Placid Chang'an

Having said that, Su Cen's hostility has dissipated.I'm afraid his official career will be cut off, and he doesn't have to follow those dead rules anymore. He slowly straightened up and looked directly at Li Shi, and said slowly: "What I'm cutting out is party struggle, and now there is a dark tide in the court. , the wind of party struggle is rampant, everyone is self-interested, attacking each other, disregarding the country and society, before becoming an official, you must learn to stand in line, and before acting, you must first consider how to seek benefits for your own party. Officials do not act, and the imperial power will be disrupted for a long time. What's more, the fate of the country will decline!"

"presumptuous!"

The eunuch next to the emperor yelled loudly, and just about to ask the guards to take him down, Prince Ning, who should have been the most annoyed, waved his hand, without any sullen expression on his face, but looked at the man with interest, and asked: "Then what is your so-called party, and what are you fighting for?"

Su Cen opened his mouth, and squeezed all the words in his throat, but found that he couldn't say a word.

He may not want merit or fame, but he still wants a head.

Li Shi twitched the corners of his lips at the man kneeling in the court. The man stared at him with a stubborn expression, and the answer was written in his eyes.He had read his article, so he naturally knew what he was 'cutting'. He hadn't asked any of those people before, but it was this person, with the expression of gnashing his teeth, just looking at it made him want to tease him.

Fortunately, before Li Shi could ask any more questions, a voice came from behind the screen on the right: "Go down."

Su Cen didn't know how he stood up, how he left the hall as if fleeing, and how he came out of the palace gate. The March warm sun hit his body, but he couldn't feel the slightest warmth.

After walking on the bustling street for a long time, I was stunned. When I looked up, it was a coincidence that it was the teahouse that day.

Walked in and ordered another pot of Longjing. Su Cen had just poured himself a cup when he couldn't help but look upstairs.

The light gauze curtain had been put away, and there was no one on the table, but he was obsessed with a cup of hot tea and stared upstairs unconsciously, as if he was looking at someone.

How long did Li Shi look at him that day?

Those eyes were too deep, and his naive, clumsy, and youthful spirit were exposed, as if he had been stripped layer by layer and thrown on the street, naked and unreserved.

With just one glance, that person saw through him.

And he, apart from being caught off guard again and again, didn't even have time to take a good look at that person.

Prince Ning, who is known by everyone in the world to have power over the government, does not kill people with bloody blades, eats people without spitting out bones, never smiles and looks like Yama, Su Cen couldn't help sneering, those people must have never seen the real Prince Ning, murdering and punishing, this man smiled Just one look can knock your bones to ashes, and even make you lose your soul, and you will never recover.

He let the assassin go that day. With Li Shi's status, there were a hundred ways to make him die without a burial, but the man just didn't touch him, so he was waiting here.

Indeed, there is nothing like the despair of going all the way to the end only to find that the end point is actually a cliff. In vain, the old man of the family is still waiting for him to be named Guangzong Yaozu on the gold list. It turns out that he cut off his way to become an official on the first day he came to Chang'an City.

Fall short, a mess.

Su Cen didn't get up slowly until the pot of tea was completely cold. After leaving the teahouse, it was like drinking a pot of wine. He staggered all the way back, hesitating to find someone without a curfew. The small restaurant is waiting.

He didn't know how to explain to Ah Fu how his second young master, who was too powerful, lost his name.

Even if Ah Fu didn't ask in a timely manner, or shut himself in the room and didn't answer, he didn't know how to deal with those expectant eyes.

He had to find a place where no one knew him for a while.

For example... Red Silk Square... Another example...

Su Cen raised his head, the twilight was getting closer, and the lights were just coming on, a few greasy-haired and pink-faced young men leaned against the window and looked at him with meaningful smiles on their lips.

The atmosphere in Chang'an City is open, raising young men to play child prostitution is nothing new.On the edge of the East City, there is a smoky alley with red willows and greenery. The brothel and the small man's house are opposite to each other. Men and women compete for business, and the eyes are dazzled by bloody skirts, but they are no worse than women.

And his appearance is like those outsiders who hesitate in front of the door and want to try something new.

However, there was another reason for Su Cen to stay in front of the door.

The assassin said in his ears that he liked men, and today Zheng Yang said that his little uncle was interested in him.

What is that interest?

Is this...interest...?

There was a churn in his stomach for no reason. He hadn't eaten a single grain of rice this day, and drank a pot of herbal tea on an empty stomach. He knew he had nothing to vomit, but he still bent over and retched for a while.

A few young men inside the door gave him a cold look, and they all went back to the restaurant and ignored him.

Su Cen vomited and sat slumped on the ground and couldn't help but smile wryly. What disgusted him was not others, but himself. The momentary despicable thought in his heart was disgusting.

In the end, I went back to Changlefang. As soon as I turned into my own alley, I saw Ah Fu waiting in front of the door with a lantern on. Seeing him coming back, I hurried forward, grabbed his sleeve firmly, and didn't know what to say in a moment of excitement.

"You know?" Su Cen frowned.

"I already know, Second Young Master, you..." Ah Fu's hands trembled excitedly: "You are too good! You won three prizes in a row, and you are the number one in the new division. Our Su family is hopeful for revitalization!"

Su Cen: "..."

Su Cen was stunned for a while before recovering, staring at Ah Fu: "Who told you that I won the number one prize?"

"It's not true," Ah Fu pointed behind him: "The officials from the palace are still waiting. I waited and waited, but I didn't see you coming back, the second young master. That's why I wanted to go out to look for you. I happened to see you coming back. gone."

Su Cen looked forward, and he saw two eunuchs standing at the door, holding a roll of yellow silk in their hands, smiling flatteringly at him: "Su Cai is young and talented, he is the leader of the world, congratulations."

Su Cen stood there for a long while, until the faces of the two people were frozen, and suddenly stepped forward, snatched the roll of yellow silk, and threw it on the ground: "How long will he want to play with me?! "

The two eunuchs looked at each other and were stunned for a moment.Some of them were ecstatic after high school, some were crying, and even they had seen them go into convulsions in a moment of excitement, but this talented Su who threw the imperial list on the ground was the first one.

The two of them spent a lot of time trying to get this job. They had already found out that Su Zhuangyuan was from a wealthy family. They thought they could earn some money by running errands, but in the end, where did this come from?

"Second Young Master..." Ah Fu came back to his senses and hurried forward to pick up the imperial list, fearing that someone would throw it away again, he had to keep behind him, and carefully tested: "Second Young Master, are you alright?"

Indeed, any normal person should not do such a thing. How many people study hard all their lives just to beg for this volume of imperial list, only he who is sick can avoid it like a scourge.

Su Cen calmed down slowly, stretched out his hand and said, "Bring it."

Ah Fu hesitated again and again before taking it out from behind and sending it back to the person.

Su Cen stared at the things in his hands for a long time, and finally smiled slowly.

Isn't it just to play?

Then I will play with you.

He can fall down once or twice in a place, but one day he will be able to level the gutter.

The sound of clappers in Chang'an City passed the third watch before Li Shishi put down his ink brush, pressed his knuckles between his eyebrows with his protruding knuckles, and put on a cloak at the right time.

Qi Lin stood behind him and said, "Master, rest."

The Son of Heaven was young and didn't understand political affairs, and all the civil and military memorials of the Manchu Dynasty were reviewed by the Zhongshumen, and finally sent to Xingqing Palace to be approved by the Prince Regent before they could be dispatched.

It looks like a good job with a lot of power in his hands, but it's not necessarily so. Qi Linguo frowned again when he saw his master's brows that had just been flattened, "Longxi wants to garrison troops, Huainan is full of water bandits, and Qianzhou is fighting with the local tribes again." The conflict is nothing more than changing ways to ask the court for money, which is treating the court as a money bag hanging on their bodies, and it is uncomfortable to take it as they need it."

Qi Lin was annoyed: "Last year the Queen Mother wanted to build Fanglin Garden, but now how can I give them the money to resolve tribal conflicts? The Minister of the Household Department, Zhao Zhijing, really did anything to please the Queen Mother, and emptied half of the national treasury."

"He has money for the Empress Dowager Chu to build Fanglin Garden, so he has money to pay me to suppress the bandits." Li Shi picked up the ink brush and drew a circle on the booklet in Longxi and Huainan, and finally saw the booklet in Qianzhou and thought about it , Finally, there is a sentence: enlightenment overcomes the first, slow down the war.

He put down his pen and got up, and just took two steps, he turned around and asked, "How is the new champion?"

Qi Lin said: "What else can I do? Thank you for accepting the order." After two steps, he said: "Master, I just can't figure it out. His remarks are directed at you, a person whom the Empress Dowager Chu doesn't even want. Why are you protecting him?"

Li Shi twirled the black jade finger on his thumb and smiled, "Fearless at birth, children are quite fun."