Wen Xiangyanyu

Yu Jia had already left, and no one in the hall made a sound. After a while, Wen Ying got up silently and walked out of the school.

The emperor's oral order has been issued, Wen Ying was removed from the honor book by the Ministry of Rites that day, and there was no place for him to live in the Imperial College.

Wen Ying went back to the house to pack his bags, and Pan You'an followed him to sneer and sneer, the pride on his face was completely undisguised.

Wen Ying didn't look at him again, his always lowered eyelashes covered the emotion in his eyes.

The other two roommates hesitated to speak, showing guilt on their faces, and did not say anything in the end.

They also went back to the dormitory at noon, and they could see clearly that Wen Ying never took out the finger puller at all. After changing clothes, he only took two books and left. He was framed.

But in front of the emperor and the prince, they timidly chose to be wise and protect themselves, and did not explain even a word to Wen Ying.

Lin Siye waited outside, Wen Ying walked up to him, and handed back the book he had gifted to him in the past.

Lin Siye didn't answer: "What are your plans for the future?"

Wen Ying's eyes were calm, and he said hoarsely: "Go to join the army."

Lin Siye was taken aback for a moment, never expecting that in such a short period of time, he had already thought of another way out, he hesitated to persuade him: "... Are you really going to join the army? Your Majesty only said that you would be expelled from your honor, but didn't mention that you can't take the exam again. You are still young, even if you pass the exam again, it will only be a matter of a few years, so why is it so?"

"I don't want to take the test anymore."

Wen Ying didn't explain much, and didn't want to explain.

At this point, he wants to be famous more than ever, and he must be famous. Sooner or later, he will grasp the power and become an extremely powerful minister.

Even if he retakes the exam and passes the exam, he still has to start from a humble official. He doesn't want to spend more than ten or twenty years. He would rather spend his blood and his life to fight for his future.

Lin Siye let out a long sigh: "I said earlier, His Royal Highness King Yu, he will kill you sooner or later."

There was a fleeting gloomyness in Wen Ying's eyes, and soon they returned to a pool of stagnant water, and did not answer any more questions.

Seeing that he had made up his mind, Lin Siye stopped persuading him, took the book, took out the 200 taels of silver note from his bosom, and stuffed it into Wen Ying's hand: "Take it, and treat it as if I lent it to you. If you take it seriously in the future, If I can earn a better future, I will give it back double."

Wen Ying did not refuse, took the bank note, and finally bowed deeply to Lin Siye: "Teacher, please take care."

Lin Siye choked up and couldn't speak. Wen Ying stood up straight, shoulders straight, and walked out of the Imperial College step by step.

From the beginning to the end, he never looked back.

When Ling Qiyan returned to the mansion, the servant girl had just brought the hot tea when he smashed it hard.

When he followed the emperor back to the palace earlier, he was reprimanded by the emperor again. That bastard Ling Qiyu pretended to speak nicely for him, but the smug look on his face clearly showed that he was responsible for this matter.

Outrageous!

In the evening, Xia Zhixing came to the main courtyard to greet Ling Qi with a banquet. Just as he bent down, the eunuch behind him kicked him in the back of his knee. Xia Zhixing was caught off guard and knelt heavily on the ground.

There was a flash of anger on his face, Ling Qiyan looked at him coldly: "You still dare to return to this king?"

Xia Zhixing quickly regained his composure, and explained to Ling Qiyan, "What happened today, the student was really just anxious to get his finger back, and never thought that His Majesty would come over. The student really didn't mean it." of……"

The hot tea in Ling Qiyan's hand splashed directly on his face.

"You think this king is a fool? You can just coax me to believe your nonsense? This king knows that you don't plan to follow this king forever, and this king doesn't mind that you use this king's Yuwang mansion as a springboard, but you When people are still here with this king, they should not eat inside and out, and help others to cheat this king!"

"Students didn't..."

"Do you know it in your own heart!"

Today's big show was clearly arranged by Ling Qiyu for him to watch!

He specially told his father that Linyong would bring him to give lectures, and proposed to stay in the Imperial College for lunch, and then persuaded his father to go to the school. It was all planned by that dog. There may be many people who will cooperate in singing this play, and Absolutely indispensable for this summer trip!

Xia Zhixing is still the same sentence: "There are no students, the students are all loyal to His Highness, and they will never dare to betray the Lord."

Ling Qiyan looked at him with only hatred in his eyes, and he was too lazy to waste his time with such things, so he told Jiang Lin: "The silver fox fur that the Queen Mother gave me is missing, you send some people to find it for me. , searched everywhere in the house, to see if some blind thing stole it."

Jiang Lin took the order and left.

Xia Zhixing's eyes widened in disbelief, and he blurted out: "What's the meaning of this, Your Highness?!"

Ling Qiyan ignored him, and lazily leaned back on the couch, not bothering to raise his eyelids.

Xia Zhixing gritted his teeth, and was held down by the eunuch behind his shoulders, unable to move.

Within a quarter of an hour, Jiang Lin went back and forth, took back the silver fox fur with both hands, and handed it to Ling Qiyan: "Your Highness, I found it. I found it in Xia Juren's house."

Ling Qiyan said: "What's going on here? Your Majesty just said that a gangster is unbearable to be an official. Why did such a thing happen in this palace?"

Xia Zhixing argued uncomfortably: "This silver fox fur is clearly given to the student by His Highness!"

Ling Qiyan glanced at him with a smile that was not a smile: "Is there such a thing? Why doesn't the king know about it?"

Xia Zhixing also said that Ling Qiyan didn't give him another chance, so he directly called the chief history of his mansion, and said: "This king took a wrong look and accepted a guest with bad conduct in the mansion, and stole the gift from the queen mother." The tribute to the king, although it is embarrassing to go out, but it must be dealt with impartially for the sake of others. You personally take someone to escort him to the Shangjing government office, and hand it over to the people in the office. Let them do what they want .”

Chang Shi took the order to answer.

Xia Zhixing was extremely sad and indignant, struggling to get up, and cursed in anger.

Just as he couldn't utter two words, he was slapped hard by the eunuch who was holding him.

Ling Qiyan sneered: "What do you think you are? Do you really think that the people you rely on will come to save you? You are just a chess piece that is used and thrown away. If you dare to cheat the king, you should be responsible The preparation for the consequences, the book has been read into the dog's belly, right? It's so stupid!"

After he finished speaking, he didn't give the other party any chance to argue, and waved his hand: "Press it."

The room was finally quiet, and Jiang Lin asked Ling Qiyan in a low voice what to do with the returned things, including the emerald ring finger. Ling Qiyan frowned impatiently: "Throw it into the warehouse, don't bring me here to block your eyes. .”

He closed his eyes, and the boredom in his heart finally dissipated a little.

On the same day, Xia Zhixing was taken to the Shangjing government office by Shi, the governor of Prince Yu, and sentenced for the crime of stealing tribute. The Shangjing government office informed the Guozijian and the Ministry of Rites of the matter. The government office ended at the first level, and was directly sentenced to exile.

Without Wen Ying in the Imperial College, Pan Youan was very complacent for a while. He had no intention of taking the exam, so he made friends with a group of wealthy merchants in the capital. Addictive to gambling, he lost all the money sent to him by his family to squander, was imprisoned in an underground gambling house, locked up in the dark for several days, was beaten several times, and when he was rescued by the officials, he could only breathe a sigh of relief. with.

Of course, fame is also lost.

At the same time, a scandal about the prince of the East Palace suddenly spread in the streets and alleys of the capital.

Because next year will be the year of the triennial exam, during this period of time, there are students everywhere in Beijing who are rushing for the exam. At first, in the inn where those students gathered, a storyteller told a story that he heard elsewhere. It is said that there was a prince in the previous dynasty who saw a poor scholar studying in the Imperial College. He deceived people's heart with his sweet words, but soon got bored and abandoned him. , the scholar couldn't bear the humiliation, and wanted to report them, so he was thrown into the back lake of the Imperial College, where he drowned and died. Later, those aristocratic families suffered retribution, contracted those unspeakable diseases in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, and were forced to He was expelled from the Imperial College, but it is a pity that the crown prince retreated completely. After all, he is the crown prince of a country, and even the heavens dare not take revenge on him.

When the storyteller told the story, his voice was full of cadence and emotion, and he easily asked the students who were sitting down to listen to the book to substitute themselves, and then became extremely angry.

This story was told in that inn for three days in a row, and then the storyteller realized that he was being watched by someone, and he fled overnight without a trace, and this story has completely spread among the students in Beijing who are rushing to take the exam.

It was soon discovered that the story was not a story from the previous dynasty, but a true story that happened in Shangjing!

There was indeed a student who drowned in the lake at the beginning of the year in the Guozijian, and there were indeed a group of dudes who were expelled from the Guozijian because of the willow disease.

The storyteller is probably an insider, using the name of the storyteller to accuse the current prince and the children of those aristocratic families of their evil deeds.

Even if there is no conclusive evidence, under the instigation of someone with a heart, these students quickly became angry. They would not do anything else, they took up their pens and wrote one after another with sharp words, satirizing the Crown Prince of the East Palace and those powerful families in the Ming Dynasty. Zi's ​​articles were published anonymously.

Ling Qiyu was so angry that he threw things and scolded people in the East Palace, but there was nothing he could do. These sour scholars were the easiest and most difficult to deal with. One person could drown him with one article, but he couldn't do anything to them. Don't blame everyone, what he really wants to do is to sit down and feel guilty.

Afterwards, the story spread more and more widely, and it was spread from the mouths of those students to the noble families in Beijing, causing countless people to see the joke, even the emperor heard about it from an eunuch beside him.

The emperor called Ling Qiyu away and scolded him head and face. Even if Ling Qiyu refused to admit it, he couldn't deny it.

In the story of the storyteller, the so-called token of love given by the former prince to the poor scholar was a snuff bottle given by the emperor, and he specifically described in detail how exquisite the snuff bottle was, Others might not know it, but how could he not know what the emperor gave him, it was clearly the snuff bottle that Ling Qiyu begged from him at the beginning of the year!

The emperor asked Ling Qiyu where the snuff bottle had gone, and asked him to take it out to have a look. Ling Qiyu lowered his head and faltered, unable to answer the question. The emperor knew from his reaction that it must be true. .

If it is said that Ling Qiyu wanted to intervene in military affairs before, the emperor felt that this son had a big heart, but now, after all these incidents, he found that his so-called moral integrity was actually pretending to lie to himself, which made the emperor extremely disappointed .

His eldest son is useless, and his second son is not a good one. He really failed as an emperor.

"In order to cheat your elder brother, you ruined the future of innocent people with shady means. I will favor you and protect you. Once or twice is fine. If there are too many times, I will not be able to protect you one day."

Ling Qiyu looked at the emperor in astonishment, and subconsciously argued: "My son didn't..."

"Do you know in your own heart that if I do the same thing, don't let me know that you dare to do it a second time." The emperor said coldly, and waved his hand, telling Ling Qiyu to go back to the East Palace to contemplate behind closed doors.

Ling Qiyu walked out of Xingqing Palace with a sullen face, met Ling Qiyan who was also summoned, and when he passed by, Ling Qiyu asked him sadly: "You ordered someone to do this behind your back, right? It’s because I underestimated you.”

Xia Zhixing, Pan You'an, including him, the prince of the East Palace, Ling Qiyan hated them all. Is it because he lost face, or did he want to take revenge for the poor scholar who was driven away? !

Is that person worth it? !

Ling Qiyan gave him a cold look: "I don't know what you're talking about. I only know one thing, and that is that you will die if you do too much unrighteousness."

He ignored Ling Qiyu no longer, and stepped into the door.

Kneeling to pay his respects, the emperor didn't let him get up, and asked, "Why did you spread those rumors to ruin your second brother's reputation?"

Ling Qiyan kept a cold face and refused to answer.

"say!"

Ling Qiyan argued unconvinced: "I don't know what the emperor means, I only know that those rumors may not be false, but what does this have to do with me? It is not my son, but himself who has ruined the crown prince's reputation. "

The emperor was immediately annoyed: "How dare you say that you don't know?! Do you really think that I can't see the narrow-mindedness you are playing?! Let you fool around?! You are! So is the prince! Because the prince cheated him before You, do you insist on vengeance like this?!"

Ling Qiyan raised his head suddenly, looked at the emperor in disbelief, touched the emperor's cold eyes, and immediately understood that his father knew what happened before, and he actually knew what Ling Qiyu did.

The anger in his heart rose instantly, and Ling Qiyan asked angrily: "Since father knows that Wen Ying has been wronged, why should he get rid of his fame?! Wen Ying won four consecutive awards, and he has the talent of number one. Such a person, Royal father didn't care at all, just disposed of people lightly?!"

"You still have the face to ask me? Who am I for?!" The emperor scolded angrily, "What do you think I should do?! Check the matter clearly and let everyone know that the students of the Imperial College are jealous of you? Yes. You and the prince brothers are fighting against each other?! Let those officials and students outside point and point at you, aren’t you comfortable and happy?!”

Ling Qiyan sneered contemptuously, what he said was really nice, was it for him?It was clearly for the crown prince's reputation, for the face of the emperor!

At five quarters Yin time, the morning bell rang and the gates of the city opened wide.

Wen Ying took the guide that Lin Siye entrusted for him, led the horse he bought, and went out of the city smoothly.

He has no fame now, and if there is no guide, it is difficult to move an inch. For more than half a month, he has been staying in Beijing, just to wait for the guide to be settled, and then buy some things.

He took off the long coat and wide sleeves worn by scholars, and changed into a capable short-breasted short brown. He grabbed some herbs, prepared dry food, and bought a good horse with the money given by Lin Siye. After everything was ready, Wen Ying couldn't wait. After further delay, he left Shangjing without any regrets.

One day, he will come back again.

After walking for half a day on the road, at noon, Wen Ying rested in a deserted place on the mountain road, drank a few sips of water, ate some dry food, got back on his horse, and was about to start on the road again, when three tall horses suddenly appeared at the corner ahead, and the horses The man held a sharp sword and approached him step by step.

Wen Ying's expression turned cold, he tightened the reins and looked at them vigilantly, and stopped in place without acting rashly.

"Who are you?"

The leader said indifferently: "You don't need to know, you have offended someone who shouldn't be offended, and you must die today."

Wen Ying's pupils shrunk slightly, and he had already recognized it. That time he accompanied Ling Qiyan to the princess mansion to celebrate his birthday. This man was the personal guard who followed the prince.

Wen Ying's expression remained unchanged, and he was not flustered.

When he was in the county school, the old general was very enthusiastic about teaching martial arts to these students. What he liked most was instructing a few of them in hand-to-hand combat on horseback, and he was always the one who won in the end.

The crown prince thought he was a weak scholar, so he only sent three people.

One against three, he is not completely without chance.

Pulling out the Mobei dagger worn at his waist, Wen Ying clamped the horse's belly, and rushed forward under the astonished gazes of the three people opposite.

A quarter of an hour later, Wen Ying raised his hand to wipe away the blood splashed on his face, and the three of them fell to the ground and howled, unable to get up again.

His left arm was cut with a sword, it wasn't too serious, and he just needed to apply some herbs to stop the bleeding later.

Wen Ying didn't care, fearing that someone else would come, so he didn't stay any longer, picked up the swords of the three men, and rode away.