Zhongyu, Royal Academy.
On the day he received the emperor's decree, Xia Yuan arranged for someone to convey the palace's decision to all the students and teachers in the academy.
Even as he and Nalan Kunxuan matured, they never expected that the emperor would make such a decision.
Nalan Kunxuan looked at Xia Yuan and laughed loudly: "Man's calculation is really inferior to God's calculation. You thought you were very smart, but you didn't expect that your nephew was more ruthless. Are you dumbfounded this time?
Xia Yuan didn't care. He looked at him and smiled lightly: "It really surprised me that he made such a decision, but if you think about it carefully, it does relieve us of our responsibilities."
"If any student wants to go to Southern Xinjiang, no one needs to stop him. The moment he leaves, he will no longer be a student of the Royal Academy."
"In this way, I estimate that those young men and ladies will give up the idea of going to southern Xinjiang. Firstly, they have to give up their status as a royal academy. Secondly, they have to start from the lowest level of soldiers. How many children can afford it?" Those hardships?”
Nalan Kunxuan shook his head and sighed.
"If you give up everything now, how can you get future fame? Those who can figure this out will naturally go ahead. Neither you nor I can persuade you."
"If you don't understand, let them continue to stay and they won't dare to cause us any trouble in the future. This is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone. Why wouldn't I do it?"
Although Xia Yuan was speechless about the emperor's decision, he couldn't help but secretly admire it. He couldn't think of anything with just one move.
Nalan Kunxuan looked at Xia Yuan, and suddenly said mysteriously: "Do you think that little girl Shangguan Wushuang will give up her identity as the Emperor's Academy and go to southern Xinjiang to find that boy Li Ye?"
"That's the Imperial Master, not that kid!" Yuan turned around and glared at him fiercely.
"Okay, okay, it's the Imperial Master! Do you think so?"
"How can an old lady like you and me guess what is going on in a girl today? If her identity were changed, she might be able to let go of her identity and go to southern Xinjiang. Unfortunately, what she wants to find is a national master. Well, who knows?"
Xia Yuan shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Yes, the national preceptor transformed from a lay disciple of Prajna Temple to the imperial preceptor overnight. This girl did not seize the opportunity. When the little monk became the national preceptor, what was placed in front of her was no longer the same thing. The threshold is reached.”
Nalan Kunxuan couldn't help but let out a long sigh as he thought about what happened when Nalan Yu and Li Ye passed by the Royal Academy.
The perfect match before her eyes was easily missed by this wayward girl.
"Do you want me to go talk to that girl?" Nalan Kunxuan looked at Xia Yuan and asked with a frown.
"What are you going to say? That she shouldn't let the Imperial Master leave that day? Or persuade her to give up her identity as a Royal Academy? You also know that her identity was given to her by that girl from Wutong."
Xia Yuan glared at Nalan Kunxuan and warned.
"Forget it, leave everything to fate." The old man sighed again.
...
Inside the cabin of the Royal Academy.
Wang Shuanghua, the granddaughter of the left prime minister Wang Mingyi, looked at Long Qiuyun, the granddaughter of the right prime minister Long Jingyun, and said: "Qiuyun, the decree from the palace has come down. We are required to give up our qualifications as academy students to go to southern Xinjiang, and we have to start from the bottom. Starting as a soldier, will you go?"
Long Qiuyun frowned and looked at her, shook his head and replied: "I didn't really want to go in the first place. It was because you wanted me to accompany you. At the moment, it seems that not going is the best choice."
"I don't care if I give up my qualification as a student of the Royal Academy, but if I start from the lowest level as a soldier, I can't do it. After all, you and I are both practitioners of the Golden Core Realm."
"I think so too. I heard from my grandpa that a monk at the Golden Core Realm can be a junior general in the army. How can he be a recruit like us?"
Wang Shuanghua pouted, looking dissatisfied.
"Forget it, let's just stay in the academy and practice. If anyone wants to go, let's not stop them." Long Qiuyun said with a smile.
"Well, I'll just listen to you. The two of us will practice well here." Wang Shuanghua finally made up his mind.
...
In another wooden house.
Linghu Shanshan, the granddaughter of Zhongshu Linghu Kuangyu, was guarding the brazier and chatting with Xia Shiyu, the daughter of Xia Wenliang, the guard minister of Zhang Luanyi, and Zhuge Tianhong, the granddaughter of Zhuge Yuanqiu, the internal minister, while eating melon seeds.
"Tianhong and Shiyu, what do you two think? Should you give up your identity and join the army in southern Xinjiang?"
Linghu Shanshan asked with a smile while adding charcoal to the brazier.
"Me? It doesn't matter to me first of all, but I want to be a recruit. I heard that recruits are very hard. I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it!"
Xia Shizheng frowned and replied while throwing the melon seed shells in his hands into the brazier.
Zhuge Tianhong glared at her, patted her little hand and said: "How can you throw melon seed shells into the brazier? It stinks."
Looking back at Linghu Shan, she smiled and said, "I don't care, I'll go if you go."
Linghu Shanshan looked at the two people and said cautiously: "My grandfather wrote to me to advise me not to go to Southern Xinjiang. He said that although there are several victorious battles at the moment, the real cruelty is the decisive battle after the spring. It is estimated that Southern Xinjiang The soldiers will die and injure many people..."
The implication is that I don't want to die in vain.
Xia Shiyu clapped her hands and looked at the two of them with a smile: "So, the three of us have decided to stay. Now that we have decided, we don't need to worry about it anymore. When the college has a holiday in a few days, we will go back to the imperial city together. Bar."
The two women nodded in agreement.
...
Wang Tianhua, the youngest son of Liubu Shangshu, and Tang Shaosi, grandson of Liubu Minister Tang Hualong, were warming themselves shyly in the wooden house of Wei Qingyu, the youngest daughter of Hussar General Wei Xian. The three of them were also discussing whether to join the army in southern Xinjiang.
"Tianhua, do you really want to give up your status as an academy and go to southern Xinjiang to become a soldier?"
Tang Shaosi took out two boxes of pastries, opened them and put them on the table, picked one and stuffed it into his mouth, and asked vaguely.
"Fat Tang, do you want to go to southern Xinjiang with me to exercise and get rid of all the fat on your body?"
Wang Tianhua looked at Tang Shaosi and laughed jokingly.
Tang Shaosi rolled his eyes at him and replied lazily: "My father said it's okay to go, and asked me to give him a grandson first. Where can I go to find a girl who satisfies him and me?" It’s time to give birth. It’s estimated that by the time I find and complete the mission, the war in southern Xinjiang will be over long ago.”
After saying this, I couldn't help but sigh. After all, the children of these royal families still have to listen to their parents and be controlled by their families.
Wang Tianhua glanced at Tang Shaosi with disgust, turned around and asked, "Qingyu, do your parents agree with you going? It's not as comfortable as the academy, and there will be casualties on the battlefield."
Wei Qingyu raised his head and glanced at the two of them. After a long time, he replied softly: "Even if you want to go now, I'm afraid it's too late. I received a letter from home today. The internal minister Zhuge Yuanqiu has led the army to southern Xinjiang. "
After saying that, he sighed quietly.
Wang Tianhua was stunned, patted the table, and said: "So what? Even if I have one person and one horse, I can go to southern Xinjiang to join the army! How can an ordinary man stand still when his family and country are in trouble?"
Tang Shaosi raised his thumb and said, "Brother Wang is a righteous man. If you don't obey anyone else, I will obey you!"
"In that case, let's make preparations and leave in a few days. It's best to find a few companions with us."
Wei Qingyu laughed lightly, as if he had known that Wang Tianhua would be like this.
"Qingyu, you want to go to Southern Xinjiang with Wang Shi, can you do it as a girl?" Tang Shaosi looked at her with his mouth wide open.
Wei Qingyu smiled, looked at the two of them and said, "I'm not that stupid. My mother asked me to find the sister of the Imperial Preceptor. She is now the Princess of Nanyun. Who can I look for if I'm not a girl?"
"Do you really believe that the national division will throw me into the new recruits' camp? Anyway, I don't believe it."
"I also know this. I heard that the imperial master did not want a reward for his great achievements, so the emperor had no choice but to canonize his two sisters as princesses. This is an explanation to the soldiers in southern Xinjiang." Wang Tianhua said with a smile.
"Tch, you only know one thing. Princess Nanyun relied on her own ability to force the emperor to make her a general. If it weren't for her being a girl, she would have been made a general long ago."
Wei Qingyu looked at the two people and said quietly.
"So powerful? It made my heart beat." Tang Shaosi exclaimed.
Wei Qingyu rolled her eyes at him and said with a smile: "That's why I decided to go to Southern Xinjiang. I have to strive for my own fame instead of relying on my parents' blessings."
Wang Tianhua nodded and said in a solemn voice: "When there is a war, there will be an opportunity. If you seize the opportunity, you can make unparalleled military exploits. There has been no war in the five regions for decades. I don't want to lose such an opportunity."
"Then you two, you have to protect me from now on. Remember, I'm against you. I want to go too, but my family won't let me!" Tang Shaosi looked at the two of them with helpless expressions on their faces.
"Okay, you should practice hard in the academy. If there is a girl you like, find a girl and go home quickly. Complete the mission of your parents. Only then can you go out with us if you have another chance."
Wang Tianhua patted his shoulder and looked at him like a resentful woman who was thinking about her husband behind closed doors.
Wei Qingyu couldn't help but laugh out loud.
...
At ten o'clock at night, in the little sister's wooden house.
Dongfang Yu'er and Su Qingyue were also sitting by the brazier, and Su Qingyue was chatting with Xu Jingyun.
Dongfang Yu'er looked at the sad-looking young lady and asked distressedly: "Sister, you don't want to give up your status in the academy and go to southern Xinjiang, do you?"
The young lady raised her head and looked at Fang Fang Yu'er. She thought for a long time but was speechless.
"The places for my sister and I were given to me by Princess Wutong. She didn't come on her own, so she asked the dean for an extra place for me and two. You also know this!" Dongfang Yu'er reached out and held the little girl's hand. Sister's hand.
The young lady looked up at Xu Jingyun, wanting to get the answer from her eyes.
Xu Jingyun shook her head, looked at her and said quietly: "From that day on, I said that I will no longer make decisions about your affairs. From now on, you will need to make your own decisions on everything between you and the Imperial Master."
The young lady looked at Dongfang Yu'er tenderly and said in a low voice: "My heart is so confused. Now that guy is already a national master. If I give up my status in the academy, I will only have my status in the general's palace." Already..."
The young lady regretted not keeping Li Ye when he came to see him. If Li Ye had not conferred the title of Imperial Master, everything would have been saved in time.
"Since you have thought so clearly, do you still want me to give you advice? To be honest, I have forgotten his appearance."
"When we meet again, we will probably not be able to recognize each other. I regret that my mother went to him to break off the engagement... So what if I regret it? We always have to face the life in front of us and in the future."
After experiencing Li Ye's amazing song in Huamanlou, Dongfang Yu'er did regret it very much, but in the blink of an eye, she thought that she was already the imperial concubine, and finally found some balance.
However, she was so scheming that she did not tell the young lady what happened that night. After all, in her opinion, it was best for both of them to leave the guy and let him get nothing.
The thoughts of a girl are terrible. What I didn’t get, sister, give up too!
We leave him together.
The young lady never thought that Dongfang Yu'er would have such thoughts. She thought that the girl in front of her was still the girl who followed her to play with Li Ye. She was innocent and romantic, as pure as a glass of spring water.
"Let me think about it again. This matter can't be rushed anyway. I heard that Master Zhuge has already led his army to southern Xinjiang. Even if I want to go, I have to find a companion."
The young lady sighed again and said quietly.
"Sister, please be happy. Don't sigh all day long. You will grow old quickly!" Dongfang Yu'er warned her.
Su Qingyue didn't expect that her disciple would talk about young lady like this, so she said softly: "Yu'er, you can't talk to your senior sister like this. After a long time, you will naturally forget some things, and you won't be in a hurry for everything."
Xu Jingyun nodded and said calmly: "Senior sister is right, time is a good medicine, it will heal all wounds and will also forget many stories."
The young lady looked up at the three of them, not knowing what to say.
The wind is tight outside, the north wind is blowing hard, and the last snowstorm in winter is said to be the coldest.
