Your Majesty, please resign again

Chapter 1 There is a bad youngest in every family!

It rained heavily, and the sky and the earth were completely white.

Under the eaves, Zhang Heng held a huge bowl and stirred it with a spoon. A few rice grains floated in the water.

Zhang Heng sighed, and just as he was about to slurp the porridge into his empty belly, someone next to him said, "Let's go."

Zhang Heng moved to the side and sat down with his big butt dangling and rubbing Zhang Heng's face.

This is Zhang Heng's second brother, Zhang Shu (shu, the traditional Chinese character for "shu". The three Zhang Heng brothers are all named after the character next to "彳").

Zhang Shu stirred the bottom of the bowl with a spoon, and a few rice grains floated faintly. He also sighed.

Someone next to me came over with a bowl and said, "Let's go."

Zhang Heng and Zhang Shu quickly moved their buttocks to make room for the boss Zhang Kun (pronounced kan).

The boss Zhang Jun sat down unsteadily, stirred the bottom of the bowl with a spoon, and found a few grains of rice floating in it, and sighed.

The three faces printed from the same mold looked at each other and sighed in unison.

"well!"

After sighing, the three of them buried their heads in the bowl, and the sounds of chirping and snoring sounded like an exciting symphony.

In just half a quarter of an hour, all the scalding soup and water went into his stomach.

The second child, Zhang Shu, patted his bulging belly and sighed: "I can only lie to it, and once it urinates, there will be nothing left."

The eldest brother Zhang Jun glanced at him and said: "Be content, at least you still have a mouthful of hot porridge to drink now. If the rain continues like this, we won't even be able to eat shit in the autumn."

The three brothers suddenly fell silent.

This is the time when the rice is filling, but now it rains continuously. I'm afraid this year's harvest will not be good.

The three brothers relied on the more than ten acres of paddy fields to make a living, but in this year, it looked like there was no way for people to survive.

After a long silence, the second son Zhang Shu suddenly said with a serious face: "If it doesn't work out, I'll sacrifice myself. Aren't the old Lu families in Pucheng looking for a son-in-law? I'll go, I can always exchange a few stones of food... Ouch! Brother, can you please stop taking action at all times? I am not thinking about our family! Ouch! Stop it!..."

The second child was chased by the boss Zhang Jun and ran into the rain.

The eldest brother, Zhang Jun, scolded him while beating him: "Are you doing this for the sake of our family? You are mean. You just want to get something for nothing, and you just want to eat soft rice!..."

The second child, Zhang Shu, was not convinced, and said sternly as he ran away: "What's wrong with eating soft rice? Our family is so poor, if we don't think of a way, are we going to starve to death!"

Moreover, there is nothing despicable about eating soft rice. Only those of us brothers who have good conditions are qualified to eat soft rice. Others cannot even eat it if they want to!

...Ouch! Damn your mother, Zhang Jun, you must be too shady! ...Ouch!"

Zhang Heng, the third child, was holding a bowl and watching the play attentively. When he saw that he was entranced, he stretched out his hand to explore and found that there were no melon seeds or peanuts. He couldn't help but feel a little regretful: "There are no melons in the play, and the taste is half as bad."

If Zhang Jun had not gone to the fields to release water, the battle would not have ended so quickly.

Zhang Shu sneaked back while the boss, Zhang Jun, was carrying the hoe, and sat next to Zhang Heng, all wet, panting: "I don't know what the boss is insisting on all day long, this man is going to be hungry." Even after he died, he still wanted to produce a Jinshi from our family!

Is it so easy to become a Jinshi? If it were so easy, who would be farming? It’s his mother’s fault!”

Zhang Heng, however, did not respond, but asked in a low voice: "What are the conditions of the old Lu family?"

When Zhang Shu heard this, he immediately became happy: "Do you think so, too? Let me tell you, several generations of the old Lu family have been officials, and it was only in the generation of Old Lu's father that they declined.

But a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although it is considered to be in decline, the family is still very rich. If Lao Lu had only given birth to a daughter, this good thing would not have happened to us.

Third brother, let me tell you, his family has several hectares of fertile land in Pucheng, as well as shops on several streets. You may know the porcelain kilns in the east of the city, they all belong to his family.

Good guy, if you become a door-to-door son-in-law in their house, you will be like a mouse that fell into a rice vat. You have enough white rice every day!"

Hearing the big white rice, Zhang Heng's stomach rumbled, and he nodded repeatedly: "Second brother, I support you!"

Zhang Shu became even more happy when he heard this, and his voice became louder.

"Third brother, you are a smart guy, not as stubborn as the boss. Our family is so poor, and survival is our basic need!

Anyone who is a Jinshi but not a Jinshi is just like a flower in the mirror and can be used as food! How stupid!

My eldest brother said I was mean, but I thought he was stupid!"

Zhang Shu was talking nonsense, but Zhang Heng looked straight and said: "Second brother, I'm not telling you, your thoughts are really despicable!

Although we are only collateral members of the Pucheng Zhang family, we have always been from a farming and studying family, with a clean background and an upright family tradition. How could we have such evil thoughts?

Second brother, although you are my elder brother, I must criticize you on this matter! Criticize you severely!

Moreover, although the eldest brother can't talk about feeding us till we are brought up, without him, how can we have a good life today? How dare you slander the eldest brother? Second brother, I will cut off my robe and sever my ties with you today. …”

Zhang Shu looked at Zhang Heng who changed his face in surprise, but realized something at the next moment. He turned around and saw the livid-faced boss Zhang Qu staring at him!

Zhang Shuguai screamed and ran away.

Zhang Jun chased after him while waving his hoe.

Zhang Heng shouted righteously: "Brother, although the second brother has gone astray, fortunately he is still young and can still be saved. You can focus on making him improve his memory..."

After shouting, Zhang Heng felt comfortable both physically and mentally. He shook his head and recited something in his mouth: "When heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to a man, he must first work hard on his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, and deplete his body." Weird words like "throwing chaos into what he did, so tempting his mind and forbearance, have benefited him in what he couldn't do...".

However, as he nourished the earth with his urine, thunder rumbled in his belly, and he suddenly felt that his second brother's plan was not a bad idea.

His name is Zhang Heng, Zhang Heng of the Zhang family in Lupucheng, Fujian Province. He is also Zhang Heng, the number one scholar in the imperial examinations through the ages. However, at this time, he still has fifteen or six years to go before he becomes the number one scholar.

Now he is only fifteen years old, his second brother Zhang Shu is seventeen years old, and his eldest brother Zhang Jin is only a young man in his early twenties.

Their parents died young, and the three brothers depended on each other. They lived on a dozen acres of farmland, barely able to make ends meet, but they had absolutely no money left. Therefore, the eldest brother, Zhang Xuan, has not yet married a wife.

Life was hard, and Zhangshu, the second child, was tired of living such a life, so he always wanted to find another way out.

The eldest brother, however, kept in mind the teachings of his parents when they were still alive. To train his two younger brothers to become scholars, at least one must be a Jinshi, so he always pushed his two younger brothers to study.

Zhang Shu's resistance forced Zhang Jun to put a lot of effort into education, so both of them ignored the changes in their third son, Zhang Heng.

They didn't realize that the youngest member of their family had quietly changed his soul.

The second eldest child, Zhang Shu, hated his current life, but the reborn Zhang Heng found this kind of life quite interesting. Except for the fact that he didn't have enough to eat, everything else made Zhang Heng feel pretty good.

The life of farming and studying is certainly tiring, but compared to the life of a social animal in his previous life, this kind of life is more to his liking, so he can often enjoy this kind of life.

"But...it's time for some changes."

Zhang Heng said in a low voice.

It has been more than a year since he was reborn, and he is enjoying the farm life to the fullest, but being hungry all the time is unbearable.

Zhang Heng touched his tongue and almost faded away. If he didn't earn some money to worship at the Five Zang Temple, he would probably rebel.

In addition, if this continues, I'm afraid that my second brother Zhang Shu will really become his son-in-law.

The eldest brother is getting older and it’s time for him to get a wife.

But Zhang Heng didn't have much idea about how to make money, so he could only read while walking.

Zhang Heng decided to wait until the rain stopped and go into the city to see if there were any opportunities.

PS: Dear friends, the old cat is back again and misses you so much!... In fact, it has never left. However, since I finished writing the previous book "I Sell Anxiety in the Song Dynasty", I have made two attempts to no avail. This paragraph I kept reading and summarizing, so a long time has passed, and of course I was busy with some things personally.

However, it is precisely because of the accumulation of this time that I have accumulated some reflections, which may have helped me write articles, so I am still excited inside. I hope to be able to surpass myself. I do not seek to compare with others, but only with myself. Just a comparison.

This book is still about the Northern Song Dynasty, starting from the first year of Kangding (1040) to about 1100. This period was probably the most exciting period of the Northern Song Dynasty. Geniuses emerged in endlessly and the country had to reform.

Therefore, from the Qingli New Deal and Jiayou Reform started by Song Renzong, to Wang Anshi's Reform (also called Xining Reform) by Song Shenzong, from Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu to Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, and then to Su Shi, Su Zhe, Zhang Dun and Lu Huiqing... …

This is a very exciting history, because there are too many geniuses, so some geniuses only flashed their light for a moment and then dimmed.

For example, the protagonist of this book, Zhang Heng, was the number one scholar in the second year of Jiayou's reign, and should have been the most dazzling person of this era (in fact, when the Jinshi list was released in the second year of Jiayou's reign, he was indeed the most dazzling person).

I just don’t know why he inexplicably dimmed later on. Even in the history books, only a few words about him can be found. Even who his father and grandfather are are unclear...

Is it because he is incompetent?

Or is it for other reasons?

The author has checked a lot of information and found that this reason is not valid. Whether it is Chen Xiang, Su Shi, Zhao Xu or Zhao Ji, his evaluation is not low:

Su Shi: Ziping's talent has been unparalleled for a hundred years. Ziping was known for the beauty of his writing, his richness in classics, and his agility in political affairs...

Zhao Xu: Zhang Heng has a keen knowledge and a far-reaching knowledge.

Zhao Ji: Gentle and pure on the inside, dignified on the outside, Hanyuan Ci sect, national leader, capable of learning at an early age and strong in practice, with a bright and practical mind.

Renzong also gave Zhang Heng two poems in succession. If Zhang Heng couldn't do it, why would these people bother?

But why can't he get out?

The author had some doubts about this, so he connected all the deeds together and came up with some ideas.

These thoughts have become part of the novel, but these are the author's speculations and may not be the truth. However, this is a novel after all, so you can just listen to it.

The author is trying his best to balance the facts and pursue the excitement of the story. If you have different opinions, you may wish to put them forward, but please don't be unreasonable and beg for mercy.

I will try my best to take a light-hearted route in this novel, but historical novels are historical novels after all, and the affairs of family, country and world are not easy to begin with, so I can only try my best to do it. No matter what, I hope everyone will enjoy reading it!

The new book is a small seedling, don’t raise it, just spend some time reading it every day, and then vote for recommendations, monthly votes, rewards, etc. Just do what you can, thank you all!!!

By the way, I would like to recommend the old book "The Unparalleled Scholars of the Northern Song Dynasty", it is very good...

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