"Didn't you say you didn't see anyone yesterday?"

Through a door, the angry voice still came in clearly.

"Why is it that the sage speaks well and speaks well, and there are times when he doesn't count?"

The most honorable emperor in the study has been waiting for an entire hour. The stone flowers in his hand have been replaced by three, and the three or two books on the desk are about to be finished. Finally, he waited for the outrageous words outside the door.

It is outrageous for Lao Tzu to wait for his son; it is even more outrageous for the emperor to wait for his courtiers.

Attendant Feng Nei was not there, and the servants of the Eastern Palace were on the sidelines. He was already trembling, but at this moment, he was startled by these words of His Royal Highness, and hesitantly looked at the saint sitting on the seat.

The latter had long been used to it, and there was no annoyance on his face, he didn't even lift his head, and let the study door be pushed open with a "creak".There was only the sound of one person's footsteps, entering through the door, and finally stopped three steps away from the table.

The saint frowned slightly, and after a while, he threw the unfinished book on the table and said:

"I don't intend to see you. Where is the Minister of Rites hand-picked by me? Tell him to come."

After finishing speaking, he slowly raised his eyes and glanced at Li Pei.

But he was taken aback for a moment, his brows furrowed.

"The saint came at an unfortunate time, and Ah Yin was still eating."

These words were obviously used by Feng Neishi yesterday to perfuse the prince.Li Pei said it as a matter of course, but the servants around him were suffocated, their knees trembled and they were about to kneel down.He has lived for so long, where has he seen a courtier summoned by the emperor, who can still eat safely in the house?Even the crown princess... absolutely does not have this rule.

The saint's gaze finally moved away slowly from the red marks on Li Pei's neck—it was not intentional, but the latter didn't seem to want to cover it up. I'm afraid that others will not see it, so I want to reveal it, and tell the world the ambiguous trace and the lingering spring night.

"Meal?"

He sighed insignificantly, and repeated the two words in such a breath.

Should I first reprimand Li Pei for acting absurdly?Or should I let the gratification in my heart that I shouldn't have stay longer?

The eyebrows gradually loosened, "It just so happens that I don't have lunch, so let's ask the Master to come with me..."

Li Pei didn't seem to have expected that the sage would have a meal together, and was about to say the words of refusal, another slightly hoarse voice sounded at the door, attracting the eyes of several people in the study; I also forgot half a sentence.

"The minister is late, the saint forgives the sin."

As soon as their eyes met at the door, Fu Nanyin's lips pursed slightly, and then she looked away as if fleeing.

Unlike Li Pei, Fu Nanyin's neckline was tied high and tight, as if deliberately covering up some traces, but it seemed to be concealing.

This was the second time he saw Fu Nanyin, the first time was in the Proton Mansion, the latter negotiated terms with him as a vassal of Mobei, turning the dead end into a living one, at that time the sage felt that although this young man was dangerous, But it is very useful, and there is a face that looks like a very Ningxu, which can't help but move a little bit of pity that the emperor should not have; now looking at this person after a few months, this face, but I feel very lucky.

The saint stood up and stopped him from saluting with one hand, "I have seen Ah Fei."

He almost... wiped out Ning Xu's only blood in this world.

"Fat is very similar to you, very good..."

The sage brought Ah Fei back to the East Palace today, and he has already placed him in the side hall and fell asleep.Funanyin rushed to Miansheng, and before he had a chance to take a look, he felt much relieved after hearing it.

He heard the deeper emotions in the words of the sage, and felt it.

"The sage has something to say to the minister today?"

The saint came out of the palace without putting on a show, and he did not hide it from the eyeliner of the court. Naturally, it was not just to send Ah Fei off; now it seems that it was not for the King of Linzi, so there was only... that matter.

He looked over with some confusion in his eyes, and he heard the saint say:

"Prince, you go out first."

Li Pei was always reluctant to stay longer when there was no need for a sage to speak, but today his feet seemed to be stuck to the ground, motionless.Naturally, not only the feet, but even those eyes have never left Fu Nanyin's body for even a moment since he entered the door.

The sage hadn't seen that protective and caring look in Li Pei for a long time.

"If it's about the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, I don't have to avoid it; if it's about the Crown Princess... my son has nothing to avoid."

Even the title "Elder Minister" has not been heard for five years.

The saint sighed, as if about to compromise.

"Anecdotes about the elders in the family." It was Fu Nanyin who spoke. He didn't look at Li Pei, he didn't even look up, and he chose to clean up those who forcibly involved Li Pei in order to stay.

Li Pei couldn't react in time.

It's just that Funanyin was talking about telling people to go out, but she raised her hand in her wide sleeve covertly, and gently rubbed her outstretched little finger against Li Pei's palm: "Go to the side hall to see Ah Fei first." , he misses his father."

Li Pei originally wanted to say something to the saint, but he only obeyed in a low voice, bowed to the saint, turned and walked out the door.

"Sit down and talk."

When he walked outside the door, he vaguely heard the saint say something.

"Chen...you can't do it, just stand."

Unable to tell what it was like in his heart, Li Pei clenched his palms, raised the corners of his mouth inexplicably, and quickly walked towards the side hall.

……

The door of the study was tightly closed, and only Shengren and Fu Nanyin were left in the room.

Originally, when Li Pei was there, the room was not as quiet as it was at this time, and the atmosphere suddenly turned cold.The sage didn't know what to say to Fu Nanyin first, he only had a nostalgic look on his face, through him, he seemed to be able to find the person who made him think about it for more than ten years, and regret it for more than ten years.

His obsession with Ning Xu has been restrained and suppressed. Five years ago, it was turned into hatred for the Xu family. After the Xu family collapsed, he became confused.It wasn't until last year that troops were raised in Mobei, and Funanyin was taken prisoner and escorted to Chang'an...until he drove to the Proton Mansion.until today.

The sage did not speak, and Funanyin also lowered her head.

After a long while, there seemed to be a sigh from the top of my head, as if I had passed through the distant memory of the past and finally returned to the world of mortals.

"He just called you Crown Princess." The saint's tone was a bit emotional, but he raised his eyes and asked him, "What do you think?"

What do you think?

At the beginning, he was an official of the East Palace, serving as a minister and assistant; the sage Yinuo granted him the post of minister of rites and humerus, allowed him to enter the court, and gave him a place in the Central Plains.However, he gave birth to the eldest grandson of the emperor, who was favored by the prince. The latter wanted to ask for a marriage edict for him, with three letters and six rituals, to welcome him into the East Palace.

It is never possible to have both fish and bear's paw.

The former has already had the help of a sage, and a smooth road has been paved for him; while the latter, as a man, even though he is somewhat different from other men in the world, his ethics follow the rules of his ancestors, and his status as a "prince" is difficult to tolerate, and he is destined to be a thorn in the road ahead .

Funanyin threatened yesterday to ask Li Pei to enter the palace to ask for an order, but her mind is extremely clear, as clear as this moment.

I thought a lot, but it wasn't long before the sage finished speaking. He asked:

"If the incident between Consort Ning and Marquis Anping hadn't happened, how would the saint choose?"

The room fell silent again.

It really took a long time this time, so long that Fu Nanyin thought that the saint would not answer, and then the voice sounded again intermittently: "I also want to have a choice."

The saint slowly closed his eyes.

no choice.

He and Ning Xu never had a choice.

If he wanted to save his life, he had to seize the reserve; if he wanted to seize the reserve, he had to rely on the Xu family; but he relied on the Xu family, but he didn't want to give up Ning Xu. .

Although the Ning family is a family of aristocratic family, it has been clean for generations. It will not cling to the powerful and powerful, and it will not be able to protect Ning Xu.He thought at the beginning that only by becoming the emperor and holding the supreme power in his hands can he keep Ning Xu and have the power to choose.

But later, Ning Xu became pregnant, but it was Anpinghou's child...

The saint opened his eyes, and there was no extra emotion in his eyes.I have thought about the past thousands of times in my mind, year after year, day after day, the traces engraved in my heart are obviously getting deeper, but I can no longer reveal the slightest wave of it through any inch of this body.

"He and I are not as good as your fate."

The emperor sitting at the pinnacle of power, the sage who is subject to all the people, the fate belongs to him, the emperor favors him... Said that he is not as good as the fate of the person in front of him.

How ridiculous!

However, the sage's tone was as usual. After speaking, he suddenly raised his eyes to look at Fu Nanyin who was still thinking, turned around and asked:

"How much do you know? Did Li Pei tell you?"

"It was just superficial. Before the saint came, I still had a lot of doubts in my heart, but now I seem to know a lot."

The saint took a deep look at Fu Nanyin, admiring, relieved, and regretful... He didn't hide these emotions, but it's a pity that Fu Nanyin never looked up.

A scroll with time was handed to Funanyin.

"I originally thought that if you don't know your own life experience, I will tell you this story. That's all..."

It's okay not to talk.

Said sad.

"Look at what your father looked like when he was young."

The mounted white jade scroll was bright and smooth to the touch, the portrait had turned yellow, and the ink had aged a lot, but it could still be seen that it was well preserved.Funanyin opened slowly and carefully.He knew that the man on the picture scroll had been with him for more than ten years in Mobei. The saint was holding such a scroll of dead objects, looking at the illusory painting and thinking about others.

When the painting scroll was unfolded to the end, Daiqing faded, and the green clothes also turned yellow and white. This should be Ning Xu when he was sixteen or seventeen, younger than Fu Nanyin at this time.Her gaze moved slowly from bottom to top, and when she finally landed on that face, Fu Nanyin was taken aback.

"he……"

Is it Ning Xu?

"Like it?" asked the saint.

Funanyin nodded, but shook her head again, frowning and staring at this familiar yet extremely unfamiliar face, wondering what she was thinking.

He and Ning Xu are indeed similar in appearance, from the eyebrows, to the shape of the face, and even the body shape.When he was a child, he never found out, and no one told him that the person he always regarded as his master had such a similar appearance to him.No wonder King Mobei knew, even if Ning Xu refused to say it, others could see it.

But the person in this painting, with a pair of apricot round bird eyes so bright, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, with a confident expression that a teenager should have on his face, high-spirited, is not at all like the taciturn and seldom smiling person in Mobei in his memory .

Is this really Ning Xu?

It turned out that the 16-year-old Ning Xu...was like this?

Funanyin's hand holding the scroll trembled, and she raised her head in a daze for the first time.He saw that the saint's eyes were also on this painting, and there was a softness in his not-so-young eyes that he hadn't noticed, as if he had returned to the past.

"When he was in Hongwenguan, his literary talents were top-notch, and his theories were also very good. At that time, he often told me that he would go to the imperial examination when he was old. Then he will be a minister of assistance."

The sage didn't use "zhen" and was really immersed in those years.

It's a pity that Ning Xu didn't wait for that day in the end.

Fu Nanyin didn't look at the painting in his hand again, he re-rolled the scroll inch by inch, still carefully relocking the lost people and memories into the painting.

"The choice given by the sage just now, I have thought about it."

Putting the scroll on the table, Funanyin slowly knelt down in front of the saint.

"Forgive me for being greedy. I don't have much knowledge, but I would like to assist the prince; if I win the hearts of the people, I dare not bear it."

"Both, the minister chooses, please the sage to fulfill."

It is not only Fu Nanyin and Li Pei who are fulfilled, but also Ning Xu and the saint himself 20 years ago. "

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