Mr. Zhuang was surprised, he didn't expect Bai Shan to remember it, he only mentioned it once when he remembered it.
Bai Shan pursed his lips and asked, "Where did you meet them?"
Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "In a teahouse, he didn't come to the door. Maybe he didn't know that I was in the capital. It's just that it involved old things. I feel uneasy, so I let people go and have a look."
Man Bao: "Why are you uneasy, sir? Shouldn't they be the ones who are uneasy?"
Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "I have something to worry about, and if I have worries, I will naturally feel uneasy."
Not only Man Bao, but even Bai Shan couldn't understand, "Sir, the reason is with us, what are we afraid of?"
Mr. Zhuang said, "I'm not worried about that."
He sighed: "My heart is very complicated. I am worried and worried, and I am uneasy because of worry..."
Bai Shan and Man Bao were puzzled.
Mr. Zhuang said: "I don't have many friends in my life, and Yao Ge is one of them."
Mr. Zhuang met Yao Ge when he was studying abroad, and later bumped into each other when he went to Beijing to rush for the exam. They both brought their children and got along well, so they got together immediately and rented a yard together. Half, it was a very happy time.
Mr. Zhuang looked at the two disciples and said, "It's the same as when the three of you were studying together. You enter and exit together, you can discuss books together, and you can make friends when you go out together. At that time, the two of us were rushing to the Imperial College for the exam. here."
"Later, I met Chen Fulin in the capital. I knew that I had no hope of taking the Imperial Academy exam, so I decided to wait for the Jinshi exam after autumn and try to take the Jinshi exam. If I fail, I can also take the Mingjing exam the next year." He sighed: " At that time, I was not completely confident, he was the one who encouraged me all the time, neither of our two families were very rich, but he would show me the books he borrowed at that time, and then he would read them himself."
Man Bao and Bai Shan were surprised.
They only knew that Yao Ge had stolen Mr. Chen Fulin's poem back then, but they didn't know that their relationship would be so good, so Mr. must be more sad, right
Man Bao pursed his lips and asked, "I haven't asked Mr. why did he do that?"
Mr. Zhuang looked far away, and said softly: "It's nothing more than money. At that time, his child was seriously ill..."
Mr. Zhuang sighed, but he didn't hide it from his two disciples, "So I resent him, but I don't resent him that much."
To put it bluntly, Mr. Zhuang still has feelings for this former friend, so he is a little uneasy after worrying.
Bai Shan and Man Bao looked at each other. At present, their friends are friends and their enemies are enemies. There has not been a situation where their enemies are friends, so they can't understand Mr. Zhuang's psychology.
If you don't understand, you have to ask, and Man Bao asked: "What do you want to do, sir?"
Mr. Zhuang said: "I don't plan to do anything, just know the purpose of their coming to the capital, let everything take its course."
Mr. Zhuang thought, since the capital is so big, they might not meet again.
I just didn't expect that the concierge received a letter to Mr. Zhuang the next day.
When Mr. Zhuang saw the familiar handwriting on the envelope, he couldn't help being stunned.
Bai Shan and Man Bao, who were in a hurry to go to the Yamen, walked by and saw it, and thought it was Mr. Jiang and the others who invited him to drink tea again, so they waved: "Sir, let's go first."
Mr. Zhuang returned to his senses and waved at them, but he was not in a hurry to leave. Today is not a grand meeting, and there is only one class in Chongwen Hall, so he is not in a hurry.
Mr. Zhuang opened the letter beside the car, read it and put it away.
He was a little restless all day long, even Yin Ru could see it, and couldn't help asking: "Did you encounter any embarrassment?"
When Mr. Zhuang saw him, he was suddenly blessed and couldn't help laughing.
Yin Ru looked at him inexplicably.
But Mr. Zhuang laughed heartily for a while, looked at Yin Yu and said, "I'm a fool, others are timid, so what am I? Hahaha..."
Yin Or still didn't understand, but seeing that Mr. Zhuang had returned to normal, he said: "Sir, Your Majesty and His Royal Highness both agree that I will leave the Chongwen Museum, and I will not enter the palace in two days."
Mr. Zhuang asked with a smile, "What do you plan to do after you stop studying?"
Yin Ju said with a smile: "I just read at home by myself, and sometimes go to Huguo Temple to see Master Zhiren, it's quite comfortable."
Mr. Zhuang knew that Yin or now had no one to talk to in the Chongwen Museum. This year, a new group of students was selected, and the distance from Yin or was even further. He might not be very happy to stay in the palace, so he nodded.
Mr. Zhuang watched him leave, and went to the banquet calmly after leaving the office.
It was still yesterday's tea house. As soon as Mr. Zhuang walked in, a waiter immediately came up to greet him and said with a smile, "Mr. Zhuang, are you sitting on the second floor or the lobby today?"
Mr. Zhuang said: "Those who come to the appointment are in Mei's private room."
When the clerk heard this, he immediately smiled and asked Mr. Zhuang to go up to the second floor, went to a private room with a plum hanging beside the door, and opened the door to invite him in.
There was a person sitting in the room for an unknown amount of time. He raised his head when he heard the door being pushed open, and lowered his eyes when he saw that it was still the clerk, but after a while, he raised his head again and looked straight at the person behind the clerk.
Mr. Zhuang walked in, nodded slightly to the clerk, and let him go out.
The man closed the door for them, and there were only two people left in the private room.
Mr. Zhuang looked at the person sitting, and the old man who was sitting also looked at him. He supported the table and slowly stood up, trying to smile with the corners of his mouth, but found that he couldn't. After a long while, he sighed: "I Thought you wouldn't come."
Mr. Zhuang walked to the table and sat down. Unlike the politeness and alienation he faced Chen Fulin, he couldn't even be polite when facing the person in front of him.
So Mr. Zhuang chose to look indifferent, pointed to the chair opposite and said, "Sit down."
Yao Ge supported the table and sat down slowly. The two of them didn't speak for a while, they just looked at each other.
In the end, Yao Ge came to his senses, stood up and picked up the teapot, and poured tea for him with trembling hands. He pushed the tea to Mr. Zhuang, and said with a wry smile, "It is said that one should not do anything wrong in one's life, as expected."
Holding the tea, Mr. Zhuang looked at the man who was older than him, and couldn't help sighing, "Is that why you came to me to talk about it?"
Yao Ge shook his head, "I thought that I would never see you in my life. We are far away from each other. Maybe I wouldn't have the chance. If I had the chance, I would be ashamed."
Mr. Zhuang frowned slightly.
"But someone came to see me. After thinking about it, I think I should come to see you. First, it's a matter of concern. Second, it's to make up for what happened back then."
Mr. Zhuang looked at him in surprise, "Someone is looking for you? Could it be related to me?"
Yao Ge nodded, "Not long ago, someone came to me to inquire about the past. I heard from him that you not only became an official, but also forced Chen Fulin to return to his hometown, and he was forbidden to set foot in the capital for the rest of his life. I was very surprised."
He twitched the corner of his mouth and said with a smile: "It can be seen that God is fair in this world, retribution is not good, and those who do wrong will always be retribution."
Mr. Zhuang: ... I don't know if it's because he's been with Manbao and the children for a long time. He can't describe his mood at this moment.