Hypocrites

The relationship between father and son can be strict or warm, and the truth is always hidden in the details.Shen Yu also wrote the ten theory of filial piety in the past. When he wrote it, he had a headache, and he felt that he didn't have much filial piety. Scars.

Later Song Jun mentioned him and talked about the situation in his own family.When Song Jun was still studying in Yingchuan, he yearned for the Ruyang Four Schools very much. However, his parents from a farming family were conservative in their thinking, thinking that it was enough to read and do accounts, and their son would have to go back to the fields to help one day.

The two generations were very unhappy about this. Song Jun thought that his grand plans were restrained by his parents, and he was full of resentment.However, he later went to Ruyang to study, and the tuition was collected from the pawns sold by his family. Every day when he was in the school, he thought of the elders in the family saving money and offering him a statue of a Bodhisattva, so he was encouraged and worked harder.

"Every time Mr. beats you, he will secretly come to give you medicine in the middle of the night. You are a sound sleeper, so you probably don't know."

Maybe Liang Heng is the same, Shen Yu thought, he just didn't see it, it's not that His Majesty doesn't love him.If it weren't for the friendship between father and son, how could Emperor Wenshen take the royal face as a joke, order the Fourth Master to give lectures to Liang Heng, leave Cui Xian and others in anger one after another, and even invite Shen Jin.

In the past few days, Liang Heng stayed up many nights writing filial piety theory, and was listless in class during the day, often squinting his eyes and passing out while leaning on Shen Yu's shoulder.

Shen Jin knocked on the book table with the bamboo slips, Liang Heng was startled before half a cup of tea, and leaned on Shen Yu's body again.

"Go back to your own place," Shen Jin said dissatisfiedly, "Don't always let him rely on you."

Shen Yu was also helpless: "As soon as I left, he fell to the ground."

Liang Heng let out a hum of approval in his sleep.

Fortunately, the hard work paid off, and in the end, Liang Heng finally produced a treatise, which filled two pages of hemp paper. After Shen Yu corrected it, he copied it again. It was neat and impeccable.

"When will Your Majesty take the school homework test?" Many days passed, and Shen Yu got impatient waiting.

Liang Heng was also at a loss. He was elated when he was preparing, unaware that Emperor Wenshen hadn't mentioned the matter of the school exam once in so many days.

They ate cold lychees and crispy plums in the sun room of the Qingliang Hall, and the juices were sweet and refreshing.After some academic cooperation, Liang Heng obviously classified Shen Yu as one of his own.

Xinzhou knelt beside the two of them, put the peeled lychee into the ice tray, and listened to their chat without saying a word.

"That might be..." Liang Heng thought about it, "The condition has gotten worse recently, so you don't have time to take care of me?"

"Your own father, why don't you go to visit him?" Shen Yu frowned, Liang Heng flinched a little, and argued, "You are not allowed to enter the palace without an edict!"

Shen Yudao: "You are the crown prince, not a subject. The emperor is your father. What edict do you need to visit your father? If he doesn't come, leave it to you. If you don't know how to go, leave him? Take your homework to His Majesty's bedroom and read it to him." .”

Xinzhou glanced at Shen Yu.

Liang Heng was dumbfounded at first, but after careful consideration, he felt that this idea was very good, and immediately smiled: "Then you have to accompany me. If the emperor asks a question and you can't answer it, you can save me."

Shen Yu fully agreed, biting the plum, looking over the ice tray to meet Xinzhou who was sizing him up.There was some kind of hidden meaning in the eyes of this usually docile servant, which Shen Yu didn't understand at that time.

Wangdu Luxiang is in the north, the palace is in the south, and the Chu Palace is further south of the palace. Fengshui is called Daqilong.This kind of layout has been extremely rare in the past dynasties. The reason why it was built in this way is because the ancestors of the Guo Dynasty were driven back to the south of Zhuoshui by the bird barbarians outside the Great Wall. The name "Wangdu" means looking north to the old capital.

Shen Yu had only read about the royal palace Zhangyi in books before, and his prose, poems and poems recorded in his colorful and majestic majesty are very popular.

High palaces, large gardens, glazed tiles, white jade steps.The pavilions and verandahs are endless, standing on the palace road, the left and right sights are blocked by the high wall, behind you is the palace gate with the handle of the guards in the forbidden center, and in front of you is the stone road leading to nowhere.

Liang Heng led Shen Yu around three times and twice, completely lost his way.

"When I came here half a year ago," Liang Heng walked into the dead end in a daze, "there was no wall here."

The last time he entered the palace was half a year ago... Shen Yu Fu's forehead.

An arched door was opened on the side of the alleyway, and Bai Xiaosheng came out of the door, and bowed to the two: "Your Highness, please come with me."

This is an eunuch, Liang Heng recognized him, it is said that this palace man led him out when he lost his way half a year ago.

"Your Highness only remembers the way to Chen Yutang in Dongshi and Xieling Pavilion in Xishi. You don't have to go to the palace for ten days and a half months. Of course you don't know the direction." The palace people teased the prince.

Liang Heng had a very good temper, he laughed and said: "Father doesn't like to see me, so I am annoying him by coming too often."

The palace servants led around and around, and walked to crowded places, all of them were white-faced and beardless servants of the yellow gate, and they never saw a maid of honor or a guard.Walking in the palace, it seems that Liang Heng and Shen Yu are different.

Arriving at Qiandian Square, in front of Longwei Road, there are two pavilions, one on the left and one on the right.

The closer you get, the smaller the person is, and the towering and taller the Quetai is, which makes people look up.

On the left is Tianlu, and on the right is Fengque, which is called "Dragon and Phoenix Double Que" in the book. There are hundreds of steps.

The palace servants led the two of them to Fengque: "Your Majesty is in the pavilion."

Shen Yu was a little surprised, taking pleasure in climbing the stairs with Emperor Wenshen's frail body?

Soon he knew the reason - a car was parked under Feng Que, Liang Heng sat down on the mat familiarly, and two strong yellow doors were about to support him to climb the steps.

"Hey," Liang Heng hurriedly stopped, "Are you asking Mr. Shen to go up by himself? Come and carry it yourself."

"No, no need," Shen Yu was startled, he had never been treated like this before, and he felt awkward just thinking about it, "I'll go by myself, it's fine."

Hearing what he said, Liang Heng got off his shoulder again: "Then I will accompany you."

"Your Highness," the palace man advised him, "climbing the ladder is tiring!"

"It's nothing, Mr. Shen and I exercise our muscles and bones." Liang Heng waved back the left and right palace people, and walked up to Fengque Terrace with Shen Yu.

Walking on the ladder, you can see the pavilion in the distance, and the steps under your feet are carved with gods and beasts, auspicious clouds, civil servants and generals, guarding the emperor in Fengque.

The sun that flows gold and turns stones whips on the backs of the two.After climbing for a short distance, Liang Heng stopped and supported his knees.

"Bring up your sedan chair." Shen Yu laughed at him.

"You...why," Liang Heng was sweating profusely, "Aren't you tired?"

Shen Yu's face was neither red nor out of breath: "It's fine to carry you up."

"Then carry me on your back." Liang Heng said immediately, but he felt that he was out of place, obviously he was the one who wanted to accompany Shen Yu.

Shen Yu smiled friendly: "Think too much, Your Highness, behave well."

Liang Heng chased him, only to feel that the back of Shen Yu's clothes was like a butterfly fluttering in front of him, mocking his clumsiness.

"I'll accompany you...to climb the ladder...and you have to help me deal with it when I see my father in a while!"

The tail sound dissipated in the smooth wind of the high platform.

Walking until the legs trembled, I finally saw Feng Que's flying eaves and bucket arches.

A pair of embroidered gold soap boots appeared in front of Liang Heng.Seeing this pair of boots, Liang Heng understood what Shen Yu meant by performing well - the owner of these boots had been standing on a high platform and watching them like two tiny ants climbing the way to heaven.

"Chou Changshi?" Liang Heng stood on the high platform, his legs became weak, and Shen Yu unconsciously dragged him by the back.

The waiting courtiers bowed to Liang Heng and said, "His Royal Highness."

This is also an eunuch, dressed in a higher class than all Shen Yu has ever seen, wearing a tall hat, with broad shoulders and narrow waist, handsome face, but his eyes are narrow like slits, so that no one can peep at him, so he Come spy on people.Shen Yu was swept over by those squinted eyes, and suddenly a chill ran up his spine.

"My servant came to report that His Highness was lost in the palace again." Qiu Changshi spoke in a calm and calm tone.

"I'll come to see my father. He hasn't come to test my homework for a long time. I'm afraid he's not in good health again." Liang Heng stroked the back of his head, remembering to introduce, "This is my companion, Mr. Shen's son, Shen Yu. .This is Qiu Zhiyuan, the cavalry general of the Southern Army."

He also called this man to be a regular attendant, and said he was a cavalry general of the Southern Army.Among the eunuchs who can command the army, Shen Yu knows that the only three powerful eunuchs in the palace are the confidantes who were single-handedly drawn up by Emperor Wenshen when he came to the throne.General Che Lang, General Hu Lang, and General Qi Lang, these three generals led the southern army to guard the royal city and the forbidden palace, covering the sky with one hand so that the sun and the moon could not be seen.

In Ruyang County, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and students and disciples occasionally dare to say something about the court behind their backs. When talking about the three power eunuchs, they are all contemptuous and spurned without exception.

Caught off guard by seeing this real person whom he has been criticizing all this time, Shen Yu froze on the spot before he could think of how to respond, Qiu Zhiyuan had already expressed his disdain first - he had no intention of talking to Shen Yu at all.

"Could it be that Your Highness is seriously reading those boring and meaningless sage books?"

Qiu Zhiyuan led Liang Heng to Que Pavilion.

"Oh, I don't want to read it either," Liang Heng complained, as if he had managed to find a bosom friend, "Why is Father always urging me?"

Qiu Zhiyuan opened the palace door for him, and the gloomy and stagnant air flowed, carrying the smell of medicinal liquid and dying.

"Your Majesty doesn't have such leisure now," Qiu Zhiyuan said, "Please, Your Majesty."

The scorching sun could not penetrate the heavy curtains, and the hall was dark and cold.The candle flame was covered in the copper stove, and the medicine pot was gurgling.

Liang Heng flinched back, and pressed his back against Shen Yu.One step forward is the forest cold area, behind is Shen Yu's scorching body temperature.

"Please." Qiu Zhiyuan said with a meaningful smile, and closed the hall door behind them.

Heavy bed curtains repeated.

Five or six small yellow gates were guarding the medicine stove, and the feather fan sent a light breeze, parting one layer after another of the curtains, revealing a figure lying on the huge bed behind.

"Your Majesty, the prince is here."

The figure coughed.

Liang Heng and Shen Yu saluted. "Father, Father is well," Liang Heng stammered, "How much did you eat, how much did you drink, and what medicine did you use?"

The figure coughed twice.

The servant of Huangmen replied: "Eat minced meat, drink as usual, and the medicine is still the same."

Liang Heng was speechless, Shen Yu poked him in the back and forced him to approach the emperor's bed. "Father, I..." Liang Heng didn't speak, the emperor coughed several times, and the medicine-serving Huangmen rushed up: "Your Highness, stand outside."

"Ah..." Liang Heng neither retreated nor entered, with his precious article in his arms.

Shen Yu watched coldly as the waiter brought the medicine into the bed curtain. Behind the heavy cover, the emperor half leaned on the medicine and didn't look in his son's direction.Deng Yang mentioned the emperor in private, saying that his attitude towards his son was "just forget it if you don't want to learn."

"Am I still reading?" Liang Heng looked back to Shen Yu nervously.

Shen Yu responded silently, but Liang Heng suddenly said, "Nian Nian, it's all here..."

He unfolded the copied tissue paper, and when the emperor recovered from his cough, the waiter seemed not so busy, and said: "Mr. The emperor gave my son some pointers."

This is what Shen Yu taught him, and he can't say "I have done a good job in my homework recently, please appreciate my father."

"The filial piety should be treated with propriety in life, in burial at death, and in sacrifice. Sacrifice as if you were there, and sacrifice to relatives as if you were there..."

The emperor coughed again, and the rustling sound wrapped in thick phlegm overwhelmed Liang Heng.The attendant walked between the medicine stove and the bed, and the wind of walking made Liang Heng's silk paper whirling.

"The filial piety does not violate..."

Liang Heng stopped.

"Back off." The emperor's voice was like a strand of hair hanging, ethereal.

Liang Heng put away the tissue paper respectfully, and returned the gift.