Chapter 84 Distant Relatives of the Xiang Family

"It's really boring. No wonder he's called Xiang Ruan. This guy is too soft and it's boring to play with."

Hearing the movement from Xiang Ruan's side, Su Yi didn't even raise his head, but just turned over the roast chicken in his hand again.

"Aren't you having fun playing? I see you are quite comfortable playing?"

Gai Nie picked up the roast chicken that he had not finished eating just now, secretly glad that he had just covered it, otherwise it would have been stained by the waves of dust.

"Better than nothing." Su Yi curled his lips, took the cold roast chicken from Gai Nie's hand, and handed another freshly roasted chicken over.

Gai Nie took the roasted chicken and didn't eat it. Instead, he turned it over and looked at it carefully several times. "This chicken used for reporting messages looks no different from ordinary pheasants."

Su Yi took a bite of the chicken and tasted it carefully for a long time before saying, "Actually, the taste is about the same. There's nothing outstanding about it."

"Yeah." Gai Nie chuckled, feeling very pleased with Su Yi's cooperative performance.

"Speaking of which, how did you come up with this idea?"

"It's not that I thought about it specially. I just saw these sets of clothes with wide sleeves when I was checking Su Bai's luggage. I wanted to wear them for fun and feel the breeze on the sleeves of a scholar. Who knows? Well, it was such a coincidence that it came in handy." Su Yi shook his sleeves and spoke in a very casual tone, as if it was really just an accident.

However, Gai Nie, who knew Su Yi's temperament very well, obviously didn't think so.

"Oh? Then tell me, how does what happened just now have anything to do with this outfit?"

"Actually, it doesn't have much to do with it." Su Yi pulled off a chicken leg and stuffed it into Gai Nie's hand. "Brother, have I ever told you that you shouldn't be so smart? It's very annoying."

"I never said that."

"Then I'll tell you now."

"Well, I heard it." Gai Nie curled her lips, "So, isn't this what I'm asking you?"

Su Yi rolled his eyes and took a hard bite of the chicken in his hand, "This Xiang Ruan is actually a very distant relative of the Xiang family."

"Extremely far? How far is that?"

"Ahem...probably...a side branch of a side branch..." Su Yi didn't want to say more about this boring question, "How distant the relationship is is not the point. How far he is assigned is what matters."

"Huh?" Gai Nie became interested. When he just woke up, he was wondering where they were now, but he could only estimate a river basin based on the magnolia leaves Su Yi used to cook the chicken. Although I heard from Su Yi that it was on the eastern border of Chu State, near the mouth of the river, but after all, I didn't know the specific location.

"Brother, you should know that the current capital of Chu State, Yingcheng, is in the Huai River Basin, and the location we are currently in is the river basin. The river and the Huai River are not far apart."

"What does this have to do with those distant relatives of the Xiang family?"

"Brother, what do you think about the appointment and dismissal of officials at this time? How about the influence of blood? How about the influence of merit?"

Without waiting for Gai Nie to answer, Su Yi continued, "No matter how far away the relatives are, no matter how weak the blood relationship is, they are still a little closer than the people outside. And that little bit, when it works, is not just a little bit. ”

"But this Xiang Ruan... doesn't have the backbone and responsibility of the Xiang family at all. He was stunned by such a simple battle..."

"Xiang Ruan himself has no ability, but he is very ambitious and has a very strong temperament. Because of his surname and the fact that he is slightly related to the Xiang family, his behavior is quite criticized. Originally, Xiang Yan didn't remember this person, but this person was causing trouble everywhere under the banner of the Xiang clan, so Xiang Yan noticed him."

"Heh... people are famous in so many different ways."

"So, Xiang Ruan was originally a gangster in the market, but he didn't want to, so he got an errand." Su Yi did not hide the irony in his words, turned his head and glanced at Xiang Ruan who had fainted on the ground, and then I felt a little more disgusted. With a simple wave of his hand, Xiang Ruan was sent to the Divine Prison. As the saying goes, out of sight is out of mind.

"For Xiang Yan, Xiang Ruan was sent on an errand to solve a problem, so the choice of this errand was particularly important. Since Xiang Ruan often bullied the people, a deserted place was chosen for him, which is this mountain forest. . But this mountain forest is extraordinary."

"Originally, Xiang Yan thought of letting it go, but although Xiang Ruan was a fool, he was not stupid. He knew that the Xiang family looked down on him and was too lazy to take care of him, so he thought of a way."

"Oh? Judging from the current results, this person is still a little clever?" Gai Nie lowered his head and smiled, with some unknown meaning.

"Speaking of this method, it has something to do with the wide-sleeved clothes we are wearing today." Su Yi seemed to have thought of something, the smile on his lips deepened, and there was a hint of playfulness in his voice.

"This Xiang Ruan... haha, the more brainless a person is, the more he has to pretend to be talented. Xiang Ruan has a very bad reputation in other aspects, but he can be praised by many people for being a caring and virtuous person. "

"Uh..." Gai Nie was a little stunned. Although Gai Nie didn't like to belittle people, he couldn't help but say a few words, "How can someone like Xiang Ruan have a good reputation in this field?"

"Brother, everyone has their own strengths. Even if it is hollow, doesn't it still look long on the outside?" Su Yiqidang was a lecturer today and talked a lot about Xiang Ruan.

"Xiang Ruan himself knows the opinions of outsiders. He doesn't care about anything else, but he especially likes literati. Maybe it's because of himself

If you can't be a gentleman, you will especially envy those elegant people. So on the street, he was happy to bully anyone, except when he met someone wearing a wide-sleeved Confucian shirt, not only would he not bully him, but he would treat them with utmost courtesy. "

"He is an interesting person."

"Actually, Xiang Ruan has some abilities, but he has a bad temper. When Xiang Yan wanted to assign tasks to him, he found a set of wide-sleeved Confucian clothes from somewhere, packed himself up, and came to lobby for himself."

"Wearing Confucian clothes to lobby for a military position?" Gai Nie was very surprised.

"Of course not." Su Yi curled his lips, "Xiang Ruan, relying on his sharp tongue and the temper accumulated from years of bullying, wanted to get a civil service. But Xiang Yan refused, and couldn't bear to bury his feelings too much. His talent in martial arts gave him the task of guarding the mountains and forests.”

"How dare Xiang Yan send such an important forest to him directly?"

"Hmph, Xiang Yan is also an old fox." ..