Three melons and two dates

Three years later, the results of the palace examination were released.

It is said that "the spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe disease, and you can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day." This year's parade is quite interesting.

The top one in the first class is a handsome young man, and the top two in the first class are also handsome young men.And No.3, looking at the excited girls and daughters-in-law on both sides of the road, not only was not happy, but shrank her shoulders in embarrassment, lest the lost flowers would fall on her body.

He studied hard for 30 years, and failed several times. This time he finally passed the exam, and even entered the first class.It was something that many students dreamed of, but he was thrown a big basin of ice water before he got excited.

It is indeed something to be happy about passing the Jinshi examination after the new year.But one of the top two this year is not as good as the weak champion, and the other has just passed the weak crown. Li Jin instantly felt that he was getting old.

He also thought that he would become famous when he was young, and his peers were much older than him.Now that there is an exchange, the difference in my heart is even bigger.

He was very happy when he paraded through the streets with flowers hanging. He secretly hated himself for not being able to get fourth in the exam.

Xie Huanxiu, who won the first place in the palace examination, glanced at both sides of the road from the very beginning, and felt a little disappointed when he didn't see the person he wanted to see for a long time.

"That's right, how did he know about my agreement with my father, and how could he come here?"

Lin Xinian looked ahead, Xie Huanxiu lowered his head, lacking energy.Looking to the right, Li Jin shrugged his shoulders, wishing that no one could see him.

Where are you hanging flowers and parading through the streets? It's clearly a parade!It made him feel a little bit depressed.

At the thank-you banquet in the evening, Lin Xinian asked Xie Huanxiu in a low voice, "Why are you so unhappy looking at you these days?"

The very rare Xie Huanxiu didn't go around the topic, but gave a soft "hmm".

"Because of the book inkstone?"

Xie Huanxiu lowered his eyes and acquiesced.

"Why did you separate? Because of family?"

Lin Xinian wanted to ask this question, and thought about it for nearly four years, and today is the time to ask.

After a while, Xie Huanxiu turned his head to look like Lin Xinian, "I won't do it anymore."

Although his voice was very soft, it was ten o'clock firm, so Lin Xinian could hear it very clearly. At the same time, he also saw a light that he hadn't seen for a long time, his eyes were burning with hope.

Lin Xinian didn't know how he persuaded his family, but he was really happy for him, "Congratulations. What's your plan next?"

"Enter Hanlin first, and later...maybe you will go down. What about you?"

"Same, but I want to go to the Concierge Court later."

In the past few years in Taixue, Lin Xinian has met many foreign people, and actually heard them tell a lot about foreign things.He wants to go out more and get in touch with more new things.

Just don't know if it will be possible.

Homecoming, homecoming.

Xie Huanxiu went back to Linnan County before entering the Imperial Academy.He first detoured to the academy, and also went to see the small courtyard where they lived at the foot of Lushan Mountain.

Shuyan never came back.

Knowing that this was the result, Xie Huanxiu was still indescribably disappointed.

Back to Dongxiang, where his parents specially arranged for him with red and colorful colors and beating gongs and drums, the haze in his heart has not been cleared away.

Facing the people who came to congratulate him, Xie Huanxiu could handle it freely now, but he was looking forward to the end, as soon as possible.He wanted to ask Xie Jiu if the agreement back then still counted.

Finally, I look forward to the banquet, look forward to leaving the folks in the village, and look forward to saying what I want to say.

Li Cuicui, who was still smiling, burst into tears in an instant.

For most of her life, she was reluctant to wear clothes and flowers, and wanted to leave all the money for her son to marry a wife and have children, and for her grandson to study.

But now it's gone, all gone.

Throwing the handkerchief in her hand onto the kang, she cried loudly, "What kind of evil did I do? Heavenly official, why did you recognize this so much?"

Xie Huanxiu knelt down facing Li Cuicui, "Mother, the child is not filial."

Xie Jiu has learned to smoke dry tobacco in the past few years, sitting on the other corner of the kang, and smoking.

"Shuyan is back?"

Xie Huanxiu shook his head.

"Can't you make me and your mother happy for a few more days? Even if I promise you, you can find someone else, and you don't know where to put them, so you have to make another scene?"

Xie Huanxiu straightened his back, "Father, we agreed."

"Go away, I will promise you when you can find him."

"His father!"

"Thank you dad."

Li Cuicui and Xie Huanxiu's voice sounded at the same time.

Xie Jiu looked at Li Cuicui who was hysterical and crying, "That's it."

The simple four words made Xie Huanxiu, who was a little happy, burst into tears in an instant.

"That's it." All the helplessness and powerlessness are contained in these four words. Facing his son's stubbornness, he can only choose to accept his fate.

At this moment, guilt for his parents welled up in his heart, but he couldn't choose to turn back, his heart didn't allow it.

Another year has passed, and Xie Huanxiu still hasn't waited for the return of Shuyan.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month of this year was extremely lively.Many foreigners came, saying they were going to perform some kind of magic trick.

Lin Xinian asked Xie Huanxiu to go and have a look together, but as expected, he was rejected.He continued without giving up: "You have been in the capital for so many years, and you haven't seen a single lantern festival, don't you think it's a pity?"

"It's not a pity."

Xie Huanxiu was very eloquent in the court, and he never made a mistake when speaking to others. Everyone would praise him or her face to face, and his "like-minded" colleagues would even "boast" behind his back, "Little fox!"

And when facing Lin Xinian, don't say a word, don't say a word, smile is even more stingy.

"Let's go, I may leave Beijing on the fifteenth day of next year, why don't you accompany me once?"

"You don't feel disgusted when two big men say this." Xie Huanxiu rubbed his arms while speaking.

"Where will you go next year?"

"It's not down yet, but it's almost there."

Everyone is struggling to gain money and power, but Lin Xinian has sharpened his head and wants to run to the Concierge Court.Xie Huanxiu also helped him with activities, and now it is a certainty that he will go to the Concierge Court, and there is no definite news about the specific position.

"Really not going?" Lin Xinian asked again.

Xie Huanxiu thought for a while, nodded and agreed, "Wait for me to change my clothes."

It was getting late, and under the illumination of tens of thousands of lanterns, the lantern market was as bright as day, and people could see each other very clearly.

After walking for a while, I didn't see any foreign people performing magic tricks. Guessing lantern riddles in the lantern market was really not a challenge for them, and the two of them lost interest.

Xie Huanxiu, who wanted to go back home, suddenly stood where he was and looked forward.Lin Xinian followed his gaze and saw that he was staring at a father and son.

The son held the sugar blower in one hand and the lantern in the other, sat firmly on his father's shoulders, and tried to guess lantern riddles with his neck up.

"Father, this is so difficult, come and help me."

Father was embarrassed, "Why don't we change it, I can't guess it."

The son was obviously a little disappointed, "Then let's go and look at other things, but you must help me guess the next dad."

"Okay, okay." The young father agreed, turned around, and faced them.

Lin Xinian exclaimed in surprise, "Book inkstone!"

That young father was Shu Yan who hadn't seen him for several years.

Shuyan also looked at them in surprise, and greeted Xie Huanxiu: "Heavenly official..."

"Are you married?"

"what?"

"You are married!"

Xie Huanxiu raised his voice and repeated.

Seeing that Xie Huanxiu was angry, Shu Yan put down the child on his neck in a panic, hugged him in front of him, and said to him, "This is Mingyuan, Xie Mingyuan."

Xie Mingyuan was the boy who was rescued by Shuyan from the catastrophe that year.That little girl was so poor, he spent all his money and failed to save her in the end.

This is what Xie Huanxiu learned after he took them back home with a cold face.

Seeing that Xie Huanxiu knew that Xie Mingyuan was not his biological son, Shuyan seemed to have not calmed down.Hugging the drowsy Ming Yuan, he continued, "He is very similar to you."

"So the surname is Xie?"

"No..." Xie Huanxiu is much taller than Shuyan now, and has more imposing manner. The two stood facing each other, and the pressed Shuyan didn't dare to look directly at him. He lowered his head and continued to explain, "Mingyuan, he..." is not indifferent There is no ambition, and there is no distance without tranquility'."

Shu Yan stumbled and talked for a long time, but he didn't say a single point, but he recited Marquis Wu's words very smoothly.

No matter how smart Xie Huanxiu was, he didn't guess what he wanted to express.

"and then?"

"That's right, that's right, I hope that Mingyuan will be an honest and ambitious person like this sentence said, and only by calming down can he go further."

……

This is a passage that he remembers most clearly while studying with Xie Huanxiu.The meaning of this sentence was obviously misunderstood by him again.

After the little girl left, Shuyan chose this name for the boy. On the one hand, he hoped that he would grow up safely, and on the other hand, he wanted to commemorate the days when he and Xie Huanxiu were together.

Xie Huanxiu didn't bother to pursue the origin of the name, and asked him, "When did you come to the capital?"

"some days ago……"

"Why didn't you find me?"

"What I'm looking for is, I just haven't found it yet."

"Why come back?"

Shu Yan paused, "I want to see you."

have a look?Xie Huanxiu raised his eyebrows and continued to ask: "Then are you going?"

Shu Yan lowered his head and remained silent.

"Father and mother agreed to our matter, do you still want to go?"

"Really?!" Shuyan couldn't believe it.

"Are you still leaving?" Xie Huanxiu stared at Shuyan's eyes and repeated.

Shuyan shook his head violently, "No, no, no."

"Then why did you leave back then? Don't even ask me a single question!"

Xie Mingyuan, who was stupefied and stupefied, was intimidated by Xie Huanxiu's voice, and hugged Shuyan's thigh tightly, "Father, let's go home, go home."

"This is home, why go home!"

Hearing that Mingyuan was making a fuss to leave, Xie Huanxiu became even more fierce, so frightened that Xiao Mingyuan didn't dare to cry, he hugged Shuyan's leg tightly, and pulled him back, trying to drag him away.

Shu Yan bent over and picked him up, patted his back to comfort him: "Hey, this is our family, he is also a father, don't be afraid."