The light rain is really like poetry. Jia Yucun came out of the dilapidated temple where he lived, and happened to see the big family next door, Master Zhen Shiyin, leaning against the door and looking. The broken temple where Jia Yu Village lives is outside the Changmen outside the city of Gusu, the Changmen is the red light district at that time, and there is an ancient temple in Renqing Lane, Shili Street, outside the Changmen, which is the gourd temple where he lives, because the place is narrow, so people call it the gourd temple. Jia Yucun is a native of Huzhou, his parents are dead, and he wants to enter Beijing to test his fame, but he walked to Gusu and walked away, so he lived in this broken temple. You have to pay rent to live, but fortunately, people who write articles at that time can still make a living, that is, write calligraphy, help people draft an article or something, Jia Yucun relies on this to make a living in the broken temple, and the price of the preparatory article has risen, and after all, he has enough money to go to Beijing to take the exam. It's been more than a year now.

When Jia Yucun saw Zhen Shiyin, he hurriedly saluted the big neighbor next door, and said with a smile: "The old gentleman leans against the door and looks, is there any news on the street?" At that time, the news was all based on gossip on the streets.

Zhen Shiyin is also considered to be from a rural eunuch family, and he is a small family in the local area, but he is quiet, does not think of fame, drinks and appreciates bamboo every day, lives the days of immortals, and lives by eating the rent of the grange, but he also belongs to the old otaku. There is only one daughter under her knees, named Yinglian, who was three years old at the time.

Zhen Shiyin saw that it was Jia Yucun who greeted him, and the latter was also quite in good hands with him, so he smiled and said: "What's the news, I'm watching the child." After speaking, he showed Jia Yucun the little Yinglian he was holding, "Let her sunbathe and take a look at the society by the way." You've come just in time, I'm bored, so please go to Lent to talk about it, so that I can kill the eternal day. So he called someone to lead the child in, took Jia Yucun's hand, and entered the study together.

The two exchanged a few words, and suddenly the family came to report: "Master Yan is here to visit." This Master Yan is full of seriousness and must be taken seriously, Zhen Shiyin hurriedly got up and confessed: "I'm sorry, I asked you to come here, but you can't accompany you more." Wait a minute, I'll be back later. ”

Jia Yucun also hurriedly got up and said: "You are too polite, I'll just wait, you can ask for it first." ”

Zhen Shiyin went out, and Jia Yucun took out some books in the study to read, all kinds of good books, golden bottles and plums, etc., to relieve boredom, and suddenly heard a woman's cough outside. As a young man from other provinces who has lived in Yucun for more than a year, he is very sensitive to this, and he immediately stopped turning the book, so he looked out the window, and it turned out to be a maid, picking flowers there, and she was born with extraordinary appearance, and her eyebrows were clear and beautiful-in fact, it was not very good, but in the eyes of people who have lived in Jia Yucun for a long time, they felt that the posture was very moving. Jia Yucun didn't think it was stunned.

The maid of the Zhen family, picking flowers, was about to leave, and also saw the person in the window, although she was wearing an old Confucian costume and wrapped in a torn turban, she was born with a round waist and a thick back - Jia Yucun, a Huzhou person, I don't know which Huzhou, literally, looks like a person from Hudi in the north, so he was born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a square face and a wide mouth, a picture of a northeasterner, and two sword eyebrows and a straight nose. The maid hurriedly turned around and avoided it, thinking: "This person is dressed so sloppily, but he is born so majestic, I think it is the Jia Yu Village that our master said." No wonder our master said that he was not a man who had been ruined for a long time, and that he was born like this, no wonder our master wanted to help him! (At that time, if you have money, you will invest in people, and whoever is right will wait for the benefits in the future.) ）

Soon, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhen Shiyin set up a banquet and stepped on the moon to invite Jia Yu Village. Jia Yucun was complaining in the broken temple, and he chanted: The jade is asking for a good price in the coffin, and the hairpin is waiting for the time to fly.

Zhen Shiyin came in, just as he heard it, he said with a smile: "Brother Yucun is really ambitious!" ”

Jia Yucun hurriedly blushed and smiled: "This is just a sentence from my predecessors, I read it casually." How dare I be so arrogant? Why is the old gentleman interested in coming here today? ”

Zhen Shiyin smiled and said: "Mid-Autumn Festival, you live in the monk's room here, and it is not without loneliness, so the old man invites you to have a drink at our house, I don't know what I mean, you may laugh." "Qin Yi is the meaning of offering celery, celery is not a rare species, but a person thinks it is good, and gives it to the other party (a township gentleman) like a valuable thing, and is laughed at by the other party, saying that the things he took out are nothing remarkable, but the sincerity is commendable, and the ancient people are particularly elegant.

However, although it is ancient, it is impossible to say when this matter is in ancient times, and it is about the end of a dynasty, so it is about the last year of the Ming Dynasty. But it is certainly not the last years of the Tang Dynasty, because the girls in this story are all bound feet.

Jia Yucun was not very elegant, so he followed without hesitation. The two of them came to the academy next door together and poured a slow drink under the moon. Later, I drank more and more excitedly, and I drank it as soon as I raised my glass, and finally Yucun had seven or eight points of alcohol, and I was very happy, and I was crazy about the moon, and I went crazy with intellectuals, to be specific, I chanted a poem. What specific poems, I won't quote, in short, there are too many poems in this story, and our current people are not interested in poetry, in short, Jia Yucun's poems are to say that they want to be like the bright moon, emerging from the sky, and the common people in the world are looking at it with their heads raised - among the down-and-out literati at that time, they always wanted to be officials, and they felt that they belonged to themselves. This is the emperor's era, a man's greatest wish.

Zhen Shiyin immediately slapped the case and shouted: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Brother Xian, I said a long time ago, you must not be a person who has lived under the people for a long time, and now the poem you have made has revealed the signs of soaring. Congratulations, congratulations! ”

So he poured another bucket for Jia Yucun to drink. Jia Yucun relied on his youth, drank it all, and sighed loudly: "It's not that I am drunk and arrogant, I can also go up and get rid of my current general knowledge, and sell a big name." It's just that now there is nothing entangled, and the Beijing division is far away, so I rely on selling words and writing articles here to make up for the travel expenses. ”

Zhen Shiyin didn't wait for him to finish, he couldn't wait to invest, and said, "Why didn't my brother say it earlier." I also had this intention for a long time, but I was afraid of being abrupt, so I didn't dare to talk nonsense. Next year is the college entrance examination, you should go to Beijing to fight, as for the entanglement, I will prepare with you, and it is not in vain that you insulted me to get acquainted. "Then he ordered the little boy, took the key, told the password, and took out fifty taels of silver from the safe (ancient), and two sets of winter clothes. Jia Yucun accepted the money and clothes, and just lightly thanked him - it was indeed drunk and crazy. The two of them kept eating and drinking until the third watch in the middle of the night, and the moon was too sleepy, so Jia Yucun followed the little boy holding the silver one foot high and one foot low, and returned to his quasi-hotel-the monk's room.

On the third day of the next day, Zhen Shi hid and wanted to write a letter of recommendation to the eunuch family he knew in Kyoto, and taught Jia Yucun to take it to live overnight. Unexpectedly, he sent someone to invite Jia Yucun to come over, and when he said this, the family came back empty-handed, saying: "The monk said that Jia Ye had already settled the room fee early in the morning and went to Beijing." He also taught the monk to pass the word to the master, saying that the scholar was talking about Confucius, and he didn't care about the auspicious days of the ghosts and gods, the zodiac, so he didn't know the sun, and he simply left early this morning, and it was too late to say goodbye to you. ”

This Jia Yu Village is really too Confucius. Zhen Shiyin listened, so he had no choice but to stop.

said that the Mid-Autumn Festival of the following year came again, Zhen Shiyin's child Yinglian was four years old, and was held by his family Huo Qi (this name is too unlucky, sooner or later there will be trouble), and went to the club to see the lanterns. The society is a public building area where the people gather at that time - the society rat is the mouse in the society, you don't dare to take water to fill it, for fear of destroying the solemn and sacrificial great building of the society, Huo Qi hugged Yinglian, looked at the lanterns in the community in the middle of the night, and saw that he was going to pee. This Huo Qi is still very feudal, and he is afraid that the little girl will see that she is not good at peeing, so she puts Yinglian on the threshold of the family and sits on the threshold of the family, and runs to pee under the telephone pole (or something similar) next to her. After peeing, the bottom is comfortable, but the eyes above are stupid, Xiao Yinglian was originally sitting on that threshold, but now she disappeared without a trace. Huo Qi ran around with his pants for half a night, couldn't find Yinglian back and forth, and when it was dawn, he didn't dare to go home to see his master, and he didn't want his salary, so he fled to another country.

Mr. Zhen Shiyin and his daughter-in-law, when they saw that the child was gone, they searched for a month, but they couldn't find it alive or dead.

The disease has not been cured too well, to March 15, the monk of the gourd temple fried the offering (about to fry some twist fritters or something, for the gods to eat), the result of the gods were too anxious, or the monk was too excited, all of a sudden the oil pot was fried, the fire rose up, and the gourd temple was burned like a fairy dancing. Zhen Shiyin's big house is connected to this gourd temple, and it was burned to the ground, and there were a few people on the rubble such as Zhen Shiyin's wife and several other people who were called heaven and should not be.

Zhen Shiyin and his daughter-in-law had no choice but to go to the grange to live. It stands to reason that if you have a field, you can slowly multiply, and then save money from scratch or something. However, in the past few years, there has been either water or drought, crops have not multiplied at all, the common people have become robbers with hunger, and officers and men have taken the opportunity to catch them. The old couple had no choice but to sell all the fields, take some soft and go to live at the old father-in-law's house (in Daruzhou).

The old father-in-law is not a good person, he cleverly eats away Zhen Shiyin's money, Zhen Shiyin is a person who is not good at studying, and within a year or two, his money was spent by the old father-in-law, and then the old father-in-law gave the son-in-law who had no money to listen to, sneering and complaining, saying that he was lazy and lazy. Zhen Shi is anxious, and he has to die.

On this day, Zhen Shiyin was walking on crutches on the street, and met a crazy lame Taoist priest, who was talking nonsense at him who thought he was detached, and recited a "Okay Song", that is: Everyone in the world knows that the gods are good, but the fame cannot be forgotten! Something, it's long, one is good, one is off. When Zhen Shiyin heard this, I forgot all this, so I laughed, grabbed the Taoist priest's coat, carried it on his back, and followed the Taoist priest and floated away like a madman.

When the news came out, everyone finally got the social news, and you talked nonsense for a long time, saying that the monk and Taoist priest were deceiving people, and the down-and-out Zhen Daren followed. Zhen Dayuan Wai Shiyin's wife cried bitterly, and simply stuck to her father's house and didn't leave, spending her days with the two old maids, needlework, and helping people sew and sell for money. The old father-in-law was helpless.

On this day, the eldest lady of the Zhen family went to the door to buy thread (there is also a cost to dry sewing work), and suddenly someone shouted, it turned out that the new magistrate had arrived. The maid hurriedly hid in the door and watched, looking at this social news, and saw the bodyguards catching fast, one-on-one to the ground, so not majestic, carrying a large sedan chair behind, on the sedan chair a big official wearing a black gauze hat and orangutan robe, the two eyes looked forward seriously, and they saw things outside the world. This maid was stunned for a moment, hey, isn't this the Northeast genius who used to look at the golden bottle plum in the master's study?

The magistrate saw her, too. The maid hurriedly entered the room in a panic, not knowing what to think for a while. In the evening, a messenger came to knock on the door: "The master of this mansion sent us to pass on your family to question, follow us!" ”

The only biggest man in this family is the old father-in-law, the old father-in-law is stunned, I don't know what is going on, next time I will decompose!