Chapter 19: The Theory of Self-Cultivation
In response to Jin Ruyu's direct and contrary to Confucius and Mencius's teachings, the master could not be sure, nor did he have the courage to deny it, so he could only smile awkwardly, and then continue to lecture on his own class.
"Uncle Huang is willing to guide our group of juniors, which is really a blessing for our generation." The fifth prince tilted his head and said to Jin Ruyu, who cares about what the master is talking about at this time, there are not many opportunities to brush up on Jin Ruyu's side.
Jin Ruyu half-closed his eyelids, and didn't bother to look at the five princes who opened his mouth, even if it was a nephew, if there were more nephews, it would be almost the same as nothing, and if there were more people with the surname Jin, it would be almost the same as nothing. So for him, there are no relatives in the world for a long time.
"Uncle Huang, I haven't seen you for many years, but do you remember Xue Yao?" The third princess guessed in her heart that the fifth prince would be ignored if he was a man, and her uncle would always have a good impression of her niece, so she mustered up the courage and wanted to talk to Jin Ruyu.
But the fact is that Jin Ruyu kept her original movements, and she didn't give her the slightest reaction, that appearance clearly equated her existence with a table placed aside, how could people care about the table because the table was next to it.
"It seems that Uncle Huang doesn't remember the Third Emperor Sister." The fourth princess was instinctively afraid, and she didn't dare to speak to Jin Ruyu, otherwise when she saw such a beautiful man, who could shoot faster than her.
At this time, I saw that the third princess was stunned by Jin Ruyu, although she had never dared to fight against the third princess, she couldn't help but say a little more at this time.
"Uncle Huang left the palace at a young age, it's normal not to remember this princess, it's better than you, this is the first time you've seen Uncle Huang!" How could the third princess tolerate being ridiculed by the fourth princess, the fourth princess was far less noble than her, what qualifications did she have to laugh at her.
"Of course it's not the first time, Princess Ben also met Uncle Huang a few days ago." The fourth princess was reluctant to show weakness in her heart, saying that she had seen it, but in fact, she had just seen it from the side.
"Don't quarrel between the two of you, isn't this a joke for Uncle Seventeen?" The fourth prince smiled softly and acted as a good old man.
"You're smart, just watch us run into a wall at Uncle Huang's, and watch jokes alone!" The third princess glanced at the fourth prince unkindly, and scolded: "What hypocrisy! ”
The fourth prince just smiled, and looked helpless about the description of the third princess.
After the master's teaching, Liu Mengyan's two sisters and brothers, Jin Fu and the four princes walked out of the Royal Academy together, and Jin Ruyu followed the four silently, which made the other two people except Liu Mengyan and Jin Fu feel particularly stressed.
"Sister, His Royal Highness King Jin, does he have something to say to you?" Chu Jiangliu said to Liu Mengyan.
"How do I know?" Yoo Mengyan replied irresponsibly.
"His Royal Highness King Jin is excellent, but he is always followed, and I am very timid." Chu River Channel.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Yoo Mong-yeon continued to speak irresponsibly.
In fact, Liu Mengyan naturally knew the cause of Jin Ruyu following the four of them, but why she didn't come up to speak was quite bothering her, Jin Ruyu, who already had a sense of being a robber, was even more concerned when she was silent.
didn't wait for Jin Ruyu to speak, but two little eunuchs from the queen's palace came to find Liu Mengyan and Chu Jiangliu.
It turned out that Queen Chu asked the two of them to accompany her to lunch.
When Chu Jiangliu heard this, he hurriedly agreed, and by the way, he pulled Liu Mengyan to agree.
Because he thought that after accepting the queen's invitation, they rushed to the queen's palace, and Jin Ruyu would never follow him again.
But his idea is fundamentally wrong, Jin Ruyu is obviously not following the fourth prince or Jin Wu, he is just following Liu Mengyan, as if he is about to become the spirit behind Liu Mengyan.
Liu Mengyan also felt very distressed about Jin Ruyu's inexplicable behavior, but she had a falling out with Jin Ruyu before, and she didn't want to talk to Jin Ruyu at all now, so she held on to her breath and took the initiative to say a word to Jin Ruyu without looking back, so Jin Ruyu followed their sister and brother to the queen's palace.
"Isn't this His Royal Highness King Jin?" Empress Chu, who had happily come out to greet the Chu family's siblings, turned a little strange when she saw Jin Ruyu.
Empress Chu's impression of Jin Ruyu is still stuck in the fact that she gave her niece to the sixth prince, which is really not a good impression.
"Why is His Royal Highness King Jin here?" Empress Chu asked Liu Mengyan and Chu Jiangliu in this sentence, Jin Ruyu obviously came with these two sisters and brothers, and Heng Zhu definitely didn't have something to do with her Empress Chu.
"I don't know." Liu Mengyan gave a rather uncooperative answer.
When Queen Chu saw that her niece gave such an answer with a bad face, she slapped the back of her niece's head, "It's not good to speak." Jiang Liu, you say. ”
Liu Mengyan rubbed her head, this aunt didn't know the point of convergence in front of outsiders.
"His Royal Highness King Jin, why did you come here......" Chu Jiangliu didn't know how to answer, so he cautiously turned around and asked Jin Ruyu.
"Liu Mengyan ......" Jin Ruyu did not answer Chu Jiangliu, but wanted to talk to Liu Mengyan.
"Auntie, didn't you let us have lunch, I'm hungry, let's go in." Liu Mengyan just didn't want to talk to Jin Ruyu, so she directly said to Queen Chu, interrupting Jin Ruyu's words.
Queen Chu didn't like Jin Ruyu either, but when she saw Jin Ruyu being treated like this by Liu Mengyan, she still had a little joy in her heart, as long as Jin Ruyu was not angry, she went with Liu Mengyan.
"That's right, come in." Empress Chu said.
It's just that ignoring Jin Ruyu, although he was happy for a while, he didn't expect it to become this situation.
There were four people sitting at the dinner table, except for Queen Chu and the sisters and brothers of the Chu family, Jin Ruyu also stayed.
However, Liu Mengyan and Chu Jiangliu didn't have the time to deal with Jin Ruyu's actions, just because the table was full of dishes, and they couldn't see any oil and water.
"Auntie, is this for rabbits? Why are they all vegetarian? Chu Jiangliu regretted coming here, and knew that it was nothing good for the queen's aunt to take the two sisters and brothers to dinner for no reason.
"What's wrong with the vegetarian food, can't you eat it?" Empress Chu looked at Chu Jiangliu coldly.
"Even if it's vegetarian, why don't you see the slightest bit of greasy, have the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room been replaced by monks?" Liu Mengyan followed up and spoke, the stew on this table of clear water is really unappetizing.
"It was the saint who was seriously ill, and the second prince proposed that the entire palace fast for seven days to pray for the saint." Empress Chu took the chopsticks and picked out the vegetable leaves floating in the clear water, and she didn't have much appetite.
"The second prince is really good at finding trouble, he is willing to fast alone, and he wants so many people to accompany the porridge and side dishes." Liu Mengyan poked the rice in the bowl with chopsticks, dissatisfied and authentic.
Empress Chu raised her hand and tapped the back of her head again, and said: "It's good to think about this kind of thing in your heart, do you want to lose your head when you say it!" ”
"Auntie, you can eat alone, I don't want to eat." Liu Mengyan rubbed the back of her head and was about to get up, she really didn't have much appetite for such a table of vegetarian dishes without oil and water.
"Sit down!" Empress Chu scolded.
Liu Mengyan sat back with her head down.
"In front of His Royal Highness King Jin, what do you look like, don't you make His Royal Highness King Jin laugh?" Empress Chu taught.
"The king didn't laugh." Jin Ruyu said with a solemn look on her face unexpectedly.
For a few people who are used to seeing Jin Ruyu's cold face, this appearance is simply rare.
Although Liu Mengyan had often seen Jin Ruyu smiling before, this solemn appearance was really the first time she had seen her.
solemn and a little cautious, it is really not suitable for Jin Ruyu, His Royal Highness King Jin wants the wind to be windy and rainy, isn't it weird to put the word cautious on him.
"Since you have to fast, isn't it true that for the next seven days, there will be no dishes other than vegetarian dishes in the palace?" Although Liu Mengyan was making a fuss, she also knew that the idea proposed by Jin Yan this time was a big move.
It is not for the queen to fast alone, not even for the concubines to fast, but for the entire palace to fast, which is not as simple as fasting.
Whoever does not see the ulterior motive after this fast will fall into this trap.
"Naturally, it is. Since your two sisters and brothers have to come to study with you every day, you will use it here in the palace for lunch in the future. "Queen Chu is leisurely and authentic.
"Auntie, forgive me for refusing." As soon as Liu Mengyan heard it, she said that she would listen to Queen Chu's nonsense before she had a ghost, Queen Chu was unwilling to be a vegetarian herself, and she was willing to suffer together with her sister and brother.
"You want to disobey the will of the queen mother?"
"How can anyone say this about himself, I am still growing my body, and eating vegetarian for seven days in a row hurts my body."
"Sister is right, it would be bad if I didn't grow tall because of this." Chu Jiangliu hurriedly echoed Liu Mengyan's words.
"What kind of body you have, this palace needs to look at you with a long brain. Jiang Liu, don't follow your sister to cause trouble. Empress Chu ruthlessly damaged her granddaughter.
"Auntie, my sister is very good, why can't I learn from my sister." Chu Jiangliu felt that there was nothing wrong with his sister, she was very smart, so why did she need to grow her brains.
"Which eye do you have to see that your sister is fine?" Queen Chu was not in a good mood today because the table was full of vegetarian dishes, and she was ruthless.
"Jiang Xue is naturally good." Jin Ruyu suddenly interjected.
"I'm full." Jin Ruyu's words had just come out, and Liu Mengyan directly put down her chopsticks and got up to leave.
Empress Chu wanted to reproach Liu Mengyan for being rude, but as soon as she saw Liu Mengyan's completely sunken face, she swallowed all the words that came to her mouth.
"I'm full, too." Although Chu Jiangliu didn't understand the situation, seeing that Liu Mengyan was gone, it was naturally impossible to stay alone, so he hurriedly followed Liu Mengyan's footsteps.
Jin Ruyu was left stunned with chopsticks, and looked at Liu Mengyan's figure leaving, with no usual indifference on her face, only helpless.
"Although this niece of this palace loves to cause trouble, she has settled down recently, and rarely does reckless things. His Royal Highness King Jin can provoke Jiang Xue with one sentence, and he really has the ability. Queen Chu is even more confused about the relationship between Liu Mengyan and Jin Ruyu, but anyone with a discerning eye can understand that Liu Mengyan's actions are all because of Jin Ruyu's praise.
The king should have been angry with her, but somehow, when he saw her cold face, he was full of panic. Did this king really do something wrong? ”
In addition to the palace maids and eunuchs, there is only Queen Chu, but Jin Ruyu should say this to himself rather than to Queen Chu, he really doesn't understand why he is so disgusted by Liu Mengyan so completely.
"Sister, why are you angry? Didn't he just praise you with a 'good'? Chu Jiangliu followed Liu Mengyan and asked.
"It's just that I suddenly feel that Jin Ruyu and others are really hypocritical, and I feel very angry when I look at him very unpleasantly for a while." Liu Mengyan replied.
"King Jin's hypocrisy? However, if you treat His Royal Highness King Jin like this, if he holds a grudge, it will not be easy in the future. Chu Jiangliu also didn't understand that Jin Ruyu was in front of Liu Mengyan, and her temper was so good that she didn't look like a high-ranking prince at all.
"What's the point of waiting, Liang Zi with Jin Ruyu has already been married, he praised me on his face, and he can't tell how he hates me behind his back." It's not that Liu Mengyan hasn't learned Jin Ruyu's ability to turn her face, since it has evolved into the current situation, she has no better way than to go against Jin Ruyu.
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It depends on when Jin Ruyu's patience runs out and uses her real character with her, and she already has the consciousness to deal with Jin Ruyu.
"His Royal Highness King Jin, although this person is incomprehensible, but it doesn't seem to be the kind of person you say, sister, isn't that the style of a villain......" Chu Jiangliu has seen Jin Ruyu a lot of times, and he also has a certain impression of Jin Ruyu in his heart.
"Why can't King Jin be a villain?" Liu Mengyan asked rhetorically.
"You say yes, you're smarter than me anyway." Chu Jiangliu has followed Liu Mengyan a lot, and he has long developed the habit of believing in Liu Mengyan, and now his sister is his faith, and there will be mistakes in what his sister says.
After leaving the palace, Liu Mengyan did not go back to Zuo Xiangfu directly, she had no taste for anything to eat at Queen Chu's place, and she was still hungry, so she was going to invite Yuelou to have a meal at this time.
Chu Jiangliu naturally followed behind Liu Mengyan, and the two sisters and brothers entered the Invitation Moon Tower together.
It happened that the carriage made of pure gold stopped at the door of the Invitation Moon Tower, and the prince of the worry-free world got down from the carriage leisurely, and as soon as he saw Liu Mengyan's sister and brother, he immediately greeted him warmly.
"Oh, isn't this Miss Chu? Haven't seen you in a long time? The son of Carefree was full of smiles, and looked at Liu Mengyan from top to bottom, as if to see if Liu Mengyan had changed.
"It's not too long, is it? I think it's better to never see His Royal Highness again. Liu Mengyan said with a smile.
"Miss Chu, you just accidentally said the truth."
"It's not accidental, it's just that I want to say it."
"What is Miss Chu doing today to invite Yuelou?" The carefree prince is naturally thick-skinned, and he doesn't care about Liu Mengyan's attitude of not welcoming him.
"Naturally, I'm here to eat, otherwise why does the prince think I can come?"
"It just so happens that this son is also here for dinner, let's go together." Jin Wuwu waited for Liu Mengyan's words.
"With all due respect, His Royal Highness the Prince is determined to become the first gentleman of the Heavenly Sage Dynasty, and I, Liu Mengyan, want to be a lady who does not dishonor the reputation of the Chu family, you and I are not fellow travelers, why bother to eat at the same table." Liu Mengyan really has no intention of dealing with Jin Wuwu, and although this guy is not a prince, he is also surnamed Jin, and before the new king ascended the throne, she did try to keep a distance from these people surnamed Jin.
"A lady who does not disgrace the reputation of the Chu family? Is this really Miss Chu's ambition? Jin Wuwu's hands holding the folding fan were placed in front of him, motionless, looking at Liu Mengyan's eyes and waiting for her answer.
"It's not a big ambition, but that's what I want to do at the moment." Liu Mengyan smiled, this is not an ambition, it is the least she has to do.
"Is there anything bad about being a gentleman? Why did Miss Chu change her mind? ”
"If it's okay, you should ask Chu Jiangliu, I won't answer this kind of boring question." Liu Mengyan doesn't want to be a gentleman, she doesn't want to abide by complicated rules, and she doesn't want to swallow her anger, it's true to be a carefree lady of the Chu family.
But Xiaoyao and Xuanyao do not mean the same thing, although Xiaoyao is at ease, Xiaoyao is not arbitrary, her identity gives her the capital to act arbitrarily, and also gives her the responsibility not to act arbitrarily.
She didn't want to disappoint Chu Shaoyuan, so she definitely wouldn't be a fool, and whether she could be free or not was hard to say.
"Brother of the Chu family, you should tell me, isn't it good to live like this world?" Jin Wuwu really asked about Chu Jiangliu.
Chu Jiangliu was stunned, how could he know what Liu Mengyan and Jin Wuwu were fighting for.
"His Royal Highness thinks it's good, but if it's me, I don't want to be a gentleman." Chu Jiangliu didn't agree with Jin Wuwu's style in his heart, and the carriage was still made of gold, which was an exaggerated and extreme practice, which inevitably annoyed people.
"It's really boring, it's so rigid at a young age, what's the fun of life in the future." Jin Wuwu withdrew his gaze from Chu Jiangliu's body, and turned to look at the person behind Liu Mengyan.
Standing behind Liu Mengyan was Fang You.
"When did Miss Chu have an extra follower, if you don't look carefully, you will almost miss him in this life, this appearance is really lost in the crowd and you can't see it at all. It is true that not everyone can have the same amazing appearance as this son! Jin Wuwu said complacently.
Fang You didn't even look at Jin Wuwu, his appearance was ordinary, which was a great advantage for a killer, but when he heard such an evaluation from Jin Wuwu's mouth, he always felt a little angry.
This carefree son of the world, the ability to be angry is only a little worse than Liu Mengyan. But not enough to shake him.
"Why doesn't this little follower speak, it can't be the legendary mute, right?" How could Jin Wuwu let a guard ignore him, the more Fang You didn't speak, the more he wanted to toss Fang You.
"If His Royal Highness the Prince is very interested in my guard, then I will leave him to you to see, and Jiang Liu and I will go to the Moon Tower." Liu Mengyan raised her eyelids, feeling bored by Jin Wuwu's nonsense.
"Miss, how can you ...... like this" Fang just listened to Jin Wuwu's words, Fang You could not move at all, and as soon as Liu Mengyan opened his mouth at this moment, he could not continue to remain silent.
"Interesting, you ignore this son talking to you, and you react as soon as Miss Chu speaks, are you loyal to your master, or are you despising this son?" Jin Wuwu squinted, and the folding fan in his hand was about to poke at Fang You's head.
Fang You simply reached out and pinched Jin Wuwu's folding fan, stopping his movements.