The official road of the farmer

Ye Junshu didn't expect that it was the first time he entered the county after many years, and he only wandered around for a long time before he met an acquaintance.

The world is too big to say it is big, and it is really small to say it is small.

That's right, this acquaintance is Qin Yaoliang, Mr.'s youngest son and his senior brother.

Although they haven't seen each other for more than three years, there is no strangeness between the two.

In the past few years, they have been keeping in touch with each other through letters, and they know each other's news well, but they also know a lot about each other.

However, "Brother, why did you run out?" In the last communication, didn't it say that he was grounded by the husband for two months?Count the days, it's not time yet, why did you come out?

Qin Yaoliang chuckled, and said in a drawn out tone: "The Mountain Man has his own tricks!" He looked like he was coming to ask me.

"Oh."

"??" Qin Yaoliang had been waiting for Ye Junshu to continue asking, but after waiting for a long time, there was only one word "oh"!

Qin Yaoliang scratched his ears and cheeks, Zizhou was really bad as always, and he didn't even satisfy his desire to confide!

What Qin Yaoliang and Ye Junshu went to was an elegant tea house, with small bridges and flowing water in the yard, unique pavilions, red flowers and green trees dotted among them.It has always been the favorite place for scholars in the county to come. They often hold symposiums here to discuss current events, classics, and poetry.

Qin Yaoliang was obviously a frequent visitor here, so he didn't need to be greeted by the waiter, and directly found a hidden private seat, where the view was excellent, and he could hear the students talking in the lobby.

Ye Junshu drank a few glasses of water as soon as he sat down.

He's thirsty!

After staying in the house for a while, the heat subsided a lot, and Ye Junshu gradually stopped sweating.

Qin Yaoliang kept chattering, and Ye Junshu was interested in listening to it at first, but it was still the same things he had complained to him in the letter. He had read the letter for several pages at that time, and he didn't want to hear it again. once.

Ye Junshu's attention shifted to the few scholars dressed in Confucian costumes sitting around in the lobby, listening attentively to what they were talking about.

The scorching heat did not dampen their enthusiasm for the interview. Even though the sun was scorching outside, they were not affected at all. Seven or eight people sat at the square table, discussing current affairs passionately.

After three years in the small, semi-closed village of Yejia Village, many of his news were behind him. He knew almost nothing about what happened inside and outside the court, and what was worth paying attention to in the neighboring county.

The only source of news is Qin Yaoliang's letter, but it is difficult to find any information related to outside events in his full-page essay.

In the dynasty he lived in, the folk customs were relatively open, and speech had always been free. He had never heard of anyone being convicted for inappropriate speech.

The emperor is considered an enlightened person, and the country is generally peaceful, but the surrounding foreign vassal states are not very friendly to the dynasty.

Not to mention that foreign races from outside lands invaded the frontier from time to time. If it weren't for the General Protector Li, who guarded the border, those powerful and arrogant foreign races would definitely not be huddled in a corner like they are now, only daring to make small troubles.

But Ye Junshu listened to him, and realized that during the three years he had kept his filial piety, many major events had happened outside. It turned out that Marshal Li, the patron saint of their country, died of a sudden illness in the winter of his first arrival.

When the foreigners heard the news, they took advantage of the grief and panic of the imperial court to commit crimes.

Fortunately, there was Marshal Li's eldest son, General Li Xiaojun, who was ordered to lead the army to repel the foreign enemies in one fell swoop. With him as a little general, if you want to take a step into the territory, you have to step on his body first!

Seeing this, the other vassal states that were about to move quickly put away their minions and put on a docile look.

Ye Junshu thought, it’s no wonder that the corvee tax will increase one level after the next year, which is probably the reason, but Yejia Village is far away, the news is blocked, and everyone only pays attention to their own one-acre three-point land, so the corvee tax will be one level higher. Gritting their teeth, they still can afford it. Anyway, if the battle doesn't come to their door, they won't gossip about it.

The county magistrate may know some news, but how could he spread the news and cause panic?

It is very difficult to have a war in such a small place as them.

Ye Junshu was engrossed in his thoughts, and when he recovered, the focus of the students had shifted from the situation in the frontier to the situation in the harem.

"In today's world, the influence of the Ming Dynasty is all over the world, and they are favored by the emperor. Later, there will be three thousand concubines of the Ming Dynasty, and the empress must avoid her edge... The main line of the main palace has declined. Since the death of Marshal Li, it is even more difficult to compete with the Ming family contend.

If it wasn't for General Li, there would be the first deposed empress in history..."

"It's nonsense!" Another scholar retorted, "The empress is the mother of a country. She has both ability and political integrity. She has been in the post for 25 years. She has been conscientious and has never made a big mistake. How could the emperor depose the empress for no reason? Even if he wanted to , this world will not allow him to do this!"

"It can't be said that the eldest prince has now entered the court to listen to the government, and will soon join the sixth department to handle errands, and the seventh prince is still at the age of elementary school. When the seventh prince grows up, the first prince's wings are already full. What will the seventh prince fight for? In the future Today, in order to let the eldest prince's name be justified, it may be true that he will be abolished."

"Absurd! Since ancient times, we have established a descendant but not an elder. How could we be so confused today!" Another scholar is a staunch supporter of the son-in-law inheritance system. Without the power to compete, today's wisdom, how can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch, and today will never let the Ming family cover the sky with one hand.

To be fair, the present is not bad for the empress's family, the Li family. Although Marshal Li passed away, the tiger amulet is still in the hands of the descendants of the Li family. It is said that the third son of the Li family was raised in the palace since he was a child. Born by myself, she is so favored that even her own children can't compare to it..."

"but……"

Ye Junshu listened with gusto, it was a court drama, even more exciting than a storyteller.

He was on the outside and saw things more clearly than they did.

Compared to their admiration for being the son of the marshal, but being favored by the two nobles, Ye Junshu felt that the third son Li was a bit pitiful.

Living in the harem that eats people but doesn't give birth to bones, and his relatives are not around, even if he is protected by the queen, he is still walking on thin ice, and his life is trembling. The so-called emperor's favor even puts him on the fire.

The so-called raising a son for the Generalissimo so that the Generalissimo can fight at the border with peace of mind is nothing more than treating a child as a proton...

It's really not easy for this young master Li San to live in peace until now...

Qin Yaoliang said that his mouth was dry, and he picked up the cup on the table to moisten his mouth, then put it away, and was about to continue talking, but saw the eyes of the person he was talking to, obviously in a fugue.

He leaned over to observe for a while, to make sure Ye Junshu's attention was outside?In the lobby, the students were still talking about it.

Qin Yaoliang suddenly dissatisfied, "Zizhou, I'm talking to you, why don't you listen?"

"I'm listening." Ye Junshu said casually, turning his attention to Qin Yaoliang, "You are talking about how ruthless and unreasonable you are to make troubles. I don't understand. You insist on you taking the imperial examination, but you don't like to write an essay a while ago. It’s a mess that Mr. Banned you in a fit of anger. Fortunately, you were clever and resourceful and finally found a chance to sneak out today, right?”

Ye Junshu couldn't figure it out. Brother could talk about things that can be summed up in one sentence for half an hour without a break.

He remembered that the husband was a taciturn, serious and a bit old-fashioned elder, and the teacher was a bookish brother, and even the senior brother who had met several times was a mature and stable person, why did he suddenly change when he came to the senior brother?

Qin Yaoliang squinted, and finally sat aside and said in a muffled voice, "Zizhou, if you are interested in gossip about the imperial court, why don't you ask me? My information is much more accurate than those in the lobby!"

Ye Junshu smiled and said, "Brother, I just heard something new. You also know that I have been in Yejia Village for so many years, and I don't understand the news from outside."

"Didn't you stop taking scientific exams? Why are you so concerned about current affairs?" Qin Yaoliang squinted, God knows how confused he was when he waited for Ye Junshu not to come to the private school. I will continue to come to school in the future, but I will wait for a letter!

As a result, he was whipped by the angry father several times, and he was treated more severely after that.

Qin Yaoliang looked resentful.

"Not doing scientific research doesn't mean I'm not interested in these things." The entertainment in ancient times was scarce, and he always wanted to find some fun.

"Then you might as well ask me! My elder brother is studying in the capital for exams, and he sent me a letter... My father will tell me about the important events in the capital, and the information is much more accurate than theirs." Qin Yaoliang said proudly.

"Huh? Then what do you know?" Ye Junshu asked enthusiastically.

"If you want to talk about the major events in Beijing, what they said is out of date. Let me tell you, since Marshal Li passed away, the power of the Li family is not as good as before. Although General Li is doing his best to turn the tide, listen to my brother. , the queen's line was indeed retreating steadily against the imperial concubine's line of the Shangming Dynasty, but it might not have been lurking to recharge their energy, and it was not as powerless as they appeared on the surface.

Of course, these open and secret fights are all in the dark, after all, today is still in the prime of life, who dares to put the fight for succession in the open?Furthermore, the Li family has held military power for dozens of years, so how could it be possible that they have no power at all, it's just that the Seventh Prince has not yet grown up, so they are not so active in jumping up and down. "

The faction of the Ming family has become rampant since the death of the Generalissimo, and even tried to get their hands on the military power, not paying attention to General Li at all. You know, how can the tiger father have a son?One day, they will definitely stumble hard.

In order to show that he knew better, Qin Yaoliang crackled a lot of inside stories about the palace, and Ye Junshu could tell that Qin Yaoliang had processed the news inside.

How could a person who is so cautious as the eldest brother say such things in a letter home carelessly, it could only be that he mentioned something cryptically somewhere, and when Qin Yaoliang saw it, he made up a lot of so-called inside stories by himself.

However, Ye Junshu confirmed one point, the eldest brother is a pro-empress faction, and supports orthodoxy.

Ye Junshu satisfied his curiosity, so he changed the subject easily. He picked up a book on the table and asked, "You wrote this book?"

As soon as he saw the book, Qin Yaoliang's expression became a little unnatural, and he said, "Ah, it was written by me...a friend!"

Ye Junshu didn't expose his clumsy lies. After watching for so long, he already knew the ins and outs of the matter, but for Qin Yaoliang's rare self-esteem, he pretended he didn't hear it.

Ye Junshu opened it and looked through it.

Qin Yaoliang on the side hesitated to speak, scratching his ears and cheeks, wanting to speak but afraid of disturbing Ye Junshu's reading.

He fidgeted nervously, drank a few sips of water, paced back and forth a few times, and looked at Ye Junshu who was reading seriously from time to time.

Until Ye Junshu closed the book.

Qin Yaoliang hurried over and asked expectantly: "How is it? What do you think?"

Ye Junshu's expression was the same as his words: "It's hard to say."

Qin Yaoliang: "..."

Ye Junshu tried his best to put it mildly: "Except that the characters in the storybook are a bit ever-changing, the plot of the story is clichéd, you can know the ending at the beginning, and the relationship between the scholar and Sanniang is a bit rigid, everything else is fine. "

Qin Yaoliang: "..."

So there is no good place at all, is there?Qin Yaoliang wanted to cry or not.

"Uh..." Ye Junshu rubbed his nose, really unable to agree with his conscience.

But even Ye Junshu can't speak well, which shows that his writing is really bad.

Qin Yaoliang was like a frosted eggplant, languishing on the stool, depressed.

"Why don't I tell you a story and see if you can write it?" In fact, Qin Yaoliang's writing style is still good, but he may have read too many scripts, so he just writes according to the routines of those similar storylines, without any new ideas .

Moreover, the progress of the relationship between the protagonists is a bit out of order, which is inexplicable...

Ye Junshu took a quick look, and only felt that he could use three words to describe his mood: hot eyes.

If he hadn't taken into account that this was a script written by his senior brother himself, he would have put it down after reading the first page.

"What story?" Qin Yaoliang asked listlessly.

"Once upon a time there was a wounded white snake, which was picked up by a shepherd boy and rescued. The white snake was grateful for the benevolence of the shepherd boy, and stayed with the shepherd boy for the rest of his life. He did not return to the mountains until the shepherd boy died. After practicing for a thousand years, he wanted to become a fairy. , but failed to cross the tribulation, the reason is that he has not repaid the life-saving grace of the shepherd boy thousands of years ago, so he went to find the reincarnation of the shepherd boy and repay the debt of gratitude.”

"..." He instinctively felt that this was a good story, and it would definitely be popular when written, but when it came out of Ye Junshu's mouth...

"Your level of storytelling is really..." Qin Yaoliang looked disgusted.

Ye Junshu: "..." I haven't disliked that the stories you wrote are not good-looking at all!

Qin Yaoliang suddenly laughed, and the two brothers put Ye Junshu's shoulders together, "Zizhou, are we good brothers?"

Ye Junshu pretended to ponder, "This..."

When Qin Yaoliang saw it, he became impatient, "Why are you hesitating? We must be good brothers who love each other! Zizhou, brother depends on you! Good brother, you can help brother!"

"Hmm..." Ye Junshu thought for a while, and then said reluctantly, "How do you want me to help you?"

"Hey hey..." Qin Yaoliang smiled obsequiously, "Tell me the details of the story, and I'll write it out! Then we'll get [-]% of the manuscript fee!"

"Think about it, you have to be busy raising your younger brother, and you also have to study. How can you have so much time to write a book? Why don't you just leave the story to me to polish, and it can also relieve your financial pressure. It's a good thing to do multiple things!"

"But, I don't study anymore."

"Good brother~" Qin Yaoliang was completely shameless, and slapped Ye Junshu in a stern manner, saying a lot of good things, Ye Junshu couldn't stand it, so he let go: "Okay, I will write to you when I get back."

"Hey! My brother loves you so much!" Qin Yaoliang beamed when he got the answer he wanted, and rushed forward to kiss him, but Ye Junshu pushed him away with disgust.

Ye Junshu looked at the sky, and before he knew it, it was past noon.

No wonder my stomach is growling with hunger!

Looking at the lobby outside, the group of students had already dispersed.

So Ye Junshu said: "I invite you to dinner."

"What are you eating outside? Let's go home and eat." Qin Yaoliang put Ye Junshu on his arm and pushed him away, "Father is so happy to see you, he will definitely not have time to take care of me then, hehe!" He thought so well!Father saw Ye Junshu, and when he was happy, he definitely didn't care about him running away!

"My pannier." Ye Junshu was almost pushed to the stairs before he remembered that he hadn't picked up his things.

Qin Yaoliang quickly reacted and folded in, put the basket on his back and came out, and waved his hand: "Let's go!"

Ye Junshu thought about it. He originally planned to wait until after noon before visiting the husband, and it's okay to go there now.

So he and Qin Yaoliang braved the scorching sun and hurried to the private school.

The author has something to say:

Finally pulled Xiaoshou out of the text to brush up the sense of presence, inexplicably proud.

Li appeared sideways Yu: ... (stroking the whip, sneering)

Ye·official partner has never appeared·Jun Shu: ...(smiling silently)

Author: (Confidently) Minors are not allowed to fall in love!Even if Xiao Shou appeared, you would still be able to see it but not eat it!A guy with no hair at all! (top the lid and escape)