Chapter 67
Shen Yan really cried.
He started his education at the age of four, was admitted as a first-class scholar at the age of thirteen, took the provincial examination for the first time at the age of sixteen and ranked seventh in the provincial examination of high school, and was recommended by the academic master to study in the Imperial College with a personal letter written by him.
What is the weight of passing the examination at the age of sixteen?
You must know that Mr. Li Congyuan, the actual chief assistant of the current cabinet, also passed the imperial examination at the age of sixteen.
His second uncle, Shen Shao, was extremely talented at that time. At the age of fourteen, he even won the second place in the provincial examination at the age of eighteen because he missed a provincial examination.
On the day he entered Yanjing City in a carriage, he, Shen Yan, could raise his head as high as a chicken could raise his head. He thought that a great future was waiting for him on the bluestone road in Yanjing City.
The results of it?
"Little Juren, don't cry. As long as you write a letter obediently, we will let you go. In such a cold weather, you are tied up here to suffer, who will miss you? Is it your wife? The sister who has entered a high-ranking family, or the brother who lives comfortably in Shen's house? You think of them, but who of them has missed you?"
Xia He raised her fingers and hooked Shen Yan's chin with the long nail of her tail finger.
Shen Yan sniffed heavily.
"A gentleman who loves money should get it in a wise way. You gangsters are just robbing families and homes. How can you keep an eye on the money that is in the hands of a poor woman? I, even a scholar, is a person of integrity. Such a harmful person Things are determined not to be done!"
"Haha - you have a bright future, but you think your sister who married into a rich family is a miserable person. From our point of view, your sister has money in her hands that we will never be able to earn in our lifetimes. Do you pity her? Why don't you pity us? ?Write the letter honestly, we take the money, you keep your life and innocence, and your sister will still be a young lady in a wealthy family."
Shen Yan still refused.
After repeating this for half an hour, Xia He was almost done with Shen Yan on the spot, but all he got was that he cried and refused to let go.
Shao Zhiqing even punched Shen Yan twice, but he still gritted his teeth and refused to drag Shen Shiqing into the water.
Zhao Surui watched from the side, feeling somewhat confident about the character of Shen Sanfei's little cousin.
"That's all." He suddenly said, and Xia He immediately took two steps back, as if it was someone else who almost pulled off the belt of Shen Yan's pants just now.
The cloth strips around his eyes were ripped off. Shen Yan did not dare to open his eyes, only tears rolled down his face without any cover.
Tsk... If Shen Sanfai was as crying as her cousin, he would have to rush into the palace and chop her down single-handedly.
Zhao Surui rubbed his belly through his armholes and clothes, raised his voice and said to Shen Yan:
"Open your eyes."
"You bandits rely on strength to bully the weak and outnumber the enemy, and you still tease me many times. Do you think I can humiliate you so much without the strength to restrain a chicken? The Master said: 'The life of a man is also straight, and the life of a reckless person is also spared. .'You are only proud today because you were lucky enough to meet a stupid and weak person like me. You will definitely meet brave people in the future, and then the suffering I suffered today will also happen to you! If you die, you will die, I don't understand. Change it!"
Tsk... I cried so much that my throat was shaking, but only my mouth was still stiff. If this kid really dies one day, he doesn't need to burn paper money to worship him, he can just pile "The Analects of Confucius" into the fire.
Zhao Surui was a little impatient:
"I asked you to open your eyes."
"I don't!"
Tsk... This sound was so heroic. Zhao Surui laughed, and suddenly felt a wave of heat under his body, and his face suddenly turned green again.
Zhao Surui waved his paw: "Untie him. If he doesn't open his eyes, throw him into the mill to work for the donkey."
Shao Zhiqing, who punched Shen Yan twice, walked up to him with some embarrassment and untied him personally, and said softly: "I'm sorry, young master. This is Shao Zhiqing under Mrs. Shen's command. He is not a real gangster. Let the young master eat it." I have suffered a little, so please bear with me."
Hearing Shao Zhiqing's words, Zhao Surui sneered: "It's easy for an official to go to a secret door to pick up a prostitute and get beaten! According to the "Dayong Law", "Any official who lodges with a prostitute will have a staff of sixty. Matchmaking will be reduced by one rank. If the official's descendants Those who sleep in prostitutes are guilty of the same crime. If they have passed the test, they will be demoted to the next level and used in the remote areas. 'Shen Yan, as a member of the Imperial College, don't you feel guilty when you go in and out of the Imperial College and look at the plaques inside? Your father is also a second-ranked Jinshi after all. I was born and worked as a Doctor of the Five Classics in the Hanlin Academy, and now I am a professor with an official status. As the son of an official, I will beat you to death with sixty sticks, and you deserve it!"
Shen Yan opened his eyes suddenly and saw a woman wrapped in an apricot-colored cloak with only a single bun and a beaded hairpin on her head, leaning on a desk chair and looking at him.
He stared blankly for a while, then suddenly said: "You, you are the eldest sister of my second uncle's family?"
Zhao Surui raised his brows and looked at it for a moment, then took off his blindfold. There was still a slight resemblance between Shen Yan and Shen Sanfei's facial features. It seemed that they were not only from the same clan, but also had a lot of poetry and literature since childhood. It was not only their facial features that Like, the temperament imbued by the fragrance of books is also somewhat similar.
Thinking that Shen Yan went to prostitutes with such a useless face like Shen San, Zhao Surui felt a little angry and immediately changed his mind:
"Shao Zhiqing! Tie this kid to the bench again, take off his pants and beat him! I'll beat him with all sixty sticks! He'll be mine if he's beaten to death!"
Before Shen Yan could figure out what was going on, he heard that his eldest sister was about to beat him to death again. He shook his nose and cried again:
"Sister, please don't hit me! I was wrong! I really didn't know what kind of dirty place Shen Xianru and Shen Shouru took me to! They said they were taking me to drink tea. I saw that the courtyard was elegant. The aunt inside smiled at me and I thought she was a housekeeper! I really didn’t know it was a trap! It was only later that Shen Xianru and Shen Shouru asked me to pay for it that I realized!”
"I don't know? Did you read the book and read it into the dog's belly?!"
Seeing Shao Zhiqing standing aside with a look of embarrassment on his face, Zhao Surui sneered again, stood up suddenly and said, "Go and call Tunan Peifeng! Beating such a stupid and dirty guy to death on the spot will clear up the Shen family."
Xia He, Achi and others were all stunned by "her" sudden burst of anger. They were a little bit amused before, but now they are a little panicked.
The more Zhao Surui talked about it, the angrier he became. All he could think about was the way Shen Sanfai was wearing his own shell to get into prostitution. Just thinking about it for a moment made him feel angry.
Achi asked the little girl who was delivering the message to call Tunan who was outside. He also wanted to persuade his girl not to be so cruel to Shen Yan, but was nailed to the spot by a glare from his girl.
"Okay, you all think that his soliciting for prostitution is a trivial matter and I shouldn't stir up trouble?"
Achi swallowed his saliva and softened his voice: "Girl, Brother Yan has been taught strictly since he was a child. The third master looked at him as if he were eyeballs. This time he sent an old servant to Yanjing. Brother Yan probably I was deceived by the two young masters in the big room..."
"Have you been cheated? He knows when someone defrauded him of money? He doesn't know anything when he deceived him into prostitution? I didn't know that there are people in this world who are sometimes smart and sometimes stupid. When they are smart, they win the imperial examination at the age of sixteen, and when they are stupid, You can be deceived into having sex with a prostitute. Also, Achi, you are a girl, why don’t you excuse a man for nothing. If you think you are kind, people will probably look at you as if they were looking at you through a secret door! "
Ah Chi's face suddenly turned red and he didn't say another word.
Shen Yan watched helplessly as the eldest sister of his second uncle's family turned into a Shura and really wanted to beat him. He also forgot what kind of young man he was and said quickly:
"Sister! I was defrauded of money! When I entered Beijing, my mother brought me fifty taels of silver. Shen Xianru and Shen Shouru took me everywhere to eat, drink and have fun and squandered it all in less than ten days. I am Really not smart!"
As soon as Tunan entered the yard, she heard Shen Yan yelling that she was not smart. She was stunned for a moment and looked at the angry "own girl" with her hands on her hips.
"girl?"
"Tunan, press him down on the bench and beat him! Since he admits that he was not smart enough to enter the secret door by mistake, I believe him for the time being. The crime will be reduced and I will give him thirty lashes with the cane!"
Tunan was ordinary and intelligent, so he immediately picked up the rope that fell on the ground and tied Shen Yan up again.
Shen Yan was pinned down on a bench by a maid and struggled to get away. He really didn't look like a sixteen-year-old boy who passed the national examination, but more like a naughty child who was punished by his family.
Tunan was not polite, and dropped the wooden stick in his hand, and a scream suddenly echoed in the yard.
Zhao Surui, however, was still angry: "Tunan, use some strength and let him have a solid memory! Within two months of being elected, he was defrauding people of money and coaxing him to go to prostitutes. This kind of waste was sent to the court." Don’t you still think about serving the country and the people? He’s just a mediocre and dim-witted waste. If you kill him, you might still be able to do harm to the people!”
After being slapped a few more times on the buttocks, Shen Yan burst out crying:
"I shouldn't have come to Yanjing, wuwuwuwu! First, I was defrauded of money by my two cousins and kicked out, and then I was tied up and beaten by my eldest sister! What the hell is this Yanjing City? Two cousins became A liar, and a big sister has become a bandit! Wow, oh, oh, oh, oh!”
Less than a month after coming to Yanjing City, Shen Yan really suffered pains he had never imagined in his life, and suffered crimes he had never suffered in his life.
Tunan beat Shen Yan ten times hard, each time making him cry out in pain. After ten times, she put the execution stick aside and saluted her "own girl":
"Girl, I know that firstly you hate the young master for being stupid and failing to live up to the teachings of his elders. Secondly, you hate that the young master is a civil servant but is ignorant of the world and does not take the country's laws and family rules to heart. Judging from the news sent back by Cui Jinniang, it seems that the young master probably I really don’t understand what the secret door is. After learning this lesson, I will definitely not go there again. After all, he is young and has not experienced many things. With your advice, I think the young master will make a lot of progress in a short time. As you make progress, you will be able to understand the ways of the world, as well as the laws of the country and the rules of the family."
These words made Zhao Surui feel a lot better. Looking at Shen Yan who was beaten into tears, he let out a sigh of relief.
"That's all, remember the rest first. If there is any irregularity in the future, these twenty-one incidents will be beaten together."
"yes."
Xia He and An Niannian, who were huddled aside, exchanged glances. Before, they both felt that the young lady had handed over the housekeeping power to A Chi. A Chi was the top figure among the maids. Today, they saw that the young lady liked her the most. It's still Tunan.
Before coming to Zhuangzi, they really didn't know that the two maids Tunan and Peifeng had such good kung fu.
Someone dragged Shen Yan, who looked like a tabby cat, off the bench. Zhao Surui wanted to bend down, but his sore and painful waist did not allow him.
"Do you have a better memory now?"
"Remember! Big sister, I will never go to places like that again. Wuwuwuwu!"
"You were driven out by Shen Xianru and Shen Shouru after all the money was plundered from you. How many servants are there in the Shen mansion?"
"Less than twenty. They both took concubines in Yanjing City and live in the Shen Mansion. Half of the twenty people are maids and women who serve their concubines."
Thinking of Shen's house which looked like a fairy cave, Shen Yan carefully raised his head and looked at "Shen Shiqing".
"Sister, when I first came to Yanjing, I went to Uncle Ning'an's house to see you, but the door was closed and I couldn't open the door."
Calculating the days, Ning Anbo had already been imprisoned when Shen Yan entered Yanjing. Zhao Surui was not surprised that Shen Yan was turned away. A Yueqing princess looking for Shen Sanfei every day was enough to give the Xie family a headache.
"How many days have you lived in Shen's house? Did you find any shortcomings in these two people?"
Shen Yan was helped up by Shao Zhiqing. He stood carefully and said blankly:
"Weakness? Lack of money? They not only went to the secret door, but also gambled for money. They started the game in the house. At first they told me it was a cultural meeting."
Okay!
"Are you still running a gambling game on my territory?" Zhao Su Rui tried so hard with his hands that he wished he could cut a hole in the heater in his hands.
"Tunan! You will lead someone to tie up the two brothers tonight and take them into the mountains to feed the wolves!"
Zhao Surui dared to say it, and Tunan also dared to do it. He was about to go out to prepare, but was stopped by Zhao Surui again.
"They can't be so cheap."
Thinking of the "robber" who used a fake painting to punish rape and eliminate evil, Zhao Surui also had an idea in his mind.
"tomorrow……"
There was another burst of dampness and heat under his body, which reminded Zhao Surui of the "inconvenience" at this time. He paused and said:
Chapter completed!