Chapter 118: Anagrams
"Your Highnesses." Pei Zilie arched his hand coldly, although these four words were short, they were sonorous and powerful, and the strong dissatisfaction contained in them could be realized without any consideration.
"Electric ······ General Denwei? The two young men who were called His Royal Highness by Pei Zilie obviously only discovered this figure standing beside Xiao Shilian at this time, and their faces changed slightly. And Xiao Shilian didn't say anything in a hurry, looked at Li Xinchen beside him, and said in a low voice:
"The two people who were held in the middle by these guys are His Majesty's twenty-fourth son Chen Shujian and twenty-fifth son Chen Shucheng, both born to Shen Jieyu, and they have not been crowned in the year, so they are not sealed."
Li Xinchen nodded, no wonder these two guys are usually arrogant, and they are inevitably discouraged when they see Pei Zilie. The most powerful thing about Chen Ji as a man is that he has given birth to forty or fifty children, and there are fewer princesses, but there are forty-two princes, and Nan Chen only has two large pieces of land in Jiangnan and Jingnan.
Therefore, these princes who are about to rot because of too many of them have not been crowned, and they will not be given titles - this also makes history until the demise of Nan Chen, and there are still many princes who have not been titled - and the precedent of Chen Shubao and Chen Shuling being crowned princes and county kings when they were more than ten years old in the early years is very different.
A prince who has no title, maybe it is okay to bully the people with the help of his royal identity, and he really has a problem with the children of the family, not necessarily who suffers, after all, since these families are called "families", there is no background to peep into, once they are in a hurry to join forces to impeach, even the prince has to go around without eating.
The Xiao family, as a family that has only risen with Xiao Maha's reuse, naturally does not have so much pressure and danger to bully or ridicule, and Xiao Maha's popularity is really not enough to threaten their princes, but Pei Zilie is different.
Although Pei Zilie has a cold temperament and usually has few confidants and friends, his background and position are not something that these princes can easily provoke.
Pei Zilie is Da Chen's Dianwei general, although he is a miscellaneous general, he is also a real general in the army, plus who doesn't know that he is a close confidant of Dasikong Wu Mingche? If you provoke Pei Zilie, what is the difference between provoking Da Sikong?
What's more, although Pei Zilie's father Pei Qi is just a squire, and it is nothing in this wealthy Jiankang Mansion, but he is a descendant of the Wenxi Pei family with pure blood, just what the word "Pei" means, these two princes dare not think about it.
The ministers of the Pei family in the same court and the central government, such as Pei Ji, the official Shangshu, although they usually don't think about Pei Qi everywhere, and even the two families are just friends in Pingshui, but after all, they are all from the Pei family, and bullying Pei Zilie is not only slapping Pei Qi's face, but also slapping the face of the entire Wenxi Pei family.
Therefore, this Xiao Shilian can be provoked, but this Pei Zilie must not be provoked.
Seeing the attitude of these two guys turn one hundred and eighty degrees, Li Xinchen shook his head with a smile, and Xiao Shilian also breathed a sigh of relief, although Pei Zilie has a cold temper and has never liked to interact with people, but in the final analysis, he is a knife-mouthed tofu heart, and he stood up at this time, completely giving Xiao Shilian a head.
As if they were also aware of this problem, Chen Shujian and Chen Shucheng glared at Xiao Shilian fiercely, and beckoned the rest of the sons who were gathered around them to leave in a hurry.
Pei Zilie frowned, turned his head and looked at Xiao Shilian with a helpless face: "Boqing, why did you have a holiday with these two guys?" ”
Xiao Shilian smiled bitterly: "Before the war, I lost to them in the poetry meeting in Jiankang Mansion, and you also know that although these guys don't learn and have no skills, they have no power to restrain chickens, but this poetry is a good hand." ”
Pei Zilie bowed slightly, and reciting poetry was a skill that the children of the aristocratic families of the Southern Dynasty had to learn and master, and this was especially true for the royal family. After all, it is difficult for the royal deep palace compound to cultivate their ability to fight on the battlefield, but it is more than enough to cultivate this ability to write poems and songs.
"Let's go, this time we can't make these guys laugh at anything." Xiao Shilian gritted his teeth and looked at the lanterns hanging among the trees.
"It's interesting, 'Freedom upside down.'" Xiao Shilian stretched out his hand and pointed to the lantern and said, there were already several people whispering around him, obviously discussing what this sentence meant.
"Since it's an anagram, I think it's because the word to be answered is reversed······" Li Xinchen couldn't help but mutter.
Pei Zilie smiled slightly beside him and was silent.
In fact, anagrams are the ancient version of brain teasers, and the key point of brain teasers is not how to delve into the meaning of the whole text, but how to find the key to the problem on the surface of the text. Compared with the many brain teasers that Li Xinchen once taught in later generations that people can't think of even if they want to break their heads, but the answer is actually very simple, the one in front of him is obviously much simpler.
Xiao Shilian subconsciously glanced at Pei Zilie and Li Xinchen, and saw that both of them had the same expressions, so he stretched out his hand and wrote the word "A" in the palm of his hand, and when he saw the two looking at each other and smiling, he nodded and walked to the next one.
For Xiao Shilian, who once fought with Chen Shujian and them at the last level, such anagrams are of course not a problem.
Soon the three of them calmly walked through the woods, but they didn't expect that Chen Shujian and the others were not slow, they had already told the answer and were standing at the intersection of the mountain, and they seemed to see the three people walking behind them, and a group of them stopped with interest, and they didn't know if they wanted to see a joke.
"General Pei, Xiao Gongzi!" This kind of semi-official activity has always been strongly supported by the imperial court, so sitting at the first table are two young doctors of preaching, of course, this doctor in ancient times refers to the study of the four books and five classics, various classics of academic talents, similar to the later generations of "lecturers" and "professors", and later generations of "doctors" are not the same concept at all.
"This is my brother, Li Shizhong." Xiao Shilian patted Li Xinchen on the shoulder with a big grin, which was regarded as an introduction.
"It turned out to be Brother Li, who has admired his name for a long time." The two hurriedly stood up and saluted, but Li Xinchen, who was harmed, could only return the salute. After all, Xiao Shilian's friend, or Pei Zilie's friend, is definitely not a small person, and for these doctors who have just entered the officialdom, they are naturally polite to these sons.
Especially although Xiao Shilian has a hearty personality outside, he is definitely not a person who recognizes his brother indiscriminately, and being able to be called a "brother" by him shows that including his father Xiao Maha, he appreciates this "Li Shizhong" very much.
After one of the doctors saluted, he said in a deep voice: "It's not the first time that General Pei and Xiao Gongzi have come, the rules should be understood, and please state your answer." ”