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Hanlin had a dream. He dreamed that he was lying under the new king. At first, he thought it was his unspeakable thoughts that made him have an absurd dream. Obscene trousers, lying on the bed after thinking about it for a while before calming down, seeing that the time was still early before dawn, and fell asleep happily again.

With this dream as an introduction, Hanlin is looking forward to the night time. The only worry is that there is not enough underwear, but he can't ask the palace people for it. Hanlin felt that he could be killed by a headbutt, so on the second night he secretly lifted the quilt and put a square scarf on his crotch, preparing to go to the appointment with Duke Zhou.

This dream lasted for ten days, and the daytime scenes began to appear one after another. The new king in the dream seemed to be a tyrant, and those hopeless emotions were too vivid and real. Hanlin began to suspect that this was not a dream, but that he was being used by others. Forgotten and tampered memories in some way, he searched in the palace following the guidance of his dream, but found nothing.

He tried his best to persuade himself not to doubt Xinjun because there was no evidence. He picked out the things in his dream and asked Xinjun about a matter that did not involve emotions and bed affairs. Xinjun's lips trembled and he refused Denied.

But the shivering said it all.

Hanlin couldn't imagine what he would look like in the mouths of the courtiers and in the history books, so he rejected the new king's invitation and generous rewards, and only took some clothes, pots and bowls of salt and sugar from the palace, and left quietly up.

He didn't dare to ask any of his old friends about himself. He avoided everyone. Fortunately, the mansion bestowed on him by the new emperor was really hidden enough. When Hanlin passed by the door for the first time, he didn't even notice that there was a courtyard hidden there, and he didn't continue. Send someone to wait on Hanlin personally, and watch outside when he is sleeping, waiting for his orders at any time.

Xinjun helped him draw a gap between him and his past life as a courtier. Hanlin thought it was because Xinjun actually didn't want him to appear in front of everyone, and he had no objection to this.

Hanlin was born in a farming and studying family, and he knew how to do farm work. Although his body was not as strong as when he was young, it was barely enough to serve a whole yard of vegetables for cooking. He found a pawn shop and pawned his own jade pendant, bought seeds and fertilizers, He rolled up his sleeves and pulled out the competing flowers in the yard and planted vegetables.

The enthusiastic neighbors gave him a pair of goose eggs, fished a goldfish from their own well and threw it into his well, and yelled for some broken pots to put the flowers he pulled out, saying that they could help him He took him to the market and sold him, seeing that he was a widower who looked like a scholar, and dragged him to a nearby breakfast to make the daily breakfast.

Hanlin used to do high-ranking work, and he didn't have much opportunity to interact with the people. It is impossible for anyone among the people to know him. Being in the middle did not put too much pressure on Hanlin. He calculated the rest of the money and followed them. I made the bed early, and even asked if I could finish the dinner together as I walked.

The neighbor who gave him the fish asked in surprise: "Your Majesty only asks about dinner, but does he not eat lunch?"

Hanlin had no choice but to smile wryly: "The pocket is too shy, the pocket is too shy."

There are probably some well-to-do wealthy households living in this workshop, so someone asked him if he could settle accounts, and hired him as an accountant with two meals a day. Hanlin had learned a little "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", but he had never done accounts. , he hesitated for a moment, and told the truth.At this time, "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" was not considered a rarity, but people who had no ink in their stomachs would not read it, so someone asked him to be a teacher to teach their daughter-in-law.

Hanlin hadn’t had time to be amazed that it was a young lady who asked him to teach, and the shop arrived earlier. Although the taste of the breakfast provided in the shop was not good, the variety was no less than that in the palace. Hanlin picked out more than ten kinds and wrote them down for the shopkeeper. After paying a deposit, I went on to ask the person who asked him to be a teacher.

Nowadays, most people have spare money at home to eat a meal of meat every three to five days, and there must be a meal every day that is oily, and their clothes are clean and tidy. Grabbing the one who wants to give him a light spanking for not wearing clothes, Hanlin stared at all this in a daze, while holding onto his future female student to prevent her from running out to buy sugar figurines, he could hardly believe that this was the place where he used to live the capital city.

He lingered in the neighborhood for a long time, until his calf was sore and he couldn't walk anymore, then he reluctantly returned home, stared at the goose eggs on the table for a while, remembering that geese can guard the house, he read it from his own book I dug out a book about mountains and fields from my book, and hatched two geese according to the above description.

Hanlin got up at the usual time, finished the breakfast delivered by the early shop, drove the goose cubs to catch insects in his small field, dragged them back by their wings when they flew out of the courtyard wall, and locked them up before going out to teach the female students how to read. He entered the cage, and in the afternoon, he sat at the door with a stool and helped the neighbors write letters. The money he earned was enough for him alone, and there was even some surplus. Two months later, Hanlin redeemed his jade pendant.

Xinjun sent someone to send him some rice and money on time, and his attitude was like an old friend who needed relief. Hanlin was grateful for his thoughtfulness, but he was unwilling to use the things he sent. If he couldn't save it, he sent it to a nearby donor. The courtyard, and put away the ones that can be put away properly and wait for them to be returned to him someday, but there has been no chance.

Hanlin doesn't intend to resent the new king. To the people of the world, he is a very good king. Some defects in personal morality are harmless. Therefore, seeing each other now is the most appropriate ending.

In a daze, Xinjun realized that he had returned to the day when he watched Hanlin being tied to the bed and weeping silently. This was a new scene that he had never seen before, and the number of days he could go back to the past had increased again. The earliest time I can go back, I asked someone to untie it with a face full of surprises, and left my square scarf to wipe Hanlin's tears, turned around and went back to the study, took out a piece of white paper and wrote a big "three hundred and eight" ", Sitting on the dragon chair staring at the words, he was stunned.

When he saw Hanlin for the first time, Hanlin was eating at his feet with his hands tied naked; Huddled on the carpet to read a book, when he saw him coming, he numbly took off his clothes...

Every time he went back, it was a little earlier than the last time, and the reason why he went back was because Hanlin hanged himself. It may not be until Hanlin did not choose to hang himself, but lived peacefully until he died without any problems. His reincarnation could not end. Xinjun looked at the The government affairs yawned, casually opened the first book and glanced at it, and found that it was a boring congratulatory form, which was thrown into the basket under the table without approval.

The whole table was full of flamboyant congratulatory forms. Xinjun read a few books patiently, and found that he had returned to the time when he had just conquered the capital and had not ascended the throne. Judging from the information he inquired in the reincarnation, this was his end. Seeing Hanlin for the first time after his proton career was also the beginning of Hanlin's hopeless hanging himself every time. Xinjun cheered up, thinking that he finally didn't have to repeat this kind of life this time.

Although it is good to be an emperor, it is too tiring to do it dozens of times in one go, so although it may not be possible to know why the future self treats Hanlin like this, why did I open my eyes on the way back to my twenties? Years later, but since Hanlin didn't know about it, and he didn't know about it, all the old things can be regarded as never happened.

But he thought unwillingly: I have not left the capital too far before 20 years ago. Hanlin and the officials of the Ministry of Rites will send me off together, and I will leave at least two days later. After that, I should never see Hanlin again.What can happen in these two days?

Xinjun threw down the table full of congratulatory forms and went to Hanlin secretly.

"You have to say goodbye after a long journey," Hanlin said to the proton in a low voice, "I heard that you are not living there, and no one will help you after you go back. Remember to guard against arrogance and impetuosity."

He came in early, only three years older than Proton, but after all, he had been his husband for ten years, so he naturally used a persuasive tone when he spoke.

Hanlin sighed, slapped Proton on the back of the head, and said with feigned anger, "Just relying on being taller than me to peek at me blatantly."

Proton pretended to smile shyly, did not refute that Hanlin did not exist and peeked blatantly, Hanlin knew what he was thinking, but he had a ghost in his heart and had no choice but to drive him away helplessly.

Hanlin turned around and went back to the room, took out a sage book and put it on the table respectfully, knelt down in front of it and recalled the sage's speech, and warned himself: He is your disciple, you can't make delusional thoughts, this is Immorality and incest are things that are not tolerated in the world and that people are not ashamed of.

But there are still two days left before we part, and we may never see each other again in this life. He thought again, Confucius said, "There is no discrimination in teaching", but I don't want to be taught, how can I become a class?

Thinking of this, Hanlin casually put the book away and asked for wine from the post officer in the post station. There was no good wine in the post station, but Hanlin's drinking capacity was enough to get drunk. Went to knock on the proton's door.

Proton was not alone in the room, but Hanlin was drunk, and only had Proton in his eyes. He knew what he was here for, but he didn't know what to say. It seemed too abrupt to say "I am happy with you", so Hanlin hesitated At once, he sang Jiang Zhongzi to Proton. ① Love poems in the Book of Songs.

Proton was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and smiled with the people around him: "Brother, forgive me, my husband is drunk and probably ran to the wrong room. I want to send him back and talk with him."

As a proton, he didn't teach him many seriously in these years. From the beginning to the end, Hanlin was the only one, but what Hanlin taught was "Li", and "Poetry" was taught by another person, and the teaching was extremely perfunctory. It often happens that one sits and puts the book aside and does one's own thing. Qiao Zi has read "Poetry" but does not understand its hidden meaning. Although "Li" and "Poetry" have many similarities, they are often cited as evidence. Hanlin I have a guilty conscience, and I haven't told him these courtship poems.

The proton didn't understand, but the people around him did. His eyes flickered, but he said with a smile: "Drunk people don't like to be controlled. I'm afraid you can't persuade him alone. Let me go with you." .”

Proton naturally thanked him for agreeing to come down, and the two of them worked together to send Hanlin back to the room. After a toss, Hanlin dissipated a little, and found that there were people around Proton. I still missed it" and began to cry silently.

This time, Proton could only stay to comfort him. His elder brother stayed with him for a while, excused that he was an outsider after all, and it was inconvenient to listen to his teacher's drunken talk, brought them a pot of water and walked away.

Drugs were added to the water, and Hanlin drank until his tongue was so big that he couldn't taste it. Proton found that the color and smell of the water were wrong after he drank a cup, so he quickly took it away, and then passed out with a pain in the back of his head.

His elder brother supported his limp body, fed him a cup of ecstasy, looked at the unconscious Hanlin again, smiled contemptuously and triumphantly, helped the proton back to his room, and called his The confidant beat him up secretly, and pinched a few finger marks on his buttocks and thighs, pretending to be raped by someone, and waiting to tell him apologetically that Hanlin had planned it earlier the next morning. The water he took was prepared for him by being given an aphrodisiac.

The confidant asked suspiciously: "Why do you have to bother to pretend? It's not difficult to spend some money to find a turtle to make it really."

Proton's elder brother smiled disdainfully again: "Those people have a lot of talk, he is still a baby, he is very easy to deceive, and even if this matter is exposed in the future, the eldest brother is like a father, I will beat him as soon as he can, and he can get money How about me?"

Proton was deceived by him for 26 years, until he became emperor, he still did not see through the deception.

Xinjun found the time when he and Hanlin turned against each other, and the elder brother and his confidant who had framed Hanlin had already died on the battlefield. Fortunately, he was already the emperor, and it took him two years to send off the person who was still alive. They all came over and asked one by one, and finally managed to piece together the truth.

After hearing all this, Xinjun felt a lot of gloom in his chest and a sweet and astringent taste that he couldn't explain at the moment, so he couldn't help but ran to see Hanlin.

When Xinjun came, he happened to feel that the matchmaker was proposing marriage for Hanlin.

The woman is the little aunt of his female student. Hanlin met him a few times when he went to give lectures. He probably fell in love with him at that time. Hanlin thinks life is good now, and he doesn't know if the emperor will have a whim someday. After getting him back into the palace, just as he was thinking about how to politely refuse, the new monarch rushed in with great strides.

When Hanlin raised his head, he was taken aback, and murmured, "Why did you come here suddenly?"

Xinjun was a little surprised why he was so angry, but he didn't show anything on his face, first sent the matchmaker away politely, then turned around and asked him: "Sir, you are still quite chic these days?"

Hanlin saluted him honestly: "It's all due to His Majesty's tolerance."

Xinjun looked at him: "Sir, don't you have anything to say to me?"

Hanlin gave a bewildered "Ah", got up from the ground, lowered his head and searched his stomach, and said: "Your Majesty has become a wise emperor, and I can see a peaceful and prosperous world. I really have no regrets in dying."

Hanlin usually opened the courtyard door during the day, and just now he knelt and bowed to attract the eyes of two idlers. Xinjun raised his hand to tell the guards to close the door and drive them out, and reprimanded him angrily, "What are you dying for? Can you talk?" ?”

Hanlin had no choice but to say with a dull face: "The minister is not good at talking, what does your majesty want to order the minister to say? The minister learns."

Xinjun said intuitively: "I want to hear you sing Jiang Zhongzi."

Hanlin was stunned, and after a while he asked tremblingly, "Your Majesty, now, do you know Jiang Zhongzi's hidden meaning?"

Just when the sun was about to set, and the end of the sky was dyed red like thin smoke, Xinjun suddenly held Hanlin's hand.

"I know," he said, "I'm sorry, Zining, it was my fault. Although I tried my best to correct them, they did exist, but I still want to hear you sing Jiang Zhongzi."

Hanlin said in a low voice: "How dare you love him? You are afraid of people talking too much. You can be pregnant, and people can be afraid of talking too much." ② The original text is "Zhong Kehuai", Zhong is a personal name, so Hanlin and When Xinjun said it, he changed his name.

I am not a stingy branch, I am just afraid of my neighbor's slander.You really make me worry, but the neighbor's slander also makes me afraid.

③When the boy looks for his girl, he always steps on the tree and over the wall every time, so he said "I can't bear the branch". The tree used in each paragraph of the original text is different, but only one sentence is cut off, and it is translated into the branch.

Xinjun replied, "That's why I didn't climb over the wall, Zining."

Hanlin understood what he meant, he knew that the emperor was showing his love to him, but he didn't know what to say, so he repeated it again: "You can be pregnant, and people can be afraid of talking too much."

No one will talk about love poems when they refuse to show love. Xinjun wanted to say that his dragon chair is wide enough to seat two people, but before he said it, he thought that Hanlin would not agree, so he just opened his mouth dryly. When he came up with the next idea, the goose raised by Hanlin flew up and slapped him in the face with its wings, beating Xinjun staggeringly and biting his own tongue.

Xinjun gasped in pain, Hanlin subconsciously wanted to look at his tongue, and then realized that it was Chao Yue, so he had to run over to grab the culprit's wing root and slam it back into the nest.

Xinjun muttered: "This goose beating someone is really painful... Hey, what did I want to say just now? Zining, ask me, maybe you can still remember."

Hanlin felt that the emperor was going to kill his own goose to eat its wings in the next second, so he stood up and turned around, followed him at a loss and said, "What does Your Majesty want to say?"

Xinjun just rubbed his face, looked at the white goose fluttering in the nest, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I just love you."

Finish.

The author says:

Hanlin's timeline moves forward in a straight line, Xinjun and him are on the same timeline, so when Xinjun changed the past in the past, what happened to the current Hanlin in the past also changed accordingly.