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"Mother, I know I was wrong." Qi Yue gritted his teeth and said painfully, "I know I was wrong!"

Madame Qi threw the ruler on the ground angrily, turned around, covered her face and went out, went back to her room and bolted the door behind her, sat on the bed and cried until midnight.

Qi Yue knelt before his father's spirit, silently wiped away his tears, and heard his mother cry half the night.What was he born for?What are you going to do?I am already thirteen, do I want to continue like this forever?Qi Yue pondered.

Qi Yue raised his eyes and saw his father's spiritual seat under the flickering lights as if covered in night, stained with blood on the battlefield.He had never seen what his father looked like since he was born, and his mother never mentioned it, because he had no father since he was a child, so he always wanted to become strong, able to protect and take care of his mother.But what I have been pursuing is to take a group of so-called subordinates to fight every day?Master Xu's gate is not the felt tent of the Liao Kingdom, the bullied and weak, nor the iron hooves of the Khitan people.

Qi Yue knelt in front of his father's coffin for a whole night, listening to his mother's crying and choking gradually stopped, until the starry sky in the middle of the sky was replaced by morning glow, and the place on his back that was hit by the ruler gradually swelled up, painful and itchy.Qi Yue didn't pay attention to these, the whole night of meditation made him seem to be reborn overnight.

Qi Yue remembered that he once asked Master Xu what his name meant.Master Xu smiled and said that his name was chosen for him by a predestined person.Yue is a heavy soldier, which symbolizes battle and majesty.The axe is open, no one dares to stand in front of it, it suddenly breaks apart.

It was dawn in the east, amidst the crowing of cocks, Qi Yue smiled and clenched his fists tightly.

Suddenly the door behind her was pushed open, Lady Qi opened the door with red and swollen eyes, her voice was slightly hoarse: "Come out."

Qi Yue didn't dare to disobey, he wanted to stand up, but found that he had been kneeling all night and couldn't stand up long ago, he stretched out his hand to support a table before standing up, and followed Lady Qi out with difficulty.Lady Qi didn't know when she got up, Qi Yue didn't hear her at all, but saw a basin of clear water in a wooden basin, a plate of side dishes and two steamed buns on a stone table in the courtyard.

"Wash your face and have breakfast." Mrs. Qi acted as if nothing happened yesterday, just as she was told on weekdays.Qi Yue went to wash his face obediently, but he knelt all night, his legs and feet felt a little uncomfortable, and he walked slowly, limping.Lady Qi watched Qi Yue finish his meal, then called Qi Yue into the room, and asked Qi Yue to remove his robe, revealing the young man's thin, green and red back.

Lady Qi reached out and caressed the scars on Qi Yue's body and wept again. Qi Yue seemed to have noticed the tears of Lady Qi, he turned around and took Lady Qi's hand and said with a smile: "Mother, don't cry, clean up your son." It’s my fault, and it won’t happen again in the future.”

Madame Qi was originally the daughter of a small family, but she was the bride but suddenly lost her husband, leaving behind a son who fell to the ground.Being a mother is strong, no one can taste for her, and no one has ever borne it for her, what kind of sorrow has been hidden under her pungent appearance over the years.The son suddenly became sensible, Madam Qi only felt that the ups and downs of the past decades had all turned into tears of joy at this moment, she suddenly smiled, but tears flowed down her cheeks.

"Qi Yue, Qi Yue, are you up yet?" Qi Yue used to wake up early every day to call Song Cheng to school, but today Qi Yue didn't come, Song Cheng thought Qi Yue had overslept, and now Stand at the door and knock.Qi Yue shouted at the top of his voice, "Here we come."

"Apply the medicine first, let Chengzi wait outside for a while." Qi Niangzi wiped her tears, quickly took a box of ointment from the bedside, and applied it on Qi Yue's body.Qi Yue only felt that his mother's nails were extremely cool and comfortable.Qi Niangzi's subordinates moved quickly, and the medicine was ready in a short while.Qi Yue put on his clothes a few times, and hurried out.

Seeing that Qi Yue's eyes were swollen, Song Cheng grinned, "Your mother beat you again?"

Thinking of the ruler his mother dropped on the meat yesterday, Qi Yue couldn't help shrinking a bit, Song Cheng laughed immediately, and said, "You deserve it for letting you go to those smoky places!"

Qi Yue reached out and rubbed Song Cheng's head, "I won't go again."

Song Cheng said "Yo" and stopped talking.

Yesterday was the exam for the fourth day of junior high school, and the papers were going to be handed out today. Qi Yue suddenly remembered that most of the papers for their exams were issued by Mr. Xu on behalf of Song Cheng. Taking a long look behind Song Cheng, he asked, "How did I do in the exam?"

Song Cheng hid for a while and said, "I haven't had time to read it yet, you'll know when the academy sends it out."

Qi Yue hooked Song Cheng's neck, quickened his pace, and arrived at the academy in a short while.Song Cheng handed out the paper, and saw Qi Yue clearly wrote "A" on the front of the paper, and Qi Yue jumped up on the spot.This jump would be trivial in normal times, but last night Qi Yue knelt all night, his knees became sore and he hit the table, Qi Yue wailed.

The students standing on the side all laughed, and seeing the character "A" at the beginning of Qi Yue's scroll, everyone laughed even harder, and Qi Chen also booed: "Brother, your extreme joy begets your sorrow!"

Qi Yue waved and said: "Go, go, do you have to pass the armor?"

Qi Chen silently wiped his nose, Mr. Xu's A is not so easy for me, it's not bad for me to get a B.Song Cheng smiled and said, "Congratulations!"

Qi Yue smiled happily, but without arrogance, Song Cheng also nodded secretly, if it was another student in this situation, it would be inevitable not to be proud, but Qi Yue was just happy.

After Master Meng finished his exams, he would routinely bring the first-class test papers taught by Master Xu to his students to observe. Normally, there was only Song Cheng alone, but today there would be more Qi Yue. Master Meng clicked his tongue again and again. Unable to believe it, he specially summoned Qi Yue to set a demonstration for his students.In the past, Song Cheng was a standard good student, a model of positive education.That Qi Yue is a typical struggle model, the prodigal son turns back.

On a cool summer morning, most masters like to sit in a semicircle with students to teach under the willow trees in the yard, and Master Meng is one of them.He called Qi Yue over, stood under the big tree, holding his paper in his hand, and Master Meng earnestly taught: "The prodigal son will not be exchanged for gold when he turns back. It is not too late to rein in the precipice. You all know how rare Master Xu's first grade is, but Qi Yue can get it, which proves that as long as you study hard and concentrate, you will definitely be able to do better than Qi Yue!"

Qi Yue holding the test paper in both hands: ...

Why do you feel that you are a negative teaching material?Qi Yue turned his head and glanced at Song Cheng who was standing aside secretly smiling, and made a disdainful expression, Song Cheng laughed out loud.Song Cheng smiled, and Master Mencius grasped Song Cheng keenly. He said to the students, "You should learn from Cheng, the cold and the summer, always the same..."

Master Meng lavishly boasted about the number of words in a splendid article, during which he quoted scriptures and allusions impassionedly. Song Cheng just smiled from the beginning to the end, and when the last sentence of Master's absurd praise, he received another praise without arrogance or impetuosity.

Qi Yue was speechless, Master Meng, I am still standing!But Master Meng couldn't hear Qi Yue's slander.