blind waiter

In the first year of Rende in Beiming, there was a snowstorm at night.

Still in the upper study room, nine-year-old Wenren Xia knelt on the carpet embroidered with the picture of "a lady holding a fan", her eyes were fixed on the carpet, and a certain maid's black and beautiful temples opened and closed her mouth once and for all:

"If you dare, you will kill, if you dare not, then you will live. The two may benefit or harm, and what the heavens do evil, who knows why. So a sage is like... like..."

"All right."

The man's gentle voice sounded above the young Wen Renxia's head, interrupting Wen Renxia's recitation.

Wen Renxia's pitch-black eyes looked extremely agile in the dimly lit upper study.He raised his head and looked at the man in front of him... His royal father was also the most honorable man in Beiming.

The man was wearing a bright yellow shirt... In fact, this man seemed to like this kind of clothes that can show his identity. When he was the prince, he would often wear the moon-white four-claw python robe, but now he does Your Majesty, he likes to wear this kind of bright yellow five-clawed dragon robe... no matter when he is in court or in normal times.

But his unique identity does not affect his unique gentleness and elegance.

He was sitting on a red sandalwood chair opposite Wen Renxia, ​​with fingers wrenching, he lightly weighed a white jade tea cover under his hand, the Jin Junmei in the white jade tea bowl, the soup was ruddy, and the cigarette was curling up.

"No.70 three volumes, you have memorized it fast enough. It seems that your mother really supervised your homework."

The man's affirmative evaluation was gently passed into Wenren Xia's ears.Accompanied by the sound of a man gently flipping the tea lid.

But for some reason, Wen Renxia's ears turned red for no reason when she heard this kind of comment.

"Father...has..."

Wenren Xia stammered in response to his father's words. He wanted to say "Father deserves the award", but he struggled with the word "award" in his mouth for a long time, and he finally didn't say it, because he could probably hear it. The man's "praise" just now obviously meant something else.

Just when Wenren Xia was extremely entangled, a rather high-pitched voice came from behind the man.

Wen Renxia raised his head and looked behind the man. What appeared behind the man was Jiang Ruyi, who had not returned late at night and had been reciting his homework with him.

On Jiang Ruyi's fat face, she smiled, her small eyes squeezed into two lines.He held a handful in one hand... With the other hand, he gently took the tea lid from under the man's hand:

"The slave is bold, add water to the emperor, and the emperor handles it carefully."

The man blinked, but he didn't blame Jiang Ruyi for suddenly interrupting.

Wen Renxia knelt opposite the two of them, watching Jiang Ruyi's skillful technique with his eyes.

After Jiang Ruyi filled the tea bowl with water, she frowned and stepped back gently.

However, as soon as he retreated, another servant girl dressed as a court lady came up on a dark green tray with a light green Korean tea bowl on it.

The servant girl carefully took the teacup off the tray and placed it near the man's teacup, a little closer to Wen Renxia's direction. The teacup was placed on the table and made a heavy clicking sound, obviously it was also full. tea.

The man tilted his head and glanced at the newly presented teacup, and asked lightly, "What is this?"

The servant girl raised her eyebrows and replied in a low voice: "Back to the emperor, this is the calming tea that Eunuch Jiang told the servant girl to make for the prince. The prince studied his homework for several days in the study room, and often forgot to rest. The prince was called to have dinner every day, but His Royal Highness did not have time to go. The father-in-law is afraid that the prince will be tired if this continues, so he specially ordered the servants to make this tea for the prince every night, so as to help the prince to sleep peacefully."

Hearing this, the man's star eyes turned almost involuntarily, and he looked sideways at Jiang Ruyi who was standing obediently behind him with his head bowed.

An imperceptible smile rippled gently on the man's lips:

"Is that so? I can't see that you still care about the prince. It seems that it is right to assign you to the prince."

Jiang Ruyi still lowered her head, but there was a bit of a smile in her voice: "Your Majesty is a slave. Whether it is serving the Emperor or the prince, it is a blessing for a slave. People in the palace have said that the prince is the most worthy My emperor, therefore, like the emperor, loves the slaves. Naturally, the slaves should be more sympathetic to the prince."

After listening to his call, the man only twitched the corners of his mouth, but made a smiley expression.He turned back the eyes that were glancing at him, and looked aside, Wenren Xia who was still kneeling on the ground.

Wen Renxia noticed that the man's eyes seemed to be on her body, and her whole body couldn't help shaking.He raised his eyes secretly, but he didn't dare to look directly into the man's eyes, he could only look at the pattern on the man's knee.

The man gently removed his hand from the tea cover, rubbed his index finger on the pattern on the finger: "If you dare, you will kill, if you are brave, you will live. Since you just recited it here, maybe you can explain what it means?"

Wen Renxia shifted his gaze back to the carpet under his body, and replied slowly: "Return to father, my son knows...the so-called courage is to kill, which means that a person's courage is close to recklessness. Heaven will send disasters to kill him, and the so-called courage means that if a person has courage but knows how to be cautious, then he will survive, and God will not make things difficult for him.”

"Give me an example." There was no emotion in the man's voice, but Wen Renxia's palms were slowly sweating.

Wenren Xia's sweaty hand stuck to the carpet under her body, biting her lower lip lightly.

"For example, the grass bandits in the mountains are brave but almost reckless. If they do harm to the people, the government will naturally strangle them. As for those who are brave but know how to be cautious, they are like important officials in the court. Their courage lies in daring to be on the same level as the emperor. Under the eaves, they discuss state affairs and contribute to the country, and their prudence lies in that even though they dare to discuss state affairs with the emperor, they also know that they must abide by the duties of the emperor and ministers, so no one dares to violate the final decision made by the emperor."

As soon as Wen Renxia finished speaking, the man's eyes showed an almost weird brilliance almost instantly.Even Jiang Ruyi, who was behind her, frowned.

"That's right." The man's strange eyes disappeared almost instantly, "Especially... your last sentence 'so no one dares to violate the final decision made by the emperor' is the best... But, I I am very curious, who taught you these words."

"No one has ever taught my son. It is indeed what my son realized."

"What did you realize? You never went to the court to listen to the government, and you never had a crony. All you have around you are just a few of your inner masters...I'm afraid, you didn't realize it by yourself, and you are just parroting and copying what others say."

Wen Renxia's face was slightly embarrassed, and his face turned red again, but this time his red face was not because of embarrassment, but because he was a little anxious.

Although he did not personally experience that kind of thing, but in the final analysis, it cannot be said that he is parroting others, because these things are known to everyone, aren't they all recorded in books?

Thinking of this, Wen Renxia, ​​who had been lowering his head, finally couldn't help it: "Although this statement is not based on my own experience, such ills have existed since ancient times, and it cannot be regarded as my minister's copying."

"As a prince, you are the crown prince of the country, that is, the future emperor. Without personal experience, just relying on a few words in the book and the remarks of a few politicians to speculate on your subjects arbitrarily, it is not an act of a wise king." The man paused. After a pause, he seemed to be a little cautious and said, "And...it seems to be about this kind of ill. You should remember that in some places, if you should be confused, you should become confused. Understand?"

As soon as the man's words came out, Wen Renxia must have understood, but because of shock, Wen Renxia raised her head and looked at the man in surprise the moment she finished hearing these words.

The gentle temperament of the man is still the same, and there seems to be a bit of hope in the pair of star pupils.

Wen Renxia felt his throat was a little stiff, he met the other person's eyes, but his own eyes were full of doubts that were completely different from the man's.

"Answer yes or no."

The man's clear voice sounded again.

Xia Junxiu's eyebrows twitched slightly. He hadn't responded to the man's words for a long time. The man's originally hopeful eyes gradually dimmed: "Don't you understand?"

Wen Renxia was silent for a while, but he immediately lowered his head and replied softly: "It's not that I don't understand, but I just think it shouldn't be. The so-called 'a tiger's coffin comes out of a box, a tortoise's jade is destroyed in a box' all irreparable damages Mistakes start with small mistakes."

The man's eyes closed, Jiang Ruyi's frown became more and more serious, but this time he felt that he could not find a good way to stop him.

Wen Renxia lowered his head, more and more sweat oozed from his palms, but he didn't stop his words: "And 'Chen Li will be listed, and those who can't be stopped' Since they have concealed something from their monarch, then There is no need to keep such a courtier."

"Since you say that, then I want to ask you. People in the court say that the Dongmen family of Xiangguo and the Chen family of Tong'an Hou are my subordinates. Then do you think they will treat me differently?" Conceal? If they hide something from me, then I don't have to keep them anymore. "

"The Dongmen family and the Chen family have always been domineering, such rebellious ministers will not stay..."

"Rebellious minister, rebellious minister! Did you pass through your own brain when you spoke!"

Before Wenren Xia finished speaking, the man over there finally raised his hand almost immediately without waiting for him to continue, and then used his sleeve to knock the tea bowl on the table down to the ground, splashing the hot tea soup onto the ground.

A high-pitched splash of water even splashed onto the back of Wen Renxia's hand. Wen Renxia was startled by the man's sudden anger, and immediately put his hand behind his back!

Wenren Xia raised his head again, but what caught his eyes this time was the man's rare angry face:

"You can talk about the Chen family, but you know that Dongmen's family is your mother's mother's family. You know that everyone in the world has selfish desires and unspeakable secrets! You don't even let your mother's mother's family go! Don't you want to kill them all in the future?" People all over the world! If you found out that day and I also hid something from you, wouldn’t you even let me go!”