After the rebirth, the queen took the Meiqiang tragedy script

Chapter 4 Heartfelt
Ye Qinghuai felt a little regretful.

Because from that day on, Ye Qinghuai's daily homework was half an hour longer to teach the five constants of human relations.

On the matter of bringing Ye Qinghuai back to the right path, Lu Yanchen worked diligently and painstakingly.

Ye Qinghuai even keenly noticed that Lu Yanchen even deliberately raised the neckline of his jacket a few inches to make it tighter.

Ye Qinghuai couldn't help sighing secretly, thinking that there is no need for it.

Even though she had admiration for Lu Yanchen in her previous life, this admiration was more about appreciation and admiration than coveting.For this unsmiling and strict teacher, she has not been bold enough to give birth to lingering thoughts.

Ye Qinghuai listened to him talking about the principles of husband and wife ethics, secretly raised her eyes to look at him, and saw that he was sitting upright and serious, she couldn't help laughing in her heart and said: "I am afraid that anyone in the world who can talk about husband and wife affairs so strictly Only Lu Yanchen was left.

But today, Lu Yanchen seemed to be a little preoccupied. He paused several times during the lecture, as if distracted.

This is rare.So at the end of the lecture, Ye Qinghuai asked with concern: "Sir, you are restless today, but are you homesick?"

Lu Yanchen was slightly taken aback, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his lips, he shook his head, and replied: "Weichen's hometown is bitter and cold, not like the prosperity in Beijing."

"I remember, sir is from Yunzhou."

"Yunzhou Hengtai."

"'The bright moon rises from the white mountains, between the vast sea of ​​clouds.' According to the book, Yunzhou has majestic white mountains, vast auspicious snow, the strongest wine in Kyushu, the most powerful horse, and the hardest bones in Kyushu." In a word, Ye Qinghuai slowed down his speech on purpose, and glanced at Lu Yanchen intentionally or unintentionally.

However, Lu Yanchen didn't seem to notice the emperor's meaningful look, and replied calmly: "Yunzhou is cold and there are many wars, so the people are more aggressive."

"Since it's bitterly cold in Yunzhou, why don't you take your father to the middle of Beijing to take care of him?"

Lu Yanchen looked up at Ye Qinghuai, with some surprise in his eyes.

In the past few years when he was an official in Shengjing, he has been single, and his residence is only a small remote courtyard with only two servants in the courtyard. He does not travel by car or horse, and it takes more than half an hour to go to and from the palace every day.

It wasn't such a deserted scene at first.

Lu Yanchen was only 21 years old at the time, and he was the youngest Jinshi in the history of Dajing, so he had a bright future.At that time, it was the Renshen Rebellion, and officials in various ministries changed frequently, and there were many vacancies in important positions in the court.With Lu Yanchen's ranking in the scientific examination, if someone recommends it, it is possible to serve as a doctor or even a servant in a large department such as the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Officials.

Therefore, he, a young boy from Yunzhou with no background background, became very popular among the famous families in Shengjing for a while, and the door of his small courtyard was almost crowded by the recruits and matchmakers broken.

To everyone's surprise, Lu Yanchen rejected all the olive branches thrown at him one by one.

"Young people are arrogant and proud of their talents. If they act like this, they must be up for sale." The doormen and matchmakers who hit the wall replied to their masters.

Therefore, Chen Yuansi, who was then Minister of the Household Department and also a scholar of the cabinet, went off in person and came to marry his granddaughter, intending to recruit Lu Yanchen as the son-in-law of the Chen family.

However, Lu Yanchen declined the marriage on the grounds that he was serving his mother as a filial piety.

This matter was a sensation in Shengjing, and there were various speculations among the people, even rumors about the ugly appearance of the granddaughter of the Chen family, so much so that even today, the granddaughter of the chief minister of the first dynasty has passed the age of double ten and has not yet married.

After all, everyone really couldn't think of the reason why Lu Yanchen refused such a marriage.

After this incident, Lu Yanchen's door was no longer bustling with people.After a long time, everyone also discovered that this Xinke Jinshi was a cold-hearted person who didn't like to interact with others, so he was assigned an insignificant post in the Ministry of War, and he was forgotten in a corner of Shengjing's officialdom.

Until the Renshen Rebellion subsided, Emperor Shunping, who saved his life from the sword of his sons, hated the party struggle and decided to re-elect a non-party and non-affiliated gentleman who devoted himself to academic studies to be Ye Qinghuai's teacher for Wenxuan Palace. Lu Yan Chen was turned out of the corner by the courtiers again, and sent to Emperor Shunping.

Emperor Shunping was very satisfied with Lu Yanchen, and transferred him from the Ministry of War to Taiqing Pavilion, promoted two levels in a row, and handed over Wenxuan Hall to him alone, and never chose other gentlemen for Ye Qinghuai.

After entering the Palace of Wenxuan, Lu Yanchen did not change his previous industrious and frugal appearance. Even Ye Qinghuai asked him to change the yard several times, but he refused on the grounds that it did not comply with regulations.

Ye Qinghuai had thought about it carefully in the past few days, she couldn't kill Lu Yanchen right now, so she could only hold him steady and stay in Shengjing.Since in the previous life he returned home because of Ding You's leave, in this life he had to find a way to make Ding Ding free from this worry.

Naturally, Lu Yanchen didn't think so far. He only thought that the emperor wanted to use an excuse to change the yard for him, so he saluted and said: "Your Majesty loves me deeply, and I feel deeply. It's just that my father still has an ancestral business in his hometown, and he can't afford to take care of him." years of age."

His answer made Ye Qinghuai feel puzzled: Calculated according to the time of the previous life, Lu Yanchen will be courting Ding You in two months, but according to him, his father is still alive and well busy at home the shop.Is it sudden death?

"I remember that your father is in the calligraphy and painting business." Ye Qinghuai thought.

Mentioning his father, Lu Yanchen looked a little warmer, and said: "It's not counted. The main thing is to sell some paper and ink. Yunzhou is martial arts, and the sales of calligraphy and painting are not good."

What he said was modest, in fact, the Lu family's shop opened all over the two northern states, and the business was quite big, and Ye Qinghuai had also heard about it.

"Father... Do you remember that you are approaching sixty years old? How is your health?" Ye Qinghuai tried to make her tone as natural as possible, as if she was chatting about family matters.

Lu Yanchen looked down, and said: "Go back to your majesty, my father will only be sixty years old in two years. I am afraid and dare not let your majesty think about it. My father is still in good health and can be called healthy."

Ye Qinghuai showed relief, nodded and smiled, but couldn't help frowning in her heart.

Can it be called healthy?How did he die suddenly within a month or two?He only regretted that in his previous life, he hadn't paid attention to how Lu Yanchen's father died, so he defaulted in his heart that he died of illness in old age.

"Sir is alone in Beijing, your father must be thinking about it a lot." Although Ye Qinghuai was puzzled in her heart, she still wanted to continue the topic.

Lu Yanchen nodded and said, "Of course I miss you."

At this point, Ye Qinghuai suddenly thought of a question that she had always wanted to ask but was afraid to ask in her previous life.

In the previous life, until she committed suicide in front of the palace, Lu Yanchen was still alone and unmarried, and there were no rumors of any women around him.Ye Qinghuai had speculated in private, wondering if there was someone in his heart, and even occasionally wondered if the person in his heart might be herself.

It wasn't until the three-foot Qingfeng cut off her throat that she was forced by fate to realize the reality.

Between her and Lu Yanchen, they could be monarchs and ministers, teachers and students, or even enemies, but they could never be married couples.

Even if she is a woman, it doesn't help the matter.

The gap between them is not only about gender, but also the shackles of identity and the right to cannibalism.

"Mr. is also in his twenties, why don't you marry a wife and start a family? Even if you have a side room and someone to take care of it, your father will not be so worried."

In the past, she would never have dared to ask about her husband's family affairs.

Sure enough, after dying once, I see everything a lot more clearly, and I am more courageous.Ye Qinghuai secretly said in her heart.

Lu Yanchen looked at her for a long time, and there seemed to be many unknown thoughts flowing under his quiet eyes, but he didn't answer directly, but asked instead: "If I get married and start a family, will your majesty marry a concubine? ?”

He asked seriously, as if as long as Ye Qinghuai nodded, Lu Yanchen would be able to find any random woman to marry.

Thinking of Lu Yanchen getting married, Ye Qinghuai's heart trembled slightly.

"Aren't you afraid of hurting my heart when you say that, sir?" She lowered her head, her voice was a little lonely.

Lu Yanchen wanted to say something, but was stopped by her pitiful appearance. After a long time, he sighed softly and asked, "When is your majesty, my minister..."

His voice sank, and he couldn't say those ambiguous words after all.

It was rare to see him speechless, Ye Qinghuai couldn't help but smiled, and said: "I was here when I saw you for the first time. Sir, do you still remember what you said to me when you taught me for the first time? I At that time, I asked my husband what he was here for, and he said that he came to assist Mingjun. Whether it is in the court or in the harem, no one believes that I can be a good emperor, not even myself. Only the husband believes in me."

The past is vivid in his memory, in the old days in this Wenxuan Palace, when Lu Yanchen made a statement to Ye Qinghuai, his eyes were as bright as stars, far from the present appearance of his heart like calm water.

Ye Qinghuai sighed and said, "It's a pity that Mr. Wang believed it wrong."

"Why did your Majesty say this?"

"I'm an emperor with no ambitions. I often think recently that if there hadn't been the Renshen Rebellion, the world would have been much better if either the eldest brother or the second brother became emperor."

She had thought of this before when there were rebellions in various places in her previous life.

Clinker, but Lu Yanchen said: "If the person on the throne is not His Majesty, I will not want to enter this Wenxuan Palace."

Ye Qinghuai was a little surprised and asked, "Why?"

"Because I came here to assist Ming Jun." Lu Yanchen said again.

Ye Qinghuai was taken aback for a moment, his implication was that neither her elder brother nor second elder brother was the choice of Mingjun.

If someone else said this, Ye Qinghuai would have laughed it off as a flattery, but Lu Yanchen had always been cold-tempered and didn't like flattery, so he said so, and he thought so.

Ye Qinghuai raised her eyes to look at him, but saw that he was also looking at her with burning eyes. This look reminded Ye Qinghuai of how he looked when he first met him and made a speech.

Exactly the same firmness, exactly the same brilliance.

That gaze was a little hot, and Ye Qinghuai dodged his eyes for a while, and said with a wry smile: "Sir, you really have a unique vision."

Lu Yanchen's expression sank, as if he had thought of something, he hesitated, he thought for a moment, and finally asked: "Why does Your Majesty want to hold a ceremony at the literary school?"

Lu Yanchen seldom took the initiative to mention the court affairs to Ye Qinghuai in the Wenxuan Hall, which made Ye Qinghuai have an intuition for no reason, thinking that it was because of this that he was restless today.

"Sir, do you know the Literary School Jijiu?"

"Wen School Jijiu is a university in the world. It is the author of masterpieces such as "Crane Talk" and "Salt and Iron Theory". All the officials who study in the world know this person."

Although he didn't admit his acquaintance with Jijiu in his words, he couldn't hide his appreciation in his words.

"Sir, have you read his "Wu Hou Lun"?"

"I have heard a thing or two about it."

"I checked the case files of the Ministry of Criminal Justice yesterday. Wang Lisong lamented the death of Marquis Wu in the Marquis Wu Discourse. He said that the death of the previous dynasty was due to the emphasis on literature over military affairs. The emperor appointed traitors, listened to slander, and killed Marquis Wu by mistake."

Hearing this, Lu Yanchen interrupted Ye Qinghuai, and said: "Your Majesty reads this article as a king, and everything he sees is the fault of the king. However, I think that this article about offering wine is not intended for the king, but for the minister. It is said that the way of being an official is nothing more than serving the king above and serving the people below. In the last years of the Cheng Dynasty, the king was drunk and dreamed of dying, and the people were in dire straits. However, there were more than 120 registered officials in the Manchu Dynasty, and none of them dared to speak directly to the emperor. Everyone whitewashed peace , so wise and safe, so that Dacheng will perish one day."

Ye Qinghuai listened to Lu Yanchen finished speaking, and thought for a while, then slowly asked: "The Ministry of punishment said that his "Wu Hou Lun" is suspected of using the past to satirize the present, do you think so?"

"In the last years of the Cheng Dynasty, the imperial court was unable to make ends meet, and the people were suffering and exorbitantly levying miscellaneous taxes. In some prefectures and counties, the land tax of various items added up to two out of ten or even three, and it often happened that the people changed their children to eat. My prospects are far from such a field. If It must be said that this article about offering wine is a satire of the past, and the satire is about the current court ethos."

The meaning of defense in his words was not concealed, so Ye Qinghuai asked him again: "I will ask you again, sir, are you old acquaintance with Jijiu?"

This time, Lu Yanchen no longer evaded, but replied bluntly: "Jijiu holds lectures in the literary school every month. When I was not an official, I often listened to it and benefited a lot."

"Then what do you think of the man who sacrificed the wine?"

Lu Yanchen paused, and replied: "He is upright, with the ambition of a green pine, and the style of a gentleman."

It was the first time for Ye Qinghuai to hear him praise someone so generously, so she couldn't help being a little surprised, but after thinking about it, she found it to be expected.She nodded and said, "I see. Let's go, sir."

There are three more days until the interrogation, I want to meet this Wang Lisong well.

Ye Qing said heartily.

(End of this chapter)