A Short-Lived Dream of Life

Content introduction: The novel describes that the Mei family in Tongcheng, Anqing Prefecture in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, was an imperial examination family. Their ancestors had produced champions, Jinshi, etc. However, not long ago, this once popular imperial examination family was gradually declining. But when the time comes, the children and grandchildren fail to succeed in many trials, and the family fortune is declining day by day. However, in an era when everything is of inferior quality and the only way is to study well, the only way out for young people is this. A pair of twins, a boy and a girl, were born in the Mei family. This pair of extremely intelligent sons and daughters brought hope to the revival of the Mei family's imperial examination family. The arrival of the pair of child prodigies has brought about a turning point for this family of four generations. Both children are gifted, but the boy Mei Shu prefers Yili and strange arts, while the girl Mei Hua has a photographic memory and is better at the Four Books and Five Classics. In order to revitalize the family, the wife also moved to the south of the Yangtze River and disguised herself as a man to avoid being noticed. In order to enrich their knowledge and experience, Mr. Mei, the second generation head of the Mei family, even taught them personally and took his two grandsons on a journey of thousands of miles and visited several... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.