Chapter 31: The Gate of Branches

Just when Lu Yu faced Zhang Hongwen with a puzzled expression and stared into his eyes with puzzled eyes, Zhang Hongwen once again sighed and explained to Lu Yu: "In the past few years, my father's health has been much worse than before, if I miss this opportunity to be an official, I am afraid that I will ...... Therefore, I have to thank you, Shuwen, if it weren't for the relationship between your Lu family and the Zhou family, I'm afraid my father would have regrets in this life......"

As he spoke, Zhang Hongwen got up with a grateful look on his face and shook Lu Yuchang to the ground, and did not take back his gift for a long time.

"Brother Shiwen is really a filial son," Lu Yu, who finally understood what Zhang Hongwen wanted to say, hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhang Hongwen, who continued to work, and helped him to his original seat, and after he also sat down, Lu Yu said to Zhang Hongwen: "Actually, I think that with the teacher's prestige in the literary world, whether he is an official or not, he will be able to be famous for eternity, and the teacher's vast knowledge is enough to shine for thousands of years......"

Because he knows that he doesn't need money to pat himself, Lu Yu patted the sycophants of the old pedant Zhang Quanzhi, of course, endlessly.

"Uh-huh......" After listening to Lu Yu's innovative sycophant, Zhang Hongwen originally wanted to be modest, but just as he was about to speak, a vicissitudes of coughing came from the courtyard of the main house.

I saw that where the coughing sound came, Zhang Quanzhi Old Man Zhang, supported by several of his concubines, walked tremblingly towards the hall with a bear-headed bamboo cane.

The afternoon sun covered the front yard of the main house, and also sprinkled on the face of Zhang Quanzhi and the old man Zhang, Lu Yu found that at this moment, Zhang Quanzhi's highly "exposed" face, in addition to the silver hair and snow beard, was also covered with folds and old age spots, and his old state was fully revealed, and his mental outlook at the moment was really like what his eldest son Zhang Hongwen said, not far from the next life.

"Father's ......"

"Teacher ......"

As soon as they saw Zhang Quanzhi coming, Lu Yu and Zhang Hongwen, who were originally sitting and drinking tea, quickly got up and saluted Zhang Quanzhi.

Although Zhang Quanzhi's legs and feet are not very good, and he has to walk on crutches, his ears and eyes are still very bright, obviously, he heard the fart that Lu Yu had just sprayed, so he walked towards the hall, and looked at Lu Yu with a gratifying gaze, and even, there was a trace of heart-to-heart feelings like seeing a bosom friend.

After being illuminated by Zhang Quanzhi's "ambiguous" gaze, Lu Yu, who probably guessed Zhang Quanzhi's thoughts, unconsciously trembled all over, and said in his heart: No, it won't be that I slapped my ass too hard and made the old man fall in love with me, could it be that in addition to liking women, he also ...... to men

Just when Lu Yu, who had a huge brain, felt more and more disgusting the more he thought about it, Zhang Quanzhi walked into the hall, he first habitually said a few words to Lu Yu, "You can teach ...... children", and then, turned his head to look at his son Zhang Hongwen, and ordered: "Hong'er, let's go, we have to go to the county school before sunset, otherwise, it is very dangerous to go up the mountain at night." ”

"Yes, father......" After nodding and saluting his father Zhang Quanzhi, Zhang Hongwen raised his hand and patted Lu Yu's shoulder gently, and then turned around to prepare for departure.

After Zhang Hongwen left, Zhang Quanzhi, who was sitting in Zhang Hongwen's position just now, took out a thread-bound book with a tattered cover from his arms and handed it to Lu Yu.

"Teacher, this is ......" Lu Yu, who had a slight tendency to cleanliness, was disgusted and did not directly reach out to pick up the book after seeing the thick stains and oil stains on the cover of the book, but instead performed a sincere and frightened expression, and asked the old scholar back.

"For the teacher I have been in the imperial examination for many years, although I have repeatedly failed to pass the examination, but, every time I take the exam, there will always be some experience, I have recorded those experiences in this book, I name it "Branch Gate", which means that the chicken climbs the branch is the phoenix, and the fish leaps into the sky to become the dragon." Zhang Quanzhi, an old scholar who was very satisfied with Lu Yu's sincere and frightened expression, explained to Lu Yu the origin of the rotten book in his hand after a slight pause.

"This ...... This book is so valuable, why didn't the teacher pass it on to Brother Shiwen and give it to me? "Because Zhang Quanzhi's eldest son Zhang Hongwen is a Shiwen, under normal circumstances, when Lu Yu mentions Zhang Hongwen's name, he calls him Brother Shiwen.

"It's also ashamed, maybe it's because the teacher's family didn't worship Wen Changjun and his old man well, so the few heirs of the teacher are not reading materials, so ......" After bowing his head and smiling bitterly, Zhang Quanzhi ordered Lu Yu in a loud voice: "Come, Shuwen, take it, when you soar in the future, don't forget to be a teacher......"

"Thank you...... "After knowing that he couldn't escape this time, he must take away the dirty book of "Zhimen", Lu Yu also recognized it, he took a step forward, knelt in front of Zhang Quanzhi, bowed his head and raised his hands, as if receiving a holy decree, took the book of "Zhimen", and solemnly took it into his arms.

When he was loading "Zhimen" in his arms, Lu Yu smelled a foul smell from the book, and he almost vomited.

Resisting the urge to vomit, Lu Yu kowtowed to Zhang Quanzhi and pulled out an excited expression on his face before he stood up.

Just when Zhang Quan knew that Old Man Zhang was going to say something more and encourage Lu Yu, his eldest son Zhang Hongwen, after preparing all the matters for departure, came back, and he bowed down and told Zhang Quanzhi: "Father, you are all ready, you can go......"

"Hmm......" After nodding slightly, the old scholar Zhang Quanzhi was ready to get up and set off.

Seeing that the old man was about to get up, Lu Yu hurriedly sent away the maid who helped him, personally supported the old man's left arm, helped him up, and helped the old man out of the gate of Lufu and into the carriage.

In addition to Lu Long, the head of the Lu family, and his four sisters-in-law, Lu Long's concubines, as well as the side branches of the Lu family, all came, after all, Zhang Quanzhi, as the only teacher of the Lu family's private school, had educated almost all the children of the Lu family, so ......

Finally, after being sent out of the street by the mighty "army" of the Lu family, Zhang Quanzhi and the old man Zhang's family took six carriages and went away.

Immediately, the send-off team returned to Lu Mansion again, just as Lu Yu was about to leave, he was stopped by Lu Long, just when Lu Yu felt that his father must have something important to discuss with him, and he definitely didn't have time to recognize the burial place of the purple ghost Liu Manyun this afternoon, his father only said "very good ......" to himself, and then let himself go.

Lu Yu knew very well what his father was talking about "very good", and he must be praising himself for helping Old Man Zhang clean up his belongings.

However, Lu Yu understood that he did that from the heart, not to please his father and teacher, so after listening to his father's praise, Lu Yu just smiled slightly, nothing more.

After being "busy" for a whole hour and two hours, Lu Yu was finally able to sneak out of the Lu Mansion and follow the purple ghost Liu Manyun to recognize her cemetery.

However, before Lu Yu could get out of the street where he was located, he was stopped by a stranger he had never met......