Chapter 108 Boundless mountains and rivers (please subscribe)
"I'm feeling unwell, so I'm taking a leave of absence!"
Lu Qing shook his head, his eyes wandering as he spoke.
Lu Ning raised his eyebrows. In his memory, the younger sister didn't like to lie, and her eyes would flicker when she told lies.
Besides, she didn't look like she was feeling unwell.
"Is there someone bullying you in the Concubine's Courtyard?"
Lu Ning frowned and asked, squeezing to sit next to her little sister.
Although the younger sister is more beautiful than the eldest princess, Mo Luo, she can still be regarded as a great beauty.
After all, he was born so handsome, how could his sister be any worse?
The age of cardamom.
It is normal for some scholars in the Confucius Courtyard to admire her and even feel admiration for her.
I'm afraid it scared her.
But when I came back, I was too embarrassed to tell my family, so I said I felt unwell.
Lu Ning guessed that this might be the case.
Lu Qing moved his butt and said impatiently: "No, don't make blind guesses. I just feel unwell. I just need to rest."
Ruan Shuting, who was cooking, also glanced at Lu Qing.
She felt there was something wrong when Lu Qing came back, but she never said anything even after asking.
He couldn't help but look at Lu Ning and said:
"Second brother, you go out first."
"And you all should go out too."
Ruan Shuting asked Lu Ning to leave the kitchen, and asked the maids to leave with the little girl in their arms.
When she was the only two people left in the kitchen, Ruan Shuting asked: "Little sister, tell your sister-in-law honestly, is there a scholar in the Confucius Institute who has evil intentions towards you?"
Lu Qing endured it for a while, but finally couldn't hold it back and started crying in frustration.
"Well, wuwu...it's Zhou Yi. I was just passing by, and he kept an eye on me."
Lu Qing cried very sadly, full of grievances.
Ruan Shuting didn't know who Zhou Yi was, so she asked, "Does your elder brother know about this?"
Lu Qing cried and nodded: "Big brother knows. He said Zhou Yi is the prince of Anshan and is not easy to mess with. He asked me to take leave and rest at home for a few days."
"Prince Anshan?"
Ruan Shuting couldn't help but take a deep breath when she heard this, she had offended the prince's son!
At dinner time.
Ruan Shuting started the topic, and Lu Qingcai awkwardly said it was because Zhou Yi was eyeing her.
"Book of Changes?"
Lu Ning raised his eyebrows.
Thinking carefully about what the eldest princess said, Zhou Yi was indeed studied in Confucius Academy.
Ruan Shuting frowned: "From the tone of the second brother, do you know him?"
Lu Ning nodded. Now he knew basically all the civil and military officials, relatives of the emperor, and some important figures in the Zhou Dynasty.
"Prince Anshan."
After saying this, Lu Ning looked at Lu Qing and said, "My second brother will accompany you to the academy tomorrow."
Lu Qing became anxious when he heard this: "Second brother, the eldest brother told me to rest at home, and I also asked for leave."
Lu Ning said seriously: "Don't worry, your second brother is now very powerful. I will go with you tomorrow to scare Zhou Yi...!"
"You're bragging again, aren't you?"
Ruan Shuting raised her foot and kicked Lu Ning's thigh. The force was so strong that she almost knocked Lu Ning over: "Can't you change your old habits?"
"Sister-in-law!"
Lu Ning, who was holding the chair steady, looked surprised: "Don't you know how strong you are?"
Lu Qing was also full of curiosity, how could his sister-in-law be so strong?
"Kicking you is easy. My sister-in-law can tell you that girls like honest and responsible people. No one likes a braggart like you."
"It's not that big of a deal, sister-in-law. After all, I'm also a ninth-grade captain. It's hard to find someone even with a lantern."
"Hey! The ninth-grade captain is just more arrogant than us commoners, can he compare with Prince Anshan?"
"What if Prince Anshan is afraid when he sees me?"
"Only a ghost would believe your words."
Ruan Shuting glanced at Lu Ning.
Lu Ning couldn't help but glanced at his mouth and said to Lu Qing: "Little sister, I believe second brother. By the way, after dinner, second brother will give you a military book called "Sun..."... ahem, it's "The Lu Family's Art of War"
"!"
He originally wanted to say "Sun Tzu's Art of War", but the word "Sun Tzu" sounded like a curse, so he couldn't help but change his mind.
"The Lu family's art of war?"
Lu Qing looked surprised and said: "Why have I never heard of it?"
Lu Ning glanced at her: "The world is so big, you know everything?"
Lu Qing shook his head.
"Isn't that right? The Art of War was told to me by a general who was a convicted felon when I was in the sky prison. I didn't have any trouble to deduce it, so it's called the Lu Family's Art of War. You can take a look."
"Quan is my second brother's birthday gift to you!"
When her birthday was mentioned, Ruan Shuting remembered that Lu Qing was born on the 11th day of the winter lunar month and would soon turn sixteen.
Lu Ning chuckled in his heart, on his birthday on the 11th day of the winter lunar month, this must be the fate of the lonely star descending to earth.
"Okay, it's a gift from my second brother. No matter how bad it is, I will still treat it as a treasure." Lu Qing nodded.
"What are you talking about?" Lu Ning rolled his eyes.
No matter how bad it is, it is a peerless classic of the Art of War, little girl who has no knowledge!
Lu Qing grinned and ignored Lu Ning. Instead, he stared at Ruan Shuting and asked, "Sister-in-law, I also noticed that you have been very strong recently. What's going on?"
Ruan Shuting said: "Ask your second brother if he has any elixirs that can increase your strength."
Hearing this, Lu Qing couldn't help but look at Lu Ning: "Second brother, what kind of pill is this? Give me one to eat."
Lu Ning raised an eyebrow: "You think the elixir is just a jelly bean, and you can eat it casually."
"Sister-in-law will be fine after eating it. What can happen to me? Second brother, just give me one...!" Lu Qing took Lu Ning's arm and started acting coquettishly.
Lu Ning looked at his lovely sister with her big eyes flashing and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll give you one later, eat first."
As soon as she finished speaking, the little girl stared at her big Kazilan eyes and asked:
"Little millet, what kind of eggs are you looking for? I want them too...!"
"...!!"
Lu Ning was speechless and said: "Children, you can only eat. Come, uncle, give Niu Niu a piece of meat...!"
"No, I don't eat meat, I want to eat eggs...!"
The little girl didn't want life or death, moaning in Ruan Shuting's arms.
Ruan Shuting was also speechless. She glared at her daughter and shouted, "Qiulan, go and boil an egg."
"It's ma'am!"
A well-behaved and clever maid hurriedly ran to the kitchen.
After dinner.
Lu Ning took out a military book from the Catalog of Heavenly Punishment. It was a military book that was rewarded by the catalog after the criminals were interrogated and executed in the Heavenly Prison.
He has read "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu and the Thirty-six Strategies.
I immediately tore off the cover of The Art of War and changed the names of some of the 'grandsons' inside, so that my little sister wouldn't have to ask too many questions.
After alteration.
He poured out a pulse-opening pill from the pill bottle in his arms and went to find Lu Qing.
In the boudoir.
Lu Qing sat in front of the dressing table, flipping through strategy books boredly.
Lu Ning knocked on the door and walked in.
Throw the military book in front of her and put the elixir in her hand.
"Second brother, how did this get broken?" Lu Qing was speechless. He gave it to me as a birthday gift, so he had to give me a new book, right?
"Ahem... don't worry about these details, the important thing is the content inside, it's a classic."
"Remember, study it carefully. After the empress ascends the throne, women may also be able to enter the official career in the future."
"Second brother is optimistic about you. You will be the future female military advisor of Great Zhou Dynasty, and Oli will give it to you!"
Lu Ning patted Lu Qing's shoulder and grinned.
"What for???" Lu Qing didn't understand and raised his eyebrows.
"Don't worry about these details. Details are not important. What is important is who you want to be in the future."
Lu Ning guided her sister little by little.
Lu Qing curled her lips slightly and said, "Can the eldest princess really ascend the throne and become the empress?"
Lu Ning said: "Why not? Who stipulates that women cannot ascend the throne and become emperor?"
Lu Qing frowned and said: "No one has clearly stipulated that, but there is no precedent in history, so it seems strange."
Lu Ning said: "Don't think too much. If the eldest princess ascends the throne as the empress, doesn't it create a historical precedent?"
After a while, Lu Qing muttered: "That's true."
"Don't sleep too late. Tomorrow morning, my second brother will take you to the Confucius Courtyard." Lu Ning warned.
"But……!"
"Don't worry, second brother, I can scare him with my flying fish suit."
Lu Ning said, turned and left.
Lu Qing had a strange expression on his face, he was the Crown Prince of Anshan!!
Return to the room.
Lu Ning's eyes flickered, and the woman in white had appeared in the backyard pavilion.
But there is still a spiritual consciousness on Pingyang Street that is probing his house.
He was a man in black, probably from the Zhouyi sect.
Lu Ning was about to go out.
The consciousness suddenly disappeared and followed the man in black quickly away.
The next day.
The ninth day of the winter lunar month.
Take a look at the Heavenly Punishment Catalog.
Accumulated experience points to 939.
There are still more than 20 million experience points left to advance to the third level of blood transformation.
At breakfast.
Lu Qing stared at Lu Ning with a strange expression on his face: "Second brother, did you really deduce that art of war?"
"Ahem...!"
Lu Ning coughed lightly and said without blushing: "Is this a classic in the art of war?"
Lu Qing couldn't help but nodded: "Yes, at least for now, it is the most classic military strategy I have ever seen, and the thirty-six strategies are so classic."
Ruan Shuting glanced at Lu Ning curiously: "When will the second brother be able to deduce military strategies?"
"Sister-in-law, don't look down on me, I know a lot!" Lu Ning said with a smile.
"I really didn't realize that you are still a 'genius'!" Ruan Shuting curled her lips and rolled her eyes.
She had been married to the Lu family for almost seven years. Lu Ning was just a little kid when she came here, and was always making trouble.
"Sister-in-law, can you please stop thinking about me before I was twelve years old? I have grown up now!" Lu Ning also rolled his eyes, cut off the little girl's fried dough sticks, stuffed it into his mouth and ate it.
"Ah wu wu... bad little millet, big bad guy..."
This scene was familiar to the little girl. She hadn't fully woken up yet, so she burst into tears and threw the remaining half of it at Lu Ning.
"puff!"
Lu Qing couldn't help but spit out a small mouthful of rice porridge, and hurriedly slapped Lu Ning: "Second brother, you are so serious, why do you keep pinching her fried dough sticks?"
Ruan Shuting was so angry that she wanted to punch Lu Ning, you are so big!
After giving Lu Ning a hard look, he hurriedly brought a complete fried dough stick to his daughter and went to comfort her.
…
Confucius Courtyard.
Guanyun Pavilion.
An elegant young man dressed in white, holding a book in his hand, looked very bookish.
This person is none other than Zhou Yi.
"The Master said: The Tao of husband is so vast that it is all-encompassing, and its depths are so deep that it is unfathomable. Therefore, it is in line with the Tao, in line with virtue, and without benevolence and righteousness..."
Zhouyi is catchy, reading Confucius's quotations.
At this moment, a black shadow appeared in Guanyun Pavilion like a ghost, and saluted Zhou Yi: "I have seen the crown prince."
Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows slightly, stared into the distance, closed the book and said, "How is it?"
The man in black had a serious expression on his face: "The prince may not have thought that Lu Qing's second brother is Captain Lu who is guarding the eldest princess."
Zhou Yi looked surprised: "It's him?"
He clearly remembered that Lu Changwen's brother was the jailer of Tianyao. Could it be...?
Zhou Yi thought of the fact that the eldest princess was imprisoned in Tianlao. Lu Ning must have met the eldest princess at that time.
How did he, a lieutenant in a prison, reach the fourth level of cultivation?
The second Chen Tianqi??
Just as he was thinking about it, a thunderous sound came from Zhengtian Peak.
"Where is Zhou Yi?"
Zhou Yi's face condensed. The voice was indeed that of Lieutenant Lu, and he had actually come for him!
"Interesting, go and have a look!"
Zhou Yi stood up slowly, holding the scroll and heading towards Zhengtian Peak.
The man in black quickly retreated.
On Zhengtian Peak, in front of Confucius Tower.
Lu Ning brought his sister Lu Qing downstairs. He was dressed in Feiyu uniform, which immediately frightened many male scholars.
Only the female students stood in the corridor and looked at Lu Ning secretly.
"He is the one who defeated Qi Yuansheng in his poetry. It turns out he is the captain of the Demon Suppression Division!"
"It's still the second brother Lu Qing."
"Looking so handsome!"
There were male scholars giving advice, and there were also female students talking quietly.
"Second brother, what are you doing?" Lu Qing blushed anxiously and whispered: "How can I stay in the academy to study in the future if you yell like this?"
Lu Ning said in a deep voice: "Little sister, you have to remember that if others respect you, you will have face no matter when and where. If others don't respect you, even if you are sitting in a magnificent palace, your face will be worthless.
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"I……!"
Lu Qing's face turned red, but he felt that what his second brother said made sense.
"Well said!"
At this moment, Wang Lun, the scholar from the Confucius Tower, came down quickly. When he saw it, it was Lu Ning and said with a smile: "It turns out to be Mr. Lu. How can I speak so brilliantly!"
Lu Ning glanced at Wang Lun and said, "Wang Daru, is Confucius Institute a place for teaching and educating people?"
Wang Lun smiled and said: "Yes, Brother Lu, this is...!"
Lu Ning snorted coldly, interrupted him and said:
"If that's the case, why are there still animals raised? Even if the master is well-educated, animals have no intelligence and no humanity. Educating them is like raising poisonous snakes, which will poison the master's courtyard sooner or later."
A person like Wang Lun, looking at the red-faced Lu Qing, probably guessed something, and couldn't help but smile: "I wonder who provoked Brother Lu? If he is a student of the Confucius Institute, a scum with no morals and no character, I will expel him
Academy.”
"What you said is so beautiful, I'm afraid even you, Wang Daru, wouldn't dare." Lu Ning sneered.
"Brother Lu, it doesn't matter if you say so." Wang Lun assured him.
"Chang'an?"
At this moment, Lu Xiu, who heard the news, pushed aside the crowd, rushed to Lu Ning and said, "What are you doing here?"
Lu Ning said: "Brother, don't worry about this, just watch from the sidelines."
Lu Xiu was speechless. Is this boy's bad temper coming up again?
He immediately looked at Lu Qing and said, "Didn't I ask you to take leave and rest at home for three days?"
Lu Qing blushed and said, "Brother, you, don't ask, I already told my sister-in-law and my second brother."
When Lu Xiu heard this, he couldn't help but shake his body.
So, the second brother came here to make trouble with Zhou Yi, the prince of Anshan?
Just as I was thinking about it, a Confucian scholar in white clothes came slowly from a distance, like a handsome young man.
One hand was behind his back, and the other hand was holding the scroll on his lower abdomen, with a slight smile on his face.
It is the Book of Changes.
His steps were slow, but the wind blew with each step, and his clothes moved with the wind.
Seeing Zhou Yi approaching, Lu Xiu subconsciously rolled his throat.
With his family's situation, how could he possibly find trouble with Prince Anshan?
Even if you feel unhappy, you have to endure it.
Lu Xiu wanted to persuade Lu Ning not to act recklessly, but he saw Zhou Yi approaching and said with a smile: "It turns out to be Lieutenant Lu, what's the point of asking this prince?"
You like to do it on your knees, right? That's fine... Lu Ning sneered: "The heaven and earth have righteousness, and they are mixed and endowed with manifolds. The sun and stars are on the top, and the rivers and mountains are on the bottom..."
As he spoke, his eyes were stern and he clenched his fists fiercely.