The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Some of the books in his mind were very clear, but some were very vague, but Fang Yun felt that he could slowly recall those vague places.

Fang Yun couldn't help but look happy.

"There is hope for becoming a child student!" Fang Yun shouted in his heart, clenching his fists tighter.

Not long after, Fang Yun came to the door of his house. The earthen wall was as high as one person. Thirty or forty neighbors surrounded the door of the yard. Someone was talking in the yard.

"That boy Fang Yun didn't come back all night. He must have been struck to death by yesterday's lightning. Madam, you should follow our young master. Several young masters from the Liu family have to take the county examination, and none of the Liu family can leave, so the young master Don't be angry if I can't pick you up in person. If you don't leave today, the young master will definitely come to pick you up when the results are released tomorrow."

"I was born as a member of the Fang family, and when I die, I am a ghost of the Fang family! If Xiao Yun dies, I will be buried with him! Get out, get out immediately!"

"Okay, okay! Don't be impulsive. Take the scissors away quickly. If you die, the second young master will have to skin us!"

Fang Yun vaguely realized what was happening and said loudly: "Get out of the way and let me in!"

The neighbors who were watching turned around and gave way. Some people avoided silently, and some looked like they were watching the show, but most of them showed sympathetic expressions, and a few people even cursed the servants of the Liu family.

"Xiao Fang, what are you doing?"

"Fang Yun, you are back. They are too bullying. You must go to the Yamen to sue them!"

"Robbing people in broad daylight, what kind of world is this!"

"Can people from Dayuan Prefecture bully people from Ji County?"

"Xiao Fang, you seem to be seriously injured. Go back home and rest quickly."

Fang Yun didn't respond. He quickly walked to the door of the courtyard and saw four burly men looking at him in disbelief. Although the four people tried their best to hide it, they still showed a slight panic.

And in the center of the courtyard, stood a young girl. She was slender and delicate, wearing a blue coarse cloth dress. She was dressed very simply, but her appearance was beautiful. She was like a white orchid in the empty valley standing in the courtyard. Fang Yunyou This illusion made her seem like the bright moon in the courtyard, and even the sun could not cover up the brilliance of her body.

She looked a little tired and didn't seem to have slept well, but her whole body was neatly groomed. Although her eyes were bloodshot, they were clear in black and white, as clear as a lake, and her eyes were firm.

It wasn't until he saw Yang Yuhuan with his own eyes that Fang Yun realized that she was a hundred times more beautiful than the person in his memory. No wonder she was called Jiangzhou Xishi.

At this time, Yang Yuhuan held the scissors behind her back, and the tip of the scissors had penetrated into her fair neck, bleeding a little.

"Sister Yuhuan!" Fang Yun stepped forward hurriedly.

"Little luck!" Yang Yuhuan was surprised and happy, dropped the scissors and ran towards Fang Yun.

Yang Yuhuan saw that Fang Yun was injured all over his body, and tears flowed down like a flood. While crying, he asked: "Why are you injured so badly? Who hurt you? Is it that beast Liu Zicheng? Come on, I will help you back to the house. Sit down, Aunt Sun, can you go ask the doctor from Cishengtang?"

"Yuhuan, don't panic, I'll go right away!" A woman in her forties turned around and ran towards Cishengtang.

Fang Yun said hurriedly: "No! I have to take the county examination. If I don't go, it will be too late. Sister Yuhuan, please take out the things I prepared a few days ago and send me to the county liberal arts academy. I have to take the examination!"

Yang Yuhuan wiped her tears and said, "You are so injured, why are you talking about not going to the county examination?"

"No, as long as I am alive, I will definitely take the county examination! Sister Yuhuan, I usually listen to you, but not today! I have grown up!"

Fang Yun imitated that Fang Yun's tone and looked at Yang Yuhuan calmly.

Yang Yuhuan stopped crying and looked at the somewhat unfamiliar Fang Yun in surprise. He was still the same person, but his temperament and eyes had undergone earth-shaking changes.

This Fang Luck has heaven and earth in his heart!

"I was beaten awake." Fang Yun seemed to be explaining or talking to himself, looking at the four big men.

The ones who beat up last night were also four people, and they also had Dayuanfu accents.

The four big men felt very guilty. One of them pretended to be impatient and said: "What are you looking at? Get out of the way!" After that, the four people left quickly.

Yang Yuhuan looked at Fang Yun, wiped away his tears, calmed down, and said, "Okay! I will listen to you today! But you have to wait for the doctor to come and apply the wound medicine, otherwise you will not be able to pass the county examination!"

Fang Yun knew that the county examination lasted only one day and was a physical job. If he went directly now, he might not be able to pass it.

"Okay!" Fang Yun said looking at Yang Yuhuan.

Yang Yuhuan noticed that Fang Yun looked at her in a special way. It was not like a brother looking at his sister like before, but like a man looking at a woman.

"Xiao Yun has really grown up." Yang Yuhuan's eyes flashed slightly, and he supported Fang Yun and walked into the house.

The doctor from Cishengtang came and frowned when he saw Fang Yun's wound. When he learned that Fang Yun insisted on taking the Tongsheng examination, he waived the consultation fee and only charged the medicine fee.

While the doctor was treating the patient, Yang Yuhuan left the room and didn't know where he went.

After the doctor finished treating the wound, Yang Yuhuan walked in, picked up the book box that Fang Yun used to take the exam, and helped Fang Yun out of the door.

Parked outside the door was a bullock cart borrowed by Yang Yuhuan.

Fang Yun felt warm in his heart and whispered: "Thank you, Sister Yuhuan."

Yang Yuhuan was stunned for a moment, his eyes wandered, and he smiled and said: "Why are you being polite to your sister?"

Fang Yun secretly thought that she was indeed a peerless beauty, even the smallest movements had a natural charm.

Yang Yuhuan said as she helped Fang get into the cart. She sat behind the shaft of the cart, picked up the whip, and lightly whipped the ox.

"Moo..." The ox yelled, raised its hooves and walked forward.

Fang Yun looked at Yang Yuhuan quietly. She was already nineteen years old, and at her most beautiful.

Her blue cloth skirt was washed a little white, and there were a few patches on it. She was wearing cloth shoes she made herself. Her black and shiny hair was curled on her head, and a wooden hairpin she cut herself was particularly eye-catching. Except for the wooden hairpin that looked no different from a thin stick, she didn't have any jewelry on her body.

Fang Yun's heart ached, and fragments of memories about Yang Yuhuan emerged in his mind.

The year Fang Yun's parents died, Yang Yuhuan was twelve years old and Fang Yun was nine years old.

At that time, Yang Yuhuan was very beautiful. After Fang Yun's relatives helped Fang Yun hold the funeral, several families wanted to adopt Yang Yuhuan, but Yang Yuhuan had a condition, which was to adopt Fang Yun as well, and to provide Fang Yun with education. Those relatives had to give up one after another.

Those relatives were mostly ordinary families. It was not difficult to raise two children, but it was difficult to provide Fang Yun with education. Those rich families were afraid that if they adopted a son, they would have to divide the family property when he grew up, but not a daughter.

To study, you need to go to a private school, buy pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and buy a lot of books. Even borrowing books costs money. If you want to pass the exam, you need to read too many books. There were no punctuation marks on the books at that time. Without a teacher to lead the reading, you can't understand even if you know the characters. The scholar has to mark the punctuation marks, which are equivalent to the period, by himself.

Although those relatives did not support the two of them, they helped the siblings every now and then, so that the two did not starve to death in the past few years.

When Fang Yun was twelve years old and had strength, he could help people with work everywhere and no longer starved, but he could not live well because the cost of studying was too high.

Yang Yuhuan took care of Fang Yun for seven years like a mother and a sister, and never complained at all. The neighbors nearby liked Yang Yuhuan very much and wanted her to be their daughter-in-law.

Yang Yuhuan is now nineteen years old, which is already an old age in Jingguo. Most women get married at the age of sixteen, and less than one in ten women are still unmarried at the age of nineteen.

Fang Yun was not unmoved by this fairy-like sister, but he felt that it was unfair to marry her like this, and vowed to marry her with honor after he became famous, so the two of them had not consummated their marriage and had been sleeping separately in the east and west wing rooms.

Yang Yuhuan treated Fang Yun like her own brother.

In the most difficult year, she only drank a bowl of porridge every day, but told Fang Yun that she had eaten so that Fang Yun could eat porridge.

The eggs laid by the chickens at home were either sold to support Fang Yun's studies or used to supplement Fang Yun's body. In the five years of raising chickens, Yang Yuhuan had never taken the initiative to eat eggs except for being forced to eat eggs by Fang Yun on the Spring Festival every year.

Once Fang Yun did not peel the egg shells cleanly. When Yang Yuhuan was cleaning the table, she thought Fang Yun was not there, so she secretly took off the egg white from the egg shells and ate them, but was seen by Fang Yun.

Fang Yun silently returned to the kang and cried with his head covered. From then on, he became more sensible and respected this sister more.

Last year, both of them caught a severe cold at the same time, but Yang Yuhuan only bought medicine for Fang Yun. When Fang Yun recovered, she boiled the remaining medicine for Fang Yun to drink. When Fang Yun found out, she smiled and said that she was afraid of bitterness, and the medicine that had been boiled many times was not bitter, which was just right for her.

Those memories gradually merged together, Fang Yun's nose was sour, and he turned his head to look elsewhere. When his emotions stabilized, he turned back and looked at Yang Yuhuan carefully again.

Although she was dressed in rags, she could not hide her natural beauty, with a delicate neck and fair skin without any flaws.

Fang Yun's eyes fell on her hands, and he couldn't help but sigh. Her hands were rougher than Fang Yun's, and slightly swollen, and many scars could be seen.

If you just look at this hand, no one would believe that the owner of this hand would be a beauty who could be compared with Xi Shi and Diao Chan.

But in Fang Yun's eyes, Yang Yuhuan's hands are the most beautiful, because she supports this family!

Yang Yuhuan looked at Fang Yun, turned back and smiled charmingly, her eyes were like water, and her pupils were so black that they could reflect people's shadows.

"Xiaoyun, you said that you would buy me a silver hairpin when you passed the Tongsheng exam, does that count?"

"Of course it counts, but it's too difficult to pass the Tongsheng exam." Fang Yun said helplessly.

"I believe our Xiaoyun can do it! Not only can he be a Tongsheng, he can also pass the Xiucai exam, and maybe he can become a Juren master!"

Fang Yun was slightly stunned, and then he realized that Yang Yuhuan was not just making small talk, but heard him sigh just now, deliberately comforting him.

Fang Yun couldn't let her worry, and smiled: "If I can pass the Tongsheng exam, it must be Sister Yuhuan's credit. At that time, I will definitely support Sister Yuhuan, let you eat and drink well every day, and then let you say every day that I can pass the Xiucai exam. When I pass the Xiucai exam, I will let you say every day that I can pass the Juren exam!"

Yang Yuhuan couldn't help but laugh softly, showing her white teeth.

"Xiao Yun, you seem like a different person." Yang Yuhuan looked at Fang Yun, feeling a little worried.