The Great General and His Little Scholars

When Liao Mingsi walked into the Zichen Hall, Emperor Song Yuanxi stood up from the throne and greeted him.This emperor has just ascended the throne for three years, only one year older than Liao Mingsi.But he doesn't look very similar to his younger brother Song Yuanhao.Compared with Song Yuanhao's thin and sinister aura, Song Yuanxi looked stronger and more stable.

Liao Mingsi saw that Song Yuanxi stepped down to greet him, he hurriedly knelt down and said, "I have seen Your Majesty, how dare you trouble Your Majesty to welcome you."

Song Yuanxi smiled and stretched out his hand to help Liao Mingsi up, saying: "That Hu Fan has repeatedly harassed my border town and took it away three times to threaten me and the court. You have won six battles and six victories here, and you have also won Hu Fan, who is known as the God of War. The head of the Sixth Prince, who has revived the power of the dynasty, I should do whatever I do."

"Besides, you and I have learned martial arts and practiced military exercises in the same school since we were young. We are called monarchs and ministers, but we are actually friends, so we don't need to care so much about the etiquette of monarchs and ministers."

"The emperor is courteous to the virtuous and the corporal, but the ministers have to abide by the etiquette of the emperor and his ministers." Liao Mingsi said respectfully: "Besides, the victory this time is also because that Hu Fan has long been disobedient to God's will. Since your Majesty took the throne, he has administered benevolent government and favored the world. Border Town Exempted from taxation for five years, the hearts of the people are united, and the will of the people is united. A small nonsense is naturally no problem."

Song Yuanxi laughed, and took Liao Mingsi's hand. The eunuch Li Dujin put a brocade chair beside Song Yuanxi's throne with winking eyes, and the two sat down hand in hand.

After chatting about some major affairs in the military and the world, Song Yuanxi diverted the topic away and asked: "Mingsi, if I remember correctly, you are already in the weak year, have you ever taken a fancy to any famous lady? Taking this opportunity, I would rather Can fulfill you."

Liao Mingsi smiled and said: "Thank you Your Majesty for thinking about it, but I have no favorite woman."

"Oh?" Song Yuanxi looked at Liao Mingsi tentatively: "But Yuanzhen has been thinking about you all the time, could it be the princess's wishful thinking?"

"Eldest Princess? How could that be?" Liao Mingsi said without hesitation, "In my heart, she has always been a princess, and I am just a subject."

"That's weird." Song Yuanxi frowned slightly and said: "A few days ago, I heard the news of your victory and triumph. Yuan Zhen had already gone to ask the Queen Mother and asked me to give you a marriage. I am not sure, so I'll ask you what you think first."

After finishing speaking, she coughed lightly, and said with some relief, "Since it's just Luo Hua's intentions, I'll appease her to forget about it."

Liao Mingsi thanked him, "Your Majesty is sorry."

Song Yuanxi waved his hand, and said, intentionally or unintentionally: "I actually thought about it, maybe you don't like women. There is a rumor, I have heard it a long time ago. It is that when you were young, there was a distant cousin in your family. They have very close contacts, and the relationship is very unusual. I don’t know if it is..."

"Since His Majesty said it was all rumors, it is not true." Liao Mingsi smiled nonchalantly: "There are some people in the minister's house who like to spread rumors, which makes His Majesty laugh."

Song Yuanxi listened, but his expression was not relieved, he only looked at Liao Mingsi with a complicated expression.After a while, he said: "Tonight at the Qiongming Palace, I will host a banquet for the Gongsheng students of this palace examination high school. This kind of routine banquet, I feel boring even thinking about it, why don't you go with me, and let these talented scholars Look at you, the new loyal general."

"Your Majesty has an order, and I will accompany you there. I'm just afraid that I, a warrior, will be too rough in the eyes of those Jinshi to be seen."

"You're too modest." Song Yuanxi patted Liao Mingsi on the shoulder and said, "Who doesn't know your reputation as a son of the Liao family. I'm afraid that talented people only care about you and ignore me."

"Your Majesty is joking."

The two sides laughed, and Song Yuanxi gave Liao Mingsi warm soup in the back hall to bathe and change clothes, and went to Qiongming Palace for a banquet together.

After Liao Mingsi changed his clothes, he just walked out of the apse when he heard a charming voice saying: "Mingsi, since you have come back and met the emperor, why don't you go to Yuhua Palace to see me?"

Liao Mingsi turned around, only to see a woman in gorgeous palace attire standing gracefully, with a shy pink face, red lips smiling, and a pair of phoenix eyes provocatively looking at Liao Mingsi under the curved willow-leaf eyebrows.

Liao Mingsi saluted and said, "I have seen the eldest princess."

"But after fighting for a while, it's just like this." The eldest princess Song Yuanzhen took two steps forward, cast a glance at Liao Mingsi and said, "Back when I went to the general's school with my brother to learn how to perform military exercises, you treated me like a pawn. And me."

"Hehe, I was young and ignorant at that time, and I still hope that the princess will have a lot, so I don't care about it anymore."

"Who cares about it?" Song Yuanzhen said coquettishly: "If you don't think so seriously, how can this princess be good at riding and shooting, and gallop in the hunting ground at will."

Song Yuanzhen waved to the maid beside her as she spoke, and the maid immediately held a tray.Song Yuanzhen lifted the red silk covering it and said: "This is a snow rabbit I hunted in the royal hunting ground. I picked a good fur from the belly and let the best craftsmen in the capital make it. It is a triumph for you." A gift."

Liao Mingsi took a look, and saw a pale snow-blue Shu brocade cloak in the tray.The entire cloak is embroidered with the pattern of swastikas along the longitude and weft of Shu brocade with silver thread, and the collar of the cloak is made of snow rabbit fur.The technique is extremely delicate, and it is impossible to see that it is stitched together.

Liao Mingsi praised: "I am ashamed to accept such a precious gift."

"Don't dare to be anything, it was made just for you, if you don't accept it, you will be disobedient." Song Yuanzhen walked over to Liao Mingsi side by side and said: "Listen to Li Dujin, the emperor wants to take you to Qiongming's night banquet , I want to go too."

"What are you going to do!" At this time, Song Yuanxi also came over after changing clothes: "There are Gongsheng and ministers there, what is a princess going to do?"

"I just want to see the high school Jinshi this year, why not." Song Yuanzhen said softly: "I heard that there is a seventeen-year-old boy among the Jinshi this year, whose appearance is comparable to..." Turning his head while talking Looking at Liao Mingsi, he said: "The man of the Liao family is comparable to the number one man in the capital. How can he be missed if he is such a dragon and phoenix among people."

Song Yuanxi smiled and said: "If it's for him, you don't have to go. He has asked for his life to visit the old man, saying that he has saved his life. I have already agreed."

Liao Mingsi's heart moved when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked: "What is the name of this young Jinshi?"

"What's your name...it seems to be called Sima or something." Song Yuanzhen said indifferently.

"But from Binzhou?" Liao Mingsi asked.

Song Yuanxi looked suspiciously at Liao Mingsi and said, "This young Jinshi is from Tanzhou, and he is the youngest son of Fucheng Wang Sima Zhong. What's the matter? Mingsi, do you know him?"

Liao Mingsi's heart sank, with a look of disappointment on his face, he shook his head and said, "No, I don't know him."

In the Qiongming Palace, the lights were brightly lit, and there were singing and dancing.Liao Mingsi appeared at the banquet, and all the ministers flocked to toast, including the newly promoted Scholars, also toasted one by one.

Liao Mingsi was a bit of a drinker, but he couldn't stand drinking cup after cup. When the people dispersed, he felt a little overwhelmed.When I was slightly drunk, I turned my head to look at those newly promoted Jinshi, and the face I was thinking of was everywhere in a trance.

"Brother, wait for me for ten years, when I grow up, I will come back to you..."

Holding the wine glass, Liao Mingsi smiled miserably, and said to himself: "I've been waiting for you, but do you still remember the ten-year agreement..." The depression in his heart became even worse, he raised the glass and drank it down.

The people's voice in the banquet hall became more and more irritated in Liao Mingsi's slightly drunk ears, so he got up and made up an excuse, and went outside to have a wind.

The night wind was a bit chilly, Liao Mingsi instinctively tugged on the cloak on his body, only to realize that he was actually wearing the cloak Song Yuanzhen gave him.

Originally knowing that she wanted to give her a marriage, Liao Mingsi made up his mind to find an appropriate time to return the cloak.But after drinking too much wine, he was confused and put on the cloak that had been put aside.

The boredom in his heart at this time made Liao Mingsi ignore these things, he just wandered along the path outside the palace, and walked into a different courtyard after a while.

Facing the other courtyard is a lake, the water surface is not big, and there are some dense bamboo forests around it.A stone bridge crosses the lake to a house on the opposite bank.

The Qiongming Palace is actually on the outskirts of the palace, and every time he comes here, it is just for the banquet, and Liao Mingsi has never been to other places.

Discovering this place by chance, Liao Mingsi became interested and wanted to go up to the bridge to have a look.Unexpectedly, two eunuchs appeared suddenly, stood in the way of the bridge and said: "General Liao, King Zhao is here to entertain guests, outsiders are inconvenient to disturb, please come back."

Liao Mingsi was a little puzzled, shouldn't Song Yuanhao be at the Qiongming Palace banquet?Why did you come here to entertain guests again?

But Liao Mingsi and Song Yuanhao originally belonged to the two opposing forces in the DPRK and China, and they never interacted with each other.At this time, I was too lazy to think about it, and turned around to leave.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, there was a sudden noise in the opposite room where the candlelight was flickering, and then there was a "bang", as if a vase or something fell to the ground.

Liao Mingsi stopped involuntarily and looked across.But the door opposite was suddenly pushed open, and a figure stumbled out.

With the dim lighting of the bamboo grove, Liao Mingsi looked at him as a young man, from a distance, he couldn't see his face clearly, but he also felt that his features were pretty.

The boy seemed to be drunk, and he walked staggeringly.He wobbled onto the stone bridge, but couldn't even hold on to the handrails.

When the two eunuchs here saw him, they didn't care about Liao Mingsi, and ran towards the boy in a hurry.

At this time, a thin figure chased out from the door, put his hands on his head, and shouted: "Are they all dead! Let me stop him!"

It was only then that Liao Mingsi noticed that there were actually two guards hidden in the dense bamboo forest on both sides of the house.Hearing the call, the two guards rushed forward and rushed towards the boy.

The young man was in a hurry, and hurried to the bridge, but was blocked by two eunuchs.Seeing that both ends were blocked, the boy shook his hands holding the railing of the stone bridge, and when he let go, he was about to jump into the lake under the bridge.

The eunuch and the guard hurriedly stretched out their hands to pull, but they didn't want a black figure to "suddenly" pass over the two eunuchs, spun around and reached out to catch the boy's waist that was leaning towards the lake.

The eunuch and guards stared dumbfounded at the black figure turning around quickly, tapped his feet on the bridge railing, and then flew to the original position, but there was already someone in his arms.

Liao Mingsi had already seen clearly that the person opposite him covering his head with blood streaming down his face was King Zhao Song Yuanhao.He looked at Liao Mingsi, gritted his teeth, his appearance looked even more ferocious under the light of the night.

"Liao Mingsi, don't meddle in other people's business, that's my king's man, don't put him down quickly!"

Liao Mingsi ignored him, and turned his cold eyes to the person he was holding in his arms.Under the dim light, the face of the person in his arms was reddish, and his breathing was uneven.Looking at Liao Mingsi with watery bright eyes, he said in a weak voice, "Brother, I finally saw you..."