In the early morning of the next day, on the square in front of the solemn Daming Palace, the blue sky is cloudless, the rising sun selflessly sprinkles all the sunshine, and drives away the cold in the eastern capital, and today's temperature seems to be as warm as the atmosphere in the square in front of you.

The fine beads of sweat on the faces of the Confucian students who were responsible for maintaining order Long Wuwei and the student supervisor were exposed, and due to the unpopularity of the Lantern Festival yesterday, there were a lot of people who came to watch the list today. There were a lot of people in front of the Daming Palace, thousands of people from the Eastern Capital and people from other counties, black and oppressive everywhere, their faces full of excitement

A student supervisor dressed in a vermilion Confucian costume stood on the stone steps in the center of the square, holding a roll of yellow silk in his hand, and read aloud the list of the top 30 people in this year's Lantern Festival exam.

As the student supervisor reports a ranking every time, the cheers of the people around the square will be one point higher, and the thunderous cheers will rise to the sky, which is dedicated to the winners of this Lantern Festival test.

Unlike previous years, although many of these people are children of the major princes and schools in the Eastern Capital. But this year, it only occupies one-third of the places, and the young talents in each county actually occupy a lot of places in this Lantern Festival examination. There were also a lot of upsets.

According to the regulations of the Ministry of Rites, the next thing is a grand parade celebration for the scholars and students of all prefectures and colleges on the list of this Lantern Festival!

Most of the candidates were overjoyed, and some of the candidates were calm, taking this ranking for granted. Some candidates seemed a little lonely and dissatisfied with their rankings.

At the foot of the stone steps, there were only twenty-nine meters of famous students. Only one of the three members of the Hundred Battles Marquis Wang family was present. Wang Weiyin was seriously injured and is still unconscious. This is a great shame for the royal family of the Hundred-Year-old Hou Mansion! Wang Han failed to enter the top 30 and was eliminated prematurely by Li Fu in the first hurdle. Dressed in a luxurious fur suit, he stood calmly in the crowd of spectators and watched Li Fu walk step by step to the central stone steps, without the slightest fluctuation on his face, his fists clenched under the cuffs, and the green tendons burst out, venting the resentment in his heart.

A special chariot stopped at the east corner in front of the Daming Palace Square, and the twenty-nine people boarded the special chariot and started along the Suzaku Avenue in the eastern capital surrounded by the people, and then went around in a circle, which took at least half a day.

The entire eastern capital was in a carnival atmosphere.

Countless flowers were scattered from the crowd onto the chariot, and the twenty-nine people in the chariot nodded to the crowd around them, thanking them for their enthusiasm.

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In an attic somewhere in the eastern capital, the faint scent of books and ink lingered around the room. Half a roll of faded ink and blue hangs in the center. The breeze was blowing and the smoke was curling. Two middle-aged men sat opposite each other on the stage. Outside the pavilion window in the northwest corner is the chariot of Li Fu and others marching in the eastern capital.

"Yesterday, he participated in the Lantern Festival exam in the palace, but I didn't expect that this child's ability was far beyond my imagination." A middle-aged man with an elegant temperament and white clothes like snow said lightly.

He looked at the person sitting in front of him and said plainly and elegantly: "Now it seems that this scene is very similar to when we were young. ”

The face imprinted in front of the man in white was as warm as jade, not angry but mighty. A pair of eyes are even more profound, and his body exudes a steady temperament, dull, and a kind of tempered steel. But it was accompanied by an extremely heavy killing aura

The man looked down at the stalemate on the chessboard in front of him and said, "In your opinion, can this child grow up to our level now?" I really don't understand what that drunkard is thinking, so I sent him to the Eastern Capital, and now everyone knows it. The palace sent someone to deliver the message last night, and someone went to Liangzhou in the middle of the night. ”

"The Eastern Capital has been quiet for two hundred years, and it was so troubled by an old drunkard that night fifteen years ago. I felt something was wrong. Now that I think about it, he was right. ”

The middle-aged man walked to the attic window with his hands in his hands, looked at Li Fu, who was a little cramped in the face of the parade scene, and said indifferently: "Emperor Taizong was wrong back then, but his back hand before his death was really too hurried. Maybe even he didn't expect that the scene in front of the Xuanwu Gate still affects the Tang Dynasty to this day. Even at that time, the eldest grandson changed part of the pattern by himself, but the death of the first emperor was too sudden, making the rest of the plan in vain. But on that night two hundred years ago, the appearance of 'he' rekindled all this hope. ”

Speaking of this, he turned around, quietly looked into the eyes of the man in gray, and said, "But you suddenly changed your attitude at the most critical time, and twice, which makes me have to be wary of you." ”

The man in gray did not speak, quietly watching the endgame on the chessboard.

"But Your Majesty, he ...... It's my brother after all. The man in gray looked up and said.

In the attic, there was silence, out of step with the hustle and bustle of the avenue not far away.

The man in white was silent for a long time and said, "Then all these years, why did he put eyeliner in you, and why did you watch out for him everywhere?" Or did you inform him of our plans? ”

The man in gray said: "The royal family is ruthless, you know, I thought we were wrong back then, grandpa Tai has been dead for so long after all, who can know what grandpa thought back then." ”

"I see? But don't forget why he decided to kill those people back then. You also know that the royal family is ruthless, if it weren't for the fact that we were young back then, and with the blessing of Lord Toast, do you think the two of us would still be able to play here today? ”

The man in white pointed to the Daming Palace Road in the distance.

"In the past ten years, don't you know what he has done? Nepotism, Shangguan Qian firmly fascinated him in the harem, and most of the Tang Dynasty was controlled by the Shangguan family. If this continues, her Shangguan family is the second martial artist. During the period from the Shenwu period to two hundred years ago, hasn't my Tang Erlang's blood flowed enough? Do you still want Datang to experience darkness again? ”

The man in white said, "Or, we shouldn't have gone to Lingyan Pavilion in the first place. ”

Hearing this, the gray-clothed man's expression moved slightly, and he said, "Even if the secrets in the Lingyan Pavilion were not known to a few of us back then, future generations will still find them. That's it~ That's it~ You're just a dead eye like that old drunkard, and my idle days are gone. What a defeat to you two lunatics. ”

Hearing this, the man in white was quiet for a while, and suddenly laughed loudly and said, "Are you telling the truth?" ”

The man in gray looked at him and shook his head, his face full of helplessness and self-deprecation, and said, "Otherwise, you think I will come here idle and play chess with your stinky chess basket?" Besides, I also think that the toast master chose the wrong person back then. Or that situation at that time was really no one to choose from. ”

The man in gray held a black piece between them, landed on a place on the chessboard, and said, "Back to Dragon Town, you lost." Then he said, "But fortunately, Lord Toast didn't choose me back then, otherwise I would have thrown down my crown and got down from that chair with teeth and claws." That chair was too hard and didn't match my ass. “

The man in white laughed and said, "Even if your temperament ties you to it, it is estimated that you will not stay long." ”

The man in gray stood up, stretched lazily, put the sunspot in his hand into the chess box, and said: "You came back early, which made Your Majesty very dissatisfied, and the scene in front of the third side street last night may be more tricky." But I don't think you will take it to heart. But there is one thing, this great victory in northern Xinjiang, although it only took you three months. However, the taxes in the south last year were forcibly levied by you as military expenses, and this account is not a small trouble. The Shangguan family and Yongwuhou will not let go of this opportunity to suppress you. ”

"It's okay, it's nothing more than handing over those inconsequential military powers, and no one in Tiance Mansion will dare to move for the time being." The man in white looked at the endgame on the chessboard and frowned, "Are you still losing?" “

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At noon, the parade held by the Ministry of Rites finally ended, and the three of them returned to Tiance Xufu, Li Fu freshened up a little, and was half-dragged out of Tiance Academy by Yang Zixu.