Chapter 158 The True or False Master (15)
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Lu Jiming claimed to be a gentleman from a noble family, and he had never heard such vulgar words in his life.
What kind of bat has chicken feathers stuck on it? Boiling water in a teapot?
It's so vulgar!
But after Lin Jingzhe said these words, he stood in front of him fearlessly, rolled up his sleeves, as if he wanted to fight with him.
Lu Jiming could no longer maintain his calm appearance. His face flushed red, he gritted his teeth, and his expression was distorted. He shouted, "Lin Jingzhe, are you crazy?"
"It's better for him to be crazy than for you to be deaf."
Before Lin Jingzhe could say anything, Liu Yun rushed forward and stood with his friends.
Liu Yun raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, Mr. Lu can understand what people say today. Before, Jingzhe tried to talk to you, but you just couldn't understand. Now he scolds you, and you can understand it. It seems that he will scold you again next time."
Lu Jiming lowered his voice: "Liu Yun, don't be so rude. This is between me and Lin Jingzhe."
Liu Yun said confidently: "Lin Jingzhe doesn't want to pay attention to you, can't you see? You insist on pestering him, aren't you vulgar?"
Lin Jingzhe also said: "Lu Jiming, you have been pestering me all the time. I have nothing to do with you. It just so happens that you can understand what I am saying now, so I will tell you again, I don't need your things. Please get out of here!"
His words were both polite and rude.
After Lin Jingzhe said this, he pulled Liu Yun away. Pei Zhen was still waiting for them beside.
But at this moment, Lu Jiming squatted down and picked up the gift that Lin Jingzhe had dropped. His movements were gentle, but he muttered, "You don't know what's good for you."
Lin Jingzhe had sharp ears and turned around when he heard this.
Lu Jiming was unaware of this, as if he was talking to himself, trying to save face, and then he said softly, "If it was Zizhen, even if he didn't like her, he wouldn't be so rude."
Lin Jingzhe frowned, clenched his fists, and took a step forward.
"If Fei Zi really asked me to take care of you, how could I possibly bring myself to come here..."
The next second, Lin Jingzhe rushed forward, grabbed his collar, and with strength from somewhere, pulled him up from the ground and punched him hard in the face.
There was a loud bang!
"You don't understand what people are saying, right? Who needs your care?!"
Lu Jiming was not prepared for a moment, but after he reacted, he immediately swung his fist at Lin Jingzhe and punched him back with a "bang". The two men wrestled with each other. Lin Jingzhe had been doing farm work for more than ten years and was quite strong. He had no rules for his moves, and just hit him in whatever way was convenient for him.
But Lu Jiming is a few years older than Lin Jingzhe, taller than him, stronger than him, and has also practiced martial arts.
For a moment, he actually had the upper hand.
Seeing that Lin Jingzhe was about to be beaten, Liu Yun quickly lifted up his clothes, found the right moment, and quickly kicked out, leaving a dark footprint on Lu Jiming's brocade robe: "Asshole!"
Pei Zhen originally wanted to stop the fight, but Lu Jiming reached out and grabbed Liu Yun's feet, pulling him to the ground.
Liu Yun fell to the ground, raised his head, his nose was red from the fall, and two lines of blood flowed down instantly.
He wiped his nose with the back of his hand and shouted, "Pei Zhen, are you still standing there watching?!"
"Go call Grandpa and Master over!" Pei Zhen said this to the servant, then rushed over and knocked Lu Jiming down with one punch, "Let go! I told you to let go! Lu Er, do you know who you're hitting? Why don't you let go?"
Lu Jiming said sternly, "Who hit who? Master Pei, didn't you see it? Could it be that the bright and elegant Master Pei wants to take sides?"
Pei Zhen grabbed his collar and said, "Not only will I take sides, I will also beat you up!"
Several people were fighting in a group. Liu Yun grabbed Lu Jiming's arm from behind and restrained his fist.
"Pei Zhen, help me hold him down! Lin Jingzhe, hit him, hit him here! Quick!"
Lin Jingzhe threw a punch, knocking Lu Jiming's head to the side.
The sound of his fist breaking through the wind and the feeling of hitting the flesh made Lin Jingzhe experience an unprecedented pleasure.
It turns out that beating someone you hate is such a comfortable thing.
Lu Jiming raised his head again and said sternly, "Lin Jingzhe, I sent you something out of kindness, and you treat me like this? How can this be justified in the world?"
"Bah!" Liu Yun held him down tightly. "Who cares about your little thing? You've come here ten times in half a month. Do you really think we can't see what you're up to? Don't you just want to climb back up the big tree of the Earl's Mansion? How dare you say you're kind? Aren't you ashamed?"
He added: "Lin Jingzhe, beat him! Beat him so that he won't dare to come again!"
This time, before Lin Jingzhe could throw a punch, Lu Jiming somehow got the strength from somewhere and broke free from Liu Yun's control.
The four men wrestled with each other again, shouting and cursing.
"Lin Jingzhe, no wonder your father wanted Zizhen and not you; it's hard for Zizhen to ask me to take care of you before he left. Country people are arrogant and eccentric, you really don't deserve their kindness!"
"Bullshit!" Liu Yun shouted loudly.
The next second, Lin Jingzhe's voice drowned out his voice: "It's me who doesn't want my cheap father! He can have whoever he wants, but I don't want him!"
Lin Jingzhe said this as he took advantage of the chaos to hit and kick him, using all his strength.
Even if Lu Jiming fought back, he didn't feel any pain and just kept kicking him.
"I've already said it, I don't want you to take care of me! I have a teacher, friends, and a mother, who are you? Do you think you're a savior? You think too highly of yourself!"
"Don't you know how annoying you are? I don't need you as my savior to come here. Yi Zizhen is still suffering in Linjia Village. Can you go and save him? Just leave me alone!"
Lu Jiming struggled hard: "I thought I was the savior? Lin Jingzhe, who do you think you are? You are just an earl who cannot be granted a title. What are you so proud of?"
Liu Yun twisted his arm hard and asked, "What are you so crazy about? He is an earl who cannot be granted a title. Who are you? The second son of the Marquis's mansion. It sounds good to say it, but you are not the crown prince! Your family was punished by His Majesty a few days ago. How much better are you than him?"
Pei Zhen said nothing and fought seriously.
Three against one, Lu Jiming was clearly at a disadvantage.
He gritted his teeth and tried to get away: "This matter ends here!"
Liu Yun said, "Impossible! You can come and go as you please. How can it be that easy? Kneel down and apologize to me. You must also swear to heaven that you will never disturb Lin Jingzhe again!"
Lu Jiming naturally refused and stiffened his neck: "I had good intentions, but you beat me up and insulted me instead. If this gets out, your reputation will be ruined! Let go! This matter ends here, I won't bother with you anymore!"
"Don't even think about leaving if you don't agree!"
"Is this what Master Zhu taught you?" Lu Jiming roared.
"Yes, that's what I taught them!"
A familiar voice came from a distance.
Lu Jiming looked up, and the three students also turned their heads to look.
I saw Master Zhu walking hurriedly, with his sleeves rolled up and his clothes tied up, as if he was going to help his students fight.
"I taught them that if anyone dared to bother them, they should beat him back fiercely, so that he would not dare to come again! Does Mr. Lu have any objection?"
He was originally drinking tea and reading in the backyard with a few old students, but Pei Zhen's servant came running over and said that a few students and Lu Jiming were fighting in the front yard.
Zhu Qingchen didn't have time to ask any more questions, so he quickly asked the servant to lead the way and hurried over.
A few old students were still lagging behind because they were walking too slowly and were using crutches.
As soon as they saw the teacher, the three students immediately felt aggrieved and shouted, "Teacher!"
"How are they?" Zhu Qingchen quickly helped them up and took a careful look. "Are they injured?"
“It hurts so much!”
The three students stood in a row, like three dirty kittens.
Lin Jingzhe's left eye was swollen, Liu Yun's nose was swollen, and Pei Zhen's right eye was swollen, and they were quite symmetrical.
In addition, there were several dusty and dirty footprints and dust on the three people.
Zhu Qingchen glanced at their swollen areas and his fists hardened instantly: "Lu Jiming!"
Lu Jiming said sternly, "There are three of them beating me up, Master Zhu, do you want to take sides?"
"They are my students. If I don't take sides, who will?" Zhu Qingchen said sternly, "You don't need to spread anything to threaten me. You know what you have done! You also know who is afraid of the news spreading!"
Sure enough, Zhu Qingchen grasped Lu Jiming's lifeblood in one fell swoop.
Lu Jiming fell silent instantly.
Just at this time, several old masters also arrived.
The "battlefield" that had not been cleaned up in time was in a mess, which shocked them all.
Zhu Qingchen said sternly, "Send someone to call Wenyuan Hou! I want to ask him, his son harassed my students in Liu Mansion and even wanted to beat my students out of humiliation, who is afraid of who?"
Lu Jiming was a little anxious now: "Master Zhu..."
"Go and call!" Zhu Qingchen remained unmoved, "And go and ask the doctor to come!"
The three children cooperated and showed their wounds to the teacher.
It's too serious.
*
The group was brought into the study, and the doctor came over with a medicine box.
There were four cushions in the middle of the study, with three students and Lu Jiming kneeling on them.
Everyone was injured, and the wounds on their faces turned purple after a while.
The doctor checked and found that it was just skin injuries, so he applied ointment on them.
Only Liu Yun's condition was a little more serious. He had two small pieces of paper stuffed in his nose because of a nosebleed, and was whimpering.
Soon, Marquis Wenyuan arrived.
When he saw this scene, he couldn't understand what was happening for a moment.
"Master Zhu, Master Liu, Master Pei, this is..."
Zhu Qingchen said succinctly: "Second Master Lu kept pestering my student. I gave him gifts, but my student refused to accept them, so we started fighting."
Zhu Qingchen asked again: "Who started it first?"
"Master, it's me." Lin Jingzhe raised his hand weakly.
Liu Yun quickly added: "But it was Lu Jiming who first said that Jingzhe was ungrateful and deserved to be abandoned by his father. He also said that Jingzhe was just an earl without a title and there was nothing to be crazy about!"
Everything he said was true, without a single falsehood, and Lu Jiming could not refute it.
He could only say: "I just thought that Lin Jingzhe had just arrived in the capital, so I sent them something out of kindness..."
Liu Yun retorted, "Nonsense! You didn't mean well at all. You just said it yourself, you came here because of Yi Zizhen! Who told you to keep mentioning that fake guy in front of Jingzhe? You deserve it!"
Liu An lowered his voice and called out, "Yun'er."
Liu Yun then reluctantly closed his mouth and turned back.
Although what he said made sense, after all, Wen Yuanhou was also here, so...
Zhu Qingchen folded his hands and looked at Wenyuan Hou: "What do you think? Your Excellency's son, why is he always pestering my student? Lord Hou, do you know what he wants to do?"
Wen Yuanhou looked embarrassed: "This... I naturally don't know..."
Of course he knew that he condoned everything Lu Jiming did.
Since Wenyuan Hou couldn't answer, Zhu Qingchen looked at Lu Jiming again: "Second Master Lu, why do you always pester my students?"
Lu Jiming stiffened his neck: "I've already said it, I saw Lin Jingzhe had just arrived in the capital, so..."
"Stop lying." Zhu Qingchen interrupted him, "I don't care what your reason is, your ears are not deaf. Jingzhe told you many times that he doesn't like you and he doesn't want to take your things. Can't you hear it?"
Lu Jiming said sternly, "Master Zhu, why are you so aggressive?"
Zhu Qingchen raised his voice slightly: "I just ask you, did you hear it?"
Lu Jiming added: "I'm just doing my best..."
"Can you hear me?!" Zhu Qingchen's voice became louder. "Don't talk about other things! What I'm asking is, can you hear me and Jingzhe talking? Answer me!"
Zhu Qingchen said to Marquis Wenyuan, "My Lord, please see, your son treats my students like this. No matter what my students say, he pretends not to hear them and keeps talking to himself, self-righteous."
Wen Yuanhou patted Lu Jiming on the head and said, "The teacher asked you a question, so you should answer it. What nonsense are you talking about?"
Lu Jiming then agreed: "Yes."
Before Zhu Qingchen could say anything, Wen Yuanhou spoke first: "You can hear what others say. If others don't want your things, just take them. Why are you still pestering them?"
Lin Jingzhe nodded, and Liu Yun snorted, "That's right."
Zhu Qingchen shouted, "My Lord."
Wenyuan Hou quickly responded, "Master, congratulations."
"My student was forced to fight by him. If my student didn't fight, he wouldn't listen to what others said." Zhu Qingchen said, "Children fighting is not a big deal. It's wrong to trouble you, my lord. But if I don't explain this to him clearly, if he pesters Jingzhe again in the future, Jingzhe will have to beat him, so I asked you to come here."
Wen Yuanhou nodded and said, "Master Zhu, rest assured. I will discipline him well when I return. He will never bother Jingzhe again."
"That would be the best. I will naturally discipline my students. Also..." Zhu Qingchen added, "My Lord, please pay attention to the servants at home recently."
"Master Zhu, what do you mean?" Wenyuan Hou was puzzled.
"I see that Second Master Lu has deep feelings for Yi Zizhen and never forgets him. He even went so far as to go to Jingzhe for Yi Zizhen. Please pay attention to your family and see if anyone has sent money or gifts to the former Earl of Changping. After all, it was His Majesty who personally ordered the expulsion of this family from the capital. If His Majesty knew that you sent gifts to them, I'm afraid it would be..."
Wenyuan Hou was frightened by what he said, and quickly responded: "Thank you for the reminder, Master Zhu. I will pay attention to it when I get back."
Lu Jiming raised his head and looked at Zhu Qingchen with bloodshot eyes.
Zizhen was already living such a hard life, and he didn't even let him send money to Zizhen? !
Zhu Qingchen looked back fearlessly.
If you dare to pester my students again, it won’t be as simple as inviting their parents or cutting off their financial resources!
In the end, Lu Jiming lowered his head and was taken away by Wen Yuanhou.
Before leaving, Liu An said quietly, "Second Master Lu should stay at home to recuperate for the time being. He doesn't need to come to the Liu Mansion."
This means I don't intend to teach him anymore.
Wen Yuanhou's heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly took the person away.
Marquis Wenyuan asked him to cover his wound, took him out through a side door, got on the carriage and went home.
In the carriage, Wen Yuanhou lowered his voice and asked, "How did it turn out like this? Didn't I tell you to please Lin Jingzhe? Why did you fight with him instead?"
Lu Jiming said: "He made the first move, what can I do?"
"You didn't tell him about Yi Zizhen, would he fight with you?"
"It was Zizhen who asked me to take care of him, so I..."
"Shut up! Zizhen Zizhen, it was His Majesty who personally rushed to Linjia Village. You still dare to mention him. Are you crazy?"
"But Dad, you also..."
Wenyuan Hou looked at him as if he was looking at a "fool": "Originally, you and Yi Zizhen were childhood sweethearts and grew up together. He is not stupid. I thought that you two could support each other in the future. Even if you marry him as your male wife, you can get the support of the Earl of Changping Mansion."
"But what about now?"
"Now the Earl's Mansion of Changping has collapsed! You still mention him, and you dare to mention him in front of Master Zhu and Lin Jingzhe. The two of them, as well as the Pei Mansion and the Liu Mansion, all hate Yi Zizhen the most. How dare you say that?"
Wen Yuanhou was so angry that he waved his sleeves and said, "Go back and put yourself in solitary confinement. You have to reflect on yourself! Think about it carefully. Who is more important to you now, Yi Zizhen or Lin Jingzhe?"
*
After seeing off Wen Yuanhou and Lu Jiming, Zhu Qingchen hurried to check on the three children.
"Are you seriously injured? Where does it hurt? That Lu Jiming is older than you all, so it must have hurt more."
"It's terrible. It hurts so much."
The three students moved to the teacher's side like kittens, surrounded him, and showed the wounds on their hands and faces.
"Master, I can't even open my left eye."
"My fists were all cut, and Lu Jiming kicked me."
Liu An cleared his throat and said in a cold voice: "Don't act like a spoiled child in front of the Master. You still have the energy to complain. I don't think your condition is serious."
"Grandpa, this is serious! Look..."
Liu An was too lazy to look, so he turned his head away and asked, "How could you fight with him? You started it first, and you fought in our own house, and you lost?"
Liu Yun whispered, "He has eaten a few more years than us."
Zhu Qingchen smiled and said, "Then, have you three not made up for the missed meals in the past few years?" "No."
Zhu Qingchen looked at the bruises on Lin Jingzhe's arm and sighed, "Didn't we agree to come to the Master if we have anything to ask?"
Lin Jingzhe whispered, "It's just a small matter, and I always trouble the teacher. I feel embarrassed, so I thought about scolding him away myself."
"You just talked about it, didn't you? Why did you do it again?"
"What he said was so harsh that I couldn't help myself."
Zhu Qingchen patted his head and said, "It's okay. Actually, you did the right thing. It's better to remove the firewood from under the cauldron than to stir up the boiling water. If you beat him up this time, he won't dare to provoke you again."
Hearing the teacher praising him for doing the right thing, Lin Jingzhe's eyes lit up: "Thank you, teacher."
Liu An cleared his throat and shouted, "Master, they went to fight and lost. How can you praise them?"
Zhu Qingchen asked: "Master Liu, what do you think we should do?"
"You should also reflect on your actions at home for a few days like Lu Jiming!"
"Ah? Grandpa?"
Zhu Qingchen said, "Master Liu's point is that you should reflect on yourself. Why do you not know how to ask for help when all the people in the mansion are ours? Why do you lose even though you are fighting at home? Go."
The three children looked sad and responded, "I know."
They were different from Lu Jiming. Lu Jiming was reflecting alone in his room, but they were——
The three of them reflected together.
It was Master Zhu who personally delivered the dinner to them.
A group of people sat around the table, eating and replaying the fight.
"At that time, Pei Zhen should have worked with me to hold down Lu Jiming, and then let Lin Jingzhe beat him."
"Pei Zhen, you should send the servant to find help. How could you let him go to find grandpa? Grandpa doesn't know how to fight. He will fall apart after being hit by a punch!"
Zhu Qingchen nodded and said to Lin Jingzhe: "I'll give you two servants. At least they can help you fight."
Lin Jingzhe has always been frugal. His family wanted to give him servants, but he refused.
But this time, he deeply realized the importance of the servant, so he nodded.
"It's also Master's fault. I thought he would pester me for a few days and then leave because he got bored. I didn't expect it to turn out like this."
Zhu Qingchen picked up the bowl of soup and said, "I'm sorry, my poor students."
The three children also picked up their bowls and drank the soup with gritted teeth.
They didn't go to the study room these days, but stayed in the room to "reflect". Zhu Qingchen played homemade flying chess with them as an apology to them.
*
After this battle, Lu Jiming was frightened and never dared to bother Lin Jingzhe again.
Occasionally he would meet Lin Jingzhe and want to talk to him, but as soon as Lin Jingzhe lifted his sleeves, he would hurriedly leave.
Under the restrictions of Marquis Wenyuan, Lu Jiming could not keep sending money to Yi Zizheng, and the correspondence between the two became much less frequent.
When Yi Zizhen was not around, Lin Jingzhe would beat people, so Lu Jiming had to slowly build up his reputation as a gentle person. However, ordinary people knew about his past relationship with Yi Zizhen, and they were always indifferent to him.
Three years passed like this.
Lin Jingzhe is seventeen years old.
His two friends, Liu Yun and Pei Zhen, are preparing for the imperial examination next year.
He had no intention of taking the exam, he just wanted to learn a few words and then manage the Earl's property.
The Earl's Mansion owned fields, farms, restaurants, and pawnshops. Two years ago, his mother tried to teach him how to read the account books and manage the shops. Unexpectedly, he got the hang of it so quickly and managed the shops in an orderly manner.
This winter, it was approaching the New Year.
There are fireworks outside the city.
In the evening, Lin Jingzhe dug his two friends out from the mountain of books and dragged them to watch the fireworks.
The three of them held hands, squatted at the city gate, and looked at the sunset in the sky.
"Lin Jingzhe, it's not even dark yet, and the government officials haven't arrived yet, what are you looking at fireworks for?"
"I'll be there soon. This position has the clearest view. If you come a little later, it will be taken away by someone else."
At this time, a small carriage came on the road in the distance.
When the carriage came closer, Pei Zhen frowned and said, "This is the carriage of Wenyuan Marquis Mansion."
There was a white cloth flower pinned on the roof of the carriage.
"A relative of the Lu family? A funeral? Who died? On New Year's Day?"
Liu Yun couldn't help but stand up and say: "It's still early, let's go and take a look."!
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