Chapter 19: The Leader's Footwash

"Haha, father-in-law, son-in-law are presumptuous!" Everyone entered Zhou's mansion, and as soon as they saw the old man Zhou standing in front of the living room waiting, Yue Buqun enthusiastically approached him.

"The three virtuous sons-in-law are really rare guests!" Old man Zhou led the three brothers of Yue Buqun and the three sisters of the Zhou family into the living room, and then instructed the waiting concubine, "Let the kitchen serve the food! Then call the four of them to gather with the fifth girl, the sixth girl, and the little girl!" Without mentioning that everyone in the Zhou family had already had lunch.

"It's still my father-in-law who knows me, the three sons-in-law are running around for the future of Huashan, and they forget to sleep and eat, and the father-in-law is bothered!" Yue Buqun had a grateful expression on his face, and sighed slightly, "This time, the three sons-in-law are going out for a few days, and the little junior sister has gone to the south of the city to take leave of Mr. Zhao for me, and when she comes back, she will be with a few young ladies in the Zhou family, so that they can get along more and be familiar with each other, after all, in the past two years, a few young ladies should enter my Huashan door, and everyone will be a family of relatives in the future!"

"Haha, what the virtuous son-in-law said is, then I don't know when the virtuous son-in-law is going to set the wedding date?" Old man Zhou seemed to have put down the mustard seriously and was willing to take the same boat with Huashan.

"Alas, I'm ashamed," Yue Buqun smiled slightly, but he couldn't see the slightest expression of shame, "My Huashan is really poor now, and there are really no treasures that can be used as a dowry for a few young ladies!"

"This, this..." The corners of Old Man Zhou's mouth twitched, and his heart was annoyed, together with the seven daughters of my Zhou family, all of them are cheap to you, but you don't even want to give a dowry? Even though his face is ugly, Old Man Zhou still doesn't dare to get angry, "Don't tight, don't tight..."

"However," Yue Buqun didn't seem to hear Old Man Zhou's kind words, and his tone changed, "However, I can make the decision in the future, and the men from several young ladies of the Zhou family will inherit one or two to the Zhou family!"

As soon as these words came out, Feng Buping, Cheng Buxian and Old Man Zhou changed color at the same time, but Feng and Cheng endured it and did not interject, but it was a strategic means that Yue Buqun could trust.

"What..." Old Man Zhou was quite surprised, "Is this true?"

No wonder Old Man Zhou can't believe it, this year's heir is a major event in the family, the heir is precious, even the close relationship between brothers and cousins, and it is prudent to inherit the incense from the stepchildren. Yue Buqun was willing to pass on his heir to the Zhou family, a foreign surname to inherit the incense, but it was much beyond the expectations of the old man Zhou!

"Naturally, take it seriously!" Yue Buqun's face was solemn, and he promised again, "In the future, the third, fourth, and sixth young ladies will be born to the Yue family, regardless of gender, as long as the father-in-law is willing, even if they are two or three, it will be fine!"

"Yes, willing!" Old man Zhou hurriedly agreed, "Then thank you for your son-in-law!"

"Father-in-law has seen the outside!" Yue Buqun didn't care, as if he suddenly remembered something, and handed a stack of letters of appointment from his arms, a full seven letters, to Old Man Zhou, "Father-in-law, this is Huashan's letter of appointment to several seven young ladies, please accept it!

"This... The virtuous son-in-law is polite!" Old man Zhou smiled bitterly, on the surface, Huashan's industry in Huayin was given to him, but in fact, it showed that for a considerable period of time in the future, all the consumption of the three Huashan brothers was paid by himself!

Hehe, let your old man Zhou be like a ghost, it's not to drink the footwashing water of my head of Yue! Don't see that when the time comes, I want to pass on a few children to you, but we live so close to each other, my children are not able to call me dad every day, and then let them worship me as a teacher, even if their surname is Zhou, even if your old man Zhou worked hard to raise them, it is still the baby of my head of Huashan Mountain!

Yue Buqun was proud in his heart, and suddenly a familiar voice came from the door of the Zhou Mansion,

"Yue Buqun!"

Immediately, a red robe rose from the wall, but it was a light skill to jump over the wall!

Obediently, why is this red pepper still chasing after her!I don't know what the little sister told her?

"Senior Sister Mei Niang is a rare guest!hehe!" Yue Buqun smiled all over his face and greeted him warmly, "I don't know what Senior Sister means by coming here?

"Hmph, she's eating with my father!" Mei Niang stared at Yue Buqun viciously, "You let our father and daughter wait for a good time!The food is cold, hey!", sneered disdainfully, "Grandma still thinks you don't dare to go down the mountain today!"

I'm afraid that you are not reluctantly dragging Mr. Zhao to wait for me! Yue Buqun was slandered, I didn't arrive on time, Mr. Zhao must have guessed that I wouldn't go if I had something, but you stupid girl is still hungry and waiting for the rabbit!

"Hahahaha!" Yue Buqun's eyes rolled, and he laughed so much that Mei Niang didn't know why, so he explained sincerely, "Alas, Mei Niang, you also know that my Huashan is not as good as before, as the head of Huashan, all kinds of hardships and hardships are indescribable, this time there will be villains who bully the door, and the little brother really can't get out!"

"Oh?" Mei Niang wondered, although she was domineering and domineering, it didn't mean that she was stupid, "Aren't you famous in the martial arts and strong in martial arts?"

"Alas, isn't this a joke with my senior sister!" swallowing the words back into his stomach, Yue Buqun couldn't bear to be crooked, "Since I inherited the head of Huashan, I have always adhered to the rules of the door and eliminated the demon guard, but I am still very low-key on the ground in Guanzhong on weekdays, no, I am so low-key that those ringing horses who don't know what to do are bullied to the door!" Senior sister doesn't know, those ringing horses come from the bandit den in Luliang Mountain, and there are many of them who kill innocents indiscriminately and are guilty of serious crimes, and the younger brother can't tolerate them harming the people in the land of my Huashan faction, so he is in a hurry to go to Tongzhou to eliminate the harm for the people, so he can't care to listen to the teacher's teachings, and can only make amends to the teacher and his old man in the future!"

Yue Buqun said righteously, but in his heart he was calculating, if he hadn't taken a fancy to your slightly higher skills than Feng Buping, in order to fool you little girlie and go to Kamakama with us, there would be a lot of help, and the head of the sect would directly draw his sword to train you, so he didn't bother to talk nonsense with you!

"Really?" Mei Niang always felt that something was wrong, but she still couldn't change her heroine nature, "That gang robbed your Huashan faction of the territory of Xiangma, really killed innocents indiscriminately?"

"Can this be fake?" Yue Buqun looked displeased, and his eyes motioned for her to look at the two of them at the door of the hall, "Our Huashan has poured out, is it a collective trip to Kamayama!"

"That's right!" Mei Niang believed it a little, and her mind turned to this matter, completely forgetting her original intention of coming here to settle accounts with Yue Buqun!

"If Senior Sister still doesn't believe it, you might as well go with us! At that time, you can also make a proof of being there, and tell your friends in the rivers and lakes in the future that we are upright and upright, and we will neither wronged a good person nor kill an innocent person indiscriminately!" Yue Buqun saw that the time was coming, and quietly proposed to let her go together, which can be regarded as giving the little lady enough face!

"Well, this woman will go and take a look, and screen the good and evil for you, lest you hypocrites kill, burn, kill and loot under the guise of eliminating harm for the people!" Mei Niang nodded arrogantly and agreed to go together.

"Thank you, senior sister, junior brother is grateful! It just so happens that we have just gone down Huashan, and we haven't had lunch yet, and the younger brother is tired and hungry for a long time, it's really a sin, and now we have lunch together and then go to the chivalrous service!" Yue Buqun hurriedly led Mei Niang in, and diligently introduced everyone to her, as if she were a guest.

I also secretly sighed in my heart, no wonder Mr. Zhao is not worried that you are a little girl walking the rivers and lakes, and you will be fooled by me so easily! It turns out that under your arrogant chivalrous appearance, what is hidden is the innocence of a girl!

After noon, Yue Bu's masses left the Zhou Mansion with a full meal and a full meal, and the three green and one red figures each rode a green horse, followed the official road, and rushed towards the direction of Tongzhou Sickle Mountain!

Just when Yue Buqun fooled Mei Niang to go to eliminate harm for the people, a handsome young man of seventeen or eighteen came in front of Mr. Zhao's door.

"Knock!" the young man knocked on the door, and stood back respectfully, apparently a polite Confucian disciple.

"Squeak!" As soon as the door opened, Ning Zhong walked out and asked softly, "Is this son here to visit Mr. Zhao?"

"Exactly," the young man saw that the door was opened by a gentle girl, her demeanor was not like a girl's ring, although she was curious about the relationship between her and Mr. Zhao, but he didn't dare to be rude, "I am a scholar who has traveled here to study, and I heard that Mr. Zhao of Huayin is very knowledgeable, and I came to ask for advice today!"

"Then you come in with me!" After all, it was a stranger, and Ning Zhong didn't say much, and directly led the young man to the back hall to see Mr. Zhao.

In a moment, the two of them had arrived at the stone table in the backyard where Mr. Zhao was reading and drinking tea.

"Sir, this scholar has come to visit you!" Ning Zhong announced, then picked up the teapot on the table and went to the kitchen to change the tea, leaving the students and Mr. who were looking at each other.

"Xuancheng student Shen Yourong Shen Shihong, meet Mr. Zhao!" Shen Yourong bowed.

"Sit down!" Mr. Zhao continued casually.

"Thank you, sir!" Shen Yourong thanked him, and then sat down opposite Mr. Zhao.

"You've come all the way from Xuancheng, I'm afraid it's not to study for the imperial examination!" Mr. Zhao's tone was affirmative, obviously he had found something in the examination just now.

"Mr. Zhao's eyes are like torches! I don't know how Mr. found out?" Shen Yourong glanced at his whole body, quite curious about Mr. Zhao's words.

"You are holding a folding fan in your hand, you have an elegant temperament, and you seem to be a pure scholar, but since you just came in, not only has the folding fan in your hand never shaken, but also your hands have calluses on the tiger's mouth and knuckles, and holding the folding fan is the same as holding the sword, which is the holding method of a weak scholar! You obviously like martial arts when you are at home!" Mr. Zhao shook his head and slowly said the flaw.

"I see! I have always felt that I am awkward, and I can't think about it, but I didn't expect that it was because I was used to practicing martial arts and swords, and I was not suitable for holding a fan!" Shen Yourong looked at his hands and folding fan, and suddenly realized.

"Well, why did you come to visit me, a weak scholar who is a martial arts practitioner?" Mr. Zhao was also quite curious, could it be that like Yue Buqun, he wanted martial artists to participate in the imperial examination.

"Sir misunderstood! Although the student was born in a family of military generals and likes to practice martial arts on weekdays, he is indeed a scholar who reads poetry and books hard! He is here to ask Mr. for teaching!" Shen Yourong hurriedly explained.

"Mmmm, that's not right! Although you have covered up your own martial arts and blood with the breath of poetry and books, I can see that between your eyes, there is a cold light of soldiers and killings, which is not only something that can be achieved by practicing some martial arts, but you must read military books and achieve something in the art of war to achieve such a state! Since you have already majored in military strategy, it is enough to read some poems and books by yourself to nourish your qi, so why should you return me here?" Mr. Zhao's eyes were like torches, and he was well-informed, and he directly shook out the old bottom of his youth.

In fact, the student originally planned to travel this time, if he did not have the opportunity to meet a Confucian master, he would go home to practice martial arts diligently, and then participate in martial arts in a few years. If you have to meet the Master, you will learn the eight strands from the master, and enter the career from the road of the imperial examination, so that you can enter the phase and enter the phase, not as narrow as the road of martial arts!"

Immediately, Shen Yourong's face was solemn, his figure was straight, and he bowed his hand, "Please Mr. don't hesitate to educate and accept students as disciples!"

"Uh-huh! This, with all due respect, you are not the material for the imperial examination!" Mr. Zhao said hesitantly, as if he was afraid of hitting Shen Yourong's confidence!

"What? Why did Mr. say that?" Shen Yourong thought that a highly virtuous and erudite person like Mr. Zhao, even if he didn't want to accept himself, would say it directly and encourage him more, but he didn't expect to get such a strange comment!

"Well, to tell you the truth, although I don't know how your martial arts are, but at your young age, you can have a lot of attainments in the art of war, and it can be said that you are extremely talented! I'm afraid that you have been distracted by studying poetry and books by heart in the past year or two after you have achieved success in the art of war, with your learning talent, I believe that one or two years is enough for you to achieve a little, but after that, you will not make much progress!"

"Indeed, the disciple consciously made great progress at the beginning of his hard study of the Four Books and Five Classics the year before last, but since half a year ago, he has come to a standstill, and no matter how difficult it is to enter the realm after that, the disciple is also puzzled!" Shen Yourong was surprised by Mr. Zhao's speculation, but he also told the truth.

"Well, that's it! You began to only practice the art of war for more than ten years, the essence of the art of war has entered the depths of your heart, becoming your potential criterion for dealing with the world, how can you still tolerate other criteria in depth, I am afraid that you study the four books and five classics is just to see, never really agree with the truth, your recognition of the art of war has long been so deep-rooted that you can no longer completely agree with other different essences, so unless you forget the art of war in this life, or the art of war is complete, all the way, otherwise the four books and five classics can only be expressed, at most you will be a show of talent, and your ambition to enter the phase is uselessMr. Zhao was blunt.

"Then the student can't be a general, at most he can only be a general?" Shen Yourong was quite disappointed, but he didn't feel frustrated.

Who said that generals can't be Zaifu? There have been countless generals who have become Zaifu throughout the ages, and most of them are only slightly familiar with poetry and books, not to mention proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics and Bagu Wen! It's just that now the civil official system of the imperial court is too prosperous, and it is just that it controls the position of Zaifu and excludes military generals! In fact, the Bagu Imperial Examination is just a stepping stone for civil officials to enter the official career, and what Zaifu needs is to be able to be an official and govern the country, not to write Bagu articles well! "Mr. Zhao has seen it thoroughly, and he is not afraid that he is a literati, and he is even more blunt about the essence of the imperial examination.

"This, this, so it sees, the students have always thought that Zaisuke must be proficient in the essence of the Four Books and Five Classics in order to truly do a good job in governing the country and securing the people. "Shen Yourong is not a pedantic person, he can understand it at all, although Mr. Zhao did not elaborate, but with his wisdom, he can easily figure it out.

"Well, I know that there is no hope of being Zaifu, and you don't have to worship me as a teacher!" Mr. Zhao had a relaxed expression.

Although the student can't learn the essence of the Four Books and Five Classics and the Eight Strands, he would rather learn the art of knowing people from Mr. Shen Yourong knows in his heart that whether he is a general or a Zaifu, the knowledge of knowing people is the most important thing, and since Mr. Zhao is good at this, it is worth learning more than the Four Books and Five Classics.

"Well, if you want to learn, it doesn't hurt to teach you, so I'll accept you!" Mr. Zhao stroked his beard and smiled, obviously very satisfied with accepting a disciple with superhuman talent.

"Student to meet the teacher!" Shen Yourong saluted solemnly again.

"Congratulations to Mr. for accepting another proud disciple!" At this time, Ning Zhong happened to come over with a teapot, and seeing that Mr. Zhao was in a happy mood, he took the opportunity to congratulate, "Mr. drink tea!"

"Well, okay, let's have a cup of tea with me!" Mr. Zhao was very casual with his disciples, and the two of them sat down to pour tea for Mr.

"Sir, why hasn't Senior Sister Mei Niang come back yet?" Ning Zhong was holding a teacup, and he didn't have any intention of drinking tea, but he was a little worried that Mei Niang had gone to Yue Buqun to settle accounts for so long.

"Well, I'm afraid that stupid girl was tricked into helping by your big head Yue!" Mr. Zhao shook his head, obviously quite helpless about Mei Niang's personality.

"Well, there is Rong, this Ningzhong Zening Woman is the future head of the Huashan faction, if you have any problems with martial arts, you can ask his fiancé Yue Buqun, who is also your senior brother, the head of Huashan Yue!" Mr. Zhao joked Ning Zhongze, and Ning Zhongze's face was dizzy, and he bowed his head and said nothing.

"But Brother Jingfei of Huashan, we also had a relationship with the county government yesterday, Brother Jingfei is really a talent, and Senior Sister Ning is a match made in heaven!" Hearing Yue Buqun's name, Shen Yourong immediately remembered the young Taoist priest who impressed himself and the county order in the county office yesterday!

"Well, it seems that you and Jing Fei are quite fated, and he also came to study the imperial examination with me, haha, I think you have some chance of becoming close friends!"