There is a village in Yuanzhou Prefecture, not far from Guanyue Villa and not far from Fengyun Villa. This is a small village with about a hundred households. Because the land is remote and there are few people, the villagers have abundant cultivated land and the villagers live a comfortable life. Here At that time, the villagers were busy with the end-of-the-year repairs of the private school teacher in each household - the husband was also preparing to go home to celebrate the New Year.
A woman, wearing a simple cotton coat, carrying a vegetable basket in one hand and a small wooden stick in the other, was walking out of the village. The woman's cheeks were red from the cold, but she was still walking as fast as flying. The dampness and coldness in the south did not seem to stop her. Her pace. Although she was dressed plainly and her hair was a little messy by the north wind, it still could not hide the woman's beautiful face, but this beautiful face seemed to be angry.
Arriving in front of a tile-roofed house next to the ancestral hall in the village, the woman shouted: "Si'er, Han'er, come out and let me invite you to dinner. Why did it take so long? Are you playing for fun again? Yes. Don’t you want to be beaten again?”
After a while, a pair of boys and girls walked out of the tile-roofed house. They lowered their heads and fiddled with the corners of their clothes. They slowly walked to the woman and timidly called her mother.
Immediately, a burst of hearty laughter came to mind again in the room, and an elderly man in a long gown walked out while stroking his gray beard and laughing.
The woman then shouted respectfully: "I'm sorry, sir, the country peasant woman has frightened him. If I bumped into him, please forgive me. I asked Si'er and Han'er to invite him to my home for dinner, but I didn't expect these two children. It’s been a long time since I’ve been there, sir, I’m being disrespectful.”
The husband smiled kindly and said: "Si'er, it's okay. Si'er and Han'er are always here with me. Si'er doesn't have to worry. I just received the official letter from the academic administration. Si'er and I are discussing how to arrange Si'er next year." The matter of the provincial examination has been delayed, so please don’t blame them, Si’er Niang.”
It turns out that rural private schools generally have regulations. When the New Year is approaching, every household must invite their husbands to have a meal at home before they can go home to celebrate the New Year. Because people respect their husbands, they will bring out the best things at home when they come. Served with wine and food, the scene can be called Chinese New Year.
The gentleman went on to say: "Mother Si'er, Si'er is one of my favorite and most outstanding students, so I plan to let Si'er take the provincial examination next year, so that she can pass the exam first. What do you think?"
Ordinary people would be extremely happy if their husband favored them and wanted to send their children to take exams. However, after the woman heard what her husband said, she just felt embarrassed and said: "Sir, come home with me for dinner first. It's about the exams." , let’s talk about it later, okay?”
When the husband heard this, his expression also changed and he blamed the woman: "Mother Si'er, in the past you said that Si'er was too young to take the exam, and I could still accept it. This year, Si'er is sixteen, and it's a good time to take the exam. , Si'er, you can't miss your child's future! Humanity has learned martial arts and dedicated it to the emperor's family. Si'er is talented and intelligent. It is the best time to take the exam and become a scholar. In the future, he will shine on the family lintel and be named a wife and son. Isn’t it wonderful?”
The woman quickly smiled awkwardly and said: "Yes, yes, my husband taught me that it is up to my husband to make the decision regarding Si'er's studies. Please ask my husband to go home with me for dinner."
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The student laughed, flexed his beard and raised his eyebrows, and with the support of his two children, he followed the woman towards home.
As the husband left, the young man looked at the woman and said timidly: "Mother, do you really agree with me taking the exam next year? The husband said that if I take the exam next year, I will definitely be admitted as a scholar."
The girl was also washing dishes in the kitchen and turned around and said cheerfully: "Yes, mother, I heard your husband say this with my own ears, saying that my brother will definitely pass the exam."
When the woman heard this, her face changed and she said sternly: "What kind of test are you taking? Do you think taking the exam and being an official are just that good? The most disgusting and filthy thing in the world is to be an official in the court. We are rising to compete with the common people, and the common people are just like us."
Just do good things for the common people, eat three meals a day, get a wife and have children, that's enough."
The woman looked stern, and the two children didn't dare to say anything for a moment. The boy lowered his head and muttered as if he was endlessly aggrieved: "If that's the case, why did the mother let the children study and read in the first place?"
The woman looked at the boy's handsome face, and the shadow of her old friend was overlapping between his eyebrows. The woman's heart quickly softened, but she still said sternly: "I asked you to read and write to make you sensible, not to ask you to go
If you want to take the exam to become an official, you will have to take the exam to become an official, unless I die."
After saying that, a burst of sadness poured into the woman's heart, and she didn't want it to be like this. The woman walked into the inner hall alone and murmured: "Brother Zhen, I don't know if what I did is right, but I just hope that the two of them will do the right thing."
He can grow up, marry and have children, and continue the Xi family's legacy. I can't let him enter the officialdom. Do you know that your teacher, Mr.
They are of the same flesh and blood, and have inherited your upright and evil-hating temperament, so how can I safely allow them to enter the officialdom?"
It turned out that the woman was Pei Feng, and the two children, a boy and a girl, were Xi Wusi and Xi Wuhan.
Hearing the faint sobbing voice of their mother, Wu Si and Wu Han came to the inner hall. Xi Wusi grabbed Pei Feng's hand and said sadly: "Mother, please don't be angry. It's all children who are ignorant and make mother angry."
It’s okay. I just listen to my mother and don’t take exams.”
Pei Feng turned around and was immediately heartbroken. She hugged Wu Si and Wu Han and burst into tears. After a moment, Pei Feng stroked Wu Si and Wu Han's heads and said softly: "Don't blame me for being cruel to my mother. It's just a matter of the past.
I have to do this for my mother. Now that you have grown up, it’s time for you to know some things. I’ll let you see one thing for my mother.”
Wu Si and Wu Han were surprised, what did their mother want to show them? Pei Feng turned around, rummaged through a large box for a long time, and took out a long wooden box. The wooden box was about three feet long, and the box was plain and simple.
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Pei Feng opened the box and pulled out a sword from the box with a clatter. When the sword was unsheathed, cold light shone out, and a chill followed the light and invaded every pore on the body, accompanied by waves of clear moans.
Xi Wusi and Xi Wuhan were stunned, but when they saw Pei Feng jump up and fly to the open space behind the house, the brother and sister quickly ran out to follow them.
I saw Pei Feng holding the sword formula in his left hand, and the sword in his right hand made bursts of clear sound.
Yin, and with the shaking of Pei Feng's wrist, he held up the blossoming sword flowers. Immediately, Pei Feng swept up the dead leaves under his feet like a fairy scattering flowers, and like a light ape jumping into the stream, and then again.
Like a tiger roaring and a dragon roaring.
A sword was like a dragon swimming in Pei Feng's hand. In an instant, the brother and sister saw only a shadow of the sword in front of them, wrapping their mother airtight.
The brother and sister were completely stunned. They didn't know what to say. Well, they had never seen and never knew that their mother knew martial arts. In their eyes, she was even a master of martial arts.
For a moment, Pei Feng sheathed her sword and sighed: "I haven't touched it for more than ten years. I almost forgot about it. If it weren't for you, I really want it to sleep at the bottom of the box like this." Pei Feng
Staring at the sword in his hand, his thoughts went back to more than ten years ago. The sword in his hand was like his own child. Pei Feng's eyes also showed a glimmer of light in an instant.
Pei Feng's eyes instantly dimmed again, he sheathed his sword, stroked the scabbard and sighed in a low voice: "Your father was a famous hero back then, and the late Emperor Jianwen even had an acquaintance with your father for eight times. Mr. Xizhi
The relationship with your father is like that of Mo Ni, and Lord Huang Zichenghuang."
"Fifteen years have passed, things have changed, and people have changed. Some of those close friends back then have long been withered bones in the graves. Sir, you are right, you have learned martial arts and dedicated yourself to the emperor's family, but the most ruthless people in the world are also the emperor's family. Mother.
The purpose of letting you study is to let you understand the principles of life, but not to let you participate in court affairs."
"It's good to be an official, but our family has lost too much for the sake of the imperial court. Si'er, I can't let you fall into officialdom. If so, after my death, what face will I have to see your underground father? I
I never let you know the past of our family. No matter what kind of arts or martial arts, it is not as important as living a happy life as a family. Si'er, you can be sensible, marry a wife and have children, and make a living for the Xi family. Han'er, you can
To be able to find a suitable husband, marry an ordinary person, and live an ordinary life. This is my greatest wish, and this is what I have been working hard for. Do you understand?"
Pei Feng sighed, and her thoughts returned to reality from fifteen years ago. She looked at a pair of children and silently called out in her heart: "Sister Qing, your children have grown up. I have lived up to your trust back then. Jiuquanzhi
Now, I can face you calmly."
Xi Wusi was thoughtful and slowly walked out of the door. In his heart, he never thought that his father was a great hero back then. Although he had never seen his father, he might have but he had no memory.
.But he is still proud to have such a father. He doesn't know whether his mother did the right thing, but from his mother's point of view, she is the most selfless.
"Mom, my sister and I will listen to you. We will never make you sad again. I am the man of the family and I will definitely shoulder the important responsibilities of this family." Xi Wusi suddenly ran back to the house and hugged her mother.
He said sincerely.
Pei Feng burst into tears. She only knew that she was holding a pair of children, but she didn't know that she had already burst into tears.