All the students in front of the bluestone stele automatically made way for Zhou Ping, and Zhang Xiaoyue and Chu Ci also came to Zhou Ping's side quickly.

"Brother, I knew you would definitely win!" Zhang Xiaoyue said excitedly.

Chu Ci was not as happy as Zhang Xiaoyue, she gently held Zhou Ping's hand and walked side by side with him without saying a word.

Just when the three of them wanted to leave Qingliang Mountain, a man in black slowly walked up to Zhou Ping, arched his hand and said with a smile: "This brother is Zhou Ping!

"Are you ......" Zhou Ping looked the man in black up and down and asked with a frown.

"Under Yuan Ying, entrusted by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I invite you to Liyuan Ju for a while!" Yuan Ying made a gesture of invitation to Zhou Ping, with a smile on his face.

Zhou Ping turned his head and cast an inquiring glance at Chu Ci, Chu Ci immediately understood, leaned over Zhou Ping's ear and whispered, "This Yuan Ying is the second son of Yuan Tiangang, the head of the Qin Heavenly Prison, and he was under the prince's door a year ago, and you challenged the mountain guards today, it should have alarmed the prince, so he sent Yuan Ying to invite you as a guest!"

Hearing this, Zhou Ping thought about it a little in his heart, he was at the same table with the second prince Li Si at the Chang'an Inn yesterday, and the prince probably had already received the news, if he rejected the prince, then in the eyes of the prince's lineage, he would undoubtedly be more inclined to the second prince!

Zhou Ping knew that he was sharp when he first came to Chang'an, and he became famous among the young students in Chang'an in just two or three days, and it was normal for the two princes to compete with him, but was he really willing to put himself in this political whirlpool?

The answer is no, politicians, conspirators and other similar existences have always been Zhou Ping's dislike, so the key to the problem is how to grasp the distance between himself and the two princes, that is, an idealized state of checks and balances!

The second prince Li Hei's methods seen yesterday were not very clever, but they were just in line with Zhou Ping's appetite. He did have a sincere heart for Chu Ci, otherwise how could he choose to sit opposite Zhou Ping and eat that bowl of clear soup noodles?

Li Si did not reveal his identity in the conversation, did not oppress people with power, but was the truth of the love field with Zhou Ping, which is also where Zhou Ping felt that he was not simple. Seven points of sincerity, three points of hypocrisy, and heart-to-heart friendship! This is the cleverness of Li Si's methods.

"Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has opened his mouth to invite, Zhou Ping is respectful and might as well obey his fate!" Zhou Ping patted Chu Ci's little hand lightly and said softly, "You and Zhang Xiaoyue go first, and I'll go back when I go." ”

Chu Ci knew the severity, and immediately let go of Zhou Ping's arm, and immediately smiled and nodded at Yuan Ying.

The chariot had already been prepared, and as soon as Zhou Ping got off Qingliang Mountain, he immediately got into a gilded car and rode on the wide long street of Chang'an......

"If I'm not mistaken, it should be the gilded chariot of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince......

"Yes! It seems that there is a remarkable figure among the freshmen of this class! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince actually sent his own gilded chariot to pick him up, I am afraid that Zhou Ping will have to rise to prominence in the future......"

Many students looked at the gilded chariot that was gradually moving away, and their hearts were infinitely fascinated.

It is said that Li Chengyuan, the Holy Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was very fond of opera thousands of years ago, and it is rumored that he once personally mentioned a couplet to Liyuanju.

"The wonderful song is blessed and blessed by thousands of households;

Jiayin Chang'an Wanmin. ”

Zhou Ping unconsciously read this couplet under the chariot, smiled and shook his head, I didn't expect that His Majesty the Holy Emperor was not only the best in battle, but also quite talented!

"Is there a horizontal batch of this couplet?" Zhou Ping turned around and asked.

Yuan Ying shook his head and explained with a smile, "His Majesty the Holy Emperor only wrote these two sentences of couplets back then, and did not leave a horizontal criticism, and later generations also thought of setting up horizontal criticisms for them, but what are the like: Chang'an Chengfu, Liyuan Fu'an, etc., are not too suitable, so I didn't dare to fill in the ugliness of His Majesty the Holy Emperor's couplet......"

He was telling the truth, after all, this was an inscription left by the Holy Emperor, who would dare to make a horizontal criticism casually? If there is a slight mistake, it will be left behind for 10,000 years!

"That's true. Zhou Ping nodded, sighed slightly, and was led into the pear garden by Yuan Ying.

The two of them bypassed the seats on the first floor and went straight to the best private room on the second floor.

"You said that Qintian Temple is now looking for a Yin and Yang Daoist?" Prince Li slowly put down the teacup and asked softly, "And your father Yuan Tiangang also went to Cloud City to investigate in person?"

At this time, the person sitting in front of Li Ze was none other than Yuan Ren of Qintian Temple who went to Yuncheng to investigate the matter of Yin and Yang Qi that day!

"That's right. Yuan Ren replied with a somewhat solemn face: "Originally, my father just wanted to send me, but not long after I arrived in Cloud City, my father came in person! ”

"At that time, there were only a few days left before the enrollment of Chang'an Xianyuan, and I was taken back to Chang'an by my father. ”

Zhou Ping, who walked not far from the door, happened to hear these few words of dialogue, and his heart was shocked!

In this way, the father and son and themselves just left Cloud City with their feet in front of their feet, and the fact that they were Yin and Yang Dao people was almost exposed at that time!

Yuan Ying naturally didn't have the five senses that were far beyond ordinary people like Zhou Ping, so he didn't know what the two in the private room were talking about, so he just knocked on the door and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, Zhou Ping has come to make an appointment." ”

Yuan Ren in the private room frowned, although he had long known that his unsuccessful younger brother had become a guest of the prince's door, but hearing his own brother call people so lowly, Yuan Ren was somewhat unhappy in his heart.

"Please come in!" Li Ze slowly stood up and tidied up his clothes a little.

After all, Zhou Ping is a young talent who is in the limelight in Chang'an today, and he has comprehended the ability to defy the heavens such as the Eight Phases Xuanqi, and it is also appropriate to give him some respect.

Yuan Ying opened the door, Zhou Ping entered the private room, and just wanted to make a big salute to Li Ze, but Li Ze stretched out his hand and slowly held him.

"Brother Zhou doesn't have to be like this, today I just want to get to know you as a talent, so let's only talk about friendship, not identity. ”

Seeing the sincerity on Li Ze's face, Zhou Ping nodded with a smile and said, "I have heard that His Royal Highness the Prince is approachable, and he is willing to treat people as reckless as Zhou Ping with courtesy, so Zhou Ping will no longer be polite." ”

"I just heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say that there will be a chess master who can fight and win against the mountain guards, I originally thought it was an old-timer, but I didn't expect it to be such a young talent, Yuan Ren admired it very much!"

Yuan Ren shook his head with affection, as if he recalled something he didn't want to mention.

Seeing this, Prince Li was stunned for a moment, then laughed and patted Zhou Ping's shoulder, and asked, "Zhou Ping, do you know who this is?"

Zhou Ping looked Yuan Ren up and down, although he knew his identity outside the door before, but now he had to pretend to have a puzzled expression.

"This is ......"

"This is the eldest son of Yuan Tiangang, the head of Qintian Temple, Yuan Ren, the eldest young master of Qintian Temple!" After speaking, Li Ze gently leaned in Zhou Ping's ear and pretended to whisper, but in fact, Yuan Ren heard it clearly and said in a loud voice: "Before you challenged the mountain guard, he had been cleaning in Qingliang Mountain for five years!"

Zhou Ping tugged at the corners of his mouth slightly, this is too embarrassing! Originally, he thought that the main purpose of the mountain guard's bet was to make many students retreat, but who knew that someone had really worked as a cleaner for five years!

"Don't mention the past!" Yuan Ren sighed and took a sip of tea to himself, as if he didn't want to mention that memory again.

"Okay, I won't make fun of you, Brother Yuan. Li Ze smiled and said to Zhou Ping, "Sit casually, don't be restrained, today we are here to drink tea and watch the play, there is no need to have too many courtesies!"

Zhou Ping smiled and nodded, casually found a chair and sat a meter away from Li Ze, and began to watch the big drama in the audience attentively.

"This play is called "Huarong Dao", which tells the story of a general surnamed Guan who changed his master twice and explained the old master in Huarong Daoyi!" Just when Zhou Ping was listening attentively to the play, the prince said with a smile on the side, "Some people think that since General Guan has changed hands, he should plan his own affairs in his position, and there is no need to be merciful;

Zhou Ping grinned, "If you can't have both love and loyalty, just ask for peace of mind." As for whether it is right or wrong, then leave it to posterity to comment......"

Prince Li nodded at Zhou Ping with a smile, but when he looked back at the play, the smile on his face gradually solidified.

The drama in the audience is still singing, the red-faced General Guan is holding a big knife, with long hair and horizontal eyebrows, and he sings a song a hundred times and a thousand times.

In the past, he didn't blink an eye when he killed people, and his heart was as soft as cotton. Behind his back, he only complains about the military division, and it is difficult to think about it.

Guan Mou is not a righteous man, and would rather cut off my head and hang a high pole......

After singing a song, I don't know if it sings love or loyalty......