Although Princess Taiping spoke in a consultative tone, she did not wait for the opinions of Chen Ziang and Li Daozhang.
"That's all. His Majesty the Emperor will of course be in charge of how to deal with it. We guys are just worrying here."
Princess Taiping sighed softly as if mocking herself, flipped the delicate fan in her hand, and walked towards the entrance steps while waving her red sleeves.
Just when he was about to reach the door, Li Chongrun heard her voice coming from the steps: "Nephew, you did a good job this time. I think you have some talent. Do you want to come and help me?"
"The big house promised to you is still a promise. It's not impossible for your brothers to move in together."
"you consider it."
There was just a lingering sound, as if the person had left.
When Taoist priest surnamed Li saw that the boss he wanted to report to had already left, he packed up his things and left in a hurry.
Several big men in black clothes walked out of a secret door. The leader silently bowed to Chen Ziang, and led everyone to silently register the two boxes of money and seal them on a shelf in the hall.
Above, he silently carried the boxes containing opium, together with the small bed on which Ituna was lying, and retreated into the secret door.
Except for the sweet smell that filled the hall, it seemed as if this incident had disappeared between heaven and earth.
After exiting the side door of the princess's mansion, the two of them turned around and looked at the vermilion door, which was quietly closed in front of them, and then let out a long breath.
"Sir, what is the purpose of Your Highness the Princess's permission to come here today?"
"I don't know Chen. Unless Her Royal Highness the Princess has foresight, it has nothing to do with this case."
Chen Ziang shook his head and said that he didn't know either. "Then Daoist priest Li previously judged that Na Yitu's child was possessed by the soul-stealing technique, which requires someone with great luck to suppress it. Now that I think about it, it should be just an excuse. Maybe the princess just wanted to take advantage of this.
I’ll take the opportunity to recruit you.”
"If you just want to recruit students, you can just send someone to arrange it. There is no need to use such a big battle."
Li Chongrun wanted to argue a few more words, but he heard the sound of bells and drums coming from the Imperial College, which meant that today's lecture was about to begin. The two of them could only put down their doubts and rush to Piyong Hall to listen to Wang Siye.
Went to lecture.
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Still in the underground hall, Princess Taiping and the Taoist priest surnamed Li, who had left long ago, appeared in the hall again.
"Your Highness, are you satisfied with today's test?" the Taoist priest named Li asked Princess Taiping.
"The last sentence of solicitation is too deliberate and not natural enough." Princess Taiping still looked so casual. While chatting with the Taoist priest, she took a pen and kept writing. "Have you ever seen that?
What?"
"There are three things that a poor man cannot understand."
Princess Taiping did not reply, but continued to write something.
"The first thing I don't understand is that Mr. Li is just a child, but how can he keep his mind in a house full of belongings?"
"The second thing I don't understand is that he should have already known the answer to Bang Manzi's poisoning when he first met him. The reason why he asked me to open this man's eyelids was to confirm his guess. So-called
The matter of burning the medicine dregs is probably just an excuse to use the poor man's mouth to tell the answer."
"It's just that although this thing has been circulated in the city of God for a long time, there are very few living people who really know its harm. Where did he know that this thing is like the five-stone powder?"
"The third point is puzzling. I used the technique of observing Qi to observe. This son's Dragon Qi is ethereal and boundless, not as strong as that of a relative like King Wei. As His Majesty's direct bloodline, it should not be so dim."
Hearing this, Princess Taiping stopped writing with interest, and said with a "you know" expression on her face: "Is it possible that you suspect that my sister-in-law who likes to wear lotus flowers has been brought to my useless third brother?
Cuckold?”
"I don't dare. Although the dragon's energy is ethereal, it is extremely pure. Naturally, it is your majesty's direct relative." The matter involved the royal family's private affairs, so the Taoist priest naturally did not dare to make any mistakes.
"Your Majesty asked us to take a look, and we just need to take a look. It's naturally not the turn of minions like us to do things like using our brains. People like that person from a certain sect think they have saved His Majesty some trouble, but they don't know
If the eyes and ears have their own ideas, will the brain have other ideas?" Princess Taiping finally wrote a piece of letter and waved, and a young man in black ran out of nowhere and saluted.
After receiving the letter, he went down.
"After all, my eldest nephew is just a kid with a yellow mouth. Although his mind is far beyond that of ordinary people, his tolerance is still a bit narrow."
"Looking at his dejected look when he went out, if I really want to recruit him for my use in the future, I can really give the method just now a try."
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Because Dr. Hu Ren, who taught arithmetic, had escaped and the new doctor had not yet been found, the School of Arithmetic gave Xiu Mu a rare chance in the afternoon.
It was a rare opportunity to go back to the Five Kings Hall at noon, because there were two other people taking classes in Helu Pavilion, and only the hunchbacked cousin Li Shouli in the Five Kings Hall was practicing calligraphy.
"Since Brother Run went to the Imperial Academy to attend classes, this is the first time I've seen you come back during the day." Seeing that Li Chongrun came back early, his hunchbacked cousin Li Shouli happily put down his pen.
"Forget it, that bastard who taught arithmetic ran away with the bucket for some reason."
"When the barbarians return to their hometown, they pass through the desert for tens of thousands of miles. If they only have buckets, they may not be enough to drink."
"Brother, I'm just making a metaphor." It's been a long time since he chatted with someone so easily. Li Chongrun felt warm in his heart. Although he had a very fulfilling life in the past few days, he was just stuck in some matters that he couldn't control.
, it really makes people feel a little bald.
"Brother Yu, I have seen that you are very worried these days. You just go out to study. How can you be so hard?"
"Living in Kyoto is not easy." Although Li Chongrun had some thoughts and scruples in his heart, he did not dare to tell this somewhat honest brother. In the end, he just turned it into a sigh, floating in the warm autumn sun.
"Although Brother Yu is trapped in the palace, I have heard that you are famous for your poetry recently. With such a famous name, it is not difficult for Brother Run to go to Qinghuafang every day to eat and drink for free." Maybe it was because of watching.
Since Li Chongrun has been too busy lately, even the somewhat honest Li Shouli could rarely comfort him.
"I went out to see some of the world, but I felt that my life here was still simple." Li Chongrun looked at the former Princess Taiping's dormitory in the middle of the Jiuzhou Pond opposite, but felt that the very majestic palace was getting taller and taller.
Full of conspiracy and darkness.
"These days, you are not as relaxed and happy as you were when you first went to the Imperial College to study. Although Brother Yu doesn't know what happened, I still want to advise you. Don't dislike Brother Yu for being verbose. Don't be burdened by the common things in front of you.
, as long as you follow your own heart."
Just follow your own heart. What exactly is your own heart?
I just want to escape from this high palace wall.
Just being confused by Princess Taiping's jokes, I actually forgot about it.
Come to think of it, my very changeable aunt has laughed at me countless times behind my back.
"As expected, they are all a bunch of perverts who grew up in the imperial court." Li Chongrun cursed angrily, completely unaware that he had also been cursed.
Li Chongrun felt much more relieved after letting go of his worries. He simply stopped worrying about what his princess aunt was thinking about. The opium matter had nothing to do with him in the first place, so he just let her go.
Without the shadow of Princess Taiping, Li Chongrun lived a very happy life.
Dr. Hu Ren's replacement was an old man who was very kind to others, and Li Chongrun and the other three asked for leave for self-study much less often.
First, Wang Rong has nothing to teach him anymore, and Li Chongrun’s mathematics foundation at the socialist lower education level has long been unable to educate this young man.
Secondly, the gap between the levels of Wang Rong and Fan Yubi is getting bigger and bigger. When they get together at noon every day, Li Chongrun mostly eats Fan Yubi's snacks and watches Wang Rong angrily explaining to Fan Yubi and bickering.
He took part in several monthly and ten-day exams, and except for calligraphy and archery, Li Chongrun did well in all exams. However, when he occasionally met Mr. Wang Siye, he would be rejected and would not go to him to learn calligraphy.
Chen Ziang came to ask for poems several times with a shy face, but he never mentioned the events of that day again.
It's just that the prince of Chenla, Itunasian, was a prince of a king. According to the distinguished person who claimed to be the prince of a king before his disappearance, he disappeared like Dr. Hu Ren without causing any waves. Later, several Chenla envoys
After taking the note from Honglu Temple and taking away all his things, this person and the bet that had caused a sensation that day disappeared like the lingering snow in early spring.
Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and it is already the Spring Equinox.
On this day, Li Chongrun was sitting on the very bumpy carriage as usual. Fortunately, he had accumulated some experience and brought a pillow filled with reed catkins every time, so he was not as uncomfortable as he was at first.
As soon as the carriage entered Zhengpingfang, it saw a grand ceremony being held in front of it.
A group of people gathered in front of a newly built house and held a lively listing ceremony.
Looking vaguely from the crowd, the large golden characters "Edict to Build the Prince of Chu's Mansion" are very eye-catching.
Li Chongrun vaguely remembered that when Li Longji was released from the palace after receiving the imperial edict, the one who was granted the title seemed to be the King of Chu.
I just wanted to look for my old brothers in the crowd, but the crowd was so crowded that I couldn't see them at all.
I felt a little emotional, but I had already arrived at the gate of the Imperial College.
There was originally a big lecture today, but after everyone arrived, Wang Siye did not start the lecture directly as in the past. Instead, he stood respectfully by the stage.
After a while, a eunuch wearing a scarlet robe stood on the stage, with a sharp voice, announced a long list of names of people to be sent to Longmen. They were all people in the Imperial Academy who were famous for their poetry.
Only at the end of the name, Li Chongrun vaguely heard his own name.