Chapter Ninety-Nine: Yan Zhao
Yan Zhao, the word Yuanyuan.
He was born into a family of scholars, and his ancestors were also prominent and noble.
With the fall of the family, the Yan family lost its superior social status and abundant living conditions.
Even so, the Yan family's family style is still there, and the Shi tradition is still there.
Although the inheritance left by his ancestors is small, he can still allow Yan Zhao to concentrate on studying.
Yan Zhao is also in vain in his family's expectations, diligent and studious, reading a lot of books, and even to the extent that "when you open the book, you will happily forget to eat".
He is very talented, but he is also quite conceited, disdainful of talking with mediocre people, and has developed a high-pitched and arrogant character.
Maybe it's because of this that he has the person Fu Yuanzhi saw later.
Officialdom is deceitful and flattering, and it is just wishful thinking for a poor scholar to want to display his ambitions in this environment.
Because of this, he did not enter the official career after obtaining the Jinshi.
It was almost the year of its establishment, and it was the first time it came out.
And the reason is because on the one hand, he is unwilling to annihilate his talent, and on the other hand, he is also forced by life.
His first position was good, and he was still a Beijing official in the capital.
This is thanks to the help of the family lineage, after all, he is not a real commoner, and there are still such relationship activities.
This position is not enough to talk about fine clothes and food, but it is more than enough to support the family.
When he first entered the workplace, his upright temperament made him unable to integrate into the group, and he was often outside the officialdom.
He can't get used to his boss, and he can't get used to the mediocrity around him.
He couldn't stand the hypocrisy and flattery among the officials.
He was deeply disgusted by this, he felt that he should be the lotus that came out of the mud and was not stained, and he was afraid that staying in this environment for a long time would not only fail to fulfill his ambitions, but also make himself unable to keep the lotus clean and self-conscious.
He thought that instead of working with these mediocre people, it would be better to return to his hometown, cultivate the countryside, and live a leisurely life.
This resignation did not make Yan Zhao despair of his career.
After six years, he appeared again, this time not as an official, but as a staff member.
But the same scene reappeared, and he felt that although the township was hard, there was no quarrel with the world, and he could study with more peace of mind.
After two years, he resigned again and went into hiding.
This time, he was deeply disappointed in his career.
Twice out of office, he experienced the corruption and filth of officialdom, and knew that he was afraid that his ambition would be difficult to reward.
He does not want to lose his mind and humiliate himself, and follows the ups and downs of customs.
He became a free and idle member in the countryside.
And in the autumn of the forty-first year, he made another county magistrate in order to make a living.
At that time, he had many young children, and even if he was not good at farming, it was difficult for him to support himself in farming.
Then he became a county magistrate with the help of his clansmen and friends.
He only served as a county magistrate for three months.
In the end, he still hung up his crown and left because he refused to get himself into it and did not want to be one of the mediocre officials.
After more than ten years of several ups and downs, he completely despaired of his career, and his enthusiasm turned into ice water.
Understand that your ideal of helping the common people is like a flower in a mirror, and the moon in the water is out of reach.
Officialdom is to an upright person what a secret net is to a fish, and a macro is to a bird. The darkness of the court lies in the fact that these ugly people do everything for personal gain.
Since there is no hope for the common people, it is better to "beat the kik to rejoice in themselves" and take a road of solitude.
Leaving the officialdom, he was relieved and felt light.
In his spare time, he travels with friends, staggered and entertained.
Although his heart is beyond the world, he cannot help but eat the fireworks of the world.
There is very little inheritance left by the ancestors, and they cannot sit back and enjoy the success, and there is no additional income except for the operation of farmland.
He has been in office many times, and he has not saved much for an official several times, plus he is not good at management, and he is addicted to alcohol, and poverty is like a shadow.
Until a fire a year, it subverted the entire Yan family.
not only took away his eldest son, but also took away his laid-back material foundation.
The devastated family had to huddle on the boat in front of the door, and they still hadn't settled down for five months, and the accident and the loss of their son were even worse when the disaster came.
Financially strapped lives add to the embarrassment.
Coarse grains are wrapped in the belly, and cloth clothes are also out of reach.
At the age of forty-seven, the Yan family moved to Qiancheng.
He lived in poverty, and most of his friends helped him in Qiancheng.
That's why there is a small courtyard to live in.
And in the past few decades, he has only seen the officialdom deceitful and his own ambitions, but he has never pretended to be the person next to him in his eyes.
He didn't notice that his wife was becoming more and more silent, her back was becoming more and more rickety, and the silver hair on her sideburns was getting more and more day by day.
He didn't notice that his son was becoming more and more introverted and silent, and he didn't know when the last time he called him daddy.
He blamed his son for being so mediocre, but he never thought that he had never taught his son or asked about his homework.
After he was busy farming, he had time to talk with his friends, talk about the past and the present, and worry about the country and the people, but he didn't have time to pay attention to the people around him for a moment.
The two hundred taels given to him by his friend, without consulting with his wife, actually saved all the two hundred taels in the restaurant for the purpose of taking wine at any time.
The family is hungry in summer and sleepless in winter.
And fate did not abandon Yan Zhao, when he was fifty-four years old, the imperial court called him to be a subordinate official in charge of compiling the history of the country, but he insisted on resigning and refused to lose his will and humiliate him.
The help extended by God to the Yan family was once again cut off by him personally.
After this time, the Yan family was completely quiet.
After suffering from poverty and illness, his four sons died one after another, and finally his only youngest son remained.
After the old wife had gray hair overnight, she never spoke again.
He stuck to the poor festival and was unswerving, and in the end, he was left with only his old wife and young son by his side, but he was like a stranger.
Yan Zhao is not from a farmer's family, lacks agricultural experience, grows vegetables but can't take care of them, in order not to make the hard work go to waste, he went to eradicate weeds in the early morning, and only went home after the bright moon was high.
The day-to-day work was not easy for him, but he occasionally wavered in his desire to retreat, and the situation of his wife and children made him turn a blind eye and mourn his misfortune!
Perhaps, but they do to others what they do not want to be done to themselves.
Song Huan listened to the old man sigh, "I'm 'willing to be poor and humble to resign from honor', I don't want to be rich and noble, I don't want to be famous, and it is so difficult to be alone." ”
Song Huan silently took a sip of water.
She only felt a nameless fire gushing out.
Judging from Yan Zhao's narrative, he is informal, enthusiastic and easy-going to his neighbors and friends, and arrogant and arrogant to dignitaries, and never agrees.
He sought to get rid of the shackles of the dust net and pursue spiritual liberation.
He sighed that he was not with him, he was born at the wrong time, although he was in the countryside, it was difficult to extinguish the fire in his heart.
But he was unlucky, and so were his wife and children.
He is a great person with great ambitions and dedication, and hopes that Haiyan River will be clear.
But his situation also caused his relatives to suffer the most.
The end of five lives was exchanged for him to look at the people around him, but it was too late.
He cared for the whole world, cared for the people of Dawn, and integrated his own suffering with the suffering of the people, but he did not include his own wife and children.