Chapter 227: When a Scholar Parts for Three Days, Look at Him with New Eyes

Persuading people, even if it is for their own good, cannot be done by preaching.

Otherwise, it is very easy to be counterproductive.

Seeing that his little partner no longer insisted on his own views, Zhang Jiujiang nodded silently.

Zhang Gui breathed a sigh of relief and said softly:

"The matter is actually very simple.

In the last two years, you went to the 'Qingdou Academy' to study and became loyal to the monarch and patriotic.

The main reason for this is the exemplary role of your Academy Head, Mr. Huaihe.

Then he became your life idol.

Then, because of the refugee uprising, his family was destroyed, and he decided to come to Yuanshan to solve the root cause.

Then you were very moved and followed him, only to find that this grandson was completely hypocritical.

Then your moral system collapsed.

Your mind became chaotic, and you drilled into a dead end.

You developed a rebellious thought that Mr. Huaihe is a hypocrite, but my loyalty to the monarch and patriotism are true gold and silver.

But you shouldn't think that way.

You should empty your head, don't worry about other people's thoughts, and only think about what you want to do most right now.

Do you understand?"

Looking at Zhang Gui's excited gestures, Zhang Jiujiang suddenly climbed up from the ground and gave his good brother a heavy hug.

Zhang Gui was overjoyed.

"You brain-damaged guy have finally been cured by me.

Alright, don't feel guilty anymore; you're covered in the smell of stinky salted fish.

Let's find a big bathhouse to wash clean, and feast on roast meat and burning liquor.

Then find a way to slip away."

"Dagui, you are truly my brother of life and death, my closest friend!

But why can't you believe that 'when a scholar parts for three days, look at him with new eyes.'

I studied for two years at the 'Qingdou Academy' and really developed my own sense of loyalty.

It's not blind obedience to anyone.

I can't figure it out now because I have nowhere to go.

If you really force me to leave this small room, I can only go die."

Feeling that Zhang Jiujiang's words were chaotic, Zhang Gui was about to refute them one by one again, but was startled by the last three words "go die."

He changed the subject and said:

"If you don't leave, you don't leave; it's just a matter of our brothers laughing it off.

As for going to the point of life and death, where does this come from?"

"Back then, I followed a group of classmates thousands of miles to Yuanshan to welcome the Academy Head's remains home, which became a joke.

But facing thousands of lives saved, at this moment, I cannot say that Mr. Huaihe deceived me with 'fake loyalty.'

But to say that what he did was correct, I really can't get over the bend in my heart.

As a result, just when I was at a loss, the old Clan Head of our Pingyang Zhang Family sent a secret letter.

Asking me to stay in the 'Great Wolf Capital' to branch out.

From then on, consider myself a Yuanshan person, and I must not return to the Song Ming homeland within ten years.

I feel that I have nowhere to go, which is why I hid in this 'Duanli House'."

"So it was Zhang Liuduo, that old bastard, who sent you 'shit in the snow,' making your brain damage worse.

That doesn't matter, I have a good place..."

"Dagui, how can such a smart person like you not understand.

Although I initially avoided the world because I felt I had nowhere to go for a while, now it is because my heart is trapped.

Unable to be liberated."

Zhang Gui opened his mouth upon hearing this, although he still had thousands of words to persuade him.

But seeing the unprecedentedly clear eyes of his little partner, and thinking of his words about "life and death."

He finally swallowed his saliva.

"Alright.

Staying anywhere is just staying.

When you figure it out later, you can go out, and it's the same wherever you want to go.

But your food and clothing are too..."

"Just let me follow the flow, is that okay."

"Okay, okay, then I'll chat with you for a while longer, and then I'll get out of here..."

Zhang Gui accompanied his little partner to chat for a long time like this, and only closed his mouth when he saw tiredness on Zhang Jiujiang's face.

"Jiujiang, I also have my own things to do, and I can't always stay in the 'Great Wolf Capital' to accompany you every day to talk nonsense and resolve your heart knots.

What's more, 'the bell must be untied by the person who tied it'; you trapped yourself, and only you can untie it.

I'm leaving, take care of everything."

"Disturbing my clear dreams, you should have left long ago, get out of here quickly."

Zhang Jiujiang laughed loudly upon hearing this, then lay on the ground using his hand as a pillow and closed his eyes.

"Sleeping in broad daylight, swearing, and what kind of clear dreams are you having.

If you say you have a heart knot, you are more free and easy than when we were playing around everywhere in 'Yufang Hao' before.

The subtlety of the human heart is truly unspeakable.

Go, go."

Zhang Gui also shook his head with a full face of smiles and walked out of the "Duanli House."

The answer was that after closing the wooden door, his face had already turned livid.

Cultivators have heart demons, and mortals have them too; once they are born, thoughts that even an idiot could easily see through might trap a wise man for a lifetime!

"This is probabilistically ruining people; it's all the fault of that old thing Huaihe for making trouble.

I have always done things by discussing distance first, then right and wrong.

You harmed my best brother's great youth and made him live a life worse than death, so regardless of how many people that 'open plot and secret plot' saved, our grudge is settled.

Sooner or later, there will be a reckoning!"

Zhang Gui thought secretly in his heart.

Gritting his back teeth, he wandered around the "Xianhe Study" for a while and came to the "Water Character Building 23" where Zhen Ciyun lived.

At this time, Zhen Ciyun was still reading in the hall.

According to Zhang Gui's current understanding, reading is to understand principles.

For the general public, it is mostly to take the imperial examination to become an official and change their destiny.

For the children of noble families, it is more to establish a worldview, broaden their thinking, and assist in cultivation.

Only a guy like him who has been reincarnated, whose ideological system is not mature but overripe, can bypass this step and still achieve extraordinary things.

Of Zhen Ciyun's four maidservants, two went out to purchase, and the remaining Zhen Baimei and Zhen Youlan were sitting in the hall chatting.

Seeing Zhang Gui walk in with his hands behind his back.

Both of their eyes lit up, and they exchanged a look at the same time.

Zhen Baimei stood up and bowed, "So it is Lord of the Deep Winter who has come, greetings, greetings.

My mistress hasn't finished her studies yet; would you like to sit and wait?"

"Okay, hehe, I'll sit for a while."

Zhang Gui had a request for Zhen Ciyun this time, so he really sat down with a thick skin, lowered his head, and counted the hemp spots on the bluestone slab.

Zhen Baimei poured a cup of tea and placed it on the tea table beside him.

Then she retreated with Zhen Youlan.

Immediately afterward, a small but excited voice sounded from behind the screen.

"This is that Western Ocean official who somehow sneaked into the mistress's boudoir to 'play chess.'

Didn't you say he looked plain? Why do I think he's quite handsome.

This is really 'radishes and cabbages, each has its own love.'

Sister Mei, it seems my taste is similar to the mistress's, higher class than yours."

"Plain features don't mean he's ugly, just not outstanding.

And he doesn't have that 'dignified without anger' air of noble children; in short, he's not eye-catching."...

Hearing these words intermittently, Zhang Gui could only pretend not to hear, his eyes straight, his body rocking on the Arhat chair.

After waiting for a while like this, Zhen Ciyun did not return.

But in the distance, a noisy sound of quarreling came, getting louder and louder.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 228 =====