Chapter 52: Yao Ruoyu
Seeing Yao Ruoyu, Fu Feng and Wu Xue left, Xu Jingmiao was about to chuckle, but suddenly her back chilled. She quickly turned around and smiled and said, "Yuying, what's wrong?"
Frowning his eyebrows, Cao Yuying said in a deep voice: "Master General, you are the Chief General of Chongqing. You should know the reason why a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. These people have a close relationship with the King of Chu and have been living in the King of Chu these days. If you make friends with it rashly, you will probably bring bad reputation for making friends with friends! Especially the Qin Hui party in the court, it is even more..."
Seeing Cao Yuying's nagging... Cough cough, her advice kept talking, Xu Jingmiao showed an unspeakable smile and sighed: "The Grand Butler of Chongqing Prefecture is worthy of his reputation!"
With her eyebrows raised, Cao Yuying stared at Xu Jingmiao and said seriously: "Is the Chief General dissatisfied with Yuying? Since Yuying made the Chief General dissatisfied, there is naturally something wrong. Yuying will submit her resignation tomorrow, and there is no need to make the adults bother to dismiss subordinates. It is just that the adults must know their loyal words and rebellious..."
Seeing that she was about to return to her previous rumor, Xu Jingmiao smiled immediately, reached out to touch the top of her head, and said with a smile: "Okay OK! You are indeed too much of this. If you marry in the future, it will easily lead to conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law."
Seeing Xu Jingmiao touching his head, Cao Yuying's delicate body froze and two red glows suddenly appeared on her face.
After a while, Cao Yuying reacted, opened Xu Jingmiao's hand, and stammered, "The Mansion, Lord General... Is this too rude? The saint said, don't touch it if it is polite, especially among the opposite sex, you need to pay more attention to etiquette and defense, otherwise it is very easy to attract attacks from political enemies. Yuying's reputation alone is fine, but if it hurts the reputation of the adult, wouldn't it be..."
"Isn't that not?" Xu Jingmiao shook his head and said, "I, Xu Jingmiao, acted fairly, whether I am a human or an official, and I have clear rewards and punishments. Why not be afraid of criticism from others? What's more, if I can dismiss my position as the chief general, I, the chief general general in Chongqing, aren't it too much, right?"
"What a knock!"
Peeking at the movements of Xu Jingmiao, Yao Ruoyu sighed with a smile, then reached out and touched Wu Xue's head, and said in confusion: "Wu Xue, why can't you learn from other girls? You know what shyness is?"
Staring at Yao Ruoyu's hand, Wu Xue clenched her teeth and sneered: "Others are tall, rich and handsome, what are you? **Silk! Even if you use this skill, it will not work at all, right?"
"Fu Feng, can I kill her?"
"... Haven't you frozen her? Otherwise, Brother Yao, how could you still touch her head safely?"
"Huh? Really! I actually forgot..."
"Can IQ be said to be zero?"
"Haha, try it!"
"never mind……"
Just as Yao Ruoyu and Fu Feng had a chat without a word, an hour passed quickly. During this period, literati and scholars from Chongqing Prefecture continued to enter the venue. After a simple exchange with Xu Jingmiao, they gathered together in groups of three or three to chat.
Because there was no one I knew, Yao Ruoyu, Fu Feng, and Wu Xue, who was frozen, stayed in their seats, constantly sweeping the pastries and drinks on the table.
After the 28th time, the maid came to remove the empty plate and replaced it with new snacks, Cao Yuying, who was called "Director" by Yao Ruoyu, finally appeared at their table, glanced at the table with strange eyes and frowned, "Does the Chu Palace care about food?"
"Take it!" Yao Ruoyu raised his head carelessly and laughed, "But it's not as delicious as the Taishou Mansion!"
When I first met such a shameless person, Cao Yuying was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses and whispered: "You... can you pay attention to your image? Are you now people in half of the venue discussing you?"
"So what?" He grabbed a piece of osmanthus cake and bit it hard. Yao Ruoyu narrowed his eyes with satisfaction, and then smiled at Cao Yuying, "We have to aggrieved our stomachs and reject the deliciousness of the prefect's pastry, just to respond to other people's discussions?"
Cao Yuying frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "A gentleman stands in the world and naturally needs to communicate with others. If he ignores others' opinions, how can he..."
Before she could finish speaking, Yao Ruoyu had already looked at her with a smile, and then suddenly said, "You don't like me."
"What, what?" I never thought that he would suddenly ask this, and Cao Yuying was stunned.
With his hands spread out, Yao Ruoyu laughed and said, "Look! I'm right. You really don't like me, but why do you still want to talk to me? You even want to help me not maintain this kind of evil image?"
"Because..." Just as she was about to answer, Cao Yuying closed her mouth a little embarrassedly, because she couldn't say that she came to stop Yao Ruoyu and others from continuing to make fun of it because of Xu Jingmiao's face.
Seeing that she couldn't speak, Yao Ruoyu smiled and nodded: "I know the reason, so I won't say it out, but you see, I have a bad impression of you. Although I don't know why it's not good, you still came over. This shows that the good or bad impression of others can't affect your external communication at all."
As the chief clerk of the prefect's office, Cao Yuying can be said to be the steward of the entire Chongqing office's documents. Her status is second only to Xu Jingmiao, and she is comparable to the lords of the city under Chongqing. So when she turned to Yao Ruoyu and others, she had already attracted a lot of attention.
After Cao Yuying and Yao Ruoyu started arguing, the topic they were arguing naturally attracted a lot of people to listen. Facing Yao Ruoyu's sophistry, many people immediately showed disapproving.
Listening quietly as Yao Ruoyu and Cao Yuying’s argument, Xu Jingmiao smiled, looked up at the person in front of him, and chuckled, "Mr. Qiuyu, how do you evaluate this sophistry?"
"The chief executive has defined it as a sophistry. How can Qiuyu evaluate it?" Seeing Xu Jingmiao ask, the man opposite him twisted his long beard and replied with a wry smile.
Xu Jingmiao smiled: "Although it is a sophistry, there is a unique mystery."
He nodded slightly, and the man opposite agreed: "Yes, these remarks seem to have no source, but they are intimately conflicting with the Confucian Taoism. They say they are evil words, but there are no mistakes. It is really interesting."
Xu Jingmiao laughed and said, "If Mr. Junru heard what you said, I'm afraid he would beat you with a bamboo whip?"
With a embarrassed expression, the man smiled bitterly: "President, don't make fun of Qiuyu. With the thunderbolt spirit of my father, he might hold an evaluation meeting when he heard these words and scolded Brother Yao."
Just as they were talking, several young heroes wanted to vent their anger for Cao Yuying and argue with Yao Ruoyu. However, Yao Ruoyu, who had been creative since childhood, was not strong in other words, and his ability to make sophistry was really first-class. He adapted all kinds of cold jokes from later generations and threw them out calmly, refuting the questions of these talented men one by one, and by the way they were so angry that they beat their chests repeatedly.
Seeing that this tea party was about to become a full martial arts show, Xu Jingmiao had no choice but to step over and sing: "Everyone."
Seeing that the general leader appeared, everyone did not dare to continue arguing. They turned around and looked respectfully, only Yao Ruoyu, Fu Feng and Wu Xue were still staying in their seats carelessly.
"Although today's tea party is mainly about tea tasting, it is also necessary to fight poetry and lyrics, and express one's own opinions," Xu Jingmiao nodded and smiled, "Since there is a topic of debate now, why not use this as the opening session of this tea party? "
"What the Chief General said!" A talented man stepped out, unfolded the paper fan, shook his head and smiled, "This man was crazy and even teasing Master Cao with sophistry. I am very dissatisfied. At the same time, I also want to see what talent this gentleman has!"
"I have no talent and learning, only someone has a head!" Yao Ruoyu smiled and picked up the wine glass on the table and laughed loudly, "I have been an orphan since I was a child, wandering around the world, never studied or went to school. If I talk about poetry and talent, I will naturally be incomparable to you."
When he heard his previous sentence, many people looked furious, but when they heard that he was not as talented as everyone else, they all smiled proudly.
"I can't help but be too timid when I want to retreat at this time, right?" The talented man sneered before, shaking the paper fan.
A cold light flashed across the corner of his eyes, but Yao Ruoyu's face still had a smile and chuckled, "Then you...oh, don't know your name?"
"Hou Wentao is not talented and long-lived!" He bowed arrogantly, and the talented man chuckled, "Where is your priest?"
"Yao Ruoyu," raised his chin casually, Yao Ruoyu smiled indifferently, "Since you are willing to discuss with Yao, then Yao wants to hear your wonderful discussion."
"Hmph!" After a smile, Hou Wentao walked out and said indifferently, "In the past, the Qin Dynasty united and fought with each other, and attacked from afar from afar. Only then did it unify the seven kingdoms and establish the Great Qin Dynasty. If the Qin Dynasty had not united other countries, it would have been through its own strength. How could it be unified with the seven kingdoms? From this we can see that being independent is not possible in the world."
(Discussing the Qin Dynasty with me?)
He looked at Hou Wentao with some strangeness, and Yao Ruoyu didn't get up, and said with a smile: "When talking about the Qin Dynasty unified the seven kingdoms, I want to ask, Monkey, do you know how the seven kingdoms were destroyed?"
"What are you calling me?" Hou Wentao was furious when he heard this and said sternly, "How dare you insult me?"
Blinking his eyes, Yao Ruoyu said in confusion: "Mr. Hou Wentao, the abbreviation of Hou, is naturally a monkey. Do you always call you "Mr. Hou Wentao"? I think it's troublesome!"
"You!" Hou Wentao, who was so angry that his eyes were green, stepped forward and wanted to grab Yao Ruoyu's collar.
Seeing his movements, Yao Ruoyu's eyes suddenly became sharp. Even though the lenses were filtered, the sharpness was still full of luster. In an instant, Hou Wentao's steps froze and he no longer dared to move.
With a faint smile, Yao Ruoyu said slowly: "The reason why Qi was destroyed was because it was too strong back then, which caused Yan, Qin, Han, Zhao and Wei to jointly attack. Although the country was restored, its national strength was greatly declining and naturally could not compete with the Qin Dynasty. From this we can see that if the strength was too strong, it would naturally lead to hostility and had nothing to do with being a human being."
"The destruction of Chu State was entirely because it betrayed its allies and joined forces with the Qin Dynasty. This matter can be said to be a scam. Not only did it lose allies such as Qi, but it was not able to resolve the Qin Dynasty's eye for it. It was indeed attacked by many countries and was unable to recover. It can be seen that if he was stupid enough to make friends with some gentle and scum at will, he would suffer a loss."
Speaking of this, Yao Ruoyu glanced at Hou Wentao without understanding why he looked at him at first, but then he reacted and was so angry that his face was green. However, due to Yao Ruoyu's strength, he did not dare to move.
With a disdainful smile, Yao Ruoyu continued slowly: "The reason why Yan State was destroyed was because the Prince Yan did not think about the strong country, but instead sought assassination of the King of Qin. If a person did not think about how to strengthen himself when competing with his opponent, he tried to weaken his opponent all day long, such a person... being destroyed was simply natural!"
"As for the destruction of South Korea, it was just because his terrain was too poor, and there were four countries around him. It was so long that they could be destroyed by the Qin Dynasty. I think it was already very powerful," while joking, Yao Ruoyu glanced at everyone present and continued, "As for the reason why Zhao State was destroyed, I believe everyone should know..."
Hou Wentao was immersed in the murderous intent, and subconsciously refuted after hearing this: "How can we know that Zhao State was destroyed?"
When everyone heard this, they were uproared. Many people directly cast their contemptuous eyes. Yao Ruoyu even smiled and clapped his hands: "I didn't expect that this young master Hou didn't even know the allusion of "talking about war on paper". Now it seems that the name "monkey" I used to call you is really worthy of your name!"
Because of Yao Ruoyu's murderous intent, Hou Wentao really didn't hear what he said before. The reason for refuting was only purely out of subconsciousness. Until now, he heard what Yao Ruoyu said clearly, his face turned pale.
This Hou Wentao is an extremely famous talent in Changshou City. Because of his reputation, he is even expected to become an aide to the lord of Changshou City.
But now such a big ugly thing has happened, even making people think that they don’t even know the allusion of “talking about war on paper”. Then their previous reputation will become a burden, making people feel that they are famous but have no real talent. Not to mention being an aide to the Lord of Changshou City, whether they can continue to hang out in the literary world has become a problem.
Seeing Hou Wentao talking in a mess, Yao Ruoyu smiled and spread his hands and said, "Yao has said so much. I think you already know why the Qin Dynasty was able to unify the seven kingdoms, right?"
Hou Wentao was still immersed in the state of shock and anger that he had just fallen into a trap. His eyes were red and he gritted his teeth. At this moment, he heard Yao Ruoyu's inquiry and replied subconsciously: "The seven kingdoms were destroyed because they were too stupid..."
Looking at Hou Wentao in surprise, Yao Ruoyu frowned and said, "How can you say that? There are so many countries in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but only the seven countries can be called the Seven Heroes. They have their own advantages. How can they be described as stupid? Or in your mind, all losers are idiots? Anyone who has no value is also idiots?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes at Hou Wentao also changed, either with contempt or disdain.
Hou Wentao had already realized that he had fallen into Yao Ruoyu's trap again, and immediately roared: "Shut up!"
Shrugged, Yao Ruoyu smiled lightly and said, "So I wish, I dare not ask for it."
Chapter completed!