The vial of poison was contained in a delicate celadon vial, small, only as long as a finger.

Ye Tianhuai changed into a micro-suit, put the vial close to him, and then called Li Baoquan.

"Li Baoquan, you go and change your clothes and accompany me out of the palace." Ye Tianhuai instructed him.

Li Baoquan was taken aback: "Your Majesty wants to leave the palace?" ”

"Yes, just the two of us. Go change your clothes, I'll be waiting for you right here. Ye Qianhuai urged him.

Li Baoquan had some worry in his eyes, but he didn't say anything in the end and went to change his clothes.

After a short time, he changed into a long suit and rushed back to Jingshou Palace.

Ye Tianhuai glanced at him up and down, nodded, and said, "Let's go." Come back before dark. ”

She walked to the gate of the palace, and Li Baoquan hurriedly caught up, and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, it is not peaceful outside now, and the servants have no kung fu, I am afraid that it will not be good to protect Your Majesty, let's bring two more people." ”

Ye Tianhuai stood on his feet and said, "What you said is not unreasonable. ”

After speaking, she walked to the guard guarding the gate of Jingshou Palace, glanced at his saber, and said, "Take off your waist knife." ”

The guard was standing upright and not squinting, but when he suddenly heard Ye Tianhuai's command, he was startled, and hurriedly removed the knife on his side.

Ye Tianhuai took the knife in his hand, pulled it out and looked at it, then withdrew it into the sheath and tied it to his waist.

"Your sword, borrow it."

After saying that, she strode away without looking back, leaving behind the stunned imperial guards and Li Baoquan who hurried up.

What Grandpa Zhou said was not wrong. There are some roads from which there is no turning back.

From the day she was born as the fourth prince, there was no going back.

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The smoke willow paints the bridge, and the wind curtain is green. Spring in Shengjing has always been pleasant.

Ye Tianhuai and Li Baoquan asked for a private room by the window in Baiwei Ju next to the literature school, and the door of the literature school could be seen by pushing the window.

There are two Gyeonggi guards standing at the entrance of the school, and there are also Gyeonggi guards patrolling the campus, and every student who enters and leaves must show a ticket to Gyeonggi Guard, and Gyeonggi Guard will take out a list to check.

It does look well organized, and there is nothing wrong with it. But Ye Qianhuai discovered the problem at a glance.

"There are too few people in the liberal arts school." Ye Qianhuai frowned.

Just as the little guy came to serve tea, Ye Qianhuai raised his head and asked, "Little brother, why are there so few people in the literary school?" ”

The little guy looked at her warily, but did not speak.

Ye Tianhuai took out two pieces of broken silver from his arms and put them on the table, and smiled gently at him: "We are businessmen who came to Beijing from Yizhou to do pen and ink business, and students are our financial route. I also hope that the little brother will give advice and advice. ”

Only then did the little guy put his mind at ease and said, "Mr. is not good when he comes to Beijing at this time, and the capital has not been peaceful recently." ”

The little guy said as he tucked the broken silver into his waist.

"Oh? How is it not peaceful? Ye Qian said curiously.

"Wasn't it spring some time ago? After the list was released, several students from the literature school jointly signed a letter questioning the inside story of Chunqiu's fraud, and now everyone has been arrested. ”

"Doesn't the imperial court check?" Ye Qianhuai asked.

"Check, I'm investigating."

"So what do you do with the students?"

"I said that I was assisting in the investigation. However, some time ago, an order was issued that no discussion should be made about this matter, and the school was full of Gyeonggi Guards, and more than a dozen people could be arrested every day, and I heard that most of the schoolwork had stopped, and some students whose hometowns were in other places left Beijing to go home. ”

The little guy wiped the spilled tea, and said: "Little persuasion, Mr. If you want to do pen and ink business, and survive this limelight, let's talk about it." Now that there are few students, it is not easy to do business, and if you talk to someone who doesn't know the details, you will be sued by someone with a heart and go to prison, but it is not worth it. ”

As he spoke, he had finished cleaning with his hands and feet.

"Guest officer, you use it slowly, and then call the small one if you have something." The little guy left the room with a smile.

Seeing the door closed, Ye Qianhuai restrained the polite smile on his face, and glanced at Li Baoquan with a stern expression.

"Looks like this is a place of right and wrong. Li Baoquan, you go to the major academies in Beijing to see if this is the case. After the investigation, I went to the archway of the repair office and waited for me. ”

Li Baoquan responded: "The slave understands. ”

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Xiuzheng Fang, Wenxin Hall.

This street is far less lively than when Ye Qianhuai last came.

Because Xiuzheng Fang is the place with the heaviest aroma of Shengjing books. Half of the academies and schools in Shengjing are set up in Xiuzheng Fang, and the corresponding bookstores are also lined up along the street.

Ye Tianhuai looked at the plaque inscribed by Wang Lisong on the top of Wenxin Hall, and was solemn.

For some reason, every time she saw this plaque, she would subconsciously hold her breath and straighten her back.

The door of Wenxin Hall was closed, and the lantern that had been hung in front of the door the last time I came was gone, making it look a little gloomy.

Not only Wenxintang, but the whole street is a little sluggish.

It seems that the affairs of Chunfu and the literary school have had a great impact on the entire Shengjing Academy, and even the related shops.

Ye Tianhuai paced twice outside the Wenxin Hall, the courtyard wall of the Wenxin Hall was so high and thick that he couldn't hear the sound inside at all from the outside, and he didn't know if there was anyone in the study.

Just as Ye Qianhuai was hesitating whether to knock on the door, a voice behind her stopped her.

"Gongzi He?"

Ye Tianhuai turned around and saw Qin Baozhu standing at the intersection with a basket full of vegetables in one hand and three medium-sized wine jars in the other.

She was wearing a blue and white cloth shirt, and she was holding a square scarf of the same fabric on her head, and she looked like a woman, but her big watery eyes were dripping, and she looked like a full girl.

Ye Tianhuai's heart was stunned, and then he sank.

In her heart, she was actually vaguely looking forward to Qin Baozhu's absence in Wenxin Hall. But I didn't expect to be the first to meet her.

There is no way to avoid it.

Ye Tianhuai took his thoughts into his eyes, smiled politely, and hugged his fists and said, "Miss Qin, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Qin Baozhu also smiled at her, and was about to say something, but when she saw the knife on Ye Tianhuai's waist, her expression trembled, like a frightened white rabbit.

Ye Tianhuai followed her gaze and saw her waist knife, she reached out and held the handle of the knife, hid the knife behind her, and comforted Qin Baozhu and said: "It's been a little unpeaceful recently, so I brought a knife to defend myself, which scared the girl, forgive me." ”

Qin Baozhu's expression was a little soothed, she looked at Ye Qianhuai, her eyes flashed with admiration, and said, "I thought it was great that you could read." I didn't expect you to make a knife. ”

She walked up to Ye Qianhuai and asked, "Have you participated in the Spring Festival?" ”

Ye Tianhuai was slightly stunned, and said with heavy eyes: "Participated." ”

"I went to see the list of Chunqiu, but I didn't see your name." Qin Baozhu straightened his face, lowered his voice, and said to Ye Tianhuai, "Don't feel uncomfortable, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are not high enough to learn enough." There is a problem with the spring this time. ”

Ye Tianhuai raised his head abruptly to look at her, but saw Qin Baozhu nodding at her with a determined expression.

She looked around, saw that there was no one around, and then checked the vegetable basket in her hand, and smiled at Ye Tianhuai: "Do you want to stay and have a meal?" ”

Ye Qian hesitated for a moment, and saluted: "Then it is better to be respectful than to obey your fate." ”

Qin Baozhu did not go to the main entrance, but took Ye Tianhuai around in a half circle and walked through the side door of Wenxin Hall.

It was a very inconspicuous little door, the color of grey almost melting into the brick wall. If it weren't for Qin Baozhu leading the way, Ye Tianhuai wouldn't even have noticed that there was a door here.

"Help me get the wine." After speaking, Qin Baozhu handed the three full wine jars to Ye Tian's arms, and freed up one hand to fumble for the lock key on his waist.

The corners of Ye Tianhuai's eyes twitched, and he almost didn't catch the three jars.

It's too heavy!

She felt that her waist was straining with both hands, and Qin Baozhu actually walked so far with one hand.

Ye Tianhuai was suddenly a little worried.

After she was made the crown prince, Emperor Shunping saw that she was thin, and specially assigned two martial arts gentlemen to her, one to teach her riding and archery, and the other to teach her kung fu. At that time, Emperor Shunping had to inquire about her martial arts every day, and Ye Tianhuai practiced extremely hard.

Because of this experience of practicing martial arts, although Ye Tianhuai didn't think that he had any talent in martial arts, it was more than enough to deal with a weak female streamer in an ordinary market.

But now, she deeply suspects that even if she has a long knife on her body, she may not be able to beat this "weak woman".

Qin Baozhu didn't notice Ye Qianhuai's expression, after she pushed the door open, she took three wine jars from Ye Tianhuai's arms and stepped into the backyard.

Then she turned around, looked at Ye Qianhuai, who was stunned in place, and said with a smile: "Come in." ”

Ye Tianhuai followed her into the courtyard in a trance, reorganizing his plan in his heart.

"There are a lot of people today, and Uncle Hu is not here, so I am cooking alone, I have to go quickly." Qin Baozhu threw the wine jar on the ground in the courtyard and said, "They are all in the front yard, you can go to them." ”

After Qin Baozhu finished speaking, he saw Ye Tianhuai standing still, thinking that she was afraid of life, and said to her again: "Qin Yang went out with Uncle Hu today, and he was not in the academy. But Lin Yuxiu is here, the last time you saw him, he has been living in the academy. ”

It's the scholar with a handsome face and sharp words. The last time we met, he was like a knife to refute the court and the world. Ye Tianhuai was quite impressed by him.

"It's a pity that he also fell off the list this time." Qin Baozhu sighed and said again, "He's really a pity." ”

After speaking, she carried the vegetable basket into the room.

In the courtyard, only Ye Qianhuai was left, and the three wine jars on the ground.

She hesitated and walked towards the front yard of the blue bricks and tiles.

As she stepped into the gaterail of the second courtyard, she heard the sound of people talking.

Ye followed the sound to a closed lecture hall, and through the cracks between the doors and windows, she saw more than a dozen men sitting around the room, the younger in their twenties and the older in their forties, most of them dressed in the robes of literati and scholars.

Then she heard Lin Yuxiu's voice coming from inside.

"It is not my generation's wish to survive in the world. Yu Xiu wishes to recommend Xuanyuan with blood, if he can exchange heaven and earth for half a moment of clarity, it is enough to wish. ”