Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

Twenty miles in the suburbs of Beijing, it was originally an unknown mountain peak. Later, a hermit built an academy in the middle of the mountain, called "Jingliu Academy". It has become a famous place in the capital, so this mountain has another name, Jingliu Mountain.

Jingliu Academy was built in the depths of the mountain forest. Shen An, the head of the mountain, said in classical Chinese that the students could concentrate on studying and not be misled by the world of mortals. There is only a winding and rugged path, and it is only five or six miles along the mountain range before reaching the avenue.

It snowed heavily the day before, and the mountain road was inevitably slippery and difficult to walk on. However, from a distance, I saw a boy in commoner clothes with a nimble figure and quick movements. He was like an ape who had lived in the mountains for a long time. After a while, I came to the gate of the courtyard.

The old man Zhang, who was watching the gate of the courtyard, didn't have very good eyesight. He didn't see him until he got close, and a smile appeared on his face immediately, "This isn't Brother Yuan. After all, you've been away from the college for half a year. How about the exam?"

The young man saluted with a smile, "Mr. Zhang is safe and sound. Fortunately, the teacher arranged to take care of him. Yuan has successfully passed the exam."

"That's good, that's good." Old man Zhang smiled blindly.Brother Yuan was raised by him. His parents died early and he was persecuted many times. His life was very hard. When he first came here, he was not even around his waist. Now more than ten years later, he has grown up. How can an adult not be happy for this child when he has fame? "It's fine if you've passed the exam, and it's fine when you come back. Hey, Mr. Shen didn't say anything, but he was worried about you all the time. Now that you're back, he can feel at ease."

The young man smiled and said a few words to the old man Zhang, then walked quickly to the backyard, went back to his room to put his luggage, and then went to the study to find the teacher. After entering the cave gate, he saw Shen Anwen, Mr. Shen standing in the garden admiring plum blossoms instead of reading in the study.I don’t know what species the white plum blossoms in the courtyard are. Now it’s the deep winter season, the cold air is piercing to the bone, and the mountain is so cold that even the bone marrow hurts, but it blooms vigorously. Refreshing.Hearing the young man's footsteps, Mr. Shen turned his head and saw that it was a disciple whom he had not seen for half a year. Shen Anwen, who had passed the year of his destiny, couldn't help feeling inexplicable.

The young man went up to pay respects to the teacher. Mr. Shen hurriedly helped him up, patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and led him to the study, "Okay, it's good to be back. The white plums bloomed early this morning. , I remembered that poem you wrote in the early years, 'Ruixue shows the beauty of the plum, and Ling Han occupies the highest branch.' Unexpectedly, you came back just as you were chanting."

Helping the teacher to sit down in the hall, the young man gave the big gift again, "I have lived up to the teacher's high expectations, and I have passed the Sichuan Provincial Examination."

"Yes, yes." Besides yes, Mr. Shen was overjoyed and didn't know what to say.Looking at the child in front of him, he couldn't help but have mixed feelings. When he first met, he was just a four-year-old boy who just lost his parents and was struggling to live. Now he is 16-year-old Xie Yuangong.This little boy has gone through many trials and hardships, and has gone through ups and downs to get to where he is today. Now that he has passed another hurdle, he does not know whether the road ahead will be smooth or not. "The next year is the year of the big competition, and the next year will be the [-]th birthday. I am afraid that there will be an additional subject. There will be a test for two years in a row. Depending on your ability, you will be on the list .”

After talking about the itinerary on the road, he talked about the general idea of ​​his own strategy and theory, served the teacher for dinner, and the boy returned to his room.Although no one has lived in it for half a year, the room is obviously cleaned often, and it is still very clean. The boy only tidied up a little, packed his clothes, and then lay back on the bed. The warm feeling after coming home.Whether it is the old man Zhang who is the janitor, Aunt Zhang who often cleans the room for him and makes clothes and shoes for him, or the teacher Shen Anwen, they all care and take care of him like his family.As for the so-called blood relatives... The young man gritted his teeth, saying that he is an enemy is not an exaggeration!

The boy's name is Jiang Yuan, he was not born in this Jing Dynasty, he was actually born in the 80s of the [-]th century.When he was three years old, his parents died in a mudslide, and he was sold by his uncle, father, and uncle to adoptive parents in other places, and he lived a life of being dependent on others.Although the family who bought him treated him badly at the beginning, they hadn’t frozen and starved him to death. After all, they had no children, so they finally bought one. Hungry, but manageable.But the adoptive mother, who hadn't been pregnant in the past year, unexpectedly gave birth to a younger brother for him in one fell swoop, and his life immediately became difficult.The adoptive parents didn't think he was the younger brother he recruited, they just felt that it was a loss for spending thousands of dollars to buy such an unpleasant child, so they began to abuse him mercilessly.

His adoptive parents lived in the mountain village, and the old, young, women and children in the village were their relatives. No one was willing to speak for an outsider child, and some even helped his adoptive parents to watch him bully him.As a four or five-year-old child, he had to collect firewood and fetch water, cook on fire, feed pigs and chickens, catch insects and weeds. Sleeping in a pile of firewood in the backyard.He only had half a bowl of cold rice to satisfy his hunger every day, forcing him to eat some wild vegetables and fruits to support himself.Three meals a day are considered light, and from time to time they are hung from a tree and beaten to death.If he hadn't accidentally rolled down the hillside to collect firewood when he was ten years old, and met some teachers who came from the city to sketch in the mountains, he might not even have learned.

With the help of the media in the city, he finally left his so-called adoptive parents and uncles and uncles who trafficked people, and lived in an orphanage to start a happy life of studying and studying.Perhaps the orphanage is not so beautiful for many children, but for Jiang Yuan, it is finally a normal life.

After finishing high school with a work-study program, Jiang Yuan had no money to go to college even if his grades were excellent, so he decided to join the army.I worked as a scout for several years, and as a special soldier for several years. After retiring from the army, I started a security company and became the boss.He thought that if he was lucky, he would eventually achieve a career and lead a happy life, but in the end he did not escape a terminal illness...

He thought he was dead, but when he opened his eyes again, he turned into a newborn baby.The baby's eyes are not very good, but his ears can hear better than adults. It didn't take long for him to figure out his own life experience from the conversations of his parents.

In this life, Jiang Yuan was still named Jiang Yuan, and his father was originally named Jia Di, the eldest son of Jia Daishan, Duke Rong of Rongguo Prefecture in the capital.That Rongguo Duke Jia Daishan's father died early, and he went to the battlefield in his teens, but it was difficult for him to be promoted, so he became married early and hoped that his in-laws could promote him on his behalf.Jia Daishan's first wife, surnamed Xu, was the daughter of a general. She became pregnant as soon as she got married and gave birth to Jia Du, but Xu died of a blood collapse.It's nothing, but Xu's father and brother all died on the battlefield one after another, and the Xu family's mother also died of illness. So I have another thought.

Mrs. Jia was afraid that her son would not have a wife to support her in the future, so she made the decision to let her son continue with another house. It was Shi Shi, the concubine daughter of the historian Hou Ye. In the future, the historian will definitely help his son, which can be regarded as a good marriage.That Shi family was very blessed, she became pregnant within two years after joining, and gave birth to a son-in-law after turning around.Old Mrs. Jia was overjoyed, she took this legitimate son to raise, it happened that good things happened in pairs, this Shi Shi became pregnant again, and unexpectedly gave birth to another legitimate son.It was a good thing to give birth to two sons in three years, but the eldest son, Jia Yi, became a thorn in her side.

He had already given birth to two sons, but let a boy from the front occupy the name of the eldest son. He was afraid that he would inherit Jia Daishan's title and even the entire Rongguo Mansion in the future. How could the Shi family tolerate such a thing?Not to mention her, even Mrs. Jia didn't like it. Jia was born to restrain his mother, and he probably restrained Xu's family after his death, so he didn't like her very much, but she hated her very much.So she let Jia Duan be bullied by maids, women, servants and boys, and didn't regard him as her own grandson at all.And Shi's eldest son was raised by her, and she brought him up little by little, how could this emotion be the same?Why doesn't she want her son Xie to inherit the title!

Although Mrs. Jia and the Shi family are at odds with their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, they have a tacit understanding about this kind of thing. The two grind Jia Daishan every day. Contributing, for fear of offending the Yue family and making it difficult to be promoted, and he himself has no feelings for the son who is known as Kemu, but rather disgusted, he gritted his teeth and agreed with the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.It's ridiculous that a blind fortune teller encouraged the mother and son with a few words, and these three people actually ordered the servants to abduct the eight-year-old Jia Di out of the house and sold him to a deep mountain for mining.

An eight-year-old child can't do the work of mining, so he has to work hard.Jia Du was very persevering, gritted his teeth and endured hardships, and managed to survive in the near-death realm. Finally, he found a chance to escape five or six years later, and let him escape all the way back to the capital.But even if you come back, so what, things in this world have already changed!

In the genealogy, Jia Di's mother was changed to Jia Daishan's concubine, but his eldest son became the eldest son of concubine!This is not over, in order not to let him occupy the title of the eldest son, Mrs. Jia and the Shi family signed a deed with the whole family, and found a name of unfilial parents to expel him and his dead mother. Jia clan.Looking at the deed signed and stamped by Jia's [-]th household, Jia Du was filled with grief and indignation. He hated his biological father Jia Daishan the most. The descendants of later generations were surnamed Jia, otherwise their whole family would never have survived.Xu's remains were dug out from Jia's ancestral grave, burned to ashes, and thrown directly into the mountains. This kind of humiliating way of treating the dead wife is like treating an enemy for many generations!

Jia Yi, oh, the family is broken!But no matter how angry Jia Du was, so what?He was just born when his mother died, and when he remembered, his stepmother, Shi Shi, couldn't tolerate him at all. She surrounded him and didn't allow him to study and make progress. The leftover moldy and cold food of the servants, even a winter coat and a brazier had to be begged in a low voice to get it.If he went to his father's study to pick up a book to read and write, his stepmother would treat him as theft and beat him up dozens of times, and he was never allowed to go home to learn to read.When he was eight years old, he even eavesdropped and stole books, and managed to recognize some characters, but because he didn't have pen and ink, he couldn't even write well.After that, he was sold to the mine and wasted years, so that he has not learned much until now.Now he doesn't even have the identity of the Jia family. Apart from the calluses on his hands and the injuries all over his body, what else is left of him? !

The family has no permanent property, so Jia Yi can only live in the rivers and lakes. Because of his poor family, he only married his wife Jiang Shi when he was in his 20s.Jiang was also abducted by a kidnapper when he was young, and his life was hard and difficult, and he and Jia Du had the same disease.Although life was poor after getting married, the couple was very affectionate and soon had a son.Jia Du hated Jia's family deeply, and was afraid that Jia's family would hurt his only parent and son, so he simply let him take his mother's surname and named him Jiang Yuan.

It's a pity that Jia Du was overworked and sick all over when he was a child, coupled with the injustice and grief in his heart, he died at a young age.Jiang's health was not good, and he tried his best to support him for several months, but finally he couldn't make it through, and he left with his husband, leaving behind only his four-year-old son.

The teenager recalled that if he hadn't had a previous life, a real four-year-old child, such a small child would not have survived at all.Somehow, his body was born with infinite strength, but at the age of four, he already had the strength of a stone.After burying his parents, he started selling firewood for a living. After a few months, he occasionally heard that the academy on the mountain asked for firewood and gave more money than the one down the mountain. He carried the firewood and sent it to the academy, but almost missed He frightened the old man Zhang who was the gatekeeper, and even Mr. Shen was frightened by him.How does a small person carry firewood that is several times heavier than himself?

Then, he was left in the academy by the kind Mr. Shen...