Half blood

Chapter 2

What should come still has to come, Yinshi is just over, the sky outside the house is still slightly bright, and it is gray, Li Xuan got up from the bed, wiped his face with a hot towel, did not even take a sip of porridge, and was beaten by several eunuchs Take it to the school to meet the new master.

The new master bent his waist, his eyes were cloudy like a layer of fog, sunken in the eye sockets that were only leather, he stood in front of the table in the hall, and saluted Li Xuan.This frightened Li Xuan, he didn't want the new master to bend his waist because of bowing to him on the first day, and he hurriedly returned the bow, only to find that his back seemed to be bent after bending down.

Li Xuan thought that he got up early enough today, but he didn't expect that there were already five or six people sitting in this hall, and he was the last to arrive.Sitting in the hall are the children of important ministers in the court, who said they were studying with him, but in fact they were just studying together and being a companion.Li Fei was the only girl in the whole hall.

Li Xuan went to his seat and sat down, Li Fei at the side elbowed him and said, "Did you read the book I gave you yesterday?"

Li Xuan was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head blankly.There were as many characters in the book as there were ants. He just read a line "It will also benefit our country", and he became impatient. He threw the book aside and went to play chess with Zhou Gong. However, he was not good at chess. Lost a few games in a row.

Li Fei covered her mouth and smiled, and said, "I knew it, it depends on what you do today."

He scratched his head, thinking, what can we do now, let's read a few lines quickly.He hurriedly opened the book in his hand, but he didn't see a line, and his eyes drifted to a young man sitting on his left. The young man was wearing a light blue cotton shirt, and his black hair was neatly tied in a hair crown. , the shoulders are a little thin.He seems to have seen this person somewhere.

The young man seemed to feel his gaze, turned around and smiled at him with a good temper.Li Xuan was out of breath now, it turned out that this person was the smart guy under the tree that day.

He bulged his eyes at the young man's back, and thought to himself, it really wasn't that enemies didn't get together.

"Please tell us your opinion on this section, Your Highness the First Prince."

Li Xuan heard the old master suddenly call his name, quickly regained his composure, raised his head, and saw that the old master was kindly waiting for his advice.There was a trace of cold sweat on his forehead, he lowered his head, read two lines on the book, and said: "Well, well, I think, I think what he said is very reasonable, especially, especially this sentence:'Gou Wei Benefit first after righteousness, do not seize or be satisfied." It means that if you put interests before morality, you will become insatiable."

The old master narrowed his eyes, nodded, and said, "Your Highness, your answer is very good. This sentence, 'If you want to benefit after the righteousness, don't take away or be satisfied.' is the essence of Chapter 1." Li Xuan heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, and thought to himself, this blind cat caught a dead mouse, and it was the right thing to do.

There was a burst of suppressed laughter in the hall, and the old master went on to say: "Although Chapter 1 of a book is the essence, we still need to see what is worth learning from later, so for what we have studied today What do you guys think of this chapter?"

It was only then that Li Xuan realized that his answer was incorrect, and the master had already left the topic behind.Li Fei pushed him with his elbow, gave him thumbs up, and gestured with his mouth: You are really good.Li Xuan blushed, secretly glanced at the pages of other people's books, and hurriedly turned a few pages back.

"What do you think, Ninth Prince?"

The young man got up, saluted, and replied: "The essence of this book is not in the first stanza, but in the second chapter, which says, 'The people are the most important, the community is second, and the king is the least.'" After hearing this, Li Xuan hurriedly read I flipped through the book back and forth again, but I couldn't find this sentence.

The old master was taken aback when he heard this, wiped the sweat from his temples, shook the book in his hand, and stood in front of the desk speechlessly.Then he made a fist with one hand, covered his mouth and pretended to cough a few times, and said: "This is not from "Mencius", the Ninth Prince confused it."

The boy didn't say any more, he saluted and sat back.

The master fake coughed a few more times, cleared his throat, and said: "Please read the next chapter, it will make people see clearly..."

Still unwilling to give up, Li Xuan flipped through a few pages of the book in his hand, but he still couldn't find the words. He raised his eyes and took a peek at the young man, and saw that the young man was reading intently: "Mencius said:' A sage makes people shine with his clarity, but now he makes people shine with his obscurity.'”

He elbowed Li Fei, who was reading beside him, and said, "Did you find this sentence?"

Li Feichan frowned slightly, shook her head, and said, "I can recite this book from beginning to end. There is no such sentence in the book. He must have confused it."

Li Xuan nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Do you know who that person is?"

Li Fei frowned, and asked impatiently, "Who?"

"That's the one!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed cautiously.

"Oh, he. He belongs to the Ninth Prince's family. His name seems to be Li Xiuqi."

"Li Xiuqi," Li Xuan silently recited the name in his heart, and then asked, "Why have you never seen him?"

Li Fei shrank her body inward so that his elbows could not push him down, frowned, and said: "How do I know this, you should review your books quickly, you won't know anything if you don't wait a while."

After hearing this, Li Xuan sat up straight and began to read, "Mencius said: 'The sages make people shine with their vigor, but now they make people shine with their faintness.'" As he read it, he turned his eyes to That young man thought to himself, so this smart guy also has his fork on his back sometimes.

At the end of the class, the master left today's homework and asked to write this Mencius silently, and then make a fu to talk about his own opinions.

Li Xuan looked at the white paper and really wanted to cry without tears, how could he remember the words in that book, and how could he squeeze out a piece of poetry.Seeing his classmates leaving one after another, he couldn't help feeling anxious. He put the tip of the pen on his forehead and tapped it lightly, trying to knock out a Wenquxing to help him.

"His Royal Highness," a thin voice came from behind, he turned his head, and it turned out to be He Fang, the son of the Shangshu family. The boy was smaller than him, with a few small freckles on his face, he whispered : "Your Highness, would you like to see my answer?"

Li Xuan glanced at the densely written paper, looked at it a few times, and thought that such behavior is the behavior of a villain, turned around, shook his head, and said, "No need... no need..."

"Is it really unnecessary? You, you haven't written a single word on this paper..."

"Really, it's really unnecessary." Li Xuan moved the blank paper inside and covered it with his wide sleeves.Racking his brains, he wrote down a few words on the paper, sighed, and thought to himself, let's just treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

After writing, he handed the paper to the master, saluted, and prepared to leave.The master called him to stop, his cloudy eyes were flickering evasively, he held the book in his hand and twisted it, his tongue seemed to be knotted, rolled in his mouth, hesitating, Said: "Your Highness, don't worry about what happened today..."

Li Xuan thought that the master was talking about his embarrassment in class, so he quickly waved his hands and said that this matter should not be taken to heart.The old master breathed a sigh of relief as if he had been pardoned, and wiped off the cold sweat that oozed from his forehead.

The ugly daughter-in-law still has to see her parents-in-law. Li Zhengya was so angry that her nose was crooked when she saw the poems handed in by Li Xuan, "You! You! Look at what you wrote?" He poked his forehead hard.

"You don't even know how to write from memory. Why do you have a brain for everything? This is the most basic thing. You can't even do this. Isn't it half illiterate?"

The queen on the side looked at it and felt sorry for her son, so she said: "Xuan'er is still young, how can I wake up now? When I get older in the future, I will naturally know." Li Zhengya pushed the scroll in front of the queen, and the queen read it. , His complexion also changed.

Li Zhengya said: "I'm still young, Li Xiuqi is only two years older than him, look at what he wrote, the pen is strong. It's not like him, a three-year-old child playing house...... I can't even write the words written silently, let alone the writing That's a gift, I don't even want to read it." While speaking, he tore the scroll in half from the middle and threw it on the ground.

Li Xuan knelt down, his eyes were red, he couldn't help but squeezed his fist on the ground, raised his head and said angrily: "Then you go and have a precious son like him. Do you think I want to be a prince? Do you think I want to be your son?"

"You bastard, you bastard!" Li Zhengya slapped the table heavily, and shouted loudly, "You bastard, you bastard! Come, come, bring me my whip."

The eunuch in the hall hurried down to bring the whip to Li Zhengya. Li Zhengya grabbed the long whip and swung it viciously to the ground in front of Li Xuan. The whip was made of cowhide and made a whoosh when it fell to the ground.

Li Xuan knelt on the spot without moving his body, his back was straight, his eyes were looking straight at Li Zhengya, his eyes were like a rebellious horse, always ready to throw the horse trainer off his body.

This look enraged Li Zhengya, he let out a whip and hit Li Xuan's body, the whip tore apart the clothes on his back with a whizzing sound, and the skin inside also split open to reveal bloody flesh.Li Xuan clenched his teeth and heels, and forced back the tears in his eyes, still staring and refusing to bow his head.

After a few whips, Li Zhengya was still puzzled. He threw the whip aside, grabbed his ear with one hand, and shouted sharply at his ear: "Don't think that I can't do anything to you with only your son. I'll tell you , you'd better give me some strength."

Li Zhengya sent his hand forward, and Li Xuan fell to the ground at once. Li Zhengya walked past him, and added before leaving, "You should learn from Li Xiuqi, do you hear me! Look at your Ghostly."

Li Xuan was lying on the ground, he felt a bloody smell coming from his mouth, he propped up his body with one hand, his arms trembling and got up from the ground, he thought to himself, okay, okay, where did you put it? Am I your son?That smart guy Li Xiuqi is your precious son, right? Please, I just want to give his precious son some flair.