Secrets Under the Peach Tree Chapter 69

Tristan was Du Wanming. I also remembered that he was called Jiang Zongduo in Nanming. The strange thing is that after I went to heaven, he kept looking at me like a cockfighter. When I was in the mortal world, I actually had no issues with him. His father was a second-grade military general, a little lower in rank than my father. During the holidays, he would often honor my family with some things. But this kid has been very strong-willed since he was a child, and he has never visited my house with his father.

The name Du Wanming was my nightmare when I was a child. His father and my old man were both Jinshi in the same ranking, but their promotion was not as smooth as my father's, and later he became a thankless imperial censor. Du Wanming and I are the same age. I was called a child prodigy since I was a child, and my father often compared me with him. At the age of three, Du Wanming could recite Mencius backwards. At the age of three, I could stutter even the first two sentences of the Analects. At the age of five, Du Wanming came to the Second King's Calligraphy, but my handwriting was still staggering at the age of five. At the age of seven, Du Wanming wrote an orchid grass poem that was recited all over the capital. When I was seven years old, I didn’t even know what a fight was. The old man envied the Du family's son day and night. Looking at his son from side to side, I hated him and felt very sad. If the pain is severe, give me a stick. My father often sighed and said: "Although I have been lucky in my official career and have a high official position, in a few years, when Xiao Shuzi becomes an adult, the Song family will definitely be difficult to match the Du family."

My father, who was an official at that time, pooled his money to build a school and sent his sons to study there. In fact, it is so that the children can have a friendship with each other as classmates when they are young, so that they can take care of each other when they enter the court and become officials, and the road will be smooth. When I was ten years old, Du Wanming entered the school to study. The old man immediately kicked me into the school.

After I entered the school, I immediately discovered that there were many people in the school who had the same problem as me. Everyone has been compared with Du Wanming by their parents since childhood, and has suffered countless hardships. Seeing the source of trouble, his teeth were itching, and from time to time he would look for something to take advantage of Du Wanming to vent his anger on.

Du Wanming was weak and easy to control, and when someone bullied him, he would endure it silently without making a sound. People can't help but want to bully him again. Over and over again, and he became more and more angry every day. The Du family and the Jiang family of General Hongwei are neighbors. Du Wanming and Jiang Zongduo grew up together. Jiang Zongduo protected him in the school and helped him stand up. The two of them originally had a good relationship.