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Chapter 16 News from the County

Li Daguang was really embarrassed. He was seen by three juniors when he was visiting a brothel. Fortunately, he did not marry, so he didn't have to worry about being grabbed by his ears and kneeling down to his calculations.

Li Yanqing sent Li Er and Li San back first. He still wanted to ask this fourth uncle.

"Uncle Fourth is here to listen to a song. He likes to listen to music, haha!"

Li Daguang explained guiltily, and suddenly he felt that it was unnecessary. What does a six-year-old kid know?

"Qing'er, how about going to school on the first day today? That old Yao Niuer is very strict!"

"Uncle Fourth, I have something I want to ask you."

"What's up?"

Li Yanqing asked softly: "Has my father done anything indecent before?"

He could never forget the unconcealed contempt in Master Yao's eyes when he mentioned his father's name.

"Why do you want to ask this? Did anyone say anything?" Li Daguang looked at Li Yanqing very sensitively.

"I am his son, I just want to know about it."

Li Daguang hesitated for a long time and said, "I shouldn't have said that, but sooner or later you will know that your father... Alas! A mistake will lead to eternal regret!"

Li Daguang sighed deeply and told Li Yanqing about the past.

"Your father was once the pride of the family. He was admitted to the Xiangzhou Examination seven years ago and ranked first in high school. He married your mother that year. It was a happy ending. At that time, he was often a guest at the county magistrate. The next year he went to Beijing to take the provincial examination. Although he did not pass the exam, he was also highly appreciated by the examiner. He asked him to review hard and prepare to go to Beijing for the exam next time."

"Then what?"

"Then five years ago, something happened. Your father could not stand the face of the county magistrate. He went to Cizhou for his nephew to participate in the test for the Imperial Examination. It seemed that they looked quite similar. However, your father was still recognized and never recovered. The reputation of the juren was eliminated and he was never allowed to participate in the imperial examination again, which became a shame for the family. The joke in Tangyin County was called Li Chudao behind his back. He was drunk and crazy at home every day, and his ancestral land was sold. The family was poor. Your mother was also worried about it and became ill and could not afford to get sick. She died the next year. Your father was extremely regretful about it. In order to atone for his sins, he buryed your mother with huge debts."

Li Yanqing couldn't say a word for a long time. He actually had the same fate as his father. In the dark, was this the Creator's deliberate arrangement?

Li Daguang patted his shoulder and said earnestly: "Now you should understand! Why is your father trying hard to save money for you to study, why do you have to take the imperial examination? You are his only hope. Only you can wash away the shame on him, otherwise he will never be able to raise his head in his life."

"Thank you, uncle, and nephew... let's go first." Li Yanqing felt uncomfortable and turned around and left.

Li Daguang looked at Li Yanqing and couldn't help but shake his head secretly. Daqi had been recorded by the prefecture. If the record was not eliminated, even Qing'er would be implicated in the future. Daqi thought that the government would forget it after a long time. It was not that simple. Daqi would be fine in this life, but it was a pity that Qing'er, a smart child.















Li Yanqing went home with a heavy heart as if he had a lead bucket in his heart. He had no thoughts, his mind was blank. He didn't even know how he came back, and he forgot when Li Daguang broke up with him.

When he walked to the door of his house, the courtyard was still there, but the house was gone, and there was only a mud wall ruin. Li Yanqing stood there for a long time, but he didn't realize what was going on.

At this time, Dahei, who was looking for something in the ruins, saw the little master and rushed to the master like a gust of wind, barking in an anxious manner, as if telling the master that their home was gone.

Only then did Li Yanqing finally wake up from his ignorance. Their family was going to build a new brick house, so he should go to Mrs. Hu's house next door.

Looking at Dahei's aggrieved eyes, Li Yanqing smiled and hugged it tightly, and led it to the house next door to Aunt Hu.

That night, Li Yanqing had a dream, dreaming that he became a father, and the father of the Song Dynasty became his son, also known as Li Daqi. He was severely scolded by himself for taking the exam for his classmates.

Li Yanqing suddenly woke up from his dream. He stared at the roof, savored his dreams, and felt the mystery of the fusion of life destiny for thousands of years. Until the sound of the rooster crowing, he could not fall asleep.















The East Street of Tangyin County is a concentrated place for commercial businesses in the county. There are various signs and banners hanging on the streets, and various hawking sounds are coming and going, and the streets are very lively.

The first store on East Street is a bookstore called Shilinyuan, which is actually a bookstore. However, the front store and the back store are in front of it, and the back store are in the printing workshop and the place for copying books.

Although the printing technology of the Song Dynasty was very developed, the copying industry did not disappear. Some private collections still liked to ask someone to copy. Li Daqi did things here. His handwriting was beautiful, so the store asked him to copy books for others. Li Daqi's carving was also good, and he would occasionally carve some carvings. Although movable type printing technology has been invented, it has not replaced carvings due to various reasons such as typesetting and beauty.

Shilinyuan is one of the three major bookstores on Hebei West Road. The main cabinet is in Daming Prefecture. Tangyin County is just a sub- cabinet, but it also occupies the best area in the county. It has many varieties of books and good quality. It is deeply loved by scholars in Tangyin County and has a very prosperous business.

Today, the owner of Shilinyuan came to Tangyin County Bookstore to inspect, so the shopkeepers and the shopkeepers and the guys were very busy, so they got up early in the morning to clean the bookstore.

The headmaster's surname is Yang. He is a young man in his early thirties. He is very smart and capable. He has just inherited his father's business for only two or three years. He is ambitious and wants to make Shilinyuan the largest bookstore.

At this time, in the shopkeeper's room on the second floor, shopkeeper Luo was reporting the performance of the young boss in recent months to the young boss, but he soon discovered that the boss was not listening to his report, but was reading a manuscript, which was a bit fascinated by reading it.

Manager Luo then remembered that the manuscript was given to him by Li Daqi yesterday, saying that it was written by his son, so he asked him to help him. In the past two days, Dongzhu came. He was busy preparing various greetings, so he threw the manuscript aside. Besides, he had no interest in talking about the things written by the six-year-old child. Unexpectedly, the manuscript was seen by the owner.

Manager Luo stopped reporting awkwardly and waited for a while. Unexpectedly, the boss did not stop, but instead became more fascinated.

At this time, a guy came up and whispered: "Shopkeeper, the tavern has delivered the food. Do you want to invite the boss to go down?"

"Nonsense, bring the meal!"

The guy hurried down and brought the food up for a moment and placed it on the table.

Manager Luo smiled and said, "Master, you can have dinner first!"

"Yeah! Put it there, I'll eat it later."

Manager Luo had no choice but to close the door and retreat. He walked downstairs but could not see Li Daqi. He asked quickly, "Where is Daqi?"

"Li Daqi has gone back. Some people from the same village come to look for him. They just left!"

"It's going to be a bad thing!"

Manager Luo stomped his feet and chased him out, but he saw that Li Daqi had already walked a long way. He shouted while chasing, "Daqi! Wait a minute."

Li Daqi was worried that his son at home was about to go back with his neighbor Hu Sheng, but he heard someone calling him behind him. Li Daqi turned around and saw that he was the shopkeeper, so he stopped quickly.

Manager Luo ran forward panting, and said in a suffocation: "Great guy, wait a moment, don't rush back."

"Shopkeeper Luo, I have copied that book and put it on your table."

"I know! It's not your business, it's... the book your son wrote seems to be very good. Let's talk about it again, it's not too late to go back tomorrow."

Hu Sheng next to him smiled and said, "Let's stay with great talent! Brother Qing is taken care of by my mother, there is no problem."

Li Daqi had to give the manager Luo face, so he nodded and agreed, "Okay! I'll go back tomorrow."

Manager Luo took him back. As soon as he entered the store, the guy came up in a panic: "Shopkeeper, the boss is looking for you!"

Manager Luo hurriedly said to Li Daqi: "You wait for a moment, and I'll go."

Manager Luo hurriedly went up the second floor and opened the door. He saw that the food was not moving. The owner was still looking through the manuscript. He walked up and said carefully: "Does the owner look for me?"

"Who wrote this?" Yang Dongzhu asked, asking with the manuscript in his hand.

"This is written by a book copyist son of ours. I only brought it yesterday. I haven't had time to read it yet!"

"Is there any more behind?" Yang Dongzhu asked anxiously.

"I don't know much, so I'll ask."

"Come to me, this book copyist, to see me. It's such a good book! I almost missed it."

Manager Luo quickly turned around and ran downstairs. He was very glad that he had recovered his great fortune, otherwise things would have been troublesome. He had never seen the boss praise a book like this.










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