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Chapter 414 People without far-sightedness must have near-term worries

It was said that it was the guest brought back by Shao Fang himself, and the person who had just scolded him immediately slipped away. As for the others, some looked at the guests, and some went up to chat to find out the origin. Just as Shao Fang had just crossed the threshold, he heard some people shouting among the idle people behind him.

"I remembered that the middle-aged man turned out to be Mr. Lu of Xinchang. I have seen him in Changzhou Prefecture before!"

"Mr. Lu, Xinchang? Is it the one who wrote many poems to him by Mr. Xu Wenchang?"

"That's right, it's the young master Lu who praised the warriors in the world back then!"

"This is really amazing. If the hero Shao of Danyang vs. Mr. Lu of Xinchang, I don't know who will win and lose... well!"

The last person who commented suddenly covered his mouth until he found that Shao Fang had not brought the guest into the door, and he could not see it for a moment. The others outside started to talk excitedly. So, the freshly released news spread everywhere. I don’t know how many people hope that these two people with great reputation in the southeast could fight. However, more people were just simply gossiping and guessing. After all, the identities of Shao Fang and Lu Guangwu were there. Even if there was a fight, how could ordinary people be lucky to watch?

But Xiaobei heard everyone's discussion, after she settled in the living yard, she quietly asked Lu Guangwu with great interest: "Uncle Lu, if you really compete with Shao Fang, who would win?"

"You girl!" Lu Guangwu couldn't help but feel funny, "Who do you think will win?"

"Of course it's Uncle Lu." Xiaobei answered without thinking and said with a sarcastic look on his face, "At that time, we can give my father a legitimate anger!"

"I think you want me to be hostage for Fulin?" Lu Guangwu couldn't help but smile. Seeing that Wang Fulin was not joking at all, he looked here and there, and Xiaobei was choked by himself. He couldn't help but find it even more interesting. But he looked at Wang Fulin and said, "Where are you? Do you want me to have a fight with Shao Fang?"

"That's what people have to do. Uncle Lu, you're not here to kick the restaurant!" Wang Fulin popped up a new term, then tapped a large floor-to-ceiling vase with his hand, and said irresponsible, "By the way, this yard should always be the residence arranged by the Shao family for guests. It's not that I judge a gentleman's belly by the heart of a villain, and there will be no copper tube in the room to listen. We will all be heard by people, right?"

"What?"

Xiaobei jumped up from the chair at once. He immediately went to various places to knock and see it. When Lu Guangwu saw Wang Fulin raise such a question, he came to sit down by himself. He didn't know that Wang Fulin was playing funny. He couldn't help but sigh leisurely: "Mr. Hu was not a perfect man at the beginning. Although he was decisive in fighting, he took advantage of the anti-Japanese war and plundered military expenses from local gentry. Most of them were sent to the capital to respect the father and son of the Yan family, and he also kept a small part of them. But he was not outdated and open-minded. If he saw you during his lifetime, he would definitely feel that he was in harmony with his spleen and stomach!"

"It's a pity that I'm squandering one's fate." After all, I saw it when I was a child and I didn't count it.

Wang Fulin shrugged with regret and saw that Xiaobei was still looking around. He whispered, "The result of the competition that Uncle Lu asked about just now is the same as Xiaobei, of course I bet you to win. The reason is very simple. Uncle Lu is devoted to civil and martial arts and has no distractions. After coming out of Xinchang last year, when he visited capable people and strangers, he should have had many attacks. Shao Fang's utilitarian mind is too strong. He should have relaxed too much in martial arts, otherwise he would not have appeared in that black store. His two companions wanted to hold the knife on my neck, for fear that you would use the power of winning one-on-four to grab people."

Everyone loves to listen to good words. Especially the compliments of younger generations, Lu Guangwu was no exception. He opened his mouth for a moment. Seeing that Xiaobei had checked all of them, he came to settle the score with Wang Fulin. He had to talk about it. Then he stood up and said, "When you are a guest at the Shao family, of course you can't just stay in this living yard. How about going out for a walk? The Shao family can't walk around casually. If Shao Fang doesn't see anyone, let's go to Danyang City!"

"Okay!" Xiaobei agreed immediately without saying a word, then looked at Wang Fulin as if he was demonstrative and said, "It just happened to find a secluded place to ask Uncle Lu to give somebody some martial arts!"

Wang Fulin was not afraid of such a small teasing, and immediately said with a smile: "I asked Uncle Lu to give advice alone, it seems a bit too forced. I might as well add you to it, which is fair."

"Hmph, I know the rogue!"

Although Shao Fang did not set up any copper tubes in the living room to listen to such things, after all, it would become a huge scandal once it was discovered, but of course he would not forget to instruct people to closely monitor all the movements in the living room. Therefore, when he learned that Lu Guangwu brought Wang Fulin and Xiaobei out and heard that he could not meet for the time being, he went out to visit Danyang City first. Shao Fang held Shao Yi, the youngest son of three years old, on his knees and couldn't help frowning. When he came to his senses, he asked Fu Yun, the maid standing in front of him, and said, "After I leave, will my son-in-law come?"

"My son-in-law has been here no less than ten times." Fu Yun quickly replied respectfully, "Every time he comes, he will ask the master when he will come back and play with the master for a while. If it weren't for the master's instructions, he would have planned to take the master to Wujin for a while."

When Shao Fang saw the only son grabbing his hair and calling his father, he couldn't help pinching his pink cheeks, but he didn't want to listen to his incomplete sentences. Instead, he asked again: "Did the son-in-law say, are you ready for the scientific examination this year? He is not young anymore. If he enters the second grade in the scientific examination, he can take the provincial examination next year. At that time, I will ask the capital to ask who is the chief examiner and what he likes. He has a great hope of passing the imperial examination."

Fu Yun is a maid born to the Shao family. Not long after Shao Yi landed, she lost her mother. It was she and the wet nurse who raised the child together. Shao Fang was worried that the child would be controlled by the mother when she turned around. After weaning, she sent the wet nurse out and asked Fu Yun, who had given birth to a child at home, to take care of the child. At this moment, when she heard Shao Fang's explicit statement, she felt that it was because her father-in-law cared for her good son-in-law and was used to it.

But thinking about the signs that Shen Yingkui showed when she came several times, she hesitated for a moment and said truthfully: "Master, it's not that I'm talking too much. My son-in-law doesn't seem to want to take the scientific exam, and he said that the scholar who passed the exam was the virtue of his ancestors... I followed the master's instructions and gave him the collection of Shiwen Collection. After reading it, the son-in-law threw it aside with no interest."

Although I had known that my son-in-law was this kind of personality, even many scholars from wealthy families in the southeast were like this. After taking the exam for a scholar, I knew it was difficult to break through the crowds of thousands of troops. So while enjoying the privilege of being exempted from taxes and service, Shao Fang had high hopes for Shen Yingkui, and couldn't help but feel a little angry at this moment. He was about to get angry, but his young son Shao Yi suddenly pressed his chubby little hand on his mouth and shouted, "Dadfather is not angry, brother-in-law is a good person!"

When he heard the little guy's words, all the anger and hatred that Shao Fang had accumulated along the way had disappeared yesterday. He had just gotten a child in his early forties. Naturally, he cherished his offspring more than an ordinary man. At this moment, he handed his son to Fu Yun and hugged him, and he said, "Next time, you can teach him something to his son-in-law and tell him. Maybe he will change his mind when he hears his brother-in-law's expectations."

Otherwise, he would have no successor. Who else could he rely on when his son needs support in ten or twenty years?

Fu Yun quickly agreed. Seeing that Shao Fang had nothing to say to her, she took the child and took it away. However, Shao Yi was obviously reluctant to leave like this, and waved her hands and shouted loudly: "Dad. I want Dad!"

Although Shao Fang valued her son, she knew that she had no capital for warmth, so she cruelly whispered to Fu Yun. When she took Shao Yi away with her face full of helplessness, he rubbed his eyebrows and called the butler to come in. Being able to take care of his son first as soon as he entered the house was already the father who was the father to indulge himself to the greatest extent. Sure enough, after the butler came in, he lowered his voice and said several groups of people in the capital, and finally said: "Huguang Lei Shiyu told the master that he had surrendered, and Gaoge ordered people to send a message, so that the master could only be at ease. No need to worry randomly."

Hearing the words "four random worry", Shao Fang almost slapped the table in anger. However, he did not lose his composure in the end, but asked carefully how many people came to send the message. What kind of outfits are there, but his name is the name. After these questions, he was full of anger and asked the reasons of the other messengers. He learned that there was the godson of Meng Chong, the eunuch in charge of the Sili Supervisor, who said that he had lost money on his way to Jiangnan to fight Qiufeng. He couldn't help but scold his mother again.

No wonder, although Meng Chong was favored by Emperor Longqing, he was just an eunuch of Shangshen. Gao Gong looked down on Feng Bao, the eunuch of the East Factory and the Imperial Horse Prison who was born in Nei Shutang, and was afraid that he would be in charge of Zhang Juzheng, so he recommended Meng Chong out. Others don’t know that he had dealt with Meng Chong very early, being vulgar, cruel and greedy. Can such a person beat Feng Bao?”

While secretly getting angry, Shao Fang gritted her teeth and asked, "How much did you give him?"

"That young man is holding the waist card of Eunuch Meng." The housekeeper explained it in detail, fearing that Shao Fang would think someone was cheating, so he smiled bitterly, "He asked for one thousand taels when he spoke, but I finally gave it to eight hundred taels on the grounds that the master was not here."

Shao Fang didn't care how much money was spent, but when he thought that Gao Gong thought he was worried randomly, while Meng Chong's godson was so greedy for money, this combination of external and internal elements made him feel deeply worried. However, Huguang and Huizhou made mistakes one after another, and Lu Guangwu and Wang Fulin all arrived in Danyang. He didn't want to do anything for the time being, so he waved his hand to let the housekeeper retreat. Until he was the only one left in the empty room, he just pushed his chest and let out a long breath of depression.

Maybe it was so smooth before that the year was unfavorable from the end of last year to this year and encountered obstacles? Even so, he was not willing to give up easily. He wanted to bring Wang Fulin to Danyang before, but he did not think about hurting his life. Now, even with Lu Guangwu following him, he is still far from helpless.

Thinking of this, he immediately shouted: "Come here, go and call Awang and Acai!"

Let them stare at Wang Fulin and the other three first!
Chapter completed!
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