"Crackle, crackle."

"Boom, boom."

On the street, the sound of firecrackers and gongs rang one after another, and at the same time, along with these sounds, there were many people's shouts and wild laughter, which made the whole street fall into a lively scene, if people who don't know the truth still think that today is a festive holiday.

It's a pity that today is neither a New Year nor a festival, but for some people, today is 10,000 times more grand than the New Year's Festival, because today is the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, that is, 1643 A.D., the day of the triennial big competition, that is to say, after today, there will be hundreds of lowly grass people, leaping into the dragon gate, becoming a high-ranking Ming official.

"No one asks about the cold window for ten years, and once you become famous, the world will know."

Since this joke came out, it has become the truest portrayal of readers throughout the ages, and today, it has become time to verify this joke.

I saw that on the street, the little officials belonging to the Ministry of Officials, holding the annunciation stickers in their hands, with a bright smile on their faces, walked back and forth briskly, although their faces were already tired and sweaty, but there was no slowness at all under their feet, and even faster and faster, in order to send this great news to the new scholars who had just become famous, so as to get the reward of those new scholars.

"Hey"

With an untimely low sigh, a young man in a simple tea shed leaked out of the street.

A slightly discolored scholar's uniform, although there are still a few patches in an inconspicuous place, but it is very clean and tidy, without even a trace of wrinkles, and with that face that looks like warm jade, anyone who sees it will involuntarily praise it, it is really a "beautiful boy".

After a sigh, the young man drank all the soy milk in the bowl on the table, took out a plain gauze towel from his arms, slowly wiped the stains on the corners of his mouth, and then raised his hand to put down a few copper coins, and then said, "Little third son, settle the account." ”

"Oh, Shi Gongzi, you're done." As soon as the young man's words landed, the shopkeeper who was busy making steamed buns next to him immediately turned around and greeted.

"Eat well, today's buns are a lot more than in the past, what's the matter, aren't you afraid of losing money?" The young man, that is, Shi Gongzi, asked.

Hearing Shi Gongzi's question, the shopkeeper Xiao Sanzi laughed and said, "Oh, you have eaten it, I am still thinking, no one knows about it today, I didn't expect that you were the first to find out, or that a scholar is a reader?" ”

Speaking of this, the little third son paused for a moment, and then continued, "Shi Gongzi, as for the loss, don't say it, you know, today is the day of the list, don't look at my small stall, and there are no readers in our family, but, since my grandfather's time, the rules have been set, whenever the list is released, our buns will treat the readers for free, and it can be regarded as accumulating yin virtue for the children and grandchildren, and strive to let our family also produce a scholar, not to mention the champion, a jinshi is also okay!" ”

After Xiao Sanzi's words were finished, although Shi Gongzi still had a smile on his face, the trace of loneliness was fully revealed.

"Yes, studying, taking the Jinshi examination, so as to leap into the dragon gate, so that you and the whole family can improve both social status and identity, this is the ideal of people in this era, and it is also the ideal of countless people throughout the ages, although this ideal has allowed many people to achieve their goals, but it has also made more people fall into this whirlpool, and there is no possibility of getting out."

Seeing that Shi Gongzi didn't speak for a long time, after the third son paused, he couldn't help but say, "Shi Gongzi, you also participated in this section, today is the release day, don't you go to see the emperor list?" ”

Shi Gongzi, who was awakened by the third son, was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Look at the emperor's list, forget it, there are times in life that you must have it, and there is no time in life to ask for it, and it is in vain to see it, I am saying, even if I pass the exam, what is the use." With that, he walked slowly into the distance.

Seeing the somewhat lonely Shi Gongzi, Xiao Sanzi shook his head helplessly, for this Shi Gongzi who comes here every day to eat steamed buns, Xiao Sanzi is very respectful, not only because he is kind and angry, but most importantly, he is a lifting person, but from today's situation, it can be seen that he has no hope in this subject.

Walking on the street, Shi Gongzi looked at the lively crowd on the street, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "Hey, I hope that in a year, this kind of lively scene can still appear!" ”

If someone else hears Shi Gongzi's words, maybe they will definitely think that he is a madman, but he is the only one in this world who knows what will happen in a year, that is, the largest rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, will take his group of volunteers who can't even eat their stomachs to break the Beijing city that has been established for hundreds of years, and then, this city will be plagued by soldiers, if, Li Zicheng's rebel army is nothing, Then no one will know about the destruction of the entire Beijing city by the Manchu army.

Thinking of the Han people who will fill the world in the future, and the tragedy that will happen in the whole of China, but he will not play a role in it, Shi Gongzi's heart can't help but feel uncomfortable.

Shi Gongzi, his real name is Shi Lei, a very ordinary name, and his identity does not match at all, but this is indeed his name, his father Shi Shan is a small official of the Ministry of Officials, although he is a small official, but the right is not small, after all, the Ministry of Officials is in charge of the promotion of officials in the world, relying on such a position, Shi Shan has accumulated a lot of furniture in the past few decades.

It stands to reason that Shi Lei, as the son of Shi Shan, even if he doesn't wear gold and silver, he should have good clothes, and it is impossible to wear old clothes with patches, and all of this is caused by his mother's identity. His mother, Li Cui'er, is the slave of the Li Ping family, the mother of the Shi family, and was born to the slave of the Li family.

If this is the case, it is a trivial matter in the open Ming Dynasty, but what makes people helpless is that this Shishan has a jealous wife, and the most important thing is that the reason why Shishan can be a small official in the Ministry of Officials is to rely on the power of his wife's mother's family.

When Li Ping learned about Shi Lei's mother, he was so angry that he was about to beat his mother to death, but fortunately, at the last time, Shi Shan's conscience found out and stopped Li Ping, who saved their mother and son.

After that, although the life of the mother and son stayed, they became the most miserable people in the entire Shi family, in the memory of Shi Lei's youth, his mother was carrying himself on his back, while cooking on the fire, washing and chopping wood, and himself, when he was a child, his best playmate was the little man who was carved into a toy and mud by his mother with firewood.

And Shi Lei was also a difficult fate when he was a child, his body was very thin since he was a child, and he couldn't eat anything nutritious all day long, and it was common for him to be sick, and his mother, who was a subordinate, couldn't even eat enough, let alone take medicine, so most of the time he found some leftover medicine residue from others and gave him to drink after boiling it, so that when he was eight or nine years old, Shi Lei's suffering days were slightly improved.

It was a time when an adult from the Ministry of Officials came to Shi's house, in fact, it was also deliberately invited by Shi Shan, that is, he wanted the adult to see his other two sons, who are also Shi Lei's two elder brothers, Shi Ming, whether Shi Liang had the possibility of studying. When the adult inspected Shi Ming and Shi Liang, the young Shi Lei also hid not far away to peek out of curiosity.

At that time, the adult simply taught Shi Ming, Shi Liang and the two of them some sentences of the three-character scripture, and then asked the two of them to recite them again. Although it is only a short sentence of more than ten sentences, it is still a very rhyming three-character scripture, the two of them together did not remember half of it, looking at the two people who were so anxious that their faces were flushed and sweating, Shi Lei couldn't help but recite it in a low voice, Shi Lei's voice was not high, but the sharp penetrating power of the child's voice still made those people find him.

Shi Lei, who inherited his mother's appearance, was also very handsome and lovely when he was a child, so when the adult saw him, he liked him very much, called him over, and then asked him to recite the more than ten sentences, and after Shi Lei recited those sentences fluently, the adult couldn't help but teach him some more sentences, and Shi Leiyue was indeed very smart and quickly remembered.

In this way, the adult taught him three "Analects", and Shi Lei also lived up to expectations and memorized all three "Analects" word for word, which made the adult can't help but be surprised, calling him a "prodigy", and accepted Shi Lei as a student on the spot to teach him knowledge.

After this opportunity, Shi Lei has the opportunity to change his fate, but it is only an opportunity, whether he can seize it depends on his efforts, in order for Shi Lei to be able to study, his mother, who has become extremely old because of hard work all day, has become more diligent, in order to let Shi Lei get the money to buy paper and pencils.

And Shi Lei did not live up to the high expectations of his teacher and mother, he studied at the age of eleven, was admitted to Xiucai at the age of sixteen, and then became a lifter in the same year, but when he wanted to make persistent efforts to hope for the title of the gold list, he encountered an accident.

It was this accident that made Shi Lei almost die, and although he finally woke up after lying in bed for more than a year, the real Shi Lei had also disappeared.

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