Hanlin Courtyard water? Hanlin Courtyard is in the east of Yangri Palace, very close to the old man's pavilion where Princess Xiaoxiang lived, and it is supposed to be tightly guarded, how can it go to the water? I was so frightened that I sat up all of a sudden, hurriedly dressed and ran out, looking in the direction of Hanlin Courtyard from afar, only to see a raging fire, the tongue of fire licking the sky, reflecting the lanterns on the street, there was an indescribable beauty, but it made my whole heart pinch up.

"Prepare the horses!"

I hurriedly walked out, only to see Dong Wenliang squatting at the door looking at the sky stupidly, and asked me, "Xiangye... Hallymin Temple is on fire, right... What about our test papers... It's all burned, isn't it? ”

Dong Wenliang is usually crazy, I don't know what to say, the panic in his eyes at this time is something I have never seen before, so I opened my mouth to comfort me: "Don't panic, not necessarily, maybe the test paper has been rescued." ”

"Five years, another five years, I can't wait another five years." Dong Wenliang yelled with a crying voice, as if he didn't hear what I was saying at all.

On the way to the palace, there were many scholars who ran to the palace gate, but they were stopped by the guards, they cried, screamed, were pushed to the ground, got up and wanted to break in.

I knew that Zhen Ying's exam was extremely important to them, and I couldn't bear to look at it even more, so I let Qiu Ming enter the palace from the small door.

When I arrived, the temple was still burning, and the pillars were burning red, and everyone's eyes were red.

The national teacher stood aside with his hands behind his back and said, "Let the secret guard, the criminal department, and the Admiral of the Nine Gates thoroughly investigate the cause of the fire, Your Majesty has already rested, and you must not be disturbed; Pacify the princess. After speaking, the national teacher turned around and was about to leave.

"National Teacher!" I stopped him, "Many people have been studying hard for many years, just for this exam, many families can't afford to study for them for another five years!" I implore the national teacher to give me a message, how to make a decision on the Zhenying exam in the twenty-first year of King Ping. ”

The national teacher turned his back to me and said lightly: "In the twenty-first year of King Ping's Zhenying exam, no one made the list. ”

Hearing this, Wan Sakura pounced and knelt on the ground: "Think twice, the national teacher!" ”

The national teacher didn't look back, his footsteps didn't stop, and gradually walked away, and the evening cherry blossoms kept kneeling there, bursting into tears, but refused to get up for a long time.

I caught up and said, "National Teacher, National Teacher, the Hanlin Academy is on the edge of the Old Pavilion, and it is heavily guarded, why didn't the Imperial Forest Army rush to fight the fire as soon as possible?" It has taken me two quarters of an hour to enter the palace from the palace, and two quarters of an hour can't save the fire of the Hanlin Courtyard? ”

The national teacher walked in front and said lightly: "The Hanlin Courtyard has a large area, and all that is stored are pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, which are extremely flammable, and the fire spreads rapidly. When it was ugly now, only the Imperial Forest Army on the night patrol was still patrolling, the Hanlin Academy was in the east of the Yangri Palace, and the six palaces in the west of the Yangri Palace they patrolled, the Yangri Palace was so big, it would take some time to rush over. ”

"Where's the Dark Guard? What about the Dark Guard? I asked.

"Changming Tower is also in the west, and Fan Mengqiu is not in the palace, without him, who can call the secret guard, you don't have to be confused." The national teacher sped up his walking speed, I don't know if it was because I couldn't see clearly because of my night blindness, I saw that the national teacher was floating.

I chased all the way to the Zijin Pavilion, in front of the honeysuckle bush at the door, the national teacher stopped, turned around, and said to me: "It's late, you can go back." ”

"National teacher! Originally, the cost of studying was extremely high, and the Zhen Ying exam was only once every five years, which was also the only way out for ordinary people to become officials. ”

The national teacher glanced at me coldly: "You go back." ”

This glance made me shudder, and I was a little weak when I was swept away by the national teacher. I really don't know why the national teacher is this, and I watched him walk into the Purple Gold Pavilion and disappear from my field of vision.

But the more I thought about it, the more wrong it became, it was all too coincidental, who set the fire? The arsonist happened to set the fire when the Imperial Forest Army was inspecting the other side of the Yangri Palace, and it happened to set fire to it when Fan Mengqiu was not in the palace. Why did you burn down Hallym Temple? There is nothing else in the Hanlin Academy except for the test papers of Zhen Ying's exam, and the more precious ones are some ink and inkstones, and the place where the books in the palace are hidden is not in the Hanlin Academy, is it that the arsonist wants to burn the test papers? Why do you burn the exam papers? Why? And the attitude of the national teacher is too strange, right? Can't you take the test again? Why is it being announced that no one is on the list this year?

I came in a hurry, I left Qiu Ming at the gate of the Hanlin Courtyard, and only took a small lamp and came to the Zijin Pavilion, just now I was confused, I thought about it while walking, and when I looked up, I didn't know where I was. The candle flame of the small lamp was dim, and there was no one around, so I watched from afar, and the fire in the Hanlin Courtyard should have stopped, and I couldn't see the direction.

I was shocked, remembering that the book said that I could distinguish the direction by the stars, and I was looking up for the stars, when suddenly a dark shadow flashed from the roof in front of me, and I was startled, and quickly put out the candle, and the moment I put out the candle, I felt that I was caught by a person.

"Who are you?"

A strange and strong voice sounded, he came to me from the roof, it took a short time, and his breath was not disordered, this man should have excellent internal skills. But the candle flame was dim, he shouldn't have seen my face, so I decided to pretend to be a little eunuch, pinched my throat and said: "The hero spares his life, the little one just can't sleep at night and gets up to go shopping, and he has no other intentions, the hero spares his life!" ”

"A eunuch?" As he spoke, the man touched my neck with his hand, so frightened that I didn't dare to breathe, and said, "The little one only entered the palace in December last year." The strange thing is that the man's fingers don't seem to have calluses, not like a person who practices martial arts, and even He Yunsheng, who is pampered, has a lot of calluses on his hands because of his martial arts.

"Keeping you is also a trouble, it is better to kill you." As soon as the man said this, I was shocked, it's over, am I really going to die? If I, Zhou Yulan, die here, it will be big news tomorrow, and then the newspapers in the whole city will write about my assassination, what will my wife do after I die? Who will be the prime minister? The more critical I get, the more cranky I become, and my mind is a mess.

For some reason, the man suddenly let go of me and flew away. I came back to my senses from this upheaval, and I really didn't understand why he let me go. Suddenly, my eyes lit up, and when I saw the light, my eyes were stimulated and I closed them, only to hear a voice say, "It turned out to be Xiangye." ”

I opened a slit, and the eyebrows and eyes of the man in front of me were familiar to me, but I didn't know him.

"Since Xiangye is here, I think I just met that traitor." He said, "On the lower five." ”

I was stunned for a moment, number five, oh, the dark guard is ranked according to the serial number, he must be the dark guard. Thinking that he was chasing the man just now, that person met me and wanted to kill people, and when I was about to make a move, I happened to come on the fifth. I hurriedly said everything, and the fifth looked at me and said, "Most of him touched the jade pendant on Xiangye's waist, and at the time I arrived here, he could kill you three times." ”

I glared, thinking that I had saved me with this jade pendant?

"This jade pendant was given to me by my grandfather when I was born, but I haven't seen my grandfather much in the past twenty years." I said, "What does this jade pendant have to do with him not daring to kill me?" ”

"Xiangye's grandfather, that is, the old man Yin of the Hades team back then, is the person this thief is most afraid of in this life." No. 5 said, "I wonder if Xiangye knows the origin of this jade pendant?" ”

I thought for a while: "My father only told me that this jade pendant turned out to be my grandfather's, and the jade was the son of King Chen, which was carved by my grandfather himself, and it was carved with Yama and Fusang flowers. ”

"This jade pendant was rewarded by King Wu after a big case handled by Old Man Yin during his tenure, and the traitor just now is the remnant of the big case at the beginning." As for the previous story, No. 5 knew in detail, "Old Man Yin knows that he is still alive, and he knows that if he kills Old Man Yin's grandson, Old Man Yin will definitely not let him go." ”

I still broke out in a cold sweat when I remembered the scene when he grabbed my throat just now.

"I was ordered to arrest this person and chased him from Jingyang to Wucheng, I didn't want him to be bold and sneaked into Yangri Palace." Avenue 5.

"Then I won't delay you, you go after him." I'm busy.

"Don't be busy, he will have to go back to Yangri Palace sooner or later, and I will catch him." Five didn't seem to care where he was going, and asked me, "Why is Sangye here?" ”

I walked the Hanlin Academy, how did I come to the national teacher, how did I get lost and talked to him, but I omitted the attitude of the national teacher, and only said that I came to discuss with the national teacher, No. 5 nodded, and said: "Admiral Wang wants to come and wait, if Xiangye doesn't mind, I will take Xiangye to find Admiral Wang." ”

I nodded, No. 5 put two hands on my shoulders, and as soon as I forced, my whole person got up with him, although He Yunsheng has done this to me many times, but I know that He Yunsheng will not let go halfway, and I have always been very relieved, but I don't know if this person is No. 5, I am afraid that he will suddenly let go, so I have to grab his shirt.

Fortunately, No. 5 did take me safely in front of the evening cherry blossoms and Qiu Ming, I disappeared for so many times, Qiu Ming was so anxious that when he saw me coming, he suddenly threw himself at my feet: "Xiangye, it's good that you're fine, it's good that you're okay......"

"Lord Wang." Number five clenched his fist.

"It turned out to be Five." Evening Sakura also hugged her fists and said, "Thank you for sending Yulan back." ”

"It's a gesture." Five nodded, and disappeared from view.

"You know him?" After he left, I asked Evening Sakura.

"I know all thirteen secret guards, after all, I work in the palace, how can I not know the dark guards?" Evening Sakura laughed.

"Do you think he looks like a person?"

"Like whom?" As soon as I said it, Evening Sakura also began to recall, and I didn't remember who it was for a long time.

I also wondered, I always felt that this person's face was reflected in my mind, and the name was already on my lips, and I just couldn't remember who it was.

Four.

Under the arguments of the ministers of the early dynasty, it was later in the autumn of that year, and the autumn festival was opened, which was also the first time that the Zhenying examination was held in the autumn since the founding of the Chen Kingdom. Unexpectedly, Dong Wenliang did not come to the exam this time, he opened a small restaurant on Xiqiao Street to watch the stars, help people look at the faces, and the business is prosperous.

I said with regret that if he had come to the exam, he would have succeeded.

He said that his father was a member of the Wuguo Yipin, and he had no interest in politics since he was a child, he only liked to watch the celestial phenomena, his father was killed during the Three Kingdoms Rebellion, his mother took him to Cangzhou, Chenguo, his father hoped that he could get fame before his death, he wanted to come to take the Zhen Ying exam, because the family had no money, he had to pass the exam, and he had worked hard for many years to prepare, and he couldn't imagine that a fire burned all the test papers.

"I understood the fire that day, my father wanted me to be productive, but there is not only one way to be productive. I don't have to take the Zhen Ying exam, and in a few years, His Majesty will inevitably hire me to be the Qin Tianjian, and I am willing to wait, and I have the patience to wait. If Your Majesty doesn't invite me for three years, it means that I'm not good enough, and when I'm good enough, Your Majesty will naturally invite me. Dong Wenliang said, "I heard that this is what Imperial Doctor Sun Yuji said. ”

"Yes, she said that." I smiled and said, "All the scholars in Chenguo regard the Zhen Ying exam as important as their fate, as if there is no other way to get ahead except to take the exam." On that day, the national teacher announced that no one was on the list, and I asked him why, and he said, if you are in full bloom, the breeze will come. ”

Only a year later, Dong Wenliang really became the Qin Tianjian of Chen Kingdom.