Qingguan Nightmare Shadow

Watch the mirror.

Capital Palace.

Wang Jinhui sent Su Tong to the gate of the palace and retreated; the guards in the palace came up to welcome Su Tong and Si Ming Xiaoxian into the palace, bypassed the court hall, and arrived at Emperor Jiahui's bedroom.Then the guard bowed and gestured, inviting Su Tong to enter the hall, and let Siming Xiaoxian wait outside the door.

Someone reported it earlier, so Jiahui sent someone to arrange it. At this time, the layout of the dormitory is different from usual.A small wooden round table is placed in front of the couch steps, occupying the center of the hall, surrounded by two round stools, one high and one low.Wine was placed on the table, and the silver wine glass was placed beside the jug; there were two wine glasses, so no matter whether Jiahui had the habit of drinking in the bedroom or not, he wanted to have a drink with Su Tong here today.

The guard closed the door.

Su Tong rolled up his sleeves and saluted, Jiahui ordered him to look up, stared at him for a while, and then sat down at the round table.Jiahui was not old enough to stand up, although he was young, but in the palace, he was respected as an emperor, and he had a demeanor of not being angry and majestic.He had no expression at all, but when he looked at Su Tong, he smiled.Jiahui put aside his servants and poured the wine himself. He lifted the jug and said, "Shuzhou is remote, but it is indeed a place of outstanding people. With this appearance, Su Jue is really a little higher than Yuchi Xingyin."

In the Xia Kingdom, other people's praises are inevitably mixed with miscellaneous thoughts; on this point alone, probably only the emperor can be casual and pure.

Su Tong was silent for a while, lowered his eyes and said: "Emperor Enze and the five prefectures, although His Majesty said that Shu prefecture is remote, he always misses the distant place in his heart. The emperor's grace is given, and prefecture Shu prefecture is naturally as beautiful as the imperial capital of the capital. "

Jiahui filled two glasses of wine, heard this, laughed and said, "You sit, you sit."

Su Tong thanked his seat and sat down, Jiahui raised his wine glass and said: "Yuchi Xingyin has already explained everything about you clearly. Yuchi Fuguo tried his best to recommend you, and I have two thoughts, so I will save it." After all the cumbersome things, I directly call you here for an interview. Firstly, you are at the top of the list in the provincial examination, and you are sensitive and talented; secondly, disasters are unpredictable, and you are not responsible for the delay."

Su Tong had guessed earlier, but now she can be sure that her entry into Beijing is indeed related to Yuchi Ling.Hearing Jiahui mentioning Yuchi Order, he was in a daze, unexpectedly, before he could say apology or thank you, Jiahui said again: "I like drinking wine and not tea. I am a visitor from afar, and I am a close friend." Friends, you and I will drink this cup first."

Su Tong said: "Being His Majesty's guest is already frightening, how dare we call His Majesty a friend again?"

Jiahui waved his hand, and at the same time he drank the wine in the glass, he signaled Su Tong to drink first.At the end, Jiahui said: "I don't know if I know the heart, whether we can be friends or not, we should talk to each other before making a conclusion." After he finished speaking, he clapped his hands and gave orders, and the servants at the side understood, took a wooden support and bowed their heads forward.There is a stack of papers in the wooden tray, and the top page is a long article.

It was the letter that Su Tong lost in Yunjue's study.

Su Tong was slightly startled, and immediately turned serious.

Jiahui said: "Yuchi Fuguo spoke for you, once you asked me for help, so you came twice or three times. A while ago, Yuchi Fuguo submitted these articles, and I read them. It is true that the late emperor read Dongpo's articles and forgot to sleep and eat. If you had asked Yuchi Xingyin to send these earlier, I would not have hesitated for so long."

Su Tong: "Your Majesty didn't blame me. I felt lucky in my heart. I never thought that I would have another chance to meet the Holy Majesty. The many crude and superficial words now are actually...Xing Yin recited Jue Gui and found them. The words are not enough. Well, the idea is not new, and it is ashamed to be in the hall of elegance." Jiahui said with a smile: "So that's the case, no wonder the prefect of Shuzhou sent an exactly the same one. Hey, the idea doesn't need to be new, it is very good if it is in line with current events; an article that is timely, It's better than a stale allusion but deliberately novelty."

Su Tong was silent.

Jiahui said: "For example, this article has been discussed by many ministers in the court, and the guidelines for eliminating malpractice have been drawn up. After that, this matter will be handled by Yuchi Fuguo. You have studied with him for many years, so you must know him well. You may as well talk about it. What's your opinion?"

Su Tong smiled and said: "Master Fuguo was personally selected by His Majesty, and he is a versatile talent in both civil and military affairs. If Jue Gui makes a comment, I'm afraid every word is a joke." Jiahui was inexplicably happy, and the servants were full. After drinking, I just want to drink again.

When the pot of wine was bottomed out, Jiahui sent someone to fetch the second pot; seeing that Su Tong's expression remained unchanged and his breathing was steady, he squinted his eyes, and one corner of his mouth couldn't help but raised, making a series of "tsk tsk" sounds.When pouring the wine again, he asked the servant what time it was, and when he got a reply that it was the end of Yin hour, he nodded and drank.

Jiahui flipped through the stack of papers, took out a picture, and said with a smile: "It's strange why there is such a picture in it. From what you said, it seems that Yuchi Xingyin walked in a hurry and mixed many other things into it. It’s gone.” The picture is divided into two halves, one half is the cow and the shepherd boy living in harmony, and the other half depicts the scene where the cow picks up its buttocks and throws the shepherd boy away.Jiahui held up the painting, and under the brewing alcohol, the arc of his eyes became wider and wider.

Su Tong smiled and said, "Your Majesty will laugh at the drama of childhood."

Outside the bronze mirror, the onlookers of Siming Xiaoxian made a fuss, laughing and saying that they never knew Mr. Su had such a work.A few of them who recovered their strength even said to be quiet and quiet, but they were afraid that Yun Yao would push them out because of the noise.

After listening to the conversation between Jiahui and Su Tong for a long time, Junyao felt that her toothache was in a panic, so she stood up and looked elsewhere when Siming Xiaoxians were playing, as a rest.However, he looked around, but he couldn't see Yunli.Yunyao recalled that Yunli's viewing mirror was placed here early in the morning, and it seems that he himself did not appear today.

Yun Yao: "Have you met Mr. Yunli?"

The little fairies of Siming quieted down, looked at each other, then shook their heads blankly.

Yunli would never fail to know that it was time for Su Tong to meet Jiahui.

Yun Yao was puzzled, and Na Jiahui ordered someone to bring another stack of papers over.There were about a hundred sheets of paper in this stack, and a blank page covered the surface, and the white paper was yellowed.Jiahui stared at the yellowed corner of the paper for a moment, sighing, "So it's been so long", and then opened the blank page.

There is an ink painting below, red and black swaying in the picture, and the blank space indicates the flying snow in the sky; under the vast sky, a person straddles a horse and walks alone, just a back view, lonely and arrogant.The mountains are depicted in black, and the blood is red. Although the lone traveler in the picture only occupies a corner of the panorama, the few blurred pens and inks point out many details of his body.The person in the painting is a blood-stained general, his armor is incomplete, his cloak is torn, and his blood is snowing, but he still holds his long sword tightly.

If you glance at it roughly, this painting gives people a tragic feeling.But if you look carefully, no matter who it is, you will inevitably be surprised.Cuiwei’s precipitous mountains are the main body of the painting. The part with darker ink on the mountain looks like jagged and strange rocks at first glance, but in fact, the brushwork in the thick ink is distorted and strange, and the painting is actually a ghost hidden in the mountains .

The demons and monsters are thick and human-looking, and they are all ready to pounce; judging from where the "eyes" of all the monsters gather, they seem to be afraid of the general down the mountain.

There is a poem inscribed on the painting, and the way is: The towering Jiange row to the sky, and the angry horse boy opened with a sword.

The poems and paintings are nameless, titled "Qi Bin" and added chapters.

The chronology on the painting uses the year name of the previous emperor, and the time is calculated. When Jiahui made this painting, he was still a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old.

Turning one page and another, the protagonist of Jiahui's paintings is always the young general.In front of the boy, the big river crosses, or the road is blocked by ice edges. Without exception, the theme is the general holding a sword to break through.In addition to time, what changed was the seal and title.The seal changed from an ordinary court seal to an imperial seal, and the title changed from "Qibin" in the first emperor's reign to "Qibin".

There is civil and military in the heart, civil and military in the painting, and civil and military in the name.

The word "bin" appeared on the paintings after the first year of Jiahui.Jiahui himself changed the Chinese character in his name.

Jiahui said: "What do you think of my paintings?" Su Tong pondered for a moment and said, "Juegui saw the paintings of flowers, birds, insects and fish, and the principles of sages and sages, but he didn't see anything like that in the elegant hall. Ghosts and monsters." Jiahui frowned, then laughed again: "Where does this fall?" Su Tong rolled up his sleeves and said, "It falls on the word 'Xin'."

Jiahui: "It seems that whether it is good or not, you avoid talking about it?"

Su Tong said: "Poetry has a soul, and painting also has a soul. The soul of your majesty's painting lies in the ideal of comfort. Your majesty's ideal is not the same as that of ordinary people. It is the soul of painting. Jue Gui can only say that only the emperors of the past can understand it. Jue Gui As for the 'shape', because of the novelty of the painting, Jue Gui read it and agreed, but he couldn't give a reference example, so he had to stop talking about it. Your Majesty values ​​loyalty, and loyalty is true and false."

Jiahui scoffed, and chuckled lightly: "It's grand."

Su Tong lowered her eyes and fell silent.

Jiahui said: "I give you courage, tell me what is my ideal?"

After a while, Su Tong said slowly: "Leaving a name in civil and military affairs will last forever."

Jiahui: "Compared to Yuchi Fuguo, your answer is indeed much safer."

"He..." Su Tong paused, as if considering whether to say, "And the evergreen of life." Jiahui put down the wine glass, rubbed his fingers on the glass for a while, then picked up the glass again, and drank.

When serving the third jug of wine, Jiahui asked the servant what time it was, and the little eunuch replied that it would be Maoshi soon.Glancing at the door, Jiahui looked at Su Tong: "Then tell me, how can a country be so big, 'Wen' can be realized? How can 'Wu' be realized?" His face was a little drunk, and the questions he asked were more complicated than before. It was also vague before.Su Tong was still thinking, and Jiahui turned around: "No, you don't need to talk about the word 'wen'. There are too many discussions on this word in the books of the sages. I don't doubt your ability to pick up words and characters. You Let's say 'Wu'."

Su Tong said: "Wu and Wen are opposite, and they are in harmony with Wen. Wen and Wu are the same, and the five states will not collapse."

Jiahui raised two fingers together and nodded the table: "Just say it."

Su Tong: "Jue is just a scholar, and I really can't explain it in depth. I think that "Wu Jing Zongyao" and the Seven Books of Wu Jing are all military books, so I have to replace the word "Wu" with the word "兵" without authorization. Tracing the source to Sun Tzu, said : Soldiers, the major events of the country, the place of life and death, the way of survival, must be observed. From this we can see the importance of this character. Thirteen chapters of the Art of War, and the chapter on marching. Pian Dao is to subdue others without fighting, and the good ones are also good. Both civil and military are emphasized, and this can prove the superficial views of the people below."

Jiahui was slightly dissatisfied and said: "I thought that when you get along with the disciples of Xianmen in Xianjia Academy, you will have a personal experience of many things, and you will not just talk about books."

"...Xianmen doesn't want to fight with martial arts..." Su Tong said with difficulty, "It's all about self-cultivation."

Jiahui's expression turned ugly: "Fuguo said that you have a fairy friend in Yunjue, and I sent someone to summon him. Wang Jinhui replied that he was unwilling to enter Beijing. Do you know the reason?"

Su Tong: "He..."

Jiahui sneered: "It seems that falling off a cliff is not such an understandable reason."

Su Tong: "The Immortal family never participates in state affairs."

Jiahui said angrily: "The five prefectures of the Xia Kingdom, I am the emperor, they live and rest on my land, but they think they are in one side in their hearts? He has a hundred families of immortals, can he really live in the sky? Fuguo praises your friend's sword skills His martial arts are not inferior to him, and this is exactly what I have taken a fancy to. Next time, I will send someone to expressly give him an official position, Qi and Fuguo, and see if he still pretends to be noble and refuses to meet me."

Su Tong: "Your Majesty, there are many people in the world who are skilled in swordsmanship and martial arts."

Jiahui said coldly: "Everyone in the immortal sect hides without a trace, among them, how many of them are skilled in swordsmanship and martial arts, how many of them appear before my eyes?"

"Your Majesty asked him to join forces with the Fuguo, it's important."

"..." Jiahui got up and smiled, "I let you join the Fuguo, is it serious?"

Su Tong stood up, folded her sleeves and said, "Your Majesty is drunk."

Jiahui sneered and sat down: "I'll give you half of this wine. I haven't said you're drunk yet, but you dare to say I'm drunk." Suddenly his face sank, and he raised his voice: "What time is it?" He said in a trembling voice, "It's time", before the words fell, the little eunuch waiting outside the door said: "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister of the Political Bureau have arrived, please see me." Jiahui was listening to Su Tong's argument now. , Hearing the voice of the servant outside, as if he had expected it, he put aside the current matter and said: "Open the door, see you."

The servant of the newspaper door opened the door, and an old man walked in with his head held high, followed closely by the chief executive who had argued fiercely with Jiahui in the hall that day.Behind the two of them was another middle-aged man, and the servant guarding the gate did not report his arrival to Jiahui.The middle-aged man was dressed in civilian clothes, his head was bowed deeply, and his forehead perfectly concealed the panic in his eyes.Jiahui noticed the civilian man behind the two adults, but he only glanced at him briefly, and without asking for a while, he turned to the old man, who was obviously the prime minister, and sat down and saluted as an equal.

The emperor salutes first, and the ministers return the salute. The only one who enjoys such honor in Xia Kingdom is this prime minister.After the former prime minister went with the late emperor, the old minister Hu Xiaobei succeeded him. Up to now, he is the only close minister of the late emperor who has run through the two dynasties.If you look at the Jiahui court hall full of new faces and the former emperor's court hall together, except for the invisible inheritance, the two are like two independent squares.However, because of Hu Xiaobei, Jiahui was still unable to completely cut off the thread between the cubes; Hu Xiaobei was a needle, and this needle protruded from the cube that belonged to Jiahui Laozi, and pierced the young emperor. of blocks.

The needlepoint of the emperor's father hung brightly above Jiahui's head, and the coercion of the previous dynasty seeped in through the needlehole.

Su Tong pushed to the side of the bedroom, and Prime Minister Hu sat down and said, "Today, the head of the Buzheng government wants to sue me." His eyes slanted, and the head of the Buzheng stage immediately stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, Mr. Hu made fun of me, how can I sue him?"

He clearly said that someone sued him, but Hu Xiaopei was much calmer than the chief minister, and said, "It's not a complaint, what is it?"

The chief minister was about to speak, but Jiahui raised his hand to interrupt: "Master Hu, I already know that there are some disputes between you and Mr. Dong. Regarding the scientific examination, the two adults do not understand it in private. It is better to get it early." In the imperial court, let everyone discuss it clearly," he said, looking at Dong Di, the head of the Bu government, "I asked Mr. Dong to invite Mr. Hu to come today, and talk about what is going on. Mr. Dong, you are very punctual. "

Dong Di lowered his head.Jiahui didn't turn his head, and said to Su Tong: "I had a good time talking with you, but I didn't grasp the time well. It's okay, you just wait here." Su Tong replied "Yes", Hu Xiaopei and Dong Di guessed him The scholars from Shuzhou who were recommended by Yuchi Ling just glanced up and didn't make a sound.

Only then did Jiahui pass Hu Xiaobei and Dong Di, pointing to the civilian man by the door: "Who is he?"

Dong Di said: "Forgive me for not reporting, this is my friend, Mo Xuan."

The clothed man described it as reserved, and felt that he couldn't just stay behind others, so he looked at the ground and added in a low voice: "Cao Min Nan Yu is from Haizhou."

Jiahui said: "Haizhou is quiet and quiet, and there are many virtuous Confucian scholars."

After commenting on Shuzhou, he came to comment on his Haizhou.

Hu Xiaobei said sadly: "Your Majesty's words are very accurate. Mr. Dong just invited the virtuous Confucian scholars from Haizhou to stop me." Jiahui asked "Why?" Hu Xiaobei sneered and remained silent. Taking a half step back, Dong Di stepped forward and said, "Lord Hu, I really don't have any other intentions. I'm just in charge and want to speak up, but I'm not very knowledgeable, so I have to ask someone to speak for me."

Jiahui ordered his servants to set up another stool, and said to Dong Di, "Sit first, too."

Outside the viewing mirror, Xu Zhen said bluntly: "Hey, Mr. Junyao, this Haizhou surnamed Mo, could he be the father of Mr. Mo Qingmo?" Before Yunyao nodded, a voice came from the door: "I know Mo Qing’s father’s name is Xuan, you have stayed in Yunjue much longer than me, Xu Zhen, it’s too exaggerated for you to ask this.”

Xu Zhen subconsciously scratched his head and smiled, "Mr. Mo's father has been studying in Haizhou. Mr. Mo came all the way to cultivate bamboo, and it was all given by Mrs. Mo's wife. Mr. Yunli, I have never met Mr. Mo Xuan himself. You are not surprised to see him appear in the capital in your magic weapon..." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly stopped; at the same time, Yun Yao turned his head together with all the ministers.Xu Zhen said in surprise: "Uh, Mr. Yunli... when did you come back?"

Yun Li casually dragged a chair, sat down and said, "I just came back."

Xu Zhen: "Where did Mr. Yunli go?"

Yunli: "Baiyin Temple."

Xu Zhen swallowed: "Mr. Yunli doesn't know that Mr. Su is going to meet the saint today?"

Yunli: "I know. So I went to Baiyin Temple to offer incense to him."

Xu Zhen: "..."

Everyone was speechless.

The reason why the Siming Immortals are silent is because Yunli is Su Tong's commanding officer after all, and it's really unusual for a commanding officer to offer incense to mortals.Xu Zhen was silent because no matter how he looked at him, he didn't feel that the person in front of him was a person who could bow his head and worship Buddha devoutly.

Yun Yao nodded to Yun Li, and shifted her gaze to the viewing mirror again.When everyone was surprised and surprised, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh, she was probably the only one who was tired of being Siming Xian and understood the helplessness of a Siming Xian.