Xiao Yan frowned.

Her instincts never went wrong.

But she was only worried, so she let go, walked out of the east chamber and stood on the corridor, and said in her heart: No matter what she Murong Qianshan does, she has her ruthless way, I have my way, no matter what the intersection is, the water comes to the water, the mountains come and the mountains split, and the mind is determined to go their own way.

Xiao Yan remembered what her mother said: "Follow your heart, wipe diligently, your heart is as pure as ever, and your will is unswerving." ”

Isn't that the case between her and Li Yuzhen?

As long as she is firm in her heart, even if she chooses the most difficult way, she will withstand the torture of her will, wipe her heart from time to time, and go on as firmly as ever.

She pressed one hand on the veranda railing, looking at the blue sky, with the fragrance of elm leaves blowing across her cheeks, feeling that the spiritual platform was also as if it had been washed by water, restored and pure, and the remaining depression in her heart was blown away by the breeze like dust, and was dispersed by the sky like a haze, without a trace of haze.

She couldn't help laughing, her eyebrows were broad, and her heart was open-minded. When the divine consciousness entered the spiritual platform, he found that the lotus petals were also more transparent, and the water in the lotus pond was like a clear blue sky, so clean that there was no trace of dust, and the condensation of the divine consciousness seemed to have increased a little. She was happy in her heart, this is exactly what her heart is like a mirror, and she wipes it diligently from time to time. She is not a Zen ancestor, and she can't be "mirrored without a platform", but if she wipes diligently, she can see her true heart clearly and not get lost.

She smiled slightly, turned around and asked An Yexi, who lived in the south side of the school.

An Yexi suddenly felt that her demeanor and bearing were different from Fang Cai, just like this high blank cloud, wide and easy, which made people can't help but be broad-minded, only to feel that such a Langjun is what she likes to get along with very much, and couldn't help but smile back: "The south side of the school is the farthest, about four or five miles, haha, it's called 'a placyan'!" "Laughing down," because there was an early plum plant planted in the yard...... Ha ha...... The snow is not exhausted, it opens early, and the east wind is too old to spring! Haha, it's a Langjun who lives, or a heroic Langjun...... Ha ha! ”

Xiao Yan's face was also strange, and he couldn't help but smile: "How do you know that someone is Yingwei Langjun?" Have you ever seen a real person? ”

An Yexi smiled, "The real person is not in the schoolhouse, I haven't seen it." Listen to what the entourage said, saying that his family is a gentleman: handsome, nine in six feet, majestic and natural, self-generated, Yue Yue Leilei, outstanding and outstanding, heroic and special, and strange and beautiful - 300 words are omitted below. She was serious, Xiao Yan couldn't help laughing.

An Yexi said: "I almost thought that his family Langjun was the number one great man in the world - oh, I forgot to say, he was born in the Liu clan of Pengcheng - hey, which clan is this?" It's not on the "Genealogy of the Tang Dynasty", right? ”

As a concubine to be dedicated to dignitaries, An Yexi was forced by her father to memorize the "Genealogy of the Tang Dynasty" after her appearance grew, so that she would not know which nobles would be offended in the future. But she remembers that there are Luoyang Liu's and Zhongshan Liu's, where did this Pengcheng Liu come from? Or is it the surname Ding? - As the richest man in Jingzhou, they don't need to pay homage to small scholars like Ding, of course, she is swallowing dates by reciting the surname Ding, and it is possible to miss a few surnames.

Xiao Yan smiled and said, "Pengcheng Liu's ......"

has a bit of a "relationship" with their Shaw.

"This is a branch of the Western Han Dynasty. Liu Jiao, the half-brother of Han Gaozu, was named the king of Chu, and the state of Chu was later set up as Pengcheng County, and the descendants of Liu Jiao, the king of Chu, took Pengcheng as the county. But in the late Western Han Dynasty, this clan was defeated; By the time the Eastern Han Dynasty fell, it had already been reduced to the Shu clan......"

If you talk about other fallen clans, Xiao Yan may not know, but she is very clear about this Pengcheng Liu family, because the Southern Song Dynasty that they replaced by the Xiao family was established by the Liu family - the Liu family rose because of military merits after the Jin Dynasty crossed to the south, and after taking charge of the military and political power, Liu Yu, the Duke of the Song Dynasty, abolished Emperor Gong of the Jin Dynasty and established himself as the emperor and established the country as the Song Dynasty, but he was replaced by their Xiao family in less than sixty years, that is, the Southern Liang, and the Tang Dynasty history books called the "Southern Dynasty" refer to their Southern Song Dynasty and Southern Liang dynasties.

They Xiao Shi and Pengcheng Liu have such a "relationship", how can she not know "where did this Liu fight come from"?

“…… However, it was Emperor Song Li's death that was too powerful. ”

Xiao Yan briefly talked about some of the "deeds" of Emperor Song Li, Qin II was not as cruel as him, he took pleasure in killing people with his own hands, he liked to go out on patrols day and night, and when he met the people he didn't have time to dodge on the road, he was killed by archery; even personally led the forbidden army to rush into the homes of rich families in Jiankang City, slaughtering and robbing; He suspected that one of the chamberlains had eaten garlic, and in order to confirm his guess, he was able to examine the stomach alive; Their Xiao ancestor Xiao Daoqian, the founder of the country, Emperor Liang Gao, the leading general (from the first general), once entered the palace for a ceremony, was used as a target by Emperor Song Li, who was taking pleasure in archery, if it were not for Emperor Gao's civil and military cultivation, he would be shot to death by Emperor Song Li's fun on the spot, such an emperor is not opposed, and there is still a way to live?

However, the Xiao family only punished Emperor Song Li, abolished the prince of the Liu royal family, and demoted him to a prince, according to the unspoken rules of the family - the change of dynasty cannot punish the royal family, and the Liu family was not wiped out; What's more, four hundred years have passed, and now everyone is Tang Chen, and the "origin" of this idea has long disappeared.

An Yexi smiled: "It turned out to be this Liu family-" Xiang Xiao Yan winked, "Nanshe won't remember your grudges, right?" Xiao Yan rolled his eyes, grinned, and said, "Then they fell after the dynasty?" ”

"That's not it, when they were in Daliang, their descendants still had the title of honor given by the imperial court. However, what can be done if the children and grandchildren are not successful? The Great Liang is gone, their honorary titles are gone, and of course they are defeated. By the time the Taizong Dynasty revised the "Genealogy of the Tang Dynasty" and relisted the order, the Pengcheng Liu family had already fallen out of the surname Ding and became a former clan name. ”

An Yexi sighed for a while, this Pengcheng Liu clan fell from the Western Han clan to the Shu clan, and then rose and turned into the royal family, and then fell to the Shu clan, it is really an interpretation of the impermanence of life, "The ups and downs of the world are no exception!" "Just like their nine surnames of Zhaowu, they were originally nobles of the Da Yue clan, the Yue clan destroyed the country and moved westward, and their nine surnames each established a country and became a Sogdian royal family, and then they were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty.

However, it was one or two hundred years ago that the Zhaowu nine surnames destroyed the country, and the Sogdians had long since lost this sentimentality, and it was most important to live in the present.

An Yexi sighed and put it behind, and reported to Lang Jun in a brisk tone to the senior of the Liu family: "It's the third son of the eldest son, the third son of the eldest son, twenty-three years old this year, and he entered the late stage of the Ascending Extreme Realm last year-tsk, this talent is also extremely powerful!" Speaking of Wufuzi is the king of Jiang......"

Xiao Yan listened while walking to the corner corridor and looked at the swimming fish in the three-color porcelain fish tank, which seemed to be distracted.

She was indeed "out of her mind"—a divine consciousness had been released, looking at her surroundings. After a while, I "looked" clearly at the geography and architecture of this Yulin.

Her divine sense did not enter the other three schools, and swept three zhang outside the courtyard, with her divine sense in the late stage of the cave true realm, of course she would not worry about being discovered by the three seniors, even if it was Murong Jue, who had already entered the grandmaster realm, Xiao Yan was confident that the divine sense realm surpassed her. But these three are her seniors, not her enemies, of course she must abide by the rules of the martial arts and respect the other party's private sphere.

Xiao Yan looked at the fish in the tank and pondered.

The four schools in the forest are distributed like the word "convex", and Li Yuzhen's school house is at the top of the word "convex" - if the north is the throne, the three schools in the east, west, and south are just like the three-winged arch guards under the throne.

Is this a coincidence, or is it deliberate?

She couldn't help but wonder about the background of these three students.

The Murong family and the Dugu family are families that have always been loyal to the royal family.

Because they are from the Xianbei clan, they can only rely on the royal family.

It is reasonable for Tiance Academy to place the geniuses of these two families as Li Yuzhen's left and right auxiliaries.

Looking at the Pengcheng Liu clan again, it has declined into the Shu clan, but Tiance Academy has long had a tradition of cultivating generals and martial arts geniuses from Hanshu, starting from the time of Taizong, and now half of the martial arts family in the Tang Dynasty is from the Han family, as well as the Shu clan who have fallen from the family. It would not be surprising if Liu Yuan was the martial arts genius of the Liu clan as Li Yuzhen's auxiliary cultivation - with this talent that he advanced to the late stage of the Ascending Extreme Realm at the age of twenty-two, although it was not as good as her, Li Yuzhen, and Murong Jue, but it was better than Dugu Jing, and he was definitely a genius of the younger generation.

But when the three of them lived here, Li Yuzhen was only the lord of Qingchuan.

If it is said that it is as an auxiliary, could it be that the academy has long determined that Li Yuzhen will be the prince of the Tang Dynasty?

So what is the king of Qi fighting for? - If the academy is the same attitude.

Although the academy could not interfere with the imperial court, as the martial arts support of the imperial family, it was impossible for the emperor to ignore the attitude of the academy - especially the two sacrificial wines of the Heavenly Court, and the attitude of the innate grandmasters who were still above the sacrificial wine but ignored the mundane affairs. If these royal families have innate tendencies, they will carry a very heavy weight in the emperor's heart. Because the emperor and the academy are one and the same, they must support each other, so that Li Tang can stand tall and the foundation will not waver; It would be bad if the emperor did not have the support of the academy. Since the establishment of the academy, there has never been a situation where the emperor has not taken care of the academy.

Xiao Yan couldn't help frowning when he thought about it, if the academy was inclined to Li Yuzhen as the emperor early on, would the sage still allow the king of Qi to compete for the crown prince?

She thought of the saint's eyes as deep as an abyss, and felt that the emperor's mind was unpredictable.

thought for a while, maybe Li Yuzhen didn't want to be the emperor, so the sage used the king of Qi to fight for the crown prince to force her......

Thinking about it like this, I shudder: the saint won't use his son as a pawn, right? And it's a chess piece that doesn't play well?

- What good end can be if the competition for reserves fails?

Even if Li Yuzhen will not take the life of King Qi after succeeding to the throne, Jiucheng wants him to be a "ghost king", trapped in the palace all his life, under the surveillance of the Gonghe Mansion, even if the descendants of the King of Qi are talented, they can only be idle clansmen.

Would a saint be so cruel to King Qi?

Xiao Yan smiled to himself, feeling that he was thinking too much.

I remembered my father's comment on King Qi: "Clever and wise, talented and learned, knowing people and making good decisions, perceiving facts and disadvantages, and having the ability to do politics." "—It is said that he is more suitable to be a prince than the crown prince.

If the saint takes King Qi as the heir to the throne and Li Yuzhen as the heir to the martial arts, even if King Qi ascends the throne, he shouldn't dare to do anything to the former prince, right?

However, when it comes to power, it is difficult to talk about this person's heart.

After all, the crown prince still has a concubine, and it is difficult to guarantee that King Qi will not be suspicious: in the future, Li Yuzhen Jin will be in charge of the academy congenitally, will he not support her younger brother Li Yuzhong to seize the throne? Or Li Yuzhen doesn't have this thought, doesn't Li Yuzhong have this thought? Or maybe Li Yuzhong's sons don't have this mind? Li Yuzhen Jin will have a very long lifespan after birth, long enough to span several dynasties, and the King of Qi and his descendants will not be at peace when they sit on the throne - this is a suspicion for a lifetime, and there will be a gap between the emperor and the academy, and the two carriages of one scholar and one martial arts may collide and overturn, or be rushed over by the carriage of the family.

With the wisdom of today's saints, would this be allowed to happen?

Xiao Yan thought about it like this, and doubted that "King Qi can't be a chess piece" - is the saint really so cruel?

She shuddered.

It seems to be a little overcast...... She looked at the sky, and a dark cloud drifted from nowhere, half-obscuring the red sun.

"It's not too early...... she muttered, turned around and went back to the main house, changed into a short brown of Jiao Ge issued by the academy, and opened a boxing ring in the courtyard, practiced boxing, and quenched her body.

After practicing boxing for less than two quarters of an hour, a wet wind blew on the ground, and the sky became dark.

Dark clouds completely obscured the sun.

An Yexi came in with a food box and shouted, "Oops, it's going to rain!" ”

It was past lunchtime, but the Rinnai Kitchen served meals throughout the day, but after the meal point, only soup and snacks were served, and of course it was okay to have soup cakes on a temporary basis. An Yexi's Tiliang food box contained a soup cake, which was her own, Xiao Yan didn't like soup cakes, so she was filled with a cup of cordyceps duck soup, plus seven or eight pieces of seasonal vegetable cakes and fruit cakes, all of which were exquisite, and they felt delicious just by looking at them. An Yexi took off his boots and went up to the east corridor and said, "Lang Jun will eat first." Go back and practice again. ”

Xiao Yan responded, turned around and took off his boots and went to the porch.

***

In the Qi Wang's Mansion in Chang'an City, the King of Qi, who was dressed in short brown silk, was also practicing boxing.

King Qi practiced the dragon-shaped fist, this is from the Daomen's breath qi boxing, he insisted on practicing martial arts every day, practiced for thirty years, but the talent is not good, the year before last only advanced to the late stage of the qi channel, about this life has no hope of advancing to the fusion realm. But after practicing for thirty years, his body is vigorous, his spirit is vigorous, he is forty-five or sixteen years old, but he only looks like thirty, with a white face, a handsome appearance, a calm bearing, every punch is powerful, the fist wind is like a dragon's roar, and the weeping willow branches by the lake are flying; Each punch has momentum, deep, heavy, and has a majestic majesty like a mountain and a mountain; The figure jumps vertically, and it is like a cloud dragon soaring into the air, and the white belt stretches out the curvature of his strong and powerful waist, revealing an uncompromising arrogance.

When Sima Deshi, the chief of the palace and the mastermind of the palace, came over, King Qi had already finished practicing a boxing trip, took the towel handed by the attendant, wiped his sweat, and looked at the dark sky, "It's going to rain." Is the gentleman sitting in the water pavilion for a while, or going to the study to talk? - I'll go back to my room and change my clothes first, and then I'll talk to my husband. ”

Master Sima De said in his heart, you have said so, can I still say that I will go to the study? He smiled at his words: "It's stuffy to sit in the room for a long time, and it's good to blow the wind here." Your Highness, please take care of yourself. Seeing the king of Qi leave, he was led by the waiter to the Zhulan Water Pavilion in the middle of the lake, sat and drank tea, looked at the koi playing lotus leaves in the lake, and sprinkled a handful of fish food from the porcelain jar served by the waiter, making a group of koi people come around and peck with their heads and mouths open.

A slanting wind blew, and after a while, a drizzle of rain fell on the surface of the lake like silver threads.

Sima Deshi wiped his hands with a towel and looked at a dragonfly flying down from the blue lotus, as if it was going to wait for the rain to take off. He looked at it and was distracted, and he didn't know what he was thinking about, until the king of Qi came over from bathing and changing clothes, and stepped on the deerskin oil boots under the oil umbrella held by the attendant and entered the water pavilion, he suddenly woke up, got up and saluted: "Your Highness." "Seeing that the King of Qi changed into a round-necked robe with a dragon pattern in the stone blue ground, with a rhino head and a navy blue leather belt around his waist, and on his handsome face like white jade, a pair of dark eyes were deep, flickering in the gloomy sky, as if a looming sharp light hidden in the box.

Sima Deshi said in his heart: It is said that he is recuperating, but it is obviously a sharp lion with sharp claws lurking in his head.

"Sit down." King Qi and his mastermind got along quite casually, waved his hand, and walked to the Zen chair on the other side and sat down.

Master Sima De also sat down on the chair. He is the descendant of the Sima clan in Hanoi and the lord of the long house. After the death of the Sima family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he became a surname A from the royal family, and by the time of the Xiaoliang Dynasty, the surname A fell from the surname A to the surname B. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the Sima family produced a martial arts genius, expecting him to revitalize the family, but who knew that the monk entered the Daomen, and the head of the Sima family almost died of anger. By the time Sima Deshi's father's generation came, the once famous Hanoi Sima clan had fallen to the surname C, and was only supported by Sima Deshi's father's official position as a assassin. Sima De was smart when he was young, he was a piece of reading material, and he was young and old, smooth and thoughtful, if he took the path of the imperial examination, he might be able to enter the ranks of the middle-level officials of the fifth rank in his early forties, and if the official road was smooth, he might be able to fight for a third-rank high-level position at the age of sixty; If you are able to raise your children and nephews, and you can relist the surname B, although it is the end of the surname B, it is also the surname B! It's a pity that Sima Deshi just won the second and fourth places in the imperial examination, and he got a serious illness, and after recovering from the illness, half of his eyes couldn't see, and of course the half-disabled person couldn't be an official. When Sima Deshi was disheartened, he simply gave the family business to the second brother to inherit, and he went to the palace of the king of Qi to be a guest, and within two years, he was believed to be the mastermind, and ten years ago he was already from the prince's mansion of the fourth grade, and he entered the court to fight for himself as an official, I don't know how much faster.

He planned for the king of Qi wholeheartedly. Two days ago, the king of Qi was dragged into the case of the loss of the crossbow in the weapons prison, and yesterday Mu Xiu was summoned into the palace by the sage to reprimand, and today he said that he was sick and came back after half a day - Sima Deshi was concerned after hearing the report, and went to the main courtyard of the king of Qi, and listened to the report of the waiter that His Royal Highness was boxing by the lake, so he thought about changing the color of the lake and came over.

But when he saw the majesty of King Qi boxing by the lake, he knew that he was angry in his heart, and after changing his clothes, he changed into the prince's regular clothes - saying that he was sick and dressed so formally, it can be seen that his heart is extremely strict.

Seeing that the attendants had all retreated to the shore of the lake, Sima Deshi said in a gentle voice: "I heard that His Royal Highness is unwell, go back to the house to rest." ”

King Qi's gloomy eyes looked at the surface of the lake where the rain fell like beads, "The sage said that I was tired, let me recuperate for a while." A sneer crossed his lips.

As soon as Sima Deshi heard it, he understood that King Qi was "suspended from the case" because of the case of the loss of weapons in the ordnance supervisor.

He cursed in his heart for the bad things of the Yan Zhou people - colluding with the bowl cultists to assassinate Princess Changle Jiaqing and frame the King of Qi, exposing the loss of weapons and weapons, and several types of heavy crossbows were also stolen from the continuous shooting of crossbows, which is more serious than the theft of thirteen box crossbows, because the lethality of heavy crossbows is much stronger.

King Qi is naturally suspected, in terms of motive and ability, he has it all - if you don't doubt him first, who do you suspect? The suspect minister also needed evidence to convict him, but the emperor suspected his son and did not need evidence.

Sima Deshi, as the mastermind of the Qi Palace, of course knew that he had not wronged the King of Qi.

But King Qi's ability to move these heavy crossbows from the saint's direct and strictly controlled weapons supervisor is certainly related to the important internal responsibility of the purchase, but with the sage's shrewdness, didn't he notice it at all before? But it didn't happen until this time, and it was clearly a pretext to play on the topic, and he wanted to relieve the authority of the Qi Wang's household department and pave the way for the princess of Qin.

Sima Deshi couldn't help but shudder when he thought of this. King Qi in his heart, how can he not be extremely angry?

But after all, it was not he who suffered the pain of the cone, Sima Deshi was calmer than King Qi in his heart, and he pondered what he was about to say in his heart before he slowly spoke: "In this way, does Your Highness want to 'retire after success', or will he fight as a fierce lion?" ”

King Qi sneered faintly when he heard "Successful retirement", isn't this a successful retirement? After making the chess pieces and completing the mission, it is time for him to retire!

The saint, his father, is so calculating!

From beginning to end, it was for Li Yuzhen - for his good niece who was "most suitable for leading Datang to the vast world"!

And he is a pawn who crosses the river, and he will be discarded when he runs out.

King Qi stood up steeply, walked to the edge of the threshold, the rain was already heavy, the sky was gloomy, the fresh and bright lake lotus under the spring sun before changed from clear blue to blue, rich and gloomy, rising and falling in the raindrops, if the wind was a little stronger, maybe it would have to be rolled, or the rain was a little bigger, and the leaves were beaten and fell, and the ups and downs could not be autonomous. King Qi suddenly shuddered, and a drop of rain blew into his neck under the collar, this idea of coldness was of course nothing to him, but at this time, he felt cold to the bone. He clenched his fists and looked at the increasingly misty lake, and his voice was as deep and faint as the sky:

"Retreat, where can you retreat?"

He looked up at the sky that had narrowed because of the gloom, thinking about the sage's phrase "vast heaven and earth", and the faint light under his eyes flickered, gradually condensing to sharpness. He took his hand, his back was straight, and the leather belt formed a strong and powerful arc, revealing a proud and majestic appearance, "Sir, can you think about it, and make a lion fight with this king?" - This fight, but there is no way out. ”

Sima Deshi also stood up, walked to King Qi's side, and stood half a foot behind him, facing the damp wind outside the bar, and swept in coolly, lifting and falling his straight hem, "The rise and fall of the virtuous master is tied to His Royal Highness: His Royal Highness enters, and the virtuous master enters; Your Highness has no way to retreat, where does the virtuous master retreat? Medioccrity is a lifetime, and grandeur is a lifetime. A virtuous teacher would rather die like an eagle than live like a mayfly. ”

King Qi raised his head and laughed, his palm slapped heavily on the railing, "Well said!" [To be done, next]

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