Xue Chen was hidden behind the crowd, watching the master of the courtyard come out and lead Princess Yongzhao inside, he was still in a trance.

Yinghui didn't notice Xue Chen at the back of the crowd, and asked as she walked, "Is the teacher okay lately?" ”

"Okay, I'm just thinking about you, the mountain chief was still nagging me a few days ago, saying that you haven't come to see him for so long, I'm afraid that I forgot him in Beijing."

The middle-aged man who followed next to him had also taught Yinghui at the beginning, and he didn't have too many restraints when he laughed with her.

Yinghui suddenly laughed: "Where do I dare, I didn't hurry to visit his old man as soon as I was free." ”

Yunlu Academy is the most familiar place in addition to the capital for Yingji, when she studied here for three years, this mountain of fruit trees was swept by her, and there was no place in the whole academy that she didn't know, she was laughing with the people around her, and went to the back of the academy, and when she turned into an antique courtyard, she saw the little old man sitting in the courtyard.

"Teacher."

Yinghui stepped forward and said, "How do you know I'm hungry?" ”

She stretched out her paws to touch the snacks on the table, and was slapped on the back of her hand by the old man, "Who said it was for you?" ”

Yinghui was not annoyed when her hand was slapped off, but said with a smile: "Ghee rolls, sesame green balls, this is my favorite." She sniffed, "It was the master who did it for me, right?" ”

A woman in the room came out with a smile: "The princess's nose is as smart as ever. ”

Old Man Wu's face couldn't hold back, and he glanced at her angrily: "This skin is just as thick." ”

Yinghui smiled and called out to her mother, and stepped forward to hug the old lady and be coquettish.

The old lady touched her little face with some distress: "I'm thin." ”

Yinghui smiled: "You said that I was thin, two days ago when I was in the capital, the fourth uncle also said that I was fat, don't you know, those beauties in my house in order to compete for favor every day to send me tonic soup, you see, my face is round." ”

She held her face and said with a pretended bitterness,

"Sure enough, there are too many beauties to stand it, I didn't run to you and the teacher to hide, so as not to be squeezed dry."

"It's all nonsense!"

The old lady couldn't cry or laugh because of her meat-vegetarian words, so she reached out and patted her.

After the person who sent Yinghui over left, Yinghui pulled the old lady and talked for a while, and the old lady went to make Yinghui's favorite braised fish, Wu Shan held the ancient books brought by Yinghui in his hand, looked at the heartless disciple who was smiling opposite and said: "I heard that you came over today for a big battle, and the news came before the people arrived at the academy?" ”

"Then I can't help it, Uncle Huang is willing to watch me swagger, if I rein in, he will think more." Yinghui is lazy and authentic.

When Old Man Wu heard this, he said: "But it's too ostentatious and easy to fall into the handle, and your backyard ......."

Thinking of the filthy man in Yingji's room, he frowned,

"I know you don't want Your Majesty to be suspicious, but it's not a way to do it all the time, and you're eighteen years old this year, so you haven't thought about finding someone to settle down?"

Ying Xi smiled when she heard this: "Teacher, what do you think?" ”

Settle down?

It may be a very easy word to others, but to her it is whimsical.

She holds too many things in her hands that she shouldn't hold, these things were left to her by her father and grandfather, and they were also recaptured by her brother-in-law and fourth uncle desperately for her, she is no longer the little girl who only knew how to cry after her father's death, she knew too well what the imperial uncle on the throne wanted.

She is looking for personal stability, no matter who she marries, it is impossible for the imperial uncle to rest assured, and she herself will not be relieved that she is afraid of the ambition of the family of raising the doctor next to the military power, and the things she holds in her hands are bound to be handed over, but she has done too many things over the years, once she hands it over, she can't keep herself, Zhao Xuanmu and Ying Congzhang, and she can't keep the people left by her father.

I'm afraid that before I settle down, I will harm others and myself.

"Teacher, don't persuade me to harm others." Yinghui said with a smile, "I'm very good now, surrounded by beauties, enjoying it to the extreme, and others don't know how to envy it." ”

Old Man Wu sighed lightly when he heard this, he wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say.

Yinghui herself thinks about it, she is not a person with rules, it is impossible for her to marry and have children like other women, she herself can't be such a husband and children, besides, she likes beauties, and can make the emperor feel at ease, why not?

"It's rare for me to come to see you, so don't sigh, look at the eyebrows are a few whiter."

When Old Man Wu heard this, he glared at her: "Nonsense, I just dyed it this morning." ”

Yinghui laughed: "Teacher, it turns out that you are also stinky and beautiful, I will say, why did the pearl powder I bought for my wife always use it so quickly, you are honest, did you use it secretly?" ”

Old Man Wu raised his hand and wanted to shoot her.

Yinghui hurriedly smiled and dodged.

……

When lunch was served, Wu Shan didn't let her eat, but seemed to be waiting for someone.

Not long after, a figure appeared in front of the courtyard gate, and when he walked towards this side from afar, his black hair was tied with a crown, the outline was exquisite, and the bridge of the nose on his cold white face was extremely beautiful.

There is a row of bamboo forests in front of the hospital, he is wearing a moon-white cardigan robe, his posture is slender and straight, the wind blows the bamboo forest slightly between walking, and the sun falls on his black hair through the bamboo.

"Teacher, where did you get the beauty here?"

Xue Chen heard the voice of a woman not far away, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

He didn't know why, when the teacher ordered someone to call him over, he subconsciously changed his clothes, rearranged his hair, and tossed in exchange for her soft words, as if all the preparations were worth it, and he couldn't help but feel happy.

Old Man Wu looked at Yingji's head: "What nonsense, he is your junior brother." ”

"Senior brother?"

Yinghui tilted her head and saw the handsome man who came closer, and her face was curious.

Old Man Wu said: "His name is Xue Chen, his name is Ting'an, he is my newly accepted disciple, and there is another person named Zhan Changdong, who is not in the courtyard at this time, and will let you see him next time you have the opportunity." ”

After he finished speaking, he said to Xue Chen,

"Ting'an, she must not need my introduction."

Xue Chen lowered his head and saluted: "Ting'an has seen Princess Yongzhao. ”

Yinghui suddenly laughed: "Don't be so polite, this academy only recognizes senior sisters and brothers, but not princesses, since you are a disciple of the teacher, call me senior sister." ”

Xue Chen's word "senior sister" lingered in his mouth for a long time.

Yinghui saw that he was silent, and thought that he thought she was young, so she immediately laughed: "Why, I think I can't scream younger than you?" Hearing the word, I started a few years earlier than you, and even Cheng An had to call my senior sister back then, and you don't suffer if you call me a senior sister. ”

Cheng An is a very famous scholar in Yunlu Academy, and he was also a first-class arrogance in Yunlu Academy, but he still called her a senior sister in the face of Yingji, who told her to take a shortcut and worship directly under Wu Shan, Wu Shan's seniority is scary?

"I don't think I'm at a loss......"

Xue Chen's lips opened slightly, as if he wanted to explain, but when he met her smiling eyes, his ears were slightly hot, and he couldn't say anything to explain, so he only called out meekly for a moment, "Senior sister." ”

Yingji's eyes lit up, and she only felt that this senior sister was really good.

The junior brother in front of him is good-looking, has a good voice, and is also elegant and elegant when people look at him, and he is serious, and he is very well-educated at a glance.

"Teacher, you have accepted a good disciple this time, this junior disciple will get ahead in the future at a glance."

"Aren't you praising him because he's good-looking?"

Old Man Wu glanced at Ying, looking like I had already seen through you.

Yinghui suddenly laughed: "Color-eating, everyone has a love for beauty." ”

When eating at the same table, Mrs. Wu picked up vegetables for Yinghui and Xue Chen from time to time, and persuaded the two to eat more, Old Man Wu is not a rule-abiding person, and he does not have the habit of eating without saying a word, he looks at Yinghui with a face full of disgust, but in fact, he is very concerned about her, and from time to time he will ask a few words about Yinghui in Beijing.

Yinghui didn't shy away from it, picking up some interesting, and some things that were not hidden in the court and chatting with the old man, while Xue Chen sat on the side, looking at the woman opposite with bright eyebrows and a bright smile, talking about the politics of the court, with a flamboyant and confident appearance, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but hook.

After eating, Old Man Wu was old, and after chatting with them for a while, he became sleepy.

Yinghui sent him to rest, and after seeing the old man fall asleep for a while, she leaned against the door and faced the old woman who came out: "Master, the teacher's body ......"

"I'm sick, I'm easy to be sleepy in the past two years, just wait for a while and get up."

Seeing Ying's frown, the old lady smiled, "What do you look like, what are you frowning at a young age?" ”

"Master, you and your teacher should go back to Beijing with me to live..."

"Don't."

The old lady smiled and shook her head, "We are not used to living in your princess's mansion, besides, you don't know what the old man's temperament is, this academy is his life, how can he follow you back to Beijing?" People are not like this when they are old, and it is inevitable that their bodies will decay, but I and your teacher have already lived a long and healthy life, and we are comfortable living in this academy. ”

Seeing the girl's unhappy face.

The old lady's heart warmed.

The princess in front of her is obviously the most noble, but she has never been arrogant to the two of them.

When she came to study, everyone was afraid that she would rely on her identity, but she respected her teacher like an ordinary student, and later although she returned to the capital, she never forgot the two of them.

Wu Shan has no children in her life, and to say something offensive, Yinghui is like half of their daughter, she touched the girl's head: "How long can you stay this time?" ”

Xue Chen in the courtyard pricked up his ears.

Yinghui hugged the old lady's arm: "At least five or six days, at most half a month, during this time there is nothing to do in Beijing, and I am not in a hurry to go back." ”

The old lady instantly became happy: "Okay, then stay a few more days, your teacher has kept your yard for you, and I will clean it up for you later." ”

Yinghui hurriedly said: "Don't go, if the teacher knows and has to say that I worked hard for you, there are clouds to plant them, just let them clean up, I came to bring some things to you and the teacher this time, and someone will send them to you later." ”

"Bring something again!"

The old lady's face was full of disgust, and her eyebrows were full of smiles.

Yinghui accompanied her to talk for a while, and when she saw that her face was tired, she said, "Master, I haven't been back to the academy for a long time, go out for a walk." ”

"Someone to keep you with?"

"Don't look for someone, isn't Senior Brother Xue here, just let him accompany me to take a look around." After Ying Ji finished speaking, she looked towards the courtyard, "Does Senior Brother Xue have time?" ”

Xue Chen gentle: "Yes." ”

When Mrs. Wu saw the young man in the courtyard, she couldn't help but look at Yingxiao, and she didn't know why she suddenly remembered her "Yingying Yanyan" in the courtyard, and suddenly hesitated.

Seeing this, Yinghui chuckled, approached her and said, "Don't worry, just watch from a distance, don't play profane, I don't bully my junior brother." ”

Just look at the beauties, the students of this academy will all be admitted to the imperial examination in the future and become officials in the court, she will not touch them.

The old lady looked at her blinking and clever and strange appearance, and couldn't help but pat her on the head: "Narrow ghost." ”

She looked out and said,

"Na Ting'an, you accompany Auntie around and come over for dinner later."

Xue Chen said respectfully: "Yes, master." ”

……

Yunlu Academy is the first academy of the great cause, and it is even better than the Guozijian in Beijing.

The academy is built on a hill, surrounded by lush greenery, and the further you go into the mountain, the more quiet it becomes.

In the middle of summer, the mountains are cool, the snow is continuous in winter, and if the morning light in spring and autumn before the fog clears, the mountains are shrouded in clouds and mist, and the whole academy is like a fairyland.

It has been several years since Yinghui left the academy, although she has come back a few times halfway, but every time she sees Wu Shanhou and leaves in a hurry, she rarely has such a leisure time to look around, and now she finds that many places in the academy have changed, which is completely different from when she first entered the school.

When Xue Chen walked around the academy with Yingji, he could occasionally meet the middle school students in the academy, and at the beginning, the eyes of those people would make him quite uncomfortable, but when he saw the supposed noble woman next to him smiling and greeting everyone, and chatting with the occasional passing teacher, he slowly became calm.

"This library has been altered?" Yinghui asked.

Xue Chen nodded: "When I was a year old, I accidentally walked the water in the study, and although the books in it were rescued, most of the library was burned down, and the courtyard was rebuilt." ”

Originally, the library was facing east and west, but when it was rebuilt, it was changed to a north-south direction for convenience, and it was moved to the side, so when Yinghui came, he felt that something was wrong.

Yinghui looked up at the two-storey library and said: "My favorite thing when I went to school was to come to the library, not only did I have to go around a big circle, but I couldn't grab a good position every time I came. She pointed to the courtyard wall not far away, "There used to be a persimmon tree over there, every time I wanted to be the first to come, I secretly climbed the courtyard wall, and then I didn't know who leaked the news, they all followed me to learn, and the persimmon tree was trampled bald." ”

"The teacher waits for the persimmon tree to bear fruit every year to make persimmon cakes, the tree is bald, the persimmon is sharply reduced, the teacher catches the person who climbs the wall, everyone doesn't admit it, the teacher catches me, the culprit and beats the handboard, and tells me to stand by the courtyard wall with such a thick book and squat on the back of Zhang Yi."

Xue Chen looked at the empty wall over there, as if he saw the little girl climbing the wall and being caught by someone, squatting by the wall to endorse the book.

He couldn't help laughing: "It turns out that the teacher loves to eat persimmons, no wonder the library was burned down during the fire last year, and the teacher was not sad, but looked at the burned persimmon tree by the wall......

"And this?"

Xue Chen said "um": "At that time, when the library was rebuilt, the burned persimmon tree was about to be pushed off, and the teacher also called someone to stop it, and specially invited the nearby farmers to come over to see if they could be removed and replanted, but then the tree was not saved, and the teacher also went on strike for several days......

Old Man Wu was depressed for a few days, and he couldn't eat.

At that time, they all thought that Old Man Wu was unwell, who would have thought that he was sad for the persimmon tree.

Ying Xi listened to Xue Chen's words and burst out laughing.

They were both Wu Shan's disciples, and the strangeness between the two of them dissipated after a few words of laughter, and Yinghui asked beside him, "Are you from the Xue family in Beijing?" ”

Xue Chen nodded: "Xue Qing is my brother, and I am in the mansion for six." ”

Yinghui raised her eyebrows, she knew the Xue family, when the emperor's grandfather was in power, the Xue family had a pavilion elder, quite powerful, and then the Xue Pavilion old man died of illness, and the Xue family gradually declined, this generation of the Xue family has a person who works in Dali Temple, she has a mediocre impression of that Xue Shaoqing, but she has a deep impression of Xue Qing in Xue Chen's mouth.

That Xue Qingwen is not too high, but quite capable of hard work, she once read the policies he wrote about governing the country, which is not as boastful as others and talks about some things on paper, but talks about people's livelihood one by one, each of which is quite useful, and later when the household department dispatched officials, Xue Qing was sent to Jingzhou as an official, and his political performance in recent years has been excellent.

Yinghui said: "I have seen Lord Xue before, he is a talented person, even the imperial uncle has praised him, it must not be long before he can be transferred back to Beijing." ”

Xue Chen smiled when he heard this: "Inherit the princess's auspicious words." ”

Yinghui didn't bother with the title in his mouth, there was no difference between the princess and the senior sister, she just asked, "What about you?" You can worship under the teacher, and you must not lose to your brother, do you have the exam? ”

Xue Chen nodded: "Last year, the township won the first place. ”

Yinghui raised her eyebrows: "Not bad, junior brother ......" and so on, surnamed Xue, and last year's Xie Yuan, her beautiful eyes widened slightly, "You are the unlucky guy who won the first place in the company, but was smashed at the celebration banquet by someone after winning the small Sanyuan?" ”

Yinghui didn't react at first, after all, although Xiao Sanyuan is few, it is not very rare, she has nothing to do with the Xue family, and she is also busy with things on weekdays, or most of them stay in the military camp on the outskirts of the city, only occasionally I heard that the Xue family had a very powerful Xiao Sanyuan last year.

The Xue family held a banquet for this and invited all the people who could be invited in Beijing, but who would have thought that at that banquet, the second son of their house caused a scandalous lawsuit and was approached by a big belly, and directly made a joke at the banquet.

Only then did she react, the handsome and immortal-like Senior Brother Xue in front of her was not the unlucky guy in her mouth?

Xue Chen didn't get annoyed when he heard Yingji's blurted out, he just nodded and said, "It's me." ”

Yinghui glanced him up and down: "It's so pitiful." ”

Xue Chen smiled: "Actually, it's not so pitiful, that woman was found by me." ”

Yinghui was really surprised this time, she stopped and turned her head and said, "What are you looking for?" ”

Xue Chen said: "The princess doesn't know about the Xue family, my father is the concubine of the Xue family, after my grandfather left, the Xue family looked down on my father and let him split up early, my eldest brother and I actually didn't grow up in the Xue family, and we haven't had any contact over the years, until the eldest brother joined the office, and the Xue family found us." ”

The Xue family is only rich on the surface, and with the "residual power" left by Xue Ge Lao back then, he barely supports his bright appearance, but in fact, there is nothing inside, and when his father was divided, he only had a few dozen taels of silver on hand, and Xue Chen still remembers the faces of those people in the Xue family.

When Xue Qing began to emerge, the Xue family hit the idea of their brothers, if it was impossible to return to the Xue family according to the temper of him and his eldest brother, but his father had outdated concepts and feelings for the clan, plus he was seriously ill in those years and wanted to return to the clan after his death, so he led the two brothers back to the Xue family.

Xue Chen actually didn't have any feelings about whether he could return to the Xue family, they didn't need to look at people everywhere when they were young, Xue Qing had an official body, he also made a name for himself in his studies, even if the Xue family did something, they didn't dare to be as wanton as before, and his father's last two years were quite happy.

After his father left, Xue Qing went out to work, and the Xue family sprouted again, doing unpleasant things from time to time.

Xue Chen didn't want to worry about them, but the people of the Xue family had to make inches, and he went to the middle of the year to understand Yuan to show off with him, and it was just a shame for their Xue family, and later he even started the idea of his marriage.

Yinghui said, "So you found that person?" ”

Xue Chen said lightly: "Since they have nothing to do, then find something for them to do." ”

Xue Yong, the second eldest member of the Xue family, provoked the rotten peach blossom, that woman is also a powerful woman, and coming to the door with such a stomach can not only make the Xue family lose face and make them have a headache for a while, but also make the Xue family feel guilty about him for ruining his banquet, he left the capital "angrily" and lived in the academy for a long time, and no one could say half a typo.

Ying Ji couldn't help but laugh when she heard him talk about the Xue family: "I don't see it, you can actually do this kind of thing." ”

looked handsome and elegant, and was serious, but I didn't expect my heart to be very dark.

Xue Chen looked at him: "The princess thinks it's not good?" ”

"Not really."

Yinghui smiled and said, "If it were me, I would have been more ruthless than you." ”

People don't offend me, I don't offend people, and those who are bullied and swallow their anger are cowards.

What Yinghui hates the most in her life is to let herself endure for others, and Xue Chen's little thing not only does not make her feel bad, but it is more right for her appetite.

Compared with the gentle and elegant gentleman, she prefers this kind of junior brother who has a clear distinction between love and hate, knows how to fight for her own interests, and looks pleasing to the eye.

Xue Chen obviously felt that after he "exposed his family ugliness", Yinghui treated him closer, and talked to him more casually than before, not the kind of closeness that only pretended to joke about hindering the teacher's face, but subconsciously accepted and approached after meeting the same kind.

The corners of his mouth raised, and the next moment he said, "I'll take the princess to see elsewhere?" ”

……

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