The servant led the doctor to the innermost and largest room in the guest house in the front hall. He knocked on the door for a while, only to hear an impatient sentence coming from inside: "I have my own hands, just push the door open, you are disturbing my sweet dream. How rude!"
The servant looked at the doctor and asked if he could push the door directly and come in. He signaled to the doctor not to push it but to inform him with his voice first.
"Mr. Yang Hu, the head of my family has paid his respects to the doctor and has made a special trip to see you. Can you get up and meet me?" The servant still obeyed the instructions and maintained his courtesy.
"Doctor Xiang! See you, see you. I'm not here to see him. No matter what, don't stop me from sleeping. Alas!" Yang Hu muttered again, actually having the nerve to refuse the family head's personal visit.
Encountering such "evil guests" really tests Dr. Xiang's determination.
I saw that Doctor Xiang did not show any anger or anxiety. He just said "Oh" lightly and turned around.
Then————Leave!
This confused the servant. As he followed his master away, he thought to himself: What is this? A dignified head of a house treats guests with good food and drink, but there is such a person who eats and uses other people’s food without giving others face. Can he still be considered a normal “guest”?
Doctor Xiang was not angry, but his reply was not entirely unreasonable. What he wanted to see was his son Xiang Zhong, not himself. That was right! Although he was the one who provided the offerings in the end, it was an indirect relationship after all, and there was no contract that said that as long as he provided for this "evil guest", he would have the power to use his behavior, words and deeds at will.
"To untie a bell, you need someone to tie it." The only person who can deal with such "unkind" guests is Xiang Zhong.
Doctor Xiang turned around and walked towards Xiang Zhong's room, hoping that his son with miraculous talent could come up with a suitable way to deal with this difficult "uninvited guest".
"This man's name is Yang Hu? From the State of Lu? How old is he?" When Xiang Zhong saw this, his father was alarmed. He had to take it seriously, so he asked the servant again about the origin of this man.
"Yes! He said there will be three out of twenty this year." The servant replied.
Based on these data, Xiang Zhong already has an idea in mind: if he is Confucius's nemesis in history, he started out as a retainer of the Ji Kong family. He looks very similar to Confucius, but first he suppressed and insulted him, and then he promoted him. , wake up, later generations have many derogatory words about him, "Yang Hu"; it is the words of "Yang Hu", the foreign minister of Lu who came to power, Qi was defeated, and the later Jin Dynasty was proud, and assisted the Zhao Lord to approach hegemony; this saying The words of "Yang Hu", who had profound philosophical sayings such as "It is unkind to be rich" and "Time cannot be chased, and death cannot be with me" - then his character, at the age of 23, when he was young and most energetic, He should be so arrogant and domineering.
However, these wealth are still far away at present. Like Confucius, he was still at the lowest level of the aristocracy at this time, a "shi". As a descendant of the Ji family, he, as a "yang", naturally has some goods in his belly, but it is a pity that Xiang Zhong has already known all about the goods in his belly.
"I know it's alright! Don't worry, father, Zhong'er has his own way."
The solution Xiang Zhong came up with was to "fight fire with fire". Isn't he a "scammer"? I will find someone more "shameless" than him to deal with him.
"Jisun Ruyi, the grandson of the Chief Minister of the State of Lu, was arrogant and very different from his father's temperament. He loved sex, luxury and promiscuity, and wasted his energy to the utmost. He always loved force and games, and loved to recruit similar offspring to his genus. Yang Hu will definitely become his genus in the future. He used it. You can tell the story of this man's coming to the Song Dynasty to Ruyi's point, and exaggerate it a little. Ruyi will come and ask him to return to Lu, and accept him as his disciple, and make him an effective retainer."
Xiang Zhong naturally knew that in the future, this young man would have the opportunity to bully Kong Shengren only when he came to Ji Sun's house. Why not help them connect the dots and let him "take up the post" as soon as possible, so as to avoid harming Xiang Dafu's family and causing trouble between the superiors and the subordinates. It's like a chicken and a dog jumping.
"Does the unknown father have a relationship with Ji Sun Zhengqing of the Lu Kingdom?" Xiang Zhong felt that if he wanted to be a matchmaker, he had to prepare a red line!
"Yes! Five years ago, when I was preparing for the Annihilation Conference, I went to the State of Lu to seek an alliance with Ji Sunsu, and I met his grandson Ji Sun Ruyi. His behavior was very arrogant, and his grandfather Ji Sun Su's attitude was very arrogant. There is a world of difference between being dignified and majestic and calmly turning around. After you tell me, these two men really have something in common: they are both arrogant people."
Doctor Xiang thought of Ji Sun Ruyi. The last time he went to the Lu State to find Ji Sun Ruyi, Ji Sun Ruyi was originally a junior, but felt that he was a big country. Interruption was a particularly difficult experience that he would never forget.
"Father, I am writing a letter. Please ask someone to send it to Ji Sunsu. Soon, someone from Lu will come. We can recommend Yang Hu and then return to Lu." Xiang Zhong gave his father a pill. "Reassurance Pill", and then began to polish his pen and wrote:
"The beauty of Chang Di is not as beautiful as his own. There is no better person than a brother. The power of death and mourning is felt by brothers. The original Xi is gone, and brothers are asking for it. The order of the spine is in the original, and brothers are in urgent need. Every time you have a good friend, what's the situation? I will always sigh. Brothers are angry at the wall, and they are guarding their affairs outside. Whenever there are good friends, there is no war. The chaos is peaceful, and there is peace and tranquility. Although there are brothers, it is not as good as being friends? The brothers are harmonious and have children. The wives are harmonious, like drums and harps. The brothers are harmonious and perfect. They are happy with their families and their wives. Is this a picture, is it so?"
When Doctor Xiang took a look, wasn't this the "Chang Di" that Ji Sunsu recited when he returned to visit Xiang Mansion in the winter after the alliance was formed five years ago? Unexpectedly, Chong'er could actually write all the poems word for word. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Dr. Xiang would have been so surprised that he knelt down before "this son".
"It's incredible! You were still young at that time. Do you know this poem?"
This poem full of "brotherhood" tells the story of Xiang Dafu's longing for the "combat friendship" with Ji Sunsu. The whole poem is presented as an invitation, hoping that Lu Gong and Sun Zhengqing can visit the Song Dynasty again. This can be called It was a solemn appointment with "deep affection".
The letter sent a special person to send it to the State of Lu quickly. Sure enough, not long after, the messenger brought back the news that Ji Sunsu would visit Song Dynasty soon.
"Chong'er is smart! He didn't give birth to a prophet, so his father is unknown. Why?" Doctor Xiang held Xiang Zhong in his arms, looked left and right appreciatively, teased him, and asked half-truthfully.
"Those who cannot see far away cannot talk about great things; those who do not know well cannot talk about ambitions; as for the harmony of gods, wandering between the heart and the hand, freely writing about gods, discussing love and forming a string, the father cannot teach the son, and the son cannot teach the son. You can't accept it from your father, this is the way not to be taught." Xiang Zhong broke away from Doctor Xiang, walked to several cases, paused for a moment, wrote this paragraph, and then let his father read it.
"The father cannot teach the son, nor can the son receive it from the father. This is the way that is not taught."
He repeated silently to the doctor, thinking about the last sentence, stroking his beard, nodding, and shaking his head again, as if he didn't know the reason, was unfathomable, couldn't understand it, but also admired, admired and proud of it.
