The question of guessing peaches in this academy has been passed down in Tai'an City with those who came to take the academy exam, but if you recognize a few words a little, the first sentence when talking to people is: Master's going up the mountain to pick peaches, can you calculate how many red, green and yellow peaches the master has picked?

This matter soon spread to the palace, and Li Xian still talked about it when he went to court, and his words were quite interesting, and it is estimated that the whole world will be able to come up with such a strange question for the exam.

Then Li Xian also took this question of guessing the peach and asked the prince of the country to supervise the sacrificial wine, the priest of the wine was stunned for a while and did not calculate it, in front of the emperor and the civil and military officials couldn't help sweating like rain, after racking his brains, he finally came up with an eyebrow, and probably calculated the answer to the wine lord to solve this question in detail, Li Xian felt that this question was not simple after listening.

Later, he also instructed the ministers of the court not to tell the answers calculated by the lord of the sacrificial wine, otherwise the answers to the questions of the academy would be leaked?

Tang Qing went to Miyagi to be on duty, but Tongzang and Cao Shuanglu in the house had some disagreements because of this answer to guess the peach.

"Green peaches are unknown, yellow peaches are also unknown, they are called unknown one and two, so red hearts are one hundred remove the unknown one and two, five times the unknown one, three times the unknown two, one-third of the remainder, a total of 100 drinks, so the whole number may only be zero, twenty-five, seventy-five, or four, eighteen, seventy-eight, or eight, eleven, eighty-one, or twelve, four, eighty-four, these possibilities, just write all this possibility, why do you have to pick zero, twenty-five, seventy-five?"

The two spread out the rice paper on the table, Cao Shuanglu held the pen and slowly straightened the rice paper with the other hand, this arithmetic was not difficult for the two of them, but Tongzang tended to write down all the possibilities, while Cao Shuanglu tended to the group where the green peach was zero, and it was because of this two that they had some disputes.

"If the master can't see with my eyes like me, and you can only pick one to know if it's a green peach, a yellow peach or a red peach after tasting it, then I think it's okay to write all the possibilities, but the question doesn't say that the master can't see with his eyes, do you think a normal person will put red hearts and yellow peaches instead of picking, but pick those green peaches that are not ripe, bitter and unpalatable?"

Cao Shuanglu's statement is not unreasonable, but this is just an arithmetic problem, do you really want to add all these messy things to consider?

Under the stalemate, no one could convince anyone, and in the end, the two simply wrote their own answers and sent them to the gate of the academy.

The master has been staying in the academy for half a month since he came back this time, and those gentlemen and students in the academy are naturally happy, in fact, they hope that the master can stay in the academy all the time and not go anywhere.

After dark, the students who were guarding the entrance of the academy had roughly reviewed the answers submitted by those who had come to take the test, sorted them out, wrote the results on a piece of paper, folded them, and handed them to Mr. Eleven to take to the master.

The master had just spoken to the disciples of the academy about "Han Feizi" during the day, and he used the last 20 of the 55 articles recorded in the "Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles".

Mr. Eleven, who had been listening all day, could not help feeling sleepy, but the master was always full of energy, and from time to time he had to listen to the loud applause of the crowd, and he did not see the slightest tiredness until the end of his classwork, and the other gentlemen who were with him could not help but admire.

Mr. Eleven took the list to the Master's door and knocked lightly.

"Master, the results of the introductory arithmetic problem have come out, and you can post it early tomorrow after you have seen it. ”

After saying that, Mr. Eleven raised his hand and knocked on the door twice, but there was no movement in the room.

Could it be that the Master has already slept?

After lecturing all day, Mr. Eleven thought that the master might have fallen asleep, so it would be better to wait until tomorrow morning to send it to the master.

"Mr. Eleven, come in. ”

Mr. Eleven was about to turn to leave, but the voice of the master sounded in the room.

"Master, this is a statistical list of correctly answered peach questions, for you to see. ”

When Mr. Eleven entered the house, he saw that the master was indeed supposed to sleep, and when he heard himself call the door, he got up from the bed with his clothes on.

"How did this year's arithmetic problem turn out?"

The master took the list and did not look at it first, but put it on the table, and then rubbed his face vigorously to refresh himself.

"This year, there are a total of 456 people who took the test, and there are 127 people who answered the first peach guessing question correctly, which is only a little more than 40%, which is a lot more than in previous years. ”

Mr. Eleven stood aside and replied respectfully.

"I'm thinking about how to become an official, study, write articles, and study the collection of scriptures and histories, who will put their minds on arithmetic?"

The master sighed helplessly, and then picked up the list and looked at it carefully.

"Who is this person named Cao Shuanglu?"

After reading it, the master asked, pointing to a name on the list.

"Oh, this person Ouyang Su just mentioned that he is one of the two scholars in Huangmen Lang Tangqing, and from Ouyang Su's words, he seems to appreciate those two scholars. ”

Mr. Eleven looked at the master pointing to the name Cao Shuanglu, and remembered that Ouyang Su had mentioned it to him when he came back from outside.

"It's just—"

Thinking of Ouyang Su's description of the scholar, Mr. Eleven was a little hesitant to tell his master.

"But what?"

"The child's eyes seemed to have an eye disease, and he could not see. ”

Mr. Eleven hesitated for a moment and then said.

"Eye disease?"

The master muttered in a low voice, and looked at the list again.

Of the one hundred and twenty-seven, he was the only one who wrote only one answer, and there were some things that could not be seen with the eyes. ”

The Master then returned the list to Mr. Eleven.

"Okay, I see, let's post this list tomorrow. ”

"Well, Master, rest early. ”

After Mr. Eleven came out of his master's room, he thought back and forth in his heart many times, what is this thing that he cannot see with his eyes?

The clouds and mist covered the moon, and the Tai'an City after the curfew seemed to be soaked in an ink tank, only the light in the palace city was sporadic and bright, but it was still difficult to pierce the thick darkness.

A fast horse through the cover of the night from the side door into the palace, after entering the palace, the person turned over and dismounted by an inner prison in front of the lead, galloped into the Penglai Hall of the Daming Palace.

The inner eunuch took the man to evade the patrol guards, and quietly entered the Penglai Hall after there was no one around.

"Big brother!"

When the eldest grandson of the imperial concubine saw the comer, she hurriedly stepped forward, but this eldest brother had an irrepressible cry.

Qiyuan inherited the old Tang Dynasty ritual system, and the emperor's harem set up a queen, four concubines and nine concubines, and the eldest grandson and mother were expensive by virtue of their sons, and they got the title of concubines by virtue of the three princes.

The person who came ripped off the pitch-black cloak draped on his body, and held the concubine who almost fell down with both hands, it was the eldest brother of the eldest grandson, the uncle of the third prince, the son of the national uncle, and the eldest grandson Xiande of the uncle of the country.

"Sister, I've worked hard for you. ”

The inner prison is guarding outside, and if anyone comes, they will be notified in advance.

Even those princes in the emperor's harem could not enter casually, and the eldest grandson Xiande couldn't take care of so much when the matter was urgent, so he secretly entered the palace that night under the response of the inner supervisor.

The bones of the third prince are not cold, the eldest grandson and concubine are almost all day long with tears, knowing that the father and nephew were killed by Mu Sanqian, the eldest grandson Xiande does not believe it, even if the father's cultivation is not invincible in the world, it is difficult to meet opponents, and the realm of knowing fate is already extremely superb, but it is really not enough to see it in front of the eldest grandson Xuanji.

The increasingly suspicious eldest grandson Xiande quietly checked the injury before his father's burial, and found that the injury looked like it came from the hand of Huang Sanshi, the first in Tai'an City.

Although some people wanted to bury the truth, Changsun Xiande still slowly dug it out, especially when he was close to the truth, he was chased and killed by a group of unknown people, which strengthened Changsun Xiande's conjecture, so he had to find the palace overnight.

"Big brother, have you ever found out the murderer of my emperor and father?"

When the eldest grandson Xiande left, he told the concubine that the concubine had always believed in the eldest brother, and the eldest brother must have found out the truth when he entered the palace overnight, if she knew it, she would definitely go to the emperor to ask the emperor to give the emperor and his father justice!

"Yu'er and her father were indeed killed by that remnant of Disha. ”

The eldest grandson Xiande tried his best to control his emotions, he couldn't tell his sister the truth, otherwise his sister would only be poisoned.

"Sister, there is one more thing I want to tell you again and again. ”

Afraid that the concubine would say the wrong thing, the eldest grandson Xiande advised.

"Yu'er and her father's affairs will not be mentioned again in the future, and you must not ask the emperor to avenge Yu'er and her father, you know!"

"Why? My poor boys, our fathers, why can't they take revenge on what they have been killed?"

The concubine couldn't figure it out, and she couldn't figure it out, why she knew who the murderer was, but she didn't go to avenge the emperor and her father?

"You must listen to me about this, sister!"

The eldest grandson Xiande was so anxious that he grabbed the concubine's hands and unconsciously increased his strength, and the concubine quieted down.

"I know you're sad, and I'll definitely take revenge for this, but not now, believe me, okay?"

The concubine looked at the extremely serious eldest brother, and then nodded and agreed.

"They won't die in vain, neither Yu'er nor her father will die in vain. ”

The brother and sister hugged each other and cried, and the eldest grandson Xiande secretly swore that he would not let Yu'er and his father lose their lives in vain.

The eldest grandson Xiande didn't dare to stay in the palace for long, and after avoiding the patrol guards, he was led out of the Daming Palace by the inner supervisor, and rode out of the palace city soon after riding a horse.

Behind him, a figure followed him like a ghost.