Jingzhou didn't care about Du Liang for dinner, so he hurried out alone, and he didn't even bring a single entourage.

It was all because a person suddenly came to visit the house during the day and said something to him, both openly and secretly.

Don't drive Du Liang's mansion and Assassin Shi Fanyang's mansion are on the same street, and the distance between them is only about two hundred steps, which is also for the convenience of these two local parents and officials in Jingzhou.

A middle-aged housekeeper in the Assassin's Mansion saw that Lord Beijia Du suddenly came to visit, and looked anxious, so he asked Fan Tingshi if he was not at home, and the housekeeper knew the relationship between this Beijia Lord and his master, so he didn't ask much, and hurriedly led Du Liang to the study to see Fan Yang.

Fan Yang took his light robe slowly, leaned on the warm couch behind the bookcase, held a book in his hand, and was looking at it intently.

The wall lamps around have been lit, illuminating the study room, the books on the shelves are high, and the strange things in the study are placed at will, which is very antique and bookish.

Du Liang followed the housekeeper into the study, and Fan Yang behind the bookcase did not take his eyes off the paper until the housekeeper bowed down to report, and saw that Du Liang was coming, so he hurriedly put the book in his hand on the desk and got up to greet him.

Du Liang also bowed his hand, and said in his mouth: "Ziliang is abrupt and disturbs Lord Fan's reading, please forgive me." ”

Fan Yang stepped forward and grabbed one of Du Liang's hands, pulled him to the seat in front of the south window, and the two sat down separately, Fan Yang smiled: "Ziliang, does the relationship between you and me still need to be so polite?"

Then he instructed the middle-aged housekeeper standing on the side: "Go and bring the jar of Junshan tea I got a few days ago, and I want to have a taste with Ziliang." ”

"Yes, sir. ”

The middle-aged butler turned around and hurried away.

Before Du Liang could speak, Fan Yang smiled again and said, "Ziliang, do you know what I was reading just now?"

Du Liang was stunned for a moment, didn't understand what Fan Yang meant, and replied casually: "Lord Fan was born in Canglang Academy, one of the four major academies, and the ordinary sub-history classics have long been familiar with his chest, and the book that Lord Fan read just now is not an ordinary book, right?"

Fan Yang listened to Du Liang's compliments, and immediately laughed, raised his hand and pointed at Du Liang and said: "I said Ziliang, your mouth is really amazing, they all say that there are many mouths in the world that are not forgiving, and you are the second, you are not a down-and-out scholar, but this mouth is more than that." ”

Du Liang didn't know what to say for a while, so he only smiled wryly.

The two are similar in age, but their background experiences are very different, Fan Yang was born in a Chudi family, and entered Canglang Academy since he was a child, speaking of which, he is still a disciple of the Confucian sage Xie Guan of the academy, and he is a real door-to-door scholar.

And Du Liang was born in a poor family in Chudi, his father was a small businessman, who died when he was very young, and his mother was a weaver, and Du Liang was raised by his widowed mother.

Although Du Liang's mother is just a country woman, she has some insight, she did not let her son go to the mountains and go to the countryside to be a farmer who cares for the fields, nor did she let her son inherit his father's business to become a businessman, but sent her son to study in the private school of a large family in the countryside, Du Liang did not live up to his mother's expectations, and really read some famous halls, became a well-known little master in the countryside, was cited as filial piety, and by chance won the appreciation of the old Chu King, and became the second-in-command of the Jingzhou magistrate.

Fan Yang didn't sell Guan Zi anymore, and said frankly: "I was reading Tai Shigong's "Historical Records" just now, and I was reading the paragraph 'Ovary Pickup', what is Ziliang's comment on this paragraph?"

Du Liang was still in the clouds, he didn't know what Fan Yang meant, but it was not easy to brush Fan Yang's mind, after all, it was his top boss sitting in front of him, so he took a deep breath and said: "Ziliang is stupid, and he re-enters the Taoist family from Confucianism, and he is the emperor's master when he enters, and he is a saint of the immortal family. ”

Fan Yang clapped his hands and praised: "Wonderful, Ziliang said the word 'forbearance', and said the three flavors, the so-called hidden hugging the road, waiting for the time, what he said was a forbearance word." If you can grasp this word forbearance, you can hide it from time to time, and you can move when you are on standby, and you can be extremely powerful and achieve immortal achievements, what does Ziliang think?"

Du Liang straightened his waist, bowed his hand, and said sincerely: "Master Fan is right, Ziliang has been taught. ”

At this time, the middle-aged housekeeper led a maid to bring a pot of tea, and the middle-aged housekeeper withdrew from the study after a chatter, leaving the maid to serve on the side, the maid poured a cup for each of them, Fan Yang picked up the teacup and said, "Ziliang doesn't need to be so polite, come and taste my newly arrived Junshan tea." ”

It is worthy of being the world-famous Junshan tea, the best tribute tea that the royal family of the past dynasties wanted, has not yet been entered, it is already full of fragrance and refreshing.

Du Liang drank it all in one gulp, and after tasting it, he praised: "It's really good tea." ”

Fan Yang burst into a hearty laugh again.

During the maid adding tea to the two, Du Liang interjected and said the meaning of this time: "Lord Fan, today the old minister suddenly came to look for me, and said some things openly and secretly during the period, Ziliang didn't know how to decide, so he came to ask Master Fan for advice." ”

saw Fan Yang smile slightly, and said: "The old minister also came to me today, and what he said must be similar to what he said to Ziliang." ”

Du Liang was stunned for a moment, the hand that was supposed to serve the teacup suddenly froze, he thought for a moment, and his heart suddenly brightened, he was a quick-witted person, and he immediately understood why Fan Yang suddenly told him the allusion of "picking up the shoes in the bridge house", which was to use the past as a metaphor for the present, to point out himself.

Du Liang tidied up, stood still, solemnly saluted Fan Yang, and said with a sincere face: "Thank you Lord Fan for your guidance, Ziliang understands." ”

Fan Yang calmly accepted Du Liang's salute, nodded and smiled: "Okay, since Ziliang has let go of the worries in his heart, why don't we just talk about it while drinking tea?"

"That's great!"

Du Liang happily re-seated, the expression on his face had become calm, and there was no trace of worry.

In the study, Fan and Du were concentrating on the game, and the middle-aged housekeeper in Fan's mansion hurriedly walked into the study again, holding a delicate gift box in his hand.

"Master, just now the chief manager of the palace came to the mansion in person and brought this gift box to the lord. The middle-aged housekeeper said.

Fan Yang stood up and hurriedly asked, "Where is Chief Du?"

The middle-aged housekeeper replied with a difficult face: "Manager Du put down the gift box and left." ”

Fan Yang looked at the gift box in the middle-aged housekeeper's hand with a solemn face, and Du Liang also got up from his seat and walked to Fan Yang's side, also looking at the gift box.

Fan Yang glanced at Du Liang, then reached out to open the gift box, only to see that there were two jars of precious Junshan tea in the gift box, which was the tea used by the old Chu King to entertain several of their royal ministers in Yunmeng Pavilion that day.

Du Liang was surprised: "What does this mean, prince?"

Fan Yang pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled, turned his head to Du Liang and said, "If Brother Wei didn't guess wrong, Ziliang's mansion would definitely receive this gift from the prince." ”

Du Liang was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood, just like Fan Yang, with a smile on his face.

Fan Yang covered the gift box, and then waved his hand to the middle-aged housekeeper, and after the middle-aged housekeeper left, Fan Yang smiled and said to Du Liang: "Ziliang, we haven't seen a win in this game, how do we continue?"

This is also what Ziliang wants to say. ”

"Ziliang, please!"

"Lord Fan, please!"

Fan and Du began to continue the unfinished chess game without distraction.