The main hall is in the south of the Forbidden City, inside the Zuoshun Gate.

All the way from Wan'an Palace, it takes almost two miles.

Along the way, you have to pass through three palace gates, all of which are strictly guarded and carefully checked.

Every attendant has to enter and exit with a guard waist card, even a steward brand like Wang Gonggong is no exception.

When they arrived at the main hall, Wang Defa and his entourage were directly turned away.

"It is a place for all the princes to study, in order to let His Royal Highness study with peace of mind, no idle people are allowed to enter." Father-in-law Wang presented the schoolbag and said, "Your Highness can only go in by yourself, and the old slave is waiting here to learn." ”

"No, I'm not here to study today." Zhu Zhen didn't take the schoolbag and walked straight into the main hall.

The captain of the Gongwei Division guarding the door naturally would not stop His Royal Highness the King of Chu, but he did not squint and did not salute. I don't know if I am afraid of disturbing the class in the hall, or if I remind the prince that when you enter this door, you are just an ordinary student.

As soon as I entered, I heard the sound of reading aloud. Zhu Zhen involuntarily relaxed his steps, but he didn't mean to enter the school, but went around to the back of this two-story school with heavy eaves and five rooms.

It was a small garden, and the ground was covered with golden ginkgo leaves. There are rockery pond water, there are residual lotus daisies, and it is a place for His Royal Highness to rest between classes.

At this time, the princes were in class, and there was no one in the small garden.

Zhu Zhen carefully observed the scene in front of him while trying to recall the situation of that day.

Then he walked slowly through the rockery with stacked stone barriers and winding paths, and came to the deep and secluded lotus pond, and stood in front of a piece of bluestone.

He lowered his head and looked at the one reflected in the pool water, wearing a small cyan dragon robe, with thick eyebrows and an innocent face.

After a long time, Zhu Zhen muttered: "Don't be afraid, I'll find out the person who harmed you." ”

This was where he stood that day before he fell into the water.

Zhu Zhen returned here, not to hang on to the past that he could never go back to, but to recreate the scene of that day.

He closed his eyes and slowed his breathing, calming himself completely, remembering as much as he could about how he felt......

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I remember that day the wind was very noisy, blowing cold all over the body, which made the little boy miss his mother more and more, and cried very much.

So much so that he didn't hear it at all, and someone walked up behind him.

Until someone pushed him from behind......

Looking back on this, the boy's memory became extremely clear. The muscles in the back seem to be able to feel the power transmitted through those two hands!

Then he staggered forward, staggering one step, two steps, until his right foot was about to hit the water, and then he stopped!

Zhu Zhen raised his eyebrows, his mouth slightly open, thoughtful.

He retracted his foot first so as not to fall into the water again. Then take three steps back, raise your hands, and simulate the perpetrator.

After repeating it for a long time, Zhu Zhen suddenly clapped his hands with his hands, as if he had grabbed something!

The first is the push from behind. To be precise, two hands together, pushing under his left and right shoulder blades!

This shows that the height of the perpetrator is likely to be similar to his own.

For if the man had been much taller than him, he would have put his hands on his shoulders.

If the other party pushes his back, he has to bend down, take a horse step, or exert force with both hands, which is not a normal posture.

Then you might as well just fly up and kick yourself into the water.

And there is another point, I stumbled forward two steps before falling into the water.

It shows that the strength of the other party is not too great.

Because when pushing someone into the water, you will definitely use all your strength. If that person is strong enough, he will fly out directly, and he will not take another two steps forward.

Therefore, the perpetrator is either a child of his own age or a woman of his own size.

And the main hall is exempted from entering, and there is no palace maid to add fragrance to the red sleeves, so the suspect is very likely to be the former!

This is a much smaller range.

Especially in this place where the personnel are very fixed, it is not difficult to find this person.

However, in view of the vague memory of the young man, in order not to miss someone, he decided to confirm it.

At this time, Zhu Zhen's mood was a lot more relaxed, he looked up at the main hall, and saw that under the cover of the rockery, he could only see the corner of the second floor.

The windows are open there, and someone should be there.

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Zhu Zhen walked out of the back garden and returned to the front of the main hall.

This two-storey building with heavy eaves is covered with black glazed tiles, and the doors, windows and railings are all green, which is unique in the Forbidden City with red walls and yellow tiles.

Because this is also the royal library, it is said that the main black water can be used to suppress the fire, and the green water can protect against the fire.

But what really protects the library is the pond water in front of and behind the building, as well as strict fire management.

The lecture hall on the first floor was still in session, and Zhu Zhen walked lightly and went upstairs from the stairs on the left.

On the second floor is the Library Pavilion, with neatly arranged bookshelves leading to the ceiling to block out the light from the windows. In order to prevent fire, the lights cannot be lit, so it is naturally very dim.

After his eyes got used to it, Zhu Zhen followed the bookshelves marked with serial numbers and walked all the way to the east end of the pavilion.

It was the duty room of the library pavilion secretary, and the door was hidden.

Zhu Zhen knocked lightly on the door, but no one answered.

He pushed the door open and walked in.

I saw an old man wearing a cloth robe and gray hair sitting in front of the desk by the window.

The old man was concentrating on reading, and because there was not enough light in the room, the windows were still open even though it was late autumn.

Zhu Zhen was not in a hurry, walked in to find a chair to sit down, and also picked up a book from the table and looked at it.

After reading a few lines, his eyes were not focused...... Nima's traditional Chinese characters and Chinese are painful when you look at it.

Then, after a while, he fell asleep on his stomach.

~~

"Wake up, wake up."

I don't know how long later, an old but still magnetic voice woke him up.

Zhu Zhen rubbed his sleepy eyes with his chubby little hands and saw the old man's face.

He is a very handsome and handsome old man with deep wrinkles, a clear face, and a long beard.

"Did Your Highness come to sleep with me?" The old man looked helplessly, and the book of "The Positive Seal of the Article" that he put under his cheek had been wet with saliva.

Zhu Zhen was unconscious, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and asked, "Sir, you have finished reading the book." ”

"If you wait for Lao Chen to finish reading the book, this "Article Zhengyin" will become "Article Watermark"." That's Song Guben! The old man's heart was dripping blood, so naturally he didn't have anything to say.

"It's okay, it won't affect the look when it's done." Zhu Zhen did not have the slightest sense of guilt for the ambergris he left.

"You're not particular!" The old man almost crooked his nose in anger, and said in a muffled voice: "What does Your Highness have to do?" Let's go down to class if it's okay. ”

"Something, something, of course." Zhu Zhen hurriedly smiled and said, "I want to ask sir, how many children are there in our main hall, who are as old as me?" ”

"Your Highness is taking the school exam?" The old man's face was even more ugly.

In his opinion, although His Royal Highness the King of Chu is usually simple, he has been studying in the Great Hall for several years, how can he not know such a simple matter?

Even if you are as stupid as His Royal Highness King Qin, you won't know it!

His mind was already heavy, and it was inevitable that he would think that this was the king of Chu sarcastically mocking himself, hiding in the library all day long, and not going down to teach.

"Well, I don't dare to take the school exam, let's discuss it." Since Zhu Zhen accepted the identity of the prince, he has not looked at people's faces.

"Hehe, it seems that His Highness has recognized the old man occupying the manger in the dog?" The old man was sad for a while. Wow, the father bullied the old man all day long, and the son also came to ridicule me.

"Say it."

"Only your seventh brother, His Royal Highness King Qi!" The old man was so angry that his beard straightened and said:

"There are four kinds of people in the main hall, the gentleman who teaches, the housekeeper who manages the book, the prince who reads, and the noble children who accompany the study!"

"The first two are adults, and none of the companions are fifteen years old; As for His Royal Highness's brothers, there is no need to take the school minister's exam! ”

After the old man finished speaking, he coughed violently, but he didn't expect a child to be angry like this.

It's really a tiger falling into Pingyang and being bullied by dogs......

"Uh, why is Sir so excited?" Zhu Zhen is a good person, so he hurriedly stepped forward to give the old gentleman a back and brought him a cup of tea.

The old man took the teacup, which made him feel better.

"Oh yes, I haven't asked the old gentleman for your surname." Zhu Zhen asked sincerely: "Are you a teacher or a librarian?" ”

'Poof......' The old man almost took a sip of tea and sprayed him in the face.

"The old man is in the duty room of the Si Shilang, does it have to be the Si Shilang? Then why is there no wife in the wife's cream?! ”

"Oh, that's the gentleman who teaches." Zhu Zhen was stunned.

"The old man is your teacher Liu Bowen, will you know him?!" The old man put down the teacup heavily and said indignantly:

"Your Highness is still sarcastic about the old man, hiding in the library all day long, right? Could it be that the emperor can't see the old man eating idle dinner, and he is going to issue an eviction order? ! ”