Chapter 42: Hope bursts from the depths of despair
On top of Cheng Wei's incident, Li Ze was the biggest victor, not only recovering the entire Yixing Hall, but also taking this opportunity to tie Wang Mingyi and Yang Kai to his chariot. Although Wang Mingyi was given two percent of the shares, Yixingtang could also use Wang Mingyi to quietly extend its tentacles to the Chengde area without attracting attention. This was almost a decision made by Li Ze subconsciously, and he didn't think deeply about what kind of far-reaching significance his actions would have in the future, he just felt that this was a good opportunity. Be prepared and don't have to deal with it, or when the time comes, you can use it. It's like playing Go when you are sometimes idle, you don't see any meaning in ordinary times, but when you really need to use it, you will often become a winner or loser.
How to use this chess piece and when to use it, Li Ze actually didn't know anything in his heart, so he just did it casually. As for Yang Kai, after all, he is a parent official, there are many things, with him and without him, the effect is still very different, at least, if such a guy does not come to make trouble, it will save Li Ze a lot of effort, for this reason, it is not impossible to give him some sweetness. This person has no ambitions, but he is the same as most of the officials Li Ze has seen in the past, and he is an official peacefully, and by the way, he gives himself a little money to live a more comfortable life, but such a person is the best to deal with.
It was Cheng Wei who gave Li Ze a lot of stimulation.
When he was expelled by the officials sent by Yang Kai, Li Ze took a look from afar, and he had only heard of it overnight, which was more like a legendary story, but this time Li Ze had witnessed how Cheng Wei had changed from a fairly healthy middle-aged man to a rickety old man overnight.
His house is gone, the land is gone, the shares of Yixingtang are gone, and the only thing he is allowed to take away is the gold and silver at home, but judging from the condition of their group, it is really impossible to say how much they can take away. Cheng Feng limped and arranged to travel, looking like he had suffered a lot, the middle-aged men of the Cheng family had more or less scars on their bodies, and it was obvious that this was done by those officials.
Li Ze didn't allow Yang Kai to rob Cheng Wei's floating wealth again, but this could not restrain the servants below, the team leaders were blackhanded, and these people also made a fortune by relying on these things, otherwise with the little salary in the county government, how could they live a nourishing life!
For such a thing, Li Ze couldn't do anything to stop it.
Dozens of people, just like the salute of four ox carts, the Cheng family, this can be regarded as a complete defeat, looking at Cheng Wei leaning on an ox cart as if he had lost his soul, surrounded by crying women, Li Ze's heart couldn't help but twitch.
He didn't pity Cheng Wei, when he had thoughts that he shouldn't have, he should actually have the consequences of being retaliated against after failure, he just saw a certain possibility of his future from Cheng Wei.
Compared to Cheng Wei, he is a behemoth, but above him, how many more cruel, more vicious, and more gluttonous beasts are there!
He also gave Cheng Wei a way to live, one day in the future, if he really fell into such a fate as Cheng Wei, will there be a way to live?
Li Ze drank and drank desperately.
Whenever there is an unsolvable knot, Li Ze magnifies this despair infinitely, immersing himself in an inextricable despair, and making this despair deeper and deeper.
Man is a very strange creature, when a certain despair reaches the peak and there is no room for upward movement, hope will be born in the deepest depths of despair, a kind of courage to die and be born. And this courage will sweep away the negative emotions and support the person to move forward.
Regardless of the final consequences, at least this process of moving forward with a heavy load is an exciting motivation to live. In his last life, Li Ze did just that, and in the end, he was successful. In this life, he still maintained this habit, and what Gongsun Changming and Xia He saw was a decadent and depressed Li Ze, but for Li Ze, he was being reborn.
After returning to Zhuangzi, everything returned to peace. Li Ze began to repeat his cookie-cutter life, tempering his body, reading, discussing the trend of the world with Gongsun Changming, and finally extending to how the current Tang Dynasty can restore its past prosperity and even move forward.
Gongsun Changming still thinks that the Tang Dynasty is exhausted, and it is still promising, but Li Ze believes that the old order will inevitably be broken, and the turmoil in the world will be quickly spread to the world after Lu Long kicked off.
It was a time of bloodshed.
The two would sometimes fight each other with blushing and thick necks, pointing at their noses and scolding, and smashing cups and throwing bowls, so that Xia He finally hid all the expensive sets of tableware in the Ming Shuyuan, and only took some coarse porcelain bowls out to let the old and the young vent when they were angry.
But the two of them had fun. This kind of controversy is a process of progress for both of them. Through Gongsun Changming's comments on the world, Li Ze has a more intuitive feeling about the Tang Dynasty he is in, the people who control the fate of the Tang Dynasty, and Gongsun Changming also has some thoughts about the current crisis facing Datang and the way out in the future from Li Ze's words that sound a little unbelievable but make sense when you think about it carefully.
Liang Han was put back, but after he came back, when he saw Li Ze, he was like a mouse seeing a cat, and he avoided it, the place he went to the most was the martial arts training ground in Zhuangzi, where Tu Lichun, Chen Bing, Chu Sheng and others often stayed, Liang Han would rather polish his martial arts with them than face Li Ze's face that seemed to be gentle and sunny with a faint smile forever.
He was frightened by Li Ze, and he was also convinced.
However, his kung fu of fighting alone is not covered, and when he moves, except for Tu Lichun who can draw with him, Chen Bing and Chu Sheng fight him one-on-one, and they all lose very badly. That is, when Shi Zhuang came back to see his son, he beat Liang Han severely, which can be regarded as suppressing his arrogance again.
It was only at this time that Liang Han really understood that the reason why he was able to sneak into the secret camp in Daqing Mountain that night was because this guy deliberately put it in, in other words, Li Ze did it on purpose.
When the first snow fell quietly this winter, Li Ze also spent his fifteenth birthday in this world, and Tu Er Tu Hu, who had been running around, also came back.