Xue Shao decided to go into the palace to meet the Queen Mother once and talk to her about the military affairs in the north in person.

Princess Taiping reminded Xue Shao that now that the new monarch has been in power, the queen mother has handed over power and returned to the harem. You swaggered past the new monarch and ran to the harem to talk about military affairs with the queen mother, so that the emperor knew what he thought?

Xue Shao really wanted to tell Princess Taiping, now the emperor intends to alienate me, and more importantly, the emperor can't be at home at all. Since I'm going to do big things, I can still take care of so many trivial things?

However, considering that Princess Taiping and Li Xian's brother and sister relationship has always been good, Xue Shao held back these words and did not speak, but said: "In the name of my son-in-law, I will take my wife with me to greet my mother-in-law in the morning and dusk Province, this is always okay, right?" ”

Princess Taiping smiled slightly and said, "Out of kindness, the Queen Mother took Pei Gong's three children to live in the palace, and invited the Great Confucian to teach them classes. Since the imperial court has entrusted you with the responsibility of raising Duke Pei's widow, you might as well call Mrs. Huayang into the palace in the name of visiting the studies of the three little sons. So much best. ”

Xue Shao suddenly opened his mind a little and scratched the feeling of looking at each other, "It seems that your method is a little smarter than me?" “

Princess Taiping smiled confidently, "Then you need to say?" ”

Seeing Princess Taiping's smile, Xue Shao had a feeling of "déjà vu" - it was really like Wu Zetian's expression of wisdom.

He couldn't help but think to himself, I have been married to Princess Taiping for less than a year, and she has really become a lot more mature, and she has become more and more Wu Zetian's charm between her words and fingers. In particular, I feel that her "political consciousness" as a royal princess is rapidly improving. In other words, this skill has almost been a habit and instinct that she has developed since she was a child, because she has experienced a lot of things in the past year or so, especially after experiencing the death of the emperor, Princess Taiping's instinct of "political awareness" is rapidly "awakening".

Xue Shao sometimes even felt that he, a "newcomer to officialdom", was not as familiar with his sense of smell and grasp of politics as Princess Taiping. In this regard, Princess Taiping is like Xue Shao's "military advisor and internal helper".

Maybe it's because it's easy to ignore the subtle changes in the subtle transformation when getting along day and night, and now Xue Shao suddenly has a feeling of epiphany: Princess Taiping is really not the little girl who can only be coquettish and cute in the past. To use an old saying, Princess Taiping after getting married is the "companion chief". But she is not only the charm of a mature woman and the weight after pregnancy, but also - wisdom.

The next day, there was no need to go to the early court, just as Princess Taiping said, Xue Shao and Huayang's wife Kudi entered the harem together and went to visit the three little Pei Gongzi.

When chatting on the road, Xue Shao heard from Kudi that the demon also studied with the three little Pei Gongzi, and the Queen Mother sent a Confucian old minister with a rank to give lectures to the four little dolls. Now we are talking about the "Lun language".

As soon as Xue Shao heard the news, he chuckled in his heart, it's bad, the demon won't make the teacher half angry, right?

"If you have friends from afar, you can't help but be sugary", Xue Shao himself could only laugh when he heard such a sentence, how could the old-fashioned old Hongru who was full of poetry and books and was influenced by Confucianism stand it?

Under the leadership of the Kudi clan, Xue Shao entered the harem and came to the place where they lived, in the west of the Zihui Palace. The other son of the Queen Mother, Li Dan, the prime minister, also lives here now. Once before Princess Taiping got married, as long as she arrived in Luoyang, she would live in the west city. The point is that now that Empress Dowager Wu has retired from power, she will often live here, just like other elderly people, and accompany her children and grandchildren every day to enjoy the joy of family.

Walking to the courtyard where the Kudi family lived, Xue Shao felt that the surrounding environment was very good, the garden was lush and fragrant, and there was a small pool for children to play in the water in summer.

While enjoying the scenery, Xue Shao suddenly heard a crisp little girl's voice coming from the courtyard-

"Sir, I've been pondering this arithmetic problem for many days, but I still don't understand it! - How can the decay be used to apportionment taxes? I went to the officials of the household department and asked, but they didn't bother to tell me, can you teach me? ”

Xue Shao's scalp suddenly tightened, it was broken, and the demon's problem of "breaking the casserole and asking the end" had flare up again!

"Ahem...... This, let the old man think about it! You sit down first and listen to the old man finish this "Analects 61 Liren". ”

"I don't!" The demon squeamished, "Why don't you answer my other question first?" - I read in the novel of Wild History Notes that Zhuge Kongming during the Three Kingdoms invented a Kongming lantern that could fly to the sky. The students were thinking, can we make this Kong Ming lantern a little bigger, so that it can become a flying thing that carries people and goods? Wouldn't that save you from the pain of foot strength and the trouble of mules and horses? ”

"But there's a big problem, alas! - What kind of flammable material should be used to generate enough heat to make the air expand and lighten and carry it to the sky? The student thought that candles and cooking oil would definitely not work, but the gentleman was knowledgeable and knew what kind of combustible material to use, right? ”

"In addition, how to control and control the wind and the temperature inside the airbag after the sky goes up? If the wind stops when it floats to the surface of the river, isn't it going to drown? ”

"And, there's! In order for such a behemoth that can carry people and goods to soar into the sky, what is the volume and what kind of air expansion coefficient must be to make it generate enough buoyancy to balance gravity? …… Gravity, sir, haven't you heard of it? ”

"What's wrong with you, sir?"

“…… The student was wrong, and the student stood up on his own! ”

Xue Shao covered his painful head, saw the demon with his head bowed, walked outside the class in a daze, and stood up straight with his face against the wall with his ears. A gray-haired old man walked out angrily, took a small rattan and gently slapped the demon's back a few times, and said while pumping: "If the teaching is not strict, the teacher is lazy!" …… This is the fault of the teacher, the fault! ”

"Ahem!" Xue Shao couldn't stand it anymore and coughed.

The old gentleman and the demon turned their heads to look at each other, and the demon suddenly jumped up with joy, "Brother Fairy, save me!" ”

The old gentleman was stunned, "Brother Fairy? …… What a person! In the harem, how could there be a young descendant? ”

Kudi hurriedly stepped forward to explain warmly, the old gentleman nodded as if he didn't understand, silently turned around and entered the classroom to announce the end of class, and then took his book on crutches and walked away tremblingly.

"Congratulations to the old man." Xue Shao stood beside the road and gave him away.

The old gentleman paused for a moment, looked back at Xue Shao, and said, "The things that the demon girl learned, you taught them, right?" ”

Xue Shao nodded with a wry smile.

"If you don't read the books of the sages, you will learn such strange and exaggerated things. Hey, the wind is going down, the wind is going down......" The old gentleman shook his head and sighed and left.

Xue Shao couldn't help but laugh a few times, and the demon had already jumped up happily by pulling Xue Shao's arm.

"Brother Fairy, you've finally come to see me!"

"I really miss you!"

Xue Shao stroked her ear and said with a smile: "As soon as I came, I saw that you made Mr. angry enough." Is this the way to respect the teacher? ”

"I don't have it...... "The demon said aggrievedly, "The teacher preaches and teaches to solve doubts, I have a question to ask Mr., shouldn't this be?" It's just that every time my husband can't explain my problem, and then he gets angry and he punishes me. ”

Xue Shao laughed, an old Confucian like him can answer these natural science questions of yours, it's really a ghost!

"In the future, you can just listen quietly in class, and you won't talk too much, let alone ask too many questions." Xue Shao touched her head and smiled, "But if you don't understand anything, come and ask me." ”

"Yay!!" The demon cheered, "Brother Immortal, then you can teach me how to 'look at qi' now, right?" ”

Xue Shao's heart sank slightly, isn't that the content about Qimen Dunjia in the Weigong Military Law "Six Army Mirror"? …… By the way, last time Princess Taiping borrowed the military book for me to read overnight, I asked her to help me memorize some of it. Until now, I don't know much about these things and don't pay much attention to them, but she is more attentive than I am?

"Brother Fairy, please teach me?" The demon also sprinkled the demon, "There is also a word, the book says that the Yellow Emperor is written in blood, Tianyi is in the front and Taiyi is in the back, and Bu Sanqi and Liuyi are yin and yang." Where there are 1,800 rounds, the name is Tianyi Dun A style - what is this 1,800 rounds like? ”

Xue Shao suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, rubbed the hair of the "Datang Primary School Bully" vigorously and said: "These things are not what you should learn, quickly forget about them for me, and don't ask again in the future!" ”

"That's right, you'er!" Kudi hurriedly stepped forward and whispered vigilantly: "Astronomical metaphysics, Qimen Dunjia, and the art of war, these things are not for civilians to learn privately. Don't ask questions later. ”

"It's not that I want to study privately, the Queen Mother asked me to learn!" The demon said seriously, "The Queen Mother said that I learned to tell her." She loves to hear! ”

Xue Shao was stunned, "Empress Dowager Wu asked you to learn these things?" ”

"That's right!" The demon said seriously, "She also asked the people from the Taishi Bureau to teach me divination - the day before yesterday, I took a lesson 'Year Astrology', and the astrology showed - wood into the five cars, wood guards the feather forest and wood guards in the chest!" ”

Kudi was stunned for a moment, "What do you mean?" ”

Xue Shao was shocked, did the demon really learn these things? …… Although I didn't learn divination, I remember that it was said in the war book that the wood into the five-flowered wood guarding the feather forest means that 'the war is about to rise'. Mu Shou Yu Zhen is the meaning of 'the general sends troops to the great luck'!

"Demon, you ......" Xue Shao was a little speechless for a while, and muttered, "You are really as good as your name and become a demon boy!" ”

"Hehe, the Queen Mother, her old man, calls me - Fairy Tong'er!"

Almost as soon as the demon's words fell, a laugh came from the round gate of the courtyard, "Hehe, is the demon talking about the palace behind your back?" - Oh, Xue Shao is here! ”

Wu Zetian!

Xue Shao, Kudi and others hurriedly stepped forward to pay their respects.

"Let's all be exempt!" Wu Zetian's expression was relaxed and his smile was restrained, "This palace is no longer in power now, and she has become an old woman who has been in good age for a long time." Then those cumbersome etiquettes in the court can be dispensed with! ”

Xue Shao nodded and smiled, thinking that although it seems that your old man has abdicated and delegated power on the surface, who would dare to ignore your temporary convergence and the power of real power in the Manchu Dynasty?

"Demon, come here." Wu Zetian summoned the demon to his side, caressed her face affectionately, and said, "This palace has found that those old Confucian students are not qualified to be your teacher. From now on, you should go to the Taishi Bureau and Guozijian to find your favorite teachers and learn the astronomy and geography and Qimen mystics you want to learn! ”

"Thank you, Queen Mother!" The demon was unusually happy.

Xue Shaozhi grinned, could it be that Wu Zetian really wanted to cultivate the demon child into a mysterious and mysterious "demon boy"?!