But no official ever impeached or consulted that the owner of the mansion was corrupt and corrupt, because there were two people living in the mansion, the Cabinet Scholar and the Imperial Scholar.

Those people who seem to be loyal ministers of the bone terrier dare to provoke a high-ranking official, but they dare not provoke two high-ranking officials at the same time, and they are two officials who have an irreversible relationship.

There is a secret ban in the DPRK and China that officials cannot hook up with each other to keep warm, but the crime of colluding with the party cannot be put on these two people, because these two people have been masters and apprentices for a long time.

Yang Liechen and Chu Hanlin.

This mansion is not called Yang Mansion or Chu Mansion, but the University Scholar's Mansion, which is the residence of Yang and Chu's masters and apprentices, and is also the director of the cabinet and the palace of the university scholars, including more than 50 officials of the big and small bachelors, and more than 100 servants and maids.

In the early summer, the lotus flowers in the garden were in full bloom, Yang Liechen sat by the railing in civilian clothes, took the bait from the maid's hand from time to time, and fed the fish in the lotus pond absentmindedly.

Chu Hanlin, who was in the distance, saw this scene, sighed, walked forward quickly, waved his hand to let the maids retreat, and he stood next to his students with bait.

Yang Liechen subconsciously stretched out his hand to the side, but he didn't see the bait handed over, he didn't look back and retracted his hand, leaned on the railing and whispered, "Teacher, you're here." ”

"Miss her again?"

Chu Hanlin threw all the bait in his hand into the pond, causing the brocade tail in the pond to churn, which was extremely spectacular, "You said this person, how good it is to be like a fish in the pond, you don't have to think about anything and don't worry about anything, you are free and carefree, and there are people to take care of it, how good." ”

Yang Liechen shook his head, "Carefree is the real big worry, although they are very happy in the pool, but they have been trapped in this corner of the place for people to enjoy and play in this life, why not the greatest sorrow." ”

"No, no, no."

Chu Hanlin looked sideways at this sad student, "The level of vision can determine the width of the world, as a person, you have the world in your heart, and you naturally feel that the world is vast, this pool of spring water is just a corner of the world, but in the eyes of the fish, this pool is their world, and it is the greatest joy to be able to be comfortable in your own world." ”

Yang Liechen smiled bitterly, "Everyone understands the truth, but only those who have emotions can be called human." ”

"Are you saying that the teacher is selling his knowledge?"

"Students don't dare."

Chu Hanlin laughed twice, "Let him go in the past, you always have to look forward, it makes no sense to say which is right and which is wrong, if you really want to ask right or wrong, then you can only blame Your Majesty for giving up Yuzhou at that time, and you can't blame that person." ”

"But he obviously has the ability to save Qinglian! A master of the phase realm, it can be said that the eaves and wall walking martial arts are superb, and he watched Qinglian commit suicide? Why didn't you kill those two Xishu thieves directly and resolutely before they came? ”

Chu Hanlin let out a long sigh, he didn't know what happened at that time, so he could only calmly go to comfort, "I know you are angry in your heart, but whether people save or not is not up to them, no one expected that Qinglian would commit suicide......

"Teacher, are you helping him talk now?"

Yang Liechen turned his head and looked at his mentor with thick eyebrows, his eyes full of blame.

"I'm not talking to anyone, I'm trying to tell you that children's personal enmity should not rise to the level of state affairs, and they should not seek public interests.

"Why is there no benefit? Song Rong couldn't hold on to Lianghuai, and it was reasonable for me to ask Yu Youjun to come to help, after all, Lianghuai is the real place where soldiers must fight, and Xishu is just a corner of the place, when can't you fight? If Lianghuai is defeated again, Da Zhou will really ruin the country and the family, and I can hear that His Majesty also has the idea of letting Yu Youjun go to Lianghuai to deal with Li Zizhen, I just added a fire. ”

Chu Hanlin clenched the railing, this student was almost hopeless, he fell into his own mud and couldn't extricate himself, the seeds of hatred planted in his heart after the Yuzhou war had grown into a towering tree.

Chu Hanlin shook his head slightly, he couldn't give up on this student, how could anyone be a teacher who didn't pull a hand when the student fell into the abyss? There is no such reason.

"If Yu Youjun was still in Zhongzhou and did not send troops to Xishu, you could suggest this, but he has already hit Mianzhou, and the arrow has been out of the string, and it cannot be recovered, otherwise it will be wasted, do you know, because of your suggestion, how many people will die in vain on the battlefield of Xishu? Are these lives so unbearable in your eyes? ”

Yang Liechen's face was expressionless, and he said in a cold tone: "No number of lives can be exchanged for Qinglian's life." ”

"Idiot!"

Chu Hanlin was completely annoyed and angry, "As an official, you should share your worries for the monarch and ask for your life for the people, you use the public for personal gain like this, and the public for personal revenge, how can you be an official!" Where do you put the people of the world, and where do you put the people of the Great Zhou in Xishu County! ”

"Then teacher, you are in cahoots with Prime Minister Zhang Cheng, is that the way to be an official?"

Chu Hanlin's eyes widened, this muddy boy actually said that he was in cahoots with Zhang Xuanlin, didn't he want to think about who he was for! If it weren't for his deal with Zhang Xuanlin, would he be able to sit in the position of a scholar of the palace? Chu Hanlin's gray hair had a tendency to explode, he heaved his chest, trembled his fingers, pointed at Yang Liechen and said, "You...... Say it again! ”

Yang Liechen turned his head away and kept silent.

Chu Hanlin covered his chest, "Do you want to be angry with your teacher to death!" ”

"I didn't mean to be angry with the teacher, I just said what I thought, he Yu Youjun killed my wife, I don't share the sky with him, I will show Your Majesty when I enter Beijing later!"

"I'm not your teacher!"

Chu Hanlin pointed at Yang Liechen and scolded: "If Yu Youjunzhen is transferred out of Xishu, the fate of you and my master and apprentice will end here." ”

Yang Liechen turned his head, lifted his robe and knelt down, and bowed, "Thank you Bachelor Chu for cultivating for so many years, Yang is very grateful, and then the Tao is different, and they are all right, if Bachelor Chu is useful to Yang's place in the future, Yang will definitely be smeared with liver and brains to repay the great favor!" ”

With that, Yang Liechen got up and left.

Chu Hanlin was stunned, and then he beat his chest with a wry smile.

It was a premeditated parting of the ways.

Chu Hanlin found that he was wrong, outrageously wrong, he shouldn't have stepped into the vicinity of this pond, he shouldn't have mentioned Zheng Qinglian, and he shouldn't have spoken out for Yu Youjun, but this is nothing, his biggest mistake is that he is optimistic about Yang Liechen again and again, and promotes him everywhere, really thinking that Yang Liechen is a loyal and righteous person and a minister of the country.

Chu Hanlin had been deceiving himself, and now he finally reacted that his student Yang Liechen had already died on the battlefield in Yuzhou.

"That's it!"

Chu Hanlin waved his sleeves heavily and left with a sad face.

Since the completion of the Star Chasing Tower, many ministers will also go to the Star Chasing Tower to burn incense and pray for blessings in their spare time, and there is a feeling that the Star Chasing Tower is regarded as Qingyang Mountain.

After Chu Hanlin left the Bachelor's Mansion, he came to the Star Chasing Building with a breeze on his sleeves, and the minister who didn't know thought that he was here to offer incense and pray, although he had a lot of dissatisfaction with this top courtier, and Chu Hanlin, who could collude with the party openly, had a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, but he still had to get by on his face, and they all greeted him and nodded his head, but this cabinet scholar seemed to think too highly of himself, and he didn't respond to other people's polite greetings, and he swaggered as if he had nothing, which immediately aroused a lot of excitement.

Some seventy or eighty-year-old ministers were about to come forward with crutches to theorize, but they were all stopped by their own young people, those old men who had one foot in the ground may not care, and they beat Chu Hanlin, and Chu Hanlin didn't dare to fight back, even if he fought back, he had already lived enough in this world anyway. But my own children don't think so, if this offends His Majesty's close ministers, you old men will die if they die, and in the end, it will be these young people who suffer.

No matter how dissatisfied the people around him were, Chu Hanlin still went his own way with his hands in his sleeves and walked forward, ignoring the intentions of others at all, after entering the Star Chasing Tower, several familiar little Taoist children nodded to him, and Chu Hanlin, who had not returned the salute to the group of high-ranking officials of the Great Zhou, nodded lightly to these Taoist children.

Dao Tong pointed upstairs, "The head of the sect is still in the old place." ”

Chu Hanlin thanked everyone, paced to the steps, and came to the strange room with only three walls, Wang Zhike was sitting on the wallless side at this time, looking down at the Great Zhou officials who came and went.

Wang Zhike's ears moved lightly, knowing that someone was visiting, he said without looking back: "Poor Dao counted that you would come, but I didn't expect it to be so early." ”

Chu Hanlin shook his head slightly, walked over to the old master and stood.

Everyone in the world knows that Wang Zhike has a bad relationship with the monk Mingxin, but they don't know that he has a close friend, that is, Chu Hanlin, a scholar in the cabinet of the dynasty, and the only one who knows the relationship between the two is Li Ru.

Wang Zhike pointed to the downstairs of the star chaser and said with a smile: "Thousands of officials come and go, who can pray for the Great Zhou, how geometric?" Poor Dao has observed them on the top of the tall building for so long, and some people even want to sink in the star-chasing tower for a day, kneeling in front of the gods and Buddhas in the sky and praying for their blessing not to cause the incident in the east window, they may not know, thinking that the star-chasing tower in the palace is the same as Qingyang Mountain, just for blessings, which is very wrong. The letters they wrote with their pens were all delivered to His Majesty's table, and now His Majesty knows who is a loyal minister and who is a rebel. ”

Chu Hanlin looked a little surprised, he suddenly recalled that after the emperor said that the Star Chasing Tower was for hundreds of officials to pray for, the Star Chasing Tower asked the person who was praying for the blessing to write the words of blessing on paper and also pay the money, it turned out to be to see who confessed himself.

"At first, they didn't actually receive many confessions, but after two or three years, His Majesty did not move, and they became more and more bold, but they were bold, and the things they feared were still there, and the book of blessings gradually became their prayers for the bad things they had done, and it became a crime."

After hearing this, Chu Hanlin also had to admire the emperor's scheming, and he could get the evidence of the official's guilt without much effort.

Wang Zhike continued: "Once people have faith, they will become cautious like walking on thin ice like facing the abyss, even if Your Majesty doesn't make a move on them, they are afraid that they will be punished by God, by the way, why did you suddenly visit the Star Chasing Tower?" You are not like a person who believes in gods and Buddhas. ”

Chu Hanlin said softly: "Old man Wang, you are right by you. ”

Wang Zhike pretended not to know, and he let out an incomprehensible "oh", "What did Poor Dao say that made Bachelor Chu look so heartbroken?" ”

Chu Hanlin was a little helpless, "Although there is the word Liechen in the name, but he is born with a backbone, this person can not miss the old feelings for himself, and he will not really be a 'Liechen'." ”

Wang Zhike snorted coldly, waved his sleeves and turned sideways not to look at Chu Hanlin.

"When you had a private meeting with Zhang Xuanlin, I reminded you that Yang Liechen can benefit the people as a local official, and he must not climb up again, he has selfish desires, the greater the power, the more darkness in his heart will be released!"

Chu Hanlin sighed heavily, "At that time, I still had hope for him, but I couldn't listen to your words, and now I know that I didn't know him all along, and it's too late." ”

"At the beginning, he stumbled on the Zhongzhou army, dragging the blade and armor for half a year, if it weren't for Song Rong's hint, I'm afraid Yang Liechen wouldn't have sent so many marching things to the Zhongzhou army, you can see these in your eyes."