It was daybreak. Chen Kan looked at the river water flowing out from the bottom of the gentle slope and couldn't help but sigh: "This is the power of nature."
The Fenhe River flooded. Fortunately, Chen Kan and others left in time. The flood peak came almost as soon as they stepped forward.
Judging from the current situation, we can't even think about marching in the short term. We have to wait until the river water on the official road subsides and the road becomes drier before we can walk.
Chen Kan returned to the big tent and lay down, looking at the roof of the big tent with dull eyes.
In general, the rain did not cause Chen Kan any trouble. What really troubled Chen Kan was that he had to go to the Imperial College to study when he returned to the capital.
If he followed Fang Xiaoru's arrangement, it would mean that he would have to give up the little foundation he had finally laid in Jinyiwei.
After going through so many things, including life and death crises, he finally gained some power. It was really unacceptable to give up on Chen Kan like this.
It's good to take the imperial examination, but I don't know how many years will pass until the day I pass the imperial examination.
If you continue to hang out in Jinyiwei, you have so much time to go to camp. Not to mention replacing Ji Gang's position, there should be no problem in replacing Li Jinglong, right?
For a time, Chen Kan fell into deep entanglement.
One side is long-term development, and the other side is current power.
It’s really hard to choose!
Should he go to school or stay in Jinyiwei?
As he thought about it, Chen Kan's head began to feel swollen and painful.
After lying on the bed for half an hour, Chen Kan banged his head hard.
Because he found that he seemed to have entered a misunderstanding.
Today is the first month since he came to Ming Dynasty, no more, no less, exactly thirty days.
Although the time is not long, it is not short either.
But he seems to have never seriously thought about his future path!
In the past month, he seemed to have done a lot of things. He proposed strategies to reduce the feudal vassal, moved to Zhujixi, hooked up with a cute girl with big eyes, and determined to marry the cute girl with big eyes back home.
But no matter which one thing, it seems that it was not done well.
The credit for reducing the vassal status was given to Li Jinglong. Zhu Jixi was overthrown, but he could not kill them all.
Only marrying a cute girl with big eyes comes from the heart, but so far, he has only met the cute girl with big eyes twice, and he has no idea how the cute girl with big eyes feels about him.
Setting up some flags to benefit the people of Ming Dynasty and create a prosperous world has no direction at all!
Thinking back on the things I wanted to do, it seemed that every one of them was a stick and a hammer, like hunting a rabbit with a straw.
Chen Kan suddenly turned over and sat up, muttering to himself: "So, what have I done, what do I want?"
"that power?"
"money?"
"Cute girl with big eyes?"
After getting out of bed, he came to the desk and sat down. Chen Kan picked up his pen and wrote these three things on the paper.
Then he thought again.
What is the purpose of wanting power?
To protect your right to eat meat, or to make yourself worthy of a cute girl with big eyes, or to do something practical for the people of the world?
Money, money in this era is the most useless thing to Chen Kan. As long as he wants it, he can get it with a wave of his hand.
A cute girl with big eyes, this is what he definitely wants.
Looking at the big words on the paper, Chen Kan's thoughts gradually became clear.
When he first came to the Ming Dynasty, Chen Kan wanted to do something for this era, but later after joining the Jinyiwei, especially after trying the pleasure of power, he gradually went astray.
In other words, because of his ability to foresee things, he gradually developed an eye for trickery.
The most obvious point is that when he decided to marry the big-eyed cute girl home, in order to show his ability in front of Zhu Di, he began to study continuously, so that he gradually lost his bottom line.
No matter who they are, they can do whatever they want to do, and they can do whatever they want to do.
But fundamentally, they had never offended Chen Kan.
For example, Li Jinglong, Ji Gang and others, just because he saw some negative records about them in history books, he subconsciously regarded them as villains, and he could cause trouble as much as he wanted.
And when he was admonishing Fang Xiaoru in prison, he also kept telling himself not to live like an alien in this world.
Now think about it, what is the difference between my behavior for more than a month and that of an alien?
After thinking through these things, Chen Kan calmed down.
He may have understood the reason why Fang Xiaoru wanted him to study in the Imperial College, and it was not necessarily because he had to take the imperial examination.
Perhaps more importantly, it is for meditation.
Although he told himself every time that he wanted to live well in this world, looking at the world from God's perspective for a long time had made him ignore that he was also an ordinary member of this world.
So, why should we choose between immediate power and long-term development?
His thoughts suddenly became clear, and a smile appeared on Chen Kan's lips.
He's enlightened!
From now on, he will try to control power instead of being controlled by power.
The principles between heaven and earth are the same. Power, like money, is just a tool to serve others. How to use it is very important. If you use it well, the oceans and rivers will be clear. If you use it poorly, it will poison the world!
Feeling enlightened, Chen Kan couldn't help but stretch his waist!
"Well, I will confess my love to the cute girl with big eyes when I get back, and then ask the teacher to propose marriage to His Majesty!"
Chen Kan is greedy. He wants power, money, and cute girls with big eyes.
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"My lord, the water has receded, the water has receded!"
Shi Wen's voice sounded outside the tent.
"Didn't you say that it would take at least two or three days to withdraw?"
Chen Kan opened the tent with a suspicious look on his face. The Fenhe River is considered a big river in the north. How can the flood recede so quickly?
"Really quit!"
Looking at the mud on the official road, Chen Kan was a little stunned. Could it be that the purpose of God's rain was to remind himself?
"Sudden enlightenment" is a method in Zen Buddhism. The Sixth Patriarch Huineng attributed sudden enlightenment to a process of understanding one's mind and one's nature.
Chen Kan had an epiphany and the flood receded.
Seeing that there was no more water under the gentle slope, Chen Kan raised his head and said with a smile: "It's God's will, go back to Beijing!"
Chen Kan gave the order, but the horse suffered a lot.
He had to carry more than 100 kilograms of Chen Kan in the mud and endure Chen Kan's whipping.
Half a month later, Chen Kan looked at the three characters Dinghuai Gate on the capital wall and couldn't help laughing loudly: "Brothers, we're home!"
The Jinyi guards behind them also had smiles on their faces. They were used to staying in the south of the Yangtze River. Although this trip to the north did not cause any big waves, it still made everyone feel like they were in another world.
"You are allowed a day off. Now, go back to your homes and find your respective mothers!"
Chen Kan waved his hand and generously granted him a day off.
