Shanyin County, Yuezhou Prefecture.

It was February, and everything sprouted, and the elves in the fields began to sprout. Between the fields, there were many peasant children, who were placing their own cattle and sheep and eating grass on the roadside.

Among them is a twelve or thirteen-year-old child with a dogtail grass in his mouth, lying on the back of a big green cow, half-squinted his eyes, leisurely.

He has a fair face. Although he is still young, he can already see that he looks quite outstanding. Even if he is wearing a cloth robes, it is difficult to cover up his appearance.

Soon, the sun was about to set, and the cowherd yawned, jumped off the cow's back, and led his own big green cow and began to walk home.

Along the way, there were also farmers who recognized him greeted him.

"Lin Jiasanlang, have you come home with herding cattle?"

The young man, known as Lin Sanlang, smiled and nodded at everyone.

"If you don't go home, it will be dark."

The sun was about to set, and after the farmers and young people said a few words, they all carried hoes home.

Lin Sanlang took his big green cow and went home swayingly.

His name is Lin Zhao, and he is the third young master from the Lin family branch in Donghu Town.

The Lin family is a big family in Yuezhou. The main family lives in Yuezhou. There were two Jinshis in the family, and they were rich. However, the Lin Zhao family is considered a branch and can only live in Donghu Town and help the Lin family to take care of the land in Donghu Town.

Most of the farmers who had just passed by him were tenants from his Lin family.

Originally, even if he was from the Lin family, even though his family was not well off, he would not have fallen to the point of herding cattle. However, his background was very bad, and he gave birth to a son by a concubine from the other family.

His mother is the concubine of the Lin family and is also from a fairy family. She was bought by Lin Zhao's father Lin Qingyuan with a large sum of money. Although she is a gentleman who sells her skills but not her own, as long as she enters the brothel Chu Pavilion, she is even a slave, and she will inevitably be looked down upon by others if she leaves her.

Because of this reason, Lin Zhao has been looked down upon since childhood.

He didn't even have the qualifications to be a primary school student, so he could only be arranged by his mother to herd cattle.

However, Lin Zhao himself did not feel inferior because of this. He came out happily to herd cattle every day, and then went back happily after the sun sets.

He has his ideas.

Soon, the Lin family's yard was close to her.

Lin Zhao first led the cow into the cowshed, and slammed some hay very neatly and put it into the cowshed. Then he patted the straw stuck on his body and walked out of the cowshed.

The cowshed was outside the Lin family's yard, so after he walked out of the cowshed, the gate of the Lin family was in front of him. As soon as he walked to the door, he saw two young men, one big and one small, carrying a bookcase on their backs, coming back from outside.

These two young men, the older ones, look fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger ones are only thirteen or fourteen years old.

They are Lin Xian, the eldest and second brothers of the Lin family, and Lin He, who are Lin Zhao's eldest and second brothers.

They were both legitimate mothers and entered the private school in Donghu Town at the age of six or seven. It is said that the eldest son Lin Xian had already started preparing for the Tongsheng exam. Once he passed the county government exam, he would be a serious scholar. At that time, his life would be much better with the Lin family branch of Donghu Town.

It is worth mentioning that Lin Zhao's father Lin Qingyuan was a scholar. He used to teach in Donghu Town. A few years ago, he worked as an errand in another place. Now he works as a master in Yaojiang County next door. Usually, he can only come back once or twice a year.

When he met his two brothers, Lin Zhao bowed in a regular manner.

"I've met my brother."

Lin Xian and Lin He both came back from a private school. They were talking about the little things in the private school and were having fun chatting. After hearing Lin Zhao's words, the eldest Lin Xian was quite calm and just nodded to Lin Zhao. However, the second Lin He had to be much more arrogant. He raised his head high, his tone was neither salty nor light.

"Have you come back from herding cattle?"

Lin Zhao nodded: "I'm back from herding cattle."

"Do you know how to write the word "ox"?"

Lin Zhao has not learned anything, so he shouldn't have known how to write the word "Niu".

So Lin Zhao shook his head: "I don't know."

Lin He smiled disdainfully.

"So you can only herd cattle in your life, and you..."

As soon as he said this, the eldest daughter Lin Xian pulled his younger brother and frowned and said, "Don't say it anymore. After all, he is an aunt. My father will be back in a while. He knows that you are talking nonsense and scolding you again."

As he said that, he took his second brother into the house and looked back at Lin Zhao while walking.

"Nothing is wrong, you go back."

Lin Zhao smiled slightly and nodded at Lin Xian.

Then he patted the dust on his body and walked into the yard.

Their big and second houses were fed and lived separately. Lin Zhao and his son only went to the accounting office to get some expenses every month, and then opened a separate stove for dinner.

Of course, the living conditions of the two bedrooms are still much worse. You can basically see meat and fish in the big room often, while Lin Zhao can only barely eat enough.

He walked in the Lin family's yard for a while, and finally pushed open the gate in a remote corner.

This is a small courtyard, which is as small as a yard that is two or three meters square, and at least the yard is small and has all the things you should have. Life can finally go on.

There is a well in the yard. At this time, a beautiful woman with a weak figure is trying hard to fetch water outwards.

This beautiful woman is Lin Zhao's mother.

More than ten years ago, the courtesan in the Yanyu Building of Yuezhou City was redeemed by Lin Qingyuan for a large sum of money and disappeared from Yuezhou since then.

Her surname is Zheng, and now others call her Lin Erniang. As for what her original name is, no one has ever heard her talk about it. When others ask her, she keeps silent.

Because his mother was thin, Lin Zhao hurried over and helped her get water. With the efforts of the mother and son, a bucket of clear well water finally came up.

After a bucket of water was brought up, Lin's mother first reached out to wipe the sweat from Lin Zhao's forehead, and her tone was gentle.

"Zhao'er is back."

Lin Zhao rubbed his stomach.

"The cows that have been put outside for a day are about to starve to death. My mother, what will we eat later?"

Lin Erniang reached out and touched Lin Zhao's hair, and said with a smile: "I'll eat white noodles today."

"But you have to memorize the rituals and scriptures in silence before you can have a meal."

Lin's mother's tone is gentle, but what she said is very firm.

Lin Zhao grinned.

"Okay, I'll carry it to my mother."

Lin Erniang was a courtesan in Yanyulou in her early years, and she was well-versed in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. She had a very high attainment in studying, even better than her husband Lin Qingyuan, and her knowledge was even better than that of ordinary juren.

Although the mother and son did not have spare money to buy books, Lin Erniang copied many books that needed to be studied in elementary school a few years ago and put them in the yard.

Nowadays, Lin Zhao is much stronger than his two stupid brothers in terms of knowledge.

You should know that Lin Xian, the eldest son of the Lin family, has been studying for eight years and has not even understood the meaning of the classics. Although he is taking the exam for scholars, he is likely to not even be able to pass the child's life. The second son, Lin He, is even less capable, and has not read the Four Books and Five Classics until now.

This is also one of the reasons why Lin Zhao is too lazy to care about them.

Moreover, they were so ugly...

Lin Erniang is a courtesan, so she is naturally handsome. Lin Zhao has inherited her mother's appearance almost perfectly and has been beautiful since she was a child.

On the contrary, the Dalang Erlang of the Lin family is hard to describe in his appearance.

In this independent small courtyard, Lin Zhao muttered to himself in his heart while shaking his head and shaking his head to his mother.
Chapter completed!