Only for this moment, Xie Jing's eyes showed a fierce light: "Cao Zongming! You dare to kill me! I'm dead with you! Jade..."

Cao Xiancheng was originally a little embarrassed, but when he heard him say this, his eyes were closed, his heart was ruthless, and his hand was raised.

With a "bang", blood spurted out.

Cao Zongming, who has been a civil official for many years, doesn't know how hard a person's neck is, and the knife was forced by the situation to cut it down.

I saw Xie Jing fall on the snow with a "boom", and his neck was only half broken.

His eyes stared at Cao Zongming with resentment and grievance, streams of blood foam gushed out from the intermittent part of his neck, and his lips trembled slightly, as if he was cursing.

The knife in Cao Zongming's hand trembled slightly, he was terrified in his heart, and hurriedly threw down the knife and shouted: "Someone is coming, hurry up and kill him." ”

The officials on both sides quickly surrounded and stepped forward, some people supported Cao Zongming, and some people raised knives to cut Xie Jing, and between the flashes of the knife, more blood spread out from the feet of those officials.

The blood stained the snow, the eyes of the people who shook hurt their eyes, and the air was filled with wisps of blood, and when it was blown by the wind, the smell made people even more disgusting.

Xie Lin's face was bloodstained, he was dumbfounded, and he couldn't even cry, and Xie Wang's eyes on the side rolled, and he fell backwards in a daze.

Taking advantage of the moment when the villagers were stunned, Cao Zongming also forced his composure and said coldly: "Take the Xie family prisoner, bring Xie Jing's body and stolen money, and wait for the judgment of the county lord!" ”

"Yes!" The officials on the side cleaned up the scene neatly, and between the crows and green clothes, Shen Kang saw Xie Jing's neck with a trace of flesh and skin, hanging on the stretcher.

After a short time, the group left the village in a mighty way.

Shen Cheng said with a pale face at this moment: "Just kill like this?" ”

In his "previous life", Shen Kang had never killed an animal bigger than a chicken, but today he witnessed a living human life, and in an instant, it was ended.

He could hear the threat between Xie Jing's words before he died.

Therefore, I am afraid that his death was not because of the encroachment on the fields, there is a bigger secret behind this. Cao Xiancheng obviously took advantage of the anger of the villagers to kill people with a knife.

What secrets can the small Xiping County have?

He couldn't help but be a little afraid, the officialdom was unfathomable, and even this small county also hid an ulterior secret. If Fang Cai hadn't incited those villagers, the consequences would be unknown...

He couldn't think about it thoroughly, and he didn't think about it anymore, but he came home and fell on the kang, and he didn't know if he was frightened by the bloody murder scene, or if he was too tired from the night, so he fell asleep after a while.

In his sleep, he saw his previous life, that dark and rainy night, and the air was filled with the smell of gloomy and damp rain.

His mother stood at the mouth of the alley and looked at him, and his father held him in his arms, and he kept looking back at his mother, wanting to shout: Mom, don't throw me away. But he couldn't shout it.

Then the picture turns, he is in the orphanage, standing in front of the window, looking out.

Behind him, I don't know who slapped him, when he turned around, more than a dozen children laughed around him, saying something, he wanted to run but was pushed to the ground, he remembered the shape of those children's lips deeply. It wasn't until I learned lip language later that I learned that they said: Little mute, dead deaf, no one wants...

People are always in trouble, and they want to see people who are more miserable than themselves, and use words to hurt others to alleviate their own pain. He doesn't hate them, only pity.

Later, he became literate, learned sign language and lip language, and spent his days shuttling through the library.

In the silent library, he studied and lived freely, and finally experienced peace and happiness.

In his dream, a fire suddenly ignited to the sky, and the beams in the ancestral hall slammed on the ground, and the "popping" sound of the fire burning.

Xie Jing was still scolding angrily one moment, and the next moment blood was spilled on the ground and turned into a corpse.

"San'er, San'er!"

"Little three!"

Someone shouted to him in the fog, yes, he was Shen Kang and Shen San, he had a new life.

He opened his eyes, and in front of him was his father, mother, and second brother, and he pursed his lips and reddened his eyes, and a calm and peaceful smile on the corner of his mouth.

Shen Wang hugged him in his arms, and the faint smell of fireworks and food penetrated the tip of his nose, which turned out to be the taste of his mother.

This was the mother, and the woman with the smell of rain in the dream, he could no longer remember her face.

"San'er, how are you? Is it a nightmare? Don't be afraid, Mom and Dad are here. Shen Wang's rare gentleness, one by one, slowly stroked his soft hair.

He choked in his throat, revealing eight white teeth: "Dad, mother, second brother, I'm hungry." ”

From this moment on, he truly regarded himself as their child. Shen Kang and Shen San are really one person.

During the meal, Shen Cheng said surprisingly more, and said excitedly: "The ancestral hall in the east of the village is the ancestral hall of the Xie family, and Uncle Ma said that when the new village chief comes, can you beg him to set aside that piece of land to build a Taoist temple." ”

Shen Wang took a bite of rice and asked, "Build a Taoist Temple?" ”

"Yes." Shen Cheng continued: "Liu Xianggong and Uncle Wang also think it is appropriate. After a slight pause, he took a bite of food and said: "There are two days left for the New Year, tomorrow, I will take the second and third children into the city to buy some New Year's goods, prepare the six ceremonies, and go to apprentice with Liu Xianggong before the year, so as not to delay the New Year." ”

Shen Wang laughed and scolded: "You still know the Six Rites? Didn't you ask who in private? ”

Shen Cheng's face turned slightly red, obviously guessed, and he snorted: "I asked Uncle Wang." ”

This Uncle Wang is still a child, and he is one of the members who has been running between the examination rooms all year round and has repeatedly failed in many attempts.

Despite this, it does not prevent him from repeatedly defeating and trying, and the more he fights, the more courageous he becomes. In addition to Liu Yuan and the dead Xie Jing in the village, he is the most educated, and the neighbors treat him with great respect.

Shen Kang pursed a smile at the corner of his lips and asked, "Dad, the grandfather of the Wang family is also Liu Yuan's disciple?" ”

"Well, Liu Xianggong is a disciple of Uncle Wang." Shen Cheng nodded, and then said: "If the two of you can be admitted to Xiucai within three years, this book will also be available for you to read." But if you can't get by..."

He paused, eager to bury his face in the rice bowl, and said with guilt: "Our family is just an ordinary farmer, Xie Lao Ghost died, the field was taken back, and the family had ten acres of land, and they also needed manpower when they were busy farming." Your mother and I are getting older, and your eldest sister is a woman, and she will get married sooner or later. You are men, and sooner or later you will be in charge. ”

The scientific examination in the Ming Dynasty was divided into six stages, the county examination, the government examination, the hospital examination, the township examination, the meeting examination, and the palace examination.

The most basic is the county examination and the government examination, and only those who pass the first two examinations are eligible to participate in the college examination, and those who pass the college examination can be called Xiucai.

We often hear about a certain talent in novels, and over time, we feel that there are a lot of talents in ancient times, and it is not necessarily a difficult fame.

However, this is by no means the case.

You must know that if you become the land of Xiucai's family, you don't need to pay taxes. In addition, he can receive one liter of rice a day, which is enough for two people.

Think about it, will the state feed the useless in vain?