Chapter 860: Those who keep up with the footsteps (seeking the moon)
Qin Dewei glanced at Yan Shifan who was still beside him, and scolded Xu Laosan: "Others are still here listening, so don't talk nonsense!"
"Oh, let's talk about it when no one is around!" Xu Shi'an, as an old brother for many years, understood immediately.
Yan Shifan was so angry that he was bullied by a dog!
It’s okay to be humiliated by Qin Dewei. In fact, being humiliated by Qin Dewei is also a qualification. Not just anyone deserves to be humiliated by Qin Dewei!
But a bastard little military attaché who appeared out of nowhere dared to threaten him in front of him!
Yan Shifan didn't bother to talk to Xu Shi'an, and only shouted to Qin Dewei: "Don't think that I can't see your thoughts!
Don't you just want to intimidate me to the extreme and induce and force me to flee on my own initiative?
If I run away and join some pirates due to temporary fear, and I become a weapon for you to blackmail my father, then I will correct you!
If you really have the guts, stop being so hypocritical and kill me openly, you don’t need these tricks!"
Qin Dewei: "."
While Xu Shi'an was shocked, he suddenly realized that he didn't expect Brother Qin's current thoughts to be so terrifying!
Killing is not terrible, what is terrible is the complete destruction of humanity and personality through constant oppression! Is this the plan of the temple boss?
At the same time, Xu Laosan also understood that it was no wonder that Uncle Yan could live until now. He really had a few brushes, and at least his ideas could keep up with Brother Qin's rhythm.
Qin Zhongtang had nothing to say after being exposed. He shouted to Yan Shifan angrily: "This is a military order! It's not up to you whether to go or not. Be ready to go at any time!"
Yan Shifan looked at the craftsmen in the Ordnance Bureau's courtyard and the business they had worked so hard to build.
Originally, these were done to prevent Qin Dewei from framing him, or to make it more difficult for Qin Dewei to frame him.
But at this time, he felt like a loyal person who worked seriously and was persecuted by traitors.
He couldn't bear it anymore and recited loudly: "Confucius said to be benevolent, Mencius said to be righteous, but the righteousness must be fulfilled, so benevolence is the best! What have you learned from reading the books of sages? From now on, I will be worthy of the common people!"
After finishing the recitation, Yan Shifan felt an inexplicable sense of tragedy, as if his spirit had been sublimated.
Could it be that there is pleasure in being a persecuted loyal person?
Qin Zhongtang was stunned. Is this role-playing of riding a horse reversed? When you, Yan Shifan, persecuted others, why didn't you read these sentences?
Xu Shi'an couldn't stand it any longer, so he tugged at Brother Qin and said, "The inspection is over, let's go first!"
Outside the broken wall of the Nanjing Ordnance Bureau, after Qin Dewei and Xu Shian got on the carriage, Xu Shian asked: "Do you really want me to go to Shuangyu Island?"
Qin Dewei asked back: "Don't be so unprogressive! Do you just want to live like this and wait to die for the rest of your life? I remember that you were always unwilling to give in, so I helped you find opportunities to make a career."
Xu Shi'an sighed: "What if you don't give in and try hard? Anyway, I can't escape your shadow in this life, and I can't get rid of my identity as Qin Zhong's cousin."
Qin Dewei didn't have much to say, he just said: "You must do something, otherwise you will not be able to keep up with my progress.
I'm just asking you to go to Shuangyu Island to collect intelligence. You don't need to charge into battle, so there's not much danger. It will be a great achievement to come back, and I will help you to show your merit and get promoted to two levels."
Xu Shian complained: "Who in the world can keep up with your footsteps? Not even the one lying in the palace, right?"
Qin Dewei replied casually: "There are too many talents, we just need to dig them out and use them."
When the old brothers met, Xu Shi'an didn't want to discuss these boring topics anymore, and instead said: "Enter the city from Tongji Gate, and you will go directly to the inner Qinhuai River waterway! The building boats are still waiting, and the beauties are also waiting,
It’s not too late for us to have some fun!”
Qin Dewei flatly refused, "No need! Take a detour and go to the Jubao Gate in the south! Just turn around and enter the city through the Jubao Gate."
Xu Shian said in surprise: "What do you mean?"
Qin Dewei replied seriously: "Master Wang Yijing lives in Changqianli outside Jubaomen. I am returning to Nanjing this time. If I can go there, shouldn't I visit the teacher first?"
Xu Shi'an responded incredulously: "You're taking this inexplicable detour. How could you even think of doing this?"
Qin Dewei replied enthusiastically: "Today is different from the past. As a grand scholar, every move will be interpreted in various ways. How can you not set an example for others?"
Xu Laosan expressed his understanding, "What do you mean, the mode of showing off must also keep pace with the times? It must be upgraded to a higher level?"
Qin Dewei took a deep breath and said, "Go away! In your eyes, you are just showing off? Can't you see my deep meaning? How can you keep up with me like this?"
Xu Shian is really unconvinced. Although you, Qin Dewei, are profound, it is impossible for every move and even a fart to have profound meaning, right? This is called forced over-interpretation!
"I don't believe it. You just want to pretend to respect your teacher. What else can you mean?"
Even when I was idle on the road, Qin Dewei rarely taught me patiently: "Even if I am just pretending, as you said, then with my current status, should I show respect for my teachers?
Then think about it again, do many people know that I may return to Nanjing in the near future? Do these people want to find opportunities to meet and curry favor with me?
I am sure that countless people are speculating on my movements so that they can grasp my whereabouts as soon as possible and then take the opportunity to seek opportunities to see me!"
Xu Shi'an nodded. Although Brother Qin's words may sound exaggerated, they are absolutely true. Otherwise, Brother Qin would not have disembarked in a remote place secretly.
Qin Dewei continued: "Some people will guard Longjiang Pass, and some people will guard Sanshan Gate."
After all, Xu Shi'an was still a little clever, and he immediately realized something: "So maybe someone will judge that you will visit Mr. Wang first, and wait for you in Changqianli or Jubaomen?"
Qin Dewei suddenly said with great interest: "Such people are the ones who can keep up with me! They think that I respect my teachers and they can tell that I will visit Mr. Wang first. They must be extremely outstanding people.
I don’t know if there are such talents in Nanjing, but I’m still looking forward to it. It would be a pleasure to discover talents with my own hands!”
Xu Shi'an once again felt that Brother Nai's realm was really getting further and further away from him.
This kind of fun of being able to make other people's fate random with just a few gestures is so advanced that a young military attaché like him, who only knows how to indulge in women, cannot experience it.
But he suddenly became interested. He wanted to see who in Nanjing could be the first to realize that Qin Zhongtang had the desire to "respect the teacher and respect the Tao" and rushed to the Changgan of Jubaomen to ask for a meeting!
As the two of them were talking, Changganli had arrived. In ancient poetry, this is a place name that appears very frequently, and it can also be regarded as a cultural landmark of Nanjing.
The carriage stopped outside Mr. Wang Yijing's house, which is also where Wang's private school is located.
Ever since Qin Dewei studied "Spring and Autumn" under Wang Yijing and won the first prize, it has become the most famous private school in Nanjing.
Standing outside the gate of Zhuangyuan School, Qin Dewei heard the sound of reading. When he walked into the courtyard, he looked through the window and saw some people sitting in the study hall.
Qin Dewei did not interrupt rashly, but stood in the courtyard and sighed: "Teacher is really a person of indifferent nature and noble conduct."
If a person's student is a Grand Scholar and his younger brother is a Minister of Household Affairs, then he is definitely a sideline character in Nanjing City and can do many lawless things.
But Mr. Wang Yijing, an old man, has always insisted on opening a private school and still teaches conscientiously in person. The fee remains the same as before, and his character can be imagined.
Xu Laosan curled his lips and complained: "They are all willing to be ordinary. Your teacher is just indifferent by nature and has noble character. I just don't want to make progress?"
Qin Dewei was too lazy to talk nonsense with Xu Laosan, so he stood in the courtyard and waited. Although Mr. Wang already knew that Qin Dewei was coming, he did not interrupt his classes and continued to teach.
But he didn't wait too long before the class dispersed. Qin Zhongtang walked into the book hall and paid homage to the teacher under the awed eyes of a group of young scholars.
Mr. Wang took Qin Dewei and Xu Shian to the back hall again and sat down to drink tea and talk.
Xu Shi'an was very inattentive and kept looking outside. He was also curious as to whether someone would succeed in predicting and come here to find Qin Dewei.
After another quarter of an hour, a servant stood outside the door and reported: "There are guests outside, saying they want to see Qin Zhuangyuan."
"Is someone really here?" Xu Shi'an said he was a little shocked.
Qin Dewei laughed "haha" and said to Xu Laosan: "Let me just say that in such a big city of Nanjing, it is impossible that there are no talents who can keep up with me! A person in a high position like me must be good at tapping talents!"
With that said, Qin Dewei did not wait for the detailed report from the servants, and planned to recruit such top talents himself. He accused Mr. Wang and strode out, and Xu Shian quickly followed.
When he walked to the gate, he only saw an old woman outside the door. Qin Dewei looked carefully and finally recognized her.
This person is none other than the Madam Chen of the Qinhuai Courtyard, the adoptive mother of Wang Lianqing and Wang Meiren when she was still in Leji.
Qin Dewei looked left and right and saw no other visitors.
The servant next to him quickly introduced: "This is the woman who came to see Qin Zhuangyuan. I had to report carefully, but Qin Zhuangyuan went out on his own."
Qin Dewei: "."
"Hahahaha!" Xu Shi'an couldn't bear it any longer and laughed loudly beside him. Is this the talent that Qin Zhongtang is looking forward to? An old bustard from Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, do you also want to recruit him?
Qin Dewei felt that everything was going against him today! He became angry more times in one day than in the past ten years!
He didn't want to talk to Old Madam Chen. What business could this man have? He turned around and walked inside.
But Chen Laobao had already seen Qin Dewei's figure and shouted hurriedly: "Qin Zhuangyuan! Liu Yue is gone!"
Qin Dewei was touched and stopped, while the third brother Xiu was also a little surprised.
At first, Liu Yue was Xu Laosan's maid. She committed a crime and was given to Qin Dewei as a maid as punishment.
Later, because of her personality, Liu Yue liked false fame and was unwilling to be ordinary. She voluntarily went to study with Chen Lao Bustard, and finally became an oiran.
Although Liu Yue is an insignificant little character to Qin Dewei now, whether he is dead or alive will not have any impact.
But after all, this was the first "acquaintance" to pass away in his eleven years of time travel, which made Qin Dewei feel a little emotional about the impermanence of life.
"Why not?" Qin Dewei still asked, was it an abnormal death, and Madam Chen wanted to seek revenge from him?
Old Madam Chen replied a little sadly: "She committed suicide a few days ago. It had nothing to do with anyone else. She just couldn't think about it and couldn't let go."
It turns out that after Liu Yue made her debut a few years ago, with a little bit of hype as a poet and her reputation as "the abandoned wife of Qin Zhuangyuan", she quickly became the new oiran figure in the flower world of the old Qinhuai courtyard. She was instantly unparalleled and achieved her long-cherished wish to become famous.
But in the past year or two, as she grew older, lost her sense of novelty, and had character flaws, Liu Yue's fame and status began to decline seriously.
This kind of thing is actually quite normal in the flower world. As the saying goes, a new generation replaces an old one, and it is not uncommon for popular figures to become outdated.
But Liu Yue, who was arrogant and a little extreme, couldn't accept this huge gap, and committed suicide a few days ago.
Qin Dewei also sighed after hearing what Chen Laobao said. With Liu Yue's character of extremely pursuing vanity, it is very possible that she cannot accept the gap and cannot think about it.
Although they were not destined to be together, they were acquaintances. After a few days as the master's maid, Qin Dewei asked again: "Then what are you doing here looking for me?"
Chen Laobao said: "Liu Yue left a suicide note and wanted to ask Qin Zhuangyuan to remember his old friendship and write a poem for her.
He also said that although his reputation could not last long during his lifetime, it would be worthwhile if he could leave a lingering sound after his death, and his time in this world was not in vain."
Qin Dewei was speechless. Liu Yue was obsessed with leaving a name for future generations. He even suspected that Liu Yue committed suicide in exchange for his poem "Desperate Mourning".
Xu Laosan shook his head and said to Qin Dewei: "I think death is the most important thing, so don't worry about it so much."
Some poems are generally not used. When they can be used, they are not used in vain. Of course, they do not need to be too good.
Qin Zhuangyuan asked his servant to get pen and paper and wrote a poem on the spot:
"On the Yangliu Zhangtai, the morning fragrance has all fallen away, and the hairsprings are empty. Who plays the flute in the courtyard, and how can I not see the moon at dusk?
When spring comes, the beaded curtain looks like mist, and the shadows of hairpins and the sound of hairpins are all extinguished. Burning tears are hard to seal, and the waist is easy to shrink, let alone parrots.
I regretted the day when I was hastily separated, and afterward, I thought about it even more sadly. I couldn't deny that I was so unlucky at that time, and sobbed at the broken lamp.
Where can I pick it? It's green because it's weedy. If I ask about the red, I'd like to turn into a butterfly. After all, the world is short and love is long, so I can't become a Buddha."
Madam Chen burst into tears and left holding the poem.
After watching Old Madam Chen leave, Qin Dewei put aside his emotion and was about to go back to the back hall when he suddenly heard the sound of carriages and horses outside the gate. Apparently someone was coming again.
Qin Dewei and Xu Laosan looked outside and saw a middle-aged official getting off the carriage from a distance.
So Qin Zhongtang breathed a sigh of relief, and he was finally a normal person this time. If he were still a character similar to Chen Lao Bustard, he would probably be laughed at by Xu Lao San for the rest of his life!
Walking closer, Qin Dewei also recognized the other party, and couldn't help but blurt out: "Wucao! It's been more than ten years, and things have changed everywhere. Qi County Magistrate, are you still the magistrate of Nanjing City?"
The middle-aged man was Master Feng Enfeng's former rival, the Qi Magistrate of Shangyuan County. Hearing Qin Dewei's words, he stopped in embarrassment.
Can you, Qin Zhongtang, be a human being and stop exposing your shortcomings in person like this?
Please give me a monthly ticket!!! People here are in panic and say they want to be silent. Should we run away overnight...