Chapter 6: Dream (Three)

"Dad, you drink tea..."

Chu Wanli Chu Junmen, who has always been unruly and has been wandering around with his shoulders all day in front of Xu Yifan, was kneeling on the ground and offering tea to the old man sitting in the hall.

The two of them looked like alike, but if Xu Yifan saw him, he would probably think without any good intentions. The old man had a stubborn and stern look and his gray beard was meticulously combed with Hu comb. How could he give birth to Chu Wanli, a living monkey who was not serious anymore?

There were only two men in the hall, but there were a group of guys standing on both sides of the wing room, staring at them eagerly. These guys looked old and young, the big ones were only forty, and the small ones were only fifteen or sixteen. They looked poor and rich in dress. Everyone was so arrogant that they didn't dare to speak out, and they stared at the scene inside without blinking.

The old man snorted, took the teacup, took a sip, and then put it down again: "Even if you are the admiral army, you have to kneel down for me when you go home! Think about it yourself, this family lacks you at all? I won't be yours in the whole family business in the future! I'll ask you to teach you Shiwen and sermons to take the exam for fame and fortune, and set fire to the study. Okay, I'll send you to Nanyang Public School to study foreign devils. Even if you can do business with foreign devils in the future, you will be able to do anything, and you will be promoted to the school supervisor! Otherwise, go home and have a student wish, you're good, go to Beiyang to be a student soldier without saying a word! I'm so old, do you think you're filial or disobedient?"

The old man was so angry that his white beard floated, and he slapped the table with a heavier voice: "It's okay if Beiyang has been thrown into the camp, it's okay to flatter the mission. Setting up a family may not be a future. But we went to South China and Korea to lick blood from the knife! Our Chu family doesn't need you to use your life to curry favor with fame, I'm the only son! Do you want my old man to watch his victory? Even if the little bitch of the East is offended by me, the Qing Dynasty, I'm going to die, Xu Da

Such a handsome Qing Wu Mu, you don’t need you to go to the battlefield! Even if the country is about to be destroyed, your only son will not be in the army to pay! I went to a few letters to persuade you, tell me, have you ever replied? Let me report to Shanghai Road, don’t bother or not, the Qing Dynasty governs the world with filial piety, and I will kill you. It is also a matter of heaven and human nature! My family is not worth your return? I have worked hard for you for the rest of my life!”

Chu Wanli knelt down and lowered his head and winked, and then sighed for a while: "Dad, who told you to marry a young mother who is less than 20 years old? If you stay at home, you have to call her mother. My son really can't speak, so he might as well go out to the wild. When you come back this time, you haven't added a few more concubines to your son, right?"

As soon as this sentence came out, the people around him were huddled in a state of innocence and couldn't help laughing out loud. The old man's face turned red and white with anger. He slapped the table and shouted: "Stop talking!"

Chu Wanli knelt with a stern face, and no matter how regular it was, he didn't have any rules. After this, even if the old man couldn't curse, he picked up the teacup cover and covered his old face, and finally sighed: "... Finally, you are back alive! The ancestors of the Chu family blessed him and made a great fame! You used to be arrogant, but what should you do in the future? As long as I don't die, your father has the final say!"

Chu Wanli quietly looked up: "Dad, what are your plans?"

The old man shouted with a stern face: "Get up! Even if you kneel down, you don't have any pure filial piety. My Siming Chu family's loyalty and filial piety passed on to family life, how could I give birth to such a shameful thing for you!"

Chu Wanli also got up as soon as he screamed, pretending to patted the dust on his knees: "...Ah, I was cold in North Korea, and the floor at home was cold, and my knees were sore and swollen. Dad, it doesn't matter if my son kneels, at least I'll give him a mat or something... You are in the spirit of a dragon horse, and you don't need a crutch when walking. Is there a limping son behind me? Do you want the face of the Siming Chu family?"

The old man really had no choice but to take this evil son. He shook his head for a while, and then his eyes were a little kind: "... It's a good thing you struggled from North Korea... At the critical moment of the war, the head of the Shanghai Shanghai Army camp also released mines in Haikou. The splashes were higher than the mountain, and the sound was so shocking that people couldn't stand it! I remember that when you were a child, you were afraid of thunder, and when it came to your mother's place..."

The old man's disobedience was stopped in a blink of an eye, and Chu Wanli quietly turned his head without any hesitation. The two of them were no longer in the mood to continue the topic. The awkward atmosphere was only a short moment. When he turned his head again, the old man looked ashamed and waved to the surroundings: "Come here! You are not outsiders either!"

With a buzzing sound, people who had been anxiously waiting in the wings on both sides rushed over and bowed to Chu Wanli, and the younger ones simply lay down to pay a full salute. Various names rushed towards Chu Wanli, who was a little scared.

"Cousin, I am your fourth cousin! When I was young, I also grabbed the coffin-headed crickets with you! I am now a big guy in the Chu family grain store! From my generation to my generation, I have been taking care of you in this house for decades!"

"Mr. Chu, I am the nephew of the old lady's cousin's wife! When I was ten years old, the young man came to pay New Year's greetings to the old lady with his family. I have met him, but do you still remember it?"

"Brother Shi! I am Gao Minghui! Gao Minghui! You forgot that you beat me when you were a child? We were the friendship between the general leader! My father is still the shopkeeper of the old man. Think about it again? Think about it again?"

Even though Chu Wanli could sleep in a Japanese army's cannon fire, so many people were smiling and saluting at him, they were still a little unbearable. Some people were afraid of having hobbies, and the cheapest Liaotu Fushou Paste in their mouths could make people beat!

"Dad, where are you making trouble?"

Chu Wanli was busy fighting there, but the old man was lowering his head to drink tea. Chu Wanli asked him with a wry smile, and the old man glared: "Where is the trouble? If you develop, you won't take care of your relatives. Our Chu family has never been so cold! Your grandfather was in Shanghai, but he was guarding a millet shop, and he still pulled a dozen relatives to eat together. No matter how dry it is, everyone is the same. Now you are the admiral army gate, and your eyes are growing on the forehead?"

After shouting at Chu Wanli, the old man slowed down his voice again: "... Dad will not harm you anymore, you are a young man. After the imperial court was sealed, I went to check. Except for the founding of the country, the 25-year-old rank of the admiral army, that is, you and that Lord Li... It is not that my ancestors have accumulated virtue for several generations, but today? The fame and fortune will be great. There are so many camps in Liangjiang, that is, you and Lord Li are divided into leaders, and you don't have many people around you, so you are not afraid of the people below joining forces to deceive you? Money and power should be taken in your own hands! They are all relatives, and you are promoted by you. If you will never get along with you, you can be a safe official! These dozens of nephews are all promising, so you can use it with confidence!"

Looking at the faces around him who were so passionate that they were smiling with charming faces. I guess they were calling their fathers now, and there were a lot of noises below. Chu Wanli sighed softly.

Why did he never get out of place when he was born and raised in this family? Even in this world, he felt so depressed that he couldn't breathe. Li Yunzong used coldness to isolate everything he couldn't stand, and he pretended to be crazy and escaped from the world. Until he met Xu Yifan...

The old man was still sitting and talking, but his voice was getting farther and farther away in his ears: "... It's twenty-five, and he can't get married yet. Since he comes back this time, he will do the big thing and deserves the Chu family. It's not easy to find...

He poured out tens of thousands of men's passionate blood. With the talent of Xu, he only changed North Korea a small part. When he returned to his home country, he still had everything that had not changed for hundreds of years! Many people would feel bored, but how many of them could not be with them in this dull chaos and breathe happily in a battle between the country and the country? After tasting this taste, even if he could go back, he could not go back... It was a nearly heaven-defying career to stir up the stagnant water and break the iron house. But what could he do if he didn't do this? Could it be that he could sink to the bottom of the water until he could no longer breathe?

"Dad... my son wants to take them to Liangjiang, but I'm afraid the first one to be driven back is my son... You don't want your son, the admiral of Jiangnan, to go home in shame after being the first two days, right?"

Chu Wanli said to the old man lightly. When he heard this, the old man raised his eyebrows: "Saying a fool! Who is not the case with an official? Does Shuai Xu have no personal personalities to take care of? He can't tolerate his subordinates taking care of him? Then why is he an official? It's ridiculous! Let me tell you one thing, I am still in the head of the Chu family!"

Chu Wanli smiled bitterly: "What dreams did Lord Xu have and what he wanted, my son was watching carefully... At least now, he still has an appetite for his son. Dad, let him go, I don't want to suffocate him to death... Just take it for the sake of his deceased mother..."

He knelt down quietly and kowtowed three times to the old man. Everyone around him was a little calmed down on Chu Wanli's face and his behavior as if no one was around, and he was silent. At this time, although Chu Wanli's face still had a sarcastic smile that never changed for thousands of years, there was a very deep thing behind them. They didn't understand it, but they could feel it.

After kowtowing, Chu Wanli smiled and stood up. Regardless of the old man sitting there in amazement, he slowly turned around and left. When he arrived at the door, he turned around and smiled: "Dad, my son never thought about being an official. When the matter was done, or when he finally found that the dream he followed was just like this, he would come back to take care of you for the elderly and see you off. I will do whatever you asked me. At that time, my son will help you find a concubine. How about it?"

The old man seemed to wake up from the shock at this time, his face turned blue and white, and he stood up tremblingly, as if he wanted to hold his only son. In the end, he just squeezed out a scolding from his teeth: "Get out of here! When you die, it's best if you don't come back and hold a banner for me! Why did I give birth to such a thing! Crime, Crime!"

After scolding, he shook his sleeves, turned his head and entered the inner room. The father and son left one by one. The man who had only left one room and still kept the ceremonial posture looked at each other: "......... How did this happen?"

"We are certainly a family-defeating clan, and one is a family-state-breaking clan... Two Qing rebels here count their life experiences, but Lord Xu is listening quietly outside the door. How can I know if Lord Xu has a different embrace of this glorious Qing world?"

Xu Yifan's voice suddenly sounded, but the two of them were silent in the room. With Zhang Yu's ability, how could they not find that Xu Yifan was listening quietly outside the corner. The two of them counted back and forth, that is, they shared their intentions. Xu Yifan was a smart person, and they believed that he had ulterior motives in the world. What he did was proved. When dealing with smart people, especially those who were seeking something, they must not make any mistakes. They could only go straight, show sincerity, and give conditions, and see how Xu Yifan could accept their strength.

Xu Yifan laughed outside and walked in with big strides. He was dressed in casual clothes and looked fluttering. He didn't look like he was bullied by Li Xuan. As soon as he entered the study, he glanced at Zhang Yu first and snorted vigorously: "Master Zhang Da, I have hidden it so much. I never thought that you are the guardian of the Beidi Xiang Sect! I still use you in my own home!"

Zhang Yu's expression remained unchanged, but he just saluted respectfully: "How can you not know that the young man is not just a loyal servant of a small housekeeper? It's just that he is tolerant. No matter how good our incense sect is, in the eyes of adults, it is just a group of mobs. How could he be afraid of Zhang Yu, a merely terrible person?"

Xu Yifan was still glaring at him with a tense face, and smiled last, waved his hand: "I can't scare you, forget it. You kid, you are really a little aggrieved to be a housekeeper."

Then he looked at the shopkeeper Han and smiled and said, "Old man, I just guess you have some power in the world, and it's just for a safe business deal. Maybe he has some ambitions to expand Dashengkui's business from outside the mouth to inside the mouth. So he wanted to build a person with a little status in the officialdom... At that time, I wondered, with Dashengkui's financial resources, it was not difficult to make friends with the Minister of Military Affairs. Why did he invest so much money to me, Xu Yifan? I've gone through it all the way.

Come on, but your head is also on the belt. There is no tomorrow. Your old man had lent two million taels of white silver at the beginning! I felt a little sad when I got your money. I felt that your old shopkeeper was not simple, but he had just broken this dull gourd. It turned out that your old shopkeeper was the Hong Yang Rebellion, the general of the king of heaven on earth and the subordinate of Li Xiucheng, the king of Zhong! After thirty years of hatred, I am afraid that it has become so depressed that it cannot be resolved, right?"

Mr. Han smiled faintly: "Is the hatred deep or shallow? I have never experienced it, but I am afraid I cannot understand it."

Xu Yifan curled his lips: "Is this also a begging person?"

As soon as he lifted his front, the big horse's golden sword and Han Zhongping sat opposite each other, Zhang Yu stood respectfully beside the two. Xu Yifan looked at the two and smiled and said, "Old man, I can only say that your bet was not bad at the beginning! But no matter what, now I am the governor of Liangjiang of the Qing Dynasty, and I have just waited for Wei Yuanwang... to be released, fresh and hot! You are a guardian of the country association, a businessman who has a little power outside the mouth. Even if you have to repay the support from the two, and there are still several times of the guardian of Zhang Da Da, you can't be afraid of me on the boat, right? What can you give me? Business transactions, everyone must at least have equal status. Do you think this is the reason?"

Mr. Han looked at Xu Yifan calmly, and then smiled after a while: "Mr. Xu's style is not diminished. When he was alone, he dared to negotiate with Ma Shangqilin. The old man did not misunderstand the price from the beginning. At this time, it was indeed only us who came to ask for the master. The old man dared to ask Master Xu a word. At this time, Lord Xu's current status is already the peak of his ministers, and everything you have not been rewarded by the court. Now... Lord., what is the weight of the tripod? "

Old Man Han said these eight words indifferently, while Xu Yifan listened without hesitation. Only Zhang Yu's long and steady breathing around him became turbid and heavy without realizing it.

After a while, Xu Yifan smiled: "The tripod is very heavy! If you want to weigh these iron weights, you have to have a large scale plate. You have to add many weights. What is the weight of your weight?"

At this time, he changed his color and became a loyal minister and righteous man. It was meaningless. As he walked along, the two guys in front of him were one by his side, and the other was the old fox who helped him start his business. His hair was white. He was very clear. He pretended to be a waste of time.

Old man Han also laughed, talking to smart people to save energy. He signaled Zhang Yu, and Zhang Yu whispered: "When it comes to the general, the incense sect is in Zhili, Shandong, and Henan for decades. During the Jiaqing period, after the uprising of the incense sect in Sichuan and Chu, Gou Wenrun, the reign of the reign of the remaining troops to develop in the heart of the Tatars. Over the past few decades, the incense sect has been deeply rooted in the north! The incense sect has responded with tens of thousands of people... Now, it can be said that every village practices boxing, and the incense sect has an altar! The incense sect is in the Liangjiang area and has a little bit of a whip to the north. Once something happens in the future, hundreds of thousands of children of the incense sect will echo the incense sect in the north! The incense sect will open the Great incense sect for the Great incense sect for the Great incense! Beijing city gate, the incense sect will open the Great incense sect for the Great incense sect for the Great incense sect!”

Zhang Yu didn't know how many times he had practiced this in private, and he finished speaking in a deep voice. He looked up at Xu Yifan with his head and eyes.

Xu Yifan scratched his head. To be honest, he knew the secret society in the late Qing Dynasty with sloppy knowledge. But he believed that the Incense Cult had this strength in the north. Later textbooks said that the Boxer Rebellion was a spontaneous patriotic movement of the masses, and he always felt that it was a bit different. Once the premiere was launched during the Gengzi period, almost all of Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other provinces changed color. This kind of business was not soaked for decades. However, the people who developed in the future did not expect it.

"It sounds so exciting... Master, what are you going to use for? "

Old shopkeeper Han smiled bitterly: "What else can the old man have now? Only money is left... Dashengkui has been operating for decades, and it is a bit exaggerated to rival the country. It is not surprising that the old man lost his family and took out 20 to 30 million yuan. The adults have always been very generous with money, so they just treat it as leaving it to the Grand Marshal for rewarding people... The old man has no relatives and no reason, and the money can he bring into the coffin. If he doesn't give it to the Grand Marshal, who else can he give it?"

After the two of them finished speaking, Xu Yifan gently touched his chin: "Well, hundreds of thousands of people in the north, and 20 to 30 million yuan, it's really a big deal... Take out these things, what do you want to change?"

Having said that, Zhang Yu had already kneeled down with a pounce: "The Master of the Incense Sect, I'll ask the Grand Marshal to reward the founding Conglong's identity!"

Xu Yifan nodded without comment, turned around and asked Han Zhongping with a smile: "Old man, where are you?"

Han Zhongping was just silent. At the end, his lips trembled. His voice was no longer the old man's calm and leisurely tone, but the shrill voice of the heavenly general who was still in his prime on the bloody night thirty-one years ago: "The Hu chief has been poisoning the world for more than two hundred years. At that time, millions of heavenly soldiers killed monsters, fought hard for fourteen years, but they turned into millions of wronged souls on both sides of the river. If they could not be killed, how could they be worthy of the wronged souls that were entangled in dreams every day? The old man lived for this, just to see the mankind in Beijing, just like the heavenly soldiers thirty-one years ago! Sir, the old man begs!"

With a plop, Old Man Han jumped up and knelt down with agility that was not in line with his age. His white-haired head hit the ground hard, first with a sound, then with countless sounds. What came from his throat was the cry that had been suppressed for thirty years!

"...This is your dream?"

Xu Yifan sat upright on the chair and looked at the two people kneeling down. His expression was extremely calm.

He smacked his lips, as if he was still recalling what the two of them had just said. They were so straightforward and so straightforward. He was not surprised at all. Just because he could afford it now, he had reached such a status. The whole world was watching his every move in the future. Although his foundation was still shallow, he did have enough reputation and strength to shake the world. Those who were ambitious and wanted to take revenge were a loser in the existing Qing system... Anyone who had further thoughts would naturally gather here. Back then, as loyal as Zeng Guofan, these ambitious people were still coming and going to market.

But some power can be borrowed, while others cannot.

"What a pity... your dream is different from mine... You don't understand it even after you say it, so it's better not to say it. Just look at it."

"Sir?" Zhang Yu and Han Zhongping looked up together, but Xu Yifan's expression was as quiet as he had just woken up. He shook his hand: "Old man, I will give you two million taels. Zhang Da Dharma Protector, even if our master and servant scatter, your incense sect secretly stuffed into my imperial guards will ask you to take it away. I posted it for severance payment... Don't look at me, you will understand when you reach my point. You really want to ask about the importance of the throne, relying on the general trend and open conspiracy! It is relying on letting people in the world see something really different, rather than the change of dynasty like the past three thousand years... The two, the times are different!"

After he said that, he stood up and dusted his clothes, turned around and left. Only two people were left kneeling there.

I don’t know how long it took, but Zhang Yu murmured: “Old man, this…”

Han Zhongping was just ecstatic in the direction of Xu Yifan leaving. When he turned his head, his eyes were indescribable. The elderly always had a paranoid feeling, not to mention that this paranoidness has been entangled for so many years, and it has not been forgotten for a day! The long-term dream has been shattered, and this paranoidness will turn into something. I am afraid that Xu Yifan would not have thought of it at this time.

"There is another person, and there is another person to borrow! The world has begun to change, and it is not just Xu Yifan who can stir up the world!"
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