Chapter 66 Is the true meaning of education in the fight?
Career is a lifelong pursuit for an ambitious man.
If a person spends his life pursuing a goal, no matter what the goal is or whether it can be achieved, this person must be the person closest to the goal. This principle is of course universal to some normal, ordinary, general human beings.
world value.
Monsters exist specifically to break universal values. Yun Zheng saw such a monster today.
Li Chang's house was very lively today, with an enviable array of carriages and horses. Servants wearing brand-new clothes stood from the front door to the street. Anyone who brought a gift would be invited to Li's house for a cup of tea.
Everyone in Tokyo knows that Li Chang is an upright and good official. Therefore, everyone has brought enough gifts on the birthday of the old lady of the Li family today, ready to reward this Lord Qingtian who never accepts gifts.
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Benevolence and filial piety, this is a national policy. Li Huangmen, who usually keeps no food and salt from entering, must make an exception today, because the gifts they bring are to honor the old lady, not to bribe Li Huangmen.
Seventy years of life are rare, and even the poorest official will prepare some birthday peaches, birthday noodles, etc. today to congratulate him. No matter how many gifts Li Chang receives today, no one will impeach him without the foresight. If he still wants to
If you have the opportunity to accept gifts on such a large scale, you have to wait until the old lady's eightieth birthday. From this point of view, the saying that every family has an elder is like a treasure is absolutely right.
There are eight Li Chang brothers, which is very enviable. The eight of them lined up in front of the Li Mansion to greet the guests looked very domineering, especially after putting on official robes, they were even more domineering and speechless.
explain.
In the Song Dynasty, having more brothers and sisters meant taking advantage. Needless to say, if there were eight brothers who were officials, this was already a wealthy family.
Yun Zheng also very much hopes that when he celebrates his seventieth birthday, there will be eight big men standing in front of his house to receive gifts. However, when he thinks about Lu Qingqing and Ge Qiuyan's attitude towards having children, he feels that his life may be
Hopeless.
What he can't get must be sour, at least that's what Yun Zheng thinks. At least seven of the eight brothers of the Li family are lying on top of the body, specifically to defraud Zhao Zhen of his salary.
Li often saw Yun Zheng walking over with eight-character steps, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. He held Yun Zheng's hand and said with a smile: "The presence of the military commander will make the humble house look brighter."
Yun Zheng glanced sideways at Li Chang and said, "I'm here to wish the old lady a birthday. What does that have to do with you?"
Li Chang had long been accustomed to Yun Zheng's moodiness. He was not angry at all after hearing this. He said with a smile: "I am my mother's eldest son. Naturally, I have to welcome guests on my mother's behalf. The military commander is here to invite you."
Yun Zheng pointed to the carriage drive behind him: "I don't know what's in the birthday gift prepared by my wife. Just accept it and I've completed the military order."
Li Chang smiled like a flower. He even said it was a waste of money, but the newly installed row of teeth made of unknown materials in his mouth were dazzlingly white.
Li Changchang looked at Yun Zheng's mouth, smiled and tapped his teeth with his fingers and said: "Ivory, the craftsmanship of Persian craftsmen."
It turned out that there was already a specialized dentist at this time, which Yun Zheng didn't know. However, Li Chang finally had teeth, and Yun Zheng immediately felt that he felt a lot less guilty.
"Send this craftsman to my house later. I'm going to study the dentures carefully. Don't you think it's unpleasant to have ivory in your mouth?"
Li Chang laughed and said: "Some people have already said that I am like a dog that cannot spit out ivory from its mouth. Now that I have ivory in my mouth, let's see what else they have to say."
Yun Zheng was well aware of Li Chang's shamelessness. He raised his thumbs at him and came to Li Chang's brothers to listen to Li Chang's introduction.
"Sure enough, he is full of nobles and nobles." After listening to Li Chang's introduction, Yun Zheng could only say this with emotion. The lowest official position among his seven brothers was also the general magistrate of Jiangning Mansion. From this, it can be seen that Li Chang
The family’s heritage is so profound.
"You brothers actually entered the Song Dynasty bureaucracy through the scientific examination. Lao Li, I am really surprised by this. What surprises me even more is that you didn't cheat at all!"
Li Chang chuckled and said: "I, Li Chang, will do whatever it takes to get promoted, but if anyone from the Li family enters the officialdom through fraud, his end will be much worse than losing his official position.
My mother has always believed that the first condition for becoming an official is that one’s knowledge must match the official position. If the two are not equal, the official will not be able to do well, and he may suffer consequences for himself and the rest of the family because of his lack of ability.
Bring disaster."
Yun Zheng sighed, turned around, took out a box of ginseng from the pile of gifts he had brought, held it in his hand and said to Li Chang: "Brother Li, please lead the way. I really hope to meet the old lady in person. Face the old lady in person."
Please teach your son the way."
Li Chang smiled proudly and said: "Commander, please have tea in the flower hall. I will go and invite my mother out now."
Being able to enter other people's flower halls shows that Li Chang does not regard Yun Zheng as an outsider.
This is a small partition, and outside the flower window is the Li family's small garden. It is called a small garden because this garden is indeed not that big compared to the Yun family's garden.
Yun Zheng sat in the flower hall for a while and immediately discovered that there were countless beautiful scenes to see in this small compartment. As long as he moved one step, a completely different picture would appear in front of his eyes.
Several poles of green bamboo outside the flower window were cut into a living picture of green bamboo. Take a step forward, and a clump of orchids next to the green bamboo comes into view. The picture of green bamboo immediately turns into orchids and green bamboo. Take a step back.
, a thick and sturdy pine bonsai uses its dense and well-organized structure to be cut into a wonderful fan surface by the fan-shaped flower window.
The small gallery is not deep, but a beam of sunlight falling from the patio happens to shine on a simple stone urn covered with moss. There is a white lotus in bloom. Pingting's maid is carrying tea from a tree.
Passing under the pomegranate tree, the red flowers on the pomegranate tree were in full bloom. The maid accidentally knocked down a broken flower. The broken flower fell on the white porcelain plate, but it felt a bit more desolate.
An old woman walked over from the cobblestone path. Her hair was already white as snow, but her face was extremely rosy. She didn't look old as she walked.
Li Chang hunched his neck and clasped his hands on his chest, followed the old woman step by step, winking at Yun Zheng from a distance, and there was a hint of naughtiness on that old face.
Yun Zheng stood up and welcomed the old woman to sit on the main seat. He knelt down on one knee to congratulate the old lady on her birthday. He also presented the ginseng he had brought and wished the old lady a long life.
The old woman chuckled and said, "Get up, it's a bit aggrieved to ask an invincible general like you to kneel down and worship an old woman."
Yun Zheng cupped his hands and said: "This junior is discussing friendship with Brother Li. When he sees the old lady, he should act as his son and nephew. This is a matter of course. How can there be any grievance?"
"You were the one who knocked out eight of my son's teeth?"
He beat someone's son and was now being questioned by his mother. No matter how shameless Yun Zheng was, his face turned red and he didn't know how to respond.
Li Changzai smiled and said: "Mother, Brother Yun initially had a conflict with Haer over their political views. They were enemies of each other at the time, so it was inevitable that something like that would happen.
Later, Hai'er and Brother Yun got to know each other and found that they were both sincere gentlemen. They both regretted the past when they talked about the past. Hai'er remembered clearly that the military commander and Hai'er led the army to Tang County. We only had 10,000 troops, and the Liao army had enough
With fifteen thousand people and extremely cruel and inhumane barbarians from the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Huatazhuang committed an inhumane and tragic act in Tang County.
The military commander decided to fight Yelvhua Tower in Tang County. Before the battle, the military commander said to me: If he dies in this battle, let me forget about him beating me.
The child said he had forgotten it and asked his mother not to mention it again."
The old woman looked at her son, then at Yun Zheng, stood up, held Yun Zheng's hand and said, "If we crawl out from the pile of dead people together, what should we not see?"
I heard that you took the lead in the bloody battle in Tang County. That's it. I don't blame you. When my son came back and talked about the tragedy of that battle, even I felt chills down my spine. The savages were cruel. Naturally, our soldiers only had
Fight to the death.
General, please accept the old woman's courtesy."
Yun Zheng kept saying that he didn't dare. He helped the old woman sit down again and then cupped his hands and said: "Thank you, old lady, for your magnanimity. Yun Zheng was a young man when he was young. He acted wantonly in the court with some minor achievements. Now he often sweats when he thinks about it.
I regret it so much."
The old woman sighed: "Every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite. Who has come here without stumbling all his life? Even my son only came to regret after being beaten by you. His eyesight on things has unknowingly improved.
, even from this point of view, it is not unfair to lose eight teeth.
When my son talked about you before, I always thought you would be a young and domineering general. Now I see that you already know how to hide your clumsiness. This is a good thing.
I only wish that you can support each other and finish this life. Don't wait until I am this age to know the preciousness of true love. If you are old, it will be too late to do anything, and you can't do anything except think about it."
Yun Zheng bowed and thanked the old lady for her teachings. The old lady stood up and said, "You guys sit a little longer. I am a little sleepy and need to take a nap. I still have to help these untalented descendants collect money. I am obviously already seventy-five years old, but
If you have to celebrate your 70th birthday, you don’t have to make people laugh."
After watching the old lady being supported and sent away by the maids, Yun Zheng sat down on the chair and said to Li Chang: "I just want to know how the old lady trained all your brothers to become talents!"
Li Chang said with some pain: "This feeling is really not worthy of sharing with outsiders. I can only say that my mother's family skills are really great.
We eight brothers were not born from the same mother. My father only served as magistrate for one time. In terms of talents, my mother cannot compare with any of our brothers.
Brother Wei has been living in the shadow of his mother since he was a child. Failure to complete his studies was followed by a meal. When we were in Qianzhou, someone sent some peaches to my father. Each of the eight of us brothers shared one, because we didn’t have any.
Taking them in order of eldest and youngest, all eight of us were punished. Since then, I have never eaten peaches again..."
Yun Zheng said in shock: "Could it be that..."
Li Chang said angrily: "What we are now capable of is due to my mother's beatings. Growing up, I may have received more sticks than you, a general, have received." (To be continued)