Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 33: Lantern Festival (Part )
Most of the time, the content of the conversation between two men is obscene. That's why they say that the dirtiest creatures in the world are high school boys. College boys are almost the same. It's like that anyway. It will be a little better when you get older.

However, this kind of thing is just talk. Most people, including Xia Lin, actually have the desire but not the courage to do it. Even Lao Zhang is no exception. Don't look at him bragging every day and calling himself the Girlfriend Saint of Luoshui. In fact, he still blushes when talking to a woman alone, let alone a serious girlfriend. Xia Lin knows all the boasts he has made, but she is too lazy to expose him. There is no need to hook up with all the friends.

But to say whether he is a virgin, actually not. He is engaged. The young lady of that family was quite proactive at that time. Think about it, Mr. Zhang passed the imperial examination and was a man of unparalleled talent. He was also born with a good face. It was natural for the electric car to ignite by itself. This dry firewood and fire would ignite like a raging fire.

"Then when the young lady saw how arrogant Old Zhang was, she naturally cut off all contact with him. But when they got engaged, Old Zhang had signed three letters and six betrothal letters, so they should get the money back, right? But he refused to give it to her, saying that it was just a betrothal letter. He also said that his daughter was going to marry Zhang Shuo, a juren, not Zhang Shuo, a pariah. At that time, Old Zhang's parents had just passed away, and the money for the funeral was raised by selling their property. We said we would go to their house to ask for it, but they were no longer someone we could afford to offend, and they threatened to lock us in a dog cage."

At the New Year's Eve dinner table, Xia Lin drank a little and then began to talk about their experiences in Luoyang. When they talked about it, it was ordinary, but the listeners, whether the little princess or Chuntao, felt that it was full of ups and downs.

“Those years were not easy.”

Old Zhang was also a little tipsy at the moment. He leaned against the wall and said with a hint of drunkenness, "So I told Daosheng that one of us must make a name for ourselves in this life. Let's not talk about making achievements, we just need to climb up just to let those bastards have a taste of what it's like to be famous."

"Did you say the same thing when you met my brother?" The little princess blinked her eyes: "That's not good."

"How can I?" Xia Lin laughed. "It's one thing to meet the young prince, and it will be another if I have the chance to meet the emperor in the future."

Chun Tao looked at the little princess in astonishment, then asked curiously: "What are you going to say when you meet my uncle the emperor?"

"Ah?" Xia Lin burped. "Of course, it is to establish a mind for heaven and earth, to establish a destiny for the people, to carry on the lost knowledge of the ancient sages, and to bring peace to the world for all eternity."

Old Zhang suddenly turned his head and looked at Xia Lin. Not only him, but also the little princess and Chuntao looked at this careless guy in astonishment, and they were stunned for a moment.

What kind of monster is this? If anyone says this, it will cause a shock. Well, be determined and speak, and have great ambitions. Let's not talk about whether it can be done in the end. If this sentence appears in the court, I don't know how many people's arrogance will be suppressed. This is an absolute great light and truth, and no one can refute it.

"That's amazing." Lao Zhang clapped his hands. "Your flattery has reached such a level?"

"Oh, just so-so."

Old Zhang just laughed it off, but the young princess was extremely shocked, because all along, it seemed that this ruffian boy in front of him did nothing seriously and always spoke in a frivolous manner, but don't be fooled by his appearance, he is really doing things.

Although the little princess is very simple, she has actually traveled to many places. Sometimes she would go to the surrounding villages with her father and brother to take a look. The officials in those places are always thinking about how to please their superiors and make money, but they speak in very high-sounding words, and each of them speaks very nicely.

But Xia Lin was different from those people. He said that he wanted to climb up, but everything he did was to benefit others. During the few days that the little princess had been here, she had run around half of Xinping Township with him. Those construction sites were still there, and the livelihoods of thousands or even tens of thousands of people were shaped under his hands.

This is not something that ordinary people can do. Even looking across the country, there are very few people with such courage. But this young man, who is only three years older than himself, just settled down in this remote area.

He is Xia Lin Xia Daosheng, the author of Tengwang Pavilion Preface, Butterfly Loves Flowers, Qingping Diao and Drunk Thirty-two Poems! He is a first-class talent in the world. If it were someone else, he would have been able to enjoy the company of the rich and powerful, and it would have been easy to use those poems and songs to get a job in the hands of the dignitaries. Even His Majesty likes such talented young people.

But he chose this place, a place where even during the Chinese New Year, the only meat dish on the table was a chicken given to him by a villager...

"Daosheng Daosheng, why don't you stay in the city? With your talent, you can be promoted much faster than now."

"Being quick is useless." Xia Lin's eyelids had drooped a little at this moment, and his tongue gradually became bigger when he spoke: "You are just a hawk raised by others if you want to be quick. How many buckets of grain can your poems and songs be worth? How much tax can you pay? The premise of spiritual civilization is the material foundation."

He started to speak nonsense again, but everyone seemed to have gotten used to him saying things that people couldn't understand. It was even harder to understand than the nonsense, but apart from the incomprehensible things, the previous words did make some sense. Take the officials in the court for example, they were all of the third rank. A third rank official in the capital was already the highest position in the country, but if you meet a third rank border official, you have to raise your hands and bow first.

Why? Hahaha, the reason is that the third-rank border officials are called frontier officials, they have food, soldiers and people in their hands, and they are either the emperor's confidants or a major threat to the emperor. The third-rank Beijing officials can be replaced at will, but the third-rank border officials need to be carefully considered.

Chuntao has the most say in this matter. She follows the little prince everywhere. When the little prince meets officials from the capital, he would simply refuse to see them. But when he meets the governor or the governor of a province, the little prince would not only visit them in person but also prepare gifts.

It is because these border officials hold great power, so great that even the crown prince of a country would go to great lengths to win them over.

Looking back at this young boy now, he probably wants more than just to be an official. He also wants to be a powerful official, a powerful official who controls life and death.

After realizing this, Chuntao was secretly shocked, but the next moment Xia Lin's hand had already patted her shoulder. He said in a drunken tone, "Sister Chuntao, when you have time, go tell the young prince that I, Xia Lin Xia Daosheng, am not willing to be an unknown person. I either want to live a dissolute life or live a glorious life. I want to leave my name in history, and I want anyone who kills me to be tied to the pillar of shame and unable to get up."

"Alright, alright, alright..." Old Zhang hurried forward and dragged Xia Lin out: "You guys continue to stay up all night, he's drunk...all he said is nonsense, don't take it seriously, I'll take him to bed first."

After the two of them left, Chun Tao pursed her lips for a long time without saying anything, while the little princess laughed out loud: "Great, great, wait until you become a high official so you can marry me!"

Xia Lin was really not pretending, his alcohol tolerance was just like that. Although there was no such thing as distillation at that time, he would kneel down after drinking half a pound of liquor with an 8 or 9 degree alcohol content. As soon as he got drunk, he would start to tell grand narratives, which was somewhat of a special habit of middle-aged men.

If this problem were to occur in modern times, it would be a sign of a jerk, but here it is a sign of a man with great ambitions and a promising future. Fortunately, Lao Zhang stopped this jerk from talking nonsense in time, otherwise no one would know what he would say next.

The little princess is still okay, but Chuntao is still the little prince's person after all. Before she is sure that he is her own person, she still has to be careful with her words and actions sometimes.

It lasted until the Lantern Festival. In fact, life here was very poor. There were no lantern festivals or lantern riddles. The whole village was quiet and could not be compared with the big cities outside.

Xia Lin was also bored, so he used his mobile phone to pick out a lot of entertainment options online, the most popular of which was mahjong.

The mahjong set was finalized on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year. Xia Lin and Lao Zhang went up the mountain to cut bamboo. They then cut the bamboo into pieces, polished it until it was smooth, and carved words on it. When they were done, it was already the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

Then we played mahjong all the way until the Lantern Festival...

"I will be going back tomorrow."

Looking at the full moon in the sky, the little princess was filled with emotion. She was sitting in the courtyard at the moment, feeling infinitely sad. Xia Lin was standing beside her, setting off the homemade sizzling flowers. After hearing what she said, he turned around and said with a smile: "When you go back, you will be taught a lesson in life."

"What do you mean?"

"You'll understand when you go back. This is the price a person has to pay for his own willfulness." Xia Lin came over and patted her head: "When you go back this time, we won't see each other for at least three years."

The little princess trembled all over and looked up at Xia Lin in astonishment: "Why!?"

"You're too impatient." Xia Lin sighed, "I told you to wait for me to come over and play, but you insisted on going your own way. Now you have to know the price of being willful."

(End of this chapter)