Benlei Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, and there are 100,000 mountains in the southwest, and I don't know the geometry of the square circle. Benlei Mountain north of a good water, name: Qingyuan River, from the west like ten thousand horses galloping, until this Benlei Mountain, but from the heaven and earth to turn an elbow bend, the water potential is blocked but also slowed down. The mountain is gentle with the water and extends into the vast Gyeongju Plain, turning into countless hills, and the river water cuts all the way to form a ravine. The villages and towns on both sides of the river are dotted with bamboo shoots, dotted all over the place, and the towns and towns are connected to form large and small cities, and Hanyang is the first big city under this Benlei Mountain.

There are 98,600 households living in the city of Hanyang, which is divided into two halves across the river, the north and the south. At this time, it was the summer of the thirteenth year of Renzong of the Southern Yuan Dynasty, and Hanyang was under the jurisdiction of Gyeongju, more than 300 miles away from Anyang, Tokyo, where the three towns of Gyeongguang, Gyeongkai and Gyeongshang were one.

Since the founding of the Southern Yuan Dynasty Taizong, here is the national timber distribution place, the logs in the upper reaches of the Qingyuan River go downstream, relying on the canal dug by Taizong during the years, from Hanyang City to the north or south, the timber business has been booming so far.

Zhao shopkeeper has been operating this road for many years, familiar with the land, full of face, and has always been honest-based, and is very low-key, these two generations of franchise has saved a lot of family assets. Recently, he opened a new two-story restaurant by the river, which is the most high-profile thing he has done in his forties.

No, coming out of the house, the four miles of neighbors greeted all the way, and the slightly blessed body of the shopkeeper Zhao couldn't help but shake it three times in one step.

"Yo-Zhao shopkeeper, red face, is this another boatload of ingots or what?", the old neighbor Liu Tou quipped. "Yo Liu Lao, thank you for your old auspicious words, it's okay, go to the counter. "Brother Zhao, let's come home for a cup of tea when you're free." "Aunt Ma, you're welcome, I'll call your little third son to come to the counter tomorrow, I told Uncle Wang to be an apprentice for half a year." "Hey, that's a good feeling! Thank you Brother Zhao for letting you remember." "The words came there, the villagers, how many polite, left. "Look at this posture, most of the villagers on the small street are from the previous generation, and the family members of the shopkeepers have become very familiar with each other for a long time.

All the way out of the alley to their own shop, the timber line on the waterfront, Zhao shopkeeper is the first one. In the huge yard, the logs are piled up like hills, and the rows are placed on the small docks, and the shouts of collecting logs come and go, so that they are prosperous.

After lunch, Zhao shopkeeper walked to the restaurant, in fact, the two transactions are only one street apart, the name of the restaurant said: "Shuanghesheng" and their own timber line "Shuangshenghe" is positive and negative. It's not that Zhao's shopkeeper doesn't read much, but Huang Xiucai, who knows his fortune well in the neighborhood, ordered the score after drinking. On that day, Huang Xiucai passed his birthday, all the neighbors came to congratulate, and the banquet was held until the afternoon, when everyone was smoked, when it was said that the restaurant that was about to open had not yet been named, Huang Xiucai boasted that his reputation in the township was unparalleled, and he couldn't help but pick up the pen and put on the three big characters of "Shuanghesheng".

Although the neighbors saw nothing new, they didn't dare to save the face of the old birthday star, and they all said loudly, "Okay!" Huang Xiucai said with a straight face: "Shopkeeper Zhao, the same street has been neighbors for decades, and when your ancestors created the Shuangshenghe signboard at the beginning of their careers, you and I were inferior to the weak crown." These three words imply that the family and everything is prosperous, and the family and business are naturally prosperous. The old decay now borrows the will of your ancestors to hope that the virtuous brother is rich and noble, do not forget the wife and children, and the small family is in the peaceful and prosperous world, and he looks forward to the harmony and beauty of the house, which is also considered to be the image of the prosperity of your Zhao family today. A group of neighbors echoed and said: "In the future, your Zhao family's timber shop and big restaurant will hang these two signboards, and everywhere you go to the north and south of the river, everyone in the world will know that it is your Zhao family's business when they see the name of this "Hesheng". Thinking of this, the corners of Zhao's shopkeeper's mouth rose lightly and couldn't help but show a little smile, who knew that the chain store in the early years would open to Java....

Shaoqing, Shopkeeper Zhao picked up the curtain and entered the lobby of the restaurant, and his mother-in-law was busy with herself. Seeing the official family coming, he poked his face out of the account room and said, "The official has used rice, and there is stew on the stew, and the concubine will take it." "No, I've already eaten with my buddy. After finishing speaking, Shopkeeper Zhao went straight to the inner room. Zhao Qin's family saw that her husband's color seemed to have something to say, so she hurriedly followed up, made tea and sent it directly to her husband. "Lady...... I've been reading hard these days, oh, I mean serious books. "Hey—" Qin sighed lightly when he heard this. Shopkeeper Zhao also turned cloudy, and frowned.

I think his Zhao family is good, the business is prosperous, and the husband and wife are harmonious. This one is an exception. As the old saying goes: Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. In the early years, the husband and wife had two daughters, and they couldn't hope for a child, so they got this son from the head of Zhao's shopkeeper at the age of thirty. In that year, Yue'er was overjoyed. Shopkeeper Zhao and his wife had a deep relationship when they were young, and they never moved the heart of taking a concubine, but there was no queen in that era, and the neighbors also tried their best to get him to take a concubine, but Shopkeeper Zhao just laughed at it.

Although the business is full of entertainment, the shopkeeper Zhao only makes money and plays on the spot. Since he got a child, he has been a store and basically cut off communication. Before the age of six, the son was smart, strong, and more obedient and filial, and everywhere he was not loved. The two old mothers who took out the old women regarded them as beautiful jade, and they tried their best to protect them. I didn't know that when my son entered the school at the age of six, he suddenly became stupid. Often alone in a daze, when it comes to the meal, I don't know how to be hungry, I don't know how to wake up when I sleep, I don't know how to say yes to ask three words, and the price is muddy all day long.

One day, the sister-in-law of the owner Liu saw that he was pitiful, and pulled him to ask for a long time, sighing that the well-behaved children in the past have now become like this, but he stared at others without saying a word, and the words were all said Sister-in-law Liu was about to turn around and leave, but saw him pointing at Sister-in-law Liu and said loudly: "Vegetable leaves", Sister-in-law Liu asked in surprise: "What?", "You have a big vegetable leaf on your teeth." After saying that, this master turned himself upside down. It's not embarrassing to leave only a group of guests and hosts.

Another day, Aunt Wang of the Western family came to the door, and was talking to the Qin family, and when she saw this master coming in, she couldn't bear to overflow with love, and asked long and short questions. Seeing that his son didn't answer, he was afraid that he would be stunned again, so Qin hurriedly took over the conversation and said: "I have also been reading the private school for half a year, and I have just learned the three-character scripture and have not memorized it, but the surnames of the hundred families have been smooth."

Xia Jingtian, the woman has a long talk, so Tiannan and Haibei don't know what to do, and they all forget this master. I thought this master would play by himself. It was not too early for Aunt Wang to return home, but when she saw this son coming with a thick stack of paper, she grabbed Aunt Wang's sleeve and said tenderly: "Who said that I am not familiar with the three-character scripture, you see." Qin snatched it and couldn't help but be shocked, but it turned out to be a three-character scripture written backwards, and he didn't wait to finish reading it, so he hurriedly picked it up and went to find his husband. This incident alarmed Huang Xiucai on East Street, and he shouted incredulously, and cautiously explained to the shopkeeper Zhao and his wife: "Be careful of this son, he will become a great tool in the future." In less than three years, the Tongsheng Entrance Examination will definitely take the lead, and in time, the National Entrance Examination will be a blockbuster. ”

"When the time comes, I will become an official in the court, glorify the lintel of your Zhao family, and promote the prestige of my Hanyang talent, how fast... Haha". After that, he laughed two and a half times, coughed loudly while being excited, and sprayed a sip of tea.

Shopkeeper Zhao was full of expectations, but he said that this son's heart and eyes grew in his bones. Who knew that the good times would not last long, at noon on this day, the neighborhood's nurse Song was sitting in the courtyard, holding the two-month-old young master in her arms and teasing softly.

While he was talking to himself, the child began to cry, thinking that he was hungry. Seeing that Qin and Dumb were not outsiders, Song turned sideways to undress and feed. While breastfeeding, he is still not idle, and the Li family is still short and boundless. This Song family is very capable of giving birth, the son to be fed in the family is not considered to have two boys and a girl, I am still full of milk, the left breast is contained in the young master's mouth, and the right breast is actually flowing out, and I don't feel that it drips off my clothes. When this master saw this, he turned around and left, and the Qin family was overjoyed, thinking that his son had read after all, and he began to understand the difference between men and women.

Shaoqing, a person crashed into the door, handed over a porcelain bowl in his hand, and said breathlessly: "Don't, don't waste it." When you look closely, isn't it this scholar? Qin's ears suddenly turned red, and he hurriedly grabbed his son's wrist, put aside half of the scene, and flew home.

All these absurd things came a few times in ten days and a half months, and the two of them were shocked and afraid. The whole family said in front of the two of them that the young master was honest and cute, and he felt that this young master had tendons behind his back.

Fortunately, the gentleman in the private school, together with the scholars on East Street, was like a treasure, and every time he saw the shopkeeper Zhao, he boasted: "Master Zhao, don't worry about him, the little young master is a genius, and he never forgets to read, but he is not good at words and is abrupt." We sour Confucians have read a book all our lives and have never seen it, and we memorized a thick book in less than three days. As long as there are no accidents, no accidents. He is the first day and the first, and he ascends to worship the prime minister, and it is only a matter of time before "Yunyun." I've heard a lot of this kind of talk, and even Shopkeeper Zhao thinks that his son is just a nerd, and he doesn't go out to cause trouble.

When the clinker son reached the age of nine, he had learned all the words, but he didn't read the serious books. Plunged into the absurd fairy miscellaneous records all day long and couldn't extricate yourself, you think Zhao shopkeeper a businessman can have a few books at home, and after reading them at home, look at the bookstore on the street.

As soon as the morning dawned, no one needed to greet him, and he disappeared without a smoke, and he didn't need to ask when he arrived at the meal, he must have been immersed in the bookstore at the entrance of the alley. The bookstore owner also persuaded him a few times, and he pressed it tightly, and this master threw out a piece of ingots with a bang, and he didn't greet him when he saw the hearty book, and he picked it up and left, as soon as the book was in his hand, he didn't eat or sleep until he finished reading it, and he saw it wherever he went, even if he didn't solve it. As the old saying goes, you can't let go of the scroll, just look at this master.

How can the neighbors in the street really ask for silver, that is to say, it is just that. Every time someone goes home and asks this master to go back to eat, he is reluctant to turn back in three steps, thanks to the bookstore owner is also an old neighbor, isn't it just to read books, and not to burn books, people can't pull back to teach the family to put the food in a food box and send it.

Later, the bookstore owner and the shopkeeper Zhao went crazy, one was busy returning the books and the other was busy paying back the money, and this master just watched.

But there are times when the books in the Jiekou bookstore are finished, and there are a few times when this master actually secretly went to the town north of the river, and the angry shopkeeper Zhao cut off his monthly money, but this master is also stubborn, when he has money, he throws money and takes the book and runs, and when he has no money, he takes the book and runs directly. There were a few times that the shopkeeper Zhao in the middle of the night ransomed this master back.

After tossing for a while, the results came out: the old man vacated his account room, put bookshelves on all four walls, and searched for books in Sijiu City. All the bookstores in Hanyang have received a fixed payment, as long as there is a new one, regardless of whether it is Shengdan Jingmo ugly, fairy tiger dog, as long as it is the idle book that the world says, they will give him a copy of Shuanghesheng first.

Slowly, Shopkeeper Zhao and this master also gained some fame in the small circle, and business partners, together with guests who came to the restaurant, often joked with Shopkeeper Zhao with this. This man walks on the street, and there are more monster-like eyes from the world. Although after his father's thunderous methods and his mother's tearful persuasion, this master was quite stable for a while.

It's a pity that people don't toss the teenagers, the books of that year were all engraved, and the invention of paper was not long ago, and it was very troublesome to make, although there was no approval department, and of course there was no distributor, and the spontaneous books of such literati could not be produced a few times a year, plus the grammar at that time was concise and concise, even if it was a shocking bloody case, it was only ten lines. Because it is a strange talk after tea and dinner, it is not taken seriously by the world, that is, this master believes it is true.

Finally, one day the book can't catch up with this reading master, and he himself knows that even if he arrives in the capital, he may not have to see it, and since then his eyes have been straight all day long, and he doesn't look at people when he walks straight and straight, and he walks out without saying hello, which is scary. Don't let you go out, I'm afraid of holding back my brains and sending people to follow me from afar, it's not a way after all. Seeing that his son is fourteen years old, but he can't extricate himself like an adult addicted to gambling, but he is almost a year old and abandons the career economy and splendid articles, how can this be good.

Today, Shopkeeper Zhao looked at the restaurant with a thriving business, but his heart suddenly lost that interest. I called my wife in, and thought to myself that it was time to find a way out for my son. Or let this kid settle down first...... Not necessarily. Qin Shi looked at her husband and frowned, but when the words came to his mouth, he wanted to stop talking, and when he was helpless, he heard a call in the hall: "Mother! Qin Shi hurriedly responded: "My son, come in quickly, where is your father." As he spoke, he got up and went to the hall.

After a while, a young man walked in with the door curtain, looking very handsome, dressed as a scholar, but his eyes were confused, and he looked a little straight on the ground. Seeing that his father did not answer, he walked up to him and knelt down with a plop.

Shopkeeper Zhao was surprised by his son's actions, and hurriedly asked, "Idiot, where are you, are you sleeping stupidly or what?"

The young man bowed his head and replied: "Father and son have not had any books to read for many days, and those etiquette records, spring and autumn periods, and Zhongyong University in the school are very tight, and my son has been thinking about it for a few days and wants to go out for a walk. ”

It is rare for the shopkeeper Zhao to talk to his son, although he has something to say in his heart, he is not angry. I just hope that this idiot will say a few more words, so that the two of them can show some true temperament from this stuffy gourd. Zhu asked: "Idiot, you are not young anymore, and you will start a family in another year." It's okay if you don't like this industry, the career economy is always the right way. In the coming year, no matter how much the township examination is examined, he will find an official position in the future, so that my Zhao family's business will be blessed. What are you going to do with it?"

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper Zhao took a sip of tea, and saw that his son was not moving again, and it seemed that the old illness was about to attack again. I couldn't help but feel soft in my heart: "If you want to say, it's okay to go out and travel, but before playing, you must first collect your heart and read some serious articles carefully." ”

Seeing that the dumb child didn't answer, he said: "Your teacher has already told your father that with what you have learned now, it is worth ten years of cold windows for others, but serious articles have never grown." My Zhao family has always been a foundationless, and if you continue like this, you will regret it sooner or later, hey! Isn't it in vain to insult the sages?" Dumb knelt down and didn't speak, but the bruises on his face were prominent, as if he had something to say, but he wanted to say it and stopped, and finally endured it.

"Since ancient times, a good man must have the ability to live in peace, but you should tell me, what are your plans in the future?" Seeing his son's cute attitude of wandering outside the world, Shopkeeper Zhao couldn't help but be angry: "Let's go, let's go, let's go! Today I must tell you a true chapter, otherwise! After today, I can't help you!"

Unexpectedly, this time Dumb answered happily, thinking that he had been planning for a long time. "Dad, I heard that there is a Zixia Palace in Benlei Mountain not far from here, and all the immortals have extraordinary powers. The son wants to go up to the mountain to seek Taoism and learn immortal arts. ”

"Joke !!"

Shopkeeper Zhao interrupted: "Everyone says that you are stupid, I think you are stupid! You are stupid!

Seeing that his father was a little annoyed, Dumb couldn't help but mutter, "I've seen it before, and it's written in the book." "No!" the old man was angry, and he was about to say a few words. Qin Shi picked up the curtain and said: "Dumb, it's good to go out and play in the mountains and rivers to relax, read those idle books all day long, I see that you have read the Tao in the melon field." It's all your grandfather's fault, it's not good to have a nickname, but it's a 'dumb', I think it's ....... ”

"I said you are not finished, and as soon as I tell my son that something is important, you will come in and stir up nonsense. Not out yet. Seeing that her husband was ruthless, Qin also wanted to endure it, but after all, she couldn't help but mutter: "Originally, if it wasn't for the fact that your old man didn't take care of his name back then, how could there be today." "Are you embarrassed to say this now, when your son was just full moon, you weren't you, and you screamed so smoothly all day long, dumb and short?" Seeing that the parents were arguing over this matter again, Dumb interrupted: "Father, mother, and son have really made up their minds this time, and I hope that the second elder will be successful." If the son doesn't experience it himself, he won't be reconciled in the end. ”

Hearing this, Shopkeeper Zhao squatted the teacup heavily, and wanted to stand up and sit down again. After a long silence, he sighed and said gently, "Get up."

The corner of his eye picked up Qin's color, and the look in his eyes said: I have my own plans. Fu said to Dumb again: "It's not impossible to see Zixiaguan, I will take you up the mountain when I choose a day to be my father." However,—— if you are not that material at that time, you will have to listen to your father's arrangement in the future. Dumb suddenly got up when he heard this, a burst of ecstasy flashed in his eyes, and Qin's heart couldn't help but move, when had Dumb'er's eyes been so smart, a trace of bad premonition struck.

At this time, Dumb crashed into the arms of the shopkeeper Zhao and shouted, "Really, Dad, you are not allowed to lie to me." "Of course, when you go to the ground, you have to listen to others, and if you can't learn art, don't forget what your father said today. "A gentleman's word, a quick horse!" Hey, you're a gentleman, a nerd, or not. Dumb didn't care about his father's words, and went out happily.

"Old man, are you crazy? The child is still young, and it is outrageous to go up the mountain to learn art, not to mention that this talk of seeking immortals is absurd, he is stupid, you are also stupid? If you let the idiot have three long and two short, I will not live." The Qin family here is in a hurry, and he is close to the shopkeeper Zhao, and he has to give an explanation, "Don't worry, lady! After saying that, Shopkeeper Zhao looked calm, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.