In the thatched cottage of Huangpu Boundless Palace, a young green-robed official entered the hall where Li Xianping said he was office, under the guidance of the maid.

"This is it, I can only stay for two quarters of an hour, don't move too much, there are still people busy behind the side door."

After the maid gave the order, she went out, and the official set up a drawing board and looked curiously at this hall that was no more than thirty or forty feet long and wide, and the entire wall was full of crystal glass. How does it feel more like a place to take a nap? Look at the soft couch in the middle, it is forming a Taiji diagram, like a formation, and there is a difference between life and death.

The pupils staring at the soft couch difled instantly, and then contracted, and a strand of black and shiny hair rose from the back of the soft couch, and then revealed a beautiful face, Ruyu's cheeks were powdered by the sun, which made the temperament that felt dusty dyed with a layer of beauty.

This is a beauty who has been in a beautiful country for two years, her hair is slanted in a bun, her eyes have just opened, she should have just woken up, she stretched her waist, and a coquettish aura suddenly washed away in the young man's heart, making it difficult for him to control himself, and the paintbrush in his hand fell to the ground with a click.

"Who!?"

The beauty turned her head to look, and when she saw the young man, her whole person froze, and then her face changed, and she turned her head as if she was nothing, and muttered: "It's just that this guy's soft couch is too comfortable, and everyone has overslept in it." ”

Duan Yuyou muttered while wiping her sweat, her heart was finished, and she slept in the hall where Li Xi handled official business.

"Snoozing dead girl! Not up yet!? Didn't you wake me up!? ”

A slap on the buttocks of the little maid who was still sleeping deeply, Liuche jumped up and looked around sleepily: "Who!?" Who!? ”

Not daring to look at the pair of masters and servants, the young official bowed his head and arched his hand: "Xiaguan Zheng Xie, edited by the Hanlin Academy, was entrusted by Master Li of the Zhongshu Hall to draw a map of the ruling of the Heavenly King." In order not to occupy too much time of the king, he had to come to draw this grass hall first, but he didn't want to collide with Niangniang...... Forgive sins, forgive sins! ”

Duan Yuyou's eyes only regained their clarity at this time, Zheng Xie?

It was indeed Zheng Xie, who had seen him in Xiaojin Mingchi before, and he was wearing a green-robed official uniform at this time, but he still didn't hide his elegant and strange aura.

"You can also draw?"

She thought of the other two people, Bian Shoumin, who had become famous in Yinghua, and Li Shi's royal painter, the foreigner Lang Shining.

"Lao Niangniang asked, and the officials knew a little bit about it."

Zheng Xie responded with self-humility and complacency, thinking that this lady not only has a beautiful appearance, but also has an extraordinary temperament, like a fairy in a painting, I don't know if it is Concubine Yan or Concubine An.

The title of "Niangniang" caused Duan Yuyou to be depressed, and she sighed: "I'm not a mother, but a maid who helps Li Tianwang with paperwork......"

Then she turned her beautiful eyes to Zheng Xie: "You don't have to call Li Zhushou Lord Li, my lord's name is not fashionable in our country." ”

Maid? There are maids who dare to call the name of Li Zhushou in the middle of the book? Zheng Xie subconsciously replied: "Xie Niangniang ...... point"

When the words came out, she realized that something was wrong, Duan Yuyou was slightly annoyed, waved her sleeves and got up, twisted up the six cars that were still confused, and prepared to go back to her own small hall.

The pale yellow clothes swayed, and the figure was as light and stretched as a butterfly, Zheng Xie raised his head, and was about to apologize again, but when he saw such a beautiful scenery, he was stunned. Duan Yuyou's eyes swept from the corner of his eyes, and the two of them looked at each other, and there seemed to be a thousand words back and forth in an instant, and time froze.

"That little thief, bold!"

Liuche finally began to faithfully perform his duties as the protector, and scolded Zheng Xie's rudeness.

"You painters, are you all so stunned?"

Duan Yuyou looked away, only to feel panicked, and hurriedly found a cover.

"The hair is like the moon covered by light clouds, and the fluttering is like the snow of the wind...... This can't be drawn. ”

Zheng Xie's eyes were still hooked, and such a sentence came out of his mouth.

"A red face is not a disaster, and it is a pity to be a concubine. Thousands of worries and troubles are all caused by the world. ”

Duan Yuyou's face turned cold, he thought that this Zheng Xie was still a righteous gentleman, but he didn't expect to be so clever. She had already thought of reporting her name, lest he speak more unpleasantly. Now, give him a warning.

"Right and wrong...... Vulgar ...... That's right, right and wrong are dusty because of the heart mirror. ”

Zheng Xie's face darkened, and he lowered his head and muttered to himself, making Duan Yuyou remember the compassion and sigh he heard him in the Whampoa Academy in the past.

"I remember that you are the champion of Enke, and you have a meritorious heart, why do you still make a world language?"

Duan Yuyou asked casually.

"Xia Guan didn't intend to be a leader, but his father was injured in the previous turmoil, and it was difficult to try. He told me that I must inherit his will, even if the subordinate has his own will, it is difficult to disobey his father's wishes, so I have to ......"

Zheng Xie explained with a heavy face, Duan Yuyou realized that before the public opinion was turbulent, some businessmen instigated thugs to attack the "Shilin" newspaper office, and the injured chief writer Zheng Zhiben was Zheng Xie's father.

"Originally, my father and I studied in Zhenzhou, and four years ago I also got a student, thinking about my own future. But I didn't want my father to have other ambitions, so I had to come to Guangdong with my father, but I suffered this hardship......"

Speaking of his father, Zheng Xie has a bitter stomach, because of his father, he left his hometown, left his dearest nurse Fei, and broke off the marriage contract with the Xu family. When he arrived in Yinghua, his father was different from himself, and he quarreled. After his father was seriously injured, he went around for treatment, thinking that his father could turn his mind back, but he didn't want his father to be obsessed, so he asked him to come to Enko. Now although he won the top prize and was locked up in the Hanlin Academy, Yinghua, who had lost the position of national politics in this Confucius and Mencius, could not find a place to use it, but the name of the painting spread, which was far from his own wishes.

Duan Yuyou was also picked up somewhere in her heart, and she felt that there was a sad thread connecting her with Zheng Xie.

"Life is unsatisfactory in ten times, and some things have to be taken from God."

She subconsciously brought out what Li Xi had said.

"If a person is a wanderer, go with the flow, with my body, I can see the people in the world, it is ......"

Zheng Xie shook his head and sighed, Duan Yuyou pursed his lips and frowned, suppressing his urge to nod his head in agreement. But deep down, I very much agree with Zheng Xie's words.

Isn't that so? Even characters like themselves, such as Zheng Xie, have to roll in this tide, and they have no autonomy over their own ambitions and their own lives. Ordinary people don't even have their own lives. Why stir up this rushing vortex? In the end, this vortex will sweep the world over, and what kind of new world will it leave behind?

"Ah...... was in a state of turmoil, and even said these dirty words, and I hope to forgive my sins! ”

The little maid Liuche snorted heavily with hostility, and Zheng Xie finally came to his senses and hurriedly asked Duan Yuyou for his guilt.

"I ...... As I said, I'm not a mother, but a little maid. ”

Duan Yuyou's mind was chaotic, he grabbed the six cars, and went straight into his small hall, leaving Zheng Xie, who was confused, in a daze.

"The human heart, the most complicated in the world, is the human heart, and one of the most interesting is to surpass one's own ability, surpass one's own responsibility, and speak for others. Good harms oneself, and evil harms others. ”

On the gate of Zhanyue in Hengzhou, Li Shi pointed to the large figure in the Shigu Academy and said.

"I understand ...... truth"

A long, jade woman stood beside him, dressed in a plain linen dress and a hood to cover her face, and only the jade skin could be seen from her chin. And the woman's voice was even more like a deep song, penetrating deep into the bottom of people's hearts.

"For example, when they open their mouths, they say 'make a life for the people', but when they meet people who are not honest and divide the fields, they want to live a better life with their own hands, they say that they are 'greedy people', 'Diao people' or 'villains'. Scolding miners, scolding mechanics, scolding darts and running boats, as for those who come and go to the countryside to sell goods, they are even more vicious businessmen who criticize and write. Anyway, in their eyes, only the 'cultivators' in the Qin Shi who cultivated and fought were the people in their mouths. ”

"Why do they scold? Because there are only people who plough and war, then the ploughers have to be at their mercy, and their fate is all in their hands. They squeeze their morality out of them, express their compassion, and take them as ...... Like white rats, they take the ideal rule they think in their hearts, and they don't care about what the people themselves think. ”

This woman is naturally a golden bell, and when she talks about it rarely, Li Xi also smiled.

It's not that they are like this, but they have been harmed by Confucius and Mencius for thousands of years and in national politics, and then lose their true colors. But...... Jin Ling, were you smashed by some scholar? Don't mess with the old way and the little god, you just don't listen......"

Pan Jinling lowered her head embarrassedly, she really has a clever side, when she first met Li Xi in Fengtian Village, she asked Li Shi about his medical theory. But since he received the favor of Li Shi, his heart surname has suddenly changed a lot, and he is rarely so cynical anymore, that is, this will be by Li Shi's side, his mind is completely stretched, and he can't help but say what is in his heart, and there is a faint taste of coquettishness to Li Shi.

"It has nothing to do with my religion, yesterday I came to Hengzhou, thinking of establishing the Yingci Yuan here, but I was stopped by a group of local squires who heard the news, saying that the Yingci Yuan was disemboweled, which hurt the heavens, and it would never be allowed to open in their pure and scholarly place."

Pan Jinling looked left and right, Long Gaoshan and Gesang Dunzhu and other guards all tilted their heads, their eyes were not here, they were down, their fingers hooked Li Shi's sleeve, and shook it lightly twice.

"You, the proprietor, have to be my master!"

Li Xian smiled, his mind was still on the Shigu Academy, he didn't notice the demeanor of Pan Jinling's little daughter, and nodded straight and said, "Be the master!" Of course! Those who dare to stop me from doing good deeds will come and kill one by one! ”

Pan Jinling's eyes were confused, but his mouth said angrily: "The more you kill, the more I will be saved, when will it be the head?" ”

Seeing that Li Shi was about to turn around and get up on the old topic he had evoked, there was a warm shout from the Shigu Academy, which immediately drew Li Shi's attention.

"God, why don't you go down to the next thunderstorm and chop those rotten people to death!"

Pan Bodhisattva also moved his murderous intent at this time, staring coldly at the Shigu Academy, his jade hand clenched into a fist, still trembling slightly.

"Hey...... As I expected, those guys actually did this trick!? ”

Li Shi was immersed in Shigu Academy, and when the sentry in front brought back the news, he was amused and angry.

The Shigu Academy gathered hundreds of local scholars in Hunan, and a group of pigtailed brothers who were originally buried in the countryside and reading with their heads bored, and they all came from all over Hunan to act as a human shield to protect the Shigu Academy.

Rumors about Yinghua's "destruction of Confucianism" have been spread all over the place, and at this time there are specific versions, some say that Yinghua is going to demolish the Shigu Academy and rebuild the fort, some say that it is going to be converted into the Yingci Academy, and some say that it is going to be changed into a heavenly temple.

These scholars not only gathered in the Shigu Academy, but also guarded the original perfume nunnery outside the city gate, just blocking the south bank of the grass bridge, and the British and Chinese troops were going to move out of the city to the north, and they would be hindered by them. At that time, will you kill or not?

The British and Chinese army didn't plan to do it, but those scholars were already mentally prepared to be killed. I heard that Yinghua killed thousands of "scholars" in Huangpu, Guangzhou, in order to "destroy Confucianism", and they all came with the determination to be martyred. The chant just now reads, "There is Li and no me!" There are no Confucians! ”

"It's so neat, who's behind it?"

Li Xi was thinking about this problem, and the Military Intelligence Department urgently activated the internal line buried in the post, opened countless Qing court documents, and finally got the answer from the urgent delivery submitted by Ye Jiusi, the governor of Hunan, to Yinzhen, the general of Fuyuan.

Chen Wance, a student of Lee Kuang-di...... It's not surprising that he did this, but what is surprising is that Yinzhen actually let it go, and covered it up for Chen Wance from the official face, preventing this strategy from entering Kangxi's ears. ”

Savoring the news, after a long time, Li Xian took a cool breath, and he suddenly realized that he seemed to be too neglectful of Yinzhen. This person's arrangement is really a stroke of genius.

Fighting this general again, he actually opened the battlefield in the matter of people's hearts.

(To be continued)