Chapter 7 Real Men
Li Wenhan was furious.
Today, a rich old scholar was invited to give lectures at Zhuxia Academy, but because the third daughter of Zhongli's family was meeting friends in Huaping Lake, all the students in the academy went to Huaping Lake.
Ningguo's literary style was extremely prosperous, and there were many literary societies.
The Imperial College believes that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles, so whenever there are large-scale literary gatherings in various places, students are encouraged to attend them. Moreover, the literary gathering at Huaping Lake is said to be related to the happiness of the third lady of the Zhongli Mansion. This is natural.
It can't be stopped.
It's actually quite clean.
As the dean of Zhuxia Academy, he and Mr. Zhang, the academic and political leader of Guangling City, accompanied Mr. Hua and the elder Confucius to have a heart-to-heart talk in the green bamboo garden of Zhuxia Academy.
Some of the views he put forward were recognized by Hua Lao Daru, and a poem he wrote was also praised by Hua Lao Daru, which of course made Li Wenhan very excited.
After all, Hua Lao Da Ru was the erudite leader of the Seven Great Families of the Ning Kingdom and the final reviewer of the "Collection of Ning's Poems and Poems".
Li Wenhan was still unfinished and wanted to show Hua Lao Daru all the poems he had written with great effort. However, the sun turned west, and Hua Lao Daru also wanted to join in the excitement of Huaping Lake.
So Li Wenhan could only say goodbye with regret, and he could only hope that Mr. Hua could stay at Zhuxia Academy for a longer time.
However, he benefited a lot from today, especially Hua Lao Da Ru's encouragement, which made him feel comfortable. He felt that he had finally met someone he appreciated and that he had a promising future.
On the way back, Li Wenhan drank a pound of wine and bought a braised chicken.
I was thinking that I would have a nice drink tonight, have a nice and warm relationship with my concubine Jiang Hui, and let Jiang Hui give birth to a son for me, but unexpectedly what I saw when I got home was this!
The originally beautiful mood was instantly torn to pieces by everything in front of me.
Of course he was so angry that he almost threw the wine bottle in his hand at Li Chenan.
Jiang Hui, who was sitting on the ground and was frightened out of her mind, seemed to have found a backbone again when she saw her master coming back. She ignored the stench on her body and a guy got up from the ground. She was about to accuse, but unexpectedly, Li Chenan withdrew his hand when he stepped into the Moon Gate.
With that foot, he turned around and glared at her.
Just that one look.
Jiang Hui suddenly became excited and choked back the words that came to her lips.
Li Chenan turned to Li Wenhan.
His brows furrowed, his eyes sharpened, and he said to Li Wenhan seriously:
"What have I done and you still won't come out?"
He took a step forward and said: "You came back just in time, I really want to ask you."
He took another step forward and was only three steps away from Li Wenhan. Li Wenhan was shocked at this moment. He suddenly felt that his eldest son was very strange. What he saw in Li Chenan's eyes was coldness and an irresistible power.
So he took a step back unconsciously.
"As a human teacher, do you know that you should never forget the friends of the poor and the humble, and the wife of the poor should not go to court?"
Li Chenan took another step forward and said aggressively:
"Do you know that there is a difference between seniority and inferiority?"
"Did you know that your first wife was seriously ill, and not only did your concubine not serve the mistress, but she also refused to pay for the medicine?"
"She wants my mother's life! Her crime...should be punished!"
Li Wenhan took another step back. Of course he knew that his first wife was seriously ill, but he had already been alienated from her over the years and felt that this matter was not important.
If his wife really died of illness... he had even thought of rehabilitating the concubine. After all, his second son Li Chendong already had the status of a scholar, and he would be able to take the examination and even become a high school Jinshi in the future.
But by shining the lintel of the third bedroom of the Li family, he can feel proud in front of his two brothers.
Li Chenan pressed forward step by step, with an angry look on his face, and said:
"Instead of punishing her, you allowed her to act recklessly!"
"Cultivation of one's character, organization of one's family, governance of the country, and peace of the world. What have you done? What can you do?"
"You can do nothing but curse your son and resent your wife."
"As a father and a husband, I am ashamed of you!"
Li Wenhan took three steps back!
Li Chenan's every sentence was heart-breaking, and he was ashamed of himself.
Li Qiaoxi, who was startled by the movement outside and ran out, was stunned.
Kaiyang, who was lying on the wall of Li Mansion investigating Li Chenan, was already stunned.
Li Wenhan couldn't believe that these words were spoken by his stupid and stupid son.
These words hit his heart like a heavy hammer, making his mind go blank for a while.
Li Qiaoxi was completely unable to put the brother she was at this moment back together with the brother she had in the past. She just felt that the turbid air in her heart suddenly dissipated.
Her heart was filled with joy after being frightened, and she didn't even notice that her hands holding the hem of her clothes were sweating.
She stood looking at the back of her brother, who was standing like a pine tree, with a smile on her face.
This is my brother, this is the courage a man should have!
But...why did he suddenly become so powerful?
Li Chenan stood one step in front of Li Wenhan. Li Wenhan retreated to the garden fence. He had no way to retreat.
Li Chenan leaned over, looked at Li Wenhan's flushed face, and said another sentence:
"You are not worthy of being a husband, and you are not worthy of being a father!"
He stood up straight again, as straight as a javelin.
He said nothing more, turned around and walked towards the Moon Gate. Li Wenhan's old face turned red and white for a while, with his straight back and quiet mouth, but he didn't utter a single word.
Jiang Hui, who was covered in stench, walked over tremblingly, "Master, please take me as my concubine..."
"roll……!"
"Pa!" Li Wenhan waved his hand and gave Jiang Hui a slap. Jiang Hui opened her eyes wide and covered her face, looking at her husband in disbelief. At this moment, Li Wenhan still had the back figure that gradually disappeared behind the Moon Gate. A moment later
, he walked towards the west courtyard with wine and braised chicken.
His back was arched, and even his steps were staggering, as if he had suddenly aged ten years.
Jiang Hui closed her mouth. She gritted her teeth, with a vicious light in her eyes, thinking that my son Li Chendong would go to Huaping Lake to participate in the cultural gathering today... If my son wins the first prize and becomes the uncle of Zhongli's house...
I will definitely make your life worse than death, Li Chenan!
Kaiyang, who was still lying on the wall, grinned and flew away.
Are all the people in Guangling City blind?
Who said Li Chenan was cowardly?
Who said Li Chenan is a fool?
What just happened was simply too violent!
Were the words he just scolded his father something a fool could say?
Shen Qianshan of the Shen family actually wanted to break off the engagement and said that he was the shrewdest businessman in Guangling City. This time I was afraid that he would be blinded!
Her Royal Highness the Fourth Princess had the foresight to notice the difference in Li Chenan long ago.
I have to recommend this guy to Her Royal Highness the Princess, the Rei Mirror Division needs such a talent!
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While Li Chenan was training his father in Li Mansion, Zhongli Ruoshui was absentmindedly waiting for the talented people to compose poems on the boat in Huaping Lake.
She doesn't have a proposition, so the difficulty is reduced by many levels.
Because poetry can be stored in the brain, it can come in handy at this time.
However, those students were all acting coyly, as if they wanted to show her that they were improvising on the spot.
Perhaps because the poem had already occupied her mind, she had no interest in the twenty-six most talented people on the third floor.
The girl lay lazily on the desk, her little face turned sideways, just in time to see Huaping Lake under the setting sun outside the window.
But her eyes were not focused, and a smile appeared on her face after a moment.
His couplet is really good, but...
The fact that he has nothing to do but a broad mind also shows that the person has no ambitions. Of course, it can also be described as indifferent to fame and fortune, but the fourth princess said that he is only seventeen or eighteen years old. Such an age does not seem to have anything to do with being indifferent to fame and fortune.
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So does he really have no ambition?
This shouldn't have been the case.
Because the poem he wrote was so unforgettable... He was hurt by love, so he felt tired, so he gave up on fame and wealth, and all he wanted was a bed and peace of mind.
Poems come from the heart. This poem alone cannot confirm that he is a person without great ambitions. It would be great if we could get the nine poems he wrote.
Thinking like this, the girl could no longer sit still, so she got up and walked towards the room at the stern of the ship.
The fourth princess, Ning Chuchu, is in that room.
The Xiang Fei bamboo curtain hanging on the window in the room has been half rolled up.
The setting sun entered the window, reflecting Ning Chuchu's delicate face beautifully.
Shen Qiaodie was sitting opposite Ning Chuchu. She didn't know that Ning Chuchu was a girl. She was a little embarrassed and shy. She tilted her head slightly. Although she was boiling a pot of tea, her mind was obviously not on the tea.
superior.
Because the man opposite is so handsome!
Not only is he handsome, but the temperament exuding from this man is what attracts Shen Qiaodie the most——
It was a kind of temperament that Shen Qiaodie seemed familiar with. She had experienced that kind of temperament in Zhongli Ruoshui's brother Zhongli Qiuyang, but obviously the temperament exuded by the young man in front of her was even stronger.
Therefore, he must be a child of a wealthy family from Kyoto.
The status of his family is probably even more transcendent than that of Zhongli Mansion.
What kind of existence is that? Shen Qiaodie can't imagine it.
She wanted to make friends, but the young man didn't seem to want to talk, which made her a little frustrated, so she thought of her fiancé again.
She suddenly laughed at herself, how could her fiancé compare with this rich young man?
It is simply like a firefly to a bright moon.
"The water is boiling...why are you laughing?"...
Zhongli Ruoshui happened to come in. Shen Qiaodie was startled and realized that she had lost her composure.
She took a pinch of tea and put it into the teapot. She reached out her hand to brush away a few strands of hair that had been blown away by the evening breeze, and said sheepishly, "It's not because of my miserable life."
"Didn't the engagement break off?" Shen Qiaodie sat aside and asked curiously.
Shen Qiaodie shook her head and sighed: "How could the Li family agree to break off the engagement... Although he has been kicked out by the Li family now, he is a descendant of the Li family after all. If he agrees to my family's breakup of the engagement, I'm afraid that he will spend the rest of his life
I can’t find a wife either.”
"But he is so incompetent. If you marry him, won't it mean that you will never be happy again in your life?"
"no!"
It is the character of the third lady of the Zhongli Mansion to draw a sword to help when there is an injustice. She slammed her little fist on the table, "I will make the decision for you... If I can't make the decision, hey, hey, hey,"
Zhongli Ruoshui yelled at Ning Chuchu, and Ning Chuchu turned around and said lightly: "Don't worry, I will send someone to arrest his father tomorrow."
"Isn't it just a marriage contract? How about I ask his father to tear it up in front of you?"
Shen Qiaodie was immediately overjoyed. She quickly poured two cups of tea and handed them over: "Thank you, young lady, for your help!"
Chapter completed!