In Jiangbei Prefecture, Jiangnan Province, there is a small county town called Jingning County.

There is a small academy in the north of the small county town.

Its name is Sanmi Shoya.

It has only one academy and only one gentleman who teaches.

His name is Su Yi'an!

As the sun set, the students of Sanwei Book House have finished school.

Su Yi'an patted the dust on his body and came to his humble house in the backyard.

Sitting in the small courtyard, he made himself a pot of tea, and was thinking about what to eat in the evening, but suddenly a strong smell of wine wafted in.

He shrugged his nose, sniffed hard, and then swallowed with a grunt.

Wine!

This sake is much better than Kyoto's Ruilu!

Could it be that the composer has improved the brewing method of Ruilu?

Wrong!

Such a good wine will definitely not be sold in this remote town.

Su Yi'an turned his head to look around, and after a while, he saw an old man with white hair and white beard walking slowly towards his small courtyard with a jar of wine in his hand.

He looked at it, and immediately stood up, with a look of surprise on his face—

He hurriedly walked over, opened the low fence door of the small courtyard, grinned, and bowed:

"Sir, how did you get here?"

It's full of flowers!

Hua Manting stroked his long beard, tilted his head and looked at Su Yi'an carefully:

"Twenty years ago, Kyoto was goodbye, and now that I'm older, why has my temper become smaller?"

Su Yi'an stretched out his hand sideways: "At that time, I was young, and there were many frivolous actions, Mr. laughed!" ”

"The humble house is simple, but there is such a good wine...... What about the dish? ”

Hua Manting walked in and laughed:

"Su Yi'an, Su Yi'an, you didn't call the old man Mr. before, you still call the old man the old man, it sounds pleasant...... Gluttony, right? ”

Su Yi'an smiled and said embarrassedly: "Isn't that what you call when you're arguing with you in some academic matters?" But in my heart, you are still my husband! ”

Hua Manting glanced at Su Yi'an: "The years are really like water, and they will really grind away the edges and corners of the stubborn stone, but in the old man's opinion, this sleek is not good!" ”

"The old man still likes your old temperament."

"Old friends meet, the old man brings his own wine, this dish ...... Isn't that what you should be preparing? ”

Su Yi'an was stunned, "Sir, please sit down for a while, such a good wine should be a good dish, I will buy a pound of braised pig's head meat to accompany the wine!" ”

Hua Manting listened: "Why are you so poor?" ”

Su Yi'an smiled embarrassedly: "I resigned from Kyoto back then, which disappointed my parents. ”

"I haven't had any contact with my family all these years, and I haven't reached out to my family to ask for silver."

"This three-flavor bookstore...... I think you also saw it when you came in, and there were more than 50 students, but most of them were children from poor families! ”

"They want to read, but they can't afford to be restrained...... Mr. once said that people have a life, and only reading should be fair. ”

"With this in mind, students can't turn them away, so they have to teach them for free."

"I stayed in this place for fifteen years, but I put the money I had saved from my previous official days in Kyoto...... Isn't this getting poorer and poorer? ”

"Besides, the matter of eating wine is about wine, and the focus is on who you eat with, and it doesn't matter what you eat with the wine."

Hua Manting laughed again: "There are still as many crooked reasons as before." ”

"Sit down, when the old man came, he ordered a few dishes in the second and second houses, and they will deliver them later."

Su Yi'an listened, "This ...... Let you break the bank, and when I have a developed time one day, I should invite you back, good wine and good food! ”

The two sat down.

Hua Manting put the wine jar on the stone table and looked up at Su Yi'an:

"Are you developed?"

"When you are developed, the grass on the grave of the old man will be one person high!"

"However, an old man came here today to show you a developed way."

When Su Yi'an heard this, he smiled in his heart, of course he knew that it was impossible for Hua Manting to come to this ghost place without incident.

As for what it was, he could even roughly guess a few points.

These days, the news about the regent is overwhelming.

Although Jingning County is the most remote county in Gangnam Province, this place is one of the two roads from Gangnam Province to the customs.

Now that spring has begun, business travel has gradually increased.

What happened in Jiangnan Province, especially what happened in Wufanyuan, has now been introduced to Jingning County and has become something that the people of Jingning County talk about.

He just laughed at the rumors.

He doesn't know anything about Li Chen'an.

He just thinks that rumors are exaggerated.

Especially when I heard that Li Chen'an used a thousand heavenly soldiers to wipe out the 80,000 troops of Xiahou Zhuo and Xie Jing......

You don't have to think about it and you know it's impossible!

Especially the thunder of that day, it was even more ridiculous.

Su Yi'an poured a cup of tea for Hua Manting, handed it over respectfully, and said with a smile: "Sir, if you want to introduce me to a few more students from wealthy families, so that I can charge more for my shackles, of course I will thank you very much." ”

"But if you're going to make me an official again......"

Su Yi'an shook his head: "When I left Kyoto twenty years ago, I was already dead in the heart of being an official. ”

"You know my temperament, I resigned back then, but I still listened to your advice."

"As an official, you need to be tactful, you need to judge the situation, you need flattery, etc., but I don't have any of them."

"Even after the baptism of the past twenty years, I am just a little humble in front of you, and I still haven't changed in my bones."

"Didn't you say that then? You said that if I continue to be an official, I am afraid that my life will be lost. ”

"I thought about it, it's still important to live."

"If you can't show your ambitions in the court, then teach more students like you, maybe one or two of them can become successful, can become court officials, and can govern one side and benefit the people, this is the best."

"It's a continuation of my own ideals."

When he said this, Su Yi'an's mood gradually became a little low.

After all, after ten years of cold windows, when he was the champion of high school in the second year of Zhaohua, he crossed the horse to show his joy on the street, and the inscription of the Wild Goose Pagoda in the literary world was made, and he ascended to the head to welcome the holy decree...... I thought that I had finally survived and could finally stand on top of the temple to realize my ideals.

But how beautiful it was back then, how embarrassed it was when I left.

When leaving Kyoto, when he left the south gate of Kyoto, he turned back three times.

Except for the old man in front of him, there was not even a single person to see him off.

The old man also carried a pot of wine.

Kyoto Ruilu.

The two drank a bowl of wine each outside the south gate, and when he left, the old man said to him that he would live well and meet again.

I survived in this remote place, and now it seems that it is fate, after all, we will really meet again.

It's just that his heart, which originally wanted to serve the country, has long since cooled away after the washing of these twenty years.

Hua Manting looked at Su Yi'an with a teacup at this moment.

"You're lonely!"

He didn't say why Su Yi'an was lonely and unheard, but suddenly asked: "What about Xia Yuhe?" ”

Xia Yuhe is Su Yi'an's wife.

It wasn't a kiss in Kyoto, but a kiss when he left Kyoto and returned to Pingjiang Castle.

"She went back to Pingjiang."

"Someone came from the family and sent a message, saying that the little girl Su Meng had returned from Mushan Knife...... Someone proposed to Su Fu. ”

"Who's home?"

"Lord of the Imperial City Division, Wang Zheng Jinzhong."