[Red House] How to escape from a broken ship

"Supreme Heavenly Venerable!" the old Taoist chanted, and just stood in front of Jia Yan.

Jia Yan and the old Taoist were face to face, Han Changsheng led people around, and the steward sent by the Sun family also led his servants to separate the old Taoist from the three young people.The steward immediately shouted: "You old man is so unreasonable, why are you standing in the way!"

The old Taoist swept the dust away: "The poor Taoist is here to save lives. This little Mr. Jia, the dove occupies the magpie's nest, how can he grow up?"

This was directed at him, Jia Yan frowned slightly, but Xu Zhi stopped him when he wanted to go forward.Xu Zhi took a step forward: "Taoism, there are five major sects and four major sects. If you dare to ask which sect the head is, report to a family, so that we can understand that the head of the Tao is not a fool!"

Without waiting for the old Taoist to speak, Xu said directly: "I don't know whether the leader is the Jishan School, the Classic School, the Fulu School, the Danding School, or the Zhanyan School? You come here rashly to say that my little brother Jiuzhan the magpie's nest, you can't For a long time... the old Taoist priest is a monk, and he talks nonsense, let alone for a long time!"

Sun Zhong also came up together: "That's right, the imperial court has always had clear rules and regulations on monks and Taoists. If you don't speak nonsense and create panic, beware of the government's investigation! When the time comes, you will bring others into trouble for nothing. Is the teacher not going to pursue you? Will your own conscience not make things difficult for you? Or, you are simply an evil way? If so, how dare you imitate others to speak out about good and bad, bold!"

"..." This is the first time for the old Taoist priest to be robbed, and he keeps robbing him. This is really the first time for a fledgling. "The poor Taoist just wants the young master not to occupy the magpie's nest, so as not to harm others and himself."

Jia Yan also became angry: "Harming others and harming oneself? Where did the Taoist priest say this? Whose nest did I occupy? Who should be my original position?"

The old Taoist said: "Young master should have died young. Although Lingtang did good deeds, it was not from the original intention. Therefore, "

Jia Yan interrupted him: "Dare to ask if you have opened your eyes?"

"Ah!" Such a question, the Taoist priest couldn't answer, the people in his circle were already surrounded by people, if he really said that he has the eyes of the sky, it might not cause any trouble, "Uh, of course the poor don't have the eyes of the sky."

"Why did the Taoist priest say that my mother's kindness was not out of her original intention?" Jia Yan gritted her teeth tightly: "A sage says that you should not do to others what you don't want to do to others. Yilai stops me on the street, Taoist priest loves to hear it? Or, I hit the mark."

"Oh, my lord is good at doing things for himself." The Taoist turned around and wanted to leave, but Xu Zhi stopped him.

Xu Zhi asked: "What the Taoist said, does it mean that everyone in the world has a destiny, and does the world have its own way of heaven? And my little brother, in the eyes of the Taoist priest, violates the way of heaven in your eyes?"

The old man stopped in his tracks: "Exactly."

Xu Zhi asked again: "Can the Taoist priest help the world and save the people, or save someone?"

"Since it is the way of heaven, naturally not everyone can cross it." The old Taoist said: "The way of heaven is not benevolent. It treats all things as dogs. All living beings are the same."

Xu Zhi laughed loudly: "The Taoist said that all living beings are the same, and he also said that he has his own way of heaven, so whether my little brother is a dove occupying the magpie's nest, or because he hinders some way of heaven, what does it have to do with you? Since the way of heaven is ruthless , why should the Daoist worry about it?"

"That's right!" Jia Yan said: "Since the Taoist priest keeps talking about the way of heaven, if I really take over someone else, then let the way of heaven take care of me. But who is the person you want to protect? He Is it a god? Pretend to be a god, even if the secular government can't control you, isn't the Taoist priest afraid of heaven's punishment?"

The Taoist shook his head and sighed: "Heavenly Supreme, I'm just here to remind you. If you listen to me, you will listen, and if you don't listen...the way of heaven is merciless, and there is nothing we can do about it."

Jia Yan sneered: "The Taoist priest will invite you."

The old man separated from the crowd and left.Xu Zhi patted Jia Yan on the shoulder: "Don't listen to this crazy Taoist's nonsense, they are used to alarmists, ignore them!"

Jia Yan nodded: "Brother Zhengxing, don't worry, I won't take it seriously anymore, let's go." Jia Yan's ancestral home in Jinling is still there. Since he came here to take the provincial examination, it is naturally more convenient to live at home.

The group returned to Jia Yan's old house in Jinling. Jia Yan had sent Tao Hou and A Yuan over to order someone to clean it up. They can move in directly when they arrive.Sun Zhong laughed and said, "It's thanks to Boheng, we don't have to go and live in a hotel with Tongke."

This is also the truth, the style of writing in the south of the Yangtze River was at its peak, and in the entire Great Wu Dynasty, this area had the most scholars admitted, so naturally there were more places and more people participated in the scientific examination.There is a saying that if you are poor and rich in martial arts, life in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River is better, and it is often free from wars. Some families with a little wealth will support their sons to study.

What if it can be read?With this kind of thinking, it is not surprising that there are more and more famous people in Jiangnan.

Hearing that Jia Yan came back with his classmates, and the son of the magistrate of Yangzhou was also with him, Wang Dongming looked at his fat son who was alive and kicking, and his mind became active again.Xu Shi became a mother and her heart is much calmer. Jia Fenniang's attitude is much more normal when she mentions Jia Yan now, but for her husband to bring his son to see his uncle...

"Master, can't you stop tossing around?" She said very bluntly: "Back then, you fought against their mother and son, but you were still at the forefront. Now that we have a son, and I am pregnant with another one, let's just live in peace Once upon a time when he arrived in Yangzhou, you gave him something after he was filial piety, and he replied politely, so there was no communication after that?"

Wang Dongming is a person who is used to drilling camps, and not letting the drilling camps makes him feel worse than killing him. He also knows that his wife is not stupid, and now that he is calm, he is a good housekeeper.But he just... "Brother Yan is now a scholar, and he is about to take the Juren exam again. If he does pass the exam, daughter-in-law, then he will be a 14-year-old Juren."

"If he is admitted to Jinshi again in one fell swoop, my daughter-in-law will be a 15-year-old Jinshi, 15 years old! Our elder brother will have a good uncle. After all, you are brothers and sisters. If I take my elder brother there, he will still It’s impossible to kick us out of the house.”

Jia Fenniang supported her back, she felt a headache, and finally said impatiently: "You can do whatever you want, I have said everything that needs to be said, you can think for yourself."

After much deliberation, Wang Dongming still went there with his son in his arms.

After tiring all the way, after packing up their things, the three of them were about to sit down and talk when Chang Sheng came over with a strange expression on his face outside: "Master, Eldest Uncle brought... His Eldest Brother is here."

Sun Zhong heard his father talk about Jia Yan's family affairs, and when he heard that it was his brother-in-law, he immediately looked at Jia Yan, but Xu Zhi was at a loss.Jia Yan let out a breath slowly, and said with a smile, "Forget it, please come in."

This child looks like the father in memory, this is Jia Yan's first feeling when he sees the young master of the Wang family - his nephew, his impression of his father Jia Tun is already very vague.But the shape of the child's face made him dig out the thin memory from his mind, Jia Yan showed a smiling face: "Brother-in-law, did the eldest brother choose a name?"

"Take it." Wang Dongming hurriedly said, "My name is Wang Huai."

Jia Yan nodded: "That's all." After saying a few words of greeting with Wang Dongming, Ling Jiao, who came to wait on him, came over with a few trinkets and two small silver locks and gave them to Wang Huai.The brother-in-law and brother-in-law sat opposite each other. Although it was not an awkward scene, the meeting was dry. Rao Wang Dongming couldn't stand the awkward atmosphere in the end, and finally told Jia Yan that his sister was pregnant again and took her son away.

He didn't let Xu Zhi and Sun Zhong show up, but came out to meet the father and son alone, and Sun Zhong secretly told Xu Zhi about the grievances of Jia's siblings.Xu Zhi shook his head and sighed when he heard it, it is really hard to recite scriptures in every family, even his own family has signs of it.It's just that his mother was able to manage it, knowing that the eldest son's studies were at a critical time, so he didn't follow his father's wishes and let him bring his younger brother out to see the world.

When it's really critical, I realize how infuriating it is for the family to hold back.

On the surface, Jia Yan didn't care what the old Taoist said, and he muttered about "the son does not talk, the power is strange", but in his heart he thought "worshiping the gods is like the gods are there", which is also what the sage Confucius said.After all, he was only 14 years old, and at the critical juncture of the exam, he was said to his face that "the dove occupies the magpie's nest"...

Whose nest did I occupy? Jia Yan was a little uneasy because of this question until he entered the arena.Qiu Wei entered the arena one day in advance, and stayed for nine days. The three of them brought their own baskets with necessary things, and came to Jinling Gongyuan under the protection of their families.No wonder those who have passed the Jinshi examination always rejoice in bitterness when they recall, this is really not a good place.

It's just a simple shed. Candidates sit in it, and they can come out once every three days of the exam, and let the handyman clean the number room, and then they have to go in.The first round of the provincial examination is to select two pieces from the Four Books, one poem with five characters and eight rhymes, and four pieces of scriptures and meanings with more than [-] characters each; One essay should be written in each style, and it should be more than [-] words; and the last one is the policy of current affairs, which will be set by the imperial court, so that the students can express their views on the current government affairs.

Speaking of it, the first two games relied on the basic skills of scholars: Confucian classics and allusions.Only the last current affairs policy is to test the students' understanding of the imperial court and the implementation of overall government affairs and their personal tendencies.

Lin Hai focused on explaining current affairs policy to Jia Yan. For Jia Yan, the best way is to memorize the writing template, and then keep in mind the scriptures that the examiner likes, and consider the composition according to the specific topic of current affairs policy.Because of his writing style, Lin Hai specially warned his nephew: Don’t pursue literary classics in Shiwuce. He can combine depth and literary talent very well, which is probably at the level of Xu Zhi. Jia Yan only needs to be clear and logical.

Then, if there are no problems in the first two games, it should be possible to be admitted to Juren. Anyway, the purpose of Lin Hai and Jia Yan is to pass the exam, not to pursue rankings.

Jia Yan put down the pen and let out a long breath, which can be regarded as finished.These few days I didn't dare to relax here, now that the last stroke was finished, Jia Yan breathed a sigh of relief and stretched his waist.He still carefully put away the papers, and waited for the inspectors to come to collect the papers and hand in the sealed test papers. Then Jia Yan was wrapped in a felt cloak and rested on the small bed, waiting for the time to come before he left the examination room. !

When the fire broke out, Daiyu, who was far away in Yangzhou, asked her father Lin Hai: Why do monks and Taoists in this world like to play tricks and scare people?