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"Buzz," came the shuddering sound of a dagger plunging deep into the wood.

Xue Yuan lowered his voice with a smile, "Chang Yuyan, you have to tell me the truth."

The cold sweat on the top of Chang Yuyan's head sprang up abruptly.

Xue Yuan flicked his dagger, the absolutely good dagger gave out another crisp trill, Xue Yuan's voice was not good these days, his speech contained sand grains like frosting, obviously a good tone of voice, saying it out might carry a threat, not to mention his tone of voice at the moment, which was definitely not considered good.

Xue Yuan laughed a little, "If the Sage hadn't said anything about me, you wouldn't have come to the Xue Mansion in such a hurry to find me."

Chang Yuyan tried her best to calm down, "Previously, you were always on duty beside the saint, causing people to be jealous and envious. Now that I've been summoned by the saint alone, it's not okay for me to come and show off in front of you?"

Xue Yuan narrowed his eyes at him, his eyes sunken.

"What can the saint say to me about you?" Chang Yuyan smiled bitterly, "Or talk about you, so why should I hide it."

The heart was thumping.

All nervousness and apprehension.

He didn't know why he had to conceal the words he had spoken with the saint, but he hadn't noticed when he was in the middle of it at the time, and now when he thought about it, most of the saint's conversations with him were surprisingly related to Xue Yuan.

Such a perception instinctively made Chang Yuyan reluctant to tell the truth to Xue Yuan.

He opened his folding fan and elegantly fanned it a few times, waiting for the cold sweat on top of his head to be gone before smiling slightly, "Xue Jiuyao, why have you become so strange today."

Xue Yuan was still looking at him.

The outer robe he was wearing was draped over his shoulders, and even with his cape, he could not block the sharpness in his brow. The dagger on the table still reflected the cold light, but the trembling gradually stopped.

Xue Yuan withdrew his gaze as he pulled the dagger out and continued to peel the wood, muttering, "A bit more hard-hearted than I thought."

Chang Yuyan didn't hear, "What?"

"Nothing," Xue Yuan said lazily, "By the way, I'll show you something."

Xue Yuan called over the boy, who nodded his head and ran away after listening to his orders. A few moments later, the boy held a curved sword and offered it in front of Xue Yuan.

Xue Yuan picked up the knife, Chang Yuyan couldn't help but walk up to take a closer look, only to see that the sheath of this scimitar was outlined with gold wire, supplemented by tens of thousands of jewels, the gold wire was clearly defined, and was uniformly thick and thin from end to end. Only this one sheath, can conclude that this machete must be extraordinary.

And the more subtle the gold silk products, the more exclusively owned by the royal family. Chang Yuyan blurted out, "This is a reward from His Majesty?"

Xue Yuan gripped the hilt of the knife, pulled out half of the scimitar, only to hear a "miso" sound, the sharp blade and the sheath of the knife issued a sound of the aftermath of the sound of the clash of arms.

"This is the prize for the first place winner on the day of the spring hunt," Xue Yuan touched the surface of the blade, "Is it pretty?"

Chang Yuyan could hardly take her eyes off, "Beautiful."

Xue Yuan inexplicably laughed as he drew out his scimitar then slashed at the table, a white mark was unexpectedly made right on top of the gray stone table.

Chang Yuyan smacked his lips, "Surprisingly, it's so sharp."

"Pretty is really pretty, and sharp is really sharp," Xue Yuan juggled the scimitar in his hand, looking at Chang Yuyin with trepidation, he finally threw the knife into its sheath and turned back to laugh, "A good knife like this has to be rested in the hands of someone who knows how to play with knives."

Chang Yuyan sighed, "No?"

Two quarters of an hour later, Chang Yuyan got up and said goodbye to Xue Yuan. As soon as Chang Yuyan left Xue Yuan's courtyard, before she could walk out of the Xue Mansion's gate, she met Mrs. Xue, who had hurriedly arrived.

Mrs. Xue was neatly made up and was the first to breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that Chang Yuyan had not yet left.

Chang Yuyan bowed with Madam Xue, who told him to get up quickly and asked, "Brother Yan'er, you are close to Jiuyao, do you know of any other exceptional men he knows?"

Xue Yuan wants to insist on going out day after day to take a look at the last one, and was so seriously injured that he had to be carried out. It can be seen that the person he wants to see, easily will not go to the door of the Xue family, how to see, how it will not be Chang Yuyan.

Mrs. Xue was a bit anxious, and there was also a hidden worry and fretfulness on her face, Chang Yuyan was a bit puzzled: "Why did you say that, ma'am?"

"I see that you're the only one in the house who comes to the door," Mrs. Xue reluctantly smiled, "I thought that Yuan Ge'er would be lonely on his own, so I thought I'd ask him if he'd made friends with anyone else his own age."

Chang Yuyan thought to herself, with Xue Jiuyao's temperament, who else could get along with him?

Like bandits and hooligans, it was only Chang Yuyan and him who were snakes and rats. Chang Yuyan thought for a moment and hesitantly said, ''If we are talking about friendship or not, this I do not know. But if we talk about outstanding men, this is one. It is the Ministry of Public Works Minister Chu Da family's son Chu Wei, and I was in the same class when the scholar."

"Scholar," Mrs. Xue said thoughtfully, "I know."

Chu Wei this day back to the house, then heard the Xue House wife visited the matter.

Chu Wei's movements lurched as he raised his head to look at his mother, frowning, "The Xue Mansion?"

"Precisely," Mrs. Chu said, "Mrs. Xue is looking at daughters for her own sons, and it just so happened that she heard that you had not yet married, so she came to the door to speak with me specifically about children."

Chu Wei said, "The Chu House is not close to the Xue House."

Mrs. Chu said angrily: ''Talking is not close? I'm afraid that Mrs. Xue is also really anxious, such a mind, I am the most understanding. Just like you, not much worse than the Xue family's eldest son, previously took a study tour as an excuse, seven years is not willing to come back to say a kiss, you now also became a scholar into the job, and by the saint's importance, matchmakers are almost flat in the threshold of the house, only you are not willing to, a little bit of not sympathetic to your old mother."

Chu Wei was thoughtful.

Xue Yuan is actually going to have a blind date affair.

Isn't this a chance for someone who has a bad heart for His Majesty to die?

Chu Wei slightly invisible hooked up his lips, hung his eyes, seemingly listening to his mother's sermon, but in fact, his thoughts were already thinking about how he could help Mrs. Xue, so that Xue Yuan's marriage was completely set in stone.

On the second day, Chu Wei followed the imperial historian to deliberate before Gu Yuanbai.

The matter of the Imperial Historian had come to an end. When the Imperial Historian left, Chu Wei stayed in front of Gu Yuanbai as a Hanlin Academy Cultivator.

After Gu Yuanbai finished dealing with the political affairs, he took advantage of the empty tea to all talk and laugh with him, "Chu Qing is busy."

Chu Wei was somewhat slightly ashamed, "I am ashamed."

Gu Yuanbai's lips were a little dry, he drank two more mouthfuls of tea, his lip color was stained by the warm tea, and his light colored lips were flushed with a slight healthy redness. He smiled gently, "While this is fine, Chu Qing does not want to give me a talk about what happened when you traveled to school?"

Chu Wei returned to his senses, looked solemn, and said seriously, "What does His Majesty want to know?"

Gu Yuanbai asked, "How many places have you traveled to?"

Chu Wei said, "I have traveled all the way south from the canal, and I have been to most of the states and counties I passed through on the way."

"Deep into it?"

Chu Wei smiled faintly, sesquipedalian, "It took me seven years."

Gu Yuanbai stood in awe, "Then tell me about what you saw in various places."

Chu Wei pondered for a while, then spoke from the beginning. He was a lonely young man with a good reputation, but while visiting hermits in various states and counties, he had learned many things.

These great Confucian scholar's knowledge is different, the idea of the world and the problem is also extremely different. Chu Wei see more, but forgot his own age is still young, heard those big Confucian mouth about the world's suffering things, only remembered the suffering, but forgot to remember the good side of the still.

So in the middle of the rest of the tour, he remembered only the bad side.

Speaking, Chu Wei's tone slowed down, a few moments of confusion showing in his eyes. Gu Yuanbai brushed away the tea leaves with his teacup and smiled, "How come Chu Qing doesn't continue?"

Chu Wei pursed his lips, "I don't know what to say."

There are always that few cons everywhere, and it's just redundant to talk about them.

Gu Yuanbai asked: ''Why don't you talk about the customs and eating habits of each place? And whether there are many merchants in various places, whether the official schools in the state capitals are consistent with the content of the official schools in the capital, and if not, what are the differences, what is beneficial, and what can be changed, all of these, don't you know?"

Chu Wei froze.

His look lasted for a long time in a worried stupor, and it was a long time before he came back to his senses, somewhat distracted, "I have not even noticed any of this."

Gu Yuanbai put down his teacup and suddenly sighed.

This sigh of relief hung Chu Wei's heart and mind, the saint is disappointed in him?

Chu Wei's lips pursed white, hanging eyes, said, "Your Majesty, I ......"

"Chu Qing should know that the purpose of the study tour is for what," Gu Yuanbai said slowly, "both to see the disadvantages of the state capitals, but also to see the benefits of the state capitals. As Jinghu South that, Jinghu South mines are extremely large, if you know this, then you can use Jinghu South of this one point, the development of its tailor-made."

Chu Wei was puzzled, he thought carefully for a while and said, "I understand."

When you look at it this way, he had learned nothing from his past seven years of traveling.

Chu Wei was a bit frustrated, but also a bit relieved. He suddenly smiled, "If it is possible in the future, I would like to follow Your Majesty to revisit these places again."

Gu Yuanbai laughed a few times, "This is very good."

The corner of Chu Wei's mouth curved, he suddenly remembered what his mother had said to him earlier, Chu Wei's heart moved slightly, and he lowered his eyes and said, "Your Holiness, when it comes to the matter of traveling to school, I have remembered some interesting things."

Gu Yuanbai raised his eyebrows and came to be interested, "Tell me about it."

"There is an old crone in the folklore, the family's youngest child has grown old but refused to marry, the crone was angry and anxious, dragging the youngest child to visit the home of the daughter of the family, see people ask: my son can marry your daughter?"

Seeing that the saint casually laughed twice, Chu Wei said, "A few days ago, I heard my mother say. The wife of the Xue Mansion is also starting to get anxious, and seems to have been snooping around for information, ready to set a match for Lord Xue."

Gu Yuanbai drifted off, and when he thought about it, Xue Yuan was already twenty-four years old, which in ancient times, was already an older man.

And unlike Gu Yuanbai's body, Xue Yuan's body is very healthy, he should marry a wife, and Mrs. Xue's wife should be anxious.

"Quite good," Gu Yuanbai said, "It's nice to have a family."

Chu Wei looked at the face of the saint did not look different, then the heart settled down, he smiled, as if casual, said: "If Mrs. Xue fancy what girl, Xue General is still on the way to the northern border, I'm afraid that I can not do anything about it. When the time comes, I may not be able to trouble His Holiness, so that His Holiness and Lord Xue can bestow the marriage."

Gu Yuanbai flipped open a zhang file, smiled, and casually said, "Tell me more."

Give Xue Jiuyao a marriage?