Don't Ask Where People Go After Time Travel

Chapter 342
"Birthplace." Fang Zilan looked gloomy, "You are far away in the north, and you don't care about government affairs. I think you have never noticed that there are almost no new officials from poor families in the court these years."

"How could this happen?" Shangguan Min was stunned, and Fang Zilan said seriously: "Not only civil servants, but also military generals. In the battle of Qiluo, how many generals who can be called by name are not in the home of the Nine Dukes?"

"General Huangfu Xin, General Dugu Ming..." Shangguan Min stopped after reading two names, "But..."

"I know what you want to say." Fang Zilan interrupted him, "Although you can learn literary and martial arts and sell the goods to the emperor's family, it is much easier for the family of the princes to want what you want than the children of the poor family. If you are an official in the court The children of the poor family are being suppressed, and if things go on like this, how can the children of the poor family have a way?"

After hearing this, Shangguan Min finally understood, "So the Ministry of Rites deliberately made it difficult for Master, because of their different positions? And the Minister of Rites, knowing that he might be troubled, still wanted Mr. Xue to come, because he suppressed him?"

"Basically this is the reason." Fang Zilan nodded slightly, "I'm sick now, and some things can't be overwhelmed. Therefore, I try to show up when I can at the year-end festival and New Year's social drama, and I have to make good preparations for the banquet on the fifth day of the new year. ..."

"So it's not about venting anger." Shangguan Min muttered in a low voice, "I thought..."

"What do you think? Mr. Wen is considerate and meticulous. I just said this because I am afraid that you will feel that I am punished too much and feel unhappy." Fang Zilan said helplessly: "If you drink, I will not stop you, but if you lose your sense of proportion and speak freely, I will It will not be forgiving."

"Yes." Shangguan Min stood up and saluted respectfully, "Master, I am not afraid of being punished. What's more, since Master accepted me as an apprentice, he has never punished me, so why is it heavy?"

"You." Fang Zilan smiled, and suddenly said: "Master Xue, it's not a good habit to listen to the corner. I don't know why Master Xue left and came back again?"

Hearing that Xue Haoyu came in, he bowed his hands and said: "I see that Mr. Fang had a very happy conversation with this young master. I am really sorry to disturb you, so I stood outside the door for a long time. I didn't mean to eavesdrop. Please forgive me, Mr. Fang." .”

Fang Zilan raised her hand to signal that he didn't need to be too polite, "Master Xue is standing outside, I know all about it. Since I haven't said anything, there is nothing I can't let you listen to."

"Master Fang is magnanimous, I am ashamed of being an official." Xue Haoyu still maintained his salute posture, and said: "I have left and returned, only because I forgot to tell Lord Fang about something."

"What's the matter?" Fang Zilan took the tea on the table and took a sip.

Xue Haoyu said softly: "Master Fang, if you can go out for a walk, please enter the Lotus Palace to worship and offer incense before New Year's Eve."

Fang Zilan smiled slightly, "I heard that in the Lianhua Palace, there is a big everlasting lamp lit by Emperor Tai'an himself. At the end of each year, the emperor adds oil to the lamp, and all officials have to worship and offer incense in order to hope that the world will go smoothly in Tai'an in the coming year. I'm right. ?”

Xue Haoyu's expression suddenly changed, "Master Fang, you..."

"When Mr. Xue left, I was still thinking about your meticulous attention to detail. Why did you forget to remind me to enter the Lotus Palace?" Fang Zilan smiled even wider, "But Mr. Xue also said that the year-end etiquette department is busy, so I want to come It’s understandable to forget, it’s not intentional, right?”

"Master Fang..." Xue Haoyu murmured and dared not speak. When Fang Zilan said that he didn't know the procedure on New Year's Eve, he thought she was just taking the opportunity to make things difficult, so he just dealt with it.But it never occurred to her that not only on New Year's Eve, she knew all the procedures like the back of her hand, so wouldn't she have seen through them all from the beginning?

Xue Haoyu couldn't hold his head up because of the embarrassment of being teased, but he knew in his heart that if he hadn't had ulterior motives, how could he have fallen into such a situation?

"Master Xue, you heard the conversation between the two of us just now." Fang Zilan smiled, and his expression became a little more serious, "Although Mr. Xue was relegated, he never bowed his head, otherwise as long as he joins the family at will, he will not lose his head." It will result in the family leaving Beijing and never using it again."

Xue Haoyu turned pale, "Master Fang, do you know?"

"I know." Fang Zilan said frankly: "When you said that Mr. Xue is your uncle, I guessed which family you took refuge in and got the chance to re-enter Beijing and enter the Ministry of Rites."

Seeing that Xue Haoyu's face became more and more ugly, Fang Zilan hurriedly said: "Of course everyone chooses differently. You have the right to choose, and I respect you. After all, under the pressure of the situation, not everyone can stay the same."

"Master Fang doesn't have to be like this." Xue Haoyu looked away from the side, and said: "How can you understand the hardships of a small person like me with your honor? No matter how nice the words are, in your eyes, I am just an ant."

"You?" Fang Zilan repeated the word, noncommittal: "Doesn't Mr. Xue want to be in an honorable position and treat others as ants?"

"I don't want to." Xue Haoyu blurted out without thinking, Fang Zilan's lips curled up slightly, "I don't want to be an ant, nor do I want to be a person who treats others as an ant, so what does Master Xue want to do?"

"Your official..." Xue Haoyu was at a loss for words for a while, Fang Zilan sighed softly, "It seems that Master Xue's heart is not cold, but it is difficult to be as hot as before."

For some reason, after hearing her words, Xue Haoyu felt an inexplicable grievance in his heart.Who doesn't want to do things down-to-earth with an original heart, but how can this world tolerate his original heart?
Xue Haoyu clenched his fists tightly, suppressing his emotions and said, "Dare to ask Lord Fang, is it possible that Lord Fang is in an honorable position just to treat others as ants?"

"Of course not." Fang Zilan said with a smile: "This idea is too superficial and not worthy of me."

Her words were like a stone, causing thousands of waves in Xue Haoyu's heart, not only shallow, but unworthy?
"If Mr. Xue has nothing else to do, I'll go back to my room and rest." Fang Zilan stood up, but Xue Haoyu still stood there, motionless.

Seeing this, Fang Zilan pursed her lips, and couldn't help but said: "Master Xue, let me say one last thing. How you treat others will be how others will treat you. The cycle of cause and effect is the same, and so is the original intention."

Xue Haoyu lowered his eyes and said: "But if the whole world treats you coldly, what can I do?"

"If that's the case." Fang Zilan said word by word: "Then prove to the world that they are wrong."

When she said this, there was a contemptuous arrogance in her eyes, as if she could shock everyone in the world without proof.

Xue Haoyu was cheered up, bowed a salute and said: "Your official has been taught, thank you, Mr. Fang."

Shangguan Min stared blankly at Fang Zilan in front of her, and did not come to her senses until she called her name, "Master, what did you say?"

Fang Zilan dragged his voice and said: "I said, you go tell Lao Cao and A Wan, and follow me to Lianhua Palace to worship and offer incense after lunch."

"Okay." Shangguan Min walked out in a daze, and saw Wen Ya at the corner, who seemed to have been standing there for a while.

"Mr. Wen?" Shangguan Min yelled, and Wen Ya turned his face away, "I'll help you to bring a message to A Wan, you can go to Vice General Cao."

With a dazed expression on his face, Shangguan Min turned around to look for Vice General Cao, and it took him a while to realize what they were saying, Wen Ya heard.

He thought to himself, when did Mr. Wen stand there?He didn't notice it at all, but the master must have felt it. Could it be that the master didn't just say those words to Mr. Xue?
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that his mind was in a mess, and he couldn't figure out what to do, so he simply shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

　After being taught——

　　Shangguan Min: It would be great if people could always stick to their original aspirations and move forward bravely...

　　Fang Zilan: Silly boy, I hope you can do it, no matter what the situation is, you can never change your original intention.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)