A Complete Explanation of the Negative Textbooks of the Imperial Examination - Chapter 1

    Twelve years of the great cause, the spring is cold, and the entire northern country is still shrouded in depression.

      Frightened by the uproar. Many people have closed their doors, trying not to go out if they can.

    In Tongmu Village, an eight-year-old man was carefully feeding his mother water.

    There was a middle-aged beautiful woman in her thirties leaning on the couch. She had fair skin and a beautiful appearance, which was very different from the peasant women in Tongmu Village. Head tilted cough.

    “Auntie, you’ve been sick for five days, and you can’t drag it on any longer. How about I go and beg your grandmother and ask her to find a husband for you?”

    “No need.” Zhao Xiulan put down the water and said in a hoarse voice, “It’s just an ordinary cold, it’s not in the way. Your grandmother has never liked me, don’t bother her, if she angers you because of this It’s bad.”

    Before she finished speaking, her throat was itchy, followed by a piercing cough.

    Zhao Xiulan is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Xiao family, but unfortunately she is not favored by her mother-in-law, and even her son Xiao Jingduo is not favored. Zhao Xiulan felt bitter in her heart, her son was obviously the eldest grandson of the eldest house, but in front of her mother-in-law, he was not as good as that rascal of the second house. She blamed her and made Duoer tired.

    Xiao Jingduo quickly patted her mother’s back, Zhao Xiulan coughed for a long time before she stopped, and her voice was hoarse. The man frowned, stood up directly, and walked out of the house: “How can I do this, I’ll go find my grandmother.”

    “Duoer, come back!” Zhao Xiulan shouted from behind.

    However, Xiao Jingduo looks delicate and delicate, but his personality is completely opposite to his appearance. He closed the door for his mother, and then quickly ran towards Old Madam Xiao’s main house.

    Mrs. Xiao was furious in the kitchen at the moment. She pointed to the broken pieces of porcelain on the ground and asked fiercely, “Tell me, who did it?”

    The Xiao family is an ordinary farming family in Tongmu Village, Zhuo County, living together for three generations. After Mrs. Xiao passed away, Mrs. Xiao was the oldest, and the whole family had to look at her face to live. The old lady has a total of three sons and a daughter, all of whom have married, and now only three sons live with the old lady. The old lady favored her second son since she was a child, so the second room was the most domineering in the family. The second house has two daughters and one son, Xiao Yufang, Xiao Yuli, and Xiao Jinghu according to age, and the third house has a daughter and a son, Xiao Yumang and Xiao Jingwu. Although Xiao Yumang is the eldest of the third room, firstly Xiao Yumang is younger than the two girls in the second room and ranks third in the family, and secondly, her younger brother Xiao Jingwu has just been able to walk, so Xiao Yumang is always bullied by the second room’s people. .

    At this moment Erniang Xiao Yuli and Sanniang Xiao Yumang stood in front of the old lady with their heads down, not even daring to breathe. Mrs. Xiao holds the family’s money in her hand. She has a strong desire to control, and she prefers sons over daughters. She is extremely stingy. Now she sees her two granddaughters cooking in the kitchen. Of course, the old lady was furious, wishing she could give the culprit a good smack and imprison her for three days and three nights.

    Xiao Yuli glanced at the old lady quietly, she shrank in fright at her grandmother’s face, she said as delicately as a mosquito: “It was broken by Sanniang…”

    The old lady’s knife-like gaze immediately turned to Xiao Yumang, Xiao Yumang trembled, and quickly waved: “I don’t have it, grandmother. Xiao Yuli, you are so nasty, obviously I’m walking with a bowl , it was you who suddenly bumped into me and caused me to drop the bowl, and now you dare to sue the wicked first!”

    “You are talking nonsense!” Xiao Yuli also responded eloquently, she swept a figure out of the corner of her eye, and when she rolled her eyes, she suddenly had an idea, “Grandmother, the bowl was broken by Sanniang, if you don’t believe me, ask Second brother!”

    Xiao Yuli pulled Xiao Jinghu over, pinched him quietly, and asked, “Hu’er, do you think Xiao Yumang did it?”

    The old lady dotes on her second son, and Xiao Jinghu, the only grandson of the second room, is also favored. Xiao Jinghu was accustomed to being lawless. Like his name, he was simply the little bully in the family. Second Aunt Xiao is the niece of the old lady’s family, and she is very high-spirited, but after she entered the school, she gave birth to two daughters in a row. Second Aunt Xiao refused to let her sister-in-law see a joke. Just after confinement, she became pregnant again, and finally gave birth to her son Xiao Jinghu. Second Aunt Xiao immediately raised her eyebrows, and Xiao Jinghu became the untouchable baby of the family. Not only Second Aunt Xiao protected the calf, but even the old lady regarded Xiao Jinghu as the lifeblood. At this moment, Xiao Jinghu just nodded casually, and at first glance he knew that he didn’t take it to heart, but Mrs. Xiao believed it immediately, and turned back to stare at Xiao Yumang, already gnashing her teeth: “You can do it, little one. If you don’t learn well at your age, you will learn to lie!”

    “I don’t!” Xiao Yumang cried. Xiao Yuli bullied her brother when she was still young and couldn’t support her, so she bullied her hard.

    The noise also alarmed the adults, Aunt Xiao ran out and heard her daughter cry, she also cried: “Mother, how can you be so biased! Can’t even a finger in the second room compare?”

      Like a big house, only enjoying happiness and not farming, why should we be slaughtered by you like this?”

    Second Aunt Xiao has always been aggressive, plus she was the old lady’s maiden niece, and her aunt and nephew became mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, so she was very domineering at home. When Second Aunt Xiao and Third Aunt Xiao came, there was a lot of noise in the kitchen, and it immediately turned into a pot of porridge. Old Madam Xiao had a headache from the noise, and was about to lose her temper when she heard a clear voice behind her. It was obviously not loud, but it was able to overwhelm Second Aunt Xiao’s loud voice, and it clearly reached the old Madam’s ears: “Grandma, forget it, it’s just a bowl, it’s not worth hurting the family.”

    Xiao Jingduo stood at the door, frowning at the noisy family.

      Xiao Jinghu of the second room and Xiao Jingwu of the third room. Xiao Jingduo is the eldest grandson of the eldest house. Although the eldest house is weak, where the government decree is placed, Xiao Jingduo is the legitimate heir of the Xiao family’s ancestral estate. Even if the old lady loves Xiao Jinghu in the second room again, she can’t go past Xiao Jingduo. So when Xiao Jingduo came in, the noisy female family members in the kitchen all stopped.

    Old Mrs. Xiao knew that she would have to rely on Xiao Jingduo to support her in the future, since Xiao Jingduo said so, she also gave Xiao Jingduo this face, waved her hand and said: “It’s okay, don’t make trouble. Now, let others see jokes for nothing. Let’s go.”

    However, the old lady saw Xiao Jingduo’s footsteps still not moving, she asked: “Duoer, do you still have something to call me?”

    “Yes. Grandma, can you come into the house and talk?”

    Old Mrs. Xiao nodded and followed Xiao Jingduo into the house. Second Aunt Xiao rolled her eyes and said, “Hey, why do you have to avoid us? Who knows if you are secretly asking your mother for money.”

    Aunt Xiao sneered, obviously most of her mother-in-law’s money went into the pockets of the second room, but second Aunt Xiao called a thief to catch a thief, and always felt that others were making money behind their backs.

      Second Aunt Xiao still insisted, shouting: “Stop, what are you going to say, say it in front of the whole family!”

    Xiao Jingduo paused and turned half-sideways unbearably.

    Seeing Xiao Jingduo standing, Second Aunt Xiao was quite proud, she was about to speak, but unexpectedly bumped into a pair of star-like eyes. The pair of eyes were beautiful in shape, with extremely black pupils. Against the background of the whites of the eyes, they looked like obsidian immersed in water, and they became more and more distinct in black and white, not as delicate as a pair of eyes on a man’s face. However, on Xiao Jingduo’s face, it did not show any femininity, but was extremely clear, giving the person being watched a feeling of being invisible. Faced with such a pair of eyes, Second Aunt Xiao was startled, and immediately forgot what she was going to say.

      Seeing this, Aunt Xiao sneered: “Yo, isn’t the second sister-in-law’s mouth very powerful, why can’t you even say anything now? It turns out that you only dare to confront our three-bedroom, and the master’s parent’s room. Du Miao, I don’t even dare to let go of a fart.”

    Second Aunt Xiao glared at her sister-in-law angrily, and Third Aunt Xiao looked back not to be outdone. Aunt Xiao’s heart was full of fire. She looked at Xiao Jingduo’s back, spit out angrily, and cursed inwardly, “An orphan who has died, dares to betray me, bah!”

    After entering the room, Xiao Jingduo didn’t have time to explain, and immediately said eagerly: “Grandmother, can my grandson borrow a few copper coins from you, I have to go and ask Langzhong.”

    “No, it’s my mother who has been suffering from the cold for the past few days and is lying in bed now and can’t get up. I want to invite a husband to come back for my mother.”

    Old Mrs. Xiao was obviously relieved, and her face suddenly became loose: “She, how can she be so squeamish. The family is busy with planting these days so that her feet don’t touch the ground, she hides in Even if the family never goes to the land, they still want to get money to see a doctor. Our family is not a wealthy family, and we can’t afford a young lady like her, but it’s just typhoid fever. It’ll be fine after two days. What’s the use of medicine?”

    “Grandmother!” Xiao Jingduo increased his voice and said earnestly, “Mother is really ill and can’t be delayed. Then we don’t need a husband, just grab two medicines. Grandma, just grab the medicine and spend the flowers. Not much money!”

      Mrs. Xiao raised her face and said, “Duo’er, it’s not that your grandmother doesn’t care for you, it’s that our family’s situation is not good, it’s not easy to eat enough food, how can you have spare money to see her doctor? You can’t do this anymore. If you are ignorant, the ancestral house and fields of the Xiao family will be yours in the future. If you always waste money on unrelated people, you will not be able to keep your ancestral business in the future, so how can I meet your grandfather under Jiuquan?”

    Xiao Jingduo lowered his head and clenched his fists when he heard his grandmother say that his mother was an unimportant person, but he knew that his grandmother was the oldest person in the family, and the whole family held all the money In the hands of grandmother, he must not contradict grandmother. If he offends his grandmother, he will not be punished as the only child of the big house, but his mother will suffer.

    The old lady was still teaching her grandson incessantly, Xiao Jingduo listened patiently, but in the end he still did not give up, and asked tentatively: “Grandma, twenty money is fine, is it okay? “

    “Twenty coins!” Mrs. Xiao was furious, “Do you think twenty coins is easy to earn? How much can our family earn by working hard in the fields for a year? Not to mention There is chaos outside, and there are so many places to use money, how much can you do with twenty dollars? I absolutely disagree with spending money on that mourner!”

    “Heh.” The old lady was furious and said with a sneer, “I didn’t say her life was tough. At first your grandfather stayed at home well, but as soon as she passed the door, your grandfather He was taken away by the imperial court to serve in labor, and there has been no news for nine years. In the past few years, there has been such chaos outside, and wars are taking place everywhere, how can it be…”

    The old lady couldn’t continue, she lowered her head and wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and Xiao Jingduo also fell silent.

    Xiao Jingduo has not seen his father Xiao Ying since he was born. He heard that his father went out to serve nine years ago and never came back. Xiao Jingduo had no father since he was a child. Although he didn’t say it, he still yearned for father’s love in his heart. He thought about what his father looked like more than once, and he also imagined that one day, his father suddenly pushed the door and came in, saying “I’m back” with a smile. It’s a pity that these are all illusions. His father has already died in the war.

    While wiping her tears, the old lady accused her eldest daughter-in-law: “Look at this mourning star, she first killed A Ying, and then killed her father Zhao Langzhong, and She’s still delicate and weak, she doesn’t know how to do farm work or cooking, and she hasn’t helped her family for so many years! If it wasn’t for her having given birth to you and staying for the long house, I would have quit her long ago. already.”

    The conversation between Xiao Jingduo and Mrs. Xiao was deadlocked. Mrs. Xiao did not agree to spend money on medical treatment anyway. Xiao Jingduo had no choice but to leave first, and he would find a way by himself.

    When Xiao Jingduo went out, he vaguely heard a slight knock on the door, as if something hit the door. However, he didn’t think much about it, just left quickly, and hurried back to take care of his sick mother.

    Xiao Yuli quickly ran back to her house, turned around and closed the door.

    Second Aunt Xiao hurriedly asked, “Did you hear that? Tell me, what did your grandmother and the scumbag in the long room say?”

    Xiao Yuli’s heart was still pounding when she sat down. She went to the main room to eavesdrop just now and was almost discovered. Second Aunt Xiao was already urging, and Xiao Yuli stopped dawdling.

    Second Aunt Xiao tutted in disgust: “She’s precious, she doesn’t do anything for a day, and she still wants to spend money.” Second Aunt Xiao and her eldest sister-in-law Zhao Xiulan have been at odds for a long time. There are reasons for talking about the time of marriage, and there are reasons for interests. After all, the man in the long house, Xiao Ying, is gone. The ancestral property and the ancestral house should belong to the second house, but there is a Xiao Jingduo in the middle, which makes Second Aunt Xiao reconciled.

    Xiao Yuli rolled her eyes and said, “Auntie, I also heard from my grandmother that I will leave the family property to the eldest brother in the future!”

    “What!” Second Aunt Xiao patted the table heavily, “It’s unreasonable, our second room has done so much for the family over the years, why should we hand over the family business to a child? It’s a loss to her. She also said that she loves Erlang the most, and I think what she values ​​most is the evil barrier in the big room.”

    Second Aunt Xiao’s chest heaved up and down, obviously very angry. Xiao Yuli was nestled beside her mother, her eyes were rolling, and the eldest daughter of the second room, Xiao Yufang, cast a disapproving look. Xiao Yuli always looked down on her sister’s cowardly appearance, so she just couldn’t see it.

    However, Second Aunt Xiao has been in power for so many years, and she has a lot of tricks in her stomach. She suddenly smiled, called Xiao Jinghu who was playing outside the house, and whispered in his ear. a few words.

    Xiao Jinghu rushed into the main room like a cannonball, hugged Mrs. Xiao’s arm and acted like a spoiled child: “Grandma, I want to buy a Trojan horse!”

    Old Mrs. Xiao said “heart and liver”, and hurriedly stretched out her arms to hug her lifeblood, with many wrinkles on her face: “What do you mean by Trojan horse?”

    “It’s the Trojan horse sold by the village dealer. I want to ride the Trojan horse and become a general in the future to protect my grandmother from being bullied by the officers and soldiers! Grandma, I want to buy it, I want it!”

    Old Mrs. Xiao hesitated a bit: “Go and buy it from the dealer… How much is a Trojan horse?”

    “Twenty dollars.”

    “Twenty dollars!” Mrs. Xiao felt a little bit of pain, but just as she showed a hesitant look, Xiao Jinghu started crying again, “I don’t care, I want it, I want it!”

    After finishing speaking, Mrs. Xiao took out a crumpled cloth bag from the inside of her clothes, she opened it layer by layer, and carefully counted out twenty copper coins: “Hu’er, you have to take it , but don’t drop it…”

    Before Mrs. Xiao finished speaking, Xiao Jinghu grabbed the copper coins from his grandmother and ran away without looking back.

    “Hu’er, run slowly!” The old lady was still shouting eagerly from behind.

    When Xiao Jingduo returned to the house, Zhao Xiulan was resting on the bed. Hearing the door open, she raised her head in surprise: “Duoer, are you back?”

    “Well.” Xiao Jingduo sat down beside Zhao Xiulan glumly, and reached out to probe Zhao Xiulan’s forehead. As soon as he put his hand on it, Xiao Jingduo was shocked that it was so hot.

    Seeing Xiao Jingduo’s expression, Zhao Xiulan knew that her mother-in-law did not agree to ask her to see a doctor. Even if it was difficult to speak, Zhao Xiulan comforted Xiao Jingduo softly: “Duoer, it’s alright, I’ll stay up all night. , it’s good to sweat.”

    “My grandfather said that persistent high fever is a dangerous omen, and we can’t be careless.” Xiao Jingduo frowned and stood up, turned to get the medical book left by Zhao Langzhong, “I remember my grandfather said that there was a The prescription has a miraculous effect on reducing fever, I will see if I can borrow money from others to gather the medicinal materials.”

    Xiao Jingduo carefully and quickly flipped through a horizontal scroll, apparently flipping it from time to time. Xiao Jingduo’s maternal grandfather was a famous husband who saved countless lives in his life. In his later years, he wrote his life’s hard work on paper, mounted it into this volume, and brought it to the Xiao family as Zhao Xiulan’s dowry. It is a pity that most of the Xiao family are illiterate and do not realize the value of this medical book. After so many years, only Xiao Jingduo has read it by himself. Zhao Langzhong benefits one party, and he has only one child, Zhao Xiulan. After Xiao Jingduo was born, Zhao Langzhong also loved Xiao Jingduo very much. He often took Xiao Jingduo to live there. A little knowledge of medicine. Moreover, he has been dealing with prescriptions and medicinal materials since he was a child, and even Kaimeng can read according to medical books.

    However, unfortunately, Xiao Jingduo did not have time to learn advanced pharmacology, and his grandfather Zhao Langzhong passed away. When he was seven years old, Zhao Langzhong died of illness. Since then, there has been no one in the Zhao family except Zhao Xiulan. Zhao Xiulan grieved so much that she could not afford to be ill. Xiao Jingduo was busy taking care of his mother, and his medical treatment was delayed, so although he could memorize hundreds of prescriptions, he did not dare to see a doctor lightly. .

    However, this time there is really no way to do it. It is expensive to hire a husband, and just getting the medicine will save a lot of money. Zhao Xiulan’s illness is the most common type of typhoid fever. Xiao Jingduo can only prescribe medicines according to medical books, and rely on his own mediocre medical skills to see a doctor for his mother. There is no way out.

    After he checked the book to confirm, he planned to get up and go outside to look for medicine. In order to convince his grandmother, he deliberately stated that he did not need to invite a husband, but only needed to get medicine. Unfortunately, even so, grandmother was still reluctant to bear the twenty copper coins.

    Xiao Jingduo can only sigh about this. Their family situation is not good, and their grandmother is careful and understandable. Xiao Jingduo can only find a way to raise money to buy medicine.

    Xiao Jingduo gently took the door and saw Xiao Jinghu riding a Trojan horse in the yard. He was stunned for a moment and asked, “Where did you find the Trojan horse?”

    Xiao Jinghu said without looking up, “My grandmother bought it for me.”

    Xiao Jingduo showed an unbelievable look, he saw Second Aunt Xiao and a few sisters from the second room leaning against the door, and said sarcastically: “Mother-in-law really loves tigers, twenty The Trojan horse of copper coins, buy it when you say it.”

    Xiao Jingduo’s fists clenched tightly, how could she be like this! His mother’s life is not as good as a child’s plaything?

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    Xiao Jingduo was just stunned for a moment, and immediately realized what happened. He turned his head immediately, hurried to the gate of the courtyard, and closed the latch forcefully. Through the crack of the door, Xiao Jingduo saw a group of black cavalry rushing from the sky, about a thousand people, the black horse in black armor, from a distance, it looked like a black cloud forming a formation, and it was thrilling.

    “What’s wrong, what’s wrong? Someone called again?”

    The female family members of the Xiao family were stunned by this change. Xiao Jingduo turned a deaf ear to the voice behind him, and his eyes were firmly glued to the team of black iron cavalry.

    In a piece of black armor, the big red flag is very bright, and a dragon and phoenix dance “Xuan” outlines it.

    Taiyuan Xuan Guogong, the famous Rong family army.

    Xiao Jingduo muttered to himself unconsciously: “Why did they come to Zhuo County…”

    “Don’t worry about these people outside!” Mrs. Xiao ran out and saw Xiao Jingduo still standing at the gate of the courtyard, and shouted at him, “Don’t look at these officials outside, No matter who they are, since these nobles are fighting around, the benefits will not come to us grass people. Hide in the house and hide all the valuable things in the house!”

    In the afternoon of early spring, a team of iron cavalry descended from the sky, rushing through the front of Tongmu Village like a rainbow. Like the other families in the village, the entire Xiao family was in a panic of not knowing the way forward. At that time, the Xiao family didn’t know what kind of drastic changes the Rong’s raid would bring to their lives. Until spring and winter came, the whole world was covered with hoarfrost, and the hurried knock on the door broke the peace of this ordinary farm family. fate also changed.

    The author has something to say: [Congratulations on entering the original son upgrade system, the character Xiao Jingduo has been activated]

    [Current status: weak youth (crossed out); current progress: Novice Village]

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