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Not long after Xue Dagang left, Lin Hu heard someone calling him from afar behind him, and turned his head to look-

It turned out to be Xiong Sifang, and there was ...... by his side His father is like a sea!

To say that Lin Hu has never seen Xiong Sifang's father, and he has only heard others talk about it in the Zhuangyuan Building, and he has written down the name of "Xuzhou Governor Xiong Ruhai" in his heart, why can he identify that the person next to him is his father?

There is no other reason! These two people are so similar!

The same round figure, the same Confucian shirt, the same festive facial features, just a grade older, a younger, mature bear, and a young bear are just the difference!

Lin Hu walked back with Xixi, greeted him, and gave a salute first: "Meet Xiong Dudu!"

Xiong Ruhai laughed a few times, and his voice was like a bell: "Why should the virtuous nephew be polite! Since you are friendly with my fat son, just call me Uncle Xiong!"

Lin Hu smiled, changed his voice and called "Uncle Xiong", and understood in his heart how this Xiong Quartet's temperament was cultivated!

Xiong Sifang greeted Lin Hu and couldn't help complaining: "Brother Lin, why don't you say goodbye?"

Lin Hu replied with a smile: "I said goodbye to Brother Xiong, but you were surrounded by so many people at that time, so you didn't hear it......"

Xiong Sifang also nodded: "So that's ......"

"At a young age, I speak like an old man, what Brother Lin, Brother Xiong, it doesn't sound pleasant!" Xiong Ruhai muttered on the side, "I'm like your age, when I see someone with the right appetite, I directly burn yellow paper, cut off chicken heads, and two brothers in one world! Eat meat together, cut people together, and go shopping together...... Eh, no, let's cultivate Confucianism together!"

Xiong Ruhai couldn't help wiping his sweat, almost saying that he had leaked his mouth and ruined his image!

Hearing this, Lin Hu was a little dumbfounded, seeing that this Uncle Xiong was dressed in a Confucian shirt, he thought that he was like his son, a well-educated person, how could he be so...... Well, such a crude ore?

Xiong Sifang saw it in his eyes and smiled: "My father originally cultivated the military road and led the troops to fight, but later he didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he changed to Confucianism and Taoism!

"How can you talk about a little fat man!" Xiong Ruhai glared angrily, as if he was a little angry.

"You big fat man, where did I say it wrong!" Xiong Sifang also glared back, showing no weakness.

Seeing this father and son, Lin Hu's inner boredom was diluted a lot, and he hurriedly said: "Actually, my father is also a general in Dazhao, and when I see Uncle Xiong, I think of many bold uncles, and I feel quite kind......

"Oh, that's true!" Xiong Sifang said happily, "Then the two of us are really destined! No wonder they hit it off at first sight! Brother Lin, my father's words are not rough, this Brother Xiong is really angry, just call me Quartet!"

Lin Hu also smiled: "Then don't call me Brother Lin, my friends all call me Dabao!"

"Okay, Dabao!" Xiong Sifang also smiled, this Lin Hu is so extraordinary, but he has a very people-friendly "nickname".

The two looked at each other and laughed, and Xiong Ruhai on the side laughed even louder.

"Dabao, why don't you see Brother Xue?" Xiong Sifang asked.

Lin Hu's eyebrows were a little dim: "Xue Da said that he wanted to be alone and quietly......"

Xiong Sifang also sighed when he heard this: "Actually, I specially chased you up, precisely because my father rushed to the Zhuangyuan Building, and then I wanted to tell Brother Xue something!"

"Oh?" Lin Hu looked at Xiong Ruhai, "I don't know what Uncle Xiong is about, can you tell me? ”

Xiong Ruhai said: "It's okay to say it. Today I heard my son's words and also felt sorry for that Xue boy, so I hurriedly went to Xiangguo Mansion, relying on my own thin face, and soon saw the pipe of Leshui! After I explained the situation to him, he looked at nothing, and smiled. I thought I didn't care about it, but I didn't expect this Guan Le Shui to be really unpleasant! That Xue boy didn't even have the qualifications to enter the palace in the end! It's really annoying to me!"

Xiong Ruhai exhaled angrily: "I can't do anything about Guan Leshui so faceless, after all, this is in Linzi, he is the Xiangguo of Eastern Qi, and the enrollment of this school palace is his purview." I thought about making amends to Little Brother Xue! This is something that my old bear didn't do!"

Lin Hu hurriedly said: "Uncle Xiong, you don't have to be like this, you don't have to be like this! You and the Quartet are helping each other, Xue Dahe and I don't know how to be grateful!"

Xiong Ruhai said again: "I can trust the vision of this kid in the Quartet! Since he said that this little brother Xue has the talent of the champion, I am convinced. Since there is no chance in Linzi, I would like to ask him if he is interested in returning to Xuzhou with me! I also have a big study house in Xuzhou, where he can practice Confucianism and Taoism, and in the future, he will become famous in the Eastern Qi Dynasty, and he will have a good face for Guan Leshui!"

Lin Hu solemnly bowed and thanked him: "On behalf of Xue Daxian, I thank Uncle Xiong for his appreciation! This is a good way out, I will convey it to him when I go back, and see how he decides ......."

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At this time, Xue Da naturally didn't know that Lin Hu and the father and son of the Xiong family were planning a way out for him.

He was in a trance, and he didn't know how long he had walked, but he felt that there was no sound of people around him, there was silence, and there was a river in front of him, and the river was a little muddy and sandy.

Feeling a little tired, he sat down by the river, buried his head in his knees, and thought about his gloomy future......

I don't know how long it took, but a voice sounded around him, waking him up.

"Boy, what's the matter? If you fail the big exam, you can't find death! Every year, one or two unsuccessful scholars die in this river......

Xue Da raised his head blankly, and found that he didn't know when, there was a person sitting not far away.

This person is about forty years old, dressed plainly, and has fine wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.

This man asked this question, and he didn't listen to Xue Da's answer, so he took out a fishing rod from his side, threw it into the river, and caught a fish like this......

Xue Da finally reacted, and said with some shame: "I did fail the big exam this year! But how could I do such a stupid thing! The so-called body hair and skin, and the parents of it! Although my parents died early, how could I do such an unfaithful, unfilial and unwise thing!"

After saying two words, it seemed that the knot in his heart gradually opened, Xue Da clenched his fists, and said loudly: "What if I can't enter the school palace this year? Even if I can't enter next year, I can't enter the year after next, and even what if I can't enter this life! I, Xue Wenhou, have Confucianism and Taoism in my heart! It's a big deal that I will continue to go back to my village and read my books while planting my fields! If I can't show my ambitions above the court, forget it! I, Xue Wenhou, can teach my children and grandchildren with my heart, teach my students, and let them realize my unfulfilled ambitions!"

The middle-aged man looked at Xue Da and seemed very interested: "Look at your conversation, you don't look like a person who doesn't know how to learn! Why can't you even pass the big exam of the Academy Palace?"

Xue Da sighed, the ambition he had just mustered up suddenly faded a little, and his depression returned to his heart: "You don't believe what I said! I wrote a strategy and wrote it to the head of the current court! Alas!"

The middle-aged man was even more interested: "Oh! Guan Xiang! That's not an ordinary person, he is the head of the Confucian officials of Eastern Qi! Even the King of Qi has to weigh him when he sees him, how dare you offend him?"

Xue Da smiled self-deprecatingly: "Yes, the people in the village call me 'stupid' behind their backs, and it's true!"

"Do you regret it?" the middle-aged man asked again.

"Regret?" Xue Da pondered these two words, "a little, but it's useless! Alas, I've thought about it! Even if I had known the twists and turns in the court in advance, I would have written like this! Otherwise, I would have written an article that was both twisted and contrary to my heart? I have read the books of sages for so many years, and I have never learned how to write such an article!"

The middle-aged man smiled dumbly and whispered to himself: "It seems to be ...... It seems to ......"

"Uncle, what are you talking about?" Xue Wenhou didn't hear clearly.

The middle-aged man shook his head, ignored him, and looked at the fishing rod in the river.

Xue Wenhou chatted with the middle-aged uncle for a while, only to feel that he was in a much better mood, and couldn't help asking: "Uncle, this river is so mixed, are there any fish?"

The middle-aged man glanced at him meaningfully: "Do you know what 'when the water is clear, there are no fish'?"

Xue Wenhou was a little dazed.

The middle-aged man put down the fishing rod and looked at him: "If the water is clear, there will be no fish, and if people are observed, there will be no fugitives." You want perfection in everything, and in the end you will achieve nothing. ”

Xue Wenhou asked cautiously, "Uncle, are you talking about 'fishing'?"

The middle-aged man shook his head: "I'm teaching you the Tao! Do you think that seeking the Tao is to pursue the way of heaven and cultivate for one's own body? Whoever cultivates Confucianism will shout twice, 'Qi family rules the country and level the world'! But how can you do it, the Four Books and Five Classics, did Confucius, Mengzu and Xunzu tell you? The book says that self-denial is benevolence! But if I am benevolent and others are not benevolent, does the subset of the classics tell you what to do at this time? Why are they all Confucianists, Guan Leshui only needs a casual sentence to make you unable to enter the school palace for the rest of your life? Why is this?"

Xue Da was speechless by a series of questions from the middle-aged man, and his face was even more confused!

"This is because of 'power'! Guan Leshui has power, he can realize his ambitions, and realize his Confucianism! You don't have power, so you can only comfort yourself, what to say about going home to cultivate and study, and what to say about accepting disciples and godsons! Is this an escape?" The middle-aged man's eyes were like knives, staring at Xue Da tightly.

Xue Da felt that the middle-aged uncle's words were a bit extreme, but he didn't know how to refute them.

The middle-aged man's tone softened: "Twenty years ago, there was a teenager. His ancestors were a generation of famous ministers, and his name was left in the history books! His surname once represented endless glory in this Eastern Qi Dynasty. It's a pity that with time, there have been no decent characters in his family, and the family road has fallen, and in his generation, there is no surplus wealth except for two acres of thin land......"

Hearing this, Xue Da felt a little empathetic, how similar this was to himself! It's just that the ancestors of the Xue family may not be so glorious......

"And then, can this young man revitalize the family business again?" Xue Da muttered.

The middle-aged man nodded: "That's right! This young man scattered all his family wealth, broke the kettle, and tried every means to enter the school palace." At that time, the school palace did not accept as many students every year as it does now! At that time, he could only enter as a handyman, working and studying. Later, he learned and succeeded, created his own line, became an official, started from a small writing clerk in Linzi City, step by step, and now he is a very human minister, and he has become the first of a hundred officials! In this Eastern Qi, he is under one person, above ten thousand people, and shows his ambitions in his chest!"

"This man...... Could this person be Guan Leshui?" Xue said in surprise with wide eyes.

The middle-aged man didn't answer him, just looked at him and asked, "Do you want to be like him, or do you want to go back to your Jinshi Village and be your village teacher?"

Xue Dagang wanted to answer, but suddenly a question came to mind, and he asked in surprise: "Ah, Jinshi Village, how do you know? Who are you?"

The middle-aged man still didn't answer him, and asked again: "Say it quickly, in your heart, do you want to be like him, or do you want to go back to your Jinshi Village, do a lifetime of rural teaching, and then point to your disciples, children and grandchildren, and then realize your ambitions!"

"I'm ...... I want to be like him!!" Xue said loudly.

"Okay, I'll give you a chance!" the middle-aged man stood up and looked at Xue Da condescendingly, "I can let you enter the school palace as a handyman and rewalk the path he walked!"

"Okay!" Xue Da's eyes were red, and he said loudly: "He can, so can I!"

"It's quite ambitious!, but I haven't finished speaking, I still have a ...... to ask," the middle-aged man said with a smile.

"Senior, please say, as long as I don't go against my heart, I will work hard to do it!" Xue Da affirmed.

"I want you to worship me as a teacher and be subject to my lineage of Confucianism, Taoism and Taoism!" The middle-aged man put his hands behind his back and stood upright, at this moment, Xue Da only felt that this person was as tall as a mountain and as vast as the abyssal sea!

"Worship you as a teacher, accept your Taoism, dare to ask you what your lineage is?" Xue Da was completely shocked.

"My vein is the way of 'Confucianism'!"

"Sleep in the classics, wake up and take charge of the world!"

"For Confucianism, take power first!"

"Who the hell are you, you?" Xue Da was already incoherent.

"I can't guess who I am now, why should I take you as an apprentice!" the middle-aged man chuckled lightly and turned away, "If you are willing to cultivate my Confucianism, you will come here again tomorrow at this time......

After all, the middle-aged man has left without a trace......

What Xue Da didn't see was that not far from the direction where the middle-aged man left, where he couldn't see, a red-edged golden-topped eight-carrying sedan chair was parked there, and twenty white horses followed him, accompanying him.

The middle-aged man got into the sedan chair and said softly: "Go home!"

The group set off, as if there was nothing, as if they heard the satisfied laughter of the people in the sedan chair......