[Red Mansion] Let's listen to a general's order

"Father treats this Jia better than our own sons!" Li Tianying said angrily.

Li Tianjin smiled wryly.

Li Tianying felt sour, "Not only was the Ministry of Internal Affairs preparing for a small crown ceremony, but it also ordered the seventh generation to go to watch the ceremony. I heard that many good things were dug out from the internal treasury, waiting for it." Tomorrow the crown ceremony will be rewarded together!"

He suddenly seemed to think of something again, straightened his waist, leaned forward and said cautiously: "Brother Ba, Brother Ninth, tell me... This Jia Lian... Could it be that the father is outside..."

"Nonsense!" Li Tianjin reprimanded immediately, "How can this kind of thing be nonsense!"

"Tch! Don't talk if you don't talk. Ninth Brother, aren't you the most excited when talking about the Jia family boy? How can you be so quiet today?" Li Tianying bowed embarrassingly and lay on the chair.

As the central figure of Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth, Li Tianlang's performance today is really not quite right. Except for greeting the two brothers at the beginning, he has been holding a teacup and keeping silent all the time, as if he has encountered something unspeakable. .

"Ninth Brother, Ninth Brother!" Li Tianlang called twice, but there was no response, so Li Tianying went straight to the fight.

After being shaken twice by him vigorously, Li Tianlang blinked and looked at his younger brother in confusion, "...what's wrong?"

"Hey! Ninth Brother, don't scare me! I have called you so many times and there is no response!"

Li Tianjin was more stable and more reliable than Li Tianying, he touched Li Tianlang's forehead, and asked with concern: "Ninth brother is not feeling well, why don't you call the imperial physician to come and check the pulse?"

Only then did Li Tianlang come back to his senses, and hurriedly said: "Brother, I'm fine. It's just that I didn't sleep well last night, it's nothing serious."

"Okay then!" Li Tianjin didn't force it. It's really not good to invite an imperial physician for the New Year, and the emperor doesn't like people who invite an imperial physician to take medicine during the Chinese New Year. "There is a palace banquet tonight. If you have time, hurry up." Go to bed and rest for a while! Mynah won’t stop you from resting, I’ll call you back at about the same time. If you’re still feeling unwell, mynah can find a doctor outside the palace to take care of you. Your health is important.” In addition to the foreign court banquet, there will also be a family banquet for Emperor Wen of Zhou, the princes and princesses, and many concubines to gather together to share the happiness of the family.

After all, Li Tianjin dragged Li Tianying, who was clamoring to sleep with Ninth Brother, and left Li Tianlang's residence.

"Huh..." After the two of them left, Li Tianlang walked into the inner room, lay down on the bed, and let out a long breath.

At the palace banquet, he failed to impeach Jia Lian, and he had to lose a great horse that he had acquired so hard. Under the new and old hatred, no matter how much Brother Ren and the tenth brother tried to persuade him, he was still unhappy.

He is the majestic Zhou Ninth Prince!Even if it's not for the sake of identity, everyone has known each other since childhood, so they can be regarded as childhood sweethearts!Can't this brat let him go?Ever since he was a child, he has never beaten this brat once!No matter whether it's competitions, fighting martial arts, being upright or playing tricks behind the scenes, he hasn't won even once! !What a disgrace! ! !

Doesn't he just want to win once?Even the crown prince has to give his little brother three points of face!It's just that he, the Ninth Prince, is magnanimous and caring about the love he grew up with. If others dared to be like this kid, he would have sent someone to beat him to death long ago!

This brat is really not grateful at all!A hundred times better to that humble eunuch than to him!I don't even think about it, if he really wanted to kill this brat, would he just let people throw out these flimsy, pediatric evidence?Didn't he just want this brat to bow his head to him once!

At that time, Li Tianlang drank three cups, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was full of grievances. The grievances were so great that the water of the three rivers could not be calmed down.Seeing that Jia Lian left in a hurry just after the banquet, when Li Tianjin had a good chat with the civil servants, and Li Tianying and Changxing Hou Wenhui talked about their uncle and nephew, he quietly followed from behind, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble.

Li Tianlang's heart tightened when he saw Princess Mingzhu, a niece who was not a few years younger than him, attacking Jia Lian with a whip.Seeing that Jia Lian avoided it, he breathed a sigh of relief.Afterwards, Mingzhu staged a scene of "Bo Xinglang, an Infatuated Woman". Watching Jia Lian's face full of embarrassment and helplessness, Li Tianlang watched with relish, and couldn't help laughing wildly in his heart. appreciate.

After watching the play, Li Tianlang's gloominess also dissipated. He was planning to leave, but when he saw Jia Lian walking towards the northwest corner, his curiosity returned.

after that……

Li Tianlang covered his eyes with the back of his hand, the expression in his eyes gradually became dark.

They...they actually...

I don't know why, but Li Tianlang's first reaction was not to report to his father, nor did he use this as an excuse to manipulate Jia Lian and Feng Zizhi, but he felt very uncomfortable.

Jia Lian's words that night seemed to still be echoing in his ears: "I like you...I...I really like you and want to spend my whole life with you."

"This... what kind of joke is this!!" Li Tianlang subconsciously ignored the discomfort in his heart, and put the quilt on his head in a tangled up manner.

According to the rules of the crown ceremony, the crown recipient needs to fast and bathe in the ancestral hall for three days, do not eat meat, do not drink alcohol, reduce recreational activities, and clean up the body and mind to show piety.

Since Wang Yi wanted to divide the relationship between Jia Lian and the Jia family, he would not ask him to go back to the Jia family's ancestral hall to fast and take a bath, so he just asked Uncle Wang to prepare a room for Jia Lian to face the wall and meditate.

However, the wolf of Dongdu is a carnivore even if it is a wolf cub, let alone a half-grown wolf.It is too difficult for wolves to tell wolves to change their careers to eat grass now.

"Cuckoo, cluck, cluck!" Even if the wolf of Dongdu is willing to suppress his nature for a while and switch to eating grass, the grass will not satisfy him after all.

However, even if Jia Lian wanted to rely on his agility, he would not be able to sneak into the small kitchen of the Wenhua Palace University Scholars' Mansion to eat meat.Because Wang Yi, who had anticipated the action of the "bad guy", had already ordered the big housekeeper of the three generations of the Wang family, Uncle Wang, to seal all the doors and windows of the wing room tightly to ensure that not a single fly could fly in.

"Click!" The copper fish lock on the door was opened, and Wang Yi walked in with a lantern in one hand and a mahogany food box in the other.

"Master!" Jia Lian looked at Wang Yi... the food box in his hand with bright eyes.

Wang Yi didn't show his face, but smiled secretly in his heart, and opened the food box, and inside it looked like two chicken legs that were roasted on the outside and tender on the inside.

"Are you hungry? Eat!"

Jia Lian's eyes glowed green, and he was not polite, he grabbed a chicken leg and gnawed it hard, his mouth was full of greasy food.

While eating, he said happily: "Master really loves me the most." He didn't even remember who locked himself in the side room and didn't allow his servants to deliver meat dishes.

Wang Yi said peacefully: "No one is robbing you, so eat slowly."

"Yeah." I haven't eaten meat for two days, and I almost forgot what meat tastes like.

"It's been so many years before I know it..." The little child back then was about to grow into an adult.

Jia Lian threw away the chicken bone that had been chewed until only the skeleton was left, and picked up another chicken leg and gnawed on it, revealing a handsome but foolish smile in Wang Yi's eyes, signaling that he would concentrate on listening .

Wang Yi squinted at this stupid apprentice in distaste, but took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, and carefully wiped off all the oily spots on Jia Lian's face.

"You! It was only such a small monkey 11 years ago." He compared the height of the chair with his hands.

Wang Yi sighed lightly, "In a blink of an eye, it's time to fight the enemy and start a family."

"When you first became an apprentice, the teacher didn't know how to teach you, and I was afraid that if you didn't pay attention, you would miss you. You don't like reading, and you can't sit still, so you are often beaten by Uncle Wang, and your little hands are red and swollen. You like to practice martial arts and guns, and you practice for hours, screaming non-stop. Identify one thing, no matter how you say, scold, or beat, you can’t change it.” At the beginning, Jia Lian was going to be accepted as a disciple. At the time, it was just the idea of ​​wanting to bring Pojunxing into his family, so that he could be trained, taught, and win his heart.It's just that I don't know when this idea has changed.More attention, more heart, more love, the relationship between master and apprentice is like father and son, intimate.

The frequency of Jia Lian's chewing gradually slowed down, he lowered his head and said nothing, but his eyes turned red unknowingly.

He remembered.

When he was a child, he couldn't concentrate on the books, and wanted to go out to play with Ben Xiao all day long.The writing that Uncle Wang taught him, he memorized it two or three times by relying on his little cleverness and good memory, but he would soon forget it.Every time I recite a wrong character, I will be slapped on the left palm.He is a person who forgets to eat but not to play. He falls asleep sobbing in pain at night, and continues to miss class the next day.Every night, he felt cool and comfortable in his palms, and soon the swelling in his palms would subside, as if nothing had happened.He knew that the master had specially found medicinal materials, brewed a kind of ointment himself, and applied the medicine for him in the middle of the night.

When he practiced martial arts and guns, the master always sat in the study with the windows wide open, and accompanied him to practice together.Only when he was eating and sleeping, the master would rest with him.Although the master has to go to court and work every day, his homework, reading progress, and learning direction are not always corrected and studied by the master all night long, and then carefully instructed to Uncle Wang early the next morning.

"Tomorrow, after receiving the crown ceremony and receiving the crown, you will be a real adult. No one will treat you like a child anymore. If you say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing, as a teacher, you can no longer treat yourself as if you are too young. You made an excuse to protect you. You have always had a stubborn temper since you were a child. Don't worry too much." Wang Yi said softly.

Jia Lian's eyes were red, and he forced a smile and said, "Master, no matter how old the apprentice is, he is still your apprentice. You can't ignore me!" He knew that although it was not obvious on the surface, the master always loved him the most.

Wang Yi paused, and said jokingly, "What happened to you and Zizhi?" Judging from his knowledge of this apprentice and his performance that night, it seems that the apprentice and Feng Zizhi are definitely not as masculine as others. It's as simple as raising a servant, or forming a brotherhood and then marrying each other.

Jia Lian smiled embarrassedly.

"Xiao Zhi is very good, I want to spend the rest of my life with him." The meaning of cherishment and love can be seen in the tone.

Wang Yi's heart softened in a mess.

He asked calmly, "Do you still remember when you first entered the battlefield, there was a Dubo named Wen Kang under your command?"

"Wen Kang? Remember! During the raid on the Xiongnu, he suddenly had diarrhea and I handed over his team to Huang Chun to lead." Jia Lian may not care about other things, but he is concerned about everyone in the army. A person, everything is clearly remembered.

"Then do you know why he has sudden diarrhea?"

"It's not that he ate the steamed buns overnight, that's why..." Jia Lian said hesitantly.

Wang Yi chuckled: "Would a strong, muscular burly man suffer from diarrhea just because he ate a mere overnight steamed bun?"

Of course not!

He said meaningfully: "This Wen Kang's surname is Wen..."

Jia Lian seemed to understand but not understand.

"Wen Kang, a branch of the Wen family, the nephew of Marquis Wen Hui of Changxing before he was born in Wufu."

"On the battlefield, the sword has no eyes, and it is hard to defend against the hidden arrow." No matter how powerful your martial arts are, if you can't dodge once, you will have to die before your ambition is fulfilled.

"No..." Everyone is a group of brothers, training, eating, bragging, and going to the battlefield together.

Jia Lian couldn't believe it.

Wang Yi sighed softly, probably in Jia Lian's eyes, the comradeship in the army exaggerated by Niu Jin and others is extremely noble, and this villain can only be made by him as a master.

He cruelly revealed the darkness of this world to Jia Lian, and said sharply: "You ruined the son of Marquis Changxing, and it is normal for him to signal a side branch to attack you. Once Wenkang succeeds, with the power of Marquis Changxing, It's not difficult to recommend him to be promoted and get rich. I've always been inconvenient to get involved in military affairs, and Niu Jin...a vulgar person doesn't care about such trivial matters." His tone eased, and he said, "Fortunately, this child Xiaozhi is smart Careful and sincere to you, I sent someone to sprinkle some laxatives in Wenkang's food. Otherwise, when you first went to battle that day, you might have been shot in the back!"

Hearing Feng Zizhi's name, Jia Lian's heart warmed up: "Xiaozhi never mentioned this to me."

Hearing these words, Wang Yi was even more satisfied with Feng Zizhi, the disciple's daughter-in-law.

He said earnestly and earnestly: "Flowers and plants with roots need to be careful, even if they are a compatriot of the same mother, they may not be trustworthy. People's hearts are separated from the belly, and the heart of others is indispensable. It's always right to be careful." He didn't expect it either. Jia Lian knows how to harm others, but he just wants to protect himself.

"I see, Master." Does Jia Lian really understand?No, he can also be regarded as half a child who grew up in the palace. It's not that he hasn't seen plots to harm people, betrayal and calculations, and he can even be regarded as well-informed.It's just that with the protection of Emperor Wen of Zhou and Dai Quan, he treated these things as big dramas, and never thought that it would happen to him.

Wang Yi reminded him again: "Don't let the emperor know about you and Zizhi."

"Why?" Jia Lian was puzzled.He also thought about going to the palace one day after the crowning ceremony to confess to the emperor, and it would be best to obtain an imperial decree to allow Xiaozhi to live outside the palace forever, so that he could see Xiaozhi every day.I haven't seen Xiaozhi for more than two days, he misses her very much now!

"Do you think the emperor will let you be with a servant? In his eyes, even if you don't marry Princess Mingzhu, you have to marry a wife and have children." It has to be said, from Wang Yi's point of view, Emperor Wen of Zhou is right Jia Lian's control was almost bewitched.As small as studying and studying, the relationship between father and son, as big as the future and promotion, marrying a wife and having children, it is afraid that even the few princes under his knees are not so tightly managed.

"I've made a plan. My elder brother has the closest relationship with me. He has two sons under his knees. Wouldn't it be enough to ask my elder brother to adopt Lian'er in the future? The emperor... Even if he doesn't want it for a while, he will always agree in the long run Yes." Jia Lian thought naively.

"Alas!" In order to tie Jia Lian's loyalty to Emperor Wen of Zhou since childhood, Wang Yi continuously strengthened the relationship between them directly or indirectly, causing Jia Lian to completely trust and rely on Emperor Wen of Zhou.The tricks used in Gongsun's family and Wen's family were just for outsiders to see, so as not to make it difficult for Emperor Wen of Zhou.He really didn't know if what he did was right or wrong.Wang Yi is weak-tempered, and he was born to teach and educate people or to be a hermit in the mountains, but he was tied to the court by the imperial edict of Emperor Wen of Zhou.

"You have to remember that the emperor is always the emperor, and the emperor is the emperor of the world." No one can make him do what he doesn't want to do.

Jia Lian was startled.

"If the emperor knows about the affair between the two of you, he may not do anything to you, but he will kill Zizhi, the servant who seduced you, first."

"This... this can't be..." Jia Lian murmured.

Wang Yi looked at him with pity.

"Don't worry! As a teacher, I will always try my best to deal with you. It's just that you have to work hard and let the emperor know that you have grown up before he will consider your ideas." In Emperor Zhou Wen's heart, even if Jia Lian was 40 years old They are still young, straightforward and undecided.

"I am a teacher who is proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics, knows astronomy and geography, is good at astrology and divination, understands the five elements and eight trigrams, understands economics and military strategies, and understands farmland and water conservancy. It's just that you are an apprentice who is only good at military strategy, and has a little knowledge of astronomy and geography. , the rest of the astrology divination, five elements and gossip, and farmland water conservancy only have seven orifices connected to six orifices. Alas! I really don’t have the face to let others know that Wang Yi, who is pedantic about heaven and man, has accepted such a stupid apprentice!" Wang Yi Way of pretending to sigh.

Jia Lian blushed slightly, but he looked at those things like an arhat - he couldn't figure it out.

"Then...Master, you can teach Xiaozhi! He is very smart, once you teach him he will be able to master it!"

Before getting married, she always thinks of others, monogamous and controlling inflammation!Wang Yi resisted the urge to roll his eyes, how ruined his image as a generation of masters!

But... Wang Yi thinks about it in a blink of an eye, this suggestion is really good.Feng Zizhi was born with a Wenchang fate, as long as he didn't die halfway, or was tortured as he is now, he might be able to reach the third rank.

Therefore, Wang Yi began to think about this possibility.