On August 20, light rain.

After a few days of sunshine, it finally rained today, and the rain in Jinling was very famous, not big, like fog, hazy.

Early this morning, listening to the rain building is crowded with people, listening to the rain in the rain building is the best, saying that it is to listen to the rain, but most ordinary people still have to use their eyes to see, in the distance, rows of houses are submerged in the rain and fog, near, the boaters on the river wear up the hat, support the boat.

The gray city, in the rain, became another image of me, and the rain hit the walls, the streets, the bridges, and the roofs, all stirring up layers of splashes, carrying muddy water, and mixing into the river.

In the rain, Jinling City is much fresher, it seems to be alive, the eaves fall rain, dripping on both sides of the street, rows of puddles, reflecting the gloomy sky.

The days are as usual, but there are fewer people going out, after all, they are wet, no one is very comfortable, business is done, but there are fewer people who come to buy things, the teahouse listens to books, the wine shop drinks, the gambling house gambles money, and there are more dirty things in the green building, after all, it is raining, people are idle, and they always have to find something to do.

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Today's Wutong Street, there are very few pedestrians, but those officials who patrol the street walk back and forth.

Early in the morning, the old gentleman took a sedan chair and didn't know where to go!

In the Taiji Palace, the old emperor Li Jing leaned on the chair in a light shirt, and looked at the piece on the table that needed to be reviewed by him for a long time, and he had to sigh that he was old, and after only looking at it for half an hour, his eyes began to ache.

On this rainy day, the Taiji Hall was extremely humid and looked wet, so Li Jing ordered several elders in the cabinet in the hall to add mats, for fear that they would suffer from the wet cold on the ground.

This Tai Chi Hall has been dealing with political affairs for many years, with a cabinet inside, and the leader is several bosses, all of whom are ministers of the humerus, who have followed Liezu since the Tang Dynasty, and are also trustworthy people.

The Taiji Hall is not as solemn as the court meeting, and everyone is also a little more casual, from time to time to climb a few words, and it is not very tight, even Li Jing is too, wearing a light shirt, sometimes walking around in the hall, and then finding a few old people to cheer for home, it is also a common thing.

Early this morning, as usual, it was just that the little eunuch outside the door came in to report, "Guozi is a priest for wine, Mr. Su asks to see you!"

Not only Li Jing, but even several elders in the Taiji Hall frowned, Mr. Su, what's the matter? Came early in the morning to ask for a meeting?

"Xuan!" Li Jing put down the fold in his hand and straightened his body, after all, in front of Mr., he, the king of a country, still should not lose his manners.

The old gentleman slowly stepped into the hall with a cane, and looked calm, without kneeling, this is the honor of the old gentleman, he just bowed slightly, "The minister has seen Your Majesty!"

"Sir, I don't know what's going on? Why bother to come in person?"

"For the prince's master, Fang Tai's matter!"

The old gentleman does not hide it, nor does he beat around the bush, it is very straightforward, yesterday afternoon, the prince Li Congrui bent down and told what happened in the Taiji Hall that day, just a few words, Fang Tai suffered.

Li Congrui knew that he couldn't ask for His Majesty's kindness, so he thought of the old gentleman and asked the old gentleman to save Fang Tai's life, not for kindness, but for the scholars, for the Southern Tang Dynasty, and to leave Confucianism.

"What, Mr. is interceding for the prince?" Li Jing squinted his eyes slightly, but he never thought that the prince would be able to invite the old gentleman.

"Not for the prince, only for the Confucian!"

"Fang Tai Yongru, teach the prince to have no way, order beheading, to set an example!"

Confucianism is the avenue, and Confucianism is the wrong avenue, and the two are completely different.

"Nantang has never killed Confucian scholars, does Your Majesty want to make everyone in the world feel cold?"

"I said, Fang Tai is a mediocre Confucian, misleading the country and the people, how can he not kill!" Li Jing stood up, and the majesty of the emperor was still undoubtedly revealed in him, an old man who was nearly seventy years old.

"It's just a few words, why does Your Majesty necessarily think that Fang Tai is a mediocre? Although I have a shallow relationship with it, I also know that his character is pure and good, and he is a minister of the humerus, if he is killed in vain, it will definitely make the students of the world feel cold, please think twice, Your Majesty!" Mr. is neither humble nor arrogant, not the slightest waver because of Li Jing's anger, he is not the prince, only for the world's scholars, only for the Southern Tang Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, don't be angry, and please don't argue with Mr. Su anymore, make people unhappy, is it a Confucian or a mediocre? No one present can say clearly, it is better to summon Fang Tai and the prince to come and ask the reason, and then punish it is not too late!" An old man in the cabinet stepped forward to speak, in fact, His Majesty wanted to kill Fang Tai, they knew, it was he who mistook the prince, and only taught the prince some mediocrity, the emperor was furious and wanted to kill Fang Tai, but this imperial order, even they could no longer stop it, I thought that this matter would pass like this, Fang Tai died when he died, not a Confucian and died, just a mediocre Confucian, it was also reasonable, but I didn't expect Mr. Su to come early in the morning, so he came to defend Fang Tai, this matter may have a turnaround, and the cabinet boss does not want Nantang to lose talents, So he got up and persuaded.

"Okay, today I will let you adults see how Fang Taiyong Ru misled people's children!" Li Jing waved his sleeves, his hair rushed to the crown, his whole face was purple with anger, and he ordered, "Go to Xuan, Xuan Fangtai and the prince come to confront each other!"

It would take some time for the crown prince and Fang Tai to come, and after the quarrel just now, the hall was much calmer at this time.

Mr. Su stood in place with a cane, his expression was calm, and he was not panicked, he came here today just to save people, not for anything else.

Li Jing sat down again and drank a few sips of tea in succession to relieve the irritability and stuffiness in his chest.

The rain outside the hall was still falling, and it was a little heavier, and strings of water droplets were dripping down from the eaves, and even the red walls in the distance were brighter outside.

Several elders in the hall flipped through the folds in their hands, all of them absent-mindedly, after all, they had been handling political affairs like this for decades, and such a good show happened on weekdays, and they still had something to look forward to.

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The shops on the street of Lane 17 have also been cleaned, and it is fast to say, the wooden planks were only removed yesterday, and they were all cleaned up and down today.

The shop is really small, barely able to fit three tables, one facing the street, and two tables are placed in the back, which is really full, and it can't fit anything anymore.

Li Shuangshuang has thought about it, he wants to open a small restaurant, although the shop is small, but it is enough, close enough to home, the meal is ready at home, and then take it out to sell, but a few steps away.

After that, she went to pick three new tables and bought a few long chairs, and when the rain stopped, she would go to buy them, and tomorrow, she could open and do business.

However, Li Shuangshuang has not thought about the name of this shop, the young master gave several, she was not very satisfied, this name is like a person's face, it must be beautiful and remembered.

It's still a long time, Li Shuangshuang is not in a hurry to come up with a name, and he will buy the tables and chairs back in the afternoon.

It's just a strange thing, yesterday the one who was on an errand in the county office, named Zhou Zong, came again, the young master seemed to know that Zhou Zong, and after saying a few words, Zhou Zong hurriedly took the knife and went to do it.

When they met, Li Shuangshuang didn't know, but it was certain that the two had only met once yesterday, and it was impossible that they had known each other before.

The young master is really getting more and more mysterious, Li Shuangshuang thought so, it seemed to be different from when he was in Chang'an before, but she couldn't say what was the difference.

This home has always been run by Li Shuangshuang, in Chang'an, and here, even if you want to smash the yard and rent a shop, the young master is also acquiescing, the young master said when he was in Chang'an, "A person always has to find something to do!" Otherwise, what a pity it would be to live in this world!"

But what does the young master have to do? Li Shuangshuang has never figured it out, in Chang'an, busy for a living, in Jinling! seems to be honored to return to his hometown, but the young master doesn't do anything, basks in the sun every day, talks gossip, and doesn't even write words!

Those words left in the Chang'an Mansion, Li Shuangshuang thought that he still had to get them back, he was in a hurry that day, and he didn't care about packing up the young master's things, so those fell in the mansion, for this matter, how many times has the young master been verbose in recent days? It seems that he is going to ask Rou Jia to help send it back, but when he thinks of that princess, Li Shuangshuang pouts his lips, the young master is obviously a proton who is not so outstanding and has some disabilities, why does Rou Jia like the young master so much!

After thinking about it for more than ten years, Li Shuangshuang couldn't come up with a reason, standing in the empty shop, the rain outside was heavier, and some of them drifted into the shop, cold and swishing, looking at the rainy day and not being able to do business, Li Shuangshuang was not very happy.

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Soon, the prince and Fang Tai were "invited" over, and the prince was better, still dressed in brocade clothes, his body was thin, and his face was sallow, which was no different from his usual appearance.

Fang Tai was a little more miserable, dressed in prison clothes, and was thrown into prison after the incident yesterday, only to be beheaded in a few days later.

Fang Tai had gray hair, looked the oldest, and his back was a little more curved.

"The minister has seen Your Majesty, Your Majesty is safe!" The crown prince Li Congrui knelt down, and in front of Li Jing, he was always humble.

"Why don't you kneel when Fang Tai sees me!" Li Jing didn't care about the prince, but pointed at Fang Tai in the palace and said angrily.

I just saw that although Fang Tai was haggard, his expression was resolute, neither humble nor arrogant, staring at Li Jing, without greeting him, and even saving the etiquette of meeting, standing there straight.

"They are all dying people, and the old man wants to live for himself! What is the difference between kneeling and not kneeling!" Fang Tai spoke.

Everyone was in an uproar, and even Mr. Su on the side couldn't help but glance at Fang Tai, he just thought that Fang Tai was a little stubborn, and he was full of words, but he never thought that he would be so hard.

"Huh...... Is this ready to break the jar and break it? Li Jing sneered.

The prince on the side pulled Fang Tai's clothes and summoned them at this moment, indicating that there was still a turning point, and he might be able to spare the teacher's life, but it was really disrespectful for the teacher to do this now.

"Prince Teacher, for the world! Since the old man is the prince's teacher, the prince has been the fault of the old man, and so far, the old man does not think that he is at fault! Life and death are just a will, Your Majesty accuses, the old decay is irrefutable, but on the way here, I heard that Your Majesty said that the old decay is a mediocre Confucian, and the old decay endures tens of millions, this time I will never agree, the old decay is a Confucian scholar, and the name after life and death, the old decay still cares, Your Majesty can't just say that the old decay is a mediocre Confucian!" Fang Tai said calmly at first, but the more he got to the back, the more excited he became, and he even stomped his feet again and again, angry.

"It's so bold, this is the Taiji Palace, this is not a place for you to be wild! I say that you are a mediocre, you are, and you have to listen to what I say!" Li Jing felt that his majesty had been insulted, so he also got up from his seat and pointed at Fang Tai's nose and shouted.

"Old decay is not! Does Your Majesty think that you can overshadow the Three Emperors and outperform the Five Emperors? The Three Emperors and the Five Emperors still know how to adopt the virtuous, and they will never point to a scholar like His Majesty and say that he is a mediocre Confucian! Death, old decay is not afraid, but old decay must not die with the name of a mediocre on his back!"

"It's the opposite, it's the opposite, it's really the opposite, it's going to drag it down!" The old emperor Li Jing was so angry that he smoked and threw his sleeves again and again.

Fang Tai's stubbornness and boldness surprised everyone, on weekdays, Fang Tai is very talkative and knowledgeable, but he is a little stubborn, but he has never been as stubborn as today, so stubborn, so death-seeking.

The old emperor may not have thought about being so angry now for many years, and he can't remember what happened last time he was like this, but he only remembered that the man ended badly, and the five horses were divided into corpses and the nine clans were copied.

Since ancient times, the emperor has been majestic, once threatened, there is no one who does not implement thunder means, this is the emperor, who controls the whole book of life and death.