The sage snorted, "Vinegar fish is not sweetened, can it be called vinegar fish?" Carefully take charge of the imperial dining room and paste your face with sweet and sour. ”

Qin You raised his hand and wiped his face, is he a fool? When he met such a willful and scoundrel master, he could only make a fool of himself from time to time.

Xiao Yan chuckled and said, "Ah Weng said yes. Vinegar fish is not sweetened, so it should be called sour fish. ”

The saint haha, handed her an appreciative look.

The old and young instantly lit up the "spiritual connection" on the sweet tooth.

Li Yixun squinted his eyebrows and looked at his father, "The emperor asked you not to eat too much sugar." ”

"Huangfu Fengyu" is the head of the imperial doctor of Shang Pharmacy.

The saint rolled his eyes and disagreed, "Aren't you afraid that I will get diabetes?" Anyway, it's only been a year or two, and I won't be able to eat enough. ”

Li Yixun shouted with a look on his face: "Daddy! ”

The saint said "ouch" in his heart, and hurriedly said: "I'm talking about playing, don't count, don't count." Daddy still wants to see the nine-colored peony you transferred. Today, he only wore a muslin straight plain robe, did not wear a hat on his head, and only used a blue and transparent moire hairpin hairpin, the majesty and dignity of the emperor and the courage to hold the determination to kill were all lost in front of his daughter, just like a rich idler, laughing and coaxing his daughter to be happy. After speaking, he turned his hand and shook Xiao Yan's arm, and said with a smile: "Go, go, go and see the peony that your aunt transferred." Where is it? As he spoke, he looked around.

Xiao Yan's other hand immediately pointed to the slope flower garden in the east, and replied with a smile: "Ah Weng, this way." "And he took his feet to that side. She knew that the saint was deliberately pulling away from the topic to keep her mother from being sad, and she suddenly had a good impression of the saint, and this "Ah Weng" was also called sincerely.

Li Yixun's sadness came and went quickly, she was originally a contemplative character, she turned her face and smiled, and said proudly: "Daddy, look at it, when the flowers bloom in April this year, I will definitely be able to plant assorted peonies of the same color of the same plant." ”

The sage nodded, with a look of "my family's divine blessing is the most powerful", he was completely a father who was a proud daughter and showed off his daughter, except for his handsome appearance and magnanimous bearing, he couldn't see the emperor's frame at all. The attendants and guards who followed Hu were accustomed to it: the saint was always a father in front of His Highness Eleven, not His Majesty of the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Yan has another good impression of the saint.

When he arrived at the flower garden on the eastern slope, the sage picked up his straight jacket and squatted on the ground, handing his daughter flower scissors, grafting branches, and supporting branches...... He did a good job and robbed Xiao Yan of his previous job. Xiao Yan was also happy to see it, and took over the work of the maid handing over the teacup, and interjected from time to time that the saint's posture was wrong. The sage snorted and said that this posture was to transmit the purple qi. Xiao Yan said "ha", "Master Dongyang has almost passed on the breath of Aoki. The saint made a gesture to kick her, Xiao Yan laughed...... The difference between the old and the young is more than 50 years old, and they are like two naughty boys, and they joke appropriately.

The sage was arguing with Xiao Yan on the one hand, but his attitude towards doing things was extremely serious, his movements were not very skillful, but he was careful and delicate, and his white and slender hands, whether it was supporting the branches or winding the cloth belt of the grafting, all revealed beauty. Squatting on the slope and changing other people's postures may be indecent, but the saint makes people feel casual and natural, with a kind of free and easy beauty, even if the straight jacket is stained with mud, it does not damage the elegance at all, but makes people feel uninhibited.

Xiao Yan really felt that the saint was a beauty. No matter what posture, whether it is the front or the silhouette, it is impeccablely beautiful. It is estimated that rolling up his sleeves and talking to the official in the court hall will not affect his handsome and beautiful appearance. It is no wonder that the beauty and erudition of his grandmother also volunteered to be Liangdi, who was still the prince at the time.

After the three peonies were grafted, Xiao Yan took the pottery to serve the saint and washed his mother's hands. The three grandparents returned to the flower-viewing platform and sat at the stone table covered with brocade circumference to talk, and Li Yixun cooked tea by himself. Xiao Yan has seen it many times, and is still fascinated by her mother's graceful and smooth movements, as if containing Taoist rhyme, and her eyes are not fleeting.

The saint patted her shoulder proudly and said, "My aunt's tea ceremony is what I taught." The eyebrows that grew into the sideburns flew up with a smile, leaned over and whispered, "Your grandmother was fascinated by my tea ceremony back then." Saying that, he squeezed his eyes, "Learn hard with your aunt, and hook more beauties in the future." ”

"......" Xiao Yan wiped his sweat silently, and said in his heart: The saint is really A-Niang's father, and the tone of this speech is the same.

After drinking a cup of tea, Li Yixun asked Xiao Yan to accompany the saint back to the dormitory to change clothes.

Xiao Yan knew that it was her mother who made her alone with the saint.

She accompanied the saint down the high platform, went out from the cypress wall path, and walked slowly, with the inner attendant and the crane guard far behind.

The saint asked her how her injuries were. Xiao Yan said: "It's already good." "Thank you again Princess Dongyang.

Princess Dongyang is one year younger than the saint, but the family is Yan Ruo in his thirties, and the saint suddenly feels so sad. So the last thing I want to go to is Tiance Academy, seeing that those older uncles and uncles are in good spirits and still "young and beautiful", the sage wants to cramp in the corners of his eyes, and he will definitely hurt his eyes if he goes too much.

Of course, the saint's little temperament who loves beauty when he dies will not show it to his granddaughter, he smiled and talked about Xiao Yan's entry into Tiance Academy with a pleasant face, "On the morning of the first day of February, Ah Zhen will take you over. You were recommended by King Shen to be admitted to the hospital, and after being admitted to the hospital, King Shen will be your martial master. ”

King Shen is a congenital master, Xiao Yan has seen him in the main hall of the Tubo Palace, and he has heard Li Yuzhen introduce that he is the "Heavenly Courtyard" of Tiance Academy in charge of martial arts, that is, one of the courtyards, and arranged for him to give Xiao Yan a martial master, which is very important. Xiao Yan responded with heartfelt gratitude: "Yes." And he said, "Thank you for your trouble." ”

The saint smiled, Xiao Yuezhi was a grateful child, and Mo Zun taught her well.

The saint walked slowly with his hands in his hands, never sat on his shoulder, gossiped with Xiao Yan as he walked, and talked about Xiao Yan's maternal grandmother, Empress Jingzhen.

“…… You and your aunt's chin are like your grandmother's, and they both have that beauty mark. But your grandma's temperament is a little lonely, she likes to be quiet but doesn't like to move, and she can sit all day reading a book by herself. Your aunt is happy to be quiet, broad, free and easy, although persistent, but not paranoid. ”

The implication is that Empress Jingzhen is paranoid?

Xiao Yan muttered in her heart, she heard her mother talk about her grandmother, after the saint ascended the throne, she was one of the four concubines, but she died early due to illness at the age of thirty-five, and the saint was in pain, and she was posthumously named Queen Jingzhen. Ah Niang said that her grandmother actually died of depression because she was too affectionate - deep love and longevity.

A-Niang said that her grandmother is a cold character, but the more cold she is, the deeper she falls into her emotions. It's like a flame burning under the ice, if you can't be warmed by the other party to break the ice, the flame will burn itself out.

But the saint could not respond to Empress Murong's affection, the saint's love was true, but it was not the only one.

Xiao Yan disagreed at the time: "Saints can also be dedicated." ”

is not attentive, because I have married a lot.

She never thought that the emperor had to marry many people, and Emperor Gaozong only married one, but he was the most respected monarch in the Tang Dynasty.

Ah Niang laughed and said, "Everyone has their own sex. Your grandfather is an amorous person, and if you ask him to be single-minded, it is the same as asking you to be 'half-hearted', which is difficult for a strong man. ”

A-Niang said that feelings are to knock on another person's heart with their own hearts, whether they can strike sparks, whether they can get the same response from the other party, are unpredictable at the beginning of emotion. Emotional, in fact, is wishful thinking. Whoever you fall in love with and what choice you make, you have to suffer the consequences, whether it is happy or painful.

However, Xiao Yan felt that when the saint mentioned Empress Jingzhen, he should not be talking about feelings.

As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he would not talk about the feelings of the emperor and queen with a courtier; As a maternal grandfather, he would not tell his granddaughter about his feelings for his maternal grandmother.

In the words of the sage, there should be another deep meaning.

Xiao Yan pondered in his heart, but it was difficult to figure it out for a while.

The sage has changed the topic, and the sadness revealed when he talked about Empress Jingzhen before has disappeared, and he casually talked about the interesting story of Xiao Yan's mother when she was a child.

"Your aunt has been naughty since she was a child, and she didn't settle down when she went to school, but every time she has the ability to make the master can't punish her. From the Mengxue in Daming Palace, to the primary school in Taiji Palace, to the external and internal learning of Tiance Academy, your aunt has done a lot of trick-making things, making the master's teeth itch but unable to grasp her handle - because there is always someone to take the pot. There is no one among her royal brothers and sisters, royal brothers and sisters who have never been disciplined by her master, including the crown prince, but because of her frailty, the strength of the board has been reduced. ”

Xiao Yan heard the fourth brother say that the royal family is very strict with the education of the prince and the princess, although there is an accompaniment, but the prince and the princess are punished for reading, there is no rule of accompanying the study instead of being punished, no matter which prince and princess have to suffer by themselves, of course, the accompaniment must also be fought together, because there is no role in the rule set by Emperor Gaozu - this is the rule set by Emperor Gaozu, saying that "the industry is good at diligence and frolic, and the punishment is lenient and indulgent in its 'play'; How can the prince bear the country? ”

When the sage said this, his voice said with a smile: "The master who taught you A-Niang loves and hates her. What I love is that she reads and reads, and she is gifted with intelligence, drawing inferences from others, and being able to put forward her own unique opinions, and even inspire her master—she is really a very gifted and thoughtful student. But what makes the master angry is that such a talented student does not focus on serious study, and ponders some 'whimsical and whimsical' things all day long......"

Xiao Yan listened to it haha, "Whimsical, whimsical? ”

If it is in a family of scripture heirlooms, such as the Kong family of Lujun and the Zheng family of Xingyang, these two words are definitely derogatory; But Xiao Yan never despised the Lanling Xiao family who did not despise miscellaneous studies, and the Xiao family Jingdao Hall encouraged daring to think, who said that whimsy can't become whimsy?

When Xiao Yan heard these two words, he felt that this was a word of praise for his mother.

The sage couldn't help but be happy when he saw her expression, and he laughed twice, quoting the words of those masters: "Say that you are a mother, you eat all day long, you are more diligent in entering the imperial dining room than in the school, you are more attentive in pondering recipes than reading scriptures, you are pondering in the spring to make flower dew, and in the summer you are pondering and making ice drinks......; When it's cold, ponder the ice blades under the clogs, and when it's hot, ponder the water ......suits that can make people float and not sink when swimming in the pool; When riding in a carriage, I pondered how to turn the carriage into a boat, and I could cross the river when I encountered it; When I got on the boat, I thought about turning the boat into a car, and ran on the water with a horse; When I put the paper kite, I thought that people could catch the paper kite and fly in the sky, or like a bird, they would fly with feather wings - well, at that time, everyone in the palace who had hair trembled when they saw your aunt......"

Xiao Yan laughed, it turned out that her mother was so good at messing with her when she was a child!

The sage smiled and said: "When your aunt was a child, everywhere she went, people were jumping around, and a litter of people followed her blindly. It was said that it was "blind tossing", but the smile on his face definitely did not mean that. "The chef of the imperial dining room and the master who will be the supervisor like your aunt in the past, and you can change the way to toss together. Master Mo also got up and wanted to train your mother to be a generation of female masters, haha......"

The master craftsman is the chief of the supervisor, from Emperor Taizong, the successive positions are the "ink machine" a person to serve, the previous master craftsman is Tengjun Mo family, in the position of the master craftsman for 20 years, at the age of seventy-five to the Shi - the sage said that the "ink master" should be this.

Xiao Yan listened interestingly, but her aunt definitely wouldn't have the idea of being a master. Although she and her mother have not been together for a long time, the mother and daughter are very close to each other every day, and she knows a lot about her mother's temperament - no matter what she does, it is for "self-please".

The sage said, "Your aunt is smart and can learn everything quickly, but if she wants to learn, there is nothing she can't learn." But her preferences come and go quickly, she can be dark when she likes it, and she can throw it away when she doesn't like it. Unless it's something that makes her happy for a long time, there's nothing lasting about it. ”

Xiao Yan smiled: "This is because you love A-Niang, so A-Niang can do what she likes." ”

The sage smiled and nodded, "I have so many children, your aunt is my favorite and the most intelligent, but I never thought of appointing her to inherit the throne, do you know why?" ”

Xiao Yan saw that the saint smiled, and his might naturally revealed, from the "amiable and lovely" "A-Niang's loving father" to the magnificent emperor, she couldn't help but get up, thought seriously for a while, and replied: "Is it because the throne can't make A-Niang 'please herself'?" ”

The saint laughed, stroked his palm on Xiao Yan's head, and said, "You're right. ”

He stopped and looked at the sky and said, "Your aunt is good in everything, but she is not suitable to be an emperor." The emperor of the Tang Dynasty has the broadest territory, the strongest country, the strongest army, and supreme honor and power; However, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty also has the heaviest responsibility-

"He must feed and clothe all the people of the most populous country in the world, free from hunger, from poverty, from floods and droughts, and from plagues. He must make Datang's army always the strongest and invincible, and let Datang's force be the strongest and unsurpassed; Let Datang's commerce and trade be the most prosperous and unsurpassed; Let Datang's technology be the most advanced and unsurpassable. He must: make the most magnificent and brilliant civilization in the world like the stars in the sky, always brilliant, more brilliant from generation to generation, and always the strongest civilization! ”

"This is the responsibility of the Tang Emperor!" The voice of the saint is sonorous and powerful, and the grandeur and majestic bearing of the emperor are magnificent.

Xiao Yan couldn't help but be in awe.

The emperor enjoys the supreme honor, but he also has to bear the supreme responsibility.

"And your aunt doesn't have such a sense of responsibility." The saint turned his face and smiled, but his expression did not show any regrets.

Xiao Yan also smiled: "A-Niang is still 'Changle Weiyang'." "As an emperor, how can you have a lifetime of freedom.

The sage haha, "Not bad. Stepping forward, his voice was loud and magnanimous, "Those who cannot bear the country cannot be emperors; Those who cannot bear the world cannot be the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Xiao Yan felt that this latter sentence was really profound.

Those who cannot bear the world cannot be the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

When the sage said this to her, was it about the responsibility of the emperor, or did it have a deeper meaning?

And this point, it was not until many years later, when Xiao Yan was faced with a choice, that he understood the intentions of today's saints.

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