marquis of jingan

Chapter 288 A Paranoid Life

It is a great joy for the Shen family that Mr. Shen has been selected as a tribute.

At noon that day, Shen Ling and Shen Sanlang wrote two letters to Jiangdu, his hometown, with excited hands. In the afternoon, Shen Yi and Shen Ling brothers, together with two maids, Qinger and Pinger, and Xu Fu and his party, had a total of five people. The nine of them went outside to have a good meal.

It is worth mentioning that Shen Yi originally went to Yaoyuelou for dinner, but famous restaurants like Yaoyuelou were fully booked. All the hotels with names and surnames in Jiankang City were fully booked that night, so the group could only I had a meal at Shibazilou on the banks of the Qinhuai River.

The eighteen sub-buildings are not open to the public, and Shen Yi can't get in usually, but the last time the eldest son Li Mu took him here, and brought Shen Yi to the shopkeeper for a face-to-face, which was considered to be a treat for him. "Membership card", Shen Yi can also go in and eat.

When it was time to pay, the shopkeeper of the Shibazi Building refused to accept the money, but Shen Yi, who was drunk, persistently dropped a large ingot of silver, and then took a group of friends home.

On the way home, Shen Ling, who was the most drunk, was already a little unconscious. Shen Yi and Xu Fu held him by his side and brought him back home.

Because the house Shen Yi lives in is very big and there are many vacant rooms, that night, Xu Fu and the others did not leave, and lived together in this house until the next day when they sobered up, and the big guys got together again for a meal After lunch, Xu Fu and others took their leave.

At this moment, Shen Yi finally sobered up. After eating lunch, he first went back to the study, wrote a letter to his father and brothers in his hometown, and after thinking about it, he wrote two letters to Ganquan Academy. Then took the four letters and asked someone to bring them back to Jiangdu.

It was already afternoon after writing the letter, so Shen Yi went out to buy some good wine and food on the street, and went to Dayifang to visit Old Man Gu.

Old man Gu was very happy after seeing Shen Yi, he pulled Shen Yi to sit down, picked up two mouthfuls of food with his chopsticks, and drank two more mouthfuls of wine, his face flushed.

Originally, he wanted Shen Yi to accompany him to drink, but Shen Yi drank too much last night, and now he still has some headaches, so he just talked with the little old man and didn't drink.

"Yesterday, the list was released, and your kid came to see me today, probably in Chunwei Middle School?"

Sitting opposite the old man, Shen Yi said with a smile, "Thanks to Master Gu, I was lucky enough to pass the test."

The old man put down his chopsticks, glanced at Shen Yi with complicated eyes, and asked, "How many?"

Shen Yi let out a foul breath, and replied: "130 five."

The old man hiccupped and asked again: "How many tributes have you received in this department?"

"210 two."

Shen Yi answered honestly.

"That's pretty good."

Old man Gu took a sip of his wine, his eyes narrowed, and the wrinkles around his eyes became more obvious. He said with a smile: "Originally, the old man estimated that even if your boy could pass this subject, he should be a low-level mid-term exam. It's actually mixed up."

After drinking this glass of wine, the little old man took another look at Shen Yi, quite dissatisfied: "But you can win the Gongshi, if you refer to this subject, the old man will probably be able to win, maybe you can be like that kid Zhao Zhi Same, you should be a first-class Jinshi.”

Old man Gu is over 60 years old this year.

And he has been in Jiankang for more than 30 years.

When he entered Jiankang in his twenties to rush for the exam, how high-spirited was he?But because of impulsiveness, he ended up "never talking about it". Now more than [-] years have passed, and the high-spirited young man has become a little old man in his dying years.

However, Shen Yi admired Old Man Gu's knowledge very much.

Although old man Gu is over 60 years old, Shen Yi has no doubt that as long as he can refer to it, there is no problem at all in getting a Jinshi degree.

Shen Yi hesitated for a moment, looked at old man Gu, and asked, "Master Gu, which prime minister did you offend...?"

Old man Gu was drinking, but when he heard this, he rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Why do you ask this?"

"Nothing, just asking questions."

"It's a pity that Master Gu lives in this life."

Shen Yi lowered his eyebrows, sighed, and said, "I have never been able to open my arms in my whole life because of my lofty talents."

Hearing Shen Yi's incomplete poem, Mr. Gu was stunned for a moment, then said "Hey", and raised his head to drink a full glass of spirits.

"You still know how to flatter, no wonder that kid Zhao Zhi also likes you!"

Old man Gu laughed, and said, "What kind of vain mind is so lofty, and you have never opened your arms all your life. Now you see that the old man looks like an outsider. If the old man won the Jinshi back then and became an official of the court, maybe He became a kowtow early on, became a layman, became a big greedy beetle, and a shitty genius!"

Old man Gu said a few foul words, then reached out to pour wine for Shen Yi: "Drink with the old man!"

Shen Yi took the wine glass with both hands, smiled and accompanied Old Man Gu for a drink, and then asked: "Didn't Master Gu hate that person?"

"Why didn't you hate it?"

Mr. Gu sneered and said: "When I first lived in Jiankang, I described it as desolate. I was like a beggar on the street. I was in extreme embarrassment. At that time, I hated that person so much in my heart. Later, I found a teacher. To make a living, after I had a place to stay, I even deliberately found some crooked books, and wanted to use Nightmare Town's sorcery to kill that guy!"

Hearing this, Shen Yi looked at Old Man Gu's expression, felt awe-inspiring, and asked, "And then?"

"Then that fellow died after a few years."

Old man Gu raised his head and took a sip of his wine, and said disapprovingly, "He died in the prime minister's office. I don't know if he did too many bad things and was punished by heaven, or if he really killed me."

Speaking of this, the old man said "Hey" again: "Anyway, he is dead."

"After he died, I was happy for a few days, and then I had no hope. I could only live in a daze day by day."

"Later, as time passed, more than ten or twenty years passed, and I didn't bother to hate him anymore."

Shen Yi looked at old man Gu, hesitated for a while and asked, "Mr. is in his hometown, do you have any heirs?"

Old man Gu was silent.

After being silent for a long time, he raised his head and took another sip of wine, his face flushed a little: "The old man is too old to remember..."

Shen Yi's words pierced the little old man's heart. He drank himself a few sips of wine, then lay down on the table, unconscious.

Shen Yi stood up, looked at Mr. Gu, and let out a long sigh.

In the final analysis, it was the imperial examination, which was so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that the well-educated scholar in front of him was so obsessed with it that it caused a family tragedy.

He helped Mr. Gu to the bed to rest, then looked at the unconscious little old man, lowered his eyebrows slightly and said: "Mr. Gu should have gone home back then."

Originally, the old man didn't care about personnel affairs, so he turned his face away in a daze, facing the wall, and made a sound that seemed to be crying but not crying: "When I was young, I didn't know anything, and I boasted, so how can I have the face to go back? When I figured it out , more than ten years have passed, and I have no face to go back..."

Shen Yi was silent for a long time, bowing deeply to Mr. Gu.

"In the future, the students will definitely find family members for Teacher Gu and compensate them for Teacher Gu."

Mr. Gu suddenly turned his head to look at Shen Yi, tears streaming down his face.

"you…"

Shen Yi walked to the bed, patted the poor little old man's shoulder, and comforted him softly: "Master Gu has kindness to me, so I naturally want to do something for Master Gu."

(End of this chapter)