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Chapter 177: Ginger Soup

"Are you Kong Rong?"

Under a tent covering the sky, Zhang Chong was sitting on a horse, drinking ginger soup, and said this to a young scholar who had a crown of virtue on his head.

Not long ago, Tian Jun tied a bunch of prisoners' mouths and presented them to Zhang Chong. He said that these were the staff of the shogunate of the Prime Minister of Lu. They had escaped from the back door of the camp and were captured by Tian Jun's men on the road.

These scholars are generally very young, generally around thirty years old. This may have a lot to do with the fact that Chen Yi, the Prime Minister of Lu, was of this age. After all, young people still like young people who are as enterprising as themselves.

The leader of these people is the Prime Minister of Lu, Chen Yi. Even though he is in prison, he is still as outstanding as a jade tree. I heard that this man is already over thirty, but he takes better care of himself than Zhang Chong. Zhang Chong is only twenty-two this year. , already as dark as an old farmer, but not for his tall and majestic figure, and his own heroic spirit, he really can't compare to this man.

In fact, Zhang Chong is also thick-skinned. He looks like a poor man because he has been in the military all year round and works in the fields. How can he compare to the effeminate female raised by top scholar-bureaucrats? Those people don't put on a lot of powder in order to show off their appearance.

And what about Chen Yi? Sure enough, he lives up to his name. He is as bright as the moon, and his face is so fair and tender without applying powder. In addition, although Chen Yi has suffered less hardship, he still enjoys the shadow of his father's generation, even though On the way to escape, his father and friends took care of him, and he was always well clothed and well fed.

Chen Yi's Bai Nen has long been known as his beautiful appearance but fair complexion. Later, when he continued to travel around the homes of powerful people, someone once wanted to know whether this person was really fair, so they invited him to eat together in the hot weather. Chen Yi was sweating profusely after eating the steaming soup. He wiped the sweat from his face with his sleeves. As expected, there was no powder on his face, and his skin was white and rosy.

Zhang Chong looked at this man whom all men liked and said silently:

"I knew you aristocratic family could play, but I really didn't know you would play like this. If you can stand up and turn around like this, no one will believe you if you say you didn't sell your butt."

Then Zhang Chong no longer dared to look at the man named Chen Yi, and quickly looked at the person next to him.

Next to Chen Yi was Kong Rong, who was also a great figure in the Lu State. Standing up now, he was probably about the same height as his staff member He Kui. It seemed that all the descendants of the Kong family had some of Kong Laoer's genes.

Looking at this familiar stranger at this moment, Zhang Chong asked the above sentence:

"Are you Kong Rong?"

Kong Rong did not admit it, he just said so honestly.

Zhang Chong was too familiar with Kong Rong. In his previous life, he had been familiar with history since he was a child and was good at arguing with others. When he was in elementary school, he argued with people about the story of "Kong Rong gave up the pear" to see if this person was hypocritical. In middle school, he complained when writing essays. He is a typical example of ambitious and talented but flashy. In the past, he killed his brother because of his reputation. Later, he escaped alone when the city was destroyed, leaving his wife and children as prisoners of Yuan Tan. Later, if Zhang Chong had not chosen science in high school because of family tradition, he might not have returned to high school. I will continue to write articles about Jet Kong Rong.

It can be said that in Zhang Chong's eyes, Kong Rong is a typical image of a clean and useless person.

Now I have the opportunity to see him in person. Judging from his appearance, he is worthy of a son of the Confucius family. His temperament is graceful and elegant, and he is like a Lu man.

But next Zhang Chong was about to kill people and punish his heart. He asked Kong Rong:

"Kong Rong, you have such a great reputation. But I heard that when Zhang Jian came to visit, all the adults in your family were not there, and you were alone at home, and then you took him in. In the end, when the incident happened, you had to surrender yourself, but

Your brother surrendered and was killed. Later, everyone praised you and gave you a great reputation, but as a price, your brother died like this. Have you ever regretted it? "

Kong Rong was stunned for a moment. He had no idea how a bandit could know about their Shilin Circle, and why he wanted to take the initiative to find out about it. But after he was stunned, Kong Rong replied calmly:

"I was at home at the time. If my brother was at home, I think he would have taken Zhang Yuanjie in. As for my brother and I fighting to death, it was because the government only took my brother. Otherwise, how could I let my brother die on his behalf?"

Zhang Chong secretly thought that this person had a tough talk, and what Kong Rong meant was that Zhang Jian came to the door. When he came, no matter who was at home, they would choose to take him in, and the result would naturally be someone's death. And Kong Rong was not afraid of death, but he was just

Take his brother, otherwise he will pay for his crime with death.

Don't tell me, a great Confucian like this has already integrated principles into himself and can always be self-consistent. It is basically impossible for you to confuse his mind through words.

But Zhang Chong was disgusted with this kind of truth, but in the end, others always paid the price. So he threatened him:

"You are going to die in a while. I think you are still wearing this Jinxian crown so upright? Take my advice, take off the crown and let down your hair. When you hang yourself from behind, your hair will block your face. It will be a good death."

It’s not ugly.”

When he heard that he was going to be hanged, Kong Rong's eyelids tightened. He was a man who was afraid of death, otherwise he wouldn't be able to abandon his wife and son and run away alone.

But Kong Rong, who knew the truth, still sarcastically said:

"When a gentleman dies, he will inevitably win the title. The general will not understand this truth."

Good guy, you dare to ridicule Zhang Chong as a villain just now. This Kong Rong is afraid of death, but he is even more afraid of losing his family.

But the sudden sobs interrupted Kong Rong's solemnity. Chen Yi heard that Kong Rong was going to be hanged, and knew that he would not escape death. Finally, he couldn't hold it back and cried too. He cried to himself

Youth is in its prime, why is it withering so early?

Chen Yi's crying directly angered an old man next to him. He was the oldest among the prisoners. This man was Fan Xiang and Fan Jiajing, one of the party's senior eight chefs. He was the one who destroyed the family again before.

In the face of difficulties, he helped Chen Yi with money and food to rally his team.

Fan Xiang is a party member of the older generation, and he values ​​justice and justice as high as the sky. Even if the country commits a crime against a villain or a sage, he will risk his life to remonstrate with him, let alone the son of an old friend like Chen Yi.

And precisely because Chen Yi is the son of his old friend Chen Fan, he despises his ugliness even more. His voice is old, but his words are righteous:

"When a man is born, he will die when he dies, so what's the use of a woman crying? Your tiger father, Taiwei Chen, had the ambition to wipe out the world when he was young. In the end, he sacrificed his life in a disaster without changing his ambition. But now I just want you to die.

Don't let me silence your father's reputation with such an ugly behavior."

But I don't know if it was the "female crying" in Fan Xiang's words or the stimulation of the sentence "losing your father's reputation". Anyway, Chen Yi not only kept quiet, but also cried even harder.

When Chen Yi cried, Kong Rong did not scold him. Instead, he peeked at Zhang Chong who was sitting on a horse and drinking ginger soup. Seeing that he was not disgusted, he deliberately sneezed.

But after being caught in the heavy rain and cold, Kong Rong's sneeze flew directly onto Chen Yi's white cheeks with a long line of yellow mucus.

For a moment, the whole place was quiet.

Chen Yi stopped crying and couldn't believe it, but the touch just now was so real. Finally, he tremblingly raised his sleeve and wiped his cheek, and saw a fishy yellow snot on his sleeve, which was so conspicuous

garish.

Then, a frightened sound that was sharper than that of a woman pierced the tent. Several nearby Taishan soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield looked at the tent in confusion, and then went about their business.

Inside the tent, Chen Yi had shrunk to a corner of the tent, looking at Kong Rong with hatred in his eyes.

Kong Rong also felt embarrassed, but when he saw Chen Yi's appearance, he was even more speechless.

I have known for a long time that Ru Ying is a genius, but who knew that Qicheng is like this? Sure enough, he is still not as talented as Lu Liang Pei.

Kong Rong silently mocked Ruying Erjun again.

Zhang Chong, who was drinking ginger soup, felt bored watching the farce. He said to Cai Que on the side:

"Ah, have all the brothers drank the ginger soup?"

Cai Que, who was standing behind Zhang Chong like an iron beast door god, heard this and subconsciously looked at Guo Zu beside him. Guo Zu nodded, and Cai Que was shy again, looking confident:

"Qu, everything has been arranged, and six vats of ginger soup have been boiled and distributed."

After hearing this, Zhang Chong smiled, then pointed at the man Lu who was kneeling below him, and teased:

"These gingers are all given to us by these noble men who have worked so hard. How can we not thank you? Qingzhou is a land of etiquette. Now the descendants of Confucius are right in front of us. It's still cold, so it's even more...

I want to give you an extra bowl of ginger soup. Go ahead and give each of these people a bowl of ginger soup, especially the big man. Give them an extra bowl, so that they can finish the two bowls in total."

Cai Que glanced at Zhang Chong and tried his best to figure out Qu Kui's meaning with his brain that had not moved for a long time. Suddenly, he understood, and went down to make arrangements happily.

When Kong Rong heard Zhang Chong's words, he lowered his head and smiled.

"Humph, a thief is a thief. Although he is brave, he is short-witted and short-sighted. He only tried it for a little while. What the thief said just now was just to scare him. If he really wants them to die,

How can you care whether they are cold or not and still ask someone to bring you ginger soup?"

Looking at Chen Yi who was shivering in the corner and frightened by death, Kong Rong lamented in his heart:

"He is also the son of a famous family, why is he so afraid of death? His father's virtues are well known all over the world. But when this dog heard that he was going to die, he was so frightened that his liver trembled. If he hadn't been in jail, I would have killed him long ago.

The clothes are gone, you are a cowardless dog, and you are ashamed to be associated with them."

Then in the tent, no one said a word except Chen Yi's suppressed cries. Zhang Chong squinted his eyes, sat upright on his horse, and tapped an unknown tune,

His voice was silent at first, but then became louder and louder, and finally everyone in the tent heard Zhang Chong singing:

"...Everything belongs to workers, how can we tolerate parasites!..."

Kong Rong was shocked. Although he didn't understand what a laborer was and what a parasite was, it didn't stop him from seeing from the surface of the words that he was probably talking about them.

At this moment, Cai Que finally brought a bucket of ginger soup into the tent, and then gave each of the Lu masters a bowl, and gave them a spoonful of ginger soup with added ingredients.

Kong Rong only smelled it, and the smell of horse urine came to his nose. He looked at Zhang Chong, who was looking up calmly, and knew that this was the final humiliation. He closed his eyes and drank a bowl. Just as he was about to vomit,

Over there, Cai Que served him another bowl. Kong Rong's face was green, but he finally finished two bowls of mixed ginger soup.

The other senior scholars of Lu State looked at Kong Rong in surprise, wondering how he could endure it so much.

But immediately after Zhang Chong said something, Kong Rong was so frightened that he vomited out the two bowls of soup he had forced himself to drink.

Just listen to Zhang Chong leisurely say:

"I've drank this ginger soup, and it's time to send you on your way. Otherwise, your nose will be runny when you hang yourself, which will be quite ugly."

"Clang~"

All the noble men of Lu State were paralyzed on the ground, especially Kong Rong, who was not afraid of death, and was even more incontinent.


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