The front office hall has never been quiet since last night, while the back office hall is surprisingly quiet.
Two scholars sent by Dongping University resigned from the side door of the back office after running into trouble again.
The two brought the news of being rejected back to Dongping Academy, and the faces of several gentlemen turned ugly.
Since this morning, this is the fifth time someone has been sent to Dongping Academy but has not been able to enter.
In addition to the gentlemen, Songyuntang also had several students who were close to the gentlemen on weekdays.
Hearing this, these students couldn't hold their breath at all. Some of them started to curse, and they also cursed their dissatisfaction with the study of the world.
If someone takes the lead, others will follow, and then more will follow.
There are broken Xiuqinghe porcelain incense burners on all sides of Songyun Hall, and what is burning at this time is the fragrance of pear water in the sleeves.
The fragrance is calming and elegant, but it obviously cannot calm the impetuous students at this time.
Guo Guan sat in front of his office desk, looking out the window without blinking, losing his usual energy and looking slightly sluggish.
Ever since the yamen guard knocked on the door last night to deliver a message, he had been on pins and needles and hadn't slept all night.
Now that the sun was at the top of the sky, the sun was shining on everything outside the window. He felt that it was particularly dazzling, and his eyes were stung with pain.
The students in the lobby were getting more and more angry, and the gentlemen tried to comfort them with a few words of comfort, but in vain.
Suddenly, a student ran in from outside and shouted excitedly: "Teacher, teacher, guess who is here!"
Everyone turned to look.
The student who came running said: "It's the eldest son of Zheng Bei! The eldest son of Zheng Guogong is here! Mr. Zhan Chen is very happy!"
There was silence in the lobby for a moment, as if there was no response.
"The Crown Prince!" Mr. Yun Cong stepped forward, "Is this really the Crown Prince Zhao?!"
Several other gentlemen also became excited and walked away one after another.
Guo Guan turned to look at them without expression.
The name Zhao Xun was not unfamiliar to Guo Guan. In addition to the fact that he had personally touched the names of the gentlemen of the academy, these gentlemen themselves would also mention it from time to time.
When he was in Beijing, Zhao Gong would send someone to deliver something good to the academy. Whenever the gentlemen in the academy had any inconvenience or needed to socialize, whenever they came to Zhao Gong, Zhao Gong would be very forthcoming, respond to requests, and act swiftly. Therefore,
In Dongping University, he was deeply popular.
As the gentlemen said this, they all left, and most of the students in Songyun Hall followed suit.
A student looked towards Guo Guan: "See you again, sir, aren't you going?"
Guo Guan waved his hand: "I'm not going."
The students said goodbye to him and left.
Guo looked back out the window, his sleepy mind spinning very slowly.
After a while, he belatedly remembered that the Dukes of Zheng and Ding had been friends for generations, and even had similar fates. Although Zheng Bei's army was not as tragic as Xia's army, there were not many people left.
Now, Zhao Yu suddenly appears in Hengxiang. Is it a coincidence that he went to study in the world, or is it related to the witch?
Thinking of the witch, Guo Guan's eyes sharpened and his fingers tightened slightly.
That witch is not the real Xia family, her surname must be Qiao!
The savage and reckless men of the Xia Family Army who only had muscles but no brains were fooled by her. The heir to the Duke of Zheng’s Palace would not be so stupid as well?
He had to find an opportunity to test her, and then think of a way to let Prince Zhao discover on his own that there was something wrong with the witch.
Guo Guan immediately stood up, turned around and was about to walk out, but he tripped over something. He was frightened and hurriedly tried to hold the bookcase, but failed to hold it steady. He fell heavily on the Canglang-colored shadow branch carpet on the floor.
Several students who had not left the hall rushed over to help him.
Guo Guan turned around and looked at the thing that tripped him. His eyes widened for a moment, he exclaimed and grabbed a student's arm.
"Sir?!" Several students were frightened by his appearance.
A man went over to pick up something on the ground, looked back and forth, and said, "It seems to be a quiver, but it has such strange patterns."
"Sir, it's just a quiver." The student supporting Guo Guan said.
"Perhaps, I saw Mr. Guo and recognized it as a snake skin at a glance." A student tried to make up for Guo Guan.
Guo Guan slowed down, stretched out his hand and said, "Bring it to me and see."
The student handed over the quiver in his hand.
Guo Guan frowned and looked at the pattern on it, his heartbeat still racing rapidly.
This is not an ordinary pattern, it is the gold floating on the eight coffins of Qu Anling.
On the back, there is the arrow pattern that Guo Guan is more familiar with.
The weapons of the lord's dead soldiers were all made by the Jin family's children, including arrows.
The arrows come from the same batch of molds, and the patterns on the molds have been used since the previous dynasty. The pattern on the arrows is now engraved on the back of the quiver.
"Who put it here?" Guo Guan asked, "I didn't see it when I came here today. Who put this thing here?"
Several students looked at me and I looked at you, shaking their heads.
Outside, Dong Yanjiang's back was pressed against the corner under the west window lattice, his heart beating rapidly.
But the heartbeat is very fast and very exciting.
Seeing that Guo Guanzhen was so frightened, he smiled happily, quietly got up and left, running away to do business.
Almost all the gentlemen from Dongping Academy came to the reception hall with the highest standard in the academy.
Mr. Zhan Chen had a lot of emotions in his heart, and he rarely showed his emotions to outsiders. At this time, he said a basket of words to reminisce about the past.
It's not that the two of them haven't corresponded in these years, but in troubled times, letters come and go without talking, which takes time and time, and letters are often lost along the way.
The other gentlemen also became more and more sad as they talked, but Zhao Qi also changed from the carelessness and carelessness of the past, and started to stir up emotions as soon as he sat down. The gentlemen beside him wet their sleeves with tears and kept wiping them.
In the end, everyone was crying and mourning. Zhao Xun rolled his eyes while bringing water and drinking tea.
It's not that he doesn't like these gentlemen, it's that he doesn't like the scene of meeting again after a long absence, crying and being so disgusting, God, it will kill him.
This was the reason why he didn't come to visit Hengxiang when he first arrived. He had hated these social interactions and rhetoric since he was a child.
but now……
Zhao Xun took off the tea lid, his beautiful sword-shaped eyebrows instantly twisted back into his splayed eyebrows, and he said with emotion: "Teachers are serious, my hardships in Zhengbei are nothing compared to the hardships my teachers have to endure in troubled times! Our home and country are in disarray,
Relatives and friends are separated, ah! How sad my heart is!"
All the gentlemen continued to wipe away their tears.
Some students covered their faces and cried bitterly.
"Ah, by the way," Zhao Yun's voice lowered and he looked at Mr. Zhan Chen, "Teacher, I came from the north and passed by Congxin and Weiping Mansion. Do you know what I bumped into?"
"What did the prince encounter?"
Zhao Xun looked aside.
Zhao Lai immediately stepped forward and took out a book from his sleeve.
Mr. Zhan Chen opened it and looked at it one by one. His expression changed drastically in an instant.
"Hateful!" Mr. Zhan Chen shouted angrily, "It's so hateful!"
Guo Guan, who had just arrived outside, heard this and wondered what he was hating.
"Bei Yuan's move is to disturb the hearts of our people!" Zhao Xun sighed, "But there are so many spies and lackeys."
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a figure quietly coming in from the door. Zhao Qi looked at the book in Mr. Zhan Chen's hand and said, "This person's name is Guo Guan."
Guo Guan stayed up all night, his ventricles were weak, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back when he heard the words.
Fortunately, he had a calm temperament and was able to hold himself up without showing an overly frightened expression.
