Chapter 8: Return to the School Palace
"I want to ask...... What I want to say ......" Murong Jin muttered, "Erchen wants to ask, three years ago, my father got the Northern Qi and lost the empress, right?" ”
“......“
"Three years ago, Erchen lost his mother," Murong Jin said lightly, but his eyes were full of tears, "This is what Erchen wants to ask and what he wants to say." ”
Emperor Yan's heart suddenly twitched, and he sighed: "Ah Jin, there are some things that you still don't understand. ”
"Erchen knows that as the king of a country, your father has your difficulties, and you have 10,000 last resorts, but Erchen also has the sufferings of Erchen," the tears lingered in his eyes, but he still endured it and didn't fall, "Three years ago, Erchen, I really wanted to accompany my mother." ”
Emperor Yan's expression seemed to be old for a moment, his eyes were a little unbearable, and his tone became soothing, "I understand your suffering. ”
Murong Jin closed his eyes, and tears fell from his eyes.
Emperor Yan looked at Murong Jin quietly and did not speak.
In the midst of such silence, the New Year's bell rang once, twice, three times......
When the silence in his ears returned, Emperor Yan took out a rosewood box from his sleeve, and in the box was a white jade pendant with tassels hanging on it. The jade is of high quality, there seems to be a dark light flowing under the light, warm and transparent, and the fine carving engraves a vivid Rui beast, which is a rare and good product.
"I wanted it to be given to you as a birthday gift, but now it's not your birthday, so it's a New Year's gift." After speaking, he got up and prepared to leave.
Murong Jin said coldly: "The minister there took that carp lamp as a birthday gift from His Majesty, but it was not as good as my mother did in previous years." ”
"It's fine." Then he brushed his sleeves and left.
After Emperor Yan left, Murong Jin summoned Dong Xian to the house and asked, "Let me ask you, what happened before you were transferred out of the Floating Moon Palace three years ago?" ”
Dongxian was stunned, "No." ”
Murong Jin asked again: "Then you have been with me for so many years, and you can see when I am delirious?" ”
"It was about the time when His Royal Highness was five years old, and there was a moment when Empress Jinghuai said that His Highness was stunned," Dong Xian raised his eyes and glanced at Murong Jin, and continued, "Three years ago, His Royal Highness was brought back from the Plum Garden by His Royal Highness King Rui, and he also committed a crime. ”
"Tell me about it."
Dong Xian then finished one by one, and asked, "Your Highness, ...... this?"
Murong Jin shook his head, "It's okay, it's just that it's hard to sleep peacefully these days, you can go to the Imperial Medical Office to get some soothing incense another day." Today's New Year, you also go to get a good night's sleep, you don't have to keep watching. ”
"Yes." I had no choice but to retreat.
After Dongxian covered the door and the footsteps faded away, Murong Jinfang took out the letterhead and the jade medicine bottle from a secret compartment. While rubbing the jade pendant, he carefully read the letter.
The lines on the jade pendant are slightly familiar, but I can't tell where I've seen them for a while.
After a long time, Murong Jin retrieved an ancient book he had recently read, and the pattern on one of the pages roughly matched the carving on the jade pendant. Next to the pattern are several small characters in seal style - Taiyin Youying (1). There is also a note on the side: At the beginning of chaos, the holy beast of the Qi of the Yin and the essence of the Taiyin are the same as the two saints of the two instruments with his brother Sun Zhao.
In this way, this jade pendant wants to be a pair. If the prince of Northern Qi is still alive, then it should be in his hands, but it's a pity......
Murong Jin sighed faintly, poured out a few small pills from the medicine bottle and put them into another white jade medicine bottle, and then put a few things back into the secret compartment and hid them.
I haven't had anything going on these days, but I'm also idle. It's just that Emperor Yan transferred a palace man named Ruomei from Gaoyang Palace, saying that he was rectifying the rules of Fuyue Palace, and he had to call "aunt" on his face.
In the blink of an eye, the New Year is over.
According to the rules, after the New Year's Festival, the princes and princesses of the palaces should also prepare to go to the school palace to take classes.
Except for the young six princesses, the rest of the princes have to go. However, it is said that the fifth prince Murong Ju was seriously ill and couldn't even get out of his palace. Therefore, there are only four people left: the eldest prince Murong Li, the second prince Murong Xi, the third prince Murong Yan and Murong Jin.
Since the Floating Moon Palace was far away from the Xue Palace, Murong Jin had already gotten up on this day. After breakfast, about a quarter of the hour, at this time, it was just right to go to the school palace, so he called Dong Xian to follow another attendant.
The sky was still very dark, and it took the left and right people to hold the lanterns to see the palace road clearly, but when Murong Jin arrived at the school palace, the palace lights up and down had already been lit, but there was no one in the school.
The prince and princess must go to the school palace before four o'clock, Wen Shu four o'clock, and there will be a gentleman to teach at the end of the day. Murong Jin found his bookcase according to the order of age, and the books on the bookcase were still Xuan, Confucianism, Taoism, and History.
But after a while, I felt someone approaching, and suddenly looked up, only to see a middle-aged man in an old blue robe looking at him with a different kind of gaze, and he only felt uncomfortable.
The man said, "Your Royal Highness is really early today. ”
This person is born and dressed plainly and casually, but it gives people a sense of affinity. It's just that this person is not a prince who is studying, and he doesn't look like a serious gentleman. I hadn't heard of such a person in the school palace before.
The man retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "In the academy, the lower officials will teach His Highness. ”
Murong Jin was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly put down the scroll and got up, and saluted in a proper manner, "Sir." ”
Emperor Yan once said: In the palace, regardless of dignity or inferiority, the teacher is the greatest.
"His Highness used to be a student of Elder Yan?" The man asked.
"In the past, we were all taught by Mr. Yan." Three years ago, it was Mr. Yan Pu who served as the priest of the school palace in the school palace.
"I came here last autumn, and it's normal that Your Highness doesn't know me."
Murong Jin couldn't help asking, "Then, where is Mr. Yan now?" ”
The man turned to the window, and his tone was quite calm, "Mr. Yan had a serious illness last year, and before he reached the cold dew, he died. ”
When Yan Pu was alive, he was really a generation of Confucianism. At that time, he was still in the palace, and when he was teaching strictly, he was extremely serious and never partial. In private, he also talked to Murong Jin many times, saying that he was a teacher, but he was more like an elder in the family. Only now, it is separated by yin and yang.
Murong Jin pursed her thin lips tightly, and only said after a while: "When I left the palace back then, Mr. Yan was already over the age of sixteen, and he was considered to be at the end of his life. ”
"The end of life...... Heh......" The man turned around and didn't continue the topic, "My surname is Gu, Gu Shi." ”
"Mr. Gu."
"Mr. Gu is really early today."
It turned out that unconsciously, the hour had arrived, and everyone came one after another.
Unlike Murong Jin, the other three all had attendants, but there was no one on the seat next to Murong Jin, which looked a little different.
This Gu Shi, although he seems to be casual and unreliable, is generally funny when he talks about the class, which makes people not feel tired, and his knowledge is not inferior to his predecessor's sacrificial wine. In this way, what felt like a long half day flowed briskly.
At lunchtime, everyone said goodbye to Gu Shi and left. Only Gu Shi was still sorting out the scrolls unhurriedly, for a long time, as if he couldn't finish sorting them out.
Murong Jin couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is Mr. sorting out?" ”
Gu Shi raised his head and glanced at him, and then continued to bury his head: "What the lower officials have sorted out is naturally the scrolls of the saints. What about Your Highness? Why don't you go to dinner yet? ”
Murong Jin pondered for a moment, then stepped forward, "Seeing that Mr. is meticulously organized, I feel curious." ”
"Your Highness, at your age, it's not good to be too curious," Murong Jin just approached, and Gu Shi put the scroll into a bookbag made of coarse cloth, "Your Highness owes a lot of homework, there is a collection of books in the Xue Palace on the first floor of Wenyuan Building, Your Highness can often go and take a look." It seems that someone is waiting for His Highness, and His Highness still should not stay here for too long. The lower official retired. And when he had finished speaking, the man departed.