I was the heir in ancient times

Continuous spring rain.

When His Royal Highness was washing at night, the eunuch Guixi added a lot of dried flower petals to the water basin, knelt on the thin velvet carpet, rolled up his sleeves and dipped his hands into the water to pinch the feet of Gu Baozhen who had been out for a day today.

The whole Nansan School is silent only the sound of rain, and occasionally the sound of flickering candles, crackling, crackling and sparkling lights.

Guixi smiled habitually, while pinching the acupoints on the soles of Gu Baozhen's feet, who was paralyzed on the bed, while talking about how Prince William came to look for Gu Baozhen today, but was chased by General Bai to the courtyard of the Sixth Highness. Things that dare to come out.

Gu Baozhen smiled lazily, and said, "General Bai likes William's long golden hair, so naturally he will chase after him when he sees it."

"Mr. Yan also came in the afternoon. He said he wanted to ask His Highness about something he didn't understand. The slave knew that His Highness didn't like Mr. Yan always coming to look around, so he dismissed it on behalf of His Highness."

Gu Baozhen let out an 'um' in a soft voice, as if he was about to fall asleep in the next second.

Guixi gently wiped Gu Baoyu's callus-free feet with water, put them on the bed, and was about to cover Gu Baoyu with a quilt, but was stopped by Gu Baoyu.

I saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wearing silver-gray obscene clothes casually holding the headband at the head of the bed and tying his long black hair behind him. He sat up vigorously and said, "Today's book hasn't been written yet, Gui Xi, You go to hold the lamp, grind the ink, I'm still a few pages away, and the textbook will be done."

Gui Xilue's gloomy and thin face was sickly pale, and between his brows was the eternal sorrow. He frowned and advised: "His Royal Highness, let's rest early today, I've been tired all day. .”

His Royal Highness the 16-year-old prince smiled and said: "You indulge me, I didn't get up until the sun was up, and I followed Yanliang to participate in the Xianbei Wrestling Festival in the afternoon. Take a nap, where are you tired?"

Guixi smiled wryly and bent over to help His Royal Highness straighten the shoes, and hurriedly followed to the study room. Except for a few people, this important study room was heavily guarded. Even at night, there were two patrolling eunuchs standing at the door. There are five steps, one whistle and ten steps and one post outside the three schools. If there is a disturbance, even a fly will not be able to fly out of the three courtyards of the prince!

The study room of the three houses used to be shared by the crown prince and Mr. Bo who lived in the three houses together. Later, when Mr. Bo grew up to 12 years old, he no longer lived in the palace. He usually studied from Prince Yi’s mansion, so the study room belonged to the prince. .

After entering the study, Guixi bolted the door of the study, and specially asked the little eunuchs to make calming medicinal tea and bring it over. Looking back at His Royal Highness, he was already very consciously sitting at the desk, with a thin drape over his shoulders. coat, flipping through the book full of handwriting on the table.

Each of these books was written by Gu Baozhen himself. From the first to the tenth revised book, each book is closer to the current national conditions of Shu Country, and is the most basic children's song literacy textbook.

From literacy to arithmetic, from the application of basic physics to Shuguo recipes, there are even many geography textbooks written by Gu Baozhen himself that only Bo Yanliang has read, each of which Gu Baozhen spent a lot of time preparing for now.

He picked out ten sets of literacy and drawing textbooks specially used for enlightenment teaching, handed them to Guixi, and said: "You put these in the box first, and I will take them to Qingling Temple tomorrow. Do you have a letter tonight?"

Gu Baozhen asked if there were any eunuchs from Zhitong to deliver letters, Guixi shook his head, and said, "Generally, the eunuchs who deliver letters over there are small eunuchs who can imitate the calls of birds. The one who calls three times in a row is the one who has the letter, it’s too late today, I’m afraid it’s gone.”

Gu Baozhen let out an 'oh', and the candlelight lit up his thick and uncommon face with a bit of warmth in the world. The young prince tapped his finger on the table, picked up a pen and continued to write a secret letter, the letter It is full of lowercase English letters, but it is absolutely incomprehensible for foreigners to read.

After Gu Baoyu stopped writing and put the letter in an envelope, he smiled and said to Guixi: "In a few days, I'm afraid I will be busy."

Eunuch Guixi smiled very understandingly, and said: "My servant knows that His Highness the Third Highness is coming back soon, and the paving of the Ministry of Industry of the Fourth Prince is about to start. The head of the clan, Duke Liu, is going west with the crane. It is a good thing that someone will impeach His Highness every now and then."

"No, I'm busy. I'm going to start a school." Gu Baozhen and Guixi have known each other for ten years. Since they were young, they have told Guixi everything, "Fourth brother agreed today, so I plan to start it. It must be difficult, but at this moment, it will take ten or twenty years to make the common people literate, and I think it will be very good.”

That is literacy.

"Here, this is my letter to Fourth Brother, you send it to the Fourth Prince's Mansion yourself." Gu Baozhen said, and gave Guixi the letter full of pinyin.

Guixi couldn't understand what was on it, so he asked a little too much, "What is this?"

Gu Baozhen said without any scruples: "I need to print a large number of these books, so that all private schools across the country can use these literacy words. It is easier for children to memorize than memorizing them by rote. They can even easily remember them when they go home. Hand it over to the adults and sing it in the streets and alleys. Even if many children don’t go to school, they will hear it from the mouths of many people and see it in the mud of many people’s sticks. Naturally, it will be done. As long as they are a little bit interested, I will be a little bit successful."

Eunuch Guixi was stunned, unable to imagine that such a simple method could guide such a large amount of knowledge dissemination, he looked at the secret letter in his hand, and said, "Then this is His Highness's improved printing technique?"

Nowadays, the printing in Shu Kingdom is still done by carpenters engraving block printing, which takes a lot of time. If you want to print so many books, it will take at least one year to make the film for block printing.

"Yeah." Gu Baojin said.

"Why doesn't His Royal Highness do it himself?" Guixi really couldn't understand, he even felt unfair for the prince, "From cement to this printing technique, from surgical tools for disembowelling, to the alcohol used for disinfection, obviously Everything was thought up by His Highness, but it turned out to be someone else's property, so that the world would not know that it was all your idea, Prince, this is really..."

Gu Baozhen leaned back, his eyes were so clean that there was no worldly desire, he said to Guixi who was aggrieved by himself: "I don't want to be too famous, and I don't have that much energy, if I do too many things, Everyone likes me, and the elder brother will recover in the future, but how can he have the nerve to take over the crown prince from me?"

"And I think...they are not others, they are my brothers, what they do is the same as what I do, isn't it?"

"As long as the result is good." Gu Baozhen said generously.

Guixi thought to himself, this is so different, he has never seen such a stupid person, from the age of six to sixteen, who really has no desire for that position.

He could see that everyone around Gu Baozhen was gradually possessing their own desires, with strong goals and utilitarian interests. Everyone had goals, but the prince did not. interest.

But Guixi thought again, maybe he didn't think deeply enough, maybe all these concessions were just a disguise, a prudent move to protect himself?Is it sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight?

I can't tell, Guixi thinks the latter is the best, otherwise, no matter which elder brother or nephew of His Royal Highness ascends to the throne in the future, he may be imprisoned, because the superior will never allow a person who was once a prince Hanging around outside, even if the old prince has no intention of seizing the throne, he will be used by some people with intentions to pose a threat to the new imperial power.

Guixi opened his lips, wanting to remind His Highness the Crown Prince that it is better to be reserved with those around him, but suddenly found that His Highness the Crown Prince trusts him without reservation, so he is not qualified to persuade him, so he quietly backed down. Deliver the letter personally as ordered.

Gui Xi is actually very reluctant to go to the fourth prince's mansion, because many times, if he bumps into the fourth prince, he will always be trembling from the fourth prince's seemingly omniscient eyes.

However, he had to go, and the crown prince asked him to deliver the letter in person, so he would have to crawl even if he crawled!

Guixi over there left the palace late at night, and His Royal Highness over there came out of the study room swinging his right hand after writing a few more pages of the book.

Immediately at the door, the little eunuch who replaced Guixi quietly followed him, holding a small lantern to illuminate him, and after sending him into the room, there were maids transferred from Kunning Palace to help Gu Baozhen remake the bed and light incense. On the bed, he looked at the gold nuggets on his wrist. The poor-quality and rough gold nuggets looked a little strangely cute today.

Seeing the prince staring at the injured red rope, the maid asked softly, "Your Highness, do you want to take off the red rope before you rest? So as not to choke yourself at night."

Gu Baozhen didn't want to pick it off at first, he was used to wearing it to sleep, but after seeing Lan Jiumu today, Gu Baozhen felt that he was wearing this to sleep, if Lan Jiumu knew about it, it would be too easy to arouse people's daydream, he was going to untie the red But I feel that the red rope symbolizing friendship that has never been taken off is suddenly taken off today. How abnormal, if Lan Jiumu really likes himself, then he should pretend not to know, and then... Slowly Wait for a confession or something.

By the way, brother Yanliang is going to take him to the Bada Hutong tomorrow night!

He promised readily at the time, but now that he thinks about it, what would he do if Lan Jiumu found out about his visit to the alley and was disappointed with himself?

Damn it, let's be disappointed if you're disappointed, Gu Baozhen has wanted to gain knowledge for many years!Let's talk about it after shopping!This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In the past, either the elder brother was in charge or the tired brother was in charge. Not to mention seeing the broken sleeves, he rarely saw the normal love between men and women.

After struggling like this for a while, His Royal Highness gave up thinking about the gold nuggets and said, "No need, go down."

He closed his eyes and talked, and didn't know if the maid had left, maybe she did, so he was very relaxed and let himself fall into a dream.

But he was drowsy, and when he was about to fall asleep, it seemed that someone's hand had penetrated into the quilt and fell down from his lower abdomen, with a clear purpose.

Gu Baoyu woke up instantly in shock, and grabbed the man's hand: "What are you doing?!"

The palace maid was so frightened that Huarong turned pale: "Ah! Your Highness, please forgive me. The servants, the servants are just following the Queen's orders... to teach His Highness to become adults. The Queen said that other Highnesses are adults at the age of fourteen or five. His Highness is a little Wan... I am afraid that you will be afraid, so I asked the servant to guide you slowly after you fell asleep, and when you enter the state, you will not be afraid..."

Gu Baozhen's blood rushed to his face, he let go of the maid's hand, and said, "Go back to the queen mother, I don't need it."

The palace maid cried and knelt down, kowtowed and begged: "Please keep Biyue, Your Highness. If you are driven back by His Highness, Biyue will have no face to live. Please keep Biyue..."

Gu Baoyu, who was covered in cold sweat from fright, sat alone on the bed, clutching the quilt, trembling non-stop. After a long time, he said coldly, "That's all, you go down first."

Bi Yue cried and left in a hurry, but Gu Baozhen couldn't sleep any more. There was an impulse in his chest that made him wish he could go to the empress mother for a showdown right now. He always remembered that his father owed him a wish, and this wish was his only trump card.

But rationality made Gu Baozhen just sit on the bed, his legs were numb, and he couldn't move.

He thought, it would be nice if Bo Yanliang still lived across from him.

Now he can hug his pillow like he did when he was a child to find the only person who knows his sexual orientation, but also understands him, and will never try to change him like the fourth brother.

It would be fine if the thinness is cold...

He wants to talk to him.