In the early morning, the sun broke through the clouds and shone on Ying Tianchang's face. Earlier, the rain stopped, and Ying Tianchang watched from the window as the rain stopped.

The boy was dazed and didn't sleep well last night. He stuck his head out of the window, and in the depths of the street corner that no one cared about, a large tree stood opposite Ying Tianchang.

The sun shines through the foliage into the shade of the tree, and there is a flower cat lying lazily on the branch.

A few leaves that had not yet turned yellow automatically floated down without wind.

Occasionally, you can hear a few shouts from the streets.

Ying Tianchang stared at all this blankly, as if these were a little far away from him, and they shouldn't be so close.

Chen Lin'an knocked on the door outside the room, and only Chen Lin'an would knock on the young man's door.

Ying Tianchang picked up the bun that was still asleep, and went downstairs with Kaimen and Chen Lin'an.

"Not used to it in Chang'an?" Chen Lin'an asked. He saw a piece of jade hanging from the waist of the young man now, and smiled.

"It doesn't matter where it is. Ying Tianchang said.

Chen Linan didn't speak anymore and patted the young man's head.

There weren't many people in the lobby of the inn, but there was a man in a green shirt sitting in the corner, which was nothing, what made Ying Tianchang feel that there was a white fox crawling under his feet, and there was a long sword and a green gourd on the table.

Chen Lin'an walked over with him.

"Why did you come to Chang'an?" Chen Lin'an asked.

"My eldest brother is stupid. The man smiled, and turned his head to look at Ying Tianchang, who was staring at the white fox stunned, "I've heard Mr. say, this is Xiao Si?"

Ying Tianchang hugged the black dog and looked at the white fox, a little nervous.

Chen Linan reminded: "You are also a senior brother. ”

The man in the green shirt nodded, pulled the young man to his side and sat down, and said, "I am the third disciple of Mr., that is, your third senior brother, Li Qinglian. ”

"Third Senior Brother?" Ying Tianchang looked at Chen Lin'an.

"You also have a second senior brother Xu Lu, among the few of us, he has the highest knowledge and the best chess. And the third senior brother in front of you is the highest swordsmanship and the best poetry. ”

"And the one who drinks the most. Li Qinglian added.

Chen Lin'an also sat down and said, "The world calls your third senior brother the 'Three Immortals of Poetry, Wine and Sword', and I am the most useless one." ”

"I'm just picking up some trivial things, not as good as the eldest brother and the second brother. Li Qinglian took a sip of wine with a green skin gourd, rubbed Ying Tianchang's head and said, "Little Four, when you go back to the academy, be careful of your second brother, he is a bit crazy, he has no appearance all day long, learn from him everywhere, and don't be delayed by him." ”

"I think the junior brother should be treated with the second junior brother more. Chen Lin'an said, "Actually, you are the most suitable, but I can't teach him anything, teach by word and deed, and teaching by example is the most important." ”

"Come on, it's strange that you're willing to hand over Xiaosi to me and let us go to the rivers and lakes. Li Qinglian laughed, he beckoned the shopkeeper to come over and ordered some breakfast.

"He has suffered enough outside, let him stay in the academy all these years, and when the little junior brother takes a study tour, you will come back?"

Li Qinglian nodded and took another sip of wine.

Ying Tianchang remained silent and did not speak. The store brought breakfast up, and it was still a light meal, but the young man looked a little stupid, not only porridge and steamed buns, but also some dishes he didn't know the name of. He felt that his third senior brother should be a little richer than the senior brother. But the boy is still like yesterday, and he didn't use chopsticks much.

Li Qinglian took a sip of porridge, noticed Ying Tianchang beside her, and frowned.

The little black dog opened his eyes when he smelled the fragrance of vegetables, and the first thing he saw was the white fox at Li Qinglian's feet, which stuck out its tongue and sighed. The white fox retreated and clinged to Li Qinglian. Li Qinglian took a bun and put it in front of the little black dog, the little black dog raised his head and looked at Li Qinglian, somehow, shivered, lowered his head and bit the bun, and no longer looked at the white fox.

"I guess they'll be here in a little while. Li Qinglian said.

Chen Lin'an nodded. Ying Tianchang slapped the little black dog on the head.

"Since you know that it was deliberately set for you, you can't go. Li Qinglian finished drinking the porridge in the bowl.

Chen Lin'an ate some food, then stopped moving his chopsticks, and said: "There are some reasons that cannot be refused, just like I don't want to come to Chang'an, but I have to come to Chang'an." ”

Li Qinglian shook his head, there was always a light on his eldest brother that he couldn't understand, he Li Qinglian came to Chang'an to help his eldest brother break the game, but only now did he find out that as long as Chen Linan was still Chen Linan, this was a dead end. Maybe I already knew it, but I just forgot about it, and I just wanted to help my eldest brother.

A sword that breaks ten thousand laws will work for you, but not for Chen Lin'an. Chen Linan does not have Xu Lu's frivolity, nor does he have Li Qinglian's ease, and he has more integrity that he feels is indispensable.

There is no glory, just the way it should be.

Outside the inn, unconsciously, there were already standing scholars and literati, they looked at each other, they may have confidants and friends, they may not know each other, among them there may be famous people, there may also be people who sell their reputations. But now they are standing here, only for one purpose, to support the backbone of the Central Plains scholars, the "two-sleeved breeze" Chen Lin'an.

These readers, one after the other, knelt down the long street.

"Please Mr. Chen set up a life for the people and open peace for the world!"

When Ying Tianchang heard the reputation, he was a little surprised that there were already people kneeling outside the door.

Li Qinglian smiled silently, Chen Linan shook his head and said, "It's too big, Mr. may be okay, but I definitely can't." ”

"I'll help you get rid of them? Li Qinglian said.

Chen Lin'an knocked Li Qinglian's head, Ying Tianchang saw this scene, seemed familiar, and drank porridge with a smile.

"Probably because of the drought and flooding in the east, the little junior brother also fled all the way. The food and salaries distributed by the imperial court for disaster relief were too small to help. Therefore, scholars in the literary circles from all over the world gathered together and put pressure on the government. Chen Lin'an explained.

"But being a spectator, it's just a matter of pen and ink and lip service. Li Qinglian had a sneer on her face.

"It can't be said that there are always a few real scholars in the world, and there must be people who are powerless. Chen Lin'an stood up and straightened his clothes, "Today, junior brother will ask you." ”

Li Qinglian raised her head to drink and agreed: "I know that you want to be with Miss Xiu after you are done, go quickly." ”

Chen Lin'an scratched his head and walked out the door. Outside, the scholar cried again.

Li Qinglian felt that it was very noisy, just a large group of mosquitoes and flies, and she didn't know how Chen Linan could bear it. He raised his hand, and the door of the inn closed, and the shopkeeper looked at the inexplicably closed door and was about to reopen it, but was pulled aside by the shopkeeper who had seen some of the world's faces on the side, whispering.

"I'm being a bit overbearing, but I'll compensate the store later. Li Qinglian drank wine and explained casually.

Ying Tianchang looked at the eyes of the third senior brother and found that there was nothing reflected in his eyes.

"Just ask whatever you want. Li Qinglian said.

"You're a little different from the people I've ever met. Ying Tianchang rubbed the head of the bun, wondering if what he said was appropriate.

"That's what it looks like. Li Qinglian looked very good when she smiled, she was really like a green lotus, "I am half a scholar, and I am also half a Jianghu person, which is not the same as the eldest brother and the second brother." ”

"Senior Brother Chen is also a little different. Ying Tianchang said.

Li Qinglian nodded, and put the ingot silver on the table, this is the first time Ying Tianchang has seen a complete silver, Chen Linan has a few pieces of broken silver, and more are copper coins, in the past, when Ying Tianchang lived by himself, he was satisfied with three or four cents a day.

Li Qinglian said, "Fill this gourd." He flipped the green-skinned gourd in his hand, and there was no longer a single drink in it.

Ying Tianchang wanted to say that the money for wine and food was not so much money, but looking at Li Qinglian, who was full of indifference, he still didn't say anything.

The shopkeeper accepted the money, and there was a little more false smile on his face, and Xiao Er also took Li Qinglian's green skin gourd away with his hands and feet, and walked like a fly. Li Qinglian turned around and said to Tianchang: "Do you think I am wronged?"

"You said you'd compensate them a little bit of silver. Ying Tianchang hesitated for a moment and continued, "But it's still a bit much. ”

"I still have a horse that needs to be fed by them today, but even if you add it up, it's still too much, but do you know why?" Mr. mentioned Xiao Si's understanding before, and Li Qinglian felt that although Mr. likes to talk big, at least it is not too fake. Li Qinglian didn't need any answers, and continued, "I'll tell you later." ”

Ying Tianchang looked up at the beams and pillars of the house, which had a thin layer of cobwebs. He knew that he couldn't do what Li Qinglian did after all.

Xiao Er came back with a green skin gourd full of wine, Li Qinglian hung the green skin gourd on her waist, picked up the black sheath long sword in her left hand, and walked out of the door. Ying Tianchang had no choice, so he followed behind Li Qinglian with a bun, and there was a white fox beside him.

Li Qinglian pulled Ying Tianchang to her side, walked side by side, and the moment she pushed the door out, dozens of literati and scholars who were surrounding Chen Lin'an like a tide were pouring to the right side of the street.

Li Qinglian did the opposite. When Ying Tianchang looked back at the group of literati, there was a little more emotion in his eyes, like a dark cloud covering the morning sun.

"After this time, the name of Chen Lin'an, the 'two-sleeved breeze', will be famous all over the world. Li Qinglian opened her mouth to drink a sip of the morning mist, and there was no joy when he said this.

Ying Tianchang thought of the words that the old bookworm had taught him before, and he killed him.

But Li Qinglian and even Chen Lin'an himself can see that all this can be explained by far more than just a killing, otherwise, Fatty Xue would not have been bought into Chang'an.

"This web has been woven for some time, with our Confucians, Buddhism and Taoism and other forces involved, and the biggest organizer is the imperial court. Li Qinglian's left thumb rubbed the hilt of the long sword, as long as he pushed forward, the sword could be unsheathed, "The eldest brother and we returned from a trip to the Central Plains, and once wrote a sentence to help people should be to help people achieve the virtue of a gentleman. Such a scene is impossible to hide if you want to. The king of the world naturally would not want to have such a 'deviant' Confucian student as Chen Lin'an in the world. ”

"The book that Senior Brother Chen gave me has this written on it. Ying Tianchang said.

Li Qinglian, who heard this, was a little surprised, and then relieved, Chen Linan is this kind of person, he knows it very well. "I can see this net, and the eldest brother can naturally see the calculation of him, but he Chen Lin'an thinks that he is a scholar, and he should do something for the people of the world. ”

Li Qinglian didn't know why she said this, maybe she was afraid that Xiao Si would become the next Chen Lin'an, or it could be because of other reasons. Ying Tianchang turned around stupidly, there was no longer the group of scholars on the other side of the street, let alone Chen Lin'an in the crowd. He remembered that Chen Linan had said to himself that he was not his own spring breeze. For no reason, the clouds in Fang Caitianchang's eyes spread into his heart, he was suddenly very angry, and wanted to cry, before crying, he would punch and smash the faces of those scholars and literati, no matter what kind of good and bad person he was.

"If I were you, I would hand over that sword, and I wouldn't ask Senior Brother Chen if it was feasible. Ying Tianchang sighed as Chen Lin'an learned.

Li Qinglian smiled, it seemed that Ying Tianchang seemed to have admitted himself, but Xiao Si said this, but Li Qinglian didn't expect it.

"I didn't hand over that sword, but why did your third brother come to Chang'an even though I knew that I couldn't persuade my eldest brother?" he said, "I want them to know that no one can bully our brother in vain, and neither can the emperor." ”

Li Qinglian smiled lightly, and his smile made the young man's eyes brighten instantly.

They continued to walk through the streets of Chang'an, facing the direction of the Imperial Palace.

Ying Tianchang seemed to understand what kind of person his third senior brother was. He likes this third senior brother.

In the courtyard of the thatched hut on the other side, there were also two people who left the house and walked towards the palace, and the old man scolded: "I won't stop it, but we have to deal with this mess." Li Sanxian, Li Sanxian, can he deal with it simply? If he is real, how many people in this Chang'an City can completely block the sword in his hand?"

Cui Yu in white robe smiled and walked briskly.