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The old dean glanced at Shen Leng, who was chopping vegetables, and thought about how to speak, he was silent for a while and then said, "About Xiao Zhang Zhenren...... What Your Majesty means is that after wronging her to the Northern Expedition, you should understand that this matter must be let go first. ”

Shen Leng's hand chopping vegetables paused and nodded: "I know." ”

The old dean said: "Your Majesty is also helpless, and Your Majesty is not omnipotent. ”

Shen Leng turned to look at the old dean and smiled: "Maybe, young people will think less after all, and thinking less is the so-called determination, and if you don't hear it, it is reckless, I understand these truths......"

Old Dean: "You just can't control it?" ”

Shen Leng said: "She's very difficult. ”

The old dean asked, "Who is not difficult?" ”

Shen Leng turned around and continued to chop vegetables: "People are all the same, habitually sympathetic to those who think they are weaker than themselves, and ignoring that people who are stronger than themselves are actually not all wishful, I am not excusing myself, but I feel a little helpless." ”

Shen Leng still hasn't said it, and he will never say it, he knows that Xiao Zhang Zhenren may have some extraordinary intentions for him, her identity is so special, she can't face her gender calmly, and she can't face her feelings calmly, it is inevitable that he will have a thought about her wanting to help her as much as possible, but is this kind of thought really right?

Shen Leng was taken aback.

Will this kind of help, which he himself perceives, turn into harm in the end?

Seeing that he was stunned, the old dean smiled: "My knife is not good?" ”

Shen Leng came to his senses: "No, I suddenly have some understanding." ”

The old dean snorted: "Where do young people need so much understanding, always and everywhere to perceive something, that is what we older people should do, if you feel too much and don't be stunned, the world will regress, for people of your age, stubborn, tough, and even impulsive, should not be forcibly controlled." ”

Shen Leng shook his head: "Dean, young people don't have so much willfulness to regret. ”

The old dean sighed: "Since the beginning of weaning, people don't have so much willfulness to regret, I just talk to you casually, about Xiao Zhang Zhenren's affairs After the Northern Expedition, His Majesty will naturally give her support, no matter what choice she makes, even if she resigns from the title of Longhu Mountain Zhenren and resigns from the title of Daning National Teacher, Your Majesty respects it." ”

Shen Leng snorted: "I know." ”

The old dean said, "I thought you would argue with me. ”

"A few years ago it might have been."

Shen Leng brought the cut vegetables to the kitchen of the outhouse, the old dean got up and followed him to the kitchen door, and stood there against the door: "I have seen too many young people become more and more eccentric because of their own ability, some young people feel that their family depends on him so they have a bad temper towards anyone, some young people think that the old man can't keep up with the young man's thoughts and is disgusted, many people think that he is the sustainer of the family's livelihood, so the family is afraid that he should respect him." ”

Shen sneered: "That's not strong enough." ”

The old dean shook his head with a smile: "When you were young, you should have been the kind of sensible and distressing child." ”

"When you were young?"

Shen sneered: "Where do I have time to think about what is sensible and not sensible, Boss Meng's stick will not fall because I am sensible, after Meng Changan came to Chang'an Academy, Boss Meng's temper was even more eccentric, at that time I learned not to be sensible, but survival skills, the dean looks at me now like a sensible young man, maybe that's just one side of my character." ”

He also wants to be ignorant and wanton.

The dean sighed.

Shen Leng said: "Is the dean feeling sorry for me? ”

The old dean said: "Put less vinegar, put less salt, and the taste is light when you are older." ”

Shen Leng: "......"

He looked at Shen Leng so skillfully stir-frying: "Since when did you start cooking." ”

"Start with someone you care about."

Shen Leng said: "The dean said just now that when a young man is more capable, his mentality will change, and he feels that his family should be centered on him, he can lose his temper casually, and feel that his family is afraid of him is a sense of achievement, maybe they will regret it...... If you really have people who care, you are trying your best to make the people you care about live better, if you can't create wealth, you can make the people you care about live comfortably, and if you have a way to create wealth, you can let the people you care about enjoy life. ”

The old dean looked at the young man in front of him and had to fall into deep thought.

In the past, chatting with Shen Leng was more not about life, not even about life attitude, in the past, chatting was for officials, courts, military affairs, and the country, the first time I communicated with Shen Leng like this, just like the first time my grandfather also had a grandson who had already started a family to talk about trivial things in life, and talk about life attitude, it felt very strange, but it was not uncomfortable.

"It's the same with stir-frying."

Shen sneered and said: "How many condiments will make the taste of the dish reach the highest level of deliciousness, it depends on the person's own grasp, and it can also be used to describe the attitude towards others, if you put too little, others say that you are cold and indifferent, if you put too much, others will think that you are overly enthusiastic and even hypocritical, too light and no one likes to eat and becomes alienated and no one cares, and it is the same if you put too much, I can say a lot of truth, but I can't do it myself, so I am looking for a way to master this degree...... It's also simple, as long as it lives up to your conscience. ”

The old dean sighed: "It's not easy to talk about. ”

Shen Leng said: "Dean, young people are not so unbearable, and you should also feel their pressure." ”

The old dean said: "That's right, the world is different. ”

Shen Leng handed the first dish fried to the old dean, and the old dean took it and sent it to the living room, one old and one young like this, chatting while cooking, the young man fried the vegetables and the old man took it away, and then came back to continue chatting, so time seemed to pass quickly.

There were six or seven dishes on the table in the living room, Shen Leng washed his hands and took the wine and poured a glass for the old dean: "When I came, I specially bought you some small wine glasses, a glass of two dollars, drinking five glasses of wine is one or two, if you use one or two wine glasses, you will feel that you have lost, and drinking five glasses with a small wine glass still has a sense of achievement, at least it seems to be a lot." ”

The old dean gave him a blank look: "Is this a deception?" ”

Shen sneered: "The most important thing is that if you use one or two wine glasses, I will not be satisfied with you, but with a small glass, you will not be satisfied every time, and you can drink less." ”

The old dean sighed: "The human heart is not ancient. ”

Shen Leng smiled, sat down opposite the old dean, and also used a small cup: "I'll accompany you." ”

The old dean drank a glass of wine, thought about something wrong, and drank it in five sips to finish today's amount, so he regretted it.

"You can drink two taels of wine today."

Shen said with a sneer.

The old dean suddenly became happy, it was like a child who had just gotten the toy he had loved for a long time, and even the wrinkles on his face were stretched out a lot, and he said after taking a bite of the dish: "Why is the same ingredient the same as the taste of someone else's cooking?" ”

"I think a lot."

Shen Leng said: "Think about how many things to use to suit the dean's taste, consider one person's taste when cooking for one person, consider two people's when cooking for two people, and cook for more than three people, so as to ensure that everyone has a dish they like." ”

The old dean was stunned, this kid ...... How bitter is it to feel the feelings of others so carefully since childhood?

"Thank you for your hard work."

The old dean raised his glass: "A glass to you." ”

Shen Leng hurriedly picked up his wine glass: "Lord Dean Xie." ”

The two men drank the wine from the small cups, looked at each other, and then laughed.

The wind was blowing outside, and it seemed that the clouds were getting thicker and thicker, Shen Leng got up and closed the window, and moved the stove to the old dean's side, everything he did made the old dean more and more deeply aware of the things he had just thought of, a child like Shen Leng always cared about the people around him, and he was really tired.

"If I don't come to you today, will you continue to persuade Xiao Zhang Zhenren to face the world with a free and autonomous mentality?"

"No, it won't."

Shen sneered, he didn't say what he was thinking in his heart, he wouldn't think about it anymore, he was afraid that if he behaved too well to Xiao Zhang Zhenren, she would misunderstand, and it would not be good for her.

The old dean was silent for a while and then said, "Leng Zi, what if...... If one day you knew that your biological parents were still alive, what kind of attitude would you have towards them? ”

Shen Leng was stunned.

He was also silent for a while, then shook his head with a smile: "I don't know...... But I don't think I want to cry with my head in my arms. ”

The old dean was speechless again.

He drank the third glass of wine, looked at the dishes on the table, and said to himself, "In the world, there are always too many things that are not perfect, because people are not perfect, so how can things be done so perfectly?" You're hating them for throwing you away and almost dying, but maybe they've been looking for it all these years but haven't found it. ”

"I don't hate."

Shen Leng raised his head and looked at the old dean: "That was what I thought when I was a child. ”

"And now?"

The old dean asked.

"Now...... I guess I don't feel it anymore. ”

Shen Leng drank a glass of wine: "At first, it was hate, especially when I saw Meng Changan being so loved by his father and mother when he was a child, I hated why my father and mother lost me, and then I studied with Mr. Shen, Mr. Shen said to remember more and remember less to hate, so I thought about it carefully, if they really don't want me, they should be able to kill me, lose me instead of killing me, maybe that is the only option to give me a way to survive in the most difficult situation, it is better to resign yourself to fate than to be killed." ”

The old dean almost blurted out that it is really what you think, and they have no choice but to do it, at that time, Concubine Zhen was already looking for you like crazy, and there was no one around Your Majesty and it was the Northern Frontier Black Force that invaded on a large scale, even in that case, Your Majesty was still trying his best to find it and never give up...... But the old dean couldn't say these words, he was not qualified to forgive anyone for Shen Leng, even if it was Concubine Zhen or even His Majesty.

At the beginning, Mr. Shen knew that if he was taken with him again, he would definitely die, just as Shen Leng said, that was the only way for him to survive in the most difficult situation.

If there is not so much helplessness in life, is it still life?

"Drink!"

The old dean raised his glass.