Chapter 52: Be the Master of Your Own Destiny
Freedom is probably the most cherished and pursued by people in this world, and it is far more precious than life and love.
Because when he is free, even the air is sweet.
And losing and regaining is always happier than having it.
When Luo Yongsheng was declared innocent, he was carried home by Chengwen and several children. Looking at the brilliance in the sky that could not be seen directly, Luo Yongsheng smiled happily.
He won the bet again.
If he has been gambling for a long time, Luo Yongsheng certainly knows that if he continues to bet like this, he will sooner or later fail. If he fails once, his life will be completely announced to be over. But he has no choice. He also wants to hold his destiny in his own hands, but Luo Yongsheng is not qualified yet.
Although it is difficult to accept, this is reality.
Until today, Luo Yongsheng, a wealthy man, still has no qualifications to control his own destiny. In today's court, Ren Xiuxian's lawsuit defense was just a step that allowed Zhang Yan to go down the slope. The real key role was Hou San's uncle who was a tutor.
It was the appearance of such a general that Zhang Yan was proud of his actions and made a favor with Ren Xiuxian's defense. If it weren't for Hou Bingzhong's stand, even if Ren Xiuxian said in front of the hall today, Zhang Yan would not have been able to pay attention to it.
Of course, Ren Xiuxian would not accept this lawsuit, and would fight a lawsuit that was doomed to lose before it even started.
In this era, the people of Guizhou without fame are living ants. When power stands up and speaks, the only thing they can do is to remain silent and wait for the person who holds power to judge his fate.
"No wonder in the novel, the first thing I do when I go back to ancient times is always to get fame and fortune."
Lying on his bed and feeling the pain caused by the light swallow's dressing change on his back, Luo Yongsheng's mind flew out again.
It is unrealistic for me to get fame and fortune in this life. Let’s not talk about the “Poetry” or whether I can read “Rites” by myself, even if I can read it, it will be too late for me to take the exam now.
Everyone knows how happy it is to have fame and fortune in the Song Dynasty, but it is precisely because of this that the threshold for the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty was quite high. Luo Yongsheng could not remember whether the saying "The person who sang outside Donghua Gate was a good man" was born at this moment, but this did not hinder the social atmosphere he had seen with his own eyes during this period in Hongzhou.
Confucianism is at its peak.
The reading and literacy rate in Hongzhou City should be extremely high, which means that there is a large army of imperial examinations preparing for the imperial examination or taking the exam every year. So every three years, how many people in Hongzhou can successfully pass the tribute examination and stay in Bianliang?
Less than ten!
Good guy, this cannot be described as a single-plank bridge that has thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge.
Look at Hou San. His two brothers are in their forties this year and have only barely made it to the Gui List, but they have not even been able to get the Lu Ming Banquet established by the local official in Hongzhou. They have been unremittingly entering Beijing to take the exam every three years, hoping to one day be ranked first and become the Jinshi.
I pinch my fingers and calculate. I am afraid it will be the fourth time when I go to Bianjing next time.
After decades of hard study, I have been trying hard to become a Jinshi and ministers after being sharpened. This is the only eternal national atmosphere in this era. No one can and do not have the qualification to reverse it.
Luo Yongsheng felt that even if he started to hang his head now, he would probably have to be at least sixty or seventy years old when he followed the normal life trajectory and stepped into the power class.
Especially although I don’t know why this body has been younger for decades, Luo Yongsheng himself is not sure how long his vitality is.
What if you die after another twenty years?
"What are you thinking about?"
Looking at Luo Yongsheng's frowning, Qingyan, who was wearing only underwear, brought medicine to Luo Yongsheng for healing medicine and asked with concern.
"Hey, Qingyan, you said what you were thinking every day when you were a priest before."
After turning over and sitting up, Luo Yongsheng handed the scarred palms to Qingyan for treatment, and asked back.
"What can I think about? I just think about which young master from the family will redeem the body for the slave in the future, so I will be able to take care of my husband and children from now on."
"Then you think so far."
Luo Yongsheng smiled. It seems that women all have the dream of a prince charming marrying a princess, but for Qingyan, perhaps this kind of fantasy is the motivation to support her in the brothel every day.
Yes, people always need a pillar in life.
What about myself?
Luo Yongsheng suddenly realized that after he had penetrated time, he lived just to live every day. When he opened his eyes, he was full of pressure to survive, fear and vigilance for the ubiquitous unknown risks, and had never seriously thought about what kind of specific future he really wanted.
Be a good person?
What is a superior person?
In this feudal, backward and ignorant era, besides the emperor and the prime minister, how could he be qualified to be the best? He was just a slave to the emperor.
Luo Yongsheng's pupils contracted. When he fantasized about being an emperor, his breathing would be involuntarily rapid.
He thought about it on the first day of his journey and was very excited about this fantasy, but after the days of surviving too much, he would involuntarily deny himself in his heart.
How could this fate be?
But now he is wandering on the line of life and death one after another, which has aroused Luo Yongsheng's unwillingness.
I can no longer accept this kind of life that is in danger.
To be an emperor, you must be an emperor!
Even if the local emperor who only occupies a mountain is the master of his own destiny.
"Young Master, the medicine has been changed, please rest quickly."
Qingyan got off the bed, brought a cup of tea to feed Luo Yongsheng, and said, "I'm waiting in the compartment. If you get up at night, call me."
"Thanks a lot."
Luo Yongsheng nodded, and then called Qingyan: "Go and call Uncle Geng and Yongjie, I have something to do to find them."
The latter left in response, and soon the sound of footsteps of several people sounded outside the door, and the door hinge knocked.
"Come in."
The door was divided into left and right, Geng Baishun and Luo Yongjie entered front and back, and Gu said hello to Luo Yongsheng.
"I'll call you two late at night, I have something to explain." Sitting on the head of the bed, Luo Yongsheng pondered for a while, and asked a few things, and the two of them nodded repeatedly.
"Also, Yongjie, go find your father-in-law tomorrow and ask him if he has any questions, he can rent the next one at the Yangtze River Port wharf outside the city and ask him to come forward. If the money is paid, go to Sansheng Business."
"Yes, I'll go early tomorrow morning." Yongjie nodded, and when Luo Yongsheng waved his hand, he hurriedly stood up and said goodbye, rushing back to the room to hug his wife and go to bed.
In the house, only Geng Baishun and Luo Yongsheng were left.
"Old Geng, what's our foundation?"
Luo Yongsheng sighed quietly: "Then Cao Degui has a son from the yamen, so he can take me at will. It's because we have no roots in this Hongzhou City. If we get into a more powerful person in the future, wouldn't this head be lost just by saying that?"
"Young Master, don't worry too much. Now that we win the lawsuit, it means that we can gain a foothold in Hongzhou in the future and our foundation will be gradually deepened."
Seeing Luo Yongsheng's anxiety, Geng Baishun enlightened him, but he also knew that what he said was just a function word.
"You go and get what I just told you as soon as possible, otherwise I will feel uneasy."
"Don't worry, Master."
Chapter completed!