Chapter Forty-Eight: Gentlemanly and Casual

"Okay. ”

Here's his answer.

Lin Wenruo finally waited for an answer, and the corners of his mouth, which had been slightly upturned from just now, outlined an exaggerated arc, but his eyes darkened slightly.

Lin Wenruo smiled brightly. "That's right, what's wrong with the love between men and women, my generation ......"

Zhao Rong interrupted with a sincere expression: "Okay, I will tell Su Xiaoxiao truthfully." ”

Lin Wenruo was stunned for a moment, and his smile slowly retracted.

Zhao Rong suddenly felt a little weak, but he had already made the decision to try it once, so he no longer wavered.

You have given me so much, then I will give it all back to you, as for whether you want it or not, what does it matter to me?

Ahem, so I'm not licking a dog, I'm just paying off a love debt.

Zhao Rong, who felt that he was a responsible man, said with a serious expression: "I will tell that stupid girl to stop reading those messy books, think about some things all day long, and ask me some strange questions, tell her to listen to Wen Ruo's words more, women should be reserved and cold, isn't there one less licking dog licking her, chasing back a fart, she is a fox...... Fox...... A stupid girl who talks nonsense but looks okay, licking a lot of dogs, and 'I actually care about him', she is a greedy licker, hypocrisy!"

Finally rounded the words back, Zhao Rong breathed a sigh of relief.

I didn't feel any guilt about my double standard.

It's just that I apologized in my heart to Su Xiaoxiao, who was probably lying on the bed and sleeping lazily at the moment, but innocently ruined her reputation. Thinking about giving her some compensation next time.

I just didn't want to disappoint Brother Wen Ruo, after all, he also persuaded me with good intentions, but I chose to go against him.

Thinking of this, Zhao Rong glanced at Lin Wenruo, whose smile was a little solidified.

Lin Wenruo ignored the strange words in Zhao Rong's words, bent down and took out two pots of unopened wine from the bottom of the table, threw one pot to Zhao Rong, and the other pot opened it himself, filled it with a glass, raised it casually, and squinted. "So Ziyu still wants to go to her. ”

Zhao Rong pretended to be stupid and said, "Well, I'll go to Su Xiaoxiao tomorrow morning and convey Wen Ruo's advice." ”

Suddenly, Zhao Rong saw that the man in front of him, who had been habitually smiling, had completely retracted his smile for the first time tonight.

It's like, that time in the carriage, I asked him why he did so many things.

At this time, Lin Wenruo's expression was serious and his eyes were blazing.

His tone was sincere. Ziyu already had the answer in her heart. When Qing Chi just said those words to persuade you to let go, what Ziyu has been struggling with in her heart is actually what Ziyu really wants to do. Don't care about Qing Chi's words just now, those words are just to make Ziyu more aware of what his heart is, instead of continuing to hesitate. ”

"Go to her! Tomorrow, don't delay. I believe that the woman who can make Ziyu's heart reluctant must be extremely extraordinary, and she can't let other men go. ”

Zhao Rong was stunned, looking at the man in front of him who seemed to have light in his eyes at the moment, he was speechless, and finally held back a sentence: "She, she is my lady!"

Lin Wenruo laughed again: "Yo, it's still a quarrel between the two of you, so why don't you hurry up and coax her!"

Zhao Rong was a little shy to be seen for the first time, so he hurriedly drank and used a wine pot to cover his embarrassment.

But then he was ridiculed by Lin Wenruo.

"Hey, Ziyu, you have just decided to go to her, so why do you still have a 'hesitant' expression? I thought you listened to me. ”

Zhao Rong choked again. "Ahem, isn't this a pity that I can't be like Wen Ruo in the future, and the leaves don't get wet. ”

Lin Wenruo put down his wine glass and chuckled. "I have nothing to envy, a heartless man. ”

Although this was a joke, it was with a little sigh, and after speaking, he lowered his head and took a sip of wine.

It's just that Zhao Rong was on the verge at the moment, and asked curiously: "How did Wen Ruo manage to accept so many women, and still make them not jealous?

Lin Wenruo raised his eyebrows and stretched out a right hand leisurely.

Zhao Rong's face was puzzled, and he looked at the slender palm in front of him that was as white as a woman.

I saw that the owner of the hand slowly retracted his three fingers, leaving only two slender fingers standing in front of Zhao Rong.

One middle finger, one index finger.

Lin Wenruo blinked.

Zhao Rong was puzzled at first, and then looked at the slender two fingers carefully.

In the next second, I saw that the two fingers suddenly hooked inward.

Zhao Rong's eyes suddenly widened, and he suddenly realized, and his eyes showed an incredible look.

Lin Wenruo saw that Zhao Rong's eyes were suddenly strange, and he was a little puzzled, so he hooked his fingers again, and saw that Zhao Rong's eyes were even more strange, so he couldn't help but helplessly say: "I'm telling you to get closer, this kind of secret that is not passed on, it's better to be quiet." ”

"What Wen Ruo said is extremely true, it's better to be quiet. Zhao Rong suppressed his throat, then stretched forward and quietly leaned over.

At this time, if you look at it from a little distance, you can see that there is a handsome Confucian in the pavilion who is whispering in the ear of another ordinary Confucian student, just as he said a few words, the latter suddenly straightened up and stared at each other with a straight face.

"That's it?"

"Isn't that enough. ”

Ordinary Confucian sneered. "I know that Master Lin is handsome and extraordinary, but I don't need to show off in front of my younger brother, this is a unique skill of reincarnation, and my younger brother can't learn it. ”

The handsome Confucian coughed lightly, still holding up the two fingers, and his tone was apologetic. "Ziyu, I'm not joking, besides, most of the excellent women now look at the inside, Ziyu is a gentleman who hides his weapon in his body, and he moves when he observes the color, and if he doesn't make a sound, he is a blockbuster......"

The more Zhao Rong listened, the more strange he became. "You still say?"

Lin Wenruo immediately stopped, glanced at Zhao Rong's face, and said with a straight face: "Actually, there is no trick." ”

With that, he closed one of his middle fingers.

"First, I don't talk to them, I'm a master, they should obey me. ”

Then, the index finger is retracted.

"Second, isn't our Confucianism advocating women's three obedience and four virtues? My Lanxi Lin clan is a family of poetry and hairpins, and I govern the family with Confucian etiquette, where do I need to worry about this. It's Ziyu, your thoughts are very strange. ”

Zhao Rong thought about it, nodded, and realized that he still had a lot of ideas left over from his previous life, but he didn't feel that he needed to forcibly change it all at once, just let it be.

Zhao Rong raised his eyebrows and sighed. "I didn't expect that we would have this kind of benefit in learning Confucianism. ”

Lin Wenruo reacted instantly. "Okay, you Zhao Ziyu, I thought he was a dedicated person, but I didn't expect to be so attentive, and now I haven't eaten anything in the bowl, so I just looked at the pot. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm just asking, and then I'll talk about it. "Zhao Rong is learning and using it. "The matter of my generation of Confucianism, can it be called Huaxin. ”

Lin Wenruo, "......"

The surroundings were silent, and the night was deeper, but the two people in the pavilion talked more sexually, and they talked about everything.

From the folk customs far away from the rivers and lakes, to the high national policy of the temple.

From the experience of inheriting the summer to the interesting story of reading when I was a child.

The glass is bright and shadowy, and the wine is wet.

Zhao Rong's eyes were drunk, and he quipped: "Jun persuaded me to get drunk today, how about persuading me to get drunk?"

Lin Wenruo is a person whose cultivation is not low, so it is difficult to get drunk, at this time, when he heard this, his eyes left a certain wine glass poured on the table, and threw himself at Zhao Rong, only to see that his eyes were hazy, but the corners of his mouth were smiling, I don't know whether he was drunk or awake.

During this period, the two of them met from the Drunkard Pavilion to the Lake Center Pavilion.

Some words.

One has not spoken, and the other has been waiting.

Zhao Rong exhaled a heavy breath of wine, put down the wine jug, supported his knees with both hands, and leaned forward. "Hey, Lin Wenruo, tell me about it. ”

Lin Wenruo looked at the drunken and frivolous man in front of him, and was silent for a while. "It's okay, your lady is important, don't delay the business. ”

"Lin Wenruo, how did you mother-in-law, tell you to say it, what is there to be polite? Besides......" Zhao Rong burped. "Besides, I don't necessarily have to help you, if it's too dangerous, I can't even save my own life, then I will definitely run away, you just send me more than a dozen of your concubines, and I won't help." ”

Zhao Rong laughed and said: "Then I can only wait for my son to return from his studies, and then collect your body and burn some paper money." ”

Zhao Rong said with a snarled voice. "Speaking of Lin Wenruo, how many concubines do you have, more than a dozen is a dozen?"

Lin Wenruo ignored Zhao Rong's nonsense, he looked outside the pavilion, turned around, and his voice was calm. "In front of the monarch and 100,000 people, I and Qingjingzi settled a debate between Confucianism and Taoism. Counting today, it will be ten days from now. ”

"When the time comes, the monarch of Zhongnan, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, the people of the whole city, and countless hermits and monks on the mountain will all watch this debate. ”

Zhao Rong tilted his head: "What rules?"

Lin Wenruo briefly explained the rules, but he didn't explain everything in detail.

"Confucianism and Taoism each side have three people, each of whom can only play once, regardless of whether he wins or loses, he must be killed. The side with the most wins in the three wins. And I and Chingko must participate, and the rest of the places are not limited. The rules are similar to Qing Tan, but with slight changes, and each debate has no help from both sides, and can only be debated by one person. ”

Zhao Rong nodded drunkenly.

Because of the special national conditions in the southern country, the style of clean talk prevails, and the whole country loves clean talk and debate. And Qing Tan also has a set of general processes, and Zhao Rong knows a little.

"I already had a candidate, but one of them couldn't come. Lin Wenruo gently rested the glow-in-the-dark wine glass on the table. "It's a matter of looking at it. ”

Lin Wenruo's eyes narrowed, and he didn't tell all the causes and consequences of the candidate's leakage, the matter has come to this point, it is useless to say more, and this matter is extremely tortuous, all kinds of coincidences and inevitables are interspersed with it, and the bloody rain in it cannot be explained clearly in a few words.

For now, we need to take care of the present and ensure that the details of this selection will not be leaked before the date of the debate.

Lin Wenruo glanced at Zhao Rong again. "Time was in a hurry, and now there are only ten days left, but there is still one candidate missing......"

Zhao Rong knew the cause and effect, but he didn't answer Lin Wenruo's words at the moment, but continued: "What about the price, what is the cost of this Confucianism and Taoism debate." ”

Lin Wenruo said slowly: "This is a bet, and the winning side takes everything on the table." Chong Xuguan gambled on their position as the state religion, if they lost, the Taoist priest would never be able to interfere in the politics of the Zhongnan Kingdom, and all the Taoist temple land under Taibai Mountain would also be handed over to the Lanxi Lin clan. ”

"The weights on the table can be re-added, as long as both parties agree. ”

Zhao Rong tilted his head and suddenly asked another question: "Why do you bet with you, ignore you, and don't move like a mountain, isn't it invincible?"

The corners of Lin Wenruo's mouth curled. "Because I persuaded the king. The world thinks that I forced the monarch at the spring sacrifice to settle the debate between Confucianism and Taoism, but they don't know that the monarch has actually endured the hypocrisy for a long time, but he is afraid of his power, and I just handed the monarch a knife, that is me Lin Qingchi and the Lanxi Lin clan behind me. ”

"The dispute between Confucianism and Taoism is the best result that I and the monarch can strive for!"

Zhao Rong rubbed his eyes, although he was only in the golden stone stage of the Heavenly Realm, his physique was already slightly stronger than ordinary people, and his words just now made him sober up a lot, so he slowly eased up at this moment and stopped saying anything about drinking. "It's too risky. ”

Zhao Rong exhaled lightly, and then said curiously: "How did you convince the monarch, how did I hear that the monarch is fond of alchemy, and he is extremely close to Chong Xuguan, and he is even a registered Taoist priest of Chong Xuguan?"

"First of all, he was a monarch before the Taoist. And although I learned dragon slaying, but reforming the country to strengthen the country and enrich the people is more beneficial to him, the monarch, even if his imperial power is limited by me, but a hundred years later, when I, Lin Wenruo, is gone, this piece of Jiangshan Sheji, which has been revitalized by the new law reform, is still passed on to his descendants, and it is still his Zhu family. Therefore, regarding the Jungnan Kingdom, I have the same interests as him. ”

"Secondly, his alchemy and cultivation are just for longevity, heh, it's just cultivation, what the pure son can give him, I Lin Qingchi can also give it. ”

Zhao Rong frowned and said: "You know that the king under the mountain cannot enter Haoran, not only because it is written into the "Xuandi Law", but also because the king is devoured by the dragon qi, and he is born with a conflict with the spiritual energy, and he cannot attract the spiritual energy into the body, how can you help him brave the world's disapproval to find immortality?"

Lin Wenruo smiled lightly. "I just gave him a promise like the pure son, he himself actually knew that this was impossible, but how can mortals resist the temptation of immortality. Sometimes all you need to live is an excuse and a thought. I can give it to him at my fingertips. Besides, Confucianism's understanding of Haoran Realm is not much stronger than that of Taoist priests? Do you think I gave him more hope, or did Taoist priests give him more hope?"

"In the end, even if we lose the battle between Confucianism and Taoism, it won't have much impact on him, he is still the king of Zhongnan, at most, he will never be able to raise his head in front of Chong Xuguan in the future, and these are compared with a future where Chong Xuguan, the mountain above his head has been moved, which one to choose, I don't think I need to teach him. ”

Zhao Rong was silent, staring at his eyes and saying word by word: "You haven't said yet, what will happen if you lose, what is the weight you put on the gambling table?"

Lin Wenruo slightly avoided the Confucian gaze in front of him. "It's nothing, it's just that the Lanxi Lin clan moved out of Zhongnan Kingdom, Ziyu doesn't have to have too much burden. ”

Lin Wenruo's gaze looked at Zhao Rong again. "Zhao Ziyu, you don't have to feel any guilt. If you can stay and help me, Qingchi is grateful, but if you choose to leave, Qingchi has no complaints. ”

Lin Wenruo raised his wine glass and suddenly smiled confidently. "Besides, who am I, Lin Qingchi, I still have some back-ups, even if I don't have Ziyu, I think my chances of winning are very big. ”

Zhao Rong didn't speak, but lowered his eyes slightly, silently looking at the Confucian student in front of him with a bright smile but lonely eyebrows, and asked the last question of tonight, which may also be the last question of this life for the two of them.

"Is it worth it?"

Lin Wenruo was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed. "If there is a way in the south, if the text is not with Yi!"

The happy man raised his glass and invited.

"It's none of this matter, live up to the bright moon, I pour my own cup, you are casual. ”

A moment of confidant wine, the smoke and water of the building, the new statement of the month, all for eternity.