Father Ye didn't know how he walked out of the Taihe Gate with his two legs, and he walked beside the tiger's mouth several times in a few days, and he was already physically and mentally exhausted. In the past, he still had some upward thoughts, and he always felt that as a speech official, a small imperial history was not enough to see in Beijing.

But the recent experiences have made him feel that instead of being a worried Beijing official, it is better to be comfortable and comfortable to let out a local official who is not very important.

Even if he is as powerful as Prime Minister Fang, what is the end? It's not that it's gone.

In fact, there are not a few officials who feel the same way as Ye's father, and the prosperity of the Tianxing Dynasty naturally proves that Emperor Jianlong is a generation of Ming Jun, but when accompanied by Ming Jun, he naturally has to be left and right.

He stood outside the Taihe Gate, looking at the solemn and majestic city wall, muttering to himself. Let's wait and see for a while, after all, he still has a family to support. The daughters must not lose their trust when they marry in the future, and the sons' future official career also needs to be checked up and down. If it is really released out of Beijing, it is indeed unrealistic.

He looked up and saw that the clear sky was indeed a good day, but he still let out a long sigh. Although the sky is clear right now, there are still gloomy clouds in the clear sky!

Under the gloomy clouds, some people are worried about their official careers, and some people are worried about their livelihoods. Lin Yuan looked at the pedestrians coming and going on the street, but none of them wanted to sit on his stall. The aunt who bought wontons next door fished out bowl after bowl in the pot, and the box containing the money couldn't be stuffed.

No one cared about the sale of documents written on his behalf, and he only received a few copper plates for three days in a row. His sister followed him to eat bran and vegetables, but he was hungry. Looking at the brush and paper at hand, he really wanted to say that reading is useless!

In the past, he always believed that reading was the most important thing in the world, and gaining fame in the imperial examination was the only right way for him to serve the imperial court. But now that he is a criminal minister, it is no longer feasible to take the road of the imperial examination. There is no place for the full economy, and the only article that is good at it can't even make a living. If this continues, what will he rely on to find out his case? And what to use to avenge the Fang family.

With these copper plates? Lin Yuan shook the money box self-deprecatingly.

Seeing that today was another day with no income, I had to close the stall and walk home.

On the way, he met some people who didn't like him, and they didn't like each other. These thugs were idle people in the village of Hecheng, who had nothing to do on weekdays, and who often went to his stall to play tricks on him. Therefore, these people are the scoundrels that Lin Yuan, a "gentleman", hates the most in Hecheng. It's really annoying after many encounters.

When those people saw that it was him, they were busy and seemed to see something new. One by one, he sneered

"Isn't this our Lin Junzi from Hecheng, why did you harvest it so early today? Do you want to go home and study hard? ”

These people are sarcastic, and if they meet him on weekdays, they always have to be sarcastic. In fact, they were originally innocent and innocent, but I don't know if they didn't look down on Lin Yuan's superior posture, or if they were born to be wrong. As long as you see it, you will inevitably say a few words like you have to break your mouth.

In the past, Lin Yuan adhered to his etiquette and resolutely ignored these people. But the hopelessness and the bitterness that pressed on his heart for days made him unable to breathe, and these people really poked him in the sore spot. Even the clay figures also have three points of earthiness, Lin Yuan glanced at them coldly and said

"Work hard to write tablets for you."

His words were extremely ugly, and the bastard at the head was anxious!

This kid looks arrogant on weekdays, but he is still a little white face. pretended to be a scholar, and the girls and daughters-in-law in the neighborhood were all confused.

He has long seen that he is not pleasing to the eye, in the past, if he listened honestly and didn't speak, it would have been forgotten, but today he dared to talk back!

Isn't it a self-proclaimed gentleman, and he can say such ugly words.

"Brothers beat him!"

He called out to his friends and pushed Lin Yuan to the ground.

Although Lin Yuan is mainly engaged in reading, he is also the son of the prime minister. He just doesn't like riding and shooting, but he is not unfamiliar with martial arts. Since he came to the city, this successive disobedience was an evil fire that pressed on his end.

The family feud is unavenged, and his sister suffers with him, these people are sneering, where do they understand his bitterness. Lin Yuan parried the other party hard, and greeted the bastard led by what he had learned.

The other party always thought that he was a white-faced scholar, and he was usually weak and liked to put on a show. But I didn't expect him to know how to do some kung fu.

In fact, Lin Yuangui is the prime minister's son-in-law, and Mr. Wu who teaches will not be bad. It's just that he despises it too much, and the skills he has learned are only scratching the surface. But the famous teacher is like this, and he can still fight with the other party for the time being.

However, he has eaten very little recently, and his limbs are a little weak, and the other party is outnumbered. A few back and forth gradually fell behind. The thug kicked him a few times, and saw that his white cloth was full of his own footprints, before he stopped and yelled at him.

"I said, what kind of gentleman are you, won't you do it too! I advise you to clamp your tail and be a man in Hecheng, Lao Tzu, not only are there many people in Hecheng, but even the Yingcheng military camp has my way. ”

He finally beat the little white face, and finally took a breath all along. See if he dares to show off in Hecheng in the future.

The thug took his brothers away, but Lin Yuan, who was beaten to the ground and couldn't move, suddenly laughed.

Barracks? How could he never have thought that there was still this way to go! The Fang family was born in a Jiangnan family and has always been a civilian-official family. If he goes through the imperial examination to enter the office, his hand from a famous family alone will not be able to hide from many people in the court.

But if you use military force to enter the office, it will be very different, and civil and military officials have never been able to deal with it. My father has been an official in the court for so many years, and he has almost never moved with a military attaché. As long as he joins the barracks, who will be able to recognize him if he adds a few scars to the battlefield in the future!

Moreover, the promotion of civilian officials is extremely slow, but the promotion of military attaches is based on military merits. In this situation, he still has nothing to do. Even in a dangerous battlefield, he still has to fight his way out.

Lin Yuan, who finally saw the road ahead, didn't even care about the pain in his body. He dusted off the marks on his body and ran home, telling his sister about his decision.

Lin Xi just exchanged embroidery for white noodles today, and is going to make an elm money noodle for his brother to replenish his body. As soon as the face was reconciled, he saw that his brother, who was clean and tidy in the past, came back with a sad face today.

His robe was covered with footprints, and his face was badly swollen. She hurriedly opened the door and went out, asking him

"What's going on?"

She examined the wounds on Lin Yuan's body, looking at his bruised scars and feeling sad.

"Sister, I have something big to tell you!"

Although his body hurts, his mood is very good. This was the happiest day for him since they came out of the Ye family.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?"

The elder brother, who is always elegant, seems to have lost his mind today. The wound on his body is obviously a conflict with someone, how can he still be happy when he is beaten?

"Xi'er, I'm going to Yingcheng!"

"Yingcheng?! Didn't we just settle down in the city? ”

Although life in the city is not satisfactory, they do have a place to stay. I've just been down, why are you going to Yingcheng again?

"Did anyone find out that we're not dead?"

She lowered her voice and said that it was the worst she could think of.

"Of course not!"

Seeing the worry in her eyes, Lin Yuan touched her head distressedly

"I'm going to Yingcheng to join the army and give Fang Jiabo a way out."

He thought clearly. No matter how he comes out, as long as he doesn't join the office, he will never be able to rehabilitate the Fang family. He can't afford to wait for this hatred, and the Fang family can't afford to wait, so this is the only way for him to go. He wants to fight his life to fight a bloody way back to Beijing.

"Join the army?! This will not work! ”

There are people to die on the battlefield! In the past, Emperor Jianlong had to reward the heroes and sacrifice the heroic spirits every Qianqiu Festival, and none of those military attachés had received gifts on the Qianqiu Festival. That's all in exchange for life!

"Sister, we only have this way, otherwise there will be no more days!"

Lin Yuan pulled her shoulders and looked at her and said. The days in Hetch were a waste of time for them. Without a family relationship, they only rely on their own skills, and their brother and sister can't even live. What I thought and learned in the past was useless in this small northern city.

Lin Xi pondered for a moment and said

"Okay, I'll go pack my things."

The eldest brother is the most stubborn and when will he ever be able to persuade him, but now joining the army is indeed the only way for them.

"You can't go! You are to stay in the city. ”

The military camp cannot bring female dependents, and Yingcheng is located on the border and is full of dangers. Compared with Yingcheng, who is rampant with soldiers, he is still more familiar with Hecheng, which is more suitable for her as a girl.

"Big brother wants to leave me here alone?"

All her relatives and sisters have been killed, and now only her eldest brother is by her side. If even they were separated, would she really want to live alone?

Lin Yuan also knew that it was never a good idea to leave his sister here alone. But it's also the best of the worst.

"Brother Xiao Wu'er promises you, I will definitely mix up first in two years at most, and when that time comes, our family will never be separated again!"

He hadn't called the title of Xiao Wu'er for a long time, and this nickname reminded Lin Xi of the days when he was the fifth lady of Zaifu.

For the sake of her father, mother, and her sisters, she and her brother must make a choice!

Lin Xi held back his tears and said with a smile

"Big brother, today I changed to white noodles. I'm going to make you a bowl of Yuqian noodles, I wish you all the best in Yingcheng! Two years later, we will return to Beijing together to find out the unjust case of our Fang family and rehabilitate our family! ”

She hugged Lin Yuan, thinking that it would be a long, long time before she saw her eldest brother in the future. The brother and sister hugged each other for a long time, getting a trace of warmth from each other.

Lin Yuan left, and before leaving, he went to the field to plough more than half a month's ploughed land for the farmers with manpower instead of ploughing oxen. Half of the silver he got was given to Lin Xi, and half was given to his aunt. The day before leaving, he buckled his aunt's head three times, begging her to help him take care of his sister. And promised that if he got ahead in the future, he would give 100 acres of fertile land as a reward.

The aunt felt sorry for their brother and sister, and also swore to take care of Lin Xi, and personally bought a pair of shoes for him and sent him out of the city gate.

The two people who saw off outside the city gate, no one thought that this parting was the end of their brother and sister fate. When Lin Yuan returns with glory, the relatives he wants to protect, his little Wu'er can never return to his wings. Instead, the delicate woman who fills the delicate woman will be the spear in front of the battle, and the bird in the cage will not be free to be used by others all her life.