Chapter Ninety-One: His Pride, I Have It Too

"Boss, when did I say that Cheng'er would do something unreasonable?" In fact, when Tang Xuan went to serve her teacup and drink water just now, Tang Zhang's couldn't help but purse the corners of his mouth and wanted to laugh, but after hearing the last sentence Tang Xuan, his face sank again, and he couldn't hold back anymore, "Tell me, since I entered your Tang family at the age of fifteen, the relative in the Tang family's door came to me, I didn't do my best to receive it, and when the family was in a good situation a few years ago, I should have sent it less?" Even when Cheng'er was sick, they came, and I would rather eat black sprout noodles by myself and greet them with the best white noodles I saved. Ah, you say, why did I get carried away? ”。

"Look at you...... Didn't I talk to Cheng'er, why did it happen to you? As he spoke, his rough hands like a firewood rake had become accustomed to "touching" his head.

"You said Cheng'er, you just said so much clearly because Cheng'er was talking about me, you can't hear your words?" , just now it was Tang Xuankan, but now Tang Zhang's mouth is non-stop, "It is said that my son will go with his mother, and he will be born to me, I don't know what he is like?" I've never done anything like a mother, so what can I do that is unreasonable? ”。

In this case, Tang Xuan stopped talking as usual, sitting on the stool scratching his head, he let Tang Zhang speak, according to his more than 20 years of experience, Tang Zhang's muttered a few more words.

"Mother, dad didn't mean that, don't say it", Tang Cheng persuaded in his mouth, refilled the water with the teapot in his hand, and then handed it over with the teacup, "Come, mother, drink water."

The tea cup blocked Tang Zhang's mouth, but coincidentally, as soon as he finished speaking, Lancao pushed the door and walked in, saying that the meal was ready.

Fortunately, I didn't let Lan Yatou see it. Otherwise, this would be a joke, thinking of this, Tang Zhang, who was holding the tea cup, couldn't help but glared at Tang Shuo again.

During the meal, although Tang Cheng was talking casually with Tang Zhang's family, what he kept thinking about was the conversation they had just now.

Tang Xuan said so much before that Tang Zhang's didn't answer, but when it came to forgetting her feelings, she couldn't help it, what does this mean, it shows that Tang Zhang's and his family take love and righteousness very seriously in their hearts, and they think that Zhang Xianling and Lin Xue are kind to themselves.

When I think of this. Before coming back, Zhao Laohu's words unexpectedly surfaced, if the Tang and Zhang families, who are Zhuanghu, are talking about feelings, and take this as the foundation of the world; As a county lieutenant, Zhao Laohu said that the way of life is based on real utilitarianism, and the pursuit is to preserve oneself and maximize benefits on this basis.

Who is right and who is wrong? Thinking about it again, in fact, these two statements are correct, feelings and utilitarianism are always the most conflicting dilemmas, and from the perspective of nature, they are naturally willing to choose feelings. But what happens when the result of this choice is associated with too many things?

Specific to Tang Cheng, this problem is: if Erlongzhai cannot be destroyed by September, and causes Zhang Xianling to retreat, how will he deal with himself if he really reaches this step. How to choose?

Is it to take care of his feelings and resign from the errand in the county government with Zhang County's order? Or did he stay silently with Zhao Laohu's face? This may seem like a pseudo-issue, but when you look into it, it is actually about the conflict of feelings and interests. After all, not only Zhang Xianling trusted him, but even the people in the Yamen knew that he was Zhang Xianling's confidant.

"Cheng'er, don't keep eating that one dish." Tang Zhang's words were exchanged with a plate containing steamed white fish in front of Tang Cheng, "Since you are tired today, you should make up for it."

"Well, Daddy, you can eat too", Tang Zhang's question woke Tang Cheng up from his distraction, and after eating a piece of fish silently, Tang Cheng suddenly smiled and said: "Dad, mother, if one day I lose my errand in the yamen." What do you guys think? ”。

"Phew! Cheng'er, why do you say such frustrating words", Tang Zhang's chopsticks stopped in mid-air, "What? What's going on in the yamen? ”。

"No, just ask", Tang Cheng reached out and pressed Tang Zhang's hand stretched out in mid-air, "I'm really fine!" ”。

"It's okay", Tang Zhangshi grabbed a piece of fish in his hand, and she went down with chopsticks. Almost a quarter of the fish are left with only a skeleton. After pressing this large piece of fish into Tang Cheng's bowl, Tang Zhang said: "If you can do it in it, you can do it well." After all, this job is not easy to come by; But if you really want to lose it, come home, and you won't be hungry if you have me and your father to eat."

Nodding, Tang Cheng didn't say anything more, just grabbed a chopstick dish and pressed it into Tang Zhang's bowl.

For the sake of such a family, Tang Chengcheng is willing to rush forward no matter how tired and hard he is; With such a family behind him, no matter how many thorns and bumps there are on the road ahead, he is not afraid!

Tang Zhang's family didn't leave, Tang Cheng couldn't work the book at night, and after writing the two hundred words, he continued to make the powder book of the Guizi diagram under the moon after the work of the previous two days, and it was finally completed when he went to bed at night.

When he woke up the next morning, when Tang Cheng was about to get dressed, he suddenly remembered that today was a holiday, and the Tang Dynasty officials had a day off every ten days of the government, and the same was true for the official school to follow the style of the yamen.

Thinking of this, Tang Cheng, who had just sat up, fell down suddenly, it was really not easy to catch up with the holiday.

After making up for more than half an hour on the couch, Tang Cheng got up, but Lan Cao'er remembered it better than him, knowing that he was on holiday today, although he didn't come in late to call him to get up.

When Tang Cheng finally got up from the bed, the lively sunlight outside had already sprinkled on the floor in the room through the gap in the window, and although the light and shadow were mottled but exciting.

It is said that the more you sleep, the lazier you are, this is not true at all, it is said that Tang Cheng slept more than usual today, but his body became more and more lazy, but his spirit was very full.

"It's rare to take a day off, so I don't sleep more", Lan Cao'er walked in with the freshening water, laughing and "groaning" and "groaning" with disgust, "The weather is so good today, I heard that the pear blossoms in Tianfu Temple are blooming beautifully."

"Stuck in the house?". As soon as Lancao put down the copper basin in his hand, he was pulled closer to Tang Cheng's arms, "Then let's go to Tianfu Temple today to see the pear blossoms, just to accompany my father and mother."

"Hmm...... Don't move...... They...... It's all ...... outside", Lan Cao knocked off Tang Cheng's evil hand and turned out of his arms, "I'm going to Tianfu Temple today, and my aunt said that I want to go back." Everything is ready."

"Back today?" , Hearing what Lancao said, Tang Cheng didn't have the heart to continue teasing, leaned over and went to the courtyard after freshening up, and then saw Tang Zhang's coming out of the small stove room in the courtyard of the second entrance, "Mother, the weather is good today, let's go to Tianfu Temple to see the pear blossoms."

"What's so nice about the flowers and plants?" Tang Zhang wiped his hands with his waist, "I was about to call you, since you got up, hurry up and eat, my mother made you noodles and fish, so that the long chopsticks are carefully clipped." Keep it to your palate".

Tang Cheng followed Tang Zhang's to the kitchen, and said in his mouth: "Looking at the pear blossom is a reason, there are many people in the temple in such a weather, so let's hurry up and take advantage of the excitement."

"How many days have you been out here? What has happened to the work on the slope? Your father can't sleep at night. Can you have the heart to go to the Lang Temple? Tang Zhang's family was not used to the small bowl prepared by Li Yingjun, and when he went out with Lancao yesterday, he specially bought a few large bowls of black stoneware commonly used at home, and at this time he handed it to Tang Cheng with a bowl of noodle fish, "Hurry up and eat, it's not my mother's boast, the tea and rice of the Gao family in the front yard is good, but I want to say that this noodle fish." It's still the most authentic thing my mother does."

"That's it! Niang's tea and rice skills are praised all over the village", Tang Zhang's tea and rice is indeed done well, more than a year, Tang Cheng was stunned that he couldn't eat enough, he said with a smile in his mouth, because he also thought of the first meeting with Li Yingjun last year, at that time, it was because Tang Zhang's tea and rice were good, Li Yingjun specially wanted to ask her to be the stove mother-in-law. "Gaojiadi's craftsmanship is no better. I can't make your mother's taste, but you're leaving. I can't eat anymore, I'm so tired every day, if I can't eat well......."

"You, it's useless to say more, you have to leave today, this is set by your father", Tang Cheng's words Tang Zhang's face was full of light, but he didn't let go of his mouth at all, "You don't know your father's stubborn 'sex'?" Hurry up and eat it hot".

Tang Cheng also knows that once he recognizes something, he doesn't say anything if you persuade him at the moment, he doesn't argue with you, he doesn't argue with you, but he can do what he thinks of, and it's useless to persuade and argue again.

Seeing that he couldn't keep it, Tang Cheng didn't say anything more, and went to the courtyard with a stoneware bowl.

Tang Cheng ate this breakfast refreshedly, just like he used to be at home in the village. He didn't ask for a stool, didn't sit at any table, and squatted under the porch outside the stove with Tang Shuan with a large stoneware bowl.

If there are outsiders, this way of eating is indeed not very elegant, but now the door is closed by their own family, and eating like this is really a kind of relaxed and casual coolness.

Rao is Tang Cheng eats fast, and he can't catch up with Tang Xuan, the skills he has practiced for decades, he eats quickly and cleanly, even if it is a meal with soup, when he finishes eating, the whole bowl must be a clean grain, and there is no waste of noodle soup at all.

After Tang Xuan finished eating, he looked up at the sun, scratched his hair with his rough hand, and then slapped his knee and stood up, "The sun is halfway up the sky, become a damn, we should go, if we hurry up, we may be able to take care of half an acre of land when we go back."

Seeing that Tang Cheng looked like an arrow, Tang Cheng didn't open his mouth at all if he wanted to keep them any longer, and after drinking the fish on the ground in the bowl, he went to the room to help Tang Zhang's take things.

"Dad, you take the marriage letter of the Li family first, and when you go home this time, you will see Liu Lizheng and show it to him", Tang Cheng stuffed the marriage letter that Tang Zhang's had already handed over to him into Tang Xuan's hand, and said with a smile: "After all, he is the leader of the village, and he is sitting in the right seat, if my family affairs are really to be done in the village, I can't get around him." Dad, when you go back, tell him about it."

"Well, this is right, okay, I wrote it down", after Tang Xuan took the marriage letter and carefully stuffed it into his waist, he didn't say a word superfluous, turned around and got into the carriage, and Tang Zhang's instructed his son to pay attention to his body and then went up.

Watch the carriage go away. Tang Que turned around and returned, when they left this time, none of the three of them said that Tang Xuan was about to send his master to Jinzhou to serve in the service, Tang Zhang's family did not say that they didn't want their son to worry about this matter, and even made something in the yamen, but Tang Cheng didn't say it because he knew that Tang Xuan didn't have to go again at all.

The reason why he specially explained to Liu Lizheng about his marriage, or even brought back the marriage letter, is for this purpose. The villagers may not know who Li Yingjun's strong relatives are in the county yali, but it is impossible for Liu Sanneng, who is Lizheng, not to know.

With Zhao Laohu's good protection and means. Seeing that his niece is a widow and lives alone in the countryside with hundreds of acres of land for him, can he not say hello to Liu Lizheng, who is the head of the land?

The change in Liu Lizheng's attitude towards the Tang family was mainly due to Tang Que's follow-up to Zhang County's order, and he, like most people, thought that Zhang County's order would definitely not be able to do Master Yao's book, so he had such a clear move. But this time, what would he do if he knew that Tang Xuan's future daughter-in-law's "wife" was Zhao Laohudi's own niece?

Liu Sanneng's name is not called for nothing!

Lancao, who came out to send Tang Zhang's family together, saw Tang Cheng's strange smile, and asked in surprise, "What are you laughing at?" ”。

"Why did I hold your hand and be reluctant to let go when my mother left? Could it be that in my mother's eyes, my own son is not as rare as you? This sentence only made Lan Cao's red face happy, and Tang Cheng couldn't help pinching her nose when he saw this. It's a pity that the weather is so good at home, let's go, let's go to Tenfukuji Temple too."

This was originally something that Lancao had been thinking about when she got up in the morning, and what was there to be unhappy about hearing Tang Cheng say this, not only did she smile with a flower on her face. The steps under my feet are much faster.

Tang Cheng's purpose of going to Tianfu Temple was naturally not a simple visit to the temple, it was rare to have a day off, and he happened to take the freshly completed powder book to the old monk Chengning to listen to the lecture.

Tang Cheng collected the powder and waited for a while before the orchid grass came out, wearing her favorite goose yellow seven-fold floor dress. The goose yellow "color" skirt shining brightly in the sun only lined her already excellent skin more and more brightly.

Wanfu Temple is really very lively, especially there are more people in the pear orchard behind the temple, Tang Cheng accompanied the orchid grass to visit the whole pear orchard, and then took the powder book to the abbot of the old monk Chengning.

The outside is lively, but the abbot is as quiet and quiet as ever, when Tang Cheng walked in, the old monk Chengning was pointing to Liu Suifeng's powder book to tell one by one.

Seeing Tang Cheng come in, the old monk Chengning raised his eyes and glanced at him before continuing to speak. Seeing this, Tang Cheng took a light step and listened to the side.

"Painting trees like people, some upright, some partial, some looking, some prone, big branches like arms, tops like heads, roots like feet. A little unreasonable is like being incomplete." Xu was because Tang Cheng was standing on the side, and Liu Suifeng, who specially turned sideways to block Tang Que's eyes, was not so concentrated. However, the old monk Chengning's explanation happened to be at the end, "For example, the trunk of your tree is too straight, and if it is too straight, it will be boarded; But this strain is too curved, and too curved is vulgar. Don't go too far with it! Can you write it down? ”。

"The disciple has written it down", after the fingers of the old monk Chengning of the first rank were taken away from the powder book, Liu Suifeng put away his powder book.

According to the experience of the previous times, Liu Suifeng said goodbye every time Chengning explained to him, and never stayed longer, but this time he was very strange, although he received the powder, he did not leave immediately, but took two steps back and stood still.

Seeing Cheng Ning Boran's gaze, Tang Cheng didn't have the heart to put it on Liu Suifeng, and took two steps forward to unfold the powder in front of the old monk.

As Tang Cheng's fan book unfolded, Liu Liu, who was standing on the ground, quietly took two steps forward with the wind, and after seeing the content of the powder book clearly, he quietly let out a sigh of relief.

The abbot was extremely quiet, although Liu Suifeng's exhalation was soft, Tang Cheng could still hear it clearly, and when Cheng Ning pointed to his ground powder and said, "The use of the double hook method is too jerky", Tang Cheng saw the smile on the ground from the corner of Liu Suifeng's mouth.

This willow follows the wind, and the mind of winning is too cut! Poetry, painting, and even drumming and piano pay attention to the peace of mind, according to his strong and proud "nature", in the early stage, although it can promote the entry, but if it reaches the later stage of the cultivation of various skills, it is inevitable that the loss of this "nature" will give rise to mental obstacles, and then affect the final achievement.

Because of Liu Suifeng's actions, Tang Cheng was also a little distracted, but it was the indifferent eyes of the old monk Chengning that made him restrain his heart ape and listen attentively to the analysis and teaching.

Tang Cheng has a lot of miscellaneous things, and it is indeed inferior to Liu Suifeng when it comes to the foundation and entering the country, so the old monk Chengning explained in more detail, more, and took longer.

When the lecture on the powder book was finally completed, Tang Cheng noticed that Liu Suifeng had left at some point, and then Cheng Ning asked Tang Cheng some more about his feelings and experiences in practicing calligraphy, and waved his hand after arranging the homework to signal that he could go.

After coming out of the abbot, Tang Chengjing went to the Tianwang Palace, where the blue grass was waiting, and the two of them visited all the halls of the former temple again, and when they were hungry, they walked to the mountain gate.

"Hey, why is he still here?" As soon as he walked out of the mountain gate, Tang Chengcheng saw Liu Suifeng.

Against the backdrop of the five-flowered and money-rich horses on the side, the willow in white clothes like snow is really like a jade, and the horse is like a dragon, which is very eye-catching. Even though the people who came out of the mountain gate were bustling, the first thing he noticed when he walked out of the mountain gate must be him.

At the same time that Tang Cheng saw Liu Suifeng, Liu Suifeng, who had been paying attention to the mountain gate, also saw him, and walked over with the reins of the horse.

Today, Tang Cheng came to Wanfu Temple with the orchid grass, and the older men he met along the way when he walked around the front temple and the back temple were better, and the younger ones almost couldn't help but turn their heads to look at the orchid, but this Liu Suifeng didn't seem to realize the beauty of the orchid grass at all, and his eyes hardly stayed on her for a moment, and when he arrived in front of Tang Cheng, he said directly: "How long do you spend practicing painting every day?" ”。

"You're waiting for me to ask this?" , Seeing him nodding, Tang Chengzhen was a little speechless, calculating the time, Liu Suifeng had at least an hour in this time, and he waited so long just to ask such an inexplicable question, "Half an hour, even the time to think about it."

Tang Cheng is telling the truth, he has too many things to do now, and it is rare to be able to spend half an hour every day, that is, an hour in the future generations, on painting.

"Well, I won't be painting for a month, and after a month I'll only spend half an hour a day. Brother Tang don't forget the one-year appointment of that day! After saying this, Liu Suifeng didn't stop any longer, led the horse and turned around and walked into the bustling crowd.

"Who is he? What arrogance! Even though there were many people on the flat field in front of the mountain gate, they couldn't hide Liu Suifeng, who was dressed in white, Lancao looked at his back and said, "Ah Cheng, what did you make an appointment with him?" ”。

It wasn't until after listening to Liu Suifeng's words that Tang Cheng knew that the reason why he had waited so long to ask such a question was that it was in the abbot of Chengning just now.

Liu Suifeng clearly saw the gap between the two, and must have known that he was busy, so he asked such a question, and also had the following sentence.

Waiting for a month means giving up the time in front of you, waiting for Tang Cheng's painting skills to catch up. The two of them stood on the same starting line again, and as for the later words, it only took half an hour every day, and the meaning was even more clear, he didn't want to take advantage of Tang Cheng.

"He's proud!" Tang Cheng's eyes also fell on Liu Suifeng's back, watching him turn over and ride into the distance after walking out of the field, "But he does have something to be proud of."

"What are you dating?"

Tang Cheng walked forward and explained casually: "We will learn painting with the elders of this temple, and we will try our painting skills in about a year."

"Ah Cheng, you are so busy......".

"Yes, this agreement was originally made by the Zhang family brothers for me, and I didn't want to fight this idleness, so I didn't take it seriously. But now it seems that it is very negligent", continuing to walk under his feet, Tang Cheng groaned for a while, and then said with a shallow smile on his face: "His pride, I also have it!" ”。