Chapter 42: Seeing the Gentleman
As soon as he opened his eyes, Zhao Rong heard the chirping of summer insects.
The cool afternoon breeze blows in your face...... No, it seems that Su Xiaoxiao is fanning the wind.
Zhao Rong turned his head to look at Su Xiaoxiao, who was sitting on the side, and was tilting his head to listen to the chatter of other tourists in the pavilion at this time, while holding the handle of the fan with both hands to give him air.
Don't delay.
Zhao Rong and the three of them rushed to Luojing in the morning, seeing that there was plenty of time, the three of them did not stay, and went directly on the road, here is a pavilion of a drunken man a few miles away from Luojing, the three of them saw the noon summer heat, so they decided to rest here for a while, and Zhao Rong also took a nap.
Zhao Rong sat on the chair in the pavilion and stretched, leaned lazily on the pillar, and glanced at the pavilion casually.
When I first arrived, there was no one in the Drunken Man Pavilion, but at this time there were already some more tourists.
In the northwest corner, two men, presumably companions, were talking.
One of the men looked quite young, dressed in a luxurious brocade robe, with a face like a crown of jade, holding a peach blossom black paper fan with a clump of handsome bamboos painted on it.
The other man was older, with thin cheeks and slightly sunken eyes, but his eyes were bright, his long hair was casually draped down, and he held a tail in his hand.
In the northeast corner, a fat and rich middle-aged Taoist priest sits, dressed in blue and dusty, and is closing his eyes to recuperate.
Finally, not far from Zhao Rong and the others, there was a slender man with a lyre in front of him, bowing his head to debug.
Zhao Rong lazily retracted his gaze, threw himself outside the pavilion, and patted the railing with one hand.
The drunken man's pavilion stands on the top of the mountain, overlooking it in the distance, the eyes are thousands of miles, and a beautiful scenery in the south.
"Then Lin Wenruo is really not a good thing. Su Xiao said in a small voice.
"Huh? Zhao Rong turned around, just woke up, a little dazed.
"It's Lin Wenruo, who divorced the bride on the wedding day and left all her dowry outside the door. Su Xiao puffed up. "How can there be such a negative man, he is still a scholar of the academy who reads poetry and books, phew!"
Zhao Rong suddenly said that he was talking about this person again.
In the morning, passing through Luojing City, the streets and alleys, teahouses and restaurants were all discussing this matter, Zhao Rong was not very interested in these, but there were too many people talking about it, and the fragmentary words were in his ears, and he almost pieced together the general thing.
What's more, there is a little fox demon with a flood of sympathy around him, as soon as he heard that there was such a negative thing, he pricked up his ears to inquire, and after knowing probably, he felt sorry for what happened to the bride, and along the way, muttering that this kind of reader is really bad, if Xiaoxiao encounters it, Xiaoxiao will hammer him to death.
Zhao Rong always felt that something was wrong with this.
No, I'll have to find an excuse to reward her with a few chestnuts.
Most of the people in Luojing are scolding this scholar named Lin Wenruo, it is said that the eldest son of the Lanxi Lin family, it seems that he withdrew from the marriage of other people's women on the day of the wedding, turned his face and did not recognize people, ruined the woman's innocence, and did not know loyalty, and impeached the national teacher in front of the monarch, which was simply a big rebellion, and they all scolded him for reading to the belly of a dog.
Zhao Rong is a little sympathetic to that brother for this scolding, but why is he a little weak-hearted, cough cough, I'm different from him, aren't I sending jade......
Zhao Rong didn't say anything when he heard this, so he didn't comment.
But someone in the drunkard pavilion heard Su Xiaoxiao's words.
"What this little brother said is very true. ”
In the northwest corner of the pavilion, among the two people who had been talking loudly, the brocade-clothed boy smiled and said aloud to Zhao Rong.
The two of them all looked at Zhao Rong's side, especially the old man who was holding the tail, and finally had the opportunity to look at this side in a bright light, and at this time he was staring at Su Xiaoxiao with burning eyes, looking up and down, and smiling.
In fact, as soon as he entered the Drunken Weng Pavilion, he paid attention to these three people, to be precise, he paid attention to the handsome scholar with a condensed face and eyes like paint, and the other two, an ordinary Confucian student, and a man with a rather scary face, in his opinion, they were all laymen, and he Mr. Qingxi had always regarded himself as a famous man in the south, so he would not pay attention to it.
The longer he looked at it, the more pleasantly surprised he became.
The young man in brocade glanced at Mr. Qingxi's eyes beside him, his face was strange, but he looked at the other side again.
The handsome scholar was fanning the ordinary Confucian scholar intimately, and when he spoke just now, he inadvertently revealed some of the anger of his little daughter's family.
The boy in brocade knew it in his heart.
It seems that Mr. Cheongxi has met a companion.
Zhao Rong didn't know that he and Su Xiaoxiao, who was dressed as a man, had been misunderstood.
He glanced at the little fox demon in front of him, pretending to be deaf and dumb, with her back to the two who had just spoken, like an ostrich burying her little head in the earth.
"Hey, they're talking to you. ”
"Well, it's with you. ”
"Why are you so daring?"
"It's not a small thing, it's just that grandma said don't pay attention to the man who takes the initiative to talk, it's not a good thing. ”
"Well, your grandmother was right. This time, Zhao Rong nodded and agreed very much. "Men aren't good things, except for me. ”
Su Xiaoxiao: "......"
Seeing that Zhao Rong and Su Xiaoxiao were talking to each other, the young man in brocade ignored him, a little embarrassed, but after receiving the glance from Mr. Qingxi beside him, he coughed lightly and continued to say loudly:
"If Lin Wenruo is still a scholar of Siqi Academy, will the academy teach this kind of ruthless and unrighteous person who has no king and no country, no father and no family, and is ignorant and ignorant?"
The voice resounded in the drunkard pavilion.
Zhao Rong and Su Xiaoxiao stopped whispering.
The fat Taoist priest who was sitting quietly nodded.
"Zheng!" The pianist who had been adjusting the guqin also finished his work and played the piano.
The boy in brocade was quite satisfied when he saw that everyone responded to him and turned their attention.
"Lan Xiangu is the daughter of the national teacher, golden branches and jade leaves, favored him, committed to marrying, took care of his family early, and waited for his return, but he broke the contract and abandoned the marriage on the day of the wedding, ruined the reputation of the woman's life, and let the fairy Gu deal with herself in the future? This is ruthless. ”
"The national teacher regarded him as a son, and tried his best to support him, but when the monarch sacrificed in the spring, in front of 100,000 people in Luojing, he wrote a letter to impeach the national teacher for 'ten crimes and five traitors', and fabricated unnecessary charges, which is unjust. ”
The monarch placed high hopes on him, pushed food and clothing, and delegated power to him, but he promulgated the law of bringing disaster to the country and the people, exploiting the peasants with the spring and seedling law, and making profits for the Lanxi Lin clan; destroying the southern state religion and blinding the people's wisdom with the method of retreating; using the art of war to use the military to recklessly use military force to provoke the border; all kinds of laws are bad for us and end up in the southern country, and the list goes on and on. This is a kingless and no country. ”
"Marriage is a big event, the words of his parents, but he broke the contract without reason, and he is not filial, this is fatherless and homeless. ”
"As for ignorance...... If he, Lin Wenruo, dared to coerce the monarch, set the debate between Confucianism and Taoism, and argue for the national religion of the end of the south?
The brocade boy sneered.
"'If the text does not come out, what will be the life of Na Cang'? The people of the country are looking forward to him so diligently, who knows that the person who will come back is a ruthless, unrighteous, kingless, countryless, fatherless, homeless, ignorant and ignorant person. ”
"The scholars of the Confucian Academy, but Erer. ”
The boy in brocade showed the folding fan in his hand, fanned the wind gently, smiled slightly, and felt that these words were free and dripping, if he was in Luojing City, he would definitely be able to win the applause of the people.
The sound of the piano in the pavilion calmed down and then rose high.
"The donor is right. The fat Taoist priest, who had been closing his eyes before, opened his eyes and saluted the scholar in brocade.
"This forest thief is heinous, the Lord of the Void has valued him so much before, and I have never failed the Lanxi Lin clan in the slightest, but he is ungrateful, biting people indiscriminately like a mad dog, and even trying to use the argument of Taoism and Confucianism to take away my position as the state religion of the Void Vision?
"I rushed to view the thousand-year-old Taoist system, and when the southern country was not established, he built a temple here, how dare he dare to think about it? Hmph, although the poor road is just an ordinary Taoist priest in the view, but he also has a fist and a pure heart, if the forest thief dares to appear in front of the poor road, I will scold the Taoist master and he can't raise the dog's head!"
After speaking, the fat Taoist priest waved the dust, and his body shook, but the originally fat body shook him out of a generous and heroic posture.
The boy in brocade and the fat Taoist priest glanced at each other, both showing appreciation, and at this moment, accompanied by the sound of the high-spirited piano, their hearts were full of waves, only to feel that they hated to see each other late, both sides were people of insight, and they were heroes in the end.
"Under Li Shiqian. ”
"Poor Chen Hongyuan. ”
"Look up for a long time, look up for a long time. ”
"Disrespectful, disrespectful. ”
Zhao Rong raised his eyebrows, looking at the scene in front of him that seemed to be the next step was to tie the knot, and couldn't help laughing.
Mr. Qingxi on the side was not interested in this scene, and he was not even interested in the great changes that had happened in Luojing in the past few months and the things that the Chinese people had been talking about.
It doesn't matter what you Lanxi Lin and Chong Xuguan want to fight for, no matter how many rebellious things you Lin Wenruo has done, anyway, it's too far away from the old man.
He felt that he was indulging in the mountains and rivers of Zhongnan, regardless of the worldly elegant celebrities, he might not be famous for the time being, and he could not be comparable to the famous celebrities in Luojing, but as long as he participated in a few more elegant meetings, and then took more medicine and did some elegant things, he might be able to become famous and let him be promoted to a celebrity.
For example, right now.
Mr. Qingxi gave the brocade-clothed boy named Li Shiqian another look.
Li Shiqian reacted and wanted to do the right thing, after all, he still had to rely on Mr. Qingxi to bring him into Luojing's circle of celebrities, which he finally knew. So he coughed lightly.
"It is also fate to be able to meet you brothers in this drunken man's pavilion today, everyone is like-minded, and they talk very happily, which is very rare. The gentleman next to me is Mr. Qingxi, who is well-known in Luojing, and he will hold a high-class literary meeting tonight.
After speaking, he looked around, but his eyes mainly glanced at Zhao Rong's side.
Liu Sanbian was looking at the scenery outside and was distracted, Su Xiaoxiao was in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking, and neither of them paid attention to Li Shiqian.
Zhao Rong saw Li Shiqian's gaze, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
Aren't you two the only ones talking?
But don't hit the smiling man.
Zhao Rong responded with a smile: "I'm sorry, we are not locals, we are passing by here in a hurry, and the time is urgent, so we won't bother." ”
Li Shiqian's smile stiffened.
Mr. Qingxi urged again, and Li Shiqian refused to give up and asked a few more times.
Zhao Rongwan refused a few times, and when he saw that he still didn't give up, he turned his eyes to the beautiful scenery and ignored him anymore.
Li Shiqian's expressions sank when they saw this.
"It's okay if they don't go, I just have time, hahahahaha, I haven't seen what you scribes are like, but today I'm going to open my eyes." Fat Taoist Chen Hongyuan laughed.
Mr. Qingxi's eyelids jumped, who cares if you come or not? Your body is estimated to crush the old man to death.
"Zhao Rong, don't you read, okay?" Su Xiaoxiao, who had been in a daze just now, suddenly pulled the corner of Zhao Rong's clothes.
"Huh?"
"Okay?" the corners of his clothes were ripped again.
"Not good. ”
The corners of Zhao Rong's mouth curled. "It's you, Su Xiaoxiao, you easily said something I didn't expect. ”
"You go bad, little don't care about you. ”
"You think that reading too many books will make it bad, right?" Zhao Rong said leisurely.
Su Xiaoxiao was angry and didn't want to pay attention to him, but after a while, he still hummed softly.
"Who told you that reading too much will make you bad?"
"Isn't that what they said about Lin Wen, after reading so many books, the more he reads, the worse he gets, and he has done so many bad things, so it's better not to read. ”
The smile at the corner of Zhao Rong's mouth converged, his eyes were slightly condensed, he looked down at the pair of black and white eyes in front of him, and said seriously with a rare look: "Whatever the world says, do you have to believe it." ”
His voice was not loud, but in the drunken man's pavilion, where there was only a faint sound of the piano at this moment, it floated into everyone's ears along with the sound of the piano.
"To judge a person is not to look at his evaluation in the mouths of others, not to look at his skin and appearance, not even to look at his heart, but to look at his behavior, to see what he has done. ”
"Cut. Li Shiqian pouted.
Mr. Qingxi and Chen Hongyuan were equally disdainful.
is another "physicist" who reads a few books and is full of empty words and teaches people the truth.
"But, but he really did something sorry for that Blue Fairy Girl. Su Xiaoxiao wondered.
"Whether there is an inside story in this matter or not, this is only his personal morality, and it is not the main basis for judging him. Zhao Rong said softly. Because Lin Wenruo, as a Confucian scholar who entered the WTO to govern the country, should be most favored and used as a criterion for judging, it should be his public morality, that is, what he did to the South Kingdom. ”
Su Xiaoxiao seems to understand whether she understands or not.
"Isn't what he is doing is promulgating the demon law and harming the southern kingdom?" Li Shiqian couldn't help it, and interjected: "You scholar is so boring, I sincerely invite you to participate in the literary meeting, but you don't know what to do, you don't know how to do it, you don't know how to do it, and now you are talking nonsense, and you actually start talking for that Lin Wenruo, is this a Confucian scholar?
"I'm not speaking for Lin Wenruo alone, I'm speaking for my generation of Confucian students. Zhao Rong's tone was calm. "When you deal with our generation of Confucian scholars, don't you first destroy their private virtues and disgust people, and then everyone pushes them and reverses their public virtues, making it difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and making our generation of Confucian scholars ruined and confused with their merits and demerits?"
Zhao Rong's tone was cold. "Just like what you're doing now, it's obviously just arguing about reason, but you come to ruin my personal morality with the fact that I don't go to the meeting. ”
"You!"
Li Shiqian was speechless.
Chen Hongyuan said sharply: "Then how do you explain his method of calamifying the country and the people?"
Zhao Rong suddenly looked strange. "Do you really have any understanding of the specific content of the Spring Miao Method, the Retreat Method, and the Art of War?"
Chen Hongyuan suddenly felt a little weak-hearted, didn't the people of Luojing talk about it all because they cost the people and money?
How could he, a Taoist priest, have the heart to specifically understand those new methods, the only closely related method of retreat, he is clearer, isn't it just to demolish the magnificent Taoist temple and turn it into a field and distribute it to those farmers who have no money to cultivate, it is simply a retrogression of education, and it is extremely ridiculous. He remembers this new law that harms his vital interests very well.
But at this time, he had already opened his bow and had no turning back, so he could only nod his head hard.
Zhao Rong thought about what he had seen and heard in Zhongnan during this time, and couldn't help but sigh.
"The spring seedling method can help the peasants, increase production and enrich the people, and replenish the imperial court's financial revenue, thus killing two birds with one stone; retreating from the law and returning the peasants' fields can alleviate the food shortage in the southern part of the country, and there is no longer a need to waste effort and waste money to consign goods from other places; and rearmament of the art of war can replenish the border garrison and guard against the enemy's foreign invasions. ”
"Looking at his public morality, these three methods are enough!"
"The law is a good law, but the reason why the implementation process is so difficult and provokes the anger of the people is that it is the corruption of the system of the end of the south and the unfavorable implementation of the people, so why should all the fault be placed on the new law itself and the people who promulgated and implemented it?"
Li Shiqian, Chen Hongyuan, and Mr. Qingxi looked at each other.
And these three laws are aimed at the bottom of the southern country, which is conducive to the country's social welfare. I see that most of the people in Luojing live a wealthy life, are in the middle of the stream, and do not belong to the bottom of the people, these three laws do not bring them much benefit, and even damage the interests of the upper elites, including Chong Xuguan, so there are people hiding behind the scenes and manipulating public opinion, and you are either short-sighted as a member of the interest collective, or you are being carried by the villagers, you are all being used as a gunman, but you don't know it!"
Li Shiqian opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to refute him, and he stopped talking.
Zhao Rong said slowly: "The Dachen Dynasty in the south of you has been reformed by the ambitious Legalists, and may go north at any time to swallow the fat of Zhongnan Mountain, and the Taoist model of governing the country 'small countries and widows' has long been no longer applicable to the situation in the South of the country. ”
Zhao Rong said word by word: "Why are you so bullying my Confucian students?"
One of the only two Confucian scholars in the pavilion pursed his lips.
"A huge southern country, the lord of the country is alchemy, the national teacher cultivates, the people are ignorant, the Taoist priest does nothing, the hermit escapes the world, and the famous man is dissolute, and he does not do anything. ”
Only a group of Confucian scholars were extremely worried about state affairs, and they went around sewing up the gaps. ”
"You and others are biased towards private morality, and public morality is lacking. ”
"How can there be one who will decline at the end of the day? There are too many good people who are widowed, who enjoy rights but do not fulfill their obligations, and everyone regards those who are responsible for their burdens to the masses as if they were nothing. Although there are many people, they have not been able to benefit the group, but are tired of the group, and the husband will not be able to get worse!"
Zhao Rong's words were loud, every word was sonorous and powerful, and every sentence was chiseled, echoing in the drunkard pavilion.
There was silence.
Li Shiqian and the three of them had different expressions, either their faces were pale, or they were angry and their sleeves were raised, or their eyes were lowered, but they didn't dare to look at the Confucian again.
"Zheng!"
The sound of the piano rattles.
I don't know if it's all over or if it's broken.
Suddenly.
Blessed to the soul.
Zhao Rong turned his head to look at the place where the sound of the piano had stopped.
Lin Wenruo left the strings with both hands, raised his head, and ignored the people in the pavilion, just looked at the Confucian scholar.
Smile like a spring breeze.
"Contemptible Lin Qingchi, if the words are ruling, dare to ask Your Excellency, respect the surname. ”
When I see a gentleman, my heart rejoices.