On this day, after the school was dispersed, Shi De, Xun Bao, and Xiahoumen went out of the gate of Taixue, and they all had their own carriages to pick them up. Xun Bao and Xiahoumen are both wealthy sons in Luoyang City, and they live very close. Shide's home is farther away, but they are all along the way. After walking a short distance, I arrived at Xiahoumen and Xunbao, and they were close to each other. Shi De saw that there were servants waiting at the door of Xiahou's house, and when he saw Xiahou men get out of the car, two people immediately ran over, helped him by the arms on the left and right, and walked into the house. The same is true of the Xun Bao family.

Shi Dexiang: When I was in Ruyin, I heard that the scholars in Luoyang had to be supported when they walked, and it was true. I remembered that when they were in Taixue just now, they were still vigorous young students, how could they become so sick when they went outside? He couldn't help but want to laugh. Suddenly, I remembered that when I was in Ruyin, I had secretly imitated this, and I was laughed at by the whole house, and now it seems that this is really a fashion, and those who laugh at me are pedantic.

Sitting in his carriage, Shi De heard Xiahoumen secretly smile at Xun Bao: "This soil bun, he doesn't know this." ”

Xun Bao also smiled: "He came from a small place, where does he know how to walk." ”

Shi De heard it, but he also pretended to ignore it, and took a carriage to a mansion. This mansion is the Shi family's house in Beijing.

It turned out that since the Shangsi Festival four years ago, Shi Hui wanted to inspect Shi De's studies, Shi De was sick because of his illness, and because he missed Zhixin, his head was dizzy and stupid, and his father gave him six exam papers, not only did not answer one, but took out six portraits of Zhixin, at that time, Shi Hui was angry, and immediately ordered to take out a long whip and push Shi De to the ground. Ah Miao saw that Shi Hui was really angry, and knew that the consequences must be serious. She immediately glanced at a little maid on the side, and the little maid understood, and immediately went to inform Madame Wang. He and Ah Yan lay on Shi De's body to protect him. Seeing this, Shi Hui became even more angry and ordered: Whoever dares to dissuade will be beaten together. The subordinates tore Ah Miao and Ah Yan off Shi De's body, crackling, and the long whip fell on the three of them. Although Shi De made a big mistake, Ah Miao and Ah Yan were right, they just came to dissuade them, but how dare these family members really beat Shi De? I'm afraid there will be trouble in the future. has no scruples about Ah Miao and Ah Yan, just fight with confidence, so Ah Miao and Ah Yan were beaten harder. Shi Hui saw it in his eyes, so he took the long whip and beat him according to Shi De. Fortunately, after a few hits, Mrs. Wang arrived, immediately snatched the long whip from Shi Hui's hand, and stopped beating Ah Miao and Ah Yan's family. Shi Hui was still angry, but when his wife arrived, he had to stop. Because the power of the Wang family is very large, he has always been afraid of his wife.

Mrs. Wang was very satisfied with Ah Miao and Ah Yan's actions to protect the lord, and sent special personnel to serve Shi De, Ah Miao, and Ah Yan. Fortunately, although the three of them were beaten hard, they were all skin injuries, and they would be fine after a few days. Afterwards, Mrs. Wang naturally looked at Ah Miao and Ah Yan differently. Ah Miao is still the same as before, without distractions, not arrogant or impatient, serving Shi De wholeheartedly, and even because she has lost herself in Shi De in her haze, she takes care of Shi De more carefully. But Ah Yan relied on the merit of protecting the lord this time, and she couldn't help but be coquettish and pretentious.

After Shi's injury was healed, his thinking was still chaotic, and he had no intention of reading at all. Shi Hui and his wife discussed: Having a child like this is not a way after all. Living here, even if there is a improvement in the future, after a long time, maybe one day when the scene is touched, it will bring back the past, and in the long run, it will definitely delay his son's studies, so it is better to move to Beijing as soon as possible. In this way, the Shi family moved to Jingshi's house. The house of the Jingshi has been cured a long time ago, but because of the shortage of land in Luoyang City, the Shi family's house in the capital is smaller than the house in Ruyin, but the style and luxury of the mansion are several times stronger than the old mansion in Ruyin. After arriving in Luoyang, the world full of flowers, Shi De finally saw the world, saw everywhere fresh, came into contact with a lot of gentlemen, and gradually added a little bit of flashy and extravagant atmosphere, so he forgot a lot about Zhixin. Soon after, Shi Hui sent Shi De to Taixue to study, and it has been a few years.

Shi De got out of the carriage and stood in front of the vermilion gate of his glazed tiles, and saw several people standing at the door, all of whom were busy greeting Shi De, but no one came to help him, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, thinking: How can this work, the sons in Luoyang City have to be supported when they walk, how can I be an exception? I had to fit in with them as soon as possible, or I would be laughed at by them.

He stood at the door, but he did not step in, and told the man at the door to go in and tell Ah Miao and Ah Yan to come out. After a while, seeing Ah Miao and Ah Yan running out, Shi De raised his arms: "Come and help me in." ”

"Help you?" Both of them thought Shi was sick, and asked in surprise, "Son, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I didn't do much." Shi was very angry, "Stupid things, your eyes are blind, are your ears also deaf?" ”

The two were confused when they heard it: "Childe, what are you talking about, what, what do you mean?" ”

"What do you mean? When I was in Ruyin, I told you that the scholars of Luoyang need someone to help them when they walk, but you don't believe it. At that time, I said that I would imitate it in advance, and you all laughed at me, and now what is happening, everyone is laughing at me! Saying that I am dirty, I can't walk, although we are also considered wealthy, but we can only be regarded as a local tyrant! ”

"It turns out that Childe is angry about this." Although the second maid had heard that the atmosphere in Luoyang was indeed like this, she didn't take it seriously. At this moment, he only picked up Shi De's arm left and right and walked into the house.

Skirting the brick shadow wall, passing through a row of tall vestibules, then two tent rooms and four or five study rooms. Along the corridor through a few flower halls, and walked a long way, Yonglu leads to the east courtyard is dozens of money warehouses, silk warehouses, wine warehouses, granaries, firewood warehouses, charcoal warehouses, carports and other warehouses. Further to the northwest corner, there is another courtyard wall separated by a pen for horses, oxen, deer, and other driving cars. A small area circled next to it is the plaything of moose, turtles, geese and other animals and birds. Next to it are dozens of rooms for subordinates. The two of them helped Shi De to turn a corner, passing through a few kitchens, and several beautiful houses with carved beams and paintings in front of them were the residences of the Shi family's masters, and the left ones were Shi Hui and his wives and concubines, and the one on the right was Shi De's residence.

Along the way, all the people in the house, such as the bookkeeper, the clerk, the groom, the storekeeper, the cook, the flower planter, the tailor, the coachman, the butcher, and so on, all looked at these three people and laughed secretly. Ah Miao Ayan was seen by everyone with a fever on her face and was very uncomfortable. Shi De didn't think so, and even closed his eyes, his heart was very happy, the more others peeked, the more he pretended to be weak, and let the two beauties support him.

Shi De was smug when he suddenly smelled a faint scent of flowers, coming from the small garden in the northeast corner. Knowing that his place was almost there, he opened his eyes and suddenly saw two people sitting on the two beds in front of the window, admiring the flowers, which startled him, because those two were his parents, his mother, and he was most afraid of his father.

Shi Hui and his wife were surprised to see their son being carried by two maids all the way. Mrs. Wang hurriedly asked, "De'er, are you sick?" How do you need someone to support you? ”

Ah Yan said: "The young master is not sick, the young master is just ......"

Shi De didn't walk with his arms open, nor did he stop. I thought: My father has never been so leisurely, how can I have time to sit here and enjoy the flowers today, but I was met by him......

Fortunately, Shi Hui just stared and kept a calm face, but did not speak. Seeing this, Shi De used his arms to exert force, but he took Ah Miao Ayan and walked quickly to his room.

After turning the corner, Shi Decai shouted: "Mother, I'm not sick, the sons in Luoyang City all go this way." ”

Mrs. Wang asked her husband, "Husband, I don't go out at home all day, but I have heard that the current son of the scholar clan needs someone to help him when he walks, is this really the case?" ”

"Hey, it's not, it's really a bad world, and one generation is not as good as the next. People of our generation can still get on the horse-drawn bow and make contributions to the imperial court, although they are now enjoying peace, they are only a little talkative and rich; And these gentlemen do not seek to be motivated, they are drunk every day, talking, fighting for wealth, comparing, serving five stones, and discussing the scriptures. Not to mention that you can go to the battlefield to fight, even the horse does not dare to ride. He refused to read the book well, and even greased and powdered, and had to be helped when he walked. Shi Hui took a sip of tea and said, "De'er doesn't like to read in the first place, I sent him to Taixue just to let him study hard, but he can mix in the Jingshi, and it is inevitable that he will come into contact with these people in the future, and he will be damaged by them." ”

"Having said that, if you don't follow this fashion, you won't be able to integrate into the circle of wealthy families and be laughed at."

Shi Hui sighed and said, "Hmph, if this wind of clear talk and weakness prevails, I'm afraid that the rivers and mountains of the Great Jin Dynasty will be bad in their hands." ”

Mrs. Wang nodded yes, but then changed her words and said: "I don't think about the future things first, I will learn in Taixue in a few days, it is important to find a good future for him, have you said hello to the officials?" ”

"It's okay to say that the current official department Shangshu Wang Rong is also a member of your Langya Wang clan. It's just that now all officials have to go through the hands of Zhongzheng. Whether it is the current official or the newly promoted person who is ready to enter the office, Zhongzheng must evaluate according to his family background, political integrity and ability, and the high grade of the person being evaluated, the official character of the starting official is high; The grade that is evaluated is low, and the official character of the starter is low. I am afraid that this child, although he is gifted and intelligent, has very little qualifications, and has never done anything commendable when he is so old. In this way, his hometown quality will not be too high, but you don't have to worry, our Xiaozhongzheng in Ruyin and Dazhongzheng in Yuzhou are friends with us, and they must take care of it......"

Shu Yan accompanied Xiao Mo to live in the inn, which was very close to Cao, but had a strange name, called "Cold and Summer" inn. In the past few days, there have been many filial piety from all over the country who have come to Beijing to try. It turned out that these filial piety came relatively late, and they couldn't live in the party hall, so they all lived in this inn.

These filial piety are all older than Shu Yan, and there is a big difference in age, both in their twenties and in their sixties. Don't look at such a big age difference, but they are both characters with both ability and integrity, they are polite to each other and admire each other, so they quickly get acquainted. Among them, there is a filial piety named Ye Shen from Hongnong County, and a person named Ge Shen from Guangping County, both of whom are about thirty years old, and Shu Yan often sits with them and chats. The filial piety did not know when the ministry would notify the test, for fear of delay, so they would go to the ministry every day to inquire about the news. On this day, Shu Yan came to the ministry as usual, and as soon as he entered the door, the ministry told him that he would come to the ministry on time before tomorrow to try. Shu Yan got the news and hurriedly went back to tell Ye Yan and the others.