"Your Highnesses." Pei Zilie cupped his hands coldly. Although these four words were short, they were sonorous and powerful. The strong dissatisfaction contained in them could be understood without thinking.
"Dian... General Dianwei?" The two young men who were respectfully addressed as His Highness by Pei Zilie obviously discovered the figure standing next to Xiao Shilian at this time, and their expressions changed slightly. Xiao Shilian was not in a hurry to say more.
What? He looked at Li Xingchen beside him and whispered:
"The two people held in the middle by these guys are His Majesty's twenty-fourth son Chen Shujian and his twenty-fifth son Chen Shucheng. They were both born to Shen Jieyu. They were not crowned at that age, so they were not sealed."
Li Xingchen nodded. No wonder these two guys were usually so arrogant, but they were inevitably discouraged when they saw Pei Zilie. The most powerful thing about Chen Xu as a man is that he gave birth to forty or fifty children. There were even fewer princesses, but the prince
There are a total of forty-two, and Nanchen only has two large areas of land in Jiangnan and Jingnan. It is naturally a dream to enfeoff them. Even if they want to enfeoff, they have to consider whether there is so much land for them to claim.
Therefore, these princes who are almost ruined due to too many have not yet been crowned, and their titles will not be given - this also makes it possible that until the fall of Nanchen in history, there are still many princes who have not been crowned - and in the early years, Chen Shubao and Chen Shuling
The precedents of naming a prince when he was more than ten years old and a prince of a county are quite different.
An untitled prince may be able to use his royal status to bully the common people. If he really faces off against the children of aristocratic families, no one will necessarily suffer. After all, since these aristocratic families are called "aristocratic families", none of their backgrounds can be glimpsed.
Once they get angry and join forces to impeach, even the prince will have to suffer.
The Xiao family, as a family that had just risen with the promotion of Xiao Mohe, naturally did not face so much pressure and danger from being bullied or ridiculed. Xiao Mohe's not-so-popularity really did not threaten the princes like them, but
Pei Zilie is different.
Although Pei Zilie has a cold temperament and rarely has close friends, his background and position are not something that these princes can easily offend.
Pei Zilie is the powerful general of Da Chen. Although he is a general with no name, he is also a real general in the army. In addition, who doesn’t know that he is a confidant of Da Sikong Wu Mingche? If he offends Pei Zilie, he will be the same as if he provoked Da Chen.
What's the difference between Sikong?
What's more, although Pei Zilie's father, Pei Qi, is just a minister and not a big deal in the wealthy Jiankang Mansion, he is a pure-blooded descendant of the Wenxi Pei family. What does the word "Pei" mean alone?
A prince wouldn't dare to think about it.
The ministers of the Pei family who came to the court, such as Pei Ji, the official minister of the capital, although they did not always think about Pei Qi, and even the two families were just casual acquaintances, after all, they were from the Pei family and bullied Pei Zilie.
That was not just a slap in Pei Qi's face, it was also a slap in the face of the entire Wenxi Pei family. With Pei Ji's temper, it was very likely that he would just throw up his sleeves and file a complaint.
Therefore, Xiao Shilian can be provoked, but Pei Zilie cannot be provoked.
Seeing the 180-degree change in attitude of these two guys, Li Xingchen smiled and shook his head, while Xiao Shilian also breathed a sigh of relief. Although Pei Zilie has a cold temper and never likes to interact with others, in the final analysis he is a sharp-tongued tofu.
In my heart, by standing up now, he was completely standing up for Xiao Shilian.
Seemingly aware of this problem, Chen Shujian and Chen Shucheng glared at Xiao Shilian fiercely, and called the other young masters surrounding them to leave in a hurry.
Pei Zilie frowned and turned to look at Xiao Shilian who looked helpless: "Boqing, why do you have trouble with these two guys?"
Xiao Shilian smiled bitterly and said: "Before the war, I lost to them in the Jiankang Mansion Poetry Competition. You also know that although these guys are ignorant and incompetent, they are good at reciting poems and composing poems.
Good player."
Pei Zilie nodded slightly. Reciting poems and writing poems was a skill that children from aristocratic families in the Southern Dynasties had to learn and master, and this was especially true for the royal family. After all, it was difficult for the royal palace to cultivate their ability to fight on the battlefield, but it was difficult to cultivate their ability to write poems and songs.
Still more than enough.
"Let's go. This time, I can't say anything to make these guys laugh anymore." Xiao Shilian gritted his teeth and looked at the lanterns hanging among the trees.
"This is interesting, 'Inversion leads to freedom.'" Xiao Shilian pointed at the lantern and said. Several people were already whispering around him, obviously discussing what this sentence meant.
"Since it's a crossword puzzle, I guess the word to be answered must be reversed..." Li Xingchen couldn't help but murmured.
Pei Zilie smiled slightly and remained silent.
In fact, crossword puzzles are the ancient version of brain teasers. The key point of brain teasers is not how to delve into the meaning of the entire text, but how to find the key to the problem on the surface of the text. Compared with what later generations Li Xingchen once learned.
There are so many brain teasers that people can’t even figure out if they break their heads. In fact, the answer is very simple. This one is obviously much simpler.
Xiao Shilian subconsciously looked at each other and Li Xingchen. Seeing that they both had the same expression, he stretched out his hand and wrote the word "A" in the palm of his hand. When he saw the two of them looking at each other and smiling, he nodded and walked down.
one.
For Xiao Shilian, who once had a showdown with Chen Shujian and the others at the last level, such charades are certainly not a problem.
Soon the three people walked leisurely through the woods. Unexpectedly, Chen Shujian and the others were not slow in their movements. They had already told the answers and were standing at the intersection of the mountain. They seemed to see the three people walking behind them.
He stopped with interest, not sure if he wanted to see a joke.
"General Pei, Mr. Xiao!" This kind of semi-official activity has always been strongly supported by the imperial court, so sitting in front of the first table are two young lecturer doctors. Of course, in ancient times, these doctors were
Academic talents who study the Four Books and Five Classics and various classics are similar to the "lecturers" and "professors" of later generations, and are not the same concept at all as the "doctors" of later generations.
"This is my brother, Li Shizhong." Xiao Shilian patted Li Xingchen on the shoulder carelessly as an introduction.
"It turns out to be Brother Li. I have admired you for a long time." The two of them stood up and saluted in a hurry, which made Li Xingchen have no choice but to return the salute. After all, Xiao Shilian's friends, or rather, Pei Zilie's friends, are definitely not people with a low background. For those of them who just now
Doctors who have entered the officialdom are naturally polite to these young men.
In particular, although Xiao Shilian has a cheerful personality on the outside, he is definitely not someone who mistakenly recognizes his brother. Being called "brother" by him shows that everyone, including his father Xiao Maha, appreciates this "Li Shizhong".
After one of the doctors saluted, he said in a deep voice: "General Pei and Mr. Xiao are not here for the first time. You should understand the rules. Please state your answers."