Straight man of steel

Chapter 120 Meeting Friends Again
Zhang Yuan stepped forward and knocked on the door. After waiting for a long time, an old slave slowly opened a crack in the door.

"Gentlemen, what are you doing here at the Li Mansion?"

Although the poor family scholars behind Zhang Yuan all had poor families, the current poor family is obviously different from the stereotype set by later generations.

These people are poorer than those honorable families. They don't have tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in their families, nor do they have hundreds of servants to serve them.

Most of their families are landlords and some down-and-out nobles. A little wealth is nothing. The most important thing is that they lack the opportunity to be promoted. This is the opportunity that the servants are giving now.

Luo Xiahong must have planned for the collection of books in the academy, and [-]% of the others were for the purpose of becoming officials.

So Zhang Yuan and his group were so gorgeously dressed that the old servants in Li's mansion thought they were all nobles. After all, Li's mansion was also honorable, and it wasn't for the nobles to knock on the door of Xungui's house.

"Old man, I don't know if you still remember me. I'm Zhang Yuan. I came to the house several times with your son Li Jian in the past few years."

If it was just an ordinary friend of Li Jian's, this old slave might not have much impression, but Zhang Yuan has stuffed more than ten maidservants in the house no matter what.

As soon as his name was mentioned, the old slave patted his head and opened the door.

"Look at the villain's memory, it turns out that Mr. Zhang is back."

When Zhang Yuan left, he promised Li Jian that if he could come back one day, he might come to Li's mansion. Although Li Jian bought those maidservants, as long as they entered Zhang's mansion, they were all family members.

"Mr. Zhang, you gentlemen, please wait in the living room. The Patriarch and our young master are both in the mansion now. I will go and inform them."

It happened that Li Jian was here, and Zhang Yuan also happened to meet his old friend for a while.

"Trouble old man."

Zhang Yuan bowed slightly to the old slave.

The elder is the elder, no matter what the status of the other party is, and no matter what others think of Zhang Yuan, this is one of the bottom lines that Zhang Yuan abides by.

Not long after the old servants of the Li Mansion left, some maidservants came into the living room and brought some drinks to Zhang Yuan and the others.

Although tea is produced in Shu, it is mainly used as food and medicinal materials. When guests come, the generous Han people will only serve them wine.

"Xiaoya?"

The maid who delivered the wine to Zhang Yuan saw that Zhang Yuan was shaking a little, and the wine in the wine bottle spilled a little.

Zhang Yuan recognized at a glance that this was Xiaoya who brought him food every day when he lived in Chengdu.

"Son."

Xiaoya nodded.

Fortunately, if Xiaoya was replaced by anyone else, maybe he really didn't have any impression. This little girl had even teased him back then.

A few years have passed, Xiaoya is still in Li's residence, which is enough to explain some problems.

"Li Li has seen the envoy of the Son of Heaven."

At this time, Li Li, the head of the Li family, brought Li Jian into the living room, and both bowed to Zhang Yuan.

The name of the emperor's messenger is really a bit heavy.

"Uncle Li, Brother Li doesn't need to offer such a big gift. It is only Zhang Yuan who came to Li's residence today, not some envoy from the Son of Heaven."

Li Jian smiled boldly and said to his father Li Li.

"Father, let me just say, Zhang Yuan is not a common man who sticks to etiquette."

Li Li gave Li Jian a hard look.

"What do you know, kid? It's the honor of Li's family to come here as an envoy. No matter what our status is, we must abide by etiquette."

As the time approached noon, Zhang Yuan brought along a bunch of followers. Li Li bowed to Zhang Yuan, then went down to prepare food for such a group of people, leaving room for such a group of young people.

After Li Li left, Li Jian took Zhang Yuan and sat down on the seat.

"Zhang Yuan, you don't know. Ever since the imperial court issued a document to Shu County, saying that there must be an envoy from the emperor to appease the people, this person is still you. We Linqiong exploded. How many years have we produced a character like you."

Zhang Yuan took a sip of the somewhat bitter drink, causing his face to cramp, and his smile turned into a wry one.

"What do you mean by that, you and your uncle came to Chengdu from Linqiong just to see me?"

Maintaining a good friendship requires being honest with each other, and Zhang Yuan is the person Li Jian needs to work hard to maintain the relationship now, so it is even more impossible to tell lies to destroy the friendship that so many people dream of.

"It's not just our family, but all the guys I used to drink and eat meat with at Wangjiang Pavilion have come. Didn't Zhuo Wenjun return to Linqiong a few years ago, and now that profiteer Zhuo Wangsun has brought her too. "

The smile on Li Jian's face can only be described as one word, that is cheap.

When Zhuo Wenjun was mentioned, the living room immediately boiled.

Stories between literati and beauties were more widely circulated in the circle of scholars, and everyone longed to have such a story to tell others.

"Honorable envoy, I would like to ask the student if you are really like the one in the legend. You secretly fell in love with the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family and then eloped to Chang'an. In the end, you empathized with someone else. The eldest daughter of the Zhuo family resented you for this." Back to my mother's house."

Zhang Yuan now has the heart to beat Li Jian to death. What is it all about? Just as Zhang Yuan was about to explain, another scholar stood up and said to the scholar just now.

"Don't talk nonsense in front of the honorable envoy. It is obvious that the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family met Sima Lang again in Chang'an City. The honorable envoy found that his relationship with the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family was not stable, so he let the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family return home. We came to Linqiong in order to leave some space between each other and calm down."

This remark was immediately supported, and everyone wanted to flatter Zhang Yuan, and it was obviously impossible to slander Zhang Yuan's reputation.Besides, anyone with a clear eye can see that there is probably nothing going on between the two of them, otherwise they wouldn't be able to live in two places for such a long time.

"Brother Xian is right, distance produces beauty, this is my recent experience.

People who love each other keep some distance, so that both parties can look at such a relationship more rationally. "

When ancient people gossiped, they had nothing to do with modern people. This is how Zhang Yuan feels now.

** Gossip and gossip are probably two of the most popular forms of entertainment for the masses right now.

Go or something looks like the stuff of the Strategist, and the Strategist was not popular in the peaceful and prosperous age, so he was spurned by the scholars. Although the last Strategist, Father Yan, changed his way and learned Confucianism, he died in the end. The art of vertical and horizontal.

Since Go is not very popular, Zhang Yuan felt that he had to find out some free time to play chess. The game of chess with obvious murderous spirit would definitely make the people of Dahan more entertaining.

"Although the eldest daughter of the Zhuo family once lived in Zhang's residence, Zhang Yuan has always treated her like a friend. You are all scholars, so don't be misled by these rumors."

Zhang Yuan looked at the noisy living room and shouted loudly.

(End of this chapter)