After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

"What did you say?"

Zhou Xun looked at the emperor inexplicably, and the emperor looked back at him with the same eyes.

He seemed to be even more confused, for a long time, he thought about it, and then said: "Helium, lithium, beryllium boron?"

Zhou Xun:?

Qinghai... away from Pippen?

He didn't understand what the emperor meant.This doesn't sound like a poem, but a code word.The emperor circled him twice, scratched his head, and said the third sentence: "I don't know, then... what should the unicorn do?"

Zhou Xun replied reflexively: "Flounder."

Emperor: "What's the price of the shirt?"

Zhou Xun: "...?"

Emperor: "What are the four great classics... No, who is the person who was scolded to death by Zhuge Liang?"

Zhou Xun: "...Wang Lang?"

Zhou Xun was still at a loss.The emperor seemed to be on the top for a while, and set up a cultural knowledge test for him.After asking him a few more questions, the emperor clapped his hands and said puzzledly: "My fellow, it's my fellow. You know Lu Xun's famous quotes, but why don't you even know the college entrance examination questions? Could it be that you were a primary school student before time travelling?"

Zhou Xun couldn't understand what the other party was talking about. He originally wondered if this was a way for the emperor to tease him.However, the emperor frowned deeply and his face was deep, as if he was really worried about some shocking secret.

The emperor was still thinking, but Zhou Xun was kneeling on the ground for too long.

Since the day of the assassination, he was dragged into the imperial prison on the spot, already exhausted and bruised all over his body.Now that he had knelt in the imperial study for so long, he couldn't hold on anymore.

In a daze, he swayed in a daze and fell to the other side.

"bump!"

His sleeve was pulled up at this moment, revealing a light red burn on his left arm.

——It was an old scar from a long time ago. It has faded a lot, but there are still marks on it.

After seeing the familiar shape, the emperor was terrified.

He stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Xun's arm: "This... this scar..."

scar?

Zhou Xun looked at his arm, there was a light red scar on his pale skin.

It was the child left by the younger brother of the Zhou family who bullied him and poured hot water on his arm when he was young...

"A long time ago, an ignorant child poured it on..."

The hand holding his wrist began to tremble.The emperor pursed his lips, and was about to say something when he caught sight of Zhou Xun's bare ankle.

"This... what is this?!" The emperor exclaimed in horror, "Is this yours... from the factory?"

factory?Do you mean birth... birthmark?

Zhou Xun followed his gaze, and there was a shallow birthmark on his ankle.

He nodded with difficulty.

"I can say the quotations in "Remembrance of Liu Hezhen" by myself, I have heard the words in "Farewell to Cambridge", I have ink blots from printing errors on my body, and red ink that I accidentally spilled on the book..." The emperor's expression became more and more serious. Horrified, ""Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin"...Damn! This is also the bibliography in that book! You got inspiration from it...? You..."

Zhou Xun:?

He didn't understand what the emperor was saying.But the emperor asked him anxiously: "You, do you still know a nanny named Dayanhe?"

Zhou Xun thought for a while: "When I was young, I had a neighbor who was a nanny. His name was indeed Yan He..."

The emperor trembled: "Live near your house?"

Zhou Xun nodded.

"You..." The emperor struggled for a long time, and finally exhaled a voice that looked like he was about to cry, "You don't even have a nickname, do you call it Yuwenshu?!"

Zhou Xun was stunned for a moment: "How do you know that my small print is Yu Wen?"

Zhou Xun didn't know how he learned of his calligraphy.

Back then, he was named "Xun" in order to "slow" his direct brother by three points, so as to hide his edge so that he would not be targeted.

His mother was originally a young lady of a scholarly family, and she was knowledgeable about books and etiquette. If her father hadn't been falsely accused, she should have been his father's wife.She originally named herself Zhou Fei.

Fei, who is brilliant in writing.

After he joined Mr. Wang, Mr. bestowed the word "Yu Wen" on his behalf, which is a homonym for "Yu Wen", in the hope that he could take literature as his way of life and avoid worrying about housekeeping.

But later, the wish of the husband did not come true.He entered the palace by accident, and the fifth prince changed his name to Caiyu, Zhou Cai's Caiyu.

From then on, no one called him "Zhou Xun" and no one called him "Zhou Yuwen".

How did the emperor know his name was Zhou Xun, and how did he know his small characters?

"Snapped!"

Zhou Xun was taken aback, he watched the emperor slap himself in the face!

"Traveling to be the emperor, establishing relationships with many great writers, talking and laughing happily, marrying a wife who is as beautiful as a movie star..." Zhou Xun saw the emperor touching his face in a daze, "Am I dreaming? So many great writers, Chinese books... ...There are many great writers in the language documents... By the way, the language documents..."

Zhou Xun:? ? ?

The emperor suddenly turned his head to look at him, staring at him, like staring at some alien.

"Anyway, the language book won't come back to kill you after the founding of the country. After the founding of the country, it won't become a smart..." He heard his murmured voice, "This...isn't this just before the founding of the country? Is this the punishment of the language book's resentment? ! Wake up, assassinate, Chinese book... You are cheap, I will call you cheap!"

Zhou Xun?

The emperor frowned tightly, as if thinking about how he should react.

"Then..." The emperor said the last sentence with a trembling voice, "Let me ask you a last question... Are you... the whole book? Or the single, most severely damaged pages? "

Zhou Xun:?

What is the meaning of the emperor?

"Your name..." the emperor trembled, "Wait, your name, Xun... is it fate, is it an unfair fate that sent you here?"

Zhou Xun:? ?

then……

"Puff--!"

Zhou Xun's eyes widened because of the loud noise.The handsome emperor fell to his knees in front of him with a plop.

"Sir!!" The emperor bowed to him, his expression was full of horror, "I know I was wrong!!"

Zhou Xun:? ? ?

"I shouldn't, I shouldn't have you... come here!" The emperor stood up from the ground and shouted to the outside of the imperial study, and several Jiangwei hurried in from the door, "... Untie this strong man! "

His words came out of nowhere, and the guards were stunned for a while, they didn't dare to move when they looked at me and you.

This, what's going on?

The palace banquet involved the emperor's safety and was tightly covered.Others don't know the inside story, but they do!

This person kneeling in the imperial study room... committed a serious crime that they dare not even say!

The emperor has always been moody.They originally thought that if this person entered the imperial study room, if he was not killed, he would have to be cut alive.They had already made preparations to collect the corpse, but...

But why did this person suddenly let go?

"What? My words don't work anymore?" the emperor said coldly.He was handsome and cold by nature, and when he suppressed his anger, everyone knelt down for him for a moment, "I told you to untie him!"

The Jiang guards hurried forward.

The rope on Zhou Xun's body was loosened, and he stood in the imperial study room blankly, completely unaware of what happened.

Before a stick of incense, he was still wandering in the land of death and life; after a stick of incense, the emperor had already held his hand and bowed to him twice: "Well, I didn't recognize you before, and I didn't recognize you before, either." Knowing that you can really become a master, if I knew how I would offend you... so please bear with me, please bear with me."

Zhou Xun was grasped by him, bewildered like a cat in a pack of dogs. After a long time, he uttered a sentence stiffly: "Your Majesty...has heard of me before?"

Hearing his question, the emperor stammered and said: "Well, Mr. is famous far and wide. Wan Sheng has been reading... reading various articles in Mr., or the Mr. who is closely related to Mr.'s incarnation. The article grew up..."

Zhou Xun: ...

He automatically ignores that strange preposition.

The emperor looked at him with a strange expression, and hurriedly added: "Before the master didn't know, I have been with you for 12 years! Not only read, but I also read and recited a lot!"

Zhou Xun: ...

When he was still in Jiangzhou, although he lived in the shadow of Zhou Cai all the year round, he was also a famous talent for a while.Later, because of his relatives, Zhou Cai went to the capital and joined a famous teacher. He also had a relatively relaxed time because he was far away from the other party, and he also wrote a few good articles that were praised by others.

It's just that he didn't expect that his articles at that time would actually reach the emperor's ears?

But 12 years... 12 years ago, he was seven years old, and when he was seven years old, he met the emperor?

The emperor took his hand and said something to him, but Zhou Xun didn't hear him.He didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

So, it was those articles of his that year that made the emperor cherish his talents, so he spared his life?

He finally chose to remain silent.

In the past two years of falling into the palace, he almost forgot about the self he used to be in Jiangzhou.Youthful spirit, flirtatious talking and laughing, feather fan and scarf... But there is actually a person in this world who remembers his past in his heart?

He had mixed feelings at the moment.

"You, it looks like you're going to fall apart!" The emperor looked at him from left to right, and said to the servant, "Why did you make him so messed up? Take your husband down, wash and take care of him, and then the meal... …What big fish, big meat, mountain delicacies, bring him a table!"

Zhou Xun:?

For some reason, he felt that the emperor looked at him... with some inexplicable cautiousness, fear, and...

Respect?

The Jiang guards were still in a daze, and the emperor said again: "Didn't you hear what I said!?"

The commander Jiangwei who escorted Zhou Xun came up and said, "Your Majesty, this assassination..."

"It was a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding, many unrighteous actions... Sigh." The emperor waved his hand hastily, and said with a dry smile, "Mr. Yuwen and Yuwen... were just playing around."

Commander Jiangwei: ...

"Your Majesty!" Commander Jiang Wei said, "Don't underestimate the color of the country..."

"What is emphasizing sex over country?!" The emperor twitched his eyebrows, "What is emphasizing color over country! This is... this is... do you know his identity?! Forget it...you definitely don't know. "

He scratched his head, and said forcefully: "My top priorities are: first, to survive, second, to have food and clothing, and third, to develop. This is called leaving behind the fire of culture! And he... a gathering of talents, is a strengthening company! And if He is the embodiment of those pages... He is not only 150% important, he is... [-]% important!"

After speaking, he glanced at Zhou Xun and smiled cautiously.Zhou Xun felt that his expression was slightly strange, silly and pitiful...

Ingratiation, guilt and awe?

Your Majesty, what expression is this...?

Commander Jiangwei: ...

"Don't talk so much nonsense, there is nothing left, now hurry up and take the husband down to take care of him." The emperor waved his hand and said to his personal eunuch, "Xiao Lizi, please arrange it, please, please don't neglect !"

Zhou Xun was taken down by several eunuchs in a state of confusion. Up to now, he still doesn't understand the fate of his body, why it took a sharp turn at this moment.

The only thing he understands is...

I seem to be free?

The moment his legs crossed the threshold of the imperial study room, he heard the emperor order the eunuch in the imperial study room: "Wash him well, and bring him to the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the evening...for a night talk."

Night talk?

Zhou Xun was momentarily confused.

The emperor... what is he going to do?

……

Capital, Zhou Mansion.

The people in the Zhou mansion were like ants on a hot pot, spinning around, anxious.Zhou's father couldn't sit still on the chair. Seeing Zhou's mother coming, he slapped her across the face: "It's all because of you!"

"Mother!" Seeing his mother being beaten, Zhou Cai's younger brother jumped up and said, "Father! Why do you beat mother!"

"It was you at the beginning, and you were the one who insisted on sending Lin Yan to Zhuangzi and causing her to die there..." Zhou's father roared, "I told you to be a human being and stay on the front line. If his mother is still in Zhou's mansion , how could he be so crazy!"

"You still have the nerve to talk about me?!" Zhou's mother covered her face, looking crazy, "If you hadn't sent that little bastard as a male pet in order to curry favor with the Fifth Prince... how could there be such an incident now!"

"Father, mother!" The younger sister of the Zhou family cried and comforted them, "Didn't we kick Zhou Xun out of the house a long time ago, no matter what he did, it's not our fault!"

"How can the royal family be so easy to get along with each other!" Zhou's father was so regretful that his intestines were green, "It's a sin, it's all a sin..."

The Zhou family was full of gloom and gloom, and the house of Zhongming Dingshi in the eyes of others was torn apart like a villager.If people who are better friends with them see it, they will be shocked.

This situation has been going on in Zhou's house for several days.A few days ago, Zhou's mother was still bragging to others that her son could participate in the royal palace banquet as the emperor's favored minister. Under the praise of all the noble ladies, she fantasized about the future where she would be enshrined as a royal... …

So what if Lin Yan was supposed to be the official wife of the Zhou family?So what if Lin Yan dominated her in everything when she was young?In the end, Lin Yan fell ill in a village in the countryside and fell into a mountain torrent. Lin Yan's son became someone else's slave, and she was the wife of his son's success!

Unexpectedly, everything changed overnight.The Zhou Mansion was surrounded by the Jiang Guards, and everyone was panicked.Zhou's mother inquired in every possible way, and even bribed her favorite jade bracelet that she had refused to leave for ten years.One of them, Jiang Wei, spat out a few ambiguous words: "Your second son, you have committed a serious crime in the palace!"

Mother Zhou didn't have time to feel sorry for the bracelet.She cried and said that Zhou Xun had nothing to do with her family, but Jiang Wei didn't listen.The little children can only cry, and Zhou's father can only get angry and beat others... The Zhou family has had no peace for a few days, and it is almost impossible to survive!

"Big brother! The emperor likes big brother the most!" Zhou Xiaomei said, "With big brother here, the emperor will not do anything to us..."

Her words brought a little hope to the Zhou family in their despair.Zhou's mother seemed to finally see the light in despair, crying and said: "That's right, the emperor likes brother Cai the most, and the emperor will not ignore us!"

Zhou's father also showed joy, and Zhou Xiaomei said: "Brother, where is brother? With brother here, the emperor will not harm us!"

"Big brother didn't stay at home because of such a big incident at home, but he was nowhere to be seen!" Zhou Xiaodi said angrily, and he, who had always respected his eldest brother, now also felt resentful towards Zhou Cai, "I don't know where he went ?”

"Your brother might be running around outside for us!" Mother Zhou scolded, and as she spoke, she hugged Xiaomei Zhou and said with hope in her eyes, "Brother Cai, you must do your best!"

At this time, Zhou Cai, who was highly expected by everyone, was kneeling at the gate of the palace.

The bricks at the gate of the palace are hard and cold.

"Lord Zhou, why are you doing this?" The little eunuch who was familiar with him couldn't help sighing when he saw him kneeling at the gate of the palace, crumbling, "The emperor is interrogating... that man in the imperial study. Kneeling here, he..."

"Eunuch Wei, it's okay." Zhou Cai lifted his pale face and smiled at him, "I'm sorry for the emperor...Although Zhou Xun has been expelled from the Zhou family, if I care more about him..."

Eunuch Wei sighed.He knew that Zhou Cai was the emperor's favorite person, and only Zhou Cai could persuade him when the emperor was tyrannical.He leaned down and said to Zhou Cai: "Master Zhou, I'll tell you the truth, this time things are going to be difficult."

Zhou Cai smiled with difficulty: "As long as the emperor can calm down, I can do whatever I want."

——As long as the emperor can calm down.Zhou Cai thought in his heart, this time he was negligent.He must not let Zhou Xun affect his future!

However, he was still terrified and dazed.He relied on calculations to make the emperor treat him like a treasure... But the emperor has always had a fickle temper, even if he is occasionally, he still feels that being with the king is like being with a tiger.Can you really be kind this time?

He didn't care how Zhou Xun was hacked to pieces.He doesn't even care about the Zhou family... No matter what, he is kneeling here now, and he has tried his best to make the emperor feel pity for him and let him go!

A carriage stopped nearby, and a young man in purple got off from it.Seeing him, Zhou Cai said pleasantly, "Rong Fen?"

It was the fifth prince who came.He was taken aback when he saw Zhou Cai: "Why are you kneeling here?"

Zhou Cai smiled with difficulty.The fifth prince immediately understood something, he frowned, gritted his teeth and said: "It's him, why is he so... ignorant!"

The fifth prince is the younger brother of the emperor, and because of his literary talents, he has always been valued by the Qingliu among the officials.Even if he is punished, it is limited.But Zhou Cai is not a relative of the emperor, so it is different.He whispered: "Also ask the fifth prince to plead for him..."

The fifth prince was stunned, and said bitterly for a while: "A Cai, you are just too kind...You two brothers, one is too kind, the other is never satisfied."

Zhou Cai lowered his head and said nothing.The fifth prince gritted his teeth, as if he had figured something out, and said: "The matter has come to this point, and it is useless to beg for mercy. Since he wants to die so much, it is better to let him die cleanly! I still don't understand, he..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Cai's body went limp and passed out!

Everyone exclaimed and pinched him in a hurry.A servant cried and said: "Brother Cai has been kneeling here for an hour, Your Majesty..."

The prince gritted his teeth and lifted the corner of his robe: "I'll go in and talk to brother Huang!"

"My lord, don't worry," Eunuch Wei wiped his sweat, "Xiao Quanzi! You go in and report!"

Seeing Zhou Cai fainted, Eunuch Wei also cursed secretly in his heart.

Who in the Forbidden City doesn't know that Master Zhou Caizhou is the one whom the emperor puts at the top of his heart!The emperor is now angry with him.But if something really happened to him, when the emperor recovers, none of them guarding the palace gate will be fruitful!

Thinking of this, he also felt some resentment in his heart.Where is Zhou Cai going to kneel badly this week, why did he come to kneel in front of his palace gate for the emperor to see?What bad luck!

Zhou Cai woke up slowly with a pale face.After waking up, he cried, "Your Majesty..."

"Wei, Eunuch Wei!"

Xiao Quanzi who was originally sent to inform the emperor came back so soon!

man, how fast is this?The time for half a stick of incense has never arrived!

He only had time to say a word in Eunuch Wei's ear.Eunuch Wei said to Zhou Cai: "Master Zhou, that man..."

"What happened to that man!"

The fifth prince asked more anxiously than Zhou Cai.

"The emperor... ordered someone to suppress this matter. He was brought out of the imperial study room completely and completely."

As Eunuch Wei said, he was also a little dazed.

Bring it out?

The two people outside the door were all stunned, and then the fifth prince said: "Brother Huang has the most tyrannical personality in private, if he is executed on the spot, maybe it's okay. If he keeps him, I'm afraid..."

I'm afraid it will take day and night torture before he can vent his hatred.At that time, Zhou Xun might not even have a complete piece of skin, so he would not be able to survive or die.

He didn't finish speaking, and the unfinished meaning was already clear.Zhou Cai shook his pale face when he heard the words: "The emperor..."

"Since the emperor has suppressed this matter, he does not want to affect the Zhou family." The fifth prince comforted him in turn, "You can rest assured about this... As for him."

He paused, and finally said: "Since you have done such a thing, you should pay your own price."

Zhou Cai bit her lip and nodded.

Several servants helped him up from the ground.He had been kneeling for too long, and the blood in his knees was not flowing. He didn't feel the excruciating pain until he stood up, and he might not be able to recover for a few days.He was in pain, thinking that the Zhou mansion was safe, even though the emperor didn't come out to see him, he felt comforted in his heart.

His bitter trick of kneeling and fainting is really worth it!Look, the emperor heard that he had fainted, so he just let the Zhou family go with just a few words?

I was already safe, so I had the energy to think about other things.At this moment, thinking about the torment Zhou Xun was going through, even though his knee hurt like it was about to split, he felt a little more happy in his heart.

At the same time, in front of the palace gate.

Eunuch Wei looked at the chariot of the Zhou family going away and sighed: "The emperor actually let the Zhou family go so quickly, Mr. Zhou's favor is really unmatched in the world."

He clicked his tongue a few times, but saw Xiao Quanzi next to him who was hesitant to speak.

"If you have anything to say, hurry up and say it." Eunuch Wei hit him.

"Eunuch Wei, this..." Xiao Quanzi was also a little dazed, "Just before the little one had time to enter the imperial study to report, the sinner... has been released!"

Eunuch Wei was taken aback for a moment, and Xiao Quanzi said again: "The servant is looking at the direction that Xiao Lizi is taking that sinner...it is Changle Palace..."

Changle Palace? !Eunuch Wei was shocked, that was the residence of the late emperor's favorite concubine? !

……

"Let you rub it well." On the carriage, Zhou Cai unceremoniously kicked the servant, not at all as kind and weak as he was in front of the prince.

The young man responded politely.He was sitting in the car, thinking of Zhou Xun's skin torn from being tortured by the emperor, his twisted smile was about to overflow.

Although my knee hurts so much, it seems to be useless.

When Zhou Cai endured the pain and poured the medicinal wine, Zhou Xun was sitting on the golden velvet soft couch with a dazed expression.

After the emperor taught him to be untied, Zhou Xun was taken by more than a dozen palace servants to Changle Palace, which is the closest to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.Changle Palace was originally the residence of the first emperor's favorite concubine, and the facilities in it are extremely gorgeous.After the first emperor died of illness due to overwork, the beloved concubine followed, and the Changle Palace remained empty.

The leader of the waiters is Xiao Lizi, the emperor's personal eunuch.After looking at Zhou Xun for a long time, he stared at Zhou Xun's face, clapped his hands suddenly as if suddenly enlightened, and hurriedly ordered someone to clean up the white marble bath, and bathe Zhou Xun first.

"Eunuch Li is wise!" When Zhou Xun was being dragged away, a little eunuch behind him said, "Eunuch Li is indeed the one who knows the emperor best!"

Hearing this, Xiao Lizi showed a smug smile.