road, and all the fierce beasts have already been killed." There are no beasts in the forest, naturally there is no danger, although our Hong'er is young, but there is no need to worry about her accident, this little girl has been sensible since she was a child, she will not go too far, she is worried about your body, and she will definitely come back if she finds something to eat......"
The words are full of logic, and the persuasion is linked one by one, first to the wife to analyze things, and then to the wife to talk about the child's sensibility, such a good intention, finally calmed the wife's emotions.
Li Yun listened on the sidelines, feeling amazed in his heart, this man spoke in a well-regulated manner, vaguely a character who had read a book, ordinary people could not say such things, ordinary people would only pat their chests and say, 'Don't worry, you girl, our children are guaranteed to be fine'.
Li Yun was curious about this man, and couldn't help but open his mouth to make a tentative sound, and said: "I met on the side of the road, and it can be regarded as fate, I haven't asked Mr. for advice, I don't know if I can know a ...... or two."
He deliberately used the language of Wen Crepe, just to see the reaction of the middle-aged man.
Sure enough, I saw the man suddenly raise his head, looking at Li Yun with a little surprise, and even his wife struggled to raise his head, and the husband and wife obviously had a difference in face.
This situation made Li Yun's heart move, and he vaguely guessed that the man's wife was also a scholar, a poor couple, but their identities were both scholars.
But after seeing him say a temptation, the opposite couple obviously became restrained, and there was a hint of strangeness in the restraint, and suddenly the man hesitated and asked: "Little brother's words are beautiful, is he a scholar?" ”
Li Yun did not reply positively, but pretended to be sad and sighed, but this sigh seemed to arouse the feelings of the middle-aged man, and he even sighed with Li Yun.
But his wife looked up at Li Yun, and suddenly asked with pity: "Could it be that the little brother has also offended people, so that he can't find an errand after studying?" ”
Li Yun's heart moved, and he asked the woman rhetorically: "Could it be that your family is the same as me." ”
The woman's face turned pale, and there was pity in her eyes, and she looked around with a little fear, and then she sighed cautiously and said: "My husband is a great talent, and he was quite famous when he was young, but unfortunately he didn't know people's hearts, and as a result, he provoked people when he threw the scroll......"
"Pitching?"
Li Yun's heart moved.
The word "scroll" is known in the Tang Dynasty, the so-called scroll, is that the reader votes his article to a certain family, through the appreciation of the family, and then is elected as an official, although the Tang Dynasty also carried out the imperial examination, but only twice was canceled, so if the reader wants to seek a career, the only way to submit the scroll to the family is the only way.
Submitting papers was popular in the Tang Dynasty, and almost all scholars did this kind of thing, so it is said that people should not be offended, why are middle-aged men suppressed?
The woman was very smart, and she could see the confusion in Li Yun's heart by observing her words and feelings, but when she saw that she was weak and weak, she smiled bitterly, and said softly: "When my husband submitted the scroll, he voted for two ...... at once."
"What's the matter?"
Li Yun was even more confused, and couldn't help but speak: "As far as I know, some readers even submit more than a dozen papers in a row. ”
The implication is self-explanatory, and it is not a big deal for a middle-aged man to throw himself into two families.
Unexpectedly, the woman smiled bitterly again, and sighed lowly: "Little brother, you didn't hear clearly just now, what the slave family said was that he voted for two at once." ”
Li Yun vaguely felt that he understood.
Sure enough, I only heard the woman say again: "At the same time, there are two rolls, not two of them, and the two families appreciate the talent of the husband, but at the same time, they find that the husband has one volume and two votes." ”
Li Yun nodded slowly.
No wonder a woman would say that her husband did not understand the human heart when he was young.
The people of the family are the most domineering, the scholars submit papers to the family, and the family recommends the readers, which implies a sense of allegiance and defection, and the ancients were very concerned about loyalty and not serving the two masters......
Therefore, scholars have always submitted papers one by one, and only when the first one clearly replied that they would not recommend it, they would vote for the next family, but the middle-aged man voted for two at a time, and the two families appreciated his talent at the same time.
Since you appreciate your talents, you must take them for your own use, but when you find that a middle-aged man votes more than one book, how can the two families give up?
The family will not fight with each other for this trivial matter, but the suppression of middle-aged men must be merciless, because this is the rule they have made, and it is the basis for them to rule the world's scholars, and they cannot allow anyone to break this rule, because destroying this rule is equivalent to destroying the foundation of the family.
It may sound like an exaggeration, but it is.
After Li Yun heard all this, there was a faint confusion in his heart, this middle-aged man made a big mistake, it is said that it is difficult to survive under the revenge of the family, he can struggle to this day, there must be other secrets in this.
Sure enough, I only heard the woman's miserable voice, and said quietly: "Fortunately, the slave family's mother family has a little face, and finally helped Zhou Xuan to suppress this matter, and the husband and wife barely saved his life, but he was never allowed to submit the roll to be an official, and the slave family was also cleaned out by the mother family, so that our husband and wife will fend for themselves from now on......"
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…… This chapter is more than 3,000 words, and another chapter will follow.