Accompany the prince to study

Gu Qiao is still ignorant of what happened far below the mountain of Qi Ning Nunnery. After Emperor Wu left, they started their lessons.After the princes and princesses rested for a while and had some snacks and fruit drinks, they took their respective companions to read their own classrooms, turned to the page that focused on the learning progress of the princes and princesses, and started the day. Study hard.

In line with the simple idea of ​​"no matter how hard it is, children cannot be poor, and no matter how poor they are, education should not be poor", each prince and princess enjoys the teaching of teachers in accordance with their individual characteristics from famous teachers from all over the world.

One of the most recent classes that the prince has attended is the exam he took not long ago.

The course flow of the day is almost fixed, first lecture on scriptures or history, and then start to talk about papers.

Among the prince's three young masters and three divisions, there happened to be two examiners who were the examiners of the system. After the results of the examination papers came out, they specially selected the prince, his accompanying readers, and some excellent papers, and ordered others to copy the papers. The copies were sent to Wenhuatang.

There is one lecture every two days, and today it is time to start talking about the last one of the six lectures in the discipline.

"Analyzing the paper" is almost the nightmare of all students, Prince Edward and his accompanying reading group are no exception, especially Zhou Shubian who is the most resistant.Because of the grace of his prince cousin, he did not take the exam, but after the others finished the exam, he was forced to go home with the paper and answer it, and several masters actively gave him a sentence. Volume, the results are quite unsatisfactory.

Ever since he started giving lectures, Zhou Shubian has been set up as a negative example, and he has started to receive the high attention that a scumbag should not have to bear.

Zhou Shubian also knows that he is not congenitally qualified, and he did not study hard enough the day after tomorrow, so he is not afraid of facing poor test results. The Taifu has called the roll call, and tomorrow the third son will be criticized by some great Confucian...

It's simply endless.

His father, Zhou Da, was a rough man, and his way of educating children was even wilder than that of his brother-in-law, Emperor Wu. Even though he couldn't read the papers himself, he could still teach his son with confidence.

According to the standard of three meals a day, Zhou Shubian's life during this period can be said to be miserable.

Taking a bath every ten days, yesterday I thought I could finally have a good rest, but because Gu Qiao hosted a banquet and he didn't want to go, he was ordered by his mother to clean it up.

Zhou Shubian felt that there was no more pitiful young master than him, and he just hoped to get through this last experience quickly and die early.

But today's Master Su was ingenious. Before giving the lecture, he put away all the papers and asked everyone to rewrite his answer to the sixth question silently.

"???" Uncle Zhou was overwhelmed, and couldn't help protesting, "We have already answered, why do we have to write again?"

"I want to see if you have a different understanding of the topic after the master explained these days. Compared with that time, whether you have improved or regressed." His ancestral home is Sichuan, but Master Su's character is very much like the land of abundance, no matter what the students do, he never gets angry. Although he occasionally has a headache for the students' strange spirits, he always has infinite patience to explain them one by one.

"I think you suspect that I'm cheating." Zhou Shubian pressed in a low voice.This third son is just a standard classroom scumbag. Not only is he poor in grades, he doesn't study well, and he always likes to pick up on the teacher's words in class.

Unexpectedly, Master Su rolled his eyes with a smile, and did not deny it: "You can also understand it that way."

"!!!" Uncle Zhou regretted that he couldn't stretch his arms, and shouted to the sky, I am wronged, I didn't!Although he took the papers home and did them as homework at that time, and he was really tempted to cheat and find someone to write for him, but... the reality was that he couldn't find foreign aid at Zhou's house.

Dozens of strong men from the Zhou family took the textbooks and opened the exams, but none of them could answer all the questions in this subject.

Grandfather is old and confused, father can't even read all the words, the eldest brother is following the path of a military officer training soldiers, and the second brother is a purer scumbag than Zhou Shubian...

Their answers are not necessarily better than Zhou Shubian's.

In the end, Mr. Wednesday had no choice but to resign himself to his fate, scratching his head and scratching his head to make up nonsense, and finally got enough [-] words for each question to hand in. It was impossible for him to fully remember what he was talking about on the paper.Now that he is asked to answer the questions again without giving the book, isn't it true that he is wearing small shoes on purpose? !

While Zhou Shubian was thinking about things, the others had already lowered their heads and started answering the papers, racing against time to get rid of the dragons and snakes.After all, it is a total of [-] words. With Master Su's character of always loving to write, if they can't finish writing, they may not even have lunch.

Uncle Zhou yelled strangely: "Ah, wait for me, so cunning!"

No one paid him any attention at all.

Only when Gu Qiao wrote the first character did he realize that what Master Su might want to check was not Zhou Shubian, but the crown prince.He and His Highness switched into each other's bodies on the night of the system exam. At that time, His Highness hadn't finished the sixth thesis on the draft. Although there was only one ending left, it was actually written by Gu Qiao.

And Gu Qiao's answer was also written on the draft by himself during the day, and copied by the prince at night.

In other words, on the sixth question, there may be some similarities in the answers of Gu Qiao and the crown prince, at least the ones that caught Master Su's attention.

Asking everyone to write silently today is probably a temptation.

The facts were also similar to Gu Qiao's guess. Master Su was not the examiner this time, but he had a good friend who was.Coincidentally, his friend judged the prince and Gu Qiao's two test papers at the same time, and was extremely impressed.

It was also his friend who was the first to put forward the hypothesis that there is a similarity in the last questions of the two answer sheets.

But after knowing that of the two test papers, one belonged to the prince who was far away in the East Palace, and the other belonged to Gu Qiao who was trapped in the Gongyuan, everyone no longer had any doubts.There is no possibility of being connected with each other in such a world, each in a corner of the world.

Moreover, on the day of the exam, the examiners learned that there was indeed a hidden danger of leaking questions in this compulsory exam, and they suddenly changed to a second set of more difficult alternative questions before the opening.This is also the reason why the exam questions can be so weird and tricky.With so many accidents added together, there is no possibility that the prince and Gu Qiao knew the exam questions in advance and discussed the answers.

In the end, most people attributed everything to a coincidence. The crown prince and Gu Qiao had the same views on certain aspects, so they gently picked up and put down this matter.

But Master Su always felt uneasy, but after all, it was about the crown prince, he didn't dare to jump to conclusions, so he could only use some other means.

He also didn't want the disciples he taught to cheat in the examination room.

Gu Qiao's photographic memory played a great role at the critical moment. He wrote down His Royal Highness's answer that day on the draft almost verbatim, as well as the hundreds of words he ended up with later.

Master Su has been observing the prince without any trace. After seeing the approximate answer, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although this is not 100% sure that there is nothing wrong with the prince and Gu Qiao, but at least part of the doubts can be dispelled. Only the content written by His Highness himself can remember such a general context.The words and sentences used in the article are also in line with His Highness's past habits. It is really great that he no longer has to suffer from conscientious choices and troubles.

However, Gu Qiao did not submit the draft directly, but read it through again.

Maybe it's because of a change in mood, maybe it's not so urgent in terms of time. Gu Qiao has to admit that he really had some problems with the final connection when answering the questions that day. Close the end.

Gu Qiao frowned more and more, and was extremely picky about her answer.

He felt that it was no wonder that Master Su and others were suspicious. If these great Confucian scholars could not even see such flaws, they would have wasted so many years of studying and preparing for the imperial examination.

Gu Qiao decided to retouch and modify it.

The sun was rising, and Wen Zhuan, Xie Lian and others came forward to hand in the papers one after another. After all, they were all questions that had been answered once. Although there were revisions, there were not too many.Until Zhou Shubian copied the rote and got enough brand new [-]-character handed in, Gu Qiao was still concentrating on writing his answer sheet.

After Gu Qiao finished answering, he realized that he had made others wait for him for a long time, and it was long past the noon time when class should be over. Wait until now.

"I have caused everyone to wait for me." Gu Qiao subconsciously said.

The other people who were doing their own things quietly looked at the prince in shock.After a while, they waved their hands in fear and trepidation as if they had just woken up from a big dream. They said that they should not be burdened or work hard. This is what they should do.

In the past, I was used to the prince's irascibility, but suddenly he was treated with such courtesy...

I always feel more scared.

Even Zhou Shubian, who had been so hungry for a long time, didn't want to eat that much anymore, and his legs were a little weak.

***

It wasn't until Gu Qiao was having lunch with his companions that the news that the third princess and the tenth prince had been assassinated vaguely came from the Wenhua Hall.The princes and princesses who were meeting in twos and threes for a lunch break in other rooms all pointed their finger at the overbearing and domineering prince in the past.

Who didn't know that what the Tenth Prince wanted to stab the Prince that day was an ordinary fruit-peeling knife on the banquet table?

Now the tenth prince was stabbed fiercely by the same knife, really like the prince's usual style of tit for tat.

Some denounced the prince's inappropriate trip, some turned their heads to make trouble, and naturally there were some who stood on the sidelines.But in short, no matter what the reaction was, they didn't really stand on the side of the prince and believed that he was innocent.

In retrospect, Gu Qiao realized that it was on this day that he truly understood the isolated and helpless situation of the prince in the palace.His Highness seems to have countless blood relatives with his brothers and sisters, but the situation is not the same as his situation in the Duke's Mansion back then. They were all blocked from the social circle by others because of their "different status".

Or it can be said that the other princes and princesses isolated the crown prince with a respectful attitude.

At a time when everyone else has siblings or lunch companions, only the prince is always alone.It can be said to be independent from the world, or it can be said to be alone.

He can only choose to eat by himself or with his companion.

Most of the time, the proud prince chooses to eat by himself, but his anorexia is getting worse day by day.

After Gu Qiao switched over, he chose to eat with his companions, because he liked the feeling of having more people gathered around a round table, which was like a home.

In short, Gu Qiao shouldn't know what other princes and princesses think.

But who made a "traitor" five princesses appear among the princes and princesses? Bringing up the skirt to remind the prince.

"Some of them said that you ordered it. I didn't believe it, so I quarreled with them."

The fifth princess really didn't regard herself as an outsider at all. After reading and running over with her female companion, she sat down and asked the eunuch to add a few more sets of bowls and chopsticks, and began to eat naturally.

She had eaten it before, and she was still very full, but after seeing the imperial meal served by the prince, she felt that she could do it again.

The fifth princess thought happily in her heart, the food at the prince's younger brother's place is really delicious, I can't help it, I can't blame her for eating more.When the empress was alive, she often cared about them and sent them similar delicacies. This is the taste of childhood!

The fifth princess's biological mother used to be a concubine of the queen's line. After the queen left, she could barely establish her own family, but her personality was not strong enough, and she only had one daughter at her knees, so she was always troubled by others.This has also cultivated the character of the fifth princess as a boy. Only when she becomes more powerful can she protect her and her mother with all her teeth and claws.

Because of her biological mother, the fifth princess naturally felt close to the prince, but the former prince was too difficult to deal with, and others didn't want to have anything to do with him, and he didn't want to have anything to do with anyone.

Rather than saying that the prince is isolated and has no choice but to be lonely, it is better to say that the prince enjoys this solitude.Because he is destined to be stronger than all the princes and princesses, to go to a higher and farther place, and to see the vast world, he really doesn't have much interest in communicating with stupid and short-sighted people.

In Wen Daocheng's view, the third princess is short-sighted, and the fifth princess is stupid.

Gu Qiao felt that the fifth princess was a little silly and cute. Although she may not be very smart, she has a good personality.Some commendable qualities are not based on the brain, but on the choice that can only be made by the heart.

Anyway, Gu Qiao liked the fifth princess very much, and was also happy to hear the five princesses complaining indignantly.

The fifth princess danced and danced, talking dryly, and after drinking two large cups of white tea, she said, "Aren't you angry? I'm about to die of anger."

Not to mention the fifth princess, the other prince companions are already very angry, especially Zhou Shubian, who is five big and three rough, can hardly restrain his desire to beat others.The prince and the prince's companions have always been regarded as a whole by the outside world, and most of them themselves also think so. As a minister, the king worries about the minister's labor, and the king humiliates the minister to death!It is impossible for them to allow the prince to be so suspicious!

It's not that Gu Qiao is not angry, it's just that he is used to being aggrieved in the Duke's mansion. When encountering something that was framed for no reason, his first reaction is not to get angry and fight back, but to think about how to solve the problem as soon as possible.

For such rumors, resorting to force is undoubtedly the worst strategy, because not only will it not be able to stop the rumors, but it will further exaggerate the rumors.

People will always have greater curiosity about forbidden words, and are more willing to believe those words.

If it's not true, why is it banned?

It makes no sense to think so, but it is ubiquitous.

"So, how should we solve it?" Zhou Shubian was in a hurry. If it was according to his intention, he should directly teach the princes one by one in the name of sparring when they practice martial arts in the afternoon. Don't shut up, "Who cares what they think, just make them shut up aggrievedly, it's best to suffocate them to death!"

When Wen Zhuan heard this, his brain hurt because although the prince always said Zhou Shubian was stupid in the past, when the prince acted, he would still be unconsciously led astray by Zhou Shubian's words.

And what Uncle Zhou argued was not unreasonable.

Wen Zhuan quickly thought of words, trying to brainwash His Royal Highness—they are no longer young, and the princes are growing up gradually, and their hearts are getting bigger one by one, so simple and rude may be used by them in turn. It is useless to silence the princes.

Gu Qiao has already said: "Give some tonic gifts to Concubine Li Shu, let's talk about comfort."

"Ah???" Zhou Shubian was a little aggrieved, why should they give that woman something to appease?

"Let's just say, I feel lonely, and my heart hurts." The point is not to comfort, but to remind everyone that the prince was assassinated before, and the prince is also a victim. "Can I ask Fifth Sister to do it for me?"

The princesses do not practice martial arts in the afternoon. They are usually interested in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which may or may not be taken.

The fifth princess never fell in love with her in the past, and she stayed in Wenhuatang at noon, just because she was used to going to the princes' riding and archery martial arts lessons in the afternoon.

"Okay, leave it to me." The fifth princess acted in a hurry, and since she agreed, she immediately followed the prince's blessing to get the gift.

By the way, the fifth princess reconfirmed in her heart that the younger brother of the crown prince is a good person. Although his temper is a little bit bad, but who is the proud son of heaven, who can be regarded as really good-tempered?Everyone must have misunderstood my brother in the past!

After the fifth princess left, Wen Zhuan applauded and praised: "Your Highness's plan is very clever."

It's not that Wen Zhuan couldn't think of it, but he felt that the prince must not be able to bear this tone, so he didn't mention it. Now that the prince wants to do this, he will naturally try his best to encourage it, even if it is a little exaggerated.

"At times like this, we must hold our breath. Only by not moving can we force the other party to move."

No matter how Concubine Li Shu would react when she received the gift, or whether the assassination of the third princess and the tenth prince was directed and acted by herself, anyway, their consolation has been delivered as soon as possible, regardless of the previous suspicion of the prince being assassinated, who is there? There is no way to say anything.

It would be even better if Concubine Li Shu was only too angry to make a big fuss.

Of course, the most important thing is the attitude of Emperor Wu.

Without waiting for further planning, the martial arts class taught by Prince Shaofu had already started in the afternoon. This time because Gu Qiao handed in the papers late, they didn't even have a lunch break, and they had just finished their lunch in a hurry and they were going to continue the class in full swing.

Before the prince Shaofu came, he had already known about the third princess and the tenth prince in advance, and it was impossible not to know about it. Now this matter has caused a lot of trouble in the previous dynasty.Based on his understanding of the prince, it was inevitable that he would not be able to do well in the afternoon, so he deliberately changed the curriculum and tried to avoid all the content that would make the prince compete with other princes and get closer.

Unexpectedly, the afternoon was calm and the waves passed by so smoothly.

When everyone was terrified, His Royal Highness did not get angry, but completed all the exercises carefully and conscientiously. He even worked too hard and practiced more automatically, just like a dream.

The truth is, Gu Qiao is a weak chicken, has never practiced martial arts, everything is relying on the instinct of the prince's body, afraid of embarrassing the prince, so he practiced a little more.

As for the other princes who don't know the truth...

The more they thought about it, the more frightened they became.They were clearly keen to provoke the prince, but when the prince saw them smiling but didn't respond as usual, they were a little at a loss. They even felt that the prince was not moving, and he must be holding back a big move.It's like another boot that hasn't been dropped for a long time, and it's almost fatal.

But Gu Qiao is still exuding his friendliness as much as possible, trying to find another male version of the fifth princess from among the princes, so as to help His Royal Highness develop contacts.

His Highness doesn't need brotherhood, but he also needs eyeliner and younger brothers.

As expected, Concubine Li Shu was distracted by the matter of the child, and she was no longer as calm as before. That night, she ordered a beauty who was favored by Emperor Wu to cry about the crown prince's provocation and disrespect to Concubine Li Shu.

Emperor Wu was not very interested at first, but when he heard the beauty's mindless eye medicine, he was even more annoyed: "You are trying to tell me that after hearing about the third princess and the tenth prince, the prince sent rare medicinal materials to Concubine Li Shu, Are you provocative? If all the provocations in the world are like this, then I hope that I can be provoked without any reason."

"Concubine, concubine..." This beauty really has no brains, otherwise she wouldn't be Li Shufei's first bird at this time.After a few words, I was defeated, and I didn't know how to explain it.

"The prince is generous, you don't know how to be grateful, but you always speculate on him with a villain's heart. If things go on like this, no matter how hot your heart is, it will cool down."

Emperor Wu hadn't figured out how to solve this matter, but after being stimulated like this, he had an idea instead.

——The prince has also reached the age when he should leave the court to give lectures, let him tell these people what is called courtesy, righteousness, benevolence and trustworthiness!

As for the third princess and the tenth prince...what does their accident have to do with the prince?Why do you have to drag the two together?If Concubine Li Shu is so worried about the children, then go to Qining Nunnery to accompany them!

Concubine Li Shu, who got the news that night, was so frightened that her liver and gallbladder were torn apart, and she didn't sleep for a whole night.

When Wen Daocheng heard the news outside the palace, he had a further understanding of Gu Qiao's lethality. Sometimes, it really doesn't need to be done too much, a small move can make a difference.

He really found a treasure!

The next day, everything was as usual, what was supposed to be studying was studying, what was supposed to be going to court was to go to court, the discussions of yesterday were under the indifferent attitude of the prince, as if it really didn't seem to be an important matter.

The third princess and the tenth prince were injured, they were injured, they didn't die, the medicine was delivered, and the care was given. After all, they are wearing a sinful body, what else do they want?

In the last class this morning, I will continue to teach papers.

The main speaker is still Master Su.

Undoubtedly, the first paper to be reviewed was written by Zhou Shubian.

Zhou Shubian: "..." There are ten thousand three-character swearing scriptures in his heart that he learned from Su Su, but he dare not say them.

In fact, Master Su is a little hard to explain, two exams, exactly the same sixth theory, Zhou Shubian can write him completely different nonsense, it seems that it is the kind of thing that is copied mechanically and forced to perfunctory, but Zhou Shubian The magic is that he can write completely different content even for such things, each time getting worse and worse. I really can't see the future of his talents.

Master Su really had no choice but to shake the ruler in front of Zhou Shubian's eyes meaningfully.

"After going back tonight, in addition to the penalty copy that was not finished in the morning, I will also copy the sixth theory of His Highness, Gu Qiao, Wen Zhuan, Bai Yan, and Lu Nanding, and memorize it carefully."

The theory that reading it a hundred times will reveal its meaning is what Master Su said, and copying it a hundred times will reveal its meaning.

Zhou Shubian had no choice but to agree, his head lowered almost to the bottom of the desk, because although Master Su didn't say it clearly, everyone knew it, and asking him to copy more also had a purpose of hoping that he could practice calligraphy. .

For such a big person, the handwriting is still like a child's, and it is round everywhere, without the edges, corners, and squares that the text itself should have.

The other accompanying papers are similar. The content they answer is not much different from what they wrote on the test paper. There are occasional revisions in some details, but the main body remains the same.When they returned home after taking the course, they had already done the thing of silently writing it for the elders to read, and now it would not be too embarrassing for them to be silent again.

Wen Zhuan and Xie Lian both achieved excellence.Wen Zhuan was one of the five people in the third class, and Xie Lian was the top one in the fourth class.

Master Su looked at each of them, and was very happy, especially to Xie Lian: "If you write this article on the day of the exam, the third class may become a sixth class."

Xie Lian's knowledge is Wannian's second child in the companion reading. On the one hand, his gentleness is too prominent, and on the other hand, it is also because Xie Lian has a somewhat wild personality, which is not obvious on weekdays, but it is difficult to cover up when he is drunk and answering questions.This kind of madness can be admired if it is used well, but it will be too much for Meng Lang if it is not used well.Every time Xie Lian writes an article, he always has to think about and revise it repeatedly. It takes a long time to delete those inappropriate words and produce a finished product that satisfies most people.

Xie Lian is also very aware of his problem, so he prefers to calm down and study at home rather than taking exams.Of course, if you dance occasionally, it will be more beneficial to your physical and mental health.

They basically passed with a few sentences, because Master Su had to leave most of the time to focus on analyzing the prince's paper.

This is also the law of all masters' lectures. What they care most about is whether the prince or prince or princess understands and remembers it, rather than how well the companions learn.Neither will speed up the progress for accompanying reading, nor stop and wait for them.Accompanying readers who often accompany nobles in the palace have their own masters to guide them at home, so that they will not be unable to keep up with His Highness's schoolwork.

"In the six theories of system science, in addition to the default three classics and three histories, three main texts and three commentaries, there are obvious numbers and dark numbers.

"The exam questions of the sixth theory use the pattern of dark numbers, which reverses the sentence readings in the original book, and is used to mislead and confuse you.

"The most important thing when answering a question is to straighten out the real question first. If you make a mistake at the beginning, then the whole discussion will be untenable and it will be impossible to get points. Zhou Shubian! I'm talking about you! Neither Listen well, how do you expect to get the answer right?!"

Under the brush that flew over, Zhou Shubian finally became honest and understood that whether it was his first open-book exam or the second closed-book exam, he couldn't figure out where the question came from and what it asked.

He can write two editions of [-]-word nonsense in a daze, which is considered a talent.

"On the other hand, Your Highness answered the correct source completely. In fact, it is very simple. It is "Minsheng" in "Daya" in "Book of Songs", which is both drunk and prepared for five blessings..."

Gu Qiao listened very carefully. He was lucky. He happened to know all the six theories of this compulsory examination, but his own knowledge and knowledge reserves were still not enough. At least for the time being, he couldn’t do what Master Su explained. Explain the profound things in a simple way, quote extensively from sources.A person who can be a prince's master is naturally impossible to be an idler.

Gu Qiao is like a spring breeze, and has gained a lot. Seeing Master Su's eyes have little stars.

Master Su is under a lot of pressure. To be honest, no one can handle being stared at by the crown prince.The majesty that the prince has been deliberately cultivated since he was born makes him feel an invisible pressure when he just looks at people in a normal way.

After confirming that the prince's two exams were better than the first one, and that many new insights were perfectly integrated, Master Su never doubted the prince and Gu Qiao again.

Maybe it's really a coincidence, Gu Qiao and the prince feel a little sympathetic to each other.

This Gu Qiao is very likely to be the prince's companion to fill in the vacancy. When he comes, he can have a more wonderful thought collision with His Highness. This is what Master Su and other teachers love to hear.They hope that the prince will become better, and they can only rest assured that Daqi will be handed over to such a prince.

However, in the answer sheets of the crown prince and Gu Qiao, Master Su actually admired Gu Qiao more. Gu Qiao's consciousness was exactly the same as that of Master Su and others who were courtiers.As for His Royal Highness, no matter how you look at it, he is a little awkward. He wrote very well and answered no questions, but there is a kind of disobedience, a bad feeling that he can't even criticize the person who made the question.

After mentioning Gu Qiao's test paper, Master Su couldn't hold back at all. All kinds of compliments made Gu Qiao, the client, blush.

It had been a long time since he had been praised and affirmed in this way.

It felt good, I have to say, and he missed it terribly.

But in the eyes of others, Gu Qiao at this moment is the prince. The prince blushed when he heard that Gu Qiao was praised. Why?Could it be that in the eyes of the crown prince, he and Gu Qiao are already one body, so the crown prince would feel honored by praising Gu Qiao?Gu Qiao, who looks cute and well-behaved, is really a little scary in a sense.

After the class, Master Su was called to the Xuanzheng Hall together with the other prince's teachers and Confucian scholars.

Emperor Wu began to seriously ask them whether the current crown prince was good enough to teach books.

"In the past, I couldn't say it, but today I don't need to say it anymore." Master Su directly presented the version that Gu Qiao wrote again today.All the ministers present circulated it, and the smiles on their faces could hardly be suppressed.

Emperor Wu was even more excited, patting his thigh and constantly sighing, my son!dear!It's such a long face!