Three hundred years ago, Wucheng, Dongning County.
Surrounded by two mountains and adjacent to one water, it has a good terrain and is the most prosperous county in Dongning County.
At that time, the world was set, the new dynasty was established, the emperor was powerful in the world, and the people who fled their homeland due to the war came back to farm one after another.
Ten years after the Shi family moved to Wucheng, he also became a famous merchant.
His shop was full of bright cloth and silk, and he invited many embroiderers to make exquisite and beautiful clothes. It was the most famous "cloud brocade weaving" in Dongning County at that time. The number of silkworm cocoons collected every year is very difficult, and the income on the book every year is also endless.
With the business doing so well, Shi Yuanwai is naturally very busy.
He is a relocated person, and he has no clan to support him in Wucheng.
How busy are you? For seven months of the year, he does not come into the house.
The family is rich and the business is prosperous, and the release of the outside world can be regarded as an enviable object in Wucheng.
Especially since he has two good sons! The eldest son, Shi Cang, was born with a handsome face, Zhilan and Yushu, and he also practiced good martial arts.
The Shi family caravan was out all year round, and not long after the world began to calm down, the soldiers who had escaped into the civilian population and fled from the previous dynasty gathered as bandits, causing disaster everywhere. There are many mountain bandits and water thieves, and the Shi family's business is prosperous, and Shi Cang is credited, because the desperadoes who dared to attack their caravan's ideas all returned.
There are only two sons outside the prisoner, the eldest son and the youngest son are very different in age.
When matchmakers from Shili Baxiang rushed to the door to match Shi Cang, Shi Feng could not speak.
It stands to reason that the older son and the younger son should be the most favored, but the Shi family broke this convention.
It was probably because the business was too busy, and the prisoners didn't even go home, so how could they take care of their youngest son? I usually don’t ask questions, only when I get home will I call to take a look and ask a few words indifferently—this is not bad. Talking is too troublesome to delay time, so you can avoid it directly.
In the snowy day, Shi Feng stood and watched as a group of people surrounded his father and walked away.
At that time, he was already at the age of Kaimeng, and he knew the nearest road to his house, but because he didn't want to talk to him, Shi Yuanwai gave up the nearest road and took a detour to the side path to leave.
Shi's family is a rich man in Wucheng. The house is built like a garden in the south of the Yangtze River. Taihu Lake stones are stacked into a green hills barrier, and even the promenade is separated by hollow bricks. Sometimes, when you feel that there is no one around, you will see the shadow behind the rockery Shaking, talking outside the house with no secrets. Not to mention the fact that Shi Yuan did it so obviously, there was more than one time, and there were not a few servant girls who had seen this scene secretly.
- This is really impossible to say!
Asking a head of the family to put aside the business and surrender to the child is unreasonable in this world where the father is the leader of the child.
—Didn’t you hear the servants of the Shi family say that the youngest son outside the prisoner had an outstanding talent
Such a good son has been abandoned like a bullshit, which makes the Wucheng family who forced their children to study poetry and books hard in their chests!
-Hey, even if the talent is in the sky, the world is peaceful! If you want to be an official, you have to take the imperial examinations, just rely on him! Ah!
Everyone immediately understood, and even the aristocratic family smiled sarcastically.
But no, even if the family has a lot of wealth, it is a businessman, a scholar, a farmer, a businessman, and the Shi family who sells silk cannot wear silk himself. This is the etiquette of the world, and this is the world! No matter how smart the son of the prisoner was, he was not qualified to take the imperial examination.
This good reading of poetry and books will be exported into chapters in the future. What is the use of being smart enough to be proficient in literature and history
It's no wonder that Shi Yuan doesn't look down on him, and he doesn't have any intention of inviting Mr. Xixi for his youngest son!
A businessman is a businessman, and profit is only a profit. Everyone thought contemptuously, probably in the eyes of Shi Yuanwai, the youngest son who can read is a waste, far less worthy of his joy than the eldest son Shi Cang of a mere martial artist.
The Wucheng aristocratic family sighed for a while, and then they watched the liveliness safely.
Things seemed to be similar to what they thought. Shi Cang was by his father's side all day long, and he was very prestigious regardless of whether he was at home or abroad.
After Shi Cang discounted the legs of the two shopkeepers who made false accounts and threw them out of Wucheng, the head of the Shi family seemed to be replaced by Shi Cang. Everyone could see the situation clearly. The two brothers were much younger in age. When Shi Feng grew up, he was afraid that the family business would be firmly in his brother's hands, and there was no room for competition.
These guys who watch the fun and don’t think it’s a big thing, wish that Shi Feng could live for a few more years, preferably when Shi Feng is in his thirties, and he will die when his wings are completed. It is also a good thing to be robbed!
But thinking about it, Shi Feng was only enlightened at that time, and it would take twenty years before he could compete with his elder brother, so far away! This release is also very rare. The two sons below his knees are said to be direct descendants. It seems that there are several concubines in the outer room in Wucheng.
Those with good deeds arrange the releasers to be afraid of the outside world, and their wives are comparable to the lions in the east of the river.
After a few years of rumors, the rumor disappeared. Without him, the hostess of the Shi family believed in Buddhism and built a small courtyard at home to worship the gods. She didn't cut clothes or wear any jewelry, but she was extremely beautiful. The servants hired by the Shi family said in private that such a beautiful woman was the most boring person.
Like Shi Yuanwai, the eldest son came back, and she greeted him with a faint smile.
The younger son is at home all year round, but she rarely pays any attention to him, so she called to meet him on the 15th day of the first day, and sometimes kept Shi Feng closed for three months. Not to mention being sick and hurting, cold and hungry, she has never even done a catch week for her younger son, let alone a birthday every year.
When the Shi family moved to Wucheng, Shi Cang was fifteen years old. His mother was holding her youngest son, who was only three months old. She sat on the carriage with a gloomy expression. The child was crying so hard. Lost.
This scene left a deep impression on the shopkeeper of the largest inn in Wucheng. More than ten years later, he still mentioned it often.
But the listeners laughed and thought it was made up. How can there be such a mother
The joke they talked about was that the clerk got into the eyes of money, and Shi’s wife was obsessed with the empty scriptures and Buddhism, so that one day, the old woman who worked in Shi’s house, Nuonuo, came to tell the master, should the young master arrest Zhou? It was only when the couple realized that several months had passed since the first birthday of their youngest son.
People like the story of this kind of idiot businessman and couple, and there is also a poor scholar who has changed his tricks to ridicule a certain dynasty and a certain generation, and there is such a greedy and short-sighted "Master Fei".
The homonym of Shi is "yes", and Fei is "no".
"Just in this world, how can right and wrong be so simple and clear?"
Hearing Shi Feng sigh, Chen He gritted his teeth slightly, his expression changed, very bad.
"Why does it look like this?" Shi Feng laughed, and quickly pulled away Chen He, who wanted to bury his head in his shirt again, and looked down at his junior brother, "Did you guess something?"
Chen He bowed his head.
He knew his senior brother, and Shi Feng was never the one to tell in detail what kind of hardship he had suffered.
Shi Feng said about the birthday banquet, about the arrangement of the innkeeper for his mother, and said that the clerk repeatedly avoided detours as if he could not see him. , which made Shi Feng choose to mention it.
Contacting the old man with long eyebrows again, Chen He's heart was even more suffocated by what Heiyuan Valley Master had said.
The Chen family broke up with him, but the Shi family and Shi Feng were not. These strange and pitiful stories about the young son of the Shi family, Chen He understood, this should be just the beginning...
Chen He shook his head pretending not to have guessed anything: "Senior brother was in Wucheng, did you hear the story of Master Fei?"
"Not only back then, but today you can buy this book in Wucheng, Dongning County! How did the story come about, people in the world have forgotten it." Shi Feng said lightly.
Chen He hugged Shi Feng silently.
"It doesn't have to be. I sneaked out when I was ten years old, and when I heard this at the Wucheng Teahouse, I didn't feel angry,"
Because the old man Fei in the storyteller's mouth is just stupid and clumsy, just obsessed with money, forgetting, not really ignoring his young son.
When Shi Feng from Wucheng returned home in a daze, he was seriously ill.
He wasn't angry, just sad.
There are still many details that Shi Feng didn't tell Chen He. For example, the servants of Shi's family were afraid of Shi Cang and Shi Cang, and they didn't take him seriously. Good to use.
When he was young, it was rare for him to come back. Shi Feng tried his best to not see him. He was always stopped without a trace. The child was unruly and wanted to jump up and shout. take away.
If he wants to gain the favor of his father, if he doesn't study, he wants to learn martial arts. No one will teach him, and no one will arrange it for him.
Some people read the books, but the release officer obviously asked the bookstore in the city to send a copy of all the books, and he didn't even read the list.
Otherwise, how to explain the stack of erotic pictures in the book...
This matter was leaked by the bookstore and the Shi family's servant, and it became that Mr. Fei was ignorant, pretending to be a pretense, and letting people pull a carload of books for his six-year-old son, and it turned out that there were such things in it. !
The tea customer laughed, what about Shi Feng? He knew very well that his father could read, and even had good knowledge.
Is the mother obsessed with scriptures so stupid that she can't remember the birthday of her youngest son? Shi Feng, who had read Buddhist scriptures, knew very well that his mother couldn't even figure out what the Great Compassion Mantra was.
This trivial matter includes Shi Feng, her son.
Others heard that Shu laughed happily, but no one knew the sadness of a young man in the crowd. No one knows that the son of the fool in the story, Mr. Fei, is not unlucky.
Shi Feng's illness continued on and off for two or three years.
Sometimes he became drowsy, and vaguely saw his parents and brothers coming in, asking for medicine, and touching his forehead.
Shi Feng thought it was a dream, but it was just an expectation in his heart, because Shi Yuanwai still had a gloomy face, like someone owed him a lot of money. His mother also looked indifferent in his memory.
They eagerly blamed each other, blaming each other for not being optimistic about Shi Feng. Although it was a quarrel, the words were very warm. It was a scene only in a dream, but with their always disgusted and annoyed faces, it seemed very absurd and ridiculous. .
Shi Cang persuaded his parents next to him, and he stewed supplements many times, and often came to feed him.
Although he was looking kindly at his comatose brother with a high fever, there was an occasional expression of undisguised hatred and disgust in his brows, just like the subtle expression on Shi Feng's face when he was found by Shi Cang, who was returning home.
When Shi Feng woke up, he looked at the empty room and smiled at himself.
- The faces of the parents and brothers are so deep that they look like that even in their sweet dreams, how ridiculous.
At the age of seventeen, after Shi Feng recovered from his illness, he finally saw all this, and he secretly decided to leave Wucheng.
This place is not like his home, so why should he stay
As a result, before he had time to leave, the disaster of the Shi family came.