The dining table is placed in the flower hall, a carved lacquered wooden table, with a plate of freshly steamed carp in the middle, clear white soup, and a few green scallions, filled with hot air and fragrant aroma. In addition, there are a few other
A side dish, full of color and flavor, with a jar of old wine on the table, quite simple.
Xie Yan invited Xiao Yu to sit down and said with a smile: "The humble house is not as good as the aristocratic family with its bells and bells ringing in the prosperous times. They only drink and eat, and they are neglecting the Duke of Song Dynasty."
Xiao Yu chuckled, waved his hand and said: "Before the age of thirty, I always wore silks and satins, ate seasonal delicacies, drank nectar, and slept with beautiful women in pink... But now, I often lament the absurd times at that time.
The superficial and despicable do not understand the way of life. Silk silk and satin are like coarse linen clothes. Seasonal delicacies are like coarse tea and rice. Fine jade liquid is like wine when you meet a close friend. Beautiful girl in pink is like a spoiled old wife. Fortunately, I live longer than ordinary people and still have time.
To understand the true meaning of life, it doesn’t matter if you were blinded by lust when you were young. If you know your mistakes and can correct them, you can enjoy your old age and your family in peace.”
"hehe……"
Xie Yan's eyes twitched, he patted open the mud seal of the wine jar, and a fragrant aroma of wine filled the air. He held the small wine jar and poured wine into the wine bowl in front of Xiao Yu. He teased: "I'm afraid Song Guogong has accumulated experience.
So you have some understanding of life, but your vitality is gradually declining. You can't get used to wearing silks and satins, eating seasonal delicacies, drinking nectar and jade liquid, and playing with pink beauties, right?"
"That's unreasonable!"
Xiao Yu blew his beard and glared, and defended: "What are you talking about? Although I am old, my body is still strong, and there are countless maidens in the curtain, and I am still like a wolf and a tiger!"
How can a man be told no?
Even if it is just a conversation or a joke, or even if there is a hint between the words, it must not be admitted.
Anyway, you don’t know if it’s just bragging, so you can’t follow us into the tent to watch the battle, right?
After the wine was filled, Xie Yan put down the wine jar, raised the wine bowl, and laughed loudly: "Perhaps Song Guogong is as vigorous as before, but you have just walked through the world and experienced the prosperity of the world. You have eaten enough of all the good things and are tired of playing, so
Those who can return to their original nature will enjoy swimming under the forest and springs. But for those who have not enjoyed it, even if they are a hundred years old and their necks are buried in loess, they can eat once, play once, enjoy the ultimate in the world, and even die in peace!"
Xiao Yu also raised the wine bowl, smiled bitterly, and sighed: "I am obsessed with life. I always feel that the scenery I have not seen is the most beautiful, but I always refuse to listen to the advice of those who have been there. I insist on going my own way, and the future will be very ill."
The two wine bowls touched each other, and Xie Yan said: "As long as a person lives, he must always climb high and look far away, overlooking the world. If you know that the top of the mountain is not far away, but hesitate to move forward due to worries, your soul will return to Jiuquan in the future.
, you will surely sigh with regret and regret for the rest of your life.”
After Xiao Yu heard this, he knew that this man had become determined by the weight and could no longer persuade him...
He raised the wine bowl to his mouth and drank it all in one gulp.
The spicy wine entered his throat, like a burning flame passing through his abdomen, boiling the blood in his limbs. Xiao Yu exhaled and praised: "Good wine!"
I stretched out my chopsticks to pick up a piece of fish and put it in my mouth. The fishy smell of the fish was covered by the smell of wine and it was soft and sweet in the mouth. It was extremely delicious.
Putting down his chopsticks, he looked at Xie Yan and drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp. He clicked his tongue and said, "This wine is a fine wine from the house, right?"
Xie Yan said: "The fish meat has an earthy smell, so it must be neutralized with strong wine to show its delicious taste. But this Fangfu wine is distilled. It has a strong taste but is extremely sweet when it enters the throat. It is most suitable to accompany fish.
Shrimp is a perfect match.”
With that said, he poured wine for Xiao Yu again.
Xiao Yu picked up the wine bowl, took a sip, and did not dare to drink it again. He tasted the sweet wine and said slowly: "This Fang Erlang is really extremely talented. His ancestors have been drinking wine for thousands of years. Why did he just start drinking wine?"
No one has ever thought of distilling it to get a more mellow drink? And the gunpowder, it is said that he spent several months in seclusion, read ancient and modern elixir literature, and figured out the formula, which made the Tang Dynasty's combat power soar.
Invincible in the world! It is also said that there are glass, shipbuilding, bamboo paper... one after another. In the past, if someone could make one, they would be proud of the court and go down in history. But now, this kid has made them all.
, Who in the world can match this kind of achievement? Such a person is really an unparalleled genius, whose stunning talent is unparalleled in the world, and no one in the world can match him."
He is still working hard, trying to make Xie Yan realize that his reckless behavior is not only a crisis for the alliance between Shandong and Jiangnan, but also to prevent him from being blinded by power and realize that his measures to support the Jin king's fight for the throne have already
If it touches the prince and Fang Jun, once Fang Jun launches a counterattack, the consequences will be very serious.
Of course, most of them still hope to use their prestige and sharp tongue to pull Xie Yan back from the edge of the cliff, so that the alliance that is about to be completely broken can be brought back to life, so that he can gain more power and be able to
At the center of the core group.
Publicly and privately, Xiao Yu felt that Xie Yan's influence was too bad.
Xie Yan took a bite of food, took a sip of wine, and said disapprovingly: "So what? I admit that he is a genius, but throughout the ages, the most indispensable thing is genius! Each of his actions is enough to go down in history, but in the end,
Don’t all the benefits go to Your Majesty?”
After a pause, he added: "So, only those who have power can control the world, and even control life and death!"
Xiao Yu sat there and tried his best to persuade: "You usually don't go out or step out of the second door. You only focus on learning, so you don't fully know Fang Jun's energy. Don't be instigated by others and it will be irreversible.
You and I have known each other for decades, and I really can’t bear to see you being deceived and ending up in a dismal end. Take my advice and give up this unrealistic dream of fighting for the reserve. Even if the fight for the reserve succeeds, it will just be the death of a cunning rabbit and a lackey.
In the end, it would be better to return to the south of the Yangtze River and spend the rest of your life studying."
Xie Yan didn't appreciate his earnest words. He sighed sadly and asked: "I was born in the Xie family of Chen County, but now I am the Xie family of Chen County, so where is my home?"
Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment and then fell silent.
Xie Yan's ancestors fell into the hands of the Yuwen family of the Western Wei Dynasty during the Hou Jing Rebellion. They traveled north for many years, and then got the chance to return to their hometown. However, they left Xie Yan's tribe behind in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. At first, they were displaced, hungry, cold and miserable.
Xie Yan, who is now famous in Shilin, almost starved to death, had to beg for a living several times, and was seriously ill many times, but he finally survived.
Today, Xie Yan looks gray and senile, but in fact he is only in his fifties, and looks like an old man in his seventies. This is due to the hard times in the past that damaged his body's mechanisms and caused him to suffer from ailments that accelerated his aging.
It wasn't until Xie Yan grew up and spread his literary name throughout Guanzhong that he gained the favor of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and entered the official career as a member of the San Congzheng.
It has only risen since then.
But even though he is now one of the most eminent scholars in the world, and he still bears the name of the Xie family of Chen County, he has never left Guanzhong in his life, and he has never returned to his ancestors.
Now that he is old and has retired because he offended the powerful people of the dynasty, how can the Xie family of Chen County have a place like his?
Perhaps, it is precisely because of the regret that fallen leaves cannot return to their roots that Xie Yan is so stubborn on this matter, completely regardless of whether the Jiangnan nobles will suffer losses as a result, let alone whether the entire empire will be in turmoil as a result. His ancestors are living abroad.
, and the family bloodline has been diluted. If you want to recognize your ancestors and return to the clan, you must bring something back.
All I want is to be successful and famous, so that one day, when I am old, I will be able to return to my hometown in glory and glory.
Xiao Yu pondered, feeling troubled. He originally thought that he could successfully convince Xie Yan with his own prestige, but he didn't expect that this man actually wanted to make achievements and return to his hometown with honor, which made it difficult to handle.
A person's life and death may be lighter than a feather or heavier than Mount Tai. If you can honor your ancestors and show your lintel, what's the harm in dying?
What's more, offending the prince or Fang Jun may not mean death.
Not to mention whether the prince or Fang Jun dared to kill Xie Yan in public, at least Xie Yan had no chance of success.
He suddenly realized that maybe keeping Xie Yan as a "nail" might not be a bad thing...
After thinking about it for a long time, Xiao Yu said: "That's what I said, you can make your own decision. But you and I have been friends for decades. If things change in the future and we are unable to do anything, I still hope
Go to my house quickly, don’t say anything more, maybe I can save your life.”