It seems that I am still too full [travel]

In the east of Le County, the moon is on the brows, the lights are like beans, and Xue's mother and son also have a night talk.The faint light from the oil lamp shone on the side face of the young man who was reading seriously, and next to him was Mother Xue who was mending his son's clothes with a needle and thread.

Seeing that the oil lamp was getting darker, Xue Sheng put away the book, and persuaded his mother who was still mending, "Mother, carefully hurt your eyes, save this clothes for me to mend tomorrow."

Mother Xue mended a few more stitches and then finished it. She folded the clothes neatly and put them into the box that her son would take away tomorrow, and said with a smile, "Mother can rest assured after mending them, otherwise I won't be able to sleep well at night." Jue, alright, A Sheng, let's have dinner."

One sack and one bean soup, plus some cheap seafood, is the daily food of Xue's mother and son.Tomorrow, Xue Sheng will go back to the college. Mother Xue deliberately cut a large piece of bacon that has not been eaten since the Chinese New Year, and made a plate of bacon fried with garlic. Attached to the oily water secreted by the bacon after stir-frying, it is oily, clear and crisp, and the bacon that is the finishing touch is plump, salty and slightly spicy.After Xue's mother went to the south, she learned the skill of making bacon with her neighbor's sister-in-law. Xue Sheng ate a big bowl of rice with this plate of food.

"A Sheng, there is something that my mother has been quite worried about." Xue Sheng raised her head, only to see her own mother hesitated to speak, and after hesitating for a while, said: "A Sheng, the head of the Han family has rebelled now. Going to Dongcang Academy, will it hinder you in the future?"

Xue's family was poor, Xue's mother still insisted on sending Xue Sheng to study in a good private school, just to let Xue Sheng, like his father and grandfather, gain fame and fame, become an official, and revive the Xue family.

Xue Sheng stopped eating, put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, and said softly: "Mother, I used to be afraid of hurting you, so I never mentioned it, but today I have to mention it. Do you remember? How did our family decline? So far?"

Mother Xue paused, thinking about her dead husband, she couldn't help feeling sad.

The Xue family was divided into two branches. The one who decided to move his family north to become an official was Xue Sheng's grandfather.When the imperial court called for talents, grandfather Xue was one of them. This was the heyday of the Xue family in the north.However, after arriving in Dadu and becoming an official in the court, Grandfather Xue discovered that most of the senior officials in the court were dominated by Mongolians and eye-catching people, and these two people were closest to His Majesty. At the very least, the Han people in the Central Plains are only better than the southerners.

The power and treatment of an official position are lower than others, and the position held by grandfather Xue happened to be the civil servant of the Imperial Academy who was the least valued by the emperor at that time. He didn't have a place to speak, so he put most of his energy on his son and carefully cultivated him.

Father Xue is indeed extremely intelligent, and he rarely looks like a child prodigy. When he was young, the name of his talent spread. After entering the Imperial College, he did not fall out of the top three in his daily academic examinations. Unfortunately, when the results of the final Imperial College Examination came out, He was at the bottom of the list with other Han students, and the top ones were all the children of Mongolian and Semu people.

The Imperial College Examination is equivalent to the graduation exam for students. The imperial court selects the best officials based on the results of the scientific examination, which is equivalent to the "imperial examination" within the Imperial College. It is normal to have such a "black-box operation".However, father Xue, who became famous and proud at a young age, could not accept it for a while. At that time, a Mongolian classmate who came to see the list had always been at odds with Father Xue. Father Xue's calf made him suffer from leg problems...

Later, Grandfather Xue went to the palace to sue the evil son. Unexpectedly, he only received a flimsy punishment of one month's salary, and even the official position granted to the student who injured someone was not deprived.After two life blows in succession, father Xue, who had been going smoothly, was depressed. He was ill and tortured by leg diseases, and he died early in his early thirties.Grandfather Xue, who was sent by a white-haired man to a black-haired man, lost his son in old age, and was deeply saddened. He passed away in less than two years, leaving two orphans and widows. Unable to keep the family business in Beijing, he had to go south and return to his ancestral home.

"Mother, in the past you only said that you can only get ahead through examinations and fame, but you forgot that in this world and this court, it is important that I am a Southerner and a Han Chinese one day, and it is as difficult as going to the top. A beautiful person will end up in a dismal end. Besides, the head of the mountain is very kind to me, mother, my son is willing to advance and retreat with Dongcang! My son also hopes that one day, the head of the mountain will be able to Change the world, so that no matter what kind of people can rely on their talents and learning to become officials."

Xue's mother hid the tears from the corners of her eyes and said with a smile: "It's mother who wants to marry, or my son has vision and acts like a gentleman, just like your father. Mother listens to you, so let's continue to study in Dongcang. Don't want anything."

Xue Sheng smiled, gave his mother another reassurance, and comforted her: "Besides, the imperial court will not implicate the students of an academy just because the head of the academy committed a crime, and the scholars in the world will not agree." " Xue Sheng thought for a while, and then talked to his mother, "Mr. Qin from our academy intends to accept me as his personal disciple."

Qin Sui was the teacher of Dongcang Academy at the time, and since he discovered Xue Sheng, a good seed of mathematics, he has been teaching him carefully, and with the encouragement of his wife and Mr. Song Xi, he rarely thought of recruiting students.

Xue's mother was really happy, "But after Qin Jiushao in the previous dynasty, that Qin Daru from Meizhou?"

Xue Sheng nodded, and Xue's mother hurriedly asked him, "Did Mr. Qin tell you that he wants to take you as an apprentice?"

Xue Sheng hesitated, "Sir, he didn't tell me personally. It was Mr. Song who told me. Mr. Song said that Mr. Qin didn't seek fame and fame. So I never asked me, for fear of delaying my future."

"It's my son's good fortune to be valued by such a great scholar. There's no reason to delay. A Sheng, you have returned to the academy, you have to show your determination to your husband. In the past, it was my mother who wanted to marry me, thinking that you could only rely on scientific examinations. Get ahead, but you didn't consider that the road to the imperial examination is as difficult as reaching the sky for us. In the future, you should study hard with Mr. Qin, and maybe my son's achievements will be greater than your grandfather and father in the future."

Xue's mother never thought at this time that her laughing words at this time turned out to be a prophecy. Her son and his teacher later became the second pioneers of the way of science, which will last forever.

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Xie Shi's bicycle frame had been traveling on the newly repaired concrete road for less than a day, and he returned to Le County where he had been away for more than a month. Xie Shi was quiet and didn't want to alarm anyone, but the three hundred guards Han Ji sent to him were really powerful. It was too vast, and when they entered the city, even the guards in Le County were taken aback, thinking it was an enemy attack. Fortunately, when the flag of the Han family was displayed, they knew that it was their own people who were safe and sound.

Because it was getting late, Xie Shi didn't go back to the other business on the mountain, but first went to Xie's house in Le County to settle down. Xie Shi seldom lived here, but Xie Ju still kept the owner's courtyard of this house for Xie Shi, and his servants cleaned it every day, so he would just live here.

Xie Shi himself didn't need to worry, but he was worried about how the three hundred soldiers who came with him would make arrangements. Although his house was big, there was not enough room for so many people.

"Your Excellency, don't worry, you have your own place to go! Before leaving, the master ordered to leave twenty soldiers for you to wait for orders on weekdays, and the rest will return to Fuzhou immediately after repairing." Only in this way did Xie Shi's problem be solved. , As for the remaining "bodyguards", Xie Shi directly asked Wang Jia to take over, and he was free to arrange how to arrange them.

In the end, Xie Shi thought about being embarrassed to be escorted so hard, and set off overnight to rush back without even drinking a sip of hot water, so he entrusted Xie Ju to go to a familiar restaurant in the city to buy meals—the wine was No need, people have to drive at night.Naturally, the whole family couldn't prepare such a large order, but Xie Ju has a good network, and he actually persuaded two restaurants to close their doors in advance to thank customers and make "delivery" for his family.

After traveling for a day on the road, Xie Shi and Xie Ju didn't cook anything else, and ate the food from the restaurant with the guards.But before that, Xie Shi had to arrange for Fenyuan, the kitten who was moving for the first time.Because he was afraid that the cat would have a stress reaction when he went to a strange place, Xie Shi imitated the modern cat cage and made a small cage for Xiaofenyuan with only four small windows for ventilation, and covered the rest with black cloth. He pretended to go in, and teased her to talk to her the whole time, probably because the owner was with him, and the kitten was quite obedient in the carriage, and he didn't panic.

Because I have to take her back to Bieye on the mountain tomorrow—that’s where Xie Shi lived for a long time, so Xie Shi didn’t plan to let her out of the cat cage tonight, only changed her water and the special cat food that came with her , Seeing that she finished eating, she took a glance and went back to sleep before she felt relieved.

When he returned to the dinner table after thanking him, Xie Ju teased him, "I see Shi Ge'er treating that civet cat like a parent loves their children. In the future, Shi Ge'er will marry a wife and have children, and he will definitely be a competent and good father."

Xie Shi was silent, and said in his heart, my father, it is impossible for you to see your son get married and start a career in this life, not to mention that your son doesn't have a woman he likes, and he won't have one in the future, even the one from Fuzhou is impossible Yes.Look, cat granddaughter, can you accept it?

Touching the sensitive area, Xie Shi quickly changed the subject, and pretended to be surprised: "Is this wonton?" There were all kinds of food on the table, some of which were obviously familiar, and looked like they were made after Xie Shi's early dishes in the cafeteria Come out to eat.

Xie Ju was aware of this, and explained to him: "It is based on the food that you studied when you were at the time. I heard that the business is booming now. No wonder the servants went to buy food, so they bought these and came back. The people outside We all know that Brother Shi, your craftsmanship is as good as a god, but if you don’t open a shop, they won’t be able to eat it, so some people have a bad idea, imitate your food and sell it, and it has won a wave of patrons.”

Although the appearance looks similar, Xie Shi knows once he tastes it. The person who cooks this food may not have eaten the real original dish, but he can understand it. After all, only the teachers and students of Dongcang Academy can eat Xie Shi's craftsmanship now. Many seasonings made by imitators are based on guesswork, and the taste is completely wrong.

Xie Shi is not disgusted with this kind of imitation behavior. After all, he did not invent these dishes. He also stood on the shoulders of giants to achieve his current achievements. Therefore, he finally said: "As long as they don't use my name to make profits , just let them go, people regard food as their heaven, and recipes should not be kept private if they are not related to the family business. It’s just that these tastes are really wrong, wait for me to write the correct recipes and spread them in another day That’s right.” If it’s a good famous dish, because of him, people would misunderstand that its taste is not delicious, then wouldn’t he become a sinner in history!

Xie Ju obviously couldn't understand Xie Shi's behavior that was so generous that he could almost be called a "sage". Everyone has learned it, isn't it..."

Xie Shi smiled, "Father, the way to cook is not in a family's secret recipes, but in your hands. Besides, I have a lot of new dishes that haven't been revealed yet. I will show you a new dish tomorrow!"