At sunset, the hills are covered with gold, and the camellia flowers at the foot of the mountain form a beautiful landscape.

Yan Heng, bathed in the beautiful scenery, was lying comfortably on the bamboo rocking chair.

Looking at the fighting sparrows on the locust tree, listening to the singing of the tea picker in the distance.

The days are dull and leisurely.

And Xiao Yan Song is still seriously writing the "Analects" taught to him by Yan Heng, and sometimes he will turn back and ask Yan Heng because he suddenly forgets.

The impatient brother Yan Heng was annoyed by the question, and he would scold him for being "stupid".

Xiao Yan Song didn't dare to fight back, so he had to scratch his ears and cheeks to think about it anew, to rewrite it, to write anew, but he really couldn't think of it, so he still had to grit his teeth and ask Yan Heng with a thick face.

Yan Heng enjoyed this feeling of crushing the future Shoufu genius child Xiao Yan Song, which is also a sense of achievement.

"Remember well, memorize well, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, we are not in a hurry."

Yan Heng couldn't help but encourage a little Yan Song when he looked at the pouting little Yan Song squatting on the ground and writing and painting seriously, and immediately squinted his eyes and prepared to take a nap.

Xiao Yan Song nodded, and his preoccupied appearance was very similar to that of the future Shousuke.

However, at this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside.

Yan Heng opened his eyes and saw that a middle-aged man wearing a copper coin shirt with a black background walked towards his house, and the direction of his walk seemed to be to go around his house to his uncle's house.

Yan Heng recognized that this person was his father, Fa Xiao, and his father's former county school classmate Ouyang Jin, like his father, had repeatedly failed to pass the examination.

But Ouyang Jin's enthusiasm for fame is weaker than that of his father.

After repeatedly failing to lift people, Ouyang Jin simply took off his blue shirt and put on a black shirt and became an official.

In a year or two, Ouyang Jin has already been the warden of the household in Fenyi County, and he is equivalent to the director of the County Finance Bureau in modern times, with a lot of power, and he soon made a fortune and has become a big household in Fenyi County.

Looking at this Ouyang Jin's wealth, and then looking at his own poverty, Yan Heng had to sigh that this was the result of the same Xiucai choosing a different path.

Although becoming a Xiucai is equivalent to stepping into the scholar class and becoming a member of the ruling class.

But at this time, it was not a real official, the privileges were not very large, and there were not many tax-exempt acres, and there were more tax-exempt places than those who could not lift people, so since ancient times, there were poor talents but there was no such thing as poor people.

And his father only blindly pursues fame, and has no sense of using his talent status to seek benefits, so his family background is not very good.

On the contrary, Ouyang Jin also tried and failed, but he became a official, although it is difficult to have the opportunity to become a big official in the future, but at least a rich family can do it.

Everyone's choice is different, and Yan Heng can't blame his cheap father Yan Zhun's choice, after all, he doesn't know that he will fail repeatedly, and not every Xiucai can really easily become a grassroots official such as a teacher and a warden if he gives up the scientific examination, and he also has to go to the ministry to make a point, and have a good connection.

Ouyang Jin's brother is Xie Yuan, but he has been defeated, but his brother's wife's family, the Wang family, seems to be a famous family in Shaanxi, and his sister married into the local squire Guixi Xia family.

It is not surprising that Ouyang Jin himself can become a warden within a year or two.

However, as a showman with a wealthy background, he will repeatedly fail and have to go to the road of officials, which can also show that the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty has not yet been corrupted enough to be arbitrarily corrupted.

"In ancient times, Kuang Heng chiseled the wall to steal the light, and now there is a Yan family child who writes the "Analects" on the ground, this little Yan Song is only afraid that the future will not be shallow, Brother Heng, you should also be like your brother, don't be blindly lazy to eat, your family still has to rely on your brothers to glorify their ancestors."

Yan Heng knew that Ouyang Jin had always had a very good relationship with his father, and he did not stop associating with his father because of his wealth, and he would come to his father to talk about his friendship with his classmates during the New Year's holidays, and even often helped his own family, which was similar to Zhen Shiyin who helped Jia Yucun in the dream of Red Mansions, and seemed to be a wise squire who was good at supporting the poor people in the township.

But what Yan Heng didn't expect was that as soon as Ouyang Jin appeared in front of his house at this time, he directly praised his younger brother Xiao Yan Song.

It's just a matter of praising Yan Song, why do you still piggyback on it and say that you are too lazy to do it.

Yan Heng was quite depressed, it was clear that Xiao Yan Song was forced to do this by himself by practicing calligraphy.

But how did he get a lazy evaluation, but it seems that Ouyang Jin doesn't really look down on his own family, otherwise he wouldn't be rude enough to say this about his friend's son.

But thinking that this person was a county warden after all, Yan Heng was not easy to offend, and he was also a friend of his father, so he had to get up and say: "Uncle Shi is here."

Seeing this, Ouyang Jin also walked to the Yan family's house and accepted Yan Heng's salute very calmly.

Ouyang Jin sat in front of Xiao Yan Song and watched that what Xiao Yan Song wrote on the ground was actually "The Analects", he couldn't help but be surprised, nodded his chin, took out a small gold leaf and handed it to Xiao Yan Song: "Xiao Song, take it!" ”

Xiao Yan Song looked up and saw that it was Ouyang Jin, and smiled, but he didn't take the gold leaf, but hurriedly dropped the wooden stick in his hand and ran out in a hurry: "Brother, Xiao Song'er go out!" ”

Yan Heng couldn't understand why this little Yan Song suddenly ran out in such a hurry.

At this time, Ouyang Jin had already lowered his face, put away the gold leaf, and said lightly to Yan Heng:

"You're so old, you don't have to take gifts from Uncle Shi anymore, go and make a bowl of your family's tea for Uncle Shi, and tell you about your father by the way.

I wasn't going to tell you about it, but thinking that you are also the eldest son in your family, it is necessary to know it, don't live so heartlessly, I don't know my current predicament, I should be angry! ”

Yan Heng secretly rolled his eyes.

Yan Heng can see that this so-called uncle Ouyang Jin is also a dishman, seeing that his younger brother Xiao Yan Song studied diligently, and even began to learn four books at the age of five, he thought that his younger brother would have a future in the future, and showed the favor of an uncle, and directly sent a yellow, orange and orange gold leaf.

Seeing that he didn't read and that he was also very stupid in reading before he crossed over, this uncle didn't put his loving side on himself, and even said that he was lazy because he was too lazy to eat because he was on the chair to take a cool day.

Now he directly says that he is living without a heart and lungs, and his language is not poisonous.

Human beings are animals who chase profits, and they can't see the investment potential in their eyes, so they are treated coldly, and it is understandable that they are strictly balanced.

In later generations, Yan Heng has also experienced a lot, and he is not surprised by this, but now what makes him quite angry is that the damn little Yan Song didn't hold the good gold leaf, so he suddenly ran out in a hurry.

Now it's good, and the hope that you can exchange gold leaves for a local chicken is gone.

"Uncle Shi, please use tea."

Although Yan Heng didn't like this Ouyang Jin, and knew that Ouyang Jin didn't like him, he still served tea as a junior, and when he heard Ouyang Jin mention his father's matter just now, he even had to ask with a smile:

"What Uncle Shi just taught me is that the kid should indeed be angry and strong, but I heard Uncle Shi talk about my father just now, I don't know what happened to my father?

Now that half a year has passed since the autumn season, my father has not returned, and the boy has always been worried about this matter, but the hateful boy is young, and he has recently been sick, so he has no chance to inquire about his father's whereabouts; Now that Uncle Shi has learned the whereabouts of his father, he is still eager to tell him, and he has also solved the boy's worries about his father. ”