Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 379 Students
  After dinner, the palace servants collected the leftovers and then all left, leaving only Ying Zheng and Gu Xun in the room.

"Sir, what do you think of helping him?"

Hearing this, Gu Xun looked at Ying Zheng. There was no expression on his handsome face, which was dark, and he didn't know the purpose of asking this question.

"Well... this child is quite cute." Gu Xun pondered for a moment and then gave a standard general answer that could be applied to any child.

After hearing this answer, Ying Zheng seemed to be very surprised. He was stunned. After regaining his composure, he took a breath and said with a sigh:

"Cute... Ever since Fusu's mother died, no one would describe him like this anymore."

Gu Xun was a little surprised when he saw this. It was rare to see Ying Zheng show such a... soft look. The most important thing is, why would he show such a behavior in front of him that was not in line with his status as a king?

"It seems that His Majesty likes Mr. Fusu very much." Gu Xun said tentatively.

Ying Zheng looked at Gu Xun quietly and did not respond to his words, but gave him a choice:

"Mr. Gu, are you willing to be Fusu's teacher?"

"what?"

The sudden jump in the topic made Gu Xun's mind unable to turn around for a moment, and he just let out a soft sigh at a loss.

Ying Zheng did not rush to ask for an answer and waited for Gu Xun to react.

"Why would you...think about letting me be Fusu's teacher?" Gu Xun came up with a question after calming down for a moment.

"Sir, are you unwilling?" Ying Zheng lowered his eyes and asked.

"It's not a question of willingness or not, but what can I teach him?" Gu Xun spread his hands, "I neither know how to govern a country nor the knowledge of hundreds of schools of thought. Is it possible to teach him medical skills...or martial arts? ?"

"But I think that sir knows a lot." Ying Zheng couldn't help but smile and retort when he saw Gu Xun's conceited words.

"Can that be the same?" Gu Xun's eyes widened and he retorted with a wry smile, "Whispering in small talk is completely different from educating people. I definitely can't teach Fusu, so let's forget about it."

Then Gu Xun didn't give Ying Zheng a chance to dissuade him, and asked first, "Fusu should have a teacher, right?"

Ying Zheng didn't mind Gu Xun's grab for the spot, and he didn't rush to continue talking about being a teacher. He replied unhurriedly:

"Fusu is naturally a teacher, but he has just begun to enlighten and has not really dabbled in hundreds of schools of thought."

Gu Xun shook his head, indicating that he understood. After all, he was only a few years old, but he was precocious and not a child prodigy. It was pretty good if he could almost recognize the characters now.

"Then your Majesty, you should find him a more reliable teacher. Well... if the Qin State wants to practice law, it must find an expert from the Legalist family."

"Fusu doesn't like Legalism." Ying Zheng shook his head.

"He is closer to Confucianism."

"So...you are looking for me to prevent him from learning Confucianism?" Gu Xun made a guess that seemed to be the most reliable, although it was not very reliable.

Ying Zheng did not give a positive or negative answer to this speculation, but just replied:

"I think you are very suitable to be Fusu's teacher. His character and yours are almost two extremes."

The corner of Gu Xun's mouth twitched - Fusu was kind-hearted, polite and orderly, but he and he were two extremes... that is to say, he acted wantonly, rudely and lawlessly!

Just say I'm not a good person and that's it.

"Gu is a Jianghu person. It is impossible for him to enter the palace and be a teacher for Mr. Fusu. Your Majesty, you should give up this idea." Gu Xun waved his hands and refused again, his attitude was straightforward.

However, Ying Zheng refused to give up and continued:

"I don't want you to go to the palace every day to teach Fusu and solve his confusion. I just hope that you can teach him some appropriate ideas and methods at the appropriate time." Upon hearing this, Gu Xun couldn't help but asked, "What? Time is the right time, but what is the right idea and the right approach?”

"This is exactly what Mr. Gu should consider as a teacher." Ying Zheng replied with a smile.

"..." Gu Xun squinted and looked at Ying Zheng blankly, with many messy thoughts floating in his mind.

Why did Ying Zheng ask him to be Fusu's teacher?

He shouldn't trust me that much?
  What does this teaching mean to Fusu?

What does it mean to me?

……

A large number of endless questions flashed through Gu Xun's forehead, and several wrinkles unconsciously formed on his forehead.

"Your Majesty has probably decided to cooperate with the Yin Yang family. I wonder what you both will do next?"

After a long while, Gu Xun's brows eased, but he suddenly ignored Fusu's matter and suddenly asked about the Yin Yang family.

Ying Zheng couldn't help but be a little confused about this, but he could vaguely detect some reasons.

Gu Xun seems to be very concerned about his cooperation with Donghuang Taiyi...

"On the next trip to Yongdi, the Yin Yang Family will also send people to help. After the crowning ceremony is over, I will confer the right guardian Moon God of the Yin Yang Family as the protector of the country of Great Qin."

Gu Xun frowned and confirmed, "Feng Yueshen, not Feng Dongjun?"

Ying Zheng pursed his lips slightly and replied clearly, "Moon God!"

Then added the explanation. "This is the request of Donghuang Taiyi. The one I want to reward at first is not the Moon God."

"Interesting..." Gu Xun muttered to himself.

In the original work, the Moon God is the protector of the country, but Gu Xun originally thought that it was because Dongjun followed Yan Dan to the Yan Kingdom that he pushed the Moon God to the stage, but now Dongjun, the deputy head, is still there. But still let the Moon God be the platform of the Yin and Yang family...

This means that Donghuang Taiyi is still deliberately hiding Dongjun's existence and reducing her sense of existence.

For what? Is he still plotting against Yan Dan, or... is he himself?

Gu Xun felt that he had missed something and failed to consider that Concubine Yan... might have other problems.

Shaking his head, Gu Xun put down the problems of the Yin Yang family for the time being and continued to talk to Ying Zheng:

"It seems that His Majesty is determined to cooperate with Donghuang Taiyi to seek the illusory immortality."

Ying Zheng's lips moved a few times, and then he asked:
  "Sir, it seems you don't believe in immortality at all?"

"It's not that I don't believe it, it's that I'm not interested." Gu Xun shook his head and corrected.

"Sir, are you not afraid of death?" Ying Zheng asked again.

"I don't think His Majesty is very afraid of death. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to take Gai Nie to South Korea?"

Gu Xun smiled and did not answer, but asked a question.

Afraid of death... He must be afraid of death, but he just doesn't want to die at the hands of others. He doesn't want to die from homicide, accident, or suicide. And if he dies of old age... there is nothing unacceptable.

As for immortality... given the extremely scarce entertainment conditions in ancient times, what does immortality mean?
  He would be very happy to be in the modern world. There are new things coming out every day, including movies, TV shows, animations, novels, games, and short videos... It will never be boring.

(End of this chapter)