Chapter 387 A great man once said (for the good brother of Uncle Yong, the leader
On the second floor of the inn, in a certain room.
Everyone quietly digested Zhao Rong's words.
At this time, Gu Yiwu seemed to have remembered something and asked:
"Tzuyu, you said before that we would set off tomorrow morning and go straight to Hanjing...so you mean that we won't meet Zhou Dufu, who we haven't met yet?"
He nodded to himself and said:
"Well, that's fine, let's make a choice between them as soon as possible. Moreover, we were originally invited by the Empress Dowager Dugu to perform the ceremony. Now the situation is clear. Dugu and Li Mingyi are allies, and now we are really in control.
There is no need for us to waver any more when we leave the court. We have the same interests as the Dugu family and we can do our best to help her become a Zen monk."
Zhao Rong smiled and waved.
"We really don't need to deliberately go see Zhou Dufu, but it won't mean we won't miss him. We will leave immediately tomorrow because Feng Chan is in a hurry, but this will not prevent them from coming to visit him.
"Brother Yiwu, actually I don't think Zhou Dufu can sit still. Let's wait and see. Maybe they are in the guest room next to them now. How about knocking on the door? Also."
Zhao Rong paused for a moment and looked at Gu Yiwu with a smile, "Who else said that we have the same interests as the Dugu family and should stop trying to help her?"
When the burly Confucian scholar and other students heard this, their eyebrows suddenly narrowed and they looked at each other in confusion.
Isn't it because they went down the mountain to take the assessment so that Meng Zhengjun could not help but give high marks to the Zen ceremony?
And the Dugu family invited them to consecrate the young emperor. Is it possible that she still wants to fail? Can she not stop trying to help them, look at her gifts.
Gu Yiwu was really confused by his friend's words, and he wanted to ask with a confused look on his face. However, at this moment, Zhao Rong spoke up again.
Seeing that he had prostituted two stunning fairies for nothing tonight, he let out a long sigh, clenched his fists and hammered his palms, and said bitterly: "Hey, Zhou Dufu, why aren't you here yet? I don't know if there are any of the proud girls of heaven in Nanchen Palace.
A kind of beauty and fairy."
Gu Yiwu and a group of students: "..."
Zhao Qian'er: "!!!"
Zhao Rong smiled sheepishly and waved his hand towards them, "Actually, I don't have any other intention. I just want to get to know each other and have a deeper understanding."
Gu Yiwu opened his mouth, looked at Zhao Rong who was sighing, and muttered: "Ziyu, people can't, at least they shouldn't."
Zhao Rong laughed for a while and then gradually became serious. He looked at everyone and said leisurely:
"We deliberately stayed in Xingzi Town. In addition to clarifying the current situation in Dali and the interests of all parties, there is also the most important point.
"Achieving the former can only be regarded as completing a small part of the purpose, and it is done by the way. The latter is the real purpose of our coming here."
Zhao Rong paused and gave Gu Yiwu an expectant and encouraging look.
The burly Confucian scholar with thick eyebrows and big eyes frowned, and a certain tiger body shook, and he realized, "Tzuyu, you are saying that the most important purpose of our coming here is... free prostitution!"
Zhao Rong's smile narrowed slightly, and the corners of his lips that had just been raised couldn't suppress the twitching. He looked at the stunned Gu Yiwu speechlessly. The next second, his face was stern and resolute, "No!"
"It's not free sex? Then you're so enthusiastic about free sex tonight...Okay, what on earth is that? Tzuyu, stop pretending and tell me!"
Everyone was confused and urged him one after another.
Zhao Rongjue shouldn't waste his emotions on these sleeping dragons and phoenixes with them. Hey, being invincible is so, so lonely...
He said directly: "Everyone, we are coming to Dali on this trip. What are our identities?"
A student from Zhengyi Hall analyzed, "We are here to assess, so we are...assessing students?"
"It's too small, the pattern is too small." Zhao Rong shook his head.
Gu Yiwu relaxed his eyebrows at this time, nodded slowly, and realized: "In the eyes of the princes and people of Dali Court, we represent Linlu Academy and are the authority in the authority of the Zen ceremony..."
There was another student who was more witty and rushed to sum up: "So we are the emissaries of the Immortal Family sent down by the big forces. In addition, we also like to have sex for free, so they all have to be happy."
Zhao Rong shook his head, not joking this time, and explained seriously: "Everyone, prostitution is just a means, not an end."
Then, without waiting for any reaction from his classmates, he changed the subject and agreed:
"That's right. Our identity as the Immortal Envoy of the Great Immortal Family is our role on the chessboard of Dali. We want to maintain the greatest influence so that all forces will be afraid to please us and influence the direction of Dali's situation.
We have to maintain this role positioning without any deviation in the eyes of everyone in Dali.
"As for which side we prefer in private and what we think, that is another matter, but we cannot reveal it now so that they can find out. This will be the case until the ceremony of enthronement is successfully held.
"
Gu Yiwu was confused and concluded:
"So we must have a business-like attitude at the beginning? At least on the surface, we should show this. Then let them who have interests and appeals come to us one after another to win our support. In the end, just like tonight, we will manipulate them at will?"
Suddenly another student from the Hall of Justice spoke up with a calm tone:
"Mr. Zhao Xiao, I have a question. Even so, as Mochi students, Dali's enthronement is our mid-month assessment. I think everyone in Dali who is interested should have heard about it clearly. How can we hide our background from them?
"
Zhao Rong raised his eyebrows.
At this moment, Gu Yiwu nodded in agreement with his colleague's question, and said doubtfully:
"And Ziyu, why did you accept Su Xianzi and Luo Xianzi tonight? They are romantic, but they are irresponsible. According to our role positioning you just said, this is not detrimental to our integrity.
, a business-like image?”
Hearing this, Zhao Rong looked around, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
He first looked at the student who raised doubts in front of him, his eyes were appreciative, but his expression was half-smiling, and he asked:
"Who says that we, as examination students, can't have a business-like attitude when it comes to the ceremony of enthronement? Do we have to get high scores in the exam? Isn't it okay if we don't care?"
At first glance, it seems that he has never been a scumbag. On this point, Brother Yushu has done a good job. Well, the days of fishing and paddling with Brother Yushu are really nostalgic. I miss him on the 40th day...
Zhao Rong squinted his eyes, leaned forward slightly, and looked at everyone:
"And it is precisely because we don't care that we are not in a hurry for Fengchan Dali. Whoever likes to be impatient can hurry up. Anyway, we will never be the most anxious one. Under the noses of all the forces in Dali, slowly
I hurried on my way, took a leisurely detour to visit Xingzi Town, and went to Zuixian Tower to drink flower wine...
"If we are not in a hurry, we will wait slowly to see who is anxious first. But if it is the opposite, and we rush to Hanjing in a hurry, we will expose our background. Friends and foes are all naturally distinguished, and
Or a local snake hiding in the dark, we must be confused." He shook his head.
At this time, Zhao Rong became the focus of everyone in the room. His words were like a big invisible hand, grabbing their eyes tightly and keeping them focused.
"...Furthermore, a great man once said that human nature is a very cheap thing. It is difficult to cherish things that are obtained easily.
"The more you try to help them enthusiastically, the more they become suspicious or indifferent. If you hold them back, they can't help but come to you and beg you, but you won't let go, leaving them scratching their heads and asking for help.
If you ask for help, then after they get help in the end, they will be more careful and cherish it. After it is done, they will be grateful and remember the kindness forever."
Zhao Rong, who was sitting on the chair, chuckled, tilted his body to the other side, and used his hand to support his chin.
His voice paused and he looked around the room. Gu Yiwu and others either frowned in thought or suddenly had an epiphany.
"Hey, that makes sense. Ziyu, who is the great man who said this? He actually said such wise words." Gu Yiwu's eyes opened sharply.
"Well, to be honest, it's me." Zhao Rong looked a little embarrassed.
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Everyone in the room: The great man is yourself!
"Brother Yiwu has received the award, don't you dare accept it or not." Zhao Rong bowed his hand.
Don’t dare to be one? You’ve become a fucking great man, so why don’t you dare to be one...
Gu Yiwu's head was covered with black lines.
After letting everyone digest for a while, Zhao Rong cast his calm eyes like a green edge on Gu Yiwu and asked again with interest:
"Who said that people who handle official business must maintain an upright attitude and not engage in prostitution in vain?
"We strive to be an upright person in their eyes and work hard to maintain the so-called impartial authority. However, it is a self-defeating burden, making all parties think that we are impartial and honest and difficult to deal with. This is contrary to our ultimate goal."
Gu Yiwu kept his back, "Ziyu, you mean..."
Zhao Rong turned his head and looked at everyone:
"I just said, whether it's free prostitution or the initial stance of doing business in a fair manner, they are just means, not ends.
"We are coming down the mountain as the envoys of the Academy and are the neutral authority of the Zen Ceremony. Why should we foolishly end up taking sides?
"Secretly, no matter how powerful they are, no matter what grudges they have between them, we don't care, and we welcome them to come to us to contact us, give us gifts, and express their interests.
"Which of them wants the ceremony to succeed, and which ones wants the ceremony to fail, or other weird results, they can talk openly, and we will just smile and listen, and understand it by the way, and then we can gradually give them some vague and ambiguous information.
'Accurate words', but until the final ceremony of enshrining the Zen is successfully completed and the truth comes out, we will not completely lean towards any party."
Zhao Rong opened the palm of one hand, reached forward, and grabbed it hard from the air.
"Just like this, we need to balance all the forces and stop them from messing around. During this process, we only need to make every effort to prepare for the Feng Chan. The success or failure of the Feng Chan will be determined by doing everything we can and listening to fate. This is
The purpose of our trip.
"But they don't know this. They are laymen when it comes to Feng Chan. We are Confucian scholars studying etiquette. We are experts in their eyes. Well, in fact, we are not sure.
"Whether it is the Dugu clan, Zhou Dufu and Li Mingyi, or some other chaotic forces, in order not to offend us, they have made us completely fall to their enemies. While we are preparing for the Zen ceremony, we dare not cause trouble.
of.
"For them who continue to send gifts or talk about feelings in private, we will give them some light hints or promises appropriately depending on the situation. Maybe they will volunteer to provide us with some help to make the Feng Chan matter more smoothly."
Gu Yiwu and other classmates' eyes lit up and they couldn't help but look at each other.
They all saw the amazement in others' eyes.
Zhao Rong supported his chin and said slowly:
"In short, all our actions this time around are based on one guiding principle!
"Whether they are friends or foes, we will see each other at the last moment. But, by then, we will probably all have returned to the academy with Meng Xuezheng. What happens to them is of little significance."
After Gu Yiwu listened with bated breath, he took a deep look at Zhao Rong.
Most everyone in the room was like this.
Zhao Rong was slumped on the chair, unable to sit up. Behind him, the uncomplaining Zhao Xiaoxian was massaging him with concentration and gentleness.
When Zhao Xiaoxian falls in love, she is so devoted to her lover that she often makes them sigh and become envious of someone.
At this time, the burly Confucian scholar raised his hand and rubbed his face, took a long breath, and sounded slightly worried:
"Tzuyu, your plan is really ingenious. Alas, I feel sorry for myself... However, for this kind of swinging attitude, after all, it is a matter of both sides. Isn't it difficult to grasp the accuracy? What if it doesn't matter once?
If handled properly, it will lead to serious consequences and even put you in danger."
Zhao Rong nodded, then shook his head.
His face was calm, and his tone was also calm, "So, I will take charge of this matter. I am solely responsible for handling the relationship with them and communicating with them."
Gu Yiwu and others finally understood some of the context of tonight's events, especially the so-called free prostitution. Looking at the young Confucian scholar with lowered eyes in front of them, they sighed, but at the same time they hesitated to speak.
Gu Yiwu: "Tzuyu."
A group of students from Justice Hall: "Mr. Zhao Xiao..."
Zhao Rong lowered his eyes and suddenly smiled, interrupting them who were about to say something:
"Look, gentlemen. This Empress Dowager Dugu and King Li Xian actually sent me beauties, beautiful beauties, interesting beauties... Well, they are very suitable for me."
Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, silently.
Zhao Rong smiled and narrowed his eyes, and said slowly:
"This is because you have figured out the 'preferences' of me, Zhao Ziyu. He knows that I am a seven-foot-tall man who got married for the sake of eating delicious soft rice. He is probably very lustful. Now he gave the beauty a try, but he didn't expect that he not only succeeded in getting her into his arms.
, I, Zhao Ziyu, despicably hugged the fairies and left for free without even paying for a meal..."
He turned his head and said jokingly to Gu Yiwu and others:
"Tell me, if the Queen Mother Dugu in Hanjing Muyitian learned from the Lefangsi people that I, Zhao Ziyu, was a lustful and greedy person, would she be happy or worried? Or both, right?
The former has more ingredients."
Everyone was a little speechless.
The co-writer Tzuyu is also an actor... Tonight on the first floor of Zuixian Building, we really show off each other's acting skills.
Gu Yiwu sighed.
It’s also ‘official business’.
A gentleman who is indifferent and a cunning Confucian scholar who is greedy, lustful and thirsty for more. It doesn't take much thinking to know that in the eyes of all the forces in Da Li, the latter is obviously more in line with their wishes.
Gentlemen who are upright and rigid in doing things are respected. However, everyone keeps a respectful distance from such noble people because they don't get in.
However, everyone is not afraid of the cunning Confucian scholar who is just dissatisfied with his desires, so he does business in a business-like manner. They even feel very friendly while cursing secretly in their hearts, because he is just judging based on the price.
If the interests of the latter are in place, everything will be easy to discuss, but I am afraid that the former will not be discussed at all.
The burly Confucian scholar looked at Zhao Rong and pursed his lips.
How could Ziyu be a free prostitute? She was clearly a self-deprecating person who took advantage of the situation and took the initiative to take advantage of her.
Because gifts are so easy to receive...
So tonight he didn't let them get free gifts.
Gu Yiwu said seriously: "So what if we all receive the gift together? If something happens to the academy, we will bear the burden together. What do you mean by taking the risk of this incident alone and removing all of us?"
His somewhat rough Chinese-character face had a look of displeasure. He turned away, hammered the table, and said in a deep voice:
"In this etiquette assessment, from the moment we took the initiative to stand up for you, we have been sharing difficulties and blessings together. How can we be embarrassed by your decision alone?"
Zhao Rong couldn't help but raise his eyes, feeling slightly warm in his heart.
He shook his head and said seriously:
"Brother Yi Wu and you all don't have to blame yourself. You came down the mountain because of me. I, Zhao Ziyu, have the responsibility to make sure that you pass the test smoothly. Otherwise, I will not be able to pass the test... Well, this time maybe I am not thinking carefully.
, but the matter has reached this point, and it is useless to say more. If there is a next time, I will discuss it carefully with you."
Gu Yiwu and others were still a little unhappy, sighed, and finally had to give up.
Not long after.
Gu Yiwu still couldn't help but shake his head:
"Tzuyu, why is this happening?"
Zhao Rong smiled, "This Da Li is quite interesting. Let me, a dirty and shameless Confucian scholar, come and get to know them."
Gu Yiwu sat upright and said solemnly: "Tzuyu, you are not a greedy and lustful despicable Confucian scholar. They are short-sighted and do not know a real man. But in front of us, you must never say such things in the future."
This burly Confucian scholar had a rare serious tone.
The students of Zhengyi Hall responded.
Zhao Rong, who was just joking, was slightly stunned, suppressed his smile, and nodded slightly.
At this moment, a little girl's hand on his arm had stopped rubbing his shoulder for a long time.
Zhao Rong raised his right hand and covered her soft jade-like hand.
Patted lightly.
…
Soon, Zhao Rong, Gu Yiwu and other students discussed some matters regarding their departure tomorrow.
Then they dispersed.
Zhao Rong led Xiao Qian'er, who was silent behind him, back to the third floor...
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The next update will be around 12 o'clock in the evening, cough, cough, haha, because Xiaorong was afraid of falling asleep due to exhaustion, so I fell asleep for an hour in the middle of writing this chapter... Hold on tight, everyone.