Pei Gonggui

It was midsummer, the fire moon, and the sun.The clothes are sweaty, the flames are burning the heart, the plums are sour, and the plantains are green.

The oriole twitters quietly in the shade, the green clouds and flowers are as peaceful as a sinking lake, until a young boy shouts and suddenly stops the cicadas singing on the tree——

"Brother, brother! Run! I hit the wrong person!"

Pei Jun jumped off the wall in a panic holding the hemp rope, and pulled off the mask, his long eyebrows and handsome eyes were filled with surprise and anxiety.

He grabbed Yan Yuliang's sleeve, and together with the eighty-nine youngsters at the bottom of the wall, ran wildly, swarming past the fiery red water lilies in the middle courtyard of the school supervisor, the footsteps frightened the small fish in the pond to run away, causing rippling water to reflect them Pieces of green shirts float into Beishan Academy, and in the reflection, the stacked buildings and terraces are condensed like smoke.

The teenagers sat noisily in the veranda in front of the hall, panting around Pei Jun, asking him how Tang Yuming was beaten, but when Pei Jun scratched his head and said that he was the Prince of Jin, his jaw almost dropped. .

"It's okay!" Yan Yuliang hurriedly pushed Fang Mingjue out to investigate.Not long after, Fang Mingjue ran back from the outside in a panic, his face turned pale with fright, and he called out, "Pei Daxian! It's not good! Prince Jin is here to trouble you! You should hide quickly!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the stewards came rushing outside to say hello: "Everyone gather in the front yard! Hurry up! There are people coming from Baochan Palace!"

This bunch of teenagers were all frightened, especially Fang Mingjue. At this moment, his knees softened and he sat beside Pei Jun, two lines of tears streaming down his face, he pulled Pei Jun's sleeves and cried, "It's over, it's all my fault!" What are you talking about Tang Yuming! This time you will suffer! Daxian, you must not go out, I... I will go out and fight, and I will say that I beat you!"

"Who can you, a weak willow, beat anyone? They won't believe you if you tell me!" Pei Jun pulled his hand and scratched his nose and smiled, "Come on, don't be afraid! I didn't show my face just now, even if I go to Prince Jin now Standing in front of me, he definitely won't recognize me." After saying that, he led Fang Mingjue, who was crying, and swaggered out.

There were already many people in the front yard, even Zhang Ling, the prison chief, was alarmed, leading a few officials who were in prison that day to stand there solemnly, not knowing what happened to the riot in the palace.When they were young, Pei Jun and the others sneaked into Qingyun Prison's group of about [-] students in green shirts with ulterior motives. After waiting for a short while, they saw a group of people with serious expressions coming in from the inner shadow wall of the gate of Qingyun Prison. The one who walked in the third place was Prince Jin who had been slapped by Pei Jun the first time they met.

The 17-year-old Jiang Yue has not shown his stature, and he is still a little thin like a teenager. He is wearing a white veil that everyone in Baochan Palace School looks like. Yunding Xianjun who took down the sword and went down to catch demons.

And the demon he wants to catch at this time is precisely that Pei Jun who is among the two hundred or so similar boys waiting to see his jokes.

Escorting Jiang Yue together was Zhao Taibao, who was leading the palace school. At this time, he was stroking his beard and explaining to Zhang Ling that Zhang Ling's brows were almost broken. lunatic.

The hem of Jiang Yue's white clothes was a little dusty, and a slanted red line on his fair cheekbones made him look even more youthful.He frowned when he heard the words, and raised his eyes to carefully distinguish the more than 200 faces in the courtyard, but at a glance, all of them were black and white pupils and eyebrows curled up, and he couldn't see a name; Looking at them one by one, I saw that everyone was wearing the same blue outer shirt, and no one came out wearing a middle coat without shame.

All living beings in the world are like Xia Lei at first sight, often only for a moment, so it is true that not everyone is extraordinary.Jiang Yue knew with all his heart that the thief who caused his majestic prince to suffer a dark loss was among all living beings, but now that the man took off his mask and put on his clothes, he didn't recognize him at all.

The attendant at the side saw that the young prince was already full of anger, so he was naturally anxious, so he quickly came up with an idea: "My lord, if you can't find a conclusive person, just sit them together, so as not to—"

But before he finished speaking, Jiang Yue stopped him with a "presumptuous".

The look of dark anger fluctuated in Jiang Yue's eyes for a moment, and he said in a deep voice, "The stability of the state government is not enough to torture people", and raised his eyes again to distinguish among the fearful and fearful eyes of all the supervisors. In the end, there was no result, so he had to leave with a group of people.

Pei Jun, who was in the crowd, saw that the precious little prince couldn't even get angry after eating him twice, he couldn't help but feel amused, raised his hands to wipe away the tears on Fang Mingjue's face beside him, turned around inadvertently, and saw Qingyun The supervisor is Zhang Ling, looking at him like ice, his eyes are as sharp as snow.

Pei Jun still remembers that look.

If it was said that Pei Jun would sometimes feel a little regret for the trivial things that he was lucky enough to avoid when he looked back on his life in the future, then his sneak attack on Jiang Yue but was not identified may be one of them.If he was recognized at that time, dragged out and punished, or even expelled from Qingyun Prison because of this, or even if nothing happened and he was still a cynical, ignorant and loyal general, then what would happen in the future? Everything that happened might not have happened.

Jin Wang Jiangyue was attacked by Qingyun Jiansheng, although Pei Jun was not found out, but if it was stabbed to the court and reported to the imperial court, Zhang Ling, who was in charge, could lose his black hat.Zhang Ling not only wants to keep his position as a supervisor, but also maintains the reputation of Qingyun Prison, so he can't admit that the murderer is in Qingyun Prison. The supervisor who is close to the ink is black.

Zhang Ling thought that although the son of the aristocratic family in the prison was domineering and escaped, he was born to serve the emperor. Although he was often treated harshly and ridiculed by the poor family of the common people, he was born with the respect and awe of absolute imperial power, and he never went to the imperial city to beat him. The courage of the royal family.Therefore, Zhang Ling first suspected that Pei Jun, who was usually out of touch with these people, privately found Fang Mingjue, Yan Yuliang and other young people who were close to Pei Jun one by one, and only asked them a question: "When the incident happened, what happened?" , where is Pei Jun?"

Unexpectedly, the teenagers were all flustered.Fang Mingjue rolled his eyes and said that Pei Jun was reading in the Beishan room; Yan Yuliang scratched his head and pursed his lips, saying that Pei Jun was playing with crickets in the backyard.Several other people said that Pei Jun was fishing in the lotus pond, and some said that he was fighting cock at Young Master Mei's house. At that time, everyone lied to protect Pei Jun, but everyone said something different.

This made Zhang Ling finally conclude that the bastard student who beat King Jin was really Pei Jun from the loyal Hou family.

He finally paid attention to this fatherless son who had no one to teach him.So on a rainy and thunderous summer afternoon, he ended his lecture early for the day, and asked someone to wake Pei Jun up from the classroom, and brought him to him. He didn't say anything else, but let Pei Jun kneel down.

"From now on, I, Zhang Ling, will be your master, so you can learn from me today."

A flash of white lightning and thunder outside the window woke Pei Jun up in a daze.For the first time in his life, in the ear chambers that were brightened by the lightning, he raised his eyes in shock, like a small beast lost in a pack of wolves. He couldn't believe it no matter what——Zhang Ling You already know that he is a person who committed a capital crime, but how can you still protect him, protect him, and accept him as an apprentice?

But the mischievous boy couldn't understand the look on the respected teacher's face at all.Or it can be said that because of the surname of the Boling Zhang family, Zhang Ling didn't have any expression at all.

His face was still as cold as black iron, seeing that Pei Jun didn't kneel, he only said in a deep voice: "What are you doing in a daze, don't you want to?"

Pei Jun was stunned for a moment, and now he felt that Lei Ming was no longer outside the window, but in his cavity.

The next moment, he bent his knees and knelt down on the ground. Like how he secretly watched when a group of friends were visiting his teacher, he folded his hands over his head and bowed to Zhang Ling, and then he called out:

"Master."

That day, Zhang Ling casually questioned Pei Jun about his knowledge, and found that although the young man usually did everything from provoking troubles, fighting chickens and fishes, he knew how to recite all the poems and poems taught by his master.According to this, he was convinced that Pei Jun should not be a child without virtue and wisdom, but he didn't know how he would do such a murderous thing over the wall, so he couldn't help being a little strange: "Why did you hit Prince Jin?"

Pei Jun poked his neck and grinned at him: "For fun."

Zhang Ling was so angry that he raised his hand and patted on the table: "Tell the truth!"

Pei Jun was taken aback, feeling that his father had never been so fierce when he was still around, his aura suddenly softened, he gritted his teeth, and told the truth: "The son of Ning Wuhou's family beat Xiao Ming Jue'er, His eye sockets are all black, I have to help him fight back, but I didn't expect... to become the Prince of Jin."

"...Just for this?" Zhang Ling stared at him, "Do you think this matter is as simple as beating up the royal family? Do you think that your gold medal for exempting death can save you from the death penalty? ——Teaching the National Law Palace in the criminal law class Now, don’t you know that the wall of the backyard is also the wall of the imperial city? Overturning the city wall without permission is equivalent to treason and assassination, if Prince Jin recognized you that day, you should be beheaded in the prison today!”

The matter of climbing over the wall, after thinking about it afterwards, Pei Jun really felt that it was wrong. Now that he was scolded, he couldn't say a word, so he had to hang his head silently.

Zhang Ling closed his eyes with some headaches, shook his head and sighed: "Pei Jun, Pei Jun, you are the one who's strong enough to lift a hundred weights, but not enough to lift a feather; bright enough to see the details, but not to see the truth". You have a sage background, but if you continue to be so impulsive and disregarding the consequences in the future, your eyes will be blinded by love sooner or later, and you will only see the distance, but not the tall buildings. Once you encounter the abyss, you will never recover..."

Pei Jun, who was kneeling in front of him, listened blankly, only to feel more and more confused as he listened: "Master... what are you talking about—"

"Do you have a sign?" Zhang Ling suddenly opened his eyes and looked at him.

Pei Jun shook his head, "I don't know pen and ink at home, and Mr. Kai Meng didn't dare to give it to me, so I haven't."

"Then where did Fang Mingjue call you 'Great Immortal'?" Zhang Ling asked him.

Pei Jun curled his lips, feeling a little ashamed, but said honestly: "Mr. taught Zhou Yi a few days ago, and I used it to bluff Xiao Ming Jue'er, and made a fool of him, saying that he would have a great success in the future--in the end he The next day, I picked up the money at the gate of the supervisor, so I must say that I was right." He sighed at this point, "The great fairy called me, and he didn't say that he would give me some money. That's it."

"..." Zhang Ling remained expressionless, sighed again after listening, and said after a while: "From now on, your watch will be 'Ziyu'."

Pei Jun frowned slightly: "But Tantai Mieming in ancient times was named Ziyu, I don't want to be like others."

Zhang Ling heard the words and said coolly: "Then when your virtue can surpass Tantai Jianghou, if you want to change it, you can change it." Then he said: "Although the incident of crossing the wall to commit murder was fortunately not suppressed. Go deeper, but your move has put the entire Qingyun prison in danger."

"Pei Ziyu, I don't care how arrogant and bullying you were before today. After today, I want you to remember that your father was a minister, and you will be a minister in the future. The Qingyun Prison is not just teaching hundreds of students. To be a scholar is to teach you how to be an official. To be an official is to be a minister. The ancient Chinese word "subject" means bowing your head and standing your eyes. It means bowing your head and obeying. It is even more of a skill, that's why supervisors don't call their teachers 'Sir', but 'Master'. Since you have worshiped me as your teacher today, I will start teaching you this skill today."

He picked up a few volumes of supplementary books from the table, and put them in front of Pei Jun: "This is the lecture given by Prince Jin in Baochan Palace, and I will read and review it carefully. If you are studying, this review cannot be submitted, so tomorrow you will delay your homework. After all, you sleep in the school every day, and it is useless to stay in prison. Why don’t you send this review to Jinwang’s mansion for me, even though the murderer You can't admit it, but this can be regarded as an apology to Prince Jin, and atonement for yourself—"

"This is not only to teach you what is meant by a monarch and ministers, but also to teach you that 'the law punishes the crime, and the crime should be punished'. In the future, you also need to remember that if you commit a crime today, you will pay it back tomorrow. An act of evasion."

"Yes, the student knows." Pei Jun drooped his head and took the book. He was thinking of going to Jinwang Mansion to release it. On the way back, he could find Lao Cao for a drink. Let me add another sentence: "The book must be delivered to Prince Jin in person, do you hear me?"

"..." Pei Jun had no choice but to hold his breath and nodded, "Yes, Master, the student understands."

The thunder stopped, but the rain in the afternoon did not stop until dusk, and it kept dripping outside the eaves.

Pei Jun was bored and waited in the front hall of Prince Jin's mansion, seeing that Jiang Yue had not returned for a long time, and the servants in the mansion did not allow him to run around, so he could only read a book he brought to relieve his boredom.But it was annoying to read the pages full of benevolent monarchs, righteous rulers and wise men of the world, so he closed the book again, scratched his head, and casually took out the yellow note in the book to read.

The handwriting on the yellow paper is beautiful and powerful, all of which are the lessons learned by the little prince Jiang Yue. The pages are densely packed with quotations from the scriptures, and the expositions are carefully written. They are full of doubts about the benevolence, righteousness and wisdom in the book, and occasionally a few sentences are still readable. Pei Jun laughed, and immediately regretted not opening it earlier.

In this room, he was reading line by line with gusto, when he suddenly shouted outside: "The lord is back!" He hurriedly closed the book and clipped the yellow note, and when he looked up, he saw Jiang Yue was being sent in by his servants under the umbrella. With the rain, now he looks more clear-eyed, taller and taller, more heroic than he saw in the fight that day, only the little red snake scratched out by Pei Jun is still lying on his small face, and he will This heroic spirit was tinged with naughtiness, and he looked like a noble boy after all, but only in Pei Jun's eyes, he felt a little guilty in his heart.

Pei Jun stood up and bowed to him, handing over a letter and saying, "My lord, this is Mr. Zhang's request to send it for review."

"Isn't it used to be sent by the library staff..." Jiang Yue took the book suspiciously, looked at Pei Jun casually with downcast eyes, and went to read the book again, but saw that the yellow notes in the book were a bit messy, his brows frowned immediately, and his ears twitched The red ground looked back at Pei Jun's face again, as if wanting to reprimand him for stealing his own reading, but he didn't want to show his softness because of his face, seeing Pei Jun kneeling on the ground with his head bowed and holding back his smile, after a while Only then did I hear Jiang Yue's slightly difficult voice over my head, and tried to calmly say: "Since it has been delivered, you can go back and report."

Pei Jun agreed with a grunt, stood up and walked out. When he came to the corner of the front yard, he remembered that he had beaten the wrong person. Staring at his back, he was so frightened that he hurriedly turned around and walked out of the house in a hurry.

However, the next day, he knew the meaning of Jiang Yue's last glance.

He was called to Zhang Ling's ear by the staff, but Zhang Ling slapped a stack of familiar yellow notes on the table, ordered him to kneel down, and angrily said: "Sinister! I let you go to Jin The king sent a letter of atonement, and did not ask you to confess your sins and obey the law, but you still did such a good thing! You really have no sincerity of repentance!"

A few pieces of yellow paper dropped by the respected teacher fell to the ground. Pei Jun knelt down and looked down inexplicably, and saw that the neat and meticulous yellow paper seemed to be completely wet by the rain. It's dry now, but it's already wrinkled and uneven, and even the neat handwriting on it is not very clear.Pei Jun frowned, and became anxious: "Master, I didn't do this! I obviously protected all the books in my clothes yesterday, and even opened an umbrella. It was fine when I sent them to the palace. I sat in the front hall and read them." ! That was never the case back then!"

Zhang Ling's expression froze, and he thought for a moment and asked, "Then I told you to deliver the book to the prince by hand, did you do it?"

"I did it! I delivered it to him!" Pei Jun raised his head with his neck straightened, and loudly argued: "He took it from me with his own hands, and there is nothing else among them—"

When he said this, he suddenly stopped talking, and the next moment his heart moved, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Zhang Ling: "So... is it him? Did he acquiesce in getting these papers wet, or did he do it himself?... Could it be? Is it because he recognized me that he retaliated against me like this? Or, the master suddenly asked me to deliver the books for the librarian, and asked him to find out why!"

Hearing Pei Jun's words, Zhang Ling's cold lip line seemed to be slightly curved, and he nodded almost invisible, and asked further: "Then if Prince Jin guessed that you were the one who jumped over the wall and beat people, why not?" Instead of ordering someone to execute you on the spot, would you rather save your life?"

Pei Jun was taken aback, completely stumped by this question, and looked at Zhang Ling with bewildered eyes for help, but Zhang Ling just gave him a deep look, did not give him an answer, and then pointed to the yellow note on the table and typed Knocked:

"Prince Jin's delay in schoolwork today is all because of you, so naturally you have to make up for it. I want you to re-copy these reading comprehensions for Prince Jin without any mistakes, and you are not allowed to go to class until the copy is complete. , you are not allowed to see anyone, you are not allowed to leave the prison, copy it before sunset, and then send it to Prince Jin’s mansion, begging for his forgiveness.”

"But Master," Pei Jun yelled straight up, "Obviously the King of Jin—"

"Copy it if you want." Zhang Ling said concisely, "Everything happens because of your impulse. This is the fruit you want to eat. It is never up to you to choose whether it is bitter or sweet. From now on, you need to keep this in mind , must not be committed again."

"...Yes." Pei Jun lowered his head reluctantly, clenched his fists, and said with all his might, "The student knows."

Jiang Yue's reading comprehension is many and difficult. If he cannot read the handwriting of a passage that Pei Jun has not learned, he still needs to read the original book before transcribing.This means that Pei Jun spent a whole day kneeling in front of Zhang Ling's desk. Not only did he suffer from sore shoulders, back pain, and weak fingers, but he also didn't have any leisure time to go to school to attend lectures, let alone laugh and have fun with his friends in prison. In the end, even if he thinks of the red mark on Jiang Yue's face again, it is difficult for him to feel guilty about the accidental injury, but he secretly comforted him: for the sake of atonement, let the little prince vent his anger, and treat it as a debt. his.

In the evening of that day, he went to Prince Jin's Mansion again to deliver books, and informed Jiang Yue of Zhang Ling's new assignments.At that time, Jiang Yue had just returned home from Beiying for dinner, and he was still dressed in military uniform, sitting upright. Seeing him coming, he asked him to put down his books and leave, but Pei Jun stood still outside the corridor, saying that yesterday's yellow paper was damaged. He made a mistake, I have copied it all and sent it today, begging the prince to forgive, why not wait for the prince to write the homework and take it away with him, and hand it over to Zhang Ling earlier, so as not to make any mistakes and delay the schoolwork.

Pei Jun gritted his teeth and finished these words. At the end, he raised his eyebrows and looked up into the eyes of Jiang Yue in the hall, causing Jiang Yue to stop chopsticks and hold the bowl to look at him when he heard the words.During this brief eye contact, Jiang Yue seemed to have a smile of unknown meaning in his indifferent face, which disappeared for a moment.

Then Pei Jun heard him say: "That's fine." Then Jiang Yue put down the bowl, picked up the book, and walked to the inner courtyard with a flick of his sleeves.

That night, Pei Jun waited in the front hall of Prince Jin's Mansion until late at night, and the moon was over, before the servants brought out the book and notes that Jiang Yue had written and approved.Pei Jun was so sleepy that his eyes were blurred and he picked it up and left. The next day, he handed it over to Zhang Ling. Zhang Ling looked it over again and again, but asked strangely, "Didn't King Jin write about reading and enlightenment yesterday? Why isn't it in the book?"

Pei Jun was stunned when he heard it: "Impossible, he wrote it so late, he told me to wait until midnight yesterday to take it away! Master, can you look for it again?"

Zhang Ling picked up the book and trembled in front of his face, and raised his eyes to look at him with deep meaning: "If you are sure you didn't lose it..."

— That is, King Jin didn't put anything in it at all!Pei Jun suddenly felt a heartburning anger rushing towards Tianling, he gritted his teeth and beat his leg: "Since he has such a sinister plan, it's fine if he doesn't say anything, why is he telling me to wait until the night is gone! Why is this little prince so vicious!"

"Young man, be careful." Zhang Ling put down the book without haste, and picked up the teacup at hand, "You are the first to commit the crime, and Jin Wang is just asking for justice."

"Fair?" Pei Jun was really dissatisfied, "If he wants to beat me, punish me, kill me, and plead guilty, he just hand me over! But why didn't he hand me over? Instead, he insisted on humiliating me repeatedly with such trivial matters ?”

Zhang Ling bowed his head to drink tea, and still didn't say anything to his "why" question, and finally just pushed the book on his hand to him again:

"Yesterday's homework was not submitted, and today's homework is coming again. The Prince of Jin will never default on his homework. This reading must have been written, but because you didn't check it before taking it away, it was delayed again. The reading is Xu Jin. The prince was negligent for a moment and forgot to put it in the book—of course, the prince has never forgotten it before—but today, I will spare you just because of this, and you will not be punished. Hand in both copies of the reading comprehension, and one is essential, otherwise you will kneel outside the hall in front of all the supervisors for a day."

Pei Jun endured the anger in his mouth, and frowned and looked at Zhang Ling. At this time, the youthful face was less innocent and innocent than usual, but full of the complexity and confusion of young people who have just entered the dangerous world. Master's student, Master must have expected that he would treat me like this."

Zhang Lingxing's eyes were blank under his white eyebrows, he clearly heard what Pei Jun said, but he seemed to have never heard it, he just got up and walked out of the ears with his hands behind his back, not only didn't answer whether or not the young man's judgment was made, but also didn't allow him to ask more Question, just leave one sentence alone:

"Go to class. Don't fall asleep again today."

Pei Jun got up and put away King Jin's note on the table, and finally made a serious sound when he spoke.

He said: "Yes, Master."

This day, it was the third time for Pei Jun to go to Prince Jin's Mansion after school, and it was evening again.Jiang Yue had just finished his meal, and he had already changed out of his military uniform. At that time, he was wearing a Su Lan gown and standing in the front yard, slowly shaking his embroidered fan, looking down at a newly-appreciated white jade hall in the palace.

His figure was lonely and desolate in the evening sun. Looking back, he saw Pei Jun who was saluting to him, and his thin lips immediately curled into a subtle arc:

"It's you again."

At that time, Jiang Yue's expression turned against the chaotic light and shadow, but in Pei Jun's eyes, it suddenly became very clear - it was a kind of agility and depth that he had not been able to detect, and even a little bit that did not belong to young people.He didn't feel that Jiang Yue was smiling at all, he knew it was just an almost sarcastic look - but it didn't matter, he had heard and seen a lot of sarcasm, not much like Jiang Yue's.Right now, he just wants this annoying little prince to stop disturbing his good life, so he raised his head and smiled at Jiang Yue: "Yes, Prince Jin, I'm here again. Where is the prince admiring the flowers? It's really good fun." ah."

He got up from the ground, patted the dust on his knees with his hand, looked at the potted plant in front of Jiang Yue, raised his eyebrows and said, "Isn't this a climbing wall lotus!"

The young Jiang Yue didn't raise his head, he just continued to look at the flower in front of him, and said casually, "This flower is mostly called Baiyutang in Beijing."

"Yeah, it's called Baiyutang—but isn't it still Baiqiang? Jiangbei is very productive." Pei Jun took two steps towards Jiang Yue with the book in his arms, towards the noble prince who was the youngest younger brother of the emperor back then. Tilting his head and smiling, he said, "My lord, Bai Yutang is the climbing wall lotus, and the climbing wall lotus is Bai Yutang. You say that these are all white roses, but if people see that the flowers are good and the seedlings are strong, they are afraid that they will be killed by the gardener." They were selected as tributes and entered Beijing, and they were renamed Baiyutang from then on. They were no longer allowed to be flowers climbing the wall, but were planted in pots, so that people could come to watch and judge them; but those really good seedlings had to get the leaves themselves If the flower buds are blocked, so that the color looks bad from the outside, they can continue to stay in the soil of the flower garden as creeping lotus, and no one cares about how it grows. One day, when the gardener thinks of looking back at them When - oh my, it's amazing!"

Pei Jun rubbed his chest to stop his smile, and stared at Jiang Yue with wide eyes, as if he was really shocked: "Then they should cover the entire wall! I'm afraid it will take a long time to burn them with fire." Burn to death, if the gardener didn't find out... Prince Jin, do you think the flowers should cover the entire yard?"

Under the shadow of the sun, Jiang Yue trembled slightly when he heard the words, his long fingers brushing against the potted plant didn't feel any strength, and he pinched off the best white flower with his fingers.He suddenly looked back at Pei Jun again, although he was still smiling, there was already a trace of gloom in his eyes.

Pei Jun turned a blind eye, and still smiled and said: "Hey, if you talk too much, don't blame the Prince of Jin. I still sent the book to the Prince of Jin today, and I still wait here for the prince to finish writing and then take it away—so that the prince Both of yesterday's and today's reading comprehensions have been carefully brought to Master, and there will be no mistakes or omissions."

Jiang Yue turned around, as if it was at this time that he finally took a look at the ignorant young man in front of him, his expression did not change, he just asked indifferently: "What if Gu doesn't write?"

"That's okay, it's just that my master will punish me to kneel in public for a day." Pei Jun rolled his eyes and smiled even more, and raised his chin to signal the flower in front of him: "But... the prince should already know that I am restless." Troublemaker, if tomorrow I kneel in the school supervisor and have nothing to do, I will have to tell others about the smothered Bai Yutang, my lord, haha!"

"You—" Seeing that Pei Jun had already smiled and clapped his hands, Jiang Yue lifted it up in one breath, squinted his eyes slightly and looked over, his chest fluctuated for a few breaths before gradually calming down, and finally closed the fan and stretched out his hand, and handed it to Pei Jun Book note, said in a deep voice: "Bring it."

Pei Jun respectfully offered it with both hands, but the moment Jiang Yue put away the book and turned to the inner courtyard, he suddenly said again:

"My lord, tonight I will read two articles by my lord before leaving. If there is anything I don't understand, I hope my lord will not hesitate to enlighten me. After all, Master often said that my article is wonderful. Tell me to work hard and ask for advice, so I hope the prince will not dislike my ignorance, I hope the prince... is lucky?"

Jiang Yue, who was in front of him, stopped and turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw Pei Jun's leisurely and determined handsome face under the westward sun. When he was young, his brows gradually relaxed, and the corners of his lips slightly curled up.

"Okay, Pei Jun, I understand." He agreed, and then entered the inner courtyard without looking back.

That night, Pei Jun sat cross-legged on a chair in the front hall of Prince Jin's Mansion, drank the green tea constantly offered by the stewards of the Prince's Mansion, and just finished reciting the two books he brought with him, until the night was dark again, and the servants in the inner courtyard delivered the book notes At that time, he also kept in mind Zhang Ling's words of "don't fall asleep", and he was still full of energy.

He checked the book and the yellow notes one by one, and there were no traps or mistakes that would cause him to suffer. He even really studied Jiang Yue's brilliant article carefully, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and cursed Jiang Yue in his heart. People, pick up the newly added tea at hand and drink it——

But he found that the taste of the tea in the cup was completely different.

It is no longer the smell of green tea, but a floral fragrance with extremely rich and sweet aroma, which is like a thin thread brushing the lips and tongue when passing through the teeth. Once you drink it once, it will never be forgotten.

But even so, when he frowned and lowered his head, he saw that there was only a pool of light red water in the cup, which was the most common and natural, and it was no different from ordinary scented tea, and he didn't know What kind of stunning waterside tea has been blooming in it, and I don't know that this scented tea can only come from this tea room of King Jin in the inner courtyard-so he was just surprised for a moment, and then he casually again He drank that cup of tea as casually as he drank all the tea.

"...It turns out that the tea was given by the prince himself."

Pei Jun looked down at the crimson clear water in the cup, which was as plain as ten years ago, and shook his head with hooked lips, and looked up at Jiang Yue: "If I didn't see it today, I might never know it in this life This scented tea has such a wonderful scene.”

Jiang Yue raised his hands to support his lips, leaned leisurely on the chair handle, looked at Pei Jun with a smile and said, "Your Excellency Pei doesn't know that the tea was given by the orphan back then, but it was brewed by the orphan even more."

Pei Jun held the cup for a while, and heard Jiang Yue slowly open his lips and said: "Master Pei should know that the orphan's mother is the concubine of Taiping in the East China Sea. This tea comes from Taiping. 'The name is taken from a kind of firework that can be extinguished in the blink of an eye in the hand. The flowers of this tea are not rare and can be found everywhere, but the rare thing is that the tea making process is complicated. After the tea is made, it can only be used Boil until just boiled in boiling water, neither too hot nor too cold, so that tea drinkers can see the blooming scene.”

"What if it's over?" Pei Jun couldn't help asking.

Jiang Yue smiled: "If it is too cold, the flowers will not bloom and will not extinguish; if it is too hot, the flowers will melt before they bloom, and the teas will naturally have different tastes. Because this is really a kind of tea that requires luck, so even the lonely I can't drink it often. When the queen mother was still around, she usually only used it as a reward, and Yu Gu was also a rare gift, but today, thanks to Mr. Pei's blessing, she drank it easily."

"So the prince rewarded the minister back then?" Pei Jun suddenly felt that it was very funny, and felt that Jiang Yue was an elusive person, "but the minister obviously scratched the prince's face, and still had to make an inch of it, looking for opportunities to intimidate, all just for a few readings , in order to avoid being punished by the master, but the prince also rewards the minister?"

Jiang Yue looked at him with an unchanged smile: "No, Mr. Pei, at that time Gu was only warning you, and he was also warning Gu himself."

"Lord Pei, this tea was used as a reward by the orphaned mother not because it is beautiful, but because it is perishable. It is to let Gu know that all blooms without roots are short-lived, just like the gain and loss of a momentary impulse, the momentary The glory of being brave, and..." Jiang Yue stopped speaking suddenly, put another incense stick into Pei Jun's cup, and made another cup full for him.But this time the flowers in the cup didn't bloom at all, but just floated lightly with the water.

Because the water has cooled down a little.

"And what?" Pei Jun stared at him intently, and finally decided to ask: "What is the meaning of the moon that the prince and the minister said tonight?"

"It's just the moon." Jiang Yue looked away from the dried flowers in Pei Jun's cup, and only pushed the tea cup towards Pei Jun again, with a polite smile on his face again, "Tonight, alone I hope this tea will let Mr. Pei understand that in the ten years since Gu and Mr. Pei have known each other, except for the two readings when we first met, in fact, we have never once intended to harm Mr. Pei, and we will never have such intentions in the future. If the warning thing makes Mr. Pei uneasy, he will not do it again in the future, Mr. Pei can rest assured."

"Why?" Pei Jun gradually stopped smiling, and narrowed his eyes slightly to look at him: "Prince Jin, what exactly do you want?"

Jiang Yue narrowed his eyes and raised his hand, took a sip of the gradually cooling fragrant tea in the cup, and said calmly: "It's late at night, Mr. Pei should go back home earlier."

After finishing speaking, he got up to call people to see off the guests, so Pei Jun had no choice but to say "Thank you, Prince, for the tea", which caused Jiang Yue to show off his face, and smiled, and said "Thank you, Mr. Pei, for sending the book" after many years, and then carried the lantern. The servant Ding Xu who came to guide the way helped him out of the tea room, and went to the east chamber to sleep.

Pei Jun looked away from his slender back, frowned and put down the teacup in his hand, looked down at the unblown flowers floating empty on the water for a while, finally got up with his fur in a state of confusion, and followed the Hakkas in the snowy night. Ding went out of the house.