Fanfiction 5: Looking Back - Narkissos
Yi Youyi
Yiyou once imagined his sweetheart.
Daddy said that she was most like him, and I don't know whether others believed it or not. Yiyou was proud, happy, sympathetic, and also doubted it. The first thing she doubted was that she really didn't have the talent for poetry like Daddy, not to mention compared with her two sisters, she always got the most common prosody wrong.
But she has a good memory and can remember clearly the poems and articles she has read, as well as the people and events.
The first poem she read was "Qingyu'an", which was written by her father and taught to her. After reading it, her father did not tell her about Zong Zhongwu, but asked her: "Yiyou, guess what this is about?"
When I look back suddenly, that person is standing in the dim light.
Yiyou stared at the last sentence and said crisply: "It's about Daddy meeting a beautiful lady he likes on the road."
Daddy laughed so hard that tears almost came out. Finally, he shook his head without explaining and took her to find other fun things with great interest.
Yiyou later understood the true meaning of this poem, but he still couldn't help but think of this sentence: When I look back, that person is standing in the dim light.
She thought, if only she hadn't looked back.
When I look back suddenly, that person is standing in the dim light.
…She will still look back.
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Zhang Yeyi
He had met several princesses and princes of the official family a long time ago. Apart from being deeply impressed by the official's "child-rearing tips" and the strange expression of his own father, he had forgotten everything else.
——The term "child-rearing sutra" was mentioned by Yiyou later, saying that it was a term used by the emperor. At that time, he was already very familiar with Yiyou.
Zhang Zai first met Yiyou when he was in the Imperial Academy to ask questions about politics. He had always been one of the most famous people in the Imperial Academy, not just because of his father Zhang Jun. Just like Han Yanzhi, who had a lot of followers, not just because of his father Han Shizhong or because he was already destined to be the imperial consort.
The Imperial Academy was full of political discussions, but he had a bad stomach that time, and he was not in the mood. He missed the opportunity and simply did not go. He hid in the back and wrote and calculated the formulas in the official newspaper. Perhaps because of his depressed mood, he was stuck on one step for a long time without any result. Suddenly, a voice came from behind him: "This must be an affine coordinate system."
He was confused for a moment, but then he thought about what was said and suddenly figured it out. But when he turned around to say thank you, he found that the person who spoke was a young girl, with a group of people following her from a distance of more than ten steps.
"I have seen you, Zhang... Zhang Jingfu (Zhang Zai's pen name)." The girl smiled slightly, "Why didn't you participate in the Imperial College's political affairs like other students?"
The official's eldest and second daughters were married, and the only one who was brought around and used to go around was the third daughter, Zhao Yiyou. Zhang Shi guessed that what she was about to say was "Zhang Qing", but somehow the words turned into his name.
He gave the reason that he was not feeling well.
Yiyou nodded, looked at the pie beside his inkstone and smiled, "Since it doesn't feel right, then don't eat the pie dipped in ink."
Zhang Zai lowered his head and looked at the half-eaten pie that was stained with black ink without him knowing when. For the first time, he understood what it meant to be embarrassed to the point of being ashamed.
The girl in front of him still had a smile in her eyes, and the look she gave him was like the force in the original school, with a directional vector.
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Han Yanzhiyi
Han Yanzhi felt as if he was always missing something compared to others.
He expressed this feeling during the Lantern Festival, when Yiyou was looking at Xi Niang from afar as she ran off to meet her lover, thinking she had succeeded. She didn't hear clearly, her eyes were still following Xi Niang's figure, and she only asked vaguely, "What?"
Han Yanzhi withdrew his gaze from Yiyou's cheek, glanced at Foyou and Shenyou, and repeated it again. Yiyou withdrew his gaze and followed him to see the eldest sister and her husband whispering to each other, and the second sister and her husband standing side by side in silence. He smiled and said, "Is there anyone who is talking about the eldest sister's husband again?"
This is an old topic. Among the military generals, the sons of several princes and dukes, none of them can compare to Yue Yun in terms of military and martial arts. Even Han Yanzhi, who was rated well when he was appointed to the Ministry of War and Privy Council, was always inferior to Yue Yun. Although he was inferior in military strategy, he always felt that he was a little inferior to Zhang Zai as a young Jinshi. It was clear that Zhang Zai's career was not as good as his father's in order to avoid suspicion of being the prime minister, but he studied the original school day by day and became a giant of the original school.
But Han Yanzhi looked at the eldest princess and Yue Yun and shook his head. This was not what he was talking about.
——In fact, when he said it, even he himself didn’t understand what he was going to say.
Han Yanzhi didn't know what his two brothers-in-law thought, but what he didn't tell Yiyou or his father was that he was initially against this marriage that was destined for him since birth, because he was proud of his talent in both civil and military affairs. There is a folk saying that goes "Marry a princess, and you will get a job in the government without any trouble", but this is not the most annoying thing. The country is different from the past. Marrying a princess is like being a traitor. Even if the ancestors recognized by the government are not worthy of the law, he doesn't know whether he can enter the secret cabinet in the future. Is it because of his status as the eldest son of the King of Qin and the princess's husband, or his own popularity and achievements that he can enter the secret cabinet?
Later, he held many positions, including a military officer stationed on the border and an official close to the people. He began to understand that he was actually very lucky: if he was born earlier, he would either have to brave the arrows and stones like his father, and rely on his bravery to barely stand calmly under the Jin army, or he would be like countless royal relatives, forever engraved with the mark of "Jing Kang" shame. If Yiyou was a little more arrogant, like countless most favored princesses in the previous dynasties, bullying the humble with his noble status and bullying the ministers with his monarch, he might also be like countless rebellious princes-in-law in the current dynasty, risking his life and making a big fuss by using the Qingyi Taijian.
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