Chapter 057
The clear water pond, the bluestone shore, the grass is fragrant in the courtyard, and the spring curtains have not been revealed. Yang Yi followed Li Qingchen all the way to the flower hall of the second entrance. On the way, the two of them were in front and behind, without saying a word. The servants of the Li family bowed to Li Qingchen, but they didn't know how to greet Yang Yi, a guest who was not staying in the house.
"Ah Weng is back!" A girl in purple flashed out in the flower hall. When she saw Li Qingchen, she bowed down.[]
"Get up!" Li Qingchen probably favored this granddaughter, and his voice could not help but show the kindness of the elder. It was already dusk, and the sunset was already sinking, and only a ray of light ochre and light green remained in the sky. When the girl saw Yang Yi following clearly, she couldn't help but exclaim: "Fourth brother, why are you here..."
Perhaps after coming back to her senses, she felt that it was not good to ask this question, so she hurriedly changed her words: "Fourth brother, you're here. Please come into the hall quickly. I'll give you tea immediately!"
Looking at the surprise expression on her face, Yang Yi felt a lot of emotion. Maybe she was not bad, but she was always in her heart when she saw her elder brother insulting her mother. Maybe this is the so-called first impression, and it is difficult to change for a moment.
Yang Yi did not immediately refute her name, but just nodded.
After entering the flower hall, Li Qingchen said lightly: "Let's find a seat for yourself!"
From Li Qingchen's perspective, he was very polite to be able to say hello. Yang Yi's expression did not change at all, and he replied calmly: "Thank you, Li Shangshu, there is no place for you to sit in front of Li Shangshu."
Li Qingchen glanced at him and didn't say anything. The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became silent. When the girl who followed the hall saw that something was wrong, she immediately smiled and said, "Fourth brother, we are all a family. You can just sit there! I was wrong in the past. You can beat me and scold me. Fourth brother, don't treat Awen like this."
"I said, there is no need to mention the past. There will be no relationship between us from now on, and you don't have to be so polite to me."
After hearing Yang Yi's words, Li Qingchen burst into anger and shouted: "My evil, do you want to piss me to death? Don't think that it's great if you're the top scorer in the exam. This officialdom is dangerous. How much do you know? Your wings are hard, right? I think I can't deal with you anymore?"
"Aweng, don't be angry. It was my brother and I who were not good. If Aweng wants to punish me, he will punish his granddaughter. Fourth brother... we are sorry for Fourth brother!"
"Liang'er, this is nothing to do with you. Go and call me that incompetent thing!"
The girl looked at this and that, looking worried, but she didn't dare to disobey her father, so she had to go with her order.
There were only Li Qingchen and Yang Yi left in the hall, and no one spoke for a while. After a while, Li Qingchen sighed: "Silang, I know what you have suffered from. Let it go over the past. We will always be a family! Don't make trouble anymore, so as not to show jokes to outsiders."
Yang Yi was silent. He was thinking about how to correspond so that he would not hurt the old man in front of him too much. To be honest, Yang Yi was not disgusted with Li Qingchen. On the contrary, he was very impressed by his character, but this could not be a reason for him to return to the Li family.
Just as he was about to speak, Li Kaizhi, the grandson of Li's parents, walked into the hall with a panic look on his face. When he saw Yang Yi standing in the hall, he looked panicked, stepped forward and put his robe on his feet, knelt in front of Li Qingchen with a loud bang, and said in a naughty way: "Aweng, grandson pays you a blessing!"
He bowed and just as he wanted to get up, Li Qingchen suddenly shouted: "Who told you to get up, kneel down for me!"
At this moment, an old woman in her sixties was supported by Li Lian'er and walked into the hall. She first looked up and down at Yang Yi, snorted coldly and walked to the hall table to sit down, then slowly said: "Don't be afraid Zhi'er, get up, with grandmother here, I'll see who can do what you do?"
Li Qingchen became even more angry and pointed at the old woman and scolded: "You! I'm so angry. All these incompetent things have been ruined by you. Look at what he is like. In his twenties, he knows how to eat, drink, and have fun every day. Even if he can pass the state test, my Li family's face is almost lost by this evil! There is nothing you have to do here, so go back to the backyard!"
"Wow! You scolded the whole family for a wild boy who came from somewhere, and I didn't even let go of my old age. I returned to the court for a few days and you were able to stand up for you!"
The old woman was not afraid of Li Qingchen's reprimand, and immediately returned it, making Li Qingchen tremble all over. Li Lian'er went up to give him anger, and asked him incoherently: "Grandmother... Aweng, don't fight, okay?"
Yang Yi frowned when he looked at the family, and his thoughts of never returning to the Li family became extremely firm. With the spirit of this old woman, even Li Qingchen did not take Li Qingchen seriously. If his mother entered this family, life would be extremely miserable. He was too lazy to look at the faces of the family again, and bowed to Li Qingchen and said, "Thank you, Li Shangshu has family affairs to deal with, so I will say goodbye!"
"Slow down!"
Li Qingchen and the old woman called out almost at the same time. Before Yang Yi turned around, the old woman said first: "You are the evil son born to that bitch, right? When I saw Lao Zhen, I dared to stand up. It was indeed rude and rude, and uneducated. So what if I picked up the top scorer? Kneel down for me! Lao Zhen should teach you how to be a human being today!"
Yang Yi slowly stood up and stared at the old woman coldly. If she only scolded herself, for her age, Yang Yi might not care about her and just pretended that she was farting, but she shouldn't have scolded her mother.
Yang Yi's eyes were like a knife. When everyone in the hall saw it, there was a hint of chill. Yang Yi stepped forward step by step, headed straight to the old woman, looked down at her, and then said gloomyly: "What are you? I want me to kneel down and wait for the ancestral tomb of your Han family tomb to talk about it! I am so old that I only know how to rely on the power of my parents' family to do whatever I want. You are a bitch who doesn't even have a brain! Today, you dare to insult my mother and try!"
The old woman was stared at by Yang Yi. Leng Ruobingshuang's words made her shrink back. Everyone in the hall was shocked by Yang Yi's words. No matter how they reacted, Yang Yi turned around and bowed to Li Qingchen, then left.
"Reverse! Reverse! Look at this evil beast, you dare to threaten his old man. It's a ruthless person. Such a person actually made him pass the top scorer. What's the truth about heaven? What's the truth about heaven... Cough cough..." Yang Yi left the flower hall and walked more than ten steps away, and heard the old woman's angry voice coming from the hall. Yang Yi was too lazy to pay attention to the old pious woman anymore and walked out of the Li Mansion.
In order to make a sigh of relief for his mother, Yang Yi spent 30,000 yuan in Jingmingfang the next day and bought a luxury house that was even more luxurious than the Minister of Rites' Mansion. He invited dozens of servants and maids to take care of them first. After the Ministry of Personnel wrote the documents, he returned to Hangzhou with Qin Zigui.
If you are rich and noble, you will not return home, like walking in the night.
The south of the Yangtze River is beautiful, and the scenery is old. The flowers in the river are redder than fire when the sun rises, and the river water is as green as blue when spring comes. Yang Yi and Qin Zigui return home on the same boat. After passing Taihu Lake, the two sides have a wide field of plains and a long green mountain. The water is always pleasant to visit. However, the two people sitting at the bow of the boat have a feeling of being close to the hometown, which is both joy and inexplicable uneasiness.
At this moment, Yang Yi realized that his feelings for his mother, Yang, were not just the obligation to help Li Yi support his relatives. Before he knew it, Yang Yi had already regarded the weak woman as his own mother. Thinking of the scene when she came to Beijing, she was probably looking forward to her son every day during this period!
My son was traveling thousands of miles away and the mother was worried that she would not miss her weight. At this moment, Yang Yi deeply felt that she was a leaf falling from Yang's body. Even if she drifted far away with the wind, her roots were always there.
Yang Yi and his two men on the boat started to talk less, and the top scholar returned home and were naturally accompanied by officials and ceremonial guards. This is a consistent example of the court, expressing the court's importance to the imperial examination and talents.
Outside Huzhou City, an ordinary boat leaned on the shore to avoid Yang Yi's official boat. After the official boat passed, a slightly fat man walked out of the bow of the boat. He was about thirty years old and wearing a silk shirt, looking like a wealthy businessman traveling around the world.
"Twelve Lang, I didn't expect that we would meet the top scholar here, a coincidence!"
As the middle-aged man finished speaking, another man in his twenties came out of the cabin. He was also dressed as a businessman. He looked at Yang Yi's ship and said with a deep look: "Shopkeeper Huang, let's follow you and take a look. Ke'er's affairs are still unclear. The more I think about it, the more I feel that this person is suspicious. It is difficult to take action in Beijing. When we reach the ground in Jiangnan, we might as well bring him over and ask about it and it will be clear."
The shopkeeper Huang in the mouth of Shierlang is Huang Dan, and his identity in Beijing is a silk merchant. He pondered for a moment and said, "It's great to get someone over and ask questions. However, if Ke'er really falls into his hands, it means that this person is hidden and there are officials accompanying him. You and I are afraid that it won't work. Let's do this. Contact the brothers on the ground in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and we will do him neatly."
The boat was distant from Yang Yi's official boat. After the two returned to the cabin, they discussed it carefully. The connection between the Maitreya monks had a set of secret codes that outsiders could not know. Wherever the boat passed, some people would occasionally find the boat. After a while of secret words, they quickly left.
For a time, the Maitreya Cult's network in Jiangnan was quickly mobilized. Although the Suzhou-Hangzhou area was not the focus of their management, its power was far more powerful than that of the capital. From this moment on, Yang Yi's every move fell into the eyes of the Maitreya Cult.
In the evening, Yang Yi's official ship entered Hangzhou City and as soon as he landed on the dock, the accompanying official officers immediately set up a guard of etiquette. Yang Yi and Qin Zigui put on their brand new official robes. The magistrate Lu Xiyu and the new Qiantang magistrate Meng Zhaonian also wore neat official uniforms and brought three yamen runners to the dock to greet him. The dock was already covered with colorful silk knots and invited people to sing and dance. The scene was extremely grand and enthusiastic.
Thousands of Hangzhou people surrounded the dock. Qiantang County became more famous this time. The top scholar and Tanhua actually gave Qiantang County together. This is also a great honor for Qiantang people. Wherever they go in the future, whenever they mention Qiantang County, they will be more respectful and praise Qiantang's outstanding people and cultural style.
As local officials, Qiantang has such a grand event, of course they have to pay great attention to it. This can definitely be their greatest political achievement in office, which shows that they have achieved remarkable achievements in emphasizing literature and promoting education and changing customs.
Therefore, Lu Xiyu and his friends made the welcome scene so grandly, it does not necessarily mean that they really value Yang Yi and the others. Perhaps, they are more showing off their "political achievements".
After Yang Yi and Qin Zigui got ashore, they first greeted Lu Xiyu and the others. After seeing the ceremony, they saw that their mother Yang was helped by Li Shen. At this moment, they were all wet with tears. A handkerchief could not be wiped. The tears flowed down like broken pearls on their cheeks.
"Son! My son..." After saying these two sentences, Yang Shi couldn't cry again. Looking at her thin cheeks and tears, Yang Yi's seven-foot man shortened and knelt down and solemnly kowtowed to Yang Shi. Yang Yi could not kneel down or kneel down, but at this moment he was willing to kneel down in front of millions of people for this weak mother. He was a human being in two lives. This was the first time he knelt down to someone, not for anything else, but for the unshakable maternal love!
"Get up, get up, my son gets up!"
"Mom, I'm back!" Yang Yi insisted on kowtowing to her before getting up, and helped Yang comfort him: "Don't cry, don't hurt your body. The child finally failed to let his mother down and gave the top scorer back to the exam!"
Yang smiled, but tears still continued to fall on his smile. Countless people around him looked at the mother and son, silently. Yang Yi turned around and bowed to the people around him, said thank you, and then turned around and carried Yang to the horse.
"What is my son doing!" Yang's voice was a little panicked.
Yang Yi held her beside the horse and said with a smile: "Mom's grace for many years of raising her will be difficult for the child to repay her in this life. Please sit down and let her lead the horse for you!"
Amid the festive gongs and drums, Yang Yi led the horse and walked with his horse. Yang kept wiping his tears and walked towards his home in the west of the city. Countless people along the way were watching. Yang Yi was so high-profile this time that he wanted to attribute all his glory to this mother who was the outer room!
In the past, because of her shameful identity, many people looked down on Yang. I don’t know how many people were looking at her. She rarely even visited her neighbors. This situation did not change until Li Yi passed the state examination at the age of fourteen.
This time, wearing red flowers and riding a horse, the one who returned home was no longer the top scorer, but the mother of the top scorer. The people on the street watched with great surprise. Yang listened to the congratulations on the roadside, feeling endless joy and embarrassment.
"Mom, don't cry. Look, the people in the city are watching you! My child is proud to have a mother like you!"
Yang finally stopped tears and lowered his head to Yang Yi and said, "Silly child, you are the pride of your mother! Son, let your mother come down, your mother will not be at ease when she sits here..."
After being watched by countless people, Yang felt increasingly embarrassed. Yang Yi raised his head and smiled, "Mom, don't worry about others, just look at your son! Did your mother see the child glowing all over?"
"What light is shining?"
"Isn't the child Wenqu star coming to earth! Of course, there must be light on his body!"
"You monkey kid, just talk nonsense..."
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ps: It's almost 200,000 words, less than 2,000 collections, 3,000 recommendations, and the grades are bleak. I feel like I'm almost unable to write. Maybe my writing skills are limited, so I'm not suitable for writing time travel articles...
Chapter completed!