@: Chapter ninety-five

It's been more than a month since the Dragon Boat Festival, and the time has come to the hottest dog days, and Yangzhou City is as hot as a stove.

Since the Dragon Boat Festival, Lu Zheng's name spread all over Yangzhou, his anecdotes at the Zhishui Conference, and the anecdotes at the Zhangjia banquet have gone viral in Yangzhou's major painting boat wine shops, and his song "Will Toast" has also become a recognized masterpiece by Yangzhou literary talents.

Lu Zheng became famous, and Guanshan Academy expelled Lu Zheng from the academy, which became a joke after dinner. And Zhang Haoran of the Zhang family has become a joke in people's mouths, and Zhang Haoran's clumsy performance at the Zhang family banquet that day was even borrowed by Mr. Storyteller in the restaurant teahouse.

Since the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhang Haoran has not appeared again, but some people have seen him live in Guanshan Academy every day, but he has lost his previous arrogance and spirit, and he is quite depressed and decadent. Zhang Haoran, the hope star of the Zhang family, seems to have fallen like this.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Lu Zheng did not show up, but those who paid attention to Lu Zheng found that there was an additional private school called "Sanwei Zhai" in Luoxiang Old Street, Xinhe County, and the master of the private school was Luo Guancai.

Lu Zheng is said to be studying in "Sanwei Zhai", because there are many readers who want to enter "Sanwei Zhai", there are only ten places in "Sanwei Zhai", and the silver for a year is as high as fifty taels, but on the day Luo Guan accepted his disciples, it is said that the scholars who came to sign up squeezed through the old street of Luoxiang.

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Green bamboo forest, in the early morning, the breeze in the bamboo forest is cool.

The boy was making tea, the girl was stroking the qin, and Yan Lao was holding the chess pieces in his hand, lying on his back on the chair and laughing, his wrinkled face was extremely rich and vivid.

"Interesting, interesting! It was a really interesting game! Yan Lao said.

"Master Yan, I lost this chess, but you have to help me in this matter now. Guanshan Academy was led by Chengdong, and now that it has become like this, will Zhang Haoran, the son of the Zhang family, sink like this? It's a shame after all, don't you say? "The person who played chess with him was none other than Gui Liang, the mountain chief of Guanshan Academy.

Gui Liang paused, and then said, "Also, at the banquet that day, I listened to your words, and in the end, it led to that kind of evil result. If not, I would have been in control of the situation from the beginning, where would things have gotten to that point? So, Master Yan, you must help in this matter! ”

Veteran Yan put down the chess pieces and said, "If you had intervened at the beginning and controlled the situation, there would have been no poems like "Will Enter the Wine" to come out. For this poem, it is worth sacrificing ten children of the Zhang family! ”

Gui Liang was stunned and blurted out: "If Lu Zheng really can't compose poems and essays, what will be the situation that day?" I'm afraid he won't have a day to come out from now on, he was originally a very good seedling, if he was buried like this, wouldn't it be a pity for Master Yan? ”

Yan Lao frowned, shook his head and said, "It's really a good seedling, it can go through the wind and waves, because a small banquet will collapse, can such a seedling be a good seedling?"

Meng Ziyun, the heavens descended on the Si people, they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, and empty their bodies, and the young people of the Zhang family are sinking like this, who can blame them? ”

Gui Liang was speechless, he was a great Confucian in Yangzhou, but he always had no upper hand in front of Master Yan, he spoke of gentleness and benevolence, and he was very dismissive of Master Yan's harshness and indifference, but once the two of them moved their mouths, he would fall behind.

Gui Liang often reflects that he feels that his education is to break through thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. And Master Yan's education is to live in the temple high, serve by the side of the Son of Heaven for a long time, and live in the center of the court and understand. The difference is too great, the way of the saint, forgiveness and benevolence. In reality, officialdom is intrigued, deceitful, factional, and officials read the books of sages, but how many of them really follow the way of sages?

When Gui Liang thought of this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, for more than a month, the days of Guanshan Academy were very difficult. In the Yangzhou academic circles, Guanshan Academy has become a joke, and the masters and children of the academy have become the objects of ridicule by their peers and friends, and Sun Yibo doesn't even dare to go out of his house.

Because of Gui Liang's special status in Yangzhou, others did not dare to ridicule him, but his reputation was also greatly affected, and he was faintly suppressed by Zeng Guoning.

Also, the key is that the morale of the students in the academy is very low, and they are all hit, especially Zhang Haoran, who is a little unable to raise his head now, in Gui Liang's opinion, Zhang Haoran is still very young, just a child, and it is a pity that he has collapsed like this.

Therefore, Gui Liang's idea was to hope that Master Yan would come forward to persuade Lu Zheng to let Lu Zheng return to Guanshan Academy, while he himself would invite Luo Guancai, even if it was a three-way thatched house, he would invite Luo Guancai back to the academy, so as to preserve the dignity of Guanshan Academy, and at the same time give Zhang Haoran a chance to reform himself.

It's just his idea, where will Master Yan support it?

"Zijing! I give you two words: 'naïve'! There is a way that is difficult to collect when the water is covered, it is difficult to circle the broken mirror, things have come to this point, you don't think about how to move forward, but think about driving backwards, do you say that you are naïve or not? Master Yan said.

"In this world, if you really want to act, you can't ask anyone. If you want Lu Zheng to return to the academy, you have to use means to make him have to go back, you want Luo Guancai to listen to the greetings, what's the use of looking at the thatched house? If you can get a letter of recommendation, it is better than you can look at the thatched house. Master Yan said again.

Gui Liang was silent in his heart, every word of Master Yan was a wise saying, but he Gui Liang was a dignified gentleman, and he disdained the way of exercising power and scheming, if he really wanted to use it, it would be a last resort.

Just like now, Gui Liang was very hesitant in his heart, thinking about whether he should use some means.

The two sat on both sides of the chessboard, silent to each other, outside the bamboo forest, the sound of horses' hooves, the Zhang family's green carriage came, Gui Liang frowned slightly, and there were already boys in the bamboo forest who greeted them.

After a while, a young scholar walked in outside the bamboo forest, who was it not Lu Zheng?

Gui Liang hasn't seen Lu Zheng for more than a month, and found that Lu Zheng has changed a lot, he looks more calm and mature, the childishness on his face has subsided, and he has more agility, and he has a bit of the demeanor of a beautiful son!

Lu Zheng didn't seem to expect to meet Gui Liang here, he was slightly stunned for a moment, and then paced over to salute in a proper manner, and said, "Master Yan is good, Master Gui is good!" ”

Master Yan was silent, Gui Liang's eyes fell on him, and said, "Brother Zheng, have you been okay for more than a month?" ”

Lu Zheng said: "Master Lao Gui is worried, everything is fine, I don't dare to slack off in my schoolwork, and I don't dare to relax my schoolwork here, so I haven't had time to visit Master Gui!" ”

Gui Liang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly turned his head to look at Yan Lao, his lips moved but he didn't say a word, Lu Zheng said: "Master Gui, Master Yan taught me mainly some learning from the world, and Master Luo taught me the study of craftsmanship, originally I wanted to learn the way of Confucius and Mencius from Master Gui, but I never dared to visit you......"

Gui Liang stared at Lu Zheng, his expression was extremely complicated, and after a long while, he said: "Guanshan Academy has been in a very bad situation since your master and apprentice left, you learn the way of Confucius and Mencius with me, can you return and be willing to return to the academy?" ”

Lu Zheng said: "Master Gui don't worry, the world is snobbish, and the moment the disciple leaves Guanshan Academy, there will be evil consequences. Now, whether I go back to the academy or not, I can't change this evil result.

Master Gui, you think, everything is wrong, if the disciple goes back, I am afraid that there will be villains chewing on the root of the tongue, but it may cause more discussion of right and wrong.

Therefore, the best thing to do is to be silent, he laughs and let him laugh, I do not move, the teachers concentrate on preaching, the students concentrate on studying, and over time, those rumors will naturally disappear! ”

Lu Zheng's words were very plain, but in Gui Liang's ears, they were deafening, and there was a sense of seeing the sun through the clouds, and his heart suddenly opened up.

Lu Zheng is so right, if Gui Liang can really let Lu Zheng's master and apprentice return to Guanshan Academy at this time, will Lu Zheng still be the same Lu Zheng as before? He is already a well-known talent in Yangzhou, and his limelight is not much higher than Zhang Haoran.

And Gui Liang asked Luo Guancai to go back after three visits to the thatched house, can Luo Guancai still live under Sun Yibo? Lu Zheng's sentence "things are people" explained the key to the problem.

If Lu Zheng and Luo Guancai really returned to Guanshan Academy, I am afraid that there will be more discussions outside, Sun Yibo is only afraid that he will be humiliated even more, and Zhang Haoran is only afraid that he will encounter a greater blow.

These Taoist ideals understand that they are worthless, but when they don't expect it, they can't understand it. The key is that Gui Liang knew that Yan Lao must have understood it a long time ago, but his old man just didn't say anything, and when he thought of this, Gui Liang only felt extremely embarrassed, and said:

"That's it, that's it, don't mention it anymore!"

When he said this, he let out a long breath, but he couldn't let go of the loss in his heart.

He stood up, saluted Yan Lao, and said, "Master Yan, I should go back when I come to disturb you early in the morning, and I will come to play chess with you again in the future!" ”

Yan Lao laughed and said, "Go, go, and understand the word 'naïve' I gave you, if you understand these two words thoroughly, you can be regarded as a real celebrity." ”

Gui Liang said: "Master Yan has already understood the word 'naïve', but he still doesn't dare to be a celebrity, what is the reason for this?" ”

Gui Liang said this coldly, and the counterattack was very sudden, and Yan Lao was so cross-examined that he rolled his eyes and had nothing to say.

After a long while, Yan Lao laughed, Gui Liang flicked his long sleeves, turned to leave, he walked about forty or fifty steps, suddenly stood up, and then slowly turned back to look at Lu Zheng and said:

"Brother Zheng, if you really want to learn the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, you will come to my grass house once every five days, and there is now a picture hanging in my grass house: 'Bells, drums, and jade are not expensive enough, but I hope that I will not wake up after a long drunkenness.'" , you will enter the wine and say that the joy of drinking is exhausted......"