"His Highness the Nine!" Out of the imperial city, Cui Guangyun shouted to stop Li Chen.

Li Chen lifted the curtain and looked at him with a frown.

Cui Guangyun's face seemed to be covered with a deep and heavy gray, "Your Highness, do you really want to be an enemy of my family?" I heard that you and my Cui family's descendant Cui Hao are friends of life and death, why be aggressive? ”

Li Chen shook his head and said, "Master Cui, don't you understand, I have never thought of being an enemy of you, and now the imperial examination will not have anything to do with my relationship with Cui Hao." ”

Cui Guangyun was slightly stunned, "Then why do you want to target our family like this?" ”

Li Chen just asked rhetorically: "How have I ever targeted anyone?" The imperial examination is originally for the people of the world, who has better talent and learning should be on the list, in addition to opening the academy, how do you think I have interfered in all kinds of matters of the imperial examination? ”

Cui Guangyun listened to Li Yun's words, his expression gradually changed, and finally his face turned cold, and he asked angrily and mockingly: "Does Your Highness believe it?" ”

Li Chen looked at him quietly, listened to his gradually higher voice, and watched him wave his hands and point to the empty street, as if poking the noses of those poor protégés, "Your Highness!" Those who have never heard of the real classics of my pilgrimage in their lives, relying on a few enlightened books, and then looking at those wild histories or fragments that have been circulated among the people, do they really think that they can be compared with our sons and nephews in the family? ”

As he spoke, he became more and more angry, as if he was angrily denouncing the injustice of this imperial examination, as if he was going to tear up the test papers of those poor disciples, "Our sons and nephews were born to see the classics of the clan for thousands of years, and they can read the knowledge of countless sages in the past at any time, how can those people compare?" ”

Listening to these impassioned words, Li Chen suddenly understood the anger of the waiter in front of him, he remembered that since the opening of the academy, those students from poor backgrounds have forgotten to sleep and eat day and night, and even destroyed their bodies to study at the cost of their lives, Li Chen's heart suddenly swelled up with anger ten times worse than Cui Guangyun.

He said: "It turns out that you don't want to admit that you will lose in the hands of these poor people. ”

Cui Guangyun's generosity came to an abrupt end, and the sneer on his face that was almost frosty finally thawed, and he said: "I know that after His Highness opened the academy, he stuffed most of the classics of the Holy Dynasty into it, but you should know that compared to decades of atmosphere immersion, those scholars have only been watching for two months, what are they? ”

"Huh." Li Chen suddenly laughed, the mockery in his heart at this moment was far deeper than that of this waiter from the Cui family.

Cui Guangyun didn't know the reason why the Nine Emperor Princes in front of him suddenly laughed, but he could feel Li Chen's emotions, especially the disdain that was full of laughter, he frowned and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

Li Chen said with a smile: "Actually, you are right, compared with the accumulation of thousands of years in your family, the personal efforts of these poor scholars are indeed nothing, but your sons and nephews, can some people refuse to sleep for a few days and nights in order to read books?" Is there anyone who, smelling the scent of books, is as hungry and thirsty as a person who is about to starve to death? ”

Cui Guangyun was silent, but he didn't understand why Li Chen suddenly said this.

Li Chen continued: "Just because you were born with this, of course you haven't experienced it, and you don't even understand what I just said. But my students have all come out of the mud, and they are all poor people who have to spare five points of hunger every day to buy half a book. Of course, you won't understand that the champion of the current imperial examination, on the day he entered the academy, he held many classics with tears in his eyes and asked his classmates: If you can't see these classics one day in the future, how can you live? ”

Li Chen learned Guan Yan's accent very similarly, this is the township accent forty miles outside Kyoto, in the words of the inner city of Kyoto: Ouch hey, this is a broken village-

But Li Chen studied seriously, and looked at Cui Guangyun seriously, "My students hold books and look at the classics that you usually have at your fingertips day and night, Guan Yi has lost twenty pounds in two months, with steamed buns in one hand and classics in the other, and laughed and said that the body is not as important as knowledge." So, Master Cui, what about the nephew you just put on your lips? ”

Cui Guangyun was speechless, but still angry.

Li Chen stretched out his hand and pointed to the long street outside the imperial city, "The sons and nephews of the family boast of their elegance, sing songs every night, and accompany the beautiful women on the boat, just because they were born high and have half a foot on the threshold of the temple, so very few people really take the classics to heart." As I said earlier, I never wanted to take sides in the face of learning, I just gave them a chance to look at those books, but they outweighed the ten years of immersion of your sons and nephews in a few months, and this is your problem, not theirs. Master Cui, you have lost unjustly. ”

After saying that he had lost unjustly, Li Chen threw off his long sleeves, strolled out of the long street, and walked all the way to the academy outside the city.

On the long street, Cui Guangyun looked at his back, and snorted coldly for a while, "I don't know what to say!" ”

In the academy, the students who had been waiting for a few hours were eager to see through, and hurriedly surrounded Li Chen after seeing his figure, "Your Highness! ”

"Teacher!"

Li Chen looked at the extremely young faces in front of him, bowed deeply, and said, "I'm ashamed of everyone." ”

The students couldn't hide their disappointed looks, Guan Yi's tears almost hung in their eyes, and the years of hope and these days' efforts were about to come to naught, but they still trembled in a low voice: "Your Highness won't be like this-"

Li Chen said: "Those pickled goods, saying that this imperial examination is invalid, and there will be another exam in three days, this time, it will be taken by me and the cultivators of the Four Realms of various families to prevent anyone from cheating." ”

There was a slight silence, but soon there were cheers!

Guan Yi's face showed the spirit of a young man again, hugged the shoulders of his classmates on the left and right, and said excitedly: "It turns out that I will take the exam again, I am waiting for real talent to learn, even if I take the test ten times and a hundred times, what if I take the test ten times and a hundred times?" If I win the championship once, I can win it ten times and 100 times! Test them to be convinced! ”