The hospitable and excited Lord Ye disappeared in front of Zhu Xi and the three of them when they first met, and the so-called old people couldn't talk about it after they met, and they didn't ask about the place they settled down anymore, but they just sighed there for a long time, and Zhu Xi and the three of them got up and left with gloomy expressions.

Zhu Xi and the three of them, who were taken out of the mansion by the people of the Ye Mansion, looked back at the tall and majestic door of the Ye Mansion at the same time with complicated expressions, and still had a trace of fantasy in their hearts, expecting that suddenly someone from the Ye Mansion would run out, shouting loudly to stay, Lord Ye is invited.

It's a pity that this is just their expectation, the maids and subordinates in the mansion come and go, and no one pays attention to the three of them standing at the door.

"For now, sir...... What now? Lin Zhizhi asked with some despair.

The three of them are not stupid people, Ye Qing's hospitality today is already very clear, the imperial court defines science as pseudo-science, exile and imprisonment of many protégés, Ye Qing obviously intends to stand by and watch, and has no intention of participating.

Zhu Xi sighed heavily, with a heavy heart like a mountain: "Let's go back to the inn first, and I'll come back tomorrow." ”

Zhang Wei nodded silently, now they are only like this, they are not familiar with the place in Jinan Mansion, the only person who can give them hope, today's attitude is very clear, for the three of them, the blow is still a little too heavy, and even a little difficult to accept.

Zhu Xi could have chosen to go south to return to his hometown, and then calm down to continue to do his own learning, but because of Ye Qing's relationship in the north, he was still a little unwilling in his heart, unwilling to define his lifelong learning as pseudo-learning, unwilling to follow his many protégés for many years to be implicated by himself, so Zhu Xi chose to go north and chose to ask Ye Qing for help, but the current result was completely beyond their expectations, and this blow was really a little desperate for them who had expectations.

Ye Qing, who had just returned to the backyard, was slightly stunned when he saw Zhong Qing, and before he could ask a question, Zhong Qing asked a little sadly, "Why don't you help Zhu Xi?" ”

"I didn't say no." Ye Qing said with a sullen voice, and then sat down behind the desk.

Since there was a quarrel between the two two days ago, there is always a sense of estrangement between Ye Qing and Zhong Qing now, and what is the reason for this estrangement, not only Ye Qing doesn't understand, but even Zhong Qing feels a little inexplicable.

Sitting down opposite Ye Qing, Zhong Qing sighed again, and just as he was about to speak, Zhong Silkworm's voice sounded at the door.

Ye Qing's gaze swept over Zhong Qing, but Zhong Qing sat opposite indifferently, and did not plan to leave, looking at Zhong Silkworm and asked lightly, "How?" ”

"It's miserable." Zhong Silkworm continued with some reluctance: "It's an inn, it's just reluctant, and it's a room for ten people. Pulled out the shopkeeper and asked, an inn like theirs has never seen a scholar come to the door, but it is a place where some poor people such as peddlers and pawns stay, and the room fee is also very low. And...... The three of them didn't plan to book a room for the night at first, but after some bargaining after going back, they finally stayed at the inn. ”

"Is there any news from Lin'an?" Ye Qing's index finger unconsciously tapped on the tabletop, and Zhong Qing's eyes kept staring at the finger that seemed to be a little restless.

"Zhu Xi has looked for some officials in Lin'an, including both those from the Criminal Department and the Yushitai, and it seems that even the people from Dali Temple have also found them, but in the end, no one dared to help him at this time, but he was extorted a lot of silver by those officials. As for whether these silvers were made by Zhu Xi or by Zhang Wei and Lin Zhizhi, I don't think it matters, after all, now, the three of them are like grasshoppers on a rope. Zhong Silkworm shrugged and said helplessly.

Zhong Qing got up silently, walked to the door and whispered a few times to the maid, and then sat opposite Ye Qing again as if nothing had happened.

Seeing Zhong Qing sit down again, Ye Qing's eyes turned to Zhong Silkworm, and he thought for a while: "Pay more attention to whether there will be letters from Chang'an in the past two days, especially ...... Ye Heng's letter to Bai Bingzhong. ”

Zhong Silkworm nodded, and then when he was about to leave, he was stopped by Zhong Qing, who was facing away from him.

Zhong Silkworm, who turned around, glanced at Zhong Qing, who was still facing away from him, and then turned his gaze to Ye Qing, Ye Qing shrugged his shoulders helplessly, because he didn't know why Zhong Qing didn't speak after he stopped Zhong Silkworm.

Ye Qing and Zhong Qing have been like a cold war between husband and wife for the past two days, so in the past few days, whether it is Zhong Silkworm, Mo Xiaobao, or others, they have almost avoided Zhong Qing.

After being stopped by Zhong Qing, who was silent, seeing that Zhong Qing didn't speak, Zhong Silkworm didn't dare to ask, so she had to stand there and wait for Madame's orders.

There was a rush of footsteps outside, and the maid who had just been instructed by Zhong Qing ran in with a few silver tickets in her hand

, and then when he was about to hand it to Zhong Qing, Zhong Qing said: "You work hard again, send this money to Zhu Xi and the others, and say it...... Let's just say that it was given by you Lord Ye. ”

Ye Qing rolled his eyes helplessly, and then after a long sigh, he leaned back and leaned back in the chair, looking at Zhong Silkworm's gaze, and said angrily: "What are you doing with me?" Your surname is Zhong and I am not surnamed Zhong, the people of your Zhong family have spoken, you and you...... Just do it. ”

"Okay, I'll go and deliver the silver ticket as Madame instructs?" In the somewhat depressed atmosphere in the hall, Zhong Silkworm hurriedly took the silver ticket and asked with some uncertainty.

Ye Qing waved his hand impatiently, but Zhong Qing still didn't say a word.

Zhong Silkworm and the maid left together, and Ye Qing and Zhong Qing were left in the hall again, and the two of them still didn't speak, but their eyes were like fighting cocks, staring at each other tightly.

It wasn't until Zhong Da Meiren's eyes were slightly reddened and her expression began to become more and more complaining, that Master Ye sighed again and said helplessly: "Zhu Xi's matter is not as simple as you think, even if I have the heart to help, but it is not ...... now." ”

"You are afraid of offending the Holy ......." Zhong Qing said coldly.

"I am afraid of the human heart, not the holy." Ye Qing denied it: "The saint is young, although he is assisted by the queen mother, but after all, he ...... How can a young man not have a competitive spirit? What's more, there is also the net that Shi Miyuan set up for Zhu Xi, if I participate, Zhu Xi will not be grateful to me in the end, and will let Shi Miyuan seize the handle and impeach me Ye Qing in front of the saint. With your intelligence, you shouldn't fail to see these ....... ”

"Then why didn't you stop me from giving Zhu Xi a silver ticket?" Zhong Qing continued to ask.

"Will you not give it if I stop you?" Ye Qing smiled bitterly, and then said, "Do you know what the result is when you give Zhu Xi a silver ticket so generously?" ”

Zhong Qing shook her head, in her opinion, she should be sending charcoal in the snow for Ye Qing like this, is it possible to harm Ye Qing?

"You think you're helping me, but ......." Ye Qing shook his head again, and continued: "The three of Zhu Xi are not ordinary people, but famous Confucians, even if they are short of money, they will not easily ask for help. When they came here today, I knew that they were strapped for money, but I still pretended not to know, just waiting for them to take the initiative to speak, not to help. ”

"What's the difference?" Zhong Qing frowned, Ye Qing was becoming more and more elusive now, and there was a strangeness everywhere.

For countless nights in these days, when Ye Qing was already asleep, Zhong Qing would always look at the man next to her, recalling everything before the two of them, but the man next to her gave her more and more an unreal feeling, even if she gently stroked the still angular cheek, but for some reason, Zhong Qing always felt that this man seemed to be getting farther and farther away from her.

"When they are in trouble, take the initiative to open their mouths and take the initiative to help, and it will not make these Confucian Confucians who eat with style and integrity grateful to you, and it will even backfire, thinking that you are driving them out of Jinan Mansion by sending these silver tickets, and you want to draw a line with them." Ye Qing looked at Zhong Qing, who had been frowning, and after thinking for a while, he continued: "Not everyone is as grateful as Zhong Silkworm, he was just a little beggar in Lin'an City back then, and no one thought that the kindness of a meal would make him loyal to me. Zhu Xi is not Zhong Silkworm, even if you give him everything, he will not be truly grateful to you in his heart. This is not because they are ungrateful like wolves, but because they ...... The Tao is different and does not conspire with each other, because he is a great Confucian and I am a military general, and the literati and the military generals are like natural enemies, and there is a huge gap that is difficult to cross in the middle, just like sheep and wolves, can they become friends? In the eyes of the sheep, the wolf will always be a ferocious and evil existence, and in the eyes of the wolf, the sheep will always be just food. Literati have the character of a literati, they will ask for you, but afterwards they will not be grateful to you, they are above the top, disdain people who are different from the Tao, in their eyes, I am just a pawn in their favor. ”

"It's ......." Zhong Qing's reason began to gain the upper hand after all, and the words of the later society of being stupid for three years after pregnancy were quite vividly reflected in Zhong Qing.

"There is nothing to do, although the literati are pedantic, but after all, they have arrogance and integrity in their bones, the reason why I will keep them hanging and do not take the initiative to help, is because they are far from the time when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, help them at this time, your efforts are in their eyes...... It's not worth the money. ”

This world is so realistic, a group different from you, no matter how hard you try to fit in, then even if you feel that you have fully integrated, but in many cases, you can still feel that you are so out of place with them, you can still feel that they will look at you with strange eyes, and the reason why you exist in this group is just because of your use value.

Ye Qing

wants to teach Zhu Xi a lesson, in the same way, he really doesn't want to offend the new monarch, the new official has to take office with three fires, let alone the king of a country?

In addition, Zhao Kuo is still young now, he must have the youthful vigor that a young man should have, and the psychology that no one should disobey him after being a monarch, and if Ye Qing chooses to help Zhu Xi at this time, I am afraid that he will not wait to help, with the big mouth of Zhu Xi and other literati scholars, he will already spread all kinds of rumors all over the world.

And at that time, Ye Qing will completely become a free thug for Zhu Xi and others, and he will have to spare his energy to deal with the pressure from the imperial court and the head-on battle with Shi Miyuan.

These are obviously not what he wants to see, not to mention that this is also contrary to the situation he has set up in the court today, Ye Qing will naturally not abandon the situation that he has carefully planned because of helping Zhu Xi, and now the battle between Liuzheng, Xie Shenfu and Shi Miyuan in the court.

Li Lifang wants to seek the dispatch of the Ministry of Household Books, so as to make his title go further, and the vacancy left behind by the Ministry of Criminal Affairs will inevitably be seen by Liuzheng and Xie Shenfu, Shi Miyuan will definitely not be able to refuse and prevent Li Lifang from being appointed as the Secretary of the Household Department, but he will never watch the vacancy of the Ministry of Crime be snatched away by Liuzheng and Xie Shenfu, so there must be a fight between the two, and at this time, he can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and even profit from it.

Everything Ye Qing did was still based on the Northern Expedition, and nothing could stop the goal he had set a long time ago, naturally, Zhu Xi turned to Ye Qing for help and let Ye Qing get involved in the party struggle in the court, for Ye Qing, it was completely disadvantageous and disadvantageous, with this energy, it was better to figure out the next moves of the Mongols, and the reason why they didn't leave Jinan Mansion after they finalized the letter of alliance with Yan Yongji.

"That's fine, since you have come up with this money to help Zhu Xi and them, at least you can make the court believe in me Ye Qing, and in this matter, you are the only one who looks forward to the court." Ye Qing looked at Zhong Qing, who frowned and felt a little guilty, and smiled and said.

Zhong Qing shook his head silently, he had been dreaming of Zhong Ye recently, and he had always hoped to do some good deeds to accumulate good deeds for the Zhong family, and what Ye Qing is doing now, not to mention related to good deeds, is completely on the opposite side of good deeds, so this makes Zhong Qing, who wants to accumulate good virtues, always be in a contradictory situation, thus giving birth to a mentality that is not pleasing to the eye no matter how you look at Ye Qing's actions now.

"Save someone's life, win the seventh-level floating slaughter." Zhong Qing was still a little unwilling, glanced at Ye Qing, then lowered her eyes, and began to wonder in her heart that if she did it, she didn't know how much it was possible.

"To be a hundred Buddha Temple, it is better to live one person, to live ten people in the world, it is better to keep the will for a day. The good intentions of people are immeasurable. Ye Qing sighed: "Zhu Xi is to blame, he is not suitable for being an official is already known, and since he chose to help Zheng Qingzhi, he should think of bearing all this." Qufu Shengwen Academy he naturally went, but in a short period of time, I won't ...... Unless....... ”

"Unless what?" Zhong Qing asked.

"Unless the northern land is completely recovered, when I need him to help me build momentum in front of the world, just like before the destruction of Xia, I agreed to them to repair the Confucian Temple in Qufu. It was I who used him, not him, to direct and turn to me, and although the result was the same, the meaning was different. Ye Qing got up, walked up to Zhong Qing, patted the thin shoulder, and then sighed and said: "Saving people's lives is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, recovering the northern land and launching a war will kill people, but no matter what, it is much better than one day the barbarians will go south and trample on the Central Plains." Living in the world of ten directions, it is better to keep your intentions for one day and reconcile? Don't think about good, don't think about evil, don't look at the outside, don't move the mind inside, and the merit is in the mindfulness and in the Dharma body. Non-cultivation can be compared. It's a good thing to want to accumulate merit for Zhong Ye's good thoughts, but ...... He also needs to have a stable family and country in the future that can allow him to grow carefree. If there is no stable home and country, what if all the laws are in the body? ”

Ye Qing slowly hugged Zhong Da Mei from behind Zhong Qing, her lips pressed against Zhong Qing's ears, which were starting to be a little hot, and continued to whisper: "I believe that your husband is not a sinister villain...... ”

Zhong Qing, who was protected by Ye Qing, symbolically struggled, but said with some doubts: "Why are you sure that the Mongols will go south to the Central Plains one day?" They're as brutal as you say they ....... ”

"Aren't the golden people cruel? Isn't the fate of the two saints and the clan miserable? You hope to see Lin'an one day like the Kaifeng Mansion ...... back then. Ye Qing bit Zhong Qing's ear and said, and Zhong Damei, who was trapped in the chair, was also blushing at the moment, but she couldn't break free from the arms that hugged him from behind, and she didn't dare to struggle too fiercely, for fear of being seen by the maids and subordinates outside such an ambiguous scene.

"You let go of my ...... first." The spring heart that was about to move slowly rose in the depths of his heart, and Zhong Qing, whose tone had become a little amorous, begged for mercy in a low voice.

(PS: This chapter is unsatisfactory, everyone bear more.) ）