Nightfall Chapter 68: Huakai Biantian (middle)

Chapter 68 The Flower Blooms Beyond the Sky (Middle)

Getting an axe in front of Luban's door, selling wine in front of Du Kang's shop, and drying books in front of the master's door are certainly the most irresponsible behavior, but if you think about it from another angle, when Luban sees the axe in front of the door, Du Kang sees the shop. The former seller of wine, the master saw the man in front of the door, especially when he discovered that the man was the most sacred and supreme existence in other realms of the world, would they give birth to something like Ning Que from the deepest part of their hearts? Itchy?

I'm going to be a wooden bird to tell the servant that the prototype of the plane is like this, I want to brew a pot of wine and tell the good wine that the servant has died like this, I want to write a few nagging words to tell the servant that this is the soul Soup, I have to write a few more words to tell the boy what kind of word is called—even if you are the emperor of humanity, you have to listen to me.

At this moment, Ning Que is immersed in this extreme pleasure. He looked at the drying ink on Xuanzhouya paper with satisfaction, fantasizing that he was talking about the calligraphy teacher of the emperor, using those brush strokes to draw the palm of the old man's hand, and sternly reprimanded with contempt.

"Wrong again! Stretch out your hand to beat!"

He is very satisfied with the five characters he wrote, and even thinks that they are the best ones written in recent years. Except for pen, ink, paper and inkstone, they are all excellent products. They are located in such a wonderful area as the Imperial Library. The most important thing is The reason was that he had accumulated too much itch in the room, and even more because the first five characters were written by the emperor.

He admired his round pen, straight and broad structure, and he was a little bit reluctant to destroy this paper for a while, so he prepared to put the writing paper in his sleeves after it dries, and quietly take it out. Gong Qu, but at this moment, outside the imperial study room, which had been quiet and silent, suddenly a resentful low roar sounded.

"Where did that **** go!"

Ning Que was startled, and when he looked up, he saw the door of the Imperial Study Room pushed open with one hand.

His pupils shrunk slightly, his fingers flicked with a quick reaction, the ink paper on the drying table slid into the gap in the corner of the bookshelf, and then he turned around, holding up his sleeves and pretending to be Look carefully at the collection of books on the bookshelf. When the sleeves of the bookshelf are flicked, the row of books on the bookshelf has already changed the slanted direction, pressing the flower blooming across the sky firmly on the innermost side, and no one can tell that anyone has moved.

The one who walked into the Imperial Study Room was a short, sturdy, middle-aged general who was wearing a court guard uniform and a black gold tie around his waist, showing his extremely high rank. The middle-aged general saw Ning Que next to the bookshelf, looked at the young man who was obsessed with reading like a bookworm, turned his angry eyes, and shouted sharply: "Who the **** let you in?"

Ning Que looks like forgetting God. In fact, his ears are always upright listening to the movement behind him. When he heard this sentence, his heart slammed, guessing that there was some misunderstanding in the matter, and it should be the little **** who told his attention. When it came to the matter, I heard something-it should not be a conspiracy like Baihutang. If the palace wants to clean up this little person, there is no need to do so many tricks-but the crime of entering the imperial study room without the will is serious. But Xiao, he couldn't let himself get into this kind of trouble anyway.

He turned his head like a cute little scholar who was dazzled by your majesty's book collection, rubbed his eyes, looked at the pudgy head guard at the door, and said with a full face: "I have an order to visit the palace, I don’t know. What's the problem?"

The chubby head of the guard was slightly startled. He probably never imagined that someone was caught upright in the Imperial Study Room, yet he could still be so calm and calm, with an inexplicable expression and pain on his face. Covering his forehead with his hands, he said to himself angrily: "You bastard! Don't say to teach some rules in advance!"

Ning Que came out after the book case, bowed his hand and asked in confusion, "This general, do you recognize Brother Chao?"

In Lin 47 Lane, at Chunfeng Pavilion, no matter how Chao Xiaoshu expressed his spirits, Ning Que refused to recognize the word brother. At this moment, he didn’t care to say the word elder brother naturally. It is for self-protection. As for the rhetorical question, it is to defensively to offensive. Anyway, the purpose is to divert the opponent's attention from the Imperial Study Room to another place.

The head of the short fat guard confirmed that there were no people around the Imperial Study Room. He looked at the formation in the room with a vigilant face and found nothing unusual. He covered his forehead again with some fear, looked at Ning Que in pain, and said, "You kid Get out of here quickly. I found you outside for half an hour, but I never thought that you dared to walk in here. You remembered it to me. You haven’t come in today. Don’t think about showing off to others in your entire life. Son, or I will kill you!"

Ning Que left the imperial study room with the head of the guard who was complaining and nagging all the way, and after turning a little to the west, he came to the guard duty room of Chunhe Temple not far away.

In the gloomy room, he finally knew that the short, chubby, and Hebei-speaking guy in front of him, with every word like a green onion, was actually Xu Chongshan, the deputy commander of the Tang court guards. It was the boss who Chao Xiaoshu said last night that he wanted him to meet today.

"Your Majesty is so good at calligraphy. You happen to be a character seller. That's why you were brought into the palace with this identity. It was just to avoid people's eyes and ears. In the end, your kid was good, and you didn't say anything. Yushufang! Do you really think you are a master of the book world! Do you really think that your majesty invites you to come and appreciate the characters!"

Xu Chongshan pointed at Ning Que's nose angrily and roared in a low voice, splashing all over the sky with saliva and stars.

Ning Que rubbed his nose with some embarrassment, thinking to himself that His Majesty did not invite himself to appreciate the words, but I have already written a word in the Imperial Study Room, what can you do with me? Thinking of this verse, thinking of the flower blooming on the other side of the sky in the corner of the bookshelf, he wondered to himself what he would have to think of to get that thing out?

Xu Chongshan was a little tired from cursing, panting, holding on to his thick waist, and said: "Let’s talk about business."

Ning Que responded with a smile: "Please tell me."

Xu Chongshan gave him a weird look, and said, "You boy with a hippie smile, where is the slightest way of talking in your mouth?"

"That's because you are too prestigious, your lord," Ning Que explained seriously.

Jinshan Yinshan’s copper walls and iron walls can be worn, but flattery can’t be worn. Even the naive and clumsy flattery has its effect. Moreover, the guy who flattered himself is a young and awkward looking young man, Xu Chongshan’s His complexion improved a little, and he coughed twice and asked: "You should know whose person the Lao Chao is now, right?"

Ning Que frowned slightly, pretending to be stupid, and asked, "Brother Chao is the subordinate that leads the adults?"

"I don't have the guts to call Chunfengting Lao Chao, besides...you don't call him Chao Brothers in the future. There were very few old people back then, we used to call him Chao Chao second brother."

Xu Chongshan said seriously. Then he remembered the killing in the spring rain last night, and remembered what Lao Chao had said about the boy. Ning Que gave him a quick glance. Then he turned to smile and asked, "Why did you help Lao Chao last night?"

"I received five hundred taels of silver." Ning Que answered honestly.

No one will be born and die for a person who has just met for five hundred taels of silver. Moreover, that person is still a sixteen-year-old boy who is about to enter the academy. Xu Chongshan does not believe his explanation, so he does not Thinking that he is greedy for money, and even more that he is a true temperamental person, he suddenly became more and more pleasing to his eyes.

"Your Majesty likes a man of temperament, and I like it too." Xu Chongshan smiled at him and asked: "Then I only need to ask one question next, that is...you are willing to give your life and even your reputation for the empire Right?"

Ning Que was slightly startled, frowning and thinking for a long time. On the one hand, he was guessing the real reason why the big man asked this question. On the other hand, he didn’t understand why he even used the word “honor”. , Is reputation more important than life?

This question is very big and broad, very serious and sacred, but also very unpredictable. He thought for a long time, thinking of the generals before and after Weicheng, thinking of those living and dead colleagues, thinking of the enthusiasm in Chang'an city The common people replied seriously and slowly: "If you are in a hurry, you can sacrifice your life..."

Speaking of this section, he suddenly thought of a scene from last night. After putting down half a bowl of noodle soup towards Xiaoshu Yiyi, he looked at the lonely man on the gray wall opposite the shop and added: "But Some things will not work."

Xu Chongshan looked at him seriously and found that the young man did not give a vocal answer without hesitation at the first time. Instead, he thought seriously and even embarrassedly for a long time. For this, the deputy commander not only was not angry, but greatly appreciated , Because he knows that the prudent answer after thinking is more credible than the passionate impulse of generosity.

"From now on, you will be one of my Datang guards."

There are no more questions, no school examinations, just a few words of dialogue, Xu Chongshan decided to recruit this young man into the ranks of the Tang court guards. Among them are the factors of Chao Xiaoshu as a guard, and more The reason is that he really liked the temperament that this young man showed when answering questions.

So it was Ning Que's turn to be shocked and speechless. He looked at the ebony matte waistband in his hand and looked at the identification mark on it. After a long silence, he said blankly: "After a fight, he became an Ouchi guard?"

"The ichthyosaur gang was forced to the bright spot by those idiot ministers in the central government. Don't look at me like that. The word idiot was a comment made by your majesty in anger last night, so we need to rearrange some of the people hiding in the night."

Xu Chongshan explained in a cold voice: "This is the glory of the people of Datang, don't think about rejection."

"It's not a question of refusal or not." Ning Que said helplessly: "The question is what the court needs me to do? What can I do? The most important thing is that I will take the college admission test soon."

Hearing the word "shuyuan", Xu Chongshan's face changed slightly. It was not because of other reasons, but as an old man in the guard office. He knew very well what Chao Xiaoshu had encountered back then, and it was precisely because of those past events. This group of dark guards has a treatment that they did not have in the past. He looked at Ning Que with a gentle smile, and said: "Don't worry, you can enter the academy. After you come out of the academy, you will not serve the court after all. The two do not conflict."

"You haven't said what I need to do." Ning Que insisted.

"The Yulong Gang was placed in the bright spot, but the rivers and lakes of Chang'an City no longer have any problems." Xu Chongshan frowned slightly and said: "Your task is very simple, it is to collect information. The specific task will be discussed later."

If rivers and lakes are no longer a problem, then the biggest problem besides imperial power is naturally the world of practitioners, thinking that he is about to enter the academy, and thinking about the vague explanations of the deputy commander, Ning Que naturally thinks Given a certain possibility, is the court going to attack the academy?

The guard brand he was holding in his palm was a little wet with sweat, but he knew that he couldn't refuse these things. He only hoped that the future direction of things would be different from what he imagined.