Chapter 152: The King's Invitation
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Zixi looked at Shi Yiguang in front of her, and after she finished speaking, she hesitated for a moment before saying: "Speaking of the king, the name of Mr. General has been mentioned to the king, and the king also hopes to see Mr. Shang." โ
Shi Yiguang listened to Zixi's words, his body was stunned, and his brows were slightly wrinkled.
Ling Yin's Mansion is her best place, but the palace is not.
She didn't speak.
Zixi's voice fell, and the room became quiet. Xiong Chao on the side looked at himself with his head down with the scroll, and when he heard that the room suddenly quieted down, he also tilted his head and looked at the people next to him.
Shi Yiguang raised his head and looked at Zixi, his brows furrowed, and there was inquiry in his eyes.
Seeing this, Zixi didn't feel rude, and only replied respectfully: "When the contemptible people advised the king to betray the Jin kingdom before, the king asked the reason, and I couldn't deceive, so I told Mr. 's calculations. โ
As he spoke, Zixi paused, looked at Shi Yiguang and explained: "The king is sympathetic, and he said that he wants to see Mr., but he will never force him." It's up to the gentleman to decide. โ
Shi Yiguang looked at Zixi and listened to his humble explanation, but his heart still hesitated.
She thought that Xiong Shen had come this time to invite her back to Ling Yin's Mansion, but now that she looked, it was more like she was invited to the palace to see King Chu Zhao.
See?
Shi Yiguang looked at Zixi and didn't answer immediately, she only lowered her head and muttered for a moment, then looked up at Zixi, and said softly: "The king is noble, I don't know how many talented people around me, I am a rural child, where did I get the qualifications to meet the king?" So I gave up. โ
Seeing King Chu Zhao is not a matter of seeing him. It means whether she is willing to serve King Chu Zhao or not. She is a woman, the palace is so big, it's good not to be discovered, and she can hide people and be a strategist. If it is discovered, it will be a deception.
It's not an exaggeration to cut off her head.
This is Shi Yiguang's undisguised refusal.
Xiong Chao, who was pretending to be looking at the scroll on the side, listened to the conversation between the two, but he couldn't calm down, he tilted his head and looked at the two people who were talking, his eyes fell on Shi Yiguang's side.
He didn't expect that Bingwen was not only calm in front of his father, but also dared to directly refuse the king's invitation.
Xiong Chao just tilted his head and looked at Shi Yiguang, looking at it, but he was a little stunned.
The front of the black and yellow is not noticed, but the side is ...... It's well-defined and beautiful. If the complexion is whiter...... Xiong Chao's gaze shifted and landed on Shi Yiguang's smooth and white little ears.
was stunned again, and then moved his gaze again, looking at her black and yellow cheeks that didn't match at all, and then down, looking at Shi Yiguang's still smooth and white neck, his brows furrowed.
Zixi in the room was still speaking.
"Mr. is humble, and he has both ability and integrity." Zixi said, looking at Shi Yiguang, his speech slowed down, and said: "In this way, if the contemptible person does not reply to the king, can Mr. think about it again?" โ
Shi Yiguang looked at Zixi, thought for a while, and then nodded: "Then according to what the adults said, I will reply after thinking about it." โ
Hearing this, Zixi smiled and nodded, and then took a sip of the teacup on the table in front of him.
The tea has been a little cold after a long time.
Half of the house, who had already been cleaned outside, stood at the door, looking inside the house, his eyes swept over the tea cup in front of Zixi. Then he took off his clothes and walked into the room, knelt down along Shi Yiguang's table, lit the tea stove next to the table, put the tea tripod, and boiled it again.
Zixi on the side didn't pay attention to the half next to him, only put down the tea cup in his hand, raised his head and slowly glanced into the room.
There are not many furnishings in the house, only one or two tables, a large table, and a few futons. and a wooden bed. The rest were piles of books piled up in the corners of the house. The pile of books is very high, and I don't know where to find so many books.
"Sir's books, are they all left by Mr. Changqing?" Zixi looked back at Shi Yiguang and asked slowly.
"Approximately." Shi Yiguang didn't tilt his head, only tilted his head to look at the half-boiled tea pod on the side.
"Sir, have you finished reading it all?" Zixi turned his head, looked at Shi Yiguang, and asked again.
Shi Yiguang turned his head, looked at Zixi who asked east and west, and nodded.
Seeing Shi Yiguang turn around, Zixi smiled with a gentle and kind smile: "Mr. is studious, there is a library in my house, and there are ancient books that have been made since the Yellow Emperor Chi You, until today, there are nearly 10,000 books." โ
Saying that, Zixi looked at Shi Yiguang and smiled again, his voice was more respectful and slow: "If Mr. is willing, you can come to my house to check and borrow." โ
Before Shi Yiguang could speak, Xiong Chao next to him was not calm. As soon as he raised his head, his gaze fell on Zixi, with incredulity in his eyes.
You must know that the library pavilion of Ling Yin's mansion is the library pavilion of Chu State. I don't know tens of thousands of books in the pavilion, the books from the Yellow Emperor Chiyou, and the ancient books handed down by the ancestors of Zhuan Luo. Few people can understand the words on it. Since arriving in the Zhou royal family, records, allusions, songs, poems, scriptures, books, all of them are inferior.
The countries of the Central Plains, with Lu as the middle, all countries salute each other and advocate culture. But there is no country that has as many books as the Chu country.
Therefore, the library in the house has always been a forbidden place, and idlers are not allowed to trespass. Even when his father and the king entered, they had to bathe and cleanse themselves, change their clothes, and make salutes before they dared to enter the pavilion to hold a book and read.
At this time, Ling Yin Zixi in front of him didn't think much about it, so he allowed Bingwen to enter and read.
Shi Yiguang had also stayed in Chu Lingyin's Mansion for so long, so he naturally knew what the Library Pavilion in this mansion meant. Her eyes lit up, and she looked at Zixi fixedly, and after a moment, she lowered her head again and thought deeply.
Ling Yin Zixi asked her to return to Ling Yin's mansion on the condition that she could enter the library to read. Ling Yin's Mansion was originally what she wanted to go back to, but now that the people in the palace have taken a fancy to her, if she goes to Lingyin's Mansion again, she will actually step into half of the palace.
Books from this era are hard to find. There are also no books sold in the street market. Printing was also not completed, and most of them were hand-copied between the master and his disciples, and then passed down from generation to generation.
Therefore, the tens of thousands of books in Yin's mansion are too tempting for Shi Yiguang.
After thinking for a moment, Shi Yiguang raised his head and looked at Ling Yin Zixi, she didn't respond immediately, but only said: "Thanks to my lord's appreciation, if I can read those books, are there rules?" โ
Ling Yin Zixi looked at Shi Yiguang in front of him, although the person opposite did not respond directly, he knew that these words had already meant that she had begun to waver.
"According to the rules of the library pavilion, you can bathe and clean yourself when you enter the pavilion, and you can dress plainly and salute." Zixi looked at Shi Yiguang with a smile on his face, and said: "Most of the scrolls in the pavilion have been handed down since the Xia Dynasty, and the content of the scrolls is obscure, and before that, you don't even know the words. There are many scrolls, but they are only seventeen or eighteen characters in length. But no one can understand it. It would be a blessing if the gentleman could read and understand it. โ