-Chen Xiliang asked Sanlang to make good raw decoction, Wulang was optimistic about his younger brother, and Erlang went to the tea shop to order tea and refreshments. He himself took a few round stools and invited Su Xun and Song Fu to talk under the shade of the patio tree. "Sanlang Shen Tong Qihuang
How about studying?" Su Xun took a sip of water and asked. "I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with your second son..." Chen Xiliang said modestly. "Pfft..." If Song Fu hadn't tilted his head quickly, Su Xun would have sprayed all over him. Yes.
He knew the two boys of the Su family. Although the third boy, Su Che, was not as good as the second boy, Su Shi, he was also a rare genius who could memorize words by memory and speak eloquently. Chen Xiliang said that his Sanlang was probably not as good as Su Shi, but the implication was that he was better than Su Che.
Can this be called self-effacing? My daughter-in-law is the best of others, and my children are my own. Naturally, Su Xun didn't believe it. If he hadn't seen Sanlang busy boiling medicine, he would have called him over for a test. "Now I finally don't believe it.
Let Laoquan be so beautiful." Song Fu laughed and reminded Chen Xiliang: "But not all prodigies can become talents. Do you still remember the famous Fang Zhongyong a few years ago?" "Why don't you remember." Chen Xiliang
Answer together with Su Xun. Because of the boy test, a number of ministers such as Song Shou and Yan Shu emerged one after another. The child prodigies of the Song Dynasty were as widely sought after as stars and were regarded as literary stars who were destined to be ministers. Description
Their miraculous deeds are naturally well-known and widely praised. The most representative one is a Fuzhou prodigy named Fang Zhongyong. It is said that this child's family has been farmers for generations, and he has never seen paper or ink until he was five years old.
One day, he suddenly cried for these things. His father couldn't resist, so he borrowed pen and paper from his neighbor. Zhongyong immediately wrote four lines of poetry and inscribed his name on it. His father
The poem was shown to the scholars in the village. They all said that the poem's literary talent and reasoning were worth reading. They also assigned a topic and asked him to compose the poem, and he could finish it immediately. From then on, Fang Zhongyong became synonymous with "knowing without learning".
His name spread all over the country, and even Jianmen Pass did not stop him. In the impressions of Chen and Su, he was still the same genius child, but when Song Fu reminded him, they realized that the child must be in his early twenties.
"Supposedly, he should have been selected as a Jinshi a long time ago." Su Xun said, "Why has there been no news?" "Oh, that child is dead." Song Fu sighed and said, "It is in line with the saying, 'You are young, and older may not be better.'
"Can't?" The two people were surprised: "Who did you listen to?" "A few days ago, in the "Collected Works of Modern People", I saw an article "Injury to Zhongyong", which was about his recent situation." Song
After thinking about it, he recited the short article. After hearing what Fang Zhongyong said in front of everyone, Chen and Su both sighed. Su Xun shook his head and said: "How could his father just take advantage of the momentary gain?"
He was running around and wasting his studies. He was such a good prodigy, but he was born into such a short-sighted and ignorant family. It's a pity and a shame..." "Exactly," Chen Xiliang also nodded and said: "The more prodigy you are, the more you need.
Strictly control him and don't let him wander, otherwise he will waste his studies and become a waste." The two people who had been secretly competing with each other just now were united again. Saburo in the kitchen suddenly shivered, as if he felt that a disaster was imminent.~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The topic finally left the child, and Chen Xiliang asked: "By the way,
How did you get here?" "I thought you would go back to Meishan after taking care of your family affairs." Su Xun resumed the topic before entering the door and said: "Who would have thought that until the day of registration, there was still no sign of you." He said with a look of joy on his face.
"Thankfully you left in a hurry and left your family status and documents in the room, so Chu Ren and I could help you register." He said simply, but Chen Xiliang was not taking the exam for the first time, so he naturally knew how to register for the exam.
It’s very troublesome. Not only do you have to be present in person and undergo a series of cross-examination and examination, but you also have to find five fellow students to jointly guarantee it... Now that I am not present, the trouble has naturally turned into 100%. I don’t know how many people the two of them have hired and how much money they have spent.
How much effort did it take to sign up for yourself? "Thank you two for your high righteousness, Xiliang will remember it in my heart." Chen Xiliang stood up and clasped his fists and said. "My best friends, why bother to say more." Su Xun and Song Fu shook their heads and smiled: "Everything is busy.
"End, it was already three days ago. We discussed going to Shiwan Village to see you and find out what happened." "Oh, don't mention it." Chen Xiliang said with a gloomy look, "How did you find this place?"
"Actually, we didn't get in." Su Xun said: "Your brother and sister-in-law said that your family has been separated, and I don't know where you have moved." "Later, one of your nephews secretly told us about your family.
They have moved to the county seat." Song Fu said: "We looked here yesterday, but it was already dark, so we had to find an inn to stay first. I asked this morning if there were any new ones who had moved here, and we found you.
"Look at your place..." Su Xun looked at the ruins of the shabby house and said, "I'm afraid I'm in trouble." "Hey..." Chen Xiliang said with a self-deprecating smile, "Heaven is going to give me a big responsibility."
"
Heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to a person, and he must first work hard on his mind, strain his muscles and bones, deplete his body, and mess up his actions... Chen Xiliang used a self-deprecating sentence to express his own situation. "..." Song Fu was silent.
After a moment, he said in a low voice: "The hardships and hardships are your fault. Gongbi will pass." []
"Yeah..." Su Xun also said: "Bite your teeth and hold on. With your talent and knowledge, this subject will definitely make you a high school student. When the time comes, you will have to return home in fine clothes. Let's see what they say!"
"Is this a subject..." Chen Xiliang lowered his head and said with some difficulty: "I don't plan to take the exam." "Why is this?" Su Xun and Song Fu said in surprise: "We only wait once in four years, how can we give up so easily?
?”
"I'm not giving up lightly. I've been thinking about it for many days..." Thinking of the scene where his three sons were locked up in the woodshed and tortured, Chen Xiliang lost his sense of disappointment. He raised his head and said calmly: "My children are still alive."
They are too young and without a mother, I cannot leave them for such a long time."
"You are worried about them." Song Fu said: "Let them move to my house, so that they can keep my boy company."
"You'd better go to my place." Su Xun said: "My wife's family is pretty good at raising their children, and they won't let them neglect their studies."
"Thank you both for your kindness. I appreciate your kindness..." Chen Xiliang was deeply moved, but he knew very well that these two friends were not much better off than himself, and their own family burdens were very heavy. They simply could not afford it.
The child’s food, clothing, housing, transportation, schooling and miscellaneous expenses.
What's more, he had already secretly sworn that he would never let his children live a life of dependence on others again!
"But I have made up my mind to put everything else aside and raise a few children first." So he firmly declined the two people's kindness and said: "The imperial examination is held every few years. There will always be opportunities in the future..." As he said
He sighed softly and said: "But just like the story of "Shang Zhongyong", a child's education is only once. If you miss it, you will have no chance again."
The two of them knew that he had a tenacious temperament and never regretted his decisions, so they understood that there was no point in trying to persuade him.
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"Then, what are you going to do for a living?" Su Xun asked again.
"As long as you work hard, no one in the Song Dynasty would starve to death." Chen Xiliang looked at his obviously rough hands and said, "I can feed the five of us!"
"Why don't you move to Meishan? It's a Fucheng after all, and it's much bigger than here. It's easy to find a job writing, doing calculations, and teaching and copying." Su Xunli invited: "If that doesn't work, you can also ask Master Zhizhou, who is in the government.
Looking for a job in the government."
"No, although Qingshen County is not as big as Meishan," Chen Xiliang shook his head and said, "but there is one thing that Meishan cannot compare with."
"What?"
"Academy." Chen Xiliang said with a smile: "In a few years, your kid will have to come here to study, so why should I go back and forth?"
"That's true..." There is Zhongyan Academy in Meishan, which was established by Wang Fang, a great Confucian who was a Jinshi. Before, only very few people in Sichuan were able to win Jinshi, and most of those who were successful had settled down as officials outside. Wang Fang, like Wang Fang, decided to return.
Those who run schools in rural areas and teach and educate people are actually an outlier.
But Wang Fang's efforts were not in vain. His students, Keke, have high schools, and the reputation of Zhongyan Academy is getting better and better. Even students from Meishan County, a prefectural city, come here because of its good educational resources at their doorstep.
This is the reason why Chen Xiliang moved his family to Qingshen County.
"Actually, it would be better to go out a few years later," Su Xun said half-consolingly, half-seriously: "You still don't know, right? Fan Xianggong's Qingli New Deal failed..."
"Impossible!" Even though he said he wanted to give up the exam, Chen Xiliang had always looked calm, but at this moment, he finally changed his expression and said: "This is only the beginning of a year! Didn't he say at the cultural conference last month that the New Deal has achieved remarkable results, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty
, is it a compliment? Why did it fail this month?"
"Those at the cultural meeting are all old news from last year," Song Fu shook his head and said, "We learned from the magistrate that your Excellency is a student of Duke Fan. When we saw the news about Duke Fan and Mr. Fu's transfer in Di Bao, we burst into tears.
, naturally there will be no lies.”
"The officials, aren't the officials impassioned and trying their best to govern?" Chen Xiliang said sadly and angrily.
"It was the officials who issued an edict to completely abolish the New Deal and release the two Xianggongs." Su Xun said angrily: "Now the court is in chaos. The old party headed by Xia Xianggong attacks the new party as a crony. Since ancient times, emperors have always
It is taboo for ministers to form cronies. Although today's officials are tolerant, they are no exception..."
"I heard that in order to attack the old party, Xia Xianggong even asked a maid at home to copy Mr. Cui Lai's handwriting every day, and the handwriting was exactly the same as his own handwriting, so he forged a secret letter written by Mr. Cui Lai to Fu Xianggong,
The letter said that the official family was to be abolished. Then he presented the letter to the official family and publicized it everywhere, falsely accusing the New Party of conspiring to establish another emperor. So rumors spread, and people were panicked..."
"Shameless! How shameless!" Chen Xiliang yelled angrily: "Do we, the Song Dynasty, want to be ruined by villains?!"