The biggest turmoil in the Tang Dynasty Apocalypse is taking place in the hall of the council, and many officials in the various ministries are guessing the fate of themselves and their bosses, the young man in the imperial study is looking around excitedly, and Chao Xiaoshu, who is standing somewhere in the imperial garden, seems to have nothing to do with these things, he stands silently on the shore of this big lake called Lihai, smiling and watching those colorful carp jump out of the water, jump over the dragon gate, and then happily fall back into the lake, wagging his tail and begging for food, occasionally sighing.

More than ten years ago, he was a young scholar who entered the Beijing Academy but was led into the rivers and lakes of Chang'an by the current emperor; more than ten years later, he was a young scholar who cut off countless heads under the sword and stood in the night of Chang'an, standing by the lake and thinking about the past years, thinking about the future ahead, and naturally having a different taste in his heart, and did not feel that there was any attraction about the Qingyun Road, but he still wanted to return to the old days when he studied hard day and night and devoted himself to the Tao.

A soft sound broke the silence on the lakeside, and the beautiful girl princess slowly walked over with two close palace maids. Li Yu's gaze fell on the somewhat whitish cyan robe washed by the middle-aged man by the lake, and after being slightly stunned, he smiled and half-squatted and saluted, and said softly: "I've seen Uncle Chao." ”

Li Yu, the fourth princess of the Tang Dynasty, is favored by the saints, and the people love and admire her, even if she meets His Royal Highness the Prince, she just calls her uncle lightly, how can she ever use such a close title to a man?

"The grass people don't dare. ”

Xiang Xiaoshu turned sideways, and said that he was afraid in his mouth, and his face was full of fear, but his body flashed slightly, and the lake breeze moved the corner of the green shirt, where was there a feeling of being half frightened, but the polite respect revealed a point of alienation and vigilance that rejected people thousands of miles away.

Seeing Chao Xiaoshu's reaction, Li Yu's hands on his waist stiffened slightly, and the two palace maids behind him changed color, but before they could make any moves, Li Yu smiled and preemptively responded: "Speaking of which, when my father asked the guards to carry me out of the palace to play when I was a child, I saw my uncle a few times in the gambling house, but after all, I was young at that time, and then I gradually forgot that Uncle Chao had hugged his niece, so why should I see him like this today." ”

His Royal Highness's words really frightened the grass people, how can the grass people be virtuous, how dare they call themselves princesses. ”

Smiling at Xiaoshu in response, the lake reflected the sky and then fell on his handsome and plump face, where was the slightest deliberate humility to be small, but he was guarding the status of the monarch and the minister, and he didn't dare to take that step forward.

Li Yu showed his goodwill three times and twice, and blocked Xiaoshu three times and twice, the atmosphere by the lake suddenly became a little tense and even depressed, Li Yu quietly looked at the face of the middle-aged man, thinking about the anger that came out of his father's expression from last night to today, and the expression of Xiàn came out to protect this person, and more and more confirmed that this person's position in the father's mind was extremely important, and waved his hand to stop the whispered advice of the female grandmothers, and continued with a smile: " I brought back some barbarian guards from the grassland, I heard that someone asked them about something a few days ago, that person's surname is Chen, it seems to be your brother?"

Chao Xiaoshu was silent for a while, and responded: "His name is Chen Qi, and he is my brother." ”

Hearing this answer, Li Yu laughed, moved his eyes to the sea-like lake, looked at the lotus leaves disturbed by the underwater swimming fish, and asked, "Is that young man easy to use?"

"Your Royal Highness, I didn't use him, I just asked him to help me. Chao Xiaoshu replied, "It's hand in hand, not use." ”

"If it's hand in hand, then he'll become your brother?" Li Yu turned his head and asked with a slight frown.

Chao Xiaoshu remembered the omelette noodles in the old pen and Ning Que's answer, and laughed at himself and said, "Someone looks at the world and seems to be colder than me. ”

He looked at Li Yu's eyebrows and said seriously: "Your Highness, he doesn't want to be known, so he also asks His Highness to keep this little secret for him." ”

Li Yu was slightly stunned and then said mockingly: "Does that idiot think that this matter can be hidden for a long time?

Chao Xiaoshu replied: "He will be admitted to the academy immediately, and he will be admitted to the second floor, so he will naturally no longer have to be afraid of being plotted by others." ”

Li Yu remembered Old Man Lu Qingchen's evaluation of Ning Que, frowned and asked, "Why do you all have such a high opinion of him?"

He smiled at Xiaoshu and said, "Because he's worth it." ”

Thinking of the sword light at the Beishan Road Crossing, the tiger leaping figure among the flames, and the story next to the fire, the expression on Li Yu's face unconsciously softened, but his voice still seemed a little cold and mocking: "I gave him a chance at the beginning, but he refused to seize it, I thought he was an alternative who regarded the future as a floating cloud, but I didn't expect him to just think that way of appearing was not exciting enough, so he had to choose such a way to appear in Chang'an City." ”

"But anyway, if I brought him into Chang'an City, then he will be my person......" Li Yu looked at Chao Xiaoshu with a smile, "Uncle Chao, you use my people so ruthlessly, should you say hello to me in advance?"

The fourth princess Li Yu is naturally the best woman in this area in the younger generation, but in front of the old dynasty of the Spring Breeze Pavilion, who is accustomed to seeing blood and blood, she didn't want to take the slightest chance, so she smiled at Xiaoshu and said: "If he is a princess's person, how can he be embarrassed to become like that for a small shop?" And I believe that the princess should also see that that little guy will never become anyone's person, he is just his own person. ”

After several attempts, he didn't find the slightest opportunity to take advantage of, and he didn't even find the gap to tell the truth, Li Yu was silent for a moment, waved his hand and motioned for the palace maid behind him to leave, looked at him and said with a solemn expression: "Uncle Chao ......"

Chao Xiaoshu avoided again and repeated, "The grass people don't dare. ”

Li Yu shook his head and said seriously: "Everyone in the world knows that after today, the old dynasty of Chunfeng Pavilion can no longer be the grass man that his father hid in the people, and he is no longer just the leader of the first gang in Chang'an. Whether it is the head of the guard, the minister, or the outside, there will be a place for you in the world. ”

"When you were the old dynasty of Chunfeng Pavilion, those ministers dared to recruit you in the name of me or the queen's mother, and intimidate you, now that you have jumped out of the sea, do you think you can stay out of the matter from now on?"

Li Yu looked at him quietly, and his tone was sincere and unsubtle: "The queen mother is a smart person, and I am not stupid, so we won't do anything that our father doesn't like us, but we have to do something." ”

"I hope you can support me. ”

"When you were a child, you hugged me, you also hugged my brother, you have seen my mother, can you bear to watch your brother's throne fall, bear to watch my mother in the spring of the underworld, full of unwillingness and sorrow?"

The Tang Dynasty doesn't care about the succession, who succeeds to the throne is all in the words of the emperor's majesty, the seemingly cowardly but actually sober emperor will not allow his wife and children to do any battles that hurt the country and exceed the limits of his patience, but he wants to see who is better.

In this world, in those history, there are very few examples as transparent and open as the Tang royal family, but what Li Yu said to Chao Xiaoshu on the lakeside today still seems too open and honest, and even a little naked, which is extremely inconsistent with ordinary people's imagination of such palace conspiracy.

Chao Xiaoshu was silent for a long time, looked at her and said in a harmonious voice: "Her Royal Highness the princess is really similar to your mother, she is extremely wise, and she knows that any temptation and temptation for a rough person like me is meaningless, but it is more appropriate to use the tone of the rivers and lakes, but this is a matter of the Sacred Heart after all, I am just a small fish in the sea of Datang, even if I am lucky enough to turn into scales, it will not play any role." ”

"Uncle Chao is too humble, you must know that over the years, I have never seen my father believe in a person like this...... Moreover, he pressed the amazing academy preparation candidates in the gutter of Dongcheng for several years, and I think my father must feel extremely guilty about you in his heart. ”

Li Yu looked at him firmly and said: "The most important thing is that you are in the sea of Datang, so even if you jump out of the sea, you will eventually fall back into the sea, and you will have to choose which way to swim one day......"

Before she finished her words, she smiled at Xiaoshu, Yinglang forced, raised her arm and waved her sleeves to point to the big lake, and said: "I am a small fish, but I don't like to stay in the pool, even if it is a pool as big as the sea, it is still a pool after all, so if I really need to choose which way to swim, or in the end I will simply choose to go ashore." ”

Li Yu's eyebrows frowned slightly and said, "Fish will die of thirst when they come ashore." ”

"But you can breathe enough air before you die. Chao Xiaoshu smiled.

"Uncle Chao insists that the court hall is that pool, but can you find a bigger pool in the world than my Datang?"

"Although the rivers and lakes are smaller, they are more relaxed and casual, in comparison, I would indeed rather be far away from the rivers and lakes than stand on the temple. ”

Li Yu frowned and looked at the middle-aged scholar in Luotuo green shirt by the lake, and suddenly found that he didn't understand some people very well, and sighed: "There are not many sinister rivers and lakes. ”

Chao Xiaoshu smiled slightly and said, "But the rivers and lakes are far enough, so they are free." ”

Li Yu shook his head and said, "What kind of freedom can you have?"

Chao Xiaoshu looked at her with pity like a junior, and said, "Freedom not to choose." ”

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Ning Que's hands were very itchy, this was an itch that had been cultivated for many years, and it had penetrated deep into his bone marrow and blood, and it could not be expelled at all, only hard work.

In the quiet and uninhabited imperial study, he walked back to the desk from the door, from the desk to the shelf, and from the bookshelf to the door, his right hand hidden in his sleeve kept rubbing his fingers, but he could not stop the itch that came out of the deepest depths.

Seeing the itchy stele on the wall, looking at the Hengdian pure itch lying on the ground, smelling the unique smell of Chenzhou pine ink, touching the subtle wrinkles of Xuanzhou bud paper, and his eyes fell on the five words "Fish leaping into the sea at this time" written by the emperor, he began to squeeze his eyebrows and eyes, and it was difficult to restrain himself.

The only way to relieve the itch is to hold the pen.

However, it is a very stupid choice to use the imperial pen to continue the book in the imperial study, and it may be severely punished, and it may even be punished more severely, but it is really itchy...... When Chao Xiaoshu was talking about choice and freedom by the lake, Ning Que was also experiencing this painful choice.

"I wrote it and quickly tore it off. ”

Looking for a good excuse, Ning Que screamed happily, rushed to the front of the case like a man who eats meat and drinks wine, and turns all the itches that have accumulated in his heart into happiness, and with a wave of it, he vividly reveals five ink characters.

"Flowers bloom on the other side. ”

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