Hypocrites

The blue sky and white sun were so bright that people couldn't keep their eyes open, and the door of the palace creaked and closed behind them, separating the two worlds.

Shen Yu couldn't bear Liang Heng's depression, and now he somewhat understood why Liang Heng didn't care about his studies.Scholars all over the world can nominate Wen Dahai at once on the gold list, only Liang Heng can get nothing, no need to obtain fame, and no one will praise him.

The wind was howling on the high platform, Qiu Zhiyuan didn't know where he went, and looked at the empty space.

Liang Heng stood in a daze for a moment, then turned to Shen Yu and said, "It's a pity that I climbed the ladder with you for so long, but it didn't come in handy in the end."

Shen Yu: "..."

This kid's face was full of sincere regret, he didn't look depressed at all, and he was thinking in completely different directions from Shen Yu.With such a big heart, it is really a blessing to be a fool.

"I said there's no need to come here." Liang Heng admired his foresight, "My father is sick all year round, he doesn't like to see people, and he doesn't like others to bother him with boring things."

Accompanied by Qiu Zhiyuan, he walked up to the high platform from a distance.

Seeing this, Liang Heng jumped up: "Uncle!"

The man had a yellow crown on his hair and a purple ribbon on his body, his rank was higher than that of Qiu Zhiyuan, he was the Prime Minister Duan Boyu.

Duan Xiang is over fifty years old, well-maintained and elegant.Unlike the gloomy emperors and eunuchs in the palace, Duan Xiang smiled like a gentle breeze and drizzle, which made people feel refreshed and happy when they saw it.When he was young, he must have been as suave and handsome as his son Duan Yanling.

"Your Highness," Duan Xiang asked with a smile, "it's rare for you to visit His Majesty."

Liang Heng asked: "Why is uncle here?"

"I have something to discuss with His Majesty today," Duan Xiang saw Shen Yu, and he didn't know whether it was a literati acquaintance or Chou Zhiyuan's tone, "This must be the well-known son of Master Shen in Ruyang, right? I heard that he was studying with His Highness recently. ?”

"I have seen the Prime Minister."

Shen Yu still admired this self-made literati prime minister.

"Reading is good," Duan Xiangyu patted Liang Heng's shoulder earnestly, "Everything in this world can be lost, only the books you read can't be taken away by others."

"Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time, the Prime Minister please." Qiu Zhiyuan reminded.

Shen Yu watched the two of them enter the palace, feeling suspicious in his heart.The emperor waited for Duan Xiang for a long time, but he didn't give up any time for his son.Or is it that Liang Heng can't be present when the two of them want to discuss?

"Hey, Shen Yu," Liang Heng called him, "Do you want to visit my mother's place?"

Shen Yu: "?"

Liang Heng's eyebrows danced brightly, and he suddenly became interested: "When my uncle enters the palace, Yanling must have followed. Every time it happens, they will go to mother's place to stay for a while. Let's go and play with Yanling!"

He didn't want to find his mother at all, but just wanted to find Duan Yanling.

The Zhangyi Palace, where the emperor lived, and the Gui Palace, where the concubine lived, were connected by a flying Hongqiao bridge in the middle, crossing the street connected with the Zhicheng Gate, and entering the world surrounded by palace walls on the other side.

Flying flowers and willows, hills, pools and rocky beaches, flowers, pheasants and green mallards, are magnificent.

What kind of people are the emperor and the prime minister, and what kind of people are the three power eunuchs?Duan Yanling was obviously one step behind them. In the gazebo, the empress dressed in simple clothes was feeding the fish, and one or two maids beside her were serving her tea with a fan.

Seeing that the queen was alone, Liang Heng retreated as if he was on the Fengque platform.

"Why don't you wait?"

Shen Yu didn't understand, so he asked, "Why?"

Liang Heng hesitated to speak, and glanced at Shen Yu: "You...do you want to go? Then I'll take you to see my mother." His tone was as if he was sinking his boat.

As soon as the boot toe stepped onto the gazebo, the queen, who was admiring the red carp a moment ago, turned around: "Why did you delay on the road for half a day?"

Her voice was like a bell blown by the wind, hiding a specious eagerness.

Liang Heng was stunned: "..."

He didn't know what to say to respond to his mother's expectations.

Empress Duan has a pretty face and a slender figure, similar to Liang Heng's mother and child.She took the brocade handkerchief handed over by the maid to clean her hands, and did not tell Liang Heng to sit down, her eyebrows were lowered.

"Why did you enter the palace?"

"My son came to visit my father and mother." Liang Heng was still flattered by his mother's complaint, "This is Young Master Shen's son, Shen Yu, who taught his son to study."

"You can still study?" Empress Duan laughed, the same smile that Shen Yu usually mocked Liang Heng.

Liang Heng blushed, but his mood improved. He took out "Theory of Filial Piety" from his arms and showed it to Queen Duan: "My son has done his homework..."

After a while, he said, "What's the smell?"

Liang Heng and Shen Yu looked at each other blankly.

In the gazebo, there is only the cool breeze, the bursts of incense, the queen's lavender and the maid's rouge.

Shen Yu moved closer, followed Duan Hou's eyes and saw a few sweaty handprints on the corners of Liang Heng's article.Liang Heng also saw it, and was immediately embarrassed.This is when he was reading an article for the emperor at Fengque Terrace, his hands were sweaty because of nervousness.

"Is it just the drool from your drowsiness or the grease from eating?" Duan Hou mocked, "It's not a day's cold to be frozen three feet, I said, how can you suddenly be able to read."

Liang Heng looked at Shen Yu as if asking for help.

In the world, there is still a son who doesn't know how to justify his acting like a baby to his mother.

Shen Yu explained for him: "His Royal Highness is very serious about his homework, only burning the ointment and following the sundial, and never dozed off during the day."

"Really." Duan Hou didn't care.

Duan Yanling finally arrived late.Like a rescue from the sky, Liang Heng heaved a sigh of relief, and Duan Hou raised his eyebrows again.

"Where did you go to have fun? You're so slow." Duan Hou told everyone in the tone that he thought you were not a serious person.

When Duan Yanling faced his aunt, he was more intimate and presumptuous than Liang Heng faced his mother: "I saw a new white bird raised in the palace. It's very beautiful, so I just teased it for a while."

"I don't know," Duan Hou sneered, "It's a rare bird sent by a foreigner. It's called a corolla finch, a white bird and a black bird."

Duan Yanling laughed along with him: "My nephew doesn't study much, how can I know so much?"

"Both of you," Duan Hou pointed to Duan Yanling and Liang Heng, and smiled at the other person who followed Duan Yanling, "Fortunately, Yanyou didn't learn from it."

The person next to Duan Yanling was his second brother, Duan Xiang's youngest son, named Duan Yanyou.He doesn't look much like Duan Xiang and his elder brother in appearance, but has a strong physique, a tall stature, and a tough and heroic facial features.

It was the first time for Shen Yu to meet the prime minister's second son. On the day when he went to Chen Yutang to arrest Liang Heng, the house was full of nobles and dudes, Duan Yanling was the leader, but Duan Yanyou was not among them.

"His Royal Highness." Duan Yanyou saluted Liang Heng.It's strange, the elder brother and the prince are as good as one person, but the younger brother is very strange.

He has a pair of thick eyebrows and big eyes, his eyes are like lightning, piercing and bright, Liang Heng doesn't feel comfortable staring at him, and he doesn't seem to like this younger brother very much.

"I'm sweating all over the place." Duan Hou thought that he had committed the same problem again, and asked the maid to bring a handkerchief to wipe the sweat of the Duan brothers, and asked someone to sit nearby to admire the red carp she raised.

Both Duan Yanling and Liang Heng had irresistible temperaments, so they slipped away on the spot, and an honest Duan Yanyou was left to chat with the empress.

They were going to see the new white bird, Shen Yu just wanted to roll his eyes, and Liang Heng had the virtue of running away when he was playing tricks, no wonder the queen didn't trust her son to calm down and study.

The white bird is indeed beautiful, its feathers are whiter than snow, but the water quality is too good, it stays under the lotus leaves in the pond to enjoy the cool, and refuses to go to the shore, Duan Yanling wants to throw it out with small stones, and Liang Heng scolds it.

"Hey, why don't you say that Shen is a talented man who has read a lot of books and is also smart," Duan Yanling said, "Let's hang here to bask in the sun, and he leans against a big tree to enjoy the shade."

Duan Yanling's hostility towards Shen Yu was overwhelming, and it began around the day when Shen Yu broke into his banquet and forcibly took Liang Heng away.

"Shen Yu, are you here to play?" Liang Heng called him with a smile.

"Aren't we okay? Do you think there is room for a third person here?" Duan Yanling stopped him, put his arm around Liang Heng's shoulders and led him to the water porch to watch the birds. Looking back, it seemed that Shen Yu had been forgotten.

It seems that all troubles have been forgotten.

When Shen Yu returned home, it was already dusk, and the market was almost closed.

Shen Jin waited for him with an iced bowl of sour plum soup, and at first she laughed at him: "My son is promising, I haven't even entered the palace to see the emperor yet." When she heard that Shen Yu hadn't eaten yet, she hurriedly asked someone to prepare food.

Song Jun is also waiting for his junior.The three of them set up Zhang Xi table in the courtyard, while fireflies were flying around in the grass, and Song Jun lit a stick of incense to drive away the mosquitoes.

While eating noodles, Shen Yu told the two of them what he had seen and heard during the day.

At the end, Song Jun was also very surprised: "Is this the only treatment for the prince?"

"Hmph," Shen Yu sneered, "That idiot hasn't noticed it yet."

"But the emperor..." Song Jun was worried, "I have heard that His Majesty is plagued by hidden illnesses, but his temper is also very strange. From what you said, it was Qiu Zhiyuan and others who locked up His Majesty's deep palace?"

"No nonsense." Shen Jin stopped in time.

When Emperor Wenshen ascended the throne, Shen Jin was as old as Shen Yu now, so he heard a lot of gossip and rumors. When scholars and disciples talked about government affairs, they were not much more than Song Jun, Shen Yu and other brats. few.

"People who have been ill for a long time usually have a bad temper," Shen Jin sighed, "What's more, Your Majesty has such a rough life experience."

When Emperor Xianhuan was in power, the empress's family was very powerful, and there were not many concubines in the huge Gui Palace, and the sons and daughters were weak.Emperor Huan ascended the throne, but he did not leave a single son behind.In desperation, Han Wei, then Guangluqing, also the father of the empress, chose the next king from several brothers of Emperor Huan. .

Han Wei's son, the empress' elder brother, Han Ying, the Sili school lieutenant, personally welcomed my son at the gate of Wangcheng, and invited him to take his seat in Zhangyi Palace.

When my son was young, he had never learned the art of the emperor, nor did he have any influence from his mother's family.The Empress Dowager Han sits in the Gui Palace, her father and brother control the court, and the new emperor is just a puppet.

What's more, he couldn't even grasp his own name.

Han Ying said that it was difficult for him to be a "poor son", so he asked the emperor to change his name.Guochao ridiculed the two names and called them indecent. Han Wei personally proposed a "Xuan" character for the emperor and changed his name to "Liang Xuan".

"There is only one mountain between Zhangshan Township and Ruyang County. Everyone in Ruyang has heard that the son of the king of Zhangshan was born in a bad way and almost died young, so he named my son in order to grow up safely," Shen Jin commented. , "Han Wei's move is undoubtedly to make the emperor into the emperor of the Han family from head to toe."