Teacher of the Emperor

Looking at him desolately: "Do I want to live like this for the rest of my life?" I lowered my head and smiled: "I don't want to. Living like that, life is better than death."

Bai Ru'an's eyes hurt, "Yanzhi!" His voice made me feel like I was dead.

I shook his hand and said, "Brother, I am already a disabled person. I must not miss An An's life. I owe her this life. If there is an afterlife——I will pay it back to the Bai family."

When Bai Ruan was about to leave, he saw Yun Xijing walking in and raised his sleeves to salute him: "Mr. Yun, I was the one who was rude just now, please accept my obeisance." After he finished speaking, he was about to kneel down, and Yun Xijing hugged him: " Master Bai must not."

After sending Bai Ru'an away, I said to Yun Xijing: "Xijing, brother, he's outspoken, he said something wrong, please bear with me."

Yun Xijing smiled at me as usual: "How come? Besides, Master Bai is right, I am the dog of the young master's family." He lowered his head and smiled: "I think I can be this dog all the time. proudly."

Then he looked up at me sincerely: "Really."

I said, "You are not."

Yun Xijing didn't understand the meaning of these words: "Huh?"

I said: "Xijing, you are my most important person, you are not my subordinate or anything—dog, you are me—" When I said this, my old face turned red, "Don't say it, say this kind of thing If it's nasty, I feel uncomfortable."

Yun Xijing asked me: "Then now, the young master is going back to the palace?" He pointed to my body stained with vegetable soup and wine, and said with a smile: "In a few days, I was even splashed several times by someone. It seems that the young master's bad luck It's not over yet."

Looking at the dirty things all over my body, I couldn't help but have a headache, so I could only smile wryly: "It really is like this..."

Yun Xijing said: "I'll go and get you a set of clean clothes. I'll wash this official uniform for you and send it to the palace."

Let him do my laundry again.I watched him walk out the door, and suddenly my heart felt hot, and I shouted: "Xijing!"

He stopped, turned around and looked at me, waiting for me to say the next thing.

I said, "Actually, I—" I blushed, but I still couldn't say anything to confess.He has been by my side day and night for ten years, and I have many opportunities to say something affectionate to him, but I——

I cleared my throat, "I—"

Oops, I'm still too embarrassed to say it.I was even more nervous, and my whole body was in a tense state, "Xijing, that, I—"

He smiled slightly, warmly and serenely.He said softly, "Me too."

He said that and left.I was taken aback.

The carved wooden door closed gently, and I couldn't see the slightly thin figure.

A figure that will always reassure me.In the noisy voices of Luoyang, in the horrified eyes of the world, in the bloodstains everywhere in Anfu, in Wang Heng's sneer after he handed me a cup of poisoned tea, in the miasma in the remote mountains of Guangxi, this thin Back view, bear the blood and deep vengeance for me.

He said he did.

He said he did.

He knows what I'm going to say.

I suddenly covered my face and laughed smugly, like a bitch.I flicked my sleeves full of wine-stained vegetable soup, somersaulted happily in the room, cheered a few times, and stood at the window again, breathing in the fresh air of Luoyang in the clear autumn.

I could even smell the smell of food, and a bit of the residual fragrance of peonies after they withered. There was a busy street outside, and there was a dog lying on the ground over there.

I threw a piece of meat down, the dog was startled, sniffed it, ate it quickly, then looked up at me again, I proudly threw another piece of meat down, like the peddler below looking at me angrily He waved his paw.

At the same time, behind a window that I couldn't see, a person looked at me and sneered: "I just said, he can't make a big deal."

That person was Wang Heng who was drinking with his staff.

The man echoed and said: "Your Excellency has far-sighted considerations. If you hadn't thought carefully at the beginning, today and the next day will be a serious disaster."

Wang Heng looked at me, who was teasing the dog, with a trace of comfort in his eyes: "Unfortunately, the old man of the emperor thought that he had summoned a pillar that could save him, but no matter how good this pillar was, it would have been emptied long ago." .”

When he drank again, he drank more comfortably. Of course, at this time, the news about the queen had not reached his ears.If he heard that incident, he was afraid that all the wine in his throat would be choked into his throat.

Poisonous Puppet

When I returned to the palace, it was already noon. Yulian was taken to Jianzhang Palace by me in the morning, and he didn’t even eat breakfast. Now that I’m not in the palace to take care of him, he must have had lunch early and is ready to take a nap comfortably. I didn't even intend to go to him. Who knew that when I went back to my yard, I saw him walking around in the yard, obviously waiting for me.

Seeing me coming, Yu Lian rushed up to meet me, and was about to say something to me when he saw something, his face darkened again.

I thought to myself that this adolescent child really has a lot to do, and I didn't bother to ask him why he was awkward, so I just said: "You don't take a nap anymore?"

Yu Lian stared at me until I felt uncomfortable: "Why are you staring at Shao Fu? Shao Fu's face is blurred?"

Yu Lianyin laughed: "Young Fu went to have a few words with Mr. Bai. These few words took so long that you even changed your clothes."

I looked at my clothes and thought of the poor official uniform that Bai Ru'an had spilled wine and vegetables on, and I couldn't help but wonder if it would be washable.I was busy with other things, I didn't want to talk nonsense with this kid, so I sent him to sleep directly: "The lunch break is almost over, if you don't go to sleep, don't be sleepy in the afternoon!"

Yu Lian turned his head and left. I looked at this kid suspiciously from behind, wondering what was wrong with him, and when I was about to ignore him, I suddenly thought, when he lost his temper like this last time...

This kid won't plan to lock himself in the temple again, will he?

While I was thinking about it, I wondered if I could find the guards from last time to unload the door, and I thought, when installing the door for him this time, I had to be more careful, so that he couldn't lock it just by saying it.

While I was dealing with puberty kids here, Wang Heng was just as unlucky as I was dealing with menopausal old women at the other end of the palace.

The queen was going crazy in the bedroom, throwing everything she could get her hands on the ground, her hair was messy, and all the maids were kneeling on the ground trembling, not daring to lift their heads, only Yunlu was there to persuade: "Your Majesty, don't be angry, Your Excellency!" Coming soon..."

The queen smashed a celadon vase again, and the exquisite porcelain shards were scattered on the ground, and her hoarse voice was full of resentment: "This bitch!"

I sneezed in the distance.

At this time, Yunlu heard the commotion outside and knew that the savior was coming, so he hurried out of the dormitory to have a look. Seeing Wang Heng coming in a hurry, it was as if he had seen the savior: "My lord, you are here, my lady—"

As soon as Wang Heng entered the door, he saw a woman with disheveled hair and a resentful face yelling, and couldn't help frowning: "Okay! What a big deal, such indecent nonsense!"

Queen Wang flicked her hair: "Brother! Do you know what An Yanzhi did to my Liu Yue! He blocked my face and smashed Liu Yue's wrist, and let Yu Lian watch my joke!"

Wang Heng snorted angrily and threw his sleeves: "How dare you say that? As a queen, you have a face. If it gets out, what will the world say! How many times have I warned you, have you heard it!"

Queen Wang said angrily: "If it wasn't for your power, how could you have ruined my life's happiness and married me into this deep palace! You owe me this!"

Wang Heng frowned slightly: "A woman's opinion!"

The queen put her hands on her hips and sneered sharply: "My wife's opinion? Then you have never thought about who An Yanzhi is! You are not afraid that he will kill my Liu Yue, are you not afraid that he will ruin your big business! You can Don't forget, An Yanzhi was famous all over the world at a young age, and everyone said that he is a great weapon who can assist Mingjun, why, it's only been ten years, and you have forgotten?"

Those resentments that have been squeezed for a long time have long diluted the so-called family ethics, and the interests of the monarch and ministers between the brother and sister have long surpassed the love between brothers and sisters back then.Women, women, don't know what great plans are in the world.She only knows that her father and brother are respected at home, and she obeys her husband when she gets married, and her son after her husband's death. Unfortunately, after she got married, she had nothing.

Wang Heng's ears were already numb after hearing this, and he was too lazy to argue with her: "Then look at this!"

As he spoke, he threw a piece of paper to the queen, who took it over and looked at it blankly: "What is this?"

Wang Heng said: "This is the examination paper of the genius!"

Queen Wang hurriedly glanced at it again, surprised: "How is this possible, what kind of nonsense is this? How did An Yanzhi get such a reputation for his knowledge?"

Wang Heng sat down and drank tea leisurely: "That's right, he, An Yanzhi, is a talented person who is born intelligent and rare in a hundred years, but in the past ten years, he has long been exhausted."

Queen Wang was still looking at the paper, confused: "What?"

Wang Hengdao: "Puppet poisonous insects live by breeding human souls. To put it bluntly, they absorb nutrients from human bodies. They are like cicada chrysalis buried in the ground. In the beginning, they may be lethargic for several years. Grow slowly, and once the time comes, it will quickly suck up the essence of people, and when the time comes, it will grow into an adult insect, and even the smartest person will become a fool."

Queen Wang pondered, "I've heard of this..."

Wang Heng thought of something, and snorted coldly: "I'm just a son like Chen Yi, I don't know how he recognized the scourge of An Yanzhi in the first place. Originally, An's family has already ransacked the house, and the matter is almost over. This kid forced me to say something." An Yanzhi is ill and he will never see me, why did I give birth to such a bastard son! But An Yanzhi is such a person, how can I rest assured to let him live? You must know that if you don’t eradicate the roots, you will inevitably harm yourself.”

There was a trace of cruelty in Wang Heng's smile, and he stretched out his fingers to tap on the mahogany table: "When I pardoned this child, I asked the Holy One to give him a cup of tea. You must drink it. It contains the eggs of poisonous puppet insects. In the past ten years, it is estimated that it has almost hatched."

He looked at the queen who finally stopped crying and going crazy, and said: "Don't worry, he won't live long. Since Chen Yi likes this kid, why don't you let him have a little bit?"

I stood at Yulian's door and knocked on the door: "Open the door!"

There was no response from inside, I looked at the court ladies and eunuchs who were kicked out, all kneeling on the ground with their heads down, very honest.I asked, "What happened to him?"

A group of people hurriedly shook their heads, saying that the slaves don't know and the slaves don't know.

I looked at the people I had invited, and felt that I was overstepping the rules, so I could only say: "Yu Lian, are you angry with Shaofu?"

It's quiet inside.I called out again: "Yulian?"

Now, the little ancestor can be regarded as replying to me: "Students dare not."

I cursed in my heart, don't you dare, kid, don't you dare to lock me out?This wolf-hearted white-eyed wolf, I love him for nothing!

So I waved my hand calmly: "It's demolished."

After a burst of smoke and dust, the gate was lifted away.Unexpectedly, just after the door was removed, when I was about to lift my foot to go in, I heard a roar from inside: "If anyone dares to install this door back, the crown prince will cut off his head!"

This is what Yulian said.

I almost didn't trip over the threshold of the door, what does this kid want to do?I felt the chilly weather in early autumn, and looked at the dormitory where there would be a draft if there was no door, and I suddenly felt very suspicious of his intentions.

Sure enough, the art of war is right, the same move must never be used twice.

I stared at Yulian, who looked at me with innocent eyes.Playing stupid and pure pretending to be pitiful.

I said: "Don't think you have no way here, Shao Fu will let you sleep with me."

Yu Lian spread out his two little paws: "Otherwise, where would I sleep? What if an assassin comes at night? What if I catch a cold due to strong wind? What if I sleepwalk and fall into the well in the middle of the night?"

I:"……"

Yu Lian said, "Young Fu, you opened the door, and you are responsible."

I said: "First of all, if an assassin comes at night, it's useless if you have a door. Secondly, if you catch a cold in the wind, you deserve it. Finally, there is no well within [-] meters in the East Palace. fell into a latrine and drowned."

Then I added leisurely: "Young Fu won't go down to catch you."

Yulian: "..."

I spread out a piece of paper on his desk and said, "Recite this poem by heart."

Yu Lian took it over to have a look, and was silent for three seconds: "Young Fu, is this a poem?"

On a large piece of rice paper, there are densely written characters, the only bigger ones are the two characters on the far left: "Yingyue."

I said: "Ancient poetry is different from the popular quatrains." Then I added: "This shows that you are educated."

Yu Lian was still puzzled: "Even if this poem is well written, what use is it for me to recite it? Now that I am in danger, even if I am proficient in poetry and poetry, how can I be better than when Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was imprisoned?" go?"

I said, "Oh, you still know about Li Yu, Empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty."

Yu Lian said: "It's not that I don't want to learn, it's just that someone persuaded me that only by pretending to be incompetent can I save my life. If the royal family finds out that I have the intention to restore the country and seize power, then there are so many princes in the palace, one more and one less. , there is no difference."

I clicked on the piece of paper on the table: "Recite quickly! There are so many poems and songs, and I didn't let you learn any of them. I only let you recite this one. Of course, there is a purpose."

Seeing that he finally sat down obediently to recite his poems, I studied the ink on the sidelines and said, "It's good that the Wang family is regent and the power is in the hands of the people, but don't forget, your young master is not a vegetarian."

He was reciting it, and when he heard this, he turned to me and asked me: "Is this written by Shao Fu? I always heard that Shao Fu was proficient in all aspects of literature, Taoism and martial arts in the early years, and it is indeed true after seeing it today."

I paused for a while while I was rubbing ink for him: "No. Shao Fu will never be able to write."

Yu Lian giggled and flattered me: "Isn't it true that Shao Fu has fallen in the past few years? When you wrote the capital Fu, the paper in Luoyang was several times more expensive..."

Luoyang paper is expensive.

How many literati and ink writers spend their whole lives hoping that they can be recognized by the world once in a while.Either you will be remembered after thousands of years, or you will be remembered in this life, and the world will praise your poems and compete to copy them, and you will become famous for a while.

I laughed at myself: "Young Fu caused Luoyang City's prices to rise once, so how could it continue to be a disaster. Recite this poem. I asked someone to write it."

Yu Lian recited a few more words, and peeked at me from the corner of his eye. I stood beside him, condescending and saw clearly, to give him face and pretended not to know.

Yu Lian said softly: "Young Fu, do you have something to hide from me?"

I finally stopped and said, "Yulian, can you trust Shaofu?"

Yu Lian said, "If I don't trust Shaofu, who should I trust?"

I said, "Then what if Shaofu lets you die?"

Refer to the deer as the horse

When I entered the Zhongfu, I stood at the door for a long time, looked up at the vermilion lacquered gate of the Zhongfu, feeling a lot of emotion, until a person inside the door said: "What are you doing there!"

I hurried in.Entering Zhong's mansion, it is still the same as ten years ago, the few old women are servants, Zhong Lin is always accompanied by an old servant, Li Guo, and the rest are just a few odd jobs, there is no too much decoration when entering the house , has been incorruptible for more than ten years, and it still looks like this.

Zhong Lin is already over forty years old, but he still hasn't married me. When I worshiped under him, he was a young man in his prime. Now when I come here again, I am nearly thirty years old, and he has sporadic white hair on his temples. .

Back then when Zhong Lin said that the traitor would not be eliminated, he would not marry. There is still no progress in the past ten years. I am afraid that as a master, I will be a bachelor for the rest of my life.

I walked in, even though I knew he was annoying me, I still respectfully saluted him: "Master."

Be a teacher for one day, and be a father for life.

Zhong Lin glanced at me and said, "Come in."

I followed him to the plain seat and looked at the only pot of asparagus on the table, and I couldn't help but wry smile.

Zhong Lin pointed at the asparagus bamboo with his chin: "Recognize it?"

I said: "Of course I recognize it. I dug it out from the Queen's harem. At that time, Wang Chenyi said I was a thief, and I fought with him. It made Master apologize to the political opponents for me. I just Unexpectedly, it can live for so many years when it is planted in a flowerpot."

Zhong Lin looked at the asparagus: "How can you not be alive? You have lived for ten years, isn't it good?"

He was mocking me verbally, and I said, "What Master taught is that disciples cannot avenge my father, disciples are useless and have no courage."

Zhong Lin jumped up, his eyes wide open, looking at me with bloodshot eyes: "Yanzhi!"

I got up from the stool and knelt down to him: "I let Master down."

Zhong Lin sneered: "How can I not understand the apprentice I taught myself! I don't know what kind of person you are! Knowing a son is like a father. I, Zhong Lin, have no children. I have long treated you like my own son. I didn't expect that I would try my best to teach you, but you would not believe me no matter what!"

I was still prostrate on the ground: "Master's words are wrong. This disciple just knows that Wang Heng is strong. Back then, my father lost his life in a fight with him. Master fought against him for ten years without any results. Yanzhi has no ambitions. These two years have been hard." I'm terrified, I just want to be a petty official for the rest of my life."

Zhong Lin said: "Do you think I can't see it! Let me ask you, at your house that day, Wu Ma put hot noodles on your face, how did you feel?"

I got up from the ground, still kneeling, and said with lowered eyes: "It's hot."

Zhong Lindao: "At that time, I knew that you had a lot of ambitions in your chest. Why did you hide it from Master? Even though being a teacher is useless, at least you still have some power, and it won't hold you back. Why can't you let a teacher help you?"

I was still respectful: "Master can see that I have ambitions from a bowl of noodles, but I can only see that I am a starving ghost."

Zhong Lin's eyebrows twitched together: "May I ask among the iron-boned men in high positions in the world, who can be insulted by a woman in the market without moving his face? ?”

I said: "Master has a high opinion of Yanzhi, Yanzhi is just used to being incompetent and afraid of Wu Ma's rolling pin."

Zhong Lin pressed my shoulder with one hand, with such force that he almost crushed my shoulder blades: "I asked the prince, he said that you never taught him the Four Books and Five Classics, but only taught him the art of war—"

I endured the pain in my shoulder: "That's because when Master was teaching Yanzhi's Four Books and Five Classics, Yanzhi felt really bored and accidentally fell asleep. After several years, he forgot all about it. Naturally, he couldn't teach the prince."

Zhong Lin argued with me for a long time, seemed to be exhausted, slowly sat on the chair, leaned his head against the wall, and stared blankly at the front: "Yanzhi...why don't you believe me?"

I haven't.I have always regarded Zhong Lin as my teacher.

He is the pure land in my heart.Ever since I tied up my hair and been taught, I have read the books of sages and followed the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, but what have I gained in the end?I watched helplessly as my family died, and I was exiled to Guangxi with no power to fight back. Every day I lived a life that was worse than death.

But even so, I have never complained about Zhong Lin who taught me all this.He is a monument in my heart, although I have gone through many twists and turns, I no longer dare to believe in saints.

But he is my saint.In this big dyeing vat in Kyoto, I do my own thing without any dust.If I want to take revenge, then this is my family's business. If I win, it will be fine; if I lose, I won't implicate him.

So I just kowtowed three times to him: "The master's kindness in teaching, the apprentice will never forget it. But in the future, there is no repayment. If the master looks at the apprentice and the eyes are off, I will never see the master again."

Zhong Lin suddenly sneered: "Are you trying to sever ties with me?"

I knocked on the ground without looking up.

"The disciple dare not."

Zhong Lin sat on the chair, looked at me from a high position, and said in a cold voice, "I ask you, what do you think of Wang Chenyi?"

I said: "Wang Heng killed my family back then, it had nothing to do with him. If he hadn't protected me, I wouldn't be alive today."

Zhong Lin murmured: "Very good, very good.

"

His voice became more and more tired, he leaned his head against the wall and closed his eyes: "Young Fu, go slowly, the old minister will not see you off."

I kowtowed to him again, got up and left.

When I walked to the door, I heard Zhong Lin say quietly: "Seven days later, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, His Majesty will entertain all the ministers in the palace. Whose idea is it? You should know."

I answered.

Zhong Lin sighed for a long time: "This kind of banquet is mostly dangerous, Shao Fu should be careful." Then, his voice was a little hoarse, as if he was talking to me, and more like saying to himself: "I don't want to Becoming a loner so early on.”

I bowed to him again, slightly cruel: "Your Majesty, thank you for reminding Zhong Xiang."

bell phase.

"Huh?" He sneered, "No!"

■

Luoyang City is noisy and lively, but it is still the same.

When I was standing at the back door of Caixiu Building, smelling of alcohol, I opened my drunken eyes and looked at the shaky sign. After identifying it for a long time, I found that this was the back door. There was no word on it, it was just a sign.

With the jug in one hand, I knocked on the door with the other.

When Yun Xijing opened the door to see it was me, he was surprised at first: "Master?"

Smelling of alcohol, I didn't care whether anyone was watching or not, and bumped into his arms directly, with a bitter smile: "Xijing..."

He smelled the smell of alcohol on my body, quickly helped me in, closed the door, and helped me go in: "Why are you out at this time?"

I laughed a little silly: "I feel uncomfortable, come here to drink like crazy."

He smiled: "Scatter as you please."

I was half-carried by him and brought into the house. He put me on the bed and sat down. He was about to close the door, but I hugged my neck and refused to let go. Walk."

I buried my head in his arms: "Master Zhong Lin doesn't recognize me anymore..."

He froze for a moment, then stretched out his hand to rub my hair: "Isn't this what you've always hoped for?"

I laughed: "Yes, yes."

He couldn't help but smile wryly because of my appearance: "Is this not good?"

I shook my head: "Not good."

He had to squat down, looked at me, and asked seriously: "Why is it not good?"

A man who takes a drunkard's words seriously is either a madman or a fool.I laughed at him for being stupid.He still asked me seriously: "Why not?"

I couldn't tell, pointing to my chest: "It hurts here."

Yun Xijing sighed.I also sighed like him.It's just that he sighed and frowned, and I laughed after learning.

I said: "Xijing, Xijing! Now even Master Zhonglin is gone, I'm left with you..." After I finished speaking, I hugged his head and cried like a fool.I said, "What if I lose? Xijing, what if I lose?"

While crying, I wiped my snot and tears on his collar, thinking that his collar was soaked, and I wiped his sleeves, making a mess of his clothes, and then I let him go: "Okay, you Go out, my young master is going to sleep."

Then I really lost consciousness and fell asleep in his arms.I don't know anything else, I just remember his embrace, which is extremely warm.

It was getting dark when I returned to the palace. Before I left, Xijing gave me the washed official uniform. I hugged it in my arms and smelled the aroma of acacia on it.

I said, "Xijing is the best."

He said: "Master, go back earlier, be careful on the way."

I have been a grandson outside for a whole day, but when I enter the palace, I become Lao Tzu again.This role change, I... can't stand it.

When I went back to the palace, Yu Lian was sitting in my room reading a book, and raised his eyes to look at me: "Did you enjoy your wine, Shao Fu?"

I smelled my clothes, and sure enough the smell of alcohol was still there.This is great, coming into the palace reeking of alcohol, tomorrow I will be admitted again.ignore him.

I threw the official uniform on the bed, and said to the little bastard sitting on the bed reading, "Go back to your own room."

I can't say that he is a little beast. If he is a little beast, I would be disrespectful and have to beheaded if I reasoned it step by step.

Yu Lian also turned a page of the book before saying: "I asked someone to fix the door of the bedroom for me, but no one dared to go, and I have no choice but to spend the night with Shao Fu."

I thought of his words, and secretly wondered who would dare to install the door for him.That's all, tomorrow Japanese Shaofu will personally install the door for him, I'll see who dares to kill Ben Shaofu.

After he lay down on the bed, I sat down at the table and began to record everything that happened throughout the day word by word. I remember that I was a little tired.

I thought Yulian had already fallen asleep, so I gently opened the window to see the moonlight outside.This late night palace is the quietest, a round moon that is about to be full hangs in the sky.

I heard rustling sounds on the bed, probably because Yu Lian turned over.Yu Lian's voice sounded: "Young Fu, what have you been doing all day?"

I close the window and shut out the moonlight. "nothing."

After a while, I said again: "The Mid-Autumn Festival will be in seven days. Your Majesty will hold a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace for all officials."

Yu Lian was obviously surprised: "Banquet for all the officials?"

I nodded.

Yu Lian said: "But the Mid-Autumn Festival is always a family reunion. All officials only have a Mid-Autumn Festival once a year. This time I come to the palace, not to mention hypocrisy. Isn't the Mid-Autumn Festival a nameless one?"

I smiled: "Yulian, have you ever heard the term 'referring a deer to a horse'?"

Rolling and climbing

In the Qin Dynasty, the eunuch Zhao Gao tried to seek power and usurp the throne. In order to test which ministers in the court obeyed his wishes, he specially presented a deer to Hu Hai and said it was a horse.Hu Hai didn't believe it, so Zhao Gao asked all the ministers in the court hall, is this a deer or a horse?

Zhao Gao's cronies naturally said it was a horse, and those who dared not offend the powerful also said it was a horse, and those who firmly believed in the truth and would not be moved by power were executed one by one after telling the truth.

That day was Zhao Gao, today is Wang Heng.Inviting you to the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is a temptation.As for whether you will come or not, it's up to you.Whether he kills you or not is up to him.

This is Wang Heng's mind.

So after I said this word to Yu Lian, he immediately understood.He lay on the bed, staring blankly at the empty night: "Can't he wait any longer?"

I said, "He can't wait."

After that, I didn't speak any more, and the night was quiet. After a while, I went to see him again, and he was already asleep.A ray of moonlight slipped in through the crack of the door and shone on his face.The young man frowned slightly in his sleep, as if he had something on his mind.

I stood on the bed and looked at him, thinking of the answer he gave me today.

At that time, I asked Yu Lian: "What if Shao Fu wants you to die?"

Yu Lian was taken aback for a moment, apparently not believing it: "You want me to die?"

I nodded, "Yeah."

Yu Lian pouted: "Then I must be very sad."

I asked: "No more?"

Yu Lian shrugged again: "No more. Anyway, I'll be dead by then." He said, "If even Shao Fu wants to kill me, I won't resist."

I still asked that sentence: "Do you trust Shao Fu?"

Yulian still gave the same answer: "Trust."

I said, "Even if Shao Fu wants you to die?"

Yu Lian was a little embarrassed, he lowered his head and thought for a while, then nodded again: "Yes."

■

The days go by fast.

On August [-]th, on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the palace is brightly lit, as bright as day.All the officials in Luoyang arrived so neatly, I am afraid that if the emperor really came to invite them, there would be no such formation.The officials sat down one by one, the emperor sat on the high platform, the prime minister Wang Heng sat on his right, and his good queen Wang Qiang sat on the left.One on the left and one on the right, forming a flanking situation, the emperor sitting in the middle has been stupid all his life, and now his mind is probably smarter than ever.

The moon is full during the Mid-Autumn Festival, singing and dancing are peaceful, and all the officials laugh at Yan Yan, but in fact they hide their murderous intentions.All the officials in Luoyang, apart from Zhong Lin's loyal officials, even a few princes from far away came to celebrate, which shows the decline of the royal family.

But this time, there was still one person who didn't show up.

Bai Ru'an, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, didn't even ask for leave, and even didn't arrive, Wang Heng's expression was very subtle.

Yu Lian's complexion was even more subtle. From the beginning of the banquet, he sat next to me and stared at Wang Chenyi in the distance, and has been staring until now.

I added a piece of meat to him: "Eat vegetables!"

……

Yu Lian said angrily, "Young Fu, from the banquet until now, he has been staring at you without moving his eyes!"

I poured the wine calmly: "From the beginning of the banquet to now, you have been staring at him without moving, aren't you tired?"

Yu Lian said angrily: "That's because he stared at you first!"

I said, "You are not happy when others stare at me, but if you stare at others, he will be happy?"

Although Yu Lian was not happy, he lowered his head and ate the vegetables as I said.I nodded to Wang Chenyi and smiled, but he froze for a moment and didn't respond.

Halfway through the singing and dancing, Wang Heng got up and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, how can you do without poetry during this Mid-Autumn Festival? Most of the people sitting under this stage are talented people, why don't you have a Mid-Autumn Festival poetry feast?"

How dare the emperor say something bad?

So everyone started to compose poems, and I asked Yu Lian to write the one he had memorized, but Yu Lian was a little reluctant: "Can't I write it myself?"

I was quite interested, and looked at him with my chin: "Yo, you can also write poetry?"

Yu Lian blushed, bowed his head and wrote the poem silently.

After everyone's poems were taken out, they enjoyed them together. Wang Heng read them one by one and praised: "The poems and proses of the Minister of Rites are really unique in Kyoto, and their reputation is well-deserved."

The Minister of the Ministry of Rites naturally stood up and flattered: "What are the poems of the lower officials? If they are good, the poems of Prince Wang are the best. They are elegant and graceful, how can they be compared with my generation?"

Another person joked: "I just don't know which beauty Wang Gongzi wrote this poem for? Why don't you tell me about this deep lovesickness now, and take advantage of this Mid-Autumn Festival to ask for a happy event?"

When I heard this, I suddenly felt something was wrong. I was gnawing on an apple—you must know that I have never eaten an apple in this season when I grow up. At this moment, my mouth is full of apple crumbs. When I raised my eyes and saw Wang Chenyi staring at me, I had a bad feeling When it rose up, all the apples spewed out of its mouth.

Yu Lian was startled: "Young Fu, what's wrong with you?"

I drank a sip of wine to calm my shock, "It's okay, Shao Fu choked."

Another person said: "Whose poem is this? It's very literary and well written, but why is it not signed?"

I sat far away from Yulian, and I asked him, "Why didn't you write your name?"

Yu Lian lowered his head: "I was nervous just now, I forgot."

Wang Heng took the piece of paper, his face froze: "I read that right, this is His Royal Highness's words?"

Yu Lian stood up and bowed to everyone: "I just laughed."

The smile on Wang Heng's face was quite forced: "The prince is really good at poetry and prose. Sure enough, An Shaofu is a man of great learning, and the students he teaches are also dragons and phoenixes among the people."

I also stood up and raised my sleeves: "My lord Wang's words are wrong. If you don't teach me, the prince is also a dragon among men."

Wang Hengdao: "It's my minister who made a mistake."

The emperor panicked: "Where, how could Aiqing be wrong?"

I glanced at the emperor who was imprisoned on the golden chair in Kowloon, and felt that he was very pitiful.

Wang Heng put down Yulian's paper and let others read it, but deliberately flipped through the poems: "Why don't you see An Shaofu's poems?"

I said lightly: "Your Excellency, you are joking, the lower officials have no talent and cannot write poems."

Everyone was quiet, and at this time, a very clear voice sounded: "But I remember that An Shaofu became famous all over the world ten years ago, and he became famous for a while when he made Kyoto Fu, and everyone rushed to copy it. Luoyang paper was expensive for a while. , so far it is a good story.”

It was Wang Chenyi who said this.He stood far away at the other end of the banquet, looking at me with a questioning look in his eyes.The moon is full in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the moon is bright and clear. The person I knew when I was young stood at the side of the splendid banquet, looking at me quietly.

However, unlike him, there was a trace of pleasure on his father's face, and he said to me: "An Shaofu wrote the Fu in the capital with eloquence, and the world praised it as a swan song, why is he humbled today? I remember the sentence in it, it is really impossible for the world to write again: the sun and the moon have nothing to do with astronomy, and the four seas have nothing to know about geography, so the sage looks up and looks down, and the poor must be disciplined. What a good sentence this is , why did An Shaofu refuse?"

I knew he was deliberately provoking me, so I kept my face and endured it all: "Prime Minister is absurd."

At this time, Wang Heng's staff member Chen Qiyue suddenly