"On the verge of breaking out." The old man chewed on the comment and said, "After all, this word is not as good as being at ease."
"At their age, how can they learn the essence of the four words 'with ease'?"
"Wasn't Mo Qingdi young and promising back then? You were still a correspondent at that time. When Mo Qingdi first came to see me, I asked him what his hobbies were. He said drinking and writing, and martial arts could only rank third. I said I couldn't compete with you in drinking, let alone martial arts, so you should write a piece of calligraphy for me. In the end, he wrote me the four words '游便有裕'. Do you still remember the calligraphy he wrote?"
"I remember. How could I not remember?" Zhang Jianjun said with a smile, "The chief also asked me to hang Mo Qingdi's calligraphy in the bedroom, and I have been observing it day and night until now. Later, the chief kept practicing the four characters 'You Ren You Yu', which must be closely related to him, right?"
"Not bad." The old man nodded with a smile. "Look at how Mo Qingdi writes. His strength is even and his strokes are well-arranged. It not only makes people feel the strength and bearing, but also makes people see the beauty of the shape. Later, I often reflected that governing a big country is like cooking a small fish, and you have to be able to do this with ease. These two children are good, but they are too angry and have deep personal hatreds, so they are not easy to use."
"But there are still differences between the two." Zhang Jianjun said with a smile. "Fang Yan has a lot of anger in his heart, but he has a sense of control and can control his emotions well. Although he can't say that he is very comfortable with it, at least he has made his advances and retreats reasonable. Gongsun Qi has a perverse personality, and as a disciple of Mr. Shenlong, he is also more murderous. Perhaps it is due to his nature, his personality is sharper, like a sword drawn from its sheath. He does not hide it, and he does not restrain it."
The old man glanced at Zhang Jianjun and said with a smile: "It seems that you like the little guy Fang Yan more, right?"
Zhang Jianjun also laughed and said, "I also have selfish motives. Fang Yan offered to drink with me, so I like him."
"Well. Let's take a closer look." The old man said with a smile. "Observing their words and actions, we can only draw a superficial conclusion - we can't make a decision about their true nature yet. If we put them in that kind of environment, their true nature will surely be exposed more thoroughly, right?"
"But isn't this too dangerous? They have never had any experience in carrying out missions---"
"Danger?" The old man glanced at Zhang Jianjun and said, "In ancient times, knights learned dragon-slaying skills and sold them to the emperor. Today's warriors learn killing skills to protect our country and our home. The terms are different, but the nature is the same. Whether in the past or in the future, these extraordinary martial arts talents are the pillars of our country. This is their responsibility - the same responsibility we bear. It is all for the purpose of making people's lives safer and happier."
"I understand." Zhang Jianjun nodded solemnly and said, "I will take care of this matter."
"Well. Go and have a rest." The old man waved his hand and said, "I'll look at the documents for a while."
"I have some documents to look at as well." Zhang Jianjun said, "I'm in the small office outside. If you have any instructions, just call me and I'll be right here."
The old man ignored Zhang Jianjun and walked straight to the desk, opened a red-headed document and started reading.
For people like them, there are countless decisions to be made every day, and each decision affects the people of the world, so there can be no room for carelessness.
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The news that General Ling was expelled from the Jiang family and his name was removed from the Jiang family tree eventually spread.
The news first came from Junling Club, where Fang Yan exposed the secret in front of everyone. Later, someone asked Jiangjun Xing about it, and Jiangjun Xing replied with certainty that it was indeed the case.
Jiang Junxing's attitude immediately dispelled all doubts from the outside world. No one had expected that Jiang Xifu, the old man of the Jiang family who had always been protective of his family, would be so ruthless this time.
This can be regarded as the biggest excitement in Yanjing in recent times, even overshadowing the rumors that Qin Yitian is a mistress.
Therefore, another key figure who led the old man to make this decision also emerged through the mouth of someone with ulterior motives - Fang Yan.
It is said that he visited the Jiang family, ate a bowl of dumplings made by Mr. Jiang himself, and then the old man kicked his grandson out without hesitation.
"Fang Yan?" Everyone clapped their heads and thought about it again and again, and they always felt that the name was a little familiar.
Soon, some smart people discovered that Fang Yan, who caused the general to leave, and Fang Yan, the man who was the third party of Qin Yitian, were the same person.
Fang Yan!
It’s Fang Yan again!
Overnight, Fang Yan became a celebrity in Yanjing.
"Back then he had a conflict with the general's order-----"
"Oh, yeah, he had a head-on conflict with General Ling at the Maple Leaf Club. I was there as well."
"I heard that he made Jiang Jun Ling suffer a great loss back then. Jiang Jun Ling held a grudge and chased him to Huacheng three years later. I don't know what Jiang Jun Ling did in Huacheng to be kicked out of the Jiang family by the old man. This Fang Yan must not be provoked. I don't know where he came from."
"I just can't understand. A woman like Qin Yitian, even if she wants the stars in the sky, there are people willing to help her pick them. Why would she want to be a man's mistress?"
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One by one, all the incidents in which Fang Yan had shone in Yanjing were dug up.
Someone even copied the headshot he put in the famous teacher column when he was teaching at Suzaku Middle School. When someone asked about it, he opened his phone and pulled out Fang Yan's photo, saying, "Here, this is it-----"
Then people who saw the photo were surprised and said that she looked very ordinary.
"Swear to God, how handsome can anyone's headshot be? Do they have the guts to put their ID photos on the Internet?" Fang Yan said angrily after hearing Xia Tian's description.
Xia Tian laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back. He said, "Yeah, that's what I told my friends when they said you weren't handsome----"
Seeing Xia Tian's happy look, Fang Yan couldn't help but laugh and said, "You've been busy lately, haven't you? You look a little thinner, but you're in good spirits----"
"Have you really lost weight?" Xia Tian said happily, "I've been using the fruit and vegetable diet to lose weight recently. It turns out it's really effective. It doesn't seem too obvious when I look in the mirror. I've been busy. It was like this before and it's still like this now. But you're too disloyal, aren't you? You didn't even say hello to me when you arrived in Yanjing? If Jiang Qin and Yuan Lin hadn't come back drunk, I wouldn't have known they had met you. "
"I heard you were going to attend an event----"
Xia Tian rolled her eyes and said contemptuously, "Come on, when do I not have to attend an event? I have to attend multiple events every day, okay? You just don't want to call me because you're afraid that I'll disturb your party with those two little girls, right? Alas, men nowadays all like younger women, and no one is interested in older women like me----"
"Really not----" Fang Yan touched his nose helplessly and smiled bitterly.
Xia Tian picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip, then looked at Fang Yan and asked, "Fang Yan, how are you doing?"
"It's hard to say whether it's good or not." Fang Yan said with a smile: "If it's not good, at least I'm still alive. If it's good, I'm in danger every day. Don't think that we are sitting together happily drinking coffee now. Someone might come and kill me in a while. I'm not surprised at all if something like this happens."
"It's not a solution to keep doing this." Xia Tian sighed, "You managed to avoid it once, twice, but can you avoid it forever?"
"What can I do?" Fang Yan asked back.
Xia Tian thought about it, gritted his teeth and made a difficult decision, saying: "How about I take you back to see my grandfather and tell him that you are my best friend - we beg him to come forward and talk to the old man of the Jiang family. My grandfather has some friendship with the old man of the Jiang family. If he is willing to come forward, maybe things will turn around."
Fang Yan looked at Xia Tian with a touching expression on his face and said, "Xia Tian, the fact that you can say such words proves that you sincerely regard me as a friend----"
"Nonsense." Xia Tian said unhappily. "When did I stop considering you as a friend? But you forgot your loyalty when you saw a beautiful woman, and didn't even call me when you arrived in Beijing----"
Fang Yan smiled but didn't respond. He knew that if he entangled with a woman on this topic, it would take three to five days to explain it clearly.
"But it's really not necessary." Fang Yan said. "Another old man also took me to visit Jiang Xifu. He also wanted to intercede for me, but he couldn't say it. Jiang Xifu would rather expel his grandson from the Jiang family than to reconcile privately. He is determined to fight me to the death."
"You've offended such a behemoth----" Xia Tian looked at Fang Yan with a worried look on his face and said, "You must be careful. I've lived in Yanjing for so many years, but I still don't know how big the Jiang family is. I'm afraid even my grandfather doesn't know----It's really hard to feel at ease to be enemies with such an opponent."
"I'm not afraid of you laughing at me when I say this." Fang Yan said with a smile, "Even when I sleep, I open one eye and close the other - I'm afraid that if I fall asleep accidentally, I won't be able to open my eyes again."
"You even turned a blind eye when you were sleeping -- you must have done too many bad things, right?" A young man stood behind Fang Yan and said in a hostile voice: "Fang Yan, how can a person like you not die? How can you still be alive?"
Fang Yan spread his hands towards Xia Tian and said helplessly: "See, I was right - trouble will come to you at any time." (To be continued)