In the eighth year of the reign of the Ming Dynasty, September.

On this day, the sky was dark, a thin layer of green mist floated in the countryside, and the vast and flat fields outside the village of Baiyue were busy, and the industrious farmers were tirelessly plowing the soil and sowing wheat.

Zhou Zhi came to his eight-acre field just after Yin, and laboriously turned the soil with a shovel. His family was poor and had no cattle, so he had to rely on manpower to do such work.

In the past, the main force of the work was Dad, and Zhou Zhi just started it. But a few days ago, Zhou Zhi's cheap father accidentally sprained his waist while carrying rice and couldn't move. In this way, the burden of sowing seeds in the whole land fell on Zhou Zhi, a young man who had just turned fifteen.

It was almost noon, Zhou Zhi was already sweating like rain, and his stomach was rumbling with hunger. I couldn't do it anymore, wiped the sweat on my face with my dark arms, and looked at the ploughed field, which was only half an acre smaller, Zhou Zhi couldn't help but shake his head depressedly.

Dropping the shovel, he walked to the field with great difficulty, and sat down on the side of the dirt road. I picked up a rag bag from Tian Tou and opened it gently, and inside were two palm-sized cakes, a water bladder, and a book.

Grab a cake in your left hand and a book in your right hand, and read it while eating.

"Hey, hey! It's strange, it's really strange! When did the mud legs of the pig's head and pig's brain start reading? Zhou family boy, what is written in that book? How many words do you know? Read it out quickly and let Master Ben listen to it. Hehe! It's really laughing at me, laughing at me! The shrill voice was followed by a series of sneers.

Zhou Zhi turned his head to look, and the person who was sneering was shaking a bamboo fracture fan in his hand, with a pair of big eyes, but his eye sockets were deeply sunken, and he was similar to a skeleton, it was Chen Wenju, the third young master of the Chen family in Baiyue Village. There was also a small guy standing beside Chen Wenju, that little guy was tall, standing beside Chen Wenju, much taller than Chen Wenju, he might feel very inappropriate, so he bent his waist, and at this time he was also looking at Zhou Zhi with disdain.

The Chen family has a big business, with hundreds of acres of fertile land, and many people in Baiyue Village are tenants of the Chen family. The Chen family has been a scholar since Chen Wenju's great-grandfather Chen Ci was a scholar in Xuande's second-year high school. Although there have been no more jinshi among the younger generations, there are several talented people.

Chen Wenju is now studying in the school opened by Cheng Daju in Gaochang Town, and he happened to pass by Zhou Zhi's field after school today. In this year's children's examination, he successfully passed the county examination and the government examination, but failed to pass the last hospital examination. He became a child at the age of fifteen, and he seemed to be the pride of the Chen family and the best among the younger generations.

In the Ming generation, the status of scholars is leveraged. Chen Wenju thinks very highly of himself, arrogant and arrogant, his eyes are above the top, and he usually walks with his face held high. In his deformed mind, he had long decided that only rich children like him could study, and as for hillbillies, croppers, and mud legs, they all belonged to sluts, and they only ate mud and shit in the fields.

Zhou Zhi has never had a good impression of Chen Wenju, so he simply ignored him and just looked down and read the book.

Chen Wenju felt extremely contempted, you must know that in the past, he would not even look at Zhou Zhizheng. Zhou Zhi is always submissive in front of him, ashamed of himself, and cowardly. In his impression, Zhou Zhi hadn't even read the social studies in the village for a day, and where he could read and write, he was completely pretending.

However, what Chen Wenju didn't know was that the Zhou Zhi in front of him was no longer the Ameng of the past, and Zhou Zhi was no longer the same person as Zhou Zhi a month ago. A month ago, Zhou Zhi, a well-known college graduate in later generations, died suddenly due to overwork due to work tension. His soul crossed over to Daming, a young man who accidentally fell to death in the ridge because he drove the birds and birds in the rice.

"Zhou Zhi, you, didn't you hear Young Master Ben talking to you? Young Master Ben asked, "How many words do you know?" Chen Wenju said angrily.

Chen Wenju repeatedly pressed to ask, Zhou Zhi had no choice but to turn around and reply in a cold voice with an expressionless face, "Back to the words of Third Young Master Chen, the villain passed by the door of the social school every day, and he stopped to listen to the master's lecture for a while, and the villain knew a few words. ”

Although Zhou Zhiyan respected Chen Wenju very much, his tone was extremely cold, which made Chen Wenju even more angry.

"Nonsense, unashamed, just listen to a few words outside of social studies? You think that word is so easy to learn, who are you? Wenqu Xing descends to earth? Young Master Ben tells you that you are a mud legged, a slut, a lowly person! Do you understand? Gou Wang'er, you are still stunned, throw away his book, don't let him insult the reader, Young Master Ben will be angry when he sees it. ”

Wang'er, the little dog beside Chen Wenju, couldn't help but say, and strode forward to snatch the book in Zhou Zhi's hand. Hearing Chen Wenju speak like that just now, Zhou Zhi had already taken precautions, and the two of them scrambled. Zhou Zhi sat on the ground, and finally had difficulty moving, and the book was finally snatched away by him.

only heard the sound of "bang", and the book was divided in half by Gou Wang'er and thrown on the ground.

"Haha! Relieved, what kind of book does a poor cub from a peasant family read, and he looks decent. Dog Wang'er, let's go! Chen Wenju stroked his palm and laughed.

"Chen Wenju, don't deceive people too much, my reading is about your, why are you tearing up my book? Compensate me! Zhou Zhiteng stood up suddenly, his face was cold, and he glared angrily at Chen Wenju, aggressive.

Zhou Zhi is fifteen years old, but he has the size of an adult. Standing in front of Chen Wenju, he was more than half a head taller than Chen Wenju.

Chen Wenju couldn't help but tremble in fright and took a few steps back, but he quickly calmed down and laughed in a dark voice, "Zhou family boy, what did you just say?" Too much deception? Hum! Young Master Ben is bullying you, what's wrong? This young master is the third young master of the Chen family, he can bully whoever he wants, and he can bully you farmers as much as he wants, what can you bear with me? ”

Indeed, the Chen family is very powerful, and they have contacts with officials in the county. If Zhou Zhiwei sued him to the county government for this trivial matter, the county magistrate would not take care of it, even if he really managed it, he would inevitably be biased towards Chen Wenju, and Zhou Zhi would suffer a big loss if he didn't do it well.

But is that all there is to it?

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but hesitate.

Seeing Zhou Zhi's embarrassed face, Chen Wenju became even more proud, and said, "Hehe! Poor, are you convinced? Young Master Ben told you, do whatever you have to do, reading is really not something you can do, don't pretend to be a reader with a broken book, and insult a reader. In the future, when Young Master Ben sees you holding a book again, he will tear it once he sees it. ”

After that, he didn't pay attention to Zhou Zhi anymore, waved his hand at Gou Wang'er, and walked away.

Staring at Chen Wenju's step-by-step, invincible back, Zhou Zhi's eyes were cold. Suddenly, he shouted at Chen Wenju, "Third Young Master Chen, you just said that a poor ghost like me can't read a few words and can't read, then I want to say that I know a hundred words, do you believe a thousand words?" ”

"Hey, a thousand words! What did you just say, you haven't read it in a day of school, and you can read a thousand words? Lie, gossip! It seems that you didn't teach you enough just now, okay, today, Young Master Ben will teach you a good lesson! Chen Wenju immediately stood still and turned around, walked to Zhou Zhi again, and said viciously with a raised face.

"Third Young Master Chen, I'm just asking you to believe it or not?" The corners of Zhou Zhi's mouth raised, and he asked with a slight smile.

When he smiled like this, he obviously had the flavor of joking Chen Wenju. In the past, who dared to talk to him like this, Chen Wenju, Chen Wenju became even more angry, and said, "Don't believe it! Unbelief! I don't believe that this young master is dead! ”

"Okay, then Third Young Master Chen dares to gamble with me, a peasant boy?" Zhou Zhi was still smiling and said defiantly.