Prime Minister

Chapter 37 The Second Brother's Whereabouts
The end of the year is approaching.

The disciples in the clan were all preparing for the Chinese New Year, except for the tribute that they had to go to the north to take the exam, the atmosphere of the study in the Zhoujin Hall had faded a lot.

But that's only for most people.

That day, being reprimanded by the professor in Japanese ethnic studies was not a big deal for Zhang Yue.

Guo Lin's rhetoric is exactly the same as Zhang Cai's. His husband values ​​you, so he bluntly reprimands him. This is because he treats you as a disciple from the bottom of his heart.

After Guo Lin's explanation, Zhang Yue was relieved.

Zhang Yue also knew that the professor usually gave lectures in the morning, and after the application, he just answered questions.The professor Zhang Yue came to answer questions after the application was not considered preferential treatment.But for Zhang Yue, a disciple from a sparse clan, it was a preferential treatment.

Zhang Yue still knows whether others are good to him.

After the daily time, Zhang Yue still came to the Rijingtang without hindrance.

As the end of the year approached, Zhang Yue came to the Hall of Fine Arts. Although there were fewer disciples in the hall, more and more visitors came.

Every time Zhang Yue takes off his shoes and puts them at the farthest place on the steps.Some visitors kicked their shoes aside without knowing the rules, and Zhang Yue also tidied up his shoes before entering the hall.

In the winter, the wooden floor of Zhoujintang is covered with a layer of felt, and the feet will not freeze to the bone if they step on it.

This relieved Zhang Yue's embarrassment of wearing thin socks.

Before the professor arrives, the students and visitors who arrive first will speak in twos and threes.Most people didn't pay much attention when they met Zhang Yue, and occasionally one or two would frown slightly, but a few people like Zhang Cai were still friendly to Zhang Yue.

Except for Zhang Cai, Zhang Yue rarely speaks and just reads quietly.

Zhang Caiyan has become more and more polite since Zhang Yue entered the Zhoujin Hall.

After the professor arrived, he began to answer questions from the disciples.

Zhang Yue listened carefully every time, and refused to miss every sentence. Even if he didn't understand it, he could write it down first.But for now, Zhang Yue judged from the questions asked by others that he and the children of the clan were quite different in knowledge, but the gap was gradually narrowing.

In addition to copying books on weekdays, Zhang Yue also asked the ministry in the library to borrow various books to read. Anyway, as long as it was a book with characters, Zhang Yue would read it.

In the past few months, Zhang Yue has actually read half of the books in the library.

Although none of them are classics, they will all be useful in writing poetry and writing in the future.There is a saying, 'If you want to learn poetry, your kung fu is beyond poetry. "

Zhang Yue remained in the last question.

Zhang Yue will present the questions carefully prepared yesterday to the professor.But since that day, the professor has become more and more severe towards Zhang Yue, and it has become common for him to scold him harshly.

Zhang Yue held back, and after the professor's anger subsided, he would continue to ask the professor with a cheeky face.

Seeing Zhang Yue like this, the professor asked him slowly, "Have you continued to practice calligraphy recently?"

Zhang Yue said: "In addition to copying books every day, after returning home, I practice Chinese characters for an hour."

Of course in a dream.

The professor nodded when he heard the words, when a student asked the professor for advice.

The professor signaled the other party to stop for a moment or two, and then said to Zhang Yue: "Remember, calligraphy cannot be exact, and you must rush to learn other methods. It is necessary to solidify the basics step by step, but it cannot be static! The calligraphy lies in seeking the unknown; The evidence is known."

After listening to the professor's words, the student on the side asked, "Sir, why does Yanshu Dao seek the unknown?"

The professor smiled and wrote two lines on the table.

Zhang Yue looked at it like two parallel lines, and the other students were amazed.

The professor said: "No matter how straight the horizontal line looks, there are still some things that are not straight. Just like if I write 1 horizontal lines, there are still some things that are not straight. But you think my [-]th stroke is compared with the first In other words, is there any benefit?"

"This is the pursuit of excellence! The disciple has been taught." Everyone replied.

Zhang Yue nodded, thinking about the second half of the sentence, "The scriptures are known," that is, reading the scriptures is about knowing one's mind and seeing one's nature.

The student asked the professor again, but the professor still said to Zhang Yue: "You are not a disciple of our clan, I can't teach you to learn books, but I have a piece of "Nine Situations" written by Cai Yong, you go back and read it carefully and figure it out. The method of writing with a pen.”

As he said that, the professor took a piece of paper from the placket of his shirt and handed it to Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue took it with both hands.

This time he was moved. Although the professor was strict with him, he really treated himself as a student to teach.

"Student thank you sir!" Zhang Yue immediately bowed and gave a big gift.

Seeing this, the professor nodded happily, while Zhang Hengyu was watching this scene.

After dinner, Yuexia Zhang Heng and Lin Xi walked side by side.

The two chatted for a while about going north to Beijing to take the exam, and had a long talk about things on the road and the scenery of the day and the future.

At this time, the two temporarily let go of their rivalry and became friends.

"On the way to Beijing, you must pass through Hangzhou, and then pass through Yangzhou to enter Beijing. The beautiful scenery of Suzhou and Hangzhou has been famous for a long time."

"Yeah, with a waist of [-], riding a crane down to Yangzhou," Zhang Heng smiled, "You're a fuss. In Pucheng, I will do my best as a landlord, and when I get to Hangzhou, I need to entertain you again."

Lin Xi smiled and said, "Brother Ziping, if you say that, you will have a small temper. It's not the Ziping I admire."

Zhang Heng laughed when he heard the words.

Lin Xi said slowly: "Since I have accepted Ziping's hospitality, I have something to say to my brother Ziping."

"Oh? Zizhong please say it."

Lin Xi said: "Ziping, this chapter Saburo can practice calligraphy to such a degree in more than a month, it is obvious that he is a strange person, and it should not be underestimated."

Zhang Heng smiled and said nothing.

Lin Xi said, "But I already knew that Ziping looked down on him."

Zhang Heng laughed and said, "Zizhong is wrong, wrong."

Lin Xi said, "What's wrong? Brother Ziping, do you think I can't see it?"

Zhang Heng smiled and said, "Zizhong's mistake is that he only knows one, but he doesn't know the other. I look at Zhang Yue differently, not because of him, but because of his second brother."

"Oh? Zhang Erlang?" Lin Xi's eyes flashed, "Why didn't Ziping mention such a character? Could it be that he is not here at the moment? He is not a candidate?"

Zhang Heng said: "There have been some changes before, so I am not in Jianzhou. Now I have also heard from him, and I will see him in the kenke provincial test."

Lin Xi said: "Brother Ziping has a very high eye, and someone who can catch your eye must be very talented. If there is a chance, I will definitely know a thing or two, and Ziping will definitely recommend it for me."

Zhang Heng did not speak.

A few days before the new year, the students have already returned to their hometowns.

Most of the people in Zhoujintang were scattered, and as for Zhang Yue and Guo Lin, there were fewer copies of the books.

The two of them finally had time to relax, and they came to the door of the pavilion while the stove was roasting and talking. Occasionally, they looked out the window but saw snowflakes flying, covering both the distant mountains and the nearby houses.

"It's so cold!" Zhang Yue held the scroll in one hand and warmed his hands by the fire with the other. He would change hands after a while.

Guo Lin said, "It's cold in the mountains, but it'll be fine down the mountain."

At this moment, the tea stove on the stove was beeping, and Guo Lin hurriedly picked up the tea stove and immediately poured two bowls of hot tea soup for the two of them.

Enjoying the considerate service of his senior brother, Zhang Yue brought the steaming tea bowl to his mouth and took a sip.Suddenly, a warm current flowed from top to bottom, warming to the bottom of my heart and stomach.

"Senior brother is really virtuous, and he cooks a good tea soup."

"Of course... What kind of virtue, how can you compare me to a woman, junior brother."

Zhang Yue smiled and teased his senior brother by one every day.

In the complacent look, Zhang Yue'er heard footsteps, and Zhang Yue went to look but saw that it was Zhang Heng, the head of the restaurant.

What is he here for?
"Long Zhai!"

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin both stood up and saluted.

Zhang Heng was wearing a thick fur coat and leather boots under his feet. He came here and looked at it for a while and said, "It's so cold, it's really hard for the two of you to bake the stove in a place where there is no shelter from the wind."

Zhang Yue said sternly: "Qi Zhai Chang, the library can be sheltered from the wind, but the stove is not allowed. The pavilion door can have a stove, but except for this wall, it can be said to be exposed to the wind on three sides. A shed..."

Zhang Yue talked for a while and put forward several suggestions. Anyway, Zhang Heng came to talk about his demands first.

Zhang Heng listened to Zhang Yue's more and more lion's mouth, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay! Good! Your temperament is different from your second brother."

Hearing Zhang Heng mentioning his second brother, Zhang Yue couldn't help but be taken aback for a moment, and then remembered what Zhang Cai said about Zhang Heng's discord with his second brother and thought, you are not here to take revenge on me.

Zhang Heng looked at Zhang Yue's expression, and said lightly: "My second brother and I were fighting for a while, and I admire your second brother's talent very much. But I am not weaker than him. Let's see who can get the whip first!"

"What? My second brother is going to Beijing for the provincial test? I don't know how Zhai Chang found out?"

Zhang Heng glanced at Zhang Yue and sneered: "If it wasn't for your second brother escaping the marriage, Saburo doesn't talk about brocade clothes and jade food right now, but he has no worries about food and clothing. Why is he braving the cold wind here to serve books, and even the stove has to look at it. Your face? Now I heard that your second brother went to the capital to go to the provincial exam, so you don't care about the past, and you want to ask me about your second brother's future?"

"That's a shameless man!"

Zhang Yue's face turned blue and white when Zhang Heng said so.

Guo Lin said on the side: "Zhai Chang, Zhang Erlang and Zhang Yuefen are brothers, and they are brothers and sisters. Even if there is some estrangement between brothers, how can a younger brother not care about his brother's whereabouts. Zhai Chang said this, please forgive me. Can't be convinced."

Zhang Heng glanced at Guo Lin.

Zhang Yue also said: "I don't need to ask you about the matter between me and my second brother. Since you have come here, you must already know the whereabouts of my second brother. If Zhai Chang intends, please let me know, if it is not intended to humiliate me. , then the head priest invites you."

Zhang Heng laughed and said, "It's a bit arrogant to be so arrogant."

"Zhang Erlang has now released his solution and is preparing to go to the capital for the provincial test." Zhang Heng said.

When he really confirmed the news from Zhang Heng's mouth, Zhang Yue was still surprised. Since his second brother went to Beijing to participate in the provincial examination, where did he find the solution?Didn't the second brother go to Beijing to find his teacher Chen Xiang, as he guessed?

"Then where is my second brother now?"

"Suzhou!" Zhang Heng replied.

And the more he heard this chapter, the more he breathed a sigh of relief, he finally understood why the second brother was running away from marriage.

(End of this chapter)