The historian can't write

The cold wind howled, and with the lightning and thunder, the torrential rain became heavier and heavier, and the sound of the rain outside the door never stopped.In the middle of the night, the sound of dripping rain leaked again in the house.

Cui Jingxing was awakened by a thunderstorm. He covered his eyes and gasped for a moment, got up to get the wooden basin, and then the rainwater leaked out.

As soon as Cui Jingxing who was next to him moved, Mu Shufeng woke up, half-closed his eyes and opened the curtain of the bed, saw Cui Jingxing limping around on the ground with several pots in his hands, and asked, "Sleepwalking? "

Cui Jingxing slowed down and said, "The house is leaking."

Mu Shufeng couldn't understand, "Isn't the house sheltered from the wind and rain? Why is it still leaking?"

"..." Cui Jingxing said: "There is a severe drought in the world, starvation is everywhere, Emperor Hui of Jin once said, 'Why don't you eat minced meat?'."

Mu Shufeng was completely awake this time, "Are you mocking me?"

Cui Jingxing put the wooden basin away slowly, and continued: "I just lament that my lord has a good life, and he is as ignorant of the sufferings of the world as Emperor Hui."

Mu Shufeng was silent for a moment and said, "I'm sorry." The house he lived in did not leak, and he thought that the house was like a cave, and it would not leak at all.

Cui Jingxing froze slightly when he got up, and looked at Mu Shufeng in surprise, that this person would even apologize.

Lightning penetrated the room, and Mu Shufeng saw Cui Jingxing's expression clearly, and immediately frowned: "Why are you surprised? Am I such an unreasonable person?"

"It is rumored to be."

"Hmph." Mu Shufeng put down the bed curtain and lay back, and he didn't intend to argue.

Cui Jingxing said: "There are no tigers in the street market, the three people rumored that there are tigers, and then everyone believes that there are tigers in the street market, so it can be seen that rumors should not be trusted."

Mu Shufeng didn't speak.

After Cui Jingxing put all the wooden basins away, he sneezed before going to bed and laying down slowly.

"Dong dong dong..." The rain dripped into the wooden barrel in a hurry and slow, knocking out the rhythm, which was particularly harsh in the dark night.

Except for the sound of wind and rain in the house, the two of them remained silent, as if they had already fallen asleep, but after a long while, Mu Shufeng suddenly said: "The rumors are not entirely credible, but they are somewhat true. Whoever dares to lie next to me without any suspicion , you are still the first."

"What do you mean by that, my lord?"

"It's just a sigh." Mu Shufeng said, "I have held the emperor to monopolize the government for many years, and I thought that old-fashioned nerds like you would dislike me the most."

Cui Jingxing listened to the sound of the rain and said in silence for a while: "The Ji clan expelled its king Lu Zhaogong from the country, and Lu Zhaogong was not allowed to return to the country until his death, but all the subjects surrendered to the Ji clan, and no one blamed the Ji clan. The people don't know the king; the ministers are diligent in governing, and the people are convinced. Shi Mo once said that "the state is impermanent, and the monarch and ministers have no permanent position". Yin and Yang rotate, and the sun and the moon alternate. There is no fixed reason. A common man, after three generations from a humble family, may become a nobleman."

Mu Shufeng turned his head to look at Cui Jingxing who was next to him, but he couldn't see anything in the pitch blackness. He pursed his lower lip, "You agree with my approach, do you think I'm not a traitor?"

He didn't really believe that this nerd could have such a bold idea, and all the old-fashioned people in the court who were similar to this nerd were screaming at him behind his back.

Sure enough, Cui Jingxing fell silent.

Mu Shufeng's heart sank slightly, and he said lightly, "Tell me, I won't blame you."

Cui Jingxing said: "The Ji family expelled Lu Zhaogong and seized the throne. Then the Ji family died, and Yang Hu, a retainer of the Ji family, imprisoned the son of the Ji family and seized the throne. Three years later, the son of the Ji family expelled Yang Hu and regained the throne. After another year, the Marquis wanted to seize power again... Such chaos is due to the fact that the monarch and his ministers did not keep their positions, and the upper beam was not upright and the lower beam was crooked. When the Ji family seized the throne, he should also think of him His retainers will follow his example."

Mu Shufeng didn't interrupt him.

Cui Jingxing continued to speak in a soft voice: "My son said, 'Monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons', a monarch should behave like a king, and ministers should behave like a minister. Only in this way can the world be peaceful. If the monarch is stupid, the capable ministers will have different ideas, so there will be troubled times."

When Mu Shufeng heard him stop, he said in the usual tone: "Continue."

Cui Jingxing said: "The lower officials think that the situation of 'the emperor and the ministers are impermanent' exists, but what the emperor and the ministers have to do is to prevent this from happening. Your Excellency has been running the government for many years, and the lower officials feel that your Excellency has no intention of usurping the throne. Your Excellency has assumed the role of a minister, but the current emperor is young and ineffective.

"That's why the lower officials believe that there are rumors inside and outside the court that your lord is arbitrarily authoritarian. The problem is not with your lord, but with your majesty."

Mu Shufeng was a little annoyed at first, but he felt more at ease when he heard this. If the emperor hadn't been in a daze, how could he have become a treacherous official who asserted power?Obviously he can also become a virtuous minister like Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui.

There was a faint smile on Mu Shufeng's face, but his voice was still cold and clear, "You have some knowledge, those books are not in vain, and it is a waste of talents to stay in the history museum to study history."

Cui Jingxing heard the words and said: "To study the history of the country is the lifelong wish of a subordinate official. If the emperor acts like a king, and a minister like your lord acts like a minister, then what we and other historians practice is the way of supervision."

Mu Shufeng said: "So you are willing to stay in the history museum for the rest of your life?"

"It's okay to stay in the history museum for the rest of my life. I'm afraid that I won't be able to write a history book that supervises the emperor and ministers, deters villains, and warns future generations."

Mu Shufeng was stunned for a moment, and lightning flashed across Cui Jingxing's face, and that face gradually overlapped with the person in his memory.After a while, he suddenly laughed, "Since you have such an ambition, if you encounter any troubles in compiling history in the future, you can come to me."

Cui Jingxing said seriously: "My lord is wise."

"How am I so wise?"

"Your Excellency can support the compilation of national history without selfishness, which is really admirable to the lower officials."

After hearing this sentence, Mu Shufeng smiled and said, "I'm not a narrow-minded person."

Cui Jingxing covered his mouth and coughed twice, and was about to continue talking, but was stopped by Mu Shufeng.

"You have a cold, so go to bed early."

"Yeah." Cui Jingxing took a look at Mu Shufeng, and slowly closed his eyes. He didn't continue to apply to enter the secret pavilion, and he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Today's conversation can achieve such a result, which already makes him very satisfied. The future will be long .

After a while, Mu Shufeng suddenly said: "You said a lot just now, are you just turning a corner and flattering me?"

Cui Jingxing said without changing his expression, "Why did your lord say that?"

After Mu Shufeng finished speaking, he also felt that his guess was a bit outrageous, and regardless of whether this nerd would flatter or not, even if he could, Cui Jingxing had no reason to flatter him. Guarding the one-acre three-point land of the History Museum.He frowned slightly, "It's nothing, I was thinking too much."

"Yeah." Cui Jingxing turned his back to him, and gently wiped the corner of his mouth.

The author has something to say: Mu Shufeng: "Were you really flattering back then?"

Cui Jingxing: "Don't ask, asking is the real feeling."

Mu Shufeng: "..."

Remarks: "The society is impermanent, and the monarch and ministers have no permanent position" comes from "Zuo Zhuan. Zhaogong 32 years": (Shi Mo) "Lu Jun's life will be lost, Ji's family will cultivate his diligence, and the people will forget the king. Although he died outside, Who is it? The country is impermanent, and the monarch and ministers have no permanent positions. This has been the case since ancient times. Therefore, the "Poem" says: "The high bank is the valley, and the deep valley is the mausoleum." The surnames of the three empresses are known to the king today."