Chapter 226
He thought Tan Yaoxian was talking drunk.
Tan Yaoxian, who was already supporting his head with one arm, laughed at himself, with sleepy eyes, and slowly muttered: "It's just a piece of dead leaf to express love..."
When he vaguely told the truth, Lu Shengzhong was very speechless, and found that this couple in love is really powerful, even more powerful than Lu Shengzhong, and the hard-to-break Assassin's Mansion was actually breached by this couple.
The garden of the governor's mansion is connected with running water from the outside, people can't get in, but the leaves can drift in with the current. This couple actually tattooed words on the leaves, letting the leaves float in and out to communicate with each other, so as to relieve their lovesickness.
The two made an appointment to exile the leaves, fearing that one leaf would be mistaken, they had to exile a few more leaves. How much motivation is needed to do such a patient thing.
During the appointed time, Tan Yaoxian will put the prepared leaves into the water upstream, and Shao Liuer will wait for the leaves to float in the garden to catch them during the appointed time. Then, Shao Liu'er would exile the tattooed leaves within the appointed time, and Tan Yaoxian would go to the lower reaches of Shao's mansion to collect the leaves within the appointed time.
The two have been in contact like this, and Tan Yaoxian also learned that the disbandment of the Poetry Society was related to Shao Pingbo, and that Shao Liuer was guarded by Shao Pingbo and would not let him out.
Tan Yaoxian originally wanted to have a showdown with Shao Pingbo with the courage of the young man's blood, marry Shao Liu'er or something like that.
Unexpectedly, the reality that followed directly beat him to the ground. First, the library where he taught fired him.
So he went to other places to find a teacher. He was quite famous in Beizhou City. Otherwise, a poor scholar with no money and no background would not be eligible to join Shao Liuer's poetry club, so it was not easy to find a job. However, the problem was that within a day or two of the job he had just found, the boss immediately found an excuse to fire him.
It's fine if it's a family, and it will be like this one after another. Later, he was forced to change his career to do other things, and most of them were like this.
Gradually, he couldn't find anything to do, cut off his source of income, and was forced by life to start pawning things at home to make a living, which is how he managed to survive until now.
He wasn't too stupid, and he realized that it might have something to do with the Shao family.
Although the Shao family didn't say it clearly, it was tantamount to expressing their disapproval of him being with Shao Liu'er.
The meaning is already obvious, you can't even support yourself, why should you marry Shao Liu'er?
The fact is also that even the basic life is a problem, so how can you go to Shao Pingbo for a showdown? People poke your weakness to remind you, do you still need to go and let them speak out in person? The family backgrounds of the two parties are very different.
The poorer you are, the more you will think about it. What is the grade of Shao Liuer's usual food? Even if the Shao family doesn't force him, can he afford it?
My heart was sad, and I was finally beaten to the ground by reality. I gave up that idea, and now I think about how to live.
He also knew that he wouldn't be able to last long in Beizhou City in this situation, and almost all the things that should be pawned at home were pawned. If he wanted to survive, the day he left Beizhou City was not far away.
He is also ready. When the family has nothing left to do, he will sell the house left by his parents before his death, collect a sum of money as travel expenses, and leave his hometown in desolation from then on. That unrealistic dream should also wake up!
Speaking of this, Tan Yaoxian was in tears, and fell asleep on the table, but he would still say a few words like a dream, "Liuer... Liuer..."
"Brother Tan, Brother Tan..." Lu Shengzhong pushed the opponent's shoulder and shouted several times, but he failed to wake him up, and the opponent was indeed asleep.
Sitting back in his seat, Lu Shengzhong could see that this guy was forced to this point and he still refused to leave, and he had to wait until the family had nothing left to hold before he left. It can be seen that he still couldn't let go of Shao Liu'er, and he still held on to the last glimmer of hope.
Hearing Tan Yaoxian's raving call in his dream, Lu Shengzhong shook his head, thinking it was funny.
He found out that this guy was indeed pedantic, he could hook up with Shao Liu'er and didn't want to cling to Gao Zhi to take advantage of the Shao family's prosperity, but instead thought about things that he couldn't afford to support Shao Liu'er, and tortured himself to make himself uncomfortable. If you can really marry Shao Liu'er, with the Shao family around, will life still be a problem? It's useless to worry about it!
But he didn't intend to talk about this kind of reasoning with Tan Yaoxian. It's useless to talk about it with this kind of spineless scholar. Instead, people will think that you are insulting him.
Getting up and wandering in the house, Lu Shengzhong himself was surprised, and came to check it out, but he didn't expect to find out such a thing.
He now understands why Wu Tiannan didn't say anything at the beginning, it's not that he didn't say it, but he was afraid of the influence of the Shao family and didn't dare to chew his tongue.
Even Wu Tiannan can see it. It can be seen that the ambiguous relationship between Tan Yaoxian and Shao Liuer in the Poetry Club is not a secret at all. Others have already seen the clues. Only the two fools involved think that others don't know.
What puzzled Lu Shengzhong was that Shao Pingbo was not a good person, and his methods were ruthless and decisive. If he disagreed, this Tan Yaoxian was still safe in Beizhou City? If Shao Pingbo didn't care about it, why did he take this kind of method against a small person like Tan Yaoxian...
The next day, Tan Yaoxian, who was lying on the couch in a daze, opened his eyes, and slowly got up with support, remembering last night, he must have drunk too much.
Looking around, he was in his bedroom, and he didn't know how he got back to sleep.
Patting his aching head, he realized that he had indeed drank too much last night, and he had never drank so much alcohol.
Smelling the smell of porridge outside, I put on my shoes, put on my coat, opened the door and went out. The sun was dazzling outside, only to realize that I slept until noon.
"Brother Tan is awake?"
Hearing the sound, Tan Yaoxian turned his head to look, and saw someone standing under the eaves, who else could it be if it wasn't Brother Li from last night?
He was a little embarrassed, and he didn't want to be embarrassed to meet the guests, so he quickly pulled the coat on his body and put it on.
After studying Mingli, it is rare to be disheveled in front of outsiders.
Then he hurried over and cupped his hands and said, "Brother Li, it's me, Meng Lang."
Lu Shengzhong chuckled: "It's okay to indulge once in a while."
Remembering what happened last night, Tan Yaoxian asked, "Where is Brother Tang?"
Lu Shengzhong smiled: "He woke up early, saw you sleeping soundly, left early in the morning, and said he would come to see you another day."
Tan Yaoxian patted his forehead and sighed, blaming himself is not the way to treat guests.
Lu Shengzhong pointed in the direction of the kitchen, "I made a pot of porridge, and I'll use it when Brother Tan wakes up. Brother Tan, let's go wash it first."
Tan Yaoxian cupped his hands in embarrassment, and quickly left to clean up and wash up.
After he finished packing, Lu Shengzhong also brought a large pot of porridge to the hall, and the two chatted and sat down to eat slowly.
There was no congee on the table, only some pickled vegetables in the kitchen, knowing that his family was not well off, Lu Shengzhong also reluctantly followed suit.
Tan Yaoxian eats very elegantly, which goes well with his white and bookish demeanor.
There were some things that I wanted to wait for him to finish eating, but seeing how he ate slowly and carefully, and didn't know when he would finish eating, Lu Shengzhong had no choice but to be blunt, and said: "Brother Tan is very elegant."
Tan Yaoxian looked up for a moment, stared at him nervously, and asked, "What does Brother Li mean by that?"
Lu Shengzhong smiled and said, "Brother Tan, you drank too much last night and said something heart-to-heart. I already know about you and Shao Liu'er."
Tan Yaoxian's complexion changed drastically, he suddenly stood up, his eyes were a little flustered, and he was extremely annoyed, blaming himself for being drunk!
Lu Shengzhong pressed his hand and signaled him to sit down, "Brother Tan is confidant to me, and I won't go out and talk nonsense, so don't be nervous."
Tan Yaoxian closed his lips tightly, clenched the chopsticks in his hands, and sat down slowly with his head down.
Unexpectedly, just as his ass was on the bench, he heard Lu Shengzhong say flatly: "Forgive me for saying something inappropriate, I really look down on people like Brother Tan, he is a scholar in vain, but a villain!"
"Uh..." Tan Yaoxian looked up in astonishment.
Lu Shengzhong added, "He is a woman who dares to confess her love to you, but what about you? Because of Brother Tan, you have harmed her like this. Losing her freedom and being unable to leave the house is a trivial matter. She is a lady of every family. She fell in love with you in a private meeting, and her reputation will be buried in your hands. How will she marry in the future? She had a secret meeting with other men in secret, so what will her future husband's family think of her? One can imagine the punishment of her family. You are worried, but have you ever complained to you?"
Tan Yaoxian stood up abruptly again, his chest heaved, his emotions were obviously agitated, and he blamed himself in pain.
Lu Shengzhong also stood up, "Brother Tan, what about you? You know that Miss Shao is suffering for you, but you don't know how to solve the problem, you don't know how to fight for it, you just shrink back, look forward to the future, let a woman suffer in silence for your poor little self-esteem, and even want to walk away, so that Miss Shao will bear all the bitterness! Brother Tan, are you still a man? What are you? It's in the stomach!" Pointing at the other person's nose and cursing.
Tan Yaoxian was so ashamed of being scolded that he lowered his head in pain and said, "I am not worthy of her!"
Lu Shengzhong immediately asked: "Since you know you are not good enough for her, why do you provoke her? What kind of evil intentions do you have? If you were upright and selfless, you should have sternly refused at that time, and you would have cut off early, so you wouldn't have to ruin your reputation, and you wouldn't have to suffer this crime. How dare you say that you didn't have any ill intentions for Miss Shao at the time? You said you weren't good enough when you provoked her, what's the difference between you and those despicable people who always give up?"
Tan Yaoxian closed his eyes, with two lines of hot tears streaming down his face, he raised his head and sighed: "Brother Li, don't tell me, it was me who harmed her, it was all my fault, death is inevitable!"
"Alas!" Lu Shengzhong sighed, walked around the table, and reached out to pat him on the shoulder, "Brother Tan, what you said may be a bit harsh. Logically speaking, it's not my turn to say such harsh words, but since Brother Tan was able to confide in me last night, how can I see Brother Tan continue to be confused! Brother Tan, why not think about it, what virtue and ability are you? A vulgar fan of other things?"