Chapter 5: The Sangha

After desperately coughing, Zhang Anshi said, “Well …… not to talk about this …… I have something on my mind right now.”

“Matters of the heart, what matters of the heart?” Zhang Yoking saw that Zhang Anshi had no interest in gunpowder, and couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed in his heart, which he had managed to steal from his elder brother’s barracks.

Zhang Anshi sighed, “As you all know, I am very poor. That’s why I thought it would be nice if I had a sum of silver to go into some small business.”

“What a manly man does for trade.” Zhu Yong had a look of contempt.

People who come from such a background are naturally uninterested in business.

Zhang Anshi was not.

He knew very well that there were still many years to go before his brother-in-law ascended the throne.

Although the Zhang family has a brother-in-law to receive financial assistance, but after all, it is the brother-in-law’s money that is used.

Zhang Shian was poor and scared in his last life, and the thought of not having a fortune in silver in this world made him feel uneasy.

“The main thing is that I thought of a good deal, this kind of good thing, and only my own brother, I’m willing to say, or …… we put together a little silver ……”

“Silver ……” As soon as he heard this, Zhu Yong s face changed.

His father, Zhu Neng, is very stingy, how can he take silver and put it on a child like him?

So he shook his head like a rattle drum and said, “My father refuses to give it to me, if I go and ask, he will have to beat me.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Go ask your mother.”

Zhu Yong thought about it and shook his head again, “Sooner or later, my father will have to know about it, and by then…I won’t be able to help but be scolded, saying that I’m a loser…”

That said ……

It seems that the key to the problem is to let go of the psychological baggage, young people, after all, the idea has not slipped.

So Zhang Anshi said in a serious tone, “Second brother ah …… let me ask you, to whom is your Zhu family passed on in the future ……”

Zhu Yong did not even think about it, then categorically said: “Of course it’s me, I’m the only one in the family, if the family business is not passed on to me, who else can it be passed on to? ”

Zhang Anshi said, “Yes, sooner or later, the family business is yours, right? Then I ask you again, since the family business is your, you spend your own silver how? I’m not stirring up trouble, but there are some things I don’t know whether to say or not.”

Zhu Yong said seriously, “You speak.”

Zhang Anshi sighed, “The Zhu family is your family, the Zhu family’s silver is all yours, now who is spending the Zhu family’s silver all day long.”

Hearing this, Zhu Yong suddenly had a feeling of enlightenment, body a trembling: “Oops, big brother does not remind, I actually did not think to understand. Yes, this family is all mine, but it is my father …… who spends silver indiscriminately all day long, and the day before yesterday, he also spent more than a hundred taels of silver to buy a good horse handle, this loser, he is spending my money, losing my home ah.”

Zhang Anshi consoled him, “Forget it, who wouldn’t have a loser master in their family, just think about it and pretend that your father doesn’t know any better.”

Zhu Yong said: “Now I think …… I will be some can not swallow this breath, looking for a time, have to severely reprimand him a good, Zhang big brother said right, my own silver, if not spend, are not all cheap my father? I’ll go back and ask my mother to take the silver.”

Zhang Yoking was listening to the side of the dumbfounded, he felt where it is not right, but when he thought about it, the reasoning seems to be this.

As the three were talking, a teenager suddenly entered the classroom in a hurry, exclaiming, “Sir is here, sir is here ……”

We are not afraid of Hu Yan, but this young man’s horrified face makes people feel strange, Mr. came to just come, why is he scared like this?

But at that moment, a man walked in from outside the classroom.

It’s just that …… is not Hu Yan.

Instead, it was an old monk in a black robe.

As soon as the old monk appeared, Zhu Yong, Zhang Yoking, who was still full of vigor, instantly hung his head, as if he was a child who made a mistake, and did not dare to come out of the atmosphere.

The other teenagers, too, were all like mice to cats.

The old monk was none other than Yao Guangxiao.

Yao Guangxiao came in with a smile on his face, he seemed confident in his image as the kind of kindly elder.

However, the looks of the teenagers made Yao Guangxiao slightly embarrassed.

Of course, the monk figured he’d long since lost track of what to write about embarrassment.

Thus, he released himself and took his seat, still saying with a kindly look, “Hearing that you all study here with great diligence every day, the poor monk is very pleased.”

Hu Yan’s face twitched.

The teenagers, however, had a mountain of fear.

It seems that they have heard some rumors from their fathers …… that this monk is not very good, such as …… killing people with a smile …… or daily bitter words, that is, to persuade everyone to rebel and so on.

Yao Guangxiao looked forward to all the teenagers, still amiable, constantly approving nods: “good, good, are good sons and daughters, my Ming successor ah.”

Seeing the crowd’s indifference.

Yao Guangxiao cleared his throat and added: “But poor monks heard Hu Gong say that you guys occasionally frolic, right? Don’t be afraid, it doesn’t matter, there’s no hindrance to occasional transgressions of teenagers ……”

Hu Yan was anxious: “Yao Gong, it is not an occasional fault, it is ……”

Yao Guangxiao gave him a wink, and only then did Hu Yan stop talking.

Yao Guangxiao said: “Today the poor monk here, is to test the homework, you and so are after the meritorious, the future is inevitable to do my daiming pillar, may as well …… so, you pick up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, simply write a rustication, will be their own views on the court and the gains and losses to write out the poor monk does not come out, you can write whatever you want to write what you want to write, as if it is for the court advice and suggestions. You can feel free to write what you want to write what, as if it is for the court advice. ”

Advice?

That one really confused everyone.

Zhang Anshi is also a little suspicious, not knowing what drugs Yao Guangxiao is selling in his gourd.

Just Yao Guangxiao’s words fell, everyone still obediently took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, one by one began to scratch his head and touch his ears.

It was so quiet in Ming Lun Hall that you could hear a pin drop.

Hu Yan is frequently frowned, Yao Guangxiao this person he understands, it is very much not see those dead reading of the corrupt Confucian, so the examination of learning, surely will not let everyone go to write the four books and five scriptures, just let a group of milky boy advice, this is not a child’s play?

He took the opportunity to go forward, and Yao Guangxiao whispered, with a very low voice: “Yao Gong …… Zhu Yong, Zhang Yoking, these several verticals will not be pursued?”

“What’s the hurry?” Yao Guangxiao responded in a low voice with a calm demeanor.

Hu Yan said, “The young man does not know the heights of heaven, if gently let …… go only afraid …… of.”

Yao Guangxiao smiled and responded softly, “The name is right before the words, right?”

“This is ……”

“If they are punished just for being naughty, it is a light punishment, and I’m afraid they won’t be able to remember it. ”

“But …… what does this have to do with the exam school?”

“The examination is not the same, they put pen to paper and write the caduceus, and there is an article to be written in this caduceus.”

Hu Yan was still a bit puzzled, “What article?”

Yao Guangxiao lightly said: “When His Majesty was in Beiping, he wanted to clear the side of the king, so he gathered his army and swore to go south, but that day the wind and rain were so strong that the wind blew the eaves tile of the king’s mansion down on the ground. The wind blowing down the tile is an ominous sign, so even His Majesty could not help but change color. But the poor monk went up to His Majesty and said, ‘This is an auspicious omen! Since ancient times, when a dragon flies in the sky, there must be wind and rain to follow it. The green tiles of the royal palace fell to the ground, which signifies that Your Highness is going to use the emperor’s yellow tiles.’ So morale was boosted, and His Majesty was uplifted!”

Yao Guangxiao paused, and continued to look at Hu Yan in a different way: “You see …… the key to right and wrong does not lie in what it originally looks like, but to see how you interpret it. Do not teach and put to death for the abuse also, the teenagers to write the zhaozhao, the head of the article can be made, can always be extracted from their articles some of their ‘audacity’ evidence to. In this way, that is regarded as evidence, the name is justified. By the time the hard to clean up some, also has a reason, in short …… is right and wrong black and white, all manipulation of my hand, to be presented to His Majesty, thunder and rain, there are points teach!”

The words, Hu Yan actually did not have the slightest joy, but subconsciously shivered, of course he knows, Yao Guangxiao this is just to knock those who do not know the high ground of the harpies.

But …… why is he himself chilled all over?

Yao Guangxiao ignored Hu Yan and continued to enjoy himself.

Instead, the teenagers are all racking their brains to get to the top …… speech ……

This is quite challenging for the vast majority of teenagers.

Zhang Anshi fell back to contemplate for a long time, and had a draft in his heart, which was carefully written.

After a little more than half an hour had passed, Yao Guangxiao got up and collected the rolls.

However, he did not look at it, but said still amiably, “Well, it’s really hard for you guys, and I’ll present these sonnets to His Majesty myself.”

After saying that, he walked away with a flourish, while Hu Yan followed Yao Guangxiao step by step, to personally send him out.

Once these two left, the teenagers finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and all of a sudden this Minglun Hall was chattering.

Zhu Yong came to Zhang Anshi’s front and whispered, “Big brother, what did you write in your zhengshi?”

Zhang Anshi said, “I scribbled it.”

As soon as he said this, Zhu Yong and Zhang Yoking both showed ecstatic colors on their faces, and Zhu Yong smiled and said, “Me too, me too, me too, me too, I’m also writing nonsense.”

Zhang yoking also happy hands and feet: “I turned in a blank answer sheet miles, really can not think of what to write, originally there is worry, now we are all nonsense, which will be a lot of peace of mind. By the time we three brothers, there are difficulties with the same time!”

Zhang Anshi: “Ah …… this ……”

Zhang Anshi looked at Zhang Yoking with a strange look.