Chapter 67: Flowers bloom on the other side of the world (Part 1)
The biggest turmoil in the Tianqi years of the Tang Dynasty is taking place in the Council Hall. Many officials in various ministries are panicking and speculating about the fate of themselves and their superiors. The young man in the imperial study is looking around excitedly. The Chao Xiao who is standing somewhere in the imperial garden
Shu seemed to have nothing to do with these things. He stood silently by the big lake called Lihai, smiling and watching the colorful carps jumping out of the water, jumping over the dragon gate, and then happily falling into the lake again.
In the middle, he wags his tail and begs for mercy and goes away, occasionally sighing.
More than ten years ago, he was a young scholar who entered the academy in Beijing but was led into the Jianghu of Chang'an by the current emperor; more than ten years later, he was a young scholar in blue shirt standing in the night of Chang'an with countless heads chopped off by the sword, standing.
By the lake, thinking about the past years and the future, I naturally had a different feeling in my heart. I didn’t find the Qingyun Road attractive. I just felt that I wanted to go back to the old days when I studied hard day and night and devoted myself to the Tao.
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A burst of ringing music broke the silence by the lakeside, and the beautiful girl princess slowly walked over with two close maids. Li Yu's eyes fell on the whitened cyan gown of the middle-aged man by the lakeside, and he smiled slightly
After being startled for a moment, he smiled, half-crouched and saluted, and said softly, "I've met Uncle Chao."
Li Yu, the fourth princess of the Tang Dynasty, was favored by the Holy Emperor and loved and respected by the people. Even when she met His Highness the Prince, she just called her uncle. How had she ever used such an intimate title to a man?
"The common people don't dare."
He turned sideways towards the small tree, saying that he was afraid, and his face was full of fear and fear. However, his body flashed slightly, and the lake breeze stirred the corner of his green shirt. There was no trace of fear at all, it was just polite respect.
There is a sense of alienation and vigilance that repels people thousands of miles away.
Seeing Chao Xiaoshu's reaction, Li Yu's hands on his waist froze slightly, and the two palace maids behind him suddenly changed their expressions. However, before they could make any move, Li Yu responded with a smile: "Speaking of which, when I was a child, my father asked the guards to
When I was carrying me out of the palace to play, I met my uncle several times in the gambling house. But after all, I was young at that time. Later, I gradually forgot that my uncle had hugged my niece. Why did I see him like this today?
outside."
"Your Highness's words really frighten the common people. How could the common people be so virtuous and capable that they dare to think of themselves as princesses and elders?"
He smiled at the little tree and responded. The lake water reflected the skylight and fell on his handsome and plump face. There was no trace of humility or humility at all. He just guarded the honor between the king and his ministers and did not dare to take that step forward.
Li Yu showed his goodwill over and over again, and blocked Xiaoshu back again and again without being soft or hard. The atmosphere by the lake suddenly became a little tense and even depressing. Li Yu looked at the middle-aged man's face quietly, thinking about what to do next.
The anger shown by my father from last night to today showed his intention to protect this person, which further confirmed that this person's status in my father's heart was extremely important. He waved his hand to stop the whispered advice of the female nuns around him, and smiled.
He continued: "I brought back some barbarian guards from the grassland. I heard that someone asked them about something a few days ago. That man's surname is Chen. He seems to be your brother?"
Chao Xiaoshu was silent for a moment and replied: "His name is Chen Qi, he is my brother."
Hearing this answer, Li Yu laughed, moved his eyes to the sea-like lake, looked at the lotus leaves disturbed by the underwater fish, and asked: "Is that boy easy to use?"
"Your Highness, I didn't use him, I just asked him to help me." Chao Xiaoshu replied, "It's to join hands, not to take advantage."
"If we join hands, then he also becomes your brother?" Li Yu turned his head and asked with a slight frown.
Chao Xiaoshu thought of the omelette noodles in Lao Bizhai and Ning Que's answer, laughed at himself and said: "Someone seems to see the world as colder than me."
He looked at Li Yu's eyebrows and said seriously: "Your Highness, he doesn't want others to know, so he asked Your Highness to keep this little secret for him."
Li Yu was startled for a moment and then sarcastically said: "Does that idiot think this matter can be kept secret for a long time? He wears a black mask and combs his hair in a Lunar Kingdom style and wants to hide his identity forever?"
Chao Xiaoshu replied: "He will be admitted to the academy soon, and he will be admitted to the second floor. By then, he will naturally no longer have to worry about being plotted against."
Li Yu thought of the old man Lu Qingchen's evaluation of Ning Que, and frowned and asked, "Why do you think so highly of him?"
He smiled at Xiaoshu and said, "Because he is worth it."
Thinking of the light of the sword at the Beishan crossing, the leaping figure of the tiger in the flames, and the story beside the fire, the expression on Li Yu's face softened unconsciously, but his voice still sounded cold and mocking: "I gave it to you back then.
He had the opportunity, but he refused to seize it. I thought he was an alternative who regarded his future, power and wealth as a cloud, but I didn't expect that he just felt that the way of appearing was not exciting enough, and he had to choose such a way to make his debut in Chang'an City."
"But no matter what, I brought him into Chang'an City, so he is my person..." Li Yu looked at Chao Xiaoshu with a half-smile, "Uncle Chao, you used my people so cruelly, is it?
Shouldn't you say hello to me in advance?"
After all, the test of verbal confrontation is psychological competition. The fourth princess Li Yu is naturally the best woman in this field among the younger generation, but in front of the Chunfengting Laochao who is accustomed to seeing blood and blood, she can't even think of taking advantage of it.
Then he smiled at Xiaoshu and said: "If he was the princess's man, why would he be in such trouble for a small shop? And I believe the princess should also be able to see that that little guy will always be in trouble."
He won’t become anyone else’s person, he is just his own person.”
After several attempts, he could not find any opportunity to take advantage of, not even a gap to talk about the business. Li Yu was silent for a moment, waved to the palace maid who was following him to leave, looked at him with a solemn expression and said: "Uncle Chao..."
Chao Xiaoshu turned away from him again and repeated: "The common people don't dare."
Li Yu shook his head and said seriously: "Everyone in the world knows that after today, the Chunfengting Dynasty will no longer be the common man that my father hid among the people, and will no longer be just the leader of the first gang in Chang'an. No matter it is
The leader of the bodyguards and ministers should still be released, and you will definitely have your place in the world."
"When you were in the Chunfeng Pavilion, those ministers dared to recruit you and subdue you in my name or the name of the Queen. Now that you have jumped out of the sea, do you think you can stay out of it from now on?"
Li Yu looked at him quietly, his tone sincere and unambiguous: "The Queen is a smart person, and I am not stupid, so we will not do anything that the father does not like us to do, but we must do something."
"I hope you can support me."
"You hugged me when I was a child, and you also hugged my brother. You have met my mother. Can you bear to watch your brother's throne fall by the wayside, and bear to watch my mother in the spring of the underworld, full of unwillingness and sorrow?"
The Tang Dynasty did not care about seizing the heir. Who would succeed the throne was all determined by the Emperor's thoughts. His Majesty the Emperor, who seemed cowardly but was actually extremely sober, would not allow his wife and children to do anything that would harm the country's integrity or exceed his limits.
He could endure the fight to the limit, but he wanted to see who performed better.
In this world and in history, there are very few examples of such transparency and openness as the imperial family of the Tang Dynasty. However, what Li Yu said to Chao Xiaoshu by the lake today still seemed too open and honest, even a little naked, and extremely unusual.
People's imagination of such palace intrigues.
Chao Xiaoshu was silent for a long time, looked at her and said harmoniously: "Her Royal Highness the Princess is really very similar to your mother. She is extremely wise and wise. She knows that it is meaningless to try and lure a charlatan like me. Instead, she uses a charlatan's tone."
More appropriate, but after all, this is a matter decided by the Sacred Heart, I am just a small fish in the sea of the Tang Dynasty, even if I am lucky enough to turn into scales, it will not have any effect."
"Uncle Chao is too self-effacing. You have to know that in these years, I have never seen my father trust a person like this... and he forced the academy student who was preparing for the college entrance examination with great talent back then to forcefully hold him down in the sewers of Dongcheng. As soon as he held him down, he
How many years have passed, I think my father must feel extremely guilty for you."
Li Yu looked at him firmly and said: "The most important thing is that you are in the sea of Datang, so even if you jump out of the sea, you will eventually fall into the sea again. You will have to choose which way to swim one day...
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Before she finished speaking, she smiled at Xiaoshu with a charming smile, raised her arms and waved her green sleeves to point at the big lake, and said: "I am a little fish, but I don't like to stay in the pond, even if it is like a lake.
A pond as big as the sea is still a pond after all, so if I really need to choose which way to swim, or in the end I will simply choose to go ashore."
Li Yu frowned slightly and said: "The fish will die of thirst when they land."
"But I can breathe enough air before I die." He smiled at Xiaoshu.
"Uncle Chao insists that the imperial court is that square pond? But can you find a bigger pond in the world than my Tang Dynasty?"
"Although the rivers and lakes are smaller, they are more relaxed and casual. In comparison, I would rather be far away from the rivers and lakes than stand on top of the temple."
Li Yu frowned and looked at the middle-aged scholar in a blue shirt by the lake. He suddenly realized that he didn't understand some people very well and sighed: "There are many dangers in the world."
He smiled at Xiaoshu and said, "But Jianghu is far enough away, so I am free."
Li Yu shook his head and said, "What kind of freedom can we have?"
Chao Xiaoshu looked at her with affection as if he were a junior and said, "The freedom of not choosing."
Ning Que's hands were itchy. This was an itch that he had developed over many years of habit. It had penetrated deeply into his bone marrow and blood. He could not get rid of it at all. He could only endure it bitterly.
In the quiet imperial study room, he walked back to the desk from the door, walked from the desk to the bookshelf, and then walked from the bookshelf to the door. His right hand hidden in his sleeve kept rubbing his fingers, but he still couldn't stop the feeling from the deepest place.
Itching that comes out of nowhere.
It itches to see the famous tablets on the wall, itches to look at the Hengdian pure hair lying randomly, itches to smell the unique smell of Chenzhou pine ink, it itches even more to touch the subtle wrinkles of Xuanzhou bud paper, and my eyes fall on the old emperor's writing
When the words "fish leaps into the sea at this time" came out, he even started to wink and wince, unable to restrain himself.
The only way to relieve the itch is to write.
However, it is a very stupid choice to renew His Majesty's personal letter in the imperial study room. You may be severely punished, and you may even have to receive more serious punishment, but it is really itchy... Xiaoshu was talking about it by the lake.
When it comes to choice and freedom, Ning Que is also experiencing this painful choice.
"Once you write it, tear it up quickly."
Looking for a good excuse, Ning Que screamed happily and rushed to the case like a hero who ate meat and drank alcohol, using ink and pen to lay out new paper.