Chapter Ninety-One: Face Comes Up for You to Hit
From the beginning of the tea party, part of Liu Dongyang's attention was actually always on Xia Fan.
Because in the conflict of Fang Cai, Liu Dongyang felt that he had been greatly humiliated, so he desperately wanted to return the shame to Xia Fan.
Although strictly speaking, this humiliation was completely self-inflicted, but Liu Dongyang would not think so.
He didn't think he had done anything wrong, even if Chen Zirong had already spoken, he still thought that these were Xia Fan's problems.
As he said at the beginning, in his opinion, Xia Fan's coming to the tea party was an insult to a humble scholar like them!
Liu Dongyang is a person who thinks highly of himself, and although he was born in a poor family, he always thinks that he has a talent that far surpasses others. I always think that it is impossible for me to live a life without everyone else.
His original dream was actually to become a powerful martial artist, but he was poor and rich in martial arts, and he didn't have enough financial resources to support him, and if he wanted to enter the martial arts, it was simply a fool's dream.
So in the end, Liu Dongyang could only reluctantly give up his dream of martial arts cultivation and focus on studying instead.
But such a choice also caused him to have some sick psychology.
For example, hating the rich uses arrogance to cover up the inferiority complex in his heart, and for example, ...... Since he wanted to practice martial arts but couldn't do it, he turned to martial arts and began to despise all kinds of martial arts, pursuing the argument that everything is inferior and only high in reading.
The dark side of human nature often has a lot in common.
Just like Liu Dongyang, many people can't help but want to find solace and satisfaction in their behavior.
The most common manifestation is that what they don't get is bad, and what they can get is good.
Originally, in this university scholar's mansion, Liu Dongyang did a good job of concealing his sick psychology.
He knew very well how difficult it was for a humble scholar like him to really get ahead, and how precious the opportunities in the university scholar's mansion were for them!
But when Xia Fan suddenly appeared in the courtyard, Liu Dongyang's extremely sick psychology that he had been hiding finally couldn't continue.
Because for Liu Dongyang, Xia Fan is a typical type of person he hates the most.
In Liu Dongyang's eyes, if he could have a background like Xia Fan, he wouldn't have to struggle so hard now, I'm afraid that he would have been famous all over the world for both civil and military affairs, and how could he be trapped in just Qingyang City?
Plainly...... In fact, it is jealousy.
And the flame of jealousy...... Often able to burn a person completely!
Originally, Liu Dongyang planned to drive Xia Fan out of the tea party, and at the same time, he also used this to show his integrity of not being afraid of the powerful in front of Chen Zirong's eyes, but what he never expected was that the development of things was completely beyond his expectations, and his goal was not only not achieved, but also left a very negative impression on Chen Zirong.
This is simply lifting a stone to hit himself in the foot, which made Liu Dongyang's sense of Xia Fan instantly rise from the original disgust to the level of resentment.
There are always people in this world who never reflect on themselves.
Affected by this resentment, Liu Dongyang has been paying attention to Xia Fan's every move from the corner of his eye since the tea party began.
This kind of distraction and dual-use practice undoubtedly made Liu Dongyang's attention unable to fully focus on the tea party itself, so that in the more than three hours during the tea party, Liu Dongyang did not play his due level at all, and all kinds of assertions were plausible, and there were even cases where the preface did not match the afterword.
Although he also knew that such a performance was tantamount to continuing to lose face in front of Chen Zirong's eyes, Liu Dongyang just couldn't control his instinctive reaction.
After observing Xia Fan so hard for more than three hours, he suddenly saw that Xia Fan had been yawning all the time, and Liu Dongyang, who had never been angry, immediately came to his senses.
During the audience, Zhao Mingyuan was arguing with another young man about whether the civil minister or the military minister was important in a country and the world, and Liu Dongyang suddenly interjected at this time: "Xia Ershao, I see that in this tea party, everyone is concentrating on discussing the issue, only you keep yawning, why is this?" Do you think the issues we're discussing are too boring? Still is...... You don't understand it at all? β
Liu Dongyang's opening was very sudden, and most people's attention was originally on Zhao Mingyuan and the young man, but as he spoke, everyone turned their heads to look at Xia Fan, who had been forgotten by them for more than three hours.
Even Zhao Mingyuan and the man stopped arguing for a while.
At this time, Xia Fan had just finished yawning, and found that everyone's eyes were focused on him at once, and he couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and turned his head to look at Liu Dongyang, who caused this turn.
Although Liu Dongyang was smiling, Xia Fan still clearly saw the resentful look in his eyes.
"It's not the question itself that's boring, it's you people who discuss it, I really didn't expect that your view of the country would be so superficial and so unbearable. Scholars, if the young people of our Daqian Dynasty are so ignorant, then the future of the dynasty is really worrying. β
Xia Fan naturally knew what Liu Dongyang was thinking, but he listened to the extremely naΓ―ve arguments for more than three hours in a row, and he was really annoyed to listen to them, so he simply followed Liu Dongyang's meaning, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it directly caused everyone's dissatisfaction.
"Hmph, what a big breath! Who do you think you are? β
Zhao Mingyuan said with an unhappy face.
"Xia Fan, as far as I know, don't say that you haven't gone to private school, even if you have never studied in the Xia family, you have never studied for a day, right? People who have never understood anything except eating, drinking, and having fun since childhood dare to say that we have a superficial view of the country? β
Yang Liu snorted and said with great dissatisfaction.
It's just that her dissatisfaction is not only caused by Xia Fan's sarcastic-sounding words, but also has other factors.
The main reason is that in more than three hours, Xia Fan didn't take the initiative to say even a word to her!
This made Yang Liu's heart extremely uncomfortable.
Because in Yang Liu's impression, as long as she was with her in the past, Xia Fan would be like a bee seeing flowers, desperately trying to get to her, no matter how cold she was, it would definitely not affect Xia Fan's enthusiasm.
But this time has been ...... Xia Fan seems to have undergone some changes in her body that she can't understand......
Last time, there were such signs in the 'Destined Winners', but today it is even more outrageous!
Although Yang Liu herself is full of disgust for Xia Fan, if Xia Fan continues to be enthusiastic about her, she will still be tired of Xia Fan like a fly.
But when Xia Fan suddenly became cold to her for no reason, such a change made her unacceptable.
For some people, she can abandon you like a shoe, but you must hold her like a pearl.
Yang Liu is undoubtedly such a person.
As for the others, they also glared at Xia Fan angrily.
"It seems that Xia Ershao has his own views on the country, which is why he is so dismissive of the discussion between us. In this case, I, Liu Dongyang, want to discuss with Xia Ershao. β
Seeing that Xia Fan's words caused public outrage, Liu Dongyang's heart was overjoyed, and the whole person simply stood up and said with a condescending attitude