Chapter Twelve New Technology and Ancient Practice
Not only Feng Zhong heard the implicit sound of Xiang Kang's strings, but also a guest who was making a living in the Feng family also heard Xiang Kang's open threat and immediately shouted: "Little man, how dare you threaten our pavilion chief?"
Knowing the primary and secondary, Xiang Kang ignored the client, smiled and just looked at Feng Zhong, waiting for Feng Zhong to react. Feng Zhong was silent for a long time before asking with a blue face: "Is he threatening the head of this pavilion?"
"President Feng Ting misunderstood. I am pitying you and not worth it for you." Xiang Kangzhen said remarkably: "As the saying goes, "Eat the king's fortune, and be loyal to the king. Practice, you eat the rice given by the government and do things for the government. It is your duty, and no one will blame you. The night before yesterday, you mistakenly thought that our uncle who was on the run, who was murdered and fled, and took his subordinates to our house to search. No one of our Xiang brothers blames you, because this is what you should do, not specifically to target our Xiang brothers. No one thinks you are doing something wrong, and no one will think of seeking revenge on you and seeking back this face."
"Then you still stare at me all day long?" Feng Zhong asked angrily.
"Because you scared our third uncle and scared her to illness." Xiang Kang slowed down and said with a serious expression: "Our two uncles, because of all kinds of things, are the two uncles taking care of and raising more than a dozen brothers in our Xiang family. They care about our food and clothing. They are actually our mothers. Chief Feng Ting, your people scared our third uncle and our mother to illness. You say, should we settle the score with you?"
Feng Zhong was speechless and said after a while: "I am following the law, not deliberately scaring your uncle."
"But you still scared our third uncles to illness." Xiang Kang sneered and said, "And you also sent someone to stare at our Xiang family at all times, which may scare our other aunt at any time. If she has any accidents, the account will be taken into account by you, Chief Feng Ting!"
"What do you want?" Feng Zhong asked.
"Go to our house and kowtowed three times to our third uncles respectfully, and then called on the night before to scare our uncles and those pavilions, and kowtowed three times to apologize to our uncles. This matter is over." Xiang Kang said in a big way.
"You dream!" Feng Zhong was furious and said, "If I do this, how can I see people in the future? How can I be the head of the pavilion?"
"If you don't do this, how can we see people in the future?" Xiang Kang raised his voice and said loudly: "A real man, if you can't even exert the minimum filial piety, what face do we have in this world?"
If Xiang Kang's words were placed in modern society in the 21st century, they would probably not scare too many people. However, in this era when the spirit of ruling righteousness and the rogue style are still very popular, Xiang Kang's words are extraordinary. Being familiar with the trend of this era and thinking that the old Xiang family had already had two fatal problems of killing fugitives, Feng Zhong's heartbeat could not help but accelerate, but Feng Zhong is also a person who wants to save face. After hesitating for a moment, Feng Zhong still said with a stern finger: "Okay, come on, this pavilion chief will accompany you to the end."
"This is back to the original problem." Xiang Kang smiled and said, "Chief Feng, is it worth it? Now that you are here, your family can have no worries about food and clothing, and have enough food and clothing, but if you are away, what will your family do? Will the county still give them eight hu of rice every month, and can their livelihoods be maintained?"
Feng Zhong was silent, and hesitated even more. He couldn't help but think about what difficult situation his family would face if there was a child of the Xiang family who died with him. Seeing that he was shaken, Xiang Kang said again: "Chief Feng Ting, although you are older than me, you are not much older. You can talk about friendship with peers. If you talk about friendship with peers, my uncle is also your elder. You, a junior, did something wrong and kowtowed to your elders to apologize. Isn't this an exaggeration? The conditions I put forward are actually not harsh, right? Do you think so?"
"This is right." Feng Zhong was immediately moved and said to himself: "Yes, if you respect the two women of the Xiang family as elders, I, a junior, kowtowed to them and apologized, it is indeed not embarrassing. It is reasonable to be true and reasonable. Even if it is spread, it is not embarrassing."
Even though he was shaken, Feng Zhong really couldn't make up this decision for a while. Xiang Kangze yawned and said, "Okay, Brother Feng, I have finished what I should say. How do you decide to consider yourself."
After saying that, Xiang Kang raised the small wine jar and shook it at Feng Zhong, poured it into his mouth, and then turned around and left. The pavilion soldiers surrounded Feng Zhong and the Feng family's guests subconsciously came up to stop him. Xiang Kang was not panicked, but just smiled and said, "What do you want to do? I can remind you, whoever dares to do it will be at your own risk."
Without Feng Zhong's order, the soldiers and the guests dared not act without hesitation, so they could only see Feng Zhong's reaction. After hesitating for a while, Feng Zhong waved his hand and said weakly, "Let him go."
When he returned to Xiang Sheng who was standing under the tree opposite, Feng Zhong and others had already retreated to the pavilion and closed the gate of the pavilion. Xiang Sheng also quickly asked Xiang Kang in a low voice: "How is that person surnamed Feng? What do you say?"
"Don't worry, he has made a decision, but he just can't help but agree immediately." Xiang Kang said confidently: "If I expected it would be fine, the Feng man tomorrow would have to bring his things to our house to apologize and kowtow to our uncle and apologize."
"Really?" Xiang Sheng said skeptically, "That person surnamed Feng, just listen to you?"
Xiang Kang smiled and patted Xiang Sheng's shoulder and whispered: "I can guarantee that, because for Feng Zhong, we are barefoot, he is wearing shoes, and fighting with us, he is the only one who suffers the loss. And we have two uncles with bad reputations, so he will not fail to consider the consequences of offending us to death."
According to the agreement, Xiang Kang and Xiang Sheng stayed outside the pavilion door of Shiling Pavilion until midnight. It was not until Xiang Han and Xiang Yang came to change shifts, and Xiang Kang and Xiang Sheng returned to their homes to spend the night. The next day, when it was light, Xiang Zhuang and Xiang You arranged according to Xiang Kang's arrangement and prepared to go out to replace Xiang Han and Xiang Yang. However, at this time, Xiang Zhuang and Xiang You also questioned Xiang Kang and asked together: "Xiang Kang, is it useful to do this? We are just staring there, can we really scare that Feng Zhong?"
"Don't worry, it definitely works. This is not the first time I have used this method." Xiang Kang replied in a word.
"Isn't it the first time you use it?" Xiang Zhuang heard Xiang Kang's grammatical problem and quickly asked in a daze: "When have we done this before?"
"Oh, it confuses the times."
Xiang Kang, who accidentally said something wrong, was about to find a way to make excuses, but his second uncle hurriedly came in from outside the door, and said with a panic look: "Zhuang'er, Kang'er, it's not good. The head of the pavilion surname Feng has come and brought several people."
Before the second aunt could finish her words, Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Guan and others, who were actually very nervous, jumped up one after another and rushed out of the door with swords to check the situation. The second aunt was trembling with fear, her face turned pale and even staggered when she walked. Xiang Kang hurriedly helped her and said warmly: "Don't worry, there's nothing wrong. With us here, the one named Feng dared not do anything random."
He helped his second uncle out of the door and looked at the gate of the yard. Xiang Kang really saw Feng Zhong, who had once shown his power in front of his brothers, was wearing a deep dress and no wore a slut. Although he was wearing a sword, his face did not look vicious. The following were all Feng's guests who had no special marks, and did not carry military weapons that the pavilion could legally use. He also held two cloths and led a sheep. Xiang Han and Xiang Yang, who had been waiting outside the pavilion door in the middle of the night yesterday, followed them behind them, but did not walk with them.
"Strange? Why don't you seem to be here to make trouble?"
Even the Xiang brothers, who are generally muscular and simple-minded, quickly realized that Feng Zhong did not seem to be coming with malicious intentions. As the Xiang brothers expected, they led several guests to the Xiang family. Feng Zhong really forced out some smiles and bowed to the Xiang brothers and said, "Mr. Xiang, I'm upset. Here are some people who are here to visit your aunt Xiang (Aunt Xiang)."
Hearing this, the Xiang brothers' eyes were of course involuntarily concentrated in front of Xiang Kang. Xiang Kang did not disappoint everyone's expectations and immediately helped his second uncle to come out and smiled at Feng Zhong: "Brother Feng is so polite. For fellow villagers, come here, what gift do you need to bring?"
"It should be, it should be." Feng Zhongqiang smiled and said, "After all, it was my man who disturbed Xiang. Since he came to apologize, of course he had to bring some polite gifts."
"Brother Feng is still polite." Xiang Kang laughed, and then said to his second uncle whose face has not returned to normal so far: "Second aunt, Chief Feng Ting is here to apologize to you and you. When he went to work the night before yesterday, he was not strict in disciplining his subordinates, which scared you and his third uncle's condition worsened. He heard that he was very worried in the future, so he made an appointment with his nephew last night and came to apologize to you and the third uncle today."
"Really..., is that true?"
The second uncle, who was not very clear about what his nephews played, was a little unbelievable. Feng Zhongze then fell down and knelt down to his second uncle on both knees and said respectfully: "My mother Xiang, that's true. Mr. Xiang Kang and I are peers and juniors. We should have respected the rules in front of you, but the night before yesterday I was unable to restrain my subordinates, which scared you. There was another mother Xiang who said, "I really felt sorry for me, so I came to the door to apologize today. Please forgive me."
After saying that, Feng Zhong really bowed to his second aunt and asked his second aunt. The second aunt hurriedly helped him personally. Xiang Kang also smiled and said kindly: "Brother Feng, please come on. Just ask inside. Please come in. My third aunt is resting inside. I will invite her out to meet you now."
"Okay, brother Xiang Kang, take me to see your third uncle and ask me to kowtow to her in person to apologize." Feng Zhong also changed his name to Xiang Kang without realizing it, and his smile became much more natural. At the invitation of Xiang Kang, the Xiang brothers naturally followed closely.
Keeping in mind the repeated instructions of his wife with tears in her eyes, Feng Zhong, who had not been able to close his eyes all night, came into the room and kowtowed three times in front of Xiang Kangsan's uncle, respectfully apologized. Fortunately, Xiang Kang's two aunts were both a little timid and fearful, and were both reasonable. Seeing that Feng Zhongcheng was satisfied, he was already satisfied and did not make any attempt to embarrass Feng Zhong. Not only did they help Feng Zhong up with their own hands, but the third aunt who was helped out by Xiang Ta and Xiang Sui also insisted on accepting the greeting gifts presented by Feng Zhong with both hands. Feng Zhongze continued to keep in mind his wife's advice and insisted on saying, "Xiang Mama, these two pieces of cloth were woven by the younger generation's wife. She was very worried when she heard that you were old and sick, and insisted that I bring you to take it. In a day or two, she would come to visit you in person."
"Uncle San, this is the wish of the Feng family's sister-in-law, you might as well accept it." Xiang Kang also advised: "If you don't accept it, Brother Feng and Sister-in-law of Feng will definitely feel even more disgusted. They are worried that you are still blaming them, so you should accept it."
"Brother Xiang Kang is right. If you don't accept it, you're still blaming me as a junior, so please accept it, you will definitely accept it." Feng Zhong nodded and bowed his head, and finally let Xiang Kang's third uncle accept his gift.
After receiving the gift and accepting the gift, the two aunts naturally became much more intimate towards Feng Zhong. In addition to inviting Feng Zhong to take a seat, the second aunt also had to arrange meals and entertain Feng Zhong and his party. Feng Zhong, who was eager to reconcile with the Xiang family, dared to receive such favors. He used the excuse of having something to do in the pavilion to resolutely say goodbye. The two aunts could not keep him and had to let him go. Xiang Kang volunteered to send Feng Zhong out of his home on behalf of his two uncles.
When saying goodbye outside the courtyard, Feng Zhong of course grabbed Xiang Kang's hand and asked in a low voice: "Brother Xiang Kang, can this matter be settled?"
"Of course." Xiang Kang smiled, patted Feng Zhong's hand, and said, "From now on, we will be brothers, we will only talk about friendship and not about anything else."
Feng Zhong, who kept holding his heart in his throat, breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Xiang Kang Qianen again. Xiang Kang was perfunctory and suddenly remembered something in his heart. He asked in a low voice: "Brother Feng, come to the night before yesterday, what did you explain to Wu Youzi in the village?"
"Wu You?" Feng Zhong was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that when he brought people to capture Xiang Bo, he was worried that there was not enough staff and invited You Ye in the village to leave. After hesitating for a moment, Feng Zhong whispered: "Brother Xiang, don't worry, he will only look for me if he has something to do, and he will not involve you."
"If you have anything to help, just open your mouth." Xiang Kang made a favourite and patted Feng Zhong's hand and smiled: "After all, we are brothers now, we prosper together, and we will suffer losses."
"I dare not help you brothers." Feng Zhong smiled bitterly and said casually: "It's okay, Wu Youzi and I have a good relationship. He shouldn't do anything to me, just the county..."
Speaking of this, Feng Zhong sighed and stopped by himself, shook his head and asked for goodbye again. Xiang Kang no longer tried to keep him, and bowed to Feng Zhong with a smile on his face. He kept calm in his heart and said to himself: "You have to be careful of this Feng Zhong. He mentioned the county just now, this place is not very far from the county town, so you have to be careful."
After Feng Zhong led his guests away, he returned to the yard and just closed the yard gate. Of course, the excited Xiang brothers immediately surrounded Xiang Kang. You punched and kicked Xiang Kang, who surprised them again, and praised them without any worries. Xiang Kang smiled and dodged, saying proudly: "What's this? This trick is actually just a trick to deal with Feng Zhong. It's more difficult than him. I have used this trick to clean up."
"You have dealt with even more difficult things than him? Who?" Xiang Zhuang asked curiously.
Xiang Kang smiled but didn't say anything, and he couldn't help but think of a proud past in the 21st century. At that time, Xiang Kang had a friend's son about to take the college entrance examination, but he didn't have a good eye to help an aunt who fell down while walking. The aunt insisted that it was her friend's son who knocked her down. Not only did he extort money, but he also ran to the school gate every day to make trouble. His friend's son's studies were seriously affected, and it was useless to report the case by his friend, so anxious that he almost wanted to pay for the money to avoid disaster.
Chapter completed!