I looked at both of them with jealousy.

Zhao Dapang appeared in front of him, clenched his fat hand, held it in front of my eyes, and said to my father and me: "The old man wants to!" What are you two households looking at, hurry up and clean the toilet! Light the incense and put the paper on it. If you're not satisfied, break your bones. ”。

I stepped forward, but my dad pulled me away.

The latrines in winter are really hard to make! Completely unshovelable!

"What are you doing,, what are you doing? Mind your stupid son, what are you doing with swollen eyes? Kick you to death! You're still not convinced by the guy who wiped the? This is Zhao Dapang's voice.

"Don't say that, it's not easy for everyone!" The scholar from the capital said, his voice was not angry and self-assured.

People are complimented, like a flock of hens around a rooster.

Then the people around the capital scholar surrounded him and used a circle of big red silk, glittering silk.

He's in it.

Wow! How elegant!

It's not a loss to the scholars of the capital!

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My dad and I were busy all afternoon, from lunch to dinner.

We ate and complained.

Well, actually, it's just me complaining, because not complaining will suffocate me.

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"Why do we do this? When you are born, you can only do the work of digging dung!

Look at you, you love to be clean so much, the house is properly tied, the pots and pans are clean and hygienic, this is the material of a natural housekeeper. Maybe you can still be the county lord's personal butler.

You see that the food you cook is so delicious, it is better and cleaner than the guys in the village. I've been to his stall, and the food is unpalatable and cold, and even your pot water is not as good.

You see, you can write, you can read books and newspapers, and you can speak. Your Spring Festival couplets are better than Mr. Murakami's private school, how many times have the neighbors rather tear up the Spring Festival couplets sent by Zhao Sanye, but also paste them to our house! You see that I didn't go to much school, and I actually won the township test, and there are not many in our township! None of those stupid boys from big families missed.

You know all the red and white ceremonies, feng shui, and big things, and there is no one better than you in the whole village, and you can even recite scriptures and fortune telling. If you say you've been out on a rampage, no one will disbelieve you.

Why should I go this way? What won't I do? It's not like you said that a bottle is less than half a bottle and a swinging prodigal, right?

Why be the same as you? Why spend your life in this little village that no one knows about?

In winter, it's so cold, I can't sleep at night, and the quilt is as cold as ice, and when I just warm it up and the sky is bright, you let me get up and read. Every time I read a book and look at the sparrows in the trees, I thought to myself that if it was a sparrow, I wouldn't have to work so hard.

In the summer, the nights are annoying. How many times have you been unable to calm down, you sit next to me, fanning me while watching me read. The kids outside were messing around, the adults were playing cards, and it was just the two of us in the room. And so on, day after day, year after year!

I'm always thinking, what are you doing this for?

What are we for?

I'm not reconciled! ”

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"Big cow!" Daddy finally spoke. He had just drunk the inferior sorghum wine, which was made from the sorghum that had been fed to the animals. I don't know if it's the wine, or the words that come out of the back, which makes his body red, his face is also red, and his eyes are red and swollen

Dad said, "It's all the same, everybody is the same." I'm just like you, and your grandfather is just like me. I've done it, I've thought about it, and I'm just as proud, but ...... I'm not like them anymore! I used to drink and smoke, but then I still became an alcoholic smoker. Your mother'......"

There was a bit of a miserable smell in the air.

So I changed the subject: "Dad, I'm going to break this karma!" It's just to do what you want to do, but you can't do it! I don't know if it's right or wrong, but I have to do it to know!

I plucked up the courage and said, "Let me out!" Don't talk about morality, what is right or wrong, what is filial piety or not, what love is not loved, don't let me take care of what I can't manage, and I am responsible for my own affairs! ”

Daddy grabbed my hand.

His muscles bulged out.

He scratched at me, both in the grabbed hand and in my heart.

The corners of his mouth quivered. He wanted to speak, but he didn't. Maybe he couldn't convince me, or even himself, but he still grabbed what he could hold on to now, like a man about to drown grabbing at a straw, like the last straw on a donkey to be crushed......

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Things in the world are so accidental. If it weren't for the accident, I, like my father, would probably use some little tricks to trick the dog into ignoring her, and then kill her for the rest of her life, giving birth to a lone seedling who is as weird as me, and that lone seedling is as weird as me......

Some things in the world are just so accidental. I jumped out of the inevitable fate, because by chance, the man outside had been listening to us so much that he forgot to - he was the gentleman in the capital, the center of our little world.

He listened to our conversation from start to finish.

The following events will never be forgotten for the rest of your life.

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The scholar walked in.

The servants outside stood outside, and they looked puzzled like me and my father.

The scholar looked at me, at my father, and then at the black, empty, empty room.

He pulled over a stool and sat with us.

The servants frowned.

Shizi: "The Spring Festival couplets outside - 'The world is public in the middle of the period, and the saint is enlightened', 'When you come and return, the survivors will never be seen', and the horizontal criticism of 'The Righteousness of Man and God' - who wrote it?" ”

Me: "My dad wrote it." The Spring Festival couplets sent in the township are too bad. ”

Shizi: "The handwriting is good, and the artistic conception is also good, but ...... Written in front of the hut......"

Dad didn't speak, he didn't say anything.

Him: "Do you know what that means?" ”

Me: "No one prescribes it...... Maokeng is not allowed to write this. ”

The scholar stopped looking at his father, turned his head, and looked at me.

He smiled: "Your name is ...... Uh, Zhao Daniu? Dongfang Rong mentioned it to me a few times...... Nicknamed 'Big'...... The name ......"

I want to say, "The name doesn't mean anything, it's just a random reference." When a person says a name, he must be omniscient about what the name refers to. But no one can do that, so you can't refer to things by name at all. ”

— but I stopped my urge to die in 0.1 seconds.

I calmed down, and said in the tone of Dijing, not in the village accent: "The villain Zhao Daniu, since he was a child, followed his father to study, and learned all the books and private books, and he was born at the age of twelve, and he has already passed the township test in the fourteenth year, and the little one is ......."

Him: "Haha. I didn't expect to meet a showman when I peed today, or a showman from a household. ”

If it were a normal day, I would definitely feel slighted and angry, but for some reason I don't feel anything, but I feel flattered.

Me: "My father is also a Xiucai, and he also worked as a teacher in the village, but in the end he was beaten out by Zhao Liuye, saying that the household is not worthy of being a gentleman." ”

Shizi touched his mustache and said, "Oh." ”

I immediately rummaged through the drawer beside me, took out a bunch of things—diaries, notes—and handed them to Shizi.

Dad looked at me with a frown.

As you can guess, Dad must think, "Damn, this little pimp." ”

I wanted to say to him, "Yes, you guessed it, these sycophants are ready. ”

Shizi also frowned, looking through the diaries and notes.

A piece of paper fell, and on it were five big characters of "junior high school graduation certificate".

Yes! Forgot to hide it! Damn it! The "Amendment to the Household Registration Law of the Ming Dynasty" clearly stipulates that only "outstanding civilian scholars" who have graduated from high school can "enter the scholars".

I hurriedly said: "I couldn't pay the money, and I was kicked out of the junior high school in the township, but, but, however, I had already skipped one level before dropping out of school......"

Shizi looked through the diaries and notes.

Him: "What a beautiful word......

Me: "My dad taught me ......"

Shizi: "Write these boring things. ”

I looked at him and said, "Because, I can only write about these boring things." ”

Shizi snorted.

I continued: "Dongfang Rong and I have been playing since childhood...... And...... Moreover, I persuaded him to join the family of the scholar. ”

He looked at me: "Why our family?" ”

Me: "That's why it's called fate." ”

Shizi nodded, smiled, looked around, and said, "My name is Dongfang Yongbai." ”

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I guessed that this is the son of the Dongfang family - because his name is "Dongfang Yongbai". Only the own people of the Dongfang Shi clan can be called "Dongfang XX", and the people who "enter the Shi" can only be called "Dongfang XX" - such as "Dongfang Rong".

The Dongfang Shi clan is the first Shi clan in Xiliang, the ancestral home is Longnan, and now lives in Liangzhou, known as Longnan Dongfang Family or Liangzhou Dongfang Family or Xiliang Dongfang Family, anyway, half of Xiliang is theirs. In the twenty-three provinces in the world, the Xiliang cavalry is known as the first, which is why the "general of Zhengbei" among the four generals of the "southeast and northwest" has always been the Xiliang people.

The emperor ordered the world's big families to move to Chang'an, so the Dongfang family moved from Liangzhou to the capital. Even in Chang'an, the imperial capital, the Dongfang family can be regarded as a well-known Dashi clan. Only this kind of person will make Zhao Sanye lie on the ground like a dog to please him.

I said, "The son of the East." ”

"Hmph." - The man spat out the word, his face gloomy.

,! This man is not the son of the world! There are many children and grandchildren, who is like me! Not only is this person not the son of the world, maybe he is still a concubine!

Woe to the mouth!

"Dongfang Yongwu is my eldest brother, and I am his second brother Dongfang Yongbai." He spoke slowly, as if speaking through his nostrils, "What's the use of the concubine?" In the end, I don't know how it will turn out! You tell me? ”

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It's hard to say. According to the standard answer, Da Ming is the most "concubine", but obviously he can't say "standard answer" now - because this guy is obviously a concubine.

How do you answer him? Answered, I am his man; Wrong answer, continue to be my.

Every King James history book will say that the crown prince and the prince will always inherit the throne and title, but the crown prince and the prince in each King James history book are different. For example, the King James History Book says that the current emperor's name is Zhu Zhaotian, who was the crown prince of the first emperor Zhu Dingfu. And my father said that the crown prince had always been called Zhu Zhaoqian, and he was killed by the usurper after being the emperor for a few days. When he said this, he always whispered, for fear that the wall would have ears. I asked the old men who were about the same age as my father in private, and they either didn't know or were just like the imperial court.

Xiliang's mess is even more messy. Xiliang is just a wild place in the eyes of us from the Central Plains - but I still heard some wild history. Not only is the current head of the Dongfang family not from the world, but even the Dongfang family only rose to become the first scholar clan in Xiliang not many years ago.

I felt a feeling of drowning, like the last meal of a condemned prisoner – the only chance that could change a sad fate must be seized.

I looked at him and said, "No one knows what's going to happen in the future." The prince and the crown prince are nothing remarkable. The current emperor was not the crown prince before, and your father was not the prince. ”

The sound is so unfamiliar, like ice cubes.

Dongfang Yongbai stared at my eyes and kept staring.

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After a long minute, Dongfang Yongbai patted me on the shoulder, with an unchanged smile on his face, and said, "You have a good relationship with Dongfang Rong?" ”

Me: "Dongfang Rong and I are both the kind of people who are unwilling to live in the countryside for a lifetime. I've always wanted to go to a family of Tushi to join the family, but I never had the chance. I hope you can give me a chance! ”

Him: "Ha, it's such a coincidence, I came to the Central Plains to find talents." Of course I have this power, but I'm curious, what reason do you give me to give you this opportunity? ”

I stared into his eyes and said, "Because, I am an unwilling person and a capable person, and you are also a capable and unwilling person." I'm useful to you, isn't that enough? ”

Dongfang Yongbai stared at my eyes, glanced at it a few times, and turned to leave.