In the few days when Su Hanshan was recuperating in the house, the first snow in Tiandu City had melted for eight or nine minutes.

Only some of the shady corners of the tiles that the sun does not shine on and the artificial accumulation of snowdrifts still have some remains, tenaciously showing people that it has been here in this world.

Of course, it is common sense that the speed of snow melting is due to the clear sky. But in the past few days of recuperation in Suhan Mountain, this palace city exposed to the sunlight is not very clear, and even suspicious clouds.

It all stems from two anecdotes.

The day after the emperor's eldest son, Su Jieyu, left the plum garden, the news of the recurrence of the congenital illness of the Nine Emperor Princes began to circulate in Miyagi and even the entire heavens.

It is said that His Royal Highness the Ninth returned to the north in less than ten days, and the old illness relapsed, and he was bedridden for a long time, and his weak physique was really not suitable for living in Sutang for a long time. If you are obsessed with staying, I am afraid that your life will not be long.

Another rumor is about the tenth princess Su Nuannuan.

In response to Su Hanshan's kindness, it was rumored that the Nine Emperors deliberately admitted the Tenth Princess to live in the Plum Garden Mansion, implying that he supported Concubine Jing and the poor and sour Xiucai's position of joining forces.

For his own selfishness, he recalls the Miyagi scandal that trampled on His Majesty's face, his heart is despicable, and his crime should be punished!

Su Hanshan naturally didn't bother to pay attention to the false rumors, whether it was from the mouth of Su Jieyu, the eldest emperor's brother who was beaten by an inexplicable person after leaving the plum garden with his front foot.

Of course, you can also see through the plans of those with ill intentions behind the scenes.

In the final analysis, it is just to weaken his father's grace to him, and to remind the world that Su Tang's future cannot be handed over to a long-lived addict.

Su Hanshan did not come forward to clarify, because he felt that his father's favor was just a compensation for the lack of care in the past fifteen years, and he did not clearly reveal his intention to establish himself as the master of the East Palace.

If the rumors don't match the truth, why care?

It's just that seeing the low mood every day, Su Hanshan feels guilty in his heart.

"It is said that rumors stop at the wise, but not all the smart people in this palace city are concerned. ”

Wake up early in the morning.

Li Tianxia, the crown prince with two black circles under his eyes, came up with an idea.

So when he accompanied Su Hanshan out of the palace in a carriage, he deliberately ordered Zhihua to drive around the palace city a few more times.

Lifting the curtains, regardless of the cold wind that penetrated his clothes, he just wanted to let countless pairs of eyes secretly see if the Nine Emperors were really bedridden as the rumors said.

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The carriage drove out of the Suzaku Gate, Zhishu lowered the curtain, and finally there was a trace of comfort in the carriage, which was no longer airy.

Su Hanshan sighed and said, "I hope this move can make the rumors self-defeating." ”

Li Tianxia, who was dressed in white and holding a sword, yawned and said, "Your emperor father doesn't care." ”

Su Hanshan seemed to see through and said: "Throughout the ages, which emperor have you ever seen interfere in the matter of the princes under his knees fighting for the East Palace?"

Li Tianxia said: "There is always a bias, right?"

Su Hanshan shook his head: "Speaking of which, it's all his flesh and blood, who can he care about more? It's just to provide a basis for equal treatment, on the same level, all the princes show their powers, and the winner is the king." ”

Li Tianxia trembled: "Cannibalism, too cruel!"

Su Hanshan said: "But you can decide the male lord who is really capable of ruling the rivers and mountains, isn't it?"

Li Tianxia looked at Su Hanshan's eyes in surprise: "I think you seem to have changed." ”

Su Hanshan smiled: "How can it be so fast!"

It's a wry smile.

Because Su Hanshan knows that in the dye vat of temples and rivers and lakes, everyone will change, sooner or later.

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Continue.

Li Tianxia gathered Chu Nanzhao to wander around the heavenly capital.

Su Hanshan drove all the way and walked towards Tianfu Mountain.

Since the last time he saw the teacher, the Lord Shenque, the head of the Heaven Replenishing Sect, had issued an edict announcing that he had accepted the Nine Emperor Princes, Su Hanshan, as his protégé.

Su Hanshan, who officially became the future seal holder of the Mending Heaven Sect, entered the Dao Gate for the second time, and the treatment he received was completely different.

At least on the road leading to the bamboo courtyard where the teacher lived, all the Daomen disciples he met, to be precise, the Daotong disciples of the Mending Heaven Sect, would respectfully call Su Hanshan a senior brother, and then salute.

As the old saying goes, how much strength a person has, how much responsibility he has to bear. Placed here in Su Hanshan, it becomes how much respect you enjoy, how much burden you have to shoulder.

Su Hanshan, who had high hopes from the Heaven Repair Sect to the Sect of Heaven and the Daotongs, delayed for a long time before coming to the door of the teacher's bamboo courtyard in order to return the gifts to the younger brothers and sisters on the way.

As soon as I stretched out my hand to push the door, I heard the teacher's relieved voice from the courtyard: "A few days earlier than expected, not bad." ”

Su Hanshan was puzzled for a moment, and then walked in.

The courtyard is full of shady gourd vines, and some are still hanging with residual snow.

Su Hanshan entered the room and saw Lord Shenque lying on a bamboo chair reading a book, and saluted respectfully: "The teacher knows that I will come?"

Lord Shenque, who had white hair and was dressed in a Taoist robe, pointed to the bamboo stool next to the stove and motioned for Su Hanshan to sit down: "It's not difficult to guess. If you practice the thousand characters given to you by your teacher, you will naturally go up the mountain full of questions and ask for advice. However, coming a few days earlier surprised the teacher. ”

Su Hanshan sat by the fire and stretched out his hand to roast it warmly: "Teacher thinks, how many days am I early?"

Lord Shenque pondered for a moment and said, "At least three days." ”

Su Hanshan asked, "Why the three days?"

Lord Shenque, the highest-ranking Daoist in the Dao Sect, said: "Because that kid from Fengqiwu climbed the mountain on the tenth day after coming into contact with the thousand characters. ”

Su Hanshan smiled bitterly.

I thought that it was still inseparable from Feng Qiwu.

It seems that from the time he returned to the north, an invisible fate linked him with the seventh brother Su Musha and Feng Qiwu. In Tiandu Palace, Su Musha is his mirror. And in Daomen Tianfu Mountain, Feng Qiwu is his reflection.

The people of Tiandu or the disciples of the Daomen, and even those princes and nobles in the palace city, would always compare him with these two people intentionally or unintentionally.

Even at first, it seemed to him that it was not necessary and boring. But as time goes by, it's hard to guarantee that I won't gradually care.

After all, it involved the supreme position of Su Tang and the master of the Dao Gate.

There is even a confidante who is red-faced.

Su Hanshan said with a smile: "It seems that the teacher has a good vision, and my talent is still stronger than Feng Qiwu." ”

Lord Shenque couldn't hide his smile.

Putting the book in his hand on the bamboo table on the side, he took a sip of the slightly hot tea: "Let's get back to the point, let's talk about the feelings of drawing talismans these days." ”

Su Hanshan didn't see it, and poured himself a cup of tea: "The apprentice has a few questions that I want to ask the teacher first." ”

Lord Shenque said, "Say it." ”

Su Hanshan remembered hearing the rumor that Feng Qiwu had been shocking from the maid Zhishu, and wanted to use this to verify his conjecture, so he said, "Is there a certain pattern hidden in the thousand characters?"

Lord Shenque, who was dressed in Taoist robes, put down his hand and paused for a moment, stroked his white beard and said, "You found that there is nature, if you don't notice it, you naturally don't have it." ”