After watching the mother wolf give birth the next day, Xue Yuan got busy.
In the palace, he carefully listened to the saint discussing with others. When the sage taught Gu Ran, he also meditated. After returning to the mansion, he was locked in the study, holding books and reading.
Xue Yuan almost forgot to eat and sleep, filling himself frantically. His disciples have also become active, and they want to go to various volumes and tell the eldest son about the twists and turns from all directions.
Xue Yuan is the proud son of heaven. When he seriously wants to do something, almost no one can stop him.
And he clearly put on a gesture to enter the court.
Gu Yuanbai quickly learned about this.
In the original text, the regent is powerful, and he is full of joy and anger. Gu Yuanbai often looked at the farce opening in his eyes with a half-smile but not a smile. Gu Yuanbai didn't know why Xue Yuan became such an unpredictable appearance, but after he came to this world, because of the stability of the world, the nomads in the northern Xinjiang retreated, and Xue Yuan retreated. Gradually settle down.
Gu Yuanbai raised his eyebrows.
He couldn't help thinking, if Xue Yuan really entered the court, what kind of performance would he show
Will this fool fall in love with the feeling of power
Gu Yuanbai has both the expectation that he can make some achievements, and the long-lost desire to conquer the challenge.
He is also a crazy guy. He wanted to watch Xue Yuan shine and appreciate his strength. Such power shouldn't be flattened by Gu Yuanbai. He even thought about what kind of confrontation they would have if he met the prince regent who had left the battlefield and fell into officialdom in the original text.
Just thinking about it makes him tremble. Gu Yuanbai's nerves that like to challenge him even want to bring Xue Yuan to a high position and then crush him.
But that's just a thought.
Today's Daheng should develop steadily and should not go through useless twists and turns.
Gu Yuanbai suppressed such thoughts and began to teach him intentionally or unintentionally, but Xue Yuan lived up to his expectations. He absorbed knowledge and keen political intuition, which almost made him flee into the court circle like a wolf.
Seeing him like this, Gu Yuanbai smiled and transferred Xue Yuanzeng into the Privy Council with his escort skills in the Western Xia Dynasty.
*
a month later.
Xue Yuan's dark official robes rolled up and down between his steps, and the coat behind him was hunting. After entering the palace, he swept the snow off his body, and when he walked to the heater, he removed the cold air: "Is the saint up?"
The palace attendant carefully took his cloak, "Master Xue came a little earlier, and the saint has not yet woken up."
Xue Yuan smiled and entered the inner hall after his palms were hot. After half an hour passed, the saint came out neatly with Lord Xue in his shirt and clothes. After the meal was set, Gu Yuanbai took the jade chopsticks handed over by Xue Yuan, and said lazily, "Just ask someone else to come and serve."
Xue Yuandao: "I like to serve the sage."
The hot porridge had a strong aroma of rice, and the two slowly ate breakfast and talked in a low voice.
Tian Fusheng was waiting in front of the hall. After being busy, Master Xue did not forget to take care of the saint's clothes and three meals a day, which made him useless as a chief of the inner court. After a long time, Tian Fusheng has also adapted to this leisurely life. As long as Master Xue is here, he will not go forward and be unpleasant, and just be lazy.
After the meal, the palace attendant took away the things. Gu Yuanbai said, "Something happened to the salt merchant in Huainan. I'm going to ask you to take someone to investigate." He paused, "Do you want to go?"
Xue Yuan nodded, "Go."
As early as when Xue Yuan wanted to become a capable minister who could be relied on by the sage, he knew that such a thing was indispensable. The brief separation was only to keep the two from being separated in the future. Xue Yuan thought about it for a long time and finally convinced himself.
The most important thing, the sage didn't seem to want Xue Yuan to be trapped by his side. The Holy One wanted him to go, so he went.
Even Xue Yuan is as sweet as it is.
Xue Yuan sighed secretly in his heart, he needs to make merit now, and urgently needs credit.
Gu Yuanbai really laughed, "I don't know when you guys will be back on this snowy day."
"It will take a month at the earliest," Xue Yuan held his hand and sighed, "On the day of Shangyuan Festival, I hope that the saint will leave me the whole day for the sake of my leaving. "
Gu Yuanbai hooked his thick calluses and deep fingers, and said "um".
After settling down, Xue Yuan returned to the house. He was in the dust, and General Xue called him over, and said solemnly: "Xue Yuan, the sage values you, you must repay the sage well. My Xue family has been loyal and good for three generations, and the loyalty of the monarch is the first rule in the family law. If you If you do something that goes against human relations, then you are not as good as a beast, and I will be the first to forgive you!"
Xue Yuan nodded casually. The appearance of his picture as if he didn't hear General Xue's words in his ears made General Xue furious, "Don't hurt Xue's house when you do things! I'd rather you be mediocre than mediocre. You are so powerful!"
Xue Yuan sighed, "I never wanted to be high."
General Xue didn't believe it, "If you don't want it, why are you constantly moving these days?"
"General Xue, you should know," Xue Yuan raised his lips, "If I want military merit, I can do it with my hands. Those military exploits in the past were not high? It's easy to get it."
He lowered his voice, "I don't want something that's easy to get."
It was because he wanted to be by Gu Yuanbai's side for the rest of his life.
Entanglement and entanglement, even if the feelings are abandoned, it is destined to be inseparable for a lifetime.
*
Another half month, Kong Yilin and Xue Yuan walked out of the Privy Council. Kong Yilin was born extremely tall, Xue Yuan and him were no different, the two walked slowly, Kong Yilin said with a smile: "Master Xue is going to travel soon?"
Xue Yuan nodded and smiled, "After I leave, if the Sage has any discomfort, please ask Master Kong to chat with me by letter."
"A letter has passed, and all of you have to come back," Kong Yilin laughed dumbly and persuaded implicitly, "The saint is the honor of the ninety-five, and even Director Tian cannot look at the saint all day long."
Xue Yuan's tongue was on the top of his jaw, and he squinted and smiled, "Master Kong doesn't know."
Kong Yilin was curious: "Oh, I don't know what?"
"The Holy Master doesn't like Director Tian to follow him day and night," Xue Yuan showed a somewhat aftertaste look, "but I liked that I followed him very much."
Kong Yilin choked.
Xue Yuan smiled and tidied up his sleeve robes slowly, "Even if the inn is slow, but I am anxious, I still have to entrust Master Kong. As for the others, I have to trouble Master Kong to pay more attention."
Kong Yilin asked knowingly, "Master Chu?"
"It's not just him, the other young, handsome, and strong," Xue Yuan counted them one by one, "The sage likes this."
Kong Yilin couldn't help but said, "Master Xue is really not praising himself?"
Lord Xue raised his eyebrows, and Yoyo smiled.
The Holy One likes strong people.
Wolves, you have to pick the most ferocious one to mate.
*
New Year's Eve.
Gu Yuanbai changed into his regular clothes, and Xue Yuan was already waiting in the outer hall. When he turned around to see him, he was stunned for a while, and praised without blinking his eyes, "Pan Anweijie is far inferior to that of the saint."
Gu Yuanbai snorted and walked over slowly. Xue Yuan stretched out his hand and straightened the jade pendant around his waist. Meiyu made a colliding sound, and Xue Yuan flicked his fingertips, "It sounds good."
This is the second time for Gu Yuanbai and Xue Yuan to celebrate the New Year's Day together. It was dark at night, the lights were bright, and their hands were unknowingly clasped together. The shoulders were pressed together intimately, and occasionally, when he turned his head, his lips would brush his forehead.
"The minister brought a salary," Xue Yuan bought the lantern that Gu Yuanbai glanced at, "What the sage wants, the silver tael of the minister is enough."
Gu Yuanbai was very enthusiastic and gave him two rounds of applause.
"Do you still remember the saint?" Xue Yuan deliberately lowered his voice when he walked through an alley, "I used to press you to kiss in this alley."
Gu Yuanbai clicked his tongue, "Remember."
Xue Yuan and him looked at each other in the colorful lanterns, breathing thick and hot, holding hands, and entering the dark alley again.
It's still the same cold air, that kind of water droplets, that kind of panting and confused kiss.
Gu Yuanbai opened his lips in response to him, and kissed him even more fiercely. Xue Yuan gasped to reassure him, "No rush, no rush, take your time, take it slower."
Gu Yuanbai couldn't breathe, and the feeling of suffocation was refreshing and uncomfortable. He glared at Xue Yuan, and finally scolded the words he wanted to scold for a long time: "Go away, you fucking slow!"
Xue Yuan laughed until his chest trembled.
The night passed, and the next day was still dark, Xue Yuan woke up from the bed. There were bright red scratches and hickeys on his chest and neck. Xue Yuan admired it for a while, then gently woke the saint up, coaxing him to suck out another deep mark between his neck.
The sage was very sleepy, he was so annoyed that he became angry, and after inhaling for a long time, he bit his teeth, and the smell of blood burst into his lips in an instant.
Xue Yuan let out a "hiss", Gu Yuanbai tried his best to open his eyes, and unconsciously licked the blood on his lips. Xue Yuan looked down at him for a while, and brought the other side of his neck up.
Today is the day to travel, Xue Yuan packed up and went to say goodbye to his parents with a mark on his neck.
General Xue and Mrs. Xue chattered a few times in the bedroom. After a while, General Xue put on his coat and walked out, "Go."
Xue Yuan leaned over and saluted, and in the dim sky, General Xue seemed to see some traces left between the bedspreads on his neck.
Old General Xue was startled, Xue Yuan had already put on a thick cloak, turned and walked out.
The old general was stunned for a while, unable to sleep any longer, and unknowingly walked to Xue Yuan's door. Outside the courtyard of Xue Yuan was a guard from the palace. General Xue walked over, and the chief guard stopped him with his sword, and said warmly, "General Xue, the saint is still resting."
Old General Xue stiffened, his knees softened, and he fell to the ground heavily.
*
The matter of Huainan salt merchants was very deep, and Xue Yuan led someone to investigate, and they found out about the private salt.
Since Xixia was annexed by Daheng and renamed Ningxia, the green salt of Xixia is no longer private salt. Many salt dealers who rely on Xixia Qingyan to sell illicit salt have been hit hard, and because the salt mines in Zhejiang and Zhejiang have been put into the market, under the decline of official salt, there is almost no room for illicit salt to survive.
The huge interests of the salt merchants and the powerful suppression by the government have created chaos in Huainan and Jiangnan.
Jiangnan had been scourged by the rebel army before, but there were no big ones, but there were a lot of small shrimps and crabs. In addition, the merchants in Huainan came and went, and the situation was complicated. Xue Yuan endured his temper to attend the banquet every day. After a long time, he could calm down.
Communicating with all kinds of people, secretly covering news, and being in it is the most exercised ability. Xue Yuan's eyebrows became more and more calm, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became deeper and deeper. Occasionally, he looked like a gentleman who was easy to get along with.
Time dragged on, and then dragged on for a month.
Xue Yuan smiled and bid farewell to the Lu family in Huainan. After entering the mansion prepared for him by the local government, he realized that something was wrong.
He raised his eyebrows, and when he entered the door, he saw that someone had brought him two women, who were standing beside the bed in tulle in the bedroom.
"Go back," Xue Yuan frowned in disgust, turned around and exited the courtyard, kicked the servant who was watching the door when he went out, "Will your mother let anyone in?!"
The doorman was so frightened by him that he was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down, "You know what's wrong, I don't dare to do it anymore."
Xue Yuan's face was gloomy, and the dark clouds rolled on his face that always brought a smile.
The little servant was afraid of crying while holding his calf in front of the ground, and he was "wronged" and "bewildered" one by one. Xue Yuan kicked him hard again, and said in a stern voice, "I have set the rules."
Thinking of what this little servant did, he was not angry enough, and he exerted a lot of strength, and the little servant slammed it with one kick.
"Take it," Xue Yuan said with no expression, "all those things in the bedroom were burned."
The subordinate said: "Yes."
Xue Yuan looked to both sides, stared at one of them and said, "Did you see clearly? I didn't touch those two women."
Pretending to be an officer of the Supervision Department under Xue Yuan: "...I see clearly, Master Xue."
Only then did Xue Yuan feel that his anger had subsided a little.
After the matter spread, the merchants outside trying to give Xue Yuan a relationship stopped this action.
Regarding the salt trader, I thought it would be possible as soon as January. But Xue Yuan ignored the mixed interests, and it took two and a half months until the signs were detected and rectified.
When Xue Yuan hurried back to the capital, it was already the season of spring.