Those are the ones who can't afford to pay.

After all, the poor will always be in the majority.

They are dressed in ordinary clothes, their clothes are washed white, and although they also hold folding fans, they are all cheap folding fans.

Those people were on the shore, watching us pay the money, and then one by one they got on the boat to the flower boat, and watched us go away.

The boat is not big, and it can seat more than ten people, so the river is densely packed, and all of them are boats going to the river.

I sat in the middle of the boat, and across from me sat two handsome boys.

The two of them exchanged ears, and what they said was not Yun Yao, but poetry.

"Brother Yang, this time, you should be able to come up with a lot of poems, right?"

"Hehe, recently I accidentally opened my mind and realized some good poems. Brother Li, what about you? ”

"Me? I've had something lately, and I've been delayed, not to mention inspiration, and I don't even have time to read books. ”

"What's going on?"

"It's not a big deal, it's my marriage."

Brother Yang was shocked: "You're getting married?" ”

Brother Li smiled bitterly: "No, it's the marriage I set back then, and it's going to be yellow." ”

"This, what's going on!"

"You also know my status in the family, I was able to settle down back then, and it was also when the other party had not yet made a career, and now their family is very rich, of course, they don't look down on me as a side disciple, they have taken a fancy to Li Yuan."

"So, they want to divorce you and marry Li Yuan instead?"

"yes." The man sighed.

"Shameless! Who is the other party? Why haven't I heard from you? ”

That Brother Li blushed: "It's Xue Qing'er, I didn't know it originally, and my father only told me recently, a few days later, I accidentally met a woman on the street, and then apologized, and we talked very happily, and we have been in contact until after her name, I didn't know that there was such a coincidental thing in the world." ”

"It's not her, it's Xue Qing'er, right?"

Brother Li nodded.

Brother Yang pointed at Brother Li: "Li Zechen, you, you have been hiding from me for so long, and I am a good friend of you." ”

Li Zechen begged for mercy and said: "Brother Yang, didn't I say it, I promised her, and no one would tell me." ”

The one named Brother Yang seemed to know Li Zechen's personality very well, and when he heard his words, he shook his head helplessly: "Forget it, who asked me to be a bosom friend like you." By the way, you're going to be divorced, so what should Xue Qing'er do? ”

Li Zechen smiled bitterly: "I don't know what to do?" This is the family's idea, and I can't resist it at all, and you know, I can't do anything except recite poetry. ”

Saying that, Li Zechen was decadent.

Brother Yang comforted: "Don't say that, you are a talent, suave, it's just that the time is not enough, and when the time comes, it will be the time for you to become a blockbuster." ”

Li Zechen shook his head: "My own affairs, I know that I can't give Qing'er happiness, so I plan to agree to forget it." ”

"Don't! You finally found a beloved woman, or your original wife, this is fate, how can you say that you give up and give up? Brother Yang persuaded and explained, "If you are like this, she will not be happy in the future." ”

"Of course I don't want to give up, but, can I fight the entire Li family alone?" Li Zechen said helplessly, "I'm just someone outside the family, and I can't speak at all." Moreover, my father and mother also agreed, if they didn't agree, do you know what Li Yuan would do? You know who he is, I don't care about myself, but what about my parents? ”

Brother Yang hated iron and said, "Are you so pessimistic? Li Zechen is a man who will not send his own woman to the arms of other men. ”

Li Zechen could only smile bitterly: "I, I'm powerless." ”

"Do you want someone to talk about it?" Brother Yang suddenly looked at me, "Just let this brother talk about it, you should also hear it, right?" Do you think he did the right thing? ”

I said lightly, "That's right." ”

Brother Yang was stunned, and Li Zechen's face became even darker.

"No, how can you say that?" Brother Yang was anxious, "Aren't you a man?" ”

I didn't care what he said in a hurry, because he also meant well.

I glanced at Li Zechen and said, "He himself has no confidence and no courage, even if a thousand or ten thousand people come to persuade him, it is useless." ”

"Look at him, he's good for nothing but poetry. I know that I am a side disciple, and I don't know how to find another way, such a man, what does a woman do when she marries him? Everyday and northwest winds? ”

"He didn't mean to fight at all, and he didn't ask the girl's opinion, so he found an excuse for a so-called parent, and gave away his own woman, and what kind of woman he was, he would not be happy with him."

"He himself thinks that everything is inferior, only reading is high, at this time, for the so-called scholarly romance, he came here with you to have fun, obviously he didn't take women to heart, I look at him, it's just playing."

Li Zechen's face turned red when I said it, and his eyes erupted with fire: "You, you are talking nonsense!" I care about her! ”

"Push her out if you care about her? Tell me, that's how you care? I said sarcastically, "I know what you want to say next, what you want to say, if you want to be an official in the Ming Kingdom and soar, you have to participate in the imperial examination, and you, who have been waiting for ten years, are waiting for the imperial examination, as long as you are admitted, you will get ahead, right?" ”

Li Zechen didn't speak, because I said what he was thinking.

I smiled: "When you get admitted, it's going to be the Year of the Monkey, so for the sake of her happiness, you let her marry someone else, right?" ”

What I said is right, Li Zechen originally waited to participate in the imperial examination of the Ming State before thinking that he could enter the official system of the Ming Kingdom, and then he would be able to soar to the top, he had no talent in martial arts, so he could only take the literary road.

And in the Ming Kingdom, the country was established by force, and all the city lords were powerful warriors.

However, also in the Ming Kingdom, civil officials were also indispensable.

They managed the affairs of the Ming Kingdom, such as taxes, tribute, natural and man-made disasters, and crops throughout the country.

Relatively speaking, most of the civil officials worked in the royal city, which was relatively close to the core power.

And there are also a lot of civil officials who work in various cities, but those are the henchmen of various city lords, and their henchmen will not use the disciples of the family, they want to use innocent civilians, so as to ensure their loyalty.

Li Zechen chose this path, but there are tens of millions of scholars in the Ming Kingdom, and being able to choose one person out of 10,000 is simply looking for a needle in a haystack.

If it were me, it would never have taken ten years just for that illusory position.

Li Zechen opened his mouth, speechless.