Jiaohua

Xia Zhaoyi didn't know Fan Dengchun, but only knew Hang Yusheng, the servant of the Ministry of Industry.

Hang Yusheng didn't come alone. Apart from Fan Waitchun, there were two other people from the Ministry of Industry behind him.

None of them wore official uniforms, and they were plainly dressed. Under the same low-key clothing, Hang Yusheng's back and steps still showed extraordinary aura. After all, he was an old minister who had been an official in the court for several years.

They came to Jinxing Restaurant at this time, Xia Zhaoyi didn't know what was going on, and when they all entered the room, she raised her hand to close the window sash.

Does she want to go downstairs now?

I was very sleepy and couldn't sleep, so I should go down so that no one would make this trip in vain.

But... She wanted to sleep again, and needed to nourish her spirit.

With such hesitation, Xia Zhaoyi heard the door of Master's room opened.

Master doesn't sleep?

Xia Zhaoyi frowned slightly, and turned to put on her outer shirt. After putting it on, she opened the door lightly.

While exchanging greetings downstairs, Xia Zhaoyi stopped, thought for a while, and sat down on the stairs, resting her cheeks with her hands.

There was movement from the side, Xia Zhaoyi raised his head, it was Gu Xinghai.

The old man gave her a "shh" and sat down, taking the same posture as her.

"What are you doing?" Xia Zhaoyi said in a breathy voice.

"Same as you," Gu Laozong said, "Eavesdropping."

"..."

After a while, the two parties in the back hall downstairs have already introduced themselves.

Shocked by the identity of the old man, Hang Yusheng and the others felt extremely uneasy.

Old Sect Master Gu whispered, "Look at your master, how scary you are."

Xia Zhaoyi ignored him.

The old man said: "It's only in the morning. It's too early. I don't know why Mr. Hang came here."

Hang Yusheng stammered for a long time, and said, "Yes, there is confusion in my heart."

"What's the confusion?"

At this time, the clerk in the shop brought a tea, the tea was fragrant and clear, and the fragrance lingered around his nose. Hang Yusheng thanked the clerk, and took it up and tapped the cup with the tea lid, without making a sound for a long time.

The old man is very patient, just waiting there.

Finally, it was Fan et al. Chun who spoke.

He started with the first few fellow villagers, and then talked about the quarrel between him and Hang Yusheng. As he talked, he also brought out the quarrel between Hang Yusheng and Fu Shuiwei in the Palace of Political Science and Literature.

After the narration, Fan et al. Chun raised his hand and said seriously: "Senior, we don't know what we have fought for, so we want to ask Miss A Li, she has never intended to establish a new king, so what is her plan? In this world, can there really be no emperor?"

The old man didn't speak, and his face was expressionless from the beginning to the end, but his eyes were bright, and one could be sure that he was listening attentively.

Hang Yusheng looked at the old man: "...Senior?"

The old man looked at him, and said indifferently: "In ancient times, there were discussions in the literary world, a hundred schools of thought contended, and speculation was active, so you are not wrong, and the quarrel is right. In my opinion, if you come to ask my apprentice, it is better for you to quarrel again. , um, I still have to go to the official department to quarrel."

Hang Yusheng and Fan Waitchun looked at each other, that's all?

The old man continued: "The power of words is boundless and boundless. It is born in your thinking, affects your thinking, and also affects the thinking of others. After several debates, new thinking is born."

Hang Yusheng nodded, and frowned again: "But senior, we have been fighting all night, and we still can't break it, so I want to come here to seek knowledge."

The old man thought for a while and said, "You guys, have you ever played with a seesaw?"

Fan et al. said, "But it's a children's toy whose two ends are turned upside down?"

"Ah."

"I have played with it, and I have made a lot of it, and I gave it to the children in the village to play!"

The old man said: "So, you go back."

Hang Yusheng was taken aback: "Ah? Senior, this..."

This is too endless.

The old man got up: "Or, you can sit here and wait until my apprentice wakes up. During this period, you can argue again."

Amidst the frowns of several people, the old man left with his hands behind his back.

Xia Zhaoyi and Old Sovereign Gu ran away immediately.

Xia Zhaoyi was very fast, and quickly ran back to the house, but Old Sovereign Master Gu was not as quick as her, so he simply pretended to go to the toilet.

He met the old man upstairs, yawned pompously and left.

After the old man went upstairs, he didn't go back to his room immediately, but knocked on Xia Zhaoyi's door.

Xia Zhaoyi sighed softly, knowing that the eavesdropping had been discovered, he opened the door and whispered, "Master."

The old man said: "The seesaw, do you understand?"

Xia Zhaoyi thought for a while and said, "If someone is in the air, someone will sink to the bottom, and vice versa."

"If the seesaw is the world, what do you think is fair, let it turn back and forth, or keep it in balance?"

Xia Zhaoyi paused slightly, looked up at the old man: "I think it's the former."

"Why?"

"The latter is stagnant water, while the former is turbulent, but..."

"But what?"

Xia Zhaoyi didn't know why, but found it difficult to say these words: "But it can make people see hope."

"Where there is hope, there is life."

"But in this way, someone will inevitably sink to the bottom."

"Disciple, there will always be people who are masters in this world. This cannot be changed. It is like a tiger eating a rabbit and a rabbit eating grass. I know that it is too early to tell you these things now, but you should not ask for 'fairness' too much." Two words, you just need to think of a way to slightly press down the 'upper' of the master, and slightly lift up the 'down' of the inferior."

Xia Zhaoyi said, "Shorten the gap between the two."

"Of course."

Xia Zhaoyi thought for a while, and said: "Master, I still ask for the word fairness, but what I want is not fairness of status, but fairness of opportunity."

The old man looked relieved: "You have traveled the world all these years, and it was not in vain."

Xia Zhaoyi smiled slightly: "I said Master, a person who has nothing to do with the world, why would he go downstairs to see a guest so early in the morning? It turned out that he wanted to say something to me."

The old man said softly: "It's okay to let them go back and quarrel. You will need too many helpers in the future."

"Master's words stopped abruptly in the middle of his words. I don't know what they will discuss when they go back."

"It's not sudden, but just in the ascendant. Thinking and debating are very interesting things, let them use their brains."

"Then besides this, is there anything else Master wants to tell me?"

The old man looked at her neatly made bed and said, "You go catch up on sleep first, and then we'll talk about it later."

"Okay," Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile, "I'll go to sleep now."

Back on the bed, Xia Zhaoyi finally felt sleepy.

She turned over on the bed, pinching the corner of the quilt sideways, many thoughts gurgling in her head, thinking about it, her eyelids finally couldn't hold it anymore.

At this time, the sound of horseshoes sounded outside the window.

Xia Zhaoyi opened her eyes in a daze, and vaguely heard the visitor asking if she was awake, and then heard that the person came back from Bailu Township.

Bailu Township, that may have been sent back by Shen Lie.

More, Xia Zhaoyi couldn't hear it anymore, she was so sleepy, she couldn't get up, and finally fell into a dream.

At the same time, the old man who had just come out of Yang Guanxian's house and was about to go back to sleep stopped on the second floor.

He could hear it much more clearly, not only the word Bai Luxiang, but also the word General Shen.

The old man paused, walked to the stairs, stopped where Xia Zhaoyi and Gu Xinghai were eavesdropping just now, and listened attentively.