Mr. Yin had already walked to the side of the ball and hit the ball into the hole. Hearing silent words, he stopped swinging and said, "You are avoiding the important ones."
Sidd gently stroked the bat. It seemed that although it was thousands of miles away, the father-in-law still noticed their problems. After thinking about it, he whispered: "It's really nothing. We are not children anymore... Father-in-law doesn't have to worry, I won't let Ruohan be wronged."
Of course, Mr. Yin stopped this matter and nodded after hearing this, "I believe your ability will solve the problem." He said that with a swing, he hit the ball out.
"Yes, it will." Silent smiled and hit his ball out too.
After a brief conversation, the two of them swung their feet with all their attention, and they didn't even notice someone walking behind them.
It was not until the end of the putter that Chen Si saw Xu Wei who had been standing for a long time, and couldn't help but smile and said, "I won't say a word when I come."
Mr. Yin also smiled and said, "Mr. Wen Chang is here."
Xu Wei smiled and said, "I dare not disturb you when I see you two wonderful skills." Then he saluted Mr. Yin and greeted him.
Master Yin hurriedly supported him, took the towel handed over by the still man, wiped his forehead and said, "You guys chat slowly, the old man will take a rest."
Knowing that he didn't want to disturb him, the two of them responded with a smile. After watching him leave, they smiled silently and said, "You are newlywed, why are you in the mood to run out?" As they said, they looked him up and down, and said, "It doesn't seem right. Is this still Xu Wenchang the one I know?"
Xu Wei looked down at himself, it was quite normal: "What's wrong?"
"It's not clean." Chen Si couldn't help but sneer: "I've never seen you so clean and neatly."
Xu Wei's face turned red with a rare moment and said, "Don't make fun of me."
"It has become more gentle." Silence is even more cramped and said: "If it were usual, I would have retorted, and now I've blushed..."
"I think you are just naked jealousy," Xu Wei finally recovered from normalcy and cursed: "This is a common problem for people who are away all year round. Having a wife means having no wife."
"Go to your mother, this is Xu Wei's tune--" Chen Si scolded with a smile, then punched each other with his chest and returned to his seriousness: "How about it, your newlywed life is still happy, right?"
"Not bad." Xu Wei smiled and said, "I found out that it was not that big difference if it was the person you thought." Even though that was the case, a trace of helplessness could still be heard from his laughter.
Xu Wei got married, but the bride was not Miss Lu... His love life was actually very unfortunate. His 26-year-old beloved wife Pan died early, and he bought a concubine at the age of 29 and sold it. He kept losing help in the inner curtain and was short of people for nearly ten years. On the one hand, it was because he had a long-term shortage of financial difficulties and had no permanent property. Who would like to pay his daughter?
On the other hand, Xu Wei was extremely affectionate and had been unforgettable for many years. Although Miss Lu had always been determined and even became a monk, he still had a holy mind, hoping to exchange her true feelings for her to change her mind. Even after he became rich, matchmakers came one after another, he was not moved... He had to wait until he was exhausted and did not marry a wife, so he delayed the great cause of inheritance and decided to make a decision.
So last spring, he and Shen Mo broke up in Hangzhou. He had agreed that he would meet with Chen Mo no matter what the result was. No matter how hard he was, he would go to meet with Chen Mo and help him. Who knew that after all the troubles, he found Shuiyue Temple where Miss Lu was placed. He sat outside her Zen room for seven days and seven nights, and did not wait for the moment when the curtain was lifted.
Seven days later, the disheartened Xu Wei was carried down the mountain and then seriously ill for half a year. When he was cured, it was already winter. He was about to rush to southern Gansu immediately, but Mr. Shen was entrusted by Chen Si and arranged a marriage for him. In addition, the battle situation in Chen Si was decided, so he was suspected of benefiting when he went there. So Xu Wei gave up the idea of ​​setting off and stayed in Shaoxing to get married.
Although he was thirty-nine years old, Xu Weiwen was famous all over the world and was a Hanlin official. He had a noble status, so he naturally could not be careless about this marriage.
In addition to renovating his old house, as a new house, Silence also asked his father to give Xu Wei a manor in the southeast of the city as a wedding gift.
This manor covers an area of ​​ten acres, surrounded by long fences, protected by wolfberry, and has twenty-two houses, two lotus ponds, and dozens of fruit trees. Although they are not big or luxurious, they are full of pastoral atmosphere. Xu Wei likes it very much. Soon after his wedding, he moved there with his second wife. He grilled fish every day, served with earthen brews, and sang drunk and sang, and was so happy.
Seeing that Xu Wei, who was forty years old, finally had his own home and finally got rid of that entangled love. Silence was really happy for him. He lived in his new home that night. While drinking, they recalled the passing years, and were filled with emotion...
Thinking of his interactions with Shen Mo over the years, Xu Wei said gratefully: "If it weren't for your humble words, I, Xu Wei, would have been a lonely ghost and a miserable person, and wouldn't have lived like this today."
Chen Si shook his head and smiled, "How can you know that it is a blessing to get a horse? Who knows what you lost because of meeting me?" His words were not self-moderate, but he had this kind of worry. As a well-known writer and calligrapher and painter in the future, Xu Wei's name completely outweighed the emperors and generals of the same era, and was still familiar to people hundreds of years later. He remembered that in college, a professor said that Xu Wei in the East, like Van Gogh in the West, many artistic inspirations came from the tragedy of life. Chen Si didn't know if this was right, but he knew that because of his appearance, this artistic genius who had produced one for five hundred years had completely changed his life trajectory. At least he would no longer use calligraphy and paintings to exchange for money for food, no longer carve seals and inscriptions for others, and many artistic treasures passed down from generation to generation will obviously not appear again.
But in Shen Mo's view, those eternal names and historical values ​​are illusory and can only be used as the basis for future generations to hype, and have no relationship with Xu Wei himself, so he does not feel anything wrong with him. Although he occasionally thinks of the more than 100 authentic works of Xu Wei that he collected for his descendants, I wonder if it is worth it at that time...
Xu Wei mistakenly thought he was regretting that he had lost the opportunity to make meritorious service in southern Gan because of his marriage. He couldn't help but smile and said, "You know I won't care. Although I suffered for half my life for the imperial examination, it was not for fame, and although I also became an official, it was not for profit and power." As he said, he said with some worries: "I don't know what I am for, just like being pushed away by someone. Although I walked so far, I didn't feel at all... You know, I was either pretentious or I couldn't get involved."
"Yes," he nodded silently: "No matter what he does, he must have a sense of belonging or even a sense of mission in order to fully devote himself."
"Sense of belonging and mission?" Xu Wei repeated these two words in a low voice and said, "Well, I just can't find a sense of belonging, but I have a sense of mission." As he said, he drank a sip of aged wine, he said depressedly: "But in the past few years, I have found that I am incompatible with the entire officialdom. Except for a few brothers, others regard me as an alien, and can only be used as a free meal. I can't do anything at all." Speaking of this, he looked at him silently and said, "I really envy you. You are born to be an official. You can not only be related, but also do things in an orderly manner. We have been an official for a long time. You have done so many big things, but I have done nothing. It's so embarrassing to compare."
"I didn't do anything..." Chen Shu waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "Actually, I envy you very much. If you don't like it, you can go away at any time. From now on, picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains. But I can't do it. The shackles on my body are too heavy and I will be destined to be unscathed in this life."
"Why do you have to do this?" Xu Wei poured wine for Chen Si and said, "No one forced you to do this. Wouldn't it be better to live a more relaxed life?" As an old friend of Chen Si, Xu Wei knew best that this guy had a heavy psychological burden, as if he wanted to carry the whole world on his shoulders.
"Yes, no one forced me..." I took a big sip of wine in silence, enjoying the burning feeling of the fire in my chest, and took a deep breath and said, "But I can't teach myself. Even if I have a slight idea of ​​escape in my heart, I feel that it is sinful and unforgivable." He said, "This is fate, I can't escape, I've long recognized it."
Xu Wei lay beside him and smiled and said, "Have you safe, don't worry, you will never walk alone. I will follow you in this life. A hero and three helpers, a fence and three stakes can assist you in achieving great things. This is the success of my life." He said, "Will I go to Quzhou with you?"
"No need." Chen Si shook his head and smiled: "The things over there are not difficult to handle, you should be busy with your big business."
"What's the big deal about me?" Xu Wei said without reacting for a moment.
"Transfer the family line..." Chen Shu laughed.
"Okay, I'm making fun of me again!" The two were laughing and making fun of Xu Wei's newly married wife, Liu, brought the soup in. From the door, they looked very ambiguous. Liu said in a secret fear, no wonder his husband had not been married for more than ten years, and it turned out that the crux of the matter was... She was also a scheming woman, so she quietly withdrew silently, so for a long time later, she was cold to silence, which made him very surprised, and somehow offended this sister-in-law's wife.
After the fifteenth day at home, Chen Mo was about to set off for Quzhou. Before leaving, Chen He sent him to the dock. His son had only a few days back, but he didn't stay at home all day. The father and his father had the opportunity to say a few simple words when they had dinner in the morning. Of course, Chen He could feel that his son had divorced him. He also knew the reason, and could not think of any solution. He could only hold Chen Mo's hand and look entangled.
Silent sighed and said, "I've been at home too short. You can't spend time with my father. Don't blame your child."
"I don't know when I'm going to see you again in the Year of the Monkey and Horses." Chen He said sadly: "You won't stay at home for a few more days..."
"Busy official business", he whispered silently: "I made an appointment for the 16th day of the first lunar month, and it's already too late to leave now."
"Oh, busy, busy all year and month."
Chen He said angrily: "It seems that I want to free you, so I will have to wait for your father to close my eyes."
"Dad." said helplessly: "Don't talk about those unlucky ones, I see that your body is no different from a young man."
"How do you know?" Chen Hezhang said angrily.
"You see, you have given birth to three in three years. Isn't this a dragon spirit and a tiger fierce?" Chen Si laughed and said, "I don't even have this ability."
"You kid, dare to make fun of me!" Chen He was embarrassed by him. After a while, he whispered: "Although your younger brother and sister are young, they are also your younger brother and sister after all. If you don't have to point at you as a brother in the future..."
Chen Ji was still irritated in his heart and forced a smile and said, "Of course, they are all from the Shen family." As he said that, he gently pulled out his hand and said, "It's getting late, Dad, please go back first."
Chen He knew he was wrong and nodded, "I will leave after the boat drives."
"Okay." Chen Si took a step back, lifted his collar, and knelt down to his father and said, "Take care." He kowtowed three respectfully, then turned around and turned onto the boat.
The boat drove away, looking at his father's increasingly blurred figure in silence, and a deep self-blame surged in his heart. He loved his father deeply and was far away from each other, so why can't he pretend to be happier?
Along the way, silent was a little unhappy. It was not until he met with the officials coming from Hangzhou that he cheered up and restored the calm that the Southeast First Patriarch should have.
Among the officials who were ordered to come to meet, the head of Zhejiang Governor Wang Bengu, Zhejiang Governor Jiang Yi, Zhejiang Senator Sun Ying and Tao Dalin, and a dozen members of the escorts, which was a very luxurious lineup.
When Wang Bengu and others were silent, they were all inexplicably awe. If they were just respecting his clothes, they were now completely convinced by his abilities. The young man's methods and skills were not inferior to his ex. Even if they were more flexible, they always made you feel that he was nothing, and things were right, and they would not be able to accept it.
But silently summoned them not to flatter them, but to have a serious matter to talk to them, so the first high-level meeting of this year was held on the Qiantang River official ship.
First, Wang Bengu reported to Master Jinglei that the situation of the bandit suppression in Quzhou in the 43rd year of Jiajing. With the full efforts of Zhejiang General Lu Chui, the official army had recovered most of the mining areas, but the troops were limited and the results could not be expanded. Therefore, he requested silence and recruited the Qi family army, who was a miner from Yiwu, and supported Zhejiang to suppress the bandit suppression. He would definitely achieve twice the result with half the effort.
But Chen Si refused his request and said, "The Qi family army was ordered to go north and there is no time to participate in the suppression of bandits." He paused and said, "And there will be elite troops going north one after another this year. This is the general trend, you should know." Last year, Altan invaded the border and attacked the capital again, burned, killed and plundered more than a dozen counties. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, which made the emperor angry. The cabinet was completely disappointed with the border army and officially ordered the southern army to go north to fight the enemy.
It was actually very uncomfortable to be silent about this order... Whether intentionally or unintentionally, it was all about depriving him of his military power, but he still implemented it without any discount, because he knew that his return date was coming soon, and even if the environment was more relaxed after returning to Beijing, he could not fight against the court.
After hearing the silent words, Wang Bengu was very disappointed. In the final analysis, the mining chaos in Quzhou was a trouble he caused. Although there were people in the court and were not questioned, it also greatly affected the position of the officials in the court. Therefore, he kept trying hard to quell the rebellion and restore his own form.
But this rebellion was too tricky, even more difficult than Gannan. At first, he naively thought that as long as the army helped, the rebellion could be suppressed. But the cruel reality is that the army was like a headless fly, wandering around the mining area all day long, and could not catch the rebellious miners at all, and Lu Keng had no choice but to do anything about it.
In fact, Wang Bengu was at a loss. The so-called "pacifying most of the time" was just to say big talk for the sake of face. He really hoped to quell the silence of the rebellion in southern Ganzhou, and to show his power and quell the Quzhou.
But the silence told Wang Bengu that the problem in Quzhou is even more difficult to solve than in southern Ganzhou. He said: "The key to leading the rebellion is to eliminate the root cause of the rebellion. The army alone can only cut the grass but not eliminate the roots. Even if it is forcibly pacified, it will be repeated."
"The rebellion in southern Ganzhou is for poverty. As long as the people there see hope of getting rid of poverty, they will naturally lose the motivation to rebel, and it will be no more difficult to clear it up." Silently said: "The reason for the rebellion in Quzhou is not poverty, but greed."
Everyone nodded and said, "Yes, it's just a mess." Quzhou chaos was in the silver mine, because the ore dug out of the mine, and it would be a little refined to make white silver. In the Ming Dynasty, silver was money, and money could be magical!
Everyone here is not naive. They know that the problem in Quzhou is difficult in large part because it has long been woven into a huge network of interests around the silver mine. The officials, gentry, local tyrants, and bullies in Quzhou are all part of this network. It is no exaggeration to say that higher-level officials have been bribed by them, and even those present here are their eyes and ears. I am afraid that even the troops that suppress the bandits will be bribed by them.
Officials lost their ethics, and they were all bullshit when they were in love with the world and sacrificed their lives for justice. They only care about their own interests. Officials and bandits colluded with each other, snakes and rats were in a nest, and no one was willing to execute the court's orders. Whoever dared to touch their interests was their common enemy. Under the offensive of silver bullets, there were really few people in the world who could withstand it.
This is mostly the case of corruption in the world, especially in mining areas. This is the truth that I knew in my previous life.
Chapter completed!