Yao Lian, who was standing outside the door, was still hesitating, looking at the two boxes of books behind him, he didn't know whether he should go up and call the door, the gift was a little shabby after all. Looking at the vermilion gate and the glittering four big characters of 'Yasukuni Mansion' on the lintel, Yao Lian thought.

After coming to the capital for so many years, this is the first time Yao Lian has come to give gifts, not that he Yao Lian is not humane, but that no one in the capital dares to accept his gifts, and no one wants his gifts.

Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there have been more than 30 champions, and there are no longer a few officials who have entered the cabinet, but like themselves, they are the first to look at the Great Zhou.

After many years in the Hanlin Academy, Yao Lian has never hated anyone, even if the current saint is also to protect himself, otherwise in the face of the Xue family, he is a small champion who does not say that he will kill him.

Having made up his mind in his heart, Yao Lian took a deep breath and was about to step forward and knock on the door, when a voice suddenly came from behind him: "What is Aiqing doing here on this cold day?" ”

The sound is all too familiar, and it hasn't changed much after so many years. Yao Lian hurriedly turned around, confirmed his conjecture, and was about to kneel down and salute, but his body was stopped in the air.

Li Yuan looked at Yao Lian with a smile and said, "The weather is strange and cold, so don't be so particular about it in the New Year." ”

The person who came was the current saint, and there was a woman standing next to her, holding two children in her hands. Looking at the dozens of guards behind him, as well as the clothes of everyone, it should be the emperor's micro-clothes.

"Lord Yao, this is here to give a gift to the Yasukuni Gong?" Li Yuan looked at the two baskets of books behind Yao Lian and asked curiously.

He didn't know what Yao Lian's temperament was, but he could come up with a gift for the Yasukuni Gong, the sun came out in the west, and seeing Yao Lian's face flushed, Li Yuan was not asking.

After three rounds of drinking, Lin Yuan, who was drinking with everyone, saw Cai Quan hurriedly running over, and whispered a few words in Lin Yuan's ear, and everyone saw Lin Yuan suddenly stand up.

With a wry smile, he arched his hand towards the nobles and said, "Everyone, I'm sorry, get up and go to the courtyard to meet you." ”

As soon as they heard this, most of the people woke up, who would have thought that the emperor would come back in the first month. Everyone hurriedly got up and cleaned up, and came to the courtyard to gather.

Li Yuan saw that the middle door of the mansion was wide open, looked at Yao Lian and said, "Let's go in with me." Yao Lian nodded, and reached for the flat pole he was picking up the book, but before he could catch it, he was snatched away by a guard. sighed helplessly and followed Li Yuan into the Yasukuni Mansion.

Li Xun has missed Lin Yuan's cat for a long time, although he also has one, but adhering to the concept that what is the best in other homes, Li Xun just stepped into the door of the mansion and planned to have fun, but he broke free from Ling Guifei's hands, and was stunned in the yard before he ran two steps.

"Why are there so many people?" Li Xun looked at the nobles in front of him with some distress.

Everyone saw that it was Her Royal Highness the eldest princess who came first, and they were still confused, and they saw the figure of the emperor behind Li Xun. Everyone knelt down and saluted, but was stopped by Li Yuan as soon as they were halfway through.

It seems that he has long known that Lin Yuan is a guest at today's banquet, and Li Yuan is not surprised that there are so many nobles in Lin Yuan's mansion, so he glanced at it. Well, except for Yao Lian behind him, there is no civil official.

Everyone got up and didn't know what to say, just looked at Li Yuan quietly, Lin Yuan stood up at this time and said, "The emperor should move to the middle hall." ”

Li Yuan nodded and walked forward, Yao Lian also stubbornly followed when he saw this, he didn't look at the yellow calendar when he went out today, and bumped into the honorable party. Yao Lian wanted to cry a little without tears, what is this. But send something, some are noble, and some are emperors.

Only then did everyone realize that the emperor was still following a person, and someone took a closer look and said uncertainly: "This is Yao Lian?" ”

After some identification, everyone realized that Yao Lian came to the Yasukuni Mansion with the emperor, which is worth playing, and people have different thoughts at the moment.

The middle hall sat down, because it was still open just now, the tables and chairs had just been cleaned up, and there was still a smell of wine in the hall, Li Yuan didn't care, but Li Xun fanned his little nose with his hand.

Seeing that everyone's faces were flushed, and a few of them were already standing unsteadily, but they were still struggling to support over there, Li Yuan smiled slightly, it seemed that he was drinking on Xing's head.

Lin Yuan was still there at the moment thinking about why Li Yuan came to the door at this time, after all, there was no precedent, although he was dressed in regular clothes, but he had never seen such a light car and a simple follower come to the door.

Li Yuan glanced around at everyone, and then said: "I didn't expect to gather so together today, it seems that today is not in vain, what about the wine and food?" ”

As soon as Li Yuan opened his mouth, many people were shocked, but fortunately, Lin Yuan reacted relatively quickly, beckoned Cai Quan over, and ordered the kitchen to prepare quickly, and by the way, bring the wine first.

Turning around, Lin Yuan said, "The emperor will come soon." ”

After a while, a servant walked in with a tray, and everyone noticed that there was a kind of wine on the tray that was not there before. Looking at the red wine in the glass bottle, Li Yuan was curious: "What is this?" ”

"Bayberry wine, found in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, was made by a cook, the minister thought it was good, so he brought some back, Niangniang was not strong enough to drink, so I prepared some." Lin Yuan explained.

"I have a heart." Li Yuan nodded.

Seeing that everyone was still standing on the side, Li Yuan waved his hand and said, "I said that I didn't pay so much attention today, so let's sit down." ”

Lin Guangyuan waved his hand, and after a while, the table was set up again, everyone sat down, and the prince and princess were led to the backyard.

Seeing that his subordinates kept putting all kinds of dishes up, Li Yuan didn't wait for Wang Wei on the side to try the dishes, he added a bite and tasted it first, and nodded with satisfaction, seeing this, Lin Guangyuan lost a little.

He turned his head to look at Concubine Ling who was sitting on the side, and said with a smile: "The taste is much better than in the past, if it was like this, I am afraid that I would have become a fat person now." ”

Concubine Ling covered her mouth and smiled, glared at Li Yuan, and then looked at Lin Yuan, who was sitting on the side, and said, "Take care of the cook, be careful of being robbed." Innocuous joke, after everyone laughed, they looked at Li Yuan again, they didn't think that Li Yuan came here today for a temporary purpose.

Li Yuan naturally knew what everyone thought, but he was indeed simply accompanying Concubine Ling back to her parents' house today, after all, he had also lived in this place for a year.

After thinking about it, Li Yuan looked at Yao Lian at the other table, saw that the other party was sitting there, shook his head with a smile, and said, "Yao Aiqing, didn't I see that you brought something to write just now?" Take it out and take a look at it. ”

Yao Lian was thinking about how to deal with the situation in front of him, his mind was blank, and when he heard the emperor call his name again, he hurriedly stood up and responded: "The minister understands." With that, he turned around and walked out.

Everyone was a little curious, the sun came out in the west, Yao Lian actually brought something, it looked like a gift to the Yasukuni Gong, this has to be taken a good look.

After a while, Yao Lian walked in, followed by a person, carrying a burden on his shoulders, looking at the degree of bending of the burden, there should be a lot of things, is it gold?

Everyone was curious, and many people stretched their necks to take a closer look, and put down their burdens, Yao Lian saluted Li Yuan and said, "Your Majesty, the things are here." ”

"Let's open it and take a look."

Yao Lian gritted his teeth, reached out and opened the box made of bamboo, only to see that there were books neatly stacked inside. Li Yuan already knew what was inside, he glanced at Lin Yuan, saw that his face had not changed, thought about it and said, "This is for the Duke of Yasuko?" ”

Yao Lian nodded, and then explained: "A few years ago, the Duke of Yasukuni went to the minister's humble house, and at that time, the Duke of Yasukuni said that he would ask the minister to help find a few professors, but the minister was not well-connected and did not do it, and he thought that he would send some books to compensate. ”

"What are you going to teach Mr. to do?" Li Yuan looked at Lin Yuan curiously, this was the first time he had heard of this.

Lin Yuan said: "I found it for the school in Zhuangzi. ”

"Zhuangzi has opened a school?" Ling Guifei was curious, she still knew what was going on in Zhuangzi. This year has just started to improve, and this is the beginning of the construction of the school?

"The preparation is only a few days, and it will be completed in the next year, but there is no teacher at the moment, it's just a shelf." Lin Yuan said, and then looked at Yao Lian, he didn't expect this to be such a situation.

At that time, he just said casually, and he didn't expect Yao Lian to help much, and it turned out to be true, but he didn't expect that books were not popular in this era, and some books alone were worth a lot of silver, and in Lin Yuan's view, knowledge was priceless.

Lin Yuan stood up in front of everyone's eyes and saluted Yao Lian: "Thank you, Lord Yao." ”

It's just two baskets of books, and that's it? Everyone was a little puzzled, but Li Yuan and a few princes were thoughtful. Yao Lian didn't seem to expect Lin Yuan to make this big gift, most of these books were collected by him, although it took a lot of time, but it really didn't cost much.

Waving his hand in a panic, Yao Lian said: "I can't help it, the Yasukuni Gong has passed." ”

Lin Yuan didn't say anything, but squatted in front of the bamboo basket and took out a book from it, looked at the title of the book, roughly flipped through it, saw that there were a lot of notes on it, and said, "Lord Yao deserves this gift." ”

"To tell the truth, I didn't think about what to do if Mr. Sect didn't find it, so I could only ask for it one by one, but Master Yao was the first to do this. You should know the importance of books to the academy, and in my opinion, these things given by Master Yao are more valuable than a thousand dollars, and knowledge is priceless. ”

"I thanked Master Yao for the children in Zhuangzi." Lin Yuan bowed again.

"A good piece of knowledge is priceless." Li Yuan praised.

Only then did everyone come back to their senses, looking at Yao Lian with a slightly different look in their eyes, this time the scientific examination of Yuzhou is the key point, which everyone can see, but the two chief examiners are the sworn enemies of the Xue family.

Xun Guizhong is not on the side of the family, but at the moment he is thinking about how risky this bet is, just looking at the current form, Yao Lian seems to have joined forces with Yasukuni.

Yao Lian and Lin Yuan don't have so much thought, in their opinion, this is respect for the cause of education, at least Lin Yuan doesn't have the direction that most people want to do.

But Yao Lian felt that after all these years, he finally found a like-minded person in the capital, even Yan Shixun, the second assistant who is determined to reform, did not give him this feeling. also suddenly had a trace of expectation for the subsequent trip to Yuzhou.