"This Taixue is indeed well-deserved. Especially the Six Arts Pavilion, etiquette, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics, really reminds people of some past events." Tong Bo sighed.
"Stop sighing, we have been wandering around here for several hours, and our stomachs are already hungry." An Dafang complained, touching his stomach.
Tong Bo calculated the time in his mind and whispered: "Don't think about eating yet. It's time. Let's go to the Star Gazing Pavilion. Maybe there will be unexpected surprises."
"How can you be sure that you will definitely see Taifu Liang when you go to the Star Gazing Pavilion now?" An Dafang asked in confusion.
"I'm not sure, I'm just trying my luck." Tong Bo smiled mysteriously.
There is a straight corridor from the back of Liuyi Pavilion to the center of Xuanwu Lake, which is the Star Observation Pavilion; if you look down from top to bottom, it looks like an isolated island.
Under the clear night sky, the stars all over the sky make the lake surface sparkle. Sitting cross-legged on the futon in the pavilion is a fat middle-aged man with a Chinese character face, small but bright eyes, and he looks very wise; he is wearing A navy blue gown, although he has reached the age where he knows his destiny, there is not a single white hair on his head.
"Uncle Liang, two more uninvited guests came to see you today. But don't worry, I have sent them away." A white figure floated over, it was the girl who led Tong Bo and An Dafang through the door. ; And sitting cross-legged on the futon is Liang Chong, the current imperial master.
Liang Chong picked up a bronze wine flask with his left hand and poured himself a full glass of wine. He shook his head and said with a smile, "That's not necessarily the case. If you two little brothers don't dislike me for being a bad drinker, why don't you come and have a drink together."
"Tong Bo, the humble guard of the Xuanwu Academy of the Jingwei Mansion, guards Chang'an Dafang, pays homage to Taifu Liang." As soon as Liang Chong finished speaking, Tong Bo and An Dafang arrived shortly after.
"You, haven't you already left?" The girl pouted and thought for a moment: "The two brothers are too bad. You noticed from the beginning that I was not far away from you, but you still deliberately wandered around the house. A big circle, and then he pretended to leave and lied to me."
"Actually, with the girl's body and the convenient location in this school, it is not difficult to hide beside us without being discovered; but the orchid purse that the girl wears with her gives us an advantage, and we can feel it through the fragrance. The existence of girls." Tong Bo smiled.
"The fragrance of orchids is so refreshing and elegant that it can't possibly float ten feet away." The girl seemed not to believe what Tong Bo said.
"Girl, if you look at what's on your hairband, you'll know what's going on?" Liang Chong suddenly reminded him.
The girl stretched out a jade hand and touched the ribbon, took off an inch-long wooden hairpin, put it in front of her nose and sniffed: "It turns out that the divine fragrance painted on this wooden hairpin diffused the smell of orchids, how about this brother?" Jun’s technique.”
"Girl, you are in trouble this time." Liang Chong looked at the girl with a loving face: "This girl is Liu Ningshi, the daughter of Liu Yuanzhi, the official secretary of the dynasty. Although she is a little naughty, she has no malice. Don’t be offended, brother.”
An Dafang looked at the girl infatuatedly and said, "Miss Ningshi is kind-hearted and introduced us to visit the Grand Tutor. It's too late for us to be grateful, so how can we be surprised?"
Tong Bo coughed a few times: "Chief An, do you think we can get down to business?"
Tong Bo and An Dafang knelt on the two futons opposite Liang Chong, while Liu Ningshi knelt on the futon to the left of Liang Chong.
The three of them each drank a glass of wine, and Liang Chong half-squinted his eyes: "I wonder what the two little brothers have to do with me?"
An Dafang respectfully took out Xiao Shiyu's autographed letter and handed it over: "Master, please read it."
Liang Chong took the letter, opened it, read it for a moment, and said with a smile: "My student has many capable people around him, and I have not been interested in world affairs for a long time, so why do the two little brothers need to ask about it?"
An Dafang became anxious when he heard this: "Please help me, Master, otherwise I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to do my job when I get back."
Tong Bo bowed his hands and said: "Master, you are too modest. If others have the solution to this matter, then why would your students send me and I to ask for advice? Please feel free to give me some advice."
Liang Chong looked back at Liu Ningshi with a smile on his face, and Liu Ningshi said knowingly: "You three are not enjoying yourself while drinking like this, how about the little girl playing a song to cheer you up?"
Liang Chong immediately put his hands on his hands and laughed loudly: "The two little brothers are really blessed today. This girl is good at playing the piano and dancing. She usually doesn't perform for others easily."
Liu Gazing became shy when Liang Chong said this, and said coquettishly: "Uncle Liang, if you say that again, I won't play anymore."
"We are very much looking forward to the girl's outstanding performance, so we ask the girl to do something difficult for her." An Dafang quickly advised Liu Ningshi, fearing that she would really regret it.
Tong Bo said nothing and said to himself: "This security guard really doesn't know the importance of it and easily fell into someone else's trap. Anyway, now we can only take one step at a time and watch one step at a time."
Just as Tong Bo was thinking, two imperial scholars wearing white gowns and white scholar hats carried a large guzheng and placed it on the bluestone platform in the upper left corner of the pavilion.
This zheng is made of fine redwood. The twenty-one silk strings have also been dyed vermilion, which complements the redwood. A phoenix spreading its wings is engraved on the surface of the zheng, making the zheng look solemn and solemn. One body.
"Feihuang Zheng, the girl is indeed extraordinary." Tong Bo looked up inadvertently and recognized this famous ancient zheng at a glance, but he became even more alert.
After hearing this, Liu Ningshi smiled lightly and stood upright in front of the Feihuang Zheng. She lightly stroked the surface of the Zheng with her jade hand, making a sound like water: "Ningshi will play a song for the three of them out of Jingnan." .”
In the small village, the sound of gurgling streams, children playing in groups of three or five, and laughter, the rhythm of Liu Ning's poems seemed to be reflected in Tong Bo's mind like a real scene, creating an unprecedented warmth. feeling.
But suddenly, the tune changed, and people in the small villages left their homes and were forced to migrate. There were bursts of crying from children, and the sound of swords and soldiers dancing was mixed with the sound of clanking, clanging, clanging, clanking, clanking, clanging, clanking, clanking, clanking, clanking, clanging, and clanking.
At first, the stargazing pavilion was filled with white notes, but now it was replaced by a group of black notes.
Tong Bo's internal energy moved according to his heart, rushing from his Dantian to the Baihui point on his head. He felt a bang in his head and regained consciousness instantly: "This is the Phantom Sound Technique, it almost hit her."
"Uncle Liang, they are all asleep, let's go." Liu Ningshi made a closing movement, and the notes that originally filled the air suddenly disappeared.
Liang Chong opened his slightly closed eyes and praised: "Girl, your zheng skills are getting better and better. I really don't have enough to say."
"But I really don't want to play this kind of music many times. Every time I will think of the sad things in the past." There were tiny tears in the eyes of Liu Ningshi, who was originally cheerful.
"It's been so many years, can't you forget what happened before?" Liang Chong sighed and looked at Liu Ningshi with pity.
"Young lady is really good at playing the zither. I'm so lucky to hear this music today. Mr. Liang, it would be too stingy for you to drink such a good soul-soothing wine alone." Tong Bo suddenly opened his closed eyes, The conversation between the two was interrupted at the right time.
"You? Why didn't you fall asleep?" Liu Ningshi put away her tears and looked at Tong Bo in surprise, not knowing what to say.
"Hahahaha." Liang Chong laughed: "This little brother has shown himself to be extraordinary since he entered the Imperial Academy. He can see through everything. I haven't met such an interesting person in a long time."
"Hmph, I don't believe it." Liu Ningshi said coquettishly: "What do you mean when you say Uncle Liang drank the soul-killing wine alone? Didn't you drink together?"
"Why is Taifu a literati who listened to the girl's music as if nothing happened? So I concluded that there was something hidden in the bronze wine pot. The wine we drank and Taifu's wine were basically two different kinds of wine. As for why it was said to be suppressed. Soul wine, because this is the only wine in the world today that can completely resist the girl's Phantom Sound Skill." Tong Bo said with a smile.
Liang Chong said with a smile: "Since this little brother can listen to the music of the zheng without getting confused, it shows that he is determined and determined. He can follow me into the study room to talk. Girl, please take care of the other little brother here."
Liu Ningshi nodded obediently and smiled sweetly at Tong Bo: "I will discuss with this brother another day when I have time."
"I'll keep you company." Tong Bo cupped his hands towards Liu Ningshi and followed Liang Chong away.
Liang Chong's study room is simple and grand. Bamboo slips all over the room are neatly arranged on the surrounding bookshelves. The four-character regular script "Beware of haste and use patience" is hung on the wall of the study room.
The two of them sat in the center of the study on separate seats. Liang Chong was the first to speak: "I accept your request, but before that, I also ask my little brother to agree to something."
Tong Bo was surprised and said: "I wonder what the master said?"
Liang Chong said solemnly: "If this girl Ning Shi encounters danger in the future, please help her at the most critical moment."
"My humble position is just an ordinary night guard. Why does Taifu think that I can help Miss Liu?" Tong Bo asked in confusion.
"I have read countless people in my life, so I still have some confidence. I just don't know what my little brother wants?" Liang Chong was looking forward to Tong Bo's answer.
Tong Bo shook his head and smiled bitterly: "There is really no free lunch in this world. All you have to do is humble your position and obey your orders."
Liang Chong nodded, took out a map, and hung it on the wooden screen: "Little brother, please look at this, this is my homemade map of nine states in the world."
Tong Bo looked at the map of Kyushu carefully and praised: "Taifu is really a great talent. He has drawn the cities, ports, mountains and rivers of Jiuzhou in the world so vividly."
"Little brother, I'm so impressed. The two places your Majesty asked about, Dengcheng and Fancheng, are the choke points for Yan and Wei to move south." Liang Chong clicked on the map with his finger: "And their strategy is also very clear. They want to pass through The method of long-term infiltration is used to achieve the goal of defeating the enemy without fighting."
"What I don't understand is why Yan and Wei seemed to have discussed it this time and were so united that they each chose a position that was beneficial to their country." Tong Bo raised his doubts.
Liang Chong praised: "Good question! Yan and Wei must have reached some kind of agreement in private. So the first step we have to do is to disrupt their deployment and create conflicts between them. Second, build public security In the harbor, we will build more warships; when the time is right, we will attack Jiangling and advance to Xiangyang."
"Cai Yong, the pastor of Jingzhou, is not an ordinary person. If he knows about such a big move of shipbuilding, he will definitely fall to Yan and Wei." Tong Bo touched his chin thoughtfully.
"So shipbuilding must be carried out secretly." Liang Chong continued to point his finger at Dongting Port: "This is the best place."
Tong Bo nodded and bowed: "What the Grand Tutor said is absolutely true. Please write a letter and submit it to Your Majesty from my humble position as to how to do it."
