Chapter 147: spread the word

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Ever since he stopped Gu Jinan that day and listened to what Gu Jinan said, Gu Dexing has been hesitant whether to ask Shang Xiucai to accept him as his disciple.

　To this day, he finally mustered up the courage to come to Shang's house and ask to see Shang Xiucai.

By coincidence, Third Grandpa and Uncle Dashan also followed An Geer to Shang's house. He could only hide in the bamboo forest and only came out of the bamboo forest after Third Grandpa and Uncle Dashan left.

After a while, the door of Shangjia's house opened. A young man wearing a brown cloth jacket leaned out half of his body. After seeing him, he frowned and asked, "You are not from Shangjia Village. Where are you from? What are you doing at Shangjia's house?"

 Gu Dexing folded his hands and made a bow: "I am Gu Dexing from the Gu family in Dafeng Village. I am here to ask for an audience with Shang Xiucai. Could you please send the invitation to Shang Xiucai?"

He took out a red greeting card and handed it to the boy. He bought this greeting card for ten cents at a bookstore in the town.

Because of the relationship with the county captain, people often come to visit their master with greeting cards. The young man is already used to it, so he takes the greeting card and says: "You wait first."

Gu Dexing was afraid that Shang Xiucai would not see him, so he added: "Brother, I still have work to do at home. I finally found time to come here today. Could you please help me to say a kind word and let Shang Xiucai see me at least."

The young man is a nice guy. Hearing this, he said, "Okay, I will help you tell this to the master."

"Thank you, brother." Gu Dexing was very happy and stood outside the door rubbing his hands and waiting.

The servant quickly sent the invitation to Shang Xiucai and relayed Gu Dexing's words to Shang Xiucai.

Shang Xiucai was learning gongbi sketching from Gu Jinan. When he heard this, he said to the boy: "Tell him that since he has work to do at home, he should go home and do the work."

 “Yes.” The boy responded, turned and left.

Gu Jinan said: "Sir, wouldn't this be too hurtful? Brother Dexing actually really wants to be my teacher."

Shang Xiucai said: "What he worships is not his master, but his power."

Gu Dexing was young, but he was eager for power. Most of the reason why he was so persistent in worshiping him as his disciple was because of Jiang Xianwei.

Gu Jinan frowned and said: "But Mr. said that people always rely on power of one kind or another in life. Brother Dexing wants to rely on power. It seems...there is nothing wrong with it."

Shang Xiucai was a very strange person. Unlike other scholars, he was aloof and far away from power. He often told him that even he had to rely on Jiang Xianwei to live a leisurely life.

 Why is it that Mr. Gu Dexing is not willing to accept him when he comes here?

Shang Xiucai said: "It is true that you want to rely on power. This is human nature. But he is not upright enough. My students can rely on power, but the first thing is that you must be upright."

“An upright person, no matter how powerful he is, will not do evil things, but will only use his power to protect his family members. However, once a person who is not upright is attached to power, he may use his power to run rampant in the countryside and do whatever he wants. bad thing."

Gu Jinan thought for a while and said, "It's like the husband's family and the Lu family."

 Mr. is the son-in-law of the county captain, but he only uses Jiang County Lieutenant's power to live a happy life at home, but the Lu family uses Zou County Cheng's power to live a life in a fish and meat village.

Shang Xiucai said: "That's what it means."

Gu Jinan thought for a while, and finally said a good word for Gu Dexing: "Although Brother Dexing desires power, his mind is not bad."

Shang Xiucai said: "I didn't say that Gu Dexing had any bad intentions. It's just that his thoughts are impure and must be polished. Once polished, it's okay to accept him as a student. If he gives up halfway, or because of this, If I hate you and me, there is no need to accept it."

Shang Xiucai looked at Gu Jinan and said seriously: "People's hearts can turn bad under dissatisfaction and jealousy. If you want to be an official, you must remember this and know clearly in your mind when this person can Be good friends, but when do you have to stay away?”

Hearing this, Gu Jinan felt enlightened: "Sir, what you said is that Jinan has learned a lesson."

Outside the door of Shang's house, the servant conveyed Shang Xiucai's words to Gu Dexing. After hearing this, Gu Dexing left in despair.

When Gu Dexing returned home, He Sanleizi found Gu Dewang who was collecting firewood, dragged him into a low mountain col, took out a candy and gave it to him: "Brother Wang, go to Gu's house and help call Gu Xiaoyu." Come here, as long as you call her out, I will give you another candy."

Gu Dewang was delicious. As soon as he got the caramel, he immediately stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed the caramel with a few clicks and ate it into his stomach. He then stretched out his hand to He San Leizi: "One caramel is not enough, I need two." , If you don’t give it, I won’t help you pass the message.” He San Leizi was confused. Damn it, he's been tricking people all along, but today he was actually tricked by a kid.

He San was so angry that he raised his hand and was about to hit Gu Dewang. Gu Dewang was one step ahead of him and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Here comes someone, He San...uh huh huh!"

"Don't shout, don't shout. Grandpa, please stop shouting. I'll give you some candy." He Sanleizi hurriedly gave Gu Dewang a candy.

Gu Dewang took the candy, ate it in another bite, and stretched out his hand again: "You wanted to hit me just now, so you have to add one more."

　　He San Laizi wants to kick this little **** to death. Why does this child look so inconsistent with his appearance? He doesn't look very smart, but he has a shrewd heart. He is really at a big loss.

There was no choice but to give Gu Dewang another candy and told him solemnly: "Go and call Gu Xiaoyu and tell her that I have something important to tell her. If you don't come, you and your family will probably have no place to live." place."

How could Gu Dewang know this? He just remembered to eat it. When he heard this, he just asked: "If I call Sister Xiaoyu here, you have to give me a few more candies as reward."

He clapped his fingers and said, "I have a younger brother, and I want to give him a candy. I have a very fierce cousin in my family. If she sees us eating candy that she doesn't have, she will beat us. I also have a cousin, Give him one too."

Gu Dewang stretched out his hand and said, "So when the thing is done, you have to give me five candies."

“You, your brother, your cousin, there are only four of us in total, why should I give you five candies?!” He Sanshengzi was so angry that he almost wanted to strangle him to death.

 Gu Dewang was eating candy, pointing at himself and saying: "I run errands and need one more candy, so there are five candies."

This reason is simply irrefutable.

He Sanleizi could only agree: "Okay, okay, hurry up and call Gu Xiaoyu over. If you call, you can have candy."

 Gu Dewang smiled and narrowed his eyes. He didn't even want the firewood, and ran to Gu's house to find Gu Jinli. He waved to her: "Sister Xiaoyu, come out quickly."

Gu Jinli stopped putting fried soybeans into a small cloth bag, came to the gate of the courtyard, and asked him, "What do you want from me?"

Gu Dewang pointed to the candy in his mouth, and then pointed to the woods not far behind the Qin family house, and said: "That scoundrel He San gave me a few candies and asked me to call you, saying that he had something important to tell you. , asking you to go look for him in the woods. He also said that if you don’t go, our family will have no place to stay. "

He grinned and said: "Sister Xiaoyu, that's a bad guy, don't go. I just wanted to cheat him out of his sweets, and I didn't want to help him cheat you."

He Sanleizi never expected that he would break out a bag of candy and be sold by Gu Dewang in the end.

Gu Jinli had no intention of going into the woods alone to meet He San Leizi. She went to Qin's house and talked to Qin Sanlang and told him about He San Leizi.

“Brother Qin, go to the woods and take He San Leizi to your house. I will go to your house to meet him and ask him what he means by that.”

Qin Sanlang nodded: "Okay, you wait, I will catch him."

 Speaking, he asked Gu Dewang to lead the way to catch people in the woods.

When He Sanlang saw Qin Sanlang, he ran away and shouted: "Brother Qin, spare your life. I have no bad intentions. I really have something important to tell you."

He scolded Gu Dewang again: "You brat, you cheated me of so much candy, but you brought people to arrest me. Why don't you give it to me..."

Before he finished speaking, a stone the size of a wine glass hit the crook of his leg. With a bang, he was knocked to the ground, hugging his feet and screaming.

Qin Sanlang went up and removed his arm. After dislocating his arm, he picked up his collar and said, "If you have anything to say, come to my house to talk."

 (End of this chapter)