"Last year, you and Zhao Chenming took part in the provincial examination together. You read a lot of poems and books. The questions on the examination paper were not difficult for you. You solved them in one go. You thought you would be among the best in this provincial examination. However, you didn't want to know that on the day when the results were released, those who were at the top
It’s Zhao Chenming, but you’ve failed in the rankings. In terms of knowledge and talent, Zhao Chenming, who is mediocre in talent, can’t compare to you. He should have failed anyway.” These are the news Chen Yuanjing got from the Zhejiang Academic Affairs Office.
Zhao Chenyi's face was buried in the shadows, and he was holding the iron chain as thick as his arms with both hands. His knuckles turned blue and white under the constant exertion, "The world is unpredictable, who can guarantee that he will pass the exam. That time I can only
He said that my eldest brother has better luck than me."
"Really?" Yinzhen stroked his purple brocade robe disapprovingly and said calmly: "I asked Magistrate Chen to go to Zhejiang Academic Affairs to check those two papers, and compared them with the papers from your children's examination. Zhao Chenming's
The paper should be yours. Someone changed your names after handing in the paper. Zhao Chenming’s title of candidate should belong to you!"
Having said this, he turned to Fang Lian'er, who was shocked. A faint sigh accompanied the sound in the dark cell, "You wanted me to overturn the case for Zhao Chenyi, but in the end, I'm afraid you have to let me change the case."
You are disappointed, because it was indeed Zhao Chenyi who killed him; there was never an unjust case, there was never a frame-up, that’s the fact!"
"Impossible!" Fang Lian'er shook her head as if struck by lightning, "Chen Yi can't kill people, absolutely not!" Since she met Zhao Chenyi, he has always been polite, gentle and elegant, so why ask this?
How could one person kill someone, and kill more than ten people in a row?
Yinzhen shook his head and turned his gaze back to Zhao Chenyi, "Judging from your reaction at the moment, I guessed it right. You already know about this matter. I think this directly caused you to lose your mind and kill people with a knife."
The main reason.”
Zhao Chenyi's body couldn't help but tremble. After a long time, he raised his bloodless face and said sadly to the lost Fang Lian'er: "I'm sorry, Lian'er, I lied to you; I killed all eleven members of the Zhao family.
I wanted to end up with these beasts who are worse than pigs and dogs.
At the end of the day, I didn’t expect to survive. After going around the hell gate, I found that I was actually very afraid of death, and there were many things that I couldn’t let go of. That’s why I told you in court that day that I was wronged. I hope
You can find someone to overturn this case!"
His words defeated Fang Lian'er's belief that he had been holding on to. He staggered back and did not stop until his back was against the corner with nowhere to retreat. His body slipped softly and he bit his fist tightly.
In the fishy and salty smell, tears fell silently...
Seeing her like this, Zhao Chenyi felt extremely uncomfortable. This matter had nothing to do with Lian'er, but he dragged Lian'er into it for his own selfish reasons. He deserved it!
"Now, you can tell the real story." Yinzhen looked down at Zhao Chenyi who was kneeling on the ground.
In the deathly silence, Zhao Chenyi's voice slowly sounded, "You are right, the Zhao family does not treat my mother and I as human beings at all. It is obviously my father who is greedy for beauty and takes advantage of my mother's innocence;
The end is coming
But he put all the blame on my mother, saying that it was my mother who seduced him. He refused to tell me about his status, and allowed my aunt and others to bully my mother. After giving birth to me, my mother thought that my father would care about him for the sake of his own son.
We look at each other differently,
But she was wrong." He showed a very sarcastic smile, "The so-called father already has two sons, and he doesn't care about one more and one less. What's more, he is the son of a foot-washing girl. He has a low status and does not deserve the surname Zhao; and
This is not the worst thing. The worst thing is that the nominal Third Young Master Zhao was accused by a charlatan of being a father-in-law. He was sent to the countryside without taking a few mouthfuls of his own mother's milk, and has been living under the roof of others ever since."
He still has vivid memories of those days; the couple in the countryside didn't treat him well, but they barely gave him food for the sake of the money they sent each month.
Every time he saw other companions being loved by their father and mother, he would be extremely envious. His favorite thing to do when he was a child was to sit on the big rock at the entrance of the village, hoping that one day his parents would appear. As he grew up, he gradually
Knowing his life experience, he also knew that the new clothes and shoes occasionally sent from the city were made by his mother. Although he had never met him, he still felt warm when he thought of his mother. At this time, he began to look forward to reaching the age of ten.
Then you can go back to see your mother.
But God did not give him this opportunity. On his eighth birthday, the new clothes and shoes that were sent every year did not appear. He was very surprised and asked the couple to help him find out when they came to the city.
, what awaited me was the sad news that my mother had died of illness.
Two years later, he returned to the Zhao Mansion, but did not see his mother's memorial tablet. The Zhao family's explanation was that a lowly woman who was born as a foot-washing girl had no status during her lifetime. How could she be qualified to join the Zhao family after her death and give her a peaceful rest?
The place is already polite.
He was unwilling to give in, but he could only endure it, because even he was branded as a lowly person, and he couldn't do anything except weep secretly. That year during the Qingming Festival, he swore in front of his mother's grave that he would stand out, and then placed her memorial tablet
Feng Fengguangguang welcomed into the Zhao family and made everyone in the Zhao family recognize her identity as Mrs. Zhao.
Everything is inferior, only reading is superior.
This sentence is not an empty statement. Under those circumstances, Zhao Chenyi chose to study, the child examination, the provincial examination, the general examination, and the imperial examination. This was the goal he set for himself, and it was also the only way for him to achieve his dream of becoming a master.
For this path, he endured the contempt and bullying from the Zhao family. Even if Mrs. Zhao insulted her, Zhao Chenming and others teamed up to bully him, cutting himself with a knife or burning himself with incense sticks, he endured it all.
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How could the fragrance of plum blossoms come to your nostrils without a bone-chilling cold? After ten years of hard study, he was finally admitted as a scholar, and qualified to take the higher-level provincial examination. Although Zhao Chenming also passed the examination as a scholar, and with
He took the provincial examination in the same class, but he didn't pay too much attention to it. In terms of talent and poetry, he was much better than the mediocre Zhao Chenming.
Finally, when the rankings were released, he actually failed the rankings. Instead, Zhao Chenming was on the rankings. This made him feel like a thunderbolt, and he wandered around like a lonely ghost all day long.
If he continued like this, he might become depressed, but once when he was passing by his father's study, he unexpectedly heard him talking to Mrs. Zhao, and the content was about this provincial examination. It turned out that his father bribed the examiner of the provincial examination to connect him with Mrs. Zhao.
Zhao Chenming's papers were exchanged without permission. As a result, the results he had worked so hard to obtain became Zhao Chenming's possession.