Three melons and two dates

"How are you preparing for the township examination in August?"

Ji Yuan asked this sentence lightly, but it fell on Xie Huanxiu like a thousand catties.

After Xie Huanxiu passed the Tongsheng examination, Ji Yuan was in no hurry to let him go to the examination hall because he was still young, and pressed for a year.However, when he passed the student examination, in addition to the appreciation of his masters, he also saw alienation and fear in the eyes of other students, and he began to regret that he should have waited more.

Old students test children, children students test to old age.

That's right, how many scholars have spent their entire lives in the exam, and they didn't even pass the exam for Tongsheng.

And him?The county exam, the government exam, and the college exam all the way, although it can't be said that the journey is smooth and easy, but it is not far from it.

When he was admitted to Tongsheng, he was happy.From all over the world, no one should give a thumbs up if anyone mentions it, praise the child prodigy, and say "the heavenly official of Lao Xie's family will have great promise in the future", and the faces of parents are also full of glory. Cheerful.

At that time, Xie Huanxiu didn't realize at all how difficult it was to be admitted to Tongsheng at the age of nine.When Master Ji disagreed with him going directly to the examination institute, he refused to explain the reason. He didn't want to go against Master Ji's wishes because of such a trivial matter, so he agreed, but he was not happy.

Only after suffering setbacks did he faintly feel Ji Yuan's original intentions.

After Xie Huanxiu came to the academy, he listened more to what Su Qin was like back then. In his eyes, what he wanted to compare was the mythical Su Qin that others said.He didn't have time to take care of other people, to care about them.

But at the moment when the results of the college examination were announced, Xie Huanxiu thought that what he would receive would be praise and compliments, and he might be replaced by the Su Qin they were talking about, but what he saw was the opposite behavior from everyone he expected.

Only then did Xie Huanxiu realize that this is not the East Village, but Lushan Academy.In the East Village, no matter whether he passed the Tongsheng examination or was the first in the imperial examination, the villagers' reaction was always, "Oh, that's amazing, my God".

Because the imperial examination is too far away for them, perhaps in the eyes of most people, the imperial examination is just a test in Beijing.How did they know that at Xie Huanxiu's age as a middle school student, it is equivalent to every family planting rice, with a yield of [-] catties per mu in a good year, but the old Xie's family is [-] catties per mu.This is not someone else's one-year harvest, which made up for their own ten-year gap, but this is something that was impossible to happen, but it happened.

Even if there are Su Qin's pearls and jades in front, it is just a legend.When the legend becomes reality and it is displayed in front of everyone's eyes, it is not a compliment, but a monster who is wise and close to a demon by his side.

Everyone will discuss Xie Huanxiu quietly behind their backs, but they will not choose to talk to him, because there is too much distance.

It was precisely because of these that Xie Huanxiu, who originally planned to take the provincial examination, gave up his mind.He really wanted to surpass Su Qin, but he also didn't want to be a monster in the eyes of others.

Xie Huanxiu began to follow Ji Yuan's advice, and worked hard to make good friends with others.He did not choose Lin Xinian who studied hard, but Li Rao who was a playboy.Of course, Xie Huanxiu's choice was not only because of the relationship between books and inkstones, but more importantly, he felt that when he made friends with Lin Xinian and the others, it was still about studying, so what was the difference from before.

But Li Rao and the others are different. They hug each other before going out on weekdays, and it seems that it used to be very lively.

"Whether he is sincere or not, if you are sincere, you will definitely make real friends." The innocent and kind-hearted Xie Huanxiu, with such thoughts, rushed to make friends with Li Rao and the others.

As for taking part in the provincial examination, he also secretly decided that he would never go until he made friends with his second or third friends.

Facing Ji Yuan's questioning, Xie Huanxiu chose not to say anything.They had mentioned before that after the provincial examination, Ji Yuan would ask the dean to recommend him to study in the Imperial College.Xie Huanxiu, who heard the news for the first time, was looking forward to it, but the various encounters after the academy examination made Xie Huanxiu just want to stay in the academy for two more years. He didn't want to be too much ahead of others. If you want to travel on weekdays, you can invite friends and chat with them.

Ji Yuan knew from Xie Huanxiu's reaction that he didn't intend to take the provincial examination this year.He sighed secretly in his heart, and said: "That's the case, you can go back, I want to rest."

"Master... I..." Xie Huanxiu wanted to defend himself, but Ji Yuan didn't give him a chance at all, leaving him alone and striding away.

Xie Huanxiu stayed where he was for a long while, but he didn't see Jiyuan coming back, and he didn't dare to catch up. He lowered his head listlessly, and walked back to Xie's house step by step.

And Ji Yuan, watching Xie Huanxiu's leaving back, fell into thought.

Xie Huanxiu's resistance, he knows better than anyone else, why was he not like this back then.

Behind the prosperity, there is alienation.

Sometimes age is really a fatal wound. No matter how much your knowledge is higher than others, but you lose a certain amount of experience, you can't make up for it except time.

Therefore, Ji Yuanyuan was not in a hurry to let Xie Huanxiu take the exam, and did not interfere with his choice, because what he wanted was not another Su Qin.

Ji Yuan has never experienced it himself, and he is not sure which option is better for Xie Huanxiu, so he would rather choose to watch.But in the face of Xie Huanxiu's increasing deviation, Ji Yuan finally couldn't sit still.He really didn't want to see Xie Huanxiu repeat Su Qin's mistakes, but he didn't want him to become another Zhong Yong.

All he could think of, the fastest and best way to get out of the status quo was for Xie Huanxiu to take the provincial examination, and after winning the exam, enter the Imperial College to study.But Xie Huanxiu was unwilling to take part in the provincial examination. For the first time, Ji Yuan began to wonder if he decided to send Xie Huanxiu to Lushan Academy in the first place, and it was wrong to leave his side.

In terms of academics, receiving the teachings of the masters in the academy may not be better than his own one-on-one teaching.But after all, in the academy, you can get in touch with more people and experience more things. Whether it is good or bad, you have to go through it yourself to have a deep understanding. understand.

Ji Yuan always felt that with Xie Huanxiu's ingenuity, he would never go wrong.However, he neglected that no matter how smart Xie Huanxiu was, he was still just a child, a child who was praised and cared for by everyone, but after losing these, he blindly searched for a sense of identity.Especially after he worked hard to make friends and change, he denied his previous efforts, wanted to be different from before, and changed himself for the sake of change.

This was something Ji Yuan never expected before.

Every time Xie Huanxiu returned to Dongxiang, he would usually choose to have a long talk with Ji Yuan through the night, and usually would not come back until the next day or the third day, so when seeing Xie Huanxiu who returned dejectedly, the three who were joking secretly shouted that something was wrong , Immediately closed the voice, and fought with each other.

Xie Jiu shook his eyebrows at Li Cuicui, "You are the mother of a child, go and ask, what's wrong with the Heavenly Official?"

Li Cuicui glared at Xie Jiu, then nodded her chin in the direction of Xie Huanxiu's room, "Go, you're talking like the Heavenly Official has nothing to do with you."

Xie Jiu's face turned bitter, "It's two different things, you have to go, he has been clinging to you since he was a child, caring for you."

Li Cuicui's eyes widened, "Are you going or not!"

Xie Jiu was intimidated, just about to move, he thought about it all of a sudden, and winked with Li Cuicui.

As expected of a couple who have slept on the same kang for more than ten years, Li Cuicui quickly understood Xie Jiu's intentions.She straightened the broken hair at the temples, and pretended to be casual, "You son of a bitch, go and see what happened to the Tianguan, why didn't you stay at the master's house today and came back."

Shu Yan, who was busy watching the eyebrows and lawsuits, was suddenly called by his name, frowning.Although he is also very concerned about what happened to Xie Huanxiu, but!He knew better, if he asked himself, it would definitely be like lighting a lamp in the latrine - looking for death (shit).

"Can I pretend that I'm just a book inkstone?"

Shu Yan, who asked and answered by himself, told himself, yes.

So, he really continued to sit there rigidly, motionless.

"Cough, dog, dog, go and see if the Tianguan's quilt is thick enough, his mother doesn't know that you are back now, and he didn't change the quilt for him, and he went back to sleep and was frozen."

Li Cuicui gave Xie Jiu a dry and beautiful look. Shuyan pays more attention to Xie Huanxiu than Xie Jiu and his wife, saying that this Li Cuicui letter Shuyan will definitely move.

result……

The man sat there firmly, looking at the ground without even glancing at them, and replied, "I see, it's enough."

The Xie family and his wife looked at each other, that's right, Shuyan cleaned Xie Huanxiu's room again after the meal just now.

"Damn..."

When Xie Jiu spoke again, Shu Yan interrupted him first, "Uncle, aunt, why don't we turn off the lights and go to sleep."

The Xie family and his wife listened attentively to the fact that Xie Huanxiu's house was quiet, and felt that the matter should not be serious.Otherwise, when did their Heavenly Officials wrong themselves, they would have already fallen, and the husband and wife looked at each other, nodded, and said together, "OK, let's rest early, and have to go to work in the fields tomorrow morning. "

After saying good night, Shu Yan also withdrew.

Don't look at Shuyan's calm expression just now, he really doesn't want to be sent up as cannon fodder by the Xie family, but how can he rest assured about Xie Huanxiu.

As soon as he went out, he quietly lay on the window of Xie Huanxiu's room and looked in.Xie Huanxiu didn't turn on the light when he came back, he just lay down on the bed, the whole room was dark, no matter how bright the moonlight was, he couldn't go inside the room, he couldn't see anything from the book and inkstone, so he put his ears on his ears worriedly I went up, listened for a long time and didn't hear a sound, stared at the window for a long time and left.

After a while, I saw Shuyan come back wrapped in a big cotton jacket worn in winter and holding a big futon.In the end, he was still worried about Xie Huanxiu, and he didn't dare to go in, so he decided to stick to it. If anything happened, he could rush in immediately, right?

On the other side, Xie Jiu, who was lying on the crack of the door as soon as Shuyan stepped out, ran over with his back foot, he was relieved to see this scene.

"Go to sleep, let's go to sleep, I said there is a dog watching the heavenly official, we don't have to worry about it." Xie Jiu took off his clothes and imitated Shuyan's behavior just now with Li Cuicui.

Now Li Cuicui is not worried about Xie Huanxiu, but there are still books and inkstones, "No, I have to go and see, Goudan'er is honest, maybe he will stay overnight, and then freeze him to death later. gone."

Xie Jiu pressed Li Cuicui, who was about to get up, "It's okay, I've put on the big padded jacket, how can it be so cold after the Qingming Festival? Besides, he is not stupid, if it is really cold, he will definitely go back .”

Li Cuicui thought about it too, and then she didn't move.

Silent all night.

It was just dawn, and the rooster hadn't crowed yet, so Xie Huanxiu yelled, "Shuyan, I'm washing your face!"