old grace

Xie Qinghe easily passed the college examination, obtained the identity examination certificate, and officially became a scholar.

Lu Xuan deliberately asked him, is he still doing business?Xie Qinghe sighed and shook his head, expressing that he was studying honestly and preparing for the battle against Qiu Wei.

In order to avoid being urged to marry by the elderly, Xie Qinghe deliberately pretended to be nervous about caring about his career, and moved out of his home to live in another courtyard.The days of living alone are much more leisurely, I close the door to write and draw, and practice when it is time to practice, as if I have returned to Hanshan.

At this time, Xie Qinghe had vaguely felt a trace of boredom and meaninglessness.

Regardless of whether it was Li Qian, Lu Yuan, or Maruya who was killed by him, he had no way to resolve the old grievances these people had.He just turned Li Qian into Xie Qinghe, Lu Yuan into Xie Qinghe, and Maruya into Xie Qinghe.

He seemed to be very careful to suppress his ability to cut through messes quickly, and found a way for Lu Yuan to achieve his goal.

However, if you want to take this path well, you need too many excellent abilities.

Some qualities are unique to Xie Qinghe, but Lu Yuan does not possess them.For example, Lu Yuan may not be able to win the exam.

Lu Yuan's troubles are much bigger than Li Qian's.Li Qian could live a better life than helping out in a restaurant if he could think more openly.Lu Yuan's difficulty lies in the fact that the starting point is too high. It is very difficult for one person to carry the entire family and prevent the class from falling down. The Lu family is at the second rank!

Even if Xie Qinghe does not go into official career, but relies on "collusion between officials and businessmen" to start the business, and single-handedly holds back the collapsed and declining class of the Lu family, the qualifications and luck that Xie Qinghe possesses are by no means Lu Yuan's. can have.

Everything that Xie Qinghe can do, Lu Yuan can't do.

The decline of the Lu family was not caused by a wrong decision, but entirely due to its decline.

The Second Rank Shangshu is the apex of the Lu family. After reaching this position, there will be no successors, and he will inevitably slip from the apex.

Xie Qinghe sat under the peach tree in the other courtyard every day, earnestly thinking about Lu Yuan.

——With Lu Yuan's aptitude alone, how can he solve his own problems?

After sitting for 20 days, Xie Qinghe opened the Four Books and Five Classics: "The son of heaven values ​​heroes, and articles teach you. Everything is inferior, but reading is high. Young people must study hard, and articles can stand up. Manchurian nobles are full of scholars. This is It's the only way..."

Reading, paying the least, gaining the most.

A woman can reach the sky in one step by marrying a man, and a man can't fight his father, so he can only fight himself.

Thinking of this, Xie Qinghe suddenly felt blessed: "If you can't fight your father, you can still fight your master?"

Li Qian was ten years older than Lu Yuan. In other words, everything Xie Qinghe had seen during Li Qian's experience should theoretically be more than ten years earlier than Lu Yuan's.Most of the strange people and strange things he had heard about were still alive and existed.

Xie Qinghe spent a few more days to delineate a few goals for himself, and planned to look for them (hugging thighs) after the end of Qiu Wei.

Lu Yuan has never been successful in his life, and Xie Qinghe has no plans to win.He wanted to find a feasible "outlet" for Lu Yuan, so he couldn't let himself make too much of a fuss.After all, the identities of a scholar and a juren are quite different.

The poor old grandfather Lu Xuan sent his grandson into the arena in person, but Xie Qinghe performed a fever coma for him on the spot, and was carried out without even entering the door. The grandfather was so frightened that he hurriedly found a doctor for him, and secretly wiped tears behind his back: "Bad luck..."

When is it not good to be sick, but just before the opening!And it burns so badly!

After Xie Qinghe recovered from his illness, Lu Xuan didn't dare to provoke him. He just said it's okay, grandson, you are still young, and you will fight again in three years.

It's a pity that the unlucky grandson was still deeply shocked. After a few days of being stupid, he went to live in another hospital for two months, and suddenly cried and shouted to go on a study tour.Lu Xuan was in a bad mood: "It's the Chinese New Year soon, Yuan'er, where are you going to study?"

The next day, Lu Xuan heard a report from his servants: "Master, the young master entered your study, sat for a while and then left."

Lu Xuan's heart skipped a beat, and he said angrily, "Send people to intercept at various intersections! Don't tell the young master to run away!"

Naturally, people cannot be chased back, Xie Qinghe has already fled away with Shuan Zi.

Lu Xuan went back to his study and opened the drawer of his bookcase. The 2000 taels of silver bills inside were indeed searched clean.

He sighed.The bank notes of the family are all in the cashier, and his private room is also in his own room.

The reason why I put banknotes in the study is for my grandson to spend them in an emergency.

——Stupid son and daughter-in-law are living on monthly money, even though Lu Xuan favors his grandson, he can't be too much on the surface.

When Lu Yuan was a child, he gave ten taels.When he grows up, he puts 50 taels, 100 taels.Since Lu Yuan robbed the capital from here to do business, he put a little more, 2000 taels.The son is useless, the family property, land title deed and money, don't they all belong to the grandson?

"It's just a wastage, so what's worth it?" Lu Xuan only hated himself for pushing his grandson too fast, what was he always pushing him to do?

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Xie Qinghe ran away for a long time, but never wrote a letter to his family.It's not that he doesn't want to send a letter home, it's that there is no one in the family who is a butcher for an official, and there are no servants who come and go often, the price of sending a letter is too expensive and unreliable.

The memory he got from Li Qian was not accurate. The names he had drawn up in advance were either lost or the goods were not right.

Then you can only find it now.

The nobles with great energy who can climb are theoretically in Longcheng, Xie Qinghe started to roam around in Longcheng, inquiring about news by the way.After hanging around until years later, he reluctantly settled on a target, and Xie Qinghe began to formulate a thigh-hugging plan...

What he didn't know was that just as he was trying to help Lu Yuan resolve his old grievances, a letter from his elder sister flew back to Nanxing.

Lu Ze wrote to his grandfather, mainly to ask for money.

Yang Xianzu wanted to be promoted to the fourth rank, the hurdle was not ordinary.In addition to the contacts in the court, seniority, talent, and reputation, you have to spend money to manage it up and down.It would not be enough to empty out Lu Ze's dowry, but Yang Xianzu didn't want to pay for it.

The Lu family treated Lu Ze extremely kindly, and gave Lu Ze one-third of the family property as a dowry. Yang Xianzu judged others by himself, thinking that Lu Ze’s dowry was just a drop in the bucket of the Lu family—how could a normal person give one-third of his property to Lu Ze? Family property as a dowry for a girl?This is not the way males are separated!After all, the family property is getting thinner and thinner. Usually, the eldest son takes the lead, and the second son has to stand aside.

All these old friends and acquaintances of the old Lu Shangshu are almost dead, while Yang Xianzu is promoted to make money, and his official prestige is increasing day by day.

He had already asked Lu Ze to write a letter to ask for silver taels from Yue's family, even if he wanted to come to Yue's family, he dared not refuse to give it.Considering that his brother-in-law is still working, and he might be able to be an official in the same dynasty as him in the future, Yang Xianzu is more polite.Yang Xianzu's patience completely disappeared until he heard that his brother-in-law fell ill on the spot and failed to enter the house smoothly.

But Lu Xuan's thinking is different from that of many years ago.

In the past, the future of the grandson was entrusted to the grandson-in-law, so naturally he had to do his best to meet the requirements of the grandson-in-law.Now that the grandson himself has said that he is unwilling to rely on others, Lu Xuan always has to leave some property to the grandson so that the grandson will not be stretched.

It was such a large amount when Lu Ze opened his mouth. If Yang Xianzu did not acquiesce or support behind it, Lu Xuan would not believe it.

Lu Xuan knew that his son-in-law was at a critical juncture to be promoted to the fourth rank.

It's not that the Lu family can't afford this money.The problem is, Lu Xuan knows how much his granddaughter's dowry is, so the grandson-in-law's family can also afford it?Why do you have to ask the Lu family for it?The greedy mind hidden in this is very disgusting.

This opening cannot be opened.

Once Yang Xianzu is allowed to eat comfortably and satisfactorily, the more official he is, the more passive the Lu family will be!

Lu Xuan did not show up, and asked his daughter-in-law Wu to return a very polite letter to his granddaughter, and attached a bank note of 200 taels to express his support for his son-in-law's selection of officials——

Lu Ze was stunned when he got the 200 taels of silver. Seeing that it was Mrs. Wu's reply, she couldn't help being coquettish: "Ah, that's true!"

When Yang Xianzu heard that someone from Nanxing had come, he knew that the Yue family must have replied to the letter, and he was here to collect the bank notes.

Who knows that there are only 200 taels, this is to send beggars!

He didn't think that he was unreasonable, but that his grandfather was unreasonable!"Crossing the river and tearing down the bridge" so quickly favored my brother-in-law, so what did I say to support myself with all my strength!The grandson-in-law is half a grandson, how can he compare to grandson Jingui!

Yang Xianzu turned around with a sullen face and left.

Lu Ze quickly stretched out his hand to hold him: "Master, don't worry about it. My aunt has no knowledge. She lives on monthly money and doesn't have much dowry. If she can give me two hundred miles, I'm afraid it's the limit. I Ask again, grandpa will definitely reply."

Yang Xianzu sneered, I actually believed Lu Xuan's nonsense and married this stupid woman!

The only thing he was lucky about was that he already knew that Lu Ze was stupid, so he never thought about letting Lu Ze have his child.With such a stupid mother, no matter how smart and capable he is, the child is probably a waste!

"No need." Yang Xianzu shook his sleeves and walked away.

At the critical juncture of his official position, Yang Xianzu couldn't make trouble, he was afraid that a little discussion would ruin his future.

On the contrary, Lu Ze was confused and always doted on his grandfather, why there was no news all of a sudden?Why don't you give me money?

She wrote seven or eight letters in a row and went back to ask questions, and her confidantes and companions ran back and forth, so that several neighbors who lived nearby heard the wind. Going there seven or eight times, I'm afraid I don't know how much money was given to cheer!

This rumor made Yang Xianzu very angry.But I can't go back and say that the Yue family didn't give me any money!I spend money to manage everything is my own!

He can't tell the difference externally, but his temper is not very good internally, and he makes a face to Lu Ze from time to time.

Lu Ze didn't know the crux of the matter at all.

"I'm a bit depressed when I come to the capital. I don't like to see me. When I see me, I'm not as gentle and amiable as before." Lu Ze sat in the house wiping tears, crying to his nanny, "I know he blames me. Blame me for not being able to give birth. A child. If a woman can’t prolong her husband’s heirs, she’s worse than a hen. He doesn’t like the first two children, he must like me to give birth to him, but I can’t bear them..."

The nanny didn't have much knowledge, so she could only cry: "My poor girl..."

These two fools went astray, seeking medical advice every day, trying to cure Lu Ze's infertility symptoms, gave birth to Lin'er early, and regained her husband's favor.Not knowing that Yang Xianzu failed to extract money from Yue's family, resentment was already in his heart.

After all, all the money that Yang Xianzu used to manage Shangguan's minions was picked out of Lu Ze's dowry.The Yang family didn't have a penny.

When Xie Qinghe gained a firm foothold in Cheng'enhou's Mansion, Yang Xianzu was also successfully promoted to the fourth grade and served as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.

——I have to admit that Yang Xianzu is extremely talented and lucky, and he is lucky with the right boss.Although the first half of my life failed after repeated trials and wasted many years, no, in the second half of my life, I rushed back in a hurry!

When Lu Xuan received the letter from his grandson reporting his safety, he also received a family letter from his granddaughter crying.

Lu Ze cried in the letter, Yang Xianzu slapped her!

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"You are wrong. You are all wrong." Lu Yuan accused Xie Qinghe.

"Where did I go wrong?" Xie Qinghe asked himself and devoted himself to Lu Yuan, "I could have been an official all the way, and it went smoothly. In order to make your old grievances repayable, I took a path that you can do and do well. road."

Lu Yuan is not very good at reading and writing, but he is very good at playing small games such as guessing and shooting.

Cheng Enhou Wei Fei is said to be the emperor's brother-in-law. His own father, Wei Xianyou, has done a good job in following the dragon. deficit.Now the emperor is over 50 years old, Wei Guozhang and Wei empress have both passed away, Wei Feichuan has also become an old uncle, pretending to be gods and tricks all day long, he doesn't even have a son, so the emperor is very tolerant to him.

Wei Fei Chuan likes to pretend to be a monk, holding a tortoise shell all day long to tell people's fortunes and look at Fengshui. Guessing the trick of shooting is especially suitable for him.

Lu Yuan's skin is not bad, and Xie Qinghe is clean and fragrant all day long, and he is very cute. Wei Feichuan simply accepts him as a disciple, and every time he goes out, he has to take him by his side and talk to all kinds of people. Showing off the trick of guessing a shot: "Hahaha, guess how many golden melon seeds I have in my hand?"

Xie Qinghe can accurately guess the odd and even numbers in his hand, the specific number, and even what color it is.Even through a cloth or even a room, he can know what is hidden.Lu Yuan also has this ability - Confucianists also read the Book of Changes, and it is not difficult for those who understand it.

With the ability to guess the shot, and Xie Qinghe's all kinds of courteousness, Wei Feichuan also has no son, so he treats him like his own son.

If it wasn't for the fact that his daughter was old and married, and his granddaughter was only two years old, Wei Feichuan really had the urge to marry his daughter or granddaughter to Xie Qinghe.

Even if they didn't get married, the master-student relationship in this world is also very close.

Biography of Wei Fei is the only surviving male of the Wei family, and Empress Wei failed to give birth to a dragon descendant. The emperor's fear and resentment towards the Wei family have long since disappeared with the death of King Wei and Queen Wei. Therefore, the biography of Wei Fei is incomparable. Excessively pampering his little apprentice, the emperor also gave Xie Qinghe a high look.

Xie Qinghe did not take the right path of studying and becoming an official, he embarked on the path of luck...

This is the only relatively safe, highly operable, and decent execution path that Xie Qinghe has embarked on based on Lu Yuan's qualifications.After all, it is an extremely difficult goal to maintain a second-rank Shangshu family with no successors in a precipitous decline.

Xie Qinghe didn't particularly like flattering and courteous temperament, for Lu Yuan, he first flattered Wei Feichuan, and then flattered the emperor, he felt that he had sacrificed a lot against his nature.In the end, when he escaped from the demonic barrier, Lu Yuan didn't buy it, and even said he was wrong.

wrong?Xie Qinghe's face also turned blue.

Don't think that the crane is a very docile bird. How docile can a bird that can appear with monks from ancient times to the present?

"I also thought that it was my grandfather who I resented. I hated why he gave all his connections and family property to my brother-in-law instead of me. But, you went back to the day when I was five years old, the day when my eldest sister got married. At that time, I I suddenly realized that what I resented was never money..."

"My biggest regret is that my elder sister married someone who was not human."

There was a touch of moisture in Lu Yuan's eyes, but he didn't cry after all, only regret and hatred that bleed to the bone.

"Elder sister is confused and confused, her heart is the kindest. She loves me, and she has never had a bad heart towards nephew Feng and nephew. She is a little girl. She grew up reading the four female books of three obediences and four virtues. She respects her parents and her husband. Love brothers, take care of children... She has the virtues of a woman, but Yang Xianzu has no husbandhood. How can he be worthy of being my eldest sister!"

"Why didn't you stop her from getting married?!" Lu Yuan pointed at Xie Qinghe's face.

Xie Qinghe thought for a moment, and then explained his reasoning to Lu Yuan again: "At that time, the elder sister was in love with Yang Xianzu..."

"But you and I both know that Yang Xianzu is not a good man! How can you just watch her jump into the fire pit?!" Lu Yuan said angrily.

Lu Yuan and Lu Ze's biological mother, Wu Shi, was a woman from a poor family. Lu Xuan took her cautiousness and disliked her ignorance, so after the birth of the two grandchildren, Lu Xuan hugged her to his side and raised them personally.Lu Ze was 12 years older than Lu Yuan, and Lu Yuan was raised by his sister. Even though Lu Ze was married when Lu Yuan was five years old, the relationship between siblings is still very deep.

"Even if you are her brother, you are not qualified to dictate her life." Xie Qinghe also got a little impatient, "The only thing I can do is let her marry when she likes Yang Xianzu, and take her back when she hates Yang Xianzu." home. At least I have the ability to take her home."

Lu Yuan choked on his words and turned pale.

Xie Qinghe did it all over again for him, using his only strength to climb up the biography of Cheng Enhou Wei Fei, and found an extremely solid backer.

What about him?He knew that Yang Xianzu often attacked his elder sister in the boudoir, so what did he do?He dared not do anything.Because he is penniless, because the Lu family has to take advantage of Yang Xianzu's official authority to protect him, and because he wants to go to a restaurant to eat and listen to an opera, he has to go to Brother Hu to ask for money... He doesn't even dare to offend Yang Fengying and Yang Huhua, How dare he offend Yang Xianzu?

He suddenly knelt down towards Xie Qinghe: "I beg you to go back, you go and pick up elder sister and go home! He will beat elder sister!"

Xie Qinghe looked him up and down, and said: "Let's not say whether she is willing to go back. Even if I go to pick her up, you should know that you and I are both in the magic barrier. Whether I pick her up or not, your real sister will Still by Yang Xianzu's side. What's the benefit?"

As if struck by lightning, Lu Yuan suddenly came to his senses: "I, I understand, I'll go find Marquis Cheng En immediately!"

He immediately kowtowed to Xie Qinghe a few times, and couldn't help but thank him: "Master Duomeng gave me some guidance. I understand, and I know what to do. I will definitely please Cheng Enhou, so that the elder sister can be safe with Yang Xianzu He Li, come back to me... Thank you, Master Immortal!"

Different from the situation of Li Qian and Ma Luya, Lu Yuan is eager to get out of the demon barrier and immediately make up for the regrets in his life, so his earth soul frantically wants to run out.Xie Qinghe didn't want to stop him either.This period of obsession took more than ten years. Although Lu Ze is stupid, he also has some feelings.Unfortunately, in the real world, grandfather Lu Xuan has passed away for many years...

After Lu Yuan's soul flew away, it was a purer and brighter color than Li Qian's soul, with a bright light.

"Huh?" Xie Qinghe was very surprised.

After getting out of Lu Yuan's demonic barrier, the "bricks" in Xuanchi are amazing!

If I have to describe it, it is roughly equivalent to the "brick" of Li Qian and Ma Luya, and the "brick" that Lu Yuan gave is as much as 20 yuan!

His profound pool is not big, it was filled to the brim by this sudden 20 yuan "brick", Xie Qinghe held his breath and looked inside, with a strong desire to break through, and a dangerous and mysterious thought stopped him : Wait a minute!Wait for your bricks to cover one layer, then cover another layer, so after nine layers, and then break through, there will be absolutely different luck!

Xie Qinghe's heart beat like a drum.

He knew that he had to use good judgment.

Because, the idea of ​​making him break through immediately, or the idea of ​​letting him wait until he accumulates nine levels before breaking through, must be a demonic thought.

Wait, or wait?

Xie Qinghe sat cross-legged on the spot, eyes slightly closed, heart and mouth united, thinking quietly.

What if waiting and not waiting are all magic thoughts?

Xie Qinghe recalled all the classics he had read before, and noticed a detail.There are not many classics mentioning the specific size and shape of Xuanchi, but occasionally some ancestors described it in notes.

Immediate breakthrough is wrong.Because, the Xuanchi should not be so small.

It is not right to accumulate nine layers and then break through.

Because those "bricks" had already filled his profound pool.

"It shouldn't break through, and it shouldn't accumulate. It should be..." Xie Qinghe felt an incomparably mysterious feeling in his heart, and the profound pool that was filled to the brim suddenly stretched out, and the "bricks" that suddenly became white were put together one by one It is full and has become much wider, "expansion."

His original profound pond was only the size of a teacup, but now it is like a pool of clear spring, clear and elegant, trickling endlessly.

"What about true essence...?" Xie Qinghe was a little confused.

It wasn't until the spring water splashed up, and the surging true essence rushed in his body, that Xie Qinghe quickly suppressed the splash from the spring water!

He was slightly pale.

The profound pool expands, and the true energy surges.This is of course a great improvement.However, his physical skills have not kept up.

Xie Qinghe felt that this was not only because he solved the old grievances for Lu Yuan too thoroughly and was rewarded more, but it might also have something to do with the fact that he had practiced spiritual consciousness when he was obsessed with Lu Yuan's old grievances.All spiritual practices are beneficial.

A monk can always feel how powerful he is.

Xie Qinghe had a strong feeling that he didn't have to look for the skins possessed by the old resentful demon one by one.

Because, three of the four are broken, and only one is left.He is already strong enough to directly break through this broken barrier!

Ding--

boom--

The long sword pierced the void.

Above the restaurant, there was an extremely dull sound.

In an instant, a hot and dry breeze blows in, and the aura of heaven and earth surges in.

The nightmare circle is broken.

Magical barrier, eliminate.

The sun was shining brightly outside.

Xie Qinghe hugged Shiyan Mohua with one hand, looking straight at the warm sun outside the restaurant.

The sky is already bright.

... How many days has it been bright?