Tranquility

After all, they were in the noble Imperial Academy, and those people knew that what they were doing was not a literati's style. At this time, they were furious and silent, and turned their heads to look at the person who came.

Seeing that it was Tangning, those people breathed a sigh of relief, but they didn't care too much.After all, although Tang Ning is not from the Imperial Academy, she is of a higher grade than them, and has a strong background and a bright future, so they are not to neglect her.

Tangning frowned and asked again, "What's going on? Zizhang, come here."

The others saw Tangning beckoning and couldn't stop them, so they had to get out of the way. Lin Zizhang lowered his head, not daring to look at the others, and quickly ran behind Tangning.

Tangning turned around and saw that Zizhang's face was blushing and his lips moved. He still couldn't explain why, so he could only raise his head and look at the group of people again.

Those people also gave some winks, and only heard one of them stand out, saying: "Master Tang, this Master Lin is too ignorant of the rules, how can the things from the Imperial Academy be taken out casually?"

When the others saw someone speak, they also explained the matter word by word.

Tang Ning's face was sullen, thinking that this matter would be difficult to handle. Lin Zizhang was obviously at a loss. Tang Ning had always been on the side of reason, but now she was not used to it.

However, Lin Zizhang's move was justifiable. It is just an inkstone, even if it is a good inkstone, it cannot be put on the line like this.

So, Tang Ning said, "Anyway, this piece of ink belongs to Qiao Hanyun. Even if he is gone, there is no rule saying that this piece of ink will be confiscated. Besides, even if Mr. Lin violated the regulations, this matter should be handed over to the scholar judge."

The others were irrefutable. Seeing that Tang Ning had led Lin Zizhang towards the head of the academy, they looked at each other, and finally followed hesitantly.

Wu Yizhai, since Tangning left, only Lin Qingyu and Feng Chu were left in the room.

Lin Qingyu looked out the window, not paying attention to Fengchu's reaction, and talked about the emperor's art as if talking to himself.

"For emperors and kings, one's own knowledge is important, but the most important thing is the knowledge of people and the skills of employing people. In addition, if you want to be a wise king in the prosperous age, you must have a long-term vision, excellent insight, a broad mind, and the tolerance to trust your subordinates. , not one less."

Speaking of this, Lin Qingyu paused, and Fengchu's back straightened even more.

"I believe you have already seen these, and I am afraid that you have already figured them out in your heart." Lin Qingyu changed the subject, and did not continue to talk about the emperor's art as Feng Chu thought.

"Has the Second Highness ever climbed a high place, and has he ever seen a view of all the small mountains?"

Feng Chu shook her head slightly, "I have been in poor health since I was a child, and I have never climbed a mountain before."

"In fact, the court is like a chessboard, and the officials are the pieces on the chessboard. It's just that the pieces are not only black and white, nor are they cold objects. They each have their own plans, and they decide what color to dye according to their own balance. color.

If the Second Highness stands on a high place, at a glance, it is clear at a glance what color those chess pieces are, which colors are more, which colors are bright, and even what kind of relationship they have. "

Feng Chu looked at Lin Qingyu with a strange light in her eyes, "However, some chess pieces are forced to be dyed a certain color."

"Whether it's forced or voluntary, this decision was made by him after all, and the color was finally dyed. However, the Second Highness can also dye them."

"How do you say that?"

"Looking at the overall situation can only help His Highness judge the situation and determine the direction. As for how to go in this direction, His Highness needs to put down his own position and become a chess piece. Even His Highness can regard himself as one of the chess pieces and think about it." He thinks, feels what he feels. Standing in his position, feel the chess pieces around him, understand the unknown relationship between him and other chess pieces.

After the second prince completely controlled his thinking, under what circumstances would he decide to take on the color of the second highness, how could the second highness not know? "

"Of course, there are so many chess pieces, how can I understand them all?"

"The ancient generals had hundreds of thousands of soldiers under their command, but they were able to enumerate the origins of all their names. Your Highness, if you can't, then you can't. Besides, some chess pieces are dyed even if they are dyed."

"The teacher's words are very subtle, but, why did the teacher teach my three brothers for more than ten years, but Hina never heard the master talk about these emperor's techniques, what about the court situation? In the past, the teacher could only teach us the words of saints .”

Feng Chu's beautiful big eyes shone like a vast starry sky, but at this moment, these eyes seemed to want to suck the person in front of them into their eyes.

"Before, Hina always wondered why the teacher suddenly talked about practical affairs, and now he even brought up political affairs. The teacher has made up his mind to only teach me?"

Lin Qingyu still looked out of the window and said, "You just listen to what I teach."

Feng Chu smiled lowly, got up suddenly, walked around the short table, sat down beside Lin Qingyu, reached out and stroked Lin Qingyu's sleeve, and said ambiguously: "The teacher has decided to dye my color on this cold snow-like clothes. Is it gone?"

Lin Qingyu finally retracted his gaze, pulled out his sleeves, and looked at Feng Chu with clear and calm eyes, "Why? I believe that His Highness the Second Highness can climb to a high place, but the Second Highness doesn't believe in himself?"

Feng Chu's little face, which was slightly pale due to her frailty, actually reflected a bit of vitality.

To get Lin Qingyu's support, to Fengchu, it not only means that he has gained a heavy weight, but also means that he has finally won the battle with the eldest prince for decades.

He and the eldest prince were doomed to fight for the rest of their lives from the womb, until death.After they were born, they began to compare each other because of their mother, because of fighting spirit, because of interests, and because of themselves.It's a pity that Emperor Jing Le ignored them all, there was no way to compare them, and it didn't matter to compete for favor.And the forces behind their respective mothers and concubines have nothing to do with their own talents.

Until the day they were enlightened at the age of six, Lin Qingyu seemed to have fallen from the sky.His peerless appearance, his profound knowledge, and his majestic aura forcefully penetrated into the hearts of the two young children.Since then they have finally found something to fight for.

He and the eldest prince rarely saw their father, and their cognition of his father had always been vague.Until the appearance of Lin Qingyu, who was a teacher for a day and a father for life, he fulfilled all their fantasies about their father.

However, this kind of fantasy gradually changed as time passed and as they got older...

Feng Chu feels that she is floating at the moment. Although Lin Qingyu is only in the political line, which is far from what he thinks, Feng Chu, who seldom gets compliments from the teacher, is still very proud. The eldest prince is still the teacher's nephew. defeated by him.At least he still has a slight possibility, but the eldest prince has no hope of even this.

Some people just couldn't help thinking that Feng Chu was just burying her elder brother in her heart, and Feng Wei had already stepped into the courtyard gate of Wuyi Zhai, waving at Ding Jiugong from a distance, so that he didn't need to report.

Originally, Ding Jiugong was ordered to guard the gate, but who made him belong to the eldest prince? Naturally, he listened to the eldest prince.

Don't look at Feng Chu's cowardly and innocent appearance, he is actually a very scheming person; on the contrary, Feng Wei, who is smart and exposed, has no twists and turns in his heart.

Therefore, although Feng Chu was smashed with such a big pie, he still looked at Lin Qingyu calmly on the surface, but the next moment, he made the most impulsive decision. When will it be.

So he picked up the teacup in front of Lin Qingyu, played with it in his hands, and said leisurely: "No, if someone else told Chia that, Chia would believe it, but the teacher is always strict, but now he is so warm, Chia is just flattered. "

As he spoke, he put the teacup close to his lips, raised his head and drank it dry. Under Lin Qingyu's stare, he even smiled and stretched out his pink tongue to lick the edge of the delicate teacup.

Fortunately, he has a baby face, such a wretched movement, unexpectedly a little more playful.

"Teacher, you know how much I want to be praised by the teacher. Even if the teacher looks at me one more time, I can't sleep with excitement. Unfortunately, the teacher is usually serious and dignified. When I was young, I admired the teacher's elegance and wanted to get close to him several times. , were pushed away by the teacher.

I remember one time, when I saw my cousin sitting in his arms practicing calligraphy at my uncle’s house, I was very envious, thinking that if the teacher would also be willing to practice calligraphy with his arms around me like this, even if it was only once, I would only wish to die like this In the arms of the teacher. "

While talking, Feng Chu's big eyes were filled with tears, and the eyes she looked at Lin Qingyu were full of grievances. It would be extremely awkward for other young people in their twenties to do this kind of action; Looking at the young man's appearance, his actions made him look very innocent, like a child acting like a spoiled child.

It's a pity that the person he acted like a baby was Lin Qingyu. Lin Qingyu was only stunned for a moment at the beginning, but he would have recovered from his paralyzed face long ago, and it was even more chilly than usual.

Seeing that Lin Qingyu didn't respond, Feng Chu felt unwilling, and without waiting for Lin Qingyu to reprimand, she continued: "The teacher has taught me for more than ten years, and I only touched a piece of the teacher's clothes just now. Does the teacher dislike me? Is the teacher true? I don't understand my heart, or is the teacher's heart made of jade, so cold and heartless..."

Following Feng Chu's questioning, which sounded like complaints and accusations, he got closer and closer to Lin Qingyu, and finally he simply pressed on Lin Qingyu's chest. The thin palm was so unexpectedly strong that Lin Qingyu couldn't push him away for a while, and he also lifted it. Can't get up.

Lin Qingyu finally frowned, and was about to speak, but Fengchu didn't give him the slightest chance. Anyway, he had already reached this point, and he simply said, "Whether the teacher really doesn't understand or not, I will definitely understand today." I want you to understand!"

As he said that, he lay on Lin Qingyu's body, pressed Lin Qingyu down, and just kissed Xiao Xiang's red lips recklessly.

Lin Qingyu tried his best to turn his face away, his brows were deeply frowned, and his calm and ice-like expression for many years finally couldn't be maintained.

Just when he was struggling to push Feng Chu away, there was a loud "bang!" The door of the elegant room was knocked down abruptly, the eldest prince Feng Wei stared at the two people in the room with red eyes.

After the loud noise, the room was silent, only Feng Wei's heavy breathing echoed the tense momentum in the room.

"You! Fengchu, how dare you attack the teacher while I'm not here? What are you? The one who dares to rob me!" The thin body is pulled an inch off the ground.

Feng Chu blushed, not from shame, but from anger.He waited for more than ten years, and finally had this opportunity, this courage to go one step further, to express his love in front of the person he admired, but he was destroyed by this old enemy in front of him.

Feng Chu's big eyes were even more frighteningly wide because of the glaring at the moment. He grabbed his brother's neck not to be outdone, thinking of the various schemes and calculations he had suffered since birth; Being suppressed by Feng Wei, a lowly reckless man, for decades, she couldn't hold her head up, and she even deliberately tolerated to please him; thinking that he was fighting for Lin Qingyu's favor with her because she was Lin Qingyu's nephew, Feng Chu couldn't wait to eat her. Flesh, biting his bones, even a thousand cuts are not enough to calm his inner resentment!

And Fengwei was hit even harder. He never expected that the submissive and sick child would dare to take advantage of his absence in Wuyizhai to get the moon and do what he wanted to do countless times in his dreams but ended up doing it in the end. What I didn't dare to do.

He didn't expect that he would be secretly stabbed by the younger brother he had always looked down upon. Was this his cowardly and incompetent younger brother? He was clearly a wolf cub in sheep's clothing.

Jealousy, unwillingness, and anger filled his chest, making him almost explode. He wanted to yell and beat the insidious and despicable villain in front of him to death!

So the two brothers finally tore their faces apart, and in front of the teacher they had been trying to please, they scuffled together regardless of their image.

"Get out of here!"

The veins on Lin Qingyu's forehead popped out, he straightened his clothes with a gloomy face, and pointed to the door...

Outside the door, Tangning stood awkwardly holding a pile of documents...

He spent a lot of time in the Hanlin Academy because of Lin Zizhang's affairs. Fortunately, the head of the academy on duty today made good friends with him. Otherwise, he, who has left the Imperial Academy, would not be able to enter in a grandiose manner just by saying a word. take things.

After taking Lin Zizhang and explaining the whole story to the academician in charge, the academician didn't say much, but just reprimanded Lin Zizhang. As for the ownership of the inkstone, it is really a special situation, which is not clearly mentioned in the regulations.In the past, some people left things in the Hanlin Academy, and everyone defaulted to public use, but it is also unreasonable to say it on the stage.

In the end, Lin Zizhang bought the inkstone with money. Of course, Lin Zizhang didn't bring any money, so Tangning paid for it.

Tangning didn't expect that when he came back, he would run into even bigger troubles. Although he had just arrived and only saw the two princes fighting, his intuition told him that the relationship between the three seemed to be more complicated than he imagined.

Tangning couldn't help feeling annoyed. If she knew he would not have come in a hurry, Ding Jiugong, an old fox, actually ran away by himself without warning him, deliberately letting him encounter this embarrassing scene. How can I not leave a lump in my heart.

Tangning was secretly scolding Ding Jiugong for his insidiousness, when Ding Jiugong shyly stepped forward.He looked at Feng Wei, who was still angry, expectantly, "Your Highness, Mr. Zhao is still waiting for you outside."

It was only then that Feng Wei remembered that he had something to do today, so he passed by Wuyi Zhai on the way, so he wanted to come in and have a look.In the end it was his own business that was important, he hadn't taken that seat yet, and his younger brother didn't look like a good bird, so some people couldn't be neglected.

Thinking of this, Feng Wei had no choice but to tidy up his clothes angrily, glared at his younger brother, didn't dare to look at Lin Qingyu's face, and flung his sleeves away.

Ding Jiugong stood aside in embarrassment, and said with a guilty conscience, "Do you want someone to clean up?"

Li Qingyu snorted, apparently very dissatisfied with him for not notifying the First Prince of his visit.Feng Chu also had a gloomy face, but he quickly recovered and nodded lightly.

Ding Jiugong hurriedly went down to find the little eunuch to clean up, but he didn't come up after that.

Tangning secretly spurned him. After the little eunuch finished tidying up, the room became tidy and the atmosphere gradually returned to calm.

Tangning hurriedly greeted the two of them, deliberately introducing her diagramming method with a bit of enthusiasm.

Tangning went against her usual calm and refined attitude, and almost spit. "In short, from the percentage I just calculated, although the tax has increased, the percentage has dropped. I'm sure that Yongzhou must have concealed a lot of population. , harvest and other data.”

Following Tang Ning's explanation, Lin Qingyu and Feng Chu gradually forgot the embarrassment just now, and were attracted by Tang Ning's new algorithm. The two of them were no less knowledgeable than Tang Ning, and they quickly accepted Arabic numerals and asked many questions. Tangning explained that they figured it out on their own.

It was already dark outside, and the three of them had to put it on hold for the time being and discuss it again tomorrow.

Feng Chu seemed to be in a good mood, and offered to invite the two of them to dinner. If it was in the past, Lin Qingyu would definitely refuse without even thinking about it.But that was in the past. He used to be strong without desire, but now it is not the case. In order to get revenge, Lin Qingyu had to have some worries, and finally agreed.

Feng Chu and Lin Qingyu took the first step. Tangning wanted to stay and sort out the messed up documents. These things can't be seen by others, and they can't be returned to the Imperial Academy. They can only be taken home.

Perhaps because Ding Jiugong was still angry, both of them rejected Ding Jiugong's lantern, and they didn't want the little eunuch, and left Wuyizhai on their own.

Outside Wuyi Zhai is the city wall. There are no palace lanterns here. Occasionally, guards pass by with lanterns. After a short period of light, the darkness becomes more intense.

In the darkness, Feng Chu took Lin Qingyu's hand again.

Lin Qingyu threw it away angrily as if being electrocuted, and his low voice contained anger, "The Second Highness is so ignorant of etiquette, isn't it afraid that I will turn my attention to the First Highness? You know, he is my nephew."

"Don't be afraid, it's because I know it's impossible for the teacher to vote for the elder brother, so I'm so shameless." Feng Chu's words were slightly smiling, and even a little coquettish.

But Lin Qingyu heard the voice, Feng Chu should understand Lin Wanyu's matter.

In the darkness, Lin Qingyu raised the corners of his mouth coldly, this second prince, today gave him a lot of surprises...