Volume 1 Battle in the Sand Garden Chapter 4 The Second Year of Baoyuan
Qin family, west cross courtyard.
The doctor stood up slowly, walked aside and said, "The injury is no longer serious."
Qin Chong was lying on the bed, not listening to what the doctor said, as if he was in a daze. On the other hand, Qin Muyao patted his chest gently, exhaled a long breath, and was completely relieved. Things had been twists and turns in the past few days, and Qin Muyao just felt
As in a dream, the stories in the storybook are not so surprising.
After sending the doctor away, Qin Muyao walked to the bedside with her hands behind her back, glanced at Qin Zhong, and sat down slowly.
"Tell me about it." Qin Muyao stared at Qin Chong, half-smiling.
"What did you say?" Qin Zhong deliberately pretended to be confused.
Qin Chong knew very well that the suppression of the troublemakers shocked Qin Muyao. As a sister, how could you not know what kind of person Qin Chong was? The original Qin Chong had a simple and honest character, and regarded studying as the biggest hardship in life. He
How could you come up with such a pair? How could you say those words and easily resolve today's crisis?
"Have you already thought of a countermeasure?" Qin Muyao leaned close to Qin Zhong, her eyes bright.
"Ah?" Qin Zhong was surprised. The focus of his sister's attention was a bit strange. "Yes."
"I knew it." Qin Muyao raised her chin and looked excited. "Did someone teach you what Confucius said?" Qin Muyao's tone of voice was not a question, but a definite conclusion.
In her opinion, this was the only explanation for Qin Chong's behavior.
"Ah, yes." Qin Zhong nodded and replied, with a look of admiration in his eyes.
The memory of the body tells Qin Zhong that this is what Qin Zhong should look like. Qin Muyao is not very old, but he has read a lot. For Qin Zhong, it is like knowing everything in heaven and earth, so he admires his sister very much. She can do this
Thinking about it, Qin Zhong searched his guts and explained his behavior today.
"That shouldn't be a crime." Qin Muyao gritted her teeth and remembered Qin Zhong peeing on Kuixing. She glared at Qin Zhong fiercely and said, "If those people won't let you go, let's see what you do."
Qin Chong sighed secretly and thought to himself, this matter is far from over. Today, it was a coincidence that he temporarily suppressed the group of scholars, but tomorrow and the day after, there will be more scholars. With his whole body
Even if you have a mouth full of words, you can't clean yourself. Kuixing, the god of destiny for scholars, how can you tolerate blasphemy?
"Who is that person?" This is what Qin Muyao wants to ask the most.
"Can't say." Qin Zhong shook his head firmly. He knew that his sister had imagined a master behind him.
"Why can't you tell me?"
"If I promise but don't say it, then I can't say it."
"How about just telling me one person? I promise not to tell anyone else."
"A man establishes himself in the world with a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold."
"snort."
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Qin Muyao couldn't ask, so she naturally refused to give in and assigned a little maid to find someone to ask. That day, the little boy who went out with Qin Zhong was still locked up in the woodshed. Who Qin Chong had interacted with could always be found out.
Clues. Qin Muyao smiled proudly, feeling as light as a swallow and couldn't help but jump up.
Just after she had jumped two steps, Qin Muyao suddenly froze. She saw a short, dark man staring directly at her in the Moon Cave door opposite. She was so carried away that someone noticed her, and Qin Muyao was immediately extremely embarrassed.
He spat in a low voice, "You're a disciple", lowered his head, walked a few steps quickly, and ducked into the backyard.
On the opposite side of the Moon Cave Gate is the Dongkua Courtyard where Qin Xiao lives.
Qin Xiao just came back today, and he brought someone with him, none other than Qiu Min, whom he met some time ago.
Seeing Qin Muyao again made Qiu Min particularly emotional.
Maybe it was fate, right? Because he came here five times in total, but he saw Qin Muyao twice. Seeing him again, Qiu Min was still so amazed that he couldn't recover for a long time. He just felt
There was a rush of hot air in the chest and abdomen, rushing straight to the forehead, and blood came from the nostrils.
"Brother Qiu, Brother Qiu?" Qin Xiao came looking for him and shouted twice, but Qiu Min didn't seem to realize it.
"Ah?" Qiu Min was shocked to feel his nose bleeding, and finally came back to his senses. He was in a hurry, coughed twice in embarrassment, and covered it up: "Hey, it's hot, I'm angry, I'm angry."
After the nosebleed was cleaned up, the two sat down in the room and prepared to talk about business. In fact, Qiu Min helped Qin Xiao in the brothel that day, which was purely an accident. As for spending 5,000 taels on a top-notch oiran to accompany him, that was also
Qiu Min is just arrogant by nature and spends money to save face, which has nothing to do with Qin Xiao.
The so-called befriending Qin Xiao was just a temporary idea. Before that, Qiu Min had no impression of Qin Xiao. However, Qin Chong, the third young master of the Qin family, Qiu Min was like thunder. A twelve-year-old boy, lifting a three hundred kilogram stone lion, this
The rumor of this innate supernatural power is known to everyone not only in Shayuan Prison but also in Dali County.
Therefore, when he heard Qin Xiao's name that day, he immediately thought of something. Not long ago, he heard his cousin say that Mr. Tongpan has been having trouble sleeping recently and is worried about giving birthday gifts to his boss. There is a saying that Qiu Min wrote in
In my heart.
My cousin said that the person who celebrated his birthday loved a BMW the most in his life. It would be better to give a horse as a gift than gold and silver.
The Tongpan was very sad about this and said that he was still a junior official. He was guarding the horse farm of Shayuanjian but could not get a good horse. However, Shayuanjian was directly under the Qunmu Division and did not give him the face of the Tongpian at all.
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The Qiu family has no choice. They do have money, but the key is that they can't buy good horses. If you really want to buy good horses, you have to go north. There is a tea and horse department on the border, which is responsible for trading horses with tea and Liao. However, horse trading
Smuggling is not something the Qiu family can do. If they don't do it right, the money will be gone, the horses will be gone, and the people will be gone.
Therefore, the Qiu family just thought about it and let it go.
However, the moment he saw Qin Xiao, Qiu Min immediately thought of this. What if I could do something that Tong San couldn't do? Why should I be rewarded severely? At that moment, Qiu Min's face flushed with excitement.
Hong, even a little impatient. Isn't it just a horse? If Shayuan Supervisor Xiaoqi Camp is an internal agent, what's the difficulty in this matter?
"In the past few days, I have visited some uncles." Qin Xiao poured a cup of tea for Qiu Min and said to himself, "It's just that preparations for war in the west are getting tight now, so the uncles are inevitably a little worried."
As he said that, Qin Xiao raised his eyes to look at Qiu Min, but saw that Qiu Min was in a trance and didn't listen to him at all. His eyes were staring blankly at the outer door, with a smile on his lips, and he didn't know where his mind wandered.
"Brother Qiu? Brother Qiu?" Qin Xiao called a few times, and Qiu Min reacted suddenly. He couldn't help laughing a few times, but his eyes were still wandering, looking at Qin Xiao who was hesitant to speak, as if he had something to say that was hard to say.
"Brother Qiu, is there something wrong?" Qin Xiao asked.
"Ah, that's the thing." Qiu Min lowered his eyes, swallowed, and said, "I want to ask Brother Qin, did you tell Auntie back about the matter I asked you last time?"
What Qiu Min said was that he wanted to marry Qin Muyao. Once, Qiu Min came to visit Qin Xiao, and it happened that Qin Muyao was about to go out, so he came face to face. When Qiu Min saw Qin Muyao, he was dumbfounded and stared blankly in his eyes.
He stared at Qin Muyao. His soul didn't return to his body until Qin Xiao came out.
After some overt and covert inquiring, I found out that it was Qin Xiao's sister, who had yet to be named, and she immediately danced with excitement. She immediately begged Qin Xiao to ask the elders on her behalf. Once she had accurate information, she asked the media to come to her house and solemnly
He promised that he would come to propose marriage with great courtesy. The Qin family agreed to all requests.
The four sisters of the Qin family, both male and female, are all good-looking, especially the second sister Mu Yao, who is even more outstanding in appearance. She is now in her prime, with picturesque features and bright eyes.
In Qin Xiao's opinion, how could a high-quality commodity like Qiu Min be worthy of Mu Yao? His wishful thinking was purely a toad's wish to eat swan meat. On the other hand, his mother was quite concerned about the Qiu family's financial situation, and she always secretly paid attention to it.
After some hard work, he planned to use a concubine daughter of the Qin family in exchange for the Qiu family's vast wealth.
Qiu Min was so impatient and had no regard for face, which made Qin Xiao extremely disdainful.
Not even a single horoscope was used, and she even called her aunt.
In the words of scholars, this is a bit too shameless. According to etiquette, Qin Xiao’s mother, Liu, is only a concubine and has no right to interfere with the marriage of the children in the family; secondly, Liu is not the matron of the family, but more of a concubine.
Qin Xiao would have thought it was a mockery to call Qiu Min his aunt if he wasn't an acquaintance.
However, Qin Xiao had other plans for Qiu Min and was willing to give up for the time being. Therefore, he neither accomplished nor stopped this matter. Let everything develop slowly and there will always be a result.
"My younger brother has reported this matter to my mother." Qin Xiao considered the words and said, "My mother's wishes can only be decided after careful discussion after my father comes back."
"That's it." Qiu Min already knew this was the result, but he still couldn't hide his disappointment.
"Counting the days, father will be back soon." Qin Xiao comforted him.
Speaking of this, Qin Xiao was also in a daze. It turned out that his father had been away from home for more than a month, and he was unaware of it. Before he knew it, the spring of the second year of Baoyuan had passed, and summer had arrived. However, this
The memory left to him in spring will probably never be forgotten in his lifetime.
This spring was like purgatory for him. Now, he was reborn from the ashes.
A severe beating from her mother made Qin Xiao understand a truth. He cannot control his own destiny. All efforts, pursuits and beliefs are just a mirror. A storm can destroy everything.
However, just when he was about to drift with the tide in confusion, a bolt of lightning pierced his soul.
That flash of lightning was an aqua-green figure, hazy and slender.
At that moment, Qin Xiao finally understood what she wanted. It was wealth, a hundred times and a thousand times greater than Qiu Minhao. For a lowly person like Qiu Min, who didn't spend five thousand taels wildly, why should he let an oiran accompany him to drink?
It was also at that moment that Qin Xiaoming realized himself. He didn't like settling accounts, he liked money. Those numbers represented ingots of silver, and when they were constantly arranged and combined, money made money. He had been intoxicated with it since he was very young.
In the joy of fiddling with numbers and controlling money. Now, he finally found his own way.
Therefore, he wants to change his way of life. Dignity and power can all be bought back with money.
Including, that slim aqua figure.
The two of them had their own thoughts and were speechless for a moment. There was no interest in talking about so-called serious matters.
The room became quiet, with a sense of depression and depression.
"Young Master, Young Master." At this moment, hurried footsteps came from outside the door.
"What's the matter?" Qin Xiao walked to the door and asked loudly.
"Young Master, the master from the academy is here to visit."
"Ah?" Qin Xiao was stunned, how could this be possible?
"Master, please hurry up, the master is already waiting at the gate." The young man urged.
In this era, teachers were respected and education was valued, and the status of masters was extremely high. No matter how high the official position was, when you saw the master who taught you, you had to bow politely; if the master scolded you a few times, you had to accept the instruction obediently. Not to mention Qin Xiao
It is extremely disrespectful for a student who is still studying to ask his husband to wait at the door.
"Go quickly, go quickly." Qiu Min also reacted and urged. It is true that he has money now, but deep down, he is still the basket weaver Liba. The common people have a natural respect for officials and masters.
Qin Xiao was a little panicked. He quickly tidied up his clothes and hurriedly walked out. Speaking of which, he was not very good at studying and was not popular with his master. Now that his master suddenly came to visit, what good could happen? What's more, there was Qin Zhong.
Qin Xiao's scalp feels numb just thinking about it.
When I was approaching the gate, I saw a person in front of me, also hurriedly walking out the door.
"Second brother." Qin Xiao called out and quickly chased Qin Zhong.
"Brother." Qin Chong also received the notice and hurried out to greet him.
The two brothers were of different ages, but studied in the same academy, and were equally unpopular. At this time, they felt a bit like brothers in distress. They didn't bother to say anything more, and faced the door side by side.
There was a carriage parked under a tree not far outside the gate. The curtains of the carriage were raised, but there was no one inside. Qin Xiao was about to ask the driver when Qin Zhong touched his arm and turned around to see two people standing by the wall beside the door.
people.
The two men were about the same age, in their forties, with pale faces, and both wore green robes. One had his hands behind his back, the other was stroking his beard, and was looking at the couplet posted on the wall.
"Students Qin Xiao and Qin Chong have met the two masters." The two brothers bowed and saluted.
"Yeah." Mrs. Liu snorted lightly and ignored the two of them.
Master Liu was very stern. He usually kept a straight face and accumulated a lot of authority. At this time, Qin Xiao and Qin Zhong were bent over and did not dare to straighten up. They were careful when breathing. Qin Zhong was injured and his head was sore.
Han was still stiff and didn't dare to move a little, quietly waiting for the master's reprimand.
"Did Qin Zhong make this first couplet?" Fan Fuzi asked more gently.
After hearing the Master's question, Qin Chong immediately lost his face and said with grievance: "The students were forced to have no choice but to rack their brains to come up with this pair. Unexpectedly, they were not willing to answer the question, which embarrassed the Master."
"Humph." Master Liu snorted coldly and said angrily, "Does that mean you refuse to be right? That means you can't be right."
"Ah?" Qin Zhong looked confused.
"Haha." Master Fan chuckled and said, "It's good to be able to make such a pair."
"Qin Chong knows that he has made a big mistake and asks Master to punish him."
"You know you're wrong?" Master Liu said with a teasing look on his face, "Where's the pride of Kuixinglou? "
As soon as Master Liu finished speaking, Master Fan looked up to the sky and laughed so happily. Master Liu looked helpless, pointed at Master Fan with his hand, opened his mouth to say something, but shook his head, and actually laughed twice.
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Qin Xiao and Qin Zhong's eyes nearly popped out. They couldn't believe it for a moment. Master Liu actually laughed. Didn't he come to ask for help? This plot was not right. Qin Zhong was confused for a moment.
Qin Chong had anticipated the Master's reprimand and had thought of a countermeasure. However, it deviated from what he had imagined. But it seemed that Urinating Kuixing Tower was not such a big sin.
But an unexpected good thing happened, so I devoted myself more and more to playing the role of a well-behaved student.
"The two masters are here to make Pengpi shine. Please come in and serve tea." Qin Chong took the opportunity to say.
"Isn't this very clever? Who said he was stupid?" Master Liu looked at Qin Zhong, then turned to Mrs. Fan and pouted, stepped up the steps first, and walked towards the door with his big sleeves fluttering. Master Fan was also surprised and deeply
He gave Qin Zhong a deep look, shook his head and laughed, then walked leisurely through the door.
After entering the gate, there is a screen wall. Behind the screen wall, there is an open patio. Going forward through the patio, there is the middle hall where Qin Yutian usually entertains guests. Qin Xiao and Qin Zhong greeted the two masters into the middle hall with great respect.
After the master sat down, the two brothers met again, served tea in person, and then stood aside to listen to the instructions.
"A gentleman is knowledgeable in literature, and if he makes an appointment with courtesy, he can stay with me." Master Fan took a sip of tea, gently put down the cup, and said, "Listen, Qin Chong used this sentence in the Analects to stop the door.
Someone who is causing trouble outside?"
"Students misuse the classics, please punish me, Master." Qin Chong admitted his mistake obediently.
"Punishment for what? It's very appropriate." Master Fan raised his eyebrows and his tone was three points higher. "You don't think about self-improvement, but invite blessings from God. You know this. If it were me, the scolding would only be more severe.
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Is this from a group of us? Qin Zhong was immediately overjoyed. Fan Fuzi's words clearly showed his disdain for the matter of worshiping Kuixing. Could it be that I was doing the wrong thing by urinating at Kuixing Tower? He was thinking about it in his heart, just listening to Liu
The master also said loudly: "If you are twenty years younger, I will go and take a dip."
Quality, quality, Qin Zhong is so sweaty. You are always a master, why are you so unreserved in front of the students? You are always making fun of me, how can the students accept this?
Not to mention Qin Zhong's slander, Master Fan also felt ashamed and panicked, and coughed hard.
"Ah, Qin Zhong." Fan Fuzi brought back the topic, "Do you have a second couplet for that pair?"
"Ah?" Qin Zhong blinked, should I have it? Or shouldn't I have it? "The student can't think of it."
To come up with the first couplet, you can say that you racked your brains and occasionally succeeded. This second couplet is also famous among later generations of couples. If you really say it, it would be very inconsistent with Qin Zhong's character. Since everyone has
If I'm not right, then I can't have a second couplet either. This is only fair. Isn't that what Confucianism means?
"Think about it, it's not easy to get the first couplet." Fan Fuzi was not surprised.
After sitting for a short time, the two concubines left the Qin Mansion. Qin Chong and Qin Xiao stood outside the gate until they could no longer see the carriage, then turned around and walked in. The arrival of the concubine conveyed a very important message, which greatly affected Qin Chong and Zikuixing Tower.
, not all voices of accusation. At least these two masters agreed.
"Second brother." Qin Xiao called Qin Zhong, "Something happened to the two people you saved."
"Huh?" Qin Zhong didn't react for a moment.
"Their home was burned down, my brother died, and my sister was taken away."
Qin Chong finally remembered that the reason why he pissed at Kuixinglou was that he could not see Yao Gang bullying others and rescued the poor little girl. Unexpectedly, the result was that his family was burned down, his brother died, and his sister was arrested.
"Who did this?" Qin Zhong clenched his fists fiercely.