Chapter 2 The number one scholar’s father is a charlatan who always wins in gambling!
The system heard Si Yuan sound so pitiful, and thought that although he was a powerful person in the God Transformation Stage of the Tiancang Realm, he was still a child less than a hundred years old. It was inevitable that he would be afraid when traveling to other worlds for the first time.
The system, which knew nothing about Si Yuan's true origins, was easily fooled by Si Yuan. It hesitated and searched its inventory, and said: "Then I'll send you a big gift package for beginners. 】
Si Yuan was eagerly waiting and asked: [What is the newbie gift pack? 】
The system replied: [The original owner’s memories and the original plot. 】
Si Yuan, who has already extracted the original owner's memories from this body: […Isn't this the basic prerequisite support you asked me to do the mission? How can I complete the mission if you don’t even give me the original owner’s memories and the original plot? Didn’t I say that I want to be the father of the cannon fodder, support the cannon fodder, and let the cannon fodder compete with the protagonist, supporting characters, and villains for fatherhood? I don’t know the plot, so how can I know who is the protagonist, the supporting character, and the villain? 】
System: […It sounds like it makes sense. 】But it also needs to spend energy every time it travels through the world to obtain the original plot. Is it possible for the host to get the original plot for free...
Before the system could continue thinking, Si Yuan continued to deceive: [Think about it, after I obtained the original owner's memory and the original plot, I can complete your task more accurately and quickly, so can you gain more energy? Energy is not something you can just store and accumulate. You have to learn how to earn energy, and to earn energy you have to first learn how to spend energy. And this is not called spending energy carelessly, this is called investing. Invest a little bit of energy first, and then after the mission is successful, you can get countless times the energy in return and earn double the money back. 】
The system was fooled by him: [The host is right, then I will directly transfer the original owner's memory and the original plot to you. 】
Si Yuan smiled as he flipped through the large amount of information that appeared in his mind.
The original owner was named Li Siyuan, the third son of the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion. He had an older brother and a second brother born out of wedlock, and a younger sister and a younger brother and three younger sisters born out of wedlock, for a total of eight brothers and sisters.
Because the original owner was a playboy and incompetent, he was not liked by his father and brothers. His mother was still concerned about him, so she specially asked for his hand in marriage with Yu Yan, the second daughter of a doctor in the Ministry of Rites. Yu Yan was a straightforward person, well-read, and sensible. After she got married, she often encouraged her husband to make progress.
If the original owner really wanted to make progress, he would have done so before getting married. He disliked his wife Yu Yan because she was more nagging than his mother, so the relationship between the couple became increasingly distant.
Less than two years after the original owner got married, his remaining half-brother Li Jingyuan also got married. The old Earl Jingyuan fell seriously ill due to poor health, and decided to pass the title to his eldest son Li Chengyuan and divide the property among his sons.
According to the current rules of dividing the family property, the eldest son will take 70% of the property, and the remaining sons will get 30%. Of these 30%, the original owner, as the second son, can get 20%, and the original owner's illegitimate elder brother and illegitimate younger brother can only share the remaining 10% equally.
Unlike the two illegitimate brothers who had long understood that they would not get much of the family property due to their illegitimate status, the original owner, as a legitimate son, envied and jealous of his eldest brother. He felt that his eldest brother could monopolize 70% of the family property and inherit the title, all because he was born two years earlier than himself. If he was born earlier and was the eldest legitimate son, then he would be the one who inherited the title and 70% of the family property.
It's just that the original owner was a little afraid of his father and brother, and never dared to show his hidden jealousy in public. But because of this jealousy, the original owner who was separated from the house only wanted to make a name for himself so that his father and brother would look at him differently.
However, the way he made his mark was not by studying hard for the imperial examinations, but by taking the money he was allocated to go to the casino in the hope of getting rich overnight.
The Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion has fallen into decline. Not only does it have no say in the court, it also has an empty title but no real power. The family property has also shrunk seriously, and in order to maintain its status, it is almost reaching the point of living beyond one's means.
For this reason, the old Earl of Jingyuan even married his second illegitimate son to the daughter of an imperial merchant, hoping that this merchant girl would bring a large dowry to fill the deficit of the Earl of Jingyuan's mansion.
The original owner knew about the financial difficulties of the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion, otherwise the 20% share of the family property that he received as the eldest son would not be so small. He just wanted to make a lot of money to impress his father and brother.
But he didn't know how to do business, and no one would take him to do profitable business. The three most profitable shops he owned in the central area of Beijing could only be rented out to earn rent.
Originally, if he had no ambitions, he could rely on this family fortune to make a living from the rent of the prosperous shops, the fields and farms outside the capital, and the support of the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion. Even if he was an ordinary person, his life would be much better than most people in the capital.
However, someone had his eyes on the three prosperous shops he owned, and he himself was a clueless person, so he plunged into the casino. At the beginning, others tricked him into winning a small amount of money, but after he was trapped, he lost nine times out of ten.
In the original plot, the original owner fell into the abyss after losing the three prosperous shops. In order to win the shops back, he continued to gamble. After gambling away his land and farm, he gambled away his house, and finally lost all his wife's dowry.
However, within just one year after the separation, the original owner lost everything.
Seeing how disappointing he was, his father and brother didn't want to care about him at all, because they knew that the eldest prince was the one backing the casino. The Jingyuan Marquis' Mansion couldn't afford to offend the eldest prince, let alone his subordinates.
Fortunately, the original owner still had a mother who cared about him. Mother Li subsidized some assets of the original owner's family, but Mother Li loved the eldest son who inherited the title and the eldest daughter who grew up by her side and was considerate and gentle. She did love the original owner's second son, but not much.
Therefore, the original owner could only rely on the support of Li's mother and live an ordinary life. It was impossible for her to live as luxuriously as before.
Unable to accept this gap, the original owner spent his days drinking. His wife Yu Yan was extremely disappointed in him and focused on educating their son Li Changqing.
Yu Yan wanted to send her son to school and take the imperial examination in the future. Although the original owner was not very ambitious, he still had some relatives with the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion. If her son had a promising future in his studies, she could also borrow the relationship with the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion.
Even if the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion is in decline, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse, and a rotten boat still has three pounds of nails.
But the original owner didn't care about his son's studies at all. He either drank or gambled every day. He didn't have money for big gambling, so he gambled small amounts. He even took away all the money that Yu Yan had prepared for his son to go to school and gambled it away.
In this family environment, the original owner's son Li Changqing worked hard to pass the imperial examination and won the attention of his grandfather, the old Earl of Jingyuan. He also received support from the Jingyuan Earl's mansion in his study for the imperial examination.
He should have had a good future, but unfortunately he had a father who was a drag on his life.
Li Changqing, who had finally passed the imperial examination and was appointed an official, was ordered by the third prince to kill the original owner because he got in the way of the third prince. Anyway, it seemed like it was a normal thing for the original owner to fall into the water and drown because of being drunk.
As soon as the original owner died, Li Changqing had to resign from his official position and return home to observe mourning. Later, after the three-year mourning period was over, Li Changqing wanted to be reinstated, but he was never able to do so.
Because the third prince who killed his father had ascended the throne and became emperor, in order to prevent Li Changqing from knowing the truth about his father's death and holding a grudge, he simply did not give Li Changqing the opportunity to be an official.
In the end, Li Changqing could only work as a teacher in depression and died of depression. He was never able to fulfill the promise he made to his mother - to earn a royal title for her.
In sharp contrast to Li Changqing's unfortunate fate was his cousin Li Changwen.
Li Changwen is the eldest son of Li Jingyuan. After Li Jingyuan was separated from the Jingyuan Earl's Mansion, he saved money and did not spend it recklessly. Instead, he studied hard and passed the imperial examination and became a second-class Jinshi, ranking last in the list, and did not fall into the third-class Jinshi.
Then Li Jingyuan took advantage of the connections of the Earl of Jingyuan and went to another place to be a county magistrate. With the help of the resources of the Earl of Jingyuan's Mansion, he was promoted relatively quickly. After all, he was the only one in the entire Earl of Jingyuan's Mansion who had passed the imperial examination and was the only one holding power. Even if Li Chengyuan, the current Earl of Jingyuan, did not want to spend resources on him, the old Earl of Jingyuan would not agree.
Li Jingyuan, who had exhausted all the resources and connections of the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion, finally became a third-rank official. As his eldest son, Li Changwen naturally won at the starting line. In addition, as the protagonist of this world, Li Changwen had been gifted and good at studying since childhood. He had smooth sailing in the imperial examinations and won the third place in the imperial examinations. After entering the officialdom, everything went smoothly under the protection of his father.
Later, Li Jingyuan and Li Changwen, father and son, joined the Third Prince's army and made great contributions to the Third Prince's ascension to the throne. They were awarded the title of "Follow the Dragon". Li Jingyuan was able to enter the cabinet, and Li Changwen became the Third Prince's trusted confidant and was regarded as a friend.
As for Li Changqing, this poor relative, he has nothing to do with the glorious father and son.
Li Changqing failed in his restoration many times and once sought help from Li Changwen, but he was sent away by the housekeeper without even seeing him.
Li Changwen knew all the details about how Li Changqing had become a stumbling block for the Third Prince without knowing it and was kicked away at will. So how could he possibly help Li Changqing, his cousin whom he had barely met and had no feelings for?
After Si Yuan finished reading the original plot, he pondered: [System, you don’t expect me to take the imperial examination and become an official, a higher official than Li Jingyuan, and then become a backer for Li Changqing, right? 】
The system said: [Yes, how else are you going to complete the task? 】
Si Yuan said with an embarrassed look: [System, look, I have been practicing in Wangtian Sect since I was a child, and I have never learned the Four Books and Five Classics. The original owner also had an empty head and left me with no knowledge. Isn’t it embarrassing to expect me to pass the imperial examination? Besides, I also have to spend time to comprehend the rules of the world, so how can I have the time to study hard for decades? 】
system:【……】
Si Yuan continued to act pitiful: [I was an orphan whose parents died when I was young, and no one adopted me. I finally heard the news that an immortal sect was recruiting disciples. On the way to join the sect, I was abducted by human traffickers. After going through untold hardships, I arrived at the sect. After joining the sect, no one from the sect master to the elders accepted me as a disciple... The first time I went down the mountain to train, I was assassinated by a demon cultivator... The sect master's son has a good father, and he can inherit the position of the sect master in the future. I don't have a father, and I don't even have the qualifications to be an heir... Now you want me to be someone else's father...]
The system felt sympathetic after hearing this, thinking that the host was so miserable.
The system, moved with compassion, hesitated and said: [Then I will open the system mall for you in advance. You can redeem items in the system mall through task points, such as the imperial examination skill book. You can directly use the skill book to obtain all the knowledge points of the imperial examination, which guarantees that you can pass the imperial examination. That is, you don’t have any task points now, so you can only buy on credit. 】
Si Yuan didn't expect that there would be such benefits to playing the victim casually. He felt that this inexperienced system was so easy to fool, and said with a smile using his spiritual sense: [Thank you so much system, you are so good to me, thank you! 】
When the system heard Si Yuan's thanks, it happily used up its own energy to help him open the system mall.
Si Yuan found a lot of treasures in the system mall, including all kinds of rare treasures and strange skill props, which really opened his eyes.
Of course, he also found the 'Imperial Examination Skill Book' mentioned by the system, but he just glanced at it and skipped it, not even thinking about buying it. Then his eyes fell on an item called 'World Affinity'.
Looking at the introduction of 'World Affinity': Improve your affinity with the origin of the world. The higher the affinity, the easier it is to comprehend the rules of the world. When the affinity reaches 100%, you can become one with the origin of the world and become the master of the world.
Si Yuan was excited when he saw it. This was a good thing, something that would help him comprehend the rules of the world more easily.
As for the fact that one can become the master of the world if the world affinity reaches 100%, Si Yuan pretended not to see it.
He is a cultivator from a vast world like the Tiancang Realm. How could he possibly destroy his own future by becoming the master of a small world and trap himself to death?
Si Yuan did not hesitate to exchange all the mission points that the system owed him for "World Affinity".
After the system saw what he exchanged, it asked angrily: [Didn’t you say you wanted to exchange for the ‘Imperial Examination Skill Book’? 】
Si Yuan blinked innocently: [When did I say I wanted to exchange for the 'Imperial Examination Skill Book'? I have no intention of taking the imperial examination, and I promised you to travel through time and complete the mission, the purpose of which is to comprehend the rules of each world and improve my realm, so there is nothing wrong with me exchanging for 'World Affinity'. 】
The system was so angry that it jumped up and down: [But if you don’t complete the mission, you won’t have any mission points, and don’t expect me to continue to give you credit! 】
Si Yuan waved his hand indifferently and said: "Don't worry, I will definitely complete the task. As for the method of completion, you don't have to worry about it. 】
He has already integrated the 'world affinity' and has indeed felt the effect. It is indeed easier to comprehend the world rules of this small world, so his trust in the system has also increased a lot. Naturally, there is no need to continue testing this naive system.
He will still complete the mission. After all, only by completing the mission can he obtain more mission points, exchange them for more "world affinity", and improve the speed of his comprehension of the world's rules.
The system has vaguely realized that it has been deceived: [Were you lying to me before? 】
Si Yuan said with a smile: [Guess! 】
The system asked with tears in its eyes: [You said that your parents died when you were young and you are an orphan...]
Si Yuan nodded: [Yes, it is true that my parents died and I am an orphan, but I am cute and smart, and all the tribesmen like me, so I eat a lot every day, and I grow up to be white, plump and cute. Otherwise, why do you think the human traffickers kidnapped me? 】
The system continued to ask: [You said that you were abducted by human traffickers on your way to the Immortal Sect’s disciple recruitment meeting...]
Si Yuan said with a smile: [Yes, but I ended up selling the human trafficker out. If I was really abducted, how could I join the Wangtian Sect? 】
The system asked in a trembling voice: [You said that after you joined the Immortal Sect, no one from the Sect Master to the Elders accepted you as a disciple...]
Si Yuan smiled even more brightly: [Because I have such great talent, the immortal sect ancestor who ascended to the fairyland accepted me as a disciple across the world, and became the junior master of the sect master and elders. 】
System: [You said that the first time you went down the mountain to train, you were plotted to be assassinated by a demon cultivator...]
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