The man was in his thirties, with a handsome appearance, a neatly trimmed black beard on his lips, and a turban on his head. His whole person was fresh and refreshing, giving people a very gentle and clean feeling.
After the man entered the door, his eyes immediately fell on Li Hui. Li Hui didn't know who he was, but he knew he must be a guest attending the banquet, so he stood up and saluted.
"Your Excellency, Li Hui, you are polite!"
When the man heard this, he looked surprised. He returned the courtesy and said with a smile: "You are polite, are you Li Hui? You are indeed a handsome and handsome young man. Do you recognize me?"
Li Hui was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, he really didn't have any impression, so he said honestly: "I'm sorry, I really don't remember who you are."
The man nodded with a smile and said: "That's no wonder. I haven't seen you at my uncle's house. I have been busy with business in the past few years and rarely go to Wu County. In the early years, you were young, so you might have never seen me."
Li Hui was surprised. When he heard the words "uncle's family" and "Wujun", he remembered what Xie Xuan said just now. Today, his friend came from Wuxingjun, and his surname was Zhang. He could almost guess it immediately.
Who is he?
"Haha, my name is Zhang Xuan, and I am a cousin to the Gu family of Wu County. Is Li Xiaolang's mother a Gu family? Speaking of which, our relationship with the Gu family is almost the same. My mother is also a Gu family. Hahaha." The man laughed.
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Li Hui's guess was confirmed. This person was Zhang Xuan, the governor of Wuxing. Zhang Xuan's mother was the cousin of Gu Chen, the young head of the Gu family, and she was a very close relative of the Gu family.
Li Hui secretly cursed himself for being confused. In fact, Xie Xuan said before that he had a friend from Wuxing, so he should have guessed that it was Zhang Xuan. Zhang Xuan and Xie Xuan were called the North and South Xuan by the nobles, and they had a good relationship.
My friend, I didn’t even think of this.
"It turns out it's Mr. Zhang Fu. I'm really blind. I'm disrespectful and disrespectful." Li Hui said hurriedly.
Henry Zhang smiled and said: "Don't be so polite. You are Xiao Xie's friend, and I am also Xiao Xie's friend, and we have some family ties. You can just call me Xuan Zhi, that is my name."
Li Hui listened to Zhang Xuan's kind and gentle words and felt good about him. Although Zhang Xuan was in his thirties, he was not old-fashioned and was gentle and elegant, which made people like him very much.
However, when he learned Zhang Xuan's identity, a thought flashed in Li Hui's mind. Zhang Xuan must also know the news about his breakup with the Gu family, but I don't know what he thinks. Will he be polite to him now and treat him later?
Accusing him harshly. Xie Xuan had said hello, saying that if his friend said something to him, he should not care about it.
But at the moment, it seems that Henry Zhang’s attitude does not seem to be dissatisfied, so there is no need to think too much about it.
The two of them saluted and were about to sit down, but they heard the sound of footsteps behind the hall and the laughter of a group of people. After a while, a group of people came in from the back door of the flower hall, talking and laughing. The person walking in front was Xie An, and next to him was Xie Xuanxie
Yan and several other men he didn't know.
Zhang Xuan left the table and came forward to bow, and Li Hui also stood up.
"Thank you, sir, that's polite." Zhang Xuan said.
Xie An's eyes glanced at Li Hui inadvertently, and smiled at Zhang Xuan: "Xuanzhi has arrived. Xie Xuan, this is your fault again, and you left someone in the hall without caring about it? How much have you told me?
Come on, is this how you make friends? I’m really surprised that you still have friends.”
Xie Xuan was speechless, rolled his eyes and said: "Fourth Uncle, didn't I go to invite you and Sixth Uncle?"
Xie An also rolled his eyes and said, "What is more important, the guests or the family?"
Xie Xuan waved his hands and said: "Yes, yes, I was wrong, okay? Xuanzhi, I can't help you, I kept you waiting for so long."
Henry Zhang laughed loudly, and a group of Xie family children also laughed. In the Xie family, this is normal. Xie An loves to find fault with Xie Xuan, which is commonplace. The quarrel between uncle and nephew is not a quarrel, but a close relationship.
Therefore, as we all know, Xie An was not kind to Xie Xuan towards his two sons. Don't worry about him being picky about Xie Xuan, it was actually a kind of ridicule and deliberate.
Xie An's eyes fell on Li Hui, and he raised his eyebrows, pretending to be surprised.
"Hey, isn't this the young man from the Li family? He is a rare visitor. Xie Xuan, the young man from the Li family is so arrogant and has such a big style, why are you here today with honor? Xie Xuan, you are quite proud. Let's
Xie Jia Pengpi is so brilliant."
Everyone in the Xie family burst out laughing. Li Hui's face turned red and he held his hands in a salute gesture, feeling very embarrassed.
Xie Xuan was speechless, but there was nothing he could do about it. He knew his uncle's venomous tongue. He just hoped that Li Hui wouldn't get angry because of this and could still remember his previous greetings.
"Li Hui has met Mr. Xie and all the gentlemen." Li Hui said in a low voice.
Everyone returned the courtesy, Xie An stepped forward, looked at Li Hui with squinted eyes and said: "Chengmenmen, I heard that you are so busy with your affairs that you are sick. Is that so? You should be relaxed and moderate in your work, and don't work so hard. If you
If I'm sick, won't my Dajin lose a young talent?"
Xie Xuan almost went crazy. Fourth uncle, this is too much. Isn't this going to make Li Hui more embarrassed? Li Hui may not be able to bear the irony.
"Fourth uncle, Li Hui is my invited guest..." Xie Xuan whispered.
Xie An glared at him, then turned to look at Li Hui, waiting for his response.
"Thank you so much for your public relations love. I am not busy with work, but very leisurely. But it suits me very well. Li Hui knows that he has little knowledge, so he just takes this opportunity to read more and enrich himself. Thank you to the imperial court for granting me such an official position.
A child from a poor family like me really needs such an opportunity to enrich himself. The imperial court is sympathetic to the poor family, and Li Hui deeply feels it and is extremely grateful." Li Hui said in a deep voice.
"Oh? Do you think this is the court's care? I don't think that the city gatekeeper is an insignificant official position, which means that you are not taken seriously. Don't you feel angry? Don't you feel aggrieved? You came to the capital to be an official.
, not to see the city gate, right? But you came with great ambition, right?" Xie An said with a hateful smile.
Now not only Xie Xuan, but others also felt that Xie An was going too far. Li Hui had already found the steps to get down, but Xie An still wanted to pull out the ladder. This was really too much. If it were anyone else, he might not be able to stay any longer at this moment.
, and was about to leave with a sigh of relief.
Li Hui did not flutter his sleeves and walked away, but said with a smile: "Li Hui disagrees with Mr. Xie's view. There is nothing wrong with looking at the city gate. The reason why our country has been able to establish a country to this day is precisely because of the people in our country."
Everyone performs their duties and unites as one. If our Dajin Dynasty is compared to a majestic palace, people like Xie Gong are the top pillars, the skeleton and load-bearing pillars of the palace. But pillars and beams alone are not enough.
It needs roof tiles, wooden rafters, bricks, stones and ash, wind chimes under the corridors, and stones under the steps. This can form a majestic palace, extremely gorgeous, but also able to protect against wind and rain. Li Hui cannot be a pillar, stone or beam, but he is willing to
When a tile covers a small area, it forms part of the palace together with other ordinary tiles and masonry. This is also a kind of contribution and pride."
The hall was quiet, and everyone was surprised that Li Hui would give such an answer. This answer was quite appropriate. It did not embarrass Xie An with a fierce rebuttal, but it also showed his attitude and defended himself. It can be said that
Extremely wonderful.
Xie Xuan almost clapped his hands and secretly raised his thumb towards Li Hui.
Xie An didn't seem to expect that Li Hui would answer like this. He was a little stunned by the combination of killing and beating. But he didn't intend to give up.
"That's very good. But you shouldn't be willing to be just a roof tile. If your ambition is just like this, what's your future? Everyone uses your words to defend and comfort themselves. Then I will be promoted to Dajin.
What is the future? What our Dajin needs is more pillars, not more rubble and bricks." Xie An said calmly.
Li Hui smiled and said: "What Mr. Xie said is true. Everyone must be motivated. That's why I use my time to read a lot of books and expand my knowledge to prepare for the needs of the court. If the court needs me to take on greater responsibilities,
Every time, make sure you are competent. From a tile to a small pillar, you need to constantly improve yourself. It is not only a matter of reading to increase knowledge, but also a kind of tempering of the mind. People who cannot endure difficulties will not be able to take on the responsibility.
Great responsibility."
Xie An burst out laughing, reached out and patted Li Hui on the shoulder and said: "The young man from the Li family has a mouth full of eloquence. I can't say enough about you. I hope your words come from your heart and are not just rhetoric. Come on.
Come, take a seat, take a seat.”
Xie Xuan let out a long breath, knowing that his fourth uncle's three axes had been chopped.
Xie Xuan actually knew in his heart that the fourth uncle was most likely testing Li Hui's patience, rather than deliberately making things difficult and humiliating Li Hui. The position of Chengmenlang itself was a test for Li Hui by the fourth uncle. With the fourth uncle's broad-mindedness and
Demeanor would never make things difficult for a junior student without any reason. There was only one possibility. The fourth uncle wanted to further test Li Hui's flexibility.
Xie Xuan took Li Hui to everyone in the Xie family and introduced them one by one.
"Come on, Li Hui, I will introduce you to you. This is my sixth uncle. You have never seen him." Xie Xuan pulled Li Hui to a man in his forties with a beard and introduced him.
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"I've met Uncle Six." Li Hui cupped his hands and said.
"Haha, Li Xiaolang is very eloquent. This is the first time I've ever seen brother who can't speak well with others. My name is Xie Shi, Xie Xuan's sixth uncle." He said with a smile as he held his hands.
Xie Shi is Xie An's sixth brother. He is now the Huangmen Shilang and an official accompanying the current emperor Sima Yi.
"This is Xie Yao, my fourth uncle's eldest son."
Xie Yao was Xie An's eldest son. He was thin, pale, and sickly, but his attitude was very gentle.
Li Hui cupped his hands in greeting, and Xie Yao returned the favor with a smile.
After several of the Xie family's children met one by one, everyone sat down behind the table and talked to each other casually. The atmosphere was very casual.
Xie An sat behind the wooden desk in the middle, looked around and asked: "Xie Xuan, where is your sister Daoyun? Didn't she say she wanted to come and play for a while? Isn't she coming?"
Xie Xuan smiled and said: "I went to invite you not long ago and I am dressing up. It's not that you don't know, Fourth Uncle, that my sister must dress up properly when meeting others. I don't know who she is dressing up for. They are all members of my family, so she wants to
Get dressed up. I suggest we drink and eat first, I don’t know when. It will take a long time to paint the eyebrows.”
The brothers of the Xie family laughed loudly, it seemed that Xie Xuan's words had reached their hearts.
Amidst the roar of laughter, a pleasant female voice was suddenly heard from the back of the hall: "Xiao Xuan, are you plotting against me again? See how I treat you."
Xie Xuan was stunned, and was so frightened that he stuck out his tongue and stared.
Xie An laughed loudly and said, "Now that's good. I was caught red-handed talking behind someone's back."