Adviser should be self-improvement

The layout of the house is that of a large family, but the layout is extremely simple. Except for the first door curtain of the main house, which is made of brocade silk with pearls and jade, the rest are made of rather simple cloth curtains. The log floor is polished smooth, as if It can illuminate the silhouette of people, and with the small case made of sandalwood, it adds a touch of elegance.

Two people sat on both sides of the case.

One person has clear wrinkles on his face, and his temples are slightly white, making him look older.One person looks middle-aged, wearing a Gejin cloth robe, with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, pouring tea for the other.

When the tea is [-]% full, the middle-aged man twists his wrist and swirls the overflowing drop on the mouth of the pot, and finally returns to the pot. The old man watches quietly, his tense face slightly loosens. The teacup handed over by the middle-aged man, the lid edge gently strokes the hot air, and brings it to the mouth.

It's a pity that the clear and mellow tea did not have time to be delivered to the old man's mouth. A guard entered the inner room, knelt down to the old man and said, "Master Xu, the letters for help sent to the states and counties have been answered."

The old man stopped moving, covered the teacup, put it aside, and said to the guard: "Bring it up."

At the same time, the middle-aged man stopped what he was doing and looked at the letters in the guard's hands.

"Yes." After saying that, the guard stepped forward and handed the letter to the old man.

There were several letters in his hand, marked with different locations. The old man found one with Luoyang written on it, and opened it to read.

The middle-aged man said: "What did you say in the letter?"

"The people are causing trouble, and their officers and soldiers need strength to quell the riot. They can't be hungry. They only promised to give us two carts of food and grass, and they didn't say when they would be delivered." The old man handed the paper to the middle-aged man, and opened another Feng, after reading it, he couldn't help sighing, "So is Youdu."

The middle-aged man put the letter down, full of anger: "It was a waste of the old teacher's friendship to the prefect of Luoyang."

"The world is about to change, and he probably wants to do more for himself." Xu Zhen opened the third letter, and it was no surprise that it was an excuse. He sighed again, and he had already begun to give up hope, "That's all."

"Otherwise, teacher, you also—"

Xu Zhen frowned: "No, I've said it before. Don't bring up the matter of being loyal to the emperor and eating the emperor's salary."

Although the middle-aged man kept his mouth shut, it was not difficult to see the helplessness on his face. Seeing that Xu Zhen still had an unopened letter in his hand, he asked, "Who sent this from?"

Xu Zhen glanced at the words on the envelope, and took it apart: "Bianguan City."

"So it's the third prince."

The middle-aged man didn't ask about the contents of the letter, and seemed certain that there would be no results. However, Xu Zhen frowned more and more as he looked at the letter paper, as if he was a little puzzled, but also with a little joy.

The middle-aged man couldn't help asking: "Could it be that the third prince agreed?"

"...a cart." Xu Zhen looked away from the letter, turned to the guards and asked, "Is there any grain and grass from Border City delivered today?"

The guard said: "It never happened."

Before the middle-aged man could say, "Sure enough, I'm fooling people", he heard another guard's announcement from the door. The guard knelt down on one knee behind the previous guard, and said respectfully: "Report to Xu My lord, a cart of grain and grass in Bianguan City has been delivered to the gate of the city, do you want to send it to the granary?"

The two stood up together, and Xu Zhen's tone was even more eager: "Lead me to see."

When the grain truck entered the city, it inevitably caused a commotion.Although a cart of grain and grass is small, it is better than nothing for Qingzhou, which is now suffering from frequent disasters.

More importantly, is this sincerity.

"It turned out to be true..." Putting his hand into the grain bag, what came out was full-grained round-grained rice. The middle-aged man murmured to Xu Zhen, "Isn't Changzhou suffering from drought now, Third Prince?" Are you willing to give food and grass to others?"

Xu Zhen was no less puzzled than middle-aged people. The land in Border City is not suitable for planting. These grains should come from Huai'an, but the current relationship between Huai'an and the third prince...

After thinking about it for a while, Xu Zhen asked, "What actions will Bianguan City take in the near future?"

The middle-aged man thought for a while: "The third prince seems to be encouraging the people to plant a crop from the north... Could it be because of this that they are rich?"

"Changzhou is suffering from drought, no matter what crops are planted." Xu Zhen shook his head, "When natural disasters strike, this will not be a reason for a state shepherd to give us food and grass."

"Could it be that the third prince is actually a kind-hearted person?" After thinking about it, it seems that this is the only reason left.

"It's just a cart of food and grass, it doesn't mean anything." Xu Zhen said, "Fan Qi, although your father asked me to be your teacher when you were a child, but you left home to go to Beijing Middle School since you were young, and I have very little to teach you." Your opportunity is really ashamed of your teacher."

Fan Qi was shocked, and hurriedly cupped his hands: "Teacher, why do you say that?"

"I don't mean anything else, you don't have to think about it." Xu Zhen smiled, "Who is this third prince? You can only make a decision after seeing it with your own eyes."

Fan Qi was puzzled: "Teacher is going to Border City?"

Xu Zhen said: "Today is late, you will go with me tomorrow."

Fan Qi said: "But it happened so suddenly, isn't it somewhat offensive?"

Xu Zhen looked at the cart of grain and grass beside him, and said with a smile: "Bianguan City is already struggling, but it is willing to send this cart of grain and grass for relief because of a letter from me. I should pay a visit. "

Border City is close to Qingzhou, and it takes only three hours to travel fast by carriage. Xu Zhen sent out the visiting letter yesterday, but he was detained halfway, and the letter was not delivered until he and Fan Qi arrived at Border City not long.

But what Xu Zhen didn't expect was that he was stopped by the guards.

Fan Qi said: "This is Mr. Xu Zhen from Qingzhou. I am his disciple Fan Jin. This time I just want to pay a visit to His Highness the Third Prince. There is no malice."

However, the guards were very persistent: "It's not that I'm embarrassing you, but it's an extraordinary time. If you don't have a clearance document, I really dare not let you go."

Fan Qi looked at Xu Zhen: "Teacher, this..."

Xu Zhen waved his hand and asked the guard, "May I ask, why is this an extraordinary period?"

The guard said: "Changzhou is suffering from a drought, and the bandits around can't find food to eat, so they are likely to enter the city. The third prince specially asked us to be vigilant, not to miss a suspicious person."

Xu Zhen sighed: "There is no other way."

Seeing Xu Zhen nod his head, Fan Jin couldn't help but said, "Teacher, should we just go back like this?"

"It's my fault that I didn't deliver the letter earlier, but now it's late." Xu Zhen said, "Just wait."

Before the words were finished, a young man walked slowly past the gate of the city. He seemed to have suddenly noticed the existence of Xu Zhen and his party, and walked over again: "Who are you, and what are you doing at the gate of the city?"

The guard's tone was a little uncertain, as if he didn't know how to introduce him. Just as Fan Jin was about to speak, the young man asked, "Master Xu from Qingzhou?"

Xu Zhen asked in surprise, "How do you know?"

The boy took out the letter from his pocket: "I just received your letter of visit."

Fan Jin was not foolish enough to think that the young man in front of him was Qin Ce, and immediately lost his temper: "Why is the letter in your hands?"

"His Highness is not at home, I am about to send it to him." The young man said, "If you want to see him, I can take you there."

Xu Zhen glanced at the guard hesitantly, seeing that he only showed hesitation, but didn't say much, he couldn't help being curious about the identity of this young man: "Then I will trouble my little brother to help lead the way."

"polite."

The carriage was parked at the post station at the gate of the city. Xu Zhen and his group followed the young man's steps. There were few pedestrians on the road, but almost everyone they met would greet the young man with a smile, and the young man responded patiently one by one. Seeing this scene, Xu Zhen actually calmed down, and said with a smile: "Little brother is a general under the command of the third prince?"

"No." The boy said, "He said that I didn't earn military merits, so I can only be a soldier first."

Fan Qi asked: "Then why didn't the guard stop you just now?"

The boy said, "Because I am strong."

Fan Qi looked at the young man's small body and remained silent.

Xu Zhen smiled all the time, but he didn't have the slightest malice: "Since you are not a general under the command of the third prince, is it considered a transgression to open the envelope of the third prince without authorization?"

"I haven't opened it." He said and took out the letter, indicating that there was no trace of opening it.

"Then how do you know it's a visiting letter?" Seeing that the boy hadn't opened it, Xu Zhen was even more curious.

"Doctor Chu taught me that by shining the envelope on a candle, the content on the letter paper can be revealed. If the letter paper is folded together, just use your internal force to blow it apart a little bit." The young man said, "I have practiced a lot. Once again, the stationery will not be damaged again."

Xu Zhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and kept saying in his heart that the young man was frank, and he also remembered a faint shadow of Dr. Chu who had done harm to the young man.

After walking for a while, the boy stopped when he reached a vast farmland.

"The third prince is here?" Fan Qi looked around, but only saw farmers who kept farming.

The boy nodded and pointed to a place: "That is it."

Xu Zhen turned his head to look, and saw that the man pointed by the young man was not wearing a shirt, and was waving the hoe in his hand. The crystal sweat slid down against the skin, showing the master's strong and unobtrusive figure-this is the essence of martial arts practice. The habitual posture of a person.

"It's him?" Although the other party looked a little unusual, it was still quite different from Fan Jin's imagination. In his opinion, even if a prince could not be imposing, he could at least let people see the prince's majesty at a glance, which was not at all. The farm boy in front of him can compare.

Xu Zhen’s thinking was similar to Fan Jin’s, but the young man’s expression didn’t seem fake, so he could only believe this fact, and was hesitating whether to go straight there or let the young man go up to report first, when he saw a scholar in a cloud-patterned blue coat Walked straight to the man, still holding something in his hand.

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