The short-lived ghost of the Xie family has lived a long life

Chapter 384 Bold
When they arrived at the flower hall, Mr. Tang was sitting on the imperial chair.

The scholars knelt down one after another to thank Master Tang for taking him in.

Lu Shi didn't kneel down and just stood upright.

He thought to himself that he was not eating and drinking for free, but raising horses for the Tang family, so why should he kneel?

"Lu Shi will always remember the life-saving grace of the master. There is no way to repay such a great kindness but to study hard."

Lu Shi bowed deeply.

Mr. Tang smiled and asked them to take a seat without saying anything else.

Eight Immortals table, eight positions.

Mr. Tang sat facing south and occupied the main seat, and the remaining seven seats happened to be occupied by seven of them scholars.

Lu Shi walked towards the nearest seat. Before he could sit down, the scholar next to him who sat down before him smiled apologetically at him.

"Sorry, Brother Lu, there is someone here."

Lu Shi was startled. Another scholar was already sitting in that position.

After such a delay, when Lu Shi wanted to find a seat again, he found that the entire Eight Immortals table only had one seat next to Mr. Tang, which also sat facing south and north.

Sitting side by side with Mr. Tang?

Lu Shi's brows frowned slightly.

The flower hall was extremely quiet at this time, and everyone's eyes were on Lu Shi. He could even detect the ill-intentions and gloating in some of their glances.

Lu Shi sat down next to Mr. Tang generously.

No embarrassment, no timidity.

When Lu Shi was more than three years old, he had seen the most embarrassing scene in the world. Now it was just a New Year's Eve dinner, so what?
Mr. Tang pursed his lips and smiled.

What are you laughing at?

The inferiority complex in Lu Shi's heart began to trouble him, so he gritted his teeth and asked again.

"What, I shouldn't be sitting here?"

"should!"

Mr. Tang didn't look at him again. He raised his cup and said to everyone:
"I would like to toast you all. I hope you will study hard and govern the country and bring peace to the world in the future."

"Thank you sir."

"Thank you sir."

When the scholars stared at Lu in panic, did they think that this person was an idiot?

One of them yelled angrily: "Everyone else calls you sir, but you call me master? Lu Shi, have you ever learned how to respect teachers and value education?"

Lu Shi was silent for a moment, raised his eyes and said coldly:
"My master kept us here, but he didn't say he would accept us as his disciples. If you call me sir, have you asked me if I agree?"

Mr. Tang still smiled, as if he was a man without a temper.

"Today is New Year's Eve, it doesn't matter what you call it. My little girl is still waiting for me, so I won't accompany you. You all have a nice meal and a drink."

Mr. Tang stood up, nodded slightly to everyone, and then walked out of the flower hall with his hands behind his back.

"Lu Shi, look, sir, you are so mad at me."

"You're the only one who's special, you don't even kneel down."

"Sir, I still have a life-saving grace for you, you are so arrogant."

"I have read the book of saints for so many years in vain."

"I finally got to see you sir, but you ruined it all."

"A gentleman should be courteous and courteous."

Lu Shi looked at these six faces and picked up his chopsticks to eat.

After eating, he put down his chopsticks and walked out without looking back.

When I reached the second gate, someone blocked my way.

"Master Lu, my master has invited you."

"What can I do?"

"Master, please have another meal."

"Please tell your master that I'm full."

"Master Lu, are you afraid?"

I am barefoot, why am I afraid of him wearing shoes?
Lu Shi sneered: "Lead the way."

The man took him into the study.

There were no seats in the study, only Mr. Tang stood there, dressed in ink.

Master Tang turned around and looked at him, his eyes like obsidian, "Lu Shi, why did you take the exam for merit?"

"For being an official."

"Why do you want to be an official?"

"To make people look up to me."

"Just for this?"

"Yes."

Mr. Tang walked up to him and smiled lightly, "Are you willing to become my disciple?" "No."

"why?"

Lu Shi's throat was choked and he asked, "Why do you want to accept me as your disciple?"

"Because your bones are strong."

"..."

"And because you sat next to me."

"..."

Mr. Tang looked at him quietly.

"The year the little girl was born, I started to help the scholars. For 12 years, every New Year's Eve, no one dared to sit next to me. You are the first one."

"..."

"You refuse to kneel down to me because you don't want to please me, and you don't realize how low you have fallen."

Lu Shi felt that the blood all over his body suddenly rushed to the top of his head.

"With your temperament, you are really a good candidate to be a censor."

Mr. Tang's words were somewhat profound, "In this world, the weather will never be smooth every year. There will always be strong winds and showers. People with weak bones and courage cannot hold up that umbrella."

Lu Shi sneered: "Mr. Tang, why should I hold up that umbrella?"

"It allows people to take shelter from the wind and rain."

The corners of Lu Shi's lips twitched a little, and he said in his heart that I wanted to take the exam to become an official just so that one day I could return to the Lu family and be proud and proud, so that everyone would kneel down and be afraid of me, not to give people shelter from the wind and rain.

"Mr. Tang is too high-minded, but I don't have any compassion."

"is it?"

Tang Qiling's smile deepened: "You don't have any compassion. Why should you save the third fat man? Isn't it bad to let him fall to death?"

Lu Shi was speechless.

"Sir, the lady has sent someone to urge you. When will it end?"

Tang Jin urged in a low voice outside, and Master Tang suddenly took a step back.

"Everyone has his own ambitions. Since Mr. Lu doesn't want to, I won't force him."

The hands in Lu Shi's sleeves suddenly clenched tightly.

It was as if someone gave him a candy, and he just said, "I don't like candy," and the person retracted his hand.

The anti-bone in my heart came out again.

He suddenly asked with great reluctance: "Didn't Mr. Tang say that he wanted to treat me to a banquet?"

Tang Qiling looked at him deeply and said, "Come here, tell Lin Bi to get an extra pair of chopsticks."

"Yes!"

When Lu Shi saw his promise, he suddenly felt guilty again. As if on conditioned reflex, he immediately said:

"Master Tang, don't take it seriously, I'm just..."

"When a man speaks, his promise is worth a thousand dollars."

Tang Qiling dropped this sentence and walked away with a roll of his sleeves.

Lu Shi hesitated for a moment before following hesitantly.

He hated himself so much at this moment, like a child who made trouble unreasonably if he couldn't eat candy.

……

Entering the courtyard, the girl came out to welcome him.

"Dad, my poor dad, why do you even have to eat New Year's Eve dinner with outsiders?"

"No nonsense."

Tang Qiling smiled and scolded: "Father will introduce you to someone."

"No introduction required."

The girl turned to Lu Shi and winked.

"I am the first person in this house who dares to sit next to my father, and you are the second. My name is Tang Zhiwei, and your name is Lu Shi."

"Naughty."

Tang Qiling rubbed the girl's head and said, "You should call me..."

"It's time to call him Lu DaDa."

There was a glimmer of light in the girl's eyes, but she didn't reveal it.

"How dare you save the third fat man first, and then come to save me? If not Lu DaDa, what is he?"

Lu Shi: "..."

"But thank you for saving me."

The girl looked at him: "From now on we are even, you don't owe me anything, Lu DaDa."

(End of this chapter)