Ever since I went to the East Palace to study, I have already thought about all the troubles I might encounter, including facing the powerful Yu Wenhua and getting involved in the prince's ulterior conspiracy. From experience, I know that either scenario is unlikely to be avoided, but these troubles came much later than I thought.

Now it's the winter of the third year of Renshou, my father has been transferred to Longzhou for two years, and I have also been in Daxing City for two years, in addition to following Zhang Wensu to Cao Fu's teahouse to fool around, in the past two years, in addition to following Zhang Wensu to Cao Fu's teahouse to fool around, is to read books and practice swords, to be honest, this kind of life is not boring, it is not impossible to let me go on like this before, after all, the life of drunken dreams and death is my ultimate pursuit. But that was before, and now I always feel that I have to find a purpose in life, otherwise I will live in vain.

As Yu Ke, my life has no purpose, but now I am Li Jiancheng. I watched the giant ship of the empire spin day after day, becoming more and more stable, and I could not imagine what kind of crazy actions this handsome man in his thirties standing in front of me would make to make this giant ship fall apart. In my opinion, he may not be a follower of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness that Mr. Fang taught me, but he is definitely an imperial talent with the world in mind.

I often think about this problem, and one day I accompanied the prince to the Liangyi Palace, and the prince was left behind. I came out of the palace alone, saw the position behind the emperor, and began to think about these messy questions, the snow outside was blowing and falling very heavily, I walked slowly in the snow towards the East Palace, just walked to the gate of the palace and bumped into a person, that person fell to the ground softly like a lump of cotton was hit by me, and I couldn't see his face clearly in the snow.

I was going to wait for him to stand up and apologize to him, but I waited five minutes and he was still lying on the ground and wouldn't get up. I had no choice but to go over to help him, and when I got closer, I realized that it was no one else I bumped into, it was Yu Wenhua who I didn't want to see every day!

His eyes were slightly closed, his face was flushed, and the back of his head was buried in the snow. When I saw him, my first thought was to run away quickly, and I was about to get up, but suddenly I thought: why should I be afraid of him?

I tapped him on the shoulder, and he burped and a puff of alcohol came over his face. Of course, I couldn't let him be buried in the snow like this, so I kindly called two attendants to help him back to the East Palace.

When there were only two of us left in the side hall of the East Palace, Yu Wenhua suddenly opened his eyes and glared at me and said, "Little rabbit, how the do you dare to hit me?" "There was no drunken appearance at all between the words.

I was taken aback, and then arched my hand and said: "In the next moment, I was distracted and accidentally bumped into Zuo Shuzi, please forgive me." ”

Yu Wenhua snorted twice and said, "Accidentally? Hmph, you're careless. As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at me and said, "Are you willing to stand and let Lao Tzu accidentally come back?" ”

His roar echoed throughout the hall, my head was buzzing very uncomfortable, looking at his arrogant appearance that had not changed at all, and I didn't know where the courage came from, he replied: "I have no intention of offending, I have already made amends to Zuo Shuzi, Zuo Shuzi has to be unforgiving, I have nothing to say in Xia, farewell!" I arched my hand slightly, turned around and was about to leave.

He rushed in front of me with an arrow step, looked at me arrogantly, and said coldly: "Don't go if you have the ability!" ”

I put my hands behind my back, shook my head leisurely and said, "What if you go?" As he spoke, he slammed into him.

He took two steps back, caught a glimpse of the armored warrior standing outside the temple gate, rushed up and drew the saber from the warrior's waist without saying a word, pointed at me and said, "Lao Tzu told you not to go, you can take another step and try?" ”

I believe that I have achieved a little success in learning swords for a few years, and I am trying to try my own methods, but I have not been able to find the opportunity, and now the opportunity is in front of me, and I have to cherish it. Seeing him say this, I shook my head and said, "Although Fang just hit Zuo Shuzi outside the palace gate, Zuo Shuzi was drunk and didn't see anyone clearly, and there were not; Moreover, he has already apologized below, and Zuo Shuzi does not accept it, and there is no other way to do it below, so please give way to Zuo Shuzi. ”

Yu Wenhua and annoyed and angry, raised his sword and stabbed at me, I slid a step to the right to dodge, turned behind him and pulled out another samurai's sword with his backhand, and the person standing outside the door saw that we were going to fight, and hurriedly ran, probably to report the news.

I struck him with my sword in my hand, he turned over and jumped forward a few steps, turned to look at me and sneered, "Hmph, it's not a small courage!" As he spoke, he stabbed me again.

I stepped forward to pull out the sword, looked around, and said with a smile: "The hall is narrow, how about going out to fight?" ”

He looked at me for a moment and called out "yes".

The snow outside the hall was even heavier than just now, and I couldn't see a person's face from a meter away, and I was five steps away from him, and I could only see flakes of snow falling between me and him, and I couldn't see his expression clearly. I was wondering how to defeat him in the shortest possible time, when I saw his right hand shake, and a white shadow came to me.

As I ducked back, the blade of the sword swept in front of me with a biting chill, and I stood still with my sword in my hand, blocked a move, pressed my sword downward, and rose into the air, rolled over and landed behind him, and before I could stand still, I struck another sword, attacking his sword-holding right hand. He stabbed my sword back with his backhand, and stabbed me in the chest again. I was forced by him to retreat again and again, and took many steps back, thinking that if I continued like this, I would lose, so I had to go in instead of retreating to seal his sword path.

His sword froze slightly, as if he was hesitating about something, and I took advantage of his slowing down to pull back the sword, and the sword in his hand was actually taken out by me, grazed past my ear, and flew out.

I only heard a person behind me say angrily: "Bold, dare to assassinate His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

I was about to hold his neck when I heard the person behind me talking, so I had to withdraw the sword in my hand, and when I turned my head to see that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was bending down to pick up the sword that had fallen in front of him, and there was Zhang Heng, the left concubine, who was looking at us with arrogance.

I looked back at Yu Wenhua again, and he glanced at me and then at Zhang Heng with a look of disgust.

At least in terms of my attitude towards Zhang Heng, a repetitive villain, I have the same position as Yu Wenhuaji, and I stood with him very understandingly, and decided not to deal with this villain before the prince spoke.

When the prince approached, I realized that he was not actually dissatisfied, nor was he angry, but he just looked at Yu Wenhuaji, patted him on the shoulder and said, "If you want to fight, go on!" As he spoke, he returned the sword to his hand.

Yu Wenhua seemed to be dumb, and only bowed his hand and didn't even say a word.

I wanted to follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince into the palace, but I raised my foot and found that Yu Wenhua and the sword in his hand were already across my neck, I clenched the sword defensively and was ready to fight back, who knew that he looked at me for a long time, but said: "Accompany me to drink." ”

I thought about it, did he have a bad head and asked me to go drinking with him? Sick.

He had already gone outside the palace, and when he saw that my pestle was not moving, he turned back and said, "You are barely a little interesting, to go or not to go?" And he was to raise his sword again.

Seeing this, I threw the sword in my hand and said with a smile: "Drink and drink." ”

I thought he was going to take me to a tavern, but I didn't expect him to take me straight into his house.

The basic layout of the General's Mansion is the same as that of the Tang Guogong Mansion, which is to go through several doors to get to the front hall, he did not stop in the front hall, but only ordered the little maid to move all the wine to Taxue Xuan, and took me to a pavilion in the backyard.

I thought he must have drunk too much and drunk before, but he said, "Li Jiancheng...... Do you know why I didn't kill you just now? ”

This is strange, I didn't think I would lose when I fought him, so I had to hesitate and shake my head.

"You don't think you necessarily lost just now, did you?" He only took a sip of wine, and then said with a drunken tone, "I attacked your chest just now, and you didn't dodge the counterattack, do you think your arms are longer than mine or have more strength than me?" ”

I was stunned, what he said seemed to make some sense, and what I wanted was to end up together.

"Even so, Zuo Shuzi is not sure of victory, and he may not necessarily lose if he is down." I took a sip of the wine, and it tasted very mellow.

He shook his head and said, "You are wrong, the reason why you are still alive is only because you helped me back to the East Palace and did not let me bury the snow." ”

He continued to drink, and I was shocked into a cold sweat when I listened to his words - he was right, if he hadn't finally slowed down and found me a chance, I would have been stabbed in the lower abdomen when he made the next move, and I was still very scared to go through this scene in my mind.

"Thank you so much for your mercy." I continued to be polite.

But he didn't eat it, waved his hand and continued to say in his drunken voice: "Let me ask you a question, you have read so many books, can you tell me what loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness are?" ”

I was stunned by this sudden question, not because I didn't know how to answer this question, but because I thought of a similar scenario, this question, I asked Mr. Fang before.

I looked at the snow outside the pavilion and remembered the back of the sculpture-like figure standing in front of the Cunmo Hall a long time ago, and he couldn't explain why loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness could not protect the subjects of the Song State, the monarch who practiced benevolence and righteousness, for the sake of his own reputation, took the future of the entire Song Kingdom.

All this time, I didn't get an answer, and Mr. Fang left without answering, and when he left, he cut off relations with me and no longer recognized me as his student.

Yu Wenhua and his blurry drunken eyes were looking at me, in fact, I knew very well that he was not drunk, but just pretending, he saw that I was slow to answer, and said with a wry smile: "Nerd, I have read so many books, I don't even know this question, what's the use?" ”

This man who was about to be forty years old actually lost his temper in front of a fifteen-year-old child—this was definitely not what I knew before.