When Xue Taifu returned home, he went straight to the study, he wanted to come up with a foolproof plan, which could not only fulfill His Majesty's wishes, but also take into account the face of the Youlan clan, so he sent his cronies to find Li Nuo that night, a fortune teller who lived in a ruined temple outside Jiankang City.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, I don't know what Lord Xue is looking for me, a stinky fortune teller?" Li Nuo said with a hippie smile.

Xue Taifu smiled: "Since the uprising, you have retired in order to avoid political affairs, do you think you can dodge?" ”

Li Nuo saw a table of sumptuous dishes and replied: "Master Taifu really understands my taste, he has prepared so many delicacies, yo he!" This saltwater duck looks like Baoyuexuan's, I have to taste it first!

Mrs. Xue sneered and said, "Don't choke when you eat slowly, as the saying goes, 'eat other people's soft mouths'!" ”

Li Nuo said while chewing duck meat: "Even if I die, I have to be a full ghost, let's say, what is the matter with you old thing?" ”

Xue Taifu sighed and said: "Now the matter of the crown prince in the court is quite controversial, His Majesty likes the eldest prince, and the mother of the little prince, Youlan is the queen, and the brother is in charge of the Royal Forest Army, and the sister is the princess of the Northern Wei Dynasty. ”

Li Nuo pursed his lips and said, "If I remember correctly, the eldest prince should have been born to the Hu family of the previous dynasty. ”

Mrs. Xue replied: "Seriously, now living in Chunning Palace, I am most favored by Your Majesty. ”

Li Nuo said with a smack: "It's not good to choose which of the two." ”

Mrs. Xue frowned and said, "Your Majesty is very fond of the son of the Hu family, and in three days there will be a sacrifice ceremony, and I am also very embarrassed now." ”

Li Nuo joked: "If not, you can simply resign, with your knowledge, it is more than enough to find a school to teach." ”

Mrs. Xue replied: "Old thing, I didn't come to you to joke with you!"

Li Nuo stroked his uneven beard with his oily hand and said, "Your Majesty doesn't have any other sons? This has been since ancient times, the more you look down on your descendants, the more promising he is! With that, he grabbed the chicken leg again and nibbled on it.

After thinking for a while, Taifu Xue said: "If you are smart and studious, and then the second prince born to the people of Sun Gong, Your Majesty pities his mother's lowly status, and he was just crowned the king of the county not long ago. You say he? ”

Li Nuo put down the wine glass in his hand and said, "Before I met Your Majesty, you were still a tofu seller in your thirties!" Everyone is the king of the county at a young age, hehe, although he also relies on his father. ”

Mrs. Xue looked at Li Nuo suspiciously: "Then what do you mean, the snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's profit?" ”

"Hahaha, Master Taifu is really witty, come on, come, I'll give you a drink." Li Nuo said as he picked up his wine glass and poured wine for Mrs. Xue.

Mrs. Xue also said happily: "You are a cunning old man, if you don't come out to be an official, it's a loss for everyone."

Li Nuo wiped the oil on his mouth and said, "The temple is so high that I can't live there." ”

Afterwards, the two drank happily until late at night, Li Nuofang left, and Mrs. Xue had an idea that night.

On the second day, above the court.

The ministers had already discussed, and the faction led by the former Taiwei Youlan Chengde forces supported the little prince Xiao Jing, while the doctors of the younger faction supported the eldest prince Xiao Zhong, Emperor Wu was quite hesitant about this, so he deliberately coughed twice towards Xue Taifu, Xue Taifu understood, got up and stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, please play." ”

Emperor Wu Dayue: "Xue Qing's family, please speak." ”

Xue Taifu said: "Sacrifice is a major event of the country, and it is also a family affair of His Majesty, to pay tribute to the ancestors, the minister thinks that several princes should be present at the same time, so as to show that the descendants of my Great Liang Kingdom are prosperous, and Your Majesty is blessed." ”

After that, everyone in the court and the central government immediately talked about it, some said that the sacrificial representative appointed the heir, some said that there was no precedent for letting the princes go, and some were making a fool of themselves.

Emperor Wu pondered for a moment and said, "If the Zhongqing family doesn't have a better idea, then according to what Taifu Xue said, several princes will go with the widows. ”

Everyone couldn't refute it for a while, so they could only agree.

Inside the school.

As usual, the princes waited for Mrs. Xue to come to teach, and the youngest Xiao Jing sat in the second row of the house, and naughtily picked up a paper ball and smashed it at Xiao Wen in the front row.

Xiao Wen said impatiently: "Why did you throw me? ”

Xiao Jing pretended to be casual and said: "What do you say, I am the son of the queen's mother, you are born of a cheap maid, dare to slander me?" ”

When Xiao Wen heard this, he stood up from his seat angrily, but he thought that his mother often told him that he was lowly and had to be more patient in case of trouble, so he could only rely on Xiao Jing's humiliation and not make a sound.

Xiao Jing saw that Xiao Wen didn't dare to argue with him, so he became more and more proud, thinking that Qingtong often told himself that his identity was nobler than others, and he was the best candidate for the future prince of Daliang, so he didn't put others in his eyes even more.

Xiao Zhong, who was sitting by the window, pretended to be nervous in order to help Xiao Wen relieve the siege: "Mrs. Xue is here." ”

As soon as Xiao Jing heard that Mrs. Xue was coming, he immediately became nervous, lowered his head, fell on the table, and remained silent. After a while, he didn't see Mrs. Xue, so he said disdainfully: "Big brother has also learned to lie now, so I'll tell Concubine Hu Niangniang after school." ”

Xiao Zhong said: "I'm for your good, Mrs. Xue is going to test your homework today, have you read your book?" Be careful and be punished again. ”

After hearing this, Xiao Jing said even more disdainfully: "That Mrs. Xue, if it weren't for my father to let him teach us to read, I wouldn't be afraid of him, and when I become the emperor, I will spank his ass, and after beating him, I will let him copy the book for me!" ”

At this time, Mrs. Xue quietly walked in through the back door, and everyone saw that they did not remind Xiao Jing tacitly.

"Where's the copying of the book?" Mrs. Xue asked softly from behind.

Xiao Jing was blowing vigorously at this time, and he didn't notice that Xue Taifu was behind at all.

After copying the book, I tied him to the swing and let four or five eunuchs push him together, ensuring that he would pee his pants in fright!" Xiao Jingmei said with a smile on his face.

"Ahem, cough, cough" Mrs. Xue couldn't help but cough.

After Xiao Jing heard this, he suddenly turned around and saw Mrs. Xue, who was suddenly trembling with fright, and said, "Mrs. ...... Taifu, when are you coming...... Coming in? ”

Mrs. Xue sneered and said, "Your Highness, don't be afraid, the homework left for you yesterday is simpler than others. If you can answer one or two, I will spare you. There is a cloud in the Analects: 'How to explain the death of the morning and the road'? ”

Xiao Jing looked around and said hesitantly, "Go back to ...... Hui Taifu, is it ...... There was a man named Chao, he couldn't live anymore, and I heard that he could go to the west and die. ”

When everyone heard this, they all burst into laughter, and Mrs. Xue was even more angry and blew his beard, and said, "Old rules." ”

Xiao Jing walked out of the door with some shame and took up his horse.

Xue Taifu said: "Two days later, it is the day of the sacrifice of my Great Liang Kingdom, as the prince, you will go with Your Majesty this year, about the sacrifice, you must know the process of the ceremony: first of all, after Your Majesty led the civil and military officials to pay homage; Then the princes saluted, after the salute; You should recite the sacrificial hymn "Chutz" together, and go back and memorize it. On the day of the sacrifice, you should wear plain clothes and have a solemn expression. The classes for these two days will not be held, so go back and prepare. ”

In the palace of the Youlan clan.

Queen Youlan was carefully pruning the flowers, and when she saw her son coming back from school early, she asked, "Why did Mrs. Xue come back so early today?" ”

Xiao Jingdao: "Taifu said that the two-day sacrifice ceremony will let all the princes go, and they don't have to go to school for these two days." ”

Youlan put down the scissors in his hand and asked, "Let you all go?" ”

Xiao Jing picked up the peaches on the plate and nibbled on them, and said nonchalantly: "Yes, Xiao Zhong will also go, and Xiao Wen will also go." ”

Qingtong said while pouring water for Xiao Jing: "The two of them must be for our Highness to be the companion of the two of them." ”

Empress Youlan asked, "What else did Taifu Xue say?" ”

Xiao Jing pouted and said, "Let's all go back and recite Chu...... Clear...... Chu came to something, saying that it was chanted during the sacrifice. ”

Queen Youlan blamed: "It's "Chutz", you kid, I usually let you read more books, but I haven't listened to it once." ”

Chun Xian stepped forward and said, "The slave will take care of His Royal Highness's endorsement for the next two days." ”

Queen Youlan: "No matter what method you use, you must let him memorize them all." ”

Two days later, the sacrifice ceremony.

At noon, the scorching sun outside Jiankang City, the emperor's honor guard was mighty, and after arriving at the Taimiao, Liu Siming, the official in charge of taking care of the Taimiao, had been waiting at the gate for a long time, and saw the emperor's carriage stopped, and immediately knelt down to salute.

Emperor Xiao Wu was helped out of the carriage by the eunuch Feng Ying.

Seeing Emperor Wu get out of the car, Liu Siming hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Liu Siming, the head of the Chentai Temple, has prepared all the sacrificial supplies for His Majesty. The auspicious time is approaching, I wonder if Your Majesty can start? ”

Emperor Wu nodded and said, "There is Lord Lao Liu, then let's get ready to start." ”

So the civil and military officials went in with Emperor Wu to pay homage.

Mrs. Xue walked up to several princes and said, "Several princes are waiting here, don't run around." ”

Several princes responded in unison: "Yes." ”

Seeing that Mrs. Xue was far away, Xiao Jing said to Hache: "Last night, the queen mother asked Chunxian to stare at me and recite the sacrificial poem all night, but I didn't understand it at all, and I was going to die of sleepiness at this moment." ”

Xiao Zhong said: "The "Chu Ci" that Taifu Xue asked us to recite, when Taifu talked about the pre-Qin cultural etiquette last winter, he used 'Blessing sacrifice to You, worship Kong Ming. The ancestor is the emperor, and the god is the feast. Filial piety and grandson are celebrated, and the blessing is repaid, and the longevity is boundless'. ”

Xiao Wen praised: "Big brother has a good memory, but I forgot it." "

Xiao Jing said disdainfully: "The eldest brother was originally older than us, so naturally he has to learn more, Xiao Wen, you finally have a chance to come, but don't memorize it as well as me, which makes people laugh." ”

Xiao Wen deliberately pretended not to hear and ignored it.

A few hares ran not far away.

Xiao Jing exclaimed excitedly: "Look! There are rabbits! I'm going to catch rabbits! With that, he ran over.

Xiao Zhong shouted: "Come back quickly, don't run around!" So he chased him out.

The two men ran into the woods, but there was no sign of the rabbit, and they lost their way, not wanting to rush out of a group of robbers, each with a weapon in his hand, and pounced on them.

Xiao Jing hid behind Xiao Zhong and cried in fright.

Xiao Zhong said to the robbers, "Do you know who we are? ”

The robber at the head smiled and said: "I don't care what your identity is, you are the son of Lao Tzu, the king of heaven, and you can't escape the palm of Lao Tzu today!" If you know each other, hurry up and take out the valuable things on your body! ”