Chapter 3: The Old Days
The front yard of the Ningguo Mansion is full of bamboo forests.
I heard that the old Ning Guogong, who opened the mansion a hundred years ago, is a martial artist who can't read big characters, but he likes to be vassally elegant, so in order to make himself a little elegant, he planted bamboo in the house, and he also planted bamboo, and he planted it full. When he died, he left a last word, and his descendants were not allowed to cut down the bamboo forest.
There is so much bamboo, you can't do it without cutting it. The descendants of the descendants have read the book and have their own knowledge of Yazi, so they pulled out the bamboo in the backyard, repaired the bamboo forest in the front yard, painted the red wall one after another, and built a scene in Kyoto.
Ning Shuo recovered from a serious illness, and was helped by the little maid through the cool bamboo forests one after another, to the small study of the Ningguo Mansion.
Ning Guogong and Second Young Master Ning had just come down to the court, and they were discussing in the study, and they were surprised to see him coming, "Didn't you say that the fever just subsided?" What's wrong with it? β
Ning Shuo: "I'm idle, and I can't read a book, so I want to come and get some newspapers." β
Ning Guogong didn't doubt it, "You are sick, but you are sensible, I used to ask you to read the Di newspaper, but you always didn't read it, you only knew how to memorize some dead books." β
So he personally took some Di Bao and gave it to him, "Let's take a look at this year's first." β
Second Young Master Ning had a cold temperament, but he also admonished, "Don't watch it too late, so as not to spoil your body." β
Ning Shuo bowed, then turned to leave.
"Third Young Master Ning" is silent, doesn't like to talk, and is not as smart as Ning Guogong and Second Young Master Ning, and can only read dead books, "he" follows his husband to study hard in the Akiyama Academy on the outskirts of Kyoto on weekdays, and he is not very familiar with his family, only a little closer to his mother Li, but he has to do it a little.
He was sick three months ago, and he has been keeping him at home since he came back from the academy, and now that he is well, no one suspects that he has changed people.
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On the way back, you still have to pass through countless red walls and bamboo shadows. The coolness in the forest did not let the dryness of the summer dissipate, Ning Shuo took the newspaper, his steps were hurried, and he walked faster and faster step by step, and he was more impetuous.
- He had followed the prince to this bamboo forest before.
At that time, he was still called Sui Mingting, and he was a brother with the prince, and his father was also a respected prince. Ning Guogong held a birthday banquet, and the prince brought him to celebrate his birthday, and Ning Guogong was respectfully invited to a glass of wine here.
Thinking of the crown prince, Ning Shuo's eyes turned dark.
The prince was cowardly and timid by nature, and as his grandfather, his father taught him carefully. From his enlightenment at the age of three to his teaching at the age of twenty-three, he has been doing everything himself for 20 years, and has exhausted his life's work.
But as the crown prince became more and more powerful, and His Majesty got older, suspicion began to arise between father and son. Four years ago, that is, in the twenty-third year of Jingtai, the crown prince disagreed with His Majesty over the matter of taxation, which angered His Majesty. The father interceded for the prince, but was framed for corruption, and when His Majesty was angry with the prince's family, he directly sentenced the family to be executed.
At that time, the crown prince could have interceded for his father in order to gain time to find out the truth. But the prince didn't-His Majesty was furious, and with the idea of abolishing the prince, he didn't dare to provoke His Majesty again, so he simply buried his head and let his family be beheaded.
That year, the blood of the Sui family was as fresh as the red wall in front of him.
He thought that he was going to die on that day, but the prince suddenly became bold, replaced him with a death row prisoner, and sent him to Lingnan, but asked people to watch him to prevent him from contacting the old ministry to make trouble.
He had no way to escape the prince's surveillance, like a trapped beast, exhausted, and ready to die at first. But then, a little girl came to his yard and begged him to teach poetry.
He didn't want to teach, but maybe her eyes were too bright to study, or maybe his heart for death was relieved that day, so he nodded.
This religion lasted for another four years, and in March this year, he quietly died of illness in the middle of the night.
He died, and it was no pity that he only resented that the sky did not give him a chance to show the grievances of his family......
- He must clear his grievances for his family.
The little servant saw that his brows were tightly locked, and he stood still with a painful expression. The little guy was so frightened that his body trembled, and he hurriedly called him, "Third Young Master." β
Ning Shuo came back to his senses when he heard this, exhaled a breath of turbidity, and took another step along the red wall and bamboo shadow along the way to the Xingshi courtyard where he lived. At this time, dark clouds rose in the sky, the wind blew the bamboo leaves and fell, fell on the bluestone slab, and was stepped on by him again, rolling up a breeze -
ββJingtai entered the palace to accompany the East Palace to study in the fifth year, and he was prominent for a while, and he was often riding a high red horse and laughing wantonly. Jingtai was unjustly killed in the twenty-third year of Manmen, and the door was full of birds, and it was a dead wood imprisoned in the land of Lingnan.
In the twenty-seventh year of Jingtai, his body was dead, and he came back to life in Ning Shuo's body.
He frowned, stepping over one dead leaf after another.
He couldn't believe such a bizarre experience when others said it.
On a June day, the child's face was still scorching under the sun, and when he returned to the house, it began to rain.
The sky in Kyoto is so unpredictable.
Ning Shuo put the newspaper on the table and looked at it carefully.
He left Kyoto for four years, and during these four years, he was like a blind and deaf man, and he didn't know everything about Kyoto, and "Third Young Master Ning" was locked in the room and read hard, except for books in his mind, and he didn't hear anything outside the window.
I can only look at what has happened in Kyoto in the past four years from the newspaper.
As he was watching, he heard footsteps outside, and Li walked in. As soon as she came, she hugged him and cried, and said distressedly: "I heard that you went to the study to get the newspaper?" What else do you read? What if my body is ruined? β
scolded again, "You daddy, that dog thing!" I know that you are recovering from a serious illness, and I don't know how to persuade you! β
Ning Shuo was stiffly held by her. His mother died when he was young, but he has never been so close to his "mother".
Li Shi was still chattering, "Your father is not a thing, you are so young, he said that you are not very talented, and the jade is not a weapon, so he sent it directly to Akiyama Academy, and only returned home a few times a month, forcing you to study hard." God is pitiful, I don't need you to earn fame, I just want you to be healthy. β
She thought about it, "You don't have to worry about your father in the future, A-Niang has a dowry, and A-Niang will support you." What if you are useless all your life? Don't listen to your father and study hard, according to A-Niang, so many useful people are not going to die, so what does it matter if they are useful or useless? β
Ning Shuo heard such a fallacy for the first time. But he didn't dare to disobey her and make her sad. When you have the body of someone else and become the son of someone else, you must do your best to support them.
Seeing that Li Shi was going to say more, he had to promise not to read the Di newspaper again today, so he sent her out, who knew that she didn't feel at ease and turned back, staring at him to go to bed and rest before leaving with peace of mind.
That's a ...... He shook his head and lay on the bed with his eyes closed, but his heart was indeed quieter. Then I remembered the feast bell.
She was his little disciple. During his four years in Lingnan, he taught the little girl four years of poetry and books, and won a lot of flattery and praise from her.
In the winter of last year, when he taught her the poem "Three days of peach blossom rain in Lanxi, and the carp came to the beach in the middle of the night", he also promised to wait for the peach blossoms to bloom and take her to catch fish and eat by the peach forest stream.
When he died, she must have cried with her temperament. March has passed, and I don't know if she will be sad now......
Ning Shuo tossed and turned. Reliving a life, in addition to vowing to be wronged by the family, Zhaoxue, he is still concerned about her.