Chen Zirong's words were extremely serious, and Liu Dongyang, who was still angry at Xia Fan's words and deeds, suddenly turned pale, and his heart was directly cold.

As for the people sitting next to Liu Dongyang, after Chen Zirong made a statement, they no longer expressed any opinions.

Even the young man who stood up first to fight for Liu Dongyang remained silent, looking silent.

On the contrary, Xia Fan, who was one of the parties involved, did not react, and as Chen Zirong spoke, the sloppy habit in Xia Fan had been put away again.

With a respectful face, he turned to Chen Zirong and owed a debt, and sat down casually at a low table.

Anyway, the main purpose of the reason why he suddenly went crazy was to see Chen Zirong's reaction, and now that the goal has been achieved, he is too lazy to waste time on Liu Dongyang.

Yang Liu and the three of them also took advantage of this opportunity, hurriedly walked a few steps, and sat down at their low table.

Under the big locust tree, only Chen Zirong and the old servant were still standing.

Due to the conflict between Xia Fan and Liu Dongyang and Chen Zirong's subsequent statement, the atmosphere in the venue seemed a little weird for a while.

Chen Zirong's gaze stayed on everyone's body slightly, and when he looked at Xia Fan, the interest that flashed in his eyes was obviously more intense.

It's just that everyone else lowered their heads when he criticized Liu Dongyang, so except for Xia Fan, no one noticed the change in Chen Zirong.

"You should all know the reason why the old man held the tea party, and I won't elaborate on them one by one, our Qingyang City is the most remote place in the Daqian Dynasty, and it has never been valued by the dynasty, whether it is the Chinese courtiers of the dynasty, or the military martial arts cultivators, there are very few people from our Qingyang City. Although the gentlemen are not the party, everyone has the idea of wanting to do something for their hometown after all, so after the old man returned to his hometown, he began to hold this tea party. ”

Chen Zirong said as he waved his hand to the old servant beside him.

The old servant immediately stooped down and agreed, and then began to get busy back and forth, placing pens, ink, paper, inkstones, and tea for each of the people sitting at the low table.

"All of you here are all young people from our Qingyang City, every time I see you young faces at the tea party, the old man seems to be able to see himself more than fifty years ago, so this tea party is not only the purpose you know, but also the reason why I take this memory to remember. Talking to you a lot, I feel like I'm much younger. ”

Chen Zirong's opening remarks made the others in the room gradually dissipate their tension.

Yang Liu was even more bold to answer: "Scholar Chen, you are not old, you are only seventy this year, my father said that you have a clean body and bones, and you look at least a hundred years of life." ”

"Haha, then borrow the auspicious words of the city lord, I hope to live to be 100 years old. However, being old and not dying is a thief, and many times living for a long time is not necessarily a good thing. ”

Chen Zirong laughed.

"What nonsense are you talking about, scholar, you are the treasure of our Qingyang City, all the people in the city respect you for you, and I wish you lived a long life."

Yang Liu pursed his lips again and said with a little coquettishness.

"It is not me who they are respecting, but the three-year tax of Qingyang City that Your Majesty saw me return to my hometown and be exempted. They want me to live a long life, and it has nothing to do with me, but they want me to live forever, and maybe at some time His Majesty may think of me again, and bring them some benefits that everyone has. ”

Chen Zirong reached out and stroked the completely white beard on his chin, and said with a smile.

Xia Fan's eyes lit up, and his evaluation of Chen Zirong was a few points higher again.

However, after listening to what Chen Zirong said, several other young people showed expressions of disagreement on their faces, and Zhao Mingyuan couldn't help but express his opinion when he looked at it.

Chen Zirong didn't give him a chance to speak, he waved his hand directly, and continued: "There's nothing to discuss about this, when you enter the court as an official in the future, you will slowly understand what I'm talking about." You're young, and I shouldn't have told you that. But I have seen too many enthusiastic scholars, who were all ambitious at the beginning of their careers, but as time went by, they gradually stumbled on the official road. ”

His eyes swept over everyone's faces, and Chen Zirong continued: "What I want to tell you is that ideals do have to be there, but ideals that are too distant are actually not beneficial to your growth. Being able to see the world more clearly will make your direction clearer. ”

After speaking, Chen Zirong ignored the changes in the expressions of the people in the room, took a piece of rice paper from the hand of the old servant beside him, and then placed it on the nearest low table next to him where no one was sitting, and wrote a word on it.

Immediately, he picked up the piece of rice paper and showed the words to everyone in the room.

That's the word 'country'.

"This is the theme of today's tea party, according to the practice of previous tea parties, everyone is free to play."

After Chen Zirong finished smiling, he bent down and picked up the low table beside him, and in the incomprehensible gaze of everyone, he moved the low table straight to Xia Fan's side, and then sat down next to Xia Fan.

"Okay, what are you still doing, let's start quickly."

Finding that everyone was looking at him, Chen Zirong, who had already sat down cross-legged, couldn't help frowning, and said with some dissatisfaction.

That's when the atmosphere began to change.

For the next three or so hours, Xia Fan sat beside Chen Zirong and listened boredly to the extremely intense discussions on the topic of the word 'country' by more than a dozen scholars in the audience......

Even Yang Liu joins in from time to time to refute the views of some people.

This gave Xia Fan a new understanding of Yang Liu, but he never thought that the second lady of the City Lord's Mansion was actually quite a talented person.

It's just that this kind of discussion is really meaningless in Xia Fan's eyes, and he talks about it just by relying on the things he reads in his books, and many of the conclusions he draws are really ridiculous in Xia Fan's eyes.

In the previous life, Xia Fan stood at the peak of mortal martial arts after all, and the higher he stood up, the clearer he naturally saw this world.

Therefore, some of the words spoken by some people in the audience can only get a childish evaluation in his ears.

However, these people obviously hope to be favored by Chen Zirong in the tea party, so the discussion is extremely intense.

Everyone is using their own extremely naïve and superficial views to refute the equally naïve and superficial assertions of others, this kind of scene makes Xia Fan really cry and laugh.

For Xia Fan, more than three hours are a complete waste of time.

However, Chen Zirong, who was sitting next to him, seemed to have been listening attentively, so Xia Fan had to be patient.

It's just that in the end, Xia Fan has yawned a lot, and he really has lost the slightest bit of energy.

This look was immediately seen by Liu Dongyang!