CHAPTER XXIII

In the spring of the fifteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, on the second night of the first month of March, three people with conical hats and green robes came from the back door of the Li Mansion, and the butler quietly brought the three into Li Yundao's study after one of them showed a thing.

After talking with Yao Zhiping for a while, he called Li Jinglan over.

After Li Jinglan entered the door, he saw his mother sitting at the bottom with a solemn face, while the guest in the housekeeper's mouth was sitting at the top, he couldn't help frowning, and muttered in his heart.

Looking up, the guest had taken off his cone, and he was still a young man who was not a few years older than him, with a clean and fair face, clear eyes, and elegant manners, which made people unconsciously feel close and trusting. When Li Jinglan looked at the guests, the guests were also looking at him, and then smiled at him, as natural as greeting old friends for many years. And Li Jinglan didn't feel uncomfortable, so he hurriedly gave his hand away.

Yao Zhiping wanted to say something, and asked the young man with his eyes, but the young man stood up and walked in front of Li Jinglan by himself.

"Little junior brother, it's really hard to see you!"

It turned out to be the crown prince Zhou Anshi, who had just lifted the ban.

Li Jinglan's heart suddenly became chaotic, what would happen if the prince left the palace in civilian clothes late at night? What could make the prince, who was above tens of thousands of people under one person, visit secretly? Is it his father? or his sister? He couldn't help but shrink his pupils, clenched his fists in his sleeves, and subconsciously looked at his mother.

Zhou Anshi naturally saw his nervousness, shook his head slightly and smiled bitterly, and said, "I'm scared of my junior brother, but it's not what you think." It's another thing: a few days ago, the teacher went out of Chang'an and went north, so don't worry, this is what the teacher meant. The prince paused.

He also said: "The teacher also said that I have the final say in the academy now, so I have to take care of the homework of the junior and junior students." ”

I heard a deep voice from the back hall: "Jinglan is now my Dragon and Tiger disciple!"

The dark color of the two behind the prince changed greatly, but Zhou Anshi smiled and said loudly: "The teacher said that things have their beginnings and ends, and things have always been in order!"

There was a low grunt from the back hall, and then there was no movement.

Zhou Anshi retreated, and respectfully said to Yao Zhiping, there are a few private words to explain to Li Jinglan, Yao Zhiping looked at his son worriedly, Li Jinglan bowed slightly, meaning that it was okay.

When there were only two brothers left in the house, the prince was not in a hurry, stared at Li Jinglan's eyebrows and asked, "Jade Emperor Tower?"

Li Jinglan nodded.

"The true Taoist is really kind, no wonder the teacher is relieved. ”

Li Jinglan was confused, so he didn't dare to answer.

"Senior brother has something that I need your help with!"

"Oh!ah?" Li Jinglan didn't understand too much.

"The teacher is gone, here in the academy, there must be someone in charge, I want you to go!" The prince got straight to the point.

"I'm going to the academy?" Li Jinglan pointed to his nose.

"What's the problem?"

"Senior brother, how old are you this year?"

"Nineteen!"

"I'm only sixteen, you let me go to the Great Qin Academy?

"The teacher said it was appropriate!

"Master taught me only three years. ”

"Doesn't it mean that there is no order to learn, and the master is the first? The junior brother is humble!"

"Am I a capable person? or a master? Half a bottle is less than a bottle and dangling. Okay, even if I go cheekily, the more than 1,000 disciples of the academy can convince me? What do the millions of scholars in Daqin think? Senior brother, have you thought about it?"

"The teacher said that after he left, the academy will be my academy, so the important thing is not what others think, but what I think, and I think the junior brother is very good. ”

"I don't think it's good!" Li Jinglan's head shook like a rattle.

"Heaven, earth, king, family, teacher!" the prince said word by word.

Who is the biggest in this world, the sky is silent, the earth is silent, and then there is the emperor, and the crown prince is the future emperor. Li Jinglan decided to let the girl be upgraded, and in the future, these five words, no matter what, will be annoying to look at.

It is a matter of heaven in the literary world of Daqin, so it is decided in a few words between the brothers and sisters, and from then on, there is a sixteen-year-old deputy mountain master in the "Youjian Academy", and there is a little master for more than 1,000 scholars.

Li Jinglan simply thought that this was the disciple's work, and he simply thought that he could help his senior brother do something, but he didn't know that the prince sighed outside the wall: "Teacher, actually, I also think that the sixteen-year-old master, this fire is a bit strong." Are you wrong?"

Yao Zhiping was very angry, Yi Qiu Zhenren was also very angry, Tong Banchuan heard the news and left, so in the entire mansion, only Pei Xiaohuan was reluctant to be embarrassed, happily listening to Li Jinglan's repeated sighs.

Pei Xiaohuan is really happy, because she can finally see a scholar who is as helpless as herself to write big characters, in her heart, since the pain is inevitable, so many people to share it, it will be better! At least when you have worked hard to write the big characters, as soon as you look up, hehe, there are people who work harder than you, you will be much more comfortable! As for whether Li Jinglan can be this little master, she has never considered it, she thinks that Brother Lan is omnipotent, General Tong is so old, so good, didn't he also be stabbed by his brother? If you can be a master just when you are old, then why does the old gentleman in Huai'an Town bow to Brother Lan? But she admires the master from the top, so big the academy waved her hand and handed it to Brother Lan, such a teacher is the best, she is even thinking that she will write well in the future, because as Brother Lan's great disciple, maybe one day, Brother Lan will become the female master of the academy with a wave of his hand. Thinking of this, she felt so happy, so happy, so she learned from the old gentleman in Huai'an Town, walking around the house with his head held high, his hands behind his back, and pacing in all directions.

Looking out of the window, two figures, one large and one small, were walking around the room like a marquee, one bowing his head and groaning, the other holding his head high, like a little master, teaching a scholar who was much higher than her.

The next morning, the crown prince came to the imperial study and told the emperor of the previous night's decision.

The Emperor did not get angry, but simply asked, "Is this what the master meant?" or is it your own?"

"The Master said, "This is my business." It's up to me to decide. ”

"Oh, if the master didn't say this, he can't tell me?"

"The Master has said that nothing should be said to others!

"Well, I got it. ”

"Where is the Master?"

"He said that what he taught was to apply physiognomy, and there might be a problem with the first half, and there was a problem with the second half of what he taught the emperor to use, so he went to find a way to learn it!"

"Oh, I know," waved his hand, and the prince withdrew.

"What do you think of this?" the Emperor asked the old man, who was pretending to be sleepy.

Gao Lan of Menxia Province is an old minister of the two dynasties, and he is also the only big man on the stage in the three provinces, so he naturally knows how to protect himself, "The master doesn't say it sooner or later, and if he says it at this time, it's just to show his attitude, right?"

"The master has always discussed politics and not participated in politics, and I am grateful for this, but this time, is it a little crossed?"

"Your Majesty, if the Master is ...... this time"

"This ?......" The emperor pondered for a moment and sighed: "I am afraid that Elder Gao guessed correctly, it can be regarded as the last parting words to me!

Gao Lan's upper body trembled when he heard this, "Not really!"

"If I guessed correctly, the master is going to learn from the Taoist of the previous dynasty, turn Hu into a Buddha, and fight for luck for Daqin!

Gao Lan stood up tremblingly and arched his hand to the north.

"If a country lives and dies for profit, will it not be avoided because of good and evil? The old gentleman deserves to be called Mr. Da Qinzhi! He is really a model for us who read books!"