Born of Worry

Li Xian chased Qin Yu away, feeling exhausted physically and mentally. Talking to this guy was like talking to a duck, and he was not in the mood to approve any memorials. He simply threw away his pen and took a look at the epiphyllum on the window sill. Touched its blade, put it back again.

As soon as he came out of the imperial study, he met Mo Wen who was walking towards him, met his eyes for a few seconds, and said, "Aren't you... going to cook?"

"Oh, they've already started making it, so I don't have the heart to interrupt it. I'll just add something later."

"Um……"

"Xiao Xian, what... is your smell? Where did the fragrance come from?"

"Ah?" Li Xian reacted for a few seconds before remembering, and pulled out the sachet at his waist, "What are you talking about? Your nose is too good... I can't smell it myself, but you can smell it from a long distance away." See you." He held up the sachet in front of him, "How about it, isn't it pretty?"

Mo Wen took it and looked at it carefully, and said: "The embroidery is not bad, and the fragrance is also good. It smells like a little angelica and mugwort leaves, which can repel mosquitoes. But... since when did you like these things? I remember You don't like to hang these gadgets on your body? You hung a piece of your jade pendant, and you lost it."

"Uh..." Li Xian scratched his head and snatched back the sachet, "Don't tear me apart, I really can't remember where I lost the jade pendant last time, my third brother has already scolded me, why don't you To count on me..."

"How can I blame you?" Mo Wen looked innocent, "Okay, if you like it, just hang it up, and I'll ask them to make more and send it to you, and let you change one a day, do you think it's feasible?"

"……don't want."

"Why not?"

"If you don't want it, you don't want it. I only like the one I bought myself. Rare things are precious. If you get a bunch of them, you will feel that there is nothing rare. If you are not rare, you don't want it."

Mo Wen seemed to be unable to refute, so he could only say: "But this sachet... the scent won't last long, and when the time comes, it won't smell good, so you still want to hang it?"

"Then I'll go and buy one myself."

"..."

"Oh, that's right, when will the epiphyllum you gave me bloom?"

"Flowering? It's still early. It hasn't been long since the seeds were planted. It may take four or five years. What's the matter?"

"It's been so long... I still want to wait for it to bloom and dry the petals to make a sachet..."

Mo Wen smiled, rubbed his head, and said, "It's just you who are more thoughtful. I'll add some dishes, and we'll have dinner later."

"it is good."

After Lin Xingzhi knew that the spring test papers were sold, he was so angry that his beard blew up. When he called Tao Wenting over, he scolded his head and face. Poor Mr. Tao who just finished the exam papers and hasn't rested for a few days. Knowing what happened, he could only kneel down and nod his head to admit his mistake.

Shang Shuling made a fuss, smoothed his blown gray beard, and called his grandson-in-law. The two of them joined forces, and a poisonous plan was formed. Tao Wenting was sweating coldly. Be warned that you must never tell this plan, especially to the minister of the Ministry of Rites.

Tao Wenting really didn't know about the fact that his own people sold the test questions, and now he was so angry that he wanted to eat him alive, thinking that he couldn't show his face before they acted, and he had to smile at him Greeting, his old face was almost flushed red.

When Li Ling came back, he told Li Xian about the matter and his plan. Li Xian first pretended to be shocked, then became furious, almost dropped his teacup, and then said something like "fortunately you found out", and finally completely Approved their plan, and boasted that the plan was good, and I absolutely supported it.

So Li Ling left contentedly, and Li Xian took a sip of tea and put away the pretense just now.Mo Wen looked at him speechlessly, and said, "Are you even lying to your second brother?"

Li Xian felt guilty, "How can this be called cheating? If you want someone to do things well for you, you have to praise him. He is motivated only when he is happy, understand?"

"Really?" Mo asked solemnly, "Then why don't you praise me every time I fuck you?"

The corner of Li Xian's mouth twitched, "Uh..."

Mo Wen approached him further, "You said, I am motivated only by complimenting me, but if you don't praise me, what should I do if I don't have the motivation to do half of it?"

"Haha...that...ha..."

Lin Mansion.

"You said... Our plan is really all right?"

Lin Xingzhi took the tea from his granddaughter, "Why, don't you worry?"

"More or less..." Li Ling thought for a while, and said, "If someone really got away with it, what should we do?"

"You don't have to worry about this," Lin Xingzhi stroked his gray beard, "As long as Tao Wenting doesn't go wrong, and a few of us personally supervise the field, are you afraid that you won't be able to catch these moths? Besides, the distance from the palace examination There are still two months, these two months are enough for us to find out who actually bought the test questions, and by that time, even if someone can get away with it... If you want to impose a crime, why don't you have any excuses?"

"makes sense."

Li Ling took a sip of tea, asked Lin Ruoqing to sit down next to him, and continued: "The effect of grasping is not good now, firstly, we don't know who they are, secondly, it will not affect other candidates well, and may disturb them Normal performance... But grandfather, what kind of questions do you ask His Majesty to ask? Are you so sure that they will show their feet?"

"This...you don't need to worry about it." Lin Xingzhi smiled meaningfully, "This year's test questions will be greatly changed. In the next two months, it is estimated that most candidates will have to prepare for the new test questions, but His Majesty will definitely not go. That direction, and he has a lot of tricks, anyway, this year is the first imperial examination since he took the throne, and no one can blame him for any weird questions."

Li Ling was a little confused: "He...has a lot of tricks?"

"Why, don't you still think that your younger brother is still that ignorant young man?"

Li Ling was silent.

"Your Majesty is different from before," Lin Xingzhi sighed suddenly. "In other words, the former him is only half of him. True and false, false and true, let's take this incident as an example, what do you think , does he really know nothing about it?"

"he knows?"

"How do you know that he is not a tiger, leopard and jackal in sheep's clothing?"

"...Grandfather," Li Ling stood up suddenly, "I know in my heart what kind of person my brother is, and he is also the current emperor. I'm afraid it's inappropriate for you to slander him like this."

Lin Xingzhi laughed, "Sit, sit, sit, I didn't slander him. If he didn't have these two things, he might not be able to sit on the throne. This is his method, which doesn't mean he is bad."

"Grandfather," Lin Ruoqing said suddenly, "I have been in contact with His Majesty a few times, and I think he is an innocent young man, just like what you said..."

Lin Xingzhi patted her, "Your eyesight is wrong. If you are accurate," pointing at Li Ling, "why did you get tricked by him?"

"Grandpa, what did you say..."

"Grandfather! I am sincere to Ruoqing!"

"It's not reasonable to speak loudly, you are so loud, do you have a guilty conscience?"

"……grandfather!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The spring test continued to proceed step by step, but Tao Wenting kept his mouth shut and didn't say a word about the leak of the test questions.He was scolded by the emperor as "pedantic" before, and this time he made such a big mistake again, if there is another mistake...he might not be the minister of the Ministry of Rites.

It's just... Isn't this too unfair to other candidates?He asked Lin Xingzhi in private, but the other party told him not to worry, they had their own countermeasures, and they didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in this gourd.

In short, he only needs to do his job well, and other...he can't control that much.

While the examinees were busy taking the exam, the emperor was not idle either. He was also taking the exam, but... he was studying archery.

It was only a few days before the Spring Hunting in March, even if he couldn't practice at home, he had no choice but to bite the bullet. Anyway, he was the emperor, and few dared to laugh at him if he missed the shot, but he felt ashamed.Alas, forget it, this cheek... don't worry about it.

Having said that, Li Xian is still stepping up his practice. As for the spring hunting, he has the final say on whether to do it or not, but his brothers all want to go, and even the second brother is rarely unified with the eldest brother this time. How could he have the nerve to say no?

In order to urge him to practice archery, not only Mo Wen, but also Lin Ruxuan came to help him after proctoring the exam. It is impossible for Li Ye not to come when Lin Ruxuan came, so he simply practiced with him.

Li Xian is really advancing, neither is he retreating. His third brother, although he is not motivated, is talented, and he was forced by his elder brother to practice martial arts when he was young. He also has some skills. He has not practiced this skill for a few days. He had already caught up with him, so he would miss and run from time to time to avoid embarrassing him.Li Xian saw this and just rolled his eyes silently in his heart.

Since Lin Jiajun had already returned to the martial arts field for training, Li Xian didn't want to lose face, so he moved the practice location to the Royal Racecourse. This time his horse named "Feichen" let loose and ran wildly on the empty track , Radu can't hold it back, Li Xian wants to practice riding and shooting, he has to check its mood first.

And this guy not only ran around on the track, but also ran to the stables of other people's racing horses, making a group of racing horses restless.Ma Guan was really afraid of this little ancestor, so he had to come here every now and then to beg Li Xian to take him away.

Then one day, for some reason, Li Xian was tired from training and was sitting in the stands to rest, when he suddenly heard the horse officer shout hoarsely: "It's not good—! The horse ran away—!"

Before he finished speaking, he was already drowned out by the sound of horses' hoofs. Li Xian could see clearly from a high place, and saw Feichen sprinting out from the stable area behind and onto the track, and behind him... followed by a group of Hundreds of elite racehorses all galloped after it like crazy.

Li Xian stared dumbfounded. The scene of hundreds of horses galloping together was really quite spectacular. The ground seemed to be trembling under trampling, and the dust raised by the horses made the whole track smoky.

Feichen led the horses for a few laps on the track, and suddenly let out a long hiss, and headed straight for the gate of the racetrack.Li Xian yelled inwardly, but he couldn't stop them at all, watching them smash through the wooden fence and go away.

It took several seconds for him to come back to his senses, and said loudly, "Lin Ruxuan, go and see if anyone was hurt!"

"Yes!" Lin Ruxuan used lightness kung fu, and jumped down from the stands.

"Mo Wen, go after him!"

Mo Wen directly changed his original form, threw Li Xian on his back, flew into the sky, and chased in the direction where the horses were fleeing.

"Fuck?!" Li Ye was taken aback by the huge black dragon, recovered himself, and hurriedly ran down the stands to chase Lin Ruxuan.

Riding on the dragon, Li Xian finally caught up with the horses.

Then he discovered that the group of horses did not run away in all directions, but was led by Feichen to a pasture.

This pasture should be used to supply hay for the racecourse, but it is only mid-spring now, the grass is not green yet, and no one is harvesting horse hay here. There is only a guard here, who is also very scared by the horses .

The spring in the north comes late, and the grass grows late. At this time, it is only about two inches high, and it is still a few green and yellow seedlings. When the horses bite them, all they can see is the ground.Li Xian looked at the group of horses helplessly, and said: "This is really 'the grass that has no horseshoes'. They have eaten them all, and I don't know how long it will grow back."

Mo Wen didn't know what to answer, so he didn't speak at all, just stood beside him and watched.He also heard him talking to himself: "It will be Qingming in a few days. This grass should start to turn green, but it has encountered such an unreasonable disaster."

The caretaker of the pasture tried to drive the horses away, but he gave up because there were too many and was afraid of being injured. He walked over to Li Xian and said, "Hey! How did these horses get out!"

Li Xian was taken aback for a moment, realizing that he probably regarded himself as someone from the racecourse, so he just shook his head and didn't speak.

"They've eaten all my grass, what else do I need to mow this year! How can I feed the horse farm!"

"The President."

"What is the president! Do you understand it or not!"

Li Xian smiled, Mo Wen looked at him from the side, and found that he had no intention of explaining, so he also cooperated and remained silent.

At this time, a voice suddenly came from afar, as if calling for Your Majesty. Li Xian turned his head and saw someone running towards this direction. It turned out to be the steward, because all the horses had run away, so he had to run over. All the way along the horseshoe prints and finally arrived here.

Panting, he ran up to Li Xian, unable to speak, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Li Xian said: "Take a rest first, don't worry."

"His Majesty?"

Hearing these two words, the grassland guard looked at Li Xian in horror as if he had seen a ghost. Then his knees softened and he fell to his knees: "Your Majesty... the little one... yes, you can't see Mount Tai with your eyes! Offended!" Your Majesty, please forgive me...forgive me!"

Li Xian looked at him and said, "Those who don't know are not guilty, get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty..."

The manager of the racecourse was able to catch his breath, and said in a low voice: "Get out!"

"Yes Yes Yes……"

The manager dismissed him, then turned to Li Xian and said, "Your Majesty, just now... Didn't scare you?"

"nothing."

"I'm really sorry, it's all our fault that we didn't take good care of them, and let them run out. Fortunately, no one was hurt, otherwise... Sigh."

"I can't blame you either. After all, it was my horse that brought them out. If you want to blame...you have to blame me."

"No, no, no!" The manager quickly waved his hands, "The minister is panicked, how can you blame your majesty for this, it's because we were negligent, in the future we will definitely..."

"Okay," Li Xian was not in the mood to hear him finish, "These horses have been eating hay all winter, so it's understandable for them to come out and eat some fresh grass."

"That's true... but it's a pity that this grassland will take a long time to grow back to its previous appearance."

Li Xian looked at Mo Wen, thinking that it would be overkill to use his old man's ability for a mere pasture, so he shook his head and didn't call him.

However, Mo Wen understood what he meant. Logically speaking, he would not care about this kind of matter, but if Li Xian wanted to care about it...it would be different.

He didn't say a word, but he didn't know when there was a dragon scale in his hand. Taking advantage of Li Xian's inattention, he quietly crushed the dragon scale, turned it into countless fine powders, and floated on the pasture gnawed by the horses.

They stood and looked at the horses for a long time, and Feichen, who was surrounded by the horses, finally moved and walked towards Li Xian slowly. The horse seemed to have something still in its mouth.When it got close to Li Xian, it saw that it was biting a small white flower that came from nowhere, and stretched it out in front of him, as if it wanted to give it to him.

Li Xian really had no desire to accept a flower covered in horse saliva, so he pushed its head in disgust, and said, "You can play with it yourself."

Seeing that he didn't accept it, Feichen snorted dissatisfiedly, and chewed the little flower with his tongue.

"..."

Li Xian pinched its ear, leaned close to its ear, almost gnashed his teeth and said: "Have you eaten enough? Hurry up and go back to me when you have eaten enough."

Feichen turned his head to free his ears, and suddenly raised his neck to the sky and hissed. All the horses looked over at the same time, responded and moved closer in this direction.

Li Xian got on the horse's back, because he was not equipped with harness, it was a little harder than usual to get on.He thought to himself that the horse had grown a little taller, it was already this tall when it was just over two years old, and when it was fully grown... what if he couldn't climb up?

He shook his head and waved away the thought, and seeing Mo Wen also riding a horse and walking diagonally in front of him, he asked, "It's weird too, I remember last time Dad's starling was scared to death of you, why isn't this horse afraid?" you?"

"Not afraid? Not afraid that it can be so obedient?"

"Well."

"If you say you're not afraid of me... the horse under your crotch is really not afraid of me."

Li Xian curled his lips and said, "I know."

The two men rode in front, followed by the group of horses, and the horse farm manager drove them at the end, for fear that they would run away again.But with Feichen leading them, these horses had no intention of running away and followed closely.

Back at the racecourse, Li Ye was dumbfounded when he saw their formation. The gloomy racecourse also regained its vitality. Feichen neighed a few more times, and the horses went to their stables one after another. Some new horses did not recognize them. Those on the road were led back one by one.

Li Xian got off his horse and asked Li Ye, "Third brother, did you hurt anyone?"

"No, even a few of them were frightened, and they have almost recovered now."

"That's good."

"Hey, let me say, what's the matter with this horse, how can you just run away?"

Li Xian told him what happened to the horses after they escaped, Li Ye was amazed, Lin Ruxuan said: "The ability to lead a group of horses is not something that just any horse can have."

"Why, I'll give Xiao Xian a horse, isn't it good?"

"That's right. However, only His Majesty can ride this horse."

"why?"

"Since the horses are willing to go with it, it will be the king by default. Your Majesty is the king among men, Feichen is the king among horses, and only the king can control the king."

Li Xian laughed and said, "General Lin, besides being good at kung fu, you are also good at flattering."

"...This is Wei Chen's sincere words."

Li Ye pushed him away, "Pull you down." He leaned into his ear again, "I know how to flatter Xiao Xian, why have I never heard you compliment me?"

"..."

Li Xian looked at Feichen, but still decided to choose his own dragon chariot, and said: "Let's stop here today, I'm tired too, let's go back to the palace."