Zheng Yan knows that his current situation is very delicate,

Different from the primogeniture inheritance system in other countries, the Great Zhou Dynasty has always cultivated the prince to adopt a limited way of raising mastiffs, which is commonly said to let the princes compete with each other, if there are ten princes, nine portions of food will be put into the food bowl, so that there will inevitably be people who are not full, or even unable to eat;

And the so-called "limit" is to limit the means that the princes can take, but this is only to limit the princes, and behind each prince stands a family of relatives and a number of vassal forces, the princes themselves can also snare their wings, limit the princes but will not limit the people behind the princes, of course, in a stable and strong country, everything must abide by the established rules and limits, and the struggle for power and interests will not be white-hot, but it will never contain affection.

If you think that every time you feed is nine parts, it is too much to underestimate this thousand-year-old system, the first stage is nine parts, and then it decreases one by one, and few people can say clearly the division of each stage, so if the princes want to eat well, they must always be vigilant, and grasp as much food as possible within the rules of each face, such as the reward for outstanding performance in some aspects, such as a prince who failed to come forward to fight for food for some reason, and the rest of the food;

It is also necessary to learn to "hunt wild food", horses have no night grass and no fertilizer, people have no windfall and no wealth, and their power status and cultivation are all piled up with the "food" that they have won one by one, especially in this world where resources are almost monopolized by a few fixed forces.

Take cultivation as an example, the five major countries and more than a dozen wealthy giants are undoubtedly the top and richest existences, they have the most core cultivation techniques and the most complete cultivation system; followed by the vassal states and families under these forces, and then the second-rate Xiuzhen sect, and then the third-rate Xiuzhen sect and the lower level of the Jianghu sect gangs, in fact, when it comes to the second-rate sect, it is almost considered abject poverty, and the bottom is the wasteland Gobi, and the wild food is mainly local families and vassal states, which is also one of the purposes of the Great Zhou Crown Prince selection system, in order to expand, in order to encompass, of course, few people will say so publicly。

Zheng Yan's mother was born in the Zheng clan because of the relationship between An Guogong, and Zheng Yan was fostered in the Anguo Mansion that also belonged to the Zheng clan since he was a child, and he would be branded as the Zheng clan no matter what.

Although the imperial family is a branch of the Zheng clan, due to some historical reasons and the existing system, it is always trying to get rid of the clamp and influence of the clan;

It's like eating at a table, the courtiers and local families, as well as the nobles and vassals of the Great Zhou Dynasty, have been pursuing the maximization of interests at this table, since the royal family takes the lead in kicking the clan out, others are naturally willing to contribute, and it would be better to see the right time to fall into the well so that the Zheng clan could not turn over, and since it can shake the clan, the other founding clans will also loosen a lot, this is the real fat.

Zheng Yan is the representative of the Zheng clan in the future of the interests of the temple, so it is inevitable to be targeted by many people, and as the clan has gradually returned to the clan land over the years, An Guogong has become the only spokesperson at present.

Originally, many people thought that An Guogong took Zheng Yan to his side in order to cultivate a new spokesperson for the clan in the court, but all kinds of signs show that this abyssal old man has no meaning at all, he is completely the favor and even doting on Zheng Yan by the elders, because Zheng Yan is lazy and mediocre in the Zongxue Guozi Prison, and because he is crazy and playing around in the countryside, and those powerful sons of the same age have been in the spotlight at the beginning, not to mention other princes;

Some people suspect that all this is just a trick, An Guogong is seeking that higher position, not An Guogong's Mansion and Jingtianjian, and some people say that An Guogong wants to ensure that Zheng Yan is a rich prince, but the power struggle is the most taboo to resurgence and Taoguang, so people began to target Zheng Yan, and gradually figured out the bottom line of An Guogong, as long as Zheng Yan is safe;

So Zheng Yan knows his current situation, the grandfather really didn't want to train himself to be a successor, or even push himself to that position, at least a certain time he called himself "open and honest" said so, Zheng Yan believed, and he didn't want to be a successor, nor did he want to fight for that position, he just wanted to have a powerful cultivation, not to be entangled in cause and effect at the mercy of the world, to protect the people he loved, and to realize the unspeakable freedom in his heart.

But the grandfather said that no one can be free from the mercy of the world, there is a big trend outside the small trend, and there is a dark side outside the big trend, Zheng Yan is very melancholy.

There is nothing to be done about melancholy, what kind of thinking and ability can a 15-year-old boy have? All he can do is to practice, read, think, summarize, and sharpen step by step. Since childhood, I was told that if I want to succeed in cultivation, it is not about what kind of encounters I have to go through, nor what kind of suffering I have to suffer, but I have to endure loneliness and loneliness, and I can resist temptation and desire.

Grandpa said that as long as the heart doesn't hurt, it's okay, but somehow, Zheng Yan thought so.

No matter how An Guogong spoils Zheng Yan, he will not loosen up in terms of cultivation, to be exact, it should be strict, from combing his muscles and bones to boiling his body when he was very young, to martial arts and martial arts when he is a little older, all in order to "move to nourish his essence". Cultivating the pill and moving to nourish the essence is the first step, which generally starts from the mother's womb, and it also has a lot to do with the physique of the parents.

Zheng Yan is a prince, naturally not bad in these aspects, his father himself is said to be a genius of cultivation, and his mother is even more powerful, he was taken back to the mansion by his grandfather when he was ten years old, and he was already in the realm of the earth when he was sixteen years old, and he can be said to be a genius of the heavens.

Zheng Yan inherited the excellent physical fitness of his parents, but he didn't seem to inherit their talent and understanding, and he could only be regarded as average among all the princes, princesses and children of families of the same age, and because of the identity of the prince and the deliberate rendering of people with intentions, he was gradually beaten into the ranks of mediocrity, but it was okay, if he was too outstanding, it would only be more serious to be targeted, and he would have to bother to hide himself and protect himself.

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The vision in the sky didn't seem to cause much turmoil that day, as if it had never happened, Zheng Yan asked the grandfather but didn't get any results, his eyes didn't look abnormal after hurting once, and the doctor in the house didn't find any special problems.

Guozijian has never lacked fights, to be precise, competitions, skills and fists and feet than spell practice, poetry and dialectic, gentlemen will organize from time to time, because it is likely to be concerned by the palace next door, so everyone follows the rules and is dignified and serious, in Zheng Yan's opinion, it is not interesting, far less than a private fight, the reasons are varied, and the direction of development is always unexpected, and because the old man and a few big gentlemen often help to add fuel to the fire, the right priest who is really in charge of the Guozijian wine Jishan also has an ambiguous attitude, so the scene of a blue nose and swollen face is really common, and even a scuffle is there。

Speaking of which, there are two major phenomena in the Great Zhou Wenmo that are often criticized by other countries, Guozi Jian Taixue often staged all martial arts, and the other is to recruit female students, you must know that it is always unruly for women in the world to show up, and they are still in the same room with a group of men of the same age to study and study;

It is said that the women in the rivers and lakes are heroic and do not let the eyebrows, in fact, the appearance is just bright, and they have always been despised and even rejected by the powerful and the world, and many women are helpless to enter the sect and set foot in the rivers and lakes.

Today, there is another competition in the martial arts field of Guozi's supervision, and many people go over there, Zheng Yan put his head on the low windowsill and was indifferent, I don't want to join in this excitement today, because I vaguely heard that it was because of a certain girl, who was pulled by Ye Qingcheng and them in the past, she would always be coerced in, in fact, Zheng Yan's cultivation is average among his peers, but when it comes to fighting, he really doesn't take them seriously, after all, he was really ravaged by the ground masters in the house, and those fists and feet will not be tolerated because Zheng Yan is the prince and the only son of the young lady.

An Guogong has been in the army in his early years, and later he traveled and was responsible for managing and cultivating the cultivation forces on the surface of the imperial court, so there are many masters in the house, very many, and after many years of fighting in the rivers and lakes, not to mention the temperament, the attack is really black, men and women are like this, Zheng Yan was beaten by such a group of people, and he has to fight until they feel that they can go out of school.

Fist and foot swordsmanship, guns and sticks, six years old has been started one after another, first practice the complete routines and formulas, until the body completely remembers, without eyes and thinking can be used casually, and then the routines are decomposed, such as swordsmanship is decomposed into nine basic sword styles, the rest is repeated practice, boring to numbness, Zheng Yan is now fourteen years old, still in the stage of routine moves, occasionally practice decomposition.

In addition to the decomposition of routines, there is also actual combat fighting.

Qiu Qing's "Dream Back to the Thirteen Swords", in fact, is nine basic sword styles plus four sword styles created by him, and slightly added some auxiliary moves and mysterious luck methods to form a set of actual combat swordsmanship, it is said that he was in the midst of thousands of troops and horses, fighting to the point of exhaustion and numbness after no feeling of killing the enemy, at that time it felt like a dream, people follow the sword, the sword goes through the Xuan, people are swords, swords are people, people and swords are one, to he really sorted out this set of swordsmanship has been twenty years later, the realm of half-step sword saints.

This is also the case with Mu Zhong's "Shura Eight Steps"; Zhang Huang's "Ten Guns", in which guns and sticks are not separated, and marksmanship is the stick method; and Gao Heng's "Three-Body Killing Style" is a fist and foot fighting method that trains the three-body style to the extreme.

These are all practical techniques that Zheng Yan must study hard in the future, because they involve a lot of complex and mysterious luck methods, as well as some real martial arts perceptions, so they can only take their time. I heard that other countries rarely hone the fighting methods of the princes, unless they are determined to be in the army, the training will be moderate, in fact, the Great Zhou is almost the same, but the atmosphere is slightly better, An Guogong is very concerned about Zheng Yan's skills, it may be that the prince of the Great Zhou died early and was injured more.

Today's competition seems to be a little special, even the fat dun Wang Zongyuan also ran out, before leaving to shout Zheng Yan, Zheng Yan was still unmoved, these days every night to practice the sword is to the end of the day, and was stared at by Yingyue refining the essence of the element, all night and all night can not rest, although not how sleepy, but thinking that tonight will be so lazy, what to say to strive to completely open the body before the winter, I don't know what the theoretical basis, grandpa is really good at tossing.

was closing his eyes to recuperate, suddenly felt that his shoulder was touched by something, he opened his eyes bored and looked over, and saw a delicate and bright face smiling at him, his eyes were long and narrow inside, Zheng Yan only noticed today that this girl actually had a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes,

"Everyone went to see the competition, why didn't you go?", the girl asked with a smile,

Zheng Yan sat up and rubbed his head on the windowsill just now, and saw another girl standing behind the girl, who was also looking at himself lightly at the moment, a little puzzled, but still said, "It hurts all over my body, I don't want to move."

Wen Renhu saw that Zheng Yan was a little helpless after he finished speaking, and he was a little helpless, which of his peers who usually came into contact with him didn't talk endlessly when he saw him, only this guy was always a bystander.

"This competition is my brother who took the initiative to make an appointment with Du Ce and Wu Yi in order to make Concubine Xue angry",

Zheng Yan thought about it and nodded, he knew these two names, Du Ce was the grandson of Qi Guogong, Wu Yi was the nephew of Wu Guifei, these two people were very famous family geniuses in Luoyang City, I remember that they seemed to be two or three years older than Wen Rengui and the realm was also high, this Wen Rengui was hard, I really didn't see it before, I thought that the people of Wen Rengui were deep and forbearing.

Counting Zhou Tiancheng, the nephew of Zhou Guifei, these three guys often find trouble for themselves, wait, this girl said that these are not with herself to show off his brother's power, right? This is not the style of Wen people!

Looking at Zheng Yan's somewhat suspicious expression, Wen Renhu didn't seem to know what to say, and then Concubine Xue pulled her clothes and said softly, "I'm going back to read, if you want to go, go by yourself", and walked back,

Wen Renhu watched his friend walk away, and then turned his head to look at Zheng Yan carefully, Zheng Yan began to feel a little uncomfortable, and then glared back, Wen Renhu was stunned for a moment, and soon laughed out loud, and ran away after his friend.

Zheng Yan muttered "inexplicable" , and then thought that Du Ce and Wu Yi must be entangled with the two guys of Tangtai Xuefei, Ye Qingcheng said that these two guys must be a playboy like a scourge if they are older, and it is not surprising to do this kind of thing, who doesn't know that Wen Rengui likes Tangtai Xuefei, it is strange if he doesn't fight, thinking of this, Zheng Yan is a little gloating, and then saw Song Wen who was still reading in the front, it is not strange that he does not go to join in the fun, on the one hand, it is to revitalize the broken family, on the other hand, there is a sea of blood feud, and if someone else is either crazy or willing to fall, only he can support it like this。

Soon the lively people returned to the schoolhouse, and the girls were chattering about how handsome Wen Rengui was, how exquisite the moves were, and how embarrassed the two colored embryos were;

Ye Qingcheng was particularly unhappy, sitting cross-legged on the mat with his chest crossed and chattering to himself, Qi Wending said strangely, "It's completely impossible for you and Concubine Xue?

"Such a good girl, I can't get it and I can't be cheap Wen Rengui, right? Wait, didn't Concubine Xue go just now? Hahaha, Wen Rengui turned out to be amorous", Ye Qingcheng became happy again as he spoke,

Several other people shook their heads helplessly, Lu Cunyan smiled and said, "Anyway, Wen Rengui is a good match that is difficult to find in the world, you can't deny this, I think he will find the emperor through his grandfather, this matter will not be able to run, if you say it carefully, Concubine Xue is high",

Ye Qingcheng was very unimpressed, and was about to refute it, when the teacher who lectured on the Book of Changes had already walked in.

An Guogong and the current head of the Tantai family, that is, the grandfather of the Tantai Xuefei, have been familiar with each other since childhood, the relationship is not ordinarily close, there are usually many correspondence, Uncle Kaiyuan and Uncle Duan are confidants of each other, and the father of the Tangtai Xuefei and Zheng Yan's father are the younger brothers, so Zheng Yan is more clear about the affairs of the Tantai family,

The father of the Xue Concubine of the Tai Tai is the second among the brothers, and he will definitely not be able to inherit the position of the head of the family or even the patriarch in the future, and now he has accepted the appointment of the Taishou of Yunmeng County, and it is very likely that he will develop in the temple in the future, and the Xue Concubine of the Tai Tai is a concubine, and the mother is a concubine, and they are not considered equal wives, Wen Rengui can be said to have revealed his talent early, and his talent and temperament are first-class, and he will definitely be the future head of the Wen family, so all this, if Li Guogong personally goes out and even invites the emperor to be a matchmaker, this thing will definitely be done, and there is no reason for the Taishou not to marry his daughter。

This is often the case with marriages between nobles.

I heard the elders talk about it once, and I didn't know who proposed it at the beginning, and I wanted to match myself with the second sister of the concubine Xuefei of Shantai, but then there was no movement, Zheng Yan was very entangled for a while, if it was the woman of the Shantai family, no matter who she was, she was embarrassed to refuse, in fact, she was not qualified to refuse this kind of thing, I remember that the eldest sister who saw her when she was a child was really beautiful, gentle, kind, generous and elegant, I feel the same as Yingyue, speaking of which, the men and women of the Ye family of the Shantai family are handsome and extraordinary.

The iron plate remembered that after the last class in the afternoon, Zheng Yan raised his head and was speechless, if it weren't for Yingyue Xinluo in their hands, he would definitely run away from home. In fact, these children who go to school in Guozijian will face a long full schedule of schoolwork and practice arrangements when they return home, and their families will hire them or have their own family education inheritance, and a young child will have at least three or four masters to supervise and teach, and siblings and retainers will also accompany them to study, so as to strengthen each other and confirm each other.

Along the way, I thought about how to delay time and adjust my physical condition, but I also noticed that a carriage always followed behind, and I remembered that it seemed that it had often appeared behind me since last winter, Zheng Yan didn't care, and the road went to one side of the sky, even if there was a purpose, I couldn't care about other people's walking.

When I walked to a junction, I suddenly had an idea, and if I didn't take Xiushui Street, wouldn't I be able to take a few more steps to take this "Sansi Alley"? And maybe I could find a reason for delaying, after all, this alley is very doorway. So he endured the numbness of his scalp and walked in, Zheng Yan always felt that this alley was gloomy.

The alley is not long, in fact, there are not a few steps, thirty or forty zhang, Zheng Yan tried to walk slower as much as possible, pretending to be relaxed, pretending to be really relaxed, halfway down, suddenly startled, a pure black cat was squatting on the steps of a courtyard gate on the right, a pair of apricot yellow eyes were staring at him, and his tail was swinging slowly.

Zheng Yan breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at this somewhat familiar black cat helplessly, and then noticed that this house was "that", looked left and right and didn't see half a figure unexpectedly, hesitated for a moment and walked over lightly, the black cat didn't run, just looked at him like that,

"Come with me, this place is very strange, dangerous, it's not for you to come, I remember you live on the other side of Silk Street, right? Last time you went to my house, it must have been you",

Saying that, he stretched out his hand and hugged the black cat like this, Zheng Yan was also a little surprised, the black cat rubbed his hand and changed to a comfortable position, Zheng Yan laughed happily, as if he was a thief, he looked around quickly, and hurriedly ran away, as the old saying goes, stealing cats and dogs is not stealing, not to mention that he is just saving this cat, and it will go wherever it likes for a while.

On both sides of the alley are courtyard walls more than one zhang high, in fact, the left hand side at the end of this alley is the back door of the Guogong Mansion, Zheng Yan was holding the cat in his arms and felt a little weak, so he simply jumped on the courtyard wall, and didn't care about delaying time, Fei Liu, who was eating with a bowl in the courtyard wall, said helplessly, "Your Highness, the sixth will not be invisible,

Grandpa has not allowed Zheng Yan to go through the back door, Zheng Yan smiled and said, "It's okay, anyway, these two days are hard, I'm a dead pig and I'm not afraid of boiling water",

Fei Liu grinned, then realized that something was wrong, and shouted urgently, "Your Highness, you can't just bring back a living thing, be careful that it becomes a human being!"

"Don't worry".