Seeing Lin Yiqing's solemn assurance, the little emperor was relieved.

"I'm going to endorse Master Weng again, alas, when will Master Weng's class be like Master Lin's." When the little emperor remembered that he was going to listen to Weng Shuping's class next, he became a little worried.

"The emperor doesn't have to worry, let's deal with it the old way." Lin Yiqing smiled and comforted the little emperor and said, "The emperor remembers the bibliography and outline, and if there are ministers who don't understand, they will find a picture album for the emperor to help remember." ”

"Hmm." The little emperor listened to Lin Yiqing's comfort, and his mood improved again.

"Also, today's incident, I can't let Master Weng know, if there is any news from Master Weng, please let the emperor inform the ministers in time." Lin Yiqing said.

"That's for sure!" The little emperor nodded vigorously.

When the class time came, the little emperor also ate all the incense balls, wiped his mouth and drove to the study, still looking back reluctantly on the way, looking at Lin Yiqing looking at his concerned gaze, his heart was warm.

Lin Yiqing walked Guangxu to the side of the Water Pavilion Bridge, watching the figure of the emperor's student disappear, thinking of Weng Shuping's sowing discord, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but sneer.

On top of the tower, the Korean prince Wan and Jun Li Yan leaned out half of their bodies against the railing, looking at the birds hovering in the air.

The sunset half fell on the goldfish pond, looking at a piece of sparkling water, as if sprinkled with a layer of broken gold, the whole garden was hazy in the mist-like sunset, and the sound of the sky tapping on the cloud board on the high platform in the distance could be faintly heard.

The beautiful scenery of the sunset is the favorite song of the scholars of the Qianguo Kingdom. But Li Yan doesn't like it so much, the houses here are always so high, and there are endless pavilions everywhere you go. Blocking the grass and trees in the distance and the floating clouds in the sky. He especially disliked the towering palace walls. Walking under the wall, I felt the wall weigh heavily on my chest, and my breathing became involuntarily heavy.

He misses his hometown very much, the grass and trees, the courtyard and the courtyard, and those little playmates.

It was a hard time, but it was peaceful and comfortable.

He has been in Beijing for a long time. The envoy who sent him had already returned to Korea, and he was the only one left here. He knew that this life had only just begun, but there was no deadline for it to end.

"Huh. finally found Li Shaojun, and guessed that Shaojun was watching the scene in this tower again. A smiling voice sounded behind him.

Li Yan turned around and saw the little eunuch Song Yunian's thin white face, with two short and flat eyebrows pressing a pair of small smiling eyes.

"Brother Yu Nian," Li Yan bowed slightly, "The field of vision here is wide, and you can see far away." I just saw geese flying in the east. ”

"East?" Song Yunian smiled, "Li Shaojun, this is homesick." ”

Li Yan nodded, "Everyone I know is there...... Brother Yu Nian, if your closest people can't hear from you. Will you miss them? ”

He turned his head slightly, and Song Yunian's gaze met him. Then he drove wrong. Song Yunian thought that this child was too serious, he was obviously just a child, and he wanted to think about the things of adults.

"Li Shaojun, the dining room is urging. After dinner, Master Weng will give you and the emperor a separate evening class, today you have to take the last poetry test, Li Shaojun still remembers? ”

"I ......"

Song Yunian waved his hand, "Master Weng is a dead brain, Li Shaojun, I think we should go to dinner first." The emperor is waiting for you, if you don't arrive, you don't dare to open the table. ”

The moment before Li Yan was pulled down the stairs by him, he turned his head to look at the goose. It flew into the half-round sunset, as if melted by the warm color. He touched his arm and felt a little cold.

“…… The ancients were happy and kind in the void, and they did not choose things and asked, and they did not choose people to ask questions, and they took it to benefit their bodies. It is the words of the madman, the sage chooses it, the sage chooses it, the ancestors inquire about it, Shun asks the son of heaven and asks the husband, and observes the words with great knowledge, not to be humble, and to take the good Hong. Three generations down, there is no question, friends of friends, as for the persuasion of good rules is enough, its righteousness and reason to visit, diligently only study is urgent, not much is also common, the situation is vulgar? ”

Uncle Weng's calm and frustrated voice echoed in the study, echoing loudly.

There is a desk for each of the two poems in the study, the east is the young Emperor Daqian, and the west is the Korean prince. The two of them were wearing the same plain brocade robes, sitting opposite each other, Li Yan was holding the brush a little awkwardly, his eyes were lowered, and Guangxu on the opposite side squinted at his movements, holding his cheek with one hand, and his fingers tapping his face rhythmically.

“…… Otherwise, what is asked is not what is learned. Inquire about the world's different things with quick remarks, and even those who have already understood their hearts, those who ask to try their abilities, those who ask are difficult to understand, and those who ask are poor and short. Those who are not, although they have things that are related to their physical and mental lives, can receive the benefits of goodness, and seek to bend to themselves but cannot obtain them. Whew! The reason why you can't learn more than the ancients is not because of this? ……”

"Hey! Feed! ”

Li Yan was taken aback, raised his head, and saw Guangxu with his hands clasped to his mouth, and shouted to him in a low voice.

"Hey!" Guangxu picked up the paper scroll on his desk and shook it, "Are you done?" ”

"I'm ......" Li Yan hesitated for a moment and looked down at his test paper.

"It's oneself and not others, and the common people are the same disease. If you haven't learned, you have to know, you have to be safe, and you can ...... in vain" In the distance, Master Weng's sonorous and powerful voice suddenly turned around, and it turned into a loud shout, "How could I have allowed you to ask questions in private?" You don't have to answer anymore! ”

He pulled the waking wood out of his sleeve, slammed it on his lectern, and strode forward to rip the test papers in front of the two students, his eyes aggressive. Guangxu was so frightened that he shrank his head into the standing collar of his robe, revealing only his two flickering eyes, and when Master Weng turned around, he quickly stuck out his tongue and grimaced. Master Weng strode back to his table and sat down, unfolded the test paper, and his bearing was calm. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he glanced at the first roll with a few thin locks of whiskers, and his tense expression eased a little.

"It's quite hearted, especially the sentence 'Huihe Xinwu Dao, empty flowers and righteous fun', there is a bit of the legacy of the sages, the emperor has been reading for a few days, and it is worthy of the queen mother's expectations. This scroll can be inscribed as first-class. ”

He shook off the scroll underneath him and glanced at it. The whiskers shook violently. The two old eyes that were squinted together widened. It's almost going to breathe fire.

"Hey!" Guangxu looked at the master's amazing performance before the seizure, and shouted to Li Yan in a suppressed voice, "You didn't write a word, did you?" ”

"This ......" Master Weng trembled for a while, and finally shouted, grabbed the roll and threw it out with all his might.

A piece of tissue paper was thrown not far away, stretched out in mid-air and fell to the ground, Guangxu poked his head out with curiosity to see, I don't know what could make Master Weng angry like this.

It was a sparsely sketched painting with a sparse brush. At first, it seemed to be a few irregular ink dots, which were dotted into distant clouds, and then a few brushstrokes were brushed up like undulating mountains, and the corners of the paper were flocks of geese, diagonally across the sky under the setting sun. Guangxu stuck out his tongue, this painting can really only be regarded as a graffiti of a letter pen.

Master Weng sat back in his chair heavily, straightened his expression, looked straight ahead, and didn't glance at Li Shan, "I am only shallow in my studies." Li Shaojun repeatedly refused to listen to the teachings and did his own thing. I am really worthy of the trust of the Queen Mother. ”

He got up and waved his sleeves at Li Shan, turned around and strode away.

Li Yan was still holding the ink pen awkwardly, sitting there dumbfoundedly looking at Master Weng's back, Guangxu had already jumped up slightly, and disappeared at the end of the corridor with the back of Master Weng who had been watching him.

"Admire, admire! You're so daring! Guangxu said to Li Yan with a worried face, "Master Weng's temper is big, I don't dare to mess around if I change it." If Master Weng goes to tell the Queen Mother, the two of us will not be able to eat and leave. ”

"I ...... What am I going to do? Li Yan looked at him helplessly.

"I've done everything, what else can I do?" Guangxu shrugged, "If you're afraid, don't be angry with Master Weng." ”

"I ...... I didn't mean to," Li Yan lowered his head in fear, "I don't understand what Master Weng said." ”

"Don't you know Middle-earth?"

"I've learned it, but I really don't understand what the Master said, I don't understand any saints, righteousness, or great ways. Your Majesty, what exactly is a saint? ”

"Saint?" Guangxu was stunned for a moment and scratched his forehead, "This ...... It's not easy to say clearly, it's probably the great sage of ancient times, who writes books and teaches apprentices all day long, the very old-fashioned kind, and keeps his back straight in the lecture hall. If in a few hundred years, Master Weng died, maybe he would also wear the title of a saint. ”

"Oh......" Li Yan realized.

"That's right," Guangxu gradually lost his fear of this Korean prince, and became a little curious, "Do you Koreans usually don't use the Middle-earth script?" What does your text look like? ”

Li Yan thought silently for a while, "Actually, it's not like this......"

He couldn't find any suitable words to answer.

North Korea has always used the Middle-earth script, but the language is separated. Ancient scholars could learn the original Chinese language, so the common people were mostly illiterate. At the end of the Later Three Kingdoms, Xue Cong used the phonetic meaning of the Chinese script to create the "official reading script", in addition, there were still village notes, formulas and other notation methods, but these failed to replace the Chinese script due to the inconvenience of use. King Sejong of the Joseon Dynasty deeply felt the inconvenience of the Middle-earth script for cultural transmission, and urgently needed a script that could fully express the sound of the Chinese language. There are many people who want to say something but can't express their affection in the end. Sorry for this. On the basis of studying Korean phonetics and Chinese pronunciation, the combination of square characters and one syllable occupies one character to create a phonetic script, "The new system of 28 characters wants to make it easy for everyone to learn and make it easy for daily ears." It is for "proverbs", also known as "Xunmin Zhengyin", which means "teaching the people to correct pronunciation".

After the invention of the new script, King Sejong advocated the use of "Hunmin Jeongyin" in official documents and personal letters, and ordered the use of "Hunmin Jeongyin" to create the "Dragon Flying Imperial Heavenly Song". He also made "Xunmin Zhengyin" a compulsory subject in the imperial examination for hiring officials, and engraved "Xunmin Zhengyin" on the coin.

However, the implementation of the "Xunmin Zhengyin" was resisted by the Korean aristocracy and literati, who believed that abandoning the Shangguo script was equivalent to abandoning the Zhongxia civilization and becoming a state of Yidi. Scholar Cui Wanli once said: "Since ancient times, in Kyushu, although the terroir is different, there is no one who is different because of the dialect. Only Mongolia, Wuwuer, Huihui, Japan, Western Tibet, etc., each has its own words. It's all the same. The ...... of the indeeds In the past dynasties, China and the DPRK have compared China with the style of Jizi relics, cultural relics and music, compared to the Middle Earth. Don't be a proverb now. She is the same as Yidi. It is the so-called incense of abandoning Suhe. And taking the pill of dung beetles, isn't it a burden of civilization? "Due to the resistance of the Korean aristocracy and literati, Hangul was not widely used in Korea until this century.

However, whether it is Xunmin Zhengyin or Zhongtu Wen, Li Yan has not studied it systematically and comprehensively.

What should he do?

In the early night, the moon is full of flowers.

The door rang softly three times.

Chiho Kirino under the lamp was startled at first, but she immediately realized who it was, she looked at Lin Boliang, who was sleeping beside her, and stuffed the things in her hand back under the pillow. He lowered his voice and said, "Please come in." ”

The door opened, and in came a child with his head bowed, his hair in a thick bun with an ivory hairpin, and only a black head was visible.

"Why did Li Shaojun come here late at night?" Chiho Kirino recognized the hairpin.

"I'm ......," Li Yan hesitated, "I want to borrow a few books to read back." ”

"Borrowing books?" Chiho Kirino shook her head a little strangely, "I have some books here, but there are more books in the warehouse, Li Shaojun can find any books he wants." ”

Li Yan hesitated, "That'...... Excuse me, Madame. ”

He turned. Chiho Kirino looked at his thin figure with pity. Suddenly called him, "Why did Li Shaojun come here?" ”

"I don't know the title of the book," Li Yan said in a low voice, "I want to find a few books to read, so that I can understand the things that Master Weng said, but I don't know what books to read, and I can't find ...... when I go to the storeroom."

Chiho Kirino was silent for a while, "Did Master Weng scold you?" ”

"Nope. But...... He was very angry and said that I didn't listen to the teachings and did my own thing, but I wasn't ......"

"What is Master Weng talking about now?"

Li Yan talked about the article he had recently studied, and Chiho Kirino couldn't help frowning after hearing it.

"These articles are too obscure for you, no wonder you don't understand, how did Master Weng choose them?" Chiho Kirino got up and pulled out a few books from the bookshelf that covered the entire wall, "These two are the three annotated copies of the "Zhiping Baojian" and the sub-record "Zhiping Asking Questions" that the Queen Mother likes to read. The former is the most complete annotation, easy to understand, although the latter is said to be "Asking for Questions", but they are all small stories, and there are pictures in them, which will be more interesting to read. ”

Li Yan was stunned for a moment, respectfully went up to take it, held it high above his head according to the etiquette taught by Master Weng, and wanted to retreat with his back.

"Like to read?" Chiho Kirino suddenly asked.

"Hmm!" Li Yan lowered the book and looked at Chiho Kirino, "We have few books in North Korea, and I have been confined for many years, I have not gone to school, and I only started to go to school after I came to Qianguo. ”

"Actually, you don't have to read a lot of books, how much can you understand by reading?"

"Doesn't Madame like to read?"

Chiho Kirino thought for a moment, "People themselves are actually like a book, but how many people can read themselves?" This sentence was too profound for Li Shan, but he felt that natural closeness, he remembered his father's instructions, and bowed respectfully, "Madame, is there anything you can teach me?" ”

Chiho Kirino rubbed lightly on the top of his head, and didn't speak for a long time, and then she smiled, "It's nothing, your maid can't comb her hair, her hair is so messy, I'll help you comb your hair." ”

She washed Li Shan's hair and put a piece of white silk around her neck. After washing his hair, Li Zhan didn't have much hair, and his head looked a little round, more like a child. He honestly lowered his head and let Chiho Kirino fiddle with his head. His eyes fell on the two pots of flowers in the window, "I haven't seen the flowers raised by Madame, what kind of flowers are they called?" ”

"The sunburst cherry blossom is a kind of flower in my hometown of Kagoshima."

In the end, Chiho Kirino took off the ivory hairpin in her mouth and tightened her bun for Li Shanwan, "Have a good time, you are not alone in a foreign land." ”

"Thank you, ma'am." Li Yan took a deep look at Chiho Kirino, his eyes touched Lin Boliang who was sleeping, and a trace of envy flashed unconsciously in his eyes.

"I've been in Beijing for so long, do you have any letters from my hometown?" Chiho Kirino understood the mood of this child who had lost his mother at the moment, and his heart was full of pity and asked.

Li Yan shook his head.

The two were relatively speechless, Li Yan bowed to Chiho Kirino again, turned around and went out silently.

The child walking under the eaves silently looked at the scroll in his hand. He felt a little sad in his heart, so sad that he wanted to cry, but he couldn't cry. Originally, from the moment he set foot on the land of Qianguo, he made up his mind to be a man, and never to be weak and cry again.

He walked silently through the corridor, silent and unmanned. In the dead of night, the frogs are loud.

He hesitated at the intersection, knowing that his dwelling was now only dark, and no one could be heard.

A dark cage.

Birdcage?

Li Yan thought it was really a birdcage, and this cage was only for him.

He wandered endlessly, walking and stopping, and finally he suddenly saw the hidden palace gate, which looked somewhat familiar. He pushed open the door and saw the moonlight spilling over the walkway, the shadows of the trees swaying on the ground, and the rattling of leaves making noise in the wind. He went further inside, and the inside of the main hall was emptied, and the moonlight cast from the hollow windows on all sides, and everything looked like mercury. He felt tired, so he sat on the ground, hugged his knees, and watched the breeze blow the golden veil wrapped between the rafters, and fall together.

He gradually became sleepy, and felt cold again. He stood up, jumped and ripped off the golden veil, wrapping it around himself. Finally he leaned against the wall and sat in a cloud of light veil. The light yarn is as cold and slippery as ice, but it is extraordinarily warm when wrapped around the body. Sleepiness welled up, and his head was lowered, and the cold moonlight shone over his head from the unobstructed window lattice. (To be continued.) )

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