Thinking

These days, Qisi's symptoms from this attack have recovered, and Emperor Su saw that he was alive and kicking again, and couldn't stay in the palace anymore, so he called him to his side.

"This spring, you have been here for more than half a year. Although it is comfortable to live in another courtyard, there are no elders around to teach you."

Qi Si nodded, not knowing what Emperor Su wanted to arrange.

"Shangshuling Jiang Xunyan is my left prime minister. He is extremely talented. He has known Gu since he was young and has been busy with government affairs. He has no wife, no children, and no students around him. Would you like to follow him?"

Emperor Su's tone was very calm, as if he was talking about finding a wife for Qisi, not letting Prime Minister Zuo of Yan Kingdom be his teacher.

Qi Si did not expect Emperor Su to make such an arrangement.

He doesn't have much impression of Jiang Xunyan. Jiang Xunyan is a famous talent in the world, but Qi Si doesn't know him well. The only communication he has is a few greetings at the palace banquet.

Emperor Su didn't want him to go back to the other courtyard anymore. I don't know if he saw some differences between him and Xiao Zhi, or it was just arranged like this.

Qi Si felt that Emperor Su had insight into people's hearts and understood himself quite well, so he nodded in agreement.

"Of course I am willing, but I don't know Mr. Jiang..."

Sudi waved his hand: "Don't worry, let him raise the child too, so as not to become more lonely."

Thinking about it, your majesty, don't you do the same.

"I also thought about keeping you by Gu's side, but you are born free, and the palace is restrained after all, so that's all."

Qi Si looked at Emperor Su, he was the one who was really trapped in the palace, even if he was an emperor, he would have gains and losses.

"I can often enter the palace to accompany Your Majesty," said Qi Si.

"You are a good boy." Su Di smiled in his eyes, and beckoned him to come to his side. "At first, I thought you were too simple-minded, but after many things, you grew up faster than I thought."

Qi Si walked over and stood outside the study with Emperor Su, looking at the snow-covered garden in the courtyard.

"You are free by nature, so you can do whatever you want, but when you get along with others, you can't just rely on your emotions." Emperor Su's tone was softer, but Qi Si guessed that he knew that he had a conflict with Xiao Zhi.

"For example, Xiao Zhi, I watched him grow up. He seems calm and introverted, but in fact he has a very strong temperament, and he is easy to break when he is too rigid."

It was the first time for Qi Si to know Xiao Zhi from others, and he felt very delicate.

"Just like his name, it would be dangerous to be too obsessed with something. I can't change him alone, I hope you don't."

Qisi looked at Ruixue in the garden, and he didn't know whether Xiao Zhi and himself could reconcile. In life, there are always meeting and parting, and there are always going together and going against each other.

He nodded: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your guidance."

Emperor Su looked at Qi Si and said nothing more.

On the fifteenth day of the new year, the Palace of Yan State held a Lantern Festival banquet to bid farewell to Jin State and Daliang envoys.

This time the banquet was simpler, Duji did not show up, the envoys of Great Liang feared that he would cause trouble, and did not let him enter the palace.

At the banquet, Qi Si still simply exchanged greetings with the princes he knew, and at the palace banquet, he could not play around, he could only chat in a proper manner, and there was nothing to talk about.

Xiao Zhi didn't come, maybe he was sent to work.

Qi Si sat for a while as usual before returning to Jingyun Hall, and the New Year's Eve came to an end peacefully.

After the New Year's Eve, Emperor Su sent Qi Si to the residence of Jiang Xunyan, the Zuo Prime Minister of Yan State, according to his words, and Jiang Xunyan took care of him and taught him.

Emperor Su didn't let Qi Si go back to the other courtyard, but asked the palace servants to send his belongings to Jiangfu, but Qi Si still didn't see Xiao Zhi.

On the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, there was no wind or snow in Changyu City, the sky was clear and the sun was warm, and the remaining snow at the corners of the street was pure white, reflecting the icy ice under the eaves. Qisi was sent out of the palace by a palace carriage, all the way along the wide streets of Changyu, Go to the quiet Changyu Prime Minister's Mansion.

Qi Si got off the carriage, looked at the gate of Prime Minister Zuo's mansion in front of him, and felt that life was too unpredictable.

The Prime Minister's Mansion is located in the area where officials' houses gather in Changyu City. It is very quiet, and there are many tall courtyards with blue bricks and stone tiles.

There are two stone beasts at the gate of Jiangfu, and there are red lanterns hanging under the eaves of the gate, reflecting the melting white snow on the eaves.

The last time I met Jiang Xunyan was at the palace banquet on New Year's Eve, Jiang Xunyan and Li Cen came to greet him, very thoughtful and decent.

Today, Jiang Xunyan was dressed in literati robes, gentle and elegant, with a clear face. He happened to be waiting at the door with his servant butler. When he saw Qi Si get off the carriage, he greeted him with a smile.

"Your Highness, we meet again." Jiang Xunyan saluted, and greeted him very gently and friendly. The servants behind him also saluted.Qi Si was not nervous anymore, walked over, raised his hand in greeting and said, "Master Jiang."

Jiang Xunyan asked the housekeeper to arrange the luggage sent by the palace servants, and entered the prime minister's mansion with expectations.

Jiang Xunyan, who holds the post of Shang Shuling, is the mainstay of the court of Yan State. He stands at a young age, but is full of talent. His status in the court is comparable to that of the right prime minister Li Cen.

Judging from Jiang Xunyan's status, the area of ​​Jiang Xunyan's mansion is not very large, but the houses in the mansion are elegantly arranged. It is said that there are a lot of books in Jiang Xunyan's mansion. Qi Si followed him all the way in, and this house can also feel that Jiang Xunyan is a man. Elegant scholar.

Jiang Xunyan took him to the main hall to rest first. The hall was warm and elegantly decorated. There was even a plum blossom placed in a celadon vase, which was strong and fragrant. The two of them sat in the hall without talking about etiquette.

"Your Majesty handed you over to me. I don't know what your Majesty thinks. Jiang has never taken care of a child. He has been nervous for several nights and has not fallen asleep. He is even more nervous than the Imperial Examination." Jiang Xunyan smiled and thought at the same time.

Qi Si smiled when he heard the words, and suddenly relaxed a lot.

With gentle eyes, Jiang Xunyan asked his servant to bring Qi Si a cup of hot tea, and said, "Your Majesty asked me to take care of you, not only for daily life, but also to have someone by your side to guide you."

Qisi took a sip of hot tea, which was fragrant and sweet, looked at Jiang Xunyan, and smiled.

However, Jiang Xunyan watched Ji Si's brows and eyes froze after the mist rose from the tea, and Ji Si put down the teacup, and Jiang Xunyan looked at him carefully again.

"The prime minister has seen my mother too?" Emperor Su said that he looked like Yu Ke's mother. That day, Emperor Su looked very similar to Jiang Xunyan. Maybe he and Yu Ke had been together for a long time, so they really looked too much alike.

Jiang Xunyan smiled and said, "Your Highness Minhui, His Majesty must have said so. I do know His Highness's parents as well."

Looking at Qi Si again, he said, "However, I think His Highness has a unique style, and he is not quite similar to them."

Qi Si didn't quite understand what he meant, so he thought for a while and asked, "Your Majesty asked me to study with the prime minister, so I should call you Mr."

Jiang Xunyan thought for a moment and said, "That's fine, but since you live in the mansion, you are also a family member."

Jiang Xunyan thought of something, and said again: "Are you studying in Hongdu Academy these days?"

Qi Si nodded.

"Your Majesty also told you that you will still go to the academy in the future, so that you can make friends with young people of the same age. When you come back on weekdays, I will teach you some extra things. How about it?"

Qi Si smiled: "That's good."

Then Jiang Xunyan took Qi Si to see the courtyard that had been arranged for him. The courtyard was spacious and the house was very elegant. There were not many servants in Jiang's residence, and everything was kept simple. Qi Si could easily get used to this style.

There is an ancient ginkgo tree in the courtyard, which is tall and straight. It must be extremely luxuriant in spring and summer, and it should be full of gold and green in autumn.

But there was no plum tree in the courtyard, and Qi Si felt a little regretful, thinking of the plum tree in the other courtyard, it must have bloomed.

Jiang Xunyan settled him down, and said: "I'm always busy, so I probably can't accompany you all the time. You should be more at ease in everything. There are some books, calligraphy and paintings in Fuzhong Shuge, and you can read them if you like."

Qi Si smiled: "Don't worry, sir."

Jiang Xunyan went out of the mansion to do errands, and Jisi was accompanied by the housekeeper for a stroll around the mansion. He found that the garden of Jiangfu was elegant and the bookstore was quite large. Apart from the collection of books in the palace, Jiang Xunyan's bookstore was the most abundant.

I went into the Book Pavilion and looked, and sure enough, there were sage classics, poems, books, rites and music, astronomy and geography, customs and anecdotes, farming, mulberry and crops. What surprised Qi Si was that there were so many books on the art of war in the Book Pavilion. They are often read, and Jiang Xunyan is really good at both literature and martial arts.

He casually asked the boy in the bookstore: "Master, have you read all these books?"

The boy smiled: "Not only have I read it, but many of them were written by adults."

Qi Si: "..."

Qi Si felt that the teacher Sudi found for him was a little too powerful.

Until the evening, Qisi sat in the bookstore for a day without knowing it, and the charcoal fire was added several times. He raised his head to exercise his muscles and bones, and left the bookstore.

"Mister hasn't come back yet?"

"Yes, after the New Year's Eve, I'm very busy."

Qisi walked around at will, and when he arrived at the garden of the mansion, he saw the red plum blossoms by the pond covered with white snow, and he looked at it for a long time without knowing it.

"Your Highness likes plum trees?" asked the servant next to him.

"...Maybe", Qi Si said silently for a moment.

After returning to the room, he found the Jiang mansion was quiet, and remembered Xiao Zhi again, sighed softly, and fell asleep in the warm room unknowingly.

Half-dream and half-awake, but felt that there seemed to be someone beside me, a cool touch passed across the cheek, and the consciousness was so heavy that he couldn't wake up for a while, and felt a faint fragrance drifting towards him.

Qi Si suddenly remembered Duji Fulbu, woke up immediately and sat up.

He looked around vigilantly, he didn't know how long he had slept, the house was already dark, and the servants in the yard were sent down by him before, so there was no one in the moment.

He swiped his hand to the side and touched something. Looking down, it was a plum blossom, which was cold to the touch and dripped with melted snow.

He immediately stood up and looked around the house, and found that there was a small gap in the door, holding a plum branch in his hand, and immediately chased him out.

This is a winter night in the north - the snow has stopped and the clouds have dispersed, the sky is high and the moon is bright, there is a thin layer of remaining snow in the courtyard, and the courtyard is like silver frost under the moonlight.

Qi Si couldn't see anyone anywhere, but heard the slight sound of stone tiles on the eaves.

"Xiao Zhi!"

He shouted back immediately.