After more than a dozen flower girls completely disappeared from Yan Cai'er's sight, she withdrew her gaze and said to Gu Lesi, the only one who had not left: "Next, it's time to help you realize your wish." ”

After speaking, Yan Cai'er put her arm around Zhou Geng and took Gu Lesi to find the scholar.

The big streets of the bustling imperial city, many hawkers shouting and shouting, and the merchants and pedestrians coming and going are continuous, which can be described as a busy traffic, endless, a lively and extraordinary scene.

There was a down-and-out scholar in the crowd, his head down, his eyes were red and swollen, and his cheeks were still filled with tears, as if he had just experienced something very sad.

The scholar was dressed in cloth, his hair was a little messy, like a walking corpse, walking in the crowd aimlessly, carrying a pot of wine in his hand, which he only had ten pennies left to buy, for him who had never drunk a drop of wine, but today he wanted to get drunk like those drunkards.

Unconsciously, the scholar walked into a deserted alley, he sat half-on the ground, his back to the cold wall, and cried bitterly: "God, why are you so unfair to me! Natural disasters have taken my father's life, man-made disasters have killed my kind mother, and now even the only girl who cares about me, you have to snatch her away from me, what have I done wrong, why should I bear this!"

Let him roar until his throat is hoarse, and no sound responds to him.

Zhou Geng and others appeared at the other end of the alley, they could feel the resentment in the hearts of the scholars, the bumps and bleakness of fate, the injustice of the world, and the tragic experience could not be explained in one or two sentences.

Gu Lesi knew that the scholar didn't know how to drink, but now the scholar poured the wine into his stomach one after another, and his eyes couldn't help but moisten.

She remembered that she once bought a pot of wine to celebrate the scholar's talent in the exam, but the scholar smelled the smell of the wine, and said with a disgusted face that the wine was pungent and uncomfortable, and he felt dizzy, nauseous and vomiting after smelling it, and refused to drink.

In Gu Lesi's impression, the scholar has never touched wine, but at the moment he can't stop drinking, and he can see how grief-stricken the scholar is, full of despair of reality, and wants to use wine to numb himself and escape from the unacceptable reality.

The scholar is indeed very bitter in his heart, and this bitterness is a thousand times more bitter than the wine he drinks, otherwise he would not try to cover up the bitterness in his heart with the bitterness of the wine.

With tears pouring out, Gu Lesi trotted forward and hugged the lost scholar tightly, wanting to pull the other party back from the abyss of despair and rekindle the other party's hope of life.

"Huh...... Sisi!" The scholar's vision was blurred, looking at the beloved woman who hugged him, thinking that he was drunk, so he smirked, and then took another sip of wine, he was afraid that Gu Lesi in front of him would disappear when he woke up.

Wow!

The wine bottle in the scholar's hand was slammed to the ground by Gu Lesi, shaking his shoulders with both hands, and said with tears on his face: "Xiaozhi...... Wake up...... It's me...... Sisi!"

The scholar with a smirk on his face cried with a smile, touched Gu Lesi's cheek, and said: "I'm sorry Sisi, it's me who is useless, I can't protect you, and I sold you to Wanhualou, with your strong character, you should have committed suicide by now! Don't worry, I will never let you be alone, I will die here to accompany you to Huangquan now, we can't be together before we die, and we will be the right ghost mandarin ducks after death!"

As soon as the words fell, the scholar "Lin Pingzhi" was about to get up and hit the wall, but Gu Lesi struggled to stop it, seeing that he was about to lose it.

"Smack"

She slapped Lin Pingzhi in the face, the crazy Lin Pingzhi felt that his cheeks were hot, and he woke up a little drunk, looked at Gu Lesi a little stunned, rubbed his eyes vigorously, the beloved woman still did not disappear, and then bit his arm hard, confirming that all this was not an illusion, and hugged each other ecstatically.

"Sisi, really...... Is it really you? I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"You didn't dream, I'm back!"

The two hugged each other and cried, neither of them was willing to let go of the hand holding each other, for fear that they would never be able to hold each other again.

Zhou Geng and Yan Cai'er stood quietly in the distance to watch, and did not come forward to disturb them, wanting them to be alone for a while.

After a long time, Lin Pingzhi asked curiously: "Sisi, shouldn't you be in Wanhualou now?

Gu Lesi pointed to Zhou Geng and Yan Cai'er at the other end of the alley, "It was these two benefactors who helped me redeem myself and brought me to you, otherwise I might have ...... by now."

Lin Pingzhi knew her character, and helped her tidy up her hair very distressed, "I want to thank the two benefactors." ”

"Hmm!"

The two walked towards Zhou Geng and Yan Cai'er, Lin Pingzhi bent down with his hands in his hands and bowed, "Thank you two for saving Sisi!"

"No thanks. Zhou even noticed that the other party was also twenty years old, and he was a scholar, how could he be so depressed, and asked suspiciously: "I see that you are elegant and polite, you should be a person who is full of economy and sages who are familiar with the sages, why don't you go to participate in the scientific examination, even if you can't take the exam, you are better than a petty official." ”

"Sigh!" Lin Pingzhi shook his head helplessly and sighed, "I have been reading poetry and books for many years, just to get fame, not to mention the glory of the ancestors, at least to be with the people I love, who would have thought that the imperial examination would not recruit the poor, ordinary people like us who have no money and no power have no way to enter the gate of the imperial examination." ”

"I used to think that as long as I worked hard, one day I would be able to achieve success in the world, and I also believed that everything was inferior, and only reading advanced famous sayings and sayings. ”

"It wasn't until I was stopped at the entrance of the imperial examination and the students who passed by humiliated me with contempt and harsh sneers that I realized I was too young. ”

"I naively think that perseverance can change the status quo, and what is even more ridiculous is that I am rich in five cars, only eight buckets high, and familiar with ancient and modern historical records, but these cannot be exchanged for my food and clothing. ”

"The children of rich families only know how to eat, drink and have fun all day long, and even ignore the royal law, make mistakes and go around, give some money to pass things, and finally inherit the official position of their father, which is really unfair to us ordinary people, although we are very angry, but there is nothing to be done!"

"I see. Zhou nodded thoughtfully.

Yan Caier said that she understood that Yan Guo ten years ago was like this, corrupt officials were in charge, villains and traitors were rampant, and power represented everything.

At that time, the official titles of the Yan State could be passed on to their heirs, so many learned people studied hard for their lives, and there was no place to display their talents, so they would die of depression.

The poverty gap between the rich merchants and the common people is also quite large, so big that the poor people are born, in order not to be starved to death, they can only be willing to be slaves for generations.