Ancient carriage house is somewhat similar to the current transport company, the next day dawn, Zhu Pingan retired from the guest room, carrying a bag out of the inn straight to the carriage house.
When he arrived at the carriage house, he handed over the horse licence he had received yesterday to the person in charge of the carriage house, and then he was assigned to a carriage. A carriage quota is to sit four people, there is already a big belly merchant on the carriage, see Zhu Pingan carrying the bag up, but also took the initiative to help a hand, smiling and Zhu Pingan chatted a few words, a brief acquaintance, when he learnt that Zhu Pingan is a scholar to participate in the government exams in the Anqing prefecture, the big belly merchant’s face has a more respect.
After a while, on the carriage came up another young man who was still dressed well, holding a folding fan, with a face of excessive wine and lust.
After this man got on the carriage, he would dislike Zhu Pingan’s bag for being too big and taking up too much space, and he would dislike the fat merchant’s body for being too stinky!
Without waiting for the fourth passenger of the carriage, the convoy had already set off. There were five carriages in total, almost 17 or 18 passengers, each carriage had a carriage style, and the entire caravan had five strong men who acted as escorts, while briefly doubling as replacement carriages.
After the carriage departed, the young man in Zhu Ping An’s car who was still dressed well complained that the carriage house only had one horse for the carriage, saying that his family had two or three horses pulling the carriage, the fat merchant just smiled casually, his eyes revealing a bit of disdain.
The son of heaven driving six, the vassals driving five, the secretary driving four, the doctor three, the scholar two, the common people one. Two horses three horses, you are who?
Zhu Pingan also just slightly hooked up the corners of his mouth, a naive look of reading.
Ancient carriage damping measures do not do well, and the road is not flat, the carriage shaking more powerful, which makes Zhu Pingan cancelled in the carriage to read the intention of the book, just closed his eyes to rest his mind silently will have read the poetry and books to reminisce a bit.
Not to say that the merchant on the sleeve good dance ah, in the carriage walked less than an hour it, fat merchant and that face of wine and colour over the young man mingled, but all the way to the two people chat mostly wine and women, and modern times, men talk about this easy to have a topic of conversation.
Zhu Pingan was not a pedantic person, and after experiencing more in modern times, he did not have any feelings of disgust.
The carriage rushes during the day and rests at night, and of course there is almost an hour’s meal break in the middle of the day.
The carriage house will provide simple food, of course you need to spend money to buy, do not need to spend more, only five Wen can share two cakes and a bowl of broth, can fill the stomach full. After eating, sitting on the grass against the carriage, I asked the carriage style, and got an answer that I have to rest here for half an hour before continuing the journey.
Time is still early, Zhu Pingan will carry a satchel of books open to take a book, slowly read up.
“Yo, or readers it, what is the use of reading, neither can be eaten as food nor can be spent as money, look at you dressed like this, surely there are not a few money, really no use is a scholar.”
The young man in the same car seemed to be full of disdain for scholars, seeing Zhu Pingan sitting on the grass and leaning on the wheel to read, he could not help but sneer.
Zhu Pingan shifted his gaze from the book to the young man with an overly drunken face, swept a glance, gave a casual hmmm, and lowered his head to read again.
The young man with excessive drunkenness didn’t seem to anticipate that when he said this about the young man reading the book, the young man even only gave a hmmm and then lost his voice, this kid couldn’t be reading stupidly, could it be that my contempt wasn’t obvious enough to show?
“There is a poor Xiu Cai in the vicinity of my residence, Xiu Cai do you understand, look at you like this to know that you are far from Xiu Cai. But even if you have passed the examination, what can you do, no money to make some connections, in addition to the stink of a scholar, what else can you do? Those who win the examination are all from famous families and powerful clans, and the imperial examination is just a way to cheat you poor scholars.”
“What’s the use of studying?”
The young man who was overly drunk and lustful continued to strike at Zhu Pingan, full of resentment towards the scholars. The man was like the Tang Monk, babbling on and on, and the fat merchant who was resting on the side failed to persuade him twice. It felt like the Monkey King of the Moonlight Box facing the Hall that said don’t smash it into the flowery little children, and like the modern day Brother Hundred Dollar who harps on a hundred dollars and won’t even give me the good, bad, good, bad, making it impossible to continue to read the book.
So, Zhu Pingan raised his head, quietly looked at him, and slowly opened his mouth:
“The earthly world is three thousand prosperous, Jun and walk, I will worship peach blossom with wine, anyer gold and jade linings and good colts in pairs, not to rival the red beans and vermilion sand between my eyebrows.”
That young man froze, not understanding the meaning.
You can understand it is strange, this is a modern popular saying “you play open, I just want to be quiet and be a beautiful man” of the literary version.
Zhu Pingan glanced at him again, shook his head slightly, not giving him a chance to speak, and spoke on his own:
“Although you have been belittling reading and mocking the uselessness of reading, how does this disguise your identity as a scholar.”
“That’s right, it’s you who are talking about it, look at your slightly blackened lips, I think you must have the habit of licking your lips to smooth the tip of the pen when you study ink and write.”
“Look at your right sleeve has wear and tear, should be when reading and writing wear it.”
“You have such a deep grudge against reading, it should be that you lost quite a bit in this imperial examination.”
“You have a yearning and resentment for the rich and famous family, I’m afraid it is from a poor background, well, perhaps to a certain lady is also quite interested in it, but the flowers have the intention of flowing water has no love, this time the science examination failure, hope is also small, right.”
“The body smell of wine heavy, should be caused by the use of alcohol to dispel sorrow, right, well, there is also a very strong smell of grease, slightly pungent should be of low quality, I guess the recent with you should be not so good dusty woman it.”
“The three armies can take away the marshal the horseman can not take away the will also, from where you fall down from where to get up, failing to make a comeback is.”
Zhu Pingan every sentence, that wine excessive young man’s face will wither one point, and finally, that young man will remove the disguise, from a haughty boy into a discouraged and disillusioned downcast scholar.
“Alas, thirteen years in the cold window, year after year the list is hurt.” The young man of excessive wine and sex, lost soul long sigh, not the slightest fighting spirit, “after this year’s failure, a certain will vow never touch poetry and books, and go home to sell himself to the rich and powerful family to get a subsistence.”
It is also a poor man hurt by the imperial examinations ah, Zhu Pingan can not help but think of those who look at the list of readers who are downhearted and sad, since encountered, can not look at a reader to sell his body into slavery.
So, Zhu Pingan got up, closed the scroll, shook his head slightly, and opened his mouth, “Although I am young, but I also understand that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and there is no way to reach a thousand miles without short steps. There is always a hope of success if you persist, but there is not a single chance if you give up.”
The despondent scholar glanced at Zhu Pingan and sighed, “You’re still young, this is only your first time to fall through the ranks, how can you understand the pain of me falling through the ranks eight times.”
Zhu Pingan looked into the distance with his hands behind his back and said indifferently:
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way… break the kettle and sink the boat… a hundred and two Qin passes will belong to Chu…
Where there is a will, there is a way… Where there is a will, there is a way… Where there is a will, there is a way… Where there is a will, there is a way… Where there is a will, there is a way.
The downtrodden young man heard the words and seemed to have been struck by lightning, jerking his head up to look at Zhu Pingan, re-reading the couplet that Zhu Pingan had said again and again in silence, his eyes flashing brightly again.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, break the kettle and sink the boat, a hundred and two Qin passes end up belonging to Chu 😉
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, where there’s a way, where there’s a way, where there’s a way, where there’s a way, where there’s a way.
“Little brother great talent, this little brother failed to list, the future can certainly high school, a certain not as well, but also taught by a certain. Hanging beam stabbing, he day, Anqingfu come again.” The fallen scholar re-transformed his fighting spirit, and gave a long bow of thanks to Zhu Pingan.
“Where am I a great talent, only picking up the wisdom of others, this is what I heard from an elder called Pu Songling.”
With a naive smile on his face, Zhu Pingan waved his hand and said in a serious manner.
“Then thanks to little brother for his enlightenment as well.” The man insisted on paying his respects once more.
After the carriage set off again, the atmosphere inside the carriage was instantly harmonious.
