Spring and Autumn Confucian Heroes

Chapter 75-Ambition
Huan Chang felt that although this man touched porcelain on the street, he was not greedy in his heart.

Moreover, the man's speech and demeanor are quite magnanimous, which made Huan Chang look at him with admiration, and he became curious about him.

"Brother, please lead the way."

The man dusted off his robe, stood side by side with Huan Chang, and walked towards the most magnificent restaurant in the city.

The surrounding audience, seeing this turning point, all pointed and pointed at the man, but the man kept talking and laughing freely, without any embarrassment at all.

Seeing the situation, Huan became more and more surprised.

After all, not everyone can be as flattered as a man.

The two walked hand in hand to the Zuixian Tower.

The black donkey was kept in the stable by Huan Chang, and the shop assistant was asked to prepare meat and fine wine for the black donkey.

Hearing Huan Chang's order, not only the clerk in the store, but also the man in the shabby clothes showed strange looks in his eyes.

Huan Chang ignored everyone's surprised faces and came to a private room with the man.

"In Xia Huanchang, dare to ask your brother's name!"

Huan Chang cupped his fists, bowed to the man, and asked solemnly.

The man didn't answer, but said in amazement: "The surname Huan is extremely rare."

Huan Chang was taken aback immediately.

Thinking of the books he had read, there really was no record of this surname in it, Huan Chang couldn't help but frown slightly.

In the past, Huan Chang also asked Xu Wang about the origin of his surname.

But Xu Wang always said with drunken eyes: "Why are you talking so much nonsense, I picked you up, so of course I have the final say on your surname."

Huan Chang had no choice but to say nothing.

"Dare to ask Your Excellency, do you know the origin of this surname?"

Huan Chang searched through ancient books, but couldn't find this surname. Now that he suddenly heard the down-and-out man speak like this, he naturally wanted to get to the bottom of it.

The man looked at Huan Chang carefully for a while, and sighed: "It turns out that even you don't know your own background."

As soon as these words came out, Huan Chang's heart suddenly surged with turbulent waves.

The man ignored Huan Chang's mood, and said to himself: "Although there are many surnames in the world, there are very few people with the surname Huan."

"As far as I know, only the Dukes of the Song Dynasty used this surname."

"Back then, Duke Xiang of the Song Dynasty ruled the Central Plains, his army was strong, his people were rich, and the Duke of Song's family became prosperous."

"Due to the large number of Gong Clans in the Song Dynasty, in order to distinguish the relationship between the Gong Clans, Song Xianggong divided the Song Guo Gong Clan into eight surnames."

"These eight surnames are Song, Kong, Hua, Xiao, Dai, Huan, Niu, and Mu."

"After hundreds of years of development, in addition to the Huan surname, more and more people have other surnames."

Speaking of this, the man couldn't help but scrutinized Huan Chang for a while.

"However, for unknown reasons, the surname Huan gradually disappeared in history, and I only occasionally heard of people with the surname Huan in historical materials."

Fang Li paused for a moment, with an inexplicable look on his face.

"Not only that, but Song Xianggong's son's surname was actually removed from the Song Guogong family, which is really surprising."

Feeling the man's inexplicable gaze, Huan Chang's heart skipped a beat.

"My surname is actually related to the Duke of Song!"

"The disappearance of the Zi surname in the Gong family of the Song Dynasty is not related to the disappearance of the Huan surname?"

Thinking of Shujiange's relationship with Song State, and thinking of his strange surname, Huan Chang couldn't calm down.

"Thank you sir for teaching me!"

Huan Chang took a deep breath, then stood up and bowed solemnly to the man.

He claimed to be well-read, but found that he was actually inferior to the down-and-out man in front of him, so he naturally felt admiration.

"gentlemen?"

The man laughed at himself, and said, "My name is Fang Li. If I ask you, I will call you A Chang."

"If you think highly of me, you can call me Brother Fang. As for the title of Mr., I absolutely can't bear it."

Huan Chang said seriously: "Although I don't communicate much with my brother, I can still feel it when I go down. There are thousands of gaps in my brother's chest. How can I not be called 'Mr.'?"

Fang Li shook his head and didn't continue to dwell on this issue.

"The delicious food is here, I want to try it!"

The roast leg of lamb was brought up, Fang Li picked up a small knife, cut off a large piece of lamb, held it in his hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

"The roast leg of lamb in Zuixianlou really lives up to its reputation!"

Fang Li ate a few mouthfuls of mutton, picked up the jug and poured it into his mouth, then praised with satisfaction.

Huan Chang also tasted it, and found that it was really charred on the outside and tender on the inside, fat but not greasy, and without the slightest smell of mutton, he was also amazed.

The two ate for a while, and Huan Chang suddenly asked, "I have something to say, I don't know if I should say it or not."

Fang Li munched on the mutton, and said with some slurred words: "But it's okay to talk."

Huan Chang sat upright, and said: "I think my brother's conversation is quite extraordinary, and his knowledge is extremely profound. Why do you want to hang out on the street instead of seeking a job?"

In Huan Chang's view, a person like Fang Li shouldn't do such a thing as touching porcelain.

However, Fang Li did just that.

Fang Li gave a pause to the right hand holding the mutton, then shook his head and said, "There are always thousands of horses, but Bole doesn't often have them."

"Besides, I have Ling Yunzhi in my chest. If I can't skyrocket to [-] miles, I would rather be trapped in shallow water and be played by shrimps, or I would rather be a shrimp."

Huan Chang didn't understand Fang Li's experience, but seeing that he seemed to have a lot on his mind, he didn't ask any further.

The two of them drank and ate meat, and they were both educated and rich, so naturally the more they talked, the more speculative they became.

When he was half drunk, Fang Li suddenly stood up.

He shook his body and said: "I don't want to be an official. Once my talent is revealed, I will be famous all over the world!"

"At that time, all those who look down on me will treat me with admiration."

Huan Chang also got a little drunk, and asked with a smile: "Dare to ask brother, how can you be famous in the world?"

Fang Li staggered to Huan Chang's side, put his arms around his shoulders, and then hiccupped twice.

He waved his arm vigorously, and said: "The princes of the world regard me as the guest of honour, and worship me as the prime minister of the state; the scholars of the world, regard me as an idol, and call me sir."

"In this way, you will be successful and famous!"

Even though Huan Chang was already a little drunk, he still seemed a little disbelieving when he heard Fang Li speak so loudly.

There are not a few princes in the world.

If Fang Li said that he could become the Prime Minister of a certain country in the future, Huan Chang naturally felt that he might succeed.

But it is impossible to be the prime minister of the princes of the world.

"Brother, you are drunk."

Fang Li pushed Huan Chang away, and then said angrily: "You don't believe me, you also think I'm talking nonsense, do you also think I'm crazy?"

"I, Fang Li, have the talents of the world, you laugh at me too crazy, I laugh at you too superficial!"

"Hahahaha!"

Fang Li laughed loudly, but there was a glint in his eyes, he ignored Huan Chang and staggered out of Zuixian Tower.

(End of this chapter)