A gentleman talks but does not

use his hands After Xu Yanmiao buried the box, he deliberately did not pay attention to it. He was afraid that he would not be able to help but intervene, and then make things worse.

So he chose to eat melons to divert his attention.

[There are a lot of melons in Changzhou! Which melon should I cut today? ]

[The old lady of the Marquis's Mansion favors the second and third rooms. In two hours, will she let the eldest room give up the main house and live in the West Garden? Tsk tsk, she is not strict in managing the family! This melon is so-so, change another one. ]

Jinyiwei silently remembered this, and later sneaked into the Marquis' Mansion to see the scene, so as to facilitate impeachment.

As for the reason - with the reputation of Jinyiwei, with the reputation of your majesty, do you still need a reason? Anyway, it's just another "The emperor is suspicious and ordered Jinyiwei to monitor officials and marquises everywhere along the way."

[Wow! A well-known rich man in Changzhou got a beautiful concubine, but he didn't expect that she was actually after his wife! His wife had saved her, and she knew that her thoughts would not bear fruit, so she decided to give her to the husband of the person she liked as a concubine! 】

【What a powerful idea! 】

The pupils of the Beijing officials who were accompanying and could hear Xu Yanmiao's thoughts were shaking.

Wait, if other people's backyards can have such a thing, then what about our backyard?

And he began to recall madly, is it possible that the harmonious relationship between his wife and concubine is actually a mirror polishing?

Even if they don't get along harmoniously, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's completely okay! Didn't Xu Yanmiao say that there is a term called love and kill each other?

【But this melon can be eaten here, you can't let me climb the wall to see other people's backyards, right? 】

【Forget it! Go to sleep happily and see tomorrow! 】

Xu Yanmiao had nothing on her mind, she was carefree and had a good sleep.

But on a summer night like this, with the fragrance of grass and trees, the chirping of bells and the gentle breeze, many accompanying officials could not sleep.

They lay in bed, tossing and turning, wondering whether the wife and concubine, and the concubines at home would sleep together.

They pondered until midnight and were about to go to bed.

【Wuhu!!!】

A scream suddenly came from the ground.

The officials who had just closed their eyes in a daze were startled and their eyes widened.

What happened? What happened?

【Tomorrow morning, there will be a quarrel between southern students and northern students! I love to watch intellectuals quarrel! Remember, I will stake out tomorrow morning! 】

Accompanying officials: “…”

Just for this matter, you got up in the middle of the night and howled? !

*

Xu Yanmiao walked out of the toilet and put his hands in the basin to wash them.

Of course, he didn’t get up in the middle of the night to read gossip, but it’s normal to read gossip when you get up at night, right?

[Go to sleep! ]

[Goodnight moon! ]

Xu Yanmiao found the new melon with satisfaction and fell asleep again with satisfaction. The officials who were awakened from their sleepiness were left speechless and choked. If they were not afraid of disturbing the people in the middle of the night, they would have shouted that they were sick.

The next morning, Xu Yanmiao looked at the listless appearance of those servants, and silently held the hot porridge brought to him by the entourage.

[Why do you all look like you didn’t sleep well? You can’t be holding a group meeting in the evening and excluding me, right? 】

【Then please don't think of me. I'm really not keen on power. It doesn't matter if you continue to isolate me! 】

The prince's servants: "..."

A mouthful of blood stuck in their throats, unable to come up or down.

The prince walked by with a bowl of washed mulberries in his hand, smiling. He didn't care about the life or death of his servants at all. He sat next to Xu Yanmiao and tried his best to hint: "Do you have any plans in the morning? Is there any place you want to go?"

Xu Yanmiao was stunned. He obviously didn't expect the prince to ask him this question.

【But it's better this way. This way I don't have to find a way to sneak away! 】

Xu Yanmiao smiled, and the prince also smiled.

Xu Yanmiao: "I heard that Changzhou is a place with a flourishing academic community and many famous people. I want to visit the academy in Changzhou and learn about the local academic style."

The prince responded very quickly: "Okay! I don't know what to do either!"

*

Changzhou is indeed a place with a strong culture.

There are the Changzhou School, the Changzhou Ci School, the Piling Poetry School, the Yanghu School of Literature, the Menghe School of Medicine, and even the Ci, painting, and parallel prose schools, and each of them is famous.

The academy that Xu Yanmiao is going to is the base camp of the Changzhou School - also known as the Jinwen School of Confucianism or the Gongyang School. They all mean the same thing.

When we arrived at the place, it was obvious that the fun was about to begin. A northern student and a southern student were confronting each other, and the atmosphere was tense.

[Oh no! The fun is about to begin! 】

Xu Yanmiao and the prince looked at each other, quickly found a corner to sit down, and waited for them to quarrel.

This is Changzhou, and there are naturally more southerners than northerners in the academy. The southerners are powerful, and the northerners are tragic.

The northern student gritted his teeth: "You damn raccoon, don't go too far!"

[Wow! Just fire the map cannon! This is not good...]

[Oh, it turns out that the southern students have already fired the map cannon, and they often reciprocate. That's fine. 】

There is an idiom called birds of a feather. Raccoons are not good things in the eyes of northerners, so they often use this phrase to scold southerners.

Of course, southerners also have words to scold northerners.

"Did I say anything wrong? You are poor people, with little knowledge and no teachers. You come to the south to study. It is no less than begging for food to borrow our learning style, books and teachers."

- poor people refer to people who are vulgar and uneducated.

"You!"

The few northern students in the school stood up, gritting their teeth and blushing.

They stood up, and the southern students also stood up. There were so many people that the few northern students were immediately like stones thrown into the waves, not having an advantage at all.

Some northerners sneered: "We have read thousands of books and traveled thousands of miles, but we are much more useful to the country than you who are just drunk in the gentle countryside."

"Not many of you passed the imperial examinations."

"Look at the wind in the south of the Yangtze River. It has made your bones so soft. You go on flower boats every day, and your steps are empty. You don't have much of the six arts left!"

"Not many of you passed the imperial examinations."

"You play with snakes and scorpions, and suck crab roe. You are really the descendants of barbarians."

"Not many of you passed the imperial examinations."

"You!"

The northern students were so angry that their hair stood on end.

But they were telling the truth, because the ruling centers of all dynasties were mostly in Guanzhong and the Central Plains, and the cultural and economic development between the north and the south was very unbalanced. For example, the ratio of southerners to northerners in Jinshi was almost an absurd nine to one for a long time.

There was a time when a northern official wanted to speak for the northerners, saying that the north had always been the front line against foreign enemies. Whenever there was an invasion, the north would be in trouble. The south was the rear area, and if the enemy attacked the south, the country would basically be destroyed. Therefore, the south was more stable than the north, and literature must be more prosperous. The north was difficult to stabilize, so there was no time and energy to develop literature. If it developed for a while, it would be destroyed.

Then, some southern officials were dissatisfied.

We didn't get in through the back door, we also got in through fierce competition. The imperial examination should be fair. We southerners got in through our own strength, and you northerners couldn't get in, and you blame us southerners for being too smart? !

And he said something that made the northerners very angry: "You northerners can't pass the exam because you are too stupid."

——So, that southern student really hit the nail on the head.

[Are we going to fight? ]

[Hiss! ]

[Draw the sword, draw the sword! ]

The prince: "!!!"

and squeezed forward quickly.

The prince's servants: "My lord?!!"

The prince turned around and said righteously: "I want to see if the southerners really don't know the six arts of a gentleman, and if they are much inferior to the northerners in swordsmanship. Although the front is dangerous, I am not afraid of danger!"

Xu Yanmiao's eyes lit up.

[Good excuse! ]

"I'll go protect my lord!" Xu Yanmiao also rushed forward quickly.

The main reason is that he has only seen scholars quarreling before, but he has never seen scholars fighting.

——Also, the closer you are, the easier it is to prevent someone from dying at a critical moment.

The prince's servants: "!!!"

They almost fainted.

The prince can't get into trouble. Is it much better for you to be surnamed Xu? If you get into trouble, we'll be completely finished!

I don't want all my privacy to be exposed!

The Jinyiwei who disguised themselves as ordinary people came up with a quick idea. They didn't care whether this would disturb the prince's interest or not. They knelt on the ground and said in a loud voice: "Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

The whole scene was silent.

Even the prince was silent. He silently pulled his legs back and stood up, and retracted his bared teeth. When the students followed the Jinyiwei and the accompanying guards to find the prince, they saw a dignified and generous prince with a smile on his face. Their

eyes lit up immediately.

This prince looked like someone who would make use of scholars.

They all bowed together and said, "Greetings, His Royal Highness."

At this time, the sword-carrying guards and the Jinyiwei had already separated the prince from these people.

The prince smiled slightly and nodded to everyone, like a gentleman, sharpening his sword and polishing his mind. Even his voice was gentle: "What's wrong with you? Why did you fight? There is no life-and-death feud between classmates, so why bother to draw swords?"

The students immediately looked ashamed.

The prince pointed out the way to go out to sea to educate people, and from then on, the literati would have a direction to be remembered for generations.

- Don't worry about whether it can be done, but at least the direction has been found.

Therefore, scholars and students all over the world hold a kind of respectful attitude towards the prince. It can be said that as long as the prince does not betray his country and the scholars, these scholars and students are particularly willing to cheer for the prince. Even if the prince betrays his country and the scholars, there may be many people who do not believe him and make excuses and reasons for him, firmly believing that he has his own reasons, and perhaps he is just enduring humiliation.

Hearing the prince's inquiry, the northerners and southerners kept saying the other party's faults. One said that the other party's dialect despised the northerners, and the other said that the other party treated his classmates viciously. The man has his own reasons, and the woman has her own reasons.

The prince sighed: "Even if you each have your reasons, a gentleman uses his mouth, not his hands..."