Chapter 30: The Golden Mean

The evening glow faintly shrouded the mountain road, a gray-robed man climbed the steps, the years have left shallow traces on his face, but his eyes are as bright as a teenager, with an elegant smile on the corner of his mouth, looking at the end of the mountain road, the mountain villa shrouded in the glow, and said to himself: "It's been a few years, and I have finally returned to this place." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Thinking of the wonderful person in the villa, the smile on the corner of the man's mouth was even stronger: "It's been a long time since I've tasted her cooking, and her cooking skills must have become more amazing over the years." ”

But Acacia only entertained him with a ten-year-old Shaoxing flower carving, a plate of smoked fish, and a plate of beef, Su Shengwen was slightly stunned, looked at the people at the table suspiciously, and ignored the invincible who was standing with his hands hanging on the side, and said with a smile, "Acacia, even if I don't come to see you from time to time, you can't take these two cold dishes to send me away, in order to eat the dishes you made, I haven't eaten anything for a day." ”

Acacia is dressed in red, but it doesn't look too gorgeous, knowing that this man is coming today, he didn't deliberately dress up, the peerless elegance is better than all modifications, his bright eyes looked at the man he liked generously, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few years, you are still so greedy, today is the day of your assessment of apprentices, I didn't prepare wine and food for you." ”

The invincible on the side was amused in his heart, in the past month, he had already learned some things about Su Shengwen from Acacia, "The fairy sword is a move to set Kyushu!" "What a heroism this is, how domineering! But this shocking figure is just a greedy man in front of Mrs. Acacia, and Invincible suddenly feels that this man is just a mortal.

Su Shengwen scratched his head helplessly, sat down at the table, gave himself a glass of wine, took a sip, and said: "This wine is really good wine, but these two dishes are not worthy of this good wine, I said Acacia, are you really so ruthless?"

Acacia smiled charmingly and said: "I haven't eaten enough of the food I cooked every day, and I have fed you, I can't make fresh tricks for you to eat, this wine and food are prepared for you, but it is difficult for you, guess what is today's appetizer?"

Su Shengwen was stunned for a moment, looked at the Huadiao in front of him, and said with some doubts: "It's August, what you prepared for me is Huadiao wine, could it be that today's appetizer is crab ......" Seeing the smile in Acacia's eyes, Su Shengwen immediately waved his hand and shouted: "It's not proper, it's not proper!" You know that I don't eat such troublesome things, although the crab is delicious, it doesn't taste very pleasant, change the dish, change the dish!"

"I know you're lazy. Acacia smiled: "I've thought about it for you a long time ago." He nodded at Invincible and said, "Have Mr. Lao call the two of them in." Invincible didn't make a sound, and walked out the door honestly.

Su Shengwen smiled: "In the end, you have a way, this kid has eyes on the top of his head, he can listen to you like this, and the violence in his eyes is much calmer, how did you teach him?"

"Just as you taught me before. Acacia looked calm, his eyes were bright and gentle, but he didn't dare to look at Su Shengwen, and hurriedly lowered his head to eat the beef.

Shaoqing, invincible walked in with a pair of pink jade-like girls, two girls eleven or two years old, looking pink, very cute, one of them put a food box on the table, the other wrapped a cloth on the table and spread it out, silver shining, it turned out to be a complete set of tools for eating crabs.

Acacia said: "This is Da Zhen'er and Xiao Zhen'er, today they will serve you, you just have to open your mouth to eat, you don't need to do it, the invincible son, you will accompany this uncle to drink two cups." ”

"Zhou Dao!" Su Shengwen clapped his hands and smiled: "I'll throw back my uncle today!" looked at the invincible and said: "You kid also occupies my light, sit down and eat together!"

The two girls didn't know which one was Da Zhen'er, which one was Xiao Zhen'er, one of them opened the food box, and immediately sent out a burst of sweet crab fragrance, big body fat, green shell and white belly, golden claw and yellow hair, it was the golden claw crab in Yangcheng Lake, Suzhou Prefecture, the two girls were extremely skillful, four little hands flew up and down, and after a while, they peeled out the meat full of crab shells, and a girl put the crab shell meat with balsamic vinegar and ginger to Su Shengwen, and said respectfully: "Sir, please use!"

Su Shengwen didn't rush to taste it, glanced at the girl's hand, and said to Acacia: "It's not beautiful when this thing is done, two good girls, you let them practice iron sand palms in order to let them peel crabs, and the crabs that have just come out of the pot are held in their hands, and their hands are not burned, this must be iron sand palms! Seeing that you have been practicing like this for more than three years, the crabs naturally want to eat while they are hot, but in order to eat crabs to practice such kung fu, you are really ruthless!"

A girl hurriedly said: "Sir, don't blame Madame, the two of us learned to peel crabs when we were born, and the iron sand palm was learned by ourselves, and it has nothing to do with Madame, and the two of us are not Madame's people." I was about to cry when I was in a hurry.

Su Shengwen looked at Acacia suspiciously, Acacia turned his head away, and said in a somewhat cold voice: "You say I'm ruthless? These two girls are not to blame for cultivating such martial arts, you are showing mercy everywhere, what does it have to do with me?"

"Why did you get involved with me again?" Su Shengwen was even more puzzled.

"Do you still remember when you fought against Xia Yiren in order to save a woman, right? This woman wants to repay your kindness, but she can't do it, knowing that you love to eat crabs, but you are too lazy to do it, it took several years of hard work to train this pair of sisters, and sent them to me, just to make you a crab, she is so good to you!" Although the tone of Acacia was flat, there was a slight vinegar in the words, but even the invincible could hear it.

Su Shengwen looked at the two girls in surprise and said, "Are you Mrs. Peach's people?" Seeing that the two girls were silent, Su Shengwen knew that he was right, and sighed: "How can there be such a woman in this world, I just casually said, 'Although the crab is delicious, it is troublesome to eat', and she wrote it down, in order to let me eat a comfortable meal of crabs, she actually harmed these two little girls, this ...... How can I eat this?"

The other girl immediately said: "Sir, there is something wrong with this, although the two of us have suffered a lot in cultivating iron sand palms, but they are all voluntary, Mrs. Peach Blossom did not force us to learn, after we finished learning, we became famous for peeling crabs every day in Peach Blossom Building, and earned silver to honor our parents, what's wrong with this? This iron sand palm also brought a lot of benefits to our sisters, at least the drunk guests in the Peach Blossom Building did not dare to bully us, Mrs. Peach Blossom repaid the favor, and asked Mr. not to brush off Mrs. Kindness." ”

Su Shengwen looked at the girl's eyes, there was a faint anger in his eyes, knowing that the girl was telling the truth, and then looking at Acacia, he was also displeased, knowing that he was reckless and offending people, and hurriedly smiled: "It's me who is wrong, I blame people if I don't figure it out, punish myself three cups, punish myself three cups!"

"Drink you to death!" Acacia said angrily: "Be kind to be a donkey's liver and lungs! If Mrs. Peach Blossom knows, she won't be angry! You asked the invincible son to learn "The Book of Rites" with me, it seems that you are the one who wants to learn the "Book of Rites" well!"

Su Shengwen remembered the invincible on the side, picked up the crab shell and ate it in one bite, and praised: "It's really delicious in the world!" It's just that I was angry just now, and the crab was also cold, a little fishy, and I asked the two little girls to reheat it." Acacia knew that Su Shengwen was going to do business, so he took the two girls to clean up and go out.

"I haven't seen it for a month, and I've grown a lot. Su Shengwen poured himself a cup of hot tea, and also poured a cup for Invincible, from the moment he entered the door to the present, he was very satisfied with Invincible's performance, he knew that this young man was anxious to finish ten things, and he could return to the sea, but he did not show a trace of urgency, his breath was restrained, and he was obviously a good practitioner.

"I know you're in a hurry to repay your debts, and I won't delay you, I'll just ask a question, if you say it's right, even if it's over, how about it?" Su Shengwen smelled the tea and said lightly.

"Please sir. Invincible also said in the same light tone.

"Do you understand politeness, yes, yes! The book "The Book of Rites" is broad and profound, and even the immortals can't fully understand it in a month, let me ask you, what is the golden mean?" Su Shengwen looked at the young man meaningfully and said, "Just this one question, you have to think clearly before answering." ”

Invincible said: "The so-called golden mean refers to an impartial, compromise and harmonious attitude in the world. ”

"Is that so?" Su Shengwen's eyes shone brightly, and he said, "I'm not satisfied with your answer like this!"

Invincible's eyes also released a fine light, and he said without showing weakness: "I can't give you the answer you want!"

"Oh!" Su Shengwen said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Tell me why?"

Invincible seemed to have become a wise man, and said calmly: "Dao Ke Dao, very Dao ......"

Note: The last sentence of Invincible is from the Tao Te Ching, not the Book of Rites. (I'm afraid that someone will pick a thorn, I'll say it first, hehe!)

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