In Jiangbei Prefecture, Jiangnan Road, there is a small county called Jingning County.

There is a small academy in the north of the small county town.

Its name is Sanwei Bookstore.

It has only one school and only one teacher.

His name is Su Yian!

As the sun sets, the students in Sanwei Bookstore have finished school.

Su Yian dusted himself off and came to his simple house in the backyard.

Sitting in the small courtyard, he made himself a pot of tea and was thinking about what to eat in the evening, but unexpectedly, a strong aroma of wine wafted over.

He shrugged his nose, sniffed hard, and then swallowed with a gulp.

Good wine!

This wine is much better than Kyoto’s Ruilu!

Could it be that the Qu family has improved the brewing method of Ruilu?

wrong!

Such good wine would definitely not be sold in this remote town.

Su Yian turned around and looked around. After a moment, he saw an old man with white hair and white beard slowly walking towards his small courtyard carrying a jar of wine.

He took a closer look and stood up immediately, with a look of surprise on his face——

He quickly walked over, opened the small fence gate of the small courtyard, grinned, and bowed:

"Sir, why are you here?"

Here comes a garden full of flowers!

Hua Manting stroked her long beard, tilted her head and looked at Su Yian carefully:

"I said goodbye to Kyoto twenty years ago. How come my temper has become smaller now that I have grown older?"

Su Yian turned sideways and stretched out his hand: "When I was young, I often behaved frivolously. Sir, I laughed at you!"

"It's a humble house, but it has such fine wine... where's the food?"

The flower-filled courtyard walked in and laughed:

"Su Yian, Su Yian, you didn't call me sir before. You should call me Hua Laotou. It sounds pleasant to you...are you greedy?"

Su Yian smiled and said sheepishly: "Isn't that what I do when I have an academic argument with you? But in my heart, you are still my husband!"

Hua Manting glanced at Su Yian: "Time is really like water, it can really wear away the edges of stubborn stones, but in my opinion, this smoothness is not good!"

"I still like your old temperament."

"We meet old friends, and I brought my own fine wine. Isn't this dish... something you should prepare?"

Su Yian was startled, "Sir, please sit down for a moment. Such a fine wine should be paired with good food. I'll buy a pound of braised pork head to go with the wine!"

Hua Manting heard this: "How come you are so poor?"

Su Yian smiled sheepishly: "When I resigned from Kyoto, my parents were disappointed."

"I haven't had any contact with my family in these years, so I haven't asked them for money."

"This Sanwei Bookstore...I think you saw it when you came in. There are more than fifty students admitted, but most of them are children from poor families!"

"They are eager to study, but they can't afford it... The teacher once said that people are born with a destiny, and only studying should be fair."

"Students should keep this in mind. We can't turn them away, so we have to teach for free."

"I have stayed here for fifteen years, but I have spent all the money I saved when I was an official in Kyoto... Doesn't this make me poorer and poorer?"

"Besides, when it comes to drinking, the important thing is the wine and who you drink with. As for the food that goes with the wine, it doesn't matter."

Hua Manting laughed again: "There are still as many fallacies as before."

"Sit down. When I came, I ordered some dishes from Erliangju. They will bring them to you shortly."

Su Yian heard this and said, "This... is costing you a lot of money. When I get rich one day, I will treat you with good wine and good food!"

The two of them sat down.

Hua Manting placed the wine jar on the stone table and looked up at Su Yian:

"Are you rich?"

"By the time you get rich, the grass on my grave will be as tall as yours!"

"However, this old man is here today and wants to show you a way to get rich."

When Su Yian heard this, he smiled inwardly. Of course he knew that Hua Manting could not come to this ghost place without incident.

As for what it was, he could even roughly guess it.

These days, news about the regent has spread overwhelmingly.

Although Jingning County is the most remote small county on Jiangnan Road, this place is one of the two roads into Guanzhong from Jiangnan Road.

Now that spring has begun, business travelers are gradually increasing.

What happened in Jiangnan Road, especially what happened in Wushanyuan, has now spread to Jingning County and has become a hot topic among the people of Jingning County.

He just smiled in response to those rumors.

He didn't know much about Li Chenan's situation.

He just thinks that the rumors are exaggerated.

Especially when I heard that Li Chenan used a thousand heavenly soldiers to destroy Xia Houzhuo and Xie Jing's 80,000 army...

You don’t even have to think about it to know it’s impossible!

Especially what Lei said that day was even more ridiculous.

Su Yian poured a cup of tea for Hua Manting, handed it over respectfully, and said with a smile: "Sir, if you want to introduce me to a few more students from wealthy families so that my disciples can recruit more, of course I will

I will thank you very much."

"But if you want me to be an official again..."

Su Yian shook his head: "When I left Kyoto twenty years ago, I gave up on being an official."

"You know my temperament well. I resigned back then, but I still listened to your advice."

"Being an official requires tact, judgment, flattery, etc., but I don't have any of them."

"Even after these twenty years of baptism, I am just a little humble in front of you, but I still haven't changed in my bones."

"Didn't you say that at that time? You said that if I continue to be an official, I'm afraid my life will be lost."

"I thought about it, it's more important to be alive."

"If you can't express your ambitions in the court, then teach more students like you. Maybe one or two of them can become talented and become officials of the court, and can govern one country and benefit the people of another country. That would be the best.

"

"It can be regarded as a continuation of my original ideal."

As he said these words, Su Yian's mood gradually became a little low.

After all, in ten years of poverty, in the second year of Zhaohua, when he was the top scholar in high school, he paraded through the streets to show his congratulations, wrote inscriptions on wild goose pagodas in literary circles, and climbed to the top to greet the imperial edict... I thought that I had finally made it through, and could finally stand on the temple to realize my dream.

ideal.

But as beautiful as it was at that time, it was so embarrassing when I left.

When leaving Kyoto, when he exited the south gate of Kyoto, he turned back three times every step of the way.

Except for the flowery old man in front of me, there was no one to see him off.

Old Man Hua also brought a bottle of wine.

Kyoto Ruilu.

The two of them drank a bowl of wine each outside the south gate, and he left. Old Man Hua told him to live well and meet again if we are destined.

But I survived well in this remote place, and now it seems that we are destined to meet again after all.

It's just that his original desire to serve his country has long since faded away after these twenty years.

Hua Man Ting looked at Su Yian while holding a tea cup.

"You are ignorant!"

He didn't say why Su Yian was ignorant, but suddenly asked: "Where is Xia Yuhe?"

Xia Yuhe is Su Yian's married wife.

They didn't get married in Kyoto, but when he left Kyoto and returned to Pingjiang City.

"She went back to Pingjiang."

"Someone from the family came and brought a message, saying that my daughter Su Meng has returned from Mushan Dao... Someone proposed marriage to the Su Mansion."

"Whose family?"
Chapter completed!