Chapter 97: Yang Xiu
Although she also liked to read at that time, and she also liked all kinds of things in books, but she was the upbringing of the young master of the family, and he was born to be nobler and superior to others, so he was very concerned about various ranks and classes at that time.
Even though he is often praised for his humility and courtesy, he is arrogant in his bones.
He beckoned and drank from those slaves, and he felt that it was natural for them to serve him. Even though he was a scholar, he was also worldly, and like those people, he looked down on businessmen, and he was born with a prejudice against them.
Shinong Industry and Commerce.
If he had not been in the middle of the road, he was born with a gauze hat almost on his head, and he also felt that he would definitely become a great official in the future, like his father, to meet the saint in person, and to discuss the Tao with everyone in the court.
Therefore, for the remaining three classes, he was born with arrogance, and he was born with the feeling that they would be inferior to himself in the future. Even if the etiquette is thorough, I think so in my heart.
For businessmen, he has a kind of prejudice, saying that there is no treacherous business, so as long as he is a businessman, he must be very treacherous.
And now, after he has gone through thousands of sails, and after having this friend, he realizes how stupid his previous ideas were.
Even though there are four classes, human nature is the same after all.
Some are greedy, some are flattering, some are arrogant, some are noble.
There are also scum among scholars, and there are noble people among businessmen, like Wang Zhenren always carries them. He always got a wrong perception of them from a prejudiced eye, and now, he is also in this quagmire, and he finally understands the truth of treating everyone equally.
For there should be a noble man among the merchants, and such was his friend.
Although he is also a businessman, he is elegant and sensible, knows the number of etiquette, speaks and behaves, treats people and things in a measured manner, and never makes others feel uncomfortable when getting along with him.
It's really ashamed of my previous prejudices.
During that time, he had a rare happy time, and he was happy with his friends as long as he did.
But he didn't know that that friend had his own purpose from the beginning of his approach.
He's not a businessman at all, and he's not a good guy, not even a man.
He borrowed the corpse to resurrect the soul, occupying other people's bodies, he had a body with good skin, but inside he was an absconding, heinous ghost.
Yang Xiu is not his real name, his real name is Ami.
He killed many people, increased his strength, and became a powerful ghost by improper means. After being caught in the underworld by Yincha, the golden cicada escaped from its shell, fled to the world, used magic weapons to cover his whereabouts, and hid Wang Zhenren's side.
Wang Zhenren thought that he and he met at a teahouse, but in fact they were not.
Before that, Ami had been watching from the sidelines countless times in the dark, but he was originally an evil ghost, and he never had any mercy for humans. So he never reached out.
Until that time, he heard Wang Zhenren's past from the mouths of others.
When he was pressed to the underworld, he overheard that the underworld was looking for the last ghost emperor, who was in the human world. As long as his background is miserable, the possibility of becoming a ghost emperor is greatly increased.
He also heard that if there is one person in the world, it is possible to become a ghost emperor. His family fell in the middle of the road, and later he was displaced, the book and sword were not successful, and his heart was quickly smoothed out by life, and now he is still dancing swords in the teahouse......
And it was he hiding, trying to evade the search of the underworld.
It wasn't until later that he heard about Wang Zhenren's past in the mouths of others.
There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them.
He had been looking for this Wang Zhenren for a long time, and now he finally found him.
He secretly observed him for a while, and found that although this Wang Zhenren was like ashes, he was still very easy to deceive.
Befriend him, if he is kind to him in the future, then in the future, even if he is caught in the underworld, for the sake of the former three-point thin face, Wang Zhenren will definitely help him.
Finally let him find the opportunity on that day, and on that day, Wang Zhenren was almost relegated to the dust by his collective name. His soul is almost shattered, and Ami pretends to be an elegant businessman, saves him from fire and water, and brings him out of the darkness.
Since then, he has been kind to him intentionally or unintentionally, and almost every word he says is guiding Wang Zhenren to trust him wholeheartedly.
Everything he did also wanted Wang Zhenren to think of it in the future, and to be able to remember that he was kind to him.
He was thinking of retribution.
Everything went according to what he had expected.
Even without his participation, Wang Zhenren's last few years were very difficult. After his participation, in that difficult life, Wang Zhenren's heart was much more comfortable.
Half a year after I got the books back, I felt that I had nothing to do, and I saw children making noise everywhere in the streets and alleys. Even though he has reached the age of reading, he has never read and written.
After teaching his friend that day, he finally realized that his friend was not the material for learning, and although he said that he was no longer reluctant, he was still frustrated in his heart.
Later, when he saw those children, he thought aimlessly, if only these children could read and write.
In this dynasty, even ordinary people can become officials by reading exams. Although it was tough, the effort was not fruitless.
He himself had tried the bitter fruits of the exams, though he did not want these children to be squeezed down the gold and silver by those who had bad intentions in his old ways.
But reading and learning words isn't just for that.
If you can read and learn words, your child will be less rude and will have something to do. The most important thing is to read and learn words, through simple reading and calligraphy, you can recognize the account books, and you can also recognize some deed of sale, so as not to sell yourself as a slave in a daze.
Having lived at the bottom for so long, he has heard of countless people who have lost a lot because they can't understand the written language.
When he was idle, he had an idea. Even if you don't have to pay for it, you can teach those children to read and learn simple words, and as long as they are willing to come, he is willing to teach.
He found a stone slab and a charcoal pen that could write, and began to teach three or five students to read and write under the big locust tree.
It's all some, but religious children are also hindering adults from doing things at home, and when they are sent to him, he can still help take care of one or two, and he can read and write for free, and there is no reason not to take advantage of it.
Because of this incident, the people in this small city have great respect for Wang Zhenren, and even call him Mr. Wang.
Some people grow a lot of vegetables at home, and they will even give him a little when they come out, and the relationship between him and his neighbors has become closer and closer.
Because of teaching these students for free, he became famous in the small town, and everyone liked him and respected him.
And within a few years, Wang Zhenren's final catastrophe came.
On that day, he buried a hidden danger for his classmates to write poems. After his classmates returned to the capital, they began to slander him at will, taking his failure to answer that day as a tacit acquiescence, and maliciously smearing and slandering him. The classmate concocted a lie that was different from the truth.
When he was a teenager, he was beaten and scolded at will, and he had a bad personality. Bullying classmates or verbally insulting other students by relying on their superior status, even to the teacher has a lot of disrespect.
In the academy, he also claimed that the so-called ways of the sages were all in the past, and only what he said was the truest truth in the world.
also said that he was born to be a big official, and he was born to look down on their classmates, claiming that they were all ants. In the future, they will surely be under him.
Deviant, disrespectful to elders, bullying classmates.
Why didn't anyone say it at the time? It was because he had already used gold and silver to dredge the joints, and he used the family power to suppress him in many ways, and no one dared to tell the truth at that time.
He even wanted to use gold and silver to buy the examiner, leak the exam questions, and buy an official to do, he didn't feel scared at all, he didn't feel pathetic, he didn't feel shy, and he even felt complacent that it was his glory.
He was born high and looked down on everyone, this is the young master of the family.
So later, his family fell into the middle of the road, moved away from the capital, and went to a remote town to live in a remote town, all of which was his retribution.
The young man has the virtue of a good life, so he is reluctant to see such a person who shows off his martial arts in the capital, so God took back his wealth and nobility, and let him also taste what kind of life is the person who was once looked down on by him?
The news of this incident in the capital was so loud that almost all of the former classmates came out to testify.
For a while, no one in the capital didn't believe in this, and everyone couldn't help but feel scolded for it, even if he had been punished now, it was less than one-ten-thousandth of what he did to others at that time.
What a complete bad guy! That's what everybody says.
Fortunately, he was punished. Otherwise, how sad those former classmates should be.
Sadly, none of those classmates came forward to refute it, and almost all of them chose to ignore it, or came forward to testify, and also presented evidence that they were bullied at that time. For a time, the human and material evidence was complete.
I used to think I was making all the best friends. But when he didn't know it, in fact, none of these classmates treated him sincerely. Now that they are down, instead of reaching out to help, those people have fallen into the ground.
By the time these rumors reached Wang Zhenren's ears, it was already a year later.
The so-called three people become tigers, even if they didn't do anything wrong at the beginning, but in the word of mouth, they have become extremely evil people.
What's more, in the capital, Wang Zhenren's reputation is so bad. In the end, he almost became a wicked man who was going to hell. Everyone is talking about it, even if everyone hasn't seen it with their own eyes, but what they say is as if it's true.
Almost the whole court criticized people like Wang Zhenren.
Wang Zhenren himself didn't know that he had done so many wrong things.
Even if he thought in his heart at the time that people had ranks. But whether it is dealing with people or dealing with people, all remain humble.
That is the upbringing of him at home, and it is also his demeanor after reading so many books, he yearns for the world of books, so he will naturally be influenced by those books.
He never thought that he would become the kind of person who disrespects his teachers and superiors, does all the bad things, and commits the most heinous crimes.
Yes, when it reached Wang Zhenren's ears, the matter had escalated, in addition to the notoriety of deviating and bullying his classmates, he had several black cauldrons behind him.
What did he settle with money after he killed someone, but he relied on his family power to become more prosperous, and he didn't feel a little guilty in his heart.
What relied on the power of the family, bullied the market and robbed the people's daughters, and after those women were pregnant with children, they even ordered people to abort them, sowing countless sins.
There are even more excessive claims that he doesn't even care about His Majesty's royal family, and he has long been born a traitor, so His Majesty confiscated their entire family.
This kind of gossip reached Wang Zhenren's ears, and even Wang Zhenren himself didn't know that he had done so many things.
But he didn't believe it. Many people around him believed it, and he was the last to know.
The neighbor mother-in-law, who had been friendly with them and treated them well, wanted to walk around him, and the teacher who had befriended him in the academy scolded him and kicked him out of the academy.
Even Xiao Er, who was once a rare one in the teahouse who showed kindness to him, looked at him with some unkindness in his eyes. If he hadn't hurt the guest, the tray would have hit him on the head.
In the teahouse, looking at his eyes, all of them have seen street rats. whispered, eager to poke his spine and scold him.
Wang Zhenren clenched his fists.
His eyes were a little red, and he said loudly in the teahouse, "I swear I've never done those things, I don't know who maliciously slandered me!" ”
"How can you tarnish people's innocence out of thin air! I'm a man of letters, how can I do those things?! ”
"You, you're just too much of a deception!"
Originally, the people in the teahouse were just whispering, but after listening to his words, there was an even greater opposition in the teahouse.
Everyone believed he was that kind of person. Even if he said a few words, he couldn't argue. Even everyone thought he was arrogant and even more disdainful of him.
In the end, Wang Zhenren left the scene in embarrassment amid the sound of everyone driving away.
No one believed him, and when he walked on the road, everyone pointed fingers at him, wishing that he would go to hell on the spot.
Wang Zhenren was almost discouraged. Even though he had suffered so many things, none of them broke his spine like this, and the literati demeanor that he was once proud of was also shattered thoroughly.
At that moment, he thought of his friend Yang Xiu, but Yang Xiu went to Jiangnan to do business, and now thousands of miles away, he is now in a situation of being alone.
He could only dare not take a step out of the house at home.
As soon as he leaves the door of the house, he will be scolded back.
The people in the market scolded talents especially dirty, and they were more vulgar than those literati.
He blushed when he heard those words, let alone endure the scolding.
So he didn't even dare to go out of the house, only dared to lock the lock, and at most dared to go around the yard.
But a few days later, when he was in the yard, he heard his neighbors scolding him in a loud voice.
A few more days. Rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves were thrown in his yard, and the whole yard was in shambles. Originally, he won a pond of lotus flowers in the yard. But now the lotus pond has been thrown into rotten leaves, and a foul smell comes out.
Originally, the courtyard was quite neat, in addition to the lotus pond, there was also a vegetable patch.
But now, it has all been ruined by the angry people.
Once, he taught students to read and practice calligraphy under the big locust tree every day, but since listening to those rumors, no student under the locust tree has been willing to come.
Everyone is afraid that the child will be taught badly by him and become his kind of person.
At the beginning, in the face of the empty classroom, Wang Zhenren was still very uncomfortable. But later, after so many people poked his spine and scolded, he realized that those discomforts were just like sprinkling water.
His life has reverted to the gloom it once was. He also thought that his life had finally ushered in the light, but it turned out to be just a flash, a bubble.
He was actually very puzzled. He had lived in the city for two years, and in those two years he had never done anything bad. Even when dancing with a sword in a teahouse, he has a humble attitude, never saying anything wrong with anyone, and never doing anything unfavorable to others.
In terms of dealing with people, he has always maintained a humble and polite attitude, so that he is comprehensive, once the neighbors also praised him for understanding etiquette and etiquette, he doesn't understand why he has been with everyone for so long, and the relationship between them for so long has been broken by some obviously unworthy rumors.
They would rather believe the message than him. The two years of getting along seem to be a joke for him.
In the past, he still exchanged letters with his friends, but after this incident, he no longer dared to write to that friend, he was afraid that Yang Xiu would feel that he was the same kind of person as they were. At that point, he really had no salvation at all. So he instinctively resisted it.
He stayed at home for several days, and the family's stock of food had been eaten, and he did not dare to go out to buy it, so he had to drink water to survive.
And on this day, he finally received a letter from a distant friend.
They were thrown into the yard along with some rotten leaves.
The messenger scolded and said that if he hadn't given enough money, he wouldn't have sent a letter to a person like him who had committed a heinous crime.
After Wang Zhenren received the letter, he put the letter on the bookcase.
He didn't dare to open it for a long time, for fear of seeing Yang Xiu's scolding of him.
Now he thought about the time when Yang Xiu believed in him before, it was his only lifeline. If after seeing Yang Xiu's scolding, it would be hard for him not to believe that he would be disillusioned and fall into a place of no return.
One thought of heaven, one thought of hell.
Looking at the letter, he also had a faint expectation in his heart, what if Yang Xiu was different from them? Is it the letter that says he wants to believe in himself and comfort himself?
The former was the majority, the latter was only a small part, but the anticipation tempted him to open the letter like an appendage.
After the third day of looking at that letter.
(End of chapter)