Chapter 108
late at night.
Under Li An’s care, Song Mingzhang finally woke up faintly, but his whole body was extremely weak.
He was almost at the end of the day, and during this day, his mood fluctuated violently, and his heart was extremely painful. For a while, his old eyes were dull, like a dead person.
“Zuo Wen…”
He sighed a long time, “I’m sorry for you.”
Li Andao: “Senior, why bother to say these things… You are very kind to Zuo Wen.”
Song Mingzhang said: “An Ning has no parents since she was a child, and I brought her up with my own hands. I pity her in every possible way, respond to her requests, and even indulge and dote on her. I have never taught her the principles of life, so far, this is all my fault. ”
“Being your wife, she is unworthy of a self-deprecating person like her, but please take her as a concubine in the future for my sake, so that she will have a place of shade and will not be displaced.” , suffering too much…”
Li An was neither humble nor overbearing, and said: “Senior, don’t worry, what Zuo Wen said will definitely count. If An Ning is willing to follow Zuo Wen, Zuo Wen will treat him as a wife. If An Ning thinks Zuo Wen is mean and finds another good one, Zuo Wen will never put one’s oar in–”
Song Mingzhang couldn’t help being startled, he used to hear this sentence and thought it was very pleasing to the ear, but now at the moment of death, he finally sensed the taste of it!
If An Ning can restrain herself and live with Li An wholeheartedly, then Li An will treat her well.
But if An Ning is still like this…
“I can’t blame you, I can’t blame you…”
He muttered in a trance, and suddenly tears welled up in his old eyes, and he shouted:
“An Ning, An Ning!”
He stretched out his old hand, as if trying to grab something, but it fell down suddenly after all.
Song Mingzhang is dead!
……
There was a lot of crying in the house, and Li An put on hemp for Song Mingzhang and presided over the funeral.
He arranged for the doorman and maid in the house to go to Song Mingzhang’s former friend’s house to report the funeral, and hired a lot of people with money to inquire about Song Anning’s whereabouts. There was a lot of commotion!
He knew that Song Anning was invited by His Royal Highness the Ninth Prince, but he wanted to do it on purpose.
If there is a big commotion, everyone will know what Song Anning has done!
Moreover, he has just entered the Zhenbao Pavilion with the help of Song Mingzhang, and Song Mingzhang died, so it is inevitable that some people will gossip.
This is self-clearing, let everyone know that it was Song Anning who killed Song Mingzhang with anger.
Sure enough, all the people in the city who had friendship with Song Mingzhang came to the mansion the next day to pay tribute to the funeral. Li An received the guests as disciples, and took the initiative to invite one or two high-ranking ones to investigate Song Mingzhang’s death. It shows that Song Mingzhang was neither poisoned nor injured.
It was not until the evening when the guests almost dispersed that Song Anning came back in a hurry.
“Grandpa, grandpa!”
As soon as she entered the door, she ignored Li An and threw herself on Song Mingzhang’s coffin, crying until the pear blossoms rained down, heartbroken.
Li An ignored her indifferently and didn’t care about her at all.
In a blink of an eye, three days passed.
Under the auspices of Li An, Song Mingzhang’s body was buried, and the funeral was considered complete.
After Song Anning cried that time, she shut herself in the room and shut the door.
Li An didn’t care about her directly, and only ordered the people in the house to take care of her daily life. Once the funeral was over, he went to Zhenbao Pavilion to work.
……
“Candidate appraisers need to study with official appraisers for two years. If there is no problem, they can become official appraisers!”
The person in charge of receiving Li An was a stewardess of Zhenbao Pavilion named Wu Mengting. As she walked, Wu Mengting said, “There are currently ten treasure appraisers in the pavilion, and the one who is closest to your type is Master Gao, so , you learn from him.”
She took Li An to Gaofeng’s Appreciation Room, and knocked on the door.
“Come in–”
Gao Feng’s voice sounded, Li An immediately pushed the door open, and the steward left by himself.
“You are Zuo Wen?”
Gao Feng has a rich physique, with an undisguised arrogance on his face, he glanced at Li An casually, “I thought it was some young talent, but it turned out to be an old man…”
“how old are you?”
“Master Gao, Zuo Wen is one hundred and five this year.”
“One hundred and five, one hundred and five…hehe.”
Gao Feng sneered, and said casually: “You can read these books first.”
He threw a few books to Li An, Li An took it respectfully, glanced at it, and realized instantly that these books are useless at all!
Gao Feng used it to prevaricate him!
After all, Li An followed him to study, if he didn’t find something for Li An to do, obviously it wouldn’t make sense, so he just messed around.
Li An looked calm and accepted.
A few days later, Li An reported to Gao Feng: “Master Gao, I have read all the books you gave me, and made detailed notes and summaries.”
Gao Feng didn’t lift his eyes: “Read it several times, those books are all good books, worthy of repeated intensive reading.”
Li An frowned.
The other party is determined not to teach him anything.
In fact, Li An didn’t need him to teach him. Regarding Jianbao’s knowledge, the current Li An was beyond Gao Feng’s reach.
But he needs a chance to prove himself.
What will he do after three years of reading these idle books?
Moreover, now that his power of life and death is in the hands of Gao Feng, there is nothing he can do.
In a sense, now that Gao Feng has become his teacher, whether Ang Lee can “graduate” depends on his words.
Li An thought about it, but there was no way to break the situation…
The next day, Li An arrived at Gao Feng’s appraising room early in the morning. He took the broom, rags, etc., and cleaned Gao Feng’s room carefully. He also made tea and waited.
When the peak came, they were stunned for a moment.
In fact, although he was determined not to give Li An any chance, he didn’t dare to bully Li An too much.
After all, Li An is a cultivator at the foundation stage, so there is still a bottom line for this.
But he didn’t expect Li An to take the initiative to lower his status.
This made him quite proud, even if you are capable, so what?In the face of power, can’t you just kneel down?
Power is the most useful thing!
“not bad.”
He smiled and praised.
Li An respectfully said: “In the future, if Master Gao needs anything, he can tell Zuo Wen.”
Keep your posture low!
Gao Feng nodded and waved his hands,
“From now on, you should come early, clean up my treasure room, make tea and wait for me. After I leave, you need to clean it again, especially the tables and chairs. There must be no dust left.”
Li An should be respectful.
……
In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.
Every time Gao Feng appraised treasures, he asked Li An to do other things, so after three months, Li An didn’t learn any knowledge about appraising treasures, but instead seemed to become a personal handyman of Gao Feng.
Ang Lee was content with it, without any complaints.
At the same time, in the past six months, Li An actively established a good relationship with Wu Mengting, and the two became familiar with each other. From her, Li An learned a lot about the current situation in the cabinet.
Gao Feng and Hua Ming, these two were the examiners who judged the papers that day, and they will retire in a year or two. By then, their descendants will have to rely on the elders of Lu Hua and Zheng Xiaoxiao.
Li An couldn’t help sighing, since he entered Zhenbao Pavilion, he had already offended Gao Feng.
Now that Song Mingzhang was dead again, Li An was even more helpless, and his previous contacts would not care about Li An, so Gao Feng naturally took advantage of Li An at will.
He also went to visit Mo Cixi, but every time he went, the servants of Mo Cixi’s house said she was not there, and did not even accept the gift.
Li An has the attitude of hitting a wall everywhere!
However, he was mentally prepared.
In this circle of people, they collude with each other, sharing the benefits, and Li An, an outsider, is here to grab food, who will look at him pleasing to the eye?
Even if he gets in, it’s useless, the stronger his ability, the more people will suppress him!
If Song Mingzhang died later and could pave the way for Li An, his life might be easier.
Now it’s all normal.
“Yo, isn’t this Master Zuo?”
On this day, Li An was carrying a bag of garbage and was about to throw it away, when he bumped into Lu Hua and Zheng Xiaoxiao head-on.
The two were chatting and laughing, discussing how to appraise a certain treasure and other details. Seeing Li An, Lu Hua had a mocking smile in his eyes.
“Brother Zuo, why are you still throwing away trash? Shouldn’t the servants do these things? What, Master Gao asked you to do it?”
Li An was silent.
Zheng Xiaoxiao tugged on Lu Hua’s sleeve, smoothed things over and said, “Fellow Daoist Zuo, we still have important things to do, goodbye, goodbye!”
Then he took Lu Hua away.
“Forget it, he is miserable enough now, there is no need to have the same knowledge as a centenarian…”
“Hmph, I was almost squeezed out back then. If I don’t take revenge on Lu Hua, I will make him suffer a lot sooner or later!”
The two whispered to each other, not hiding it from Li An’s ears.
He looked slightly cold, and then calmly went to throw out the trash.
……
Back at Zheng’s house, today’s Song Anning was exceptionally abnormal, and ordered someone to make food for him.
Li An finished his meal with a calm expression.
“Mr. Zuo, before my grandfather died, did he have any last words?” Song Anning finally asked.
Li Andao: “Senior Song’s heart ached so much, he just called out your name a few times before he died, and he didn’t have time to say too much…”
Song Anning seemed very hesitant, but finally asked: “Grandpa didn’t tell you about his legacy…”
Li An frowned slightly.
Song Anning seemed very guilty.
In the days after her grandfather died, she was indeed overwhelmed with grief.
But within a few days, she returned to the usual way, she liked to go out, Li An didn’t ask, she was more free.
It’s just that she discovered that her reputation in the city…has already stink.
She went to look for His Highness the Ninth Prince, but was immediately kicked out!
This made her panic for a while.
But fortunately, she is not lacking in charm. During this time, she has a new suitor, who is a young and handsome young man with excellent spiritual roots, but a little poor.
The other party’s pursuit made her regain her confidence!
She also felt that she had had enough fun and she should calm down, so she thought about becoming a Taoist couple with that young man.
As for marrying Li An that Song Mingzhang once said?She is absolutely unwilling.
I feel that Li An is not worthy of her prosperous appearance.
Although Li An didn’t pay attention to these things, he had heard about them.
He calmly said: “Master Song’s inheritance should all belong to Miss An Ning.”
“Tomorrow, I will help you count and deliver all of them.”
“In addition, Zuo Wen will move out of the residence.”
Someone accepted Song Anning’s offer, and Li An was happy instead.
Moreover, after Song Mingzhang’s death, the Song family no longer meant anything to him.
As for why the young man fell in love with Song Anning, Li An can roughly guess: Song Anning can inherit the legacy left by Song Mingzhang, and in a sense, she is still a little rich woman.
There are many young people who want to save 20 years of struggle!
However, when Song Anning’s money is obtained, whether the other party will treat Song Anning as well as he is now…is not up to Song Anning to decide.
Ang Lee doesn’t care about these.
Hearing this, Song Anning was immediately overjoyed!
She has always been worried. After all, Li An is a cultivator at the foundation stage, and he wants to annex what Song Mingzhang left… It’s too simple, and she has no ability to stop it.
Now, don’t worry.
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(End of this chapter)
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