It has been more than a month since the Dragon Boat Festival, and the hottest dog days are coming. Yangzhou City is as hot as a stove.

Since the Dragon Boat Festival, Lu Zheng's name has spread throughout Yangzhou. His anecdotes at the Zhishui Cultural Conference and the anecdotes at the Zhang family banquet have spread among the major pleasure houses in Yangzhou. His poem "Toast" has also become a well-known masterpiece recognized by the talented people in the Yangzhou literary world. This poem established his status as a top talent in Yangzhou, and his popularity has surpassed the popular four heroes of Zhishui.

Lu Zheng became famous. Guanshan Academy drove Lu Zheng out of the academy and became a joke after dinner. Zhang Haoran of the Zhang family became a joke harlequin in people's mouth. Zhang Haoran's poor performance at the Zhang family banquet that day was even learned by the storyteller in the winery and teahouse.

Since the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhang Haoran has never shown up again. However, some people saw him living in Guanshan Academy every day, but he lost his former arrogance and spirit, and was quite depressed and decadent. Zhang Haoran, the star of the Zhang family's hope, seemed to have fallen like this.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Lu Zheng did not show up. Those who followed Lu Zheng found that there was a private school called "Sanweizhai" in the old street of Luoxiang, Xinhe County. The teacher of the private school was Luo Guancai Juren.

Lu Zheng is said to be studying in "Sanweizhai". Because there are many scholars who want to enter "Sanweizhai". There are only ten places in "Sanweizhai", and the annual shovel is as high as fifty taels of silver. However, on the day when Luo Guan accepted his disciples, it is said that the scholars who came to sign up broke through the old street of Luoxiang.

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In the green bamboo forest, in the early morning, the breeze in the bamboo forest is cool and comfortable.

The boy was cooking tea, the girl was playing the piano, and Old Yan held a chess piece in his hand, lying on the backrest chair and laughed. The expression on his wrinkled face was extremely rich and vivid.

"It's interesting, interesting! This game of chess is really interesting!" Old Master Yan.

"Sir Yan, I lost this chess, but you have to help me with this matter now. Guanshan Academy was led by Chengdong. Now that it has become like this, is Zhang Haoran, a son of the Zhang family, sinking like this? This is a pity, do you always say it is?" The person who played chess with him was not someone else, but Gui Liang, the mountain leader of Guanshan Academy.

Gui Liang paused and said, "Also, at the banquet that day, I listened to you, and finally led to such bad consequences. Otherwise, I would have mastered the situation from the beginning, so how could things go to that place? So, Master Yan, you must help with this matter!"

Veteran Yan put down the chess piece and said, "If you had intervened from the beginning and controlled the situation, you would not have published poems like "Jiangjinjiu". Just this poem, it is worth sacrificing ten children of the Zhang family!"

Gui Liang was stunned and blurted out: "If Lu Zheng really couldn't write poems and essays, what would that day be like? He probably wouldn't have a future to make a comeback from now on. He was originally a good seedling. If he was ruined like this, wouldn't it be a pity for Master Yan?"

Mr. Yan frowned and shook his head and said, "What a good seedling, you can experience storms. Because of a small banquet, you will never recover. Can such seedlings be good seedlings?

Mencius said that if a person is given great responsibility from heaven, he must first suffer his mind and mind, exhaust his muscles and bones, and lose his body. The young people of the Zhang family are so desolate. Who can blame this?"

Gui Liang was speechless. He was a great scholar in Yangzhou, but he always had no advantage in front of Master Yan. He was gentle, kind and righteous, and he was very dissatisfied with Master Yan's harsh indifference. However, once the two talked, he would be at a disadvantage.

Gui Liang often reflects that he feels that his academic research is a journey of thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles. However, Master Yan's academic research is at the height of the temple, serving the emperor for a long time, and being at the center of the court, and being enlightened. The difference between this is really too big. The way of a saint is to forgive and be kind. In the real officialdom, there are intrigues, intrigues, factions, and officials read books of saints, but how many of them really follow the way of a saint?

Gui Liang thought of this and couldn't help but sigh. In the past month, the life of Guanshan Academy has been very difficult. In the academic community of Yangzhou, Guanshan Academy has become a joke, and the teachings of the academy have become the target of being teased by friends and Sun Yibo doesn't even dare to leave the house.

Because of Gui Liang's special status in Yangzhou, others dare not mock him, but his reputation was greatly affected and he had been suppressed by Zeng Guoning.

Also, the key is that the morale of the students in the academy is very low and they are all hit hard, especially Zhang Haoran, who is a little unable to raise his head now. In Gui Liang's opinion, Zhang Haoran is still very young and just a child, and he is unable to recover like this. It is a pity.

Therefore, Gui Liang's idea was to hope that Master Yan would come forward to persuade Lu Zheng to return to Guanshan Academy, and he would invite Luo Guancai himself, even if he visited the cottage three times, he would invite Luo Guancai back to the academy. This would preserve the decency of Guanshan Academy and also give Zhang Haoran a chance to revive himself.

Just his idea, how could Master Yan support him?

"Zijing! I will give you two words: 'natural'! There is a way that it is difficult to contain water and break the mirror. Things have come to this point. You don't think about how to move forward, but instead think about driving backwards. Do you think you are innocent or not?" Master Yan said.

"In this world, if you really want to act, you can't ask for help. If you want Lu Zheng to go back to the academy, you have to use means to force him to go back. If you want Luo Guan to listen to the greeting, what's the use of three visits to the thatched cottage? If you can get a book of recommendation, it's better than your visit to the thatched cottage for a hundred visits to the thatched cottage." Master Yan said again.

Gui Liang was silent in his heart. Every word of Master Yan was a very reasonable saying, but he was a gentleman, and he was disdainful of the way of power and tricks. If he really wanted to use it, it would be absolutely necessary.

Just like now, Gui Liang was very hesitant, wondering if he should use some means.

The two sat opposite each other on both sides of the chessboard, silent to each other. Outside the bamboo forest, the sound of horse hooves, the Zhang family's green woolen carriage came over, Gui Liang frowned slightly, and a boy was already greeted in the bamboo forest.

After a while, a young scholar walked in outside the bamboo forest. Who would it be if it were Lu Zheng?

Gui Liang hadn't seen Lu Zheng for more than a month, and found that Lu Zheng had changed a lot, and he looked more calm and mature. The childishness on his face had faded, and he had more agility and a bit of a handsome young man's style!

Lu Zheng seemed to have not expected to meet Gui Liang here. He was slightly stunned, then walked over and gave a big gift, saying, "Hello Master Yan, Hello Master Gui!"

Master Yan said nothing, Gui Liang's eyes fell on him and said, "Brother Zheng, have you been fine in the past month?"

Lu Zheng said: "Master Lao Gui is concerned about everything. Everything is fine. He dares not slacken in his studies. Master Yan dares not slacken in his studies. Therefore, he has no time to visit Master Gui!"

Gui Liang was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and looked at Old Yan. His lips were tilted but he didn't say a word. Lu Zheng said, "Master Gui, what Master Yan taught me mainly was some knowledge of the world, and what Master Luo taught me was the knowledge of art. I originally wanted to learn the teachings of Confucius and Mencius from Master Gui, but I never dared to visit you..."

Gui Liang stared at Lu Zheng with a very complicated expression. After a long time, he said, "Since your master and apprentice left, the situation in Guanshan Academy has been in a very bad state. Do you learn the way of Confucius and Mencius from me? Can you return and be willing to return to the academy?"

Lu Zheng said: "Master Gui, don't worry, there are many snobbish people in the world. The moment my disciple left Guanshan Academy, he had bad consequences. Now, no matter whether I return to the academy or not, I can't change this bad consequences.

Master Gui, you think that everything has changed. If the disciple goes back, there may be villains gossiping, which may cause more criticism.

Therefore, the best way is to be silent. He smiles and lets him laugh. I remain unmoved. The Masters concentrate on preaching and learning, and the students concentrate on studying. Over time, the rumors will naturally disappear!"

Lu Zheng said this very plainly, but in Gui Liang's ears, he was deafening and felt a sense of clearing the sun. He suddenly felt enlightened in his heart.

Lu Zheng was right. If Gui Liang could really let Lu Zheng’s disciple go back to Guanshan Academy at this time, would Lu Zheng still be the Lu Zheng of the past? He is already a well-known talent in Yangzhou, and his popularity is much higher than Zhang Haoran.

Gui Liang visited Luo Guancai three times to invite Luo Guancai back. Can Luo Guancai still be under Sun Yibo? Lu Zheng's sentence "Good things change" revealed the key to the problem.

If Lu Zheng and Luo Guancai really return to Guanshan Academy, there would probably be more discussions outside. Sun Yibo would be afraid of being even more humiliated, and Zhang Haoran would be even more shocked.

These ideals are worthless, but when I didn't expect it, they could not understand them. The key is that Gui Liang knew that Mr. Yan must have understood it a long time ago, but he just didn't say it out loud. After thinking about this, Gui Liang felt extremely ashamed and said:

"Forget it, forgot, I won't mention this anymore!"

He said this and let out a long sigh, but he couldn't let go of his inner loss.

He stood up, saluted Mr. Yan, and said, "Master Yan, I should go back when I come here early in the morning to bother you. I will come to play chess with you in the future!"

Old Yan laughed and said, "Go, go, understand the word "natural" I gave you. Once you understand these two words thoroughly, you can be considered a real celebrity."

Gui Liang said: "Master Yan thought he had understood the word "natural" long ago, but he still dared not be a famous scholar. What is the reason?"

Gui Liang suddenly said this and fought back very suddenly. Old Yan was so questioned that he rolled his eyes and had nothing to say.

After a long time, Old Yan laughed, Gui Liang shook his long sleeves and turned away. He walked about forty or fifty steps, suddenly stopped, and then slowly turned around and looked at Lu Zheng and said:
Chapter completed!