"Xiang Xiang, do you know if two stones, one large and one small, fall from a height at the same time, which one will hit the ground first?"
Fang Xuanling didn't expect that Du Ruhui would come to him today and ask such a childish question.
"Of course the big rocks hit the ground first!"
Du Ruhui narrowed his eyes and smiled: "I wonder if the roommate is willing to make a bet?"
"A bet? What to bet on?"
"Just bet that the last time you were alive, how about the letter I sent you?"
"What if you lose?" Fang Xuanling asked with interest.
"If I lose, I will give you the copybook I won from Bo Shi last time!"
Xin Bengong is Ouyang Xun, and Bo Shi is Yu Shinan. Both of them were very famous calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty.
"Okay!" Du Ruhui heard a good word from Fang Xuanling. Before he could be happy, he heard him continue: "I won't bet!"
Then he looked at Du Ruhui, who had a weird look on his face, and said, "If someone proposes a bet that I can win, then the result will probably be a loss!"
The two were silent for a moment, then burst into laughter.
Fang Moudu, the two of them could be said to have cooperated perfectly in the early Tang Dynasty, so Fang Xuanling would not be so easily fooled.
However, the two stones Du Ruhui mentioned still aroused his interest, so he called a guard and asked him to take two stones and climb to the roof.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Fang Yiai, a tall and tall man, walked out, rubbing his hair.
"You guys, you didn't wake up until now?"
"Isn't it better to sleep at home today than to go out and cause trouble?" Fang Yiai's question made Fang Xuanling, the famous Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, speechless.
"What are you going to do? Throw stones at the roof?"
Fang Xuanling's eyes lit up and he suddenly asked: "Yi Ai, look at these two stones, one big and one small. If they fall from a height at the same time, who will hit the ground first?"
"Hehe, hehe..." Fang Yiai laughed strangely and looked at his father: "Dad, although I don't study well, I'm not stupid. Of course, the older one will land first!"
As he spoke, he pointed at the pebble the size of a bowl in the hand of the house guard. Even a three-year-old child knows something like this, but it would be used to test me in front of Uncle Du. It would be too disrespectful. , if it reaches the ears of Du He and the others, why don’t you laugh at yourself?
"Oh? Are you sure?"
"Naturally sure?"
"Okay!" Fang Xuanling stroked his beard: "How about we make a bet? If the big rock falls to the ground first, then you win and dad will give you the money."
"Okay, okay!" Fang Yiai was overjoyed. Recently, everyone was talking about pooling money to go to Bazhenlou for a meal. She was also worried about how to defraud some money from her family, but she didn't expect that her father, who was always shrewd, actually came up today. Here comes the money for myself.
"What if you lose if you don't listen?"
"No need, we can't lose!" Fang Yiai looked confident.
"Okay! If you lose, you promise not to leave the house until I finish memorizing "The University"."
""University"?" Fang Yiai said with a bitter look on his face: "Dad, there are so many words..."
"You bastard! There are only more than 1,700 words in the university..." Seeing that Du Ruhui was beside him, Fang Xuanling finally suppressed his anger and said with hatred: "Besides, don't you think you will win? ?”
"That's right!" Fang Yiai looked happy. He was sure to win, so why should he worry about the punishment for losing?
So he watched excitedly as the guard climbed onto the roof of his house, holding a stone in each hand and letting go at the same time.
"Poof!" There was a muffled sound, and the two stones fell to the ground at the same time. However, the smaller one started talking again, while the larger one sank slightly into the lawn.
"This... this..." Fang Yiai looked at the two stones suspiciously, then stepped forward to check them personally, and then said in disbelief: "Are you the little stone that you let go of first?"
"If I go back to the young master, the young one really let go of two stones at the same time."
"Get started!" Fang Yiai picked up two stones, stepped on the ladder, and climbed up to the roof.
Look at the two stones held in your left and right hands, take a deep breath, and then let go at the same time.
In just a few seconds, if his eyes that stared hard below were correct, two stones did fall to the ground at the same time.
Unwilling to give up, he jumped down with a sigh, picked up two stones and climbed up again.
"Poof!" They still landed at the same time.
"How about it? I'm willing to admit defeat!" Fang Xuanling looked up at him.
"This...why is this?" Fang Yiai was very puzzled.
"I tell you to read more, read more. If you read enough books, you will know!" Fang Xuanling said pretending to be profound.
Although Fang Yiai was a muddled person, he really made a fool out of his words. He who was willing to admit defeat went back to his room.
"Why is this?" Fang Xuanling picked up two stones and asked Du Ruhui. Although he knew from the moment Du Ruhui made a bet with him, it was definitely not simple, but when he actually saw two stones falling at the same time, it was still a big surprise to him. Very impactful.
"I'm not very sure either!" Du Ruhui shrugged: "I left the city yesterday..."
"Did you go to Shanghe Village?" Fang Xuanling suddenly interrupted him.
"How do you know?" Du Ruhui looked surprised? He went to Shanghe Village yesterday after making a temporary decision and went there without a doubt.
I didn't tell anyone after I went back. As a result, as soon as I left the city today, Fang Xuanling guessed that I had gone to Shanghe Village.
Thinking about his reaction in the court yesterday, Du Ruhui said: "Could it be the prime minister..."
As soon as he started speaking, Fang Xuanling made a silence gesture.
"Fang is expensive, please keep an eye on it, no one is allowed near the study!"
"Fanggui understands!"
Then Fang Xuanling took Du Ruhui into the study.
"Can you see the proprietor of Shanghe Village?"
"Never seen him!" Du Ruhui shook his head: "The children in his village said that he went to the city and had no chance to see him."
"What's going on?" You must know that this is in the Fang Mansion, and Fang Xuanling still looks so nervous, which means that this matter must be unusual.
"You didn't see it?" Fang Xuanling nodded: "No wonder!"
After saying that, he looked around and then whispered: "I went to see him that day... This Tang Ping... looks exactly like His Majesty, especially His Majesty who was young more than 20 years ago!"
"..."
It was quiet in Fang Xuanling's study, and only the sound of two people breathing could be heard.
Originally, Fang Xuanling did not intend to disclose this secret, but the other party was Du Ruhui, and he did not expect that he had just gone to Shanghe Village and Du Ruhui had gone there again.
The key point is that Du Ruhui hasn't met Tang Ping yet, otherwise he might have discovered something fishy. After all, they are both old men who have followed Li Shimin for many years.
He wanted to keep this secret from Du Ruhui. He was really afraid that he would accidentally step on a thunderbolt. His Majesty was as sage as he was. After all, this matter involved royal privacy and would even have an impact on the next generation of successors of the Tang Dynasty. He couldn't help but feel The two of them are not careful.
