Long live Emperor Wu!

Chapter 35 Coursework
King Jin finally came to his senses and said:

"Just some time ago, the homework my father asked me to do was about Tuyuhun. I will sort it out later and have it sent to you."

"Then thank you, Your Highness." Wu Rou said with a smile, "Then I will go back and wait."

If it were normal, King Jin would have said a soft "hmm" at this time, which was regarded as acquiescence, but the strange thing is that he did not make a sound this time.

While Wu Rou was wondering, King Jin glanced at Wu Rou again, lowered his head slightly, looked at her with the tail of his eyes, and said as if he was embarrassed:

"Don't leave yet, let's talk for a while."

This is the first time Wu Rou has seen Prince Jin like this. The young man's refreshing voice is a little gentle, like a coquettish one.

He has always behaved like an adult, calm, dignified, self-restrained and polite.Except for the way he was lying on the ground reaching for a cat when we first met him, I have never seen him look like a child again.

And because of his small stature, he often raises his chin slightly when looking at people. He looks more like he is aloof and unattainable, with a sense of nobility and fairy-child alienation.

When he suddenly acted like this, Wu Rou suddenly felt her heart melting... She subconsciously connected him with the little Princess Jinyang.

After a brief surprise, Wu Rou saw that the love in her heart was beyond words, she smiled like a little sun and said:
"Okay...what does Your Highness want to talk about?"

The blush ran down his cheeks and reached the base of his ears, and Prince Jin pursed his lips uncomfortably.

He was no longer used to acting like a spoiled child. After his mother passed away, he became the adult to whom his younger sister was attached. When he realized that he had just said those words as if acting like a spoiled child, he felt ashamed and wanted to find a hole to crawl into. .

"There's nothing...there's nothing I want to talk about." He let out a slight breath, trying to calm himself down as much as possible, and said half-regretfully: "I just don't want to go in now, but standing outside alone makes me look stupid."

Wu Rou burst into laughter and quickly raised her hands to cover her mouth with her sleeves.

Prince Jin's face turned even redder, and there was even a hint of panic in his eyes.He looked at Wu Rou and asked:
"why are you laughing?"

"I always thought that there was an adult's soul living in Your Highness's body, but now I feel a little uncomfortable with it..." Although Wu Rou said this, her eyes were smiling with bright lights, all of which were her favorite colors.

Prince Jin's embarrassment eased slightly and he looked away.

Wu Rou took the initiative to find a topic and said:
"Does His Highness dislike His Highness King Wei? Don't you guys get along well?"

Jin Wang Li Shan turned his eyes, looked at her with the tail of his eyes, and said:
"Do you know why Jinyang said you were brave? If it were anyone else, I would never dare to ask this question. Inquiring into the privacy of such a distinguished person would offend others."

Wu Rou raised her chin pretending to be proud and said lively:
"Then I have something bolder to say. I don't like King Wei either."

King Jin saw her appearance, as if she was not afraid of anything, she was so proud, so vivid and dazzling, so he asked:
"Aren't you afraid that I will tell others what you said?"

He didn't even realize he was laughing, it was so easy.

Wu Rou observed his expression and asked confidently:

"Will your Highness?"

King Jin shook his head, as if denying it, but also seemed helpless. He raised his hand to support the tree trunk beside him, looked at the scenery in the distance and was silent for a while, and said:

"I don't like him very much... I am closer to the prince brother than to him."

"Then why didn't His Highness show it? Instead, he always spoke for him? As a younger brother, you have the right to be arbitrary. I don't think His Majesty will blame you for this."

"You don't know... It's actually not easy for him. I heard from my mother that my uncle Li Yuanba died in the war at the age of 16 and had no heirs.

His father had a very good relationship with him, so in grief, he offered to adopt one of his children for him to inherit the incense.

At that time, they considered that the child would not be too sad if he did not remember the incident when he was young, so they passed on the fourth brother who was five years old at the time.

Although the fourth brother inherited his uncle Li Yuanba's position as King of Yue as soon as he passed away, no one dared to treat him harshly, but he remembered it clearly and felt that Ye Niang no longer wanted him, and she cried and made noises all day long to go home. , and then I fell ill from crying and almost died.

When my grandfather saw it, he couldn't do it.He couldn't just give up a son and also give up a grandson, so he ordered the fourth brother to be brought back and adopted as a child of the King of Xiliang. "

King Jin paused and said with some sadness:

"Since then, he has always felt like an outsider. He is always trembling and always asking his father and mother if he has done something wrong and doesn't want him anymore."

Wu Rou couldn't help but be affected by King Jin's tone, as if she really saw a child asking his parents with a pair of trembling eyes.

I'm afraid no normal parent would remain indifferent.

King Jin tilted his head slightly, and the ribbon that tied his hair behind his head moved to his shoulders as he moved, and said:
"Actually, we all know about his thoughts of competing for favor. My father knows it, and the prince's brother also knows it. It is precisely because of knowing that we can't bear to criticize him, let alone me."

Wu Rou heard this and asked in surprise:
"Why let alone you? What's wrong with His Highness?... His Majesty and the Crown Prince are older than him, they are father and brother. You are so much younger than him, and you still have to care about him as an adult?

I admit that things were really pitiful for him when he was a child, but now that he is such an old man, he still has to be the younger brother and let him do it. He really has not made any progress!"

She thought about how King Wei had speculated on them with dirty thoughts just now, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she became.

She didn't feel anything when he insulted her. Seeing Jin Wang Li Shan being insulted, she felt as if she was going to explode.

Sure enough, King Jin also felt strange and asked in surprise:

"...Why are you angrier than me?"

Wu Rou took a few breaths, thought for a while and said, "Hey... I feel like you are like my younger brother. I am used to being the eldest sister, and I don't want to see the younger one being bullied!"

"Hahahahaha..." King Jin laughed out loud, truly laughing out loud.

Wu Rou thought King Jin's smile was strange, but seeing him happy made her heart happy. She couldn't help but laugh too and asked:

"why are you laughing?"

"It's okay, I just think you are really similar to my eldest sister, Princess Changle." He raised his fingers to wipe his tears before adding seriously:
"I haven't seen her for a long time...but I have to remind you that she is a generation behind you. According to the rules of the world, you are considered my aunt. Don't say such things in the future."

Wu Rou's face tightened, and she pursed her lips uncomfortably:
"I'll just talk to His Highness in private. Your Highness won't harm me... I wouldn't dare to go anywhere else."

The two chatted for a while, and then separated when they saw King Wei coming out of the main hall gate.

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Not long after Wu Rou returned to Xiliang Pavilion, King Jin's attendant sent over Tuyuhun's information.

She heard from King Jin that the homework was assigned to him by the emperor, so she thought it would only be two pages at most.

Unexpectedly, the eunuch was holding a scroll as thick as his forearm and a pile of books.

Wu Rou was immediately dumbfounded.

Seeing Wu Rou's reaction, the little chamberlain explained:

"Inside this scroll is the homework written by His Highness the Prince of Jin, as well as a map of the Tang Dynasty. His Highness said in these books that if there is anything unclear after reading the lesson summary, you can find the details in the book. The piece of paper at the end of the lesson There are provenance details on it.”

"Ah, well, thank you for your hard work, waiter." Wu Rou took the roll, and Cai Yi took the rest.

She held the heavy roll, shook it, and said quickly:
"Arthur, go get my body and give the chamberlain a cash note."

When the waiter heard this, he quickly smiled and waved his hands, stepped back several steps, and said:
"I don't dare, I don't dare. If His Highness Prince Jin knows about it, I won't be able to follow him. I'd better keep the talent away. This is what a slave should do."

After saying that, he bowed and saluted Wu Rou, turned around and ran away.

Seeing this, San Chun Si Qiu quickly put away all the calligraphy copybooks that Wu Rou had placed on the desk, making room for her to put things.

After the books were put away, she sat behind the desk with the scroll in her arms. She opened the cover and saw that it was indeed full.

She took out the papers and put them on the table, still shocked.

It turned out that the paper that the King of Jin used to write his homework every day was not calculated as book pages, but as half a sheet of paper.I heard that such a large piece of paper is only used during the imperial examination.

King Jin wrote a stack of such long papers, and there were more than 20 of them. No wonder it was so heavy when rolled up!

Wu Rou couldn't help but stretched out her hand and touched the neat and beautiful small regular script font on her head, sighed sincerely, and said:
"My dear...is it so heavy to be a prince?"

Arthurs who was watching also sighed and said:
"This calligraphy is really beautiful, even better than the calligraphy practiced by talented people."

She was illiterate, but she just felt that the neat small characters, arranged in black and white on such a large area, were very eye-catching.

Wu Rou rolled her eyes and said:
"You don't understand. Regular script is beautiful, but it takes too much effort to write. Running script is more free and easy, and it takes less effort. Mainly because His Majesty likes it... But I suspect that His Majesty just dislikes the trouble of approving memorials, so he likes running script."

At this time Sanchun brought tea, Wu Rou hurriedly chased her:
"Don't drink, don't drink. Keep it far away, otherwise it will be bad if the calligraphy of King Jin is stained. Don't disturb me, I want to read a book..."

As she spoke, she looked over at the first line of words.

After looking carefully, I discovered that these assignments may not be completed in one day, but are divided into several topics.

These include the geographical location of Tuyuhun, the role of major cities, historical origins, living habits, population and military deployment, as well as the products produced, the current status of domestic royal power, and even relations with neighboring countries, etc.

All in all very comprehensive.

When Wu Rou read it for the first time, she couldn't understand many of them. She only remembered that the Tuyuhun royal family's surname was Murong, and they were also from Xianbei. They moved out during the Northern Wei Dynasty, and they were of the same clan as the Tang Dynasty.

That place is rich in a kind of strong horse called Qinghai Cong.And they are also good at making weapons.

What impressed Wu Rou the most was that when the last topic was about how to completely stabilize the chaos in Tuyuhun, the King of Jin made a lot of negative statements, including those from Turks and Tibet... She was not the one who wrote the specific ones. Very understanding.

I only remember the last line: It is recommended to directly incorporate it into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, set up a protective palace, and station Tang troops there.

Wu Rou was stunned for a moment when she saw it.

… Didn’t he originally support the marriage?

Such cold and aggressive words, written plainly about destroying the country, are really far from the gentle and calm temperament of King Jin.

he? ...I thought he was a good old guy type.

Wu Rou muttered in his heart.

(End of this chapter)