Volume 1 Jiangdong Fengyun Chapter 26: Kong Wenju is not recognized by his relatives
"Godfather? You, you... Mr. Bai... was it that Lu Bu who forced you to do this? This... I don't agree!" Kong Rong said angrily.
Kong Rong had seen through Cao Cao's conspiracy before, but... he never expected it to develop like this!
Kong Rong was very indignant. Although it had nothing to do with him, he had previously regarded Bai Tu as a great Confucian scholar like himself, so he felt very involved in the situation.
Who is Lu Bu in Kong Rong's view?
Even though killing Dong was justified, and Lu Bu was now officially recognized as a loyal and righteous man by the Han Dynasty, but... most Confucian scholars, including Kong Rong, thought that this guy was very dirty!
Kong Rong imagined that if he was forced to recognize Lu Bu as his adoptive father...how could he tolerate this?
Even though Lu Bu had a big fist, Kong Rong really dared to argue with him.
But at this time Bai Tu stopped him, and said in a half-comforting, half-warning tone: "Wen Ju misunderstood! How could someone force me to do this? Of course I volunteered!"
Looking at Bai Tu's expression that said "no one can separate me and my adoptive father", Kong Rong felt like he was seeing a ghost.
"Voluntary? You... just to go to Yangzhou? Wait, if you volunteered, Lu Bu... cough, General Lu was not angry?" Kong Rong thought about it. If someone really wanted to take the initiative to worship Lu Bu as his adoptive father, it would probably be over by now.
"Hehe, I was indeed a little reckless, but this is all Chen Gongtai's fault! But my adoptive father didn't blame me either." Bai Tu said embarrassedly.
"Chen Gong? What does it have to do with him?" Kong Rong was even more confused.
"This man... is a beast!" Bai Tu immediately began to attack Chen Gong, accusing him of instigating him to hit on the sixteen-year-old Lu Lingqi.
Is this something a human would do?
"Why do I feel that Gongtai's idea is more... ahem, let's not talk about this for now. In other words, do you really want to go to Yangzhou to take up the post?" Kong Rong originally wanted to say that Chen Gong's idea was more appropriate, but in order to avoid Bai Tu saying that he was also a beast, he swallowed his words back.
"That's right, Cao Cao... Looking at what he did in Xuzhou, we know that he is definitely not a good person! Wen Ju is a scholar, so he might as well return to his hometown in Lu County and concentrate on completing the correction of "Qieyun"! This is a great event that will benefit future generations." Bai Tu specifically advised.
After all, with Kong Rong's temper, if he returned to Xu Du, his future safety would be difficult to guarantee.
"You want me to go to Lu County by myself to correct the Qieyun?" Kong Rong said, staring at Bai Tu.
"What's wrong?" Bai Tu asked puzzledly.
"In your opinion, I, Kong Wenju, am a person who is afraid of death and wants to steal human merits?" Kong Rong said excitedly.
“No…” Bai Tu felt very wronged. How could Kong Rong read it this way?
When Kong Rong first came to Pei County, he already knew why the accent of "Qieyun" was so strange, especially after meeting Lu Lingqi - it was the standard accent of a Bingzhou woman!
Therefore, Kong Rong had talked to Bai Tu about the standard pronunciation before.
In fact, there is no unified standard now. What Kong Rong meant was that it is better to use the accent of the Central Plains, which has the largest number of speakers, namely Sili, and the three states of Yan, Yu and Xu as the standard pronunciation.
Although Bingzhou and Liangzhou were also states, their populations were extremely small. According to statistics before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the registered population of Liangzhou was only 470,000 and that of Bingzhou was only 690,000...
Jingzhou had the largest population of 6.27 million, followed by Jizhou with 5.8 million and Yizhou with 5.68 million. Yuzhou and Yanzhou, which seemed very small, had 5.16 million and 4.04 million people respectively.
On the one hand, it is because Liangzhou and Bingzhou are indeed relatively desolate and have a smaller population. On the other hand... these two states are almost a mixture of Han and Hu people. You cannot tell anything just by looking at the area. People who really understand know that maps cannot explain the problem. The Han and Hu borders in Liangzhou and Bingzhou are very vague. In the scope of some Han Dynasty maps, there are actually many Qiang and Hu people, but the registered population only includes people of the Han Dynasty!
The accent is also influenced by Qiang and Hu. The accents of Liangzhou and Bingzhou are quite special, and the male and female accents are different...
When Kong Rong and Bai Tu talked about this before, their tone was also very strange - Mingming's accent was quite standard, but how come Qieyun was completely in Bingzhou accent? And it was the accent of a Bingzhou woman!
Bai Tu also humbly accepted the suggestion and now wanted to hand over the entire "Qieyun" to Kong Rong for compilation.
After all, the hundreds of words marked before were already a headache for Bai Tu.
Anyway, the spiritual power amplification effect of "The Grandmaster of Enlightenment" will also be effective for the elementary school books that are processed and adapted from the four books of enlightenment, but the effect slightly worse...
However, Kong Rong did not think so. He just wanted to assist Bai Tu in writing. If he let him write directly, wouldn't it be stealing Bai Tu's literary merit? Would he have the nerve to do that?
"I, Kong Wenzhi, am sitting upright. If Mr. Bai agrees, this Yangzhou... If Mr. Bai dares to go, Wenju can also go!" Kong Rong said seriously.
Bai Tu felt from the bottom of his heart that a great scholar like Kong Rong could only play a limited role in a chaotic world. He should just stay in one place and study, avoid the most chaotic times, and then come out to be a mascot when the situation becomes clearer...
What's the point of going to Yangzhou with him? Can he lead troops or govern the local area? I'm afraid he can't do either. Even if he can govern the local area, Kong Rong is only suitable for governing in peaceful years!
However, thinking of Kong Rong's deeds and knowing that this guy would not recognize his relatives when he went crazy, Bai Tu had no choice but to agree for the time being.
The next morning, Bai Tu was still a little shy, not knowing how to face his new "adoptive father"...
Originally, Bai Tu didn't think too much about it. He just wanted to treat it as a godfather and visit relatives during the holidays, but... everyone else looked very formal, which made him a little overwhelmed.
At this moment, Lu Bu took the initiative to send someone to find him, saying that he would go to his mansion for a "family dinner" at noon today.
On the way, Bai Tu ran into Lu Lingqi and greeted her awkwardly, "What a coincidence?"
Lu Lingqi rolled her eyes and said, "What's so coincidental about this? You're going to the family dinner, so why wouldn't I go?"
"That's right, we'll be a family from now on!" Bai Tu said casually, but after saying it, he still felt awkward.
Lu Lingqi: ...
The two walked side by side in silence. After a while, Lu Lingqi suddenly said, "Actually, I don't really, extremely, or particularly hate you. It's just that it happened too suddenly, and..."
After hearing what happened after she left yesterday, Lu Lingqi realized that she had misunderstood Bai Tu. When she saw Bai Tu today, she felt a little uncomfortable and felt that it would be better to explain it.
"And I always feel that my future husband must be someone who can step on the colorful clouds and take the head of a general amidst thousands of troops?" Bai Tu added jokingly.
"Bah! How can I be so superficial!" Lu Lingqi said as she wanted to make a fist towards Bai Tu, but suddenly she discovered that in the distance at the Lu Mansion... her father was actually waiting for her to come back at the door?
