Chapter 224." The surname of the contemptible person is Li, and the name is Chunchen".
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The name of the person is Ma Min, and he is also the test-taking person of the current department, and he is the best at drilling and tricking, but his talent is average, and he also belongs to the character of the wall grass, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, and has always been despised by other lifters.
It is worth mentioning that at the beginning, Liu Zimin acted around in accordance with Zhao Junchen's instructions, recruiting candidates who were willing to take refuge in Zhao Junchen, this Ma Min can be said to have responded positively, not only shamelessly patting Liu Zimin's sycophants, but also promoting his longing for Zhao Junchen everywhere, and bent on getting along with Zhao Junchen.
However, although Liu Zimin at that time was bent on recruiting talents for Zhao Junchen in the examination, he did not ignore the good and the bad, after all, Zhao Junchen needed "useful talents", and Ma Min himself was inferior in terms of talent, character, and family background, although his kung fu was good, but Liu Zimin did not dare to recruit him as a "useful talent" to Zhao Junchen's door, otherwise it would only attract Zhao Junchen's unhappiness and dissatisfaction, and eventually affect Liu Zimin's own future.
As a result, among the candidates for the current examination, Ma Min became one of the few who wanted to join Zhao Junchen but was turned away.
As a result, Ma Min not only did not reap the benefits, but was regarded by the lifters as "a villain who even the big corrupt official Zhao Junchen can't look down on", and his reputation became more and more notorious, and finally became a laughing stock.
Of course, this Ma Min is a character who bullies the soft and is afraid of the hard, and he does not reflect on himself for his unbearable situation, nor does he dare to resent Zhao Junchen, a powerful minister in the DPRK and the central government, and even dare not resent Liu Zimin, Zeng Wei and other candidates who will have a great future in the future because of Zhao Junchen's relationship.
But Ma Min always wants to vent the resentment and unwillingness in his heart.
Fortunately, Ma Min, who bullied the soft and was afraid of the hard, actually appeared a Xiao Wenxuan who was even worse than him!
For Ma Min, Xiao Wenxuan's appearance was used to be ridiculed and vented by him!
Therefore, these days, Ma Min often finds Xiao Wenxuan and deliberately ridicules him, so as to satisfy his inhumane and dirty psychology.
Today is the day when the apricot list is announced. Ma Min knew that he must be no-list on the list, and he was unwilling to let his feelings out, but he came to find trouble with Xiao Wenxuan again.
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Seeing the strong malice contained in Ma Min's smile, as well as the undisguised jealousy and sarcasm in his eyes, Xiao Wenxuan's brows furrowed in disgust.
It's just that after experiencing this setback, Xiao Wenxuan not only had a fundamental change in his heart. Even the city mansion was much deeper, although he knew that Ma Min was here to find trouble, he didn't intend to pay attention to it, but as if he hadn't seen Ma Min at all, he walked towards his room with a calm expression.
Today's Xiao Wenxuan finally understands the importance of interpersonal relationships and the unpredictable feelings between getting along. But Xiao Wenxuan didn't think he needed to have a good relationship with a villain like Ma Min.
On the other side, seeing that Xiao Wenxuan was ignoring himself like this, Ma Min couldn't help but be furious, and his words became more and more intriguing.
"Actually, Xiao Gongzi doesn't need to say it explicitly, junior brother, I also know that Xiao Gongzi, you are afraid that you are also known as Luosun Mountain! Speaking of which, this is the fourth time that Xiao Gongzi has failed the list, right? Ay! I really don't know how you should face your father and fellow villagers after you return to your hometown! Especially Xiao Gongzi, your reputation was not bad, but after this test. Not only did he fail to get the Jinshi meritorious name, but he lost his reputation, I'm afraid that even if he leaves the capital, his life will not be easy in the future, right? ”
Between the sarcasm, the malice in Ma Min's eyes became more and more undisguised, and his eyes were firmly fixed on Xiao Wenxuan's face, hoping to see shame and unwillingness in Xiao Wenxuan's expression - so that he could calm the shame and unwillingness in his heart!
However, to Ma Min's disappointment. Xiao Wenxuan not only still looked calm, but also ignored him, and just continued to walk towards his room.
Seeing that Xiao Wenxuan was about to walk past Ma Min, it was as if Ma Min did not exist from beginning to end, the unwillingness and shame in Ma Min's heart became more and more uncontrollable, and he actually grabbed Xiao Wenxuan's sleeve.
"Xiao Gongzi, why leave in a hurry? Those who fall off the list at the same time. Let's have a good talk. Ma Min barely maintained a hypocritical smile, but the fingers that grabbed Xiao Wenxuan's sleeve were faintly white because they were too hard: "On the way to come, I also saw Liu Zimin, Liu Gongzi, Zeng Wei and Zeng Gongzi They were gathering to celebrate, and I heard that Xiao Gongzi, you have befriended them." Now that they are all famous on the apricot list, why didn't Liu Gongzi congratulate him? ”
After being grabbed by the sleeve, Xiao Wenxuan sighed slowly, then turned around and looked directly at Ma Min in front of him, with a sense of oppression in his eyes.
And Ma Min, under Xiao Wenxuan's direct gaze, also subconsciously shrank his body slightly, and his eyes were even more avoidant.
Then, Xiao Wenxuan finally spoke.
"Are you so unable to face your own failures?" Xiao Wenxuan's voice was indifferent and cold, but it directly hit the most sensitive part of Ma Min's heart, making Ma Min's body tremble: "Or, do you really think that Tong Guò's humiliation of me will make you forget your own failures, or even change your own failures?" ”
Ma Min was said to be thoughtful, and finally couldn't maintain a hypocritical smile, and Xiao Wenxuan's voice became more and more cold: "Failure is failure, failure is failure, this is a fact, irrefutable, but if you don't dare to face your own failure, don't know how to find the reason from the failure, only know how to humiliate others to cover up your failure, and only know how to find the reason to numb yourself, it will only make you continue to fail, and eventually become the most failed one...... Have you thought about this? Or do you have the courage to think about it? ”
Then, Xiao Wenxuan brushed away Ma Min's hand on his sleeve, as if he had removed a piece of garbage, and said: "If you want to continue to fail, you can continue to pester me, I don't care, because I found the reason for my failure, and I want to change it, so I won't care about your entanglement...... But if you're not willing to continue to fail, use the time you're pestering me to do something practical. ”
Then, Xiao Wenxuan turned around and continued to walk in the direction of his room, but he didn't look at Ma Min again.
And Ma Min's expression changed uncertainly, but the shame in his eyes became more and more, and when he finally reached the critical point, he turned around and was about to shout at Xiao Wenxuan.
However, before Ma Min could speak, another gentle and elegant voice suddenly came.
"Good! That's it. With this realization, Brother Xiao, you can be my friend. ”
It turned out that the conversation between Xiao Wenxuan and Ma Min was not concealed in the slightest, but it was heard by a scholar in the next seat.
And this admiration was also given by this scholar.
After Xiao Wenxuan heard it, he couldn't help but be stunned. Turning around to look at the scholar carefully, he saw that this person was only in his early twenties, with a slender figure, dressed in a moon-white Confucian shirt, with a white and handsome face, and bright and deep eyes. It can always give people an intuitive impression of "smart and talented", and people can't help but feel good.
I saw that the scholar stood up, and after nodding to Xiao Wenxuan, he walked in front of Ma Min, and then said softly: "This brother, give me a face, don't pester Brother Xiao anymore." How about getting out of here right now? ”
Looking at the scholar in front of him, Ma Min's face suddenly changed, but he no longer dared to be presumptuous, and said, "Yuan, it turned out to be Brother Li...... Since Brother Li has spoken, the younger brother does not dare to disobey, so he will leave, this will leave. ”
After finishing speaking, Ma Min left immediately. But he didn't dare to look at this scholar and Xiao Wenxuan again.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Wenxuan was stunned again, with Ma Min's character of bullying the soft and fearing the hard, the scholar in front of him obviously had some ability.
Thinking of this, Xiao Wenxuan looked at the scholar's eyes thoughtfully.
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"Thank you, Your Excellency, for speaking up, otherwise with that Ma Min's heart. I don't know how long I want to be entangled, this kind of villain, although it is disdainful, is always troublesome to be entangled. "Wait for Ma Min to leave. Xiao Wenxuan didn't dare to slack off, and after thanking him, he asked, "It's just that I don't know what your surname is?" Can you give advice? ”
After the scholar smiled lightly, he raised his hand and led to the seat he was sitting on just now, and said, "If Brother Xiao is not in a hurry, why don't you drink and talk with me at the same table?" I didn't have any other thoughts, I just wanted to make friends with Brother Xiao. ”
After Xiao Wenxuan hesitated for a moment, he finally nodded in agreement and sat with the scholar.
After taking a seat, the scholar finally introduced himself: "The contemptible surname is Li, the name is Chunchen, Brother Xiao just calls me Chunchen." ”
Hearing the scholar's self-introduction, Xiao Wenxuan couldn't help but be stunned again.
Not because he has admired the name for a long time, but because he has never heard the name of "Li Chunchen".
It's just that this Li Chunchen's demeanor and bearing are extraordinary, and he shouldn't be an unknown person.
Xiao Wenxuan looked at Li Chunchen again for a moment, and then asked tentatively: "Looking at Brother Li's dress and age, is it possible that he is also the exam-taker for the undergraduate examination?" ”
Li Chunchen nodded with a smile and said: "That's right, I am also an undergraduate examination candidate, and I got the news half an hour ago that I was lucky to enter the list of today's college entrance examination, ranking fourth on the apricot list." However, I am withdrawn, I don't have many friends, and I don't want to accept those hypocritical congratulations, so I came here alone to drink and celebrate alone, but I didn't expect to meet Brother Xiao, which was really fateful. ”
After hearing Li Chunchen's words, Xiao Wenxuan was taken aback.
Doesn't it mean that the Li Chunchen in front of him is second only to Zhou Suwen, the grandson of Fu Zhou Shangjing, Zhao Shancai, a world-famous Jiangnan talent, and Zeng Wei, who is the son of an official eunuch and took refuge in Zhao Junchen, in the ranking of the undergraduate examination?
This is really amazing, if it is a different examination, maybe it will be the first place Huiyuan!
So, Xiao Wenxuan didn't dare to slack off even more, and arched his hand: "I didn't expect Gongzi Li to have such a great talent, I am ashamed to say that I am lonely and unheard, and I have never heard of Gongzi's name before today." ”
Li Chunchen shook his head with a smile, and said: "It's not to blame Brother Xiao for being unheard, he is a little withdrawn in his temperament, he doesn't like to associate with people, and he rarely participates in those literati gatherings, so his reputation has never been obvious, and Brother Xiao doesn't know that it should be, but the Ma Min just now, although his character is unbearable, but he is good at studying, and he actually knows the origin of the contemptible person from nowhere, but it is precisely because of this that I was able to beat him away." ”
"Oh? Unexpectedly, Brother Li is not only admirable in knowledge and bearing, but also extraordinary in his family background. Xiao Wenxuan followed the topic and began to set Li Chunchen's family background, which Xiao Wenxuan disdained in the past, but now Xiao Wenxuan always has to plan for his future, if the person in front of him is rich and noble, there will always be one more choice in the future.
Li Chunchen didn't hide it, and nodded generously: "Actually, there is nothing in the family background, it is not an official eunuch family, and even the scholarly family is far behind." It's just that his parents were engaged in salt sales in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, and his family had some spare money. ”
Although Li Chunchen said so, Xiao Wenxuan did not dare to underestimate it.
In the Ming Dynasty, the power of the salt merchants of Huizhou and Zhejiang was not trivial, and their local influence was no less than that of the local prefect and county, and they could even influence the policy trend of the court, and the potential power was huge.
In fact. Even if Zhao Junchen hadn't handed over the benefits of the "Sichuan Salt Reform" to the Jin merchants and received the full support of the Jin merchants, the current exhibition in the court would not have been so smooth.
Li Chunchen claimed that his family only had some "idle wealth", but Xiao Wenxuan estimated that the so-called "idle wealth" of the Li family was probably calculated in terms of 100,000 or even millions.
And just as Xiao Wenxuan was thinking about it. Li Chunchen suddenly threw an olive branch to Xiao Wenxuan: "Actually, I have long heard of Brother Xiao's virtuous name, and I also know that Brother Xiao is talented, but my fate is not good, I actually failed the undergraduate examination, but I don't know what Brother Xiao's plan is next?" If there is nothing good to go, Li took the liberty of inviting him. Please Brother Xiao return to my hometown with me after the palace examination, now my family is developing fast, and I need a talent like Brother Xiao. ”
Xiao Wenxuan was stunned again, but he didn't expect Li Chunchen to invite himself so directly and only one side.
Being able to become a guest in the house of a salt merchant is actually a good destination for Xiao Wenxuan.
It's just that for Li Chunchen, who has just met, Xiao Wenxuan still has a sense of caution and caution in his heart, so he half-truths and half-truths are half-true and half-false with a wry smile. said tentatively: "Brother Li doesn't want to make fun of me, saying that he has been famous for a long time, but I'm afraid it's just notorious, right?" Now I'm going to try to fall off the list again, where is it still a great talent? How can you be worthy of such importance as Brother Li? ”
Li Chunchen shook his head solemnly and said, "Brother Xiao's experience, I have deliberately inquired out of curiosity. But I don't think there will be anything wrong with what Brother Xiao did a few days ago. The bad opinion of Brother Xiao from other people just stems from Brother Xiao's intention to join Zhao Junchen, and his friends who have made it difficult in the Douwen ring to raise travel expenses to return to their hometowns for funeral. ”
Seeing Xiao Wenxuan sighing, Li Chunchen said, "However. I don't think there is anything wrong with these two points, Brother Xiao intends to take refuge in Zhao Junchen, although he did not achieve his goal in the end, but it is just the nature of people to climb up. Those who criticize Brother Xiao, don't look at them as righteous Ling Ran today, but I'm afraid that after only a year or two of entering the court in the future, they will forget their obsession today and begin to find ways to cling to the powerful ministers of the court, and Brother Xiao, you just understood earlier than they understood, which can only show that Brother Xiao's vision, how is Brother Xiao's wrong? ”
After a pause, Li Chunchen said again: "As for Brother Xiao's matter of making things difficult for his former friends in the ring before the exam, hindering him from earning the money to return to his hometown and go to the funeral, although others will despise it, but I can guess Brother Xiao's heart, I heard that Brother Xiao's first exam, he also gave up the opportunity to go home for the funeral because of the loss of his family at home, but he didn't expect to miss the opportunity, and the next three consecutive exams failed the list, delaying a good future." And Brother Xiao, you also see that his opportunities are similar to your own, so you can't bear that he missed the undergraduate entrance examination because of the funeral, so you made it difficult, right? ”
Xiao Wenxuan was surprised, but Li Chunchen stroked his palm and said: "And this is also the reason why I think Brother Xiao, you are talented, how many people are there in this world?" But nine out of ten are bound by secular concepts, and most of them forget their goals because of this, and Brother Xiao, you have broken free from the shackles of secular concepts, and you have unique ideas in your heart, how can you compare with other readers. ”
Speaking of this, Li Chunchen's admiration became more and more obvious, and he continued: "If it were just that, I wouldn't deliberately recruit Brother Xiao, after all, Brother Xiao used to behave in the world...... Slightly lacking, lacking some city government. However, when I listened to the conversation between Brother Xiao and Ma Min just now, I knew that after Brother Xiao experienced this setback, he had an epiphany of the world's "qingren" heart, and even dared to reflect on himself...... Although the saint said that he had three self-reflections, how many people in this world really dared to face their own shortcomings and have the courage to correct them? That's why Li took the liberty of inviting him today, and asked Brother Xiao not to be surprised. ”
After finishing speaking, Li Chunchen looked at Xiao Wenxuan in front of him quite frankly, and did not urge, just quietly waited for Xiao Wenxuan's reply.
When Xiao Wenxuan heard Li Chunchen's words, he not only felt like a confidant, but was also very moved by Li Chunchen's invitation.
However, at this time, not far from the two, someone suddenly smiled and said: "You have seen it thoroughly, I thought that Xiao Wenxuan's advantages would not be noticed by anyone except me, fortunately, it came early, otherwise Xiao Wenxuan was afraid that you would be one step ahead." ”
Hearing this person's voice, Xiao Wenxuan and Li Chunchen were both stunned, and they both turned their heads to look at the sound.
After seeing the person who spoke, Li Chunchen was nothing, but Xiao Wenxuan's expression suddenly changed greatly.
Without him, at this time, in the adjacent seat, Zhao Junchen was sitting there, looking at the two with a smile.
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ps: Well, two-in-one chapter.