Chapter 44: Lu Lang of Qixia Mountain
The newly tender willow branches brushed across the river, and the Fushui County Government surrounded the figures of waiting and watching. When the gate opened, someone came out, and the crowded crowd started to riot.
"The results are released!"
“…Go away from it and give up a way.”
The people from the county yamen were holding the notice and were escorted by the yamen runners and posted on the list. As soon as the posters left, the two yamen runners quickly crossed the water and fire sticks to protect the notice board.
On the opposite side, a crowd of people rushed over, making the streets blocked, and the people behind could only raise their feet and look forward.
"Ouch...I've been beaten! I've been beaten!"
"Here you see if my name is on it!"
"Let me be third..."
Among the gathering people, there are people watching the fun and candidates taking the exam. There is such a scene every spring exam. Many scholars still flock to them for only three consecutive years of qualifications.
Behind the crowd, two sturdy men squeezed into the front of the bulletin board, pressing the water and fire sticks in front of them. Seeing the name at the top of the list, they grinned.
"Haha, Lu Lang won again, it's still the top spot!"
"Go back and report the good news!"
"Let's go!"
The two of them returned and squeezed out, which made the scholars around them angry and dared not speak out. They looked at the backs of the two big men leaving, and wiped the turned position disdainfully.
"What's so cool about... I won the lead, and I may not win later."
"Those two people just said Lu Lang?"
"Lu Lang hasn't heard of it, who do you know?"
"Hey, I just left the study and came to take the children's exam?"
"Well Lu Lang is very famous?"
"It's not just famous... 'There's urgent matter, Lu Langsui''s reputation is well-known far and wide... and this is the first in the third year..."
"That's right, it's this Lu Lang. I've heard some of them at home. What about the person I said I had never heard of? Where is the person?!"
"It seems to be scared away..."
All kinds of voices were mixed, and the scholar who didn't know who "Lu Lang" had long been missing, which made the people nearby laugh and scold the other party for being timid as a mouse.
There are not many people who have won the top spot in three years, but it seems rare for a poor peasant family to achieve such achievements. In small counties like Fushui, they can be considered as figures.
Even the tea servant often has storytelling about Lu Lang on weekdays.
"If you want to talk about how poor Lujia Village was, the more than ten generations of people in the village either digging soil in the fields or hunting on the mountains, I don't know if God showed up, and Lujia Village has such a smart and literate young talent... Rumor has it that Lulang was born with a fragrance in the yard, and he could speak at half a year... He could speak at the age of two... He also needs to teach it, but he learned a talent of natural talent, otherwise why did Lujia Village become so rich in three years..."
Whenever such storytelling comes from the storyteller, it will definitely add fuel to the fire, causing the following listeners to the ups and downs.
"What a child prodigy..."
"No wonder the chief clerk Shuhua wants to be his husband, it turns out that he has known it for a long time."
"......... Although Lu Lang was born in Lujia Village, it was not that Fushui County had a talented talent. He would never be able to become a senior official in the court."
"Haha, I don't know if Lu Lang has a engagement. My little girl in my husband's family is just waiting to be in the boudoir..."
....
On the long street outside the tea shop, two figures riding horses had passed the intersection. After leaving the county gate, they whipped a whip and shouted "Go!" and accelerated along the official road to the southwest.
The towns along the way gradually fell behind, with green mountains and chirping birds constantly coming from the old forest on the side.
Turning through the bend in front and spreading into the sight of the two men was a large green field, with several white gravel paths connecting the official road, one of which connected another nearby village. Many buildings were built in the middle, most of which were storage warehouses for barns and fish ponds, and the villagers who had been married in three years built housing.
I walked closer and thought it was just a countryside.
In three years, the fields were harvested with the improved spiritual gathering array, and the grains were full. The fish and shrimps in the pond became popular. There were endless vendors who bought fish and shrimp here, and even sold them to other townships and counties outside. People from Lujia Village and Bei Village naturally benefited from it, and their lives were much better than before. I dare not say that there was meat every meal. I ate a meat dish every few days, so those who used to hard life were even afraid to think about it.
People from other villages came here to explain clearly and even broke the threshold of every household, and even half-old boy in the family made a marriage early.
Of course, there is another strange thing. The cold winter of the previous year, there was a wolf disaster. Several villages backing the Tongling County on the other side of Qixia Mountain suffered one after another. More than ten people died. The village men who formed a patrol here found that the wolves were approaching the two villages here, and they did not dare to get close to them more than ten feet away. They ran back to the mountains in shame.
This has become a strange story nearby.
Everyone in the village knows who this hard-earned life comes from. However, recently, the village has built a private school, which was reported in the county government. There are only four villages and only Lujia Village has such treatment. Many people ask people to leave their relationships and want their children to send them to the private school for the "Lu Lang" to teach.
Now, the villagers are straight and straight whenever they go. After all, their children can be given priority to enroll in school, while others have to wait until the next year.
....
The afternoon sun shone through the mountain village and the clean road surface. Lu Taigong changed the place to bask in the sun, sat on the Taishi chair with a crutch aside, listening to the vague sound of reading from the wall behind him, and then gently shook his head.
The villagers who passed by occasionally stopped and quietly looked at their children's serious expressions in the window in the gap. Then they carried the hoe home with satisfaction, preparing to let the wife cook more meat to replenish the child's brain.
Soon, the sound of reading stopped, and a group of children rushed out of the door cheerfully, carried a cloth bag covering the books, and ran home.
The swaying door opened and the young man in a long robe walked out. The Pisces and pearls and jade pendant on his waist were gently swaying, and he walked to the Taishi Chair and bent down.
"Taigong, it's time to go home."
The old man opened his eyes and looked at the sky, with his mouth with few teeth open, leaning on a pear wood crutch, slowly heading home.
The soft glow shone across the handsome face. Lu Liangsheng curled his lips and brushed his robe sleeves towards his slow back. A breeze wrapped around Lu Taigong's legs, and the slow speed was significantly accelerated.
"Haha... I'm not old, my legs are still so straight."
The old man said to the younger generations around him with a cane and basking in the setting sun, and went home in great spirits.
Lu Liangsheng turned around with a smile, took the book and walked towards his home. The villagers he met on the way waved and greeted him. Some children who were not yet old to enter school were even under the hands of the adults and shouted respectfully: "Sir."
"I will be admitted to school next year, and it's not too late to shout at that time."
Lu Liangsheng looked at the child with a little aggrieved and his eyes were red, and he smiled and stroked his head. The child felt the warmth from his head and rushed into his heart. The grievance that was originally suppressed by his parents was much better than that.
He raised his little face and stared at the young scholar blankly.
"Sir, don't you hit the palm of your hand... I heard that you hit the palm of your hand..."
In the distance, the sound of horse hooves shaking the ground. Lu Liangsheng smiled and said, "Don't hit." His eyes moved away from the child and the child's parents and looked outside the village.
Two figures riding horses were galloping in the gravel paved road, and Lu Pan waved his hand and shouted on the horse's back.
"Liangsheng, you've won the lead again-"
After three years of success, I have obtained the qualifications of a student. It is time to go on a long journey... I have to do good deeds and do great kindness.
Chapter completed!