Xiong Wentao's work is going well, the height of publicity is rising, and the top-secret news from home - Huang Ruzong has made a choice.

Xiong Wentao, who was satisfied, should be happy, he really had the heart to take a good rest, but his father called him personally and told him not to accumulate strength and to persevere to the end.

Fortunately, Kobayashi did a good job in many private jobs. Xiong Wentao soon forgot about Wu Faquan, who "lost Maicheng".

At this time, the first snow of the year fell in Kyoto.

Wu Faquan stood in a courtyard house that was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, waiting for Xiong Lao's summons.

For this failure, Wu Faquan felt aggrieved, unwilling, and even a little aggrieved. The two failed operations before and after, which can be said to have nothing to do with him directly, but he became the one who took the blame.

Being "expelled" by Xiong Wentao is only clear to him when he is over half a hundred years old. He even regrets it now, whether he should have left the circle of "staff" and changed his face to the official career.

He didn't know what Elder Xiong would arrange for him. To stay with him is to still believe in him, and to be exiled is to no longer trust.

A secretary-like man walked out of the room gently, came to Wu Fa's whole body with a smile, and whispered in a slightly respectful tone: "Old Xiong just finished drinking gruel." ”

Wu Faquan knew that this meant to let him in.

He took two steps and subconsciously reminded: "Xiao Zhang, Xiong Lao is prone to stomach reflux after drinking gruel, have you prepared stomach Shuping powder, no, don't use the medicine often, drink some soda......"

Halfway through his words, he realized that he had no right to arrange the other party now.

He is no longer Xiong Lao's political secretary.

"Thank you, Director Wu, for reminding me, an appropriate amount of soda has been arranged for Xiong Lao to drink." The secretary's tone was still respectful, but his steps unconsciously exceeded Wu Faquan's shoulders.

Before, this young secretary would never dare to surpass him, except on special occasions.

Often, it is difficult for people to judge the mood and purpose of the other person from their expressions or mannerisms, because everyone wears a mask of hypocrisy. And the "secretaries" are one of the most beautiful people in the world. As "they" grow older and have more life experience, they wear more and more ingeniously, and it becomes more and more difficult to be noticed, but it is undoubtedly difficult for Wu Faquan. Because he used to be the "best of the best" in this group.

And the attitude of the "secretary" can clearly express the attitude of the owner.

Wu Faquan's footsteps also became heavy.

Indeed, he is one of Xiong Lao's favorite generals, but no matter how "love" is, he can't match the power of blood. Elder Xiong will only favor his son.

Pushing open the dark red wooden door, a hot and humid heat hits your face.

Xiong Lao sat on a single sofa with reading glasses and flipped through today's newspaper.

"Sit."

Wu Faquan heard his rare polite voice, and the whole person immediately panicked.

Xiong Lao's expression seemed to have always been as calm as water, but Wu Faquan clearly saw that at the moment when Xiong Lao said "sit" just now, his eyes were still on the newspaper.

Xiong Lao is actually seventy-three years old this year, but he only looks like he is in his early sixties when he is well maintained.

After Wu Faquan sat down, Xiong Lao put down the newspaper, took off his reading glasses, and said unhurriedly: "Do you know what you did wrong?" ”

"I live up to your expectations......"

"My expectations?" Elder Xiong showed a slightly surprised expression on his face when he heard this, and his eyebrows furrowed slightly, "It seems that you still don't know what you are doing wrong." ”

"I ......"

Xiong Lao raised his hand to stop Wu Faquan's speech, his tone was slow but powerful, "There is a place in the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office. ”

Wu Faquan knew that the Xiong family was going to send him away.

His face turned pale and he bowed his head slightly.

In fact, he was still confident before he came, he had doubts about the Dongshan Society, and the Dongshan Society, where the Chaoguo Pillar was located, was a hand in Lingnan that had the ability to cast key votes.

He thought that if Xiong Lao could give him another chance, he might be able to give a beautiful answer.

Pity.

What a pity! Xiong Wentao!

He remembered a poem: The grass is bright and not the fire, and the lotus dew is not a pearl. In life, some people, some people who are very proud and smart, are often confused by some illusions that seem to be "winning", and mistake the phenomenon for the essence, thus covering up their knowledge and understanding of the truth. Xiong Wentao and the Xiong family didn't see that the reversal was approaching him, slowly, slowly, step by step. It's a pity that the entire Xiong Huang family, together with Xiong Wentao, has no premonition at all.

He was still intoxicated with the joy of victory.

If there is a slight possibility, even if Wu Faquan is expelled by the Xiong family, he will give the Xiong family the best gift. But as the saying goes, "When you go out to see the sky, you look at your face when you enter the door." "No matter what you do or who you are, you must first observe the words and looks, find out the other party's thoughts, and then put them into action, so as to be foolproof.

He has fallen to the bottom and can no longer slide into the abyss.

The old man always admonishes children to learn to "look at the eyes", that is, to probe the other person's heart from the other person's facial expressions and other body language, so as to do something obedient to the other person, or avoid doing something that disagrees with the other person.

And Xiong Lao obviously didn't want to hear anything.

Having said that, there are only evil consequences and disgust, even disgust.

Regarding "looking at people's faces", there is a story about Emperor Kangxi. It is said that when Emperor Kangxi reached his old age, because he was old, he had a strange temper - taboo people to say that they were old. The courtiers on the left and right knew about him, and generally tried to avoid saying "old".

Once, Kangxi led a group of imperial concubines to go fishing, and after a while, the fishing rod moved, and he hurriedly raised the fishing rod, only to see an old turtle fishing on the hook, and he didn't like it in his heart. Who knew that as soon as he pulled out of the water, he only heard a "plop" sound, but the turtle broke off and fell into the water and ran away. Kangxi sighed for a long time, and even called it a pity, and the queen who accompanied Kangxi hurriedly comforted him when he saw this: "It seems that this is an old turtle, so it is so old that it has no teeth, so it can't hold the hook." ”

The words fell, but the other young concubine next to him couldn't help laughing, and kept looking at Kangxi while laughing. Kangxi couldn't help but be furious when he saw it, he thought that the queen was unintentional to speak, and the concubine was intentional and insinuating, laughing at him for having no teeth and being old and useless, so he sent the concubine into the cold palace.

Why did the queen obviously say the word "old" when she spoke, Kangxi didn't blame her, and the concubine just smiled, but Kangxi blamed her? Kangxi is not convinced of old age, taboo others say that he is old, once someone involves this topic, he can't bear it psychologically. However, due to the different emotional distance between the queen and the concubine and Kangxi, his attitude towards the two is also different. What the queen said, after careful consideration, has two meanings, explicit and implicit, the explicit meaning is the literal meaning, because Kangxi and the queen are close to each other, and he has a positive association, so he just understands it literally, knowing that the queen is a kind comfort. Although the concubine didn't speak, she just smiled, but she deliberately extended it on the basis of what the queen said, comparing the old turtle that escaped to the emperor, which was disrespectful to the emperor.

The same problem, the same environment, because different characters have different understandings, will have different results. As the saying goes, "the speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional", in fact, the reason is that the concubine did not observe the emperor's face with her heart.

Therefore, at this moment, Wu Faquan's best choice is not to say anything.

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