It has been a month since the scholar vented that night, and during this period, the scholar has walked around Ning Wangfu more and more, and it was from that time that the Zou family has been receiving ice from Ning Wangfu, and it has gradually broken off until the weather turns cold. Once, the scholar came back with a stack of books, he said that these books are the same as the ancestors handed down, are the only books of famous families, this kind of solitary books even in the Hanlin Academy, even the Guozijian is difficult to find, King Ning is willing to borrow his own copy, it really benefits him a lot.

It's September, and it's time for my young leaves to turn yellow. Qiao'er was wearing a tight-colored silk cotton skirt, hiding under the shade of my tree to avoid the still dazzling sun, and her hand was embroidering the pattern on the sweat scarf.

After Ying'er served Mrs. Kang to sleep, she carried a broom to sweep up the fallen leaves, and saw Qiao'er sitting on the stone bench with her back on her back, so she started to play tricks. The cat bent on her waist, moved behind Qiao'er step by step, leaned the broom against me, and slapped a small slap on Qiao'er's shoulder.

"Oops! You're going to die! Qiao'er was startled by this girl, hurriedly reacted, put her finger to her mouth and made a silent gesture, and pointed to the study on the side, and whispered: "You girl, you are getting more and more crazy, be careful to be seen by your wife, see if she dares to stay in front of you to serve." ”

Ying'er stole a glance at the study, and when she saw that there was no movement, she whispered softly for mercy: "Good aunt wife, good aunt Zhou, your boss has a lot, forgive the slave and maid." ”

Qiao'er scolded with a smile: "It's really rare to know that this son is called 'Mrs. Aunt'." ”

I asked again about the bird's nest sent by Mrs. Kang's mother's house yesterday. How does my wife feel when she eats? Ying'er answered them one by one.

Suddenly, I saw Lin An's family hurriedly coming in from outside the second gate, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Auntie, someone outside handed a post to see the master, and I saw that there were still a few people still wearing eunuch clothes, so I came back to Mrs. Aunt to show me." ”

Qiao'er put down the needle and thread in her hand, took the post and went into the study. Lin An's family saw that her daughter was wearing a green dress and a broom, so she frowned and scolded in a low voice: "You don't know how to go out of your house, and it's not decent to serve in front of your wife?" If you don't take this broken broom, didn't you hand over all your previous work to Sui'er, and you also learned to help others get mice, and you were covered in ashes! It's a pity for this garment. ”

Ying'er pouted, and just as she was about to open her mouth to argue, she saw Qiao'er open the curtain and hurriedly stopped.

The scholar came out of the study, and called Qiao'er to hurry up and prepare some tea and snacks, and hurriedly dusted off the fallen leaves on the stone table, and then followed Lin An's house to the second gate in person.

After a while, I saw that the scholar led a young man into the courtyard. When I looked, I saw this man wearing a white python robe; Yellow straps around the waist; Stepping on the dragon boots, his body was super elegant, like a celestial, but a half-inch scar was abruptly attached to his left eye, breaking his original description.

Seeing this, I can probably guess the identity of this person - King Ning!

I've been in the scholar's house for a long time, and I've learned a lot of simple truths. It is said that the identity of the scholar is more than 108,000 miles away from this one, how can he still deign to visit?

When I couldn't find the answer, I used to look at the six directions, listen to the eight directions, and put together what I saw and heard, and most of the time I was able to come up with the right solution from it. For example, the jade bracelet of Ying'er was lost last time, which Mrs. Kang wore when she was not pregnant, and then her hand was swollen, so she gave the bracelet to Ying'er, and she couldn't find it, so anxious that she almost cried, and then Mrs. Kang rewarded her with another, and the matter was over. Or I saw Sui'er secretly stuffing a small cloth bag to Lai San's family one night, that is, the mother-in-law, presumably Sui'er stole it and handed it to the old pious woman to sell or be, and the two of them made a lot of money. It's just that I can't talk to people, so it's useless to know. To say that this Sui'er is also seventeen years old, he was originally a descendant of an eighteen-grade petty official family, and he was a son of a family. It was only because the petty official committed an accident, the family was exiled, and the slaves in the family were all sold on the street, that Sui'er was bought by the Zou family to be a rough maid.

Don't say anything else, let's read the scholar again.

Moreover, the scholar saw that only Qiao'er was around, and knew that Mrs. Kang must still be asleep, so he hurriedly asked them to call Mrs. Kang to come out to greet the distinguished guests.

"The offspring is important, and it is not in the way. There is a concubine in this palace who has just given birth, and it is good to look at the few stable women who delivered the babies, and sent them over after a while. King Ning stopped Ying'er, who wanted to go to the main room, paced in front of me again, pointed at me and smiled, "This king knows that the ginkgo biloba in your house is your favorite thing, and I have heard people mention your name of 'Mr. Pingzhong'. ”

The scholar invited King Ning to sit down, and he sat next to the edge of the stool. Qiao'er served tea, gave Ying'er a look, and the two quietly left the yard.

King Ning took a sip and put down the teacup, and said jokingly: "No wonder when the king of Japan wants to reward you with beauty, you shirk it in every way, as long as you have an ice book, it turns out that you have your own green beads at home!" ”

The scholar said bluntly: "Don't dare, don't dare." I talked to King Ning with a smile, I don't know if it was my delusion, I seemed to see the old charcoal seller of Yanzipo, with low eyebrows and pleasing to the high-spirited scholars at that time. Time flies, and I don't know how the old man is now?

"Dai Quan." I saw a good-looking eunuch holding a scroll coming in from outside the weeping flower door, King Ning took the scroll and said with a smile, "Today I got a painting of Weng Tonghe's "Shuangzhong Ancient Ginkgo Picture", I thought that only you Zou Pingzhong in Beijing can understand the beauty of this painting, so I specially brought it here and tasted it with you." I can't use it here, so I can borrow it from your study. ”

The scholar then led King Ning into the study to speak, and I vaguely heard them talking about something like "martial arts is not martial arts, literature is not literate" and so on.

It's really strange that you can also taste the civil and military affairs when you taste a painting. Mo is not talking about what is the name of Weng Tonghe raised two sons, the eldest son practiced martial arts, and turned out to be a three-legged cat; The second son Wuwen, it turned out to be a sour showman! Anyway, I just guessed on the side by just a few words, but their voices were so small that I couldn't hear much with such good ears.

The two talked inside for more than an hour before they came out laughing, and when they passed by me, King Ning stopped and said with a smile: "When I first came, this king saw that there was a new wound on your tree brother, and I thought to myself, who didn't open his eyes, and dared to hurt Pingzhong's baby!" Fortunately, this king entered your study, and when he looked at it, he saw a branch on the cabinet, so I guess it was Pingzhong's own hand, right? ”

The scholar sneered and said: "It's all because the officials are greedy for the cup, so they broke it off in a daze and played it as a sword, and after thinking about it, I regretted it." ”

"Then the king will go back and personally pick a good sword and give it to you, so that the tree brother will not suffer another unjustified disaster one day." King Ning shook his head and said with a smile, the scholar thanked him more than once.

Hum! I finally heard a sentence, this King Ning is quite good.

……

A gust of cold wind hit, and in the blink of an eye it was November, and in a few days, it would be the beginning of winter, and there were not many leaves left on my body. If nothing else, the day of Mrs. Kang's launch is approaching, and the scholar has cleaned up another room in the back cover room, which is specially for the stable woman from the palace to live.

On this day, Zhan Min invited the scholar to his mansion for a talk. As soon as he received the invitation, the scholar changed his clothes, got into a sedan chair and went to Zhan's house. After Meng Jiaoxi's death, Zhan Min mentioned scholars in many places, which can be called the friendship of half a teacher, without him, scholars would not have the opportunity to make friends with emperors and nobles like King Ning, so his invitation, scholars really can't shirk.

After the scholar arrived at Zhan's mansion, he followed the little maid through the hall and entered the study, Zhan Min was writing by the desk, and when he saw the scholar coming, he put down his pen and chatted with the scholar. After a bowl of tea, put it into the main topic.

"Ziqing, since the disbandment of the hall, you have been the low-grade Confucian official for a year, and the gang of people in the same year as you all have their own way out, if you continue to stumble like this, when will you be a head?" Seeing that the scholar wanted to get up and prevaricate, Zhan Min pressed the scholar's shoulder and said: "I know that you have never liked the private sale and bribery of His Royal Highness the Prince, but now in order to pave the way for the prince, he intends to indulge, and the promotion of officials below the fourth rank is almost a matter of the prince's words, except for a few important official positions, it doesn't matter now." If you want to make a career, you can't count on it! I still have a little face in the court, and I plan to make a gap for you, so you can think about your own future and wear a serious official uniform! ”

When the scholar heard this, he bowed down and said, "How can the student be virtuous, and why is the teacher like this?" To tell the truth, the student has been valued by His Royal Highness King Ning, and will soon be appointed as the head of the Zhengliupin Household Department. ”

Zhan Min found out, he was not happy and surprised, he was so anxious that he slapped the table and said angrily: "That day is over, I can see the clue, how can King Ning leave you alone after the banquet!" You know that your wrong step is the abyss! Ahem......"

Zhan Min has reached the age of sixties, and he was so excited that he inevitably coughed, so the scholar hurriedly got up and patted him on the back, handed over the tea, and came back. Zhan Min sighed faintly: "How do you know that it is powerful? ”

"The prince's mother family lost power with the death of Empress Chen, and the throne was vacant after all these years, and I don't know how many people have thought about it. Although he began to delegate power to the prince in recent years, His Royal Highness King Cheng has always been a stumbling block for the prince, and his mother's prestige in the army is extremely high. This made the prince become impatient, and his behavior has become more and more inappropriate recently, and he actually regarded the household as the money bag of the East Palace. Let me tell you, you, the head of the household, are a warning to the prince today, and it is a work that offends people, and it will not end well in the future!"

The scholar stood with his hands down, bowed his head and said: "Even if the student listens to the words of the gentleman, I am afraid it will be difficult to get ahead, it is better to go to the household department to fight for wealth and prosperity, so as to show Zou Qing's ambition!"

"Do you know what I'm going to do for you?" Zhan Min shook his head when he heard the scholar's words, and said dejectedly, "It's the lack of release!" I'm going to get you out of this wolf's den in the capital as soon as possible. King Ning has shown his ambition since that day, and now who in the capital does not know? It's just that King Ning is disabled, his mother is from a humble background, and inheriting the unification is contrary to the precepts of the ancestors, and there is no big people in the court to rely on, and the hope of reaching the top is slim, and King Cheng and the prince disdain to see him in general. You have walked around with him many times, and you have already been marked with the mark of King Ning, and now when you are here, those officials are soft-spoken, and you want to please the prince, and you can't move him, but haven't you become their target? Take you to make a vote. You just listen to my advice, go back to the head of the Na Raush son, hurry up and let it out, and take yourself out is serious! ”

It's just that no matter how Zhan Min persuades, the scholar is determined to follow King Ning, and Zhan Min has no choice but to give up when he sees this. When the scholar was leaving, he still lamented to himself: "Brother Meng, Brother Meng, I thought that King Ning was an idle prince who didn't have that mind, how do you know...... Hey, the road to succession is dangerous and abnormal! I knew that today, I shouldn't have brought my son into the palace. If you are still alive, you will definitely let Ziqing know his way back, pitiful!"

……

That night, the scholar sat alone on the stone bench, carefully looking at the sword sent by King Ning the day before yesterday, and muttered in a low voice: "Brother Shu, you see that the hilt and body of this sword are all natural, the texture and forging are all superior, and the cold light is overflowing, can it cut through thorns and thorns for His Royal Highness King Ning?"

"His Royal Highness told me that on the day of the shooting, he saw a plate of chickens in front of the teacher's desk, so he covered the word 'dance' on the paper he gave to the teacher, which was taken from the allusion of 'smelling the chicken and dancing'. As a result, the teacher returned to His Highness the word 'rib', but it's a pity, it's a pity, it's a pity......"

His Royal Highness also said that King Cheng is a bear and the prince is a tiger, and the two of them are grabbing a piece of meat with red eyes, and if he is a wolf himself, he will call for wolves to fight with him. It's a pity that wolves have more meat and less meat, and even if they grab meat, they can't eat too much. Fortunately, he was not a wolf, but a mouse that no one cared about, and the bear and tiger never looked at him squarely. A group of rats has a smaller appetite than a wolf and is easy to feed, but the combat power of a group of rats is far from enough to grab meat to eat. Therefore, the rat must know how to dig a hole, big enough, deep enough, for both the bear and the tiger to sink into, so that he can grab the meat to eat. ”

"Your Highness asked me if I would like to be a rat that pretends to sleep at the front, so that I can cover up the rats. Brother Shu, do you know how Zou Ze answered?"

Hearing only a sword sound resounding through the sky, the scholar pointed to the sky and said: "Ze is willing to go to the soup for his confidant, so that he has the opportunity to realize his long-cherished wish to govern the world, and seek history to leave a name!"

……

"Oops! Come on! Mrs. has launched, go and ask for a stable woman!"

The scholar looked back, listened to Ying'er's shout, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay! Good! All right! Hahaha......"