Don't go back to hometown

There was a moment of silence in the classroom.

Although there was no class at this time, some people had already started to review their books. It was really inappropriate for Tan Yunhan and Wen Qing to make such a fuss.

The two looked at each other, stuck out their tongues at each other, and bowed to salute, ready to apologize to the other students.

Unexpectedly, the person who just opened his mouth to scold him looked at Jiang Xianyu, and his words were stinging: "Jiang Xianyu, asking for others is better than asking for yourself. Xie Cheng is just a scholar now, so what if he passed the exam?"

Hearing Xie Cheng's name suddenly, Jiang Xianyu, who was about to apologize to his classmate, immediately lowered his face.

The classmate in front of him was a little strange, and Jiang Xianyu couldn't remember the name of the other party for a while.But the other party seemed to have a lot of opinions on him and Xie Cheng.

He only heard the other party say: "His brother-in-law won the exam at the age of 21, and now he has failed twice as a Jinshi. Next year, it will be the third time in Chunwei. Xie Cheng is really capable, why don't you help his brother-in-law?"

Hearing him talk about a passage again, Jiang Xianyu stood up abruptly, and looked at the other party coldly: "It's true that you can't do anything just to pass the exam, but Xie's rich family, Xie Cheng, can now take me to eat and drink, but you, have What qualifications do you have to talk nonsense?"

Tan Yunhan also said angrily: "That's right! Brother Duan, even if he's just a Juren, he can be your wife and me. Where do you have the face to make irresponsible remarks here?"

"That's right!" Wen Qing is young, but he has a way of mocking people, "Lai Hong, you are just a boy, and even a rookie dares to laugh at a peacock, it makes people laugh!"

"you--!"

Embarrassed and annoyed, Lai Hong stood up and retorted: "No matter how rich Xie Cheng's family is, it is just a merchant's family full of copper stink. What is there to be proud of? Duan Shuwen used to be a generation of talented people, but after marrying Xie's daughter After repeated trials and failures, how can I know that it's not the merchant girl who broke the family style!"

Pointing at Tan Yunhan and Wen Qing, he reprimanded: "It's a pity that you are also innocent peasants, yet you are with Jiang Xianyu and the others—— ouch!"

Before Lai Hong could finish speaking, Jiang Xianyu's fist had already knocked him down.

The tables and chairs shifted and fell, and the surroundings suddenly screamed.

"Little Yu!"

Tan Yunhan and Wen Qing rushed to pull Jiang Xianyu, but actually they didn't put much effort.

Jiang Xianyu grabbed Lai Hong by the collar and lifted him up, sarcastically said: "I don't understand, Xie Cheng earned money by his own ability when he was 12 years old, and he never looked down on farmers and poor families because of his rich background. Like you, a farmer who can read and write depends on the money saved by his parents digging in the fields—"

Jiang Xianyu pinched his right hand and looked at it, and saw that it was indeed thin and tender, with only a thin callus for writing, and the irony on his face was even more intense.

"At home, relying on your status as a scholar to ignore Nongsang, and relying on your own one-third of an acre to laugh at merchants who make money from their own skills, how can you be so shameless?"

"And Sister Xie, you deserve to mention it too?!"

Jiang Xianyu recalled his previous life, and suddenly closed his eyes, which suddenly became scarlet and frightening.

He stared at Lai Hong, gritted his teeth and said, "It doesn't matter if you can't achieve something, but if you can't do something, you don't ask yourself, but criticize others, then you are a waste!"

"well said!"

There was a sudden applause from outside the door, and everyone turned their heads in unison. Suddenly, they became excited and hurriedly saluted: "Master."

Jiang Xianyu, who was carrying Lai Hong's collar, was also stunned suddenly - the person standing next to the master was clearly Xie Cheng.

When Lai Hong mentioned Xie Cheng just now, someone guessed that Jiang Xianyu would go crazy - after all, it was not the first time, so he hurried to the scholar class A to inform Xie Cheng.

Only Xie Cheng could stop the frantic Jiang Xiaobao - after all, this was not the first time.

Xie Cheng hurried over, just happened to meet Mrs. Liu from the children's class, and heard Jiang Xianyu's remarks outside the door together.

Seeing Jiang Xianyu's dumbfounded look now, Xie Cheng held back his smile and persuaded with a sullen face: "Xiao Yu, let go."

Jiang Xianyu immediately let go, and Lai Hong slammed on the ground, hitting the back of his head with a loud bang.

Jiang Xianyu quickly raised his hands, looking innocent.

"Cough!" Master Liu lowered his face, took out his ruler and looked at Jiang Xianyu, "What should I do if I beat my classmate?"

Jiang Xianyu glanced at Xie Cheng, and stretched out his hand obediently: "I apologize, and I will accept thirty rulers."

"Master!" Tan Yunhan protested loudly, "It is clear that Lai Hong provoked first, and he also insulted his classmates and disrespected his seniors."

Seeing that his master wanted to punish Jiang Xianyu, Lai Hong got up and gave Tan Yunhan a contemptuous look, looking like a villain.

However, before he could accuse Jiang Xianyu to his master, Master Liu raised the ruler in front of him again and asked, "Where did Jiang Xianyu quote it just now?"

Lai Hong was immediately taken aback.

He immediately recalled Jiang Xianyu's mocking words just now, but the more he thought about it, the more angry he became. The world returns.' From "Mencius Li Loushang"."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Xianyu winked at Xie Cheng, this sentence happened to be what Xie Cheng taught him when he was reviewing his homework yesterday.

Seeing his little expression, Xie Cheng lowered his eyes and curled his lips.

On the other side, Lai Hong's face turned red, and he glanced at the overturned tables, chairs and books on the ground—"Mencius Li Loushang", isn't it the one he was reviewing just now?

Mr. Liu also glanced at the books on the ground, and knew better that "Mencius Li Loushang" was taught by Xiu Muqian himself, so he looked at Lai Hong with hatred, and said: "The original text of this book and Copy the interpretation ten times, do you have any objection?"

With a sullen face, Lai Hong bowed and replied, "I would like to follow Master's instruction."

Jiang Xianyu raised his eyebrows at Xie Cheng again when he heard the words.

This time Xie Cheng didn't smile at him, but deliberately frowned and said: "Xiao Yu, I apologize to this Junior Brother Lai."

Jiang Xianyu frowned, and was about to refuse, but saw Xie Cheng wink at him, and immediately chose to believe him without hesitation.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have hit you." He gritted his teeth and apologized to Lai Hong, with a sad, angry and aggrieved expression.

Lai Hong was surprised, looking at him and then at Xie Cheng, it seemed that he didn't expect these two people to be so easy to talk to.

However, the next moment, Xie Cheng shattered his fantasy.

"This junior brother, please, apologize to my sister and brother-in-law." Xie Cheng looked at Lai Hong with a cold face, "My sister is demure and dignified, she doesn't like to make noise, brother-in-law is devoted to studying hard and has no time to be distracted—Xie is not talented, I can barely convey my apology on behalf of Junior Brother Lai."

He didn't mention Lai Hong's insulting and sarcastic words about himself, but only asked for respect and apology for the demure and dignified elder sister and brother-in-law who studied hard.

Xie Cheng's open-mindedness and bearing, self-cultivation and temperament instantly compared Lai Hong to a clown.

Lai Hong's face turned red again, and he was speechless, and then looked at the others, but no one came to his rescue.

Tan Yunhan also pushed him from behind, "That's right, Senior Brother Xie doesn't care about your rude words, but just wants you to apologize to Sister Xie's family and Brother Duan, won't you refuse?"

Wen Qing folded her arms and fanned the flames: "Or do you still think you are right?"

No, no, no, no, no?

Everyone looked at Lai Hong with "you don't know what's wrong, do you?"

Even Master Liu's face became more and more gloomy.

Lai Hong had no choice but to bow down and apologize to Xie Cheng, "I'm sorry, I was the one who spoke rudely... offended."

He tried his best to suppress the resentment in his tone, but people could still hear his dissatisfaction, and felt that he was dishonest and narrow-minded.

Everyone did not expect that Lai Hong was usually reticent and quiet, but his heart was higher than the sky-not only looked down on the sons of merchants, but also looked down on scholars and Juren.

I'm afraid that on weekdays, I secretly look down on these classmates in my heart.

The problem is that he himself is not from a high family background, and he doesn't know where he has a sense of superiority.

At this moment, Jiang Xianyu has already thought of Lai Hong.

In the previous life, this person had no sense of existence, but Jiang Xianyu remembered one thing related to him.

About next month, Lai Hong's father will be paralyzed due to a stroke.Later, Lai Hong's mother came to the academy to look for the head of the mountain, saying that the family was in difficulty, and wanted Lai Hong to drop out of school and return home to help the family.

But Lai Hong disagreed, and forcibly dragged his mother away, and told his mother to sell the family's two younger sisters to continue studying for him.

This word was heard by other students, and it spread throughout the academy.

When the head of the mountain learned about it, he fired Lai Hong on the grounds of his misbehavior.

Thinking back now, Jiang Xianyu wished he could punch him twice again.

Especially when he insulted sister Xie's family.

In her previous life, sister Xie's family suffered from rumors.

Jiang Xianyu still remembers that after Xie Cheng brought his bones home in his previous life, he not only collapsed, but also used his savings to build his tomb despite the objections of his family.

He even has the will to die and refuses to seek medical treatment and take medicine.

His soul floated beside Xie Cheng's bed every day, begging over and over again: "Xie Cheng, don't do this, get up and drink the medicine."

However, Xie Cheng couldn't hear his voice at all.

At that time, sister Xie's family tried to persuade her several times, and even got angry.

Jiang Xianyu still remembers the scene at that time.

"A Cheng," Sister Sangrou wept in front of Xie Cheng's sickly and haggard bed. Bring me back from the Duan family, and promise to protect our mother and child for the rest of my life."

"Now they are poking my back again, saying that I want to kill my own brother so that my son can monopolize the Xie family's property. And you, wanting to die with all your heart, want to confirm this rumor?"

She grabbed Xie Cheng's hand and burst into tears, trying to tie Xie Cheng up with herself, begging him not to commit suicide, "Is this what you said back then to protect me?"

The thin and pale Xie Cheng trembled his eyelashes, but his eyes were still closed, and his voice was hoarse: "Sister... I was late, it was me—"

He clenched Xie Sangrou's hand tightly, and the veins on the back of his hand bulged, "As long as I arrive an hour early, only an hour! Xiao Yu is still alive! It's me, I was late..."

"But he's already dead!" Xie Sangrou scolded angrily, no longer caring about his manners and demeanor.

To her, although Jiang Xianyu, the brother next door, has deep feelings, he is not as important as her own brother.

She held Xie Cheng's hand tightly, and pleaded painstakingly: "Sister, I know what you're thinking. I didn't know it before, but now I understand it."

"But you have received family law from him five years ago, and you have suffered from the root cause of your illness. You have refused to marry a wife and have children for so many years. It is enough! Enough! Now that Xiao Yu has left, why do you...why do you do this?"

"Could it be that only the affection you treat him is affection, the kindness from parents for raising children, and the affection between you and me as siblings, are they not as important as him alone?!"

The heart-wrenching question finally made Xie Cheng open his eyes and look at Xie Sangrou.

His eyes were red, and he choked with sobs: "I don't know... I didn't know before—"

I don't know how important this affection is.

"But sister, the moment she hugged his dead body..."

Xie Cheng raised his hand to hold his heart tightly, his throat hoarse: "I didn't know until that moment that he is my life!"

Xie Sangrou was stunned, staring at him blankly, tears streaming down her face.

She leaned over and hugged Xie Cheng, "Sister understands, sister understands."

"When Shuwen passed away, I also... I thought about it. But I still have Qixuan, he is still so young, how can I leave him?"

Tears poured down her face, and she couldn't make a sentence: "Ah Cheng, I beg you, Sister... Sister, please, don't leave Sister... Otherwise, I really don't know how to hold on."

After that day, Xie Cheng began to seek medical treatment and take medicine.

It's a pity that I still didn't survive the second winter.

It was also on that day that Jiang Xianyu's soul saw and heard it, and the overwhelming self-blame and guilt swallowed him up, making him extremely remorseful.

How could he... How could he harm Xie Cheng to this point? !