jdhmnovel Chapter 518 Nothing more than that!
Chapter 518 Nothing more than that!
Guagua's voice was also filled with excitement.
[Host, the boy in red is named Zheng Yiqi, and the boy in white is named Chu Yanjia.]
These two teenagers are students of Baiyun Academy.
There's enough story to tell about these two people to last three days and three nights.
Let me tell you some gossip first.
The two were inseparable at the academy, their bond so deep that no outsider could interfere.
There was even someone with impure motives who thought the two of them had homosexual tendencies.
Of course, this was just a small rumor circulating within the academy and was not made public.
Zheng Yiqi is the son of a headmaster of the academy.
His family has always been a scholarly family with a long and distinguished tradition.
With a good reputation, everyone agrees that the family will produce many talented scholars.
Shen Zhao: [Such families were common in ancient times.]
When you arrive in a certain place, you often hear about how many people from that family have passed the imperial examinations and become successful candidates in the highest level of the imperial examinations.
Just how many scholars did Zheng Yiqi's family produce to earn such a prestigious reputation?
Guagua: [Going back several generations in the Zheng family, they were born with knowledge.]
Every time a child is born into their family, it becomes a big news story.
Because every child can recite poems by the age of three, be well-versed in the classics and philosophical texts by the age of five, and pass the imperial examination at the age of eight.
The most famous of them all is Zheng Wenzhong, the ancestor of the Zheng family.
At sixteen, he was the top scholar in the imperial examination; at twenty-five, he was the young prime minister. He was the only genius of the Zheng family's generation!
Unfortunately, Zheng Wenzhong passed away at the young age of thirty-five due to overwork.
Because of this person, the younger generations born into the Zheng family were required to grow up smoothly and in an orderly manner, and they could not take the imperial examination until they were at least fifteen years old.
But perhaps after this genius, there won't be any more outstanding talents like him.
Decades later, the Zheng family began to decline.
The family's heritage is still there.
However, the head of the Zheng family had no interest in fame and fortune, so he brought the Zheng family branch to Linjincheng.
In the capital, only the deputy branch remained, and at that time, he was not yet capable of achieving great things.
The Zheng family came to Lin Jincheng and began their life of teaching and educating people.
Even now, the Zheng family is a family of scholars.
The reason why Zheng's father was not appointed as the headmaster of Baiyun Academy was because he was indifferent to worldly affairs and did not want to be in that position.
But in Zheng's father's generation, he was the youngest son in the family.
There is an elder brother who can hold down the fort.
Zheng's father also had a unique experience in marriage.
He married the wife of a military general.
This is someone who truly cannot concentrate on reading at all.
He only likes wielding swords and spears, and doesn't care about anything else.
The woman, Qi Shengwu, also didn't want to marry a bookish, pedantic scholar.
Shen Zhao interrupted Guagua and asked in confusion,
These two are clearly not a good match.
How did they end up together?
Guagua chuckled, "Host, Father Zheng follows the path of forced love."
Zheng's father was not unconventional or unorthodox in his nature.
He was raised and taught by Old Master Zheng from birth.
At the age of three, he rarely even saw his mother.
Every day, I need to learn all sorts of knowledge and absorb it into my brain.
However, he was not the only poor soul; his older brother suffered even more at the hands of Old Master Zheng!
The two brothers also reacted differently to pressure.
The eldest son of the Zheng family was a natural scholar; even at a young age, he was completely absorbed in those obscure books.
Zheng's father was also talented, but he didn't want to be forced into it.
Shen Zhao: [I understand!]
I want to read Zheng's father's book, and I can read it very well.
But I don't want you to force me to read it.
Zheng's father's mentality is normal.
Just like a delicious meal.
Everyone says it's delicious, and I want to try it too.
But what if there was someone in front of me who constantly praised how delicious the food was?
Under the guise of doing it for my own good, they demanded that I try it every day.
That dish was nothing special to me!