Without Song Cheng, Ye Yong himself couldn't explain the first half of his life.

When he was a child, Ye Yong believed that the most complete life of a person is not to enter the hall when he is young and set up a public court!

Therefore, the school hall and the public hall are the two cleanest and most broken places in Ye Yong's heart when he was young, clean to spotless, and so pure that there is only the fragrance of books and Haoran righteousness inside.

Later, when he grew up, Ye Yong found that this was not the case, and then he began to hate all those who violated this Pure Land.

However, there is always a little regret that in the first half of his life, Ye Yong has never really entered the hall and been contaminated with the fragrance of ink, nor has he really stood in the public court to defend the righteousness of the world.

In the early years of Yongzheng, most of the righteous schools established by Kangxi Ye had been deserted, and where there was no oil and water, naturally no gentleman was willing to teach.

Ye Yong was lucky enough to learn a few words in righteousness when he was a teenager, and he yearned for real learning.

The old lady of the family knew his thoughts, the hen laid eggs, the old lady carefully picked it up and put it in the bamboo basket, one day, the basket was finally full, the old lady folded the brand-new linen cloth squarely, carefully covered the basket, and then pulled Ye Yong, picked up the egg, and knocked on the door of the only talent in the village.

Ye Yong remembered very well that when he knocked on the door, the old lady clenched her hands painfully.

The door opened, and the old lady couldn't say a word stiffly, but just twisted and pulled herself to Xiucai, and slapped her hard, only saying that the child was naughty and couldn't discipline herself......

Ye Yong looked up at his wife blankly, not knowing what the reason for this slap was!

After the drawing, the basket of eggs was slowly held by the old lady with both hands.

The old lady who was so domineering, when she faced Xiucai, she still couldn't say a word, and her face turned red.

Ye Yong thought to himself, this basket full of eggs can be exchanged for some salt and copper coins.

However, that Xiucai just tilted his face and squinted his eyes, condescendingly, and smashed a cold snort out of his nose, that cold snort contained too many things, and Ye Yong, who could smash everything, was out of breath and couldn't raise his head.

The old lady's smile was a little astringent: "Sir, is there too little restraint?" ”

Ye Yong saw that Xiucai's eyelids were raised, and then he stiffly threw down a sentence: "You, come back tomorrow!" "Turn and leave.

Ye Yong didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, but the old lady did.

On the way home, Ye Yong asked the old lady why she beat herself, she has always been sensible!

The old lady rubbed the back of Ye Yong's head, full of guilt, and at night, after hesitating for a long time, the old lady boiled an egg and gave it to Ye Yong.

Ye Yong finished eating the eggs, and the cries of chickens in the broken yard were gone.

On the second day, the old lady once again pulled Ye Yong and knocked on the door of Xiucai's house.

Xiucai pinched the rat's whiskers, probably seeing the hen with her mouth and feet tied next to the bamboo basket, her eyes finally narrowed a trace of closeness, and said, Let's go to school after autumn.

When she returned home, the old lady couldn't suppress her joy, but she blamed herself and said to Ye Yong, I shouldn't have eaten that egg for you yesterday, be sincere!

My son can read!

Ye Yong went to Xiucai's house as promised, but after only two steps into the threshold, he was caught by that Xiucai.

Ye Yong met the stiff smile on Xiucai's face and asked blankly, "Sir, is there anything rude about the student?" ”

Xiucai laughed dryly twice and asked Ye Yong if he had a book.

Ye Yong replied, no!

Xiucai said, go home and get the money to buy books! Otherwise, don't come!

After that, the door of Xiucai's house was slammed shut.

Ye Yongsoul returned home without giving up, the money to buy books?

There is no decision, the copper money at home can be counted on one finger, and the printing of "Thousand Character Text" and "Disciple Rules" will cost six yuan, it is said that there are officials in the court, in order to buy books, and even lose their own clothes.

Ye Yong's clothes are worthless!

So, the book? Ye Yong can't afford it.

When the old lady asked, Ye Yong had no choice but to lie and say that he didn't study anymore!

The old lady was angry, trembling all over, and after beating Ye Yong, she reacted, according to her own child's temperament, it was a bit abnormal to say such things.

Ye Yong was led by the old lady for the third time and knocked on the door of Xiucai's house.

After asking the reason, the old lady begged Xiucai and said that there must be many books in the husband's house......

Without waiting for the old lady to finish speaking, Xiucai was furious and scolded: "How can such a saint's things be borrowed casually!" ”

I can't read a book!

The old lady politely asked to return the bundle.

Hearing this, Xiucai's anger turned into a scolding: "I worship myself under the saint's door, and I have studied hard for more than ten years in the cold window, so that I can get the title of a Xiucai duke. I don't know what to do! Ridiculous! ”

Ye Yong finally understood at this time that this so-called saint disciple had no intention of accepting himself as a student from the beginning.

The old lady howled and cried, Xiucai just closed the door heavily, and the moment the door was closed, through the crack in the door, Ye Yong saw Xiucai's concubine who was only wearing obscene clothes, holding a chicken leg and gnawing a mouth full of blood stains.

Ye Yong sniffed, tried to straighten his spine, pulled the old lady from the ground, and went home silently.

The old lady said, report to the official!

Ye Yong stupidly went to report to the official.

Then, the old lady became a bad woman and disturbed the court, Ye Yong gritted his teeth and took the board for the old lady.

At that time, Ye Yongcai knew that Xiucai could not kneel when he saw the official! There are even teachers and students with the county order!

Such a person deserves to die!

However, the damned person did not die, he lived well as usual, with meat, wine, and even concubines, that kind of life, Ye Yong felt so illusory!

The one who didn't deserve to die, but ended that humble life early.

But after half a year, the old lady died depressed!

Before dying, he used his thick calloused man-like palms to grab Ye Yong's clothes and said, son, it was the old lady who caused you to be despised by others, my mother was born in a green building, and my mother was a lowly!

Cheap? Geisha? Ye Yong laughed miserably, only feeling very angry and sad, angry that they are all alive, why should they divide the high and the low?

The sad thing is that others eat their own flesh and blood, and then step on it, but their own mother still only blames all this on her own lowliness, the humility in her bones!

Ye Yong felt ridiculous, he hated this sense of humility, Ye Yong didn't intend to be such a person, nor did he want to be a person like Xiucai.

Ye Yong felt that the old lady had been widowed all her life, humble and miserable, and she should be decent no matter what she did after death.

Sold the only half acre of land in the family, in exchange for seven yuan, Ye Yong took two pieces of money to set up a monument for the old lady, when the monument was erected, when Ye Yong carved the words of the mother Ye, he suddenly remembered that he didn't even know the name of the old lady, and the woman got married, and there was no longer a name.

Even more pitiful than that is that there was never a name.

Poor and dead do not sell land, so people who know him scold Ye Yong for being a loser.

Ye Yong doesn't care, just as those who scold him for being a loser don't really care about him, what they care about is that their son must not become such a person.

After making a few well-fitting clothes, and exchanging the remaining copper coins for a few silver cakes in his arms, Ye Yong left without looking back, he wanted to be a person who didn't kneel as much as possible, at least, he didn't have to kneel for someone like the county magistrate who beat his own board!

So Ye Yong chose to go to the capital, and after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, he called Beijing Chengjing Shi Shuntianfu, Ye Yong didn't like it, just like he didn't like the braids that were thrown around his head.

The capital is actually not too far away, and it will take a few days to get there overnight.

Ye Yong thought to himself, there will always be people in this world who really cherish knowledge!

After the city gate official changed his method to blackmail Ye Yong's two copper coins, Ye Yong lost his good impression of this city.

The only thing that looks good is the Forbidden City, Ye Yong looked at the vermilion city wall like a god, and also saw the people sleeping against the root of the wall under the city wall, their clothes were ragged, and everything became boring.

It turns out that people living in the capital are no better than themselves.

Ye Yong reverently washed away the dust, combed his braids, and ran to the academy.

Even if he knelt on his knees, no one cared, and those few taels of silver cakes were so insignificant.

Someone laughed at him and said, this academy of the Beijing Division, which is not a Confucian University scholar, the son of the banner man and the official eunuch, squeezed through the scalp and can't mix a place, what kind of thing are you?

Ye Yong turned his head, but found a drunken old beggar, with his hair scattered, scolded Ye Yong twice, and walked away with crazy steps.

Ye Yong suddenly laughed, he no longer hoped to be appreciated by Mr. Academy, he gave a few taels of silver cakes to Yaxing, on the condition that he could find a job to enter the academy to do chores.

The people of the tooth line think that this is a fool, these few taels of silver cakes are enough for the bottom of the thrifty people to spend for half a year, such a fool, the tooth line likes it!

Yaxing was talking in the end, and the steward of Jintai Academy recruited miscellaneous servants, and Ye Yong went in.

When he entered the gate of the academy, Ye Yong was in a trance, and when he looked up at the 'Guangyu Quncai' mentioned by Kangxi Ye himself, he only felt very dazzling!

Carrying water, chopping wood and sweeping the floor, Ye Yong's most happy thing is to clean the yard.

Ye Yong cherished the sound of reading in the academy, and was reluctant to make too much movement, and Mr. Teaching also liked such a discerning subordinate, so after a long time, this errand naturally became his.

When the students of the academy were resting, the tired gentleman in the academy couldn't help but joke about Ye Yong: "I see that you spend all your time sweeping the floor except for three meals a day, this broom, is it possible that it is more intoxicating than the sister singing in the tea garden?" ”

Ye Yong blushed, bowed his head and didn't speak, he hadn't seen the play, but he knew that it wasn't a good thing.

Seeing that Ye Yong didn't answer, the gentleman shook his head and said that it was boring, so he called Ye Yong to change the pot of tea.

When he brought up the hot tea and poured the water, Ye Yong greedily glanced at the scroll on the case, and had already turned to "Historical Records of the Chen Shi Family": "If the strong man does not die, he will be famous when he dies, and the prince will have a kind of ...... Xiangning."

When Ye Yong read this, the blood all over his body seemed to be boiling, and even the tea burned Mr. off the table......

Ye Yongzhen wanted to turn his unwillingness into a roar and question like King Chen Sheng: "What kind of prince will Xiangning?" ”

However, later, Ye Yong was desperate and sad to find that the prince would have a kind of Xiangning?

Yes!