There is an irrigation ditch on the outskirts of Yihe City in Youzhou, and in autumn, a large area of reeds is swinging, and it seems like heavy snow.
Several riverside villages were scattered among them, a horse-drawn carriage turned from the official road to the path, bumpy and bumpy, and the groom was a young man in strange clothes with a wooden expression.
Behind the groom sat a man in a plain cotton robe, leaning against the wall of the carriage, his legs dangling from the outside of the carriage, gently swaying with the undulating carriage.
On the road in the dusk, the carriage caught up with an old farmer who had finished his work, and when the carriage passed the old peasant, the man in cotton turned his head to look at the old man who happened to cast a curious glance at him, the old man had a very unsightly face, and the ravines were vertical and horizontal, but although he was in a slender shape, he was still half a head taller than those old people in the south, and his steps were quite vigorous, which showed that the old man must have been a good trick when he was young.
The man in cotton clothes called out softly, sir, the coachman took the reins, the carriage slowly stopped, the man jumped out of the carriage, and greeted with a smile: "Fourth grandfather" The old farmer's face was full of astonishment, and he didn't know why this young man who looked very young called his fourth grandfather, probably because he was shocked by the momentum of the man in cotton clothes, and the old farmer was stumbling, cramped and uneasy, and didn't dare to talk.
The man in cotton smiled in the most authentic Youzhou dialect: "I, Chen Wang at the end of the village, the fourth grandfather, I don't recognize it."
The old farmer's eyes widened, and he looked hard at the young man who claimed to live at the end of the village, and then suddenly woke up, and a smile bloomed on his wrinkled vicissitudes of life, "Xiao Wang" Chen Wang grinned and said, "Yes." ” The old man sighed, and then wondered: "Why did you come back again, didn't you go to Beijing to take the exam?"
Chen Wang said with a smile: "I've already finished the exam, so I'll go home and take a look this time."
Back then, the fourth grandfather borrowed me two taels of silver, but I don't dare to forget. ” The old man waved his hand and asked curiously, "How did you do in the exam?"
Chen Wang said softly: "It's okay." ” The old man sighed, perhaps because he was worried about hurting the young man's face, so he didn't get to the bottom of it, not to mention the old man who had dealt with the loess all his life, in fact, he couldn't ask why, just sighed, "It's a pity." ” Chen Wang's face was calm, as if he didn't understand the regret in the old man's words.
Chen Wang walked back to the village side by side with the old farmer, chatting about this year's crop harvest, the marriage of his peers, and whether the elders in the village were still alive.
Through small talk, Chen Wang learned that his ancestral house in the yellow mud house had long been dilapidated, and a wall had collapsed, which was reasonable.
Chen Wang's father and mother passed away before the exam, and the ownerless house is not those seemingly weak reeds, which will wither this autumn and be glorious next spring.
The old farmer didn't say something, in fact, after this Xiaowang entered Beijing, there was a woman in the village, who would often go to clean and clean up, just like her own home, year after year, many young people who secretly liked her also died of heart, married a wife and had children, and the yellow flower girl gradually became an old girl.
It's just that now that she is gone, what's the use of talking to Chen Wang about this, not to mention that Chen Wang is the one who has been in the capital for so many years, maybe he can't remember her, otherwise if he really has the heart, even if he can't go home for so many years, why hasn't he even sent a letter back Approaching the head of the village, the old man raised his head and looked at the village with smoke curling, and couldn't help sighing, the girl's home was at the head of the village, what a virtuous child, a hundred miles away had to give a thumbs up, the matchmaker almost stepped on the threshold of her house in the early years, but she didn't agree, her father and mother couldn't do it, no one expected that in the end, there would be that tragic thing.
The common people all accept their fate, their fate is not good, and they can't blame anyone.
This is the same as getting a disease, you can live if you can carry it, but if you can't carry it, God doesn't appreciate it, so you should be in the ground.
Chen Wang didn't enter the village, but suddenly stopped and asked, "Fourth grandfather, where is her grave?"
The old man was stunned for a moment, lowered his voice and said, "How do you know her?"
The old man didn't continue, and Chen Wang didn't speak either.
The old man pointed to the side of the ferry and said, "Right there, although the grave is small, it is easy to find." ” Chen Wang took out a heavy money bag and a piece of letterhead, "Fourth grandfather, please help me pay back the accounts in the village and hand them over to Mr.
Lizheng or a nearby private school, and they are all clearly written." ” The old man hesitated, but finally did not refuse, carefully took the letterhead and money bag, and asked, "Why don't you go back to the village and have a look?"
Chen Wang shook his head and said, "I won't go."
I have been to the grave of my father and mother, and I want to leave for the capital immediately. ” The old man sighed: "This is too urgent." ” Chen Wang smiled.
The old man walked out a few steps, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Xiao Wang, you are really a big official in the capital?"
Chen Wang didn't seem to know how to answer, Huang Zigongqing, the official of Tai'an City, was in the center and was once in charge So he had to laugh and say, "It's not big." ” The old man was relieved: "That's also very good, the fourth grandfather has known for a long time that your kid is definitely not bad" Chen Wang's smile was calm.
The old man didn't forget to glance at the young man standing beside Chen Wang, and when he turned to leave, he was full of suspicion, and his clothes looked very strange.
Chen Wang and the "young eunuch" of the same age as the country walked slowly, and his father's grave was not far from the village.
Chen Wang raised his hand and brushed over the reeds.
When he studied hard in the cold window, he didn't dare to think about the title of Jinshi and the first gold list, and his father and mother didn't have that luxury, they only felt that their son could read and write, which was already a great thing to shine on the lintel.
Beiliang bitter cold, a family can produce a reader, it is very remarkable, and the Central Plains, especially the rich Jiangnan side is very different, where like to pay attention to farming and reading heirlooms, here in Beiliang, young and strong to join the army from Rong is very common, but the person holding a book in his hand is very rare.
He just entered Beijing to participate in the examination, Beiliang is the only one in Tai'an City did not set up an examination hall, he is not familiar with the place, and there is no imperial examination of the predecessors of the predecessors, so he had to spend the night in a small temple, Beiliang accent let him run into walls everywhere, the same ancient book, the store sold it to him will be much more expensive.
Even if he participated in the palace examination later, he still did not have any friendship in the officialdom, and Bei Liang was the only one.
Jin Lanting soared in Tai'an City, Yan Jiexi became a relative of the emperor, and the two of them deliberately did not change this out of personal grudges.
And he Chen Wang, Chen Shaobao in the eyes of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, a dignified provincial left scattered horseman, when today's son relies on the most dependent future auxiliary, he is intentional and powerful, but he can't do it.
Chen Wang walked slowly, flanked by reeds that were higher than the top of the people, and the huge and soft reed flowers rose one after another with the autumn wind, and I don't know where they fell.
Chen looked at the grave, pulled out the weeds, and then straightened his clothes, knelt down and knocked his head three times.
The son wants to raise but does not wait.
The old man who was respectfully called the fourth grandfather by the man in cotton clothes may not know in his life that the two things handed over to him by the younger generation, the money bag letterhead, and the latter is worth a thousand gold only by virtue of the last signature "Chen Wang".
In the past 20 years in Beiliang, there are only a few people in the Liyang officialdom, among which the officials of the Jinlan Pavilion are the servants of the Ministry of Rites, Yan Jiexi is a scholar, and Yao Baifeng, the master of science, has been in charge of the Guozijian, but these three people together may not have the weight of Chen Wang.
It can even be said that in a large sense, it is this Beiliang scholar who has left his hometown, and his two secret letters have changed the pattern of Beiliang.
On the way back, Chen Wang met a man of the same age with a sturdy body, and when he saw him, the man's expression was complicated, with resentment, awe, surprise, and puzzlement.
The man took a heavy breath, and then handed Chen Wang a coarse cloth bag with a straight face, "The things left by my sister are all the books you left back then, and I will return them to you." ” Chen Wang took the cloth bag and was stunned.
The man turned around and strode away, stopped, and said in a hoarse voice: "Wangzi, although my sister, don't think that she died innocently, she is cleaner than anyone else."
Chen Wang covered his mouth, looked at the back of his brother-in-law who often hooked his shoulders and shouted at him in his early years, and said vaguely: "I'm sorry." ” The man muttered, "Say that to her." ” Chen Wang was silent, scarlet oozing from between his fingers.
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I didn't move for a long time.
Chen Wang held the cloth bag, came to the ferry, and found the small tomb.
The eunuch was nowhere to be found.
Chen Wang sat cross-legged in front of the grave.
Sit opposite the small tomb.
There was an illiterate woman who would find a clean place under the sun, dry her books, spread them out one by one, and put them away one by one.
There was an unmarried woman who would go to the little ferry when no one was around, wait for someone, look at it from afar, and turn around again and again.
Chen Wang gently opened the cloth bag and looked down, there were all too familiar etiquette notes, universities, and even older Mengxue reading books three hundred thousand.
In those days, he often endorsed to her, whether he was working in the fields, or pounding clothes at the ferry, or when it was snowing, or picking reeds.
This year and that year have passed 10 years.
He and her are already separated by yin and yang.
Chen Wang closed his eyes and said softly: "The country is in trouble, the monarch dies, the doctor dies in the temple, and the people finally die in the countryside."
"The gentleman said that the great virtue is not official, the avenue is not instrumental, the great letter is not promised, and the time is uneven.
If you look at these four things, you can be interested in learning."
"Let the people of the world wear all the clothes to bear the sacrifice.
Beaming, as on it, as on its left and right" In the twilight, the reader reads.
The wind blows the reeds and shakes gently, like a woman nodding her head and smiling like a flower
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