Indulge in the national teacher

Chapter 4 (Revised)

Since the enthronement ceremony, Gu Fang hasn't seen Lian Zong for about ten days.But when he thought about it carefully, this was also a reasonable thing.Although Lian Zong has become Dayao's veritable emperor, his ascension to the throne was a bit hasty compared to previous emperors.

And because of the indifference of His Majesty the Supreme Emperor, the power of the abolished prince still remains, and Lian Zong's control over the court is still not very comprehensive.Now is the time for him to make a big move to gather power, so naturally he has no time to pay attention to Gu Fang, a national teacher who only has a name.

Gu Fang himself really enjoys the moment when he is left out in the cold.He even hoped that Lian Zong would never think of him again.

But things turned out to be contrary to his wishes, after he had been at ease for more than ten days, a palace official came to the National Teacher Pagoda, which had been quiet for a long time, with a series of imperial edicts.

Gu Fang leaned against the bed on the third floor of the National Teacher Tower, watching the guards guarding the National Teacher Tower bow politely to the palace man.

It seems that the status of this palace man is not low.

While thinking this way, Gu Fang tidied up his clothes.Although his name as a national teacher does not match the reality, he still has to show his proper posture and posture.

"Master Guoshi, Your Majesty's imperial decree has arrived." The palace man stood still on the first floor of the Guoshi Pagoda, and then called out respectfully.

At this time, Gu Fang also happened to appear at the stairs connecting the first and second floors of the National Teacher Tower.

He looked at the palace man who held the imperial decree high above his head, and knew in his heart that he would not neglect him, so he quickened his pace and came to the hall.

"I accept the decree." Gu Fang bowed deeply to Lian Zong's imperial decree, and then waited for the palace servants to read the imperial decree.

The palace man unfolded the imperial decree with a solemn expression, and then began to read Lian Zong's decree word by word.

After listening to the high-sounding words for a while, Gu Fang finally understood that Lian Zong ordered him to choose a year name.

The matter of choosing the year name is indeed within the scope of the national teacher's responsibility, but it is really difficult to do.Because the year name chosen by the national teacher must not only satisfy His Majesty the Emperor, but also satisfy the cultural relics and officials of the Manchu Dynasty. It is a job with a great reputation but thankless work.

Gu Fang received the imperial decree from the palace man, and was not in a hurry to go back.Sure enough, the palace man took the initiative to chat with him.

It turned out that this palace man was none other than Zhang Pu, the current head of internal affairs, and Lian Zong's confidant.When Lian Zong was in his teens, he followed Lian Zong.

Zhang Pu really knows how to be a man, of course it is impossible for him not to know that Gu Fang is in an embarrassing situation, but he still keeps his attitude very low.This made Gu Fang glance at Zhang Pugao.

After exchanging pleasantries, Zhang Pu said something thought-provoking: "Your Majesty is very fond of the Chinese Normal University. You must choose a satisfactory year name for Your Majesty."

After Zhang Pu left, Gu Fang thought about Zhang Pu's words carefully, and finally understood what Lian Zong really wanted Zhang Pu to convey to him: Lian Zong actually had already thought about the year name, but he just needed to say it through his mouth. Come out to make this year name a logical one.

After thinking about this, Gu Fang instantly felt a lot more relaxed, and now he is waiting for Lian Zong to send someone to tell him what the "year name" is.

Gu Fang went back to the third floor of the National Teacher Tower, rolled up the imperial decree and put it in a small room next to the bedroom - this is a special place for displaying the imperial decree.

At this time, the three ancestors of the National Teacher Pagoda came back.

After more than ten days of work, the relationship between Gu Fang and these three ancestors is already good.Different from the arrogant royal family members that Gu Fang imagined, the words and actions of these three ancestors are full of the heroism of the Jianghu people.

And this may have something to do with their identities.

These three ancestors were Dayao's founding emperor, Emperor Kaiyuan, and his two younger brothers, Prince Jin and Prince Yan, who had made great military exploits.

The three of them stayed in the world because the younger generations hoped that they would protect their descendants.

And because the royal family is widely distributed, the ancestors of the royal family can freely visit the ancestral halls that also enshrine their ranks, instead of being trapped in one place and unable to go out.

Thinking of this, Gu Fang couldn't help remembering the brief days in the ancestral hall of Duke Anguo's mansion, the ancestors and Cuihua who had disappeared, and the fire that engulfed the entire Duke Anguo mansion.

Even when dreaming back in the middle of the night, Gu Fang still has a hot feeling like being in a fire.He knew that he was still afraid in his heart, afraid that the current peace was an illusion, but Lian Zong had long thought of burning the National Teacher Pagoda.

"Little Gu, we're back." Emperor Kaiyuan naturally sat on the chair in front of Gu Fang, and then wanted to pick up the teacup and drink tea.But it "lived up to expectations" and didn't pick it up.

This made the one person and two ghosts present couldn't help laughing.

"Cough." Probably feeling ashamed, Emperor Kaiyuan coughed twice as a cover-up, and then yelled at King Jin angrily, "If you hadn't finished drinking the tribute tea at once, I wouldn't be here. So thirsty."

"Obviously you are the eldest brother who drank the most!" King Jin immediately choked with Emperor Kaiyuan unconvinced.

Gu Fang watched the excitement for a while, and then went to the ancestral hall on the fourth floor of the National Teacher Tower to fill the teacups specially used to hold tributes for several ancestors.

Several old ancestors also floated up after him.

"By the way, little baby of the Gu family, guess what we saw on the way back?" Emperor Kaiyuan, who had fully vented his emotions, drank tribute tea happily.

"That's certainly a very interesting thing." Gu Fang gave the ancestors a very face-saving smile.

"Isn't it?" The three ancestors told the ins and outs of the matter like a storyteller - I really don't know how the nobles in the palace would feel when they knew that the ancestor they admired had such a character.

"There is a ghost in the palace!" Seeing their mysterious appearance, Gu Fang was too embarrassed to remind them that they are not down-to-earth now.

"A ghost?" Gu Fang guessed from the expectant eyes of the ancestors.

"No." Emperor Kaiyuan put down his cup and shook his head, "I don't see any resentment around her, she is all white, but it looks a bit like..." Emperor Kaiyuan seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly cut off the conversation .

Gu Fang couldn't figure out what was going on with Emperor Kaiyuan for a moment, and when he was about to ask, Emperor Kaiyuan hurriedly called his two younger brothers to follow him to a place.

Gu Fang shrugged his shoulders, looked at the distant backs of the ancestors for a moment, and thought that this probably involved the secrets of the royal family.He also immediately suppressed his curiosity.

Gu Fang thought that he was fine at the moment, so he walked up to the sixth floor of the National Teacher Tower.

As mentioned earlier, the sixth floor of the National Teacher Tower is the place where the national teachers of all dynasties used to watch the stars.According to legend, the national teacher can predict the country's luck by observing the changes in the stars.

But Gu Fang didn't come up to the sixth floor to do these things. He just wanted to see the night sky dotted with bright stars.

Gu Fang stared straight at the big and small stars in the sky, and was fascinated for a while, so he didn't realize that Emperor Kaiyuan came to him at some time.

When he came back to his senses, he realized that Emperor Kaiyuan was standing beside him with his hands behind his back, also looking up at the sky.

"I haven't seen such a bright Ziwei star for a long time." Emperor Kaiyuan sighed.

"Ziweixing?" Gu Fang frowned. Although he didn't know what Emperor Kaiyuan meant when he mentioned Ziweixing, he still knew what Ziweixing represented.

Since ancient times, people have called Ziwei Star the Emperor Star, and Ziwei Star is bright, which may be a good sign for the emperor.

"On the day Zong'er ascended the throne, you should have seen the golden light, right?" Emperor Kaiyuan's voice sounded a bit ethereal.

"Yeah." Gu Fang nodded, "Very dazzling golden light."

"That's right." Emperor Kaiyuan looked rather emotional, "Zong'er is a born emperor. Back then when his bastard father relegated him to the frontier, if Zong'er's fate was not good, otherwise he would not be where he is today."

After hearing this, Gu Fang inevitably thought of the accomplice who caused Lian Zong to be demoted to the frontier, his father.

Just as he was feeling melancholy, he heard Emperor Kaiyuan say again: "Do you want to learn stargazing from me?"

This really startled Gu Fang, when he turned his head, he saw Kai Yuan Emperor stroking his beard and smiling.

After laughing enough, Emperor Kaiyuan explained to Gu Fang that before the founding of the Dayao Dynasty, the Lian family was famous for their ability to watch stars.They determine bad luck and fortune by stargazing, and they have never made a mistake.

Later, because of the chaos of the world, he raised his troops to revolt, defeated the former court in one fell swoop, and established the Dayao Dynasty.Although their star-gazing ability has been passed down, it has become an ability that only national teachers can learn.When it came to the generation of the first emperor, the national teacher did not learn any ability to observe stars because of his background and the severance of the inheritance.

Gu Fang listened carefully to Emperor Kaiyuan telling me these secrets that were not considered secrets, and keenly heard Emperor Kaiyuan's disdain for the previous national teacher.

"How is it? Do you want to learn stargazing from me?" Emperor Kaiyuan had a look of hope in his eyes.

Gu Fang hesitated for a moment and then nodded.He thought that since I have nothing to do all day long in the National Master Pagoda, it would be better to follow Emperor Kaiyuan to learn the skills of stargazing.

Emperor Kaiyuan was very happy to get Gu Fang's consent.He urged Gu Fang to the ancestral hall on the fourth floor of the National Teacher Tower.

In this way, in front of King Jin, King Yan, and other ancestors of the Lian clan, Gu Fang solemnly kowtowed three times to Emperor Kaiyuan, and then poured a cup of tea earnestly. poured into the offering cup.

King Jin and King Yan looked at everything with great interest, their faces full of relief and satisfaction.

After drinking the tea that Gu Fang poured down, Emperor Kaiyuan smiled cheerfully and smirked for a long time, and then told Gu Fang: "When the National Teacher Tower was built, I hid a pamphlet handed down by our Lian clan in the Under the observatory, you go and take it out."

Gu Fang nodded, and followed his master's instructions to find the booklet from under the observatory.

"Stars, constellations, facts, and records." He recognized the words on the booklet word by word, and then opened the booklet following Master's instructions.

However, after reading the first page, he felt a little dizzy and almost couldn't stand up.

Only then did Emperor Kaiyuan realize that with his apprentice's current physical fitness, he had enough mental strength to resist the power hidden in the booklet.So he quickly taught Gu Fang a formula and a set of boxing techniques.He asked Gu Fang to practice boxing with the formula from tomorrow.

Gu Fang knew that his physical fitness was indeed not good, so he practiced boxing meticulously without any complaints.

As his boxing became smoother and smoother, the day when the year was set was getting closer and closer.

In the early morning of this day, Gu Fang practiced boxing as usual on the observatory. After practicing for a while, he was thinking of going back to rest when he saw Lian Zong suddenly appearing on top of the National Teacher Tower like an eagle flying in the air. , and then landed firmly on the observatory.

When Lian Zong came up just now, he saw Gu Fang practicing boxing.He thought, this is another suspicious aspect of Gu Fang.But at the moment he didn't want to say it.

Because from this young man with a rough fate, he can always see his past struggling in the torrent of fate, so he wants to give Gu Fang a chance, and he is willing to wait for Gu Fang to confess to him.

It's a pity that Gu Fang didn't notice Lian Zong's tolerance towards him, he saluted Lian Zong in a regular manner, and now he doesn't speak.

"Excuse me." Lian Zong sighed in his heart, suddenly he didn't want to reveal his purpose so early.He thought of the reports from the palace servants he sent to deliver food to Gu Fang in the past few days, and came up with a plan: "The national teacher has a good appetite recently."

"It's a good place to live, so the appetite is also good." Gu Fang was a little puzzled, but he should be vigilant at all, he squinted his eyes and looked at Lian Zong.

"I have a good appetite, so things are going well." Lian Zong laughed again, "It seems that the national teacher has already thought about my year name, otherwise I wouldn't be so leisurely."

Gu Fang looked a little ugly.If he didn't know that Lian Zong was making fun of him by this time, then he would be too dull.

Thinking of this, Gu Fang's face became more and more ugly, and his eyes became sharper and sharper.

Even Zong saw that Gu Fang's face had turned dark, and knew that he couldn't tease him anymore.

He smiled gently, to relieve some of the atmosphere, he said: "The title of the year is "Yuan Ce"."

"Okay." Gu Fang got what he wanted to know, and ignored Lian Zong still standing on the observatory, turned around and left.

Lian Zong obviously had never been treated like this before, and after being dazed, he found it novel and interesting, so he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

He laughed heartily here, and Gu Fang, who hadn't gone far, was not in such a bright mood, thinking that His Majesty the Emperor is really boring and shameless.