Hai Jui was silent for longer this time. Nan Nan was lying with her eyes closed, Hai Rui hung her head and was silent, Hai Rui's wife stopped crying, covered her mouth and wept silently, looking at Xiao Feng and Hai Rui.

Finally, Hai Rui's hand trembled and lifted up, stroking Nannan's hair: "Nannan, what Dad said to you, you starved to death, that's wrong, Daddy is wrong." ”

She struggled to open her eyes and looked at her father in shock. Wrong? Can Daddy be wrong?

The servants in the house, the neighbors left and right, and the Xiucai who came to visit, everyone said that Dad would not be wrong. Dad is not afraid of big officials, not afraid of bad guys, Dad is a big hero.

Those people, some people say that Dad is weird, some people say that Dad is not close, but no one has said that Dad has a bad character, and said that Dad will be wrong!

Looking at Nannan's big eyes as pure as autumn water, Hai Rui's heart became even more uncomfortable.

He is like a person who has never been emotional, and suddenly found that he also has feelings, and the floodgates in his heart are difficult to close.

"Yes, Daddy was wrong. You're still too young, and your dad is too busy to tell you these things. Grandma is old and doesn't have the energy to tell you these truths.

In the future, if you study hard, you will naturally understand these truths, and Dad has a lot of truths that you don't understand at your age. ”

Nannan's eyes regained some brilliance, but she was still a little suspicious: "Daddy, but Nannan still did something wrong, right, it's just that because she is still young, she doesn't have to starve to death, right?" ”

Hai Rui was speechless again, of course he thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it directly, otherwise if his daughter still refused to eat, wouldn't it be in vain for him to apologize?

Just as he hesitated, Xiao Feng nodded

"No, your father is wrong, it's because you didn't do anything wrong at all, and your father is wrong." ”

Hai Rui glanced at Xiao Feng dissatisfied, facing his daughter's expectant gaze, he couldn't say the "no" anyway, but said something vaguely that he couldn't hear clearly.

After all, she was still very young, and her father had never treated her so gently, so she already believed it in her heart, and she suddenly cried loudly, aggrieved.

After crying for a long time, he slowly stopped his voice and looked at Hai Rui's wife with a sob: "Mother, I'm so hungry." ”

Hai Rui's mother was pleasantly surprised, picked up her daughter, and fed her porridge. Xiao Feng walked out with a smile, Hai Rui frowned, walked to the door, hesitated, and turned around.

"Give it to her...... It's good to drink porridge first, keep the meat for tomorrow, and don't eat meat if you're hungry for a long time......"

Back at the stone table, Hai Rui hung his head and lost interest in eating meat. However, Hai Rui's mother and Zhang Wuxin were not affected at all and continued to eat.

"My lord, you saved the girl, and the old body is grateful to you. But you shouldn't tell your child that her father blamed her, that's not right. ”

Xiao Feng stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the sauced beef, but found that there were not a few slices left, and sighed in his heart that this old lady was really a person who could eat and swallow, strong and hard.

"Old lady, I said that his father was wrong to blame her, but not just to comfort her, but to tell the truth."

Hai Rui looked up in amazement, and Hai Rui's mother's wrinkles moved: "My lord, I don't understand what the old man said, is what she is doing right?" ”

Xiao Feng nodded: "Your servant gave Nan Nan a piece of cake, what was wrong?" There can be a saint's ritual

Did you say that? ”

Hai Rui's mother said: "Although there is no explicit statement, women should be self-respecting and self-loving since they were young, begging for food from their servants, and there is a difference between men and women, which is wrong. ”

Xiao Feng smiled: "You don't have a saint's words, but I have a saint's words, and the saints have said it clearly, so there's nothing wrong with that!" ”

At this time, not only Hai Rui and Hai Rui's mother, but even Zhang Wuxin, who was full of pig's head meat, raised his head and looked at Xiao Feng with a confused expression. Isn't it true that the saint has specifically defended Nannan?

Hai Rui's mother smiled calmly, put down her chopsticks, and looked at Xiao Feng: "I want to hear about it." ”

Xiao Feng smiled more calmly: "The old man, and the old man; The young of me, and the young of man. That's what Mencius said, right? ”

Hai Rui's mother was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Xiao Feng meant, and wanted to open her mouth to refute, but she didn't know where to start, so she could only look at Xiao Feng smiling arrogantly.

"The old and the old, and the old of men; The servant is older than Hai Rui, so why should she respect this elder as if she were her own father?

the young of me, and the young of man; The servant's child should be older than the slave, so what's wrong with him loving the slave as if he were his own child?

Such a friendly interaction between master and servant, such a pure and beautiful sincere emotion between an elder and a child, was considered by Hai Rui to be a wrong behavior between men and women.

In the eyes of a gentleman, the world is full of gentlemen; In the eyes of villains, everything in the world is villains.

Your heart and eyes are dirty, I said you were wrong, why are you dissatisfied? ”

These words were really extremely unkind, although they pointed at Hai Rui's nose in the open, but secretly even Hai Rui's mother

Scolded together.

But Hai Rui's mother and son have a common characteristic, although they are hard, they are reasonable. They couldn't talk about Xiao Feng reasonably, so they just took it and were silent.

Xiao Feng also knows that the mother and son's outlook on life and worldview has been formed over the past few decades, and it is impossible for them to change greatly because of their words.

However, today's visit, the meal eaten, and the women saved will all have a certain impact on Hai Rui.

Xiao Feng didn't want him to become too much, after all, Hai Rui only came out once in hundreds of years, but it was a treasure of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the spiritual wealth that the Ming Dynasty left to future generations.

He only hopes that while Hai Rui has become a symbol of Qing officials in history, he can also have a normal life, and he can have more warmth and less harm to his family than the original history.

The next day, Xiao Feng set up camp and left Nanping, and the magistrate personally brought officials and people to the city gate to see off the army.

Many people came, and they gave the soldiers food such as steamed buns, thanking them for camping in the wilderness, and they did not commit any crimes in autumn.

When Xiao Feng passed in front of the city gate, he saw a veiled woman beside Zhixian, and when she waved goodbye to Xiao Feng, she revealed the bracelet on her wrist.

On the left side of the county, Qin Xiucai took her lady and waved desperately to Xiao Feng. Crying while waving his hand, I don't know what I'm talking about. His mother didn't come, so it was estimated that it would be difficult to face Xiao Feng.

Xiao Feng couldn't help but smile, and then saw Hai Rui's side, the girl who was being held by Hai Rui's wife, was also waving at him.

Hai Rui's face was expressionless, but his hands kept arching towards Xiao Feng and did not put it down.

The princess in the RV has completely missed Xiao Feng's life in the city for the past two days

At this time, he opened the crack from behind the curtain and questioned very suspiciously.

"Are you already so famous, so many people are calling your name? What's the matter with that woman with her face covered, waving at you?

And the guy who dressed up as a showman, waved and cried with his wife, are you bullying others?

And the woman holding the child over there, crying with the child, are you even provoking the child now?

Also, I remember, when you came back in the evening, you had a slap mark on your face, which woman hit it? I'm going to tell Sister Cher when I go back! ”

Xiao Feng knew that the princess was afraid that he had gone out early and returned late in the past two days and ignored her, so he was unhappy and deliberately found fault. Smiling, he raised his whip and whipped at the six horses pulling the large RV.

"You have a lot of energy today, it seems that you don't need to take medicine at noon, just in a hurry, let's talk about it in the evening."

There was silence in the big RV for a while, and then there was a complaining voice in the painting: "My lord, the princess is actually very weak, and she is strong enough to talk to you......"

Xiao Feng laughed, whipped his horse, and drove away with a large team of people and horses, leaving only a group of people outside Nanping County to see them off, looking at the back of the army, and they did not disperse for a long time.

The goal of the army was Fuzhou, an important destination of the governor's southern tour.

However, halfway through, Xiao Feng repeated his old trick and asked the large army to continue with the princess. He took Zhang Wuxin, five fresh graduates from Wudang Mountain and two hundred cavalry, and went around to Putian.

This time it wasn't for fishing, because there were Yu Dayou and An Qingyue in the large army, with 500 cavalry and 2,000 infantry, and there was no force at all at the moment

Kou dared to sneak up on such a team.

When Xiao Feng arrived in Putian, he went straight to the Shaolin Temple in Putian. Zhang Wuxin and the five fresh graduates looked at each other, not knowing what Xiao Feng was going to do.

Could it be that he choked on fire during the debate with Master Kuzen in Nanjing, and the more he thought about it later, the more angry he became, chasing after other people's nests?

No, it's obviously Xiao Feng's big victory in Nanjing, even Wohuo should be a bitter Zen master! You can't be so unstylish, can you?

Xiao Feng's two hundred cavalry was very loud, and as soon as they stopped in front of the mountain gate of South Shaolin, the little novice at the gate ran into the courtyard with a rolling belt, and the gate was closed tightly.

I heard the chaos in the temple, the sound of many people's footsteps running, and it took a while to calm down.

The mountain gate reopened, and a chubby monk came out with two small novices, obviously very guarded.

"I don't know who your guests are, why are you visiting my South Shaolin?"

Xiao Feng arched his hand on the horse: "Xiao Feng, the governor of the Jiangnan of the Ming Dynasty, has come to visit the master of Kuzen in your temple, and I also want to meet the abbot of your temple." ”

The monk was stunned for a moment, looked at the two hundred horses, and the two hundred heroic cavalry, and immediately believed it. Except for the court officials, who can have such power?

The monk breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile on his face: "It turns out that the adults are here, and they are disrespectful and disrespectful."

Because Putian is close to the coast, there are pirates and pirates from time to time, so I see a large number of people, some doubts, and I hope that the adults will forgive me. ”

This is the role of the Zhike monk, in any temple, the most talking, the most good at reception, must be the Zhike monk. The role of the monks in the temple is also to deal with the outside world.

Monks can practice without hearing anything outside the window, but the temple

After all, the temple was built in the mundane world, and it was impossible to be truly transcendent. Not to mention anything else, at least people from the court can't be offended.

Xiao Feng dismounted with a smile, let the cavalry rest in place, and strode into the temple with Zhang Wuxin and other Wudang disciples.

The knowledgeable monk was well-informed, and when he saw that Zhang Wuxin, the six people were all dressed as Taoists, with a long sword hanging from their waists, and their steps were light and steady, and they immediately guessed seven or eight points.

"These fellow Daoists, aren't they from Wudang Mountain?"

Xiao Feng nodded: "That's right, it's from Wudang Mountain, what's wrong?" ”

The monk smiled bitterly, Wudang and Shaolin have always been in the rivers and lakes There is a battle for fame. The two parties also seem to have unspoken rules, they never go to each other's mountain gates, unless they are looking for fault and kicking the gym.

But Xiao Feng has such an identity, and the monk naturally doesn't dare to say anything. However, the hundreds of monks and soldiers gathered in front of the main hall of the temple, their eyes were like copper bells, looking at these Wudang disciples.

Zhang Wuxin saw that the five junior disciples were a little weak, and smiled slightly: "What are you afraid of, you are not here to compete, you are just to compete, and I am also on it, and it is not your turn." ”

While speaking, the two old monks had already received the news, walked out of the meditation room, and stood under the dripping eaves. One of them, dark, thin and tall, with a gray beard on his face, was none other than the Kuzen master.

The other man's beard was all white, and it was longer, slightly shorter than the Kuzen master, but his skin was whiter, his body was well-proportioned, and his face was kind.

It stands to reason that when ordinary officials come to the temple, the abbot does not need to receive him personally, and if he shows his face to face, the monk is responsible for the reception.

But Xiao Feng's official is too big, and it is inappropriate for the abbot not to show up. Plus

Master Shangkuzen is the abbot's younger brother, and he was flattened by Xiao Feng in Nanjing.

Seeing Xiao Feng, Master Kuzen strode down the steps and stepped forward to greet him, while the abbot stood in place, folded his hands, and bowed his head to Xiao Feng.

Master Kuzen greeted Xiao Feng, and before he could salute, Xiao Feng had already grabbed his arm: "Master, I haven't seen you for many days, your complexion is much better than in Nanjing!" ”

Master Kuzen said with a smile: "Not as good as the Heavenly Master, the Heavenly Master's body is full of essence, and the poor monk can feel it from afar." ”

Xiao Feng laughed: "The master wants me to say that the murderous aura is pervasive, Nanjing, this way is all killed, it is impossible to have no murderous aura on the body." ”

Xiao Feng pulled Master Kuzen until he walked under the dripping eaves, then let go of his hand and arched his hand to the abbot: "Master Abbot, Xiao Feng is polite." ”

The abbot smiled and said: "After the junior brother came back, he has been thinking about the adults, and the old man also yearns for it. ”

The abbot's meditation room was larger than that of the other monks, and Xiao Feng and his party were all invited in, with a table but no chairs, a futon per person, and a cup of tea.

"Lord Xiao, this time I came to South Shaolin, in addition to visiting the bitter Zen disciple, there should be other things, right?"

Xiao Feng took a sip of tea and praised: "Good tea, there is indeed something, I want to borrow the monks and soldiers in the temple to use it." ”

The tea in the abbot's mouth almost squirted, is this kind of thing so frivolous? Do you know what you're asking for?

The monks and soldiers of Shaolin Temple have a long history, and the legend can be traced back to the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, when Li Shimin and Wang Shichong competed for hegemony

。

According to the movie "Shaolin Temple", it is the thirteen stick monks who save the Tang King, and Jet Li has a wonderful performance in it.

In fact, it is true that the Thirteen Stick Monks and Li Shimin have a friendship, but Li Shimin did not fall to the point of being rescued by the Shaolin Temple.

A more real situation is actually the story of Wang Shichong sending the general Wang Ren to fight the landlord in Shaolin Temple, but he was bombed by inference.

At that time, the Shaolin Temple was the Songshan Shaolin Temple, sitting on 10,000 acres of fertile land, and it was an out-and-out big landlord. Wang Ren was short of money and food, and planned to fight for the main grain, and if he didn't give it, he would be killed.

As a result, he didn't expect that the monks of Shaolin Temple were not easy to mess with, not only did they refuse to pay grain, but with the cooperation of the local Tang army, they attacked Wang Renze without martial arts and captured him and sent him to Li Shimin.

The things that followed were basically the same, Li Shimin was overjoyed, and authorized Shaolin Temple to raise 500 monks and soldiers, and also allowed Shaolin Temple to open branches in various places. It was at that time that Southern Shaolin was founded.

As a lineage, Southern Shaolin naturally also has monks and soldiers, although there are not as many as five hundred, there are still two or three hundred.

But this is all cultivated by Nan Shaolin's hard work, and it is the power of self-preservation when encountering troubled times.

Therefore, the abbot twisted his beard and smiled: "My lord, the monks are people outside the party, they are not involved in worldly disputes, and the adults are strong and strong, like the light of the sun and the moon, why bother to include the light of the fireflies?" ”

Xiao Feng looked at the abbot with a smile: "Master, since the monks are not involved in worldly disputes, what is the purpose of dancing with knives and sticks and gathering people into soldiers?" ”

The abbot's hand twisting the beard is very stable: "Dancing with a knife and stick, just to strengthen the body; Gather the crowd into a soldier to protect the temple and protect the law

Already. Do you have any objections? ”

Xiao Feng nodded and said: "Since it is a strong body, there should be no competition and competitiveness; Since it is the protector of the temple, there should be no dispute outside the temple, right? ”

The abbot's twisted hand paused slightly, he had already heard Kuzen talk about the failure of the argument with Xiao Feng, and he was on guard against Xiao Feng's every word.

But if it is silent for a long time, it will inevitably be ugly, so after thinking about it again and again in my heart, I made sure that there was no loophole, and nodded slowly at the moment.

"What your adults say is true, and that's exactly what you say."

Xiao Feng smiled, pulled up the youngest of the five Wudang graduates beside him, pushed open the door of the meditation room in the surprised eyes of everyone, and shouted to the monks and soldiers who had not dispersed outside.

"This little Taoist priest of Wudang Mountain, known as Shaolin Temple, no one can fight, he can beat ten alone!"