As soon as the emperor left, the students, who had been hungry all day, rushed into the canteen to eat, and the crazy appearance startled the miscellaneous servants, and the eyes of the group of people were red with hunger, as if they were going to swallow all the living things in the canteen alive, and they no longer picked and chose the dishes, and caught what to eat.

"Ahh......h ”

"Who isn't, from the morning to just before the cafeteria, I ate a bun all day! A bun! I almost didn't explain it here. ”

"You're smarter than me, and the buns aren't hungry but they're fine. I drank two large bowls of porridge in the morning, and not long after the sun rose, I was anxious to urinate, and I was afraid of losing my honor in front of the emperor, so I held it back, and my face was purple! I didn't dare to go to the thatched house until His Majesty rested later! The man shook his head and shoved a mouthful of food into his mouth.

As the saying goes, half the size eats the poor old man, and these young men who have been hungry for a day have no moderation in eating, and they swallow it in their stomachs before they have time to chew and swallow slowly, and several people are choked and roll their eyes.

When Chen He saw it, he couldn't help but knock on the table, and said to a student in front of him who had eaten three bowls of noodles and was about to get a few more steamed buns: "Eat slowly, no one will rob you, can you fit so much on your stomach!" ”

As he spoke, his own stomach growled, smelling the aroma of the food, Chen He couldn't hold Mr. 's shelf anymore, and ran to eat in three or two steps, not caring about the students.

On Gu Yunji's side, Su Qi was also so hungry that he finished eating three bowls of rice and a bowl of noodles in one go, and then touched his stomach and sighed with satisfaction, but turned his head to find that Gu Yunji was eating unhurriedly, not looking like he was hungry at all, and he was puzzled:

"Aren't you hungry?"

"I'm hungry."

"Then why are you eating so slowly?"

"Because I have this." Gu Yunji took out a small box while eating, "This is a ginseng slice, one piece when you are hungry, although it is not full, it can replenish vitality, it is much better than eating nothing." "This was given to him by Gu Kaizhen during the county exam, he didn't eat much, so he brought it to the academy, but he didn't expect it to really come in handy.

Looking at Su Qi's surprised face, Gu Yunji was a little puzzled: "It stands to reason that this ginseng slice is still the most eaten by officials in the last dynasty, and the last dynasty has stood early and for a long time, and it can be held for a long time with a tablet." Haven't you heard what Ding Guogong said? ”

Su Qi shook his head: "My father is a military general, most of the time he leads troops outside, and rarely goes back to Beijing to go to the court, I haven't heard him say this." But every time he went down to the court, he was so hungry that he could eat a lot at once. ”

It seems that Dingguo Gong is all relying on his body to resist hard, he really deserves to be the two of them, Gu Yunji said silently in his heart. Speaking of this, he remembered that Su Qi and Emperor Jingfeng had a good relationship during the day, so he asked, "Are you very familiar with Your Majesty?" You seem to be very close. ”

Su Qi snorted, and seeing that no one around was paying attention to them, he leaned over and said, "Your Majesty is only in his early twenties today, and he is only a few years older than me." When I was a child, we both studied in Guozijian, and I was often naughty and mischievous, and my husband always punished me. Everyone else is far away from me, only His Majesty has a good heart, and he intercedes for me every time. ”

Cheng Yan on the side couldn't help but speak: "Your Majesty will still intercede for you?" I can't really see it. ”

"That's natural, at that time His Majesty was still King Zhao, King Zhao died early, His Majesty attacked the Lord at a young age, although there are no elders around to teach, but he is a steady and dignified person, behaves in a good manner, and everyone praises him for being smart and sensible."

Gu Yunji asked, "So Your Majesty ascended the throne because of this?" ”

"Perhaps." Speaking of the past, Su Qi looked far away, "The first emperor collapsed without a child, and the ministers elected the first emperor's cousin, King Zhao, that is, His Majesty, to inherit the unification." Since then, I have rarely seen him, and occasionally entered the palace, but I saw that he either frowned or smiled distantly, which made it impossible to see. ”

"Maybe the emperor is different, the king is the king, the minister is the minister, and it can never be changed." Su Qi smiled bitterly, "In the past, he told me that it was difficult to understand the generals, and it was easy to be jealous of hard work. But this year, before the end of the year, he sent my father out early on the grounds that the border could not be without a coach for a long time. ”

is still afraid that Dingguo Gong has a heavy army, and he doesn't dare to let him stay in the capital longer. Hearing this, Gu Yunji sighed lightly and stopped mentioning the matter.

That night, the emperor of Hangzhou Fucheng stayed in the temporary palace.

An old eunuch lit the wick of the oil lamp, then covered it with the lampshade, tiptoed on the table of Emperor Jingfeng, who was reviewing the folds, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, it's late at night, rest early, beware of hurting your eyes." ”

Emperor Jingfeng hummed casually, picked up the music in his hand and said with a smile: "Gu Yuanhui, this old fox, said before that I shouldn't value a hairy boy who has not dried up, but after going to the academy today, the words changed suddenly, saying that this son is capable, and I am doing this to recruit talents for the imperial court." ”

Thinking of Emperor Jingfeng's grace to Gu Yunji during the day, the old eunuch couldn't help but worry: "Your Majesty attaches so much importance to that kid, will it be disadvantageous to him?" After all, he is still a teenage college student, can he withstand your expectations? The wood show will be destroyed by the forest wind. ”

Emperor Jingfeng waved his hand indifferently: "That kid is not as fragile as you think." He is the cousin and nephew of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department of the Dynasty, born in the Songjiang Gu family, and has the support of the entire Gu family behind him, so he will not be suppressed so easily. ”

"I am kind to Gu Yunji, that is, I am kind to the entire Gu family, Gu Yuanhui definitely wants to stabilize my favor for him, so as to smoothly support this son to grow up, and it will be easier for me to be wooed in the future, and he can stand on my side more when he encounters differences."

"Also, Luxi Academy is full of talents." Emperor Jingfeng put down the fold in his hand and picked up a new one, "Every time I can take more than ten jinshi in the imperial examination, I will go to inspect and encourage me, and these students will be more loyal to me." In the future, when I enter the court, I just hope that they will not cooperate with those old things and work against me. ”

The old eunuch complimented: "Your Majesty is far-sighted, and he is really wise and powerful. ”

"Can you do it without such foresight?" Emperor Jingfeng sighed, dropped the fold and stood up, "Since I ascended the throne, how many things have I done that I wanted to do?" Those old things are holding each other together, and they have joined forces to stop me from doing this and that, so that I can be a sage king who can rule by hand, and they can do anything wrong below. ”

"But how many of them are clean? It seems that he is loyal to the country, but in fact, it is not his own interests that are plotting and plotting? But I really can't do anything with them for a while. ”

Emperor Jingfeng walked to the window, looked at the inky night outside, and looked deep: "Everyone says that it is good to be an emperor, but only when you become an emperor do you know that this body seems to be tied with a thousand catties of shackles, and it has never been possible to do whatever you want." Even if you have the ambition to make a big difference, you still can't control the court. ”

"What you do, they all think you're naïve and ill-conceived. Isn't it just that I am young and soft-handed, and I don't want to hand over power? At the mercy of others like a puppet every day, I really don't know what this emperor has to do......"

The old eunuch did not dare to answer, bowed his head in silence, and did not say a word.

After a while, Emperor Jingfeng turned around, his eyes returned to his usual indifference, and said lightly: "It's not early, let's go to bed." ”