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"Your Excellency!" Zeng Guofan looked at Chery like that, and he was so furious that he looked at him.

"Oh, the emperor and the queen's mother asked the official to tell you, 'Ruthless may not be a true hero, how can a poor son not be a husband!' Chery smiled, then picked up the tea, and said nothing more. The little officials on the side hurriedly shouted to see off the guests, and Zeng Guofan could only bow out. Standing at the door of the Prime Minister's Yamen, he couldn't move his steps for a long time.

"Dashuai!" The old servant beside him could only step forward and call softly.

The Zeng family did not have a house in the capital, and they all rented a house in Beijing back then, but now he came back and stood on the street, he was a little dazed, and he had nowhere to go.

"...... first"

"Teacher!" Li Hongzhang knew that Zeng Guofan was coming, so he hurried out, and when he saw them, he hurriedly stepped forward and took a deep look.

"Hongzhang!" Zeng Guofan was a little bitter, if he hadn't followed this student at the beginning, he might have no hope of recovery, but obviously, compared to this student, he couldn't catch up.

"The student's house has an outer courtyard, which is quite clean, so the teacher might as well settle there, and there will be a care in the morning and evening, and the students can also listen to the teachings." Li Hongzhang knew that their family did not have a house in Beijing, so he said busily.

"You're welcome, I booked the Hunan Guild Hall, everything is cheap there." Zeng Guofan shook his hand, but raised his hand again, tangled for a moment, "Hongzhang, I have time to come to the Hunan Guild Hall, I found a few books in Gansu." ”

"Yes, it just so happens that the students miss the bacon of the Hunan Hall very much!" Li Hongzhang knew that Zeng Guofan wanted to know what was going on, and he didn't think that his mother was scolding him in vain. Someone has to pass these words to the teacher, otherwise, he can't help but let him know why Niangniang is so angry, right?

In the evening, in the upper room of the Hunan Hall, Zeng Guofan had already set up a few Hunan side dishes, no wine, only two bowls of coarse rice, Li Hongzhang knew that this was the habit of his teacher, he had always been thrifty, if he was treated like this, he would be his own person. smiled and ate the meal with him, which made Zeng Guofan, who was originally nervous, also very warm. At least, this student didn't have a relationship with himself.

After eating, let people take the table, the two sat down as the guest of honor, Li Hongzhang glanced at the people on the side, and the subordinates withdrew, and Zeng Guofan's subordinates glanced at Zeng, and also silently withdrew and closed the door for them.

"So, this time, isn't Niangniang just angry that she can't teach her son-in-law?" Zeng Guofan spoke first, and Chery's words in the afternoon made him very uneasy, how could the poor son not be a husband? Does this mean that he is ruthless to his children?

"What Niangniang means is that a person who has no compassion for his children can shepherd one side for His Majesty!" Li Hongzhang looked outside the door, and still whispered in Zeng Guofan's ear.

"What does that mean?" Zeng Guofan didn't understand what he was wrong at all.

Li Hongzhang looked at his mentor, outsiders may think he is a hypocrite, but in fact, Li Hongzhang knows that he is not. He was a man so pure, so pure that he believed in the theories of science. In his heart, he felt that his children should die for his way. No, he doesn't even feel like it's a sacrifice, he thinks it's fate, and he doesn't reflect on it.

"Niangniang is very dissatisfied with the three sons-in-law you chose!" Li Hongzhang decided to make it clearer.

"What's wrong with them, Aunt Yuan is a ...... character"

"Teacher!" Li Hongzhang held him down, and thought for a long time, what should he say, let Zeng Guofan bring back his daughter, he didn't believe that Zeng Guofan would do this at all. After a while, he smiled at him, "Teacher, you have been removed from the position of governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, but you are still a bachelor from a first-class class, and the emperor has not taken away all your official positions." Otherwise, if you meet the eldest girl and her husband first, you will have to give the emperor an explanation. ”

Zeng Guofan nodded, this is right, think about it and be powerless, "I asked your wife and them to come back, it is impossible for me to go back to Lanzhou, you can help me see, if there is a suitable house, help us rent one." ”

"Yes!" Li Hongzhang grinded his teeth gently, "I heard that Chen Erxianggong's health is not very good, do you want to ask the doctor to take a look again." Moreover, the students heard that Chen Daxianggong was extravagant, and Chen Erxianggong suffered a lot; Lord Luo's son was destroyed at the hands of a woman, but I am afraid that it is not a good match. ”

Zeng Guofan looked up sharply and looked at the student.

Li Hongzhang patted his mentor's shoulder gently, he sincerely hoped that Zeng Guofan could know what he was talking about, and what he could say was really everything. He really wanted his mentor to listen to him this time. The official position is small, but the life of the child is a big event.

It is not a secret that Zeng Guofan returned to Beijing, and the next morning, as soon as the eldest daughter Ji Jing heard about it, she immediately rushed to the Hunan Hall to visit her father. In the past two years, she has actually been writing letters to her eldest brother Ji Ze, although her marriage can be described as a tragedy, but when she saw her father, she could only bow down silently.

"Where's your husband?" Zeng Guofan saw that his son-in-law did not come with his daughter, and his face darkened.

Ji Jing could only bow her head, she could say that she hadn't seen her husband at all from yesterday to this morning? Zeng Guofan is a Qing official, and it is impossible for him to give his daughter much to marry, and the Yuan family was almost defeated by his son-in-law, but he relied on Zeng Guofan's dignity to live. But Yuan is a bastard, he saw that Zeng Guofan didn't dare to do anything to him, even if Zeng Guofan lost his official position because of him, he didn't feel it at all.

Zeng Guofan looked at his daughter and sighed helplessly.

"Get up!"

Zeng Jijing got up, looked at the environment, and hesitated, "Dad, why don't you go to your daughter's house first?" ”

"Confused!" Zeng Guofan immediately put the tea cup heavily on the table. In fact, it is nothing for the father-in-law to borrow his son-in-law's house now, but Zeng Guofan is a person with extremely strict self-discipline, how can he go to live in his son-in-law's house.

Zeng Jijing could only take a step back, their parents had been strict since they were children, and they didn't know what resistance was, so they secretly complained to the eldest brother, and the eldest brother tested her father's tone for her, and if she didn't reply, she replied. She knows very well the temperament of her father and eldest brother, it must be her father who asked her eldest brother to leave her alone, and the eldest brother had no choice but to say nothing.

can be said to hate, she doesn't hate her father, because she grew up in that family, even if she lights a lamp, the whole family is together, her father reads, her brother and brother write, and her mother and Erniang take them to do needlework, saying that they don't raise idlers. Maybe this is fate, even if my father becomes the governor, the family is still like this.

What can she do if she marries into the Yuan family, with such a husband, she has long been dead. But she was her father's daughter, and she could only endure it.

There was an awkward silence in the room, Zeng Guofan didn't know what to say, and asked his daughter how she was doing? This is needless to ask, if you have a good life, you will be dismissed and return to Beijing. What's the use of asking again, and still making them inseparable? Zeng Guofan really thought about it for a moment last night, but it was only a moment, and he was immediately driven out of his mind, this is fate, and he has to bear it.