As his son grew up, Shi Hui paid more and more attention to his son's studies. Although the Shi family is a scholar family, and the children of the scholar family do not worry about having no career, every parent is the same in terms of hoping for their son to become a Chan. Shi Hui was sheltered by his ancestors and inherited his father's title, Marquis of Guangwu. In the Han Dynasty, the same was enshrined as a title, only the royal family was qualified to be called a prince, and other people with a knighthood could only be called a thorough waiter no matter how high the title was, and then because of the avoidance of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it should be called the liehou. The title of the Jin Dynasty is not fixed, and there are generally county dukes, county dukes, township dukes, county marquises, county marquises, township marquis, pavilion marquis, etc., in addition to many grades such as inner marquis and guanzhong marquis. During the reign of Sima Zhao, it was once restored to the previous five-rank system of duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male, but it was abolished soon after its implementation. Although Shi Hui was not as meritorious as his ancestors, in addition to inheriting the title, he also found two positions. Since he entered the court as an official, he knows that although he is a scholar, the open and secret battles between the various nobles are very powerful. If he is not motivated, even if Shi De can inherit his title, it will be difficult to gain a foothold in the clan in the future, so every time he goes home, asking Shi De's studies is the first priority, and those land rents, taxes, merchants, and the like have become secondary.

On the second day, Ah Miao served Shi De and took medicine, and Shi De felt that his illness was better, so he waited in the house for Shi Hui's exam questions, and waited for a day without seeing anyone come. It wasn't until after dark that I saw Aji coming in with a tray carrying pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and a few test questions.

"Childe, this is an exam question for you, the head of the family asked me to serve Childe here to finish writing, and then take it back to show him." After that, spread out the paper and start grinding the ink.

Shi Hui and Mr. Zhu finished the question and waited in the study. Shi Hui is very relieved, and he is not afraid of cheating, because although Shi's mansion is large and the number of people in the backyard is large, those people are slaves, how can anyone who knows poetry and books? All the poems and books were in the study, and no one could help him. Shi De looked at the title, which consisted of six volumes, which were excerpts from the Five Classics and the Analects. The topic is not simple, nor is it biased. Shi De took the volume of the Analects and looked at it, and asked casually as he read it: "Aji, what am I doing today, why did you send it so late?" ”

"Oh, the head of the house went out early in the morning and came back late. Then, when the head of the grange heard that the head of the family had returned, he came to the head of the house to report the matter, and he had just left. Aggie said, having finished the ink.

Shi De took the pen and asked casually: "What are you talking about, so late?" ”

"It's just a return to some things in the manor, and it doesn't matter, but it seems that there is an accident in Shujiazhuang that has something to do with us."

"Shujiazhuang? Who's home? What happened? I only came from the manor yesterday, why haven't I heard of it? ”

"It happened today, that is, two years ago, a man named Han Ning was washed away by the flood because of the berm. Somehow, some time ago, a warlock came, saying that Han Ning was now in Luoyang, and then Han Ning's wife asked her daughter to call Zhixin, and took her younger brother to Luoyang by boat to find their father, but she didn't want to, the boat they were on capsized, and the younger brother was rescued, but that Zhixin was not rescued, and her mother died because of excessive grief......"

Before Aji could finish speaking, Shi De abruptly interrupted him: "What's that girl's name?" What do you think happened to that girl? ”

"The woman named Zhixin - she drowned."

Shi De stood up with his left hand, his eyes widened, the pen in his hand had just been stained with ink, and it fell on the paper with a click, staining a large piece of white paper black, "Are you sure it's true?" ”

"Of course it's true, Shujiazhuang is so big, with a name and a surname, how can it be wrong!"

Ah Yan clapped her hands and said, "Is there really such a thing?" The girl of the Han family died——? It's better to die, how many times has that girl hurt her son, this time it's finally good, and I'll never see her again. ”

"It's true, what's even more strange, the grandfather of the famous Shu Yan, who has the best relationship between Shujiazhuang and the Han family, Dr. Shu, was in a hurry, and when he got angry, he also died, and three people died in one day in these two families, and the Shu family boy and the Han family boy both became orphans."

Shi De was reluctant to be sure that the person who died was Zhixin just now, but now he heard that Aji was involved in Shu Yan's family again, this was 100% Zhixin. He "plopped" and sat down on the stool, his head was buzzing, his cold was already half healed, so that the condition was a little worse than yesterday, he did not want to admit this fact, his mind was full of thoughts: yesterday he was still entangled with her in the Ru River in his dream, why she ...... today. Yesterday by the Ru River, she and Shu Yan took peonies, it turned out that she was going to Luoyang to .......

The spring sun breaks early. Shi De was woken up by the sound of birds on the eaves outside the window, opened his eyes in a daze, and found that the sky was already bright, and he was lying on the bed, with Ah Miao and Ah Yan guarding the left and right.

"Young master, are you awake?"

Shi De's head was still a little swollen: "What's wrong with me?" Did you sleep all night? What about Aggie? ”

"Well, last night, I saw you in a daze, touching your body, it was very hot, Ah Yan and I helped you to bed, gave you medicine, and gradually improved. Aggie also saw it in his eyes and knew that you were really sick, so he went to pay his respects. Just now he came again, saying that the head of the family said, the young master of the six-volume test paper yesterday must be written, because he will rush back to Luoyang early tomorrow morning, and it is too late to wait for the young master to get better, and he will come to see it when the lamp is held today. ”

In the afternoon, Shi De sat by the desk, holding a pen, but he couldn't get down. He couldn't remember the slightest scripture in his mind, but kept appearing fragments of his previous relationship with Zhixin: from meeting in a red belly pocket, to the general horn, to cardamom, to Jiji, to yesterday; From the countryside, to the Xinuan Pavilion of Shifu, to the water pile house, to the bank of the Ru River, to the illusory Ru River......

"Take the pen and ink Danqing!" Shi De ordered Ah Miao.

Ah Miao was stunned and said: "Childe, you are answering the questionnaire, and you don't paint, what do you want to do with pen and ink Danqing?" ”

Shi De's face was expressionless, "Go!" ”

……

When the lamp was in hand, Shi Hui and the maidservant girl really came. The two maidservants first touched Shi De's head and hands, asked this and that, Shi De didn't speak, but Ah Miao and Ah Yan agreed beside them, but their expressions were panicked, as if they were smiling but not smiling, extremely unnatural.

Shi Hui looked at the case, and the six rolls of paper were neatly placed on it, Shi Hui was very happy, "Yes, De'er is really sensible, and he actually made the paper with illness, which is worthy of praise!" ”

He picked up a scroll, unfolded it and said, "No matter what the answer is, this spirit is good, even if the answer is bad, I don't blame ......" Before he finished speaking, Shi Hui's face suddenly froze - the scroll unfolded, and the content that greeted his eyes was not any of the six test papers, but a painting, which depicted a little girl wearing a red belly pocket, staring aggrievedly, and a broken little clay figure at her feet. There are also eight characters inscribed on the left side of the painting, which are two lines of poetry in the "Book of Songs" "weeping and rippling, laughing and talking".

"In addition to answering the questionnaire, there is actually leisure to paint, it seems that this question is simple."

Shi Hui put down this scroll and picked up another scroll, which was also a painting. The picture depicts a little girl with a horn, wearing open-toed broken straw sandals, with a dirty face and a few thatches in her messy hair. There are also eight characters on the side of the painting, the first four words are "skin is like ink", and the last four words seem to be added later, which is also a poem, "The rat has skin".

He put down this volume, his face changed suddenly, and he picked up the third volume and looked at it, it was still a painting, painting a girl in the prime of her life, although she was wearing an ordinary red kudzu dress, but she was as natural as a watery complexion, with fair skin, dignified and beautiful. He crossed his waist and pouted, as if glaring angrily at someone. The two lines of poetry on the side of the painting are "The hands are like soft wattles, and the skin is like clotted fat".

Shi Hui has seen these two paintings, which were painted by his son when he exchanged land with Shu Han and the two families the year before last, and the painting was the girl of the Han family in Shujiazhuang, and he and his wife praised his son for painting well.

Shi Hui understood that if these two paintings were about the girl of the Han family, then the girl in the red belly pocket in the first picture must also be it, but he forgot which scene it was. In fact, at that time, his son made Zhixin cry, and he also relieved the little girl of fruit. But after all, ten years have passed, except for children, how can adults remember this?

There are still three volumes left to read, and Shi Hui is still not dead, what if there will be some comfort for him in those three volumes, and there will be some "Zhihu Ye" or something like that?

He threw the third scroll on the table and opened the fourth, and as expected, he was not comforted, and the picture in the painting was on the bank of the river, a girl in a green dress who had reached the age of maturity but still wore a double bun, chasing a drifting egg along the water. The two lines of the poem are "Obey the tomb of the Pheasant, and the pheasant sings for its peony".

Shi Hui knew that there was no hope, but he simply opened the remaining two volumes. The two lines of the title of the fifth volume are "Tonight, what night, see this beloved". The painting is of a young girl in a budding willow tree on the edge of a racecourse, wearing a yellow gauze skirt, with a slender figure, sitting on the bluestone under the tree, one foot up, black and clear eyes looking ahead, laughing angrily, laughing with ridicule. Although she changed her clothes, Shi Hui also recognized that this was still the girl of the Han family.

The sixth scroll depicts two people, a young man and a woman bathing in water. The girl is above the shoulders above the water, her black hair is half wet, generally hidden in the water, her skin is white like fat, and her hair is black like ink, needless to say, it is still Zhixin, the young man is white and beautiful, the wind god is very different, but it is also very familiar. The two lines of the poem are "The present is not happy, and the dead die".

The six rolls of paper are all drawings, and none of them are answers. Shi Hui didn't want to ask what was in the painting, so he "snapped" and overturned the bookcase, and said angrily: "Take the family law!" ”