Volume 1 Fighting with Wisdom in the Capital Chapter 41
On November 21, 2018, the 19th year of the 19th year of the Kangyuan period of Dagan, at the south of Chang'an City, Huaizhenfang, and Qiuye Grape Cottage.
Xu Wubing looked around the south of Chang'an City for nearly two hours in the afterglow of the evening and finally arrived in front of Qiu Mingli's mansion.
This is an inconspicuous mansion, surrounded by gray walls and tiled houses, all of which are residential. The door of the mansion has peeled off red paint, neither the towering gate tower nor the stone lions and beasts that are in the house are seen. There is only a plaque hanging on the door, with the four words "Autumn Leaf Grape Cottage" written on it, with silver hooks and iron strokes, and the brushwork is vigorous and vigorous...
No wonder the residents around him didn't know him. If he hadn't seen him with his own eyes, no one could believe him. This was the mansion of a third-rank official of the dynasty.
The entire Chang'an City faces north and south. Since ancient times, great officials and nobles have believed that the north is respected. Therefore, the Taiji Palace is the north of Chang'an City, and the Daming Palace is the east. Most of the people living in the northeast are official families, and the merchants and wealthy people headed by Tianbao Pavilion in the northwest. The east and west cities are located at the center of the city. The south of the city is the area where civilians live. The south of the city is the more crowded. Qiu Mingli has been an official for more than 20 years, but he has put his own mansion among civilians.
Xu Wubing stepped forward and knocked on the door. A little boy came out, who was sixteen years old and looked very delicate. After he found out about Wubing's purpose, he politely took him into the front hall and served tea.
The little boy's name is "Ping'an". He said that Mr. Qiu is in the Ministry of Revenue and cannot go home after a long time, so he let Xu Wubing stay in the hall...
Xu Wubing was fine, so he walked around Mr. Qiu's thatched cottage. He saw that the "Qiuye Grape Cottage" was just a two-entry courtyard. The wing room and the main room were very small and simple. Most of the bluestone slabs in the courtyard had cracked and many moss and weeds grew... There were only two servants in the entire mansion, one old and the other young. The old one was about fifty years old, named "Xiele", which was specialized in cleaning and cooking in the kitchen, and the few were the book boy "Ping An"...
"Well!...I didn't expect that Mr. Qiu's residence was as simple as this..."
Wubing chatted with Ping'an for a few words, then returned to the front hall to sit down, took a few sips of tea, and couldn't help but recall the conversation with Hu Yiyi yesterday...
"Hu...Sister, are you saying that I had rejected the King of Wei's good intentions before and did not go to the Qingyiwei to serve as a service?" Xu Wubing saw a look of worry suddenly appearing on Fairy Bibo's face, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart for no reason.
Hu Yiyi nodded and said, "Although 'A gentleman is good at helping the world, and if he is poor, he will be good at helping the world alone', a real man should take the people of the world as his responsibility, and he will do something and not do anything... You have read many books of sages, and you should understand these principles. You must know that it is easy to help the world alone, but it is difficult to help the world..."
Xu Wubing said: "But Sister Hu, the Qingyiwei... is such a dirty place, and they are all insidious and vicious things! Wubing really doesn't want to be with the jackals and tigers and leopards..."
Hu Yiyi said: "The way in the world is that people have good and evil, but no good or bad. The Qingyiwei is just a 'uuu' ear! The weapon in his hand is to do evil, and the weapon in your hand, you can do good and help others... If you don't have a weapon in your hand, you will become the flesh of a knife and a slaughter; if you have a weapon in your hand, you can use it with all your energy and use it with all your energy... Today, only by doing your best to polish the weapon in your hand, the stronger and sharper it will be, in the future, you can open your mind, ask for your orders for the people of the world, and benefit the people of the people!..."
Hu Yiyi was only a weak woman, but she made this great statement. She heard Xu Wubing pondered for a long time until she suddenly realized, and said, "Sister Hu, Wubing knows..."
Hu Yiyi said: "What do you know? Do you know... If Xiao Shu and I were not protecting you in the past few days, you would have been grabbed by those claws in the Qingyiwei prison. Even if you practiced some kung fu, there would be many heroes who could not defeat them... You just kept lying in the cracks and knew that their children had a long love affair. They sighed every day, just buy drunk in the inn... I asked Xiao Shu to buy all kinds of good wines in the world, and just let you drink drunk before you stop!"
Wubing couldn't help but blushed again with shame, clasped his fists and whispered:
"What Sister Hu taught me is that the previous episode was sick and willful. In the future, I will do things without illness, but I will follow my sister's instructions..."
But Shu Hentian took the opportunity to add: "I said, "I said, sister, don't blame me too much. If I don't even know how to "love my children" you will be even more unhappy..."
Hu Yiyi gave Shu Hentian a blank look and said, "It's also my fault... I have been recuperating for more than two months. When I came to Chang'an, you had already left the east of the city..."
Xu Wubing hurriedly said, "Sister Hu, has your leg injuries cured?"
Hu Yiyi smiled and said, "It's all good... It's not better, thank you Mr. Xu for thinking about it!... In the past month in Chang'an, Xiao Shu and I have nothing to do, so I bought you a house in Liquanfang. Although it's a little smaller, I only entered the courtyard seven times. Fortunately, there is the Wangxian Tower next to me. In my spare time, if Mr. Xu wants to drink some wine when he goes out..."
Xu Wubing looked around and saw that the mansion was tall and wide, with flying eaves and corners everywhere, with wide hallways, carved beams and painted buildings, beautiful layouts, and painted walls in the long corridor, which were painted as freshly. It was originally decorated very luxuriously. Hu Yiyi was unique and arranged the back garden in a unique and elegant manner... Wubing thought that this mansion was bought for himself, and the servants and maids in front and back, after a rough calculation,
There are more than twenty people, and the person named "Dong Laifu" must be the headmaster of this house. Wuyan recalled the past that he often went to and from the Fang family mansion in Fenshuitang, Hangzhou. Although his house was wider than the Fang family mansion, the furnishings were even more luxurious and elegant... I didn't expect that I could own this luxury arts artifact at a young age. This was something I had never even dreamed of in my dreams!
Wubing was surprised in secret and asked, "Sister Hu, how much money does it cost to have such a big house? Wubing only helps, how dare he work with his sister, and repay such generous gifts!..."
Hu Yiyi asked Shu Hentian: "Xiao Shu, how much did this house cost?"
Shu Hentiandao: "This house was originally bought by a Hu merchant in the Western Regions. It took him half a year to install it. He just hired a maid and maid, but was changed by the family and wanted to rush back immediately. I picked up a big bargain and spent 18,000 taels of silver. I added some items to collect a total of 20,000 taels of silver..."
Wubing felt very sorry and hurriedly said, "I spent so much money!... Sister Hu... Wubing's tiny power is really not afraid to be greedy for the achievements of heaven. I must not want this house!"
Hu Yiyi's face turned aside and said, "Mr. Xu, what did you say just now? 'From the future, but I'll call me 'Sister', what's the point of giving you a house..."
Hu Yiyi smiled again, "Xiao Wubing, the white things that you mortals care about are the easiest things in this world for me, brother and sister... My little Shu brother came out, not to mention twenty thousand taels, even twenty thousand taels of silver, he could get it with it without any effort..."
Xu Wubing was waiting to refuse. Shu Hentian beside him patted his arm and said:
"Okay, okay... This house is not for you to live alone. In the future, my old sister and I will accompany you for a while. The fairy mountain mansion in Bibo Island where my old sister lives is more than a few hundred times larger than here. Your house is too small, so she... can't stand this crime..."
Hu Yiyi glared at Shu Hentian again, and saw that Xu Wubing had already agreed to it. After a while, she asked again:
"Xiao Wubing, why did you form such a big gang with the Qingyiwei this time? It made Nan and Bei'anpingsi look for you everywhere. What have you experienced when we are not by your side? Let me tell you carefully first..."
Without illness, he told Hu Yiyi what he saw and encountered after coming to the capital until he entered Tianbao Pavilion, and undoubtedly injured Murong Ji and others.
Hu Yiyi thought for a long time and said:
"Xiao Wubing, now you are going to meet someone..."
"who?"
"Your sir, Qiu Minli..."
...
"Young Master, my master is back!" Ping'an's words pulled Xu Wubing back from yesterday's recollection...
Wuyan got up and walked out of the middle hall, and came to the front yard...
"No sickness!...I'm just waiting for you, hahaha!..." Before the person could enter, a voice full of enthusiasm and joy came from afar.
Wujian looked up and looked at it. He was leaning on a crutch from outside the door. His center of gravity was unstable, but he was walking quickly. It was the familiar figure...
Wuyan stepped forward and held Qiu Mingli's shaky body with his hands. The two of them couldn't help but hugging each other tightly...
One is a well-educated scholar, and the other is a stubborn scholar. The two of them met by chance, but they appreciate each other. In their hearts, they regarded each other as a friend of life and death...
Qiu Mingli's eyes were full of tears. He felt that life was like a dream. He had known that he would die before... At this moment, he could still return to the world and see the light of heaven again. The person who saved his life was the King of Wei, and the young man in front of him!
The sick-free eyes were filled with tears. He was in the imperial prison, and his life was like an ant, and he died in an instant. Just a word from a person made him escape without any damage... That person was right in front of him at this moment...
Who says a man doesn’t cry easily? If he falls deep in love, what’s wrong with tears falling like rain?…
A drop of water can be repaid with a spring of water. A life-saving grace will never be repaid for life!
The sick-free eyes were filled with tears, and he immediately bowed to him:
"Disciple Xu Wubing, pay homage to the master!"
Qiu Mingli hurriedly helped her up and said, "Okay, okay, okay! It's good to come! Just be safe! Get up quickly, get up!" As he spoke, he wiped the tears in his eyes, but while wiping, tears kept gushing out...
Wubing held Qiu Mingli's left leg and asked, "Master, your leg?"
Qiu Mingli smiled and said, "Cough!... I was beaten hard in prison, my legs were broken, and the imperial doctor had tried his best... I am afraid I can't live without crutches... Haha! Don't cry... Qiu is lucky to be able to save his life this time!..."
He was both sad and hated without illness, and said with tears: "Master!..."
Qiu Mingli waved his hand and said, "I saw you being trapped before, and I said I would accept you as my disciple. It was just a joke. Now, we have both gotten rid of the cage. I will not mention this matter of apprenticeship in the future..."
Wubing hurriedly bowed again and said, "Master, I will be your disciple for one day, and you will be my good teacher for the rest of my life. In the future, I will definitely stay with you and serve you for life..."
Qiu Mingli shook her head one after another, insisting on not being able to call her master and apprentice, and only allowed Wuya to call him "teacher" or "sir".
Wuya couldn't resist Qiu Mingli, so he had to obey his teacher's words.
...
The two of them sat down in the living room. Qiu Mingli took a sip of tea and asked, "Where have you been in the past two months? It's easy to find me..."
Wuyan said ashamed: "Students are ashamed!...I know that the teacher has been out of the imperial prison, and the students should have come to thank him, but the students are disturbed by some trivial matters...so..."
Qiu Mingli waved her hand and said, "Okay... If you don't want to say it, I won't ask. I just want to know, what are you going to do next...?"
Wubing said: "I'm not hiding the teacher. Before, Wubing only thought about the fun of the mountains and the joy of the rivers and the lakes. He was unwilling to be bound by the temple. He only cared about his own pleasure. He did not care about the people and the millions of people in the world. This mind not only failed the teacher's teachings, but was indeed inferior to a woman! ... In the future, Wubing should remember the teachings of his teacher, follow the teachings of the sages, do my best, do my best, take the people as my responsibility, and take the people as my request. ... In this court, if you have the needs, Wubing will respond with regret!..."
Qiu Mingli slapped her thigh, shouted "Okay", and said:
"What I want is what you say! This time, the emperor is anxious to carry out reforms, but the court is full of dusk. I, Daqian, urgently need a talent!... Tomorrow, I will report to the King of Wei, go to the Ministry of Personnel to ask you for an errand, go to the Ministry of Revenue, and have a "experience" first... Is this official rank, just a mere seventh rank, don't feel wronged, do this officialdom... You have to learn it slowly. I have been studying for more than 20 years, but now I still have a slight understanding..."
Wubing said: "This post of the Ministry of Revenue is also a court official. I am not as good as a magistrate now. I don't have any fame or fame. I don't even have the title of a 'Jinshi', and I don't even have the title of a 'June' or a 'Scholar'. The teacher thinks... can I be competent for it without illness?..."
Qiu Mingli stood up and walked while knocking on the ground with her cane, laughing:
"Don't worry! I am now in disguise and was promoted to three levels by the emperor's grace. Now I am a third-rank minister of the Ministry of Revenue. In the Ministry of Revenue, even the Minister of Shangshu Yuan Yulou, he obeys my words and dare not disobey... As long as I am here, no one in the Ministry of Revenue will dare to make things difficult for you!..."
Xu Wubing also stood up and asked, "Teacher, King Wei...is he willing to recommend students?"
Chapter completed!