Daming: If I find a great-grandson, I will teach an emperor through the ages

Chapter 2 Countdown and Awakened Memory

It wasn't until Cao Ying's figure disappeared from Cao Wei's eyes that he sighed with emotion and looked back.

The reason why Cao Wei knew about the existence of gravity was that he was not born in the Ming Dynasty, but a modern person who traveled through time.

Twelve years ago, he accidentally traveled to the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty and became an ordinary farmer.

At that time, he was also a young man with great ambitions and wanted to do something to benefit the society, but the reality gave him too much helplessness.

The system of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, which had been established in China for thousands of years, killed all Cao Wei's ideas.

It can be said that except for "scholars", the farmers, workers, and merchants below are almost all the same, and they have no say at all!

This is how governing a country based on Confucianism is. If you don't study, you don't get fame, you don't even have the right to speak, or in other words, no one will listen to what you say.

After running into obstacles everywhere, Cao Wei had to calm down and farm steadily.

One morning just ten years ago, when Cao Wei opened the door of his house, he found a ragged little boy passed out at the door, looking about eight years old.

Cao Wei is not a cold and heartless person, so he took the little boy home to take care of him.

However, when the little boy woke up, he found that he had lost his memory.

Cao Wei couldn't bear to drive him out. The few acres of farmland at home could still afford one more mouth.

In this way, the two began to treat each other as father and son, and lived each other's lives.

The name of his son Cao Ying was given to him by Cao Wei during this period. The word "ying" was Cao Ying's own idea. Maybe his original name had the word "ying" in it.

As Cao Ying grew up day by day, from a child to a teenager, Cao Wei discovered his intelligence.

Cao Wei didn't want to waste Cao Ying's intelligence, so he asked him to take the imperial examination three years ago.

Cao Ying has lived up to his expectations and has successfully passed the county examination, government examination, and hospital examination.

The township examination is about to start in August, and Cao Ying is going to take it this time, which lasts for three days.

Judging from the current situation, Cao Ying will be able to enter the Hanlin Academy and become an official in the imperial court sooner or later.

Originally, Cao Wei thought that he would be able to rely on Cao Ying for the rest of his life to lie flat.

But a return countdown suddenly appeared.

Cao Wei looked at the red beating timer in front of him again...

[Countdown to return: 363 days, 11 hours, 24 minutes and 38 seconds]

The countdown started yesterday, and Cao Wei guessed that the return mentioned above was probably a return to modern times.

It would be good to go back, but Cao Wei felt unwilling to leave like this.

Traveling through time without doing anything and leaving nothing behind, isn’t that for nothing?
After careful consideration, Cao Wei decided to teach Cao Ying some knowledge about later generations.

Cao Ying is different from him. In the future, he will probably be able to hold the big seal, and he will have some say. It will be much easier to do things in the future.

If Cao Ying masters enough knowledge in the future and reaches a certain position, it is always good to be willing to make some changes, then Cao Wei's efforts will not be in vain.

On the other hand, it's because Cao Ying is safe.

Some of the knowledge that Cao Wei said, if he told others, might be regarded as a lie to confuse the public, and he would be beheaded on the spot by the guards all over the city.

Based on Cao Wei's understanding of Cao Ying, even if he didn't understand what he said, he would not report him.

Today is the first time Cao Wei has taught Cao Ying. Now it seems that the results are good. Cao Ying is very smart and he can understand what he said, which makes Cao Wei very happy.

His knowledge from later generations can remain in this era, and it is more likely to change the Ming Dynasty and the world...

There is still a year to go, and he will probably be able to teach Cao Ying enough of his knowledge.

"Ten years, I really can't bear it." Cao Wei said to himself.

When the sun set slightly, Cao Wei picked up the hoe and got up to go around the fields.

the other side,
Cao Ying has arrived at an academy in the bustling Yingtian City.

This academy is the largest in Yingtian City, and this township examination is held here.

Stepping into the academy, I happened to bump into a few familiar faces.

"Cao Ying." Someone saw him.

Cao Ying walked over with a smile, and several young people immediately gathered around to discuss.

"I don't know how difficult the test questions of this township examination will be."

Every student will feel nervous and worried before the exam.

"No one knows. We can only do our best and hope for a good result."

Someone looked at Cao Ying, and Liu showed a hint of envy in his eyes.

"Among us, Cao Ying has always been the top performer, and he should also be at the top of the list in this provincial examination. Alas, I regret that I was so playful!"

Cao Ying chuckled: "I told you to work hard earlier, but now I know I regret it."

"However, the difficulty of the rural examination should not be too high. The general examination and palace examination are the main ones. You just need to remember to study hard in the future."

A few teenagers walked into the examination room while talking. Today they have to find their own examination seats, so that they will not be in a hurry when the examination starts tomorrow.

At this time, someone said: "I don't know who the chief examiner is this time."

"It seems to be called Qi...Qi Tai."

Cao Ying suddenly lost his mind.

It was obviously the first time he heard the name Qitai, so why did he feel vaguely familiar?

At this time, Qitai was just a small director of the Ministry of Etiquette, and he was not as famous as he would be later, and only a few people knew about it.

Shaking her head and withdrawing her mind, Cao Ying followed a few companions...

Three days passed in a flash.

The country test is over.

The academy door was slowly opened again.

Numerous students came out one after another, with different expressions on their faces, some were disappointed, some were grateful, some were trembling, and some were full of confidence.

The future prospects of these students are closely related to the few test papers in the hands of the examiners.

A young man who looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old stepped out of the academy door in a daze.

"Cao Ying."

"Cao Ying."

Several companions around him called him, but he never heard them.

Cao Ying's distraught has nothing to do with the just-concluded provincial examination.

It was because when he was collecting the papers, he saw Qi Tai, the examiner who was going out from the house and turned away, and he was struck by lightning for an instant!

Although he only glanced at it from a distance, it was like a key that opened Pandora's box, awakening the long-sleeping memory.

Cao Ying, he has another name.

Zhu Xiongying!
Qitai...

He remembered this man.

Zhu Yuanzhang once summoned Qi Tai back then, and he was still Zhu Xiongying at that time, and he followed Zhu Biao and met Qi Tai twice.

Ten years have passed, and although Qitai has aged a bit, the general outline of his face has not changed.

Apart from him, there are not many memories of other officials in the court. As the eldest son of the crown prince at that time, he only had the East Palace and Qianqing Palace in his daily activities.

Even if he occasionally went out of the palace, he would be guarded three levels inside and three levels outside...

Memories kept flashing through my mind, and the unfamiliar faces became more and more familiar.

"Grandpa Huang, Grandma Huang, father, mother..."

"Xiongying is so good. Come, kiss Grandpa Huang, and we'll give you sweet-scented osmanthus cake to eat."

This is what Grandpa Huang said when he was holding him as a child.

"You have stubble all over your face, go and go!" Grandma Huang grabbed him and hugged him, smiling broadly.

"Xiongying, you have a brother, and you will be the brother from now on." When the mother was pregnant with the brother, the father was very happy.

"Xiongying, when you have a younger brother, you are not allowed to bully him." This is what his mother taught him.

"It may also be my younger sister. Don't worry, mother, whether it's younger brother or younger sister, I will definitely protect him."

These were his innocent words at the time.

then,

The memories that followed made Cao Ying's eyes red and her nose sore.

In November of the 11th year of Hongwu's reign, his mother Chang passed away after giving birth to his younger brother Zhu Yunxi. His father was heartbroken and did not eat a grain of rice for three days.

In May of the 15th year of Hongwu's reign, he died because he was infected with a disease that was difficult to treat with medicine or stone.

Although I didn't see it, I thought that my father, grandpa and grandma must also be extremely sad.

later……

In August of the 12th year of Hongwu, only three months after his burial.

Grandma Huang closed her eyes forever in the arms of Grandpa Huang in the palace.

and also……

Seventeenth of May this year.

The prince of Ming Dynasty, his father Zhu Biao, also died of wind and cold after returning from inspection in Shaanxi.

Three months ago, when the news of the crown prince's death in the East Palace came out, Cao Ying only felt regretful at that time.

But after recovering his memory, he once again experienced the pain of losing a loved one. It was like thousands of ants gnawing at his heart. He would never see his biological father again.

It was as if a ball of cotton was stuffed in her chest, Cao Ying opened her mouth wide, but still felt out of breath.

Cao Ying's footsteps began to stagger, as if the strength in her body had been taken away.

He was just a young boy, and the pain in his heart made his consciousness a little blurred, his mind was in chaos, and he felt like vomiting in his stomach.

(End of this chapter)