Liu Xiu stepped forward to salute and listen to the teachings.

Ma Lun praised him a few words first, saying that thanks to his care, Lu Shen's mother and son did not endure hardship, and at the same time self-criticized for not taking enough care of Lu Zhi's wife, and finally she finally got to the point: Why don't you have a hot fight with the eunuchs when you don't have the summons of Situ Mansion?

Liu Xiu said bluntly, neither humble nor arrogant, I don't accept Situfu's call because I don't want to be an official now, and the reason why I interact with eunuchs is because the eunuchs have helped me, and we are just ordinary interactions, not hot.

Ma Lun immediately asked, what kind of things do you have to ask the eunuch for help, why don't you come to Situ Mansion? The meaning of her words is that the reason why the Yuan family didn't help you was because you didn't come to look for it, not that I didn't help, and the responsibility was that you weren't with me.

Liu Xiu explained that the last incident was a military affair, which was under the control of the Taiwei Mansion, not the Situ Mansion, so he did not come to the Situ Mansion. He also said that my senior brother and I were busy running up and down in Luoyang for a month, and finally we still asked Lu Qiang, a regular attendant, to help us, and then handed over Shangshu, which really took a lot of work. It was also through this incident that I learned that there are also good people in the middle of the regular service, and not all of them are power-grabbers.

Ma Lun's face was a little embarrassed, although Liu Xiu didn't accuse her, but his words were a little prickly. Our brothers have been running in Luoyang for more than a month, and you haven't heard any news? Do you have to come to your door to beg you for a shot? The Zhongchang servant who helped him is a good person, so what about the one who doesn't help him? Of course, it's a bad guy, and it doesn't really matter if it's a regular servant or not.

The two of them said very politely, but also relatively vaguely, they couldn't hear a little smell of gunpowder, Zhang saw that the two of them were very gentle, and he was relieved, Lu Shen was still young, and he couldn't hear too much meaning, but the young woman standing behind Ma Lun felt the counterattack of Liu Xiumian's hidden needle, and her eyes couldn't help but flash a strange look.

Ma Lun's tone slowly became a little impatient, she felt that Liu Xiu was too ignorant, even if my Yuan family didn't take the initiative to help you, now I admit it to my face, why are you still so screwed, do you still expect me to apologize to you?

"Deran, turbidity is different streams. Although you are not from a high background, after all, you have been educated and quite talented, and your career will not be bad in the future. Don't be confused by the temporary difficulties, it's better to be clear with those eunuchs. Otherwise, if you have a reputation for turbidity, even if you are the third prince in the future, you will be despised by others. Malen said slowly, with a condescending warning in his words: "Situ is the head of the civil service, Situ Mansion has a lot of talents, and being a colleague with these talents will be of great help to your studies and future career, this is a rare and good opportunity, and you should not be careless." ”

Liu Xiu smiled slightly: "Thank you, Madame." However, now that the teacher is suppressing thieves in Lujiang, the senior brother is on the side of Shanggutun, and the junior brother is young, I can't help but support it. ”

"I know it's not easy to live in Luoyang, but it's not necessarily too much to be a businessman. Even if you are willing to bear this stigma in order to support your mother, what is the reputation of my son's brother? In this way, you come to Situ Mansion to take up a post, and I will take on the life of your wife and brother. Although the Yuan family doesn't dare to say that they are extremely rich, with only a few hundred gold, I can still afford it. ”

Liu Xiu sneered secretly, just a few hundred gold, why did you go earlier? Besides, if I really want to take up a post in Situ Mansion, you will give me a few hundred gold, and thank God for being able to pay it on time. However, you regard Situ Fu's call as a shortcut to your career, thinking that everyone is a gift that everyone desires, but I don't want to have anything to do with your Yuan family. Yes, in the long run, the strength of the family is not something that eunuchs can fight against, and the collusion between the Yuan family inside and outside is not as easy as an ordinary family, but in terms of short-term effects, your Yuan family is really not as good as a eunuch. No matter how good the Yuan family is, Situ is not the head of the civil officials of the foreign dynasty, so if you want to worship the official, you have to give an edict in the palace?

"Thank you, Madame, for your kindness." Liu Xiu bowed and saluted: "Now I have a Luofu noodle restaurant, and every time I have a small profit, my life is safe." Actually, I'm really ashamed. Although I studied under Mr., but the teacher was short, I couldn't learn any scriptures with Mr., if I entered the Situ Mansion, my colleagues talked about learning, I was afraid that I would embarrass Mr., and it would also affect Ma Fufeng's reputation. In terms of talent and learning, my junior brother is much better than me, and if it is convenient, I hope that my wife can let him enter the house to study. ”

Mullen's face sank, very annoyed. She heard the resoluteness from Liu Xiu's words, saying that she was not good at learning, and she was afraid of embarrassing the teacher and affecting her teacher, Ma Rong, hoping to give this opportunity to Lu Shen, it seemed that she was thinking about her elders and creating opportunities for her junior brothers, but the real meaning was that she resolutely refused to accept Situ's call.

You are shameless, what do you think of Situ Mansion's appreciation, you may transfer it casually?

"Seeing that you are young, dignified, and learned scriptures from Zigan's junior brother, and you are not short when you get along with Zixing, why are you still so unreasonable?" Ma Lun's anger surged, and he no longer pretended to be colorful, and reprimanded sharply: "The first time I heard that the highway said that you were talking wildly in Taixue and interpreting the scriptures indiscriminately, I still didn't believe it, and I always felt that Zigan's junior disciple was a strict person, so he wouldn't teach such a disciple who didn't understand." But now it seems that you are indeed too young, and I don't know where you heard a few words, and you don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and you think that you are superior. There is no distinction between turbidity, black and white, distant scholars and eunuchs, and they are not on the right path and learn businessmen, and they forget the duty of a scholar. I don't know how you're going to explain to your husband when he returns. ”

Liu Xiu straightened his waist, frowned slightly, and listened to Ma Lun's scolding without saying a word, his face was expressionless, neither angry nor embarrassed, nor ashamed, calm as a pool of stagnant water, so that Ma Lun, who was full of voice, felt that his anger seemed to be facing a white wall, except for seeing his own spit, he didn't react at all.

Ma Lun involuntarily stopped and looked at Liu Xiu coldly.

Zhang and Lu Shen were shocked, and hurriedly gave Liu Xiu a look, signaling him to hurry up and accompany Ma Lun. Liu Xiu turned a blind eye, he was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "Dare to ask Madame, are you teaching me as Master Lu's teacher, or are you teaching me as Madam Yuan?" ”

Ma Lun was stunned for a moment and shouted, "Is there a difference?" ”

"There is a difference." Liu Xiu responded, "If you are my teacher, then you are my elder, so if you say something, I will change it, and if you don't, you will be encouraged." If it is ...... as Mrs. Yuan," he paused, and said word by word: "I did not respond to the call of Situ Mansion, and I have no righteousness as a monarch and minister with Lord Situ, so I dare not waste Mrs. Lao's lips." ”

Liu Xiu's words are very clear, if you are in the Ma family, then I will endure it, but if I endure it, it doesn't mean that you are right, I don't care about you because you are an elder. If you are a member of the Yuan family, then please shut up, I did not accept the call of Situ Mansion, and the Yuan family does not have the righteousness of a monarch and minister, so I don't have to be angry with you.

But whether you are in the Ma family or the Yuan family, I think you are not right.

Ma Lun rolled her eyes at him, blood gushed up, and her very moisturized face suddenly swollen red, she stood up and pointed at Liu Xiu, "You...... You ......", turned his head to Zhang's and shouted, "This is the student taught by Lu Zhi?" ”

Zhang was dumbfounded and at a loss.

"Madame!" Liu Xiu raised his voice and sneered: "Madam, Master Lu is a disciple of Ma Fufeng, but he is not the former official of the Yuan family, please respect yourself, Madame." If Madame wants to be rude to my teacher and wife with the power of the Yuan family, please forgive me for not accepting it. ”

Ma Lun was in a hurry to call Lu Zhi's name, even if she was in the Ma family, she couldn't be so rude, let alone accuse Lu Zhi of being a disciple in front of Mrs. Lu Zhi and her juniors. Of course, Liu Xiu would not let go of this opportunity, and immediately pointed it out, made a solemn statement, solemnly protested, and looking at his angry expression, he obviously had the intention of taking further action.

This made Mullen furious. In fact, she brought Liu Xiu here, and she didn't necessarily have to recruit Liu Xiu into Situ Mansion, she had already had a plan to find a reason to make a biao, but now that she was bumped into by Liu Xiu, it was not in her expectation. She subconsciously thought that Liu Xiu was afraid that her legs would be weak when she saw her elder, and she didn't pinch it or rub it with her, so she could teach how she wanted? Who would have thought that Liu Xiu would be such a hard thing that he didn't eat hard and soft, and he didn't eat him in one bite, but was broken in his teeth.

"How are you going to do it?" Maren lost his grace and screamed. She has been known for her sharp words since she became an adult, and after becoming Mrs. Situ, she wants to be windy and rainy, even the Qianshi chief of Situ Mansion is polite when she sees her, she never thought that she was pushed to a dead end by a junior today, and in a hurry, she didn't have the patience to compete with Liu Xiu in words, and directly wanted to force Liu Xiu to obey with her power.

For those in power, it is undoubtedly the simplest and most effective way to force each other.

"The fourth generation and third duke of the Yuan family, but so, no wonder Yuan Xiafu kept himself behind closed doors." Liu Xiu stood up, ignored Ma Lun, and walked straight to Zhang, who was pale and his lips were trembling: "Master, let's go, this Yuan Mansion is rich and powerful, and it is not appropriate to stay for a long time." ”

Ma Lun was so angry that she couldn't speak, but the young woman standing next to her sank her face, took a step forward and stopped in front of Zhang, and said in a cold voice: "How can the Yuan Mansion allow you to come and leave as soon as you say?" The fourth generation and the third prince of the Yuan family, how can you allow you to make irresponsible remarks and slander. Let you just walk out like this today, what face is there. Liu Xiu, it's not too late for you to make your words clear. ”

Liu Xiu straightened up, looked the woman up and down, turned to look at the iron-faced Ma Lun, looked back at the woman, and said angrily and funny: "What did I say?" ”

"You don't know what you're saying?" The woman said sharply: "The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, but so, I want to ask you, how can you be like this." ”

"Oh, that's it." Liu Xiu rubbed his nose, lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and when he raised his head again, his eyes were a little sharp: "Madame just said that eunuchs are all turbidity, I want to ask Madame...... And you, is Yuan Yu a clear stream or a turbid stream? ”

The woman was stunned and speechless. Zhongchang servant Yuan Yu is the strength of the Yuan family in the palace, everyone knows this, but few people dare to say it, let alone in front of the Yuan family. But Liu Xiu said it so easily, and he said it very directly, without covering it up at all.

Didn't you say that the Yuan family was a clear stream and the eunuchs were turbid, so what's going on?

"The fourth generation and third duke of the Yuan family, protégés and former officials are all over the world, I think you will definitely say that this is for the country, not for cultivating private families." Liu Xiusuo's surname was scattered, and he added a sullen stick: "I want to ask you, which is stronger, Yuan Highway or me?" ”

The woman blinked her eyes and was about to speak, when Liu Xiu raised her hand and interrupted him: "The Meng family heirloom of the Yuan family, I don't know how much he knows." But he is now the captain of Zhichong, but I dare to say that I want to talk about the word Zhichong, I let him have two hands, and he is not qualified enough. I fought with the Xianbei people in Ningcheng, and the severed head was not a hundred, but also fifty, and now he is not even a captain, except for looking for trouble in Luoyang City, the face of the Xianbei people has not been photographed, why did he become a lieutenant? Isn't it because his surname is Yuan? With him, he is also worthy of the word folding? ”

The woman's face turned red. The meaning of folding chong originally refers to the chariot that repels the enemy, which is used as a metaphor for the meaning of bravery, most of the people who worship as the captain of the folding chong are brave people, although Yuan Shu has some martial arts, but in front of Liu Xiu, he really can't afford to fold the word chong, you must know that Liu Xiu is a person who has leveled the five of them, not to mention that Liu Xiu still has real combat exploits.

There is a saying in the Han Dynasty that the son of the prime minister also wants to fight on the border, but then again, if any prime minister really sends his son to the border, even if Yuan Shu's martial arts are higher than Liu Xiu's, he has no chance to kill the enemy like Liu Xiu.

The reason is actually not complicated, the problem is that the Yuan family has never been questioned in person, so once they really meet a stunned young man like Liu Xiu, they can't answer it anyway. Many problems are not really right, but no one dares to point out the wrong, and over time, those who are wrong will think that it is right, and when it is really pointed out, it will be too late for them to wake up.

It's just that they eat more and occupy more, the problem is that they are used to eating more and occupying more, just because others dare not say it, they think it is justified, and they feel that the reason is strong.

"Even if one person loses the road, how can you say that the entire Yuan family is wrong?"

"Okay, I'll ask you one more question." Liu Xiu sneered: "Situ is in charge of the world's civil affairs, and the wealth is not in Situ's hands?" ”

"Do you still have to say that?" The woman sneered in return.

"The Lang official in the palace can't send it out, is it Situ's responsibility?"

"This ...... The people's livelihood in the world is difficult, and Situ alone has no power to return to heaven. The woman argued, "Could it be that you can do better by changing Situ?" ”

"Then I don't know." Liu Xiu turned around and pointed to the Yuan family's slaves who were watching in the hall: "But I know that the people's livelihood in the world is difficult, and even the Lang officials' salaries can't be issued, but the Yuan family's slaves can eat meat, and the Yuan family's mansion is no different from the palace, is this what the gentleman who takes the world as his appointment does?" I don't know what Yuan Gong thinks when he is underground. The Yuan family passed on Meng Shiyi, don't you know that Kang Long has regrets? The gentleman's Ze, the third generation and the beheading, now the Yuan family has reached the fourth generation, you don't know that the loyal heirloom is long, but here is the beep, don't you feel ashamed of the ancestors? ”

After he finished speaking, he gently pushed the woman away, picked up the bloodless Zhang, and walked away.

Ma Lun was so angry that her hands and feet trembled, and she spoke incoherently, and the woman's face was red and white for a while, and she wanted to cry without tears, and she seemed to be a little blindsided by Liu Xiu's words. By the time Yuan Shu received the news and rushed over, they had not yet regained their calm.

"You go and deal with it, first publicize his rudeness to me, and then find Henan Yin to seal his noodle restaurant, find someone to break his mouth, and see if he can be so sharp-tongued and open-mouthed."

Yuan Shu was overjoyed and couldn't wait to do it immediately.

"Uncle, brother, I think...... I think this is ......" The woman, Yuan Shu's sister Yuan Hui, looked at Ma Lun with some hesitation, and then at Yuan Shu, and stopped talking.

"What exactly do you want to say?" Yuan Shu said impatiently.

"I don't think we have much of an advantage in terms of morality." Yuan Hui said in a sneering voice: "He and my Yuan family really don't have the righteousness of a monarch and a minister, and he is in business to support the master, let's go to seal his noodle restaurant, when the Zhang family mother and son are down, how will the uncle face Lu Taishou?" Moreover, this man has sharp words, and he really wants to push him urgently, biting us back, saying that we are bullying others......"

Ma Lun slowly calmed down, she thought for a while, and then said disappreciably: "Let the people of the Xu family come forward." This shaft doesn't know how to advance or retreat, there are many people who have offended, who would have thought that it has anything to do with my Yuan family. Highway, be careful, don't let this shaft grab the handle. Your sister is right, although this vertical man is young, he is very slippery, and he is not an easy person to deal with. ”

She finally said again, don't be underestimated.

Yuan Shu patted his chest and said that he must have done this thing beautifully, not only cleaning up Liu Xiu, but also making people unable to find faults, and at the same time ending the life of Zhang's mother and son. As soon as Ma Lun heard it, he understood Yuan Shu's plan, and the Yuan family didn't need to come forward at all, so they directly found a master to clean up Liu Xiu and let people seal his noodle restaurant. As for Zhang's mother and son, in fact, it is not a problem, it is a big deal to send some money when they are in trouble, but to earn some reputation for helping people in danger.

The only difference is that she has to endure Liu Xiu's confrontation with her this time, as if it never happened. Otherwise, as soon as it is publicized, even if people think that Liu Xiu has something wrong, they will record this account on the head of the Yuan family, saying that the Yuan family is bullying and doing too much, and it may even be said that the Yuan family deliberately poured sewage on Liu Xiu.

Ma Lun was scheming, saluting first and then soldiering, originally wanting to give Liu Xiu a hat of disrespecting elders, and first force Liu Xiu to the opposite side of morality, so that the Yuan family would be famous for dealing with him. In her opinion, Liu Xiu would not have the strength to fight back in the face of her opponent who was both an elder and a high position, except to bow her head, and she never thought that Liu Xiu would not only fight back, but also make a heavy hand. With the winning ticket in her hand, she was really bumped into by Liu Xiu now, but she could only swallow her anger.

How did this happen? Ma Lun couldn't understand how he had lived for more than 40 years, how could he go back more and more, how could the woman who had spoken Yuan Kui speechless on her wedding night end up in this field, not even as good as her juniors?

Ma Lun glanced at Yuan Hui and sighed secretly. suddenly remembered what Liu Xiu said, and his face suddenly became a little hot. Liu Xiu said that the third generation of the gentleman was killed, and the Yuan family was not as good as the generation, although the words were ugly, but when I thought about it, it was not bad at all. Among the three brothers of Yuan Kui, the second Yuan Feng is the most kind-hearted, so he gave birth to three sons, the eldest Yuan Cheng and the third Yuan Kui are gone, is it really because of the lack of virtue, so God wants to repay them?

Not being able to give birth to a son has always been the most secret pain in Ma Lun's heart, although Yuan Kui didn't dare to say it, and she didn't take it seriously on the surface, but these are all things she knows, but no one dares to break it, just like the Yuan family is now the fourth and third dukes, but in fact, it has already changed, and suddenly it was broken, which is really unacceptable. Suddenly, the always invincible Maren felt a wave of fear. She was angry and anxious, bursts of sweat came out of her body, and she was inexplicably a little uneasy.

(To be continued)