Self-help guide for non-professional young masters

"It's almost enough. This shit is worth arguing like this in front of the Queen Mother. It's embarrassing."

"Xian... Li Xiang."

"Just let him do whatever you want. Do you think you can really stop him? I'm not instigating him. The main reason is that you guys make your brain hurt and you can't live in peace. Either go out and talk, or leave it alone. His Your heart is in your hands, and there is still a bright future waiting for him, are you still afraid that he will play himself to death?"

Sure enough, the words of the person next to him were more convincing. Jiang Linyuan didn't insist anymore, and stepped back a few steps to express that he would not stop him. Looking at the person's back, his sighs stopped abruptly.

"Xianyu, I always feel that if he leaves this time, he won't come back again, aren't you worried?"

"Don't worry." Li Ying was still calm, propped his chin on the armrest with his hands, and yawned lazily, "You should remember the portrait in my father's study."

Jiang Linyuan thought for a while, "Remember, there is this picture scroll hanging on the wall opposite the table case. You said that you are afraid that the wind and sun will fade the color of the painting, so you only unfold it every month to prevent moisture and insects. I've seen this time, and the picture scroll shows a back figure in armor, with a high ponytail and a fluttering cloak, looking heroic."

"That person is Lin Xici." Li Ying said indifferently.

This answer shocked Jiang Linyuan. In the existing portraits and oral narratives, it seems that Lin Xici has always been presented in front of people with a gentle, elegant, sick and weak image, which is completely different from the awe-inspiring aura shown on the picture. Can't believe it's the same person.

"Do you think that a rookie who has just made his mark in the imperial examination, why he climbed to the seat of Yushitai in just two years? Is it really because of the phrase 'I want to go to your side' at the Qionghua Banquet? The suspicion of the late emperor Even worse than our emperor, the easier it is to get, the less he will trust, so he put himself in danger to test his loyalty."

Looking back on the major events that happened in the years before and after Lin Xi resigned from the imperial court, it is not difficult to think of a key turning point—the conquest of the Nanman.

Different from Xiao Jingyuan, who likes to sit on the mountain and watch tigers fight, Xianzong Xiao Heyan is an ambitious monarch. He has been brave and warlike all his life. He has fought against barbarians many times. He went to the barbaric land twice, one was a year after he got the important job, and the other was to completely conquer Southern Chu after his death.

At that time, Xianzong committed danger alone and was captured by the barbarians. Nanchu used eighteen cities as the price, and demanded a lot of money.

Li Sansi, who was far away in the imperial capital, was so anxious that he was arguing with a few stubborn old ministers whether to compromise, and the official seal was about to be withheld, and the pigeon battle report was sent from the front, saying that Master Lin was wearing armor and leading dozens of elite soldiers to charge the enemy's line , Chopped off the dog's head of General Chu with a knife, so frightened that the King of Chu had to send Xianzong back intact, and offered gold ten thousand taels as compensation by the way, and he lived in peace for several years afterwards.

This matter was widely circulated at the time, and for some reason, someone refuted the rumor, saying that the person who took the head of General Nanchu was not Lin Xici, but a new bodyguard of Chiyawei, named Lu Suifeng, who was later promoted to half a general.

People felt that Lin Xici was a weak scholar who couldn't carry it on his shoulders, and couldn't carry it with his hands. Especially when he became a sick child later, it was even more impossible to charge to the front line. The Savior killed the enemy, so the rumors gradually subsided, and people believed It was the fact that General Xiao Lu saved the first emperor, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"The rumors at that time were true. Lin Xici was the one who rushed into the enemy line to rescue the first emperor. The crane hairpin with one feather missing can prove it. But the first emperor's intention was only to test, and he made a perfect plan early in the morning. preparation, so the term 'single-handedly' is not accurate."

"So what you mean is that Mr. Lin is not weak, and so is his son. I am worrying unnecessarily."

Li Ying sat still in his arms, "No, your worry is necessary, but it was given to the wrong person." He turned the wheel of the wheelchair, turned his back, supported the palace wall with one hand, gritted his teeth, and stood up .

He was short of breath, declined Jiang Linyuan who came to help, swallowed the breath in his chest, and said weakly: "What you should worry about is that bastard Xiao Jingyuan, I have a bad feeling, Junziyou might... ...Although I really want to see the dog emperor seek his own death, but I can't let Jun Ziyou add to his crimes, I have changed my mind, you go and stop him now, go, go!"

At the same time, Jun Ziyou, who had left a few steps earlier, had already reached the Yin and Yang Road. The sun was just rising, and the rays of the sun were shining. He stopped before the boundary line between light and dark, and if he took another step, he would be in the shadow that was not illuminated by the sun. , one step down, will fall into the bottomless abyss.

At the other end of the abyss, staring at him is the man with a kind face but a heart deeper than the lonely sea. He still has a benevolent face and hides all the insidiousness and deceitfulness under the hypocritical skin.

"I thought, at least you would give yourself a chance to quibble." Jun Ziyou moved his injured left hand a little, and it only took a few days to recover, and the wound has not fully healed, and the pain would be painful if he moved a little more, just that one time , There was blood on the bandage again.

In this way, he is afraid that if he can't get close to the other party, he will be dragged down by his own old injuries first.

Xiao Jingyuan, dressed in aqua casual clothes, stood facing the wind, his shoulders were wet by the rain, but he didn't care about his rich body at all.

He stared at this young man with an indifferent expression, smiling calmly and easy-going, it didn't look like a prisoner who was about to be pointed at the nose and listed crimes in a frame, or that he was fearless and fully felt the power of being the king of a country. There is no oppressive feeling of suffocation, and the fear of being cornered.

The four fingers of his right hand were raised slightly, Jun Ziyou took half a step back vigilantly, and was even ready to throw his hidden weapon at any time, but the opponent writhed in his sleeve for a long time, only found out a white paper bag.

Xiao Jingyuan stepped forward slowly, crossed the boundary between yin and yang, took Jun Ziyou's hand, put something in his bleeding palm, and straightened his twisted bun by the way.

He whispered softly: "Where is the thing he gave you? Hand it over, it's a waste of money for you to keep that priceless treasure, and it won't bloom and bear fruit if you bring it into the coffin, it's better to return it to the original owner."

"Oh? Return it to its original owner?"

As his words fell, Xiao Jingyuan felt a chill in his waist, and then the smile froze on his face.

Junziyou raised his eyes with a smile, rolled open the white paper bag with one hand, and stuffed the lactose wrapped in Xiao Jingyuan into Xiao Jingyuan's mouth. Although his voice was soft, every word was clearly distinguishable: "Then trouble you, old man, and return it with your own hands." Him."

The gust of wind mixed with rain whizzed past, rolled up the drooping hems of the two of them, and the cold and hard object that hit the deadly part of Xiao Jingyuan's waist was the crane hairpin that once promised the world.

"...Just kidding, do you think you can hold me hostage with such a threat? If you dare to do it, neither you nor Xiao Beicheng can escape from this palace city!"

"Then try it, Xiao Jingyuan, cherish life like you, don't dare to move." Jun Ziyou tried his best to restrain his voice from trembling, and purposely bit down the pronunciation of words, so as not to reveal the uneasiness in his heart.

The rain-soaked forehead hair stuck to his face with a natural curvature. At that moment, his bloody eyes really looked like he was fighting for his life.

In fact, they all know each other well, Jun Ziyou has someone in his heart, he is not willing to die with others, as long as Xiao Jingyuan is willing to confront him, he may not be willing to die with others, even if he hesitates for a moment, he will lose.

Fortunately, this time his opponent was more greedy for life and afraid of death than he was. Even though he knew the possibility was very small, Xiao Jingyuan was unwilling to take the one-in-ten-thousandth risk. A very obvious gesture of surrender was made.

"You shouldn't..."

"At this point, it's up to you to blame me for what I should or should not do. After investigating so many cases, big and small, I consider myself a thoughtful person, especially when I face you. Every decision has to be carefully considered.”

Xiao Jingyuan's smile was a little stiff, "Then what kind of decision did you make before you came to see me today?"

"Two." The gentleman smiled, "Apply the blood-seeming poison on the hairpin to seal the throat, to ensure that once the stabbing is continued, the two of us will be able to return home with our eyes closed, without leaving any chance of regret, and without letting others get pregnant. For the luck of saving lives."

"Cruel and merciless, it's really the style of your father and son."

"The emperor congratulates us, and we are mutual."

"What about the second one?"

"Play a thrilling game with you, the emperor."

Junziyou loosened his hand intentionally, Xiao Jingyuan let out a long breath, and before he could move, the sharp end of the hairpin pressed against his waist again.

"Don't move around." The man threatened in a low voice, his tone was much lighter than before, but his movements did not give in at all.

He noticed the movement around him, and turned his head quietly, only to see several black shadows sneaking down on the walls on both sides of the Yin-Yang Road. He pushed Xiao Jingyuan even tighter, and the latter could even feel the needlepoint piercing through layers of clothing , scratched his flesh.

Just as Jun Ziyou said, the emperor who only loved power in his life was so resentful of his life that he immediately waved his hands and ordered people not to act rashly.

"My Junqing can do anything, you must not provoke him, otherwise you will all go to be buried with the old lady!"

"The emperor's words are wrong. Those who are killed are clearly 'sacrificed', and only those who are buried after the end of their lives are called 'accompanying'. Speaking of this, I am a little curious. In your mind, it is my father Lin Xi who resigned to the late emperor. To be buried with him, or to be buried with my father by Xianzong Xiao Heyan?"

Xiao Jingyuan looked at Junziyou's expression when he spoke, and was a little confused about the meaning of his question. After much deliberation, he chose to avoid this sharp contradiction, "You plan to stand up to me like this. It doesn't matter in vain. Wasting time on things like this?"

"Look at what the emperor said, it seems that I have molested you. Don't talk about this, let me ask again, do you know when I became famous in the capital?"

Smart people know that the answer to this question is definitely not when the gentleman came to Beijing because of the oiran case, but...

"Overthrow Zhende Casino, overthrow Murong Hao."

"That's right, investigating a few unjust cases will only become a chat after dinner. Let the people know that there is a person like me, and it will not play any substantive role. Only when people's interests are really violated, will they remember them. Someone who stands up."

"You are so scheming." Xiao Jingyuan sighed from the bottom of his heart.

"Thank you for your praise. After that incident, the emperor should have realized that I am a gambler, and I often bet on big things that are difficult to make decisions. Why don't you give in to me this time, and let God decide life and death. "

After all, Jun Ziyou struck out with lightning speed, and the tip of the hairpin quickly drew a bloodstain on Xiao Jingyuan's back waist.

"you……"

Before Xiao Jingyuan could get angry, he cut his own wrist in the same way, leaving the other party speechless for a moment.

"My wound is more deadly than yours, and I died of poisoned hair before you. In this way, will the emperor sit down and have a good talk with me?"

Xiao Jingyuan lost his sense of control a little bit, faced with this situation, he said with a dumb smile: "You really are unscrupulous..."

"Thank you, the emperor, for your praise. I am ashamed to be a humble minister. Compared with you, I am far behind."

He smiled and showed the new wound on his wrist to the other party, "Did you see the bruise seeping in the blood, it is the phenomenon caused by the blood clot after being contaminated by the poison, once this black mark spreads to the neck , people are completely hopeless, so how long we have left is up to you, the emperor, to decide."

"You really deserve to be the son of Lin Xici, you are poisonous."

Although Xiao Jingyuan knew that Jun Ziyou's words contained a lot of deceitful elements, but even if there was even the slightest possibility of death, he would eradicate all threats, so he first lost his smile and succumbed to others.

"Is there anything that can't be said properly? We are a monarch and a minister. I have pampered you for many years, and it doesn't mean that I have left no affection. Why are you doing this?"

"Your Majesty, don't waste your energy in vain. Don't forget, it will take time for you to send someone to get the antidote. If anything happens to your thousand-gold body, no one can afford it."

He was so angry that the blood vessels on Xiao Jingyuan's forehead burst, but it was a pity that he was helpless, his life was in his hands, and the other party could do whatever he wanted.

What's more, Jun Ziyou's words just now revealed a very crucial clue - the antidote is not in his hands, even if he strips Jun Ziyou here, he can't find a way to save his life.

Helpless, Xiao Jingyuan could only compromise.

In a hidden gazebo, twelve identical cups are placed on a lacquer board. Jun Ziyou slowly carries a small purple sand pot that is newly boiled, each cup is full to the brim before stopping.

Fate is in human hands, Xiao Jingyuan is fidgeting, afraid that time will be delayed, the toxin will penetrate into the blood, even if Hua Tuo is reborn, it will be difficult to keep his life, and he is worried that letting others do it for him will anger his unstable emotions, so he thinks twice, She still did it herself and helped him fill up the rest of the cups.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, it's rare to see you in such a state of embarrassment. It's not a bad thing to hang your life on the tip of a knife, but I'm confident that what I'm going to do next will allow me to treat you from the beginning to the end, from the outside to the outside. Look inside."

Speaking of this, Junzi took the cup placed in the middle of the chessboard, poured out the hot tea soup in it, and took the silver jug ​​from his arms, poured the pure brew into the cup, and the aroma of the wine immediately overflowed.

"Seven years of hatred. Back then, a famous winemaker in the capital lost his daughter unfortunately. In memory of his beloved daughter, he used the seven-year-old age of his daughter's death as the deadline for wine making, and quenched several poisons in the wine. Seven years after I swore before, I ended up with this heart-breaking thing. The first emperor took a cup, and you knocked down a cup back then, guess whose mouth the last cup will go into?"

Junziyou put on the lid of the cup, casually brought a cup of hot tea in front of him, scraped the porcelain lid on the rim of the cup for a week, cleared the foam, and then put it back in place, and turned it back and forth half a circle with great skill to let the dew clear It also flowed out, shaking the bowl lightly, poured out all the remaining tea from the mouth of the cup, leaving only the purest and refreshing tea soup.

Xiao Jingyuan's expression became more and more rigid, and his face turned a little blue. Unfortunately, he lost his sense in front of Jun Ziyou, so he had to take the cup closest to him, and tried it like him just now, but the effect was not very good.

"I heard that this method of tasting tea was created by my father, Lin Xici. He had a hard life for a few years when he was a child. Even when he came to the Hou's mansion, he didn't dare to waste money because he was an outsider. He was careful in everything he did. The tea has to be brewed over and over again, and it is only willing to throw it away when you can't taste it, so the experience he summed up is the best way to purify it."

While talking, Jun Ziyou cleared away the tea soup in the remaining cups, closed the cups, and couldn't tell which cup was the deadly poisonous wine.

He finally handed the cold glass to Xiao Jingyuan, and drank half of the glass that the other party had made dirty inside and out. When he moved, he realized that he suspected that he would kill him.

"Don't worry, if I really wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have told you about the antidote just now. I'm not such a sinister and cunning person. Don't think too badly of me."

"But you are definitely not as good as I thought." Xiao Jingyuan sneered and took a sip of tea, as if he felt that drinking one sip was as poisonous as drinking ten sips, and at this juncture, there is no need to worry about whether to die or not There was a problem, so he simply gritted his teeth, raised his head and drank upside down.

"The emperor is really big, so let's not waste time, the game has already started, I ask, you answer, the answer comes, I drink, if you can't answer, you drink."

Xiao Jingyuan smiled when he heard it, and lightly stroked the rim of the cup with his fingertips, "Hmm..." After a while, "It sounds like you won't be compensated, but aren't you afraid that you will drink the highly poisonous Seven Years' Hate?"

"So this is a game of gambling. The most basic quality of a gambler is that he is willing to gamble and admit defeat. If I die, it is because God doesn't want me to come to a conclusion. People can't fight against the sky. I accept my fate, neither hate nor blame."

Hearing this, Xiao Jingyuan lost his patience. He spread his hands towards the person and made a "please" gesture, which meant to ask him to start the first question.

Jun Ziyou was not in a hurry to express the most urgent question in his heart. At this time, the most important thing is to make the other party let go of his sincerity and acting skills enough to deceive ignorance. In order to let Xiao Jingyuan remove all disguises in front of him, he Choose to start with a trivial detail on the other side.

——Bai Yu pulls the finger.

The engraving of dragon and phoenix auspiciousness, exquisite carving, high-quality jade quality and color, it really looks... familiar.

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