After eight years of not returning, Jincheng has changed a lot, although the streets still seem to be those streets, and the familiar places still seem to be there.
Shang Lu stood beside Liu Yinfeng, chatting with Liu Yinfeng: "Jincheng built seven palaces and eight courtyards."
"Seven palaces and eight courtyards?" Hu Po raised her eyebrows and poured tea for Liu Yinfeng: "What is that, His Majesty's harem? Or the imperial palace?"
"Hey, it's a school and academies, just on a few mountains outside the city. In addition to the ghost doctor's medicine palace, there are also a few school palaces and academies, and these school palaces don't just teach reading and calligraphy, they have everything else. .”
Shang Lu counted with his fingers: "Some teach how to do business, some teach how to farm, some teach martial arts, and even teach women how to make rouge and gouache."
"I found out that in the past few years, most of the newly recruited merchants in the city, as well as the newly promoted officials in the court, and even many young generals in the military camp, probably 70% to 80% came from this seven palaces and eighth place. came out of the courtyard."
"It sounds quite interesting."
Liu Yinfeng nodded, and suddenly had a plan for what he would do in the future.
"Teaching in the academy?" Luo Qingyan looked at Liu Yinfeng and raised his eyebrows slightly: "You don't want to enter the court, but you want to teach in the academy?"
"Yes." Liu Yinfeng laughed: "I heard that most of the schoolhouses are children between three and ten years old. Now, I really like dealing with children."
Luo Qingyan pondered for a long time: "I think you should be more suitable for court."
Liu Yinfeng lowered his eyes, with a gentle smile on his brows and eyes: "I have been away from Xia Kingdom for eight years, and I am already incapable of doing things about the court. I really like teaching..."
"It seems to be the same." Luo Qingyan thought about it for a moment: "After you left Jincheng, you became a teacher."
"Forget it, since you like it, it's up to you."
Liu Yinfeng didn't lie, he really likes preaching, receiving karma and solving doubts.
In a blink of an eye, he had already been in the academy for more than half a year.
He left the academy a little late today, the sky had already darkened, Hu Po came out of the academy with a lantern in his hand.
The school palace is built on the mountain, and there are long stone steps outside the gate.
Liu Yinfeng walked down slowly step by step, and Hu Po was beside him, muttering: "Why is this school so high? Sir, your knees are not very good. You have been going up and down all day long. But how can you bear it? Or, let that stupid Shang Lu carry you up and down every day?"
"What's the matter?" Liu Yinfeng smiled: "It's not that uncomfortable. The medicine prescribed by the ghost doctor a few days ago is still very effective. I feel much better these days. After a while, maybe the medicine will cure the disease."
"That's good. If nothing else, the ghost doctor's medical skills are really good. However, it's really not easy for the ghost doctor's stinky temper to break up with the empress."
Liu Yinfeng let out a laugh with lowered eyes: "It's not easy."
Hearing Liu Yinfeng laugh, Hu Po raised her head in surprise. In his impression, his master seldom smiles...
Amber also laughed a few times, then raised her eyes, and a flash of surprise flashed in her eyes: "Look, master, the peach blossoms are in full bloom, and it's spring. But to be honest, even though I've been going back and forth on this road all day , but I really didn't notice that there are so many peach blossoms planted around the stone steps."
Liu Yinfeng was startled when he heard the words, and when he raised his eyes, he really saw countless peach blossoms blooming around the stone steps suddenly as if overnight.
"I didn't notice it." In fact, during the eight years he went to sea, he never saw peach blossoms in those overseas countries. He almost forgot what a peach blossom tree looked like, so he didn't notice it. There are so many peach blossoms planted around the steps.
"It seems that I haven't seen peach blossoms in many years. Looking at it this way, the scenery in our Xia Kingdom is still the most beautiful, and the peach blossoms are still the most beautiful."
Liu Yinfeng responded, and after a long silence, he moved his eyes: "Let's go."
"Hey..." Amber hurriedly followed: "On the way back later, I will buy you a pot of peach blossom wine. Eight years ago, when my husband left Xia Guo to go to sea, the jar of peach blossom wine that the queen sent , You took one sip every day, drank it abruptly for many years, and now you are finally back, I’m going to buy some more for my husband, so I can drink enough for you.”
"No need, I don't even like the peach blossom stuffing sold outside."
"Huh?" Amber was a little puzzled: "Don't like it?"
However, the previous husband was still so precious.
"That jar is different."
Liu Yinfeng lowered his head, carefully looked at the steps in front of him, and walked down slowly. The jar of peach blossom wine was brewed by his Ayun himself.
It was given to him by her, unique.
In fact, after boarding the boat, he didn't realize that the jar of wine was made from peach blossoms.
Because when Yun Shang sent him away that day, he drank Jun'an wine with him, so he thought that the jar was still Jun'an wine.
Until one day, Amber didn't know what it was and opened the jar.
As soon as the jar was opened, the smell of peach blossom stuffing came out.
As soon as he smelled it, he felt a little drunk.
On that day, he drunk the jar of peach blossoms, divided it into many smaller jars, placed them carefully, but only took a sip.
He was afraid that once he drank it all, there would be nothing to support him through the next years.
"The human face doesn't know where to go, but the peach blossoms are still smiling at the spring breeze."
There was a breeze on the mountain, and the fragrance of peach blossoms wafted in the air. His peach blossoms were still in full bloom, and now they were blooming where he could touch and see them, but they didn't belong to him.
In this way, it is already very good.
"From now on, I don't need to drink peach blossom stuffing anymore."
Liu Yinfeng murmured in a low voice.
Previously, Abbot Wuna once said: "There are eight sufferings in life. The eight sufferings in life are the suffering of birth, old age, illness, death, parting from love, meeting resentment and hatred, not being able to get what you want, and the blazing suffering of the five shades. Among them, not being able to get what you want is the most bitter."
He had always felt this way before, feeling that longing was painful, and not getting what he wanted was the most painful.
But after so many years, he no longer thinks that way.
Everything is predestined, although it is impossible to ask for it, but those loves and longings immersed in the depths of the years are sweet.
And those sweets are already enough to support him through this life.
As soon as Liu Yinfeng went down the steps, he saw several people riding horses coming from a distance.
Liu Yinfeng recognized the person on the horse, stopped in his footsteps, and smiled a little in his eyes.
"Father!"
"Uncle!"
It was Liu Chen and Chengye and their brothers and sisters who came.
"How did you come here?"
"Wait for you to go back together." Chengye pursed his lips: "Can we sleep in Prince Xian's mansion tonight?"
Liu Yinfeng lowered his eyes and laughed out loud: "Are you running away from home with your father, queen mother?"
"Yes, will you take us in?"
"Okay, take it in."
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