Only Xie Yingrong was sulking in the Xie family, and everyone else was in a good mood, and no one paid attention to what the third girl was angry about.

Anyway, she just huddles in her yard all day long, and doesn't like to take care of others. Even if she was angry, only her biological mother, Aunt Da Jin, and the people in her own courtyard would know. She didn't want to deal with the rest of her family, and after a long time, others slowly ignored her existence. As long as she doesn't make any trouble, she is basically a little transparent at home.

The siblings who would have been staring at her distractedly have been focused on another matter lately.

Xie Jinzhi went to Changping with the Song family to worship the ancestors of the Song family, and got acquainted with several famous local Confucian scholars in Beiping, and obtained their permission to ask them for homework from time to time. He is a diligent and studious person, after returning home, he didn't rest for two days, and when he inquired about one of the famous families returning to the city, he immediately brought his own articles and homework to the door, and by the way, he also brought his eldest brother Xie Xianzhi.

This trip to ask for advice went well. Xie Jinzhi got along well with that famous artist, got the other party's guidance, and also figured out several doubts, and also had new ideas about his writing skills. He also made friends with the other party's nephews by the way, and made an appointment to meet often when he had time in the future to discuss articles. With the guidance of these new friends, Xie Jinzhi can be regarded as smoothly integrating into the circle of young scholars in Beiping.

But in comparison, Xie Xianzhi was not treated so well. Although the family was also very polite to him, when Xie Jinzhi went into the study with the famous family to ask for homework, he also sent his nephew to chat with him in the living room, and his attitude was very gentle and polite. However, he didn't get the opportunity to ask the famous master for advice alone, and the other party obviously didn't intend to guide him with his heart. The question in his heart was still asked by his brother Xie Jinzhi to ask for homework from a famous master in person, and he raised it by the way, and then he got guidance. Xie Xianzhi was a guest in this family, and he vaguely felt that he and his brother were different in the eyes of others.

If this trip to ask for advice made Xie Xianzhi suspicious, and the experience of their brother going to another great Confucian two days later made him even more sure that in the circle of scholars in Beiping, the identity of himself and his second brother Xie Jinzhi is really very different.

Xie Jinzhi is the heir of the Song family, and in the eyes of the local scholars, he is the orthodox descendant of the Song sacrifice wine. Song Saijiu has served in the Guozijian for many years, not only peach and plum all over the world, but also not less to carry and help the scholars from Beiping, and the local scholars and people in the circle remember him a piece of incense, and treat his descendants naturally cordially. With the introduction of the Song family, Xie Jinzhi can easily get the guidance of famous experts, and if he is an official outside in the future, he can also make friends when he meets an official from Beiping.

But Xie Xianzhi is the grandson of his cousin Cao.

Even if he and Xie Jinzhi are half-brothers, their identities are different, and others have different opinions about them. The Cao family used to be a nobleman and a military general, and then became a relative, and he also controlled the government for many years, and was once a powerful minister of the government and the opposition. Even if the rumors that the Cao family was once in a bad situation have long been known, their identities have not changed. In addition, when the Cao family was in charge of the army, they did not resist foreign enemies at the border pass, but after taking power, they did not suppress the king of Yan and several generals who were in charge of Beiping, so they did not have much good reputation in Beiping.

Honorables, military generals, relatives, and ministers, each of the four identities is on the chain of contempt of traditional literati, unless it is someone who does not know Xie Xianzhi's life experience, no one in the local scholars will look at him pleasing to the eye.

Of course, they will not embarrass Xie Xianzhi in person, and they will treat each other politely everywhere. If he can be cheeky and ask for advice, the person he asks for advice will also say a few words and answer his questions. But beyond that, there will be no more. Those famous Confucians will not guide him to his scholarly articles, let alone love him as the descendants of the family, just like Xie Jinzhi. They will regard him as the son of a powerful person, and they don't think that he is a person who really wants to be a scholar, and he doesn't need to rely on the cold window to study hard in order to get a chance to become an official in the scientific field.

Although this differential treatment is not obvious, the feelings of the parties are very clear. Xie Xianzhi felt very confused, but he couldn't say that others were doing something wrong. In the past, when he was still an upright scholar, it was not without his disdain to the nobles, generals, relatives and others in the capital. It's just that when something happens to him, he feels uncomfortable.

He didn't want to talk about it to his family, let alone talk to his second brother Xie Jinzhi! The second brother was originally well-intentioned, so he took himself to visit all the famous Confucians, since he was going to skip class, how could he be embarrassed to complain that people didn't treat him as a serious student? If he complains about something, which makes the second brother feel worried, and he no longer asks those famous people for advice, or helps him make any requests to the other party, wouldn't it hurt the good relationship between the second brother and all the gentlemen?!

Xie Xianzhi didn't want his second brother to lose the opportunity to get guidance from a famous teacher because of his relationship.

He could only go to find his sister Xie Yinghui in private: "I listened to my father's tone before, and it seemed that I was planning to let me go back to Beijing to live for a long time after marriage, and no longer stay by his side to fulfill my filial piety, and I have always felt very uneasy in my heart, worried that my father would dislike me." But now I know that my father is actually a hard worker. He persuaded me to go back to the capital for the sake of my future. ”

Now that the Cao family is no longer as powerful as before, even if he returns to Beijing, he doesn't have to worry about being harassed by the Cao family. When he marries the daughter of the eldest princess of Yongning, the husband and wife will return to Beijing to live for a long time, and the eldest princess and the horse will not have to bear the pain of separation, which can be regarded as his son-in-law's filial piety. And with the protection of the eldest princess Yongning and his wife, he can also live a peaceful and happy life in the capital. At that time, relying on the prestige of the Yue family and the Ma family in the Shilin literary circle, he didn't have to worry about finding a famous teacher and a Confucian to guide his homework articles. After a few years of hard study, if you go to the next township test, you can have a much higher grasp of the middle lift.

He couldn't get such a good teacher in Beiping, and his father Xie Pu asked him to go back to Beijing, completely for him!

Xie Yinghui listened to her brother's words silently, and said in a low voice: "Brother, just listen to my father's arrangement." My father is really kind and kind to our brother and sister, and he is countless times stronger than my mother, so what should we worry about? If the elder brother is worried about the second brother's homework, it is a big deal that you have been taught by a famous teacher in the capital, so write down all the main points they said and send them to the second brother to see. If you can get the favor of famous teachers, maybe you can ask them to guide the second brother in his homework, just like the second brother is now taking you to visit those famous families. Although we are two people, in fact, we are all close brothers and sisters, so why bother to divide you and me? Supporting each other, sharing blessings and difficulties, the Xie family will only get better and better in the future, and they will never encounter the same thing as four years ago......"

Xie Xianzhi nodded solemnly.