[Note: I didn’t make it clear in the previous chapter. The master and the apprentice kneel on the couch, not sit on the chair. Well, let’s change it a bit so that the master and the apprentice no longer bow to each other. (Lao Liu is very aggrieved.
It’s the prince, why don’t you say hello...)】
Uncle Chengyi's house, study room in the backyard, smoke curling up.
Outside the study, Liu Lian scratched the crack in the door and looked dumbfounded.
Liu Li also scratched at the crack of the door below, watching with great interest.
"Liu Lian, take Liu Li away and don't eavesdrop!" Liu Bowen's voice came from the crack in the door.
"Yes, father." Liu Lian blushed with shame and quickly pulled the reluctant Liu Li out of the backyard.
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In the study room, Zhu Zhen raised his head and looked at Liu Bowen with admiration.
"Wow, Master, you have eyes and ears to listen to all directions. This is a powerful trick, can you teach me?"
"Haha, this is what you learned after being monitored by your father for more than ten years." Liu Bowen said proudly.
"Ah, then what we said..." Zhu Zhen couldn't help but worry, would his declaration of 'together we fight against the old thieves' just now lead to another beating?
"Don't worry, the person who monitored me has returned to his hometown." Liu Bowen smiled with a complicated expression and asked again:
"Your Highness, don't interrupt. You know the date of my death in advance, right?"
"Let's just guess." Zhu Zhen still wanted to pass the test in a cute way, but unfortunately he had already exposed his buttocks.
"I'm not bragging, I'm an expert in this field. No one knows how to guess blindly better than me." But Liu Bowen said firmly: "The story of the matter has been clearly laid out in front of us. We can start from the beginning step by step.
of stroke.
"I think His Highness's peculiarity should have started from that time he fell into the water, right? After that time, His Highness changed drastically."
"You have changed a lot." Zhu Zhen muttered guiltily: "I don't even know what you are talking about."
"I just want to ask Your Highness, how did you know that I would get sick in the first month of the year?" Liu Bowen asked again.
"How do I know? I don't know..."
"You didn't know that you would take the leave application form from the Royal Pharmacy in advance?"
"It was a coincidence that I got the leave application form." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "Didn't my father tell you this? It's all a coincidence!"
"Yes, everyone thought it was a coincidence, and I thought it was a coincidence at first." Liu Bowen twisted his beard and smiled, then hit another kill shot and said, "But how do you know the content of "Water Margin"?"
"This, I've seen it." Zhu Zhen saw sweat on his forehead, and it was a flaw.
Unfortunately, he didn't know until after the show started that "Water Margin" hadn't been published yet...
What is even more depressing is that Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong have already written the book.
Isn't this embarrassing for him? Opening the door is embarrassing. Isn't it embarrassing?
But at that time, I didn’t even have food to eat, so why did I care so much? So I continued acting shamelessly.
Unexpectedly, Liu Bowen had already read the manuscript of "Water Margin"...
It’s really unlucky that his mother also opened the door for misfortune...
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"Luo Guanzhong only showed me the manuscript, and I only let Han Yike and Liu Lian read it, but they didn't pass it on. May I ask, Your Highness, where did you read "Water Margin"?" Liu Bowen said calmly.
asked.
"I don't remember. Maybe he or Shi Naian gave the manuscript to someone else..." Zhu Zhen resisted stubbornly.
"No." Liu Bowen shook his head and said: "Shi Naian passed away before he finished writing "Water Margin". It was Luo Guanzhong who helped him continue writing and finishing the manuscript. Last month, he wrote an angry letter questioning me,
Why should the manuscript be circulated to other people? To be sure, apart from my master and disciple, no other person has read it!
"If your highness doesn't believe it, I can show you the letter. There is no problem in calling Luo Guanzhong to confront him."
"Haha, that's not necessary..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu swallowed his saliva and said carelessly:
"Teacher, you know that Shi Naian also collects folklore, so I read this paragraph from other books."
"Wu Song is indeed one of the thirty-six leaders of Song Jiang's men in the Yuan Dynasty's "The Legacy of Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty." You can also find the song 'Wu Song Fights the Tiger' in Yuan Zaqu." Unfortunately, he couldn't fool him at all.
Liu Bowen, who knew everything, could be exposed in just one sentence:
"But Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing were originally created by Mr. Shi Naian!"
"Uh..." Zhu Zhen couldn't argue now.
"Also, the 'Shaobing Song' has not been shown to the public in my manuscript of "Astronomical Book". How did you learn about it, Your Highness?" Liu Bowen hit his third sure kill. It can be called a sure kill!
His Royal Highness the King of Chu was completely speechless and struggled feebly: "But Master, don't you realize that this guess is too outrageous?"
"I know it's outrageous. But after all possibilities are eliminated, the remaining possibility, no matter how outrageous, is the correct answer." Liu Bowen said lightly: "Besides, I know the Book of Changes and know how to count, no matter how outrageous it is.
Everything is acceptable.”
"I won't admit it anyway." Zhu Zhen curled his lips.
I can't help but feel ashamed in my heart. I am really a disgrace to my colleagues. I have such a high starting point, yet I am beaten all day long and my identity is revealed...
"That's acquiescence." Liu Bowen smiled with satisfaction and asked him: "Then may I ask, Your Highness, if in the future you foresee, I should be dead by now?"
"Ah." Zhu Zhen nodded.
"Did your Highness save me?" Liu Bowen asked again.
"Well. If I had known, I wouldn't have saved you." Zhu Zhen said depressedly.
"Hey, your highness is wrong. You will definitely not lose money by saving my life." Liu Bowen said, and continued to ask enthusiastically: "So you have changed the future. How can your highness continue to foresee and change the future?"
The future after that?”
"No." Zhu Zhen shook his head and sighed: "Okay, okay, let me tell the truth. It was when I fell into the water that time that I suddenly had some memories in my mind, as if they were things that would happen in the future. But this has never happened again.
Appeared."
"So that is the future that has not changed." Liu Bowen nodded clearly, but still said excitedly: "That is also a very valuable thing. Your Highness should make the best use of everything, instead of hiding it."
"I'm afraid..." Zhu Zhen said.
"Are you afraid that others will regard you as a monster?" Liu Bowen laughed loudly and said, "Don't worry, you are Liu Bowen's apprentice now, and I am known as a scheming strategist. So His Highness no longer has to be secretive. Liu Bowen's apprentice can understand
Yin and Yang, dawn of the future, this makes sense, right?"
"Hiss..." Zhu Zhen touched his chin, it did sound reasonable...
"Perhaps Your Highness doesn't want to be regarded as a magic stick, then blame it all on me." Liu Bowen took the initiative to take the responsibility and said: "I don't have too many such legends."
"Master, please show some respect..." Zhu Zhen saw through it at a glance.
"Alas, disciple, you are under a lot of pressure due to your fame." Liu Bowen said with a smile.
"Actually, I'm afraid that if I do bad things with good intentions, it will lead to a worse future." Zhu Zhen sighed again, but felt inexplicably relaxed.
It is really tiring for one person to carry a huge secret. It would be nice to have someone to share the burden with, not to mention that person is Liu Bowen.
"So I have to tell the master, let's discuss it with the master and the disciple." Liu Bowen smiled kindly and said: "Three cobblers can equal Zhuge Liang. How can I, Liu Bowen, be equal to two cobblers?"
ps. I have thought about this plot for a long time, and I think it is pretty good. As Lao Liu said, it would be nice to have someone to discuss it with? And this person is Liu Bowen.
In fact, the main reason is that I don’t want to write long internal monologues and psychological activities. I think the reading experience will be much better if I write the subsequent planning through the dialogue between master and apprentice.
