Chapter 168: The Man Who Takes the Three Lives Stones
"Accessor? Brother Su, are you really going to build a mansion and recruit a visitor?"
Yuan Mu said with envy, "Even my juren brothers in Yuan's mansion, I still don't have the ability to independently build a mansion and recruit disciples!"
"Su Lin, with your current talent and reputation, you should indeed recruit your disciples and establish your own power as soon as possible. Otherwise, you would not be able to fully grow up with the protection of the Su family of Jian'an Prefecture."
Hong Liyu nodded calmly, and warned Su Lin, "However, Su Lin, you should be more cautious in selecting your guests. Don't attract too many guests at once. You should know that the honor and disgrace of the guests will also be implicated in the head of the mansion."
"Li Yu, thank you for your reminder. At present, I have only recruited one disciple, namely Miss Hua Wuyue, my sister Su Ru's Qinyi teacher. As for the other disciples, I guess the news that the Qian family helped me release was the news. I didn't expect it to be so effective. What I just said in the morning was that there were already disciples coming to vote in the afternoon."
Su Lin bowed and thanked him. At the same time, Jia Lao ran to the next few people and described to Su Lin with great enthusiasm: "Young Master, there are hundreds of Confucian scholars outside our Su Mansion. They all heard that the young master was going to recruit guests and came to vote. Most of them were juren or above, and there were 10 or 20 Jinshis. The old slave had already invited all the Juren and Jinshis into the living room of the main hall to wait! Young Master, come and take a look!"
When ordinary scholars open a mansion to recruit disciples, they usually make small fuss. If a person can vote for a scholar, it is already considered to have enough personal charm. However, as soon as Su Lin started the mansion, the news came out, a lot of Juren came. There were even many Jinshis.
As for the Grand Secretary who is above the Jinshi, it is absolutely impossible to be a guest of Su Lin, a small scholar. No matter how genius Su Lin is or how noble his identity is, there is no negotiation.
"What? Even 10 or 20 Jinshi have come? Brother Su, you are worthy of being Su Maocai who can control the country with his mouth! It seems that I will never be able to catch up with Brother Su's footsteps in my life!"
Yuan Mu had already felt ashamed of himself. He said this just a reiteration, and he sighed in his heart that people were more angry than others.
"It's really good. Su Lin, if you can have a Jinshi to surrender, it seems that your poems in charge of the country have indeed made you famous." Hong Liyu nodded and smiled, "But it's a pity that you are still only Maocai. If you are a Juren, you may attract a Grand Secretary or even a Hanlin Grand Secretary to surrender to become your disciple."
"Haha! Brother Yuan, Li Yu. You probably have a bad idea. Even with my only talent, I probably won't attract so many Jinshi to come and surrender. After all, if you can reach the Jinshi position, you can be in any of the nine countries in the Tianren Continent, your fame is enough to serve as a county magistrate. How could you be willing to be a disciple of such a small scholar?"
Su Lin smiled and showed a "heart stone" from the Qiankun bag, saying, "Look at what this is? It is because of this treasure that I can attract so many Jinshi."
Su Lin himself was not surprised that so many Jinshi came to surrender. Because this was already under his expectation. The news that he asked the Qian family to release the Qian family to recruit guests showed that every Jinshi disciple who was favored by the Su family would unconditionally give a piece of the meteorite.
Today, the meteorite has been fired to at least 500,000 taels, and there is still no market price. However, most Jinshis need to advance to the Grand Secretary to rely on extremely similar treasure materials to the Central Stone to be able to ask questions more successfully and break through to the Grand Scholar's literary position.
Therefore, compared to Su Lin's name as a genius, the reputation of the author of Zhenguo's poetry is the only one that flocks to those Jinshi.
"Haha! So that's it. Su Lin, you can understand people's hearts. Indeed, this heartstone is the only temptation and reward for recruiting Jinshi disciples." Hong Liyu said again, "However, Su Lin, you don't have many heartstones in your hands, so you should be more cautious when recruiting Jinshi disciples."
"Of course! Let's go, Brother Yuan and Brother Li Yu, go to the main hall with me to see the guests who are paying for the money!"
On this side, Su Lin took Yuan Mu and Hong Liyu, just like the general manager of the company's recruitment, to interview the Confucian scholars who applied for the recruitment. On the other side, in the mansion of the prefecture of the Wu Kingdom Xiacheng, the minister of the Ministry of Justice Li Yuncong, in the study room, Su Rushi, dressed in a red gauze dress and covered with a veil, carefully read a piece of holy power information in his hand, and said unwillingly: "It's this Su Lin again, not only defeated Ji Yu from the semi-saint family, but now he has built a house with a scholar's literary position and recruited guests from the nine countries of the Tianren Continent!"
"So, what's wrong with you? Then Su Lin is just a little scholar. Even though he is a genius and can write a few poems to maintain the country, his thoughts must not be sound. Without a juren, he will not have a specific heart of Tao, and without a Jinshi, he will not be able to combine the heart of Tao and the heart of the human heart into one to form a foundation of Tao. Without the chastity of the Grand Secretary's heart of Tao, his ideological foundation will not be solid and steady, and he will be extremely easy to be punished by others, and all the foundations of Tao must be uprooted. As long as I meet him, I will definitely be punished severely on him."
Next to Su Rushi, Li Yuncong, the Minister of Justice, did not take Su Lintai in his eyes. Li Yuncong is also a genius, and he is a genius who has become a talented person in the Wu Kingdom. Geniuses are inevitably arrogant. At the same time, they also know more that the so-called genius that has been praised in the eyes of others is actually just a matter of fact.
"Yun Cong, you don't understand. This Su Lin is not an ordinary genius. He has a very strange body. My love-forgetful water droplets were taken away by him, and I must take them back. Because only the love-forgetful water droplets can truly feel the existence of the Three Lives Stone. Without the love-forgetful water droplets, I can't find the Three Lives Stone at all..."
Su Rushi changed his face in an instant, and asked to Li Yuncong pitifully, "Yuncong, please help me deal with this Su Lin and find a way to get the water drops of Forgetful Love from him, okay?"
"Forgetful Water? It is the Forgetful Water that contains the three karma in the legend? So, even the Forgetful Water Drops fell into Su Lin's hands?"
Li Yuncong put away his underestimation just now and said in confusion, "Impossible! Even a great scholar can hardly resist the karma of Forgetful Water. Once it is contaminated, the memories of the previous life, this life and the next life will be completely wiped out. Then Su Lin was still a mere child at that time. How could he resist the karma of Forgetful Water's three lives?"
"At that time, I was using the Drops of Forgetful Water to deal with Su Lin, but who knew that a powerful karma also emerged from Su Lin's body. The karma was so strong that it was no less than a semi-saint. So, I could only break a petal in a hurry and escape..."
Su Rushi recalled, "It was this Su Lin who completely informed the temple of my identity as the flower demon on the other side."
"I know! So, Rushi, your enemy is also my enemy. I will help you find a way to kill Su Lin and get the love-forgetful water droplets." Li Yuncong nodded firmly and looked at Su Rushi with a loving look on his face.
In fact, the last time Li Yuncong returned from Huamanlou, Jian'an Mansion, his teacher, Fang Zhengxin, had already discovered the fragrance of flowers on the other side in his sea of wisdom, and he also spent the great scholar's holy power to help him drive it away.
However, when Fang Zhengxin asked Li Yuncong about the origin of the fragrance of flowers, he kept silent and did not tell Fang Zhengxin that Su Rushi was the flower demon on the other side. He just shirked and did not know. The reason was not for anything else, but Li Yuncong really fell in love with Su Rushi.
Even after knowing that Su Rushi was the flower demon on the other side, Li Yuncong's heart did not change at all. But he did not dare to go to the Huamanlou of Jian'an Mansion again to see Su Rushi. On the one hand, he was afraid that Su Rushi would find that the fragrance of flower demon on the other side was gone, and on the other hand, he was even more afraid that Su Rushi's identity as flower demon on the other side would be exposed and cause a disaster to kill.
Therefore, Li Yuncong could only keep this secret tightly in his heart. As the Minister of Justice of the Wu Kingdom, he once blamed himself for his thoughts, for his own love. He let Su Rushi continue to deceive the vast number of Confucian scholars in the Huaman Tower of Jian'an Mansion, sow countless seeds of fragrance in the sea of wisdom of Confucian scholars.
Until Li Yuncong received a secret order from the Temple and the King, and knew that Su Rushi's identity as the flower demon on the other side was exposed, and he was missing. He had been wanted by the Temple's Holy Punishment Department throughout Tianren. Li Yuncong was even more anxious. He wanted to do his best to protect Su Rushi, his beloved woman.
Fortunately, just when Li Yuncong was frowning and wanted to find a way to find Su Rushi, Su Rushi came to him. Su Rushi thought that Li Yuncong had wiser about this matter, and wanted to turn Li Yuncong into her flower slave completely.
But who expected that when Su Rushi met Li Yuncong in the secret living room of Li's mansion, he suddenly discovered that Li Yuncong's flower fragrance mark had disappeared. Just when Su Rushi wanted to escape again, Li Yuncong grabbed her hand and told all the truth and heartfelt bitterness.
He also promised to do his best to protect Su Rushi and conceal the identity of the flower demon on the other side of the shore for Su Rushi.
Since Su Rushi came to the world by the Forgetful River in the Underworld, he has always been accustomed to using the fragrance of flowers on the other side to turn the Confucian scholars into flower slaves, and then under his control and obey him. However, Li Yuncong in front of him did not become her flower slaves, but he obeyed her orders everywhere and protected her. Su Rushi couldn't help sighing, staring at Li Yuncong with his eyes and asked, "Hey! Why? Yuncong, do you still help me like this even though you know I am the flower demon on the other side?"
"Because I love you!" Li Yuncong replied without thinking.
"But... I don't love you... I'm just using you..." Su Rushi couldn't help but say it, even she was surprised.
"I know!" Li Yuncong smiled, paused for a moment, and then added, "But I do."
"You... why are you so stupid?" After Su Rushi said that, she was speechless again. She looked at Li Yuncong looking at her eyes sincerely, and said regretfully with a little sadness in her heart: "It's a pity... you are not the man who took the Three Life Stone!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!