"It is gratifying and congratulating that Mr. Sir has been vindicated. Let's celebrate today."
"That's right, this time it was a near miss. Not only was Mr. Dongyue vindicated, but also our students were cleared."
"It's a pity that we took advantage of those bully officials. Many students were severely beaten by them in prison, and countless people were injured."
"Hey, why bother talking about this small section? That's fine, it just lets those people see the integrity of our Chinese literati."
"Yes, we are not afraid of power, how can we be beaten into submission?"
"Mr. Dongyue, please say a word! It's such a great day today, how should we celebrate it?"
Outside the Dali Temple, all the scholars who were released together with Mr. Dongyue were extremely excited. They were completely past the miserable state where they were frightened to the point of peeing. They ignored the injuries on their bodies and shouted that they wanted to celebrate.
Unfortunately, Mr. Dongyue was not in good spirits and was questioned by many people. Looking at everyone's excitement, he thought for a while and nodded: "Since everyone is so enthusiastic, let's go to Chunxing Tower to have a few drinks now."
Upon hearing this, everyone cheered, and a group of people gathered around and went to Chunxing Tower.
At this time, the news had not spread, and many literati imprisoned in prison were still expected to be gradually released, but the literati leading to Dali Temple were already singing triumphal songs.
Chunxing Tower is one of the famous restaurants in Beijing. Due to the changes in the capital over the past few days, there are no customers in the building.
This was quite convenient for a group of people celebrating.
After a while, several tables of wine and food were set up, and everyone sat down to eat, drink, and talk, enjoying everything.
"Let me just say, with Mr. Dongyue's integrity, how could he possibly write such a rebellious and unethical phrase: 'The country's generals will surely perish, and the reason for old age is not death'? It turned out to be 'The country's generals will surely perish, and old age will not lead to death'."
, "Misconduct" is really and extremely ridiculous. It is really a big mistake. Alas, we are all in vain. We have suffered a lot of prison pain for no reason. Now we are better, the injustice has been redressed, and we are all happy."
In front of the wine table, another person sighed loudly.
Someone else echoed: "Absolutely! I was really worried just now. Thanks to Mr. Xia's risking his life to speak out, Mr. Dongyue was able to clear his grievances."
"By the way, I still don't know where Mr. Xia was born? What fame does he have?"
Everyone laughed and then turned their attention to Xia Shang.
Xia Shang was brought here by everyone, but he could not refuse and responded: "I am a businessman from Yangzhou, without any fame."
"Businessman? No fame?"
When several people around him heard that Xia Shang was a merchant, the warm expressions on their faces disappeared instantly. They all smiled faintly and stopped talking to Xia Shang.
Xia Shang was also happy to be quiet, minding his own food.
"Brother Xia."
There was a voice in my ears. I turned my head and saw that it was the middle-aged scholar.
Xia Shang nodded.
The other party said calmly: "Can I sit next to you?"
"nature."
The middle-aged scholar sat down with a smile, looking very elegant: "It turns out that I am the Young Master of Xia Shang, I am Ge Yang, a wanderer."
"Brother Ge."
"No need to be polite. I didn't expect that my brother, young master, could be so eloquent and courageous at such a young age. Before, in front of Dali Temple, I saw everyone scared to death. Only my brother's expression did not change. At that time, I knew that my brother was very special.
An ordinary person. After the case of Mr. Dongyue, Ge’s conjecture has been further confirmed.”
"It's nothing, it's just telling the truth."
"Fact?" Ge Yang smiled mysteriously, "That's not true, is it? Is it really true that what Mr. Dongyue said is that 'a general of a country must perish, and it is a mistake to not die when old'?"
When Xia Shang heard this, he frowned.
Ge Yang: "Or is this sentence just a wording technique used by my brother to defend Mr. Dongyue? In order to defend Mr. Dongyue, my brother forcibly changed the words 'A country will surely perish, and old age but not death' to '
The generals of the country will inevitably perish. If you are old and do not die, you will lose your behavior. The pronunciation and meaning of the words are unchanged, and only two pauses are added in the middle. The meaning of the entire sentence has undergone earth-shaking changes. This kind of strategy is the only one Ge Mou has seen in his life."
Xia Shang paused and his expression became solemn: "Brother Ge said this, does he have any deep meaning?"
"But why did Brother Xia do this?"
"Is it possible to see Mr. Dongyue being unfairly wronged?"
"Isn't it fair? Brother, haven't you ever thought that all of this is a play written, directed and acted by Mr. Dongyue?"
"How can this be?!"
Ge Yang stopped, looked at Xia Shang's astonished expression, and the smile on his lips turned weird: "It seems you are not enough to be my opponent."
With these words behind him, Ge Yang got up and went elsewhere.
Xia Shang didn't understand, looking at Ge Yang's back...
At this time, another person came over: "Mr. Xia, Mr. Dongyue, please come upstairs."
Mr. Dongyue was very tired and went to a private room upstairs alone, not among the others, and only talked to others alone.
The person Mr. Dongyue was talking to before was his disciple.
Suddenly Xia Shang was asked to go upstairs again, which made Xia Shang confused.
But Xia Shang didn't think much and went upstairs honestly and entered the private room where Mr. Dongyue was.
In the private room, Mr. Dongyue sat at the window and stared blankly out of the window, his eyes showing exhaustion. After experiencing this, he seemed to have aged a few years.
"Master is here? Please sit down."
After Xia Shang sat down, Mr. Dongyue closed the window, looked at Xia Shang for a long time, and sighed: "I never thought that the young master could be such a resourceful person. I have really seen it today."
"Sir, you are so complimentary."
"Thanks to the young master, I can avoid being framed by traitors and keep my life pure."
"Sir, there is no one here, so there is no need to say these clichés. Do you remember what the student told you at the end that the days are long?"
Mr. Dongyue frowned slightly.
Xia Shang said bluntly: "This is not an unfounded statement by a student. The teacher's plan has been seen through by the students. Li Si is right, but you deliberately told him to listen, and your disciple Yue Fangqing was deliberately told by you."
Write that poem.”
Mr. Dongyue frowned even more tightly.
"By doing this, you are leaving a loophole in the case and making the world suspicious. You are planning to blame the prince for your own death, making the prince a public enemy of the world's nobles and literati. Your poetry meeting was originally
Fake, you knew that the prince would use thunderous means to prevent the Poetry Society from starting. From the very beginning, you wanted to create the illusion that you died unjustly. Because you know that only your own death can make the world's literati unite into one, and use
Come and fight against the prince to preserve the status of scribes in today's world."
"The talent of the young master is rare in the world. I am convinced. But since the young master already understands, why do you want to block it?"
"Because your actions will destroy the stability of the world, and the people of Li will soon be in dire straits."
Mr. Dongyue suddenly became furious: "Now that Li Xin is in power, it is the one who has plunged the world into dire straits! I want to save the people of the world!"
"No, sir, this action is only to save the literati. You have no regard for the common people. Therefore, future generations have to stop you from doing this." (To be continued)