Hearing Zhang Peilun's persuasion, Li Gaoyang seemed to realize something.

"Yu Qiao, are you here to be a lobbyist for Lin Yiqing?"

Hearing the teacher's tone was quite stern, Zhang Peilun said loudly: "The teacher is too careful, that Lin Yiqing has been in Beijing for a while, although the students are quite appreciative of it, but in order to avoid the wind, they have never met with him. The teacher can not accept the student's words, and the student is just worried that the teacher will regret not being courteous to Lin's protégé in the future. ”

Li Gaoyang realized that what he had just said was a bit excessive, but he was embarrassed to apologize to Zhang Peilun, so he could only sigh and hang his head.

Seeing that Li Gaoyang seemed to be remorseful, Zhang Peilun also slowed down his tone, and persuaded again from a different angle: "Teacher, even if you refuse to accept Lin Yiqing, Tanhua, as a protégé, but the champion and the list are not at fault, and it is extremely inappropriate for you to refuse to see them all, the news is about to go out, how should the teacher explain to the world?" Could it be that the palace presided over by the emperor was all wrongly selected? Where do you put the emperor like this? ”

Li Gaoyang woke up suddenly, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

"You're talking about, Yuqiao, I'm ...... What an old fool! Alas! ”

"Don't worry, teacher, the students are sure that the three of them will come back in the next few days," Zhang Peilun comforted Li Gaoyang, "at least three days, at most five days, the teacher just waits." ”

"If it weren't for Yu Qiao today, it would almost be a big thing." Li Gaoyang sighed again.

Zhang Peilun comforted Li Gaoyang again, and after the teacher and student talked for a while, Zhang Peilun said goodbye. After Zhang Peilun left, Li Gaoyang was no longer entangled in his heart, and he felt a lot better, so he calmed down. Determined to recuperate with peace of mind, waiting for the new champion to come to the door again.

As Zhang Peilun said, after a lapse of five days, Chen Mian, the champion of the new department, Wang Guichen of the list, and Lin Yiqing, the tanhua, came to worship together, saluted Li Gaoyang's disciples, and handed over the protégé post.

This apprenticeship has its own set of red tape. But Lin Yiqing noticed that when the champion Chen Mian and Wang Guichen handed Li Gaoyang a protégé post, Li Gaoyang accepted the post, but did not return the salute to them, and when he received his protégé post alone, Li Gaoyang got up and saluted himself back, and he felt strange in his heart at the time, thinking that Li Gaoyang did it on purpose, probably to provoke the relationship between himself and the other two. But he found that Chen Mian and Wang Guichen seemed to know the reason, and there was no difference, and he was even more puzzled in his heart.

After the apprenticeship was over, Li Gaoyang talked to the three of them, and unlike Lin Yiqing who originally imagined that he might embarrass himself, Li Gaoyang was very kind to the three of them, and he did not deliberately snub himself in his speech, except for talking about the topic of the way of the saint. Li Gaoyang even chatted with them for a while about foreign affairs and talked about some of his own opinions. is not a conservative and stubborn old Confucian as Lin Yiqing thought.

After talking for a while, a servant came to remind Li Gaoyang to take medicine, and Lin Yiqing and the three knew that he was using his poor health to hint at them to send off guests, so they all got up to say goodbye, and Li Gaoyang personally sent the three of them out. Got into the car.

In the evening, Lin Yiqing was in the restaurant of Deyuelou, and invited Chen Mian and Wang Guichen to dinner - the scholars of this era are most interested in the same year, and those on the same list will be officials in the future, and they will take care of each other in case of trouble. It has become a common practice in officialdom, and the three of them are the same class, so they naturally want to be close.

The three of them talked about handing over the protégé post during the day, and Lin Yiqing specially asked why Li Gaoyang didn't salute the two of them, and both of them laughed.

"Han Peng, although the three of us have no official position, but you have a title, although the teacher is a scholar, but there is no title, you salute him, he naturally wants to return the salute, although the two of us are ranked before you, but they are white, no official title, and they are juniors, so he doesn't have to salute the two of us." Chen Mian laughed, "Han Peng, don't underestimate this little first-class baron." ”

"I see." Lin Yiqing suddenly realized.

"The last time the teacher didn't see us, it may have something to do with it." Wang Guichen said with a smile, "The dignified cabinet scholar, but he has to salute his protégé, although the teacher is elegant and elegant, it is difficult to calm his mind, and it is also human nature." ”

"Actually, last time the three of us turned away the teacher, it was me Lin who involved the two of them." Lin Yiqing sighed, "If the two of you go separately, I don't think he will refuse you." ”

"You and I are the same three, and we are already one, how can there be a reason to go separately?" Chen Mian shook his head and said, "The teacher doesn't see Hanpeng, but he is confined to Yixia's opinion, in fact, whether it is Yiwu or foreign affairs, as long as it is beneficial to the country and the people, how can it not be handled?" The teacher is really ...... Alas! ”

"Yes! The teacher didn't see Hanpeng, just for the sake of the name of the 'ghost slave' of his brother Lin Wenxiang. Wang Guichen also sighed, "Lin Wenxiang's generation of pioneers in foreign affairs, dare to do anything, write articles that are world-famous, and implement all actions that benefit the people, I have always admired them, but I didn't expect that after so many years, the teacher is still drowning in prejudices......"

"Today, the three of us will go to his house again, I thought it would be the same as last time, eating behind closed doors, but I didn't expect him to change his mind and see us, it's really unexpected." Chen Mian said to Lin Yiqing with a smile, "And he also specially talked about foreign affairs, which is really very face-saving for Hanpeng!" Hanpeng must be kept in mind. ”

Lin Yiqing couldn't help laughing when he thought back to the scene during the day.

Although he knew that Li Gaoyang might not really agree with Westernization, the two traditional literati from the imperial examination in front of him did not reject Westernization, but Lin Yiqing saw a glimmer of hope.

Chen Mian and Wang Guichen, like Zeng Bohan and Li Shaoquan's apprentices, were influenced by the Confucian idea of "helping the world and the people", and belonged to the Jingshi school, hoping to realize the political ideal of governing the country and the country through the imperial examination, and were willing to do everything that was beneficial to the country and the people.

And today's first meeting with Li Gaoyang also allowed him to find out the reality of the leader of the "Northern Qingliu".

This seemingly stubborn and conservative bachelor is actually not a piece of ice! If necessary, he will also put down his body!

Now that I and this person have the status of teacher and student, the next step is to make good use of this position......

Respect the Prince's Mansion, backyard three-box.

Zibchen dreamed of that night again.

It was a dark night. A young man stood in the depths of the alley, standing in the dense snowflakes, staring blankly at the two red lanterns in the distance, listening to the coquettishness coming with the wind, and trembling slightly.

All he had left was a gray ragged jacket that covered his muscles. That's the result of 12 years of training. Countless times close to death, his muscles and bones are in the best condition, and when the muscles are knotted, one by one, as if they are twisted out with good iron tendons. He could hold the cornices with one hand, hide in the shadows for a day and a night, and on the day he left the school, he swung his knife in front of the elders of his family, and silently split the two-finger-thick forged steel bar in half by sheer strength. In exchange for a room full of powerful applause.

But now that was a thing of the past, his sackcloth-wrapped right arm hung at his side, numb and sluggish, barely conscious. It was his hand holding the knife, and he could no longer swing it.

It was the innkeeper who asked a few people to interrupt, because he had not been able to pay for the room for half a month. The boss probably knew that he had some kung fu, so he went to the kitchen to steal something to eat and ambushed a few people. Kick him over, pounce on him and hit it. He didn't expect businessmen to be so ruthless and negligent. He was also too hungry because he had no money and didn't dare to go out to get something to eat. So the keen sense of hearing and smell acquired after twelve years of training was dulled, and when the men threw him down from behind, he did not understand what they wanted to do, but threw out the two steamed buns in his hand to show surrender. He thought that would be the case. Until he was beaten to death. Several men restrained him, one straightened his arm, another smirked and lifted a latch, and he realized to his horror what he was about to lose.

When he woke up, he was lying in the snow. Everything on his body was gone, including the thin knife that he had hidden in the sole of his shoe for self-defense.

But he was even a little glad, fortunately the boss was just an ordinary businessman, a little vicious in his bones, if it was his enemies, he would probably have been thrown into the wilderness and eaten by wild dogs.

He breathed in the cold air, thinking to himself that maybe he should leave the city, danger would come at any moment, but then he would never see the woman who had turned the world upside down again, and once he left the city, he would have to be like a homeless wild dog again.

The woman was in the mansion with the red lantern in front of her, and her name was Su Xiaoyu. She is a maid, and northerners always like to name the top girls like this, Tong Xiaoying, Bai Xiaojin, Yu Xiaoyu, Song Xiaohui...... The name is as beautiful as a dream, and it attracts the reverie of the guests. But he liked Su Xiaoyu because of her cough, when her first cough came from the window, his heart jumped and hurt silently, and then Su Xiaoyu hugged Yueqin and opened the curtain and walked in, the corners of her eyebrows and eyes were sad.

According to Su Xiaoyu's statement, her mother originally told her that these guests were all armed with weapons and looked unrecognizable, so she asked her to be careful, so she speculated that he was a hideous man with a full face, but the moment she opened the curtain, her heart trembled. The room was clearly full of guests, and she hadn't seen him, but she could recognize him from the crowd. Because he looked her up and down, his eyes were full of curiosity, and there was a little bit of young lust, but he was a little shy. He didn't have a face full of meat, he was a young man as moist as white jade, with clean pupils, a slightly upturned nose, hands pressed on his knees, and his nails trimmed very neatly. After looking Su Xiaoyu up and down, he deliberately turned his head to talk to his companions and ignored her.

"I fell in love with you probably at that moment, thinking that you are such a person, you will not be as cruel to me as others." Su Xiaoyu said lightly as he combed her hair.

They were especially enthusiastic that night, as if the next day was a parting of life and death.

After lingering, Su Xiaoyu talked to him carefully, saying that before she was sold to the courtyard, even if there were a few people in the family, her younger brother was the baby of her parents and always bullied her, and her parents always quietly stuffed delicious food to her younger brother during the New Year's holidays. She was not in good health all those days, she always coughed, felt that this autumn was extremely cold, thought that she was old again, and spent her life in a bed that many men had slept in, and couldn't help but cry silently. Where he grew up, women rarely shed tears, and he couldn't help but be a little in a hurry, hugging her naked body and promising to come back to see her in the future, and would ransom her out after saving money. He really wanted to come back to see Su Xiaoyu, because Su Xiaoyu seemed to be his lover. It's like his sister again, which makes him feel extra at ease. Thinking back to the hardships of the past twelve years, many times he felt that he was going to die, and wanted such a woman to be by his side, caress his forehead, care for him, shed tears for him, and now this woman suddenly came. made him feel that he had inadvertently found the person he was destined for. In fact, there was a woman who cared about him before and shed tears for him, but that woman was not destined for him, every time he looked at her, his heart was like a hole, empty and painful, and it needed to be filled, and now Su Xiaoyu filled that hole. But it's hard to redeem yourself.

One night, he drank too much wine and bragged to Su Xiaoyu about his knife skills. He said that when he killed Lord Toto, he cut through the opponent's neck guard and cut off his head...... I don't know if Su Xiaoyu really believed these words, but she was heard by a servant girl who hated her, and the woman secretly reported to the government, and it is said that she imitated what he said to Su Xiaoyu that night.

He knew how terrible it was for these words to reach the ears of the government.

He thought that the woman who coughed might be affected, and his heart hurt like a knife, Su Xiaoyu didn't do anything wrong. It's just that he's talking too much, he's still too young. I thought I had a woman, and I wanted to show her that I was strong. So he made a fatal mistake, he impulsively killed the catcher who came to capture him, and the girl who denounced him, and then he began to flee.

He deliberately left his mark of murder, and it is estimated that the government must be very surprised why he dared to kill like this. This seems unreasonable, he wants the government to focus on himself, so that Su Xiaoyu will not be in danger.

But this time he underestimated the power of the government, and their reaction was very big, and the sea fishing was announced. Officers and soldiers in all nearby places and catchers received orders to kill him, and the news was delivered only in January. He was not afraid of the vast majority of officers and soldiers and fast catchers, because he had learned all the methods of tracking their targets, but this time the government sent the most powerful master of fast hunting.

This catcher is one of the few capable people in the government, but because he is too unsociable and taciturn, he has not been promoted. But the man's ability to track him was so good that three days later the man appeared behind him, and the result of the fight between the two men was that the man's knife pierced him in the ribs, and he was able to escape wounded. He knew that his opponent had been careless this time, and he didn't look up to him, so he used a long knife instead of the dreaded short iron fork with chains.

This man is a complete lunatic, he should not have existed in this world.

Thinking of this, he touched his ribs, the wound was already numb, and he didn't dare to open it, knowing that there were festering maggots and emitting an unpleasant stench. All he could do was immediately scorch the flesh with a soldering iron, and he couldn't go to the doctor, which would reveal his location. He ventured back to that city, now that it was "dark under the lights", the government would not have expected him to dare to return to the largest city in the vicinity, in addition, he wanted to see Su Xiaoyu again, even if he couldn't tell her that he had done so much for her, he could lie in her arms tiredly, and now the only thing he could find in this world was Su Xiaoyu.

He knew that this idea was extremely crazy, and as long as the catchers turned their heads back to this "dark under the lights" city, it would be easy to find him through Su Xiaoyu. But he really wanted to find a warm woman to embrace, to sleep in her fragrance, and the master of catching fast shattered his luck, and he felt that he could not escape the punishment of the government safely. In the end, you can only be killed, so why not grab something before you die?

Su Xiaoyu greeted him happily covered in dust, her smile looked very much like his sister, and when he hugged her, his tears flowed silently, and he choked up and said, "I love you, I'm back to see you." ”

For the next half a month, he spent every day in Su Xiaoyu's room, longing for this woman's body and love words, that kind of longing was like a bottomless pit, but he would always cover the window, ready to fly out at any time. He changed his appearance with only a little paint, and the owner of the house did not realize that he was the young customer who had been there the other day, and thought that some kind of high-roller from the countryside had come to the city to do business, and he was happy to make his money. Those days were the best times of his life, every morning Su Xiaoyu gently woke him up, fed him porridge, and then helped him change the gauze wrapped in his wounds, played the moon qin to him, stared into his eyes and kissed his lips silently, sat on his knees and hummed a song in a low voice, the sunlight shining through the cracks in the window shone on her face, her face was as delicate as a child. He almost felt that he was going to forget about the government and the pursuit, and the two of them lingered selflessly, until the catchers finally came to kill him.

Everything stopped on the day he ran out of money, and the fat woman walked into Su Xiaoyu's boudoir with a gloomy face, and Su Xiaoyu's piano sound was chaotic.

For the first time, he realized how useful money was outside, and he learned the words "end of the bedside", and now he had nothing left but the knife he had with him, which he had made of his own iron. The fat woman glanced at the knife with disgust, and said, if it is a pawn, you should go to a pawnshop for guests, we are just a place to have fun, if it is convenient, let the family send some more money. (To be continued.) )

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