As soon as Chen Yuan left, Zhao hurriedly grabbed his daughter and said anxiously: "My Yan'er, this Chen Yuan, although there are a few acres of thin fields at home, but at the age of eighteen, he can't even pass the Xiucai exam, and he is a failure." After speaking, he glanced at Dong Hai angrily, and said again, "After all, he is young, after August, he will definitely not be able to win, it is okay for him to withdraw from the marriage, if he is not interested, my mother will be blinded by the world again, and I will not let you go to this fire pit." ”

"Mother." Dong Mingyan snorted, her eyes slightly red.

Zhao pulled her into his arms and patted his back gently: "My daughter is knowledgeable, well-behaved and sensible, how can Chen Yuan be worthy." ”

Dong Hai muttered two sentences.

Zhao raised his eyebrows and said: "What, you are an old immortal, that promise is worth a few dollars, is it necessary to take the happiness of your daughter for half a lifetime?" ”

Dong Haiping was afraid of her, and whispered: "What do you know?" Our businessman's family, the status is extremely low, Chen Yuan, this child has been studying, I think it is promising, even if he can't go to high school, he has a pure temperament, and he has a few acres of thin fields, so naturally he will not wronged our Yan'er. ”

"As for Li Yuanwai's second son, he doesn't learn and has no skills, he fights cocks and horses, Wang Xiancheng's son, he is dignified and talented, but he lingers in the dust......" Dong Hai's voice became smaller and smaller, and in Zhao's few eyes, he stopped talking, pretending to be busy leaving, and whispered in his mouth: "The woman's opinion, the woman's opinion." ”

"What did you say?" Zhao's eyes widened.

Dong Hai's body trembled, and he shook his head again and again: "I didn't say anything." Sigh and walk out.

"Ignore that foolish drunkard." Zhao said softly to his daughter, "Yan'er, tell me quickly, what did you say to that Chen Yuan, why did he suddenly promise to talk about marriage after taking the exam, hey, it's really overwhelming." ”

"Mother, he ......" She wanted to say that he promised to take the exam to withdraw from the marriage, but she didn't know how to open her mouth when the words came to her mouth, after all, she was the daughter who had not left the cabinet, and she was shy to talk about her marriage.

"Now it's okay, this marriage is withdrawn, and when the time comes, whether it is the second son of the Li family, or the prince of Wang, or other sons, will be chosen by the daughter." Zhao held his daughter's soft and said happily.

Dong Mingyan gently withdrew her hand from her mother's hand, recalling Chen Yuan's words just now, a little dazed.

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Chen Yuan walked on the street, the weather was hot and dry, and there were few pedestrians, which was too different from the imaginary Yanyu Jiangnan and poetic and picturesque.

Carved railings and painted buildings, attic cornices, pavilions and water pavilions. These are only found in the gardens of the royal and aristocratic families, and as for the streets, there are many alleys, and there is no lack of antique buildings, and there is no lack of old wooden houses with cysts on the capitals.

The water of the Qinhuai River ripples gently in the breeze, but if you look closely, there is a trace of sorrow flowing inside.

Jiangning County belongs to Nanjing, at the foot of the Son of Heaven.

The streets are paved with bluestone slabs, and walking on them does have a unique flavor.

It's just that the big trees on the road and the houses on both sides are more or less floating white paper, and some are yellow, folded into the shape of gold ingots.

Some people connected the incense burner three feet from the head of the pillar of the house, and the green smoke curled and dissipated in the sun.

Chen Yuanda was curious: "Uncle Zhong, what's going on?" ”

Jin Zhong is Dong Hai was afraid that Chen Yuan would not recognize the way home, and if there was an accident on the way, he asked him to send Chen Yuan back. Chen Yuan couldn't ask for it, because he really didn't know the way.

Jin Zhong knew that this scholarly boy had "fallen into evil", and he couldn't remember anything, so he replied: "Back to Gongzi, the state has been mourned for more than two months, so the family still pays tribute according to the requirements of the government." ”

"A national funeral?" Chen Yuan exclaimed, "Zhu Di...... Not...... Gone? "National funeral, his first reaction was that the emperor was gone, and his heart said, isn't it only the sixteenth year of Yongle? I remember that there was Yongle for twenty-two years.

Jin Zhong stumbled, almost fell down, and said with a pale face: "Childe, can you ...... Don't talk nonsense, hooray, uh, prosperous. "He doesn't know how to be literate, but he often walks outside, and he can also listen to the words of the dignitaries and nobles about our emperor and saints, and the words of thousands of generations.

Chen Yuan also reacted, calling the emperor by his name, and said that he was hanging, and it was not enough to cut his nine lives, no wonder Jin Zhong was so frightened that his face turned pale. sneered: "Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue." ”

Jin Zhong was also kind, ignoring his nonsense, he fell into the evil and explained: "Everyone pays tribute because the national teacher sits, long live his gratitude, and order the whole country to pay tribute for three months, wear white and fast, and light incense every day." ”

National teacher? Chen Yuan was dumbfounded, who would have such a great honor for a national teacher to be able to sacrifice the whole country for March. Even Master Xuanzang didn't have such an honor.

"Could it be Yao Guangxiao?" Chen Yuan remembered something and blurted out.

Jin Zhong shook his head: "I don't know the name of the national teacher, I only heard that it is Master Daoyan." ”

That's it, Dao Yan is his legal name, Yao Guangxiao, young name Tianxi, legal name Daoyan, the word Si Dao, and the word Duyan, the old man of Du'an, and the fugitive son. A native of Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Ming Dynasty politician, Buddhist scholar, writer, the main planner of the Battle of Jingjing, and the most famous black-clothed prime minister in Chinese history.

Yao Guangxiao became a monk in Suzhou Miaozhi Nunnery when he was young, and was proficient in the three religions, [and had a good relationship with the academic leaders of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in the early Ming Dynasty. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, he was selected by Ming Taizu to get acquainted with Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and presided over Qingshou Temple, becoming Zhu Di's main adviser. In the third year of Zhu Di's martyrdom, Yao Guangxiao stayed in Beiping and suggested that Zhu Di advance on light horseback and take Nanjing, so that Zhu Di could successfully capture Nanjing and ascend the throne as emperor. It is unique in history to rival the soldiers and horses of the whole country with a small land of Yandi, and finally win.

After his death, he was posthumously presented to Rong Guogong with the nickname Gongjing. Zhu Di personally wrote the Shinto inscription and entered the Ming Ancestral Temple as a Wenchen, and was the first and only person in the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that the first magical person died almost three months ago.

Chen Yuanzheng sighed, and a thin middle-aged man drove the ox cart to their side, and it was Jin Zhong who called him. It takes more than an hour to walk from his house in the county seat, and Jin Zhong knew that the scholar couldn't walk, so he called a car.

Chen Yuan, as a grassroots staff, is a common thing to go to the countryside, but he is not afraid of walking, but this "BMW"?

Well, since you're here, let's try it out first. Ox carts, ox-drawn carts, open-air open-top carts, who has ever sat on them? You can take pictures, and fans will definitely explode.

However, Chen Yuan couldn't get fresh after a while, there were no tires at this time, the wheels were all wooden, and countless piles were hit with iron nails to prevent the wheels from falling apart. There is no cement road on the road, and on the bluestone slabs, it rocks like a tractor. I finally entered the official road, it was a dirt road, it had just rained a few days ago, there was a lot of water, and there were potholes.

"Master, is your car going to fall apart?" Chen Yuan stroked his forehead with his hand and turned to the road in a daze.

"Haha." The handlebar laughed heartily, "I've only been in this car for two years, and I only went to Blacksmith Li a few days ago to change the axle, and it's okay to pull five hundred catties of firewood yesterday, Brother Scholar, you can put 10,000 ......" Before the word "heart" was spoken, I heard a snap,

Jin Zhong sat on the edge of the car and instinctively jumped out of the car, nothing serious.

Chen Yuan sat in the middle of the car, dizzy, this shock, shook in the car, his hand was unsteady, he fell in the car, hit the edge of the car, and didn't know how many bags there were.

"The axle is broken." The handlebar was sweating profusely, and he hurriedly picked Chen Yuan out of the car, and then squatted down to check.

"This damn 'stingy plum', I know that he is unreliable, and he lied to me that he is a good elm tree." He cursed angrily and untied the rope of the ox.

"Damn it." The handlebar turned red, and I don't know if it was because of the shame or anger of the big words just now. This is not like modern times, when the axle is broken, the phone master will come, and if it doesn't work, there will be a trailer, so he can only find someone to repair it in two days.

There is a way that the house leak happened to rain overnight, just when the handlebar was scratching its ears and cheeks. There is a line of cars ringing bells in front of you.

Four-horse carriage, the car moves very slowly. The car is of fine pear wood, with a felt roof, and the roof is surrounded by horns to resemble the palace room. The car tent is blue brocade, which is very valuable, and the car curtain has a small yellow.

Compared with the ox cart that Chen Yuan was sitting on, it was like comparing Mingzhu and insects.

However, the bug was still lying in the middle of the road, blocking Mingzhu's way.

More than ten meters apart, Chen Yuan had already felt the murderous aura of the four horseback guards in front of the car.

"Oh my God, it's a royal car." At the feet of the Son of Heaven, the handlebar is also a person who has seen the world, blocking the royal road, he was so shocked that he collapsed on the ground.

The "moo" cow seemed to sense the danger and walked into the field where the watermelons were grown.

"Be bold and make the people, and you don't know whether you live or die." The majesty of the royal family cannot be violated, and it can wait for Chen Yuan to stand firm. The guards clamped their horses, their hooves galloping, and the straddle knives at their waists swung at their heads.