Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 123 Apprenticeship
Xu Da cared very much about the [-]-odd members of Wu Wangwei. He watched the whole process with great interest beside Li Rong, and asked about the details one by one. He even asked about the meal at noon, looking very interested. .Zhu Su followed behind him, feeling like the descendants would welcome the leader to inspect him.I just don't know why this Wei Guogong suddenly came here?
You can't really come to drop by, can you?

After looking up and down, Xu Da came to the living room in Zhuangzi's mansion.Xu Yungong and Fang Xiaoru followed closely behind, and Zhu Su and Li Wenzhong drank a cup of tea with them.Only then did Xu Da say: "I've heard the name of His Highness the Fifth Highness's prose for a long time, and that song "Linjiang Immortal" is a rough guy like me, and I am absolutely amazed when I hear it. Quanzi also greatly admires His Highness's arithmetic skills I don't think His Highness is so proficient in the method of training soldiers, it is really admirable!"

"Uncle Xu is absurd." Zhu Su had no choice but to say humbly.He thought in his heart that Xu Damo did not want to ask himself, otherwise why would he suddenly praise him so generously.

Sure enough, after taking a sip of tea, Xu Da looked at Zhu Su, and then at Li Wenzhong beside Zhu Su.

"I heard that Wen Zhong, your son Jiujiang, is also accompanying His Highness the Fifth Highness in this village?"

"Hahaha, that's right. Gouzi Jiujiang used to be ignorant, but these days, because of His Highness's influence, he has become quite diligent and studious."

"This is all a blessing from His Highness the Fifth Highness!" As he spoke, he bowed his hands to Zhu Su, and Zhu Su hurriedly returned the salute.

"I'm afraid it's not just what you see and hear? Speaking of it, His Highness Fifth Highness taught you well." Xu Da said, Li Wenzhong also nodded repeatedly.Li Jinglong is Zhu Su's younger generation, and the elders have the right and responsibility to educate the younger generation, which is justified.

"Therefore, I also have a heartless request." Xu Da cleared his throat. "Gunzi Yungong, I highly respect His Highness's talent."

"I don't know if I'm lucky enough to be taught by His Highness a little bit?"

After finishing speaking, Xu Yungong stood up from behind Xu Da, and made a silent long bow to Zhu Su.

"There's more." Fang Xiaoru was not to be outdone, and also bowed to Zhu Su with a long bow. "I also highly respect Your Highness's talents and learning. I hope His Highness will not dislike my lowliness, and give me some pointers."

"I would like to serve as a teacher!"

As soon as this remark came out, Zhu Su almost threw the teacup out of shock, and Li Wenzhong was also surprised, staring at the two young men who bowed in front of him with wide eyes.

"This... Uncle Xu, this..." Zhu Su was a little at a loss.He really wanted to arouse these two people's interest in Gewu, but he didn't want to directly accept them as apprentices! "I'm just a child's play, how can I be a teacher?"

"Besides, I'm still young..."

"So what if you are still young? There is no distinction between people with talent and learning. If you don't understand, even if you can live a hundred years in vain, isn't it different from rotten wood and weeds?"

"According to the rules, he should have come to learn from a teacher by himself. If it weren't for the lack of talent to solve the introductory puzzles given by His Highness, why would I need to pull this old face?" He said, glaring at Xu Yungong.

Xu Yungong was shocked, his head was lowered and his attitude was more humble.Fang Xiaoru raised his head instead: "Your Highness! I am incompetent, and I can't solve the problem of using paper as a cauldron. But I have a learning heart, and the world can learn from it!"

"The Master said: If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. Please, Your Highness, have mercy on me and teach me the way of studying things!" He actually knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Su.

"This..." I didn't expect that this kind of thing would happen. I thought it would be good to plant a seed in the literary world, but I didn't expect to abduct a future auxiliary minister directly.In history, Fang Xiaoru was obsessed with respecting the rituals of the Zhou Dynasty. Zhu Su thought that he was a loyal gentleman of Confucianism, but he didn't expect that he would be persuaded by him in a few words?
He underestimated the thirst for knowledge of the literati of this era.

"Hahahaha, why are you hesitating, fifth? It's not our old Zhu's kind to be timid!"

"The son of the Tiande family wants to worship you as a teacher, so you just accept it. If you accept his son as an apprentice, isn't it just for nothing that we have grown up as an old boy like Tiande?"

There was a heroic laughter outside the door, and everyone turned their heads to look, but they didn't know when Lao Zhu stood at the door.He was dressed in light ordinary clothes, which looked no different from ordinary people, and he came here in modest clothes.

"I don't know His Majesty is here! Your Majesty bows and blesses!" A group of people hurriedly saluted.

"They're all from my own family, so there's no need to be formal!" Lao Zhu strode into the hall with a smile on his face, and seemed to be in a good mood.Behind him, three people, Zhu Xun, Zhu Xun, and Zhu Di, appeared out of nowhere, and Zhu Di was still winking at Zhu Su.

"Hei has become thinner, but he has become stronger!" Empress Ma laughed. "It looks a bit manly!"

"Being practiced by Brother Bao'er every day, how can I not lose weight?" Zhu Su said with a smile.

"Old fifth, Yun Gong is also a child we watched him grow up. He has always been eager to learn."

"It's not that you didn't intend to cherish your knowledge of self-improvement. It doesn't matter if you pass it on to him!" Lao Zhu said.

"Huh?" Zhu Su was taken aback, expert?What tall man?It wasn't until he saw the dark eyes in Lao Zhu's eyes that he understood. "Oh, since Yun Gong wants to learn, then I must know everything."

"It's just Xiaoru...you are a student of Master Song. Although I no longer studied in the main hall, I have always had a half-teacher friendship with Master Song."

"You worship me as your teacher, Master Song doesn't look good..."

"It doesn't matter! I have already consulted Master Song!" Fang Xiaoru said hastily. "Master Song said: Why not choose a sage as a teacher. Confucius used to worship the seven-year-old Xiang Lu as his teacher. The heart of learning should be sincere, and there is no need to care about so many twists and turns."

He said so, and Zhu Su had no reason to refuse.Moreover, Lao Zhu also intended to let him accept apprentices, so he still has the right to refuse his own father and add the emperor?
So Xu Yungong and Fang Xiaoru respectfully kowtowed three times to Zhu Su, and then served Zhu Su tea in full view, which was regarded as the apprenticeship ceremony.Then he followed Xiangdeng out and chose a room to rest.

"I didn't expect you to let Yun Gong come to worship Lao Wu as a teacher. Haha Tiande, you have fallen into your own generation for no reason!" As soon as the two left, Lao Zhu couldn't wait to start laughing at Xu Da. "Our son became your son's teacher. Who would have thought of this when we were herding cattle together?"

"My elder brother is blessed with great blessings, and the fifth prince he gave birth to has such a great talent. That child Yun Gong is stubborn... Forget it, children and grandchildren have their own blessings." Xu Da shook his head pretending to be helpless. He looks happier now.The smug look on his face was almost beyond words.

"But Tiande, we are old brothers for decades. You don't have to be so cautious." After laughing, Lao Zhu's expression turned serious. "Are you letting Yun Gong worship under the fifth brother's sect, do you want to take advantage of this relationship to defile yourself, so as to avoid disaster for your Xu family?"

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly froze!

(End of this chapter)