Those lips were so soft they seemed to be brushed by a feather, a petal.

His breath hit his face, hot as hell.

The scent of mugwort leaves and saponins from his body lingered in his nostrils, surpassing all spices in the world.

There were footsteps coming from a distance outside the door, Zhu Yingtai stood up abruptly, took a small step back, glanced at Ma Wencai lying unconscious on the bed, turned and walked out the door.

Sanqi came over with hangover soup, saw him, leaned over, and said, "Master Zhu, you go back and rest?"

Zhu Yingtai nodded, with a calm expression, said: "Go and see Yihua, he took off his coat."

Sanqi opened her eyes wide, said "Ouch", and walked quickly into Ma Wencai's room.

Zhu Yingtai walked steadily, walked back to her room, closed the door behind her back, and let out a long breath.The hands caged in the sleeves have been clenched subconsciously, and the knuckles are a little white.

He was lying on the bed with his clothes on, and suddenly raised his hand to touch his lips, and smiled brightly.

For several days after the Dragon Boat Festival, the academy seemed to be still in the festive atmosphere.What the students love most is to get together at night to write poems and sometimes drink some wine.

The theme of the poem is naturally Qu Yuan.I don't know when, the world has spread that the Dragon Boat Festival is the day when Qu Yuan threw himself into the river. Literati and inkmen love to express their loyalty to the emperor and their country or their depression.What's more, the great Chu Dynasty is now forced to retreat to the south, half of the land falls into the hands of others, and the court is also in constant disputes, which is very suitable for poetry and reciting.

On the third day of the Dragon Boat Festival, a volume of anthologies of Dragon Boat Festival poems that I don't know where appeared in the academy.Most of the authors are well-known Qingliu scholars in the literary world, and these poems seem to have been written when they met at the Dragon Boat Festival.

The three of them, Ma Wencai, have also read or heard these poems read.Liang Shanbo only said that these poems are well written, with exquisite words and profound ideas.But in Ma Wencai and Zhu Yingtai's view, many of these poems have too much political meaning, and they almost call the monarch by name and name for being stupid, and the Qi family controls the government and is ambitious.

The more they watched, the more startled they became.These poems are known to everyone in their academy, how can the Qi family and the emperor not know?

Given how narrow-minded the Qi family is, how could they tolerate the accusations and criticisms of these people?

"Where did these poems come from?" Zhu Yingtai frowned, with a rare serious expression.

"Mr. Zhou didn't restrain himself?" Ma Wencai was also very surprised.

"Mr. Zhou probably doesn't know yet," Liang Shanbo said. "These are circulated privately by the students, saying they are 'forbidden poems', so no one has ever brought them to the gentlemen."

Zhu Yingtai sneered and said, "If it's really a 'forbidden poem', how can it be circulated among the people? I'm afraid it was deliberately said by someone for the sake of sensationalism."

"If one is bad, these poems will be fatal." Ma Wencai sighed and said, "No, I'm going to find Mr. Zhou."

Zhu Yingtai nodded, and said: "I will go with you, and I should ask Mr. Zhou to investigate strictly."

If it is as Liang Shanbo said, Mr. Zhou has never seen or heard these Dragon Boat Festival poems with the title of "forbidden poems" in the academy.

When Ma Wencai and Zhu Yingtai talked about the grand occasion of reciting poems in the academy, the old man's complexion became somewhat gloomy.

"Oh! Stupid! Extremely stupid!" There seemed to be some water in his eyes for a moment, and he didn't know who he was talking about.

"I've heard about these poems a long time ago. I just thought that the students in the academy didn't have that way to get them, so I didn't pay much attention to them. Who would have thought..." He sighed again.

Ma Wencai and Zhu Yingtai secretly exchanged glances, and stood quietly by the side without making a sound.

Mr. Zhou came back to his senses after a while, wiped his face, cheered up, and said: "Go back first, burn all these poems when you see them, and don't tell anyone about them. This academy, I should Well restrained."

Soon, the academy took action. Mr. Zhou began to strictly check attendance in classes and forbid students to drink alcohol.If there is a student gathering, he will also ask people to watch it.The ethos of the academy suddenly became austere.

However, these still cannot affect the spread of the Dragon Boat Festival poetry anthology, and Mr. Zhou also knows that it cannot be banned explicitly, but it will make the students more curious.He just called several leaders to have a private talk, and he didn't know what he said. These students all left with red eyes, without mentioning the Dragon Boat Festival poetry anthology.Based on this, Mr. Zhou also found the source of the circulation of the anthology in the academy.

The student returned home during the Dragon Boat Festival and saw this collection of poems from a distant relative who was out of town.Because the poems themselves were well written and rumored to be "forbidden poems", he couldn't help but sneak them to the academy to show off to a few friends, and then they spread explosively.

Mr. Zhou finally made another big move, the college exam.There are rumors secretly that those who do well in the exam will be rewarded, and those who do not do well in the exam may not be able to stay in the academy.

With this matter under their heads, the students had no choice but to restrain their minds obediently and concentrate on studying.Mr. Zhou took this opportunity to thoroughly check the idle books of the students, and collected the selection of Dragon Boat Festival poems among the miscellaneous novels and pictures of erotic palaces.

This time, I found nearly ten volumes of transcripts of the Dragon Boat Festival anthology, and Mr. Zhou was terrified.If someone with a heart knows, he will never be able to protect these students!

Zhu Yingtai and Ma Wencai were also relieved to see that Mr. Zhou acted neatly. In just two days, there was an atmosphere of hard work in the academy.

No one in the academy mentioned the poetry anthology of the Dragon Boat Festival anymore, but outside it looked completely different.

The Ma family sent a letter, saying that the Dragon Boat Festival poetry anthology was so uproar outside that even the peddlers could read a sentence or two.They told Ma Wencai not to pay attention to this collection of poems, but to burn them when they saw them, and to treat them as if they hadn't heard them.The Zhu family also specially sent a confidant to tell Zhu Yingtai that the Qi family seemed to be doing something secretly, telling him to stay in the academy and not to make any movement.It seems that the situation is not good.

Within two days, Mr. Zhou suddenly came to them, with a very unsightly expression on his face.

He went into the study alone with Ma Wencai and Zhu Yingtai, and drove the others out, not even Ah Cheng.

He hesitated a few times, and said with difficulty: "Old man, I would like to ask the two of you for help."

Ma Wencai's heart skipped a beat, and he said hastily, "Sir, why did you say that? Let's say it first. If there is someone we can help, we will not refuse."

Seeing the old god Zhu Yingtai sitting on the ground, Mr. Zhou said without saying a word, with a bitter expression on his face, "I also know that this request is really difficult, but I can't think of a better way right now, so I can only ask you here." .”

It was only when Marvin saw him so humble that he felt extremely uncomfortable.Mr. Zhou is a teacher with profound knowledge and good morality. He wanted to say something, but Zhu Yingtai stopped him with a touch on his arm.Seeing that Zhu Yingtai shook her head slightly, he chose to keep her mouth shut.

Mr. Zhou paused for a while, lowered his head as if trying to organize his words, and then slowly talked about what happened recently.

Since he strictly controlled the entire academy, he even took care of internal and external communications.Except for the two aristocratic children, Zhu and Ma, all the letters received and sent by the other students were reviewed by him before they were handed over to the students or sent out.Sure enough, there were one or two letters that mentioned the Dragon Boat Festival poetry anthology, and those who spoke highly of it were directly burned by him.He also specifically explained the possible impact of this matter to the students involved, even for the sake of the peace of the Nine Clans, he must not mention it.For such a student, he deliberately found someone to watch secretly.

However, turmoil outside the academy gradually arose.

In the Dragon Boat Festival Poetry Club, several of them were his former friends or students.Since he left the court, he has broken all relations with these people on the surface, but he still has occasional contact secretly.In the past two days, he received messages from two old friends one after another, saying that among the people who participated in the poetry meeting that day, there were several people who could no longer be contacted.They were uneasy, hoping to come to him to avoid the limelight.

Speaking of this, Mr. Zhou looked at the two of them with hope in his eyes.

Back then when he was forced by the Qi family, the whole family had no means of living for a while, but it was a few old friends who secretly rescued him and saved his family's lives.Now, he must not stand by and watch them suffer.

Zhu Yingtai smiled decently, and said: "Mr. Zhou, this is a big problem for our two students. Now the students only bring the school boy to study in this academy, how can we help you?"

Mr. Zhou hurriedly said: "I know this is very embarrassing, I just want to find a place to hide them, just escape this for a while."

"Hiding? Where are you hiding?" Zhu Yingtai asked, "Could it be hiding in Ma Taishou's mansion, or in Zhujiazhuang?"

Mr. Zhou didn't make a sound, he always held a glimmer of hope in his heart.

Zhu Yingtai smiled with a trace of coldness, and said: "Mr. Zhou, you want to save your old friend, but it is impossible for me to match up with my Zhu family or Ma family for this. If this is what you are asking for, it is absolutely impossible .”

Seeing Ma Wencai's unbearable face and the look in his eyes seemed a little wrong, he quickly softened his tone and explained: "It's not that our two families can't protect two people, it's just that some poems in this anthology are too big It's disrespectful. Since some people have lost their traces, the Qi family must have locked them all in. At this time, if you contact them again, and then send them to the Ma family or Zhu family, this is sending the knife to Qi's family. In the hands of the family, our two families also have the suspicion of being disrespectful to the lord. This method is absolutely unfeasible."

Ma Wencai showed approval on his face, and Zhu Yingtai secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Mr. Zhou could also think clearly, and said with a wry smile: "It's the old man's fault, I'm sorry."

Zhu Yingtai shook her head and persuaded: "Mr. Zhou is eager to save people, how can the students blame you. It's just that Mr. may be sure that those two old friends sent the news, not the Qi family using this to catch you?"

Mr. Zhou showed a rare smile when he heard this, and said: "We have our own very special contact method, which are secret letters sent through several layers of camouflage, and no one can know that there is still contact between us. It was like this back then, and I was able to survive under the siege of the Qi family."

Ma Wencai squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then said, "The student has an idea, I don't know if it will work."

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