The following year, Joe gave birth to a daughter.
Ruan Siyi became a father for the first time. He was so excited that he calmed down after a few days and named the child Ruan Chengxi.
The days continued to go on day after day, and life became more embarrassing because of the addition of a mouth to eat.
Ruan Siyi wanted to change when he was poor, and he looked everywhere for jobs that could make money. The hard work pays off, and I found a job copying books. Although the pay is not high, it is fortunate that it is long-term.
When her daughter was two years old, Qiao proposed to leave the capital and return to Ruan Siyi's native place in southern Shaanxi.
"Since you have decided to go in that direction, you will have to go back sooner or later."
Ruan Siyi was silent, and then began to pack up and sell the house and move back to his hometown.
It took a month for a family of four to arrive at Wei County in southern Shaanxi.
In fact, the Ruan family has no one here in Yu County, and Ruan Siyi has never been back since he grew up. But as Qiao Shi said, since there is such an idea, he always has to come back. It is better to come back sooner than later.
Everything has to start from scratch.
Fortunately, the house in the capital was sold for more than 300 taels, so I was not afraid of running out of money for a while.
The house is rented, Qiao Shi and Ruan Siyi observed it for a long time before choosing to live here. It's close to the market, and it's secluded enough to do anything.
Qiao's steamed buns stall reopened, but Ruan Siyi's booth for writing letters was not open. Qiao's asked him to study hard and try to be admitted as a scholar next year. This year's food, drink and spending, the money from selling the house can be used for a long time.
Yes, they return to their place of origin for the same purpose. The Ruan family's title was taken away, so naturally he was not in the queue that could not participate in the imperial examination.
Ruan Siyi immersed himself in learning, and Mrs. Qiao went out to set up a stall. He would read and occasionally help Chen's mother with her daughter. Seeing that Mr. Qiao was about to close the stall, he went to pick her up.
The following year, Ruan Siyi entered the examination room full of confidence, but did not pass the examination.
After the results came down, Ruan Siyi was extremely decadent.
Before the age of eighteen, he was a good seedling in the mouth of his husband, and his poems, songs, and essays were not bad. After that, he was discouraged and left his studies for many years, but now it seems that he can't pick it up.
He didn't want to take the test again, and was going to continue to set up a stall to support his family, but Qiao scolded him and said, could it be that your dream of more than ten years can finally be put in front of you one day, but you admit it
Yes, that was a long, long time ago, what he longed most in his heart. This kind of longing has been there since he started to take a pen, but due to the limitation of his identity, he can only press it in the bottom of his heart.
Yes, how could he admit it
He was able to leave behind/decent, face, and the honor of more than 20 years to become a destitute letter-writing scholar. All his self-esteem has been lost, so why can't he lose now
But it's all over again! In the past few years, the fourth master Ruan, who was borrowed from the past, has already been crushed to pieces. He can piece himself together little by little, and now he is not afraid to start all over again!
One year, two years, and the third year Ruan Siyi was finally admitted as a scholar.
Participated in the township examination the following year and failed.
At this time, Ruan Siyi was completely able to face failure calmly, and his xinxing had been honed by the world. He found a private school, and while he was a master teaching others, he helped Qiao to take care of the steamed buns in his spare time.
In the past three years, Qiao became pregnant again and gave birth to a son named Ruan Zhiyuan.
After three years of accumulation, Ruan Siyi ended up again.
The entire southern Shaanxi shook, but Ruan Siyi quietly returned to the capital with his wife and children.
After seven years, he returned to the familiar and unfamiliar capital again.
Ruan Siyi bought a house in the slum where he once lived. Although it was not the one he sold back then, it was very close to it. Many neighbors don't know the family who just moved in. Only the old neighbors still remember the scholar who set up a stall in the street back then, and the bun boss lady sitting next to the scholar.
No one knows that the scholar today is no longer the scholar, but Xie Yuan Ruan Siyi who caused a sensation in the whole of southern Shaanxi in this autumn season.
Southern Shaanxi is too far from the capital, and Xie Yuan is too small in this capital where he can smash a few small officials by dropping a sign.
The capital began to become lively, and more and more people gathered in the capital, preparing to enter the ranks of the emperor's disciples in the spring of the following year.
At the same time, Ruan Siyi ran to set up a stall on the street again. Qiao's steamed bun stall is no longer open. She has to take two children, so she has no time to spare.
In the spring and February of the 14th year of Jingtai, the spring season will start the trial.
Ruan Siyi entered the examination academy on the ninth day of the first day, and was discharged on the evening of the seventeenth. Qiao Shi had already hired a carriage to wait at the entrance of the examination academy. Ruan Siyi got into the carriage and fell into a daze. Qiao Shi was distressed and wiped away tears.
Ruan Siyi slept for three days and three nights before waking up. After nine consecutive days of high-intensity test-taking, his physical strength and energy were exhausted, and then he was waiting for the day of the announcement.
In late February, when the list was released, Ruan Siyi was ranked 12th among the tributes.
On the 15th day of the third month, in the Hall of Chongzheng, Emperor Daxi, His Majesty Emperor Jing, sat on the seat in the center of the hall, and there were numerous tributes below.
For Jingdi, the emperor of Daxi, all the tributes have been admired for a long time. At this time, when they saw Jingdi sitting in the palace and presiding over the palace examination in person, everyone was excited.
Whether you can become a disciple of the Son of Heaven depends on this!
Contrary to everyone, Ruan Siyi was in a complicated mood.
The man on the dragon chair single-handedly destroyed his home, and now he is participating in the palace exam under his auspices.
Time is also fate, but he can't hate this person, because he can grow into today, and it's not because of this person's credit. And the disaster of the Houfu that day was not caused by people themselves!
Press down on your mood, rush to write and write, fourteen years of hard work can be seen in this case!
After the palace test, the papers will be reviewed the next day, and the ranking will be released again every day.
This time, Ruan Siyi once again made a name for himself in the capital, and was personally named the champion of the new division by Emperor Daxi.
After the cross-horse parade, there was a biography meeting, and Ruan Siyi was in the limelight for a while.
It seems that no one remembers that this person is the incompetent second son of the Jinyang Hou family back then. Even his brother Ruan Siming was onlookers on the day of the cross-horse parade. , to connect with his little brother who couldn't support the wall in the mud and didn't know where to go in the early years.
Naturally, someone has asked Zhuangyuan Lang if he is married.
The champion of the new division replied that he has a clumsy family and has been married for more than 20 years.
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No one knows that when Ruan Siyi attended the biography conference, a woman silently shed tears in front of the clear sky and kept mumbling: "Dad, I won the bet, fourteen years, I spent fourteen years..."
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The champion is just a moment of glory, and it will return to silence after that. Ruan Siyi was awarded the title of Hanlin Academy, and he worked for three years first, and then he did other things after the three-year period.
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The past three years have been quiet, and Ruan Siyi has been going back and forth between his home and the Hanlin Academy every day.
During this period, Ruan Siyi had met with his father-in-law, Qiao Shangshu, but the two turned a deaf ear, as if there was no such relationship.
During this period, Qiao was torn between her parents' family and her husband's family. In the end, she secretly dragged someone to send a letter to her parents' family. The letter only said one sentence, and forgive her daughter for being unfilial!
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Three years later, Ruan Siyi was assigned as the prefect of Suzhou.
The night before leaving the capital.
In the darkness, Ruan Siyi looked at Mrs. Qiao, who had been tossing and turning for several days, and said, "You're leaving again, won't you go back to your mother's house?"
"I… "
Ruan Siyi reached out and patted her, and said softly, "Go tomorrow morning, don't worry about me."
"Xiang Gong..."
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Before dawn the next day, Mrs. Qiao drove to Shangshu Mansion in a hurry. Qiao Shangshu and his wife cried bitterly with their daughter in their arms.
Mrs. Qiao kept scolding: "...you have no conscience, you haven't come home for more than ten years..." After scolding, she cried out in distress: "...my daughter suffers..."
After crying, the three sat down and talked. Following Mrs. Qiao's speech, Mrs. Qiao kept wiping away her tears, and Qiao Shangshu kept sighing. In the end, Qiao Shangshu said, "In the end, the hard work pays off. If he can make a difference, you will not suffer in the future."
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It was not until nearly noon that Mr. Qiao left in a hurry. Instead of going back home, I went straight to the Jingjiao Pier.
There was an official ship waiting at the pier.
After Joe got on board, the ship lifted anchor and sailed.
Ruan Siyi and Mrs Qiao stood at the stern of the boat, looking at the mighty city from a distance.
Qiao Shi wiped her tears, "I'm really unfilial..."
Ruan Siyi took her into his arms and sighed, "When we come back again, we will visit our father-in-law and mother-in-law."
"Xiang Gong..."
Ruan Siyi patted her soothingly, but did not speak.
"Actually..." Mr. Qiao took a deep breath, "Actually, I have a secret that I have never told you..."
Ruan Siyi looked at her deeply and said, "I know."
"You know?" Qiao Shi's eyes widened in disbelief.
Ruan Siyi nodded.
In fact, how could he not know? Maybe he was just a fan of the authorities at the time, but then he gradually came to understand. It's just that I can't forget that she appeared in front of him when he was most helpless, that she was haggard when he felt that he was about to die, that he went out for a walk, that she thought he was missing and pulled him to cry and laugh. Face, can't forget that when she was in the most difficult time, she had to fish a bowl of soup for him to drink only soup, and she can't forget that she worked hard to sell buns and saved a few months to buy him a book...
So what if there is deception, what kind of deception can do this? If so many are deceit, then he is deceived like a candy!
"... In fact, I hated you very much at that time. I wish I could see you being unlucky, so that I can be more relaxed... I told myself at the time that I must take revenge on you, make you lose everything, make you fall in love with me, and then I will Abandoning you, making you miserable... But in the end I regret it..."
From that day, she quietly followed him to set up a street stall for the first time, seeing him in embarrassment, seeing him depressed, seeing him struggling to support... She regretted it!
Only then did she realize that he was the calamity of her life after all. He was embarrassed, she was distressed, he was depressed, and she burst into tears... She already loved him to the bottom of her heart, and she couldn't bear it, let it go, cut it off, and forget it...
In fact, the Qiao family is willing to help their daughter and son-in-law, even if Qiao Shangshu is not willing to accept this son-in-law who has never been nice to his daughter, after all, it is his daughter who suffers and suffers. It was Mr. Qiao who tried his best to stop him and told his parents that if he was a piece of mud, let him rot into the mud. Give her three years, if he is a piece of mud, she will go home with Li...
In fact, she lied to everyone, she went for revenge, but she failed miserably at the beginning...
She obviously had money, but she forced him to nowhere. They could have a good life, but she deliberately forced him into embarrassment...
The silver note that Mrs. Qiao stuffed to Mrs. Qiao, Mrs. Qiao hesitated countless times to take it out, but it was finally pressed at the bottom of the box and has never been touched until now.
Over the years, Mrs. Qiao watched Ruan Siyi's changes and transformations a little bit, and at the same time enjoying the love of her husband and wife, she felt guilty... She never said it, because she was afraid...
Afraid to say it, this beautiful everything has become a dream!
Mr. Qiao said word by word, telling all the nightmares that had haunted him for a long time these years, including his own mental journey.
She burst into tears, crying hard.
I don't know when, Ruan Siyi was also wet with tears.
He held Qiao Shi in his arms and hugged him tightly.
"I've always wanted to say sorry to you, but I always felt that it was too shallow. Now, I'll solemnly say to you, I'm sorry. If I could do it again, I wouldn't do that."
Qiao shi cried and laughed, and said, "It's okay."
It doesn't matter, he has exhausted all the ups and downs in Qiao's heart, including the resentment of the day, including the relief later, including the subsequent confession. If the present day must be replaced by all the previous things, she is willing.
After all, at the beginning of the marriage, if he was at fault, she was also at fault. After that, the two drifted apart, and she made even more mistakes...
She finally got a real husband with her own efforts. In the past ten years, Qiao Shi has understood something that she has never understood before, and that is to exchange sincerity for sincerity!
At this time, she has won, she has really won, she has won the gods and the tricks of fate!
The future continues, and happiness sets sail here...
The author has something to say: ps: It's finally over, I can't tell what I feel in my heart, there are ups and downs, let's see you in "The Concubine is on".