[Three Kingdoms] Heroine Cultivation Manual

The first time Qin Li met His Majesty was when she was six years old.

The Chongde Hall is empty but warm, with a charcoal fire slowly burning in the corner, she saw a Boshan stove on the small table out of the corner of her eye, a wisp of light smoke slowly rising from it, she raised the tip of her nose, Sniffing quietly, there is no special smell.

Cai Yan sat aside, seeing her distracted, lowered her voice and reminded: "Kneel down!"

Qin Li was startled, only then came back to his senses, and quickly knelt down.

The child next to her was kneeling very upright, Qin Li took a sneak peek, and thought he moved his knee secretly, only then did he feel that his manners were decent and not ashamed.

At this time, Cai Yan opened his mouth and said slowly: "Your Majesty, these are the two children selected this year."

"I know."

The young woman's voice sounded from not far away.

Her voice is high-pitched, and the end of her speech is not procrastinated, making her sound quite young.It was the first time Qin Li heard the voice of the current Holy Majesty, his back was straightened, and he always felt that she was different from what he had imagined.

When Cai Yan was teaching her, he occasionally mentioned the history of the end of Han Dynasty and the beginning of Yan Dynasty. He said that Qin and Chu were outstanding. , is a well-deserved heroine in the world.

In Qin Li's mind, such a person should be as tall and burly as General Lu, with scars on his face and a deep voice when he speaks, in line with her reputation abroad.

But Cai Yan didn't give the order, and Qin Li didn't dare to raise his head, so he could only rely on that bland reply, guessing messily about her appearance in his mind.

After a while, the sound of footsteps came from the other side of the hall.Qin Li lowered his head and stared at the face of the banquet seat pressed by the straight train, held his breath, and heard His Majesty ask, "What's the boy's name?"

"The surname is Fu," Cai Yan's tone seemed a little cold.She paused, and then explained, "Originally, only one girl was picked this year, but the boy was insisted on being sent in unexpectedly—it seems to be a child from a collateral branch of the Fu family."

Qin Chu sneered: "I don't want to pick him."

There was a moment of silence.Qin Li felt that the boy on the right began to tremble, she glanced at him inexplicably, but didn't see anything.

Immediately afterwards, Cai Yan said again: "Your Majesty wants to choose an heir from among the children, and the aristocratic family naturally wants to intervene. We can block other families, but it's just too late..."

Qin Li was confused, she seemed to hear that both His Majesty and Cai Yan didn't like that boy very much, but she didn't know who "Bu Qihou" was.

"I will talk to him later." Qin Chu interrupted her, took two steps forward, and stopped in front of Qin Li.

Cai Yan may have realized something, and also closed his mouth.

Qin Chu: "Stand up and take a look."

The six-year-old Qin Li was stunned for a moment, slowly raised his head, and carefully glanced at His Majesty, only to find that she was smiling slightly and looking at him with bent eyes—she actually looked younger than Cai Yan.

Qin Li kowtowed to her, then stood up slowly, and called out: "I have seen Your Majesty."

Qin Chu looked into her eyes and nodded slightly: "It's good to be neither humble nor overbearing."

At the same time, the boy next to him seemed to finally be unable to bear the fear in his heart, so he secretly raised his head and glanced at Qin Chu.

Qin Chu noticed his gaze, glanced over, and seemed to frown.It's just that she didn't say anything to the child, she just glanced at Qin Li, turned to Cai Yan and said:

"Then keep her—the other one, and send it back where it came from."

Therefore, Qin Li, as the only "heir candidate" so far, was left in Nangong by the emperor.

In the deep winter of Jianning's three years, her identity changed from "a picked up orphan girl" to "the possible next emperor".

The days of being left behind are no different from the past. Cai Yan, Xin Rong, Guo Jia and others are still teaching her. Occasionally, when I go around the courtyard of the North Palace, I can see some courtiers leaving in a hurry. If there are some people with a better personality "Founding hero", they would stop, pat her head, exchange pleasantries with her, and ask Qin Li about His Majesty's situation today.

"How is Your Majesty today?"

"I've seen General Sun," Qin Li bowed to him, recalled for a moment, and then said, "Your Majesty seems to be very busy recently. She has been in the Zhongde Hall today. I didn't go in, and I dare not make wild guesses."

"What are you talking about? Where did you learn it? It's like a family!" Sun Ce laughed, stretched out his index finger very rudely, and tapped her forehead, "You and...were really different when we were young. .”

Qin Li let out an "ah", raised his hand to cover his forehead, and stared at Sun Ce dissatisfiedly.After a while, she realized that she forgot the court etiquette she had learned, grabbed Sun Ce's sleeve, raised her head, and looked at him with rounded eyes: "General Sun said, 'It looks like her! ’, are you talking about His Majesty?”

"Hey, you child. It's time to change." Sun Ce blamed her with a smile, but he didn't think too much about it. After thinking about it, he said, "Your Majesty was very lively and bold when he was young."

Qin Li wrinkled his face, he couldn't imagine His Majesty's "lively and bold" appearance.

She rubbed her nose, hesitated and said: "But I think His Majesty is more serious. I saw her appearance in Chongde Hall that day..."

She was silent for a moment, but still didn't say anything about "Fujiazi".

Fortunately, Sun Ce didn't care, patted her on the shoulder, and led Qin Li to walk forward slowly.

It wasn't until he walked a long way through the palace gate that he looked into the distance as if recalling, and said slowly: "She was not like this before. Later, internal and external troubles became more and more people needed to be intimidated. She would only stay in the familiar place. In front of people, and children, behave... more lively."

He has the intention of "recalling the past", Qin Li is of course willing to listen.She blinked, suddenly turned a corner, changed the angle, and asked unexpectedly: "Since Your Majesty likes children, why don't you start a family?"

Sun Ce was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing, turned his head to look at her, shook his head, and said with a smile, "I was wrong, you kid is as bold as Ah Chu. "

When Qin Li heard him call "Achu", it took him a while to realize that he was referring to His Majesty.However, although she is young, she already has her own thoughts. Hearing this, she just asked calmly, "Does General Sun know why?"

"I don't know." He patted her on the head unceremoniously, and replied bluntly, "I won't tell you if I know."

General Sun was tall and handsome. Qin Li heard someone describe him in private as "sword eyebrows and star eyes", which was indeed very appropriate.Before Qin Li entered the palace, his identity was actually an orphan picked up by Qin Miao, so he could always hear some extra news.She had heard rumors about Sun Ce at that time, saying that a little nobleman surnamed Zheng talked about him, saying that Sun Ce did not marry a wife in twenty-five out of ten, and he was really blind to this face—but it was really strange to say, leaving Among Luoyang's few founding heroes, there are actually only a few who actually got married.As far as Qin Li knew, the only ones who had families seemed to be older men like Cao Cao, Lu Bu and Jia Xu.

Qin Li was not surprised by his answer at all, and changed the question graciously: "Then why doesn't General Sun get married and have children?"

Sun Ce's calm and leisurely face froze, and then he continued to walk forward as if he hadn't heard it.

She intuitively felt that Sun Ce was in a low mood, but she couldn't grasp the reason, so she closed her mouth and followed him quietly.It's just that the two had just walked across a long stone bridge when she heard a small chatter coming from the front.

Qin Li paused, raised his head, and saw two people dressed as civil servants, but Sun Ce seemed not paying attention, still walking forward on his own.

"General." She hesitated for a moment, then tugged on Sun Ce's clothes, and whispered, "There are people ahead."

She quickly forgot about the previous trivial question and turned to thinking about another matter she didn't know much about.Cai Yan once told her that the current court situation is very delicate.It is said that the aristocratic family brought in the enemy army when the city of Luoyang was broken, and the death of the former emperor Liu Bian was more or less due to these people, so these people still dare not blatantly oppose Qin Chu, but in private But he would find various reasons to pick on other courtiers, making His Majesty feel uncomfortable.

These two people look very much like the "family" in Cai Yan's mouth.

It's a pity that although she is precocious, her experience is limited, and she can't grasp the timing of speaking.As soon as she finished speaking, the two civil servants turned around and ended the conversation.

"Ah, General Sun."

When the older man saw him, he seemed to be taken aback for a moment, and bowed to Sun Ce, while the other bowed his head hurriedly.

Sun Ce nodded, returned a simple salute, but didn't say much, and led Qin Li to leave.

It's just that although he wanted to leave, others didn't cooperate.The old man seemed to be very interested in Qin Li, glanced at him, and hurriedly asked: "This is the general's...?"

"It's not mine, she was brought back by His Majesty." Sun Ce said quickly.

Immediately afterwards, as if his patience was exhausted, he directly took Qin Li's hand, nodded to the man, and only said that he had something important to do, then he dragged her away.

Qin Li obediently followed behind him, walked a few more steps, looked back, and found that the two had been left behind, he breathed a sigh of relief, and took Sun Ce's hand.

Sun Ce was obviously not very good at taking care of children. He noticed the movement of her hand and didn't know what Qin Li meant, so he put down her hand and continued to move forward, heading towards the Chongde Hall.

Qin Li was left behind by him, and hurriedly trotted to follow, shouting: "General Sun!"

Only then did Sun Ce turn around: "Huh? What's the matter?"

"Is the person just now from an aristocratic family?"

"Oh. Ah Li is really sharp." It was not Sun Ce who answered.

Qin Li was stunned for a moment, feeling that the voice was very familiar, and couldn't help turning his head. He happened to see a man wearing a blue crane cloak, who was walking around the bushes and approaching with a feather fan. You said the family, it was only a few days ago."

"Sir!" She hurriedly cupped her hands and bowed, Guo Jia then smiled and shook the goose feather fan, which probably meant "don't be too polite".

He skipped Qin Li, and first greeted Sun Ce with a smile: "Morning Bo Fu. The news that the Yangzhou rebellion has been put down just came this morning. Are you going to find His Majesty?"

Sun Ce nodded, touched the bridge of his nose, and laughed, "Sure enough, I can't hide it from the military adviser. There are still some Yuan Dang remnants in Yangzhou. I plan to go south in the spring to check and prevent further chaos."

"Then you still accompany her?" Guo Jia raised his hand, and the light goose feather fan did not hesitate to touch Qin Li's head, causing the little girl to protect her bun and glared at him.Guo Junshi—now Guo Sinong—patted his fan indifferently, and glanced at Qin Li, who pursed his lips, "This kid has a lot of thoughts, and he asks random questions when he catches someone he likes. She wanted to ask a few questions about how many rice noodles, and it was very difficult. Ah, she didn't ask anything that shouldn't be asked, did she?"

Qin Li: "..."

Sun Ce: "..."

What do you mean you shouldn't ask?

Sun Ce was silent for a moment, showing a bit of a toothache, and perfunctory said: "It's nothing, Ah Chu is very good at picking people... Oh, the Chongde Hall is coming soon. Since the military adviser is here, please take care of her. I'll take care of her first." Go find His Majesty."

After he finished speaking, he didn't care about Qin Li's mood, and walked towards the place of Chongde Hall without looking back, leaving Guo Jia with the four characters "I want to cover it up".

Guo Jia let out a "huh" and watched Sun Ce walk away quickly, shook his fan, lowered his head, and looked at the students with a half-smile.

Qin Li took a step back, raised his face and said sincerely: "Sir, I..."

"What did you ask?"

"...I asked His Majesty why he didn't get married, and why General Sun didn't get married."

After Qin Li explained honestly, he quietly glanced at Guo Jia.

Among the several teachers who taught her homework, Guo Jia was the most sloppy one.According to Qin Miao, Guo Sinong has been with His Majesty as a counselor for a long time, even if he does not talk about his ability but only his qualifications, he is enough to be a Sangong. Sinong.In addition, every time Guo Jia was mentioned, Qin Miao's expression was a little weird, she couldn't understand it.With Qin Li's own experience and imagination, at most he can only guess that he disagrees with His Majesty's political views...but he is also his teacher.Will His Majesty let someone who doesn't suit him be the teacher of the "possible successor"?

Qin Li really couldn't guess.She had asked Qin Miao and Cai Yan directly before, and also inquired about Guo Jia on the sidelines, but all she got was some vague prevarications, and then she knew that she could not get the result, so she gradually stopped asking.

Sure enough, Guo Jia's complexion changed very slightly, and then he laughed a little self-deprecatingly, but he didn't lose his temper with her.

"Good student, you really know how to ask." He raised his brows, revealed a somewhat helpless wry smile, changed the topic calmly, and asked, "If Your Majesty had an heir, would you still be standing here today? "

Qin Li didn't realize that Guo Jia was changing the subject at all. He touched the tip of his nose and said honestly, "I don't think it's any different from before."

Guo Jia bent down, and snapped at Qin Li's head neatly: "The 'before' you mentioned, was it before entering the palace, or before being picked up by Qin Miao?"

Qin Li quickly covered his forehead with his eyes and hands, but he still couldn't prevent the teacher's sneak attack: "..."

"If Your Majesty has an heir that can be cultivated, Qin Miao may not adopt you." Guo Jia saw that she was thinking, and said bluntly, "As ministers, we cannot answer questions about the emperor—but Ah Li, since you And if you have gained benefits, why pursue it?"

Qin Li always felt that there was something in his words. After thinking for a while, before he asked again, he felt Guo Jia leaning over and gently took her hand.

"Okay." He said slowly, "General Sun asked me to take care of you. Go back, have you done your homework today?"

"I did. There is one more question I don't understand, I'm going to find Zhao Ji."

Guo Jia laughed as he walked, "Why don't you ask me?"

In the middle of winter at the end of the year, his hands were as cold as the carved beams outside the palace, and the temperature was frighteningly low. Qin Li shivered and grabbed the teacher's hand behind his back.

She didn't answer, just whispered: "Sir, your hands are so cold."

"Because sir is not happy."

Qin Li looked up at him: "Is it because of my problem?"

"Yes." Guo Jia said calmly, "Ah Li, don't ask about His Majesty's marriage in the future."

"why?"

Guo Jia didn't answer, and led her back slowly.After a long time, when a little snowflakes fell lightly over the palace, he looked ahead and calmly said:

"Because General Sun and I both had a thought."

The winter breeze just rolled in from the north, blowing through the fine silver flakes in the air.A snowflake happened to land on Qin Li's palm, and it instantly turned into a little bit of cool water.

When she looked up, she saw that the old wooden hairpin that Guo Jia used to wear in a bun had also fallen snow.