"Stop!" Yan Lu suddenly stopped the students of Hanyi Society.
"Brother Yan, do you have any other advice?" Du Ning turned around and asked.
"I, Yan Lu, only represent myself and admit my mistake to Mr. Du."
Yan Lu gritted his teeth, knelt on the ground with a plop, and kowtowed to Du Ning.
"Master Yan!"
"Brother Yan, you..."
The students of Jieying Society were filled with grief and anger, and they all glared at Du Ning with even greater hatred.
"Brother Yan is worthy of being the leader of the society. He really does what he says." Li Changming said with a smile.
"Du Ning, I, Yan Lu, will definitely repay you for the humiliation of kowtowing today!" Yan Lu stood up and said fiercely.
"You bring humiliation upon yourself, and you cannot blame others."
Du Ning smiled and didn't take Yan Lu seriously, and even looked down on him a little.
"Let's go!"
Yan Lu didn't want to stay here and embarrass himself, so he left with the students of Jieying Society.
"Brother Yan, wait a minute."
Li Changming said: "Don't forget the rules."
"Humph!"
Yan Lu felt very unhappy, but he would not break the "rules". He took out a money bag and threw it to Li Changming.
"Thank you, Brother Yan."
Li Changming said to everyone: "Everyone, let's go have a drink at noon."
"Okay!"
When everyone heard that they were going to drink, they were naturally very happy.
"Thanks to Mr. Du today, otherwise it would be difficult for us to defeat Jieyingshe. We should toast him twice."
"Don't say two cups, even a whole pot."
"Let's go, let's go, I'm getting hungry when I talk about this,"
While everyone was talking, they walked towards a certain restaurant in Yulin County.
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The other side.
Yan Lu was walking on the road with students from Jieying Society. His face was very cold and his fists were clenched tightly.
"Brother Yan, this matter is simply a shame and a great humiliation. We must not let it go like this!"
"That's right! We have to get back in the game, otherwise even the students of Hanyi Club will look down on us. In that case, how can we have the face to claim to be the children of powerful people?"
"Du Ning simply doesn't know how to behave. You have already humbled yourself and apologized, but he actually forced you to kneel down and kowtow. It's simply not a pity to die. If it weren't for Mr. Yan's literary name, I really wanted to teach Du Ning a lesson.
!"
"What a shame and humiliation! This is a great shame and humiliation for our Jieying Society! Who is this Du Ning? He dares to humiliate our Jieying Society like this. If you don't take revenge, you are not a gentleman!"
The students of Jieying Society roared in low voices, and Yan Lu was humiliated, which was equivalent to humiliating them.
At this time, someone said very worriedly: "If Du Ning comes to our Yulin County to take the exam, if he wins the first place in the county, I am afraid that the face of our Jieying Society students will be even more embarrassing."
Hearing this, Yan Lu suddenly showed deep contempt and disdain: "No matter how good the poems are written in the county examination, it is useless. The most important thing is to test the meaning of the classics. Du Ning is just a poor student. His
It is absolutely impossible for Jingyi to be compared with the students of our Jieying Society. Why does Du Ning want to compete with the students of our Jieying Society for the top spot? Ridiculous! Who is he?"
"Well said! We are all children of powerful people. We can afford to go to the liberal arts college to take classes. All the teachers there are full of knowledge, while students from poor families can only hire a few private tutors in the mountains and save money to study in the liberal arts college.
It’s just a student status, and I don’t believe that Du Ning’s knowledge of classics and meaning can surpass us.” Someone agreed.
A strange color flashed in Yan Lu's eyes, and he said: "I want to have another bet with Du Ning. Anyway, I have kowtowed once, and I don't care if I kowtow a second time. But if Du Ning comes back from kowtowing to me, he will be completely ruined."
!"
"Brother Yan is a scholar of Confucianism and Taoism. He passed the county examination in the 39th year of Jingwen. How can he take the county examination again?" Someone questioned.
"Of course I can't take the county exam again, but someone can take it for me." Yan Lu said proudly.
"Could it be the one from your family..."
Everyone looked happy.
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Evening.
Yan Lu led the students of Jieying Club to knock on the door of Li Mansion.
After Li Changming opened the door, his expression changed slightly: "Is it you? Why are you coming to my house?"
"Brother Li is the leader of the Hanyi Society in this county. Can't Yan pay a special visit?" Yan Lu said with a smile.
"This is really strange. With your noble status as Young Master Yan, you don't come to visit my humble home on weekdays." Li Changming said with a smile.
Yan Lu felt annoyed and said helplessly: "I heard that Mr. Du is temporarily staying in your mansion?"
"Master Yan is very well informed."
Li Changming suddenly became alert, thinking that these people were not coming for him after all.
"Master Du, please come out and talk." Yan Lu said.
"Which young master is looking for me? Du is far away."
At this moment, Du Ning came after hearing the news.
"It turns out to be Mr. Yan, what do you want from me?"
Du Ning glanced at these Jieying Society students, raising his head slightly, as if looking at them with a proud attitude.
This made the students of Jieying Society furious, but then they felt strange, because this was exactly the look they, the powerful children, used to look down on the poor students.
Some people want to yell loudly, but they don’t have the confidence to do so.
"Ahem..."
Yan Lu handed over his hand to Du Ning and said: "Master Du, I have taken the liberty of visiting you. I'll tell you straight to the point. I want to have another bet with you. Whoever loses will kowtow to the other party."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Changming became furious.
"Presumptuous!"
Li Changming said: "Yan Lu, are you done or not? Mr. Du has no enmity with you, why do you always hold on to him? Where did he offend you? Even if you are doing it for the university student in your family,
Shi Yansong cannot be so unreasonable!"
"Brother Li, don't worry, just listen to what they say."
Du Ning put his hands behind his back and said, "Master Yan, what do you want to bet with me?"
"The head of the dispute." Yan Lu replied.
"Brother Yan wants to take part in the county examination with me as a scholar?" Du Ning said in surprise.
"No."
Yan Lu pushed out a young student from the Jieying Society next to him. This person looked 45% similar to him, and his eyes looked at Du Ning with some hostility.
"This is my cousin Yan Jun. He is a top-notch boy like you. I wonder if Mr. Du dares to compete with my cousin?" Yan Lu said seriously.
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Li Changming immediately said in Du Ning's ear: "Yan Jun is a child prodigy of the Yan family. He is not only extremely talented in poetry and essays, but also has great literary talents in classics and meanings. Mr. Jinshi in the liberal arts academy once praised him as a great scholar.
We have enough resources, and Yan Jun also promised to win the first case this year."
Du Ning nodded slightly, indicating that he was measured.
Yan Jun said loudly: "Young Master Du, do you dare to compete with me in the county examination? If I lose to you, I am willing to kowtow to you with my cousin."
Du Ning said slowly: "I came to Yulin County just to take part in the imperial examination and get a good reputation. I don't want to cause any trouble. I advise you not to be bewitched by your cousin, otherwise it will ruin your reputation for the rest of your life."
"Du Ning, you are so despicable that you actually want to sow discord!"
Yan Lu's expression changed greatly. He had to use his sharp tongue to convince Yan Jun, a child prodigy, to compete with Du Ning, but Du Ning said in public that Yan Jun was bewitched by him. This is simply too abominable.<
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"Master Du, my cousin and I are brothers and sisters. You'd better not waste your efforts. Are you afraid of my reputation as a child prodigy in this county?" Yan Jun sneered.
"Not so."
Du Ning shook his head and said: "Even the Jinshi of the Academy of Arts praised you for your qualifications as a bachelor, which shows that you are talented and intelligent and will become a great person in the future. As a cousin, there is nothing wrong with you standing up for your cousin, but you
But they want to use this opportunity to attack my literary reputation and attack my Confucianism. This is not in line with the way a gentleman should behave."
Yan Jun retorted: "You force my cousin to kowtow to you and insult the reputation of my Yan family. Is your behavior a gentleman's behavior?"
"Then I would like to ask Mr. Yan Jun, who changed today's Wing Chun Poetry Club into a Wing Chun Ci Club? And who took the initiative to propose the bet that the loser must kowtow?"
"This..."
Yan Jun was speechless and looked very ugly. As a son of a powerful family, it was a great shame and humiliation to be embarrassed in front of a poor family.
None of the students in the Jieying Society spoke. The combined momentum of so many powerful disciples could not be compared to that of one Du Ning.
"Even...even if my brother has done something wrong, he must be merciful and forgiving. Mr. Du can obviously forgive my brother's mistakes, so why not turn the conflict into friendship?" Yan Jun said shamelessly.
"If I lose to Yan Lu at the symposium, do you think he will forgive me?" Du Ning asked.
Yan Jun gritted his teeth and said: "With my brother's big heart, I won't be able to see you as a child from a poor family. I think he will only ask you to apologize, but not necessarily kowtow."
"Since Yan Lu is broad-minded and doesn't care about our humble family, why would he make such a bet that insults his literary name?" Du Ning asked again.
Yan Jun lowered his head, not daring to look into Du Ning's eyes.
Yan Lu said loudly: "Master Du, you are so eloquent here, but you just think that the meaning of the scriptures is not as good as that of my cousin. Are you saying that retreating when faced with difficulties is not your Confucianism, and that the only way to advance bravely is to move forward bravely.
Do you stand out? Why don't you even dare to fart in front of my cousin?"
The students from Jieying Society immediately laughed and used Du Ning's words to refute Du Ning, which was absolutely brilliant.
Du Ning's face changed slightly, and then he smiled, "Yan Lu, I know you are unconvinced and want to regain your dignity and face, but you can't risk your cousin's literary name to make this bet.
, if your cousin Jingyi beats me, he will be famous in Nanping Prefecture and even Suzhou, but what if he loses? If this makes him decadent, wouldn't you Yan Lu have harmed a Confucian scholar who will be a great scholar in the future?
Have a bright future!"
Yan Lu's face changed wildly, and his hands couldn't stop shaking.
"This..."
Only then did Yan Jun realize that he might have been dragged into the water by his cousin.
But the matter has come to this, and he is unable to get off the tiger.
"If my scriptures are really not as good as Mr. Du, I can only blame myself for not knowing what I can do. I will never blame my cousin for this, let alone you." Yan Jun said.
Yan Lu was immediately moved: "My wise brother is so kind and virtuous, but my foolish brother will never forget you."
"Yan Jun, it's not too late to turn back now," Du Ning warned.