Chapter 823 The troublemakers are coming

"What do you mean? You're not a fool, can't you understand it yourself? You always ask others what they mean. People who don't know will think you don't understand what people say." Huang Yanglong said with disgust.

"You you you!" Ying Zilin was extremely angry.

He also felt that what Huang Yanglong said to him seemed to be somewhat right.

Ying Zilin felt sad, angry, dissatisfied, and vaguely agreed with the insults others said about him.

Then, he broke down and became withdrawn, leaving in anger without even saying a word to Master Jing.

Ah this?

"Hey, Ying Zilin, you're leaving now? You're not going to pay your respects to Master Jing? Are you planning to throw all the rules you learned in elementary school into the wind?"

Ying Zilin paused, and after a moment of anger, he turned around and walked quickly towards Master Jing, bowing: "I greet you, Master. May you be well."

After saying that, he turned around and left quickly.

"Hahaha!" Huang Yanglong laughed out loud and sang a song: "The child is naughty, but he knows it in his heart!"

Huang Yanglong was really serious. The Duke of Yan wanted to send someone to put him in a sack and beat him up.

However, the current Wei Dynasty needs people like Huang Yanglong to break it.

"Poor kid, call Zilin when you have time to play with Young Master Huang and our eldest young master." Old man Xun said.

Master Jing was overjoyed: "Master, do you recognize Zilin? Thank you very much, Master. I will definitely tell Zilin about your love and care for me."

"Yeah, yeah." Old man Xun responded casually. He felt that he really cared for Ying Zilin, his half-disciple, and it was definitely not because Ying Zilin's family was rich!

"Is breakfast ready? Go eat breakfast. I'm hungry." Old Man Xun reminded as he walked, "I always eat casually at the Qin family, so don't follow any rules, poor kid. Otherwise, I'll beat you."

"Hey, Master, don't worry. I have just reflected on myself and will never again be that twisted and corrupt scholar and make you unhappy." Master Jing responded respectfully and reached out to help Master Xun, but with a slap, his hand was knocked away by Master Xun.

"You are an old man already, and your health is not necessarily better than mine. Why do you still come to help me? Otherwise, it will be me, an old man, who will have to rescue you if you fall." Old man Xun said with disdain and quickly ran into the main hall on the first floor.

This main hall is larger than the entire Qin family's house, so it has private rooms for receiving guests, a dining room for eating, an office, and compartments for tired people to sleep temporarily.

At this moment, there were already dozens of people in the main hall, and breakfast was already on the table.

Jiang Dalang and Xu Sanjun were already having breakfast.

"Good morning, young master." After greeting everyone, old man Xun went straight to the big dining table, took meat buns, Jiangnan boiled rice cakes, lotus root powder with eight spices and dried fruits, meat-stuffed pancakes, stewed lamb, fried eel noodles, Xia'an six-color snacks, and a cup of Mingqian tea, and sat down to eat at the small square table.

Master Jing was stunned and hurriedly advised: "Master, this breakfast is too much and too mixed. You can't eat it all. Just have some boiled rice cakes, stewed mutton, a few cakes, and a cup of tea."

"Hmph, the old man is in good health and can bear it. Go away. If you keep trying to persuade me, you just want to mistreat me as your master, you traitor!" Old Xun was rebellious and would not listen to any advice at all. The more Old Jing persuaded him, the more he ate.

Mr. Jing was anxious, so he had to call Xue Mingyi: "Let's eat together."

We can’t let Master really eat all these things, otherwise he will get indigestion.

"Yes." Xue Mingyi took the fried eel noodles and ate them. It was a bit greasy and not suitable for the elderly to eat as breakfast.

Xun Lao paused, glanced at him, and grinned: "Boy, you are taking so many supplements, do you want to be like your father and have six concubines?"

Xue Mingyi: “…”

Cough cough cough. After he came to his senses, Xue Mingyi started coughing because he was choked by the noodles.

After finally getting over the cough, he said with a red face, "Master, I didn't."

Old Man Xun: "It's not easy. You finally know how to argue. I once thought you were dumb."

Xue Mingyi: “…”

"Master, I have come to pay my respects to you."

I was speaking, I'm not mute.

Mr. Xun didn't listen, and just asked: "Are you going to be an official in the future?"

Xue Mingyi was stunned and felt embarrassed to answer.

Bang! Huang Yanglong kicked him under the table and said, "Just tell me the truth when I ask you. What? Do you still want to deceive our master? You are committing treason."

"Brother Huang has wronged me again." Xue Mingyi refuted, then stood up and saluted to old man Xun, and replied seriously: "Master, I do have the ambition to pass the imperial examination and become an official to serve the people."

Old Man Xun: "Oh, then I will pray for the people in your jurisdiction in advance. After all, they are miserable to have a parent official like you."

"Grandmaster..." Xue Mingyi was a young and innocent boy, and suddenly he was attacked like this. He felt wronged and wanted to cry.

"Tsk, you can't handle this? Then what kind of official position will you hold in the future?" Old Man Xun pointed at Jiang Dalang and said, "Look at our eldest young master. He is only a few years older than you, but he has already made several great military achievements. And our young mistress is only two years older than you, but she has used her own skills to break the monopoly of the mining and dyeing industry by the aristocratic families."

"Look at you again, tut tut tut, you're still studying too hard. You're not even as good as Ying Zilin, let alone Young Master Huang."

Baba, Xue Mingyi was scolded to the point of tears.

He quickly wiped away his tears and told himself not to cry. His master was right to scold him and he should be happy that there was such an elder willing to teach him.

But he was younger than Yan Ji, and was raised under the protection of the Xue Dongjia couple, so he couldn't control himself at all at this moment.

"Old man Xun, that's enough." Huang Yanglong spoke up for Xue Mingyi: "Xue Mingyi is still young. Wait and see in ten years. He will definitely be more successful than he is now."

"Haha." Old man Xun responded with a sarcastic laugh.

Xue Mingyi shed even more tears.

Jiang Dalang said, "Mr. Xun, Mingyi is already much better than his peers. Now he has met a famous teacher. He only needs to study with him for five years and he will surely become a useful person. Mingyi is kind-hearted and has plenty of money. It is a blessing for the people in the area to have someone like him become an official."

The son of Mr. Xue is a good person, but we cannot let old man Xun ruin his moral integrity, otherwise there will be one less honest official and one more second-generation rich man who lives off his parents.

I don't know why, but old man Xun is very afraid of Jiang Dalang. After listening, he patted Xue Mingyi's arm and said, "I am too harsh. Actually, you are not bad, but you are far behind the geniuses. And the most talented people I have seen are the geniuses, so...but if you work hard, you can also realize your ambitions."

"Master." Old Jing was helpless. Are you trying to comfort me or continue to criticize the good kid?

"Okay, okay, let's stop talking and eat." Old man Xun shut up.

Old Master Jing still liked Xue Mingyi very much and called him: "Mingyi, sit down and have breakfast. After breakfast, we still have work to do."

Sorting out the accounts of fundraising, revealing the master's identity, continuing to win over the scholars to help Duke Yan, leading the students to support the establishment of the local martial arts hall, helping to supervise the spending of materials... In short, there are so many things to do, they are not here to follow Duke Yan and eat for free.

"Yes, sir." Xue Mingyi sat down and picked up his chopsticks to eat breakfast.

Old man Xun was quite satisfied when he saw this… Although he was a little slow and mediocre, at least he didn't torture himself and could control his mood.

But before they finished their breakfast, Ying Zilin's voice rang out again: "Sir, sir, I have something urgent to report."

The voice seemed a little urgent.