"Baojun, what do you think of this picture?" Yang Gongming asked.
Yang Pojun's eyebrows were puzzled, but he still looked at the landscape painting carefully.
"The brushwork is elegant, but the layout is quite meticulous, and the details have its own style. From the color and signature, it is at least a masterpiece of the Song and Ming Dynasties. It is a good painting." Yang Pojundao.
Yang Gongming smiled, "Yes, you can judge the age of this painting from the color and signature. It seems that you have worked a lot."
"Father wanted me to dabble in a wide range of subjects, and never dared to forget," Yang Pojun said sternly.
Yang Gongming nodded, "Yeah... You have always listened to me like this, which is also gratifying to me."
Yang Pojun felt a little weird, but didn't ask much.
"Can you see the fisherman on the boat in the painting?" Yang Gongming asked.
Yang Pojun looked at the few strokes of the pole fisherman carefully, and said, "This fisherman... Is there anything special about the brushwork?"
Yang Gongming didn't answer, but instead asked: "Do you know, who is this fisherman?"
Yang Pojun thought about it, frowned for a while, and said, "Father, this question is quite mysterious, forgive me for not being able to figure it out."
"It's you."
Yang Gongming said lightly.
"I?"
Yang Pojun was stunned in the same place, some of them couldn't believe what he heard.
Yang Gongming nodded and sighed: "Pojun, you know, this painting is actually a fake that I let an old friend copy, the real one is not this one."
Yang Pojun widened a pair of tiger eyes, "But... but father, didn't you just say..."
"I said, you can judge whether it is good from the color and the signature, but I didn't say that your judgment is correct." Yang Gongming smiled.
Yang Pojun was stunned again. Indeed, Yang Gongming didn't say whether he was correct or not!
"Broken the army, I said, you can listen to me, it is my comfort... But do you know how I look forward to a day when you can not listen to me... That way, I will be more happy" Yang Gongming sincerely He patted his son on the shoulder.
Yang Pojun looked dazed, and asked, "Why... why?"
"A son who listens to his father's words is certainly a good son, but he will definitely not be a good enough son.
If he blindly obeyed his father's words, it would be tantamount to this son who did not go out of the path he chose.
Since you have been walking on the road where your father is walking, what is the difference from your father? How can it promote the future of a family? "
Yang Gongming said earnestly and earnestly: "You have listened to me since you were young, and you are very precocious.
You have always regarded yourself as the successor of the Yang family, the eldest son and grandson of our Yang family, and the only heir.
In your heart, you just want to be the best, and you have to let people outside see that the majesty of our Yang family, you must lead by example and treat everything with strict self-discipline..."
Yang Pojun suddenly raised his head, "Is that wrong!? Father! Is that the reason why you refuse to admit me!?"
"No, that's right." Yang Gongming smiled and said, "If you are wrong, you are wrong. You have laid your life on a fixed track before it even started."
Yang Pojun listened blankly, his face pale.
"You never thought of disobeying me, you never thought that my choice was wrong.
Even, before I waited for my decision, you sent your own flesh and blood, Yang Chen, to the orphanage...
In your opinion, the Yang family is desperate for family interests."
"Father!" Yang Pojun cut his teeth "Could it be that... If it were you, wouldn't it be done!?"
Yang Gongming smiled bitterly: "Yes... I will do that..."
"Then why..."
"But that is wrong!"
Yang Pojun was stunned.
Yang Gongming sighed, "You did make the same choice as I would choose. But that doesn't mean that you and I are both correct."
Did you know that after losing my eldest grandson, I was awakened every midnight and nightmares for the past 20 years...
I kept asking myself, if I didn't abandon Yang Chen back then, would I really not be able to get through the difficulties
If the Yang family under my control needs to sacrifice a small newborn baby to be preserved, then I am the owner of the family! ? "
With a loud question, Yang Pojun staggered back.
His face was red and white, and his eyes were full of complexity.
Yan Sanniang, who was not far away, wiped the corners of her eyes sourly.
Yang Gongming's voice was hoarse, and he smiled sourly: "Broken the army, you know how I hoped that you ran to me bravely back then and said that you must keep the child and let the child appear in our Yang family in an open manner. On the genealogy...
Even if I would reject you at that time, but I think I will also, with peace of mind, put this family in your hands.
Because even if you have to sacrifice your children for the sake of the overall situation, if you work hard and give up completely, it is completely different.
If you don't even have the slightest idea of opposing the family etiquette, wouldn't it be the only way to be controlled by the rules instead of mastering the rules? "
"Dad... I..." Yang Pojun looked sullen, and didn't know what to say.
Yang Gongming turned his head and said to the scroll: "I said you are the fisherman in this painting because, in your eyes, there is only the fixed river and the mountains on the shore.
You don't think about it, this world will only be a picture scroll, and it's not even a treasure, it's just a fake.
I let you learn widely, so that you can broaden your thinking. Don't always be obsessed with the identity of the Yang family, and don't be obsessed with obsessions that are dispensable.
But you, however, understood my thoughts as really asking you to study those antique calligraphy and paintings. This is the end of the day..."
Yang Pojun squeezed his fists and trembled.
"Father, doesn't Yang Chen care about those things... If that's the case, why does he go back to Yang's house!"
Yang Gongming continued: "Yang Chen, it's different from you and me..."
"Where is it different..."
Yang Gongming smiled and said: "For Yang Chen, there are no so-called rules or iron rules in this world. In his eyes, painting is painting, and the world is just a playground.
He is overlooking the world. In his eyes, if he is an enemy, then kill, and if you are good with him, then stay.
He will not consider whether this is in line with reputation, whether it is in line with identity, everything he does is just following his own heart, not the rules of this world. "
As he said, Yang Gongming pointed his finger at the fisherman on the scroll, and said, "You are a fisherman who travels between mountains and rivers. But Yang Chen, like us, is standing outside the scroll, watching The outsider of all this.
The reason why I didn’t give you the position of Patriarch, but was willing to pass it on to Yang Chen, is because I did not do it with your father and son. Yang Chen has done it..."
"He's just killing people indiscriminately! Bloody and brutal! Father, you said he was so condescending!?" Yang Pojun asked unwillingly.
Yang Gongming shook his head and chuckled, "Don't forget, our Yang family is a soldier. In the soldier's world, neither friendly nor enemy.
There is no neutrality in this world, there are only interests.
The politicians of the government can choose to negotiate and then negotiate.
But we can only kill and be killed.
The Yang Family doesn't need a Patriarch to protect the Yang Family, it will only waste blood and waste time.
What the Yang family needs is a patriarch who brandishes a butcher knife for the family, so that there will always be fishy blood on the blade of the Yang family..."
Yang Pojun stared at his father for a long time.
In the end, Yang Pojun’s eyes flashed with a sense of sorrow, a bitter smile, and said: "Father, I am still not reconciled, am I not your son... Even if I can't meet your requirements, that's what you taught, isn't it? ?"
"That's why I never dared to tell you all this" Yang Gongming said painfully: "Because I can't escape the blame, I don't even dare to hurt your self-esteem. But since you have asked so persistently, I must I will give you a frank answer.
Pojun, although your character is destined to be the head of the Yang family, your father never meant to look down and dislike you. You did not disappoint your mother who left. It was me who disappointed your mother and son... "
"Mother?" Yang Pojun sneered. "Since I have memory, I have never remembered such a woman. Father, if this is your decision, then I have nothing to say.
I am a useless son, because I will not refuse your choice. However, I also have my persistence, at least, I will not recognize Yang Chen as the owner of this house! "
After speaking, Yang Pojun was about to turn around and leave the door.
But as soon as he was about to go out, he saw Guo Xuehua at the door with a mixed expression on his face, looking at him intently.