school days in ancient times

The sky is bright and the autumn is gentle, and the ground is full of leaves of red maple and ginkgo.

The carriage had already left the city, and Ye Mian leaned his elbows on the window, looking out with interest, feeling that everything that came into his eyes was lovely and gratifying.

Stretching out his hand, he took a honey-soaked lotus seed from the cyan glazed bowl in his arms and stuffed it into his mouth. His eyes were so sweet that he squinted his eyes, but when he turned his head, he saw his brother still buried in a pile of official documents. Ye Mian wrinkled his nose and licked it again. A lotus seed was handed to Ye Jing's mouth.

Ye Jing glanced down, saw Ye Mian's white fingertips still had sparkling saliva, and turned her head in disgust.

Ye Mian threw the lotus seeds into his mouth, put the bowl heavily on the short case, moved his buttocks and sat next to Ye Jing, stretched out his hand to grab the official document in Ye Jing's hand, and complained in his mouth: "You take me out Playing, and ignoring my reasoning, if I knew this, I might as well stay in the capital and play with them."

Ye Jing frowned and patted Ye Mian's dirty paws off, then wiped off the sugar stains on his fingertips with a handkerchief, and lightly reprimanded: "If you keep pestering me, I will send you back."

Ye Mian curled his lips, picked up another honey lotus seed from the bowl and fed it to his brother's mouth flatteringly, Ye Jing opened his mouth to accept it this time, Ye Mian bent his eyes and asked, "Brother, is it sweet?"

"Ah."

"Then eat another one!" Ye Mian doggedly said.

Ye Jing shook his head, put down the official document in his hand, and Ye Mian took advantage of the situation to put away all the official documents on the short case, and threw them into the hidden compartment beside him. He held Ye Jing against the window with one hand and commented with him enthusiastically. Looking at the autumn scenery outside and various passing merchants.

Ye Jing looked at him and sneered slightly: "It's still the same as it was six years ago, with an ignorant appearance, just don't cry in the end like you did back then."

Ye Mian turned to look at his brother strangely, "Why am I crying?"

Ever since he came to Dawen, he had been detained in the capital, at most he would go for a walk in the outskirts of Beijing with his friends, but now he was finally released, and he was watching everything new and interesting.

In this way, from dawn to dusk, the chariots and horses stopped at an inn in Luyi.

Ye Mian jumped in, but came out the next day shuffling his feet. After getting into the carriage and setting off, he took a peek at Ye Jing, and saw that his brother was looking at him with a vague smile on his face. Looking at him, he looked at him and didn't dare to say anything with his lips. He just laughed at himself in his heart. It's really easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but hard to go from extravagant to frugal...

Although he asked for the best room in the inn yesterday, it was not as good as his Yaohuixuan. He didn't sleep well all night, and Ye Mian didn't lose the spirit of yesterday. A few big fluffy pillows came in, half sitting and half lying on his brother's lap to sleep, so the two brothers read the official document quietly while the other caught up on sleep, without disturbing each other, very harmonious.

It’s just that the carriage wasn’t spacious enough. After getting far away from the capital, the road became more and more bumpy. Ye Mian couldn’t stand it in two or three days. Leaning there idly reading the bulletin, his face was as usual without any discomfort, and he didn't have the face to complain, he just gritted his teeth and stiffened, but he hated himself more and more in his heart.

It's useless enough!

Ye Jing tortured him like this for a few days, and seeing that he didn't complain or fight with him, she was naturally satisfied, but she also felt distressed. She lowered her head and glanced at the head that was obediently pillowed on his lap, and stretched out her hand to wipe Ye Mian's slightly sweaty head. He stroked his temple hair, gently waking him up.

In the next two days, Ye Jing abandoned the official road and took him through the small towns along the road. Although he took a detour, he could still take him out of the carriage from time to time for a stroll. I want to compare the prosperity, but each has its own unique taste, especially the local specialties. Ye Jing saw that he couldn't eat enough fresh food, so he asked someone to pack a lot for him to entertain him in the car.

Only in this way did Ye Mian get some fun of traveling, and a smile appeared on his face again.

The carriage traveled for five full days, and the guards of Dali Temple reported respectfully from the window, saying that they would arrive at Shangyin in half a day.

Ye Mian cheered up and looked outside, but after a while he closed the curtain again.

"Brother, why are there so many beggars outside?"

When they first left the capital, there were one or two occasionally, and as they got farther and farther away from the capital, they became groups of three or four. Until these two days, outside the prefecture and county, there were two waves of nearly a hundred people walking along the official road, all of them in their clothes. They were shabby and their faces were filthy. The Ye family's chariots and horses would sprinkle some dry food with them when they saw that there were few people, but they didn't dare when there were many people, for fear of attracting them to loot them.

Sitting in the carriage, Ye Mian occasionally looked at them, but felt that the eyes those people looked at him made him feel cold all over his body.

"I just think you don't know how to ask." Ye Jing looked at him and raised his eyebrows, and said with a sigh of relief: "It seems that I am not fascinated by wealth and honor. I only see beautiful scenery and delicious food, but I don't see it." people'."

"These are refugees, not beggars," Ye Jing said, looking at him again.

"Refugees?" Ye Mian was taken aback, "Our Dawen is so stable and prosperous......"

Ye Jing nodded and said with a straight face: "No matter how prosperous and prosperous the world is, it is the capital city and those affluent places. You were born in a family of officials in the capital since you were a child. The clothing of your servants is much better than that of the ordinary people outside. It’s okay if you haven’t seen them, but you are getting older now, but you must not know the sufferings of the people outside, let alone pretend to be not see."

Ye Jing pointed to Ye Mian along the window, "These refugees are due to bad age and frequent natural disasters, do you know what the disasters are?"

Ye Mian thought for a while, and answered obediently: "It's a flood. Last time I was at Zhuang Jue's, he was still busy dealing with the grain and..."

Ye Mian suddenly reacted and covered his mouth, why did he mention him in front of his brother...

Ye Jing's face remained expressionless, and she only said: "It's okay, although this person is annoying you by pestering you in private, he is a lot stronger than you in this matter, it's not unreasonable, but... "Ye Jing changed the subject, lowered her eyes and sighed: "But it is also the fault between my father and me. I only thought of you as a young son before, and I just want to be a rich and idle son in the future, so I never taught you the outside things. A few days ago, you told me that you want to get an official career through serious examinations, so we have delayed you."

"Brother, don't say that..." Ye Mian quickly sat up straight and said seriously.

Ye Jing looked at him again and said: "This time I brought you out to see the world, and I want you to know that Dawen is not like what you saw in Beijing, it is all prosperous, and the sufferings of the people are not only in the miscellaneous books you usually read In unofficial history, if you want to become an official, you must not just do it for comparison, but for the 'people' in your heart is the right way, understand?"

Ye Jing looked straight into Ye Mian's eyes, Ye Mian lowered his head and wrinkled his nose, and admitted in a low voice: "Before I was dissatisfied with you and Zhuang Jue, I wanted to take the scientific examination and become an official to fight for the future. What my elder brother taught is, Mian'er will definitely think more about this matter in the future."

Ye Jing secretly breathed a sigh of relief seeing him admit it happily.

When the carriage reached Shangyin, although the sky hadn't darkened yet, it was gradually getting darker. The lanterns hanging above the gate of the Qiu Mansion had already been lit, and the servants guarding the gate saw that it was the fourth aunt's grandma's family from the capital city. After being stunned, he scrambled and ran in to report the news.

After a while, a dozen or so servants ran out from the second gate, greeted Ye Jing and Ye Mian respectfully who had already got off the carriage, opened the gate of Qiu Mansion, welcomed them in, and politely helped them. The servants brought by the Ye family unloaded the cage.

The steward led the two servants bent over and led the two brothers in. As soon as they reached the second gate and walked around the bluestone screen wall, they saw an old lady with frosty temples supported by several luxuriously dressed women. He stepped down and rushed to greet him, but he burst into tears before he even got there.

The two brothers Ye Jing and Ye Mian hurried up to meet them, and were hugged by the old lady with one arm, crying until they couldn't make a sound, the women and servants who followed them persuaded them for a long time with wet eyes, and then they stopped. Then he ordered again and again: "Go! Hurry up and call your master back from outside. His two good grandsons have come to see him from Beijing. Why is he still drunk outside!"