Chapter 20
If you ask Yi Hanxing what was the first blow he suffered in his time-traveling life?
He’s my brother.
Yi Hongxing is not someone else's child, but the "other people's child" in his own family.
Before meeting Yi Hongxing, Yi Hanxing didn't know what it meant that the gap between people was bigger than the gap between people and pigs. After traveling through time, Yi Hanxing finally understood that people with different IQs are actually not the same species.
Yi Hongxing has a brain comparable to that of a computer. He can find patterns and answers just by looking at all the numbers.
When Yi Hanxing first learned about his brother's talent, he suspected that Yi Hongxing was an AI that traveled through time and space as a human.
However, Yi Hongxing, who is so talented, is not a recognized child in his family or clan.
Huizhou has been mountainous since ancient times, which has created the fighting spirit of Huizhou merchants. However, it has also destined that when the times are developing rapidly, the people's customs remain conservative. Everything is inferior except reading, and what is superior is the Four Books and Five Classics, not mathematics.
When Yi Hongxing was a child, a "sapling of learning" was considered someone who could write. If he asked his private school teacher what natural science was, he would definitely say that such things were all peculiar and ingenious techniques that were not worthy of being presented in a formal setting.
Therefore, Yi Hongxing went out to study when he was in his teens, and later joined the Workers' and Peasants' Party.
When Han Xing followed Yi Hongxing to the base to escape her marriage, she found out that her brother was a talented code breaker and was doing very well in the base, even becoming a guard.
It is hard to say how much of the high hopes placed on Yi Hanxing by the leaders and teachers of the base were due to the idea that Yi Hongxing's sister must be very smart. Even when Yi Hanxing was able to take the exam for the messenger class, it was because everyone thought she should have talent and made an exception to allow such a young child to sign up.
Although Yi Hanxing had long since popularized the concept that the nine sons of a dragon are all different and that biological genetics are unstable, people still subconsciously have the idea that a tiger father will have a dog son, and a smart brother will have a stupid sister.
As for why Yi Hongxing, as a code-breaking expert, was so easily called upon by Yi Hanxing to assist in completing the task, it was because Yi Hongxing went home to visit his family two or three times a year and was completely familiar with the task. Moreover, Yi Hongxing had a habit. Whenever he encountered a bottleneck in code-breaking and couldn't figure it out, he liked to run around and look for things to do. When he was wandering around or encountered something, a nerve in his brain would be connected and he would suddenly figure it out.
In order to get the nerves in his brain connected, Yi Hongxing had done a series of stupid things and had more than one alias to stir up trouble. He was famous in the base, so when Yi Hanxing and the political commissar mentioned who his brother was, he felt ashamed.
It has been a tradition in Huizhou since ancient times that boys are sent out to make a living when they are about thirteen or fifteen years old. However, it is different for girls because there are too many men who want to go out to make money.
Therefore, every family places great emphasis on the virtuous and chaste character of their daughters. When raising daughters, they would carve a ring on their children's foreheads and erect a memorial archway at their doorsteps. It's acceptable for Yi Hongxing to run away and come home every now and then, but for Yi Hanxing to run away with Yi Hongxing, this is treason! She's not a good wife! She's ungrateful!
Even though Yi Hanxing and Yi Hongxing ran away, the family still did not cut off contact with Yi Hongxing. It's just that Yi Hanxing hasn't returned home in the past few years.
So on the way home, Yi Hongxing was still worried and nagged Yi Hanxing: "If Dad and Mom say something unpleasant, just bear with it. They mainly have problems with their thinking and are not civilized enough. But at their age, it's not easy to change them..."
"If I endure it, they'll probably think they're right!" Yi Hanxing almost rolled her eyes. This was their first time as a human being. Oh no, this was their second time as a human being, but this was their second time as a daughter and their fourth time as parents. Why should I give in to them even when they were being unreasonable?!
If being a filial daughter means complying with all of her parents' requests, binding her feet, following the rules for women, getting married and having children at the age of thirteen, then you are making yourself an unfilial person.
Yi Hanxing doesn't want to become like her second sister.
Yi Hongxing was helpless about the conflict between her sister and her family, but overall, she still agreed that Yi Hanxing was right and didn't want her younger sister to follow the old path of Huizhou women. "Anyway, I did what you said before and told my family that I was sending you to boarding school. You can figure out how to handle it later."
"In short, you should say whatever I say when the time comes," Yi Hanxing reminded.
"No problem!" Yi Hongxing promised.
Yi Hanxing was still a little worried: "You haven't come up with any code that you can't crack recently, right?"
"!" Yi Hanxing looked at his sister in disbelief.
"Yeah, I can't ask you this question, you won't admit it." Yi Hanxing saw his brother's shocked expression, but he didn't feel any ripples in his heart. He turned around and asked his brother's guard, "Is he not causing any trouble recently?"
The guard felt the pressure of Yi Hongxing's gaze, clenched his fist and coughed softly: "The leader has never done anything wrong."
"Move your hand down from the side of your mouth. Yes, move it a little further down, right here." After Yi Hanxing instructed the guards to pose, he asked, "Check your conscience and tell me if you really didn't do it?"
The guard said that there was only a heart in this position and no conscience: "Of course not!"
"Brother! You really understand me!" Yi Hongxing patted the guard's shoulder with emotion.
Yi Hanxing said he couldn't bear to watch it.
The group of people were playing and laughing, and soon they arrived at the village where their family clan lived.
"Guangzong is back!"
"Uncle Guangzong is back
?! "
The villagers greeted Yi Hongxing one after another.
"You didn't tell them that you changed your name?" Yi Hanxing couldn't help asking.
"I don't want to be beaten." Yi Hongxing said, "I'll just be Guangzong. No one will recognize me outside of here anyway."
The two of them quickly walked back home with the guards.
"Dad, Mom." Yi Hongxing greeted.
Han Xing pursed her lips and said nothing.
"My eldest son is back?" Han Xing's parents saw this and happily looked around at Yi Hongxing, then saw Yi Hanxing: "Who is...?"
"This is contouring!" said Yi Hongxing.
Yi Hanxing controlled herself not to show a painful expression. After hearing about facial contouring for so many years, she still wasn't used to it. It always made her think of eyebrow trimming, pedicure, and hair trimming.
"You still remember to come back?!" Han Xing's father was immediately furious: "What a misfortune our family has! We have a rebellious daughter like you!"
"Why am I a rebellious woman?"
"You knew clearly that your mother and I were choosing a husband for you, yet you still ran away with your eldest brother. Half a month later, you sent a message back saying that you were living outside with your brother! And then you said you were going to a co-educational school! Do you know what people in the village say about you? You have brought shame to your mother and me!" Han Xing's father raised his finger and pointed at Yi Hanxing's nose and said.
"When you were anxious to get close to the clan leader's family to arrange a marriage for me, you had already lost all shame. How could you lose face even more?" Yi Hanxing retorted.
"What do you know?! We're all doing this for your own good!" Han Xing's father's face flushed red. "Do you know what kind of people the team leader's girlfriends are?! Your sister didn't even have this opportunity back then! And you, even though the food was right in front of you, you just threw it away!"
"Hehe." Yi Hanxing replied directly with two words.
Perhaps Yi Hanxing's expression and tone were too sarcastic, and Hanxing's father immediately understood what Yi Hanxing wanted to express, and he was furious: "You unfilial daughter! I will beat you to death today!" As he said that, he picked up the door bolt next to him and was about to take action.
"Dad, I'm not saying you can't outrun me." Yi Hanxing said, "I don't have bound feet. Don't you know your own speed?" Yi Hanxing said as he looked at his father's little belly.
"You, you, you..." Han Xing's father's hands were shaking as he pointed at Yi Hanxing with the door bolt.
Unable to convince Yi Hanxing, Hanxing's father immediately turned to question Yi Hongxing: "Is this the good school you chose for your sister? What do they teach all day long? Is this how you talk to your own father? Have you read so much that you can't even remember it?!"
Yi Hongxing muttered to herself, "The school isn't to blame for this; it's our little sister's nature."
"I knew it! You have been rebellious since you were a child!" After scolding his son, Han Xing's father began to scold his daughter.
Yi Hanxing cannot
He widened his eyes in disbelief: "Wasn't I well-behaved enough when I was a child?! It's because I was too well-behaved that you can't adapt now!" You have to know that I have had the thinking of an adult since I was a child, and I have never done those things that naughty children do!
After hearing this, Yi Hongxing couldn't help but look at Yi Hanxing. In this yard, Hanxing was probably the only one who thought he was a good boy?
"You! When you were a child, we asked you to bind your feet, but you bit the old woman and ran away several miles away. Well, your brother is right. New styles of women are popular now. Young people don't like women with bound feet, so don't bind them." Han Xing's father listed them one by one: "I asked you to learn needlework, but you still can't embroider a duck! (Yi Hanxing: I'm afraid you will be blind if you reach that level) I asked you to learn women's rings, but you glued the cover of the women's rings to the outside of the travel notes! (Yi Hanxing: Isn't this a normal operation for students) I asked you to walk without moving the hem of your skirt, but you ran like a gust of wind and ran more than ten laps in the yard at home every day! (Yi Hanxing: That's physical education class) I asked you..." Han Xing's father was out of breath and choked on his own saliva, and immediately coughed.
"But I'm good at studying!" Yi Hanxing raised his head: "No one in the clan can compare to me!"
"You're a girl! You're always so competitive! The tribe's elementary school is for boys, and you run outside every day to eavesdrop! You even secretly coax your brothers into giving you papers to do!" This was another crime in Han Xing's father's eyes: "You're so unchaste, it's already hard for you to get married. I, your father, finally put in so much effort to get the tribe leader to match you up, and you ran away! You might as well just piss me off to death!"
"Child's father, let's calm down!" Han Xing's mother quickly advised: "The clan leader doesn't blame us."
"He only blames others because his own daughter is also getting a divorce!"
When Yi Hanxing heard this, hey, his cousin who traveled through time and space is really awesome, she started with a divorce!
"Isn't this a good thing?" Han Xingniang said, "I heard that the clan leader recently compromised and agreed to let Sister Xiu get a divorce. Once she does, our alliance with the Han family will need someone to marry into. Doesn't that give our daughter another chance?"
"That's right." Han Xing's father seemed to have been enlightened by Han Xing's mother. "The younger generation of the Han family is now also a newly educated person. There are not many suitable girls in the family. Although our girl is not virtuous enough, she has graduated from junior high school. Isn't she much better than them?"
Han Xing was caught by the look in her parents' eyes. She felt that they were going to tie her up and send her to the bridal chamber in the next second. She immediately refused and said, "I don't want to marry into the Han family!"
According to the plot of the novel about abandoned women in the Republic of China, the Han family is a quagmire.
"You're already fourteen! Are you planning to be an old maid if you don't get married?"
"Dad, nowadays girls outside get married at the age of 18 or 19..." Yi Hongxing tried to help explain.
"Don't tell me about what's happening outside!" Han Xing's father interrupted.
Yi Hanxing's eyes rolled, and he immediately came up with a plan: "Actually, Dad, recently I have a few teachers and classmates who I get along well with who are coming to visit our house. Their families are all well-off. You can choose carefully and find a son-in-law you like. By the way, you can also help my cousins choose one!"
In order to convince her father, Han Xing even boasted, "You should know that your daughter is very popular outside! If you are not satisfied with this batch, wait until I return to school and I will bring another batch for you to choose from next time!"
Yi Hongxing was stunned listening to this: "They say a man's mouth can lie, but my dear sister is pretty good at telling lies! When the people come, I'll see how you're going to cover it up!"
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