Everyone loves Huo Qubing

With a sling hanging around my neck and a splint on my wrist, when I showed up in music class, Li Siye's eyes flashed a little disappointment.No one is not injured by a boy who is crawling and rolling. I don't feel that there is anything wrong with this appearance when I face the emperor. Does Li Siye feel embarrassed?

Knowing that the emperor will come to Cedui today, my uncle and Jin Niang took turns to help me make up the "Book of Songs" and the music scores.I was surprised that my uncle, who is usually high-profile, could read music and sing, and I got a reason that I couldn't refute.

"Because your grandmother was good at singing, she taught all the children of the Wei family." The uncle said.However, I always feel like this answer is missing a corner.How could my grandmother get so many poems in a family of servants? Besides, she passed away early and had no time to teach my second uncle, but my second uncle sang so well, no matter how talented he is, he must be taught, right?

Stepping into the threshold of the school with both feet, there was a rush of chickens and dogs jumping head-on.As Li Siye's actor status, he couldn't suppress this group of students from princely and noble families, and the pressure that everyone faced today was not the same as in the past.

Li Gan stepped on the square table, waving a bamboo slip in his hand: "I am going to be a general in the future, but this little music score can't get me through!"

Zhang He smiled: "General Mengtian in the pre-Qin Dynasty could make a zither if he got a huerqin; if you want to be a general, you have to pass this test first."

Cao Xiang was staring at the Book of Songs in her hand, and she raised her head and complained when she heard this, "Let's not talk about Meng Tian, ​​those sons and grandsons of the Zhou Dynasty, who can read music and sing, and are proficient in music theory, why not my son , it doesn't make sense."

As soon as this remark came out, it attracted the students to chatter for a while.

I kicked my boots, shook the snow off my shoulders, and shouted, "Your Majesty is here!"

This trick really worked, and it was much quieter in an instant.Li Siye cast a grateful look at me.

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"Xuanhuo Qubing." The eunuch sang.

Pushing open the door of the main hall, the emperor was dressed in black court clothes and a crown reaching the sky, sitting on it, with a few rolls of music scores on the long table in his hand.On one side, Li Siye was sitting upright, with two zithers in front of him, one for a lyre and the other for a 25-string harp.

After kowtowing to His Majesty, I put one hand on the ground and found a comfortable position to sit on my knees. The eunuch came over to help me straighten my clothes.There are always cutscenes, and I'm pretty confident in my skills, so I don't feel the need to act panicked and terrified.

The corners of the emperor's lips curled up, his short mustache raised slightly, revealing a row of white teeth.

"I heard from the imperial physician that Qu Bing was injured, it seems the injury is not serious." He pointed at the splint in my hand and smiled, "Can I still take the exam?"

"Return to Your Majesty, I have a small injury on my hand, which doesn't hinder my singing." I responded angrily.After [-] days of hurting muscles and bones, I have already lost a lot of schoolwork, and the lucky emperor can still laugh.

"Okay, let's start." The emperor announced.

"No, Mr. Huo, please read the music score of "Yi Lan Cao"." Li Siye flipped through the slips, and sure enough, he picked out the simplest poem for me, which was written by Confucius himself.

"Shangshang in the corner, merchant in the corner of the palace, merchant in the corner of the palace. Feather in the palace corner, merchant in the lower feather..." Facing the score in my mouth, I sang silently in my heart, "Lanzhi Yiyi, spread its fragrance. I admire it without picking it up. , Yu Lan is hurt..."

The emperor picked up the music score and spread it out, nodding while reading. "Yi Lan Cao" was the first poem I learned from Master Chang in Pingyang Prefecture. When I was finished, it happened to be the time when my mother married Chen Zhang.Time flies, and it has been five years since I left Pingyang Mansion.

"Next item." Li Siye plucked the lyre, followed by the tinkling sound.

"Shang Kui, He, Jiao Kui Yu, Shang He Bian..." Listening to and distinguishing sounds is what I am best at.Sure enough, the emperor's face showed a satisfied expression.

"The next item is the poems in the "Book of Songs". Mr. Huo, choose one and sing what you are best at." Li Siye prepared Qin Feng's "Jianjia" for me in advance, and the other end was already playing .

I looked at the hands that were tuning the strings, and when the first sentence came to my lips, I suddenly felt a little nervous. "The reeds are green, and the dew is frost." In the past, the simple ballad that I could sing smoothly by humming casually, made me very restless today, and I had to repeat the name "Su Jia" in my heart several times.

The sense of tension rolled in with the word "Jianjia", and it kept amplifying in the ears until it roared.

Such shortness of breath is by no means a solution, after thinking about it, he made up his mind and said: "Please trouble Si Ye to play Zheng Feng's "Zi Jin" and tune Weiyin."

At the end of the song, I met someone's surprised eyes.Taking a deep breath, I kowtowed and resigned without hesitation, leaving behind the emperor muttering: "It really is Wei's blood."

I snorted softly, that's what I wanted.

"Hey, what's the matter, is it difficult?" When I got out of the hall, all the students gathered around one after another, because I was the first one to be called in.

"It's very simple." Meeting everyone's expectant eyes, my smile deepened, "Hurry up and review again."

Not long after, Cao Xiang stepped out of the door with a joyful face, cheering, "I've passed!"

"We've all heard it," Li Gan went up to meet him, "Not bad, Mr. Cao, you can actually remember the whole song "Han Guang" by Zhou Nan."

"It will be your turn soon, Mr. Li, I wish you good luck." Cao Xiang said with a smirk.

After a while, "The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, Vega and the sea are coming back to my hometown—" Li Gan's broken gong voice came out accompanied by the emperor's laughter and Li Siye's repeated yells.

"Mr. Li, I remember that you should sing "The Book of Songs"?"

"Return to Your Majesty, I'm too nervous, I just remember this." Li Gan's aggrieved voice came.

The students who had completed the exam sat together in twos and threes.Li Gan and the other two students who had not passed the sentence were whispering to each other.Cao Xiang was snoring on the long table, presumably she had written the score for the night battle with the lights on last night.

I yawned and caught a glimpse of Han who was sitting silently in the corner alone.Time flies, and now he is no longer the young man I met for the first time. Today he is wearing a light yellow short jacket with a single bun on the top, and he is wearing a white jade hairpin. His hair color is not as good as before. It was so golden, but gradually darkened, showing a kind of brown, and his appearance was more and more similar to that of his elder brother Han Yan.

As the oldest student in the current class, this year is Han Shuo's last year in Taixue.After graduation, even if he doesn't need to look at his brother's sake, based on his own qualifications alone, he should be directly selected into the most outstanding cavalry formation in the Qimen Army - the Xiaoqi Battalion.

The eunuch poked his head out: "Xuan Han said."

The pale yellow figure disappeared through the door.Cao Xiang raised her head and rubbed her sleepy eyes.

"Well, can I go home?"

"Wait a little longer, the last one left." Before I finished speaking, Cao Shizi fell down and continued to sleep, he seemed really tired.

I sat on the ground and continued my emptying.But the strange thing is that I haven't been able to hear Li Sikong's stringed voice.After a while, a clear and beautiful voice came.

It was Han who said that he chose to sing a cappella, the repertoire was not from the Book of Songs, and I happened to have heard the song he sang.

"The song of sacrifice is melodious, the grass is fragrant under the eyes of the blue sky; the green fields are green, and my thoughts are long.

The road is long and long, and the people at the end of the world are endless; the flowers are in full bloom, and I gallop with you—”

The singing stopped abruptly at the last line, and crisp applause came suddenly.

"Dare to sing this song for me, what is your intention?" The sound of cups being knocked over was accompanied by the sound of slips of letters splashing down.

"Your Majesty, please don't... please... please forgive me!" Han Yue's terrified cry echoed in the hall for a while, and the painful sobs rose and fell, mixed with some strange moaning.

The hall suddenly became extremely quiet.I looked around and saw that everyone was stunned in place, looking in the direction of the sound with a look of astonishment.A strange smile appeared on the corner of Li Gan's lips, Cao Xiang woke up completely, and looked at Zhang He again, his face suddenly turned red to the neck.

What's wrong with these people, they can laugh when others are being beaten?

Li Siye came out in a hurry, turned around and knocked on the door, and waved to everyone: "I'm here today, after school, you all go, you can go."

"Go home!" The students dispersed in a rush.

A group of people headed east through the morning snow.When I arrived at Tianlu Pavilion, I couldn't help but looked back worriedly, but my eyes happened to meet Li Gan who was following me.Seeing me turn around, his ambiguous smile that knew everything deepened.

"Everyone," Li Gan stopped and stared at me, "Don't you want to go back and visit Han Meiren?"

"You mind your own business." Zhang He replied.

Li Gan stretched out a finger and shook it: "This person is normally as cold as ice, and no one cares about him, but now he has become like his elder brother, he must be quite embarrassed, and I just went back to take the opportunity to tease and humiliate him. "

"Why do you have to tease others? Besides, since they are brothers, it's strange that they look different." I was not pleased with Li Gan's contemptuous tone.

Unexpectedly, Li Gan immediately pointed his finger at me, laughed and said: "I even forgot that Huo Meiren is still a pure young girl who doesn't understand anything."

I was racking my brains on how to refute this, when Cao Xiang punched Li Gan in the face: "What nonsense, you are the young child!"

Seeing the two wrestling in a ball on the snow, I realized that things might be more complicated than I thought.

When chasing Li Gan back to the main hall, the emperor had already got up and left.The scrolls that had fallen from the long table had been put away and stacked neatly in the corner, and the beige short jacket was placed on the long table.

Han said that he was kneeling on the mat that I had just knelt on in the morning, his brown pupils were slightly blurred when he was awake, his brows were slightly frowned, crimson clouds were flying on his cheeks, and his red lips fluttered slightly.He held the white jade hairpin in his hand, three thousand slightly curly golden brown hair hanging down his shoulders, with his head slightly lowered, the eunuch carefully combed it.

The charcoal fire in the room was crackling and steaming, melting the frosty high cold, as if someone was trying to destroy a kind of tranquil beauty, but unexpectedly made him bloom into another more magnificent beauty.

This scene seems familiar—every time your Majesty left the Wei Mansion for private visits in micro-services, what was left to me was such a beautiful uncle.

"I thought he was that kind of person a long time ago, and it turned out to be exactly what I expected." Li Gan said, but because of the presence of other people, he just stretched his head at the door and looked at it from a distance and whispered.

Han said that the hosta in his hand finally fell off and slowly rolled all the way to my feet.

"Mr. Han, are you okay?" I walked over gently and handed the hairpin back to his trembling hand.When he got close, he could clearly see the four fingerprints on one side of his face, as well as the criss-crossing tears.

"I'm fine, thank you." Han said trying to keep calm, he pushed me away, showing a bleak smile, his voice hoarse, "Hair is not easy to take care of, it will take a while, you go first."

When Cao Xiang and Zhang He hurriedly dragged me away from the "land of right and wrong", a chariot stopped outside the hall.After walking a long distance, I turned my head, and Han said that he was being carried by the eunuch and placed in a walking chariot.

I turned away feeling dizzy.The second uncle and Su Jia, the emperor and Han Shuo, flashed before my eyes like a revolving lantern, and the inexplicable depression in my heart made me even have no time to pay attention to the usual peeping eyes when I passed the Changle Palace.

The warm sun shines on the glazed tiles of Jianzhang Palace, and the newly installed window seems to be more emerald and dazzling than other window lattices.

"Is everyone here?" Han Yan looked around the crowd from the horseback and frowned, "What did Han say?"

"Return to Doctor Han, Mr. Han has asked for sick leave." The eunuch replied.

Several students headed by Li Gan burst out laughing.

"I just laughed, and ran around the Tianliang Palace three times." Taishi Han regained that cold face, but recently there has been a touch of lingering melancholy on his handsome brows, and a trace of desolation in his eyes. Haunted him, so that the aura of the whole person seemed to change quietly.

Speaking of it, I really have to thank Han Yan. In just a few months, under his advice, my archery skills have improved by leaps and bounds.

"It's common for cavalry to fall from horses." Today, Taishi Han suddenly talked about the skills of cavalry against cavalry, and his tone was no longer as cold as before. "First, after falling from horses, you should immediately switch roles, use infantry skills, and slash at close quarters. Two, The faster the horse, the more likely it is to be injured when it falls. Therefore, maintaining combat effectiveness and protecting your own safety is the top priority.”

"When we become generals, do we still need to fight in close quarters?" Someone raised his hand and asked.

Taishi Han said firmly: "No matter who you are, you must persist in fighting until the last second."

"How do you protect yourself when you fall off your horse?" I asked.

Han Yan jumped off the horse, bent her elbows forward, covered her head with her hands and rolled on the spot.Before I could react, he had already stopped beside me.

The beautiful phoenix eyes looked at me, and an almost gentle voice came into my ears.

"First of all, you must never support the ground with your palms."