There is a Piaoxiang Garden in Huai'an, and there is a famous dish in Piaoxiang Garden, Huainan bamboo shoots, and after Hu Ye ate it once, he never forgot that taste.

When he tasted Huainan bamboo shoots again, he suddenly felt that time passed so fast, and it had been six years since the last time he ate Huainan bamboo shoots.

"I didn't expect that when I said goodbye, the little brother was already a marquis, and the old man admired and admired." Meiqi sat opposite Hu Ye and said while adding tea to Hu Ye.

"Maggie laughed, I just had luck." Hu Ye sighed, it has only been a few years, and Meiqi has changed from a half-old to an old pearl yellow, and she will no longer be the grace of the past.

"I don't know what the little brother is doing this time?" Maggie asked curiously.

"Actually, it's nothing, it's just to go to the old place and have a look." Hu Ye drank a cup of tea and said casually.

"I didn't expect the little brother to be young, and he was old-fashioned when he spoke." Maggie smiled, and the wrinkles on her forehead couldn't hide her age.

"It's all forced." Hu Ye sighed.

"Since the little brother has arrived in Huai'an, he is going north to Beijing, but I have something to ask for." After a pause, Maggie suddenly said to Hu Ye.

"Maggie has something to say, if the kid can do it, it must be incumbent." Hu Ye said.

"Then little brother, please come with me."

Meiqi put down the teacup, left the room with Hu Ye, and walked towards a corner of the Piaoxiang Garden.

This room is not big, and when Hu Ye walked in, he smelled a breath of death.

"Go check it out."

Meiqi pointed to a bed in the room and said to Hu Ye.

Hu Ye looked carefully, and there was a person lying on the bed, his hair was gray, and his eyes were closed.

"It's not ......"

After Hu Ye saw the person's appearance clearly, he was taken aback, because this person was none other than him. It was Conne, who left Nanjing six years ago, the former Yan Shenggong.

"Boy, is that you?"

Hu Ye had just finished speaking, when he heard Kong Ne speak.

"Yan Shenggong, it's me."

Hu Ye hurriedly came to Kong Ne's side, I don't know how many times I have helped this goods, and I did have the intention of talking to this goods when I went north this time, I thought that this goods had returned to my hometown in Qufu, but I didn't expect it to be in Huai'an.

"Ahem. I didn't expect to see you again in my lifetime. Conne struggled to sit up, his face already pale.

Thinking that six years ago, this product could follow him all the way south to Nanjing, but now it has become like this, Hu Ye was entangled in his heart.

He also knew that Kong Ne became like this, and it must have something to do with Zhu Yunwen back then, because Zhu Yunwen removed Kong Ne's position as the Holy Duke of Yan for his own rule and let Kong Zhengjian succeed him. After all, Kong Xunjian does not have the influence of Kong Ne. In the literary world, it is not as good as filial piety, so that Zhu Yunwen can control the literary world.

"Yan Shenggong is not in good health now, but he is still good at cultivating his life."

Hu Ye wanted to appease Kong Ne, but found that he was getting older. The more stubborn it is.

"Boy, now I'm just an old man, not Yan Shenggong, Yan Shenggong is my son."

Conne sighed. Obviously, he was still obsessed with Zhu Yunwen's will back then, he contributed his whole life to the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't expect it to end up like this.

"In the kid's heart. You will always be the Father. Hu Ye said respectfully, this is his sincere words, for Kongne, he really admires, not only his erudition, but also his personality.

"Hey, with your words, I will feel at ease." Kong Ne smiled bitterly.

"The kid is very curious, why didn't Yan Shenggong go to Qufu's hometown to care for the elderly, but he wanted to stay in this Piaoxiang Garden?" Hu Ye asked curiously.

"I can't let go of some things in my heart." Kong Ne muttered, then looked at Maggie.

Hu Ye didn't know what Kong Ne couldn't let go, but he could probably guess that it must have something to do with Meiqi. The first time I heard Kong Ne introduce Meiqi, saying that Kong Ne and Meiqi's mother were acquaintances, but now it seems that it is not just as simple as acquaintance.

"Yan Shenggong, let me tell you a story."

Hu Ye paused, since he had roughly guessed Kong Ne's estimate, Hu Ye began to tell the story, "There is a Li Yangming in Beijing, I must have heard of Yan Shenggong, his literary attainments are only afraid that they are not as good as Yan Shenggong, and his influence in the literary world is probably not as good as you, but he is strict with his grandson." ”

Two years ago, he and his grandson followed the emperor south to Nanjing, and asked his grandson to study poetry and books hard to achieve a good result in the imperial examination. He didn't want to let his grandson get closer because of his relationship with Zhu Di. ”

"But it backfired, his grandson and I were good brothers, and there were a few gentlemen together, so not only did this product not read poetry and books, but also followed us to spend all day drinking, and my uncle forgot about it. Even when I got married, in order to make things difficult for me, I was not allowed to ask Xie Jin, a bachelor at that time, for advice. ”

"Actually, this is not the place where Li Tai makes Li Yangming feel the most, the most hateful thing is that when he was drinking with us, he got acquainted with a dusty woman, and what's worse is that he fell in love with this dusty woman, and had the idea of redeeming himself for her and then marrying home."

For the Great Confucian Scholar, this is absolutely impossible to happen, so Li Tai's fate is self-evident. was locked up by his grandfather, he was not allowed to go out, and he thought about it behind closed doors at home. Just the day before I left, I found a few gentlemen to come out for a gathering, and at the end I asked Li Tai if he had gained anything from thinking about it behind closed doors these days. Do you know how Li Tai answered me? Hu Ye asked Kong Ne.

Seeing that Kong Ne didn't answer, Hu Ye continued, "Then Li Tai told me that he had thought about it behind closed doors these days, but instead of stopping him from taking that woman's idea, he became more determined. But Confucianism has a sense of good and filial piety first, and Li Tai did not dare to disobey his grandfather's intentions, so the send-off wine that day was originally given to me became a comfort wine for him, a big man, crying like a tearful man. ”

"Later, the night before leaving, I sent Li Tai home and went to visit his grandfather, Li Yangming and Li Fuzi. I also have a teacher-student relationship with Li Fuzi, and I was going to entertain me, but when he knew my intention to go, he wanted to drive me out, and he said that he wanted Li Tai to take a Qinglou woman, unless he died. ”

"Then there will be no later, I can't persuade you, so I can only leave, and tell sù Li Tai, this qiē is doomed, if you want to take that woman, you have to disobey your grandfather's will. If you want to be a filial son, you can't take the Qinglou woman. ”

But then Li Tai thought of a way to be filial and live up to friendship. He said that his grandfather was in his twilight years, and he served his grandfather's last days well, and after his grandfather was gone, he would go to marry the girl in the green building. ”

"I have to say, it's a very good idea, and if it weren't for my big brother's experience, I'm afraid I'd have agreed with his approach. But personnel changes, the world is impermanent, and a lot of things can happen in a few years, especially in that kind of dusty place. In a few years, it is inevitable that the woman will not change her mind, and in a few years, it is inevitable that there will be no accidents. So I gave Li Tai an idea against my will, I let him cook raw rice and mature rice, when the woman was pregnant with the flesh and blood of the Li family, even if Master Li objected, it would be useless, did Yan Shenggong think that what I did was right? Hu Ye told a long story, and then asked Kong Ne.

Kong Ne closed his eyes, he didn't know if the story Hu Ye told was true, but he knew that Hu Ye was persuading him to let go of the burden in his heart.

"Ask why the world is not, and the straight people promise life and death. When a person's love is forced by the righteousness of the world, he always has to make a choice, and fifty years ago, I chose the righteousness of the world and preserved my name as the Holy Father. Fifty years later, I have to make a choice again, I am no longer a Yan Shenggong, just an old man who is about to die. What else am I afraid of? After a long time, Kong Ne opened his eyes and said to Hu Ye, "Boy, what you did right, there are some things that cannot be measured by right or wrong, because there is no right or wrong in itself. ”

It seems that he has figured out something, and Kong Ne's complexion is actually better.

"Yan Shenggong, you ......" Mei Qi's face also had a hint of joy.

"Meiqi, don't call me Yan Shenggong in the future, call me dad, I've been here in Huai'an for a lifetime, it's time to go back with me to recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors." Kong Ne said loudly to Maggie.

"Sure enough."

Hearing that Kong Ne asked Meiqi to call him father, Hu Ye knew that his guess was indeed right, when Kong Ne was in Piaoxiang Garden, he had an affair with Meiqi and his mother, so he gave birth to Meiqi. However, at that time, Kong Ne was the world's honorary Yan Shenggong, and if it was rumored that he had an affair with a Qinglou woman and gave birth to a daughter, I am afraid that his reputation would be discredited immediately.

So Kong Ne chose to escape, left this place, and didn't see Mei Qi and her mother, which led to the later story.

Now that Kong Ne is not the Holy Duke of Yan, he thought about making up for the one he owed Mei Qi before, so he stayed in Piaoxiang Garden.

Now Hu Ye also understands what Mei Qi means when she says that she has to let herself help, that is, to let him help Kong Ne untie this knot.

"Boy, you can follow us to Qufu." Kong Ne said to Hu Ye.

"It is naturally a kid's honor to be able to walk with Yan Shenggong." Hu Ye smiled, just went to Yansheng Mansion again, and solved the matter of the year.

"Then you go and rest, and we'll set off early tomorrow morning. I felt that my days were numbered, and that it was time to go back and confess my mistakes to my ancestors. Kong Ne waved his hand and let Hu Ye out.

Walking out of Kong Ne's room, Hu Ye smiled, "Hey, Li Tai, Li Tai, you have always been a negative teaching material, but I didn't expect it to play a positive role this time." (To be continued......)