Chapter 45 – Big brother is so annoying

Stargazer Building, Bagua Terrace.

The white-robed, white-haired, white-bearded supervisor was sitting in front of the case, twirling a cup of wine in his hand, looking out wordlessly in the northwest direction of the capital.

On the left there is another table and case, the case is full of delicious food, in front of the case sits Chu Caiwei with a goose egg face and big eyes, delicate features, sweet and dark.

As she ate, she chattered, “Master, when will I be able to step into the sixth rank and become an alchemist?”

The Supervisor replied with a smile, “Whenever you don’t care about eating and are willing to cultivate at ease, the time will come.”

Chu Caiwei for: “Then this life is unlikely ah.”

She swallowed her food and continued to chatter, “By the way, that fake silver is easy to burn and explode when thrown into the water, so it can’t be preserved at all. It’s not good to tell the emperor.”

Lord Supervisor Zheng said softly, “The Emperor’s old man is full of food, so let him get lost is all.”

Chu Caiwei spat out her little tongue, “Apprentice wouldn’t dare to say that, you go by yourself.”

The supervisor is smiling amiably.

“Master, Fourth Senior Brother is almost bewitched, and you don’t care. There’s nothing to do but always run outside the city, saying that the door to the Alchemy Upanishad has been opened to him.”

“…..”

“Master, I think Xu Qi’an, this little speedster, is quite good, can’t we receive him into the Si Tian Supervisor? Oh, you don’t know who he is, he’s the one who solved the tax and silver case ….”

“….”

“Master, what is grafting.”

The supervisor sighed, “Caiwei.”

“Master you say.”

“Can’t you stop eating.”

“Oh.”

A few seconds later…

“Master, why do you keep looking that way.”

“Caiwei, Master has some regrets.”

“Master you say.”

“How come Master doesn’t know the Confucian forbidden speech technique.”

“Hee hee ….” The smug expression on Chu Caiwei’s face had just surfaced when she suddenly realized that the food on the case was corrupting in a flash, emitting an unpleasant rancid smell.

Her small mouth was deflated and she was about to cry with an expression of heartache that she couldn’t breathe, “Master, I was wrong. You change back quickly.”

The Supervisor was still looking out to the northwest, smilingly saying, “Master will just teach you one more thing, in the realm of alchemy, the vast majority of transformations are irreversible.”

Chu Caiwei wiped her tears while crying and walking away, “I’m never coming back to accompany a bad old man like you again.”

……

At the elegant pavilion by the bamboo forest, Dean Zhao Shou said in a deep voice, “Approaching within thirty feet of this place is forbidden.”

As he spoke, he waved his sleeve and the clear qi swelled, enveloping a thirty-foot radius of the Accord.

After doing so, he turned back and looked at the three great scholars who had been summoned.

Li Mubai held a teacup in his hand, his face serious, “Inquired, there were no students in the vicinity of the Asian Sacred School Palace at that time, and there was no inability to know who had entered it.

“The handwriting on the stone tablet does not belong to any of the academy’s students. To be able to write such ugly characters, I don’t think it was taught by our academy.”

Speaking of which, Li Mubai was a bit weak, if he was not a student of the academy, and was in the academy today, besides that cheap disciple, who else was there?

“Duh-duh…”

At this time, Zhang Shen knocked on the desktop, and this great scholar put away all his cynicism and refuted his dear friend with an expressionless face:

“Handwriting can be camouflaged, and ugly writing even more so.”

Chen Tai suddenly asked, ”Then what is the reason for camouflaging the handwriting? That monument has been erected there for more than ten years, and all the teachers and students in the academy have tried it and are happy to be the hero. There’s no reason to disguise the handwriting.

“Moreover, at that time, the two brothers Xu Ru Lao and Xu Ning Yan happened to be touring the mountains.”

The three great scholars finished their discussion and did not speak for a long time.

Li Mubai sipped a mouthful of tea in the cup, sighing tersely: “For heaven and earth to set up the heart, for the people to set up the life, for the past saint to succeed the absolute learning, for the world to open the peace ….

“Shame on me, I’ve long since broken off the idea of a career over the years, and I’m only interested in making a name for myself and leaving my name in the history of the world.”

“Brother Pure Jing has a high moral character.” Zhang Shen gave a thumbs up and praised, then said, “Leave the persuasive poem to my guidance.”

Li Mubai immediately changed his words, “Serving the country and the people is not contradictory to being famous in history either.”

Dean Zhao Shou froze and gazed at Li Mubai, the clear light in his eyes flickered and he was surprised, “You’re about to establish your life?!”

“!!!” Chen Tai and Zhang Shen were shocked.

Li Mubai smiled and stroked his whiskers, “A moment of epiphany and enlightenment.”

The other two great scholars instantly soured.

After being pointed out by Dean Zhao Shou, the two of them immediately noticed the subtle changes that appeared in Li Mubai’s aura.

The realm of the three qualities of life is a realm of finding a purpose in life; some people study for merit, some for profit and fortune, and some for the blessing of future generations …. Everyone has their own Tao.

The Tao of Dean Zhao Shou is to open up a new school of Confucianism, to break the confinement of thought and find a new path for the millions of readers in the world.

Therefore, the day he couldn’t reach this goal, the day he couldn’t break through to the Second Grade Realm.

The others didn’t ask Li Mu Bai about his life goals, because at this time he was in a hazy state himself.

Zhang Shen and Chen Tai glanced at each other, and secretly decided in their hearts that they would not come out after today in the Sublime Sacred Palace of Learning for closed-door enlightenment.

“As of today, the Sublime Sage Academy Palace is forbidden for scholars to enter.” Zhao Shou’s eyes, which contained divine splendor, swept over the great scholars present and said, “This matter is not to be spread abroad. I’m going to make a statement to the three of you.”

The three great scholars looked at each other and nodded slightly.

Zhao Shou sank his qi into his dantian and gathered force on the tip of his tongue, “A gentleman should keep his mouth shut.”

……

The two riders galloped quickly, and as they neared the capital, the brothers slowed down and let their horses trot to catch up.

They rented inferior horses, only a little better than the worn-out ones, with the advantage of being cheap and the disadvantage of being physically incapable.

Can’t keep running at high speeds for long periods of time.

If you run to your death, you still have to pay a dozen taels of silver. The brothers are both very pushy about their wallets.

Xu New Year exhaled a mouthful of turbid air and finally asked the doubt in his heart, “Should big brother explain.”

He was referring to the astounding maxim.

“What do you want me to explain?” Xu Qi’an asked rhetorically.

“Big brother is just enlightened, how can he say something as astonishing as that?” Xu New Year proudly raised his chin:

“That’s something only a reader can say.”

See how proud you are …. All things are inferior, but only the highest education, right?…. I at least have nine years of compulsory education and graduated from the police academy ….. And I’m also a veteran keyboard warrior, I’ve been educated by the keyboard culture, I know a little bit about everything ….. If you are really competing for knowledge, you readers can only be regarded as younger brothers in front of me!

Xu Qi’an wanted to spit this slot out.

He pondered for a moment and changed his words, “Rhetoric also feels that there are some problems with the current thinking of Confucianism, but when I asked you what a scholar should do, your answer was still a standard reply in line with the times.”

This sentence made Xu Xinxin fall into deep thought.

“It’s the limitation of thought, you readers are imbued with a certain kind of thought, and over time, you take its shape. Even if you realize it’s wrong, it’s hard to break free.” Xu Qi’an spoke eloquently:

“Let’s put it another way: thought confinement.”

“Thought confinement…” muttered Xu Rui Lao, repeating those four words.

“The dean of the Yunlu Academy was similarly imprisoned by his thoughts and influenced by Cheng’s scholarship; he wanted to make a breakthrough and find a new school, but he himself was in a whirlpool, so how could he lead the world’s readers out of the whirlpool?”

“The only people who can really do that are those who are outside the vortex.

“Perhaps it is precisely because big brother I have not read much that I am able to saber-rattle, to be new and different, and to be free from the confines of Cheng’s science.”

Of course, I also have thought confinement, thought confinement from the 21st century, only that no one has given me a head start …. Xu Qi’an said in his heart.

The thing about ideological confinement is that it is, to put it bluntly, a threefold view, and threefold views are the result of the times. You are in this era and imbued with it, and will not find this problematic. Only when the time scale reaches a certain distance can you get high enough to spot the problem.

Xu Ru Lao didn’t speak for a long time, he began to think, began to grimace, and after an incense stick of time, he looked at Xu Qi’an in a radiant manner:

“Big brother’s words have enlightened me.”

Big brother is awesome.

Enlightenment is powerful… Xu Qi’an made an assessment in his heart, not taking it seriously on the surface, instead revealing a scoffing expression:

“It’s a pity that you didn’t inherit the fine genes of my Xu family, you inherited the Li family’s.”

Big brother is really annoying …. Xu Ru Lao suddenly didn’t want to talk to him.

If my mother hears this, she will be angry and slap the table again: this little bastard is just incompatible with my mother’s birthdate.

PS: Mourn the martyrs and compatriots who unfortunately died in the epidemic, originally wanted to break the day to show sadness, think or forget it. I think it’s a good idea to keep it in mind.