[Comprehensive] The number one cannon fodder

Chapter 396 Autumn Moon of the Four Great Talents

Su Xueyun was not affected by the tense atmosphere at all, took a sip of tea, and said with a faint smile: "The foundation of a person lies in the direction of the heart. Even a person who is full of knowledge may not be a good person for the country and family. This shows that, What kind of knowledge you like is not important, what is important is a person's character. As for how miscellaneous learning can invent useful things, it is not easy, because every thing invented in history can bring many changes to the world , how can such a rare thing be invented so easily? In other words, if all useful inventions come out all at once, it may not be a good thing for the world to change too much. But no matter what, there must be people who love miscellaneous learning and devote themselves to it. Good inventions come out only through research, and if everyone thinks miscellaneous learning is useless, wouldn’t future generations have to stagnate?”

Taishi Hua squinted her eyes and looked at her, "You can speak well, it seems that your knowledge is not weak."

Su Xueyun said: "I don't have any preference for learning. I always learn what I need in life. As for the things I don't need, I learn it in my spare time, and I don't learn it when I'm busy. Most people can't use it."

There was anger on Grand Master Hua's face, "The piano, chess, calligraphy and painting can improve a person's quality, but you say these are useless?"

Su Xueyun got up and blessed him, and said: "Don't blame the grand master, for ordinary people, food and clothing are the most important thing, if you insist on pursuing all-round talents in civil and military..."

The grand master's wife hastily asked, "How?"

Su Xueyun looked at Taishi Hua's face and said, "The cart is putting the cart before the horse."

Grand Master Hua slapped the table and said angrily, "What do you know as a woman? How dare you speak nonsense in front of this old man?"

Mrs. Taishi hurriedly got up and persuaded: "Master, if you have something to say, don't be angry, be careful that you will ruin your body."

Qiuxiang also hurriedly pleaded, "Master, madam, my sister didn't mean to offend, please forgive me, master and madam."

Qiuxiang pulled Su Xueyun to kneel down, but Su Xueyun didn't move, patted her hand reassuringly, looked at Grand Master Hua and said: "The grand master has a high position and authority, assisting the emperor to do his best, presumably he has dedicated his life to serving the people of the world for decades The grand master is for the country and the people, which is really admirable to the women. But the women have something to ask for advice, and the grand master has worked so hard, but to make the people have no worries in their lives?"

Hua Taishi said with a cold face: "That's natural."

Su Xueyun continued: "The Grand Master is for the people to live and work in peace and contentment. So the foundation of living and working in peace and contentment may be related to learning? There are very few people who can read or write, but the world is peaceful, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are exempted from the common people. Learn Chinese characters, learn arithmetic, open a shop and live a happy life. Everyone in the world has their own choices. Some people are determined to serve the country faithfully, some people only love the wild cranes, and some people only want their families to be healthy and safe. For one thing, is to live a happy life. It is also because of these different people that time and everything can be balanced. In this case, there is nothing wrong with choosing any kind of life, whether you like literature or martial arts, as long as you can live a safe and happy life , then it will be worthwhile to pass the time!"

As soon as Su Xueyun finished speaking, there was a burst of applause outside the door, and a young man walked in and said happily: "Well said, there is nothing wrong with liking to learn, and you can do useful things!"

Grand Master Hua slapped the table hard, "Wen Wu! You don't even know how to say hello when you see me and your mother. What about your etiquette?"

Hua Wenwu was that young man. He shrank his shoulders, the smile on his face disappeared instantly, bowed his head and bowed in a polite manner, and said in a low voice, "My son has seen his father and his mother."

Master Hua became angry when he saw his appearance, pointed at him and said: "You said Qiuyue was right, she was talking about her husband-in-law, he likes miscellaneous learning and can use miscellaneous learning to save his wife's life, how about you? What can you do with miscellaneous science?"

Hua Wenwu looked up at him cautiously, not daring to make a sound.

Grand Master Hua said angrily: "What are you looking at? I'm asking you something, but you still don't say it?!"

Hua Wenwu looked at Mrs. Taishi, and said hesitantly: "If you go back to your father, I... I have invented a lot of things. Although it doesn't seem to be of great use now, I have made a lot of progress, and I will definitely be able to invent something in the future." Useful stuff."

"In the future! In the future! When is the future? If you put your mind on reading, why can't you remember a few lines of poems now? Your name is Hua Wenwu, but in the end, you can't write well. A son like you? I really would rather give birth to a prodigal son than Mo Sheng to be an idiot, I am so mad!" Taishi Hua's chest kept heaving, and when he heard Hua Wenwu's words, he yelled loudly regardless of Su Xueyun's presence.

Hua Wenwu lowered his head and looked at the ground, feeling a little scared and numb, not daring to move.

Taishi's wife hurriedly gave Hua Taishi a favor and advised him not to get angry with the child.Then he looked at Hua Wenwu, then at Su Xueyun, and said, "Qiuyue, besides using miscellaneous knowledge to save you, did your husband invent anything with miscellaneous knowledge?"

Su Xueyun nodded and smiled as a matter of course: "My husband invented explosives, explosives of the same size but twice as powerful."

Taishi Hua suddenly turned his head to look at her, "What did you say? Explosives?"

Su Xueyun said: "Yes, only dynamite the size of a woman's fist can raze a house as big as the Grand Master's Mansion to the ground. Of course, this kind of thing cannot be used casually, let alone fall into the hands of people with bad intentions, so my friend The things have already been destroyed, I just remember the method. I was lucky enough to meet the Grand Master today, so I dared to speak out about this matter, hoping to be of some use to the court, so my husband did not waste so much thought."

Grand Master Hua stood up, paced back and forth unconsciously, and said after a while: "At this time tomorrow, you bring your husband here, and I will ask him personally."

Su Xueyun responded, "Yes, Grand Master."

Taishi Hua took a look at Hua Wenwu, and said coldly: "If someone can invent it, it doesn't mean you can invent it too! What's more, her husband Qiuyue not only did these things with miscellaneous knowledge, but now she is also coming to Beijing to take the imperial examination. She at least You are already a juren, how about you? Maybe her husband can invent useful things because he is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics. If you don’t study hard, you only know how to invent things for children to play with, what can you do?"

Hua Wenwu couldn't help looking at Su Xueyun, and said tentatively: "Father, since Qiuyue's husband is so powerful, can you let me learn from him?"

Grand Master Hua was taken aback, looked at Su Xueyun, and said, "We'll talk about this later, I don't know if it's something real, hmph."

Su Xueyun smiled and said: "Although I am one of the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River, my husband is indeed inferior to the other three talents in terms of literature. My husband is partial to miscellaneous learning and likes to invent things, so it may not be easy to be accepted by others. But another one called Wen Zhengming is a talented man, determined to serve the country loyally since he was a child. He is a descendant of Wen Tianxiang, and his father is the best honest official in the hearts of Suzhou people, so he always takes the righteousness of Confucius and Mencius into his heart. His greatest wish is to serve the imperial court as an official in the imperial examination. .In my opinion, Wen Zhengming is indeed the number one scholar, and this time he must be in high school!"

Taishi Hua snorted softly, stroked his beard and said, "In your opinion? How much do you know? The number one scholar can't be passed by everyone. You have to pass the exam to know if he is talented. However, it depends on your talent just now. He admires miscellaneous studies very much, and he must be able to praise this talented man so much today. He must have some skills. If Wen Tianxiang's descendants can not fall into the reputation of their ancestors, he can be regarded as an ambitious person. In this way, he is Jiangnan The head of the four great talents?"

Su Xueyun smiled slightly, and said: "That's not true. The talent competition is different from the examination for the number one scholar. Although Wen Zhengming is the number one scholar, he still lacks a little flexibility in the competition. He studied hard during the cold window, and neglected other aspects. After experiencing more things in the future, he will naturally change. Speaking of the most knowledgeable and flexible among the four great talents, Zhou Wenbin is none other than Zhou Wenbin. He wandered in a foreign land since he was a child, and only returned to the Central Plains from Persia a few months ago. It is really rare to be able to acquire such a level of knowledge. His experience is the opposite of Wen Zhengming. He also studied hard since childhood, but at the same time he had to wander around. Running around for a living and experiencing countless hardships honed his character to be flexible. Because he lives in a foreign land and his life is unstable, he is naturally inferior to the other three students in terms of history books and classics. In short, they have their own strengths. Director."

Grand Master Hua thought for a while and asked, "Zhou Wenbin? But the Zhou Wenbin who reported to Dali Temple to reverse his grandfather's case?"

Su Xueyun nodded, "Exactly, his grandfather was wronged and wronged back then, and he never returned to the Central Plains. After Zhou Wenbin came back, he devoted himself to reversing the case for his grandfather, hoping to restore the old man's innocence."

The grand teacher's wife hurriedly asked, "I haven't come back in my life, so serious? What's the matter? Can you reverse the case after so many years?"

Grand Master Hua said: "It's a theft case. Zhou Yuancai was accused of being a thief back then. Now that the real thief has been found and has pleaded guilty, the case will naturally be cleared."

Mrs. Taishi asked curiously: "It's so amazing? Qiuyue, tell us what's going on, how did Zhou Wenbin find the thief when he came back a few months ago? If it's so easy to find, why didn't the government find it back then? Is there something hidden in it?"

Mrs. Taishi felt that this was more interesting than the opera, so she hurriedly asked a few people to sit down, and then ordered Chunxiang and Dongxiang to bring tea and prepare to listen carefully to the cause and effect.

Madam Grand Master's question hit Su Xueyun's heart, and she immediately told the story of Zhou Wenbin.It not only explained the ins and outs of Zhou Yuancai's wrongdoing, but also told about Zhou Wenbin's challenge to the Three Treasures of Suzhou for revenge.She didn't add oil and vinegar, but skillfully highlighted Zhou Wenbin's filial piety and excellence.

In fact, the same is true. If Tang Bohu hadn't asked Qiuyue to smear the five stones on Zhou Wenbin's pen in the end, Tang Bohu might not have won.Although Tang Bohu thought his brother was dead at the beginning, his feelings exploded, and he painted a lotus flower that could bloom and gave it to Wen Zhengming, who was imprisoned by innocence, which moved everyone, but in fact Wen Zhengming was only slightly injured and did not die. It's fake, and everyone's touch is naturally insignificant.Although Zhou Wenbin's picture of purgatory on earth is a bit scary, he drew his grandfather, and the deeds he told are true.Whether that contest of drawing and skill can move people, in fact, the fair judgment should be Zhou Wenbin's victory!

In this way, if Zhou Wenbin was not in a hurry to take revenge and could come slowly and steadily, Tang Bohu might not be the number one talented man in the south of the Yangtze River.

Su Xueyun narrated these things in a voice full of emotion, which made Mrs. Taishi's eyes a little moist.Taishi's wife pressed the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and said: "It turns out that their family is so miserable. It is really not easy for Zhou Wenbin to overturn the case for his grandfather at such a young age. But he is also too anxious. How can someone who takes refuge be casual?" Random election? If you meet such a bad person, you will be treated as an abandoned child once you are in trouble. It's really pitiful."

The smile on Su Xueyun's face gradually disappeared, and she couldn't help sighing, "Madam is right, their Zhou family is really unlucky. Sixty years ago, Zhou Wenbin and his grandfather trusted his friend, but he was suspected of stealing money by his friend and was wronged all his life." Now Zhou Wenbin believed in the person he trusted in order to reverse the case for his grandfather, but his arm was broken by that person, and he even used his identity to disqualify Zhou Wenbin from taking the scientific examination! Poor Zhou Wenbin, in order to get my teacher's I came to my door every day to ask for a letter of recommendation, and finally got the approval of my teacher to get the letter of recommendation, but when I arrived in the capital, I was rejected by that person with a single sentence."

Mrs. Taishi was surprised: "What? There is such a thing?" She turned to look at Hua Taishi and asked, "Master, didn't you say that Enke is very important this time? How can anyone control the invigilator?" ?”

Taishi Hua looked at Su Xueyun and frowned and said: "Don't talk nonsense, the emperor specially ordered King Ning to take charge of the Enke examination, and also issued a strict order that there should be no mistakes or omissions, how could it be possible to cancel a candidate's reference qualification casually ? Impossible!"

Su Xueyun intentionally revealed a look of enlightenment, and said, "No wonder, it turned out that King Ning was in charge, and the person who canceled Zhou Wenbin's reference qualification was none other than King Ning's adopted son Zhu Zijian! Originally, we wanted to see if there was any other way, but now it seems that we can only wait I will come back in three years, and I have to pray that King Ning will not be in charge of the imperial examination in three years." She shook her head helplessly, "I didn't believe that someone could cover the sky with one hand at the feet of the emperor, but now I really believe it. It turns out that it is useless to study hard in the cold window, the most important thing is to be able to catch the eyes of the superior, otherwise no matter how powerful you are, you will not be able to match a word from the opponent."

Grand Master Hua was furious when he heard this, grabbed the teacup and threw it out, slapped the table and said angrily: "How dare King Ning do such a thing?! He clearly doesn't care about the emperor or the old man." In the past, he kept saying that he was recruiting talents for the imperial court, and he wanted to put some door god to calm the soul of the students. The old man thought that he was finally doing something, but he never thought that he would dare to arbitrarily determine the reference qualifications of the students behind the scenes! What's the use of rules like this? "

He stood up abruptly, "No, the old man must give him a copy!"

After Hua Taishi finished speaking, he strode towards the study. The Taishi's wife yelled twice behind him, shook her head helplessly, and said to Su Xueyun: "Let's leave him alone, the master is jealous like this, and he can't see others not obeying the rules. But that adopted son of King Ning is really too much, as his adoptive father, King Ning also did not teach him, and he deserves to be involved."

Hua Wenwu nodded and said: "Yes, Zhou Wenbin knows so many things. If he can work for the court in high school, he will definitely be able to make a big difference. It's a pity to be trampled down by bad guys like this. Qiuyue, and your husband are also very capable. Ah!" He suddenly asked a little embarrassedly, "Qiuyue, can you... can you bring him here earlier tomorrow? I want to ask my father some questions before he sees him."

Su Xueyun looked at his expectant eyes, but did not directly agree, but looked at Mrs. Taishi.It was rare for Mrs. Grand Master to see her son so eager to learn. Although he was still a miscellaneous learner, she thought that Chen Xiaosheng might be able to teach her son, so she nodded and agreed, and said, "Qiuyue, why don't you bring Zhou Wenbin here tomorrow."

Su Xueyun nodded slightly, and responded with a smile, "Yes, ma'am."