Chapter 545: All Ways to Happiness Are Blocked
Liu Ji finally got the news and learned that the famous local businessmen were going to treat him to a banquet. He hurriedly finished his lessons in Lianyuan, fooled his teacher into a good mood, and then ran home excitedly.
As soon as he entered the door, he found Qin Yao exercising in the backyard. He walked up to her and asked excitedly, "Madam, where is my invitation? Show it to me quickly!"
This was the first time in his life that he felt so popular!
Qin Yao put down the sword and looked at his happy expression, as if there was only a dog's tail wagging behind him.
"It's on the table in my room." Before she could finish the sentence 'if you want to see it, go get it yourself', the person in front of her had disappeared.
Qin Yao's mouth twitched slightly. Just as she was about to continue her unfinished training with her sword, she heard someone's wild laughter coming from the main room. While laughing, she excitedly shouted, "There's actually the Fan family!"
Fan family?
Qin Yao vaguely remembered a blurry figure. It seemed that when Liu Ji was in the county academy, he had a close relationship with a scholar named Fan.
Anyone who could hang out with the former Liu Ji was probably not a good person. Qin Yao directly crossed out the Fan family from the reply list.
Liu Ji didn't know this. He only knew that Master Fan loved gambling. If the two families were on good terms, he could spend other people's money and experience all kinds of life in the gambling house.
He deliberately put aside the note handed to him by the Fan family, and looked for a pen to write a reply, but when he looked up, he found that he was still in the evil woman's room.
"My wife, you are so busy that you probably don't have time to deal with these notes. So I will take them to the study and bring them back together, okay?" Liu Ji leaned out of the windowsill and asked Qin Yao in the backyard in a flattering manner.
Qin Yao's lips curved slightly, "Okay, just write your reply first."
Liu Ji did not notice the word "first". He just heard her say "yes". He was overjoyed and picked up the twelve invitations and went to the study.
He pondered over many words to reply to the post, but still felt that it was not enough, so he called Qi Xianguan and Gong Liangliao to his home for dinner and asked them for advice.
Qi Xianguan had never seen such a thing before. He looked at his overjoyed junior fellow in surprise and said, "Aren't you deceiving the court?"
Liu Ji is not even an official yet, but so many unscrupulous businessmen who want to take advantage of loopholes in the court have come to him. What will happen if he becomes an official in the future?
Liu Ji chuckled, "Young Senior Brother, you are worrying too much. How can this be called deception when it comes to family matters? Besides, look at this post, which sentence is wrong? People sincerely gave me land, houses, and shops. If I refuse, wouldn't I be letting them down?"
Qi Xianguan slapped away Liu Ji's hand that was about to fall on his head, and looked at Gong Liangliao, "Sir!"
Gong Liangliao ate calmly, as if he was used to it, and said slowly in a calm tone:
"Jingxuan, as long as it complies with the rules, it's fine."
Qi Xianguan didn't expect the master to say that, and asked anxiously, "That's right, right?"
He was very worried about his junior fellow apprentice Liu Ji, who was not a kind person to begin with. If the teacher continued to condone and protect him, wouldn't that be harming him?
Gong Liangliao smiled inscrutable, "Right and wrong are determined by people. The only difference is which side the person who made the rules leans towards."
"Jingxuan." Gong Liangliao looked at Qi Xianguan lovingly, "If you think it's wrong, that's just your feeling. If you can't be the one who makes the rules, then you can only abide by the rules. Do you understand?"
"Of course, as your teacher, I am not saying that you must become a person who only knows how to follow the rules and forget your original intention. I just hope that you can be like your junior brother, blame others more, condemn yourself less, and be happier."
Sometimes, it’s easier to be a person who goes with the flow.
Of course, Gong Liangliao would never say such words to someone like Liu Ji. It was precisely because he knew what the young man in front of him held in his heart that he hoped he could indulge himself a little.
"Sir?" Qi Xianguan frowned even deeper, looking at the old man in front of him with a rare kind look, a trace of worry suddenly rose in his eyes.
"Why are you saying something like you're leaving me?"
Gong Liangliao was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
Liu Ji and Qi Xianguan looked at each other, and for the first time, the two brothers tacitly realized that something was wrong with their teacher.
After dinner, on the way to send Gong Liangliao and the other man back to Lianyuan, Liu Ji tentatively asked the old man if he wanted to go to the county to find a doctor to see him.
Qi Xianguan also echoed, "Sir, you haven't asked the doctor to come for a consultation for a long time."
Unexpectedly, as soon as the two finished speaking, Gong Liangliao's face turned dark.
The two brothers immediately shut up and could only secretly look at the old man's body to see if there was anything wrong.
But when I looked all the way to the Lotus Courtyard, I didn't see anything unusual.
Liu Ji originally wanted to help the teacher bathe, and even took off all his clothes to take a good look at the wound on the broken limb to see if there was any ulcer, but the old man ended up slapping him on the back of the head.
As he fled out of the courtyard with his head covered, Liu Ji could still hear a roar from behind him: "I am in good health!"
Liu Ji patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
This person has more energy than him, it seems that the teacher is in good health.
After strolling back home, he saw that the light in Qin Yao's room was still on. Liu Ji handed over the twelve replies that had been polished by his teacher and senior brother, and asked Qin Yao to ask Song Yu to deliver the replies.
"Got it." Qin Yao was looking at the investigation reports of each household brought back by Awang. Without raising her head, she waved her hand to signal Liu Ji to close the door.
Liu Ji was delighted, "Thank you for your hard work, my lady."
After closing the door of the main house, he hopped back to the study as if his feet were equipped with springs, looking forward to the wonderful scene of attending twelve banquets in a row, and fell into a sweet dream.
But what I never expected was that Qin Yao only replied to three posts.
"Why?"
Knowing the truth, Liu Ji held back the tears that were about to fall, rushed to Qin Yao angrily, and asked with his hands on his hips:
"I only need to reply to three families, why did you ask me to write the replies to all twelve families?!"
Qin Yao raised her eyebrows and asked in surprise, "Aren't you angry because you can't attend the banquet of the twelve families?"
Of course! Liu Ji replied in his heart.
However, if he said that, he would be beaten soon.
After all, he couldn't let his little thoughts get exposed, so he could only question her about the fact that he had replied to twelve messages.
Qin Yao glanced at him playfully and called Awang and Yin Le over, "Tell him why you only replied to three invitations."
Awang looked at Yin Le and motioned for her to speak.
Yin Le coughed lightly and explained to his master very seriously and rigorously:
"It's like this. After a cross-investigation between Awang and I, we found that among these twelve wealthy businessmen, the descendants of the Zhang family behaved erratically, the master of the Xuan family was lustful, the Wu, Wang, and Fan families liked extravagance, and the Fan family was a gambler."
"It is easy to bring bad reputation to the master by making friends with such people, which may affect the master's career, so in the end only the three families of Deng, Qian and Shen, who are frugal and have good character, were left."
After listening to this, Liu Ji was so moved that tears came to his eyes. He pointed at Awang and Yin Le and said twice: "Very good, very good."
Well done, there's no way out for him!
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