Chen Shi's heart was suddenly filled with sadness and tenderness.
Since his resurrection, he has not seen his parents and has been living with his grandfather. After his grandfather passed away, he and the black pot depended on each other.
Heiguo is sensible and always takes care of him so that he does not feel lonely. Only at night, when the hustle and bustle of the day has gone and all the sounds have settled down, will he miss his grandfather and imagine that he is enjoying himself at the knees of his parents and the whole family is enjoying themselves.
But it's just a fantasy.
Now, he finally saw his mother, not in the painting in the box in his hometown, but in the real world.
But my mother seemed to be in a painting, sitting stupidly in a wheelchair, and Chen Tang's calling had no effect. Although she still had breath and heartbeat, great sadness lingered around her, making her She couldn't wake up for a long time.
Chen Shi came to her side, knelt down and asked, "What's wrong with her?"
Chen Tang looked gloomy: "Xiao Shi...after you died, she might have been too sad. First she went crazy and was always looking for you. Then she fell into a daze and couldn't be woken up."
They both seemed to have forgotten the quarrel they had just had and became gentle.
Chen Tang said: "I asked Granny Sha to read it. Granny Sha said that the sadness and pain in her mind was too strong and her soul couldn't bear it. In order to escape the grief, her soul left her body and stayed away from the body, unable to return."
Can the soul also not bear sorrow and pain?
Chen Shi held his mother's hand. The palm was soft and thin, with only bones between the skin. The palm was not warm and had no strength at all. He was silent for a moment and said, "Where do I live?"
Chen Tang was slightly startled and said, "I asked the maid to clean up your room some time ago, and I will let her take you there later." Chen Shi said, "I also have a car and a dog, and I also need a room. "
Chen Tang said: "I asked the maid to tidy up again and make a room." Chen Shi stayed in the Chen Mansion.
He and a few maids went to move the things on the wooden cart and clean the room. The black pot also came over and helped them clean the room.
The room Chen Tang gave them was originally a firewood shed and was later used to pile up sundries. Now coal-burning is popular in Xijing. A coal mountain was found near Xijing. Underground, someone would pull a coal cart into the city at three o'clock every day. Big households Their servants would go and buy coal.
If you are more particular about it, you can burn charcoal, but you have to have money. Charcoal is much more expensive than coal.
Heiguo was carrying a bucket and cleaning the floor. Several maids were chatting and laughing with him. At this time, Heiguo seemed to have noticed something. When he looked back, he saw Chen Tang looking at him.
The black pot smiled at him, nodded, and continued cleaning. It turned its head again and looked at Chen Tang doubtfully.
Chen Tang withdrew his gaze and pushed his wife to bask in the sun.
The black pot looked at him more and more doubtfully, but Chen Tang didn't look back, as if he didn't feel its gaze.
The wooden cart went in and out of the room, and eyes the size of bathtubs sprouted from the sides and bottom of the cart, curiously looking at the new home. However, the maids were cleaning it, so it was a bit of a hindrance as it drove back and forth, easily blocking people.
At this time, the wooden cart would grow arms, put its arms around the girls' waists, and put them from one side of the cart to the other. These maids were not afraid and giggled, probably because they were affected by the blame.
Black Guo looked in the direction of Chen Tang again, but Chen Tang just retracted his gaze and did not look at him.
At dinner time, Chen Shi, Chen Tang and Chen Shiniang were dining in the main hall. The maid served Chen Shiniang to eat. She couldn't chew, so she had to help control her jaw, chew bit by bit, chew the food into pieces, and then she could swallow it slowly. It is meticulous and patient.
"You don't want to help."
Chen Tang said to Chen Shi, "Ping'er is patient and careful. If you help me, I will choke easily if I can't chew thoroughly. Sit down and eat." Chen Shi sat down and helped Hei Guo pull out a round stool.
The black pot is wearing human clothes and is also preparing to sit down.
Chen Tang raised his eyebrows, looked unhappy, and said, "Dogs can't be served on the table."
Chen Shi raised his eyebrows and put down his chopsticks: "The black pot can be served. This is how we eat at Old Chen's house in Huangpo Village!"
Chen Tang glanced at him and his face darkened: "I am the head of the family and I set the rules. Dogs are not allowed on the table here!" Chen Shi was about to slap the table when Black Pot put his front paws on his shoulders and shook it. Shake your head to calm his emotions.
Chen Shi took back his palm.
Hei Guo picked up the rice bowl, picked up the chopsticks, stood up and came to the corner, squatting down to eat.
Chen Shi stood up, moved half of the food on the table to another plate, and left half for Chen Tang. He picked up the plate and bowl and went to the corner, squatted next to the black pot, and put half of the food on the plate to the black pot.
One person and one dog squatted in the corner eating.
Black Pot Eyeball signaled to Chen Tang, asking Chen Shi to go back to eat so as not to quarrel with Chen Tang. Chen Shi shook his head, saying that he wanted to share the joys and sorrows with him. Chen Tang tightened his chopsticks, relaxed again, and continued to eat by himself.
——There are not many tables at home, and his monthly salary is not high. If he smashes another table, he can only squat down to eat like Chen Shi and Gouzi. Sitting at the table, Chen Shi’s mother seemed to see the father and son. When people get into trouble, their right fingers tremble with anxiety.
Chen Tang was surprised and happy, but unfortunately she stopped shaking soon. "Come up and eat."
Chen Tang thought for a while and said, "Kai Guo, sit across from you. Don't face me." Chen Shi stood up, dragged Hei Guo to the table and sat down.
Chen Tang picked up the vegetables, put them in Chen Shi's bowl, and said calmly: "There are many masters in Xijing. Don't influence others at every turn. It will be easy for others to see that you are unusual. You also have your own family members, so you can't influence them."
He picked up the vegetables again, put them in the black pot and bowl, and said: "You follow my father, and you are half a member of the family. I don't ask about your origins, and I don't care whether you are evil or not. I will treat you as a member of the family." "
Black Pot nodded and shook his tail behind the chair. "But that car."
Chen Tang pursed his lips towards the wooden cart and said, "I can't afford to feed it. It eats too much and my monthly salary is not enough. You have to find a way." As soon as he said this, Chen Shi couldn't help but feel a little worried.
The food in the wooden cart is large, and one meal requires more than ten kilograms of spirit animal meat, or it is okay to eat evil spirits. However, prices in Xijing are high, and spirit animal meat no longer costs one tael of silver per catty, but three taels of silver per catty.
There is no evil spirit in it.
Maintaining a car every month is a big expense.
Chen Shi didn't believe it and said, "Aren't you greedy at all?
Chen Tang clenched his chopsticks, stretched them out, and said, "A gentleman is poor and does not use his wealth. "Grandpa taught you that, right?"
Chen Shi smiled, "Grandpa also said you can't take money from dead people, otherwise the dead people will come to you at night to find money. I believed it at first, but then I took it... He stopped talking here and did not continue.
Go down.
He is still a good boy, but he is a little rebellious and he almost let it slip.
Chen Tang didn't seem to understand, and thought to himself: "I am now a third-rank official, with a monthly salary of thirty-five dan. One dan of rice, five taels of silver, is seventeen and a half taels of silver a month. This car of yours will eat up one of me a day."
I can't support it with a monthly salary.
Chen Shi asked in confusion: "There are six servants and a maid at home, how can you afford to support them?"
Chen Tang shook his head and said: "I didn't invite them, they were given to me by others. Every month, the maids and servants get money from other families without me spending any money. My monthly salary is only responsible for the daily expenses of the family."
He is a very honest official.
Hei Guo took out a one hundred tael silver note, placed it on the table, and gently pushed it in front of him. Chen Tang's eyes twitched, and he shook his head and said, "I can't accept it."
Chen Shi said: "The blame is the pocket money I gave it. It lived more frugally and didn't spend it all. If you don't have any money to use, just take it first. Chen Tang still shook his head.
Chen Shi took out a few more pieces of gold and said, "I earned this on the road. You can use it first."
Veins appeared on Chen Tang's forehead. After a while, he said: "What I mean is, you should not think about being a dandy and finding a decent job. You are now a civil servant. Logically speaking, the imperial court should assign you an official position.
There must be people in Xijing who are worried about you causing trouble, and will probably give you an official job, so don't refuse.
Chen Shi smiled and said, "I wanted to be a dandy, but you didn't give me this chance." Chen Tang broke the chopsticks and finished dinner with half of the chopsticks.
Chen Shi went to Xijing to take the exam, which caused a greater shock than Chen Tang imagined.
The news that the boy scholar came back to life and came to Beijing to take the exam had spread. That night, the city was full of uproar. From the officials to the common people, everyone was talking about it. "Why did he come back to Beijing after so many years after his death?"
What is it?"
"Revenge? Or take part in the examination and gain fame?
"His innate Tao fetus has been cut off and transplanted into others. Why should he make a comeback? "Xijing, he has enemies everywhere, how dare he come to Xijing?
"I heard that there was a demon living in his body, and wherever he passed, there were countless deaths and injuries.
"Back then, his grandfather killed many of us. At that time, there was almost no talent in Xijing. Otherwise, how could Jin Hongying and several other young generals and civil servants climb up?"
"I heard that he doesn't get along with the young master. How dare he offend the young master?"
Yan Xianzhi, the former chief minister of the cabinet, was also frowning slightly at this moment. At this moment, several ministers of the cabinet came to visit him one after another. They crowded into the Yan family's teahouse and took their seats. They all talked about the entrance of the child scholar. They all said that the incident in Beijing was very involved and asked him how to deal with it.
Among the thirteen ministers of the cabinet, only the chief assistant Zhang Fuzheng did not come to ask for his opinion, obviously he had made his own decision.
What was different from usual was that Eunuch Feng was always the first to come over, but he didn't come this time because he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd.
The Thirteenth Aristocratic Family had strong opinions. They all felt that Xiucai had been wronged back then and had to make amends. They could not let Xiucai continue to be wronged.
Yan Xianzhi looked at everyone and just sneered, knowing that these people were just worried about the hidden demon in Chen Shimei's heart breaking out.
Who wouldn’t be greedy for life and afraid of death?
But the hard part is solving the problem.
Chen Shi's visit to the capital is just a matter of promotion. How much trouble can he cause if he enters the capital?
Xijing has plenty of means to suppress him!
There are also some ways to win over him!
"Xijing is too big, and there are too many capable people. Throwing a child into it is like a pebble dropped into a quiet lake. There will be waves, but they will soon subside."
Yan Xianzhi waited for everyone to finish speaking, and then he said calmly, "Life in this world is nothing more than eating, drinking, playing, having fun, merit, fame, power, and power. Once you are satisfied with eating, drinking, and having fun, you will want fame and fame." Power. When he enters the capital, recognizes his ancestors and returns to his clan, and has a family, he has cares. Give him an official, and he will have respect and inferiority. Give him a woman, and he will have scruples. Give him a child, and he will have worries. Abandon."
He picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, raised his eyebrows, and said softly: "Those who are made of iron will turn into soft fingers."
As soon as he said this, the other twelve cabinet ministers laughed.
Someone laughed and said: "In Journey to the West, how capable is Monkey Sun? But he can't find the palm of Tathagata Buddha! Then give him an official, give him a woman, let the woman give him a child, and kill him!"
When he first arrived, Chen Tang had already gotten up, packed his clothes, prepared documents, and ate something to cushion his stomach. After packing, he walked to the imperial city. Many officials in the inner city of Xijing got up and walked out of their homes. Some boarded chariots or sedan chairs, and some also walked.
At the third watch, it was still early, so they waited at the Meridian Gate. At the fifth watch, they walked through the Meridian Gate, crossed the Golden Bridge, and came to the square in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony to sit quietly.
When all the cabinet ministers arrived, and with the sound of a bell, everyone filed into the court hall.
In the court hall, the throne of the True King has been vacant for thousands of years, but all the civil and military ministers still kowtowed to the empty throne.
Then comes the discussion. The thirteen ministers of the cabinet first talk about various issues. Generally, the cabinet has made a decision. They just inform the ministers of the results and ask for their opinions. Most of them have no opinions.
Someone reported that a magical change occurred in a certain place on a certain day of the month, or there was a natural disaster or flood, and asked the court to send someone to deal with it.
Then came impeachment. Civil servants impeached and criticized each other, saying that someone was corrupt and perverting the law, or that his wife or children accepted bribes, and then they would fight in the court, but they would not kill them.
It has been this way for thousands of years, and there is nothing strange about it.
Chen Tang did his duty well, even if there was a memorial, it also showed that the treasures and gunpowder of the fifty provinces were dispatched.
When he retired from the court, it was already dawn, and Chen Tang was hungry. After chatting with other officials for a few words, he walked out of the inner city and came to the outer city.
Not long after, he came to a shop called Sweet Bean Shop and sat down.
"A bowl of hot soy milk, no sugar, and two drawers of steamed buns with pork and green onions."
Chen Tang told the waiter, "Also, pack six more drawers and I'll take them away after I finish them."
The waiter responded and went.
After a while, the soy milk was served and two drawers of hot steamed buns were put down.
Just as Chen Tang was about to use his chopsticks, he saw a scholar across the street who looked somewhat similar to him but was younger than him. He folded his hands on his chest and leaned against the wall of the street, staring at him and smiling.
"I'm blocking you!"
The scholar was standing on one leg, with the other leg bent and pushing against the wall. He was far away from him, but the voice seemed to come from his ears.
Chen Tang turned a blind eye to him and continued to drink soy milk and eat steamed buns by himself. After finishing two drawers of steamed buns, he drank soy milk to the bottom of the bowl. Then he got up and went to the counter to pay. The waiter had already wrapped the steamed buns, and Chen Tang took them and walked out. Sweet Pea Shop.
The scholar opposite stood up and walked side by side with him.
Chen Tang didn't look at him and walked toward the inner city.
"I heard you were injured, quite badly."
Chen Tang said calmly, "You still dare to run out, aren't you afraid that someone will take the opportunity to kill you?"
The creator Xiao Wu smiled and said: "Who dares to touch me? My injury this time was not in vain. The ancestor of the Li family has promised to tell me who is the one who got the Xiao Shi divine fetus. Do you want to know who that person is? who?"
Chen Tang said, "I think so. But the ancestor of the Li family won't tell you." Creation Xiaowu smiled and said, "It all depends on my method."
He changed the subject and said, "Brother Tang, I heard that Xiao Shi has come to Beijing and is staying at your house." Chen Tang stopped and said, "It has nothing to do with you."
Creation Xiao Wu also stopped and said seriously: "He has suffered a lot, please treat him better and don't let him suffer any more." Chen Tang suppressed his anger: "He is from my Chen family. Not your son!"
Creation Xiao Wu walked forward and said with a smile: "If you can't teach me well, if you don't want this son, then give it to me. He once called me dad, so I can be his fifth dad."
Chapter completed!