Chapter 68 Flowers Blossom Beyond the Sky (Part 2)
Chapter 68: Flowers bloom on the other side of the world (Part 2)
Lu Ban was playing with an ax in front of the door, Du Kang was selling wine in front of the shop, and Master was posting books in front of the shop. Of course, it was the most overestimating behavior. But if you think about it from another angle, when Lu Ban saw the guy playing with an ax in front of the door, Du Kang saw the guy selling wine in front of the shop.
That guy, Master, when they see that guy hanging a book in front of the door, especially when they find out that that guy is the most sacred and supreme existence in other realms of the secular world, will they feel an itch like Ning Que's from the deepest part of their hearts?
I want to make a wooden bird and tell him that the prototype of an airplane is like this. I want to make a pot of fine wine and tell him that the fine wine that will destroy the country is like this. I want to write a few nagging words to tell that guy that this is the soul soup. I
I need to write a few more words to tell him what kind of words are called words - even if you are the Emperor of Man and Heaven, you still have to listen to me.
At this moment, Ning Que was immersed in this extreme pleasure. He looked at the drying ink on Xuanzhou Ya paper with satisfaction, imagining that he was pretending to be His Majesty the Emperor's calligraphy teacher, using those strokes of ink to be cool and unrestrained
He slapped the palm of the old man's hand and scolded him with contempt and disdain.
"Wrong writing again! Stretch out your hand and hit the pad!"
He was very satisfied with the five words he wrote, and even felt that they were the best words he had written in recent years. In addition to the fact that the pen, ink, paper and inkstone were all of high quality and they were located in a wonderful location like the Imperial Study Room, the most important reason was that
Because he had accumulated too much itch in the room, and also because the first five words were written by the emperor himself.
He relished in admiring his round strokes and his straight and broad structure. For a moment, he was reluctant to destroy the piece of paper, so he prepared to put it into his sleeves after the writing paper had dried and quietly take it out of the palace.
However, at this moment, an angry low roar suddenly sounded outside the imperial study room, which had been silent all this time.
"Where did that bastard go?"
Ning Que was startled. When he looked up, he saw the door of the imperial study room being pushed open with one hand.
His pupils narrowed, and he flicked his fingers very quickly. The ink paper on the paper drying table slid lightly into the gap in the corner of the bookshelf. Then he turned around, raised his sleeves and pretended to look at the bookshelf carefully.
When the sleeves of the shirt were brushed against the books on the bookshelf, the row of books on the bookshelf had already changed its tilt direction, and the flower blooming on the other side of the sky was firmly pressed into the innermost place. No one could tell that anyone had touched it.
The person who walked into the imperial study was a short, stocky, middle-aged general. He was wearing a palace guard uniform and a black gold belt around his waist, showing his extremely high rank. The middle-aged general saw the books next to the bookshelf.
Ning Que, looking at the young man who was reading like a bookworm, rolled his eyes angrily and shouted: "Who the hell let you in?"
Ning Que seemed to be distracted. In fact, he kept his ears straight up to listen to what was happening behind him. When he heard this sentence, his heart skipped a beat. He guessed that there was some misunderstanding in this matter. It should have been the young eunuch himself when he explained the precautions.
What I heard misunderstood - it shouldn't be a conspiracy like the White Tiger Hall. If the palace wanted to deal with a little guy like me, there was no need to do so many tricks - but the crime of breaking into the imperial study without an order could be big or small.
No matter what, he couldn't let himself get into this kind of trouble.
He turned around like a cute little scholar who was dazzled by His Majesty's collection of books, rubbed his eyes, looked at the short and fat head guard at the door, and said with a confused look on his face: "I have been ordered to come to the palace to see you. I don't know what the problem is.
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The short and fat guard leader was slightly startled. He probably had never imagined that someone could be so calm and calm after being caught in the royal study room. He couldn't help but have an inexplicable look on his face, and used his hands in pain.
Covering his forehead, he angrily muttered to himself: "Old Chao, you bastard! You didn't even teach me some rules in advance!"
Ning Que walked out from behind the desk, bowed his hands and asked doubtfully: "General, do you recognize Brother Chao?"
In Alley No. 47, in Chunfeng Pavilion, no matter how energetic Chao Xiaoshu was, Ning Que still refused to recognize the word brother. At this moment, he did not care to say the word eldest brother naturally.
In order to protect oneself, as for the rhetorical question, it is to turn defense into offense. Anyway, the purpose is to divert the other party's attention from the imperial study room to other places.
The short and fat head guard confirmed that there was no one around the imperial study room. He looked around the room with a wary and uneasy look, but found nothing strange. He covered his forehead again with some fear, looked at Ning Que in pain and said: "You kid, hurry up and give it to me."
Get out. I have been looking for you outside for half an hour. How could I have imagined that you would dare to walk in here? Remember, you have never come in today. Don’t even think about showing off to others in your life. Otherwise,
I will destroy you!"
Ning Que left the Imperial Study Room with the head guard who was complaining and nagging him all the way. He took two steps to the west and arrived at the guard duty room of Chunhe Hall not far away.
In the dark room, he finally knew that the short, fat and kind-hearted guy in front of him, with a Hebei accent and a smell of green onions in every word, was actually Xu Chongshan, the deputy commander of the imperial guards of the Tang Dynasty.
The rightful owner that Xiaoshu said last night that he wanted him to meet today.
"Your Majesty is very fond of calligraphy. You happen to be a calligrapher, so I brought you into the palace in this capacity just to avoid being noticed. But it turned out that you were lucky enough to sneak into the imperial study without saying a word.
!Do you really think you are some kind of master of calligraphy! Do you really think His Majesty invites you to appreciate calligraphy!"
Xu Chongshan pointed angrily at Ning Que's nose and growled in a low voice, spittle flying all over the sky.
Ning Que rubbed his nose in embarrassment, thinking to himself that His Majesty did not invite him to read the calligraphy, but I have already written a calligraphy in the imperial study room, what can you do to me? Thinking of this section, thinking of that
The flower blooming on the other side of the sky was lying in the corner of the bookshelf. He secretly wondered what he would have to think of to take it out in the future.
Xu Chongshan was a little tired from scolding. He was panting and holding on to his thick waist, and said: "Let's get down to business."
Ning Que responded with a smile: "Please tell me."
Xu Chongshan gave him a strange look and said: "You are a young man with a playful smile, but you don't have the slightest bit of what Lao Chao said?"
"That's because, Commander, you are too powerful." Ning Que explained seriously.
All gold and silver can be worn, but flattery cannot. Even the most immature and clumsy flattery has its effect, not to mention that the guy who flattered him is a young man who looks a little immature and clumsy. Xu Chongshan's face is slightly better.
After a while, he coughed twice and asked: "You should know who Lao Chao belongs to now, right?"
Ning Que frowned slightly, pretending to be stupid and asked, "Brother Chao is a subordinate of the Commander-in-Chief?"
"I don't have the guts to call Chunfengting Laochao. Besides...don't call him Brother Chao from now on. There were very few old people back then. We used to call him Brother Chao."
Xu Chongshan said sternly. Then he remembered the killing in the spring rain last night and Lao Chao's comments about the young man. He looked at Ning Que more favorably. He suddenly changed the subject and asked with a smile: "Why did you go to help Lao Chao last night?
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"I received five hundred taels of silver." Ning Que answered honestly.
No one would go through life and death for a person they just met for five hundred taels of silver, not to mention that the person was still a sixteen-year-old boy who was about to enter the academy. Xu Chongshan did not believe his explanation, so he did not think he was greedy for money.
, I felt that he was a real person of good temper, and I suddenly found him more pleasing to the eye.
"Your Majesty likes sweethearts, and so do I." Xu Chongshan looked at him with a smile and asked: "Then I only need to ask one question, and that is...are you willing to sacrifice your life and even your reputation for the empire?"
Ning Que was slightly startled, frowning and thinking for a long time. On the one hand, he was guessing the real reason why the big man asked this question, and on the other hand, he didn't understand why the word "reputation" was preceded by "even". Is it "reputation"?
Will it be more important than life?
This question was very big and broad, very serious and sacred yet very elusive. He thought about it for a long time, thinking of the generals before and after Weicheng, of those comrades who shared life and death, of the enthusiastic people in Chang'an City, and seriously
He slowly replied: "If you are desperate, you can sacrifice your life..."
Speaking of this section, he suddenly thought of a scene from last night. After he reluctantly put down half a bowl of noodle soup to Xiaoshu, he looked at the gray wall opposite the shop and narrated to himself, so he hesitantly added: "But some things are not good.
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Xu Chongshan looked at him seriously and found that the young man did not hesitate to give a resounding answer immediately, but thought about it seriously and even embarrassingly for a long time. For this, the deputy commander was not angry, but admired it very much, because he
It is clear that a prudent answer after careful consideration is more credible than a hot-blooded impulse when being generous.
"From now on, you will be one of my guards of the Tang Dynasty."
Without any more questions, without any exams, just a few simple conversations, Xu Chongshan decided to recruit this young man into the ranks of the Tang Dynasty Palace Guards. Among them was Chao Xiaoshu's guarantee, and the more reason was that he
I did like the temperament shown by this young man when he answered the questions.
Then it was Ning Que's turn to be shocked and speechless. He looked at the ebony matte waist badge in his hand and the identity mark on it. After a long silence, he said blankly: "After one fight, I became an Ouchi guard.
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"The Yulong Gang was forced into the light by those idiot ministers in the court. Don't look at me like that. The word idiot was a comment made by His Majesty himself in anger last night, so we need to rearrange some of the manpower hidden in the night."
Xu Chongshan explained coldly: "This is the glory of the people of the Tang Dynasty. Don't think about rejecting it."
"It's not a question of rejection or not." Ning Que said helplessly: "The question is what does the court need me to do? What can I do? The most important thing is that I will take the academy admission examination soon."
When he heard the word academy, Xu Chongshan's expression changed slightly, not for any other reason, but as an old man in the guard office, he knew very well what Chao Xiaoshu had experienced back then, and it was precisely because of those past events that this group of people today
The secret guard had a treatment he had never had back then. He looked at Ning Que with a gentle smile and said, "Don't worry, you can enter the academy as long as you can. After you come out of the academy, you will not be working for the imperial court after all. The two are not the same."
conflict."
"You haven't said what I need to do yet." Ning Que insisted.
"The Yulong Gang has been exposed to the public, but there are no longer any problems in the Jianghu of Chang'an City." Xu Chongshan frowned slightly and said: "Your mission is very simple, which is to collect intelligence. We will discuss the specific mission later."
If the world is no longer a problem, then the biggest problem outside of imperial power is naturally the world of practitioners. Thinking that he was about to enter the academy, and thinking about the vague explanation from the deputy commander, Ning Que naturally thought of something
Maybe, is the imperial court going to take action against the academy?
The guard sign he held in his palm was slightly wet with sweat, but he knew that he could not refuse these things, and he only hoped that the direction of things in the future would be different from his imagination.