The Great Seminary

Chapter 166: "Use % of your strength to achieve a victory by one or two points" How terrifying

The teenage girl already had a vague longing for love.

In addition, in this world, there is no problem in marrying cousins.

If Zhang Gui had behaved a little more like a human being in front of his cousins ​​from the Yang family, he would have been the object of their secret crush long ago.

Unfortunately, although he lived a relatively smart life in both of his lives, he hated to pretend except for playing around in private.

Although the five sisters of the Yang family have become more sensible about matters between men and women, they are not yet old enough to understand the sage saying that "power is the best medicine."

Li Yangcaicai sighed for a while at how "powerful" her cousin was now.

I watched him shaking his feet as he filled a large bowl of pulled noodles for himself.

He quickly covered it with several large spoonfuls of stinky shrimp paste, peeled two cloves of garlic and buried them in the paste, and his rosy face suddenly became worried.

But Zhang Gui seemed to be blind to it.
"Cai Cai, come and taste the cooking skills of your brother, it's beautiful."

"What kind of skills does it take to make a bowl of white noodles? Besides, I can't finish such a big bowl of noodles in two days."

Li Yangcai held Zhang Gui and almost forced the bowl into her arms. The inexplicable confusion she had just felt had long since disappeared without a trace.

"If you want to practice, you have to eat hard." Zhang Gui said indifferently:

“Since you didn’t say ‘no’, I assumed you were willing to practice.

I'll go to the clan's main house and talk to someone later."

"I'm not a blood relative of the Zhang family in Pingyang, how can this work?"

"The "Zonghenglu" is not some top-notch technique.

Only the new powerful people or the impoverished families who are famous in the county or prefecture would treat it as a treasure.

Now I have enough face."

As he spoke, Zhang Gui scooped up a spoonful of noodle soup, rinsed out the sauce taste in his mouth, and wiped his mouth.

He walked out of the yard as soon as he said he would, and strode towards the main house of the Zhang family in Pingyang.

A quarter of an hour later.

He came to the mansion guarded by four inner courtyards, eight middle courtyards, sixteen outer courtyards, and twenty-seven miscellaneous courtyards.

The main gate, which was only opened to receive imperial edicts, high-ranking officials above the third rank, and heads of aristocratic families above the county level, was not open.

The other four side doors were all wide open.

A faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He came to the door as if nothing had happened.

Immediately, an old man dressed in the clothes of a steward but with the power to act as a doorman came to greet him.
"Please come in, Dragon Tiger."

This was a confusing statement, but Zhang Gui simply nodded and followed the old man into the main residence of the Zhang family in Pingyang.

After several twists and turns, we arrived at a small courtyard that seemed to be surrounded by green smoke.

The old man stopped and said again, "Please come in, Longhu."

Zhang Gui took a deep breath, pushed open the gate and walked in.

I bowed deeply to the old figure under the sycamore tree.

"Zhang Jiugui of the Zhang family in Pingyang, meeting the clan leader, great-uncle."

"Guessing that there is benefit, he voluntarily agreed to do it, we are the descendants of the Zhang family in Pingyang.

The dragon and tiger's postures are really flexible, which is very good, very good.

These days, if you pose too rigidly, you won’t survive.”

Zhang Liuduo, the reinstated patriarch of the Pingyang Zhang family, turned around and said expressionlessly.

In just three or two months, he seemed to have aged more than ten years, and his hair turned completely white.

The wrinkles at the corners of the eyes have also become much deeper.

He pointed to a stone seat under the tree and said, "How about we sit down and talk about it?"

"Yes." Zhang Gui answered respectfully.

After all, the old man was his great-uncle in this life.

In the past, one of them was in heaven and the other was on earth, and they had no gratitude towards each other.

But he had never treated Zhang Gui badly before, so he should be more polite. "This is our first meeting.

Too many children in a clan is sometimes not a good thing, as there may be young tigers and black dragons among them without them knowing.

If someone else were to engage in a long, meaningless speech of politeness, Zhang Gui would have interrupted them long ago.

But this time he listened attentively and shook his head from time to time to show his humility.

After a while.

Zhang Liuduo seemed to have finally finished his prelude speech, and suddenly changed the subject.
"He was able to listen to my nonsense for so long, and his expression remained calm the entire time.

Guier, your temperament, cultivation and patience are very different from what the rumors say.

So much better.

did you know.

Over two months ago, where you are sitting now, stood Yin Zhen, the most powerful general of King Zhen's army.

Zhang Gui's eyes widened. "Yin Zhen is that Mr. Yin."

“Who else could it be but him?

Actually, he and I are old friends who have been acquainted for decades."

Zhang Liuduo talked about his previous friendship with Mr. Yin.
Including the fact that his third son Zhang Qitong had taken the "Heavenly Creations" to the Giant Snake Head Island to establish a new branch, which was Mr. Yin's thing, he told everything without hiding anything.

Finally:

"Yin Zhen has been elegant and magnanimous since he was young.

He prides himself on doing things "with 70% effort and 60% success".

He also said that I was "using nine-tenths of my strength to achieve ten-tenths of the victory" and was insatiable.

Although I scolded him for talking nonsense at the time, I agreed with him deep down in my heart.

I often reflect on this and try to control my greed, but I never succeed.

I feel that this is just my nature and I am not as free and easy as my friends.

But that day, I saw from Yin Zhen's eyes the meaning of 'exerting twelve points of strength to achieve a victory'.

It turns out that I am not less free and easy than him, but I am not as crazy as him!
Do you understand what this means?"

"I understand." Zhang Gui swallowed his saliva and said softly:
"In the past, 'use 70% effort, and strategy 60% victory' was because Mr. Yin didn't care much about what he was trying to gain.

People naturally appear elegant and generous and not greedy for things they don't care about.

But when such people encounter something they really care about, their greed may double, even ten or a hundred times.

The saying goes, "Use twelve points of strength to achieve one or two points of victory."

That is, even if the possibility of getting what he wants is very slim, he is willing to take risks for it and die if he doesn't get it.

If a person doesn't care about his own life when doing something, how can he care about the life and death of others? "

"Yes, that's why I was forced to do something that is unbearable to speak of.

"Sitting back on the position of Patriarch of the Pingyang Zhang Family, I'm afraid I won't be able to face my ancestors even after my death."

Zhang Liuduo described his seizure of the throne and his son's murder in a tactful and aggrieved manner, and his tone was extremely sincere.

But Zhang Gui could imagine that Old Deng, with the help of Mr. Yin, took advantage of the situation and kicked his eldest son away, thus regaining the position of the head of the Zhang family in Pingyang. This was certainly due to the pressure of the situation.

But it is absolutely impossible to say that there is no selfishness at all.

The dark and bright sides of human hearts are intertwined and change all the time. Who can see clearly?

However, "speak human words to human beings and speak devil words to devils" is the principle that smart people follow in dealing with others.

Regardless of what Zhang Gui was thinking, his face was filled with grief and indignation, and he gritted his teeth and said:

"There is no greater tragedy in the world than this, but for the sake of family inheritance, what can you do?

I have personally witnessed Mr. Yin's abilities in Zhihai Town. He can change the world with just one hand.

Killing people and bringing them to death is extremely terrifying!
If he really had evil intentions towards the Zhang family in Pingyang during the current chaotic situation.

Then our thousands of followers and tens of thousands of servants would be wiped out overnight."

(End of this chapter)