After lunch, Zhang Yunzheng took the fourth prince to go out, Zhang Yunming naturally would not let them go, he sent the two people he brought along with Yulan to find other people, so he had to follow Zhang Yunzheng and the fourth prince by himself. Li Yao had said that he wanted to accompany them for a walk, but when he heard that the fourth prince wanted to visit Tao's Tea House, he retreated and said worriedly: "It's better not to go, that way, it seems..."
Hearing what he said, Zhang Yunzheng became even more interested: "Are you afraid of trouble?! Don't go! Just tell us the place!"
Zhang Yunming stared at Zhang Yunzheng: "Don't cause trouble!"
The fourth prince hurriedly said: "Just go and have a look, don't cause trouble."
Zhang Yunzheng said: "Yes! Go buy some tea! I won't let you keep saying that I don't buy things for people!"
Li Yaocheng said: "You go out through the back door. Don't let people see that you are going from here. It's not for my business, but to prevent chaos in the Hou Mansion. The people over there are too tough."
The dignified princes of the Marquis' Mansion plus a prince have to enter and exit through the back door of a private house in a city. Even Zhang Yunming is a little angry, but after all he is two years older than Zhang Yunzheng, so he can hold his breath and think that no one can be traced. After revealing their origins, they nodded in agreement.
Zhang Yunzheng frowned: "Are they so powerful?"
Li Yaocheng said: "The eunuch's son wants that business. The eunuch is a master of the sky. I heard that he worshiped Mrs. Lu as his godfather..."
Zhang Yunzheng snorted, and Li Yao deliberately said that this young master must be stubborn, otherwise he would not have sneered at Taifu Lu, and hurriedly added: "Taifu Lu has power in the government and the public, he is the prince's Yue family, and the emperor will buy his face! You must not reckless!"
Zhang Yunming really frowned: "Let's not go." He glanced at the fourth prince, a little blaming him for being troublesome.
The fourth prince hurriedly said: "Okay, it's fine if you don't go..."
Zhang Yunzheng had a stubborn temper: "Go away! I just want to see it!"
Li Yaocheng hurriedly said: "It's okay to take a look, just don't stand out, there are so many people in this city, no one will notice you."
So Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng, the four princes, all dressed in casual clothes, came out from the corner door in the backyard of the Li Mansion, and followed the path Li Yaocheng pointed out to the street.
Even in famine years, we can see the prosperity of this city. The streets are densely covered with dilapidated shop fronts, but ragged refugees and beggars can be seen everywhere.
Zhang Yunming followed closely beside Zhang Yunzheng, lest he behave badly, the fourth prince walked behind alone, looking back and forth.
The opened shop didn't sell food, so of course the dried fruit Zhang Yunzheng wanted couldn't be found, so they found Tao's Tea House not long after.
Dow's Tea House is located in the middle of many high-fronted shops on the main street. There are three large sun-facing shops. The window rails facing the street are all carved with the word "tea". peeled off.
There were several people sitting on chairs in front of the door, talking loudly: "This tea is really bad!"
Zhang Yunming pulled Zhang Yunzheng's sleeve, and whispered: "You saw it, let's go."
Zhang Yunzheng flicked his sleeves and said, "I want to go in and have a look!" He strode inside.
A person outside the door stopped him and said, "Young master! Don't be fooled! The tea in this tea house is terrible! If you want to buy tea, just cross the street, the one over there..."
Zhang Yunzheng scolded: "Don't worry about it! I just want to go in and have a look!" Immediately entered the door, Zhang Yunming and the fourth prince followed him into the tea house. A person in front of the door got up and ran to find someone.
Half of the hall is a tea seat, the other half is a counter, and there are large pots of tea on the shelves. The store was cleaned with clean windows and looked very quiet, except for them, there were no other customers.
They had just entered the door, and the two guys standing by the door hurriedly saluted them with careful smiles. A man in his thirties with a square face came up to him, with a vigilant face, and forced a smile: "Masters, please come here." , Do you drink tea or buy tea?"
Zhang Yunzheng said: "Drink first, if you feel good, buy some!"
The man hurriedly said: "Okay, please enter the private seat." He pointed to a seat by the window, but immediately changed his mind and pointed to a tea seat inside the room. The three walked inside, Zhang Yunzheng looked at the person and said, "Are you the master? Why don't you find someone to drive the outsiders away? Just let them speak bad things?"
The man hurriedly saluted and said: "Thank you, young master, for asking. My surname is Tao, my name is Chengye, and my name is Jiyuan. I am the owner of the small shop."
Zhang Yunming replied: "Tao Guanren." Zhang Yunzheng also cupped his fists, but he didn't introduce himself.
Only then did Tao Chengye answer Zhang Yunzheng's words: "My father won't let me bombard people, and we gave them the chairs they sit on."
Zhang Yunzheng frowned: "Is your father confused?"
Zhang Yunming tugged on Zhang Yunzheng's sleeve: "Don't be rude!"
Tao Chengye nodded in embarrassment, and someone in the inner room smiled and said, "Hurry up and push me out, let me see the appearance of the person who comes in!"
The man said apologetically to the three people: "It's my father..." and went into the house
Zhang Yunming glared at Zhang Yunzheng: "Look at you, are you in trouble?!" Pulling Zhang Yunzheng to the private seat,
The fourth prince remembered Li Yaocheng saying that the Tao family's old officials could no longer walk, and he felt pity, so he walked slowly, looked at the door of the inner room, and when the curtain opened, Tao Chengye came out pushing a wooden wheelchair, on which sat a A fat old man with a smile on his face.
The fourth prince opened his mouth slightly in shock. He originally thought that this old official Tao must be bedridden, haggard, desolate and sad. Who would have thought that he was such a happy old man
Seeing the fourth prince, the old official Tao hurriedly raised his hand to say hello: "Oh! I saw the nobleman! Come here and let me take a closer look! I just said that your child will... Hahaha, I can't say it, come on, Sit next to me!" The official Tao pushed the old official Tao to a table next to the counter, and the old official Tao pointed to the nearby chair and pointed to the fourth prince loudly.
The fourth prince couldn't keep his mouth shut: Isn't his wife dead? !
Seeing his puzzled look, Tao official pointed to his head at the fourth prince behind the old official, and bowed to the fourth prince.
The fourth prince understood: Old official Tao is crazy! His wife passed away, and he couldn't bear the pain, so he directly avoided this fact and chose nothingness. The fourth prince had a sob in his throat - at the beginning, after his mother passed away, several times, he thought that his mother was not dead, so she came back to him... He walked over and sat beside the old official Tao.
The old official Tao was very happy, and said loudly: "Quick, bring the 'Tianxiang', it's useless for you to keep it anyway! Wrinkles on my forehead are full of worries."
Tao Chengye had a gloomy expression on his face, his forehead really showed lines. While asking people to prepare tea, he went to Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng's table and offered the tea card. Zhang Yunming also ordered this tea when he heard the old man over there say "heavenly fragrance".
Zhang Yunzheng didn't know what was going on, and asked, "How could you bring your mother into the store? Those people outside have no good intentions."
Tao Chengye turned his face to look at his father who was speaking loudly to the fourth prince at the counter, and said in a low voice, "Don't blame the guest, my father is indeed a little confused, my mother has passed away."
Zhang Yunzheng frowned: "What's going on?"
Tao Chengye felt that although this young man had a bad tone, his eyes were clear and his temperament was decent, which made people feel real at first glance. He couldn't help but trust him. He was at the end of his rope and wanted to confide in him, so he said, "Half a year ago, my parents went to a tea garden outside the city. , collided with someone else's carriage, the carriage overturned, and my mother..." His eyes were red.
Zhang Yunming asked keenly: "Who hit it?"
Tao Chengye shook his head: "The people over there left immediately, and the government didn't find out."
Zhang Yunzheng scolded: "Officer dog!"...
At the counter, the old official Tao said to the fourth prince with a smile: "My son is sad again. In fact, his mother told me that she is very good there, much better than here! All the right and wrong in the world, Don't take it too seriously."
The fourth prince was a little restless, but he thought of the phantom he saw and asked, "What's it like over there?"
The old official Tao was immediately excited and said: "There are seven floors over there, the upper part is the fairyland, and the lower part is the fierce place..."
His words came vaguely, and Tao Chengye said to Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng: "After that, my father's mind was confused, and he always said that my mother talked to him, saying that there is no need to fight, let me give the business to someone, and go back to Fujian with him. My hometown. But this tea house is a business of several generations of my Tao family, and my mother came up with the method of smoking tea. My mother loves tea like her life, so I can’t ruin this business after she goes.”
The old official Tao said to the fourth prince, "...over there, where a person goes is determined by what he does in the world. A person's words and deeds determine the weight of the soul. Dirty fetters, you will rise to the fairyland... "
The fourth prince suddenly said: "No wonder the Buddhists say that one can become a Buddha only in the human world."
Old official Tao was very excited when he saw that someone was listening to him sincerely, and said to the fourth prince with his eyes wide open, "That's what it means! The cultivation in the world counts, so the people over there always come here because they want to go up. My wife said, the taller the more beautiful it is! But if you do bad things in your life and hold evil in your heart, you will sink to the bottom... "
The fourth prince asked, "Is it hell?"
The old official Tao tilted his head, as if he was listening to something, and then said: "It's just being with similar spirits, beating and torturing each other, surrounded by ugly and difficult situations, you can't go! She said it would be painful to go down."
The fourth prince asked: "Can you feel pain?"
The old official Tao nodded: "It's spiritual pain. There is no medicine to cure it. It's many times harder than the pain in the world! So what's the point of suffering a little bit in the world? If you can get a higher level because of it , but worth it... "
The guys served tea, Tao Chengye walked to the fourth prince, smiled apologetically and said to the fourth prince, "My lord, their tea is here..."
The old official Tao pulled the fourth prince's sleeve: "He can't leave, sit with me for a while, I finally found someone I can chat with! He is your nobleman!"
Tao Chengye frowned and looked at his father. The old official Tao pointed to him and said, "You can't be so angry all the time. Anger is the most terrible thing. The Buddhists say that anger will ruin thousands of years of practice! Don't get angry, always be happy and grateful That's good!... "
Tao Chengye sighed, and said to the old officials: "This young master is a foreigner, don't scare him."
The old official Tao said: "You don't understand, you don't understand! Hurry up and take care of the guests, we are talking about Zen."
Tao Chengye looked at the fourth prince helplessly, and the fourth prince smiled dryly: "It's okay, it's okay." Isn't it just to say a few words with an old man who is haunted by ghosts? Moreover, if I saw the scene in the sky, others would not believe it if I told it.
Tao Chengye had no choice but to walk away. The fourth prince saw the Buddhist scriptures on the old official Tao's lap, and asked, "Then, are the teachings of the Buddhist school correct? The Eightfold Path of the Buddhist school is to make people speak and act righteously."
The old official Tao said: "My wife said that there is no family opinion over there, and all behaviors that can maintain conscience in the human world are good. It is not easy to maintain goodness in the human world! For those low-level spirits, the human world It is a paradise, better than their situation, and it is very convenient for them to do evil. For the spirits of those immortals, the world is a place of suffering, and they have to suffer, so the world will be very painful for good people."
The fourth prince had never heard these words anywhere else, and asked in surprise: "Then why do we need to live in the world?"
The old official Tao chuckled: "Because there needs to be a place for people to practice! Those immortals want to practice in order to reach a higher level of heaven, and those spirits at the bottom must have a chance to become better, right? But it's precious! One day can't be wasted."
At this moment, the fourth prince had all the thoughts of becoming a monk, but he thought of Su Wanniang, and thought of his love to sleep in... Then he realized that this was just a crazy old man's nonsense, restrained his thoughts and echoed: "Really, people Everyone should practice Buddhism."
The old official Tao said with a smile: "Cultivate your mind! When people come, they have the conscience of God in their hearts, and they are accompanied by the guardians of the heavens. But if people are tempted to do bad things, the voice in their hearts will die out, and people will listen to it." Without good reminders, you will not be able to practice. Therefore, you must cultivate your mind and listen to the voice in your heart."
The fourth prince asked: "There are many voices in my heart, how do I know which ones are conscience and which ones are others?"
The old official Tao said: "It's just the word 'selfish'. Selfless, mostly conscience, if everyone is like this, the world will be better. Selfish, if everyone is like this, the world will be worse, definitely not. Although people come to this world for their own cultivation, they can cultivate in order to do good and avoid evil, and to help others and altruistically.”
The fourth prince suddenly remembered that in the dark bilge at that time, in the illusion, his mother said: "If you have no selfish intentions, you can come back..." For a moment, he felt that the old official Tao was not crazy at all.
The old official Tao picked up the Buddhist scriptures on his knee and said: "So learning Buddhism is also a way. The Buddha is a great man. He has been fighting against the darkness of the human heart all his life. For a hundred years, how many people have been able to rely on his great wisdom to contend against the evil in their hearts."
The fourth prince was puzzled and said: "I thought that learning Buddhism is to get rid of suffering."
The old official Tao raised an index finger: "If you feel pain, you still have evil in your heart, and you don't understand the value of life and the purpose of your coming."
The fourth prince was shocked by these words, and couldn't help frowning in thought.
The old official Tao opened the Buddhist scriptures with a smile and said: "Buddhists themselves say that Buddhism is a boat for ferrying people, not an end. If you want to live your life without wasting it, to put it bluntly, you should refrain from doing evil and pursue all good things. But true When it comes to daily behavior, people will be confused and deceived by false appearances. The Buddhists have given many pointers to help people to be vigilant. This is the Maha Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, which has only about 200 words in total, but it expresses many essential points. Emptiness is form is one of the famous lines. I have not figured out the many mysteries here, but I can encourage you with your son." Before the fourth prince agreed, he began to recite the Heart Sutra line by line, and then explained his own understanding.
The Heart Sutra is very short, and the old official Tao spoke to the end in a while, pointing to the end of the chapter, he said: "I like this passage the most: Jiedijiedi, Parajayadi, Parasangha Jiedi, Bodhisavaha. Go forward! Go forward! Practitioners, if you go all the way to the other shore, you can get the great achievement of truth! Listen, what a deep friendship is contained in it! My wife said that the heavens sent many walkers with light to the world, Come to enlighten people's ignorance and stubbornness, and help people practice, look, isn't it their voices in this scripture?" The old Tao official waved the scripture excitedly, and the fourth prince felt that the crazy old man's eyes seemed to be shining up. …
Tao Chengye looked back at his father and the fourth prince uneasily, and whispered to Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng, "Say sorry to that son on my behalf. After my father changed his mind, not only did he not want to do business anymore, he always said he was going to break up." Family property, when you see people, you talk about things about the spiritual world, saying that people will go there to live on after death, and don’t care too much about the gains and losses here. What do I say if I don’t do business? He said in a daze. Cultivation, death is worth it. Tell me, is this a demon? He seized the opportunity to explain Buddhist scriptures to others, and copied the scriptures himself to give away... I dare not let him meet with others. Just now, the young master was kind , ask him to be more tolerant."
Zhang Yunzheng waved his hand and said: "He is your father, you should not make irresponsible remarks about what he does, besides, how do you know that there is no spirit world over there? Don't speak ill of your father!" Shen Wen came back from there
It was rare for Tao Chengye to see someone defending his father. Although he was scolded, he felt that Zhang Yunzheng was very close. He hurriedly apologized and said, "My son is right, what do you think of our tea? This is 'Tianxiang', created by my father and mother." of tea."
Zhang Yunzheng said: "I like it very much! Give me thirty catties!" After speaking, he handed some bank notes to Tao Chengye: "Is it enough? Not enough!"
Tao Chengye looked at the banknotes in his hand and was startled: "So... so much? Enough, oh, I don't mean to complain, I'm afraid you won't be able to use it, it will be a big bag."
Zhang Yunming asked Zhang Yunzheng: "Can you bring it?"
Zhang Yunzheng said to Zhang Yunming: "Just hold it for me!"
Zhang Yunming stared, Tao Chengye carefully put the banknote in his arms, and said with a smile: "This young master really cares for his younger brother, but it's a pity that I'm the only son, so I don't have such a blessing..."
Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng had never been seen outside, Zhang Yunming said in surprise: "Do we look alike?"
Tao Chengye shook his head and said, "It's not about looks, it's about the strength. Brothers are one body, the elder brother protects the younger brother, and the younger brother relies on the elder brother. My two children are like this. They usually fight back and forth. Well, the other one is desperately trying to help..."
Both Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng were a little embarrassed and buried their heads in drinking tea.
The old official Tao said to the fourth prince: "We are destined, come, I will give you this Heart Sutra. I copied it, and the words are not good..."
The fourth prince hurriedly took it with both hands politely, put it in his arms, and said: "Thank you, old man..." Before he finished speaking, there was a bang at the door, and the half-open shop door was kicked open. A few yamen servants came in with knives in their arms. Next to them, a civilian-looking man came in to take a look, pointed at Zhang Yunzheng and said, "That's him! It's a gangster!"
Zhang Yunzheng squinted his eyes and wanted to get up, Zhang Yunming hurriedly stretched out his hand to block him, and said with a smile: "We are all good people, how can we be called gangsters?"
The yamen servant shook off the chain and said, "Is it right? Come back to the yamen with us first! Ask you guys carefully!"
Someone outside the door shouted: "Did you see it?! Tao's Tea House is taking in bandits! Don't go in, everyone!"
The old official Tao hurriedly turned the wheel of the wheelchair desperately, walked forward, and said with a smile: "Guards! How can you say that about my guests! They are all good children, as my old wife said, they are nobles …”
He arrived at a tea table and blocked the way for those yamen servants to go to Zhang Yunzheng and Zhang Yunming. A yamen servant flew up and kicked the side of the wheelchair, cursing: "Get out of the way! Old lunatic! Don't get in the way!" The wheelchair was kicked to the side, and Tao Chengye yelled: "Father! Be careful!" The old official Tao He couldn't move his lower body, he could only fall to the ground with the overturned wheelchair, his head happened to hit the corner of a table heavily, following Tao Chengye's exclamation, the wheelchair fell to the ground with a bang, the old official Tao Half of his body also fell out of the wheelchair, his body was twisted, with a smile on his face, his eyes slowly closed, blood gushed out from the side of his head, and in an instant, it spread on the smooth floor tiles into a large area.
Tao Chengye cried out: "Father!" He rushed over and knelt beside the old official Tao. The fourth prince was the closest, and also hurried over, following Duan Zeng's example, he held the old official Tao's hand, Clumsily trying to feel the pulse of the old official Tao. He couldn't find a pulse, but he could feel Tao's hands turning cold in his hands.
Tao Chengye hugged the old official Tao's upper body, and yelled a few times: "Father! Father!..." The fourth prince looked at him, not daring to tell him that the old official Tao had no pulse. The Fourth Prince saw Tao Chengye's face in Chinese characters was pale at first, then livid, and then flushed red. The veins on his forehead popped up, tears were gone from his eyes, and he stared at the yamen servants in a blink of an eye, as if he was going to desperately.
A yamen servant said: "Look at what we are doing?! He fell it himself!"
Tao Chengye roared: "What did you say?!" He was about to explode, and suddenly, the fourth prince heard clearly: "Don't get angry!" It was completely the tone of an old official Tao, he looked at the old official Tao, Tao Chengye was also stunned, and looked down at the old official Tao.
The old official Tao was still the same, with his eyes closed and his mouth slightly open, smiling. The fourth prince touched his hand again, it was indeed stiff.
Tao Chengye turned to stare at the fourth prince, and asked in a hoarse voice: "What did you hear?!" His eyes were filled with anticipation and fear of disappointment, the fourth prince hurriedly nodded and said, "I heard it, don't get angry."
The redness on Tao Chengye's face faded, he took a deep breath, lowered his head slowly, and said to the old official Tao, "Father, I'll listen to you..."
The fourth prince heard laughter, followed by: "Jie Di Jie Di, Para Jie Di..." The voice was faint and could not be heard again.
Tao Chengye was stunned for a while, then raised his head and said calmly to several yamen servants: "Don't bother my customers, I will close the shop today, and I don't want the tea garden anymore. I will return the coffin to my hometown, and I will never return."
A yamen servant pointed to Zhang Yunzheng and said, "But some people say he is a gangster!"
Tao Chengye said: "If so, I will burn down this tea plantation! Burn down the tea garden outside the city!"
The leading yamen servant shrugged his shoulders, and said to several people: "Forget it." One person said to Zhang Yunzheng and Zhang Yunming, "It's cheaper for you." Several yamen servants were about to turn around and leave, Zhang Yunzheng stood up suddenly: "But I I can't take advantage of you!" He went out for a walk without a sword, picked up chairs and rushed towards several yamen servants.
Zhang Yunming didn't stop him for a moment, Zhang Yunzheng had already arrived in front of the yamen servant, rounded his chair and beat him: "You want to leave after killing someone?! No way! I'm going to break your heads today too!"
The yamen servants drew their knives and chains, and the chair in Zhang Yunzheng's hand was split into pieces with only one leg left. But holding a chair leg, he became more flexible. He turned around and hit the heads of those people fiercely. After a while, he beat the yamen servants until their heads were bleeding.
The people next to him shouted to the outside: "Come and help! There is a rebellion!" Many people with sticks poured in at the door. Zhang Yunming sighed, stood up, picked a heavy chair, lifted it up and said: "You Dare to bully my brother?! You have to ask me too!" also typed in.
The two of them fought together, Tao Chengye protected his father, and shouted in the chaos of the crowd: "Smash the tea pots!"
With a bang, a pot of tea leaves shattered, and one of the fighters shouted, "Don't smash the tea pot!"
Tao Chengye yelled at the guy: "You smash it!"
With tears in their eyes, the two guys smashed the tea cans on the shelf to the ground one by one.
In the confusion, someone said: "Go out and fight! Go out and fight! Don't fight here!"
Everyone ran outside, and soon, there were only a few yamen servants lying on the ground moaning, and Zhang's brothers with tattered clothes and bruised heads and faces.
Tao Chengye pointed to the back and said, "Hurry up and leave! I'm sorry!" Then he said to a clerk, "Give them that jar of top-quality incense!"
Zhang Yunzheng waved his hand and said, "No, I'm the one who caused trouble for you."
Tao Chengye shook his head and said, "They wanted my family's property. I was wrong, I should have given it to them, otherwise my father wouldn't have..." He sobbed, but immediately urged: "You guys run away! Take that The can of tea, that was the last one my father made, it is a peerless product, the treasure of the shop, it is worth the money you gave me."
Zhang Yunming knew he couldn't stay for long, so he pushed Zhang Yunzheng and said, "Go!" He stretched out his hand to pull the fourth prince who was squatting on the ground up. A clerk handed over a small pot of tea, the Fourth Prince subconsciously took it, held it in his elbow, was pulled by Zhang Yunming, followed Zhang Yunzheng out from the back door of the shop, there were already people running towards us on the street: "Stop them! ""Catch them!" …
Zhang Yunzheng led the way and ran all the way, turned around three times, and finally arrived in front of the city gate again. Zhang Yunzheng was afraid that he would lose his tail in the city and be recognized by others, so he took the lead and rushed out of the city gate.
As a result, after a lapse of one day, the three of them ran to sit in the ditch beside the road again, all disheveled and embarrassed.
The three of them sat in silence for a while, mourning the death of the crazy old man.
After a while, the fourth prince found that he was still holding the can of tea tightly, so he handed it to Zhang Yunzheng. Zhang Yunzheng was depressed, and he waved his hands, but he didn't take it, and sighed, "Take it. Did I ruin their business? Did those people recognize me? Are they looking for trouble?"
Zhang Yunming frowned: "What are you doing?"
Zhang Yunzheng hesitated: "Well, I beat up a few people in the city yesterday..."
Zhang Yunming shut his mouth tightly, closed his eyes and took a breath, then opened his eyes again, and said to Zhang Yunzheng, "You are not allowed to enter that city again!"
The fourth prince felt that he needed to say something for Zhang Yunzheng at this time, so he said: "They are looking for something wrong with that tea house, they shouldn't have recognized someone, otherwise why didn't they recognize me? I was also there yesterday..."
Zhang Yunming glared at the fourth prince: "Stop meddling! What pride do you have at the scene of the fight?! Did you persuade the fight?"
The fourth prince said: "No, I think they should fight."
Zhang Yunzheng laughed, Zhang Yunming turned his head and reprimanded Zhang Yunzheng: "Why are you laughing?! Even if you should be beaten, you may not be required to fight? You always lower your status. If it is a dog, don't you still want to fight him? bite?"
Zhang Yunzheng said: "What do you mean by biting? If it is a vicious dog, I have to beat it! So that it does not bite others again!"
The fourth prince interrupted and said: "That old official Tao said that living in the world is a practice..."
Zhang Yunzheng waved his fist and said, "My practice is to fight! Especially for those who can't fight!"
Zhang Yunming hugged his head: "Why should I worry about him?! I'm only in my early twenties, why do I feel like I'm almost a hundred?!"
Zhang Yunzheng poked Zhang Yunming and said, "All right, all right, don't think about it! Why don't you let me go to the city? Do you have to go see Li Guanren when it gets dark? You still say I'm stupid, look, you've been here for a day, We sat in the ditch, and I took them with me, and I haven't been in the ditch for several months! You are much worse than me... "
Zhang Yunming was so angry that he slapped the ground, raising a cloud of dust: "Did I start it? Was it me?"
Zhang Yunzheng stared: "Didn't you listen to that shopkeeper Tao? Brothers are one body, what I do is yours..."
This time the fourth prince laughed, he was absolutely sure that Zhang Yunming and Zhang Yunzheng were brothers. The Pingyuan Hou Mansion actually concealed Zhang Yunzheng's identity! While laughing, he sighed with emotion: It seems that Marquis Pingyuan has been wary of his father for a long time, and there is indeed no trust between the monarch and his ministers... He finished laughing and sighed.
Zhang Yunming asked: "Why are you sighing?"
The fourth prince naturally did not dare to say what he was really thinking, and could only say: "The officials are so corrupt and arrogant, even if Bei Rong does not come, our dynasty will already be seriously ill."
Zhang Yunzheng also nodded and said: "The official is the law, and the law is the official. The common people really have no place to reason."
Zhang Yunming was a little surprised: "Isn't an official the law, isn't the law the official?"
Zhang Yunzheng and the fourth prince looked at Zhang Yunming very proudly, Zhang Yunzheng said: "Of course not, it should be separated!" Shen Wen nagged them many times, and they fully understood this idea. Zhang Yunzheng said to the Fourth Prince: "Come and tell him!"
The fourth prince stammered and explained the reason why the legal institution should be independent from the administrative authority. Zhang Yunming looked at the fourth prince in surprise: "You came up with this?!"
The fourth prince hurriedly waved his hands: "Listen... I heard."
Zhang Yunming snorted: "It's just talking! It's impossible! You really took it seriously."
The fourth prince choked, Zhang Yunzheng said: "How is that impossible?! I'm going to do it! When I go to that island in the future, I will do it from the beginning. The official is to help the people, not a master! There must be no such thing Such a thing that relatives who are officials dare to use their official power to oppress the people!"
Zhang Yunming clicked his tongue and said: "You are really capable! What do you think the emperor does? You still occupy the mountain as the king?"
Zhang Yunzheng vented contemptuously: "The emperor knows nothing! Every day in the imperial city, he is afraid of this and that, protecting his seat. What does he know about the sufferings of the people? What does he know about the world? He hasn't even seen the sea, so how dare he find one?" Island?…”
Zhang Yunming glanced at the fourth prince, stopped Zhang Yunzheng and said: "Speak less! You can comment on the royal family too?!"
The fourth prince was also frightened by Zhang Yunzheng's abuse - the emperor is now the father, and may be the brother of the third emperor in the future, but after he has walked this way, he also deeply feels the narrow-mindedness brought by the emperor's absence from the capital, and feels that Zhang Yunzheng's every word is scolding. reasonable. Seeing that Zhang Yunming was worried about him, he said: "People from the royal family can't think of many things if they don't come out to see the world."
Zhang Yunzheng said: "It's not just knowledge, it's character!"
The fourth prince frowned: "With more knowledge, don't you have a broad mind?" He suddenly felt that the prince is actually quite pitiful, he was only eighteen or nineteen when he was canonized, right? Younger than himself and Zhang Yunzheng. How many years does it take for a person to understand some truths in his twenties? know what? Where is there any sobriety? The prince is acting extreme, is it not because he is still young and energetic? ... The fourth prince sighed again.
Zhang Yunzheng didn't believe it: "Can looking hard at something make the eyes bigger?"
Zhang Yunming is more sensitive than Zhang Yunzheng, he thinks it's better not to speak ill of the royal family in front of the fourth prince, after all, it is the fourth prince's home! The emperor is his father! The prince is his brother! People always have to take into account their blood relatives, otherwise are they still human? Then he changed the subject and said to Zhang Yunzheng: "Don't talk about the royal family, think about the current situation first. You have to ask Li Guanren where the Zhuangzi outside his city is, and ask him to write a note so that we can go overnight, don't talk empty words vernacular…”
Zhang Yunzheng lay down on the ground: "I understand, I understand! You are worrying like crazy!"...
They waited until it was completely dark, Zhang Yunzheng went back to the city with light work, arrived at Li Yaocheng's mansion, told Li Yaocheng that they were going to Zhuangzi outside the city, Li Yaocheng was busy writing letters. Then Zhang Yunzheng asked Shen Wen to come out and told her what happened during the day.
Shen Wen already knew Zhang Yunzheng's temper now, and hearing this situation, he was definitely going to stand out, so he could only ask: "Are you not injured? There is a bump on your head."
Zhang Yunzheng shook his head indifferently: "It's okay! My head is very hard."
Shen Wen smiled, now she likes Zhang Yunzheng's temperament more and more, sincere and righteous, full of light and heat of youth, can illuminate her heaviness after seeing the world. She now agrees with Yan's point of view—young people, don't be so old-fashioned, she wants to grow up with Zhang Yunzheng, and it's best for Zhang Yunzheng to carry this vitality all his life.
Shen Wen turned his face slightly, and said in a tired voice, "Next time you go to fight, you have to take me with you! I can help you..." With her helping Zhang Yunzheng, she can protect Zhang Yunzheng.
Zhang Yunzheng now feels that Shen Wen is a very confidant! He and he were a perfect match. He smiled and said, "Great! Let's fight together, and run if we can't fight! You run so fast, I can't even catch up, and no one else can catch up."
Shen Wen giggled, eyes bent into crescents: "I won't run away alone, let's run away together."
Hearing this, Zhang Yunzheng felt very sweet in his heart, and said with a smirk, "Of course, it's fun to run together."
The two looked at each other, their faces blushed, especially the children. Shen Wen shyly said, "Get out of the city quickly, they are still waiting for you."
Zhang Yunzheng nodded, and the two separated. Zhang Yunzheng took the location and note given by Li Yaocheng back outside the city, found Zhang Yunming and the fourth prince who were starving to death, and took them to Li Yaocheng's Zhuangzi outside the city. The people there read the note and hurriedly greeted them to eat and wash, and they spent the night in Zhuangzi.