After the examination, Li Bao Taifu again pay a visit to the saint, this time the saint finally did not reject him again, finally summoned the famous emperor teacher.
After coming out of the palace, Tai Fu Li Bao was already in tears, he was assisted back to his home, and when Li Huan heard that he had returned, he had him carried to his father.
"Father," although he was interrogated half dead, but Li Huan spirit is very good, he stared at Li Bao Taifu, eyes full of expectation, "What did the saint say?"
Li Bao Taifu see him on the heart of anger, but still distressed him this all over the wound, cold voice said: "Lao Fu with the words of the saint, you care about this for what!"
"Well, my son won't ask," Li Huan changed the topic and asked, "Father, how does His Holiness look today?"
The saint was so angry with him that day, his lips and ear beads were red with anger, Li Huan worried about the saint's body. The saint was not as rough as he was, so how could he not be worried.
Tai Fu Li Bao said, "How can I look directly at the holy face?"
Li Huan sighed, only to feel that his whole body was in vague pain, he tried to turn his face sideways, his fingers touched the scented capsule at his waist, the inside of the capsule was filled with the saint's hair, he had to take a step back and asked, "Father, then you should always know if the saint coughed or didn't cough when he was talking to you today, right?"
"Not really," said Taifu Li Bao, "All right, you don't need to ask, quickly go back and lie down."
Li Huan was driven back to his room, and he sighed quietly as he lay on his bed.
"Why is Father so careless."
The saint let his father into the palace, but his father did not even know to care about the saint's body, such a stupid father, but he was his Li Huan's biological father.
Li Huan shook his head helplessly.
*
Sending away the tearful Li Bao Taifu, the palace ushered in the ill-favored Prince of Harmony.
Gu Yuanbai received him, and the Prince of Harmony stood stiffly in front of the saint's body, his tone also hard as if he were a stone, "What the saint asked me to do, I did it."
The second day of the examination on the cold spring rain, coincided with the Prince of He came to the palace to inquire about the matter of Mrs. Wan, Gu Yuanbai saw his sarcastic face and felt unhappy, let the Prince of He went to send people to cook ginger soup, connected two days to the candidates in the Tribute Court to send to drive away the cold.
The saint above with a smile, the wind and moon incomparable face such as jade flaw light, he reached out and picked up the porcelain cup to drink tea, "and the Prince's work is always let me rest assured."
The Prince of Harmony didn't hold back his sneer.
The Prince of Harmony is good at fighting and leading troops, and the title of Prince was rewarded by the late emperor for his military achievements, and now that a royal person who is used to fighting on the battlefield is being circled in the capital to do this kind of small thing, Gu Yuanbai even knows that the Prince of Harmony is probably going to hate him to death.
But military power military power, how can it be in the hands of a prince, not to mention that this guy still does not like his elder brother, not to account for the first word also accounted for the long word.
Gu Yuanbai's slender fingers end the porcelain white tea set, a moment can not distinguish which is more white, and the Prince looked at him slowly and methodically drinking tea, in the heart of the hard, thirsty, gulp of water, hungry, gulp of meat, favoring the capital everyone is so preoccupied, and the Prince of which is a cow drinking peonies.
Gu Yuanbai saw that he did not speak, raised his eyes toward him, dumbfounded: "Prince of peace this is what expression, if you are thirsty straight say that is, I can also lack you a cup of tea can not? Tian Fusheng."
Tian Fusheng busy let people serve chairs, and send new tea. The Prince of Hepatitis sat down with the tea, took a sip and threw the tea to the side of the courtesan, said with a prick: "The two bowls of ginger tea rewarded by the saint can make those readers touched to death, and now the capital is full of praise for the saint's benevolence, I'm afraid of the saint's words to let them go to their deaths, they will also be generous."
His Holiness frowned slightly.
Tian Fusheng and his young apprentice stood to the side, the young apprentice had a hard time seeing the saint frown, he whispered after his master, "How come the Prince of Harmony is always saying such things that make the saint feel bad."
Tian Fusheng was also quite dissatisfied in his heart, he snorted coldly, or first lectured his young apprentice, "Eyes on the ground, is the Prince of Harmony something that you and I can also non-negotiate?"
In fact, if you want to say that the person who is most dissatisfied with the Prince of Harmony is him, Tian Fusheng.
They can't wait to hold the saint in their hands, fearing that the saint was blown a little wind and rain, the saint wants to eat tea, that is, the snow on the plum and the morning dew, the ministers of the court, just entered the palace to face the saint of the Li Baotou, which is not a highly respected figure, only the Prince's temper is so stink.
"How?" His Holiness' tone was not salty, "Prince Harmony has gone too far with this."
The Prince of Harmony smiled skinlessly, "If Your Majesty doesn't believe me, then follow me out to see, I'm afraid that when the students return to their journey, the whole world will know about Your Majesty's good deed of compassion for the readers."
Gu Yuanbai looked at the door, looking at the appearance of some intention. Tian Fusheng was busy stepping forward and reminded in a low voice, "Your Holiness, the people from the Qin Tian Supervisor calculated that there is rain today, so it is not appropriate to go out of the palace today."
The Prince of Harmony directly snorted a laugh, outside so big sun, the Chintian Supervisor's people are afraid that they are not opening their eyes and talking nonsense.
Gu Yuanbai glanced at Prince He and simply stood up from behind the table, "There's nothing to do, so just go out and take a look as Prince He said."
*
The Scholar's House.
Gu Yuanbai and Prince He were led to the second floor window to sit down, the restaurant was full of readers in green shirts, the breath of literature wafted around, making Gu Yuanbai a little sleepy.
Occasionally, one or two lines of chanting could be heard, and the guards around the table were tense and guarded like a mountain around the table, but they couldn't stop these literary voices.
The waiter stood at the table, "What would you like to order?"
Gu Yuanbai smiled and asked, "What do you all have here?"
Xiao Er's spirit lifted and he recited the menu in a sing-song manner, Gu Yuanbai pondered for a while, ordered three dishes and asked Prince He, "Brother order some more?"
The Prince of Harmony's entire body was shaken by the call, and held back a hard sentence, "Bring two jugs of good wine."
The Scholarship House had the most readers, and just as the Prince of Harmony had said, these readers could praise His Holiness endlessly, especially those who had gotten out of the Tribute House safe and sound because of the ginger soup, and listening to Gu Yuanbai himself had given him goosebumps.
The Prince of Harmony's face was green, with sparks coming out of his eyes, the ginger soup was boiled by him and the Prince of Harmony, or he was forced to boil it as if he was receiving a punishment, now that he heard these words, and Gu Yuanbai was still sitting across from him, it was as if he had become a joke. His face became more and more ugly, like he wanted to give these readers a good beating.
"Isn't it exactly what elder brother wanted me to hear these words when he invited me out?" The corners of Gu Yuanbai's mouth hooked, and he said in a million harsh words, "These scholars were able to get out of the Tribute Academy safely, and elder brother's credit cannot be ignored."
The Prince of Peace pulled back a smile, not wanting to pay attention to him.
Gu Yuanbai snorted and couldn't hold it back any longer, he crouched on the window frame and lowered his head to stifle his laughter, giving the Prince of Harmony face before he didn't let out a loud laugh. The green silk on his back trembled chaotically, exposing fingertips that glowed with a pleasant pink color.
Prince Harmony's face changed green and purple as he lowered his head and cupped his porcelain cup, letting out a heavy cold snort.
Originally, the two of them with a group of guards into the scholarly building on the attention, openly and secretly many people have put their eyes on this table, Gu Yuanbai with the Prince of peace are all in the noble air, body temperament is extraordinary. In the capital this kind of place, may be a certain princes and ministers or powerful and noble children, now Gu Yuanbai a smile, is laughing at some of the young white-faced students blush, peeping feel ashamed, do not look and can not open their eyes.
This gentleman is dressed in blue, honorable and calm, the blue clothes but can not suppress the light of the face, only glittering.
Just as they looked more, those mountain-like robust guards glared over angrily, beating back this line of sight, and the head of the guards, Zhang Ou, sank into a face of unparalleled valor, wary of surveying in all directions, vowing to protect His Majesty's safety and security.
Gu Yuanbai managed to stop laughing, he slowly got up, his arm propped up against the window, supporting it on the side of his face to rest, just one big laugh made him lose his strength, his chest rose and fell slightly, Gu Yuanbai tried his best to make his breathing more stretched out so that he could calm himself down.
The Prince of Harmony said in a cold voice, "It's better for your lordship not to laugh."
The corners of Gu Yuanbai's mouth were smiling, but he didn't care, although he was powerless at the moment, he didn't want others to see it. Men are all good at saving face, and having Gu Yuanbai live a careful life because of his body would be unattractive.
"Brother don't worry," Gu Yuanbai, "This body of my brother's, a smile is still bearable."
A few moments later, the junior served the food, Gu Yuanbai did not have the appetite for a meal, he sipped his tea and looked sideways towards the window.
The capital at the foot of the Son of Heaven is governed in a prosperous and stable manner, the Daheng Dynasty is open to the public, and the status of women is not low, so you can also see three or two women carrying each other through the market.
Gu Yuanbai liked this peaceful picture, and he leaned against the wall, holding his cup of tea, looking lost in thought for a moment.
Chu Wei was asked to go to the academy by his fellow students, and when he passed by the Scholarship Building, he saw many people looking up, and he looked along, but he frowned.
The second floor window is sitting in an indigo male, black hair on the jade crown high beam, looking into the distance holding a white porcelain, which attracted men and women to raise their necks to look at the beautiful man is actually the current saint.
Everyone is good at beauty, even if it is the intention of appreciation is also difficult to remove their eyes on the beauty. But Chu Wei is disgusted with the men and women who stare at him, but also disgusted with these eyes only beauty of the vulgar.
Wouldn't it be hard for the Emperor to be stared at like that?
Fellow students also followed and looked at him, saying joyfully, "Zi Gui, it looks like your title as the most beautiful man in the capital is going to be threatened."
Chu Wei said in a cold voice, "Whoever wants it."
The same window laughed, but pulled Chu Wei walked to the bottom of the building, looking for a good position to look up at the upstairs window of the Prince, sighed: "In the past, there are Pan An threw fruit full car, but also look to kill the Wei step of the canonical story, I thought that your appearance has been a man of the fullness of the man, but I did not expect there is such a fluttering Prince."
Chu Wei: "It's just a set of skin."
Fellow student laughed: "know you do not like beauty, also do not like others to look at you. But Chu Zi Gui, like this gentleman this kind of appearance, you also think it is just skin?"
Chu Wei raised his eyes, his long eyebrows into his temples, he looked at the saint, his black eyes were unmoved, his whole body stood straight, cold as snow, "Or else?"
As if Gu Yuanbai had sensed his gaze, he looked into the distance and retracted his sight, and with a slight lowering of his head, he met Chu Wei, who was standing across the street in front of a store selling red rope knots.
There was also a suave and dashing man of letters standing beside Chu Wei, Gu Yuanbai's eyes narrowed slightly, calmly retracting his sight, holding the tea set and lightly sipping a mouthful of lukewarm tea.
The hand holding the cup was as white as transparent, as soon as Chu Wei saw the saint's hand, his mind couldn't help but recall the image of these hands painfully pinching up the bright yellow sheets, the satin folds, the warm yellow candlelight, the fingertips pale and weak. He lowered his eyes, the knot in his throat moved slightly, and he did not move, pulling his fellow students away.
Seeing that Gu Yuanbai had been looking out the window, Prince He followed suit and watched as many people outside were sneakily looking upstairs, and immediately pressed his lips down in displeasure, "What kind of person dares to spy on the Holy Face?"
For the majesty of the royal family, even if he didn't like Gu Yuanbai, Prince He would not hesitate to defend it.
"Those who don't know are not guilty," Gu Yuanbai smiled and digressed, "What does elder brother think of these dishes?"
The Prince of Harmony picked up a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, saying tastelessly, "But that's all."
Whether it is a dish or a person is just like that. The scholar of the building of these words are also very shallow, empty talk is great, seriously explore know nothing, feet do not step on the ground but also dare to full of empty mouth nonsense.
Originally, I wanted to stab Gu Yuanbai a little bit, so that he would know what level the lifts that pushed him were at, and in the end, the one who had a hard time was him instead.
Gu Yuanbai two minds, but also listened to a lot of students of the high talk, the heart does not say disappointment is impossible, but this is also one of the drawbacks of the imperial examinations. For the emperor, the first disadvantage of the imperial examinations is the party, the second is not necessarily receive the real state in the use of talent.
If a society really wants to develop, it has to be centered on economic construction. Comparing ancient China with foreign countries, in fact, China had an advantage before the British Industrial Revolution, but only one Industrial Revolution opened up a hundred-fold gap between the two sides.1 In the end, science and technology are the first power of development. At the end of the day, science and technology are the first force for development, and merchants and craftsmen can promote the natural development of the social economy, but in this era, farmers and food are the foundation of the country.
If we could have potatoes, corn, hybrid rice, etc., that would free up the bottom manpower to make sure the granaries were overflowing and thus other big moves could be made.
Gu Yuanbai suddenly stood up, and the palace attendant rushed forward to help him, arranging the folds on his body and the jade pendant at his waist, as Gu Yuanbai leisurely said, "Elder brother, accompany your younger brother for a walk."
The Prince of Harmony silently stood up and followed His Holiness out of the Scholarship House half a step away.
The street market was miscellaneous but not chaotic, the ground was clean and tidy, and the Prince of Harmony had a stoic face, which was more intimidating than the guards on the side looked.
"Where does His Holiness want to go?"
"If I remember correctly, Prince He has several acres of good land in the capital, and a hot spring estate to grow fruits and vegetables?" Gu Yuanbai said, "Earlier when I copied Lu Feng's home, I also remembered that I had rewarded Prince He with a spring estate."
The Prince of Harmony said stiffly, "That manor is far away from the city, so if Your Holiness wants to go, I'm afraid it's inconvenient today."
The guards protecting their lord secretly glared at the Prince of Peace, itching for the saint to hurry up and give an order to teach the Prince of Peace a good lesson on this.
Where is the man who dares to talk to His Holiness like that?
Gu Yuanbai's face was unchanged, and he waved his hand behind him, the guards and courtiers taking two steps back on command, leaving room for the two most honorable royals in the world to gossip.
"Prince He," Gu Yuanbai said slowly, "You give me face before I can give you face."
The Prince of Harmony blushed hard and held back from whisking his sleeves away.
"Earlier I asked you to help me out so that I can eliminate Lu Feng," the saint's tone was light, "The royal relatives have to grovel just as much as they face the powerful ministers, the royal power and all of you clansmen are linked together, when I am weak, you are also weak. I thought you were a smart person, who knew that you are also a stupid person. You now complain that I trapped you in the capital, day and night can only seek pleasure. I ask you, when I gave you the opportunity, who didn't grasp it?"
The veins on the top of the Prince of Peace's head strained, and he gritted his teeth in a restrained and implacable manner, "--I'm coming!"
"You're late!" Gu Yuanbai shouted angrily, "I've already killed him, what's the point of you coming? By the time you come I'll have gotten cold!"
The Prince of Harmony was stunned by this outburst, and his aura weakened for a moment.
Gu Yuanbai's chest breathed in sharply, and only after a long time did he calm down, "Prince He, the late emperor had instructed me a word when he was here, words that pertained to you, but you should have been unaware of them."
The Prince of Harmony's breath hitched and he turned his head to stare hard at Gu Yuanbai, "What words did the late Emperor say?"
The corners of Gu Yuanbai's pale mouth suddenly hooked up as he said nastily, "I won't tell you."
Prince of Peace: "......"
"Rumble", a huge sound rang out violently from the sky.
The sky dimmed instantly, flashes of light split the heavens in two, and the sudden brightness was followed by a sudden darkness that swept up the remnants of the wind.
Tian Fusheng stepped forward in panic, "Your Holiness, it's going to rain!"
Before the rainstorm came, the storm winds had already sprung up, Gu Yuanbai's clothes were blown to bulging, her hair scattered in all directions, and some of it was blown into her face to cover her vision, Gu Yuanbai furrowed her brows and pushed aside the hair that was in the way, "Zhang Xu, where is there a place nearby to take shelter from the rain?"
Zhang Xu was equally anxious, he held the sword at his waist and forced himself to calm down, "Your Majesty, this place is very close to General Xue's residence, we can go to Xue's residence first to take shelter from the rain."
Xue's house?
Gu Yuanbai mused for a moment, "Let's go, hurry over before the rain falls."
Author's Note: ①This is a quote from Prof. Jin Canrong's speech on "The Unprecedented Changes of the Century and China's Opportunities".
The Emperor's power is so cool.
Gu Yuanbai: This rain is so unfortunate that I am not finished with my egregious factor.
XUE YUAN: What's so funny about the Prince of Peace?
Xue Yuan: Is there a funny me or a bitchy me?