Silly Scholar's Wife

Zhao Huan hadn't reached the door of the study when he heard roars of laughter from inside, and Mu Chenxi's complacent voice came: "My wife won't arrest me, and I won't cause trouble for him to worry about."

Mu Chenxi pointed at them one by one, showing a mischievous smile, and said, "I know you envy me for having a good wife and envy my good fortune. Don't expect me to borrow your books to read from now on, remember them all!"

"Mu Juren, we were wrong."

"Yes, there are a lot of Mu Juren, so don't argue with us."

A few students apologized to him as if playing around, and finally one student winked at Mu Chenxi and said: "Mu Juren, your wife is a sensible one, you must not let him be famous and let people say He is stingy."

"How can Chen Xi be stingy, everyone on this street can see it all." Zhao Huan walked into the study and took this sentence.

"Hahaha." The people next to him were all laughing. The fool didn't want to be exposed, and they all gloated to see how he would respond.

The student didn't panic, he raised his hand to salute Mu Chenxi, and said, "I also ask Mu Juren to strengthen my husband and say something kind to your daughter-in-law. Forgive Xiaosheng!"

"Pfft." Zhao Huan couldn't help laughing, these students are also familiar with him, and they often go to their shop to find Mu Chenxi, "It's okay to forgive, but don't fool our family Chenxi in the future."

"Daughter-in-law, they can't fool me, don't worry." Mu Chenxi leaned in front of him, blinked and whispered: "They must be jealous of me, they all say I have a good wife, even if they still have eyes, I don't know much about them."

He thought his voice was low, but now the entire study can be heard quietly, and those words can be heard without saying a word, but no one breaks it down or refute it and continues to laugh with him.

They all knew Mu Chenxi's current character, and were grateful for his and Zhao Huan's kindness to everyone. They were grateful and respectful, and they didn't really want to fool Mu Chenxi.

Jiang Haohai watched all this from the sidelines, and kept nodding his head. They are all students with both ability and political integrity. If they enter official careers in the future, why worry about the great glory and the common people.

"Old man!" Zhao Huan turned his eyes to see him, showing surprise, "I didn't expect to meet again, only the word fate can explain it."

"Yes!" Jiang Haohai said, looking at Mu Chenxi next to Zhao Huan, "When I was on the boat, I thought that you would teach this child well. Sure enough, the effect can be said to be immediate."

"It's because he's smart and obedient." Zhao Huan said, the smile deepening on his face, "It's just that he's smart and sometimes I'm caught off guard. You just tried to guide him a few words, but he can already respond a lot. If you can’t even answer, you still can’t find fault with him.”

He nodded Mu Chenxi back, and said with a smile: "Now I don't know if it's good or not for you to be so smart. Sometimes what you say and do is unexpected."

"Didn't you teach it?" Mu Chenxi blinked and said puzzledly, "I've always heard what you said, and it makes sense."

"You still dare to fool me?" Zhao Huan gave him a glare, helpless and doting, "How can I teach you so much, and I don't know how you have such a long head, you can always tell wrong things."

"No!" Mu Chenxi had a smile on his face, and pulled him to play tricks, "I always listen to you, didn't you say that everything should be inferred from one instance, and don't be rigid."

He spread his hands and said confidently: "I will learn to be more flexible and reason with people more. They always say that they can't blame me?"

"Yes, I can't blame you." Jiang Haohai smiled.

"Old man, go home and have a cup of tea before leaving." Zhao Huan stopped talking with him and invited Jiang Haohai to his house.

"Okay, the kid invited me just now, now I'll let you identify the door." Jiang Haohai said.

"Old man, I'm not a child. My surname is Mu and my name is Chenxi. You can call me Chenxi." He pulled Zhao Huan again, and told Jiang Haohai, "My wife, you can just call him Dongjia Zhao."

In just a few steps, he boasted that Zhao Huan was like a fairy descended from the earth, good-looking, soft-tempered, good at craftsmanship and able to make money, everyone praised him and made no secret of his showing off.

"Look." Mu Chenxi pointed to the plaque of Muyixuan, and said with high spirits: "I wrote the words on the plaque, and my wife made the carvings. It's the only one in the world!"

Zhao Huan covered his face with his hands. Mu Chenxi was really not shy at all, she just showed off when she saw people, and she didn't feel embarrassed at all.

"You wrote this word?" Jiang Haohai was very surprised, even if Mu Chenxi could write this word before he was injured, he would also praise him, "Chenxi, your wife is right, you are indeed smart and quite spiritual. "

He sighed in his heart again: Such a good child, so talented, can only be wiped out by everyone.

"My daughter-in-law said that writing is like a person, and it is also a person's face. You must write well." Mu Chenxi looked at Zhao Huan with a happy smile, "The plaque is our signboard, and it is also the signature of our Muyixuan. For the sake of face, I naturally want to listen to my daughter-in-law."

"Daughter-in-law." He has a sensitive mind, and he has long since discovered that Zhao Huan has criticized him when he came back from the academy, "I'll listen to you, don't be angry, if others don't bully me in the future, I won't argue with them, okay? good."

"Okay, okay." Zhao Huan's eyes turned hot, and when he looked at Mu Chenxi's carefully flattering eyes, tears almost overflowed his eyes, "Our Chenxi is the best, no one can be more reasonable than you, and no one is smarter than you. , abide by etiquette and rules in everything.”

He kept praising Mu Chenxi for being smart, why did he forget that he was sensitive and delicate at this moment, and could see his dissatisfaction with him from the subtleties.

Isn't it just speaking more directly, isn't it just not taking care of others' face, and just saying what you want to say on your own, so what?

Maybe others have opinions about him, maybe others make irresponsible remarks about him, maybe others regard him as a fool, so he can't refute by himself, can't criticize, criticize, those people, and he has to take other people's face into consideration, how can this make sense.

Thinking of this, he raised his hand to Mu Chenxi, and sincerely apologized to him: "I'm sorry Chenxi, it's because I have too high demands on you, because I can't tell the inside from the outside, and it's because I pay too much attention to the face and some other external things. Heavy, to blame you for being outspoken."

"In the future, I will not make today's mistakes again. As long as you don't hurt the world, as long as you don't deliberately bully others, I will not blame you again." Zhao Huan blamed himself, how could he be wronged because of others and the world, "As long as you Happy, you can do whatever you want, don’t feel wronged, I will support you and protect you.”

"Daughter-in-law is right, it's all my fault. I will be careful with what I say in the future. I must speak nicely to good people to save face for them. I will teach bad people a lesson." Mu Chenxi's eyes were bright, seeing that Zhao Huan no longer concealed his gloom. , smiled happily: "I will protect you too, and won't let anyone bully you."

"Why are you standing at the door, what's the matter?" Mu Chenxing saw that Zhao Huan and the others hadn't come in for a long time, and thought they had something to come out to take a look.

"It's okay." Zhao Huan smiled at Jiang Haohai with red eyes, "I made the old man laugh, please come in."

"These are the ornaments that our shop sells. They are all carved from ordinary wood, just to earn a little money for home use."

Zhao Huan is more modest, not as ostentatious as Mu Chenxi.Self-knowledge is his principle of doing things. He agrees with the saying that there are people outside others, and he will not put himself in a high position, nor will he put himself in a low position.

In Jiang Haohai, he can see that he is different, he will not deliberately make friends, nor will he not be close to him in a high-minded way, everything will go with the flow.

This was also the reason why Jiang Haohai was willing to get close to him and Mu Chenxi. Seeing their true nature, he spoke highly of them.

"The workmanship is good." Jiang Haohai looked around at the things in the shop, and couldn't help but give them another look, "The ability to make these things with originality is because you have extremely high attainments in carving skills, and you know how to make them impressive. And a willingness to immerse yourself in fine craftsmanship, the two complement each other and are indispensable.”

"The old man is wise." Zhao Huan said with a smile.

Mu Chenxi heard him praise Zhao Huan, raised her face proudly and said: "Old man, my wife is fine, she is better than me."

As he said that, he went to the east shelf and picked up an ornament, and said, "This is a statue of a saint carved by my daughter-in-law. I think it looks like the old man, so I will give it to the old man as a gift."

He picked up another one, looked at Jiang An beside him and said, "Old man, this ornament is for you, and we will keep it as a souvenir in the future."

"Thank you." Jiang An said with a smile, took the decoration unceremoniously, and looked at it carefully.

This is a Maitreya Buddha, always smiling with Cixi on his face.Mu Chenxi pointed to the Buddha statue and said, "Although the old man is not very talkative, you look at me with loving eyes, and you can tell that you like me and want to treat me well."

He pursed his lips, with sincerity in his eyes, and said: "I also want to be nice to the old man. I hope you will be happy every day like this Buddha, let him stay by your side, and bless the old man with a long life and good health."

"Okay, thank you, thank you." Jiang An liked Mu Chenxi, and often visited him when he was on the boat, loving him like a child.

"Then what about me?" Jiang An, who was listening to Jiang Haohai's coaxing, smiled and deliberately teased him: "You gave me the statue of a saint, do you want me to always be respectful and listen to teachings every moment?"

"Why, he can't talk." Mu Chenxi was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and quickly explained: "Old man, look at this saint, who is kind and amiable, and exudes righteousness all over his body. When I first saw it, I thought of you , and told my daughter-in-law."

He looked at Zhao Huan, squeezed his eyes and told him to testify.Seeing his clever appearance, Zhao Huan didn't reveal that he was trying to sell to Jiang Haohai.

As he wished, he smiled and said: "When Chen Xi saw the statue of the saint for the first time, he said he looked like an old man. It's a pity that the old man couldn't see this statue."

"Chenxi!" Jiang Haohai sighed, really liking this child more and more, "Why are you so talkative, the old man is thinking why you are not my child, you are so cute."

"My daughter-in-law said that smiling is the best way to express your affection for someone. You should not be stingy with the person you like, give things you like, give others what they need, or try to help them."

Mu Chenxi eloquently said a lot of what Zhao Huan taught him, and finally said to Jiang Haohai: "My wife's words are very reasonable, so I naturally want to listen."

"And." He puffed his chest out, "I'm just too smart, the blue is better than the blue, making others think that I'm self-taught, but in fact it's all thanks to my daughter-in-law."

"Okay, don't flatter me all the time." Zhao Huan saw that he was talking endlessly, and interrupted him, "Old man and the others have been here for so long, they just stand here and listen to you, why don't you please go to the backyard to make tea."

"Old man, please sit down." Zhao Huan led them to the backyard and arranged them to sit on the stone table under the jujube tree.

"Old man drinks tea." Mu Chenxi brought tea and poured tea for several people one by one.

After getting along with each other during those days on the boat, they both got to know each other a little bit, and their tempers and temperaments got along well, and no one was too polite.

After Jiang Haohai and the others drank a few sips of tea, Zhao Huan asked: "Where is the old man going? Do you want to go to more places to visit mountains and rivers, or return to Rongdu after visiting friends?"

Jiang Haohai said: "It's not bad here. I like it more after I've been here for a few days. It just so happens that an old friend opens an academy here and will stay here for a while."

"Oh." Zhao Huan nodded, looked at Mu Chenxi and said, "This time, you don't have to keep talking about the old man and them, you can see them for a while."

"Okay." Mu Chenxi looked at Jiang Haohai and the others happily, especially Jiang An, "Old man, you should come to my house often, and my wife and I will cook delicious food for you."

"There are times when you are filial." Jiang An smiled, looking at his master, he already understood his thoughts, seeing that Zhao Huan didn't open his mouth, he said this specially as a reminder.

Zhao Huan didn't seem to notice it, and continued chatting with them. In the end, Jiang Haohai couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Didn't you send Chen Xi to study when you were on the boat? I don't know which academy he is studying now."

"No one wants me." Mu Chenxi said, he is no longer angry that others always say he is stupid, "Everyone says I am stupid, no one wants to teach me."

"I think it's too simple." Zhao Huan raised his hand and patted Mu Chenxi's arm, reassuring him not to speak, "It's not reasonable for others to accept Chenxi's current situation. After all, they haven't gotten along with him before and are afraid of trouble. We can understand that."

"I can't do scientific research yet, and I can't be an official yet, so I can make my masters famous." Mu Chenxi grimaced, looked at them and smiled, "Even if I'm an official, I still want to be an upright official, doing things for Darong and the common people. "

He swallowed the rest of the words, Zhao Huan told him that those words can't be said to outsiders, but can only be said in his heart or in front of him.

As for who Jiang Haohai was, he naturally had some guesses when he suddenly stopped talking, and said with a smile, "It's okay, I can help you."

"No need." Zhao Huan refused, "You should be working in Yuanyang Academy, and we have this newly built academy here."

He said with a smile: "We have been to the academy and met the head of the mountain. Chenxi's matter is indeed embarrassing, so we will not force it."

"I feel that the mountain is long and pedantic, and I don't know how to adapt." Jiang Haohai said.

"No, the head of the mountain is very good." Zhao Huan said, he had already considered the matters involved, "Although he is the head of the academy, he still has many masters. If they don't want to, it will be very troublesome. There are conflicts, and if there is a conflict, it is not what we want."

"Hahaha." Jiang Haohai laughed out loud. Sure enough, he saw Zhao Huan and the others right. "Then I don't need them to teach me. What do you think of me?"

"Chenxi, are you willing to worship me as a teacher?" Jiang Haohai looked at Mu Chenxi and asked.

"Master!" Jiang An exclaimed, then closed his mouth and stopped talking.